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EACL 2023: 2nd Call for System Demonstrations (deadline: Dec 02, 2022)
by Joel Tetreault 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

(apologies for cross-posting) ================ EACL 2023 -- Call for System Demonstrations ================== - Website: https://2023.eacl.org/calls/demos/ - Deadline: December 2nd, 2022 - Questions? Email eacl2023demos(a)googlegroups.com The system demonstration track at EACL 2023 is a venue for papers describing system demonstrations, ranging from early prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. All accepted demos are published in a companion volume of the conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at EACL 2023, with an accompanying poster, either virtually or in-person. Submissions will undergo a single-blind reviewing process. Therefore, papers may include author and affiliation information, and freely make references to previously published material, and URLs. This year we are incorporating ethical considerations in the review process. Authors will be allowed extra unlimited space after the main content for a broader impact statement or other discussions of ethics. Please review the ethics policy before submitting. =============================== Important Dates =============================== - Direct paper submission deadline: Friday, 2 December 2022 - Notification of acceptance: Friday, 8 February 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: Wednesday, 1 March 2023 - Main Conference: Wednesday – Friday, 3–5 May 2023 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). ======================== Paper Submission Information ========================= --- Topics of Interest --- Of interest are all topics related to theoretical and applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems papers may be of the following types: - Natural Language Processing systems or system components - Application systems using language technology components - Software tools for Computational Linguistics research - Software for analysis, demonstration, or evaluations - Software supporting learning or education - Tools for data visualization and annotation - Development tools Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the system demonstration track at EACL 2023. --- Submission Guidelines --- All submissions should be made electronically via START. Please note that the submission platform is different from the one used by the main conference. Submissions must include the following: - A paper describing the motivation and the technical details of the system, including visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams). We encourage authors to check recent demonstration papers at previous ACL, EACL, EMNLP, and NAACL conferences for examples. - A short video (max. 2 minutes) demonstrating the system. This video will be used to evaluate the paper, but it will not be published unless requested. A screencast with audio narration is a natural choice for demos that can be presented on a screen. Otherwise, a video of a user interacting with the system can be used. The production quality of the video is not of interest. Hence, we encourage the videos to be simply a screencast of the software that is getting demoed, with zero to minimal editing efforts. We recommend that you publish your video on YouTube, or another website and include the link in your paper. If you prefer not to publicly upload a screencast, please submit the video (in MPEG4 format). The video must be included as supplementary material when you submit your paper through START. In addition, we strongly recommend that all demos be made available via one of the following formats: (a) a live demo website, or (b) a website with a downloadable installation package of the demo. We understand though that this might be impossible, e.g., when special hardware is required or when access is otherwise limited. --- Submission Policy --- The demo paper has to be original, written specifically for this conference, and cannot be submitted elsewhere. The paper must also report on a substantial improvement (>30%) if the system that is being described has been reported elsewhere before. Authors submitting more than one demo paper to EACL 2023 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other. Submissions of identical or closely related work to multiple tracks at EACL 2023 (Research, SRW, Industry, or Demo) will be rejected by all tracks. --- Reviewing Policy --- Reviewing will be single-blind, and thus authors do not need to conceal their identity. Thus, the demo papers should include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed. Relevant papers that meet formatting requirements will be assessed on the basis of their relevance to the demo track, contribution, clarity, completeness, and novelty. --- Ethics Policy --- Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACM Code of Ethics. The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and potential applications of our work has always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns about their work. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 6th page for a broader impact statement or other discussions of ethics. The ACL demonstration review form will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers will be further reviewed by an ethics committee. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted. Conversely, the mere inclusion of an ethical considerations section does not guarantee acceptance. In addition to acceptance or rejection, papers may receive a conditional acceptance recommendation. Camera-ready versions of papers designated as conditional acceptance will be re-reviewed by the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately addressed. Please read the ethics FAQ (shared with the main conference) for more guidance on some problems to look out for and key concerns to consider relative to the code of ethics. ---- Best Demo Award ---- We will present a Best Demo Paper Award. The winner will be chosen based on the contribution and the completeness of the system, as assessed by the reviewers and also based on the live demo at the conference. ============================= Contact Information ============================= If you have questions that are not answered there, please email the program co-chairs at eacl2023demos(a)googlegroups.com. ---- Demo Track Co-chairs ---- - Danilo Croce (University of Rome, Tor Vergata) - Luca Soldaini (Allen Institute for AI)

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LFG 2023: First call for papers
by Tina Bögel 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

First Call for Papers [Apologies for cross-posting] LFG23: The 28th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 21 July - 25 July 2023 University of Rochester Conference website: https://sas.rochester.edu/cls/lfg23/ Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg23 'at' rochester.edu Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2023, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission link will be announced at https://sas.rochester.edu/cls/lfg23/ in January 2023 Invited speakers: TBA Workshop: 25 July 2023, theme TBA Conference mode: We are currently planning a physical conference and hope that speakers will be able to attend in person. A synchronous, online participation option will be available. LFG23 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. LFG23 is sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester (http://www.sas.rochester.edu/cls/) SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2023, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2023 Conference: 21 July - 25 July 2023 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the title of your abstract. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES There will be a day of pre-conference activities on 21 July. The ParGram Project Meeting will be held in the morning and there will be a social activity in the afternoon. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting your paper, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz and Goethe University Frankfurt Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfg23 'at' rochester.edu) Ash Asudeh, University of Rochester FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

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Call for Abstracts -- 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

***** Call for Abstracts. ***** 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator. ***** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics. ***** 5th edition! ==> 20-22 April 2023 -- entirely online! The 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator will take place as an **entirely online event (with free registration)**. This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel, and we encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists, and scholars from related fields, from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America), to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. ==> Abstract submission deadline: 19 December 2022, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). ==> Abstract submission online: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/NARNiHS2023_RI . The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator. Building on the great success of the first four years, the 5th edition of this unique kind of NARNiHS conference seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, prototyping; and the audience actively participates in the brainstorming and workshopping of those new ideas. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing/pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, tools; seeking feedback from peers willing to engage in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in the field, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for 25-minute presentations. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Abstracts should be no more than one page in length (not including examples and references, see below). Abstracts will be accepted until 19 December 2022 -- late abstracts will not be considered. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; and data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in non-acceptance. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the brainstorming/workshopping environment of the NARNiHS Research Incubator, presentations will be grouped into thematic panels of three presentations, each panel followed by an hour-long discussion with the audience led by specialists. Discussion will encompass specific feedback on the individual papers as well as consideration of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models emerging from the papers. To facilitate such discussion, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and to the other presenters 10 days prior to the start of the conference. *** General Requirements ***: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/NARNiHS2023_RI . 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Research Incubator will be sent to authors in due time. *** Content Requirements ***: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. *** Abstract Format Guidelines ***: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between "inability to anonymize completely" (due to the nature of the research) and "careless non-anonymizing" (for example: "In Jones 2021, I describe..."). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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[IRCDL2023] Call for papers: 19th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (The Conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science)
by Stefano Marchesin 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

IRCDL 2023:Call for papers [APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IRCDL 2023 The Conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science 2023 (Formerly the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries) Bari, Italy - 23-24 February 2023 Venue: University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy Website: http://lacam.di.uniba.it/IRCDL23/ ================================================================== Since 2005 the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries is a yearly date for researchers on Digital Libraries and related topics, organized by the Italian Research Community. Over the years IRCDL has become an important national forum focused on technical, practical, and social issues. IRCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries”, including new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. Digital libraries may be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide. Representatives from academia, government, industry, research communities, research infrastructures, and others are invited to participate in this conference. The conference draws from a broad and multidisciplinary array of research areas including computer science, information science, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology, social sciences, cultural heritage and humanities, and scientific communities. This year its focus is on Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Web Technologies Empowering Digital Libraries. AI is nowadays pervasive and is being embedded in all kinds of applications. Its techniques – from Knowledge Representation and Reasoning to Machine Learning and Data Mining, from Natural Language Processing to Image Processing, etc. – and application (e.g. for metadata enrichment and data analysis) may cause breakthroughs in DL research and practices for all kinds of stakeholders. Semantic Web technologies are key to exploiting the semantics of information preserved in DLs, thus enabling advanced and personalized services and functionality for its users. Submissions are welcome concerning theory, architectures, data models, tools, services, and infrastructures about the following topics (but not limited to): - Active Learning Techniques to guide DL enrichment and curation - Applications of Digital Libraries - Applications of Machine Learning Techniques to Research Data and DL - Citation Analysis and Scientometrics - Cultural Heritage Access and Analysis - Data Citation, Provenance and Pricing - Data and Information Lifecycle (creation, store, share and reuse) - Data and Metadata Quality - Data Repositories and Archives - Digital Preservation and Curation - Document Analysis (Layout, Text, Images) - Knowledge Acquisition from scientific papers and data - Knowledge Base Construction for cultural heritage - Knowledge Discovery and Representation in Digital Libraries - Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience - Information Extraction from tables and figures in scientific literature - Information Retrieval and Access - Metadata (definition, management, curation, integration) - Multi-media handling - Ontologies - Open Data and Open Science: models, practices, mandates, and policies - Quality and evaluation of digital libraries - Research Infrastructures - Scholarly Communication - Science of Science - Semantic Web Technologies and Linked Data for DLs - Services for Digital Arts and Humanities - Standards and Interoperability - User Participation IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: 5 December 2022 Acceptance Notification: 20 January 2023 Camera-Ready Deadline: 13 February 2023 Conference: 23-24 February 2023 SUBMISSION FORMAT Research papers, describing original ideas on the listed topics and on other fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited. Moreover, short papers on early research results, new results on previous published works, discussion papers on previously published works, demos, and projects are also welcome. Research papers presenting original works should be in the 10-12 pages range, short papers should be in the 6-7 pages range and extended abstract should be 5 pages long. For all the submission types the references are not counted in the page limit. All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the new workflow for CEUR-WS style proceedings guidelines. The guidelines can be found here: http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): Overleaf template in LaTeX format: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… Overleaf offline template (LaTeX format): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip Word template: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEUR-Template-1col.docx ODT template: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEUR-Template-1col.odt The accepted papers will be published in the IRCDL 2023 Proceedings. The Proceedings will be published by CEUR-WS, which is gold open access and indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. SUBMISSION MODE Authors can submit their papers electronically via our submission page through Microsoft’s Conference Management Toolkit (CMT): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IRCDL2023 GENERAL CHAIR Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari A. Moro, Italy PROGRAM CHAIRS Alessia Bardi, ISTI CNR, Italy Stefano Marchesin, University of Padua, Italy Domenico Redavid, University of Bari A. Moro, Italy PROCEEDINGS CHAIRS Alex Falcon, University of Udine, Italy LOCAL ORGANIZATION Davide Di Pierro, University of Bari A. Moro, Italy Paolo Mignone, University of Bari A. Moro, Italy -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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An oline talk by Professor Tony McEnery on "Discourse, language learning and learner corpora"
by a.lenko＠uw.edu.pl 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

Professor Tony McEnery of Lancaster University will give an online talk on "Discourse, language learning and learner corpora" on 15 November 2022 (Tuesday) at 1.15-2.45 (CET = GMT+01:00). The talk is part of the larger series of 10 lectures to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. The talk will also be simultaneously translated into Polish. All information about the lecture, i.e. the abstract and the link to registration, can be found at: <https://50-lecie.ils.uw.edu.pl/> https://50-lecie.ils.uw.edu.pl/ The information about the previous talks is also posted at this address. We cordially invite you to participate. Dr hab. Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej Uniwersytet Warszawski Institute of Applied Linguistics University of Warsaw Dobra 55, 00-314 Warszawa <mailto:a.lenko@uw.edu.pl> a.lenko(a)uw.edu.pl <http://www.ils.uw.edu.pl/> www.ils.uw.edu.pl

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Postdoctoral fellow in biomedical natural language processing
by Abeed Sarker 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

We have several positions available. The postdoctoral fellow will work at Emory University. Emory is one of the top medical schools in the country. The position will involve working on projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Apply via link below. https://faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/102162/post-doctoral-fellow---departme… Feel free to email me directly with questions. Cheers Abeed Sarker, Ph.D. Vice Chair for Research Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University Assistant Professor Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University 101 Woodruff Circle Office 4101 Atlanta, GA 30322 Email: abeed(a)dbmi.emory.edu | abeed.sarker(a)emory.edu <abeed(a)dbmi.emory.edu> Phone: +1-602-474-6203 Twitter: @sarkerabeed <https://twitter.com/sarkerabeed> Website (lab): https://sarkerlab.org/

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Call for Participation: SemEval-2023 Shared Task 12 - Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)
by Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues, We are glad to invite you to participate in SemEval-2023 Shared Task 12, the first SemEval shared task for sentiment analysis targeting African low resource languages. The AfriSenti-SemEval Shared Task 12 is based on a collection of humanly annotated Twitter datasets in 16 African languages (all low resource) for sentiment classification. This year, we have three sub-tasks, from which the participants can choose one or more tasks depending on their preference. Task A: Monolingual Sentiment Classification Given training data in a target language, determine the polarity of a tweet in the target language (positive, negative, or neutral). If a tweet conveys both a positive and negative sentiment, whichever is the stronger sentiment should be chosen. This sub-task covers 15 languages namely, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Nigerian_Pidgin, Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Kinyarwanda, Twi, Mozambican Portuguese, Swahili, Setswana, isiZulu, Moroccan Arabic/Darija, Xitsonga (South-African Dialect), Xitsonga (Mozambique Dialect) Task B: Multilingual Sentiment Classification Given a combined training data from 12 African languages, determine the polarity of a tweet in the target language (positive, negative, or neutral). Task C: Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification Given unlabeled tweets in two African languages (Oromo, and Tigrinya), leverage any or all of the available training datasets in Subtasks A and B to determine the sentiment of a tweet in the two target languages is positive, negative, or neutral. Helpful Links: Codalab competition page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/7320 Task website: https://afrisenti-semeval.github.io/ Prize: The afriSenti-SemEval competition has a prize and will be awarded to the best performing team in each of the three sub-tasks. - African League: To encourage African participation, this league is for teams with at least one African . - Masters and Undergraduate League: This league is dedicated to masters and undergraduate students only . - Worldwide League: Be a participant from any country. Important Dates: - Training data ready - 11 September 2022 - Evaluation Starts - 10 January 2023 - Evaluation End - 31 January 2023 - System Description Paper Due - February 2023 - SemEval workshop Summer 2023 - (co-located with a major NLP conference) You can reach out to the organizers at afrisenti-semeval-organizers(a)googlegroups.com Task organizers: - Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (University of Porto, Portugal, Bayero University, Kano, MasakhaneNLP) - Seid Muhie Yimam ( Universität Hamburg, Hamburg; MasakhaneNLP) - Idris Abdulmumin ( Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Masakhane NLP) - Ibrahim Sa’id Ahmad ( Bayero University, Kano) - Abinew Ali Ayele ( Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar) - David Ifeoluwa Adelani ( Saarland University, MasaKhaneNLP) - Bello Shehu Bello (Bayero University, Kano) - Vukosi Marivate (University of Pretoria; MasaKhane) - Sebastian Ruder (Google Research ) - Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council,Canada) - Nedjma Ousidhoum ( The University of Cambridge) - Meriem Beloucif (Uppsala University) - Tadesse Destaw Belay (Wollo University, Dessie)

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Research engineer position in the field of active living technologies
by Christophe Lohr 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Dear all, In the framework of the European/Japanese e-VITA project (https://www.e-vita.coach/), IMT Atlantique is offering a one-year position in the field of active living technologies (IoT, data fusion, AI, cloud/edge architectures, user services, coaching, NLP, etc.). Description and link to apply: https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/ingenieure-ou-ingenieur-e… Regard, C. Lohr IMT Atlantique <https://www.imt-atlantique.fr> *Christophe LOHR* Enseignant-chercheur 02 29 00 14 05 Technopôle Brest-Iroise CS 83818 29238 Brest Cedex 3 Site web IMT Atlantique <https://www.imt-atlantique.fr>Twitter IMT Atlantique <https://twitter.com/IMTAtlantique>Facebook IMT Atlantique <https://www.facebook.com/IMTAtlantique>LinkedIn IMT Atlantique <https://www.linkedin.com/school/24772587/>Instagram IMT Atlantique <https://www.instagram.com/imt_atlantique/>Blog IMT Atlantique <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr/l-ecole/actualites> Une école de l'IMT <https://www.imt.fr>

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New Corpora: The third generation Brown corpus (CROWN2021) and its siblings
by Xu, Jiajin 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Dear colleagues, We are proud to announce the release of a new Brown type of American English corpus, i.e. CROWN2021, and six comparable corpora of Catalan, Danish, German, Farsi/Persian, Finnish, Italian, and dozens of similar corpora to come in the next few months. CROWN2021 is a balanced Brown family American English corpus of one million words containing texts published in 2021. It was developed under the leadership of Prof. Jiajin Xu and the texts were collected by Mingchen Sun and 12 other graduate students at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). CROWN2021 serves as an updated language resource of present-day American written English, and a reference corpus for contrastive studies involving diachronic variation (with Brown, Frown, Crown), regional variation (with LOB, FLOB, CLOB) and cross-linguistic comparison (with LCMC, ToRCH family corpora, GLOBE family corpora). Users can have access to the online version of CROWN2021 and other BFSU-made Brown family corpora at BFSU CQPweb Corpus Portal ( http://114.251.154.212/cqp/). Both user ID and passcode are "*test*". KEY INFORMATION Project leader: Jiajin Xu of the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education (NRCFLE), BFSU Text collectors: Mingchen Sun (359 texts), Yagang Chen (47 texts), Shujuan Deng (21 texts), Tingyan Zhangchen (19 texts), Meijia Hao (15 texts), Xingke Lv (13 texts), Jiaxi Shen (5 texts), Yuanyuan Lin (4 texts), Junyu Mao (4 texts), Xinzhi Yang (4 texts), Zinuo Zuo (4 texts), Xinkai Deng (3 texts), Ruotong Zha (2 texts) Time of compilation: April 2022 - October 2022 Size: Approximately one million words Language: Contemporary American English Number of texts/samples: 500 samples of 2000+ words each (Short texts are pieced together to form one 2000-word text, but saved separately and marked with A, B, C etc. in the filenames.) Sampling strategy: The Brown Corpus model (see: http://korpus.uib.no/icame/manuals/BROWN/INDEX.HTM) Period: The texts were published in 2021. Released in: November 2022 POS TagSet: The BNC Basic (C5) Tagset POS Tagger: TreeTagger Lemmatiser: TreeTagger Sentence Segmenter: spaCy How to cite: Mingchen Sun, Jiajin Xu et al. 2022. The CROWN2021 Corpus. National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University Related work: Xu, Jiajin & Maocheng Liang. 2013. A tale of two C's: Comparing English varieties with Crown and CLOB (The 2009 Brown family corpora) <http://icame.uib.no/ij37/Pages_175-184.pdf>. *ICAME Journal *37: 175-183. Jiajin Xu Professor Beijing Foreign Studies University

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Call for Participation: SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3 - Persuasion
by Preslav Nakov 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Call for Participation: SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3 - Persuasion Techniques, Framing and Genre Detection in Online News in a Multi-lingual Setup We are glad to invite you to participate in the SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3 on detecting the genre, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in online news. The main drive behind this task is to foster development of methods and tools to support the analysis of online media content in order to understand what makes a text persuasive: which writing style is used, what key aspects are highlighted, and which persuasion techniques are used to influence the reader. The data used for for this task is made of articles collected from 2020 to mid 2022, they revolve around a range of widely discussed topics such as COVID-19, climate change, abortion, migration, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and local elections. The data presents several novelties: it is multilabel, multilingual (🇫🇷🇵🇱🇬🇧🇷🇺🇮🇹🇩🇪), uses an updated fine-grained taxonomy of persuasion techniques and covers complementary dimensions of what makes a text persuasive. The train contains currently more than 1600 documents and more than 40000 spans annotated for persuasion techniques! Are you interested in using AI systems to analyse political speech, media bias or rhetoric? Then you should not miss this task!!! URL https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/semeval2023task3/ TASKS We offer three subtasks on news articles in six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian). Subtask 1: NEWS GENRE CATEGORISATION Given a news article, determine whether it is an opinion piece, aims at objective news reporting, or is a satire piece. This is a multi-class task at article-level. Subtask 2: NEWS FRAME CATEGORISATION Given a news article, identify the generic frames used in the article. This is a multi-class task at article-level. Subtask 3: PERSUASION TECHNIQUE DETECTION Given a news article, identify the persuasion techniques in each paragraph. This is a multi-label task at paragraph level. PARTICIPATION & EVALUATION The participants may take part in any number of subtask-language pairs (even just one), and may train their systems using the data for all languages (in a multilingual setup). To promote the development of language-agnostic solutions, there will be also two "surprise" languages for which we will release only test data for evaluation purposes. IMPORTANT DATES 23 September 2022: Registration opens 23 September 2022: Release of the first batch of the training\development set 12 January 2023: Release of the test set 22 January 2023: Test submission site closes February 2023: Paper Submission Deadline March 2023: Notification to authors April 2023: Camera ready papers due Summer 2023: SemEval 2023 workshop TASK ORGANIZERS Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Jakub Piskorski, Nicolas Stefanovitch

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