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Re: CEFR language learner corpora?
by Stefania Spina 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hello, Corpus CELI (Certificati di Lingua Italiana) and other Italian learner corpora at this link: https://www.unistrapg.it/cqpwebnew/ Best, Stefania ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lucia Donatelli <donatelli(a)coli.uni-saarland.de> To: corpora(a)list.elra.info Cc: Bcc: Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:00:01 +0100 Subject: [Corpora-List] CEFR language learner corpora? Hello, Can anyone point me to corpora of language learner speech or written text that are labeled by CEFR proficiency level? Any languages are useful! Thanks in advance LUCIA Lucia Donatelli, Ph.D. Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland University http://luciadonatelli.georgetown.domains --- *Prof. Stefania Spina* Full Professor of Linguistics https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefania_Spina2 *La storia non è poi* *la devastante ruspa che si dice.* *Lascia sottopassaggi, cripte, buche* *e nascondigli. C'è chi sopravvive.*

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3rd CFPs 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Dear colleagues, **Apologies for cross-posting** Please find below information on the third call for papers for the *XIV International Conference on Corpus, *which will be held in Oviedo 10-12 May 2023. Please, note that proposals can be submitted until the 31st of December 2022. *WEB* https://cilc2023.wordpress.com/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cilc2023.wordpress.com/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA…> *SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS* https://old.linguistlist.org/confservices/14CILC.OVIEDO <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://old.linguistlist.org/confservices/14CIL…> *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission of proposals: 15 October – 31 December 2022. Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2023. Early bird registration: 15 February – 15 March 2023. Late registration: 16 March – 16 April 2023. *PUBLICATION* We are pleased to announce hat, in order to promote research on corpus linguistics, a selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in two relevant linguistic journals: 1. *International Journal of English Studies <https://revistas.um.es/ijes>* (Q1 in SJR) 2. *Research in Corpus Linguistics <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl>* (Q1 in Dialnet) *REGISTRATION* *Early bird registration (from 15 February to 15 March 2023)* * Registration fee: 120€ * Postgraduate students (certification required): 80€ * Undergraduate students (certification required): 40€ *Late registration* (from 16 March to 16 April) * Regular registration: 160€ * Postgraduate students (certification required): 120€ * Undergraduate students (certification required): 60€ *CONFERENCE DINNER* The conference dinner will take place on Thursday 11 May at Tierra Astur <https://tierra-astur.com/>, a typical Asturian cider house. The menu price is 50€ per person. It includes starters, main course, drinks, dessert, coffee and liqueurs. There will be alternative options for diners with special dietary requirements. Further information may be found on the conference website. Best regards, The Organising Committee -- Paula Rodríguez Puente paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm

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Research scientists (m/f/d) in Natural Language Processing, UKP and TrustHLT research groups, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by Habernal, Ivan 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab and the research group Trustworthy Human Language Technologies (TrustHLT) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany have four job openings for **Research scientists (m/f/d)** in the recently acquired projects funded by the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE in the research area of Security and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence (SenPAI). These positions will focus on research questions related to privacy- preserving natural language processing. As part of our work in digital mental health, the project "Privacy-Aware Domain-Adaptive Medical NLP" will explore and evaluate different approaches to privacy methods for dataset creation and deep learning in the medical domain. This project covers a variety of tasks, from semi-automatic de-identification to synthetic training data generation and downstream tasks. The latter require research in large language models for clinical applications in close collaboration with experts from the psychiatric domain. The project "Protecting Privacy and Sensitive Information in Texts" touches the heart of privacy preservation in NLP and will explore a wide range of domain-agnostic techniques. A solid background in machine learning for natural language processing is essential, prior knowledge of formal privacy methods such as differential privacy, or experience in clinical NLP is a plus. The salary is based on the collective agreement applicable to the TU Darmstadt (TV-TU Darmstadt). The starting date is as soon as possible. ## Candidates The ideal candidate holds a PhD (for a Post-Doc position) or Master degree (for a PhD position) in computer science, computational linguistics, machine learning, or a related discipline, has a strong interest in privacy in natural language processing, excellent analytical and programming skills, is a team player, and is fluent in English. ## Diversity TU Darmstadt is strongly committed to diversity and particularly welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups. Applications from female candidates are highly encouraged. ## Team The Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the best in Germany. The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab) in Darmstadt led by Prof. Iryna Gurevych offers an excellent research environment. The UKP Lab is committed to cutting-edge research, publishing in top-tier venues, cooperative work style, and close interaction of all team members. See ukp-lab.de for more details. TrustHLT is an independent research group led by Dr. Ivan Habernal, appointed at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt. The group conducts research in the field of natural language processing with a focus on privacy-preserving technologies and legal argumentation, see www.trusthlt.org for more details. ## Application Please provide us with your CV including an outline of previous work or research experience, names of two referees, and a letter of motivation outlining your research interests. Submit your application via the following form by December 18, 2022: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment (please enter "ATHENE" as the name of the application position) Applications arriving after the deadline will still be considered if the position is not filled yet.

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1-year position for NLP data curation software engineer
by Lluís Padró 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

The Natural Language research group in IDEAI <https://ideai.upc.edu/en> Research center (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) is looking for a engineer to participate in a Spanish-government funded project to push forward the digital transformation of organizations. The project includes to main research lines: a) Advancing business process automation from natural language descriptions or human-machine interactions b) Detecting new process automation opportunities from human-human interactions (mail threads, slack conversations, etc). The successful candidate will be in charge of the development of tools to support the linguist team in the curation of data used to fine-tune Large Language Models (GPT, BLOOM, ...), as well as in the training, evaluation, and deployment of tuned models. Find more details about the offer at https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/jobs/engineer-SE.pdf <https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/jobs/engineer-SE.pdf> Lluís Padró Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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1-year postdoc in NLP/DL/Text mining
by Lluís Padró 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

The Natural Language research group in IDEAI <https://ideai.upc.edu/en> Research center (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) is looking for a Postdoc to participate in a Spanish-government funded project to push forward the digital transformation of organizations. The project includes to main research lines: a) Advancing business process automation from natural language descriptions or human-machine interactions b) Detecting new process automation opportunities from human-human interactions (mail threads, slack conversations, etc). Find more details about the offer at https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/jobs/postdoc-IA.pdf Lluís Padró Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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PhD scholarship in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (NHH, Norway)
by Gisle Andersen 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues A 4-year position as PhD scholar is available at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in the field of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). See advertisement at jobbnorge.no: PhD Research Scholar position - Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication (235701) | NHH Norwegian School of Economics (jobbnorge.no)<https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/235701/phd-research-scholar-…> Gisle Andersen, professor, NHH [NHH Logo]<https://www.nhh.no/> Gisle Andersen Professor Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication Together for sustainable value creation T: + 47 55 95 93 26 / 934 68 641 E: gisle.andersen(a)nhh.no<mailto:gisle.andersen@nhh.no> www.nhh.no<http://www.nhh.no/> [logosalat3]<https://www.nhh.no/en/about-nhh/international-networks/>

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Reykjavik University: Faculty positions in AI and ML
by Hrafn Loftsson 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Dear colleagues, The Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, Iceland, invites applications for two full-time, permanent faculty positions at any rank in fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, among other fields. For further information, please go to: https://jobs.50skills.com/ru/en/16728 Regards, Hrafn Loftsson, Ph.D., www.ru.is/~hrafn<http://www.ru.is/~hrafn> Dósent | Associate Professor Tölvunarfræðideild | Department of Computer Science Tæknisvið | School of Technology Háskólinn í Reykjavík | Reykjavik University

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Call for Participation DSTC11 - Track4 (Automatic & Robust Dialogue Evaluation)
by Luis Fernando D'Haro 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

*Track 4: Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems - Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11.T4)* *Call for Participation* *TRACK GOALS AND DETAILS: Two main goals and tasks:*• Task 1: Propose and develop effective Automatic Metrics for evaluation of open-domain multilingual dialogs. • Task 2: Propose and develop Robust Metrics for dialogue systems trained with back translated and paraphrased dialogs in English. *EXPECTED PROPERTIES OF THE PROPOSED METRICS:*• High correlation with human annotated assessments. • Explainable metrics in terms of the quality of the model-generated responses. • Participants can propose their own metric or optionally improve the baseline evaluation metric deep AM-FM (Zhang et al, 2020). *TASK 1: METRICS FOR MULTILINGUAL DATA*In this task, the goal for participants is to propose a single metric model effective for the automatic evaluation of multilingual dialogs in English, Spanish and Chinese. The model will provide scores to obtain high correlations with human-annotations. Participants are expected to use pre-trained or fine-tune multilingual models and train them to predict multidimensional quality metrics by using self-supervised techniques. *TASK 2: ROBUST METRICS*In this task, the goal for participants is to propose robust metrics for automatic evaluation when dealing with English sentences that have been back translated or automatically paraphrased. Here, robustness is understood when using sentences having the same semantic meaning as the original sentence but different wording. The proposed metric model will be evaluated when comparing the scores produced on the original sentences w.r.t. with the scores produced when using the back-translated/paraphrased sentences. Therefore, the expected performance must be on par with the correlations with human-annotations obtained over the original sentences. *DATASETS:*For training: Up to 18 Human-Human curated multilingual datasets (+3M turns), with turn/dialogue level automatic annotations including QE metrics or toxicity. Dev/Test: Up to 10 Human-Chatbot curated multilingual datasets (+150k turns), with turn/dialogue level human annotations. *REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION:*ChatEval: https://chateval.org/dstc11 GitHub: https://github.com/Mario-RC/dstc11_track4_robust_multilingual_metrics *PROPOSED SCHEDULE:*Training/Validation data release: From November to December in 2022 Test data release: Middle of March in 2023 Entry submission deadline: Middle of March in 2023 Submission of final results: End of March in 2023 Final result announcement: Early of April in 2023 Paper submission: From March to May in 2023 Workshop: July-September/2023 in a venue to be announced with DSTC11 *ORGANIZATIONS:*Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) National University of Singapore (Singapore) Tencent AI Lab (China) New York University (USA) Carnegie Mellon University (USA) *Mario Rodríguez Cantelar* Postgraduate Non-Doctoral Researcher / PhD student Centre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC)

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PhD position: Neuro-Symbolic Models, Saarland University, Germany
by Dietrich Klakow 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

PhD position: Neuro-Symbolic Models, Saarland University, Germany ========================================================= (Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or similar) We are looking for an excellent candidate who is interested * exploring the limits for neural networks on symbolic tasks and/or * integrating symbolic knowledge into neural networks. Ideal candidate for the position would have: 1. A good understanding of natural language processing 2. Excellent knowledge of machine learning 3. Excellent programming skills 4. Masters degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or similar Salary: The PhD position will be 75% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) which is about 3055€ per month before tax and social security contributions. The appointments will be for three years with a possible extension. Starting day will be spring 2023. About the department: The department of Language Science and Technology t Saarland University is one of the leading departments in the speech and language area in Europe. The flagship project at the moment is the CRC on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding. It also runs a significant number of European and nationally funded projects. In total, it has seven faculty and around 50 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The department is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus. With 900 researchers, two Max Planck institutes, CISPA, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, it is one of the leading locations for Informatics in Germany and Europe. How to apply: Please send us a letter of motivation, a one page research proposal, your CV, your transcripts, if available a list of publications, and the names and contact information of at least two references, as a single PDF or a link to a PDF if the file size is more than 3 MB. Please apply latest by November 15th, 2022. Earlier applications are welcome and will be processed as they come in. Contact: Applications and any further inquiries regarding the project should be directed to dietrich.klakow(a)lsv.uni-saarland.de

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Swisstext: call for papers
by Ghorbel Hatem 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Swisstext: call for papers https://www.swisstext.org/ Dear Colleagues, Partners and Friends, We invite you to submit a contribution to the 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) which takes place on June 12-14, 2023 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland at HES-SO // HE-Arc<https://www.he-arc.ch/en/>. SwissText<https://www.swisstext.org/> is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO // HE-Arc) as well as the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the data innovation alliance. SwissText 2023 is part of the "Networking Event Series - Natural Language Processing" funded by InnoSuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. It is supported by more than 10 universities and scientific associations. The conference will feature the following tracks: * Applied track: Short abstract (approx 0.5-1 page) in the form of a talk, poster or Demo. * Scientific Research * Regular Track: Full paper (6-8 pages) * Junior Track: Short paper (up to 4 pages), extended feedback, possibility to re-submit revised version Important dates * submission deadline: March 15, 2023 (23:59 CEST) * Author notification: May 01, 2023 * Conference: June 12-14, 2023 * Camera-ready version due: July 15, 2023 Prof. Dr. Hatem Ghorbel Computer Science Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie (HES-SO) Rue de la Serre 7 Tél. direct +41 32 930 22 06<tel:+41%2032%20930%2022%2006> CH-2610 Saint-Imier Tél. mobile +41 76 557 22 06<tel:+41%2076%20557%2022%2006> Internet www.he-arc.ch/ingenierie<http://www.he-arc.ch/ingenierie>

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