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Coptic Scriptorium corpora release 4.4.0
by Amir Zeldes 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

We are pleased to announce release 4.4.0 of Coptic Scriptorium <https://copticscriptorium.org/> ! Our data now includes over 1,267,000 tokens of searchable, linguistically analyzed Coptic data from dozens of ancient Coptic works (an increase of almost 100,000 tokens from the previous release). Annotations include POS tagging, lemmatization, morphological analysis, dependency parses, nested NNER, entity linking and more. We are very grateful to all of our collaborators and contributors, without whom this project could not function. This release corrects a large number of consistency errors identified in our existing data, and also adds some new documents: * Sections of three works by Shenoute of Artipe <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/search?author=Shenoute> : * I Have Been Considering <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/shenouteconsidering/> * So Concerning the Little Place <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/shenouteplace/> * The Lord Thundered <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/shenoutethundered/> * New documents added to existing works: * Acephalous Work 22 <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/acephalous_work_22/> * Apophthegmata Patrum <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/ap/> * The remaining books 2-4, as well as the postscript of Pistis Sophia <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/pistissophia/> , which are now added to the previously released book 1 in our online interfaces * Newly treebanked data with syntactic gold standard annotations for the Life of John the Kalybites <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/lifejohnkalybites/> , part 1 We would like to thank the Marcion Project <https://marcion.sourceforge.net/> for making the underlying digitized text of Pistis Sophia available, and all of the annotators for their hard work. Tamara Siuda, Rebecca Krawiec, Philippe Zaher, and Lance Martin contributed, in addition to Amir and Carrie. As our current DHAG grant <https://copticscriptorium.org/dhag> ends, we would like to give special thanks to Lance, who has been working as our DH specialist on the project since 2019, for doing an amazing job of keeping track of all the data and the various tasks he’s been in charge of over the past three years! As with all releases, raw machine readable data for all corpora can be found, including morphological and syntactic analysis, as well as named entity recognition and entity linking, on our GitHub repository, in a variety of popular formats: https://github.com/copticscriptorium/corpora You can also search for complex linguistic annotations in the data using our ANNIS server – please see our new tutorial here to get started with some query tips and a helpful cheat sheet: https://copticscriptorium.org/ANNIS_tutorial We hope this release will be useful and look forward to the next one as always, The Coptic Scriptorium team � �

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[Deadline extended] EvoNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2022
by Jose Camacho Collados 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

************************************ EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop: The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP -> The main submission deadline has been extended to October 12. Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/ Shared Task: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task Submission deadline (for papers requiring review / non-archival): 12 October, 2022 [EXTENDED!] Submission deadline (with ARR reviews): 25 October, 2022 Notification of acceptance: 31 October, 2022 Camera-ready paper deadline: 11 November, 2022 Workshop date: 7 December, 2022 (co-located with EMNLP) ************************************ Advances in language modeling have led to remarkable accuracy on several NLP tasks, but most benchmarks used for evaluation are static, ignoring the practical setting under which training data from the past and present must be used for generalizing to future data. Consequently, training paradigms also ignore the time sensitivity of language and essentially treat all text as if it was written at a single point in time. Recent studies have shown that in a dynamic setting, where the test data is drawn from a different time period than the training data, the accuracy of such static models degrades as the gap between the two periods increases. -------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop focuses on these time-related issues in NLP models and benchmarks. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to redesign experimental settings, benchmark datasets, and modeling by especially focusing on the “time” variable. We will welcome papers / work-in-progress on several topics including (but not limited to): - Dynamic Benchmarks: Evaluation of Model Degradation in Time Measuring how NLP models age Random splits vs time-based splits (past/future) Latency (days vs years) at which models need to be updated for maintaining task accuracy Time-sensitivity of different tasks and the type of knowledge which gets stale Time-sensitivity of different domains (e.g., news vs scientific papers) and how domain shifts interact with time shifts Sensitivity of different models and architectures to time shifts - Time-Aware Models Incorporating time information into NLP models Techniques for updating / replacing models which degrade with time Learning strategies for improving temporal degradation Trade-offs between updating a degraded model vs replacing it altogether Mitigating catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge as we update models with new knowledge Improving plasticity of models so that they can be easily updated Retrieval based models for improving temporal generalization - Analysis of existing models / datasets Characterizing whether degradation on a task is due to outdated facts or changes in language use Effect of model scale on temporal degradation – do large models exhibit less degradation? Efficiency / accuracy trade-offs when updating models -------------------------------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings unless requested otherwise by the authors. Submissions can be made either via OpenReview where they will go through the standard double-blind process, or through ACL Rolling Review with existing reviews. See details below. ---- Submission guidelines ---- We seek submissions of original work or work-in-progress. Submissions can be in the form of long/short papers and should follow the ACL main conference template. Authors can choose to make their paper archival/non-archival. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. Archival track We will follow double-blind review process and use OpenReview for the submissions. We also will accept ACL rolling review (ARR) submissions with reviews. Since these submissions already come with reviews, the submission deadline is much later than the initial deadline. We will use Open Review for the submissions. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2022/Workshop/EvoNLP For papers needing review click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP submission” For papers from ARR click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP commitment Submission” ---- Non-archival track ---- Non-archival track seeks recently accepted / published work as well as work-in-progress. It does not need to be anonymized and will not go through the review process. The submission should clearly indicate the original venue and will be accepted if the organizers think the work will benefit from exposure to the audience of this workshop. Submission: Please email your submission as a single PDF file to evonlp(a)googlegroups.com. Include “EvoNLP Non-Archival Submission” in the title and the author names and affiliation within the body of your email. ---- Shared task (TempoWiC) ---- The workshop features a shared task on meaning shift detection in social media. Official competition is closed, but new submissions can be made to Codalab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5360 -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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5 October - Prof Tony McEnery online talk Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use
by Pascual Pérez-Paredes 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use Online talk. October 5, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) Prof Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster Free registration link<https://umurcia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ey8fEpC3RkC7_vAUKEpAgg>. You’ll receive an email with the ZOOM link and code. Abstract In this talk I will explore the relationship between learner corpus and second language acquisition research. I begin by considering the origins of learner corpus research, noting its roots in smaller scale studies of learner language. This development of learner corpus studies will be considered in the broader context of the development of corpus linguistics. I then consider the aspirations that learner corpus researchers have had to engage with second language acquisition research and explore why, to date, the interaction between the two fields has been minimal. By exploring some of the corpus building practices of learner corpus research, and the theoretical goals of second language acquisition studies, I will identify reasons for this lack of interaction and make proposals for how this situation could be fruitfully addressed. Tony McEnery is distinguished professor of Linguistics and English Langauge in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University and Changjiang Chair at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. He has published widely on corpus linguistics and is the author of Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (with Andrew Hardie, Cambridge University Press, 2011). His latest book, Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics (with Vaclav Brezina) is due out from Cambridge University Press soon. More info: https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2022/09/20/corpus-linguistics-learner-cor… Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf

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announcement for circulation
by Sara Bartl 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Dear All, Sorry for the confusion. Please see the updated version below. Could you please circulate the following announcement about the revised application deadline for the R for Stylistics Workshop? Thank you. Sara Bartl Dear Colleagues, Due to the high number of sign-ups for the R for Stylistics workshop, we have decided to close applications early. The new deadline is 7 October. Please note that this is an in-person event only! R for Stylistics is a two-day (January 19-20, 2023), hands-on workshop for students and scholars of stylistics/literary linguistics who are eager to learn how to use the R programming environment to handle textual data. The workshop will follow an intensive two-day program in which participants will learn the basics of working with R and R Studio, as well as some methods of basic textual analysis with R. The workshop is best suited to advanced students (i.e. MA, PhD) and scholars of stylistics with no prior programming experience. For more information and to register/apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Wrv14EmX2_hsXG_rt0IkxXPvnibl9Qd… Sara Bartl (she/they) @SaraBartl<https://twitter.com/SaraBartl> Doctoral Researcher English Language and Linguistics University of Birmingham Currently reading: Everything Under - Daisy Johnson

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PhD position on Diversity-Aware NLP at University of Stuttgart, Germany
by Agnieszka Falenska 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

The independent research group on Diversity-Aware NLP Intelligent Systems (DANIS) headed by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska [1] invites applications for a *PhD position*. The group is a part of the project Reflecting Intelligent Systems for Diversity, Demography, and Democracy (IRIS3D) [2] funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg [3]. It is located at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) [4] at the University of Stuttgart, Germany [5]. *Project* The immense influence of NLP systems on human lives raises increasing concerns about the possible harm these tools can cause. Harmful behaviors of such systems are regarded as symptoms of their bias, i.e., the systematic preference or discrimination against certain groups of users. NLP tools are commonly trained on textual corpora that display such biases already at the level of their authors. For example, Wikipedia, which is one of the most commonly used sources of training data, is created by a predominantly white and male group of editors. Such a lack of diversity among authors can lessen the impact of data from minorities and, as a consequence, result in NLP models that reflect the underlying demographic imbalances. DANIS contributes to the discourse of fairness in AI by facilitating the design of NLP intelligent systems that can recognize inputs from underrepresented groups of users and strengthen their role in the training processes. *Position* The successful candidate will work on topics ranging from (i) recognition of textual phenomena that identify distinctive demographic groups, (ii) analysis techniques to investigate the influence of particular training signals on neural NLP models, and (iii) incorporating the knowledge of biases into a standard NLP methodology. The position is available for four years, starting in December 2022 or soon thereafter. The salary is according to the German university pay scale (TV-L 13 100%, approx. 50k EUR per year before taxes, see [6] for details). The PhD candidate will benefit from the support structures offered by the Graduate Academy of the University of Stuttgart (GRADUS) [7] and IRIS [8]. Moreover, they will have the chance to collaborate with other IRIS3D projects as well as the interdisciplinary research group E-DELIB (Powering up e-deliberation: towards AI-supported moderation) [9] and the Emmy Noether research group MisT (Computational Models of Misunderstanding) [13]. *Candidate's Profile* * Master’s degree in computational linguistics, computer science, computational social science, or related fields * knowledge of natural language processing (NLP) / computational linguistics (CL) * strong programming skills * advanced knowledge of machine learning methods, experience in deep learning is a plus * excellent communication skills and interest in interdisciplinary work * proficiency in English (knowledge of German is not required) *How to Apply?* To apply, please send as a single PDF document: * a brief motivation letter including your research interests * a CV including a list of publications (if applicable) and contact information of one to two references Applications should be sent to Agnieszka Faleńska (agnieszka.falenska at ims.uni-stuttgart.de). Applications submitted before October 21, 2022 will receive full consideration. The position will remain open until filled, so do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening after October 21st. The (online) interviews will take place at the beginning of November. The University of Stuttgart aims to achieve equal opportunities for men and women in university studies and science and to increase the number of women in academia [12].Therefore, people of all genders are equally encouraged to apply. Applications of severely disabled candidates with equivalent qualifications will be given priority. *About IRIS and IRIS3D* The IRIS3D project is embedded in the Cyber Valley ecosystem [10]. It consists of three independent research groups contributing to the reflection on the societal impacts of intelligent systems. The project is a part of the Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS). IRIS provides a platform to stimulate critical reflection on the foundations, mechanisms, implications, and effects of intelligent systems in research, teaching, and society. *About Stuttgart and the University of Stuttgart* The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university in Germany. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly, both nationally and internationally. The Institute for Natural Language Processing, which is part of the Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, is one of the largest academic research institutes for natural language processing in Germany, with three full professors, an assistant professor, three senior lecturers, and a staff of more than thirty researchers. Its activities range from computational corpus linguistics to semantic processing, deep learning, machine translation, psycholinguistics, and phonetics, and hosts several projects funded by the European Commission (EC), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and various foundations. The institute manages dedicated BSc and MSc programs in Computational Linguistics. The city of Stuttgart [11] is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is a lively and international city, known for its strong economy and rich culture. With Germany's high-speed train system, it is well-connected to many other interesting places, for instance, Munich and Cologne (~2.5 hours), Paris (~3.5 hours), Berlin (~5.5 hours), Strasbourg (<1.5 hours), and Lake of Constance (~2.5 hours). *Links* [1] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska [2] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/iris3d [3] mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite [4] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de [5] www.uni-stuttgart.de [6] oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2015 [7] www.student.uni-stuttgart.de/en/uni-a-to-z/Graduate-Academy-of-the-Universi… [8] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de [9] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/researchgroups/edelib [10] cyber-valley.de [11] www.stuttgart-tourist.de/en [12] www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/organization/management/staff-positions/… [13] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/researchgroups/mist

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R for Stylistics new application deadline
by Sara Bartl 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Dear All, Could you please circulate the following announcement about the revised application deadline for the R for Stylistics Workshop? Thank you. Sara Bartl Dear Colleagues, Due to the high number of sign-ups for the R for Stylistics workshop, we have decided to close applications early. The new deadline is 7 October. R for Stylistics is a two-day (January 19-20, 2023), hands-on workshop for students and scholars of stylistics/literary linguistics who are eager to learn how to use the R programming environment to handle textual data. The workshop will follow an intensive two-day program in which participants will learn the basics of working with R and R Studio, as well as some methods of basic textual analysis with R. The workshop is best suited to advanced students (i.e. MA, PhD) and scholars of stylistics with no prior programming experience. For more information and to register/apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Wrv14EmX2_hsXG_rt0IkxXPvnibl9Qd… Sara Bartl (she/they) @SaraBartl<https://twitter.com/SaraBartl> Doctoral Researcher English Language and Linguistics University of Birmingham Currently reading: Everything Under - Daisy Johnson

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PhD position on the topic of hate speech detection at University of Klagenfurt
by Wiegand, Michael 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

We are pleased to announce the following *PhD position* in the area of Natural Language Processing at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC) at the University of Klagenfurt to commence at the earliest opportunity. Level of employment: 75% (30hours/week) Minimum salary: € 32.116,00 per annum (gross), Classification according to collective agreement: B1 Limited to: 4 years Application deadline: open until filled Tasks and responsibilities: contributing to a new research project in the area abusive language detection/hate speech detection Prerequistites for the appointment: • A Master’s degree in the field of computational linguistics, linguistics, computer science or alike, graded with excellent success and corresponding knowledge in the field • Good programming skills (preferably Python) • Fluent in English (both spoken and written); knowledge in German is a plus Additional desired qualifications: • Familiarity with setting up annotation tasks via crowdsourcing • Experience with supervised learning, particularly state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms • Profound knowledge of publicly available NLP tools and resources • Experience with NLP on social media, particularly Twitter • Experience with web crawling and processing large amounts of textual data • Publications at scientific conferences and in journals in the field relating to the position • Social and communication skills, ability to work independently Our offer: The employment contract is concluded with a starting salary of € 2.294,00 gross per month (14 times a year; previous experience deemed relevant to the job can be recognised in accordance with the collective agreement). The University of Klagenfurt also offers: • Personal and professional advanced training courses, management and career coaching • Numerous attractive additional benefits, see also https://jobs.aau.at/en/the-university-as-employer/ • Diversity- and family-friendly university culture • The opportunity to live and work in the attractive Alps-Adriatic region with a wide range of leisure activities in the spheres of culture, nature and sports The application: If you are interested in this position, please apply in German or English providing the usual documents: • Letter of application • Curriculum vitae • Proof of all completed higher education programmes (certificates, supplements, if applicable) • Other documentary evidence that may be relevant to this announcement (see prerequisites and desired qualifications) To apply, please send all your application materials to michael.wiegand(a)aau.at<mailto:michael.wiegand@aau.at>. Please also use this address for obtaining further information on this specific vacancy. General information about the university as an employer can be found at https://jobs.aau.at/en/the-university-as-employer/. The University of Klagenfurt aims to increase the proportion of women and therefore specifically invites qualified women to apply for the position. Where the qualification is equivalent, women will be given preferential consideration. People with disabilities or chronic diseases, who fulfil the requirements, are particularly encouraged to apply.

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Webminar by Xiang Ren (University of Southern California - USC)
by HiTZ zentroa 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center for Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). We are organizing one seminar every month. You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: * *Speaker*: Xiang Ren (University of Southern California - USC) * *Title*: Commonsense Reasoning in the Wild * *Date*: October 6, 2022, 17:00 CET * *Summary*: Current NLP systems impress us by achieving close-to-human performance on benchmarks of answering commonsense questions or writing interesting stories. However, most of the progress is evaluated using static, closed-ended datasets created for individual tasks. To deploy commonsense reasoning services in the wild, we look to develop and evaluate systems that can generate answers in an open-ended way, perform robust logical reasoning, and generalize across diverse task formats, domains, and datasets. In this talk I will share our effort on introducing new formulations of commonsense reasoning challenges and novel evaluation protocols, towards broadening the scope in approaching machine common sense. We hope that such a shift of evaluation paradigm would encourage more research on externalizing the model reasoning process and improving model robustness and cross-task generalization. * *Upcoming webinars*: o Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP Models -- Vered Shwartz (November 3, 2022) o Title to be announced -- Maarit Koponen (December 1, 2022) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa

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Two research positions in University of Edinburgh MT group
by Barry Haddow 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Hi We are looking for two researchers (at post-doc or pre-doc level) to work with us in Edinburgh on two new Horizon Europe projects. Both projects start in Autumn 2022 and run for 3 years. The first project (High Performance Language Technologies -- HPLT) will create an open platform that trains reproducible high-quality machine translation systems and language models. The project is gathering over a million GPU hours and 7 petabytes of data. Research in HPLT focuses on efficiency and models that apply to a wide range of languages. The second project (UTTER -- Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality) aims to use large language models to develop scalable, adaptable, contextualised, emotion-aware and explainable technologies for translation, summarisation and transcription. The project will develop prototypes for a multilingual meeting assistant and for dialogue translation in customer care. The new researchers will work on problems related to these goals. For more information, and how to apply, see https://neural.mt/jobs/ best Barry The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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EACL 2023: Call for Papers
by Joel Tetreault 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

(apologies for cross-posting) *=== Important Information ===* Website: https://2023.eacl.org/ *Submission Deadline*: Thursday, 20 October 2022 *Conference Dates*: Tuesday, 2 May 2023 to 6 May 2023 *Location*: Dubrovnik, Croatia *Contact*: Alessandro Moschitti (General Chair): amoschitti(a)gmail.com // Isabelle Augenstein & Andreas Vlachos (Program Chairs): eacl2023pcs(a)googlegroups.com *=== Overview ===*The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be for papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. EACL 2023 will follow EMNLP 2022 and go with a hybrid format with respect to ARR. This means that while EACL will accept ARR-reviewed papers, it will also accept submissions directly to EACL through the START system. However, in order to keep the review load on the community as a whole manageable, we ask authors to decide up-front if they want their papers to be reviewed through ARR or EACL. *Review Process:*Papers submitted directly to EACL will have the “regular” review process: paper reviewed by 3 reviewers, authors are invited to write an author response and revise their paper before the camera ready deadline, if accepted. ARR papers committed to EACL will be handled by the Senior Area Chairs. For these papers, the authors may provide an author response but not revise their paper (with the exception of adding the required “limitations” section, if it was missing from the ARR submission; see below). *Cross-Submission Policy with ARR:*Any ARR-reviewed paper that has received all of its reviews and meta-reviews available by the ARR-to-conference commitment deadline (January 8, 2023), can be committed to EACL 2023. Note: Submissions from ARR cannot be modified except that they can be associated with an author response. Note: While EACL will consider any ARR paper that has been fully reviewed by January 8, 2023, unlike for ACL and NAACL 2022, EACL does not guarantee a date such that all papers submitted to ARR before the date are guaranteed to receive necessary reviews in time for the EACL commitment deadline. Consequently, care must be taken in deciding whether a submission should be made to ARR or EACL directly if the work has not been submitted anywhere before the call. Plan accordingly. Note: The START system deadline for direct submission papers, namely non-ARR submission papers, is October 20, 2022. Papers submitted to ARR before October 13, 2022, can be withdrawn and submitted to EACL 2023. Note: In order for a paper to be submitted directly to EACL 2023, it must be inactive in the ARR system. This means that the submission must either be explicitly withdrawn by the authors, or the ARR reviews are finished and shared with the authors before October 13, 2022, and the paper was not re-submitted to ARR. Note: The authors can withdraw their paper from ARR by October 13, 2022, regardless of how many reviews it has received. Papers that are in the ARR system after October 13, 2022, either submitted after or submitted before and not withdrawn, cannot be directly submitted to EACL 2023. Papers submitted to EACL 2023 may not be submitted for review elsewhere (including ARR) while being under review at EACL 2023. *=== Important Dates ===*- Abstract registration deadline for START direct submissions: October 13, 2022 - Anonymity period begins: October 13, 2022 (same as the abstract registration date) - Direct paper submission deadline (long & short papers): October 20, 2022 - Author response period: December 6-12, 2022 - Commitment deadline for ARR papers: January 8, 2023 - Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): January 20, 2023 - Camera-ready papers due (long & short papers): February 10, 2023 - Workshops & Tutorials: May 2 and 6 2023 - Main Conference: May 3-5, 2023 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). *=== Mandatory abstract submission ===*The paper title, author names, contact details, and a brief abstract must be submitted electronically through the EACL 2023 paper submission site by the abstract submission deadline (October 13, 2022). It will be possible to make minor edits to the title and abstract until the full paper submission deadline, but you cannot change authors and subject areas. Submissions with “placeholder” abstracts will be removed without consideration; Important: if you miss the abstract submission deadline, you cannot submit the full paper. *=== Submissions ===*EACL 2023 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): - Anaphora, Discourse and Pragmatics - Computational Social Science and Social Media - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Document analysis, Text Categorization and Topic Models - Generation and Summarization - Green and Sustainable NLP - Information Retrieval and Search - Information Extraction - Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP - Language Resources and Evaluation - Language Grounding and Multi-Modality - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning in NLP - Machine Translation - Multilinguality - Multidisciplinary and NLP Applications - Question Answering - Semantics: lexical - Semantics: sentence level and other areas - Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Tagging, Chunking, Syntax, and Parsing *=== Paper Submission Information ===* *Long Papers*Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Review forms will be made available prior to the deadlines. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix; 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. *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. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendix. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given 5 content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. *Presentation Mode*Long and short 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 the nature rather than the quality of the work. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and as posters. *Authorship* The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author listed on a submission to EACL 2023 will be notified of submissions, revisions and the final decision. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made to submissions to EACL 2023 after the abstract submission deadline. *Citation and Comparison*You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited). While not citing such unpublished works upon submission is not sufficient grounds for paper rejection, you are expected to cite such relevant work in camera ready, if notified about it by reviewers. In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis. However, you are expected to mention such works in your submission, and list their published results if they are directly relevant. For more information, see the ACL Policies for Submission, Review, and Citation: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Rev… *Multiple Submission Policy* EACL 2023 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the EACL 2023 review period. This policy covers all refereed and archival conferences and workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL workshops), as well as ARR. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to EACL 2023 must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. EACL 2023 will also accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR-to-conference submission deadline. However, EACL 2023 will not accept direct submissions that are actively under review in ARR, or that overlap significantly (>25%) with such submissions. *Mandatory Discussion of Limitations*We believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. Following the EMNLP format, EACL 2023 requires all papers to have a clear discussion of limitations, in a dedicated section titled “Limitations”. This section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit. Papers without a limitation section will be automatically rejected without review. ARR-reviewed papers that did not include “Limitations” section in their prior submission, should submit a PDF with such a section together when they commit their papers to EACL 2023 via Softconf. While we are open to different types of limitations, just mentioning that a set of results have been shown for English only probably does not reflect what we expect. Mentioning that the method works mostly for languages with limited morphology, like English, is a much better alternative. In addition, limitations such as low scalability to long text, the requirement of large GPU resources, or other things that inspire crucial further investigation are welcome. *Ethics Policy*Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACL 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. Where a paper may raise ethical issues, we ask that you include in the paper an explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in the review process. 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 with their work. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 8th page (4th for short papers) for an optional broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. The EACL review form will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers or ACs 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 accept will be re-reviewed by the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately addressed. Please read the ethics FAQ for more guidance on some problems to look out for and key concerns to consider relative to the code of ethics. *Paper Submission and Templates*Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Both long and short papers must follow the EACL 2023 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you 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. *Verification*To guarantee conformance to publication standards, we will be using the ACL Pubcheck tool (https://github.com/acl-org/aclpubcheck). The PDFs of camera-ready papers must be run through this tool prior to their final submission, and we recommend its use also at submission time. *Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data*Each EACL 2023 submission can be accompanied by an appendix, which will appear in the main paper’s PDF, after the bibliography. A submission may also be accompanied by one .tgz or .zip archive containing software, and one .tgz or .zip archive containing data. EACL 2023 encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. For example, anonymised related work (see above), preprocessing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into the appendix. However, the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review or download them. If the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in the appendix. Supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. *=== Anonymity Period ===*The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 week before the direct full paper submission deadline (starting October 13, 2022) up to the date when your paper is accepted or rejected (January 20, 2023). Papers that are withdrawn during this period will no longer be subject to these rules. - You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. Versions of the paper include papers having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length. - If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the programme chairs that a non-anonymized version exists. - You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. - You may make an anonymized version of your paper available (for example, on OpenReview), even during the anonymity period. - For arXiv submissions, October 13, 2022 11:59pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth) is the latest time the paper can be uploaded. *=== Instructions For Double-Blind Review ===*As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. *=== Reproducibility Criteria ===*Reviewers will be asked to assess the reproducibility of the work as part of their reviews. The following are the criteria that reviews will take under consideration. For all reported experimental results: - A clear description of the mathematical setting, algorithm, and/or model. - Submission of a zip file containing source code, with specification of all dependencies, including external libraries, or a link to such resources (while still anonymized) - Description of computing infrastructure used - The average runtime for each model or algorithm (e.g., training, inference, etc.), or estimated energy cost - Number of parameters in each model - Corresponding validation performance for each reported test result - Explanation of evaluation metrics used, with links to code For all experiments with hyperparameter search: - The exact number of training and evaluation runs - Bounds for each hyperparameter - Hyperparameter configurations for best-performing models - Number of hyperparameter search trials - The method of choosing hyperparameter values (e.g., uniform sampling, manual tuning, etc.) and the criterion used to select among them (e.g., accuracy) - Summary statistics of the results (e.g., mean, variance, error bars, etc.) For all datasets used: - Relevant details such as languages, and number of examples and label distributions - Details of train/validation/test splits - Explanation of any data that were excluded, and all pre-processing steps - A zip file containing data or link to a downloadable version of the data - For new data collected, a complete description of the data collection process, such as instructions to annotators and methods for quality control. This list is based on Dodge et al, 2019 and Joelle Pineau's reproducibility checklist. *=== Presentation Requirement ===*All accepted papers must be presented at the conference—either on-line or in-person—in order to appear in the proceedings. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EACL 2023 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2023 by the early registration deadline. More information can be found in the Committee blog. If you have questions that are not answered there, please email the program co-chairs at eacl2023pcs(a)gmail.com.

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