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Internship: Training of an entity recognition model for nanobiology using distant supervision.
by Martin Lentschat 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Context The NanoBubbles ERC Synergy project’s objective (https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org<https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.%20org>) is to understand how, when and why science fails to correct itself. The project focuses on claims made within the field of nanobiology. Project members combine approaches from the natural sciences, computer science, and the social sciences and humanities (Science and Technology Studies) to understand how error correction in science works and what obstacles it faces. For this purpose, we aim to trace claims and corrections through various channels of scientific communication (journals, social media, advertisements, conference programs, etc.) via both qualitative and digital methods. Intership objectifs Entity recognition is an important step for downstream treatment in natural language processing. It consists in identifying the entities in a corpus belonging to a specific domain and in their labeling. Training methods relying on large annotated corpora are usually used for this purpose. However, such resource are not always available for specific domains, and alternative methods have to be employed (Hedderich 2020). Distant supervision (Mintz 2009) is a technique used to automatically label textual data using an external resource such as dictionaries (Shang 2018), gazetteers, ontologies (Wang 2021) and knowledge bases (Sun 2019). This enable the construction of a training corpus without the need of manual annotation. In specialized domains, this is especially useful in order to annotate complex and discontinuous entities with which human annotators may struggle (Khandelwal 2022). The objective of this internship is to implement a method to automatically annotate a corpus of scientific documents, using existing resources, in the nanobiology domain. After it, they will employ existing deep learning approaches (Liang 2020) to train an entity extraction model for entities in the nanobiology domain. Skills • Being enrolled in a Master in Natural Language Processing, computer science or data science. • Good programming skills in Python, including experiences with natural language processing tools and methods, knowledge of machine learning and deep learning frameworks and semantic web. • Ability to communicate and write in English is a plus. Scientific environment The work will be conducted within the Sigma team of the LIG laboratory (http://sigma.imag.fr). The recruited person will be welcomed within the team which offer a stimulating, multinational and pleasant working environment. Instructions for applying Applications must contain a CV + letter/message of motivation + master grades + letter(s) of recommendation (or names for potential letters), and be addressed to Cyril Labbé (cyril.labbe(a)imag.fr) and Amira Barhoumi (amira.barhoumi(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr). Applications will be considered on the fly. It is therefore advisable to apply as soon as possible. References • Mintz, M., Bills, S., Snow, R., & Jurafsky, D. (2009, August). Distant supervision for relation extraction without labeled data. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP (pp. 1003-1011). • Shang, J., Liu, L., Ren, X., Gu, X., Ren, T., & Han, J. (2018). Learning named entity tagger using domain-specific dictionary. arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03599. • Sun, Y., & Loparo, K. (2019, July). Information extraction from free text in clinical trials with knowledge-based distant supervision. In 2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (Vol. 1, pp. 954-955). IEEE. • Wang, X., Hu, V., Song, X., Garg, S., Xiao, J., & Han, J. (2021, November). CHEMNER: Fine-Grained Chemistry Named Entity Recognition with Ontology-Guided Distant Supervision. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 5227-5240). • Liang, C., Yu, Y., Jiang, H., Er, S., Wang, R., Zhao, T., & Zhang, C. (2020, August). Bond: Bert-assisted open-domain named entity recognition with distant supervision. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (pp. 1054-1064). • Hedderich, M. A., Lange, L., Adel, H., Str ?otgen, J., & Klakow, D. (2020). A survey on recent approaches for natural language processing in low-resource scenarios. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.12309. • Khandelwal, A., Kar, A., Chikka, V. R., & Karlapalem, K. (2022, May). Biomedical NER using Novel Schema and Distant Supervision. In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (pp. 155-160)

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Intership: Identification of scientific paper mentions on Twitter
by Martin Lentschat 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Context The NanoBubbles ERC Synergy project’s objective (https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org) is to understand how, when and why science fails to correct itself. The project focuses on claims made within the field of nanobiology. Project members combine approaches from the natural sciences, computer science, and the social sciences and humanities (Science and Technology Studies) to understand how error correction in science works and what obstacles it faces. For this purpose, we aim to trace claims and corrections through various channels of scientific communication (journals, social media, advertisements, conference programs, etc.) via both qualitative and digital methods. Intership objectifs Scientific articles are now discussed in a variety of mediums. The social network Twitter is particularly favored by several professionals, such as journalists and scientists, as a way of staying updated about recent development in their field, publicly discussed their work with distant colleagues and engage outside parties in their discoveries. Citing scientific articles on Twitter is easily done using publishers sharing links. Studies focusing on the use of social network by scientists (Costas 2015, 2017), the propagation of scientific information (Mohammadi 2018, W ?uhrl 2021, Hou 2022) and how the use of Twitter may influence back research (Ortega 2017). These studies rely heavily on the hyperlinks present in Twitter posts or on tools providing data on the use of research in social networks like PlumX (Champieux 2015). However, a scientific article citation can be present in a tweet as a ’fuzzy mention’ (e.g. I have read in a paper written by AUTHOR in 20XX that ...). These fuzzy mentions are hard to detect and need to be linked back to the article they refers to in order to be taken into considerations. The intern first task will consist in collecting a corpus of tweets containing such ’fuzzy mention’ of scientific articles. Afterwards he will apply existing extraction technics and models, mainly Named Entity Recognition, in order to extract the information enabling to (1) determine that a twitter post does mention an article and (2) link this article to a bibliographic database. Skills * Being enrolled in a Master in Natural Language Processing, computer science or data science. * Good programming skills in Python, including experiences with natural language processing tools and methods, knowledge of machine learning methods and deep learning models. * Curiosity for scientometrics. * Ability to communicate and write in English is a plus. Scientific environment The work will be conducted within the Sigma team of the LIG laboratory (http://sigma.imag.fr). The recruited person will be welcomed within the team which offer a stimulating, multinational and pleasant working environment. Instructions for applying Applications must contain a CV + letter/message of motivation + master grades + letter(s) of recommendation (or names for potential letters), and be addressed to Cyril Labbé (cyril.labbe(a)imag.fr) and Martin Lentschat (martin.lentschat(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr). Applications will be considered on the fly. It is therefore advisable to apply as soon as possible. References * Champieux, R. (2015). PlumX. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 103(1), 63. * Costas, R., Mongeon, P., Ferreira, M. R., van Honk, J., & Franssen, T. (2020). Large-scale identification and characterization of scholars on Twitter. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(2), 771-791. * Costas, R., van Honk, J., & Franssen, T. (2017). Scholars on Twitter: who and how many are they?. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05667. * Mohammadi, E., Thelwall, M., Kwasny, M., & Holmes, K. L. (2018). Academic information on Twitter: A user survey. PloS one, 13(5), e0197265. * Hou, J., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., & Wang, D. (2022). How do scholars and non-scholars participate in dataset dissemination on Twitter. Journal of Informetrics, 16(1), 101223. * Wührl, A., & Klinger, R. (2021). Claim detection in biomedical Twitter posts. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11639. * Ortega, J. L. (2017). The presence of academic journals on Twitter and its relationship with dissemination (tweets) and research impact (citations). Aslib journal of information management, 69(6), 674-687.

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PhD studentships: UKRI CDT in NLP, University of Edinburgh
by Alex Lascarides 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS - UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Based at the University of Edinburgh: in conjunction with the School of Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Deadlines: * Non UK : 25th November 2022 * UK : 27th January 2023 Applications are now sought for the UKRI CDT in NLP’s fifth and final cohort of students, which will start in September 2023. * * * The CDT in NLP offers unique, tailored doctoral training comprising both taught courses and a doctoral dissertation over four years. Each student will take a set of courses designed to complement their existing expertise and give them an interdisciplinary perspective on NLP. The studentships are fully funded for the four years and come with a generous allowance for travel, equipment and research costs. The CDT brings together researchers in NLP, speech, linguistics, cognitive science and design informatics from across the University of Edinburgh. Students will be supervised by a world-class faculty comprising almost 60 supervisors and will benefit from cutting edge computing and experimental facilities, including a large GPU cluster and eye-tracking, speech, virtual reality and visualisation labs. The CDT involves a number of industrial partners, including Amazon, Facebook, Huawei, Microsoft, Naver, Toshiba, and the BBC. Links also exist with the Alan Turing Institute and the Bayes Centre. A wide range of research topics fall within the remit of the CDT: * Natural language processing and computational linguistics * Speech technology * Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision * Information retrieval and visualization, computational social science * Computational models of human cognition and behaviour, including language and speech processing * Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and educational technology * Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language evolution, language variation and change * Linguistic foundations of language and speech processing. The next cohort of CDT students will start in September 2023. Around 12 studentships are available, covering maintenance at the UKRI rate (currently £17,668 per year) plus tuition fees. Studentships are open to all nationalities and we are particularly keen to receive applications from women, minority groups and members of other groups that are underrepresented in technology. Applicants in possession of other funding scholarships or industry funding are also welcome to apply – please provide details of your funding source on your application. Applicants should have an undergraduate or master’s degree in computer science, linguistics, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline; or have a breadth of relevant experience in industry/academia/public sector, etc. Further details, including the application procedure, can be found at: https://edin.ac/cdt-in-nlp Application Deadlines: Early application is encouraged but completed applications must be received at the latest by: * 25th November 2022 (non UK applicants) or 27th January 2023 (UK applicants). Enquiries: Please direct any enquiries to the CDT admissions team at: cdt-nlp-info(a)inf.ed.ac.uk. CDT in NLP Virtual Open Day: Find out more about the programme by attending the PG Virtual Open Week in November. Click here to register: https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/open-days-events-visits/open-day… -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: TLT 2023, 3rd call for papers
by Kilian Evang 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Submission deadline (extended): Nov 15th, 2022 Invited speakers announced (scroll down) 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 DC, 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. GURT INVITED SPEAKERS - Jonathan Dunn, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (CxGs+NLP) - Guy Perrier, Loria, France (Depling) - Joan Bresnan, Stanford University, USA (TLT) - Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden (UDW) 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: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference 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 15th, 2022 Reviews Due: December 17th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: January 11th, 2023 Final version of papers due: February 1st, 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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Call for Applications: Study NLP at UC Santa Cruz
by Emelye Neff 25 Oct '22

25 Oct '22

The UCSC Natural Language Processing (NLP) master’s degree program <http://nlp.ucsc.edu> provides both depth and breadth in core algorithms and methods for NLP. Taught intensively over 15-18 months, our program design combines theoretical learning with hands-on practice to ensure our students have the right skill set to prepare for a professional career in this fast-growing field. We are currently accepting applications for Fall 2023 admission consideration. Program Highlights: - A 15-18 month program with a Capstone project mentored by NLP faculty and industry experts. - NLP students get an in-depth, systematic education in NLP, machine learning, and data science and analytics with faculty who have both academic and industry experience. - Our Industry Advisory Board provides insight and career advice through mentoring, guest lectures, and attendance at networking and professional development events. - All our courses are exclusive to NLP students and are designed with input from our Industry Advisory Board ensuring the content is current, relevant, and grounded in real-world context. - Our program is based at state-of-the-art facilities at the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, located in Santa Clara, California. Applying to the NLP MS Program This program is intended for students with a strong background in computer science. We are looking for multifaceted individuals with solid skills in programming, algorithms, machine learning, probability, statistics, and linguistics. Visit our Admissions page <http://nlp.ucsc.edu/admissions> to review admission requirements and tips for applying, and to connect with our support team. Applications for Fall 2023 admission consideration are now open. Apply by March 1, 2023 <https://applygrad.ucsc.edu/apply/>. If you have questions about the program or the application process, please contact the NLP Support Team <nlp(a)ucsc.edu>. All the best, The UCSC NLP Program Team Baskin Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz

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Adjunct Faculty positions at Open University of Cyprus
by Loizos Michael 25 Oct '22

25 Oct '22

Dear colleagues, The Open University of Cyprus is looking for Adjunct Faculty members for the following two courses offered as part of the M.Sc. in Cognitive Systems program of studies (https://www.ouc.ac.cy/index.php/en/studies/master/cos): COS524: "Natural Language Processing" (spring semester) COS613: "Cognitive Agents and Reasoning" (fall semester) Courses are offered in English, through a distance-learning methodology. Details about the application process are here: https://www.ouc.ac.cy/index.php/en/news-events/news/2595-sepx2022 Regards, Loizos

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SwissText 2023 - Call for paper
by Sokhn Maria 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

SwissText 2023, Call for papers We invite you to submit a contribution to the 8th edition of SwissText (SwissText 2023<https://www.swisstext.org/>) that will take place in Neuchâtel at HES-SO // HE Arc Campus venue details<https://www.he-arc.ch/en/he-arc-en/neuchatel-campus/> from 12 to 15 June 2023. SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. Swisstext is organised jointly by Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP), the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO // HE-Arc) and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) with the support of the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) and several industrial sponsors. The conference will feature the following tracks: Applied track, Regular Track and Junior Track. Please see the attached document for the call for paper details. Important Dates : Submission deadline: March 15, 2023 (23:59 CEST) Author notification: May 01, 2023 Conference: June 12-15, 2023 Camera-ready version due: July 15, 2023 Kind Regards, Maria Sokhn -- General Chairs: Prof. Dr. Hatem Ghorbel (HES-SO // HE-Arc), Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak Mark (ZHAW) Program Chair: Prof. Dr. Maria Sokhn (HES-SO // HE-Arc) Workshops Chair: Dr. Emmanuel De Salis (HES-SO // HE-Arc)

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First Call for Tutorial Proposals: EACL/ACL/EMNLP 2023
by Devamanyu Hazarika 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

Overview *The European Chapter of the ACL (EACL), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with EACL 2023, ACL 2023, and EMNLP 2023. We seek proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines.We invite proposals for two types of tutorials: 1. Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas not previously covered in any ACL/EMNLP/EACL/NAACL-HLT/AACL/COLING related tutorial (see the list of tutorials <https://shorturl.at/dkIMP> in the past 4 years). 2. Introductory: tutorials that provide introductions to related fields that are potentially relevant for the computational linguistics community (e.g., linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning techniques). In both cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations.Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: - EACL 2023, to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia (hybrid), on May 2-6, 2023.- ACL 2023, to be held in Toronto, Canada (hybrid), on July 9-14, 2023.- EMNLP 2023, to be held in Singapore, data TBD, 2023. *Fee Waiving *Up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops.* Diversity And Inclusion *To foster a really inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to topics promoting diversity (e.g., working on minority languages, developing NLP for good), participation diversity (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and representation diversity among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory <http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/>, Black in AI <https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership>, {Dis}ability in AI <https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/>, Indigenous AI <https://www.indigenous-ai.net/>, LatinX in AI <https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY>, Masakhane <https://www.masakhane.io/>, 500 Queer Scientists <https://500queerscientists.com/>, and Women-in-ML’s director <https://wimlworkshop.org/sh_projects/directory/>y. <https://2022.naacl.org/committees/diversity-inclusion/> * Submission Details *Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>. Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: 1. A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information.2. A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the computational linguistics community. 3. Type of the tutorial: introductory vs. cutting-edge. 4. Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisite background the audience should be aware of. Specification of any prerequisites for the attendees. Here are some examples:- Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus”- Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars”- Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron”- Other areas: e.g., “Familiarity with word2vec”- Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of Pytorch and Unix command line tools”5. An outline of the tutorial structure content and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot.6. Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that the tutorial covers work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”.7. Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc.8. Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, and work from other disciplines is welcome if relevant. 9. For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience.10. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted.11. A note specifying which venue(s) (EACL/ACL/EMNLP) would be acceptable and/or preferable. Include a description of any constraints that might make the tutorial compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically, or otherwise.12. A description of special requirements for technical equipment.13. We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publically available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain. 14. An ethics statement that discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. 15. OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special theme of a conference, then please explain. 16. OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/n/acl-tutorials2023 <https://softconf.com/n/acl-tutorials2023>. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and by a group of external experts.* Evaluation Criteria *Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ experience, likely audience interest, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion.* Tutorial Instructor Responsibilities *Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by February 3rd, 2023. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials (e.g., slides, relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the date of the tutorial conditioned on the final venue. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed).* Important Dates *EACL/ACL/EMNLP 2023 shared dates for tutorial proposals: - Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: December 1st, 2022 - Notification of acceptance: February 3rd, 2023- Camera-ready for proposals: Feb 17th 2023- Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials: one month prior to the date of the tutorial* Tutorial Chairs * ACL - Siva Reddy, McGill University and Mila- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University - Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt EACL - Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"- TBA EMNLP - TBA* Contact Please send inquiries concerning EACL/ACL/EMNLP 2023 tutorials to cl23-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com

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Joint Call for Workshop Proposals: EACL / ACL / EMNLP 2023
by Devamanyu Hazarika 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

The Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with EACL 2023, ACL 2023, or EMNLP 2023. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues: - EACL 2023 (The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be a hybrid conference, and physically held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 2 to 6 of May 2023. https://2023.eacl.org/ - ACL 2023 (The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will take place in Toronto, Canada (and a hybrid conference) from July 9th to July 14th, 2023. https://2023.aclweb.org/ <https://2022.aclweb.org/> - EMNLP 2023 (The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) TBA The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the three conferences. They will take into account location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers. === Important Dates === - Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2022 - Notification of Acceptance: December 14, 2022 === Submission Information === Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organizers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. The two pages for the main proposal must include: - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers. - An estimate of the number of attendees. - Depending on the global situation of COVID-19, some conferences might take place only virtually. We request submissions to contain a brief discussion on measures planned to make sure a workshop is successful and productive in case of a virtual-only attendance. - A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. - A description of special requirements and technical needs. - The preferred venue(s) (EACL / ACL / EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g., if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise) - If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker. The workshop organizers must bear all other costs independently. The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include: - The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with a brief statement (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organizing workshops and related events. - A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and thoughtful reviews. - An indication whether the workshop will consider papers submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); an indication whether the workshop will use OpenReview as a platform (both to take papers from ARR and for their own review); whether the workshop will only use START as a platform, and will not use ARR. In making this choice, please pay careful attention to the ARR deadlines and conference notifications. - References The proposals should be submitted no later than November 15, 2022, 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission is electronic at the following link: https://softconf.com/n/acl-workshops2023. The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, and the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. === Diversity and Inclusion === The proposals should describe the ways in which the workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal: - Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on. - Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP ( http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/ [6]) initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences. - Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on. === Workshop Organizer Responsibilities === The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs. The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL’s general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook === Timeline for the 2023 Workshops === EACL: First Call for Workshop Papers: January 9, 2023 Second Call for Workshop Papers: January 30, 2023 Workshop Paper Due Date: February 13, 2023 Notification of Acceptance: March 13, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 Workshop Dates: May 2 and 6, 2023 ACL: First Call for Workshop Papers: January 10, 2023 Second Call for Workshop Papers: February 10, 2023 Direct paper submission deadline: April 24, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2023 Camera-ready paper due: June 6, 2023 Pre-recorded video due: June 12, 2023 Deadline for workshop organizers to deliver proceedings to the publication chair: June 12, 2023 Workshops: July 13-14, 2023 EMNLP: Information not available yet === EACL / ACL / EMNLP Workshop Co-Chairs === EACL: Zeerak Talat, Simon Fraser University Antonio Toral, University of Groningen ACL: Eduardo Blanco, University of Arizona Yang Feng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Annie Louis, Google Research EMNLP: TBA Contact: workshop-chairs-2023(a)googlegroups.com

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Invitation to join SIGHUM
by Sara Tonelli 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

The SIGHUM group (ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities) was constituted in 2012 as one of the ACL special interest groups. SIGHUM groups together researchers interested in computational linguistics applications in all aspects of digital humanities and provides a forum for communication between ACL researchers and other digital humanities communities and organisations. In July 2022, we (Barbara McGillivray, Sara Tonelli and Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb) joined SIGHUM’s board. If you’re passionate about digital humanities, computational humanities and related fields and want to stay informed about opportunities to contribute to the group, activities, call for papers, job opportunities etc. within the community, please join our group here: https://groups.google.com/g/sighum <https://groups.google.com/g/sighum>. Early-career researchers and PhD students are particularly encouraged to join. After this round of subscriptions, at the end of October we will be sending our members a survey to shape the group’s strategy so make sure you sign up in the next week if you want to take part! Barbara, Sara and Stefania. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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