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Second Call for Papers: The Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2024) - "Marthaverse of Meaning"
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

DMR 2024 - 2nd Call for Papers Timeline When Tues, May 21 Where Torino, Italy Mode hybrid Direct Submission Deadline February 19 ARR Commitment Deadline March 25 Notification of Acceptance March 27 Final Version Due April 8 Workshop site: https://dmr2024.github.io/index.html DMR 2024 will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 (the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation), 20-25 May, 2024 at the Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy. DMR 2024 will be a hybrid event (real-time virtual participation allowed), but in-person participation is encouraged. DMR 2024 submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dmr2024/ LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Contact us with questions at dmr.workshop.0(a)gmail.com Overview DMR 2024 invites the submissions of long and short papers about original works on meaning representations. As the special theme of DMR 2024, we also invite the submissions of original research that have in any way leveraged, expanded, or been inspired by the “Marthaverse of Meaning”-- the 50 years of gold-standard contributions to the field of NLP by 2023 ACL lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Dr. Martha Palmer. Broader Goals DMR intends to bring together researchers who are producers and consumers of meaning representations and, through their interaction, gain a deeper understanding of the key elements of meaning representations that are the most valuable to the NLP community. The workshop will provide an opportunity for meaning representation researchers to present new frameworks and to critically examine existing frameworks with the goal of using their findings to inform the design of next-generation meaning representations. One particular goal is to explore opportunities and identify challenges in the design and use of meaning representations in multilingual settings. Another is to understand the relationship between distributed meaning representations trained on large data sets using network models and the symbolic meaning representations that are carefully designed and annotated by NLP researchers, with an aim of gaining a deeper understanding of areas where each type of meaning representation is the most effective. Special Theme: A Marthaverse of Meaning In her 2023 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech, Dr. Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, Boulder) sums up her 50 years of research in AI and NLP in six words: “Finding meaning, quite literally, in words.” This year's workshop honors Dr. Palmer's contributions with a special theme on resources, approaches, and applications that draw upon her manifold contributions to the field. These resources include Treebanks (Chinese and Arabic TreeBanks, Hindi and Urdu Treebanks), PropBanks (English, Chinese and Arabic), VerbNet, OntoNotes, Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), and Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR). These resources share attention to semantic detail combined with scalability and, therefore, an ability to generalize to and support a variety of different NLP applications and tasks. Indeed, the applicability of her research extends beyond the textual to the multimodal, where she has broadly contributed to the cross-modal event understanding. DMR 2024 seeks to highlight the depth and the breadth of Dr. Palmer's contributions and their influence over the field of natural language processing by inviting the submission of original works that have in any way leveraged, expanded, or been inspired by the ``Marthaverse of Meaning.'' We also seek to recognize Dr. Palmer's long tenure of dedication to outstanding mentorship that has been so powerful for the many students who have gone on to shape the NLP research community and the field at large. Topics The workshop solicits papers that address one or more of the following topics: Treebanks and the syntax-semantics interface; PropBanks, VerbNets, and semantic role labeling resources; OntoNotes and word sense disambiguation resources; Expansion or pairing of semantic resources with LLMs; Design and annotation of meaning representations; Cross-framework comparison of meaning representations; Automatic parsing of meaning representations; Automatic generation of text from meaning representations; Strengths and weaknesses of existing meaning representations exposed as a result of using them in natural language applications or natural language understanding systems; Use of meaning representations in real-world applications; Issues in applying meaning representations to multilingual settings; Issues in bringing multimodality into meaning representations; The relationship between symbolic meaning representations and distributed semantic representations; The use of LLMs to create meaning representations Formal properties of meaning representations; Any other topics that address the design, processing, and use of meaning representations or Dr. Martha Palmer's contributions to NLP. Submission Details Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submissions and Templates: Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dmr2024/. Submissions must adhere to the two-column LREC-COLING format. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content and short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. If a paper is accepted, the authors will be given an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the final version. References and appendices do not count against these limits. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). We also accept commitments from the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All ARR commitments to DMR must have received all reviews and meta-reviews by March 25, 2024. For more info on ARR in general, see https://aclrollingreview.org. Author Responsibilities: Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity–e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” should be replaced with citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. If the paper is available as a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the paper itself. In addition, DMR 2024, in accordance with LREC-COLING 2024, will follow the same policy as ACL conferences establishing an anonymity period during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed. Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at DMR 2024, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at DMR 2024 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the workshop committee must be notified immediately. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop organizers dmr.workshop.0(a)gmail.com. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason.

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Post-doctoral position in Natural Language Processing at Univ. Lorraine (France)
by Mathieu Constant 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

The Research unit ATILF (Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language) offers a postdoctoral position in natural language processing (NLP). Topic: Discovery of multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts using large language models Location: ATILF, Nancy, France Starting date: from April 2024 Duration: 12 months (possibility to extend the duration for one more year) Supervisors: Mathieu Constant (Univ. Lorraine, France) and Agata Savary (Univ. Paris-Saclay, France) Salary: depends on experience after PhD and salary grids, from 3070 (<2-year experience) to 4465 euros (>7-year-experience) before tax Application deadline: 22th February 2024 Subject. The term « multiword expression » refers to a combination of multiple lexical items that displays irregular composition possibly on different linguistic levels (morphology, syntax, semantics, …). They include a large variety of phenomena such as idioms (run around in circles), support verb constructions (take a walk), nominal compounds (dry run), complex function units (in spite of). They have been the subject of extensive research work in the NLP community over the last 50 years. The goal of this post-doc position is to investigate new methods for discovering multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts, in order to enrich an induced semantic lexicon with new multiword entries, definitions, argumental structure, and other properties. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLM) opens new promising perspectives for multiword expressions, not only regarding their semantic compositionality but also their linguistic characterization. The methods will be primarily experimented on French, but other languages are also possible. Context. The position is part of the SELEXINI project (https://selexini.lis-lab.fr <https://selexini.lis-lab.fr/>, 2022-2026) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The goal of the SELEXINI project is to develop next-generation lexicon induction methods for natural language processing. The induced lexicons will not only cluster word usages according to their senses, but also contain multiword expressions, argumental structure, generated definitions, etc, combining the power of large pre-trained language models and existing lexical resources to address the lack of interpretability and diversity in current language technology. The hired researcher will be fully integrated in the project team. Requirements. Applicants should hold a PhD thesis in computer science, in applied mathematics, in natural language processing, or in computational linguistics. The hired post-doc researcher should have the following skills: expertise in deep learning for NLP and notably large language models excellent programming skills good linguistic skills good knowledge of French would be a plus team spirit Application. The applicants should submit a cover letter, a CV including their publications, a list of references for recommendation, a transcript of Master grades, on the following official web site: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-MATCON-001/Default.aspx?lang=EN <https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-MATCON-001/Default.aspx?lang=EN>. The applications should be submitted not later than 22th of February 2024.

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UCL Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics 2024
by Malory, Beth 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

The Survey of English Usage at University College London will be running the 11th Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics online from 1-3 July 2024. This Summer School is an accessible and inspiring introductory course in English Corpus Linguistics for students of linguistics and students of the English language. The course will be taught over three days in the morning (UK time). The course consists of theoretical and practical sessions. Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of concepts in linguistics, especially grammar. Places are limited. Be sure to book early to get the early bird rate. For students in full-time education the course fee includes a free copy of either the ICE-GB Corpus (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice-gb/) or the DCPSE Corpus (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/dcpse/), with the associated exploration software ICECUP. For more information about the course and how to apply, see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/summer-school/

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Fully funded PhD fellowships in NLP and ML, University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Integreat, the Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning, is recruiting 13 fulltime PhD students for a range of cross-disciplinary projects across Machine Learning, Statistics, Logic, Language Technology, and Ethics. Integreat is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway (2023–2033). The centre is hosted by the University of Oslo, with partners including the Arctic University of Norway and Norwegian Computing Center. The full announcement is available through the link below, with further details about the application procedure, online information meetings, detailed descriptions of the individual projects, and more: https://www.integreat.no/about/vacancies/phd-recruitment/2024/ Note that several of the projects are in Natural Language Processing and will have supervisors from the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. In particular, see: Project 6: Benchmarking ethical reasoning in Large Language Models https://www.integreat.no/about/vacancies/phd-recruitment/2024/projects/06.h… Project 8: Knowledge and bias extraction from Large Language Models https://www.integreat.no/about/vacancies/phd-recruitment/2024/projects/08.h… The application deadline is Monday 4 March 2024. Best, -erik -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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Second CfP: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)
by Kilian Evang 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Second CfP: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 Organised and funded by SIGLEX (the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics <http://www.siglex.org/>), SIGLEX-MWE (SIGLEX Multiword Expressions Section <https://multiword.org/organization/constitution.html>), Universal Dependencies <https://universaldependencies.org>, and UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=wg1:wg1> COST Action CA21167. Venue: Torino, Italy and online Workshop Date: May 25, 2024 Workshop Webpage: https://multiword.org/mweud2024/ Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/mwe-ud2024/ Invited speakers: Natalia Levshina, Radboud University Harish Tayyar Madabushi, University of Bath We are pleased to announce that the multiword expressions (MWE) and Universal Dependencies (UD) research communities are joining forces in 2024 to organize a joint workshop. This is a timely collaboration because the two communities clearly have overlapping interests. For instance, while UD has several dependency relations that can be used to annotate MWEs, both annotation guidelines (i.e. is syntactic irregularity and inflexibility or semantic non-compositionality the leading criterion?) and annotation practice (both across treebanks for a single language and across languages) for these relations can be improved (Schneider and Zeldes, 2021). The PARSEME MWE-annotated corpora for 26 languages build on UD annotated corpora (Savary et al., 2023). Both communities share an interest in developing guidelines, data-sets, and tools that can be applied to a wide range of typologically diverse languages, raising fundamental questions about tokenization, lemmatization, and morphological decomposition of tokens. Proposals for harmonizing annotation practices between what has been achieved in PARSEME and UD and expanding PARSEME MWE annotation to non-verbal MWEs are also central to the recently started UniDive COST action (CA21167). The workshop invites submissions of original research on MWE, UD, and the interplay of both. In particular, the following topics are especially relevant: - Sensitivity of LLMs to MWE and syntactic dependencies. Studies along the lines of Manning et al. (2020) (UD), Nedumpozhimana and Kelleher (2021), Garcia et al. (2021), Fakharian and Cook (2021), Moreau et al. (2018) (MWE), and others on the question to what extent LLMs make use of syntactic dependencies or are capable of detecting MWEs and capturing their semantics. - Applicability of UD and MWE annotation and discovery for low-resource and typologically diverse languages and language varieties. Both UD and PARSEME aim at universal applicability across a wide range of languages. Much theoretical, computational, and empirical work concentrates on high-resource languages however. Applying these frameworks to typologically diverse languages may lead one to reconsider the notion of token, word, and morphological segmentation, and to reassess the notion of MWE for languages that feature compounding or incorporation (Baldwin et al., 2021; Haspelmath, 2023). - Case studies. Studies on the consistency, coverage or universal applicability of MWE annotation in the UD or PARSEME frameworks, as well as studies on automatic detection and interpretation of MWEs in corpora. - MWE and UD processing to enhance end-user applications. MWEs have gained particular attention in end-user applications, including MT (Zaninello and Birch, 2020; Han et al., 2021), simplification (Kochmar et al., 2020), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al., 2019; Christiansen and 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. - Testing developed systems on the latest dataset versions. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers that test the developed systems using the recent UD 2.13 and/or PARSEME 1.3 releases. Organizational Details: Grant, Format, Publications - UniDive members with accepted papers may be eligible for travel reimbursement. - If you are based in an underrepresented country or work on low-resource languages and have an accepted paper, you may be eligible for an ACL-SIGLEX travel grant of up to 500 USD. - The workshop follows LREC-COLING’s hybrid online/onsite format. - Workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. - The workshop follows LREC/COLING’s anti-harassment policy <https://coling2022.org/policy>. Submission Instructions 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-UD proceedings. Papers should be submitted via the workshop’s START submission page <https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/mwe-ud2024/>. Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Submissions must follow the LREC-COLING 2024 stylesheet <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/>. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones) Archival papers with existing reviews from ACL Rolling Review will also be considered. A paper may not be simultaneously under review through ARR and MWE-UD. A paper that has or will receive reviews through ARR may not be submitted for review to MWE-UD. Important Dates Paper submission: Feb 25, 2024 ARR paper commitment: Mar 25, 2024 Notification of acceptance: Apr 1, 2024 Camera ready papers due: Apr 8, 2024 Workshop: May 25, 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Organizing Committee Archna Bhatia, Gosse Bouma, Kilian Evang, Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Joakim Nivre, Alexandre Rademaker, A. Seza Doğruöz For any inquiries contact the Organizing Committee at mweud2024-organizers(a)uni-duesseldorf.de.

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Switch to digest
by Malory, Beth 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Hello, Could my status please be updated to digest-only membership? Many thanks, Beth

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Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
by Abercrombie, Gavin 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

We are advertising for a postdoctoral RA to work on the ESPRC-funded project Equally Safe Online<https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/W025493/1>. Topics: Identification and mitigation of online Gender-Based Violence (e.g. misogyny, sexist language); NLP, NLG for counterspeech generation; multimodal; dataset creation & annotation, participatory design. Location: the Interaction Lab, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Length of contract: 22 months, with potential for further funding. Deadline: February 26th. More information and application link: https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/r… _____________________ Gavin Abercrombie Room EM1.36 Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland _____________________ NLPerspectives<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/> CS4OA<https://sites.google.com/view/cs4oa> _____________________ ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. With campuses and students across the entire globe we span the world, delivering innovation and educational excellence in business, engineering, design and the physical, social and life sciences. This email is generated from the Heriot-Watt University Group, which includes: 1. Heriot-Watt University, a Scottish charity registered under number SC000278 2. Heriot- Watt Services Limited (Oriam), Scotland's national performance centre for sport. Heriot-Watt Services Limited is a private limited company registered is Scotland with registered number SC271030 and registered office at Research & Enterprise Services Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS. The contents (including any attachments) are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of its contents is strictly prohibited, and you should please notify the sender immediately and then delete it (including any attachments) from your system.

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EAMT 2024: Final Call for Workshop Proposals (Deadline Extended)
by Carol Scarton 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt_2024 (X account) Keynote speaker: Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh, UK) Workshop proposal deadline extended: 14 February 2024 Workshop date: 27 June 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/final-call-for-workshops ******************************************************* *** Overview *** The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the EAMT 2024 conference taking place in Sheffield, UK, from 24 to 27 June 2024, with workshops held on 27 June. We solicit proposals in all areas of machine translation. EAMT workshops are intended to provide the opportunity for MT-related communities of interest to spend focused time together advancing the state of thinking or the state of practice in their area of interest or endeavour. Workshops are generally scheduled as full-day events. Every effort will be made to accept or reject (with reason) workshop proposals as soon as possible after they are received by the organising committee so that the workshop organisers have adequate time to prepare the workshop. *** Submission information *** Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organisers, programme committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. The two pages for the main proposal must include: - A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - A list of speakers and alternates whom you intend to invite to present at the workshop. - An estimate of the number of attendees. - A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop (if any), and an estimate of the number of participants. - A description of special requirements and technical needs. - If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. - An outline of the intended workshop timeline with details about the following items: ---- First call for workshop papers: some date ---- Second call for workshop papers: some date ---- Workshop paper due: some date ---- Notification of acceptance: some date ---- Camera-ready papers due: some date Workshops are expected to follow the timelines below, so please make sure the dates above fit into the schedule: - 1st Call: no later than 14 March - 2nd Call: no later than 04 April - Deadline: 15 April (no later than 20 April) - Acceptance: no later than 20 May - Camera ready: no later than 27 May - Proceedings deadline: 12 June - Workshops: 27 June The two pages for information about the organisers, program committee, and references must include the following: - The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with a brief description (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. - A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. - References Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymisation is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 4 pages, and submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Workshops_Track. *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF Please also use these templates for camera-ready workshop contributions to comply with the format requirements for the workshop proceedings to be published in the ACL Anthology. *** Evaluation criteria *** The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, and the quality of the organising team and Programme Committee. *** Organiser Responsibilities *** The organisers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicising and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings in the ACL Anthology format, as well as organising the schedule with local EAMT organisers. For every accepted workshop, we offer one free registration for the EAMT 2024 conference to one workshop organiser. *** Important dates *** - Proposal submission deadline extended: 02 February 2024 - Notification of acceptance: rolling basis (no later than 28/02/2024) All deadlines are 23:59 CEST *** Workshop Co-Chairs*** Mary Nurminen (Tampere University) Diptesh Kanojia (University of Surrey) *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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Second Call For Papers: The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results (co-located with NAACL 2024)
by Shabnam Tafreshi 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, The Fifth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP Co-located with NAACL, June 16-21 2024 First Call for Participation Insights Website: <https://insights-workshop.github.io/> Contact email: insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com *Overview Publication of negative results is difficult in most fields, but in NLP the problem is exacerbated by the near-universal focus on improvements in benchmarks. This situation implicitly discourages hypothesis-driven research, and it turns creation and fine-tuning of NLP models into art rather than science. Furthermore, it increases the time, effort, and carbon emissions spent on developing and tuning models, as the researchers have no opportunity to learn what has already been tried and failed. This workshop invites both practical and theoretical unexpected or negative results that have important implications for future research, highlight methodological issues with existing approaches, and/or point out pervasive misunderstandings or bad practices. In particular, the most successful NLP models currently rely on Transformer-based large language models (LLMs). To complement all the success stories, it would be insightful to see where and possibly why they fail. Any NLP tasks are welcome: sequence labeling, question answering, inference, dialogue, machine translation - you name it. A successful negative results paper would contribute one of the following: ** broadly applicable recommendations for training/fine-tuning/prompting, especially if X that didn’t work is something that many practitioners would think reasonable to try, and if the demonstration of X’s failure is accompanied by some explanation/hypothesis; ** ablation studies of components in previously proposed models, showing that their contributions are different from what was initially reported; ** datasets or probing tasks showing that previous approaches do not generalize to other domains or language phenomena; ** trivial baselines that work suspiciously well for a given task/dataset; ** cross-lingual studies showing that a technique X is only successful for a certain language or language family; ** experiments on (in)stability of the previously published results due to hardware, random initializations, preprocessing pipeline components, etc; ** theoretical arguments and/or proofs for why X should not be expected to work; ** demonstration of issues with data processing/collection/annotation pipelines, especially if they are widely used; ** demonstration of issues with evaluation metrics (e.g. accuracy, F1 or BLEU), which prevent their usage for fair comparison of methods; ** demonstration of issues with under-reporting of training details of pre-trained models, including test data contamination and invalid comparisons In 2024, we will invite the authors of accepted negative results papers to nominate the specific work reporting the original positive results. The goal is to organize joint discussion sessions, so that the community can learn the most from the specific insightful failure. * Important Dates ** Submission due: March 10, 2024 ** Submission due for papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review: April 7, 2024 ** Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024 ** Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024 ** Workshop: TBA, between June 21-22, 2024 * Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: <https://softconf.com/naacl2024/Insights2024> The workshop will accept short papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references), as well as 1-2 page non-archival abstract submissions for papers published elsewhere (e.g. in one of the main conferences or in non-NLP venues). The goal of this event is to stimulate a meaningful community-wide discussion of the deep issues in NLP methodology, and the authors of both types of submissions will be welcome to take part in our get-togethers. The workshop will run its own review process, and papers can be submitted directly to the workshop by March 10, 2024. It is also possible to submit a paper accompanied with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review system by April 7, 2024. The submission deadline for ARR papers follows the ACL RR calendar. Both research papers and abstracts must follow the ACL two-column format. Official style sheets: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Please follow the formatting guidelines outlined here: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html * Multiple Submission Policy The workshop cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of Insights. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com. If the paper has been rejected from another venue, the authors will have the option to provide the original reviews and the author response. The new reviewers will not have access to this information, but the organizers will be able to take into account the fact that the paper has already been revised and improved. * Anonymity Period The workshop will follow the new ACL policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy * Presentation All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop to appear in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Previous presentations of the work (e.g. preprints on arXiv.org) should be noted in a footnote in the camera-ready version (but not in the anonymized version of the paper). The workshop will take place during NAACL 2024 (June 16-21 2024). It will be hybrid, allowing for both in-person and virtual presentations. * Organization Committee ** Shabnam Tafreshi, inQbator AI at eviCore Healthcare ** Arjun Reddy Akula, Google Research ** João Sedoc, New York University ** Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen ** Aleksandr Drozd, RIKEN ** Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell / Amazon Alexa * Contact info Any questions regarding the workshop can be sent to insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com. Please continue reading about: Authorship, Citation and Comparison, Ethics Policy, Reproducibility, and Presentation in the call for paper page on our website: https://insights-workshop.github.io/2024/cfp/ Regards, Insights 2024 Organizers -- *Shabnam Tafreshi, PhD* *Machine Learning Senior Advisor - NLP Researcher* *Computational Linguistics, NLP* *inQbator AI at eviCore Healthcare* *"All the problems of the world could be settled easily, if people only willing to think."* *-Thomas J. Watson*

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Register Studies
by mg2957＠nau.edu 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Title of Special Issue: Situational Context in Register Studies Call for papers Situation of language use has been at the forefront of register studies. Register research in text-linguistics has documented systematic situational variation and its relationship to functional language use across culturally recognized register categories, among texts within register categories, and across hybrid registers (e.g., Biber, 1988; Biber & Egbert, 2018; Biber, Egbert, Keller, 2020). Situations of language use have also been explored by a variety of other research traditions (and referred to as ‘register,’ ‘communicative situation,’ ‘speech situation,’ ‘social situation,’or ‘situational context’). For example, the contribution of the situation of language use to explaining linguistic variation is examined alongside linguistic variables in variationist linguistics (e.g., Szmrecsanyi , 2019). In computational research, it has served as the basis for text classification (e.g., Argamon, 2019). The effect of situations of use on individual language use is being recognized in stylistics and stylometry (e.g., Marko, Reitbauer & Pickl, 2022). Additionally, some situational variables, such as the audience and their relative status to the addressor, have been central to sociolinguistic research (e.g., Rickford & McNair-Knox, 1994) and discourse analysis (e.g., Lorson et al., 2023). To synthesize the variety of perspectives, approaches, and conceptualizations, Register Studies invites proposals that elevate the role of situational context in register research. We welcome a wide range of empirical, methodological, or theoretical papers under this scope. Papers for this special issue should highlight situational context and its integration into register studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Applications of situational analysis to corpus design and evaluation Analysis of situational variation across and within registers Detailed analyses of communicative events and their communicative strategies (e.g., conflict, celebration, social gathering, etc.) Descriptions of frameworks for situational analysis Approaches to coding for situational characteristics Generality and specificity of situational parameters Situation in applied research (e.g., pedagogy, medical discourse, legal discourse, etc.) The psycholinguistic reality of situational distinctions Interaction of the situation of language use with other predictor variables (e.g., social status, gender) New, unaccounted for (configurations of) situational parameters and/or novel/nonstandard situations of language use Cross-cultural situational differences and/or situations unique to particular linguistic communities Situation of language use and discourse-pragmatic variation Situation of technology-mediated interactions Important Dates Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2024 Invitations to submit a manuscript: May 1, 2024 Initial manuscripts due: October 1, 2024 Notification of review outcome: December 1, 2024 Final manuscripts due: February 28, 2025 Special issue publication: 7:2 - Fall 2025 Proposal Format & Submission Submit a one-page abstract for your proposed article to Associate Editors Larissa Goulart and Marianna Gracheva at Register.Studies(a)gmail.com. Please include your full contact information and a draft title. For empirical studies, the abstract should introduce the topic and motivate the study, summarize the methodological approach, describe the data to be analyzed, and summarize preliminary results. Abstracts for theoretical and methodological articles should introduce and motivate the issue to be addressed, and explain the main premises that will be included in the article. Please follow the style guide for Register Studies (available at the journal website: https://benjamins.com/catalog/rs). Peer Review All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review following the journal’s standard process. References: Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., & Egbert, J. (2018). Register variation online. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Keller, D. (2020). Reconceptualizing register in a continuous situational space. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16(3), 581–616. Argamon, S. (2019). Computational register analysis and synthesis. Computation and Language. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1901.02543 Lorson, A., Rhode, H., & Cummins, C. (2023). Epistemicity and communicative strategies. Discourse Processes, 60(8), 556–593. Marko, K., Reitbauer, M., & Pickl, G. (2022). Same person, different platform. Challenges and implications for forensic authorship analysis. An exploratory study of Instagram and Twitter users. Register Studies, 4(2), 202–231. Rickford, J. R. & McNair-Knox, F. (1994). Addressee- and topic-influenced style shift: a quantitative sociolinguistic study. In D. Biber & E. Finegan (Eds.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on register (pp. 235–276). Oxford University Press. Szmrecsanyi, B. (2019). Register in variationist linguistics. Register Studies, 1(1), 76–99.

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