The Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt keeps growing - we are now looking for an
Independent Research Group Leader (equivalent to the assistant professor level) in NLP
to join our team!
Are you interested in doing cutting-edge research on Natural Language Processing and AI, often in collaboration with top academic and industrial partners? We are a diverse team working on some of the hardest and most exciting machine learning challenges, including representation learning, neural IR, explainable NLP, continual learning, multi-task learning, self-supervised learning, and more.
Visit our website and read more about the opening:
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Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
UKP Lab
Computer Science Department
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/
The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt in Germany has several ERC-, HORIZON- or DFG-funded openings for an
Associate Research Scientist (PostDoc- or PhD-level; for an initial term of two to three years) in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
As an interdisciplinary team, we are happy to accommodate a wide variety of research questions and backgrounds, ranging from machine learning to dataset creation. We particularly welcome proposals on neuro-symbolic reasoning, multilingual and multimodal language modeling, and creative ideas on modeling cross-document relations.
Interested to become part of our diverse, ambitious and successful team doing cutting edge research? Visit our website and read more about the openings:
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Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
UKP Lab
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/
Important UPDATES/EXTENSION: ClinSpEn sub-track (Biomedical WMT Task,
EMNLP 2022)
Machine Translation of Clinical cases, ontologies & medical entities:
Spanish - English
https://temu.bsc.es/clinspen/
Evaluation period extension, test and background data available on Zenodo
and CodaLab submission available.
The ClinSpEn track of the Biomedical WMT 2022 shared task tries to address
a pressing need and emerging research topic related to the development and
exploitation of multilingual clinical NLP and text mining applications.
Recent advances in neural machine translation approaches (MT) adapted to
specific domains and text genres have resulted in promising results that
facilitate processing of healthcare and clinical data beyond language
silos.
The ClinSpEn sub-track tries to promote the use of advanced machine
translation technologies applied to three high impact healthcare
application scenarios:
(1) automatic translation of clinical case documents of importance to
examine how MT could be further applied to cope with clinical records
(2) automatic translation of clinical terms and entity mentions extracted
directly from medical records and literature to improve multilingual
semantic annotation technologies
(3) automatic translation of ontologies and controlled vocabulary concepts
of uttermost importance for multilingual data and concept normalization
These three scenarios will be addressed by three specific benchmark data
collections used for evaluation purposes by the ClinSpEn biomedical WMT
track:
ClinSpEn-CC (Clinical Cases): EN>ES translation of clinical case documents.
ClinSpEn-CT (Clinical Terms): ES>EN translation of clinical terms and
entity mentions extracted from records and literature.
ClinSpEn-OC (Ontology Concepts): EN>ES translation of highly used open
clinical controlled vocabularies and ontology concepts.
Important links:
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ClinSpEn web: https://temu.bsc.es/clinspen/
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Biomedical WMT web:
https://statmt.org/wmt22/biomedical-translation-task.html
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WMT2022: https://statmt.org/wmt22/
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EMNLP conference: https://2022.emnlp.org/
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Data (NEW!):
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Clinical Cases: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6497350
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Clinical Terms: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6497372
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Ontology Concepts: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6497388
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CodaLab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/6696
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Team Registration (mandatory): https://temu.bsc.es/clinspen/registration/
For the ClinSpEn track Gold Standard manual translations generated by
professional medical translators have been generated to evaluate
participating teams. The primary evaluation metric to be used for this
track will be SacreBLEU.
Participants will also have access to a larger background collection to
promote scalability and robustness assessment of machine translation
technology.
Updated schedule:
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Participant Predictions Due: August 30th, 2022 (UPDATED EXTENSION!)
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Paper Submission: September 7th, 2022
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Acceptance notification: October 9th, 2022
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Camera-ready version: October 16th, 2022
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WMT workshop at EMNLP: December 7th and 8th, 2022
Publications and workshop
Participating teams will be invited to contribute a systems description
paper for the WMT 2022 Working Notes proceedings. This workshop will be
part of the prestigious EMNLP 2022 conference. More information on the
paper’s specifications, formatting guidelines and review process at:
https://statmt.org/wmt22/index.html.
ClinSpEn Track Organizers
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Salvador Lima-López (BSC)
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Darryl Johan Estrada (BSC)
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Eulàlia Farré-Maduell (BSC)
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Martin Krallinger (BSC)
Biomedical WMT Organizers
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Rachel Bawden (University of Edinburgh, UK)
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Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua, Italy)
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Darryl Johan Estrada (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
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Eulàlia Farré-Maduell (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
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Cristian Grozea (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
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Antonio Jimeno Yepes (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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Salvador Lima-López (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
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Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
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Aurélie Névéol (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
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Mariana Neves (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany)
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Roland Roller (DFKI, Germany)
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Amy Siu (Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
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Philippe Thomas (DFKI, Germany)
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Federica Vezzani (University of Padua, Italy)
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Maika Vicente Navarro, Maika Spanish Translator, Melbourne, Australia
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Dina Wiemann (Novartis, Switzerland)
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Lana Yeganova (NCBI/NLM/NIH, USA
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Salvador Lima Lopez
RESEARCH ENGINEER
Life Sciences - Text Mining, BSC-CNS
Barcelona, Spain
** With apologies for multiple posting **
The Seventeenth International Workshop on
ONTOLOGY MATCHING
(OM-2022)
http://om2022.ontologymatching.org/
October 23rd or 24th, 2022,
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program,
Hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China
BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks
dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies
as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of
correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies.
These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology
merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed
with the matched ontologies to interoperate.
The workshop has three goals:
1.
To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions
to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial
and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user
representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their
requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology
matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to
data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks.
2.
To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching
and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through
the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2022 campaign:
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/
3.
To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging,
techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings.
TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data);
Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector);
Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., in cloud, with mobile apps);
Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access;
Matching and knowledge graphs;
Matching and deep learning;
Matching and embeddings;
Matching and big data;
Matching and linked data;
Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them;
Privacy-aware matching;
Process model matching;
Large-scale and efficient matching techniques;
Matcher selection, combination and tuning;
User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
Explanations in matching;
Social and collaborative matching;
Uncertainty in matching;
Expressive alignments;
Reasoning with alignments;
Alignment coherence and debugging;
Alignment management;
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science);
Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs).
SUBMISSIONS
Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and
posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching
as well as participating in the OAEI 2022 campaign. Long technical papers should
be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages.
Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages.
All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than August 9th, 2022)
through the workshop submission site at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022
Contributors to the OAEI 2022 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions
and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/.
DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
August 9th, 2022: Deadline for the submission of papers.
September 6th, 2022: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
September 20th, 2022: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
October 23rd or 24th, 2022: OM-2022, hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China.
Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact)
Trentino Digitale, Italy
2. Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway
4. Oktie Hassanzadeh
IBM Research, USA
5. Cássia Trojahn
IRIT, France
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed):
Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany
Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK
Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France
Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France
Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Portugal
Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany
Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland
Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany
Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
Majid Mohammadi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia
George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece
Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile
Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China
Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA
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Best regards,
Cassia
The IECS Doctoral School, at the University of Trento, has several PhD
openings.
Application deadline on September* 6, 2022 hrs. 04:00 PM *(CEST). See here
for details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application
If you are interested in the project on *Adaptive Multimodal conversational
agents* that will be run in collaboration with Amazon Alexa (in Berlin),
please contact me at raffaella.bernardi(a)unitn.it
I am looking for PhD candidates with a strong background in Computer
Science, in particular on Machine Learning, ideally with some expertise on
Natural Language Processing/Natural Language Generation.
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University of Trento
CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN),
DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN)
Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC)
http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/
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Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022)
Workshop and Shared Task at EMNLP 2022
Workshop: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-ws
Shared Task: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-st
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 social inclusion of
marginalized populations. These related research areas have attracted
attention in the past ten years, 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 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 the 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
7 September 2022: Workshop paper submission deadline (Softconf)
2 October 2022: Workshop paper notification deadline
16 October 2022: Workshop paper camera ready deadline
8 December 2022: Workshop
Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and
published in ACL Anthology. Extended versions of 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 at School of Interactive Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University
Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at LaSTUS Lab. at
TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Kai North, Ph.D. student at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra
Program committee (Tentative)
Rodrigo Alarcón (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
Fernando Alva Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK)
Susana Bautista (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain)
Antoine Bordes (Facebook, UK)
Remi Cardon (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Eric De la Clergerie (INRIA, France)
Felice Dell'Orletta (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio
Zampolli”, Italy)
Thomas François (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique)
Nuria Gala (Université Aix-Marseille, France)
Goran Glavaš (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Itziar Gonzalez-Dios (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Natalia Grabar (Université de Lille, France)
Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Tomoyuki Kajiwara (Ehime University, Japan)
David Kauchak (Pomona College, USA)
Reno Kriz (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Louis Martin (Facebook, UK)
Lourdes Moreno López (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
Christina Niklaus (University St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Benoît Sagot (INRIA, France)
Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio
Zampolli”, Italy)
Victoria Yaneva (National Board of Medical Examiners, USA)
CONTACT
Feel free to send us messages at:
Email: horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu
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EAMT Sponsorship of Activities for 2023
Deadline: 07/10/2022
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== Call for Proposals ==
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation
that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and
translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and
researchers of this increasingly viable technology.
As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness
about translation technologies, the EAMT is for the eleventh consecutive
year launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities during
2023.
== Purpose of the Call ==
The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as tutorials,
workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives, and
small research and development projects by its current members.
The EAMT particularly encourages proposals from early career researchers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Recent developments in MT research.
- MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results.
- Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns.
- New or prospective commercial users of MT technology.
- MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.).
- Interaction between users and MT systems.
- MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech
translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text
categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.).
- MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc.
- MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development.
- MT for crisis management.
- Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments.
- Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public.
All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT
Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts
if necessary.
== Submission information ==
* Eligibility requirements *
In order to qualify for funding, the institution(s) or the individual
making the proposal must be a confirmed member of the EAMT at submission
time.
Membership information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php
* Selection criteria *
- The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at
large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and users of MT
technologies.
- The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and
include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be
submitted (see below).
- Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be
beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars,
workshops and tutorials.
- Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT
community (through the development, dissemination or use of project
results) are those most likely to be accepted.
- Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially
valued.
- The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or
scientifically sound.
- The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be
evaluated.
- The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual
implementation of the activity.
== Budget ==
EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities. There
are two categories of proposals. The member institutions’ category and the
individual members’ category.
The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €10,000 to cover all
granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project
will be €10,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be
required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only
offer to partially fund a project.
A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call
will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The
proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress
report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the
mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer
is still a current member of the EAMT.
== Contact for enquiries ==
Carolina Scarton
EAMT Secretary
e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk
== Submission procedure ==
* Overview *
Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in
English, that is composed of the elements described below.
- Proposal description: 2-page maximum
- Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum
- Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum
Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important
Dates below) through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Project
Proposals). Authors are encouraged to use the template available at
http://www.eamt.org/eamt2020-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and
Microsoft Word are available.
* Detailed description of sections of the proposal *
1-) Proposal description (two pages) in English
- Complete contact information of the candidate.
- A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity.
- A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the
community.
- A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity.
2-) Experience of the proposing person/organisation in the field (up to one
page).
- It may include a list of experience and related skills of the
participants of the team.
3-) Budget and project planning overview (up to one page)
- A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event.
- Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated.
- An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other
supporting funds.
== Important Dates ==
- Circulation of the Call: August 1, 2022
- Submission deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022, 23:59 CEST
- Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 7, 2022
In case of acceptance:
- Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2023, 23:59 CEST
- Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2024, 23:59 CET
== Additional provisions ==
- Only complete proposals will be reviewed.
- All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential
and will only be used in the context of this project.
- Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive
members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed
during the negotiation stage.
- The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g.
Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General
assembly, etc.), without any claim for additional funds.
- The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project,
activity or initiative.
== No obligation to award the proposal ==
The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the proposals pursuant to
this call for proposals. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with
respect to candidates whose proposals have not been accepted. Nor shall it
be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the proposal.
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*Carolina Scarton*
Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/
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EAMT Sponsorship of Activities (Students' edition) for 2023
Deadline: 07/10/2022
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== Call for Proposals ==
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation
that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and
translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and
researchers of this increasingly viable technology.
As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness
about translation technologies, the EAMT is for the third consecutive year
launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities led by
students during 2023.
== Purpose of the Call ==
The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as shared tasks,
workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives,
dataset creation and small research and development projects by its current
student members.
The EAMT particularly welcomes proposals from students in all levels of
education, including undergraduates, postgraduates and PhD students.
This call will also give priority to projects that extend work done during
the Machine Translation Marathon 2022 (
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/mt-marathon-2022), being held in Prague,
Czech Republic from 5 to 10 September 2022.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Recent developments in MT research.
- MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results.
- Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns.
- New or prospective commercial users of MT technology.
- MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.).
- Interaction between users and MT systems.
- MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech
translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text
categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.).
- MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc.
- MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development.
- MT for crisis management.
- Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments.
- Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public (including
shared tasks).
- Creation of datasets for MT research.
All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT
Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts
if necessary.
== Submission information ==
* Eligibility requirements *
In order to qualify for funding, the individual making the proposal must be
a confirmed student member of the EAMT at submission time (Membership
information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php). Applicants will also need
formal approval from their supervisor.
It is important to emphasise that projects are expected to be student-led.
Therefore, although we welcome projects showing collaboration with industry
and other academic partners, the project is expected to directly benefit
the students own career and/or project.
* Selection criteria *
- The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at
large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and/or users of MT
technologies.
- The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and
include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be
submitted (see below).
- Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be
beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars,
workshops, shared tasks and tutorials.
- Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT
community (through the development, dissemination or use of project
results) are those most likely to be accepted.
- Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially
valued.
- The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or
scientifically sound.
- The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be
evaluated.
- The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual
implementation of the activity.
== Budget ==
EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities.
The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €4,000 to cover all
granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project
will be €4,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be
required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only
offer to partially fund a project.
A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call
will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The
proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress
report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the
mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer
is still a current member of the EAMT.
== Contact for enquiries ==
Carolina Scarton
EAMT Secretary
e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk
== Submission procedure ==
* Overview *
Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in
English, that is composed of the elements described below.
- Proposal description: 2-page maximum
- Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum
- Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum
- Supervisor's letter of approval: 1-page maximum
Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important
Dates below) through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Project
Proposals). Authors are encouraged to use the template available at
http://www.eamt.org/eamt2020-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and
Microsoft Word are available.
* Detailed description of sections of the proposal *
1-) Proposal summary (two pages) in English
- Complete contact information of the candidate.
- A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity.
- A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the
community and the development of your studies (you should establish a clear
connection between this activity and your degree project).
- A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity.
2-) Experience of the proposing person in the field (up to one page)
- It may include a list of experience and related skills of the
participants of the team (your team may be composed by your supervisors and
potential collaborators).
3-) Budget and project planning overview (up to one page)
- A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event.
- Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated.
- An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other
supporting funds.
4-) Supervisor's letter of approval (up to one page)
- A letter from your supervisor stating that they approve your project
submission and that they will act as fund manager if needed (please note
that EAMT needs to make payments into a research account set up at your
institution).
== Important Dates ==
- Circulation of the Call: August 1, 2022
- Submission deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022, 23:59 CEST
- Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 7, 2022
In case of acceptance:
- Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2023, 23:59 CEST
- Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2024, 23:59 CET
== Additional provisions ==
- Only complete proposals will be reviewed.
- All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential
and will only be used in the context of this project.
- Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive
members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed
during the negotiation stage.
- The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g.
Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General
assembly, etc.). If you think you will not have funds for attending the
EAMT event you can add travel costs to your budget.
- The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project,
activity or initiative.
== No obligation to award the proposal ==
The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the proposals pursuant to
this call for proposals. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with
respect to candidates whose proposals have not been accepted. Nor shall it
be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the proposal.
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*Carolina Scarton*
Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/
Dear colleagues,
The HCI unit within the Computer Science department at KU Leuven (Belgium) has an open PhD position in multilingual NLP.
The PhD will be supervised by me.
All applications received before the 15th of August will receive full consideration and the position will remain open until filled after that.
More information and application link here: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60142077
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any question!
Best,
Miryam
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Miryam de Lhoneux (she/her)
Postdoc in NLP
Incoming assistant professor (oct 2022)
Department of Computer Science
KU Leuven