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LxGr2024: Last Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) 5-6 July 2024. Online. Attendance is free. Registration closes tomorrow: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences… Symposium programme: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr202<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2023>4 If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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SemDial 2024: Call for SHORT PAPERS reminder
by Raffaella Bernardi 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024 University of Trento, Italy https://tinyurl.com/3c7rracn TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series which aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Keynote speakers Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich and CEU, Vienna Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler (FBK) # IMPORTANT DATES: * Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024 * Notification for short papers: July 17, 2024 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2024 * Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth"). #TOPICS We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: * the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue * common ground/mutual belief * goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * turn-taking and interaction control * semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * dialogue and discourse structure * categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * child-adult interaction * language learning through dialogue * gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * multimodal dialogue * interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * dialogue management * designing and evaluating dialogue systems * modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective * neuroscience of dialogue * Interactivist approaches to dialogue * animal communication # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for ACL. Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog Organizing Committee Raffaella Bernardi Vanessa Maria Caleca Jakub Szymanik Roberto Zamparelli Programme Committee Chairs Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento TrentoLogue is endorsed by SIGdial and SIGsem. ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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Fwd: NARNiHS 2025 Annual Meeting
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) 2025 Annual Meeting: Call for abstracts* Please find below our Call for Abstracts for the next Annual Meeting in 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia! *Call for Abstracts* *NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting* *100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting* *Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025* We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting. *Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! —————————— Call for Abstracts —————————— The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 – Sunday, January 12, 2025. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria: ● explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; ● sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; ● clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will significantly increase the likelihood of non-acceptance (see also point (c) below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/ 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Abstract Format Guidelines: a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. b) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between “inability to anonymize completely” (due to the nature of the research) and “careless non-anonymizing” (for example: “In Jones 2021, I describe…”). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at *NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com <NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com>* with any questions. Carolina Amador-Moreno (on behalf of the organising committee)

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2nd CfP - OM-2024: The 19th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC2024
by Huanyu Li 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*****We apologize for possible cross-posting***** *************** Second Call for Papers *************** The 19th International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2024) http://om.ontologymatching.org/2024/ November 11th or 12th, 2024, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA. BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2024 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2024 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 6 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 3 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the CEUR-ART, 1-column style. Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt, while offline version with the style files is available from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2024 Contributors to the OAEI 2024 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 30th, 2024: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 9th, 2024: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 11th or 12th, 2024: OM-2024, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France 6. Sven Hertling FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany 7. Huanyu Li Linköping University, Sweden PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be added soon). ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ -------------------------------------------------------

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[CfP] Deadline Extended: NLP4MusA - 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio @ ISMIR 2024
by Sergio Oramas 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear all, The submission deadline for the 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024> (NLP4MusA), co-located with ISMIR 2024, has been extended to *Friday 12 July 2024*. =================================== *When*: November, 15 *Where*: San Francisco (ISMIR) *Submission deadline*: July, 12 (*updated*) *Proceedings*: Accepted papers will be published on the ACL Anthology *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024 *Submission link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024 =================================== *Topics of Interest* We welcome both academic and industry submissions at the crossroads of NLP and music and audio, including (but not limited to) topics such as: - NLP for Music Understanding - Tagging and meta-tagging - Knowledge graph construction - Information extraction - Named entity recognition and linking - Speech to text - Song and podcast segmentation - Topic modeling - Sentiment analysis - Representation learning - Bias in music and audio corpora - Audio captioning - Debiasing music entity embeddings - Evaluation and adaptation of LLMs for music understanding - NLP for Music Retrieval and Personalization - Conversational AI - Slot filling and intent prediction - Information retrieval - Cross-modal retrieval - Recommender systems - Ads personalization - Responsible recommendations - Fairness and transparency - NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics generation - Music generation with (Large) Language models - Spoken audio/podcast generation *Submission Instructions* We invite short-papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references). The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/10sSh9JR6Q1644h6XP21lYEyCEoMyB0gQ/view>. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024. Accepted submissions will be published as ACL anthology papers. *Important dates* - Submission Deadline: *July 12, 2024* - Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2024 - Camera-Ready Deadline: September 27, 2024 - Workshop Date: November 15, 2024 NLP4MusA Organizing Committee

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Call for Participation: ODESIA CHALLENGE @ SEPLN 2024 – Evaluation of NLP Systems in Spanish
by ROSER MORANTE VALLEJO 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] ODESIA CHALLENGE @ SEPLN 2024 – Evaluation of NLP Systems in Spanish https://leaderboard.odesia.uned.es/en/leaderboard/challenge Call for Participation The members of the ODESIA<https://odesia.es/> project (Space for the Observation of the Development of Spanish in Artificial Intelligence) and the organizers of SEPLN 2024 are pleased to invite you to participate in the ODESIA Challenge @ SEPLN 2024. This competition aims to promote the development and evaluation of language technologies in Spanish using the evaluation platform and datasets provided by ODESIA (see full rules here<https://unedo365-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/al_benito_lsi_uned_es/EWm…>). Participants must create a system capable of solving 10 discriminative Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in Spanish belonging to the ODESIA Leaderboard<https://leaderboard.odesia.uned.es/en/node/1>. The winning team will receive a cash prize of 3,000 euros, donated by the company Llorente y Cuenca Madrid, SL. (conditions apply, see below). Tasks The ODESIA-CORE benchmark consists of 10 discriminative tasks with public training datasets and private test datasets (not previously distributed by any means) created within the ODESIA initiative. The private nature of the test data guarantees the absence of contamination in the leaderboard results: no LLM should have seen the test set annotations in its pre-training phase. Accepted Systems All types of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems that are applied uniformly to all tasks will be accepted. That is, each participation must be a single system that applies to all tasks, instead of different approaches for each task. A submission in which the solution for each task is constructed independently will not be acceptable. For illustrative purposes, systems with the following characteristics (the list is non-exhaustive) are acceptable: 1. The system is an encoder-type LLM (or an ensemble of LLMs), to which a fine-tuning process is applied for each of the challenge tasks, using the training data provided in the participants’ package or from other sources as deemed appropriate by the participating team. 2. The system uses one or more generative LLMs, combined with a uniform zero-shot, one-shot or few-shot prompting strategy. 3. The system uses one or more generative LLMs combined with a retrieval-augmented generation strategy on the training dataset or other external sources. 4. Any combination of the above methods, as long as it is applied uniformly to all datasets. Registration and Participation Teams will have to pre-register before they can participate. Each team will register a single account on the ODESIA Leaderboard evaluation platform using the form provided for this purpose (link<https://forms.office.com/e/Tg0Yv6AtHw>). The organizers will provide a username and password on the ODESIA Leaderboard platform upon validation of the registration data. Prize A single prize of 3,000 euros -donated by Llorente y Cuenca Madrid, SL- will be awarded to the team that submits the system with the best global average performance in the ODESIA-CORE tasks for Spanish, and that outperforms the best current model in the Leaderboard (XLM-Roberta-Large - 0.5873). Please note that for the prize to be awarded, there must be a minimum of five teams submitting results; if this number is not met, the organization reserves the right to defer the challenge's deadline until this number is reached. Also, The winning team commits to present its solution (in-person or online) at the Award ceremony at SEPLN 2024 (25th September 2024, Valladolid - Spain). Important dates * Registration opens: 1st July 2024 * Registration closes: 30th July 2024 * * Submission deadline: 14th September 2024 * * Official results announced: 16-20th September 2024 * Award ceremony and presentation of results: 25th September 2024 - 5:30pm, at SEPLN 2024 *23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Organizing Committee * Alejandro Benito-Santos (co-chair, UNED) * Roser Morante (co-chair, UNED) * Julio Gonzalo (UNED) * Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz (UNED) * Laura Plaza (UNED) * Enrique Amigó (UNED) * Víctor Fresno (UNED) * Andrés Fernández (UNED) * Adrián Ghajari (UNED) * Guillermo Marco (UNED) * Eva Sánchez (UNED) * Miguel Lucas (LLYC) Advisory Board * TBA Contact and More Information: * The full contest rules, along with instructions to participate, can be found at the ODESIA Leaderboard website<https://leaderboard.odesia.uned.es/leaderboard/challenge> and here in PDF<https://unedo365-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/al_benito_lsi_uned_es/EWm…>. * For questions related to the challenge, please join our Discord server: #odesia-challenge-2024.<https://discord.gg/psw7ayZzf6> You can also contact the challenge co-chairs, Alejandro Benito-Santos (al.benito(a)lsi.uned.es<mailto:al.benito@lsi.uned.es>) and Roser Morante (r.morant(a)lsi.uned.es<mailto:rmorante@lsi.uned.es>). 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Re: Corpora Digest, Vol 845, Issue 1
by Sarah Holschneider 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

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[CIKM-2024] - Data challenge starts!
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this data challenge * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/cikm-2024-analyticup/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== CIKM 2024:AI Aided Advanced Aerodynamics-Streamlining Automobile Design for Optimal Performance In this competition, participants will develop AI4Science methods towards the prediction of aerodynamic drag, a pivotal factor shaping the performance and efficiency of vehicles. The computation will be performed based on industry-level steady vehicle aerodynamics simulated based on the 3D ShapeNet Car, and a total of 2,700 different shaped car data. The challenge will be held on the OpenAtom Foundation’s Open Source Competition Platform and Baidu’s AI Studio competition platform. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Registration open: June 23rd 2024. * Initial data release: July 1st 2024. * Leaderboard A submission starts: July 20th 2024. * Leaderboard B submission starts: August 23rd 2024. * Final submission deadline: August 30th 2024. * Winner’s presentations: October 25th 2024. -------------------------- Prizes -------------------------- * 1st Place: $3,000 * 2nd Place: $2,000 * 3rd Place: $1,000 * 4th-10th Place: $500 each -------------------------- More information -------------------------- For further information, please contact: zhangzhe [at] openatom [dot] org More details can be found at the competition website: https://competition.atomgit.com/competitionInfo?id=cda4e961b0c25858ca0fd2a4…

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Antw: Corpora Digest, Vol 855, Issue 1 (Abwesenheitsnotiz)
by Karolina Suchowolec 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin am 12.07.2024 wieder erreichbar. Ihre E-Mail wird nicht weitergeleitet. Thank you for your message. I am out of the office until 07/11/2024. Your e-mail will not be forwarded. Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards, Karolina Suchowolec -- *Prof. Dr. Karolina Suchowolec* Institut für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation (Fakultät 03) Lehrgebiet: Terminologie und mehrsprachige Fachkommunikation T: +49 221-8275-3902 E: karolina.suchowolec(a)th-koeln.de Technische Hochschule Köln Campus Südstadt Ubierring 48 50678 Köln Raum: 436 www.th-koeln.de <http://www.th-koeln.de> TH Köln Logo

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1st CfP: 2nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon 2024)
by aina.garisoler＠telecom-paris.fr 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) ****** First Call for Papers ****** SICon 2024: 2nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sicon2024/home Twitter/X: @SIConWorkshop Paper Submission via Openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon Contact: sicon-chairs [at] googlegroups.com Venue: Co-located with EMNLP 2024; November 15 or 16, 2024; Miami, Florida *** Workshop description *** Social influence (SI) is the change in an individual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behaviors from interacting with another individual or a group. For example, a buyer uses SI skills to negotiate trade-offs and build rapport with the seller. SI is ubiquitous in everyday life, and hence, realistic human-machine conversations must reflect these dynamics, making it essential to model and understand SI in dialogue research systematically. This would improve SI systems' ability to understand users’ utterances, tailor communication strategies, personalize responses, and actively lead conversations. These challenges draw on perspectives not only from NLP and AI research but also from Game Theory, Affective Computing, Communication, and Social Psychology. SICon 2024 will be the second edition of a venue that uniquely fosters a dedicated discussion on social influence within NLP while involving researchers from other disciplines such as affective computing and the social sciences. SICon 2024 features keynote talks, panel discussions, poster sessions, and lightning talks for accepted papers. We encourage researchers of all stages and backgrounds to share their exciting work! SICon will promote discussion around several key questions: * How should social influence systems model users and plan optimal responses systematically? * How can social influence systems benefit from linguistic theories (e.g.,successful persuasion or negotiation tactics) developed in the social sciences? * What structurally differentiates and unites various social influence tasks? * What are the ethical issues involved with AI that engage in social influence and what guardrails must be implemented before using these systems in the wild? *** Submission Guidelines *** SICon welcomes two types of papers: regular workshop submissions and shared task submissions (more information about the shared task will be announced at a later date). Regular workshop submissions are archival short (4 pages) and long (8 pages) papers. There is also a non-archival track for extended abstracts (2 pages) covering ongoing work on social influence NLP. Topics include but are not limited to: * Analysis-focused contributions (e.g., associations between linguistic behaviors or user attributes with SI task outcomes); * System design contributions (e.g., dialogue systems for SI tasks such as strategic games, emotional support, etc.; SI systems effectively harnessing the capabilities of LLMs); * Contributions advancing relevant subgoals in SI tasks (e.g. detecting SI strategies in text, partner/opponent modeling and emotion recognition in SI interactions); * SI systems benefited from linguistic theories (e.g., successful persuasion, negotiation tactics) developed in social science; * Ethical issues and guardrails involved with AI that engage in SI; * Unintentional aspects of SI for any human-facing NLP system; * Datasets capturing forms of SI; * Opinion or position papers on SI. Submissions should follow the official EMNLP 2024 style guidelines and be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon *** Important Dates *** Direct paper submission deadline: August 15, 2024 Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2024 Camera-ready paper due: October 8, 2024 Workshop: November 15 or 16, 2024 (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ‘anywhere on Earth’) *** Contact *** For any questions, please contact the organizers at: sicon-chairs [at] googlegroups.com Consider joining our slack community! A dedicated space to connect researchers working on various topics related to social influence in NLP and beyond, as well as a useful communication channel for live announcements during the workshop: https://join.slack.com/t/acl2023sicon/shared_invite/zt-1y7cv1c2v-Lm21Sm6KX3… ***Organizers*** Muskan Garg (Mayo Clinic) Kushal Chawla (Capital One) Weiyan Shi (Stanford NLP) Ritam Dutt (Carnegie Mellon University) Deuksin Kwon (University of Southern California) James Hale (University of Southern California) Liang Qiu (Amazon) Aina Garí Soler (Télécom-Paris) Alexandros Papangelis (Amazon Alexa AI) Gale Lucas (University of Southern California) Zhou Yu (Columbia University) Daniel Hershcovich (University of Copenhagen)

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