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Registration now open for Corpus Linguistics Summer School at University of Birmingham 11 to 14th September 2023
by Michaela Mahlberg 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

Registration for the 7th Centre for Corpus Research Summer School CCRSS23 is now open The summer school takes place from 11th to 14th September 2023 Register here: https://shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-arts-law/school-o… More information here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… Who is it for? The summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own research. Our summer school aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both the theory and practice of corpus-supported linguistic research. Building on the strengths of our Centre for Corpus Research (CCR)<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/index.aspx> and our guest speakers, we strive to offer participants a learning experience that benefits their own specific research needs and enriches their experience as researchers more widely. There will be the opportunity for participants to present their own work and receive feedback from our expert team. Given the specialised nature of the programme, a basic understanding of corpus linguistics is highly recommended. What’s the format? The summer school will be online and consist of synchronous and asynchronous elements. Prior to the synchronous part, participants will be expected to complete asynchronous activities consisting of self-study video lectures and hands-on materials. The synchronous part will take place from 11 to 14 September, 2023. Over the course of four days, participants will be actively involved in two kinds of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will put the emphasis on the learning of practical skills for the purpose of extracting and analysing corpus data of various kinds, and the application of this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research and theoretical foundations from our team. What is it about? Topics typically covered in the programme include (non-exhaustive list and subject to change): Corpus linguistics for media analysis Analysis of spoken corpora CQPweb Introduction to R and tidyverse Web scraping with R Digital humanities and the study of fiction Sign language corpora Regular expressions Corpora and legal research Critical issues in keyness analysis Behavioral Profiles Machine learning in corpus linguistics Corpus-based discourse analysis Corpus linguistics and language learning Who are the teachers? Our local team of corpus linguists includes Dagmar Divjak<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/divjak-dagmar.aspx>, Natalie Finlayson<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/staf…>, Jason Grafmiller<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/staf…>, Jack Grieve<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/grieve-jack.aspx>, Michaela Mahlberg<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/mahlberg-michaela.aspx>, Karen McAuliffe<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/mcauliffe-karen.aspx>, Petar Milin<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/milin-petar.aspx>, Akira Murakami<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/murakami-akira.aspx>, Florent Perek<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/perek-florent.aspx>, Laurence Romain<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/romain-laurence.aspx>, Adam Schembri<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/schembri-adam.aspx>, Paul Thompson<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/thompson-paul.aspx>, and Bodo Winter<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/winter-bodo.aspx>. Guest speakers will include Robbie Love<https://robbielove.org/> (Aston University), Stephanie Evert<http://www.stephanie-evert.de/> (FAU Erlangen), Alexander Piperski<https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/alexander-piperski/> (FAU Erlangen) & Mike Scott<https://lexically.net/wordsmith/index.html> (Lexical Analysis Software) Sinclair lecture As every year, the annual Sinclair Lecture will take place during the Summer School. This year, the Lecture will be delivered on Monday 11 September by our very own Susan Hunston<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/hunston-susan.aspx>. If you register for the summer school, you are automatically registered for the Sinclair lecture. More detail on the Sinclair lecture can be found here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… For updates also follow @CCR_UoB See you there!

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Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2023)
by Gualtiero Volpe 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

======================================================== ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITS 9-13 October 2023, Paris - France https://icmi.acm.org/2023/doctoral-consortium/ ======================================================== We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023), located in Paris, France, October 9-13th 2023. This year’s conference theme is “Science of Multimodal Interactions”. * Demonstrations and Exhibits The ICMI 2023 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. It can also serve as a platform to introduce commercial products. Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a 2-3 page paper in one column, which will be included in the ICMI main proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than two pages in one column; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers may be invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well. * Demonstration Submission Please submit a 2-3 page description of the demonstration in a single column format through the main ICMI conference management system (new.precisionconference.com/sigchi). Demonstration description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 3 pages in a single column format including references. For instructions and links to the templates, please see the Guidelines for Authors (https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/). Demonstration proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration. Demonstration submissions should be accompanied by a video of the proposed demo (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format. The demo and exhibit paper submissions are not anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism). The demonstration submissions will be peer reviewed, according to the following criteria: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals, along with preparing the papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication. The demo program will include the accepted proposals and may additionally include invited demos from among regular papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Please note that the accepted demos will be included in the ICMI main proceedings. * Exhibit Submission Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demonstration proposals. Exhibit proposals must be shorter in length (up to two pages), and are more suitable for showcasing mature systems. Like demos, submissions for exhibits should be accompanied by a video (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format. Exhibits will not have a paper published in the ICMI 2023 proceedings. * Facilities Once accepted, demonstrators and video presenters will be provided with a table, poster board, power outlet and wireless (shared) Internet. Demo and video presenters are expected to bring with them everything else needed for their demo and video presentations, such as hardware, laptops, sensors, PCs, etc. However, if you have special requests such as a larger space, special lighting conditions and so on, we will do our best to arrange them. Important note for the authors: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. * Attendance At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s). * Important Dates - Submission of demo and exhibit proposals July 14, 2023 - Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance July 28, 2023 - Submission of demo final papers August 13, 2023 * Questions? For further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs: Kun Qian and Dirk Heylen (icmi2023-demo-chairs(a)acm.org).

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Call for Late-Breaking Results, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2023)
by Gualtiero Volpe 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

======================================================== ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS 9-13 October 2023, Paris - France https://icmi.acm.org/2023/doctoral-consortium/ ======================================================== Based on the success of the LBR in the past ICMI, the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2023 continues soliciting submissions for the special venue titled Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of this venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. Online Submission For online paper submissions, please click on the following link: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?next=https%3A//new.precision… Highlights * Submission deadline: July 16th, 2023, 23:59 PDT (GMT-7) * Notifications: August 13th, 2023 * Camera-ready deadline: September 3rd, 2023 * Conference Dates: October 9-13, 2023 * Submission format: Anonymized, short paper (four-page paper in a double column format, not including references), following the submission guidelines, available here: https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/ * Selection process: Peer-Reviewed * Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session * Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library * LBR Co-chairs: Jean-Marc Odobez and Chi-Chun Lee What are Late-Breaking Results? Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. Why submit to the Late-Breaking Results track at ICMI? Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are "significant" revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. Submission Guidelines Extended Abstract: An anonymized short paper, four-page paper in a double column ACM conference format, using LaTeX or Word (excluding references). Papers should follow the same guidelines as papers published in the proceedings of the ACM ICMI conference: https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/. The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the “Late-Breaking Results” track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted. Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person. Review Process LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it "fits" the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Authors should clearly justify how the proposed ideas can bring some measurable breakthroughs compared to the state-of-the-art of the field. Attendance Similar rules for registration and attendance will be applied for authors of LBR papers as for regular papers. Further information will be available later on and given on the main page of the website. Questions? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2023 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2023/late-breaking-results/. For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (Jean-Marc Odobez and Chi-Chun Lee) at icmi2023-late-breaking-results-chairs(a)acm.org

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LxGr2023: Programme and Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

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

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CfP MISDOOM 2023 - 5th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media
by Tommaso Caselli 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

*************************************************************************************** Call for Contributions and Keynote Speaker Announcement *************************************************************************************** 5th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media November 21-22, 2023 Hosted by the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://event.cwi.nl/misdoom-2023 The Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) is returning for its 5th edition on 21 and 22 November 2023. This time, the conference will be hosted by the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) at Amsterdam Science Park (Netherlands). MISDOOM values multidisciplinary research and is designed to be inclusive of different academic disciplines and practices. The symposium provides a platform for researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners from various disciplines such as communication science, computer science, computational social science, political science, psychology, journalism, and media studies to come together and share their knowledge and insights on online disinformation. *Keynote Speakers* We are thrilled to announce two outstanding keynote speakers: - Prof Dr. Judith Möller, University of Hamburg & Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut - Dr. Pepa Atanasova, University of Copenhagen More details will follow soon. Stay tuned! *Symposium Topics* Participants can discuss and contribute to the following list of topics: - Cross-platform campaigns and their impact (e.g., diffusion of disinformation and manipulation, observations of campaigns and strategies, communication strategies, hate speech) - Approaches to studying misinformation (e.g., qualitative approaches, case studies, quantitative approaches, experiments) - User involvement with misinformation on various platforms (e.g., engagement, viewership) - Counter-measures for mis- and disinformation and manipulation (e.g., censorship policies, behavioral changes, education, training, professional codices, legal actions) - Factors contributing to misinformation beliefs or hampering corrections of false beliefs (e.g., political polarization, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias) - Trending topics in mis- and disinformation research - Automated fact-checking and misinformation detection - Models for misinformation diffusion - Human computation approaches for misinformation detection (crowdsourcing, human-machine interaction) - Information quality (information quality dimensions, metrics, ethics of information quality) - Generative AI tools and disinformation (e.g., ChatGPT, Midjourney, DALL-E) *Industry* Industries are also invited to participate in the conference by submitting a contribution describing their approach to countering or detecting misinformation. *Submission Instructions* Given that we welcome both social scientists and computer scientists, and that the publication strategies of these fields differ, we solicit two types of contributions that, upon acceptance, result in the same opportunity to present at MISDOOM: - Papers Papers to be published with Springer LNCS proceedings. Up to 15 pages (including references) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format describing original unpublished and new research. The work should be structured like a research paper, and cover the context of the problem studied, the research question, approach/methodology, and results in 6 to 15 pages. It should be formatted according to the LNCS Word or LaTeX template. Such submissions will be judged based on scientific quality and relevance for the MISDOOM symposium. - Extended Abstracts Authors can also choose to submit an Extended Abstract. The extended abstract should not exceed 500 words, excluding references, and can pertain to previously published work, ongoing projects, or new research ideas. There is no particular format for the extended abstract, but it must include the title, authors, their affiliation, the text of the abstract, and references, particularly if it involves previously published work. Submissions are not archival and are not formally published. Additionally, authors must submit a conference program abstract of no more than 150 words. Authors should add the suffix "(Extended Abstract)" to the title of their extended abstract submission. *Important Note about Submissions* Both contribution types (full papers and extended abstracts) must specify the discipline they are contributing to as keyword(s) in OpenReview at the time of submission (they should enter at least one of the two keywords "computer science" or "social science" in the keyword box). Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=MISDOOM/2023/Symposium *Important Dates* Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023 Notification: 28 August 2023 Camera-ready: 11 September 2023 Symposium: 21-22 November 2023 -- Tommaso Caselli, Ph.D. Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands ---------------------------- https://xs4all.academia.edu/TommasoCaselli https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tommaso_Caselli Twitter: @tommaso_caselli

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Call for Papers: The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXVII, Rabat Morocco 23-25 November 2023
by Steven Krauwer 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXVII (2023) Organised by The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and The Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA) in collaboration with The Faculty of Science of Education (FSE) Rabat, Morocco, 23-25 November 2023 Theme of the conference: Endangered Languages and Cultural Diversity The focus of the conference will be on the relationship between language endangerment/extinction and the threat to cultural diversity. While it has a universal scope, it aims to also encourage scholarship and accounts of community initiatives from the African continent as well as those relating to African situations. Call for papers Extended abstracts of about 1000 words in English should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxvii2023 by 12 July 2023. The extended abstract should provide a brief account of the context, the issue(s) studied, the methodology used, and relevant references, together with a mention of any major results, conclusions and implications. Those whose abstracts are accepted will be notified by 22 August 2023. Venue Faculté des Sciences de l’Education, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. More information Email: felconf2023_morocco(a)ogmios.org Website: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2023 Working language: The working language of the conference is English Call for Papers in English, French and Arabic (PDF): https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2023/CfP-En-Fr-Ar.pdf Important dates 12 July 2023: Deadline for submission of abstract 22 August 2023: Selected applicants informed 20 September 2023: Deadline for Reception of Final Version of Accepted Abstracts 23-24 November 2023: Conference dates 25 November: Excursion to a local community Organisation and sponsorship Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) The Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA) The Faculty of Science of Education (FSE) FEL Organising Committee Salem Mezhoud Nicholas Ostler Steven Krauwer Hakim Elnazarov Christopher Moseley Eda Derhermi Joseph Babasola Osoba Mujahid Torwali Local Organising Committee Yamina El Kirat El Allame Majdouline Enahibi Abdekarim Chebbaki Yassine Akheyyat Adil Azhar Hasbiya Taifi Bernoussi Othmane Zakaria Mouna Al Andaloussi Rania Lougmiri -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, NL

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[CALL FOR PAPERS] The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023
by milad.alshomary＠uni-paderborn.de 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

CALL FOR PAPERS The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023 https://argmining-org.github.io/2023/ The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on December 7, 2023 in Singapore together with EMNLP 2023. This will be a hybrid event. The Workshop on Argument Mining provides a regular forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a argumentation mining) to both academic and industry researchers. By continuing a series of nine successful previous workshops, this edition will welcome the submission of long, short, and demo papers. It will feature two shared tasks, a panel on the last ten years of Argument Mining, and a keynote talk. IMPORTANT DATES - Direct paper submission deadline (Softconf): September 1, 2023 - Paper commitment from ARR: September 15, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2023 - Camera-ready submission: October 18, 2023 - Workshop: December 7, 2023 TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of argument components (e.g., premises and conclusions), the structure in which they form an argument, and relations between arguments and counterarguments (e.g., support and attack) in as well as across documents - Automatic assessment of arguments and argumentation with respect to various properties, such as stance, clarity, and persuasiveness - Automatic generation of arguments and their components, including the consideration of discourse goals (e.g., stages of a critical discussion or rhetorical strategies) - Creation and evaluation of argument annotation schemes, relationships to linguistic and discourse annotations, (semi-) automatic argument annotation methods and tools, and creation of argumentation corpora - Argument mining in specific genres and domains (e.g., social media, education, law, and scientific writing), each with a unique style (e.g., short informal text, highly structured writing, and long-form documents) - Argument mining and generation from multi-modal and/or multilingual data - Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models for mining and generation - Combination of information retrieval methods with argument mining, e.g., in order to build the next generation of argumentative (web) search engines - Real-world applications, including argument web search, opinion analysis in customer reviews, argument analysis in meetings, misinformation detection - Perspectivist approaches to subjective argument mining tasks for which multiple ”ground truths” may exist, including multi-perspective machine learning and the creation of non-aggregated datasets - Reflection on the ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining methods - Reflection on the future of argument mining in light of the fast advancement of large language models (LLMs). SUBMISSIONS The organizing committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Accepted papers will be presented either via oral or poster presentations. They will be included in the EMNLP proceedings as workshop papers. - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for the appendix, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Demo descriptions must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, examples, figures, tables, and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the workshop organizers for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Multiple Submissions ArgMining 2023 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference or workshop at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. ArgMining 2023 will also accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline (September 15). However, ArgMining 2023 will not accept direct submissions that are actively under review in ARR, or that overlap significantly (>25%) with such submissions. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column EMNLP 2023 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template (https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Submissions must conform to the official EMNLP style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link and Deadline For Direct Submissions Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a PDF of their paper before September 1, 2023, 11:59 pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth). https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/ArgMining2023/ For the ARR commitment process, we will provide details in our second call for paper later in the summer. Double Blind Review ArgMining 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review for long and short paper submissions. 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. Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. ANONYMITY PERIOD (taken from the EMNLP call for papers in verbatim for the most part) The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the direct submission deadline (starting August 1, 2023) up to the date when your paper is accepted or rejected (October 7, 2023). For papers committed from ARR, the anonymity period starts August 15, 2023. Papers that are withdrawn during this period will no longer be subject to these rules. You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. Versions of the paper include papers having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length. If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the programme chairs that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. You may make an anonymized version of your paper available (for example, on OpenReview), even during the anonymity period. For arXiv submissions, August 1, 2023 11:59pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth) is the latest time the paper can be uploaded if you plan a direct submission to the workshop (or August 15, 2023 for papers from ARR committed to the workshops on September 15, 2023). BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in argument mining science and technology, ArgMining 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the workshop are eligible for the best paper awards and a selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SHARED TASKS We will be hosting two shared tasks this year: - ImageArg-Shared-Task-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining - PragTag-2023: The First Shared Task on Pragmatic Tagging of Peer Reviews ArgMining 2023 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Milad Alshomary, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Chung-Chi Chen, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA Joonsuk Park, University of Richmond, USA Julia Romberg, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany

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Position available at NLP & IR Research Group UNED
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Full time position The UNED IR & NLP group has an open position. The successful candidate is expected to work as part of the joint research project FAIRTRANSNLP-DIAGNOSIS: Measuring and quantifying bias and fairness in NLP pipelines, together with colleagues from the Universidad de Barcelona and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. The project focuses on developing methodologies and metrics for measuring bias, fairness and transparency in NLP systems. The detection of bias, their types and sources, is essential for developing unbiased datasets for training fair systems in NLP. Within the FAIRTRANSNLP project, the candidate will work in the formalization of the detection of bias, fairness, and transparency of NLP pipelines from three different angles: (i) bias embedded in the dataset; (ii) degree of fairness in ML algorithms; and (iii) transparency techniques used in ML to achieve explainability in NLP. The candidate will also participate in the compilation and annotation of datasets. * Candidate profile * * Academic background (university degree, preferably master) in computer science or related discipline. * Knowledge of natural language processing and machine learning. * Excellent programming skills. * Ability to research and work as part of a team. * Fluent in English. * Terms and conditions * One year position with a possible extension to two years (1+1) after a positive evaluation. * Application * The position is open until filled. Follow instructions in the official call: https://www2.uned.es/bici/Curso2022-2023/32306266/36-1.htm#9.-_____Convocat… Please send an email to lplaza(a)lsi.uned.es and jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es for more info. * More about us * The UNED NLP & IR group is a leading group in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Our team consists of more than 30 people. https://sites.google.com/view/nlp-uned/home AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Departamento de Política Jurídica de Seguridad de la Información<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Fifth Call for Papers
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

*** Fifth 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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Counting multiple long (9+) n-grams in corpora: request for approaches
by beauchampd＠uni.coventry.ac.uk 23 Jun '23

23 Jun '23

Hi all, I'm doing analysis on a corpus on tweets from institutions. Regarding analysis of n-grams, it is quite unusual in that there are many repeated exact tweets, or very similar tweets, leading to long super strings of often 9 or 10 or more words together. Naturally this makes accurate counting and classifying difficult due to the overlapping substrings. Does anyone know of any approaches or software which can count and classify n-grams in such circumstances? I am aware of approaches outlined by Buerki (2017) and O'Donnell (2011), but these do not seem practical due to the excessive length of the n-grams in the corpus. Does anyone know of any accessible methods or packages? Any input much appreciated.

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