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JLC'23 at Grenoble (France) - CFP
by Marie-Paule Jacques 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Dear Corpora members, Please find below a CFP for the next "Journées de la Linguistique de Corpus". * The 11th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics * 3-6 July 2023, Grenoble * Call for Papers * https://jlc2023.sciencesconf.org/ The International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (JLC), founded by Geoffrey Williams in 2001 at the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France, regularly draws together an interdisciplinary community whose research focus is corpus linguistics. After seven gatherings in Lorient and an interlude in Orleans in 2015 (8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics), the conference alighted in Grenoble in early July 2017 and in November 2019, organized by the LIDILEM Laboratory with contributions from LIG, ILCEA4, Litt&Arts and the MSH-Alpes. Université Grenoble Alpes is honored to host this international conference again from July 3rd to July 6th 2023. The JLC’23 are organized in collaboration with other labs from French universities (Lyon, Montpellier, Toulouse): DDL, ICAR, Praxiling, CLLE. The objective of JLC'23 is to (re)unite a community that adopts various approaches, be they methodological or disciplinary, to promote corpus linguistics, and to contribute to the evolution of practices in the field by building bridges between different approaches to digital corpora. The participants are invited to share and compare their knowledge of tools, experiences, and findings. In the tradition of previous conferences, the JLC in Grenoble will offer three days of presentations, guest speakers and discussion sessions among the participants. Training sessions on tools and methods will be organized over a half day. This edition of the JLC will put a particular focus on corpora and didactics. A part of the conference will be specifically dedicated to this theme. We expect papers that show and question the use of corpora in teaching, be they feedback from real uses, presentation of methodological approaches for various audiences, or more theoretical points of view... These days will not be limited to this theme and will be open to all kinds of contributions on written, oral or multimodal corpora, which may concern, in a non-exhaustive way : 1. Linguistic approaches to corpora 2. Methods and tools 3. Variations, genres, and discourse 4. Applications and uses of corpora for teaching and learning, translation, terminology... Guest speakers include: Florence Mourlhon-Dallies + another speaker to be confirmed Submissions for a presentation or a demonstration in French or English should not exceed three pages (excluding figures and bibliographic references) and must be anonymous. They will get double peer-reviewing by members of the scientific board. JLC2023 will adopt the SciencesConf system to manage communication proposals. In addition to classic presentations, you may also propose a demonstration (identical submission guidelines). Publication: following the colloquium, authors are welcome to submit an article. This collection of articles will be reviewed and published online. Timetable: 1. First CFP: November 2022 2. Submission deadline: Friday February 3rd 2023 3. Notification of acceptance: Mid-April 2023 4. Final submission version: Friday May 19th 2023 5. Registration begins: May 2023 Best regards -- Marie-Paule Jacques /Mobilisée pour la défense du service public de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche/ Maitre de conférences HDR Sciences du langage - Senior Lecturer in Linguistics INSPE et LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues étrangères et maternelles) Université Grenoble Alpes

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PhD position - "A computational analysis of advertising language on social media"
by Spanakis, Jerry (DACS) 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Do you have a favourite YouTuber? Are you worried that you see too many native ads on Instagram? Are you following the latest events on Twitter? Do you have a passion for Natural Language Processing? Then we need to talk (keep reading) Together with my colleague from law (Catalina Goanta) we are looking for a PhD candidate working on computational analysis methods for advertising language on social media. This is part of the ERC starting grant project on HUMANads, award to Catalina last year. We are looking for somebody with a background in Computer Science (or similar) with focus/interest on NLP. Feel free to reach out if you have more questions. Check the full ad below (or here<https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319811/phd-position-a-computational-ana…>), apply by December 1st via this link<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-po…> Best, -Jerry PhD position 'A computational analysis of advertising language on social media' (1.0 FTE) JOB DESCRIPTION The Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe at the Utrecht School of Law, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, is looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research in natural legal language processing and social media advertising under the supervision of dr. Catalina Goanta (Utrecht University), and dr. Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis (Maastricht University). Content monetization reflects a new era of social media business models, changing the nature of digital advertising from platform to human ads. Human ads are Internet influencers (also referred to as content creators) who earn revenue from social media advertising by creating authentic, relatable advertising content for their armies of followers. While their activity has been touted as a new form of creative labour, the overlap between their freedom of expression, political thought and advertising interests raises some serious concerns. One underlying danger is the convergence of speech in two ways. Consumers and citizens can no longer distinguish (i) between ads and non-ads, and (ii) between commercial and political communications. This is a new form of consumer vulnerability on digital markets where speech cannot be separated from platform infrastructure. Human ads are an emerging category of stakeholders who turn engagement into currency in novel ways. Users are faced with a double transparency problem: (i) human ads have incentives to hide commercial interests, and (ii) platforms have incentives to algorithmically amplify human ads engagement in opaque ways. This reflects a general good faith and fair dealing problem: the social media economy is increasingly based on deceit. However, we know very little about the size of deceit on social media. Even basic questions such as defining influencers or understanding how much sponsored content they post are difficult to formalize and compute. This PhD project consists in conducting interdisciplinary research to develop methodologies for the classification and detection of advertising language on social media. The PhD project will be mainly focused on the application of natural language processing to regulatory issues arising out of the proliferation of commercial and political advertising on social media, but could potentially also include web measurement and social network analysis approaches. Examples of questions which could fall under the PhD project include: * What are the characteristics of commercial v political advertising language on social media? * What kind of research methodologies can be used to classify social media content that is monetized by content creators/influencers? * How can content creators/influencers be computationally defined? * How can we use computer science methodologies to identify, describe and measure social media harms arising out of the proliferation of hidden advertising? This PhD position is part of the European Research Council Starting Grant HUMANads. The PhD candidate will have an opportunity and be expected to further define the initial research objectives set out by the project, in collaboration with the supervision team. This PhD position will be part of a broader project team featuring computer scientists, law and media scholars, and it will be based in the RENFORCE research center and the Molengraaff Institute for private law<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/utrecht-university-school-of-law/about-th…>. requirements * Academic excellence proven through a good track record of initiatives related to, among others, academic research; * Obtained (or obtained by the start of the PhD trajectory) Master in Computer Science or a Master in adjacent fields such as Computational Social Sciences, Data Science or Empirical Legal Studies; * Interest in being part of an interdisciplinary team; * Interest in being the first computer science PhD candidate at Utrecht Law School; * Knowledge of natural language processing (and related programming frameworks); * Practical experience with programming (esp. Python); * Affinity to or interest in developing knowledge about social network analysis and web measurement; * Affinity to or interest in developing practical knowledge about social media technologies; * Demonstrable strong interest in doing scientific research and specifically research on the subject of the PhD project; * Ability to process and critically assess large body of complex information; * Clear, critical and creative thinking; * Good planning and organizing skills, ability to deliver high-quality results on time; * Ability to function both independently and under supervision, communicate to the supervisor and process feedback effectively; * Sense of initiative and proactive thinking; * Excellent writing skills; * Excellent command of English. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT This is an appointment of 1.0 FTE for the duration of 18 months. Upon a positive evaluation of the PhD student’s performance the contract will be extended by a further 2.5 years. The gross salary starts with €2,541 per month in the first year and increases to €3,247 per month in the fourth year of employment (scale P according to the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities) for a full-time employment. Besides that, you will receive a holiday allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. Utrecht University also has an appealing package of terms of employment<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/terms-of-em…>, including the choice for a good balance between work and private (a good arrangement for leave, among other things), possibilities for development and an excellent pension scheme. For more information, please visit working at Utrecht University<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university> The starting date will be 1 March 2023. The interviews will be scheduled in December 2022. Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Advanced Computing Sciences | Maastricht Law+Tech Lab Faculty of Science and Engineering jerry.spanakis(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:jerry.spanakis@maastrichtuniversity.nl> https://dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl/jerry.spanakis/ [image001.png] https://www.twitter.com/gerasimoss Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1, 6229EN, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Room C4.029A Postbus 616, 6200 MD Maastricht T 0031(0)4338-83916 [image002.jpg]

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Permanent research positions
by Olivier Bonami 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

[Apologies for cross-posting] The Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (www.llf.cnrs.fr <http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/>, LLF) is seeking to support applications in linguistics and language sciences to Research Associate positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs.fr <http://cnrs.fr/>). CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required. Although CNRS recruits researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application. Located at Université Paris Cité (u-paris.fr <http://u-paris.fr/>), the LLF has about 80 members, including 36 permanent faculty members, working on every subfield of linguistics. In recent years, it has extended its focus from formal and theoretical linguistics to domains such as psycholinguistics, experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, dialogue, typology, and Sign language linguistics. The LLF is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants, with an excellent research record and willing to develop a project that would fit the lab's areas of inquiry. The official call for application will be published on December 5, 2022 with an application deadline of January 5, 2023 (https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/concours-ch <https://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/concoursch/default-en.htm>). Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by the LLF are invited to contact the lab by December 10, sending a CV (including a publication list) and a short description of their research profile to direction.llf(a)listes.u-paris.fr <mailto:direction-llf@listes.univ-paris-diderot.fr>. Decisions on whether support is granted will be taken by December 16. Olivier Bonami Professeur de linguistique, Université de Paris Directeur du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle UMR 7110 - Université de Paris & CNRS Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97 Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges (https://goo.gl/maps/96AtUeahUvC2 <https://goo.gl/maps/96AtUeahUvC2>) 8 place Paul Ricoeur 75013 Paris Bureau 520 Olivier Bonami Professeur de linguistique, Université Paris Cité Directeur du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle UMR 7110 - Université de Paris & CNRS Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97 Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges 8 place Paul Ricoeur 75013 Paris Bureau 520

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OFAI 2022 Lecture Series
by Tristan Miller 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) is delighted to announce its 2022 Lecture Series, featuring an eclectic lineup of internal and external speakers. The talks are intended to familiarize attendees with the latest research developments in AI and related fields (particularly computational linguistics and natural language processing), and to forge new connections with those working in other areas. Most lectures (see prospective schedule below) will take place on Wednesdays at 18:30 Central European (Summer) Time. All lectures will be held online via Zoom; in-person attendance at OFAI Headquarters in Vienna is also possible for certain lectures. Attendance is open to the public and free of charge. No registration is required. Visit https://www.ofai.at/lectures for full details! 29 June Scott Patterson McGill University Domesticating Wealth Inequality: Hybrid Discourse Analysis of UN General Assembly Speeches, 1971–2018 6 July Pamela Breda Independent artist Feeling for Nonexsistent Beings 13 July Brigitte Krenn OFAI Robots as Social Agents: Between Construct and Reality 20 July Tristan Miller OFAI What's in a Pun? Assessing the Relationship Between Phonological and Semantic Distance and Perceived Funniness of Punning Jokes 27 July Katrien Beuls Université de Namur Unravelling the Computational Mechanisms Underlying the Emergence of Human-like Communication Systems in Populations of Autonomous Agents 7 September Steffen Eger Bielefeld University Text Generation for the Humanities 14 September Antti Arppe University of Alberta Finding Words that Aren't There: Using Word Embeddings to Improve Dictionary Search for Low-resource Languages 21 September Roman Pflugfelder AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Title TBA 28 September Raphael Deimel TU Wien Towards Intuitive Object Handovers Between Humans and Robots 5 October Christoph Scheepers University of Glasgow The “Crossword Effect” in Free Word Recall: A Retrieval Advantage for Words Encoded in Line with their Spatial Associations 12 October Karën Fort Sorbonne Université Title TBA 19 October Benjamin Roth University of Vienna Evaluation and Learning with Structured Test Sets 25 October Peter Hallman OFAI Comparatives in Arabic 2 November Stephanie Gross OFAI Title TBA 9 November Bernhard Pfahringer University of Waikato The World is not IID: Learning from Data Streams to the Rescue 16 November Paolo Petta OFAI Title TBA 23 November Robert Trappl OFAI Title TBA -- Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12 https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/

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Arabic to English Names Automated Transliteration
by Yousif Almas 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Dear all, We have a large list of Arabic full names that we would like to automatically transliterate to English in a consistent way. Would appreciate letting me know if you are aware of any tools or resources that can help us to achieve this. Ok with both open source or commercial solutions. Many thanks, Yousif

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2nd CfP: "Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies: Towards a behavioromics of multimodal communication"
by Andy Lücking 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

*Apologies for cross-posting* 2nd Call for papers HCI International 2023 Session: "Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies: Towards a behavioromics of multimodal communication" Manual gestures, facial expressions, head movements, shrugs, laughter, body orientation, speech, pauses: they all contribute to constituting what is called "multimodal interaction". Aiming at natural (for humans) interfaces, the field of HCI paid attention to this social fact early on. It is also a vital topic in conversation analysis and cognitive science and begins to percolate to theoretical linguistics and (formal) semantics. Simultaneously, due to the digital turn, work on multimodal communication is expanded by data analytics, that is, statistical means to describe the form of communication. However, while conjoint in investigating a common empirical domain, there is little exchange between these fields. This session aims at bringing these branches together. Potential goals are to delineate experimental studies, computational methods, resource building, and exploration to integrate symbolic, statistical, laboratory, field, and corpus-based approaches -- a joint methodological endeavor that might be called "behavioromics." The session is open, but not restrcted, to topics such as the following: - dialogue semantics and dialogue systems - (big) gesture data - multimodal interaction data - creation and exploitation of multimodal corpora - virtual reality avatars as experimental setting - cross-modal tracking - data-based multimodal analysis - detecting multimodal ensembles or gestalts - automatic annotation of everything beyond written text - representation schemes for multimodal communication We want to emphasize that conceptual contributions are highly welcome! The conference session aims at providing a platform for bringing together semanticists, computer scientists and researchers from related fields that deal with multimodal interaction. We all work on virtually the same topic but from different angles, but there are way to few opportunities to get in touch. But exchange and seeing what others are doing is crucial to approach the above-outlined, methodological, empirical and theoretical challenges. The conference session will take place *virtually* in conjunction with HCI International 2023 (https://2023.hci.international/). Full papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings by Springer. *If you want to contribute, please send a message to Andy Lücking (luecking(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de).* Important dates: - December 04, 2022: upload abstract - Notification of review outcome: 20 December 2022 - February 14, 2023: full paper is due - 23-28 July 2023: HCI International conference (virtual) Session organizers: Cornelia Ebert (https://www.linguistik-in-frankfurt.de/personal/cornelia-ebert/) Andy Lücking (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/andy-luecking/; http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/en/Gens/L%C3%BCcking) Alexander Mehler (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/alexander-mehler/)

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Final Call for Papers: Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT)
by Kilian Evang 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Submission deadline (extended): Nov 15th, 2022 Invited speakers announced (scroll down) The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th–12th, 2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of GURT 2023. VENUE The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The goal of co-locating these events is to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event. Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports. GURT INVITED SPEAKERS - Jonathan Dunn, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (CxGs+NLP) - Guy Perrier, Loria, France (Depling) - Joan Bresnan, Stanford University, USA (TLT) - Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden (UDW) SUBMISSION INFORMATION TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: - long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; - short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than TLT at the discretion of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Long and short paper submission deadlines: November 15th, 2022 Reviews Due: December 17th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: January 11th, 2023 Final version of papers due: February 1st, 2023 GURT2023: March 9th-12th, 2023 TLT WORKSHOP CHAIRS Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University Contact: ddakota(a)iu.edu Website: https://cl.indiana.edu/tlt2023 GURT Website: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/

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Nodalida 2023: Call for workshop proposals
by Mark Fišel 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) May 22 - 24, 2023, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands https://www.nodalida2023.fo CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) invites proposals for workshops at its bi-annual conference on human language and speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2023 will be held between May 22 and 24, 2023 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech processing and computational linguistics, including work in closely-related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. We invite proposals for workshops, to be held on Monday, May 22, 2023, immediately preceding the main conference. Workshops can be either scheduled for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form, anytime before Friday, December 2, 2022 by email to ‘nodalida2023-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida2023-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects: - proposed workshop title - topic and goals of the workshop - target group and estimated attendance - workshop organizer(s) and contact(s) - mode of organization and program design SCHEDULE * Friday, December 2, 2022: Submission of workshop proposals * Friday, December 16, 2022: Notification of workshop selection * Monday, March 20, 2023: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline * Monday, May 1, 2023: Camera-ready workshop papers due * Monday, May 22, 2023: Pre-conference workshops Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including sending out calls for papers, reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. SELECTION The assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa 2023 Workshop Chairs. To inquire about the workshop submission process or any practical aspect about the organization of workshops, please email ‘nodalida2023-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida2023-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make Nodalida 2023 a success!

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BrPoliCorpus: Brazilian Political Corpus
by Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. I just started a new project called *BrPoliCorpus: Brazilian Political Corpus*. My objective is to make available, as an R Data Package, a corpus of political documents in Brazilian Portuguese. Currently, the package has only a dataset, *InauguralSpeeches*, which includes all Brazilian President’s Inaugural Speeches since 1889. The package and the installation instructions are available here <https: All the best, //github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus>. All the best, Rodrigo --- Dr. Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes Associate Professor University of Campinas Department of Applied Linguistics

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Deadline extended -- Fully-funded NLP PhD position in pragmatic program generation at Saarland University (Deadline Nov 13, 2022)
by Sebastian Schuster 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

We invite applications for one PhD student position in pragmatic program generation. The goal of the PhD project is to develop and evaluate methods that can automatically turn natural language descriptions of what a program should do into executable computer code, with a special focus on dealing with ambiguities and lack of detail in the natural language descriptions. DEADLINE FOR THIS CALL HAS BEEN EXTENDED (NOV 13TH)! The position, to be established in the group "Computer Science and Computational Linguistics" (Prof. Vera Demberg <https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg.html>), is part of a collaboration with the Software Engineering Group <https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/> of Prof. Sven Apel and the Machine Teaching Group <https://machineteaching.mpi-sws.org/> of Dr. Adish Singla at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS). Candidates for this position should have a master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science or a related discipline (exceptional candidates with a 4-year bachelor’s degree may also be considered). Experience with machine learning including deep learning is expected. The research will be conducted in English. Dates: Application deadline: November 13, 2022 (Late applications maybe considered but for full consideration, please apply by this date.) Start date: Spring 2023 (start date flexible) The expected duration of the PhD is 3 years, the position is paid according to 75% TV-L E13, see also https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix… <https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix…>. The job does not come with any teaching obligation. You can however choose to participate in teaching activities (tutoring or co-teaching). Applicants are requested to submit their application, including a cover letter that specifies why you would like to work on this topic and what qualifies you for it, an academic CV, a list of academic publications (if applicable), your MSc thesis (or another writing sample), copies of academic degree certificates and names of two potential references. Saarland University <https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/home.html> is one of the leading centres for computational linguistics and computer science in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. It is famous for its interdisciplinary research in language, translation, computation and cognition. The group is affiliated with both the Department of Computer Science <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fachrichtung/informatik.html> and with the Department of Language Science and Technology <https://www.lst.uni-saarland.de/>. The Department of Language Science and Technology organizes about 100 research staff in ten research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. Both departments are part of the Saarland Informatics Campus <https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en>, which brings together 800 researchers and 2000 students from 81 countries. We collaborate closely with the university's Department of Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home/>, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems <https://www.mpi-sws.org/>, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence <https://www.dfki.de/en/web/> (DFKI). Our researchers and students come from all over the world, and our primary working language is English. Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women are strongly encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications. Applications should be sent via email directly to Prof. Vera Demberg (vera(a)coli.uni-saarland.de <mailto:vera@coli.uni-saarland.de>vera@ <mailto:vera@coli.uni-saarland.de>coli.uni-saarland.de <>).

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