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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 01 Mar '23

01 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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[Engineer position – 18 months] Research engineer in full-stack software development
by Claire Gardent 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

{Engineer offer – 18 months] Research engineer in full-stack software development ** CONTEXT We are looking for a software engineer (Engineering School or Master Degree) for full-stack development within a technology transfer project on Computer Assisted Language Learning funded by CNRS. ** TOPIC and MISSIONS The recruted engineer will work on the design and implementation of modules within a web application. She/he will take part in the following tasks: - Extending a Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine written in Python / Pytorch (Back-End) in order to include new functionalities and a webservice interface (API) ; - Designing and implementing a dashboard for administrating the application (Front-End) ; - Designing installation and deployment procedures using docker-based application virtualisation. In addition to these tasks, documentation writing will be expected (to facilitate future code maintenance and extension). ** TECHNOLOGIES Frameworks and technologies used for this project include: - Functional and object-oriented programming in Python - Web technologies (HTML / CSS / JS / VueJS / Jinja2) - Libraries for NLP (e.g. Spacy) / Machine Learning (e.g. ScikitLearn) and Deep Learning (Pytorch) - Relational and noSQL databases - Versionning (Git) - Application virtualisation (Docker) ** WORKING VENUE Work will be carried out at Loria on the science campus of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. Loria is a research unit supported by CNRS (UMR 7503), Inria and Université de Lorraine. Since its creation in 1997, Loria’s activities belong to fundamental and applied research in computer sciences. The lab is a member of the Charles Hermite Federation, which groups the four main research labs in Mathematics, in Information and Communication Sciences and in Control and Automation. Bolstered by the 400 people working in the lab, its scientific work is conducted in 28 teams including 15 common teams with INRIA. LORIA is today one of the biggest research labs in Lorraine. Loria is renowned for its expertise in the following areas: - Algorithmics, Computation, Image and Geometry - Formal methods - Networks, Systems and Services - Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Discovery - Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Loria offers a dynamic and international environment in sync with the challenges of society (cybersecurity, quantic computing, artificial intelligence, e-education, robotics, energy, health). The selected candidate will be part of the SyNaLP tem, a group 9 permanent researchers et 11 PhD candidates specialised in Natural Language Processing. The GramEx project is lead by Claire Gardent, CNRS Senior Researcher, who has been awarded the 2022 CNRS Silver Medal and who will lead the project on which the recruted engineer will work. ** CANDIDATE PROFILE We are looking for applications from candidates with a background in computer science (Engineering or Master degree), a good experience in software development (experience in the above mentioned technologies is not mandatory), rigour, curiosity and who appreciate team work. Prior experience with NLP, Machine Learning, Deep Learning or in one of the technologies mentioned in this offer are a plus. ** EXTRA INFORMATION The recruted person will work under a fixed-term contract for 18 months. Income will be between 2609 € and 3169 € brutto per month depending on work experience. ** HOW TO APPLY Applications are open until the positions is filled. Please send a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, your MSc transcript of records (grades), and the names and contact information of at least two referees to Claire Gardent (claire.gardent(a)loria.fr) and Yannick Parmentier (yannick.parmentier(a)loria.fr).

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Postdoctoral Researcher on Translation, Religion and Print history @ Uni of Galway
by Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

The University of Galway is recruiting a full-time, fixed term Postdoctoral Researcher for 36 months. The successful candidate will join a diverse and international research team on the PIETRA Project led by Professor Anne O’Connor, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. The position is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor O’Connor and is available from April 2023 to contract end date of March 2026 (36 months). *The project* PIETRA is the first, large-scale, multilingual study of the translation products and processes that underpin communication in global religion. The project focuses on translation practices in the institution of the Catholic Church and the multilingual communication of religious messages against a background of technological change. It poses key research questions relating to consistency of message in a large multilingual institution across different languages, cultures and communicative formats. PIETRA analyses the translation processes and products of the Catholic Church across three different media (print, web and social media) and in two different time periods to advance understandings of how multilingual dissemination intersects with technological change and institutional ideology. PIETRA combines the latest advances in empirical translation research, data capture and analytics, with sociological and ethnographic investigations to form a model for the analysis of the products and processes of large-scale multilingual dissemination. *The place* This post will be based in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, located in the Hardiman Research Building at the University of Galway. The researcher will work with the other members of the research team and will benefit from dedicated training, mentorship and networking activities. The research team will comprise of the PI, 2 postdoctoral researchers, 2 Research Assistants and 3 doctoral students. *Job Description:* The Postdoctoral Researcher (PDR) will conduct archival research relating to the Catholic publishing industry in the nineteenth century. The researcher will create datasets on the translation of Catholic religious works in European countries and beyond, analysing bibliographical trends and conducting data trawls through catalogues. The PDR will study the paratexts of religious translations, publication processes and changes in print industrialisation. The PDR will be involved in the dissemination of project findings. This will include co-authoring and presenting conferences papers; co-authoring peer-reviewed articles; co-ordinating social media communications, and co-creating and organising dissemination events. *Duties include:* – Developing datasets on religious translations in the nineteenth century – Quantitative research, data gathering and data input of multilingual sources – Analysing translation patterns and media of communication in the nineteenth century – Analysing related elements such as economics, paratextuality, audience, translators – Contributing to the project website, social media outputs – Preparation of research work for publication, individually or in collaboration with research team, and dissemination of results as appropriate (peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations) – Promotion of the project including project website and social media – Contribution to project progress reports and day to day running of the project – Building collaborative relationships with researchers – Attending core meetings *Essential Requirements:* Suitable candidates must meet the following criteria: – PhD in Translation History/Religious History/Digital Humanities or related area (submitted before interview date) – Excellent writing and communication skills – English proficiency plus proficiency in at least two additional languages (preferably including one of the following: Polish, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese). *Desirable criteria:* – Familiarity with religious translation/religious contexts – Ability to work both collaboratively and independently – Good evidence of quantitative research skills and/or experience working with multilingual corpora/large data sets – Peer-reviewed publication record – Evidence of strong organizational and interpersonal skills *Salary:* €41,209 per annum pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts (public sector pay policy rules pertaining to new entrants will apply). *Start:* April 2023 *Continuing Professional Development/Training:* The University of Galway provides continuing professional development support for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia. Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment – see www.universityofgalway.ie/rdc for further information. Further information on research and working at University of Galway is available on Research at University of Galway. For information on moving to Ireland please see www.euraxess.ie. Further informal enquiries concerning this position may be made by contacting Professor Anne O’Connor: anne.oconnor(a)universityofgalway.ie. *To Apply* Applications should include a covering letter outlining the applicant’s suitability for the role, a sample of academic written work (e.g. published article, thesis chapter), a CV, and the contact details of two referees. Applications should be sent as one pdf file via email to mooreinstitute(a)universityofgalway.ie. Please put the relevant reference number *University of Galway 049-23* in the subject line of email application. Closing date for receipt of applications is *5.00 pm, March 24 2023*. Interviews are planned to be held online the week commencing 4 April 2023. We reserve the right to re-advertise or extend the closing date for this post. The University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer. All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment. -- Anna Furtado Research Assistant in the PIETRA Project <https://pietra.universityofgalway.ie/>.

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2nd Call for Papers: Workshop on RESOURCEs and representations For Under-resourced Languages and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023)
by Adam 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] The second workshop on resources and representations for under-resourced language and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023, https://resourceful-workshop.github.io/resourceful-2023/index.html) explores the role of the kind and the quality of resources that are available to us and challenges and directions for constructing new resources in light of the latest trends in natural language processing. The workshop is co-located with NoDaLiDa2023 (https://www.nodalida2023.fo/) at Tórshavn, Faroe Islands on May 22nd-24th, 2023. Data-driven machine-learning techniques in natural language processing have achieved remarkable performance (e.g., BERT, GPT, ChatGPT) but in order to do so large quantities of quality data (which is mostly text) is required. Interpretability studies of large language models in both text-only and multi-modal setups have revealed that even in cases where large text datasets are available, the models still do not cover all the contexts of human social activity and are prone to capturing unwanted bias where data is focused towards only some contexts. A question has also been raised whether textual data is enough to capture semantics of natural language processing and other modalities such as visual representations or a situated context of a robot might be required. Annotator-based resources have been constructed over years based on theoretical work in linguistics, psychology and related fields and a large amount of work has been done both theoretically and practically. The purpose of the workshop is to initiate a discussion between the two communities involved in building resources (data vs annotation-based) and exploring their synergies for the new challenges in natural language processing. We encourage contributions in the areas of resource creation, representation learning and interpretability in data-driven and expert-driven machine learning setups and both uni-modal and multi-modal scenarios. In particular we would like to open a forum by bringing together students, researchers, and experts to address and discuss the following questions: - What is relevant linguistic knowledge the models should capture and how can this knowledge be sampled and extracted in practice? - What kind of linguistic knowledge do we want and can capture in different contexts and tasks? - To what degree are resources that have been traditionally aimed at rule-based natural language processing approaches relevant today both for machine learning techniques and hybrid approaches? - How can they be adapted for data-driven approaches? - To what degree data-driven approaches can be used to facilitate expert-driven annotation? - What are current challenges for expert-based annotation? - How can crowd-sourcing and citizen science be used in building resources? - How can we evaluate and reduce unwanted biases? Intended participants are researchers, PhD students and practitioners from diverse backgrounds (linguistics, psychology, computational linguistics, speech, computer science, machine learning, computer vision etc). We foresee an interactive workshop with plenty of time for discussion, complemented with invited talks and presentations of on-going or completed research. This workshop is a continuation of the first workshop on resources and representations for under-resourced languages and domains held together with the SLTC 2020, https://gu-clasp.github.io/resourceful-2020/. ** Important dates: - Submission deadline for archival papers: 28th March 2023 - Submission deadline for non-archival papers: 4 April 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 25th April 2023 - Camera-ready version: 9th May 2023 - Workshop date: 22nd May 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). ** Submission We invite submissions of long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and extended abstracts describing work in progress (2 pages). Submissions can report negative results and be opinion pieces. Both papers and extended abstracts can include any number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word, the templates are available at the official conference website, https://www.nodalida2023.fo/authorkit-nodalida23 Submissions must be anonymous and submitted in the PDF format through OpenReview. We also invite submissions of non-archival papers related to our theme already presented or published at other venues. These can be submitted in their original formatting. They will be reviewed by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. Authors may be asked to contribute peer-reviews of papers. ** Workshop organisers Dana Dannélls, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg Simon Dobnik, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Adam Ek, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Stella Frank, University of Copenhagen Nikolai Ilinykh, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University Felix Morger, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg Joakim Nivre, RISE and Uppsala University Magnus Sahlgren, AI Sweden Sara Stymne, Uppsala University Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo

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Call for Task Participation: WASSA 2023 Shared Task on Emotion Classification on Code-Mixed Text Messages within ACL 2023
by Iqra Ameer 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

We invite you to participate in the shared task on Multi-Label and Multi-Class Emotion Classification on Code-Mixed Text Messages, organized as part of WASSA 2023 <https://wassa-workshop.github.io/>at ACL 2023 <https://2023.aclweb.org/>. This task aims to develop models that can predict emotion based on code-mixed (Roman Urdu and English) text messages. *Task Description* The shared task has two Tracks: *Track 1 - Multi-Label Emotion Classification (MLEC):* Given a code-mixed SMS message, classify it as 'neutral or no emotion' or as one, or more, of eleven given emotions that best represent the mental state of the author. *Track 2 - Multi-Class Emotion Classification (MCEC):* Given a code-mixed SMS message, classify it as 'neutral or no emotion' or as one of eleven given emotions that best represent the mental state of the author. *Note: *You are free to participate in any or both tracks. *For participation, please check:* https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10864 *Important Dates* - February 28th, 2023: Initial training data release - February 28th, 2023: Codalab competition website goes online, and development data released - April 15th, 2023: Evaluation phase begins: development labels test data released - April 18th, 2023: Deadline submission of final result on Codalab - April 24th, 2023: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p) - May 22nd, 2023: Notification of acceptance - June 6th, 2023: Camera-ready papers due *Task Organizers* - Iqra Ameer - School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas, Health Science Center Houston, USA - ‪Necva Bölücü - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia - Ali Al Bataineh - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Norwich University, USA - Hua Xu - Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, School of Medicine, Yale University, USA *Contact* wassa23codemixed [at] gmail [dot] com *Join Google Group* wassa23codemixed(a)googlegroups.com -- *Regards,* Dr. Iqra Ameer (Ph.D.)

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CxGs+NLP at GURT/SyntaxFest 2023: Call for participation
by Harish Tayyar Madabushi 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The First Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop will take place as part of the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics & SyntaxFest (GURT/SyntaxFest 2023) between the 9 and 12 March, 2023. https://gurt.georgetown.edu Location: Washington, DC Date: March 9-12, 2023 The detailed conference program is now online here: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/program/ GURT/SyntaxFest is an in-person event with a modest registration fee. For a discounted rate, register by Feb. 28 at https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/registration-gurt-2023. Our aim is to bring together theoretical and computational researchers interested in CxG approaches and encourage topics examining how theoretical research can inform computational approaches and applications, whether existing or needed in the future. Thus, we invite original research papers from a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Theory and Linguistics - Formalisms for construction grammar - Natural Language Understanding (NLU) - Opinion pieces on the interplay between CxGs and NLP - Constructions and Language Models (BERTology) - Constructicons and corpora annotated for construction grammar - Construction grammar learning and adaptation - Applications We will have an invited speaker, Jonathan Dunn discussing the relation between Construction Grammars and NLP. The workshop will also include a discussion consisting of experts from both fields discussing possible synergies between the two fields. We look forward to seeing you in Washington DC! The CxGs+NLP organisers

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CFP: Mediate - News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop
by Elena Kochkina 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Mediate 2023: Mediate - News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop co-located with ICWSM 2023 Limassol, Cyprus, June 5, 2023 https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2023/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023 Papers due: March 27, 2023 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fourth MEDIATE workshop will be held on June 5, as part of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). The main goal of the workshop is to bring together media practitioners and technologists to discuss new opportunities and obstacles that arise in the modern era of information diffusion. This year's theme is: Misinformation: automated journalism, explainable and multi-modal verification and content moderation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automated journalism: novel automated and human-in-the-loop solutions for rumour detection/verification, fact-checking, stance classification, evaluation of existing solutions and novel relevant applications. Submitted papers should describe how their advantages would lead to being adopted in practice by journalists and the public (e.g. improved generalisability, ability to provide explanations, reduced bias) and address ethical considerations. - Explainable and Multi-modal verification: explainable rumour verification systems, evidence-based solutions, uncertainty and prediction explainability and general interpretable and transparent AI-systems, as well as multi-modal rumour verification/fact-checking models, sources and data, non-textual and multi-modal features. - Content Moderation: novel content moderation systems for inhibiting misinformation spreading, domain-specific content moderation solutions as well as content moderation systems that showcase generalisability and are interpretable. We invite submissions of technical papers and talk proposals: - Technical papers must be up to 4 pages (short papers) or up to 8 pages (long papers). Technical papers must contain novel, previously-unpublished material related to the topics of the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented orally and will appear in the workshop proceedings. - Talk proposals must be up to 2 pages describing the content of a short talk (the actual length will be determined based on program constraints). Papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines ( https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html#guidelines) and be submitted through easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023). Organizing committee Talia Tseriotou, Queen Mary University of London Dina Pisarevskaya, Queen Mary University of London Elena Kochkina, Alan Turing Institute Marya Bazzi, Alan Turing Institute & University of Warwick Maria Liakata, Alan Turing Institute & Queen Mary University of London Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London All questions about submissions should be emailed to t.tseriotou(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:t.tseriotou@qmul.ac.uk>, d.pisarevskaya(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:d.pisarevskaya@qmul.ac.uk> and mbazzi(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:mbazzi@turing.ac.uk>

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Call for papers DMR 2023: The Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representation June 20, 2023
by Kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

**apologies for cross-postings** Call for papers DMR 2023: The Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representation workshop site: dmr2023.github.io Co-located with IWCS 2023 the 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 20-23th June 2023, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France. IWCS site: https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/ While deep learning methods have led to many breakthroughs in practical natural language applications, most notably in Machine Translation, Machine Reading, Question Answering, Recognizing Textual Entailment, and so on, there is still a sense among many NLP researchers that we have a long way to go before we can develop systems that can actually “understand” human language and explain the decisions they make. Indeed, “understanding” natural language entails many different human-like capabilities, and they include but are not limited to the ability to track entities in a text, understand the relations between these entities, track events and their participants described in a text, understand how events unfold in time, and distinguish events that have actually happened from events that are planned or intended, are uncertain, or did not happen at all. We believe a critical step in achieving natural language understanding is to design meaning representations for text that have the necessary meaning “ingredients” that help us achieve these capabilities. Such meaning representations can also potentially be used to evaluate the compositional generalization capacity of deep learning models. There has been a growing body of research devoted to the design, annotation, and parsing of meaning representations in recent years. The meaning representations that have been used for semantic parsing research are developed with different linguistic perspectives and practical goals in mind and have different formal properties. Formal meaning representation frameworks such as Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) and Discourse Representation Theory (as exemplified in the Parallel Meaning Bank) are developed with the goal of supporting logical inference in reasoning-based AI systems and are therefore easily translatable into first-order logic, requiring proper representation of semantic components such as quantification, negation, tense, and modality. Other meaning representation frameworks such as Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Tecto-grammatical Representation (TR) in Prague Dependency Treebanks and the Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA), put more emphasis on the representation of core predicate-argument structure, lexical semantic information such as semantic roles and word senses, or named entities and relations. There is also a more recent effort in developing a Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) that is based on AMR but extends it to cross-linguistic settings and enhances it to represent document-level semantic content. The automatic parsing of natural language text into these meaning representations and the generation of natural language text from these meaning representations are also very active areas of research, and a wide range of technical approaches and learning methods have been applied to these problems. This workshop will bring together researchers who are producers and consumers of meaning representations, and through their interaction develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of meaning representations that are the most valuable to the NLP community. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for meaning representation researchers to critically examine existing frameworks with the goal of using their findings to inform the design of next-generation meaning representations. A third goal of the workshop is to explore opportunities and identify challenges in the design and use of meaning representations in multilingual settings. A final goal of the workshop is to understand the relationship between distributed meaning representations trained on large data sets using network models, and the symbolic meaning representations that are carefully designed and annotated by NLP researchers and gain a deeper understanding of areas where each type of meaning representation is the most effective. The workshop solicits papers that address one or more of the following topics: • Design and annotation of meaning representations; • Cross-framework comparison of meaning representations; • Challenges and techniques in automatic parsing of meaning representations; • Challenges and techniques in automatically generating text from meaning representations; • Meaning representation evaluation metrics; • Lexical resources, ontologies, and grounding in relation to meaning representations; • Real-world applications of meaning representations; • Issues in applying meaning representations to multilingual settings and lower-resourced languages; • The relationship between symbolic meaning representations and distributed semantic representations; • Formal properties of meaning representations; • Any other topics that address the design, processing, and use of meaning representations. === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Link to the DMR submission site: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/dmr2023/ Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues. Please use our specific style-files or the Overleaf template taken from ACL 2021: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceed… Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. If a paper is accepted, it will be given an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the final version. References and appendices do not count against these limits. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity–e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” should be replaced with citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop organizers dmr2023-chairs(a)googlegroups.com. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. ** DMR 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 === Submissions due April 3, 2023 Notification of acceptance May 1, 2023 Camera-ready deadline June 1, 2023 Workshop date June 20, 2023 IWCS conference June 20-23, 2023

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