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Ausschreibung: Förderung einer Open-Access-Publikation „Einführung in die Computerlinguistik“
by Josef Ruppenhofer 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

(Apologies if you end up receiving this multiple times. The text below appears only in German as it concerns a call for a German language book proposal.) Aufforderung zur Konzepteinreichung Zum Hintergrund Das letzte Jahrzehnt hat weltweit zahlreiche neue Aktivitäten und Entwicklungen auf dem Feld der Computerlinguistik erbracht. Nicht nur haben sich neue Ansätze und Methoden durchgesetzt; die Computerlinguistik als solche hat sich auch disziplinär stark ausdifferenziert. Dessen ungeachtet ist festzustellen, dass für Forschung und Lehre kein aktuelles deutschsprachiges Lehrbuch zur Verfügung steht, das ein umfassendes Bild des aktuellen Standes der Computerlinguistik zu zeichnen vermag. Die GSCL möchte deshalb dazu beitragen, diese Lücke zu füllen und hat beschlossen, Mittel zur Veröffentlichung eines umfassenden einführenden Lehrbuches oder einander ergänzender Lehrbücher zur Verfügung stellen. Was wird gefördert? Die Einführung soll sich vorrangig an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, insbesondere an Studierende in einem Bachelor-Studiengang, richten. Diese allgemeine Einführung in den Forschungsgegenstand sollte zudem die Trends der letzten Jahre thematisieren. Der Fokus der Publikation oder der Publikationen könnte beispielsweise auf anwendungsorientierte Fragestellungen der Informatik gelegt werden. Alternativ könnten auch Schwerpunktsetzungen in den Bereichen Linguistik oder Digital Humanities erfolgen. Die GSCL wird die finanziellen Mittel bereitstellen, die zur Deckung der Publikationskosten eines oder mehrerer sich ergänzender deutschsprachiger Open- Access-Bände zur Einführung in die Computerlinguistik in einem renommierten Verlag benötigt werden. Sofern die Autorinnen und Autoren bzw. Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber die Publikation bei einem kostenfreien Non-Profit-Verlag bevorzugen, unterstützt die GSCL auch solche Vorhaben, kann die dadurch freiwerdenden finanziellen Mittel allerdings nicht umwidmen. Momentan steht die GSCL mit renommierten Verlagen in Kontakt, die Autorinnen und Autoren nicht nur ein breitgefächertes Distributionsnetz, sondern auch deutliche Mehrwerte für die Sichtbarkeit und Reichweite ihrer Forschung bieten. Die Einführung soll so konzipiert werden, dass sie sowohl in digitaler Fassung als PDF über Bibliotheken und Gedächtnisorganisationen barrierefrei zur Verfügung steht, als auch als Druckversion über den Buchhandel verbreitet und von Bibliotheken angeschafft werden kann. Die GSCL wird alle mit der Publikation anfallenden Kosten von professionellem Lektorat, Satz und dauerhafter Bereitstellung des Bandes übernehmen. Es steht zu erwarten, dass ein Zuschlag für die erfolgreichen Autorinnen und Autoren erhebliche Reputationsgewinne infolge der Schließung einer Lücke in der deutschsprachigen Computerlinguistik zur Folge haben wird. Weitere Anreize, insbesondere Honorare für das Verfassen von Texten oder die Herausgabe des Bandes werden von der GSCL explizit nicht ausgelobt. Zur Antragstellung Die GSCL bittet einschlägig erfahrene Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler um Einreichung eines Essays zur thematischen Ausrichtung einer Einführung. Die Einführung kann sowohl als monographische Schrift als auch als Sammelband konzipiert werden. Bis zum 15.12.2022 sind Autorinnen und Autoren oder Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber aufgerufen, eine entsprechende kurze Konzeption einzureichen, welche die thematische Ausrichtung des Lehrbuches konzise skizziert und, im Falle von Sammelbänden, Einzelthemen und potenzielle Autorinnen und Autoren aufführt. Erwartet wird überdies ein straffer, aber umsetzbarer Zeitplan zur Durchführung der Publikation, die idealerweise innerhalb eines Jahres abzuschließen sein wird. Die Auswahl der Einreichungen wird bis zum 31.01.2023 erfolgen; entsprechende Vorschläge sind bitte unter dem Betreff „GSCL: Einführung in die Computerlinguistik“ an die Adresse informationsreferent(a)gscl.org zu richten -- ** * Dr. Josef Ruppenhofer * Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache * Archiv für Gesprochenes Deutsch *http://agd.ids-mannheim.de/ * * R5, 6-13 * 68161 Mannheim * +49 (0)621 / 1581-108 * **

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Job: research and teaching positions at the University of Hildesheim (Germany)
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

The Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication (Linguistic and Information Science) at the University of Hildesheim is seeking to appoint two research associates (German salary of TV-L E 13 with 65% of working load each). The knowledge of German and English is required. A detailed description (in German), contact details, as well as the application link can be found here https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/7889b5c712886e0a48fa0973a949… -- PD Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie/ Language Science and Technology Universität des Saarlandes Building A2.2, Room 1.02 Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken Tel. +49 681 302 2563 E-Mail: e.lapshinova(a)mx.uni-saarland.de

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The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
by Kilian Evang 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th–12th, 2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of GURT 2023. VENUE The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The goal of co-locating these events is to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event. Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports. SUBMISSION INFORMATION TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended 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, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: - long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; - short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming). Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than TLT at the discretion of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Long and short paper submission deadlines: November 1st, 2022 Reviews Due: December 10th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: January 9th, 2023 Final version of papers due: January 28th, 2023 GURT2023: March 9th-12th, 2023 TLT WORKSHOP CHAIRS Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University Contact: ddakota(a)iu.edu Website: https://cl.indiana.edu/tlt2023 GURT Website: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/

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Baltic HLT 2022: Call for Participation
by inguna.skadina＠lumii.lv 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Baltic HLT 2022: The Tenth Baltic Conference "Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective" October 6-7, 2022 Riga, Latvia Conference Web page: http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/ The Tenth International Conference "Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective" will be held at the University of Latvia. The conference aims to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote cooperation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics. The conference brings together scientists, developers, providers and users to discuss state-of-the-art of HLT in the Baltic sea states, to exchange information and to discuss problems, to find new synergies and to promote initiatives for international cooperation. Accepted papers: http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/node/26 REGISTRATION The early-bird registration closes on September 23, 2022. To register visit http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/registration. Contact: hlt2022(a)tilde.lv

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[CFP] Cambridge NLE - Special Issue - "Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages"
by Sivaji Bandyopadhyay 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We welcome submissions to the special issue of the Cambridge University Press journal <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering>Natural Language Engineering <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering> on Natural Language Processing Application on Low-Resource Languages. *Cambridge NLE - Special Issue* *Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages* *The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2022.* *Call for Papers* We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: ● *Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages* ● *Caption Generation for Low-Resource Languages* ● *POS Tagging on Low-Resource Languages* ● *Optical character recognition and generation of Low-Resource Languages.* ● *Chatbot assistant for Low-Resource Languages* ● *Speech/Language recognition* ● *Regional music identification and classification* ● *Textual Entailment of Low-Resource Languages* ● *Face-to-Face Translation of Low-Resource Languages* ● *News/Social media analysis* ● *Text prediction and suggestion* ● *Sentiment analysis* ● *Text classification* *Important Dates* *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2022 *First-round author notification*: Between March 30, 2023 and April 30, 2023 *Submission of revised versions*: Between June 30, 2023 and July 30, 2023 *Second-round author notification (final)*: Between August 30, 2023 and September 30, 2023 *Camera-ready versions*: Between Oct 01, 2023 and Oct 30, 2023 *Submissions* Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural Language Engineering* are available <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> here <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> . Please submit your article through the NLE <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript, please select *Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages *in the field *Special Issue Designation.* *Guest Editors* *Dr. Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology Silchar* *Prof. Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico* *Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, National Institute of Technology Silchar* Yours Cordially, Professor Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Guest Editors Director, National Institute of Technology(NIT) Silchar (Assam) Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department NIT Silchar (Assam) Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department (on lien) Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032 INDIA

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[CFP - due Sep 13] EMNLP Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability
by Xu, Wei 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR) at EMNLP 2022 website: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-ws Call for Papers The web provides an abundance of knowledge and information that can reach large populations. However, the way in which a text is written (vocabulary, syntax, or text organization/structure), or presented, can make it inaccessible for many people, especially for non-native speakers, people with low literacy, and people with some type of cognitive or linguistic impairments. The results of the Adult Literacy Survey (OECD, 2013) indicate that approximately 16.7% of the adult population (averaged over 24 highly-developed countries) requires lexical, 50% syntactic, and 89.4% conceptual simplification of everyday texts (Štajner, 2021). Research on automatic text simplification (TS), textual accessibility, and readability have the potential to improve the social inclusion of marginalized populations. These related research areas have attracted attention in the past ten years, as evidenced by the growing number of publications in NLP conferences. While only about 300 articles in Google Scholar mentioned TS in 2010, this number has increased to about 600 in 2015 and greater than 1000 in 2020 (Štajner, 2021). Recent research in automatic text simplification has mostly focused on proposing the use of methods derived from the deep learning paradigm (Glavaš and Štajner, 2015; Paetzold and Specia, 2016; Nisioi et al., 2017; Zhang and Lapata, 2017; Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021). However, there are many important aspects of automatic text simplification that need the attention of our community: the design of appropriate evaluation metrics, the development of context-aware simplification solutions, the creation of appropriate language resources to support research and evaluation, the deployment of simplification in real environments for real users, the study of discourse factors in text simplification, the identification of factors affecting the readability of a text, etc. To overcome those issues, there is a need for the collaboration of CL/NLP researchers, machine learning and deep learning researchers, UI/UX and Accessibility professionals, as well as public organizations representatives (Štajner, 2021). The proposed TSAR workshop builds upon the recent success of several regional workshops that covered a subset of our topics of interest, including READI Workshops at LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, SEPLN 2021 Workshop on Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS), and the SimpleText workshop at CLEF 2021, as well as the birds-of-a-feather events on Text Simplification at NAACL 2021 (over 50 participants) and ACL 2022. The TSAR workshop aims to foster collaboration among all parties interested in making information more accessible to all people. Through the two invited talks, a shared task on lexical simplification, the round table discussion, oral and poster presentations of novel research, we will discuss recent trends and developments in the area of automatic text simplification, text accessibility, automatic readability assessment, language resources and evaluation for text simplification, etc. Topics We invite contributions on the following topics (among others): * Lexical simplification; * Syntactic simplification; * Modular and end-to-end TS; * Sequence-to-sequence and zero-shot TS; * Controllable TS; * Text complexity assessment; * Complex word identification and lexical complexity prediction; * Corpora, lexical resources, and benchmarks for TS; * Evaluation of TS systems; * Domain-specific/adaptable TS (e.g. health, legal); * Other related topics (e.g. empirical and eye-tracking studies); * Assistive technologies for improving readability and comprehension including those going beyond text. * Text Simplification in Languages other than English * Multilingual TS * Readability Controlled MT Submissions We welcome two types of papers: long papers and short papers. Submissions should be made to the Softconf submission management system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/tsar. The papers should present novel research. The review will be double-blind and thus all submissions should be anonymized. Format: Paper submissions must use the official EMNLP template, which is available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word) (see here: https://2022.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Long Papers: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and long papers presented as posters. Short Papers: 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. Some kinds of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages), so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and short papers presented as posters. Important Dates 13 September 2022 (extended): paper submission deadline 2 October 2022: acceptance notification deadline 16 October 2022: camera-ready deadline 8 December 2022: Workshop at EMNLP Proceedings All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published in ACL Anthology. Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for a special issue of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence focused on: applied research for TS and readability assessment in the context of TS. Organizers * Sanja Štajner, NLP Researcher, Germany * Horacio Saggion, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the LaSTUS Lab in the TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Wei Xu, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology * Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology * Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University * Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Kai North, Ph.D. student, Rochester Institute of Technology * Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Discours Journal, Issue 32 (deadline 10/15/2022), Publication June 2023
by Nicolas Hernandez 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Discours Journal, Issue 32, Publication June 2023 Deadline: October 15th 2022 Coordinators: Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac and Nicolas Hernandez Dear colleagues, we are inviting submissions for the next issue of Discours, to appear in June 2023. THE DISCOURS JOURNAL Discours is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed e-journal, which publishes two issues a year in open access. The journal is intended as a forum for exchanging and comparing data, analyses and opinions for all linguists, psycholinguists and computer linguists working in fields involving the description, comprehension, formalization and processing of text organization. EDITORIAL LINE It focuses on the following topics (not limited to): discourse structure and discursive markers, discourse relations, coherence, cohesion, linearization, indexation, information structure, word order, discourse comprehension and production, and other related topics. For this issue, we are particularly interested in studies that investigate the following topics: - discourse and dialogue-level annotated corpora (e.g. rhetorical and argumentative structures, dialogue acts, reference chains, enumerative structures, document structures, thematic segmentation) - studies on discourse and dialogue structures in (very) large corpora - tools and methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics for discourse and dialogue-level processing - exploitation of discourse or dialogue-level processing in end-user applications (e.g. human language technology, education, health, risk management) SUBMISSION Papers (in English or French) should be sent to discours(a)univ-nantes.fr Full instructions can be found on https://journals.openedition.org/discours/224 IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript submission: October 15th 2022 - Final decision of the editorial board: First quarter of 2023 - Online publication: June 2023 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE - Scientific Committee https://journals.openedition.org/discours/122 - Referees outside the Scientific Committee https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8977 -- Dr. Nicolas Hernandez Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) Nantes Université - LS2N UMR6004 https://nicolashernandez.github.io/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnicolashernandez.github.io%2F&sa…> +33 (0)2 51 12 53 94 +33 (0)2 40 30 60 67 https://sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/programme-du-m1-atal

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[CFP] Special Issue on "Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing" of Journal Information (ISSN 2078-2489)
by Jennifer D'Souza 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Dear colleagues and friends, *We invite submissions to a special issue on "Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing" of journal Information <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information> (ISSN 2078-2489).* *Special Issue Information* This Special Issue seeks novel research reports on the spectrum that blends information extraction and language discourse processing research in diverse communities. The editors welcome submissions along various dimensions derived from the nature of the extraction task, the advanced neural techniques used for extraction, the variety of input resources exploited, and the type of output produced. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies are welcome, as are case studies and experience reports if they describe an impactful application at a scale that delivers useful lessons to the journal readership. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Knowledge base population with discourse-centric information extraction (IE) - Coreference resolution and its impact on discourse-centric IE - Relationship extraction leveraging linguistic discourse - Template filling - Impact of pragmatics or rhetorics on information extraction - Discourse-centric IE at scale - Intelligent and novel assessment models of discourse-centric IE - Survey of discourse-centric IE in natural language processing (NLP) - Challenges implementing discourse-centric IE in real-world scenarios - Modeling domains using discourse-centric IE - Human–AI hybrid systems for learning discourse and IE *Submission Instructions* https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/WYS02U2GTD *Deadline for manuscript submissions* Submissions to the SI will be accepted and published on a rolling basis until the close of the issue on 10 December 2022 Yours cordially, Dr. Jennifer D'Souza Prof. Dr. Chengzhi Zhang *Guest Editors*

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Open call for tenders - Corpus collection + Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service
by susanna.fiorini＠operas-eu.org 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

***Translations & Open Science calls for tenders*** The OPERAS Research Infrastructure launches a series of calls for tenders in order to lay the foundation of a technology-based scientific translation service to foster multilingualism in scholarly communication and thus help to remove language barriers according to Open Science principles. The first two calls are now open (submission deadline: 7 October 2022) 1. Mapping and collection of scientific bilingual corpora: identifying, collecting and preparing corpora of bilingual scientific texts which will serve as training dataset for specialised translation engines, source data for terminology extraction, and translation memory creation Link to call 1: https://www.operas-eu.org/mapping-and-collection-of-scientific-bilingual-co… 2. Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service: drafting an overview of the current translation practices and challenges in scholarly communication and defining the use cases of a technology-based scientific translation service (expected users and usage scenarios, features, quality requirements, editorial and technical workflows) Link to call 2: https://www.operas-eu.org/use-case-study-for-a-technology-based-scientific-… Please note that two additional calls will be released in the coming months in the following areas: Machine translation output evaluation and Roadmap and budget projections. For any information about ongoing and future calls, please feel free to contact Susanna Fiorini at susanna.fiorini(a)operas-eu.org

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2nd CfP: Special Issue on Trends in Social Media Analysis to Address Fake News, Hate Speech, or Bias (Springer Datenbank-Spektrum)
by Wiegand, Michael 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Special Issue on Trends in Social Media Analysis to Address Fake News, Hate Speech, or Bias ========================================================== Springer Datenbank-Spektrum https://www.springer.com/13222 ========================================================== Social media has many benefits: from staying in contact with close and not-so-close friends, over exercising the right to voice one's opinion, to communicating with many like-minded people all over the world and providing an additional channel for information exchange. Unfortunately, social media has also been abused and misused ever since its inception. Hate speech is prevalent on many sites alienating trusting users and hindering fruitful discussions. Fake news are distributed through social media platforms with dangerous effects. But even without malicious intention, social media can be misleading due to various biases in the system. Topics of Interest ================== In this special issue of Datenbank-Spektrum, we will explore and present current trends in the field of automatically detecting and managing hate speech, fake news, bias and other toxic content in the context of social media. We welcome original contributions including technical papers, application-oriented papers, case studies, survey papers and position papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automatic detection of hate speech - Methods to improve online discussions - Trust and reputation of social media actors - Identification of fake news - Countermeasures to fight fake news - Detection and/or mitigation of bias - Dealing with bias in training data - Content analysis and NLP - Opinion mining and sentiment analysis on social media - Information extraction and retrieval on social media - Information diffusion within social networks - Ethical and legal aspects Submission Guidelines ==================== Paper format: 8-10 pages, double-column (cf. author guidelines at https://www.springer.com/13222). We welcome contributions in both German and English through the Springer submission system https://www.editorialmanager.com/dasp/ Deadline for submissions: Oct. 1st, 2022; Publication of special issue: DASP-1-2023 (March 2023) Guest editors ============= Feel free to contact the guest editors in case you have questions. Ralf Krestel, ZBW & CAU Kiel, r.krestel(a)zbw.eu Udo Kruschwitz, Universität Regensburg, udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de Michael Wiegand, Universität Klagenfurt, michael.wiegand(a)aau.at

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