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PhD grant on Extracting information from clinical documents in a multilingual perspective
by Alberto Lavelli 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

*Extracting information from clinical documents in a multilingual perspective* *Deadline for application: November 28 2022, 13:00 CEST* One three-year PhD grant on Extracting information from clinical documents in a multilingual perspective is offered by the Doctoral Program in Brain, Mind & Computer Science (BMCS, http://hit.psy.unipd.it/BMCS) at the University of Padua, jointly with the Natural Language Processing research unit (https://ict.fbk.eu/units/nlp/) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy), where most of the research activities will be conducted. The language of the PhD programme is English. The deadline for application is: November 28 2022, 13:00 CEST For more information, the call, and applications look at: http://hit.psy.unipd.it/BMCS/admission The candidate will have the unique opportunity to explore different fields (Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Health & Well-Being) being directly coached by very experienced teammates. The involved PhD will work in an international environment at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy). Fondazione Bruno Kessler is an internationally well-known research center, whose information technology department ranks first among the Engineering and Information Science research centers in Italy. The Natural Language Processing research unit (https://ict.fbk.eu/units/nlp/) is an internationally well known research group focused on text mining (information extraction and ontology population from text, analysis of the sentiment and of the emotional content of texts); conversational agents (task oriented dialogue systems, question answering, generation of persuasive messages); and development of linguistic resources, particularly for the Italian language. To get in contact with the NLP research unit and discuss about the opportunities of this call, contact Alberto Lavelli (lavelli(a)fbk.eu) The Doctoral Program in Brain, Mind & Computer Science (BMCS) emerges from the close collaboration between faculty from psychology, cognitive neuroscience and information science around the unifying topic of human-computer interaction. Its program rests on the assumption that the ability to work in groups with people of different background is now a fundamental condition to produce scientific excellence and to develop innovative skills that can be spent on the job market. ****Required/Preferred Candidate Skills and Competencies**** The candidate should possess basic knowledge on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques (particularly deep learning architectures). Experience on biomedical/clinical data will be a plus. Basic programming skills (e.g. Python) would complete the profile. Proficiency in English is required, basic knowledge of Italian preferable. ****Instructions for applicants**** Interested applicants are invited to apply following the instructions given in https://pica.cineca.it/unipd/dottorati38pnrr by November 28 2022, 13:00 CEST For further information, please contact: Alberto Lavelli (lavelli(a)fbk.eu) -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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1st Call for Participation - CoLI-Kanglish: Word Level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada-English Texts
by Sabur B 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

*CoLI-Kanglish: Word Level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada-English Texts* CoLI-Kanglish shared task@ICON2022* URL: https://sites.google.com/view/kanglishicon2022/home Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFZR_5ugGKQnf2FYNIWnOh4rv6Bz6podD… The training and test set is now available. *Participants are invited to publish Working Notes of ICON 2022** *Task Description* The task of automatically identifying languages used in a given text is called Language Identification (LI). LI is a pre-processing step for many applications and LI at the word level can be viewed as a sequence labelling problem where every word in a sentence is tagged with either a mixed language or one of the languages in the predefined set of languages. Despite a lot of work being done in LI, the problem of LI in the code-mixed scenario is still a long way from being illuminated. India has a rich heritage of languages and Kannada is one of the Dravidian languages as well as the official language of Karnataka state. People of Karnataka read, write and speak Kannada but many find it difficult to use Kannada script to post messages or comments on social media. While technological limitations like keyboards of computers and smartphones are one reason, another reason may be the complexity of framing words with consonant conjuncts. Hence, most of the users use only Roman script or a combination of both Kannada and Roman script to post comments on social media. To address word level LI in code-mixed Kannada-English (Kn-En) texts, these texts are extracted from Kannada YouTube video comments to construct Code-mixed Language Identification (CoLI-Kenglish) dataset. We encourage participants to use the CoLI-Kenglish dataset which consists of English, Kannada and mixed language words, in Roman script and submit their methods to Kanglish shared task where each word will be identified and categorized in one of the predefined categories. *Important Dates* - 2nd November – Train and test datasets are released - 2nd November – Submission link release - 16th November – Run submission deadline - 22nd November – Working Note submission deadline - 25th November - Reviews Notifications - 1st December– Camera Ready Due - December 15th - 18th - ICON 2022 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Flcs2.in%2FICON-2022%2Findex.html…> Conference *NOTE:* All dates mentioned here are in the Indian Time zone. *Organizers* Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Sabur Butt, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Noman Ashraf, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States Asha Hegde, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India Shashirekha Hosahalli Lakshmaiah, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico *Contact* Email: Kanglish2022(a)gmail.com *ICON 2022: https://www.lcs2.in/ICON-2022/index.html

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Final Call for Papers: Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop
by Harish Tayyar Madabushi 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Apologies for cross-posting We are delighted to announce the First Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop as part of the Georgetown University Round Table and we invite long and short papers submissions to the workshop. Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop All accepted papers will be included in the CxGs + NLP 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. New for Final Call Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Submission deadline (extended): November 15th, 2022 Invited speaker: Jonathan Dunn (Scroll down for details) *Final Call for Papers: Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop* November 2022 | Claire Bonial & Harish Tayyar Madabushi Event Notification Type: Call for Papers Abbreviated Title: CxGs + NLP Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cxgsnlpworkshop Half-day workshop as part of Georgetown University Round Table (GURT), 9-12 March 2023 Location: Washington DC Contact: Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop Contact: Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Lab) Harish Tayyar Madabushi (University of Bath) Construction Grammar (CxG) approaches recognize all levels of linguistic structure as contributing meaning, which makes them a powerful tool for considering a wide variety of linguistic problems, from determining parts-of-speech to aspectual properties. How we look at these problems has an impact on a variety of related NLP and NLU applications, including parsing, question-answering and interactive information extraction, machine translation, language grounding in robotics, etc. For many applications in the traditional NLP pipeline, existing assumptions that meaning is tied to individual lexical items and composed according to rules leave some language phenomena unaccounted for. CxGs offer theoretical solutions to such phenomena and have made headway in the development of computational resources such as constructicons, but there is more to do in fruitfully bringing CxG theories to NLP applications. Similarly, recent advances in NLP, driven in large part by the introduction of pre-trained language models, have led to the development of computational methods independent of a linguistic grounding. Although there exists work in attempting to understand the cognitive and linguistic feasibility of these models, such work remains in its infancy. Given this dichotomy between the recent direction of NLP research and the closely related field of CxGs, we are excited to announce the CxGs + NLP workshop, aimed at bringing together researchers in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Construction Grammar so as to jump-start, what we believe is, an important conversation between these two complementary, yet currently disparate fields. 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. Venue The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The goal of co-locating these events to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. Please see the GURT website here: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/ In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event. Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports. GURT Invited Speakers - Jonathan Dunn, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (CxGs+NLP) - Guy Perrier, Loria, France (Depling) - Joan Bresnan, Stanford University, USA (TLT) - Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden (UDW) Important dates: - Workshop papers due: 1 November 2022 15th November 2022 (Extended) - Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: 28 January 2023 - Workshop date: half day TBD in the period of 9-12 March 2023 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long papers and short papers, following the ACL policy on submission, review, and citation: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submissio… All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the CxGs + NLP 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Additionally, non-archival short papers will be considered for acceptance into the workshop as in-person poster presentations only; these should be submitted by email directly to the organizers for review as opposed to submission through the EasyChair conference website and will not undergo double-blind review. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of main content; short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of main content; and final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Limits on main content do not apply to references or (optional) ethics statements. After the references, the submission may include appendices for supplementary content not necessary for evaluating the contributions of the paper (reviewers will not be required to review the appendices). Submissions should be sent in electronic forms, using the EasyChair conference management system: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than CxGs + NLP at the discretion of the organizers. Paper Submission and Templates: Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system. Both long and short papers must follow the ACL two-column format, using the supplied official style files: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. Instructions For Double-Blind Review: As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. More information about the workshop can be found on the GURT and CxGs+NLP website: https://sites.google.com/view/cxgsnlpworkshop

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Azimut Research Award
by fabio.massimo.zanzotto＠uniroma2.it 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Deadline: December, 23rd 2022 Dear all, Read this important announcement! Azimut, a leading wealth management company in Europe, offers a Research Award to whoever can propose a solution to interpret old databases. Dinosaur databases are running the world! As relics of the early steps of the information era, these Databases are still the basis of many economic transactions. Although their age, it seems extremely difficult to replace them with novel and faster solutions. These databases were written in a wonderful era in which memory was a problem. Hence, variable names, table names, and column names were short and cryptic. Moreover, documents describing these names are buried in forgotten places if still exist. The challenge is, then, giving sense to these dinosaur databases to help software engineers to rediscover the sense of these databases to produce the novel version. Ready to apply? If not, and you want more info, Azimut is offering two Q&A video sessions: November 15th 2022 December 13th 2022 Register by sending an e-mail to: <mailto:info.ricerca@azimut.it> info.ricerca(a)azimut.it If yes, Azimut looks forward to your submission! More info at: <https://www.azimut.it/it/az-venture-tech-challenge> https://www.azimut.it/it/az-venture-tech-challenge

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CFP: FICTA-2023, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom || Springer SIST Series (Scopus Indexed) || Paper Submission Deadline: 10 December 2022
by Sandeep Sengar 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Dear Researchers, We are happy to inform you that the Eleventh International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2023) will be organized by Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. We invite you to participate in FICTA-2023: https://ficta.co.uk/ on 11-12 April 2023, being organized in a hybrid mode. Publication: All FICTA 2023 registered and presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by Springer-Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST) Series (https://www.springer.com/series/8767). Topics of interest: Submissions of quality papers are expected in all areas of research and application in intelligent computing, refer call for papers at https://ficta.co.uk/call-for-papers. Call for Special Session Proposals: If interested to float/organizing a special session please visit the link and follow the necessary guidelines: https://ficta.co.uk/call-for-sessions For any queries related to the conference you may feel free to e-mail: FICTA2023(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk Thank you -- Warm Regards, *Sandeep Singh Sengar*, Lecturer in Computer Science Cluster Leader Computer Vision / Image Processing Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK CF5 2YB *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Email: SSSengar(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk <SSSengar(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk>* *Web: **https://sites.google.com/view/sandeepsengar <https://sites.google.com/view/sandeepsengar>*

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Call for Participation: SemEval Shared Task on Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (Visual-WSD)
by Jose Camacho Collados 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Welcome to the SemEval 2023 Shared Task on Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (Visual-WSD)! Task description: Given a target word, some limited textual context and a set of candidate images, the task is to select the image which corresponds to the intended meaning of the target word. In addition to English, the Visual-WSD test set will contain target and context words in other languages as well (to be announced!). Trial and training data available! Test languages other than English will be announced on January 2nd, test data will be released on January 10th. Task website: https://raganato.github.io/vwsd/ Codalab competition: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/8190 Important dates: * Sample data ready: 1 August 2022 * Training data ready: 18 October 2022 * Additional languages in the test set announced: 2 January 2023 * Evaluation period starts (test set released): 10 January 2023 * Evaluation period ends: 31 January 2023 * Workshop paper submission deadline: February 2023 (tentative) * SemEval workshop: Summer 2023 (co-located with a major NLP conference) We encourage many different types of submissions in our shared task. In terms of data, participants are allowed to use (if they wish) the training/trial data set we provide, pretrained vision and language models, as well as other sources of training data (participants will be asked to explain in detail their data sources). In terms of methodology, we would like to encourage novel and exciting research ideas. We encourage contributions from the following areas (not limited to): * computer vision, * natural language processing, * vision and language, * (multi-modal) representation learning, * cognitive sciences, * machine learning, * neuro-symbolic learning/reasoning. Best submissions will be ranked not only in terms of leaderboard performance, but also based on the idea, methodology and analysis. In other words, creative and original research is encouraged! Task organizers: * Alessandro Raganato (Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) * Iacer Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) * Jose Camacho-Collados (School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom) * Asahi Ushio (School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom) * Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies, Iran) -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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Position as Senior Researcher in Interactive Conversational Systems at DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
by Simon Ostermann 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Position as Senior Researcher in Interactive Conversational Systems at DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany # More Information and Hiring System available here: https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/en-senior-researcher-in-interactive-convers… The MLT lab, led by Prof. Josef van Genabith, is looking for a senior researcher in Interactive Conversational Systems and Dialog Systems, to lead the Talking Robots Group (https://www.dfki.de/en/web/research/research-departments/multilinguality-an…)<about:blankPosition%20as%20Senior%20Researcher%20in%20Interactive%20Conversational%20Systems%20at%20DFKI%20Saarbru%CC%88cken,%20Germany> at DFKI in Saarbrücken, Germany. The Talking Robots group currently has 5 members of staff and engages in national and international research and development projects on robot-assisted disaster response, multilingual dialogue, human-robot interaction and more. The successful applicant will: - lead and develop the Talking Robots group scientifically - coordinate basic research as well as industry-focused project acquisition - lead projects to successful completion - publish research results at top-tier NLP/HRI/ML conferences - engage in PhD research supervision as well as teaching graduate modules (max. one per term) - closely engage with the Machine Translation, Question Answering and Information Extraction and the Data and Resources groups at MLT. Profile: ideal candidates have - a PhD in Interactive Conversational/Dialog Systems, Speech and Multimodal Technologies, Machine Learning, Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), or Computer Science - a strong track record in research and publication at top-tier NLP/HRI/ML conferences (ACL, EMNLP, HRI, AAAI, ICML, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH etc.) - a strong track record in the acquisition and management of research and development projects excellent English (oral and written). German a plus, but not a requirement. We offer excellent working and research conditions with interesting research topics in an interdisciplinary team at an internationally renowned research institute. What you can expect: - The opportunity to shape and drive research in Interactive Conversational Systems and the Talking Robots group - Innovative projects and industry collaborations in language technology and AI - An innovative and professional working environment - While the initial contract is fixed term, permanent contracts are possible for successful team leads upon completion of the fixed term contract For more information about our MLT lab please also visit: https://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/forschungsbereiche/sprachtechnologie-und-… The position is 3 years fixed term initially. A permanent position is possible subsequently. The successful applicant is expected to start at DFKI during the first quarter of 2023. To apply, please upload a short motivation letter, CV, list of publications and projects, as well as contacts for two references in our hiring system. The deadline for the receipt of an application is Nov 15, 2022. For informal questions, please contact simon.ostermann(a)dfki.de<mailto:simon.ostermann@dfki.de> . The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is Germany's leading business-oriented research institution in the field of innovative software technologies based on artificial intelligence methods. In the international scientific community, DFKI ranks among the most recognized "Centers of Excellence" and currently is the biggest research center worldwide in the area of Artificial Intelligence and its application in terms of number of employees and the volume of external funds. The DFKI cooperates closely with national and international companies. DFKI encourages applications from people with disability; DFKI intends to increase the proportion of female employees in the field of science and encourages women to apply for this position. --- Dr. Simon Ostermann Lab Manager | Senior Researcher Multilinguality and Language Technology Lab DFKI, Saarbrücken Phone: +49 681 85775 5310 Web: https://simonost.github.io/home/ | http://www.dfki.de/mlt/ Campus Building D 3.1, Room 1.28 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer | Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr.-Ing. Gabriël Clemens | Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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The sixth workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 23) Second Call for Papers
by Loïc Grobol 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

UDW 23, WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 9-12, 2023 Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference *Submission deadline: 15 Nov 2022* Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 100 languages (https://universaldependencies.org). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages. The Universal Dependencies Workshop is a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. The five workshops so far were held at NoDaLiDa in Gothenburg (2017), at EMNLP in Brussels (2018), at SyntaxFest in Paris and Online (2019 and 2021) and at COLING online (2020). The sixth workshop on Universal Dependencies will take place during the week of March 9th-12th, 2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of GURT 2023. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to: - Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines - Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions - Language typology and linguistic universals - Treebank annotation, conversion and validation - Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing - Downstream applications in natural language processing - Linguistic studies based on the UD data Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective. VENUE The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four workshops focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax: UDW, Depling, TLT, and CxGs+NLP. Talks will take place in plenary sessions to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. INVITED SPEAKER Joakim Nivre (RISE) IMPORTANT DATES - November 15, 2022: submission deadline (long and short papers) - January 11, 2023: notification of acceptance - February 1, 2023: camera-ready papers due - March 9–12, 2023: conference SUBMISSION INFORMATIONS We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: - Regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate - Short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the UDW23 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. See details at https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/udw-call-for-papers Depending on the number of submissions, we will also accept a small number of short, non-archival communications, mainly opinion pieces and discussion on evolution to UD. Please contact the workshop chairs directly. CONTACT: Loïc Grobol (Université Paris Nanterre) Francis Tyers (Indiana University) Website: https://universaldependencies.org/udw23/ -- Loïc Grobol (they/them) MCF / Assistant Professor MoDyCo, Université Paris Nanterre Academic webpage: https://loicgrobol.github.io

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First CFP: QPP++ 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks colocated with ECIR 2023
by guglielmo faggioli 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

*QPP++ 2023 is a workshop of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (2-6 April, Dublin, Ireland).* *Query Performance Prediction (QPP) *is currently primarily used for ad-hoc retrieval tasks. The Information Retrieval (IR) field is reaching new heights thanks to recent advances in large language models and neural networks, as well as emerging new ways of searching, such as conversational search. Such advancements are quickly spreading to adjacent research areas, including QPP, necessitating reconsidering how we perform and evaluate QPP. *Important Dates* Submission deadline: February 5th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 5th, 2023 Camera ready: March 15th, 2023 Workshop day: April 2nd, 2023 Conference days: April 3rd-6th, 2023 *Call for Papers* This workshop aims at stimulating discussion on three main aspects concerning the future of QPP: - *What are the emerging QPP challenges* posed by new methods and technologies, including but not limited to dense retrieval, contextualized embeddings, and conversational search? - How might these *new techniques be used to improve the quality of QPP*? - Can we claim that the current techniques for *evaluating QPP are effective in all arising scenarios*? Can we envision new evaluation protocols capable of granting generalizability in new domains? We plan to foster the discussion via *two focus groups* led by the workshop's organizers. The first focus group will identify what possibilities the QPP offers regarding new research models and IR tasks, primary considerations, issues linked to different aspects of the QPP, and the potentialities provided by new tools. The second focus group will gather the community’s concerns and solutions with respect to the QPP evaluation, especially for what concerns emerging domains. The workshop will focus on the following themes: - *Query performance prediction applied to new tasks*: Can existing QPP techniques be exploited, or which new QPP theories and models need to be devised for new tasks, such as passage-retrieval, Q&A, and conversational search? - *Query performance prediction exploiting new techniques*: How can new technologies like contextualized embeddings, large language models, and neural networks be exploited to improve QPP? - *Evaluation of query performance prediction*: How should QPP techniques be evaluated, including best practices, datasets, and resources, and, in particular, should QPP be evaluated the same for different IR tasks? It is possible to submit three main categories of manuscripts to the workshop: *Full papers*: up to 6 pages. *Short papers*: up to 3 pages. *Discussion papers*: up to 3 pages. All manuscripts are expected to address the workshop's themes as mentioned above. *Full and short papers* should contain *innovative ideas and* their experimental evaluation. *We are also interested in works containing* (methodologically sound) *preliminary results and incremental endeavours*. *Discussion papers should include work with or without preliminary results, position papers, and papers describing failures*. Such papers should foster the discussion and thus are not required to contain full-fledged results. In this sense, the experimental evaluation of the submitted discussion paper is appreciated but not required. *We are also interested in receiving contributions regarding* (methodologically sound) *failed experiments*; since the workshop will focus on new research directions, we consider it necessary also to discuss the reasons and causes of failures. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members. *Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series.* Submit your contribution via Easychair at the following link *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpp2023 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpp2023>* To prepare the submission, use the one-column CEUR template. A precompiled version is available at *https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sTW16i0vlsVHVf75t0rC_30UVMPUmn3Z/view?usp=share_link <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sTW16i0vlsVHVf75t0rC_30UVMPUmn3Z/view?usp=…>* *Website* *https://qpp.dei.unipd.it/ <https://qpp.dei.unipd.it/>* *Organizers* Guglielmo Faggioli, University of Padova, Italy, faggioli(a)dei.unipd.it Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy, ferro(a)unipd.it Josiane Mothe, Université de Toulouse, IRIT, France, josiane.mothe(a)irit.fr Fiana Raiber, Yahoo Research, Israel, fiana(a)yahooinc.com

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Re: Call for Submissions - MultiCoNER (SemEval-2023 Task 2)
by Sudipta Kar 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

We invite you to participate in SemEval-2023 Task 2: *Multi*lingual *Co* mplex *N*amed *E*ntity *R*ecognition (MultiCoNER) II. *Task Website:* https://multiconer.github.io/ This task focuses on the *fine-grained* detection of complex entities, such as movie, book, music and product titles, in low context settings (short and uncased text). The task provides data in 12 language. Here are some examples in different languages where entities are enclosed inside brackets with their type: - *English: [wes anderson | Artist]*'s film *[the grand budapest hotel | VisualWork]* opened the festival . - *Spanish:* fue superado por el [aon center | Facility] de [los ángeles | HumanSettlement] . - *Ukranian:* назва альбому походить з роману « *[кінець дитинства | WrittenWork]* » англійського письменника* [артура кларка | Artist]* . - *Portugese: [tom hamilton | Artist]* amerikansk musiker basist i *[aerosmith | MusicalGRP]* . - *Swedish:* também é utilizado para se fazer *[licor | Drink]* e *[vinhos | Drink]*. - *Hindi:* १७९६ में उन्हें *[शाही स्वीडिश विज्ञान अकादमी | Facility]* का सदस्य चुना गया। - *French:* l *[amiral de coligny | Politician]* réussit à s y glisser . - *German:* in *[frühgeborenes | Disease]* führt dies zu *[irds | Symptom]* . - *Bangla [লিটল মিক্স | MusicalGrp]* এ যোগদানের আগে তিনি *[পিৎজা হাট | ORG]* এ ওয়েট্রেস হিসাবে কাজ করেছিলেন। - *Italian*: è conservato nel [rijksmuseum | Facility] di [amsterdam | HumanSettlement] . - *Chinese:* 它的纤维穿过 [锁骨 | AnatomicalStructure] 并沿颈部侧面倾斜向上和内侧. - *Farsi: *مرکزاین استان شهر [ناگویا |HumanSettlement] است Additionally, a *multilingual NER track* is also offered for multilingual systems that can process all languages. The task focuses on detecting semantically ambiguous and complex entities in short and low-context settings. Participants are welcome to build NER systems for any number of languages. And we encourage to aim for a bigger challenge of building NER systems for multiple languages. We have released training data for 12 languages along with a baseline system to start with. Participants can submit their system for one language but are encouraged to aim for a bigger challenge and build multi-lingual NER systems. *Task Website:* https://multiconer.github.io/ *Mailing List:* multiconer-semeval(a)googlegroups.com *Slack Workspace:* https://join.slack.com/t/multiconer/shared_invite/zt-vi3g97cx-MpqTvS07XX22S… *Training Data:* https://multiconer.github.io/dataset *Baseline System:* https://multiconer.github.io/baseline *Shared task schedule:* - Evaluation start: mid-January, 2022 - Evaluation end: by January 31, 2023 (latest date; task organizers may choose an earlier date) - System description paper submissions due: February 1, 2023 - Notification to authors: March 1, 2023 *Task organizers* - Shervin Malmasi (Amazon) - Besnik Fetahu (Amazon) - Sudipta Kar (Amazon) Please reach out to the organizers at multiconer-semeval-organizers(a)googlegroups.com, or join the Slack workspace to connect with the other participants and organizers.

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