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2nd CFP - Normalization of genetic phenotypes in Dysmorphology Physical Examination @ BioCreative VIII - track 3
by Davy Weissenbacher 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '23

*Task:* We call for automated systems to extract and normalize the findings in dysmorphology physical examinations. The dataset consists of 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms. Both extraction and normalization are challenging. The extraction due to the descriptive style of the examinations which, for conciseness, report findings with disjoint and overlapping mentions. The normalization due to the large scale of the HPO ontology which requires a normalizer to learn the task without supervision since our training set does not provide examples of all terms in the HPO. See https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-viii/track-3/ for details. *Motivation:* The dysmorphology physical examination catalogs minor morphological differences in patients’ bodies and may identify general medical signs such as neurologic dysfunction. Its findings enable correlations of patients with known rare genetic diseases and allow researchers to delineate undescribed genetic conditions. These medical findings are nearly always captured as unstructured free text within the electronic health record, making it unavailable for downstream computational analysis. Advanced Natural Language Processing methods are therefore required to retrieve the information from the records. *In short: * • 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic and normal findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding Human Phenotype Ontology terms • Baseline systems available (e.g. doc2HPO, NeuralCR, PhenoTagger, PhenoBERT, and txt2HPO) • Codalab opened at https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11351 • Evaluation period: Sept. 15, 9:00 UTC - Sept. 18, 23:59 UTC [Apologies for cross-posting] Best regards, Davy

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Call For Participation: Machine Translation for Indian Languages (MTIL)
by Surupendu Gangopadhyay 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '23

Apologies for multiple posting *********************************** *------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Machine Translation for Indian Languages (MTIL) 2023------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* We invite all IR and NLP researchers and enthusiasts to participate in the MTIL track (https://mtilfire.github.io/mtil/2023/) held in conjunction with the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2023 ( http://fire.irsi.res.in/). Indian languages have many linguistic complexities. Though some Indian languages share syntactic similarities, some possess intricate morphological structures. At the same time, some Indian languages are low-resource. Therefore the machine translation models should address these unique challenges in translating between Indian languages. The MTIL track consists of two tasks: 1. *General Translation Task (Task 1):* Task participants should build a machine translation model to translate sentences of the following language pairs: 1. Hindi-Gujarati 2. Hindi-Kannada 3. Kannada-Hindi 4. Hindi-Odia 5. Odia-Hindi 6. Hindi-Punjabi 7. Punjabi-Hindi 8. Hindi-Sindhi 9. Urdu-Kashmiri 10. Telugu-Hindi 11. Hindi-Telugu 12. Urdu-Hindi 13. Hindi-Urdu 2. *Domain Specific Translation Task (Task 2)*: Task participants will build machine translation models for Governance and Healthcare domains. 1. Healthcare: a. Hindi-Gujarati b. Kannada-Hindi c. Hindi-Odia d. Odia-Hindi e. Hindi-Punjabi f. Kannada-Hindi 2. Governance: a. Hindi-Gujarati b. Kannada-Hindi c. Hindi-Odia d. Odia-Hindi e. Hindi-Punjabi f. Kannada-Hindi *Dataset:* The primary source of parallel language pairs is Bharat Parallel Corpus Collection (BPCC), released by AI4Bharat (https://ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in/bpcc ). Participants are encouraged to add datasets of their choice, including parallel corpora and monolingual datasets, to train their models. More information on registration and participation in the track can be found here: https://mtilfire.github.io/mtil/2023/ This track is being done in association with BHASHINI ( https://bhashini.gov.in/) *Organisers* - Prasenjit Majumder, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India and TCG CREST, Kolkata,India - Arafat Ahsan, IIIT-Hyderabad,India - Asif Ekbal, IIT-Patna,India - Saran Pandian, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India - Ramakrishna Appicharla, IIT-Patna ,India - Surupendu Gangopadhyay, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India - Ganesh Epili, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India - Dreamy Pujara, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India - Misha Patel, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India - Aayushi Patel, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India - Bhargav Dave, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India - Mukesh Jha, DAIICT Gandhinagar,India

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Call for Poster Submission
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

*** Last Call for Poster Submission *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ (*** Submission Deadline: July 14, 2023, AoE ***) eScience 2023 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Its objective is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, algorithms, and tools, with a strong focus on practical solutions and open challenges. The conference welcomes conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures, including HPC, Cloud, and IoT. The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is “open eScience”. This year, the conference is promoting four additional key topics: • Computational Science for sustainable development • FAIR • Research Infrastructures for eScience • Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) The conference is soliciting contributions for Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations. Submitted poster papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 . All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission. AWARDS eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference. • Best Poster Award • Best Student Poster Award • Outstanding Early Career Contribution – this award is associated with poster submissions and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers and junior scientists). KEY DATES • Poster Submissions due: July 14, 2023 (AoE) • Poster Acceptance Notification: July 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: August 14, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: August 14, 2023 ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee Email contact: Technical-Program(a)eScience-conference.org

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LxGr2023: Last Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

8th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023) The symposium will take place online (via MS Teams) on 6-8 July 2023. Tree days until registration closes (Tuesday 4 July). Participation is free. The Teams link will be sent to those registered on Wednesday 5 July. The programme, links to abstracts, and registration details are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2023 If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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CFP: ML/NLP Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE)
by Marina Litvak 01 Jul '23

01 Jul '23

apologies for cross-posting ================================================== *CFP: ML/NLP Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE)* To advance the field of implicit temporal information retrieval from a text, this competition aims to challenge participants to develop automatic methods to identify the literary epochs of a given text, which is considered here as an implicit temporal context of a book. The task on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE) aims at automatic identification of the literary epoch of a given text from its writing style: (1) Romanticism (1798-1837), (2) Victorian Literature (1837-1901), (3) Modernism (1900-1945), (4) Postmodernism (1945-2000), and (5) our days (from 2000). The competition is held as a part of the IACT’23 <https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23> workshop, held on July 27, 2023, in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval This competition is open to anyone with a passion for information retrieval, machine learning, and natural language processing. Whether you are a seasoned expert or a newcomer to the field, we welcome you to participate and extend the boundaries of automated text analysis! Competition site: http://www.kaggle.com/competitions/colie Competition Timeline - May 28, 2023: The competition is open to participants. Training and validation sets together with their labels are available. - July 10, 2023: Test dataset available. - July 17, 2023, 23:59 UTC: Final submission deadline. - July 27, 2023: The winners are announced at the special session at the IACT'23 <https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23> workshop. *The organizing team* - Dr. Marina Litvak (marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il), Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel - Dr. Irina Rabaev (irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il), Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel - Prof. Ricardo Campos (ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt), Ci2 - Smart Cities Research Center, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Porto Porto, Portugal - Prof. Alípio Mário Jorge (amjorge(a)fc.up.pt) University of Porto Porto, Portugal - Prof. Adam Jatowt (adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at) University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria - Mr. Vladimir Younkin (vladiyo(a)ac.sce.ac.il), Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel -- Best regards, Marina Litvak

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RANLP 2023 Student Workshop - Final Call for Papers
by Ivelina Nikolova 01 Jul '23

01 Jul '23

Final Call for Papers RANLP 2023 Student Research Workshop 4-6 September 2023 Varna, Bulgaria https://sites.google.com/view/ranlp-stud-2023/ The International Conference RANLP 2023 (http://ranlp.org/) would like to invite students at all levels (undergraduate, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing or completed work at the Student Research Workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/ranlp-stud-2023/). SUBMISSIONS We invite two types of student submissions: - Full Papers must describe original unpublished work of the student in any topic area of the workshop. Full papers are limited to 8 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references. - Short Papers may describe either work in progress or a research proposal. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and criticizes existing literature. Short papers must include clear directions for future research. Submissions of this type are limited to 6 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references. All papers must be submitted in .pdf format through the START system (https://softconf.com/ranlp23/ranlp2023stud/) . The papers should follow the format of the main conference, described at the RANLP website (http://ranlp.org/), Submissions page. All papers must have only student authors. Submissions with non-student authors will not be considered for review. After eventual acceptance of the paper, the authors could add their supervisor(s) in the Acknowledgments Section. The submissions must specify the student’s level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD) and the type of submission (Full or Short). Double submission Authors may submit the same paper at several conferences. In this case, they must notify the organizers by filling in the corresponding information in the submission form, as well as notifying the contact organizer by email. TOPICS OF INTEREST The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from an international research community. The research to be presented can come from any topic within Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics, including but not limited to the following: Computational Social Science and Social Media; Computer-aided Language Learning; Dialogue and Interactive Systems; Discourse and Pragmatics; Ethics and NLP; Information Extraction; Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Intent Recognition and Detection; Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Language and Vision; Language Generation; Language Resources and Corpora; Linguistic Theories; Machine Translation and Computer-aided Translation Tools; Multilingual NLP; Multimodal Systems; NLP Applications – Biomedical, Educational, Healthcare, Financial, Legal, Semantic Web, etc.; Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis; Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology; Question Answering; Semantics; Stylistic Analysis; Sublanguages and Controlled languages; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing; Temporal Processing; Text Categorization; Text Simplification and Readability Estimation; Text Summarisation; Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition; Textual Entailment. All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions (oral or poster) during the main conference days: 4-6 September 2023. The articles will be issued in a special Student Session proceedings and uploaded to the ACL Anthology. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 3 July 2023 Acceptance notification: 4 August 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2023 Workshop: 4 - 6 September 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ORGANISERS Momchil Hardalov (AWS AI Labs, Spain) Zara Kancheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Boris Velichkov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Sirma AI, Bulgaria) Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

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2nd Call: Presentation at CIKM 2023 Industry Day
by jiyinhe＠gmail.com 01 Jul '23

01 Jul '23

The Industry Day of CIKM ’23 will be held on Sunday 22nd Oct 2023 in Birmingham, UK. As with the main conference, which will be held on-site, we anticipate that all presentations for the Industry Day will be delivered in person. Exceptions may be made in case of severe travelling restrictions. We call for technical talks which will cover how topics of interest relevant to the broader CIKM community, including but not limited to knowledge management, information retrieval, efficient data processing, neural and large language models, evaluation, recommender systems, data mining, and others found in the CIKM ‘23 Call for Papers are used in an industrial setting. For example, how machine learning is put to use in practical scenarios, how user behaviour can be observed and interpreted, how to improve systems in practice, how industrial pipelines can be optimised, and how scale is a challenge in more ways than the obvious. We also encourage talk proposals from small companies, such as startups or spin-offs from either a university project or a large company Talks may address challenges, solutions, and case studies of interesting and innovative systems in areas including but not limited to: * Innovative approaches used in deployed systems and product * System design from industry practitioners which identify best practices and design principles for machine learning systems and their scalability aspects * Metrics and measurement techniques used to understand performance of production systems * Practical challenges such as data, privacy, integrity, scale, regulation, etc. * Domain specific challenges and niche focuses * Connections with academia to solve interesting problems, including talk proposals from academics spending time in industry, or vice-versa, covering insights for other practitioners The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit an abstract to be published in the conference proceeding. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes long including Q&A. Submissions should include: - Title and abstract - Speaker's bio - Relevance to above themes and CIKM topics - CIKM is a technical conference, so preference will be given to talks describing applied research and technical challenges rather than product presentations. - Speakers will be asked to confirm their presence at the conference if their submission is accepted. Submission Instructions ------------------------ Proposals should be at most 2 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting guidelines are available at the ACM Website (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings template). https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Submissions are not anonymous and should contain speaker details. Proposals should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm23 Important Dates: ----------------- - All deadlines are at 11:59pm in the Anywhere on Earth time zone. - Submissions Due: July 14, 2023 - Notifications: August 11, 2023 - Camera ready for abstracts (no exceptions): August 18, 2023 Industry Day Chairs Jiyin He, Signal AI, UK Jeremy Pickens, Redgrave Data, USA Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Germany Contact: cikm2023-industry(at)easychair.org

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SPELLL 2023- Call for papers-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 30 Jun '23

30 Jun '23

Apologies for cross posting , We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming Second International Conference on Speech & Language Technology for Low-resource Languages (SPELLL 2023), scheduled to be held on 06-08 December 2023 at Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India. The previous edition, SPELLL 2022 was held at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India during 23-25 November, 2022. The proceedings of the first edition have been published in the Springer series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). This proceedings can be accessed via https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-33231-9. We would like to invite you to submit your research work and contribute to the success of the second edition, SPELLL 2023 <http://spelll.org/callforpapers.html>. SPELLL 2023 aims to bring together researchers, experts, and practitioners from diverse fields to foster intellectual discussions, exchange knowledge, and explore innovative solutions to the challenges of NLP. This interdisciplinary conference will provide a platform for participants to present their latest research findings, engage in vibrant discussions, and build valuable collaborations. Conference Link: http://spelll.org/ <http://spelll.org/committee.html>CALL FOR PAPERS This conference aims at bringing together researchers from across the world working on low-resourced and minority languages to create more speech and language technology for languages of the world. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: Track 1 - Language Resources (LRs) - Lexicons and machine-readable dictionaries - Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics - Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation - Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data - Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications - Annotation, analysis, enrichment of text archives Track 2 - Language Technologies (LT) - Code-mixing - Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics - Computer-assisted language learning (call) - Covid-19 alert, NLP applications for emergency situations and crisis management - Equality, diversity, and inclusion for language technology - Fake news, spam, and rumour detection - Hate speech detection and offensive language detection - Machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization - Text and data mining for social sciences and humanities research - Text and data mining of (bio) medical literature, including pandemics - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis - Applications for language, data and knowledge - Question answering and semantic search - Text analytics on big data - Semantic content management - Computer-aided language learning - Natural language interfaces to big data - Knowledge-based NLP Track 3 - Speech Technologies (ST) - Speech technology and automatic speech recognition - Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation - Spoken language processing — translation, information retrieval, summarization resources and evaluation - Speaker verification and identification - Multimodal/multimedia speaker recognition and diarization - Analysis of speech and audio signals - Speech coding and enhancement - Speech recognition - architecture, search, and linguistic components - Speech, voice, and hearing disorders - Speech synthesis and spoken language generation - Cross-lingual and multilingual components for speech recognition / code switching Track 4 - Other related topics - Analysis of para-linguistics in speech and language - Multimodal analysis - Visualisation of social sciences and humanities research ------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Regular Papers Regular submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Regular papers may consist of 12 - 15 pages of content including references. However, page restrictions will not be followed strictly, if the authors wish to have more explanation of their work. Short Papers SPELLL 2023 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers are: - A small, focused contribution - Work in progress - Experience notes Short papers may consist of 6 - 8 pages including references. Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions. While short papers will be distinguished from regular papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and as posters. However, page restrictions will not be followed strictly, if the authors wish to have more explanation of their work. Review Policy All submissions to SPELLL 2023 will be reviewed on the basis of originality, relevance, importance and clarity by at least two reviewers. The review process will be double blind and the authors should refer to themselves in third person when citing their own work. Phrases like "In our earlier work..." or "We previosuly showed that..." should be avoided when submitting the paper for review. *Author Guidelines* - Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. - For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style <http://preview.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings…> provided on the authors' page for the preparation of papers. - The LaTeX Proceedings Template for scientific authoring platform in Overleaf. <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…> - Each paper will receive at least three reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the early registration date indicated on the conference website and present the paper. ------------------------------ Important Dates Paper Submission Due: *July 20, 2023.* Acceptance Notification: *September 20, 2023.* Camera Ready Submission: *October 15, 2023.* Conference: *December 06-08, 2023.* PUBLICATION Accepted papers that are presented at the conference will be published in the Springer series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/bharathirajaasokachak…

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First call, TAL journal, regular issue 65-1
by Emmanuel Morin 30 Jun '23

30 Jun '23

2024 Volume 65-1 - regular issue Deadline for submission: on the fly until December 31, 2023 Editors : Maxime Amblard, Cécile Fabre, Emmanuel Morin et Sophie Rosset NEW Non-thematic issues of the Automatic Language Processing journal become "on the fly". Thus, each article in issue 65-1 will be evaluated as soon as it is submitted and will be published, subject to its acceptance, within an indicative period of six months after its submission. The call for volume 65-1 is thus open until December 31, 2023. TOPICS The journal Automatic Language Processing has an open call for papers. Submissions may concern theoretical and experimental contributions on all aspects of written, spoken, and signed language processing and computational linguistics, both theoretical and experimental, for example: - Computational models of language - Linguistic resources - Statistical learning and modeling - Intermodality and multimodality - Language multiplicity and diversity - Semantics and comprehension - Information access and text mining - Language production and processing/generation/synthesis - Evaluation - Explicability and reproducibility - NLP in interaction with other disciplines, digital humanities This list is indicative. On all topics, it is essential that the aspects related to natural language processing are emphasized. We also welcome position papers and survey papers. LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. THE JOURNAL TAL (http://www.atala.org/revuetal_ <http://www.atala.org/revuetal_> - Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing) since 1960 with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). TAL has an electronic mode of publication. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: on the fly until December 31, 2023 Notification to authors after first review: two months after submission Notification to authors after second review: two months after the first review Publication: two months after the second review FORMAT SUBMISSION Papers must be between 20 and 25 pages long, including references and appendices (with no possible derogation on the length). TAL performs double-blind review: it is thus necessary to anonymise the manuscript and the name of the pdf file and to avoid self references. Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal (https://www.atala.org/content/instruction-authors-style-files-0 <https://www.atala.org/content/instruction-authors-style-files-0>). Authors who intend to submit a paper are encouraged to upload your contribution via the menu "Paper submission" (PDF format). To do so, you will need to have an account on the sciencesconf platform. To create an account, go to the site _http://www.sciencesconf.org <http://www.sciencesconf.org/> and click on "create account" next to the "Connect" button at the top of the page. To submit, come back to the page (soon available) http://tal-65-1.sciencesconf.org/ <http://tal-65-1.sciencesconf.org/>, connect to you account and upload your submission.

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2nd Call for Participation: TREC 2023 Product Search Track
by Surya Kallumadi 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

*Timelines:* - May 1st: 2023 queries released to participants for all tasks - August 1st: Submissions close for all tasks - November 12-14th: TREC conference *Website and task details:* https://trec-product-search.github.io/ *Trec task Registration:* https://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html *Introduction:* The Product Search Track studies information retrieval in the field of product search. This is the case where there is a corpus of many products where the user goal and intent is to find the product that suits their need. The main goal of the Trec Product Search Track is to study how end to end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. *Track Tasks:* The product search track has three tasks: *ranking*, *end to end retrieval,* and* multi modal end to end retrieval*. You can submit up to three runs for each of these tasks. Each track uses the same training data originating from the ESCI Challenge for Improving Product Search and shares the same set of evaluation queries. Below the three tasks are described in more detail. *Product Ranking Task* The first task focuses on product ranking. In this task we provide an initial ranking of 1000 documents from a BM25 baseline and you are expected to re-rank the products in terms of their relevance to the users given intent. The ranking provides a focused task where the candidate sets are fixed and there is no need to implement complex end to end systems which makes experimentation quick and runs easily comparable. *Product Retrieval Task* The second task focuses on end to end product retrieval. In this task we provide a large collection of products and participants need to design end to end retrieval systems which leverage whichever information they find relevant/useful. Unlike the ranking task, the focus here is in understanding the interplay between retrieval and reranking systems. *Multi-Modal Product Retrieval Task* The third task focuses on end to end product retrieval using multiple modalities. In this task we provide a large collection of products where each product features additional attributes and information such as related clicks and images and participants need to design end to end retrieval systems which leverage whichever information they find relevant/useful. The focus of this task is to understand the interplay between different modalities and the value which additional potentially weak data provides. *Timelines:* - May 1st: 2023 queries released to participants for all tasks - August 1st: Submissions close for all tasks - November 12-14th: TREC conference *Coordinators* - Daniel Campos (University of Illinois) - Surya Kallumadi(Lowes) - Corby Rosset (Microsoft) - ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois) - Alessandro Magnani (Walmart) For any questions, comments, or suggestions please email dcampos3(a)illinois.edu *Website and details:* https://trec-product-search.github.io/ *Trec task Registration:* https://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html

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