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Call for participation - Healthcare Text Analytics Conference 2023
by Bea Alex 30 May '23

30 May '23

*********************************************** Healthcare Text Analytics Conference HealTAC 2023 Manchester, UK, June 14-16, 2023 http://healtex.org/healtac-2023/ *********************************************** The early bird registration is finishing tomorrow (31 May 2023). The (preliminary) programme is out: http://healtex.org/healtac-2023/programme/ Keynotes: ------------- The keynotes this year will focus on the impact and promises of large healthcare language models. We will hear from two experts that are involved in large centres that work with clinical free-text data in the UK and the US. - Dr Yonghui Wu (University of Florida’s College of Medicine): “Opportunities and Challenges of Conversational Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Healthcare” - Dr Angus Roberts (King’s College London): “From regular expressions to pre-trained language models – 14 years of applying NLP at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre” Panels and forums: ---------------------- - Industry forum: Translational opportunities and challenges of healthcare generative models - PPIE forum: Co-production of clinical NLP applications with patients and public - Annotation guidelines: from clinical needs to textual annotations - Towards evaluation guidelines for clinical NLP applications Presentations, demos, posters: -------------------------- - Over 30 different projects presented and discussed in an open and collaborative environment. Registration: ---------- The early bird fee is £100 for students and £200 for non-students before 31st May 2023, and includes the full two days of the conference on June 15th and 16th (with lunches and the conference dinner on 15th), and pre-conference events on June 14th. From June 1st, the registration fee will be £125 for students, and £250 for non-students. ------------------ HealTAC is supported by Canon Medical, Akrivia Health, HDR UK, Frontiers, Hoffmann-La Roche, The Christabel Pankhurst Institute for health technology research and innovation, The University of Manchester and Marketing Manchester. Full details will be available at: http://healtex.org/healtac-2023/ ---------------------------------------- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Call for expression of interest to a workshop on UD Turkic treebanks
by cagri coltekin 30 May '23

30 May '23

Dear all, We invite expressions of interest to a workshop on improving and unifying annotation practices for Turkic Universal Dependencies treebanks. The workshop aims to discuss the inconsistencies in different annotation efforts, and difficult cases of annotation of Turkic languages in the Universal Dependencies framework. This is a one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with UniDive Working Group 3 meeting <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:wg:wg3-2-meeting> on September 8, 2023 in Istanbul. We plan to hold the Turkic UD workshop in a hybrid setup. UniDive will reimburse the costs of participation (travel and one day of accommodation) for a limited number of participants. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please fill the form at <https://forms.gle/XfNhjr4Qd8vooK3G9> not later than June 11, 2023. The workshop is open to everyone, but the researchers maintaining one of the current Turkic Universal Dependencies treebanks and those working on new ones are particularly welcome to join. Best Regards, Cagri Coltekin (on behalf of the organizers: Arzucan Ozgur, Balkiz Ozturk, Busra Marsan, Suzan Uskudarli, Tunga Gungor)

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2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP: Call for Papers
by Simona Frenda 29 May '23

29 May '23

CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (and Beyond) (NLPerspectives) https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach… Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique ‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase minority voices. Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to modelling, evaluation and explanation. In line with the first edition <https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/w2022/>, the NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including these perspectives, as well as evaluation and applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., in the context of fairness and inclusion. A key outcome of this second edition will be to build on the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling. Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) and provide essential information about resources (i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The NLPerspectives workshop will be hosted in person during the 26th edition of ECAI 2023 <https://ecai2023.eu/> in Kraków, Poland, on 30 September or 1 October 2023. Submissions The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of ECAI 2023 conference: https://ecai2023.eu/ECAI2023 We accept three types of submissions: - Regular research papers; - Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; - Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarizing relevant research published elsewhere. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 7 pages of content, plus 1 page for references. Research communications may consist of up to 4 pages of content. Submissions should be sent in electronic forms, using the Softconf START conference management system at this URL: https://softconf.com/n/NLPerspectives/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitNew Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks - Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm - Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning - Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement - Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation - Fairness and inclusive modelling - Perspectivist approaches for social good - Applications of multi-perspective modelling - Computing with (dis)agreement - Perspectivist Natural Language Generation - Foundational aspects of perspectivism - Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work. Important Dates * Friday June 23, 2023: Paper submission * Friday August 4, 2023: Notification of acceptance * Friday September 1, 2023: Camera-ready papers due * Saturday September 30 or Sunday October 1, 2023: Workshop Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, University of Colorado, Boulder Simona Frenda, University of Turin Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

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Position for PhD in natural language processing (Slovenia-France)
by Antoine Doucet 29 May '23

29 May '23

***Apologies for cross-posting*** We are looking for candidates for a fully funded research Ph.D. position in the field of news analysis. The candidate will be enrolled in a joint doctoral programme between Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School (Slovenia) and La Rochelle University (France). The candidate will be co-supervised by asst. Prof. Dr. Senja Pollak and Prof. Dr. Antoine Doucet. Call open until: June 12, 2023. The candidates will: * Stay 18 months in Slovenia and 18 months in France * Will receive full fellowship for 3 years * Will be part of research groups at Jožef Stefan Institute (Dept. of Knowledge Technologies) and L3i (La Rochelle University) Possible topics: * News analysis * Opinion mining * Historical document processing * Diachronic analysis * Cross-lingual analysis * Other related topics The doctoral candidate will benefit from the context of two active research groups, involving several other PhD students and postdoctoral fellows on each site. The collaboration builds up on two recent Horizon 2020 projects coordinated in Ljubljana and La Rochelle (Embeddia and NewsEye, respectively). The application should contain: * A CV, including a list of past publications if available, grade from MSc studies, computational knowledge including natural language processing experience if available * Motivation letter (1 A4 page) * Contact of 2 referees * Transcript of MSc grades The candidates are expected to have: * Excellent knowledge of the English language * Completed second-cycle university study programme or comparable education by September 1st 2023 * Interest in scientific research * Good programming skills * Experience in natural language processing would be a plus Apply by June 12 2023 by mail: senja.pollak(a)ijs.si <mailto:senja.pollak@ijs.si>, antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr <mailto:antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr>with subject “Slovenian-French PhD fellowship”

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CfP Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa conference 2023
by Menno Van Zaanen 29 May '23

29 May '23

First call for papers DHASA Conference 2024 https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/ Theme: "Digital Humanities for Inclusion" The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fourth conference, focusing on the theme "Digital Humanities for Inclusion." In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organized, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalized voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalized communities in the creation and use of digital tools and resources; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonizing knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities research related; * The role of digital humanities in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organizations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2023 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers consisting of a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (up to 9 pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (up to 6 pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented as posters. * Abstracts: Authors can submit abstracts of 250-300 words. We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the Journal of Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the abstracts of the full papers and the lightning talks will be published in a book of abstracts before the conference. Important dates Submission deadline: 15 August 2023 Date of notification: 30 September 2023 Camera-ready copy deadline: 6 November 2023 Conference: 27 November 2023 - 1 December 2023 Conference format: Face-to-face Conference venue: Nelson Mandela University, Eastern Cape South Africa NOTE: Non-presenting delegates have the option to attend online. Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organizing Committee * Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University * Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Alan Murdoch, Nelson Mandela University * Amanda du Preez, University of Pretoria * Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources * Andiswa Mvanyashe, Nelson Mandela University * Avashna Govender, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Gabby Dlamini, Nelson Mandela University * Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Jonathan van der Walt, Nelson Mandela University * Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Mukhtar Raban, Nelson Mandela University * Nomfundo Khumalo, Nelson Mandela University * Menno Van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Last chance to submit - DiSLiDaS 2023 collocated with LDK2023
by Purificação Silvano 29 May '23

29 May '23

+++Apologies for cross-posting+++ ****Last chance to submit**** Workshop Discourse studies and linguistic data science: Addressing challenges in interoperability, multilinguality and linguistic data processing - DiSLiDaS 2023 12-13 September 2023 (TBA) University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Paper submission deadline: Extended May, 30, 2023 Website: http://dislidas.mozajka.co The fourth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) (http://2023.ldk-conf.org) and Cost Action CA18209 NexusLinguarum (https://nexuslinguarum.eu) are glad to announce the second workshop Discourse studies and linguistic data science: Addressing challenges in interoperability, multilinguality and linguistic data processing – DiSLiDaS 2023. Conference aims and topics The workshop aims to follow through the topics discussed during DiSLiDaS 2022 (https://dislidas.mozajka.co/?page_id=211) and to gather current research advances in discourse analysis and representation, in the context of multilinguality, from a linguistic and computational perspective. We invite submissions addressing challenges such as interoperability, linguistic linked open data (LLOD), and language processing and analysis. The workshop topics are the following (but not limited to): ● Discourse and dialogue annotation: Parsing and representation across languages and frameworks ● Discourse markers and discourse relations (RST, PDTB, SDRT): Identification, prediction and extraction ● Attitudes discovery and interpretation in Discourse: Appraisal and sentiment ● Effects of multimodality on discourse interpretation: Intonation, gesture and text ● Interoperability for Multilingual language data: Challenges of rich and distributed data ● Discourse data and machine learning: Methods and tools Discourse comprises a wide variety of linguistic phenomena, such as discourse markers, discourse relations, and speaker attitude, which have been largely studied by different communities of practice from Linguistics and Computation, rendering several theoretical frameworks (for instance, RST, SDRT, PDTB, for discourse relations; appraisal theory for sentiment analysis,...), and technological approaches, such as transformer models, embeddings and alike. Nonetheless, there are open issues concerning interoperability, multilinguality, and language processing, in particular, the existence of different annotation schemas, disambiguation, lack of training data for machine learning, scarcity of effective language phenomena detection and interpretation methods, diverse vocabularies, insufficient multilingual parallel corpora of non-dialogue and dialogue, initial stages of exploration of multimodality. Discourse research is one of the central research areas of natural language processing (NLP) too. NLP research focuses on the formalisation, identification and discovery of semantic phenomena, dialogue exchange structure, and text coherence. Some of the technological approaches of NLP include the use of transformer models, word embeddings, linguistic linked open data, the constitution of aligned multilingual corpora, vocabularies of language phenomena and alike. Computational discourse explores the evidence that language consists not only of placing words in the right order but also of detecting and interpreting the meaning and deeper textual relations and organising ideas into a logical flow. The linguistic approaches study language phenomena referring to coherence and cohesiveness of discourse, lexical, phrasal, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic means to express discourse relations, represent their roles and build language resources for them. Despite all the advances, there are still plenty of unresolved problems related to interoperability, multilinguality, and language processing. With the growth of the Semantic Web and Linguistic Linked Data, interoperability is key to reading, interpreting and adopting language resources. The existence of different annotation schemas to encode discourse relations constitutes a problem for data exchange and reuse and for theoretical consistency. The treatment of multilinguality is also complicated because of the insufficiency of multilingual parallel corpora of collections of non-dialogue and dialogue texts, which would allow systematic contrastive studies. As to language processing, the lack of training data for machine learning, coupled with the scarcity of effective language phenomena detection and interpretation methods, the coexistence of diverse vocabularies, and the minimal attention to the contribution of the tone of voice, intonation, gestures to the meaning and the informative value of discourse elements make the task of discourse processing still very challenging. The workshop intends to be a discussion forum for researchers interested in addressing the aforementioned challenges and advancing the state-of-art in discourse studies and linguistic data science. Programme The Scientific Programme will include one invited talk and oral presentations. Invited Speaker Johan Bos, University of Groningen Submissions Submissions can be in the form of: • long papers: 9–12 pages; • short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published by ACL in an open-access conference proceedings volume, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. The workshop will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the workshop (either remotely or on-site). There will be no registration fee administered for participating in DiSLiDaS 2023. Submissions must be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dislidas2023 Important dates Time Zone: Anywhere on Earth Papers due: May, 19, 2023, May, 30, 2023 Papers acceptance notifications: June, 16, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: June, 30, 2023 Programme Committee Elena-Simona Apostol, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands Maria Josep Cuenca, Universitat de València Debopam Das, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Jorge Garcia, University of Zaragoza, Spain Mikel Iruskieta, University of the Basque Country, Spain António Leal, University of Porto, Portugal Chaya Liebeskind, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel Amália Mendes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuanian Georg Rehm, DFKI GmbH, Germany Ted Sanders, Utrecht University, Netherlands Merel Scholman, University of Saarland, Germany Dimitar Trajanov, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, North Macedonia Radoslava Trnavac, University of Belgrade, Serbia Ciprian-Octavian Truica, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Amir Zeldes, The Georgetown University, USA Organising Committee Purificação Silvano, University of Porto, Portugal Mariana Damova, Mozaika, Ltd., Bulgaria Christian Chiarcos, Goethe-Universität, Germany Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk, Poland Contact organizers(a)dislidas.mozajka.co

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Important Updates/Final CFP: MEDDOPLACE (place, location & travel NER/linking form health texts) Shared Task
by Martin Krallinger 29 May '23

29 May '23

Important Updates/Final CFP: MEDDOPLACE (place, location & travel NER/linking form health texts) Shared Task - NEW: Annotation guidelines - English version released & generated corpus subset for English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian. - NEW Guidelines English: https://zenodo.org/record/7928146 Info: - Web: https://temu.bsc.es/meddoplace/ - Registration: https://temu.bsc.es/meddoplace/registration - Data: https://zenodo.org/record/7707567 - Guidelines Spanish: https://zenodo.org/record/7775235 - CodaLab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/13017 MOTIVATION Location information represents one of the most relevant types of entities for high impact practical NLP solutions, resulting in a variety of applications adapted to different languages, content types and text genres. We organize the MEDDOPLACE shared task (Medical Documents PLAce-related Content Extraction, part of the IberLEF/SEPLN2023 initiative) devoted to the recognition, normalization and classification of location and location-related concept mentions for high impact healthcare data mining scenarios. For this task we released the MEDDOPLACE corpus of clinical case texts in Spanish annotated with location-relevant entity mentions, following annotation guidelines and entity linking procedures. Practical impact: - Diagnosis & prognosis: Location information is important for the diagnosis or prognosis of some diseases that are more endemic to certain regions or particular geographical environments. - Health risk factors: Geolocation information can be a risk factor in case of exposure to radiation, work-related or environmental contaminants affecting patients health. - Mobility: Due to the increasing mobility of populations, detection of patients' travels and movements can improve early detection and tracing of infectious disease outbreaks, and thus enable taking preventive measurements. The expected results and resources show a multilingual adaptation potential and impact beyond healthcare (e.g. adaptation to tourism/traveling-related content or legal texts). TASKS SUBTRACKS: 1. Location Entity Recognition: detect exact character offsets of all location & location-related mentions. 2. Geographic Entity Normalization (Geocoding/Entity Linking): for entity mentions, normalize them to their GeoNames (Toponym Resolution), PlusCodes (POIs Toponym Resolution) & SNOMED CT (Entity Linking) concept, depending on entity type. 3. Entity Subclassification: Classification of entity mentions into four subcategories of clinical relevance (patient’s origin place; residence’s location; place where the patient has traveled to/from; place where the patient has received medical attention) 4. End-to-End: Participant systems are evaluated in all three tasks above sequentially instead of being evaluated on their own. Publications & workshop Teams participating will be invited to contribute a systems description paper for the IberLEF (SEPLN 2023) Working Notes proceedings, and a short presentation of their approach at the IberLEF 2023 workshop, see: https://temu.bsc.es/meddoplace/publications/. Tentative Schedule: - End of evaluation Phase 1: May 31st, 2023 - End of evaluation Phase 2: June 12th, 2023 - Working papers submission: June 14th, 2023 - Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews): June 26th, 2023 - Camera-ready system descriptions: July 5th, 2023 - IberLEF @ SEPLN 2023: September 27th-29th, 2023 Organizers: - Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Salvador Lima, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Eulàlia Farré, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Luis Gascó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Vicent Briva-Iglesias, D-REAL, Dublin City University, Ireland ======================================= Martin Krallinger, Dr. Head of NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis Unit Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/ =======================================

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Fourth Call for Papers
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 27 May '23

27 May '23

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Call for Participation
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 27 May '23

27 May '23

*** Call for Participation *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. It is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the Steering Committee. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. UMAP 2023 will feature 104 technical presentations of various categories (main conference papers, large breaking results, demos and posters, etc.). The participants can also attend a number of workshops and tutorials. Finally, the technical program also includes 3 keynote speakers. More information can be found on the conference web site. Please note that the early registration deadline has been extended by one week to June 2.

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FDIA 2023 - Deadline extended - Future Directions in Information Access @ ESSIR 2023
by Ingo Frommholz 27 May '23

27 May '23

Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) tl;dr 11th (PhD) Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) Web: https://2023.essir.eu/FDIA/ Deadline: extended to June 5, 2023 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2023 Contact: fdia2023(a)easychair.org The 11th (PhD) Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA, https://2023.essir.eu/FDIA/) will be held in conjunction with the 14th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2023, https://2023.essir.eu/FDIA/). The symposium aims to provide a forum for participants of the summer school to share their research and interact with senior researchers in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. The BCS-IRSG FDIA Symposium is mainly, but not exclusively, turned to PhD students, researchers new to the field, and postdoctoral researchers. The objectives are: • To provide an accessible forum for new researchers to discuss their research and projects. • To help foster formative and tentative research ideas. • To encourage discussion and successful progression. • To share outcomes of doctoral work. Call for Papers We cordially invite Master and PhD students as well as early-stage researchers to submit a paper on their research topic to the symposium. We invite submissions on formative access ideas which present a summary of early-stage researchers’ work, such as initial empirical findings/pilot studies; explore conceptual and/or theoretical models; and/or describe current challenges and opportunities. In particular, submissions focusing on new directions and emerging work in information access and retrieval that potentially create discussion and provoke reaction were strongly encouraged. The submissions will be peer-reviewed by the FDIA Programme Committee members. Accepted submissions will be presented at the symposium, either as a talk or a poster. We plan to publish accepted submissions at CEUR-WS.org or with TU Vienna Press depending on the number of accepted papers. Areas of research include, but are not limited to: • Information Retrieval Theory • Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval Interactive IR • Ethics and Bias in Information Retrieval and Search & Recommendation • Collaborative Information Seeking and Searching • Learning to Rank • Neural IR and Dense Retrieval • Large Language Models and IR • Multimedia and Multimodal IR • Recommender Systems • Databases + IR • Semantic Search • Social Search • Web IR • Clustering and Categorization • Enterprise Search • Conversational Agents, knowledge graphs • IR Applications (e.g. Digital Humanities, News IR, IR and Bibliometrics) Papers should be 4-8 pages in length excluding references for presentation or poster (e.g., an outline of the PhD or Master’s project, a discussion of topics and ideas). Submissions should be converted to PDF and submitted via Easychair. Please use the one-column CEUR style. Important dates 29.05 - FDIA submission deadline 19.06 - FDIA notification deadline 30.08 - Date of FDIA symposium Submission Link and Contact https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2023 fdia2023(a)easychair.org Program Chairs • Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton, UK • Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK • Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, UK -- Ingo Frommholz, PhD, FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC) University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Twitter: @iFromm | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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