Assistant Professor - Computational Linguistics
Date Posted: 10/06/2022
Closing Date: 11/17/2022, 11:59PM ET
Req ID: 26528
Job Category: Faculty - Tenure Stream (continuing)
Faculty/Division: University of Toronto Scarborough
Department: UTSC: Department of Language Studies
Campus: University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)
Description:
The Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Computational Linguistics. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an expected start date of July 1, 2023, or shortly thereafter.
Candidates must have earned a PhD degree in Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Cognitive Science or a closely related area—with a focus on computational linguistics—by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter, with a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching. We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and enhance our existing departmental strengths in theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and Indigenous language revitalization. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue innovative and independent research at the highest international level and to establish an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program.
Candidates must have a strong focus on applying computational methods to questions in linguistic research, e.g., language structure, processing, production, acquisition. This focus should be clearly explained in the research statement. Research connections with natural language processing (NLP)/speech technology will be considered an asset. Applicants who do not have NLP research connections should be familiar with methods used in NLP/speech technology applications. The ideal candidate will also demonstrate an ability to teach foundational linguistics courses.
Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence which can be demonstrated by a record of publications in top-ranked and field relevant journals/conference proceedings or forthcoming publications meeting high international standards, the submitted research statement, presentations at significant conferences, awards and accolades, and strong endorsements from referees of high standing.
The successful candidate will also be expected to demonstrate excellence in teaching, and to contribute to curriculum development of undergraduate courses in computational linguistics. Evidence of excellence in teaching will be provided through teaching accomplishments, the teaching dossier (with required materials outlined below) submitted as part of the application, as well as strong letters of reference. The candidate will have an appointment in the tri-campus graduate department in Linguistics and will teach and supervise graduate students in that department.
Candidates must also show evidence of a commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and to the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment, as demonstrated through the application materials.
Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
The Department of Language Studies is located at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), a research-intensive campus with an interdisciplinary commitment, a multicultural student body, and modern facilities. The University offers the opportunity to conduct research, teach and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world. The University also offers opportunities to work in a range of collaborative programs and centers of research. For additional information on the Department of Language Studies, please visit https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dls/welcome-department-language-studies; to learn more about the Graduate Department of Linguistics, please see https://www.linguistics.utoronto.ca/
All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by following the link below and clicking "Apply Now."
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Computational-Ling…
Applicants must submit a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae, a research statement outlining current and future research interests, a recent writing sample, and a teaching dossier, which should include a teaching statement, sample course materials, including ideas for future teaching, and teaching evaluations.
Applicants must also provide the name and contact information of three references. The University of Toronto’s recruiting tool will automatically solicit and collect letters of references from each after an application is submitted (this happens overnight). Applicants remain responsible for ensuring that references submit letters (on letterhead, dated and signed) by the closing date.
Submission guidelines can be found at http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. Your CV and cover letter should be uploaded into the dedicated fields. Please combine additional application materials into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format. If you have any questions about this position, please contact Professor Juvénal Ndayiragije at dlssearchcommittee2022(a)utoronto.ca.
All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by November 17, 2022.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Diversity Statement
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP.
Accessibility Statement
The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.
The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.
If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact uoft.careers(a)utoronto.ca.
DEPLING 2023, WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 9-12, 2023
Depling (https://depling.org) is a bi-annual conference dedicated to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. Dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have now become the standard representation of syntactic resources and NLP technologies. Depling has become the central event for people discussing the linguistic significance of these structures, their theoretical and formal foundations, their processing, and their use in NLP tools.
VENUE
This year, Depling will be part of the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT, https://gurt.georgetown.edu) in Washington DC on March 9-12, 2023, together with UDW, TLT, and CxGs+NLP, in the spirit of previous SyntaxFests (https://syntaxfest.github.io). Talks will take place in plenary sessions to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Depling addresses the use of dependency trees and related formal representations (such as DAGs) to represent linguistic structure. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- The use of dependency structures in theoretical linguistics
- Historical and epistemological foundations of dependency grammar
- The use of dependency structures in corpus development
- The use of dependency structures in lexicography
- The use of dependency structures in computational linguistics
- The relation between dependency-based grammar and other fields of science
INVITED SPEAKER
Guy Perrier, LORIA/Université de Lorraine (Emeritus)
SUBMISSION DETAILS
We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:
- regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
- short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces.
Papers must be submitted in PDF via OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference
Regular papers may consist of up to 8 pages (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments.
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference.
All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style.
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology and will include both long and short papers.
For more information, read our detailed call for papers here:
https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/depling-call-for-papers/
IMPORTANT DATES
- November 15, 2022: submission deadline (long and short papers)
- January 11, 2023: notification of acceptance
- February 1, 2023: camera-ready papers due
- March 9–12, 2023: conference
DEPLING CHAIRS
François Lareau, Université de Montréal
Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University
Contact: depling2023(a)depling.org
Dear all
I'm looking for a guide or advice for crowd-sourcing linguistic
annotations via platforms such as Mechanical Turk. I'm thinking of
rating tasks such as evaluating positive and negative sentiment in
sentences or annotating concordances from a corpus for a certain
property (e.g. deontic v epistemic meaning in modal verbs).
Specifically, I'm wondering
- How can I ensure that the annotations are of sufficient quality? I
don't have a gold standard for all the data, after all this is why I
need the annotations. If I get all the data annotated by two or three
independent annotators, I can ensure adequate quality. But then I might
still get annotators who more or less submit random annotations (or
start doing so after a while), or at least it would take me very long to
find out who is doing so.
- How do I find out what remuneration is adequate?
- What is a good way to split up the data for annotation? Single
annotation units or, say, 50 or 100 at a time? How do I deliver them
effectively to the annotators?
Many thanks and best wishes
Robert
--
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs (JP) | Department of English Language and
Literature/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | University of
Hamburg | Überseering 35, 22297 Hamburg, Germany | Room 07076 |
https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RobertFuchs |
https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/
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(apologies for cross posting)
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ACL 2023
Website: https://2023.aclweb.org/
Submission Deadline:
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ARR: 15 December 2022
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START Direct: 13 January 2023 (Abstract), 20 January 2023 (Paper)
Conference Dates: July 9-14 2023
Location: Toronto, Canada
Theme: Reality Check
Contact:
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Yang Liu (General Chair)
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Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki, Anna Rogers (Program Chairs):
acl2023-pc(a)googlegroups.com
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Call for Main Conference Papers
ACL 2023 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring
substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. As in recent
years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers
accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational
Linguistics (CL) journals.
=== Important Dates ===
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Submission template available: November 1, 2022
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Anonymity period for ARR papers: November 15, 2022
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Submission deadline for papers submitted to ARR: December 15, 2022
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Anonymity period for papers submitted through START: December 20, 2022
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Abstract deadline for START direct submissions: January 13, 2023
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Direct paper submission deadline: January 20, 2023
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Commitment deadline for ARR papers: March 17, 2023
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Author response period: March 17-24, 2023
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Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2023
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Withdrawal deadline: May 8, 2023
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Camera-ready papers due: May 22, 2023
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Tutorials: July 9, 2023
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Conference: July 10-12, 2023
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Workshops: July 13-14, 2023
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
=== Submission Topics ===
ACL 2023 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the
conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in
alphabetical order):
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Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
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Dialogue and Interactive Systems
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Discourse and Pragmatics
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Ethics and NLP
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Generation
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Information Extraction
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Information Retrieval and Text Mining
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Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
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Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
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Multilingualism and Language Contact: Code-switching, Representation
Learning, Cross-lingual transfer
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Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
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Machine Learning for NLP
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Machine Translation
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NLP Applications
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Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
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Question Answering
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Resources and Evaluation
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Semantics: Lexical
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Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas
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Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
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Speech and Multimodality
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Summarization
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Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
=== Theme Track: Reality Check ===
Following the success of the ACL 2020-2022 Theme tracks, we are happy to
announce that ACL 2023 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting
and stimulating discussion about the current state of development of the
field of NLP. While the current systems perform much better and fail more
gracefully than their rule-based predecessors, there are growing piles of
evidence of other kinds of brittleness, including out-of-domain
generalization, adversarial attacks, spurious patterns (both linguistic and
social), lack of sensitivity to basic linguistic perturbations such as
negation, over-sensitivity to perturbations that should not matter (e.g.
order and wording of prompts), etc.
The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research, as well
position and survey papers reflecting on the ways in which reported
performance improvements on NLP benchmarks are meaningful. The possible
topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following:
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How reliably do the leaderboard scores translate to improvements in
real-world use of the models?
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How reliably do the leaderboard scores compare competing models?
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While the current NLP systems are not brittle in the same way as their
predecessors, they are still brittle in other ways. What tasks can we claim
to have “solved”, if any?
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Have performance improvements been accompanied by commensurate growth in
the scientific understanding (of language, cognition, or deep learning
technology)? In what ways?
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Given that the authors of engineering papers are incentivized to report
only the most successful results, especially for the systems that are also
commercial products, what can the NLP venues do to improve reporting?
The theme track submissions can be either long or short. We anticipate
having a special session for this theme at the conference and a Thematic
Paper Award in addition to other categories of awards.
Visit https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference/ for more details!
Dear colleagues,
Please find below information on the second CFPs for the 14th International
Conference on Corpus Linguistics, to be held in Oviedo (Spain) on 10-12
May, 2023.
Submission of proposals will be opened via EasyAbs from 15 October to 31
December 2023.
For further information, please visit the conference website at:
*https://cilc2023.wordpress.com/
<https://cilc2023.wordpress.com/>*
With best regards,
Paula Rodríguez-Puente (on behalf of the Organising Committee)
*Aims and scope*
The Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO) and the Organising
Committee of this conference edition are pleased to invite you to the *14th
International Conference on Corpus Linguistics *(CILC2023), which will take
place from 10 to 12 May 2023 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University
of Oviedo. The theme of the conference is *Corpus Linguistics in the
Digital Era: Genres, Registers and Domains.*
*Keynote speakers*
The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation:
· *Beatrix Busse*
<https://portal.uni-koeln.de/es/university/organization/rectorate/vice-recto…>
(University
of Cologne, Germany)
· *Teresa Fanego* <https://www.usc-teresafanego.es/> (University of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
· *Gaëtanelle Gilquin*
<https://perso.uclouvain.be/gaetanelle.gilquin/> (Catholic University of
Louvain, Belgium)
· *Jukka Tyrkkö* <https://lnu.se/en/staff/jukka.tyrkko/> (Linnaeus
University, Sweden)
· *Roberto Valdeón*
<https://fifa.uniovi.es/personal/pdi/-/asset_publisher/0018/content/valdeon-…>
(University of Oviedo, Spain)
*Submission of proposals*
Prospect speakers are welcome to submit abstract proposals contributing to
any one of the nine AELINCO thematic panels:
· Corpus design, compilation and types
· Discourse, literary analysis and corpora
· Corpus-based grammatical studies
· Corpus-based lexicology and lexicography
· Corpora, contrastive studies and translation
· Linguistic variation and change through corpora
· Corpus-based computational linguistics
· Corpora, language acquisition and teaching
· Special uses of corpus linguistics
*Format*
The Organising Committee of CILC2023 invites the submission of abstract
proposals for oral presentations (20 minutes) or poster presentations (A1),
in line with the central themes of the conference or related to one of the
nine areas of interest (panels) of AELINCO.
Proposals should be submitted in *Word or PDF* format through EasyAbs. To
submit your abstract, follow the instructions provided at:
*https://old.linguistlist.org/confservices/14CILC.OVIEDO*
<https://old.linguistlist.org/confservices/14CILC.OVIEDO>
Each participant may submit a *maximum of two proposals*. Each proposal can
only be included in one single panel. Paper presentations should last for
20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts must be *anonymous*
(with no personal data on names and/or affiliation) and they should be
between *450 and 550* *words* (excluding bibliography) in *English* or in
*Spanish*. Please, follow the specific *guidelines* for submission and the
*stylesheet* that may be found at:
*http://www.aelinco.es/en/cilc-instructions-style-sheet*
<http://www.aelinco.es/en/cilc-instructions-style-sheet>
*Dates*
Proposals can be submitted from *15 October 2022 to 31 December 2022*.
Notification of acceptance will be on *15 February 2023*.
*Registration*
It is a *sine qua non* requirement for participants to be a member of
AELINCO. Should you wish to become a member of AELINCO, you can get a full
description of the procedure on the AELINCO website: *www.aelinco.es*
<http://www.aelinco.es/>
Registration will open shortly after the end of the peer review process.
Further information about dates, fees and discounts will be posted soon.
*Contact and further information*
The Organising Committee remains available for any questions, suggestions
or requests you may have at *cilc.oviedo(a)gmail.com*
<http://cilc.oviedo@gmail.com>
More detailed information about the conference can be found on the
conference website at: *https://cilc2023.wordpress.com/*
<https://cilc2023.wordpress.com/>
--
Paula Rodríguez Puente
paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com
http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm
Dear all,
I have a question regarding the very well known *Longman Grammar of Spoken
and Written English*.
I recently noticed that it's now being published by John Benjamins, under
the title *Grammar of Spoken and Written English.*
https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.232
The blurb on the JB website begins "The completely redesigned *Grammar of
Spoken and Written English *is a comprehensive corpus-based reference
grammar."
I've checked and seen that the page numbering is very slightly different
from the original. But does anyone know if this "completely redesigned" JB
version has led to any changes in content, or is the text identical to the
1999 edition?
Thanks,
Steve Coffey
CRAC 2022, the 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora
and Coreference, invites you to drop in!
When: on October 16 and 17, 2022
Where: at COLING 2022
How: on-site (in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea) or online
What are the highlights of 2022?
Two shared tasks:
1. a CODI-CRAC 2022 joint shared task on Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue
(https://bit.ly/codi-crac-2022-sharedtask) co-organized with the CODI
workshop
2. a new CRAC 2022 shared task on multilingual coreference resolution
(https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac22)
Three invited talks:
1. Sharid Loáiciga: Bringing together Anaphora Resolution and Linguistic
Theory
2. Massimo Poesio, Lori Levin: Annotating anaphoric reference in dialogue:
the CODI/CRAC 2002 Shared Task corpus
3. Juntao Yu, Michal Novák: The recent developments in Universal Anaphora
Scorer
And a panel discussion on Universal Anaphora moderated by Sameer Pradhan.
More information: https://sites.google.com/view/crac2022/
See you at CRAC 2022!
Maciej Ogrodniczuk (on behalf of all organizers)
Call for Participation: #SMM4H'22, 7th Social Media Mining for Health
Applications - Shared Task & Workshop at COLING 2022
Hybrid: Online / Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
Workshop Date: October 17, 2022
Workshop and Shared task: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/
***Apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement***
The Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) workshop serves as
a venue for bringing together researchers interested in automatic methods
for the collection, extraction, representation, analysis, and validation of
social media data (e.g., Twitter, Reddit, Facebook) for health informatics.
The 7th #SMM4H Workshop, co-located at COLING 2022 (
https://coling2022.org/index) will present a Keynote speaker, 15 invited
oral presentations, and a poster session demonstrating the competing
systems of the SMM4H'22 shared tasks. The detailed program and description
of the shared tasks can be found online at
https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/
<https://healthlanguageprocessing.org>
Keynote speaker: Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Senior Principal Scientist at
Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland
Abstract: Social media listening for pharmaceutical R&D
Traditionally, social media listening (SML) in the pharmaceutical setting
has been limited to marketing and communication purposes and performed with
manual, qualitative methods. Pharmaceutical companies, with the
encouragement of regulatory agencies, have started utilizing social media
listening to integrate the patient perspective in the clinical development
process to ensure relevant treatments and outcomes. Additionally, there is
a growing acknowledgment that quantitative methods for SML (QSML) can
provide new and more rigorous analyses that enhance the value of social
media data to enable a patient-centric approach to understanding disease
burden and influence drug discovery decisions at all stages. During this
talk, I will present some examples of QSML supporting pharmaceutical R&D.
All questions should be emailed to Davy Weissenbacher (
davy.weissenbacher(a)cshs.org)
*Emotion annotation job*
Babelscape <https://babelscape.com> is looking for linguists or people with
some annotation experience who are native speakers of one of the following
languages: English, Spanish, French, German. The annotation task (ideally
full time, but part time can also be considered) will consist in the
analysis of language and emotions in words and phrases and will be carried
out on a remote basis between October and December. Immediate availability
required for English native speakers; annotation in the other languages
will follow right after.
If you are interested and available now, please do not hesitate to send
your CV to linguists(a)babelscape.com
Kind regards,
--
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Roberto Navigli* - Professor*
Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Ariosto, 25
00185 Roma Italy
Phone: +39 06 77274109
Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/
Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it
Co-founder of Babelscape <https://babelscape.com>
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(apologies for cross-posting)
================ EACL 2023 -- Call for System Demonstrations
==================
- Website: https://2023.eacl.org/calls/demos/
- Deadline: December 2nd, 2022
- Questions? Email eacl2023demos(a)googlegroups.com
The system demonstration track at EACL 2023 is a venue for papers describing
system demonstrations, ranging from early prototypes to mature
production-ready
systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of
special
interest.
All accepted demos are published in a companion volume of the conference
proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo
during a demo session at EACL 2023, with an accompanying poster, either
virtually or in-person.
Submissions will undergo a single-blind reviewing process. Therefore, papers
may include author and affiliation information, and freely make references
to
previously published material, and URLs.
This year we are incorporating ethical considerations in the review process.
Authors will be allowed extra unlimited space after the main content for a
broader impact statement or other discussions of ethics. Please review the
ethics policy before submitting.
=============================== Important Dates
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- Direct paper submission deadline: Friday, 2 December 2022
- Notification of acceptance: Friday, 8 February 2023
- Camera-ready papers due: Wednesday, 1 March 2023
- Main Conference: Wednesday – Friday, 3–5 May 2023
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").
======================== Paper Submission Information
=========================
--- Topics of Interest ---
Of interest are all topics related to theoretical and applied computational
linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main
conference website. Submitted systems papers may be of the following types:
- Natural Language Processing systems or system components
- Application systems using language technology components
- Software tools for Computational Linguistics research
- Software for analysis, demonstration, or evaluations
- Software supporting learning or education
- Tools for data visualization and annotation
- Development tools
Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate
in
the system demonstration track at EACL 2023.
--- Submission Guidelines ---
All submissions should be made electronically via START. Please note that
the submission platform is different from the one used by the main
conference.
Submissions must include the following:
- A paper describing the motivation and the technical details of the system,
including visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams). We
encourage authors to check recent demonstration papers at previous ACL,
EACL,
EMNLP, and NAACL conferences for examples.
- A short video (max. 2 minutes) demonstrating the system. This video will
be
used to evaluate the paper, but it will not be published unless requested.
A screencast with audio narration is a natural choice for demos that can
be
presented on a screen. Otherwise, a video of a user interacting with the
system can be used. The production quality of the video is not of
interest.
Hence, we encourage the videos to be simply a screencast of the software
that is getting demoed, with zero to minimal editing efforts. We recommend
that you publish your video on YouTube, or another website and include the
link in your paper. If you prefer not to publicly upload a screencast,
please submit the video (in MPEG4 format). The video must be included as
supplementary material when you submit your paper through START.
In addition, we strongly recommend that all demos be made available via one
of
the following formats: (a) a live demo website, or (b) a website with a
downloadable installation package of the demo. We understand though that
this
might be impossible, e.g., when special hardware is required or when access
is
otherwise limited.
--- Submission Policy ---
The demo paper has to be original, written specifically for this conference,
and cannot be submitted elsewhere. The paper must also report on a
substantial
improvement (>30%) if the system that is being described has been reported
elsewhere before.
Authors submitting more than one demo paper to EACL 2023 must ensure that
the
submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other.
Submissions of
identical or closely related work to multiple tracks at EACL 2023 (Research,
SRW, Industry, or Demo) will be rejected by all tracks.
--- Reviewing Policy ---
Reviewing will be single-blind, and thus authors do not need to conceal
their
identity. Thus, the demo papers should include the authors’ names and
affiliations. Self-references are also allowed. Relevant papers that meet
formatting requirements will be assessed on the basis of their relevance to
the
demo track, contribution, clarity, completeness, and novelty.
--- Ethics Policy ---
Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACM Code of
Ethics. The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of
data,
and potential applications of our work has always been an important
consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream,
these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the
code,
and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. We reserve the right
to
reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have
operated
counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate
ethical concerns about their work.
Authors will be allowed extra space after the 6th page for a broader impact
statement or other discussions of ethics. The ACL demonstration review form
will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for
ethical
concerns by reviewers will be further reviewed by an ethics committee. Note
that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working
with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues
will
not be accepted. Conversely, the mere inclusion of an ethical considerations
section does not guarantee acceptance. In addition to acceptance or
rejection,
papers may receive a conditional acceptance recommendation. Camera-ready
versions of papers designated as conditional acceptance will be re-reviewed
by
the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately
addressed. Please read the ethics FAQ (shared with the main conference) for
more guidance on some problems to look out for and key concerns to consider
relative to the code of ethics.
---- Best Demo Award ----
We will present a Best Demo Paper Award. The winner will be chosen based on
the contribution and the completeness of the system, as assessed by the
reviewers and also based on the live demo at the conference.
============================= Contact Information
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If you have questions that are not answered there, please email the program
co-chairs at eacl2023demos(a)googlegroups.com.
---- Demo Track Co-chairs ----
- Danilo Croce (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
- Luca Soldaini (Allen Institute for AI)