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Call for Participation: 4th Slav-NER Shared Task — Named Entities in Slavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

Call for Participation The 4th Slav-NER Shared Task Named Entities in Slavic Languages — Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-Lingual Linking co-located with Slav-NLP <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Workshop, EACL 2023 <https://2023.eacl.org/> http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> * Task Description * *The 4th Slav-NER Shared Task focuses on Named Entities in Slavic languages.* Due to rich inflection, free word order, derivation, and other phenomena common to the Slavic languages, work on Named Entities poses important challenges. Fostering research & development on the problems of Named Entities — detecting names, lemmatization (normalization), classification, and cross-lingual matching — is crucial for information access and wider use of NLP in Slavic languages. The 4th Slav-NER Shared Task covers three languages: * Czech, * Polish, * Russian. and five types of named entities: * persons, * locations, * organizations, * events, * products. For information about training and test data, guidelines, and participation, please see the Shared Task Home Page <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html>. *IMPORTANT*: Participants are NOT required to perform all tasks or for all languages. For example, a monolingual entry, without lemmatization of the names, can participate. The Shared Task focuses on cross-lingual extraction of named entities — the systems should recognize, classify, and extract all mentions of a name in a document; detecting the position of each name mention is NOT required. Name mentions should be lemmatized, and mentions referring to the same real-world object should be linked across documents and languages. The text collection consists of sets of documents retrieved from the Web, each set about a certain major entity or event. The corpus was collected by crawling the Web and parsing the HTML documents. For background, see the details about the 1st edition (2017) <http://bsnlp-2017.cs.helsinki.fi/shared_task.html> , 2nd edition (2019) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2019/shared_task.html> and the 3rd edition (2021) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> of this shared task. * Participation *Teams that wish to participate should register via email to: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi, with the following information: * name of team, * team members, * contact person, * contact email. * Important Dates * * Shared task announcement: 11 January 2023 ⇒ *Training Data Released !* * Registration deadline: *06 March 2023* * *Release of Test Data* to registered participants: *07 March 2023* * Submission of system responses: 09 March 2023 * Results announced to participants: 11 March 2023 * Submission of shared task papers: 13 March 2023 * Camera-ready shared task papers: 03 April 2023 Shared task organizers. -- Roman Yangarber Associate Professor, University of Helsinki Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learninghelsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> Language Learning Labhelsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Re: Corpora Digest, Vol 407, Issue 1
by Claire Gardent 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

----- Mail original ----- > De: corpora-request(a)list.elra.info > À: "corpora" <corpora(a)list.elra.info> > Envoyé: Samedi 4 Mars 2023 13:00:05 > Objet: Corpora Digest, Vol 407, Issue 1 > Send Corpora mailing list submissions to > corpora(a)list.elra.info > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > corpora-request(a)list.elra.info > > You can reach the person managing the list at > corpora-owner(a)list.elra.info > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Corpora digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Postdoc in multilingual NLP at Idiap in Switzerland (2-years) > (Lonneke van der Plas) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:11:18 +0100 > From: Lonneke van der Plas <lonneke.vanderplas(a)idiap.ch> > Subject: [Corpora-List] Postdoc in multilingual NLP at Idiap in > Switzerland (2-years) > To: corpora(a)list.elra.info > Message-ID: <93fb50da-a632-439b-5769-95612d73bf48(a)idiap.ch> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="------------IkDaUAJ02CfB5eTeLKG0TLmY" > > The Computation, Cognition, and Language Group at Idiap in Martigny, is > looking for a postdoc to complement its cross-disciplinary team for a > duration of 2 years. > > The postdoc will lead their own research in collaboration with > researchers in Human Resource Management at EHL Hospitality Business > School, the company ARCA24 in Ticino, and a team of researchers and > developers at Idiap on the topic of recruitment, focusing on matching > the right profiles with the right positions. In order to do this well > and in accordance with modern insights from Management Studies, we will > not only focus on hard skills but also soft skills and > person-organisation fit. Furthermore, models will need to incorporate > structured and unstructured information in multiple languages, mitigate > bias, and explain their results. These are highly relevant topics in > NLP, which are expected to result in high-quality publications. > > The appointment for this position is for 24 months, starting from May > 1st, (but open until filled) with possibilities for renewal depending on > funding availability. > > If you need more information, please contact lonneke.vanderplas(a)idiap.ch > > > Profile > > Ph.D. degree (or close to completion) in Computer Science or another > relevant discipline > > Track record of scientific contributions in NLP, evidenced by > high-quality first-author publications > > Interest in working in a cross-disciplinary team, working on a diverse > set of languages > > Solid English communication skills (scientific writing and speaking) > > Confident in Python programming > > Expertise in any of following areas is a plus but not required: > cross-lingual transfer learning, neuro-symbolic methods > > > The Idiap Research Institute ('AI for society') > https://www.idiap.ch/en/about > > Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute accredited > and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the > City of Martigny. > Idiap offers competitive salaries and working conditions at all levels > in a dynamic, multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity > employer. We specifically encourage women and minorities to apply. > > Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, Switzerland, > offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities, > including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural > activities. It is within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. > Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is > the official working language. > > > For frequently asked questions (FAQs) about living in Switzerland, > please go tohttps://www.idiap.ch/en/faq > > Salary for this position: CHF 81’600.– in the first year up to CHF > 83'230.- in the second year > > Application can be submitted here: > https://careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offres/postdoc-in-multilingual-natura… > > -- > Prof. Lonneke van der Plas > Head of Computation, Cognition & Language Group, and Assoc. Prof. (UM, affil.) > Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland > Tel: +41 277217739 >

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Call for Papers: Slav-NLP: The 9th Workshop on NLP for SlavicLanguages
by Roman Yangarber 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

* Call for Papers * * SNLP: The9thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> 2 May 2023 or 6 May 2023 co-located with EACL 2023 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/ <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Submission Deadline: 27 February 2023 WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION The 9th edition of the SNLP Workshop at EACLSponsored by SIGSLAV: the ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP The languages from the Slavic group play an important role due to their diverse cultural heritage and widespread use — with over 400 million speakers worldwide. The current political and economic developments in Central and Eastern Europe bring Slavic societies and languages into focus in terms of rapid technological advancement and expanding consumer markets. Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. Linguistic phenomena that are common to Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages a challenging task. Slavic NLP gathers researchers from academia and industry. It aims to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and to foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provides a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this entire large language group creates a special environment, where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility.This year, we are especially glad to have an opportunity to organize Slav NLP in a Slavic-speaking country. This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include: * language modeling * morphological analysis and generation, * syntactic and semantic parsing, * lexical semantics, * named-entity recognition, * text normalisation and processing non-standard language * coreference resolution, * information extraction, * question answering, * text summarization, * machine translation, * development of linguistic resources, * text classification * disinformation detection, * fact verification. * sentiment analysis This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 8 previous BSNLP Workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 27 February 2023 * Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2023 * Camera-ready papers due: 27 March 2023 * Workshop: 2 or 6 May 2023 SHARED TASK This year's SNLP features the 4th editionof the Shared Task on Multilingual Named Entity Recognition: recognizing mentions of named entities in Web documents, lemmatization, and cross-lingual matching in Slavic languages. The shared task covers: * Czech, * Polish, * Russian. Information about the Shared Task and training data is available on the Workshop web page SUBMISSION INFORMATION At the Workshop Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html> Workshop contact email address: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi * -- Roman Yangarber Associate Professor, University of Helsinki Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learninghelsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> Language Learning Labhelsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 Helsinki, Finland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Postdoc in multilingual NLP at Idiap in Switzerland (2-years)
by Lonneke van der Plas 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

The Computation, Cognition, and Language Group at Idiap in Martigny, is looking for a postdoc to complement its cross-disciplinary team for a duration of 2 years. The postdoc will lead their own research in collaboration with researchers in Human Resource Management at EHL Hospitality Business School, the company ARCA24 in Ticino, and a team of researchers and developers at Idiap on the topic of recruitment, focusing on matching the right profiles with the right positions. In order to do this well and in accordance with modern insights from Management Studies, we will not only focus on hard skills but also soft skills and person-organisation fit. Furthermore, models will need to incorporate structured and unstructured information in multiple languages, mitigate bias, and explain their results. These are highly relevant topics in NLP, which are expected to result in high-quality publications. The appointment for this position is for 24 months, starting from May 1st, (but open until filled) with possibilities for renewal depending on funding availability. If you need more information, please contact lonneke.vanderplas(a)idiap.ch Profile Ph.D. degree (or close to completion) in Computer Science or another relevant discipline Track record of scientific contributions in NLP, evidenced by high-quality first-author publications Interest in working in a cross-disciplinary team, working on a diverse set of languages Solid English communication skills (scientific writing and speaking) Confident in Python programming Expertise in any of following areas is a plus but not required: cross-lingual transfer learning, neuro-symbolic methods The Idiap Research Institute ('AI for society') https://www.idiap.ch/en/about Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute accredited and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny. Idiap offers competitive salaries and working conditions at all levels in a dynamic, multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer. We specifically encourage women and minorities to apply. Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, Switzerland, offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the official working language. For frequently asked questions (FAQs) about living in Switzerland, please go tohttps://www.idiap.ch/en/faq Salary for this position: CHF 81’600.– in the first year up to CHF 83'230.- in the second year Application can be submitted here: https://careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offres/postdoc-in-multilingual-natura… -- Prof. Lonneke van der Plas Head of Computation, Cognition & Language Group, and Assoc. Prof. (UM, affil.) Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland Tel: +41 277217739

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CfP: Humor and Artificial Intelligence at ISHS 2023
by Tristan Miller 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Humor and Artificial Intelligence Track ======================================= 33rd International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2023) Boston, Massachusetts July 3 to 7, 2023 https://combeyond.bu.edu/offering/international-society-of-humor-studies-co… ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023 Call for papers --------------- Humor is a universal and ubiquitous facet of human communication, but is among the hardest to process in artificial intelligence environments. The Humor and Artificial Intelligence track at ISHS 2023 solicits abstracts on the computational representation, detection, classification, interpretation, and generation of any and all forms of verbal or non-verbal humor. Application areas include, but are not limited to: * human–computer interaction * computer-mediated communication * intelligent writing assistants * conversational agents * machine and computer-assisted translation * digital humanities * natural language processing * computer vision Abstracts of 150 to 350 words should be submitted on the ISHS 2023 website at <https://combeyond.bu.edu/offering/international-society-of-humor-studies-co…> by March 1, 2023. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a conference talk of approximately 20 minutes plus time for questions. Conveners --------- Kiki Hempelmann (Texas A&M University-Commerce) Tristan Miller (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) Julia M. Rayz (Purdue University) -- 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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18 month postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Copenhagen
by Desmond Elliott 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising an 18 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. The position is funded by a VILLUM Young Investigator Grant held by the principal investigator, Desmond Elliott. The overall goal of the project is to develop a new family of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images, which allows the models to learn from the visual similarities between written languages, facilitating effective transfer to lower-resource or unseen languages. The Natural Language Processing Section provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/. The application deadline is 29 March 2023, with a preferred start date of 1 June 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications for the position can be submitted here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=158711 Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: de(a)di.ku.dk.

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SEPLN 2023 - Second Call for Papers
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

[apologies for cross-posting] *SEPLN 2023: 39th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING* *Jaén, Spain* *September 27-29, 2023* http://sepln2023.sepln.org/en/home/ The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/>) is pleased to invite you to participate in the 39th edition of the SEPLN Conference. The SEPLN Conference will take place on 27-29 September 2022 at Jaén (Spain), at the Museo Íbero of Jaén, where the participants will discover the history of the Iberians. The main aim of the SEPLN 2023 Conference is to provide both to the scientific community and to the industry a forum where the latest research and developments in the field of NLP can be presented and shared. The SEPLN 2023 Conference also gives the possibility to present real NLP applications and R&D projects. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum for helping new professionals to become active members in this field. *Topics of interest* Topics related to NLP, including but not limited to: - Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language. - Machine learning in NLP. - Computational lexicography and terminology. - Corpus linguistics. - Development of linguistic resources and tools. - Morphological and syntactic analysis. - Semantics, pragmatics and discourse. - Word sense disambiguation. - Monolingual and multilingual text generation. - Machine translation. - Knowledge and common sense. - Multimodality. - Spoken language processing. - Dialogue systems and interactive systems / Conversational assistants. - Multimedia indexing and retrieval. - Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval. - Question answering systems. - Evaluation of NLP systems. - Automatic textual content analysis. - Sentiment analysis and argument mining. - Plagiarism detection. - Negation and speculation processing. - Text mining in social media. - Text summarization. - Text simplification. - NLP in the biomedical domain. - NLP-based generation of teaching resources. - NLP for languages with limited resources. - NLP industrial applications. - Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation. - Ethics and NLP. - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP. *Structure of the Conference* The SEPLN 2023 Conference will be a three-day event and will include sessions to present papers, ongoing research projects and prototype or product demos related to the topics of the conference. Likewise, the 26th of September will take place the Workshop Day, where the main workshop will be IberLEF 2023. *Paper types and author guidelines* The SEPLN 2023 Conference will accept three kinds of papers: (1) scientific contributions, (2) research project summaries and (3) system demonstration papers. *Scientific contributions*. The accepted scientific contributions will be published in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, whose aim is to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2021 JCR index (JCI: 0.21, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR: 0.217, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (CiteScore: 1.5, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language) among others. More information at http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. The papers can be written in Spanish or English and must be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. The papers must include the following sections: - The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). - The paper must be anonymized, since the Journal follows a double-blind review process. - An abstract with a maximum of 150 words (in English and Spanish). - A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). - The documents must not include headers or footers. The information about the format of the papers and the Latex and Microsoft Word template are at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines. *Camera ready* - the final version of the paper should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. *Preprint policy* - The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. *Research project summaries*. They are summaries of ongoing research projects. This kind of papers must include the following information: - Project title. - Author name, affiliation and contact information. The review of this kind of paper is not blind review. - Funding institutions. - Research Groups participating in the project. - Language: English. We will not accept research project summaries in Spanish or other languages. - An abstract of a maximum of 150 words and a list of keywords. - Minimum length: 5 pages. - Maximum length: 6 pages (including references). In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic. System demonstration papers. These papers must be related to NLP applications, and they must describe the technical details and the NLP components used or developed. The paper must be written in English, the minimum length of the paper must be 5 A4-size pages and the maximum length is 6 A4-size pages of content with the references included. In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic. The research project summaries and the system demonstration papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings platform, which is widely known by the computer science research community. Accordingly, the paper format must match the CEUR template. We have adapted the CEUR Latex Template to SEPLN 2023 and you can download it here. *Submission Information*. The papers must be submitted by March 19th, 2023. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the MyReview system available at: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln71 . Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the SEPLN advisory council. *Important dates* - Deadline for the submission of papers, projects and demos: *March 19th, 2023*. - Notification of acceptance: May 16th, 2023. - Camera Ready: May 31st, 2023. - Workshops: September 26th, 2023. - Conference: September 27th-29th, 2023. *Organizing Committee* - L. Alfonso Ureña López (Chairman) University of Jaén (Spain). - M. Teresa Martín Valdivia (Chairwoman) University of Jaén (Spain). - Eugenio Martínez Cámara (Coordinator) University of Granada (Spain). - M. Carlos Díaz Galiano University of Jaén (Spain). - Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras University of Jaén (Spain). - Manuel García Vega University of Jaén (Spain). - Salud María Jiménez Zafra University of Jaén (Spain). - Fernando Martínez Santiago University of Jaén (Spain). - M. Dolores Molina González University of Jaén (Spain). - Arturo Montejo Ráez University of Jaén (Spain). - Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco University of Jaén (Spain). *Collaborators* - Alba María Mármol Romero University of Jaén (Spain). - Estrella Vallecillo Rodríguez University of Jaén (Spain). - Mariia Chizhikova University of Jaén (Spain). - Alberto Gutierrez Mejías University of Jaén (Spain). - Jaime Collado University of Jaén (Spain). *Contact* All information related to the conference can be found at http://sepln2023.sepln.org/ For all general enquiries, please contact: sepln2023jaen(a)googlegroups.com. -- Eugenio Martínez Cámara. Investigador en Proc. del Lenguaje Natural / Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Proc. Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> / SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> Research Group. Dpto. de Informática / Computer Science Department Universidad de Jaén.

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1st Call for Papers: The 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37)
by emmanuelechersoni＠gmail.com 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

* The 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37) * * December 2-4, 2023 (deadline paper submission: July 16, 2023 AoE) * * The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (China) * CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES Following the long tradition of PACLIC conferences, PACLIC 37 emphasizes the synergy of theoretical frameworks and processing of natural language, providing a forum for researchers from different fields to share and discuss progress in scientific studies, development and application of the topics related to the study of languages. TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: - Language Studies o Clinical linguistics and language disorders o Corpus linguistics o Discourse Analysis o Language Acquisition o Language and Social Media o Language Learning o Language, Mind and Culture o Linguistic Theories o Morphology o Multilingualism o Phonology o Pragmatics o Semantics o Sociolinguistics o Spoken language processing o Syntax o Typology - Information Processing and Computational Applications o Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics o Dialogue systems o Digital Humanities o Ethics in Natural Language Processing o Information retrieval/extraction o Interpretability of Natural Language Processing systems o Language models o Language resources o Linguistic diversity o Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing o Machine Translation o Multimodality o Natural Language Generation o Natural Language Processing applications o Sentiment Analysis o Summarization o Word segmentation PAPER SUBMISSION Papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus references and appendices. Submissions will be judged based on relevance, technical strength, significance and opportunities, and interest to the attendees. As the reviewing will be double-blind, authors must not indicate their names and affiliations while submitting their papers. Papers must be submitted through the Easy Chair Conference System: [URL COMING SOON]. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the PACLIC 37 program committee. Papers in the proceedings of PACLIC have been indexed in Scopus since PACLIC 19 (2005). They are also listed in the ACL Anthology. Double submissions with other conferences/workshops are allowed, but the authors are asked to declare it at submission time. SUBMISSION FORMAT The conference will only accept papers formatted according to the standard ACL templates (downloadable at: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/). IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline of paper submission: July 16, 2023 (AoE) * Notification: September 10, 2023 Camera-ready: October 1, 2023 Early bird registration: October 1, 2023 Conference: December 2-4, 2023 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS (To be completed) Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Yasunari Harada (Waseda University) Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) Emmanuele Chersoni (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Sophia Yat Mei Lee (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Sarah Chen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Yu-Yin Hsu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) CONTACT paclic37(a)gmail.com

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CfP Extension: Context in Neural Machine Translation & Evaluation
by Knowles, Rebecca 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

*Apologies for cross-posting* [image.png] Deadline Extended: Special issue on The Role of Context in Neural Machine Translation Systems and its Evaluation in Natural Language Engineering Submission deadline extended to March 31, 2023. Guest editors: - Sheila Castilho (The ADAPT Centre, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University)) - Rebecca Knowles (National Research Council Canada) For this special issue, we invite the submission of papers focusing on the variety of novel implementations of context into neural machine translation systems as well as novel approaches to its evaluation. Recent claims that machine translation systems are reaching (near) human parity at the sentence level have been followed by subsequent analyses that indicate remaining gaps in translation quality at the document level. How best to evaluate machine translation at the document level (and what exactly constitutes document level evaluation) remains an open question. At the same time, there is work seeking to add discourse and context into neural machine translation systems. Papers that focus on topics of context in neural machine translation, machine translation evaluation, or both are welcome. For full details, see: https://sites.google.com/dcu.ie/nlecontextnmt/home Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel language processing techniques for implementing discourse in NMT systems - Document-level NMT and evaluation - Use of target and source context - Context-aware techniques for quality evaluation - Context-aware automatic and human evaluation metrics - The size and composition of the training data and its effect on context-aware systems - The effect of the quality of training data and test sets on context-aware systems - Translationese and its effect on document-level training - Lexical diversity and lexical density in discourse NMT - Discourse NMT for different domains Publication Timeline: - Article submission deadline: 31 March 2023 - Return of reviews to contributors: 15 May 2023 - Revised articles deadline submission: 15 June 2023 - Return of second reviews to contributors (if applicable): 1 August 2023 - Final Submission: 15 September 2023 - Publication: November 2023 / January 2024 Format and Submission: Typical submissions will be 12-25 pages in length. Authors should follow the "Author Instructions" section on the journal website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform… We highly recommend using the LaTeX template found under "Preparing your materials" at the link above. All manuscripts must be submitted online via the NLE ScholarOne website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle. Under "Special Issue Designation", choose "The Role of Context in Neural Machine Translation Systems and its Evaluation". Queries: Any queries related to this special issue should be addressed to sheila.castilho(a)dcu.ie<mailto:sheila.castilho@dcu.ie> with NLE-ContextNMT in the subject line.

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Second call For Papers - IWCS 2023
by Maxime Amblard 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

**apologies for cross-postings** === Second call for papers IWCS 2023 === Paper submissions: 15 March 2023 https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers ======================================== 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France 20-23th June 2023 http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/ IWCS is the biennial meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is organized in person by the Loria [3] and IDMC [4] of the Université de Lorraine. [1] http://sigsem.org/ [2] http://aclweb.org/ [3] https://www.loria.fr/fr/ [4] http://idmc.univ-lorraine.fr/ The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation and neuralisation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference and workshops will take place 20-23 June 2023. === TOPICS OF INTEREST === We invite paper submissions in all areas of computational semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Presentations will be oral and posters. Submissions are invited on these closely related areas, including the following: * design of meaning representations * syntax-semantics interface * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics * distributional semantics * alternative approaches to compositional semantics * inference methods for computational semantics * recognising textual entailment * learning by reading * methodologies and practices for semantic annotation * machine learning of semantic structures * probabilistic computational semantics * neural semantic parsing * computational aspects of lexical semantics * semantics and ontologies * semantic web and natural language processing * semantic aspects of language generation * generating from meaning representations * semantic relations in discourse and dialogue * semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts * multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning * semantics-pragmatics interface * applications of computational semantics === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Both types should be submitted not later than 3 March (anywhere on earth). Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references). Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references). Both types will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. Style-files: IWCS papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use our specific style-files or the Overleaf template, taken from ACL 2021. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Submitting: Papers should be submitted in PDF format via Softconf: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have problems using Softconf. No anonymity period IWCS 2023 does not have an anonymity period. However, we ask you to be reasonable and not publicly advertise your preprint during (or right before) review. === IMPORTANT DATES === 15 March 2023 (anywhere on earth) Paper submissions 17 April 2023 Decisions sent to authors 15 May 2023 Camera-ready papers due 20-23 June 2023 IWCS conference === CONTACT === For questions, contact: iwcs2023-contact(a)univ-lorraine.fr Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breithloltz (the IWCS 2023 organizers) ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Université de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard http://espoir-ul.fr

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