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CFP - TheWebConf 2023 workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM OSNeHM 2023 First International workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse co-located with The Web Conference 2023 Austin, Texas, USA APRIL 30 - MAY 4, 2023 https://osnehm.iit.cnr.it/ ******************************************************************** NEXT DEADLINES - abstract submission extended (all deadlines are AoE) ******************************************************************** 6th February 2023: Abstract submission deadline 6th February 2023: Workshop paper submission deadline ******************************************************************** SUBMISSION LINK ******************************************************************** https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd ******************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ The cyber and physical worlds are increasingly becoming indistinguishable. This is fostered by enabling technologies such as IoT and pervasive networks, advanced data management and analytics techniques, and advanced platforms with massive diffusion, chiefly among them Online Social Networks. Whatever we do in one world has immediate consequences on the other world, thanks to a constant flow of data - and online analytics - between the two worlds. In this context, the vision of the Metaverse provides additional perspectives, augmenting human interactions with things and other humans across the two worlds. The role of the humans in this socio-technical complex system is key, and still largely unexplored. Quite interestingly, while new tools characteristic of the cyber-physical world- OSN among them - have been designed to largely extend human capabilities, the real interplay between these tools and human behaviours and cognitive constraints often result in unexpected results. Therefore, while humans are in principle at the center of the cyber-physical convergence and, thus -- in the perspective -- of the Metaverse, the interplay between both worlds and the technical solutions underpinning this convergence are hitherto largely unexplored and yet to be understood. This is a big gap our community should fill in, in order to develop cyber-physical worlds (and the Metaverse) as a truly human-centric environment. OSNeHM’s main theme will be the role of Online Social Networks in such a human-centric cyber-physical convergence leading to the Metaverse. It will provide a forum for discussion on early yet principled approaches and results on all aspects related to this theme. A special emphasis will be devoted to the characterisation of the individual and social behaviour of humans, using OSN as “big data microscopes” for collecting and analysing big data via robust big data analytics. Papers discussing solutions focusing on the interplay between social and technical (online and offline) worlds will be high welcome. On the other hand, the workshop will welcome papers proposing novel technical solutions to support human-centric approaches to the evolution of OSN in the perspective of the Metaverse. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * OSNeHM platforms, protocols and applications; * OSN and Metaverse services & applications; * Decentralised, mobile and location-based OSNeHM; * Trust, reputation, privacy and security in OSNeHM; * Dynamics of trends, information and opinion diffusion in OSNeHM; * Fake news, toxicity radicalization and disinformation in OSNeHM; * Detecting, modeling and tackling Online harms in OSNeHM; * Recommendations and advertising in OSNeHM; * Measurement, analysis and modeling of popular OSN (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, etc.), including decentralized ones (e.g., Mastodon, Pleroma, ...); * Data mining, and machine learning in OSNeHM systems; * Social media analysis and social analytics in the perspective of OSNeHM; * Information extraction and search in OSNeHM; * Complex-network analysis of OSNeHM; * Modeling of social behavior through OSN data; * Crowdsourcing and OSNeHM; * Multidisciplinary applications of OSNeHM (economics, medicine, society, politics, homeland security, psychology, etc.) PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ Papers that have been previously published or are under review for another journal, conference or workshop will not be considered for publication. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in length (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to the ACM template published in the ACM guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Workshop papers must be self-contained and in English. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected without review. Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register for the main conference. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy. Please follow the submission link at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd and select the full name of the workshop in the submission list. AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS _______________________________ We will consider assigning a best paper award. We will organise a special issue on the Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM) Journal https://www.journals.elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/ soliciting submissions of extended versions of particularly promising papers. OSNEM is a recent yet very well-reputed (Q1 SJR) journal covering, among others, 100% of the workshop topics. IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines are AoE) _______________ 6th February 2023: Abstract submission deadline 6th February 2023: Workshop paper submission deadline 6th March 2023: Workshop paper (acceptance) notification 20th March 2023: Workshop papers camera-ready deadline 31st March 2023: Final program (with duration) provided to Workshop Track leads 1st May 2023: Workshops at WWW2023 ORGANISING COMMITTEE ____________________ Workshop chairs: * Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy * Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy * Jussara M. Almeida, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK Technical Program Committee * Virgilio Almeida - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil * Chiara Boldrini - IIT-CNR, Italy * Barbara Carminati - University of Insubria, Italy * Ignacio Castro - Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom * Emilio Ferrara - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA * Pan Hui - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong * Adriana Iamnitchi - Maastricht University, Netherlands * Andreas Kaltenbrunner - Pompeu Fabra University, Spain * Ioannis Katakis - University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Ema Kusen - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria * Haewoon Kwak - Singapore Management University, Singapore * Lik-Hang Lee - KAIST, South Korea * Na Li - Prairie View A&M University, USA * Fabricio Murai - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA * Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Daniel Sadoc - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil * Nishanth Sastry - University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom * Altigran Silva - Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil * Thiago Silva - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil * Fabrizio Silvestri - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy * Mark Strembeck - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria * Andrea Tagarelli - University of Calabria, Italy * Panayiotis Tsaparas - University of Ioannina, Greece * Gareth Tyson - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong * Marco Viviani - University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy * Ingmar Weber - Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany For more information, please write to the workshop co-chairs at osnehm23 <at> iit <dot> cnr <dot> it

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deadline extension: Advanced Robotics Special Issue on Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems (28th Feb 2023)
by Ryuichiro Higashinaka 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Dear all, Due to numerous requests, we decided to extend the deadline for the special issue on "Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems" in the journal of Advanced Robotics (Taylor & Francis). https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/advanced-robotics-multimo… https://www.rsj.or.jp/content/files/pub/ar/CFP/CFP_37_21.pdf The new deadline is 28 Feb. 2023. I would also appreciate it if you could help distribute the CFP and encourage your colleagues to make submissions. Best regards, Ryuichiro on behalf of guest editors ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [Call for Papers] Advanced Robotics Special Issue on Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems Co-Editors: Prof. David Traum (University of Southern California, USA) Prof. Gabriel Skantze (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Prof. Hiromitsu Nishizaki (University of Yamanashi, Japan) Prof. Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Nagoya University, Japan) Dr. Takashi Minato (RIKEN/ATR, Japan) Prof. Takayuki Nagai (Osaka University, Japan) Publication in Vol. 37, Issue 21 (Nov 2023) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 Feb 2023 In recent years, as seen in smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Alexa, there has been remarkable progress in spoken dialogue systems technology to converse with users with human-like utterances. In the future, such dialogue systems are expected to support our daily activities in various ways. However, dialogue in daily activities is more complex than that with smart speakers; even with current spoken dialogue technology, it is still difficult to maintain a successful dialogue in various situations. For example, in customer service through dialogue, it is necessary for operators to respond appropriately to the different ways of speaking and requests of various customers. In such cases, we humans can switch the speaking manner depending on the type of customer, and we can successfully perform the dialogue by not only using our voice but also our gaze and facial expressions. This type of human-like interaction is far from possible with the existing spoken dialogue systems. Humanoid robots have the possibility to realize such an interaction, because they can recognize not only the user's voice but also facial expressions and gestures using various sensors, and can express themselves in various ways such as gestures and facial expressions using their bodies. Their many means of expressions have the potential to successfully continue dialogue in a manner different from conventional dialogue systems. The combination of such robots and dialogue systems can greatly expand the possibilities of dialogue systems, while at the same time, providing a variety of new challenges. Various research and development efforts are currently underway to address these new challenges, including "dialogue robot competition" at IROS2022. In this special issue, we invite a wide range of papers on multimodal dialogue systems and dialogue robots, their applications, and fundamental research. Prospective contributed papers are invited to cover, but are not limited to, the following topics on multimodal dialogue systems and robots: *Spoken dialogue processing *Multimodal processing *Speech recognition *Text-to-speech *Emotion recognition *Motion generation *Facial expression generation *System architecture *Natural language processing *Knowledge representation *Benchmarking *Evaluation method *Ethics *Dialogue systems and robots for competition Submission: The full-length manuscript (either PDF file or MS word file) should be sent by 28th Feb 2023 to the office of Advanced Robotics, the Robotics Society of Japan through the on-line submission system of the journal (https://www.rsj.or.jp/AR/submission). Sample manuscript templates and detailed instructions for authors are available at the website of the journal. Note that word count includes references. Captions and author bios are not included. For special issues, longer papers can be accepted if the editors approve. Please contact the editors before the submission if your manuscript exceeds the word limit.

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Vacancy for a professor in Natural Language Processing at the University of Antwerp
by walter.daelemans＠uantwerpen.be 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

We have a vacancy for a professor of Natural Language Processing (from September 15, 2023). The successful candidate will join the CLiPS Research Centre with research on NLP and Machine Learning, and teach in the MA on Digital Text Analysis. The deadline for applications is 28 March 2023. Vacancy description and link to application site: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/academic-staff/?q=2634&descr=Ac… For more information, candidates can contact me by email. Best wishes, Walter Daelemans

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Call for Papers: CMC-Corpora 2023, Mannheim 14+15 September
by cotgrove＠ids-mannheim.de 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Call for Papers *International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities* 14–15th September 2023, University of Mannheim, Germany The 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Mannheim, Germany in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS). Specialized corpora of the language of CMC and social media are increasingly vital for the analysis of the “unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in terms of speakers and settings” in digital contexts, as well as of “language evolution seen through the lens of user-generated content, which gives access to a number of variants, socio- and idiolects” (Barbaresi 2019: 29-30). The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. It features research in which computational methods and tools are used for language-centered empirical analysis of CMC and social media phenomena as well as research on building, processing, annotating, representing, and exploiting CMC and social media corpora, including their integration in digital research infrastructures. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and Social Media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (Facebook, Instagram), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. We invite submissions on CMC-related topics, including but not limited to: * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Legal issues concerning the sampling, distribution and (long-term) archiving of social media data * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * Semantic Annotation ================= *Important Dates* ================= * Abstract submission: 30 April, 23:59 CEST * Notification of acceptance: Friday, 30 June 2023, 23:59 CEST * Deadline revised abstract submission: Sunday, 6 August 2023, 23:59 CEST * Deadline registration for participation: Sunday, 20 August 2023, 23:59 CEST * Arrival, Get-together: Wednesday, 13 September 2023 * Conference: Thursday 14 - Friday 15 September 2023 ============ *Submission* ============ We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus demonstrations on any topic relevant to the list of themes mentioned above. We invite two types of submissions: * short papers (2-4 pages, following the existing template, i.e between 800 and 1600 words) for oral presentations * abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Each paper and abstract will be double blind peer reviewed by two or three members of the scientific committee. Authors of accepted papers can present their work at the conference (30 minute time slots: 20 minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress, early-stage research, software/corpus demonstrations during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best short papers will be invited to submit extended papers for a special issue journal or a volume publication. *Instructions for authors* All submissions have to be written in English and have to be anonymised. The short papers for oral presentations should not exceed 4 pages and the paper format should adhere to the template which you can download from the links below. The abstracts for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words, bibliographical references not included. All contributions will be collected through the online platform EasyChair under the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmc2023). (If you do not have an EasyChair account, you need to create one first.) Template for MSWord (40 kB): https://www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Lehrstuehle/phil/deutsche_philologie/LS_G… Template for LaTeX (260 kB): https://www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Lehrstuehle/phil/deutsche_philologie/LS_G… For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc-corpora2023(a)uni-mannheim.de We look forward to seeing you there! The organizing committee: Jutta Bopp, Louis Cotgrove, Laura Herzberg, Harald Lüngen, Andreas Witt Conference website: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023/ ====================== *Scientific Committee* ====================== (confirmed so far): * Paul Baker (Lancaster University) * Adrien Barbaresi (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) * Michael Beißwenger (University of Duisburg-Essen) * Mario Cal-Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) * Steven Coats (University of Oulu) * Luna DeBruyne (Ghent University) * Orphée DeClercq (Ghent University) * Francisco-Javier Fernández-Polo (University of Santiago de Compostela) * Jenny Frey (European Academy of Bozen) * Alexandra Georgakopoulou-Nunes (King's College London) * Klaus Geyer (University of Southern Denmark) * Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano) * Claire Hardaker (Lancaster University) * Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) * Lisa Hilte (University of Antwerp) * Mai Hodac (Université Toulouse) * Wolfgang Imo (University of Hamburg) * Pawel Kamocki (IDS Mannheim) * Erik-Tjong Kim-Sang (Netherlands eScience Center) * Alexander Koenig (CLARIN ERIC) * Florian Kunneman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) * Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim) * Els Lefever (Ghent University) * Julien Longhi (Cergy Paris Université) * Maja Miličević-Petrović (University of Bologna) * Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University) * Celine Poudat (Université Côte d'Azur) * Thomas Proisl (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) * Sebastian Reimann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) * Unn Røyneland (University of Oslo) * Müge Satar (Newcastle University) * Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) * Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) * Egon Stemle (Eurac Research) * Caroline Tagg (The Open University) * Simone Ueberwasser (University of Zurich) * Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University)

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Two Post-Doc Positions in Comparative Linguistics at the University of Passau
by Mattis List 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Dear all, I would like to point you to two open positions (deadline for application is February 28) at our newly founded Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics at the University of Passau (Germany). The first position is for an "assistant professor" (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, m/w/d) with broad interest in linguistic typology, comparative linguistics, and computational linguistics. The position is for three years, can be prolonged by three more years, and can be used to write a habilitation thesis with me. Condition is a PhD that has been acquired before starting the position (preferably in comparative linguistics or computational linguistics). https://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote… The second position is for either an "assistant professor" (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, m/w/d) or a "research and teaching assistant" (Wiss. Mitarbeiter, m/w/d), again for three years with possible extension by three more years, devoted to the enhancement and extension of our work on the standardization of cross-linguistic data. Condition is a PhD ("assistant professor") or a master in computer science or computational linguistics ("research and teaching assistant"). For detailed requirements (web administration and Python), please see the detailed call. https://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote… Note that only the German versions of these calls are legally binding. Please circulate these across all channels, we hope to find strong applications. All the best, Mattis -- Prof. Dr. Johann-Mattis List Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics University of Passau Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 16 04032 Passau Germany Chair Website: https://phil.uni-passau.de/multilinguale-computerlinguistik/ Personal Website: https://lingulist.de Telephone: +49(0)851/509-3480

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Removal from subscription list
by Marie Quinn 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Hi, Can you please remove me from your mailing list? Kind regards, Marie

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1 PhD position in neural language generation
by Vera Demberg 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

*1 PhD-Position in Neural Language Generation * We invite applications for one PhD student position in data-to-text natural language generation in a low resource context. The goal of the project is to develop methods that generalize well to settings where little training data for the domain of interest is available. The position, to be established in thegroup "Computer Science and Computational Linguistics" (Prof. Vera Demberg) <https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg.html>, is part of the E2 project of DFG-funded transregional collaborative research center on perspicuous computing, CPEC <https://www.perspicuous-computing.science/>. There will also be the opportunity to closely collaborate with researchers working on the DFG-fundedCollaborative Research Center on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding <http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>(SFB 1102) <http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>. Candidates for this position should have a master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science or a related discipline. Experience with machine learning including deep learning is expected; background and previous experience in natural language processing is also expected. The research will be conducted in English. Dates: *application deadline: Feb 15, 2023* start date: spring or summer 2023 The expected duration of the PhD is 3.5 years, the position is paid according to 75% TV-L E13, see alsohttps://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix=12 <https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix…>. The job does not come with any teaching obligation. You can however choose to participate in teaching activities (tutoring or co-teaching). Applicants are requested to submit their application, including a cover letter that specifies why you would like to work on this topic and what qualifies you for it, an academic CV, a list of academic publications, your MSc thesis (or a current draft), copies of academic degree certificates and names of two potential references. Please also include a 2-page research proposal in your application which outlines how you would approach the topic (choose one topic among multitask learning, domain adaptation or connective generation for discourse coherence). Saarland University <https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/home.html> is one of the leading centres for computational linguistics and computer science in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. It is famous for its interdisciplinary research in language, translation, computation and cognition. The group is affiliated with both theDepartment of Computer Science <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fachrichtung/informatik.html>and with the Department of Language Science and Technology <https://www.lst.uni-saarland.de/>. The Department of Language Science and Technology organizes about 100 research staff in ten research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. Both departments are part of the Saarland Informatics Campus <https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en>, which brings together 800 researchers and 2000 students from 81 countries. We collaborate closely with the university's Department of Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home/>, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems <https://www.mpi-sws.org/>, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence <https://www.dfki.de/en/web/> (DFKI). Our researchers and students come from all over the world, and our primary working language is English. Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women are strongly encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications. Applications should be sent via email directly to Prof. Vera Demberg (vera(at)coli.uni-saarland.de), quoting opening number W2229.

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Call for Participation - VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023
by Jauhiainen, Tommi S 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Call for Participation - VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023 Within the scope of the tenth VarDial workshop, co-located with EACL 2023, we are organizing an evaluation campaign on similar languages, varieties and dialects with three shared tasks. To participate and to receive the training data please fill the registration form on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023/shared-tasks We are organizing the following tasks this year (please check the website for more information): 1. SID for low-resource language varieties (SID4LR) This task is Slot and Intent Detection (SID) for low-resource language varieties. Slot detection is a span labeling task, intent detection a classification task. The test set will contain Swiss German (GSW), South Tyrolean (DE-ST), and Neapolitan (NAP). This shared task seeks to answer the following question: How can we best do zero-shot transfer to low-resource language varieties without standard orthography? The training data consists of the xSID-0.4 corpus, containing data from Snips and Facebook. The original training data is in English, but we also provide automatic translations of the training data into German, Italian and other languages (the projected nmt-transfer data from van der Goot et al., 2021). Participants are allowed to use other data to train on, as long as it is not annotated for SID in the target languages. Participants are not required to submit systems for both tasks, it is also possible to only participate in one of the two tasks, intent detection (classification) or slot detection (span labeling). The systems will be evaluated with the span F1 score for slots and accuracy for intents as the main evaluation metric as is standard for these tasks. Participants may also submit systems for a subset of the three target languages. 2. Discriminating Between Similar Languages - True Labels (DSL-TL) Discriminating between similar languages (e.g., Croatian and Serbian) and language varieties (e.g., Brazilian and European Portuguese) has been a popular topic at VarDial since its first edition. The DSL shared tasks organized in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 have addressed this issue by providing participants with the DSL Corpus Collection (DSLCC), a collection of journalistic texts containing texts written in multiple similar languages and language varieties. The DSLCC was compiled under the assumption that each instance's gold label is determined by where the text is retrieved from. While this is a straightforward (and mostly accurate) practical assumption, previous research has shown the limitations of this problem formulation as some texts may present no linguistic marker that allows systems or native speakers to discriminate between two very similar languages or language varieties. We tackle this important limitation by introducing the DSL True Labels (DSL-TL) task. DSL-TL will provide participants with a human-annotated DSL dataset. A sub-set of nearly 13,000 sentences were retrieved from the DSLCC and annotated by multiple native speakers of the included language and varieties included, namely English (American and British), Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Spanish (Argentinian and Peninsular). To the best of our knowledge this is the first dataset of its kind opening exciting new avenues for language identification research. 3. Discriminating Between Similar Languages - Speech (DSL-S) In the DSL-S 2023 shared task, participants use training and development sets from the Mozilla Common Voice (CV) to develop a language identifier for speech. The nine languages selected for the task come from four different subgroups of Indo-European or Uralic language families. The test data used in this task is the Common Voice test data for the nine languages. The participants are asked not to evaluate their systems themselves nor in any other way investigate the test data before the shared task results have been published. The total amount of unpacked speech data is around 15 gigabytes. Only the .mp3 files from the test set must be used when generating the results. The metadata concerning the test audio files, including their transcriptions, must not be used. This task is audio only. The 9-way classification task is divided into two separate tracks. Only the training and development data in the Common Voice dataset are allowed in the closed track, and no other data must be used. This prohibition includes systems and models trained (unsupervised or supervised) on any other data. On the open track, the use of any openly available (available to any possible shared task participant) datasets and models not including or trained on the Mozilla Common Voice test set is allowed. Dates Training set release: January 23, 2023 Test set release: February 6, 2023 Submissions due: February 17, 2023 Paper submission deadline: February 27, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 Of course, VarDial also accepts research papers focusing on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. The full call for papers can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023/call-for-papers Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:yves.scherrer@helsinki.fi> or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:tommi.jauhiainen@helsinki.fi>

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ EACL 2023: Second CFP
by Mariana Romanyshyn 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

*The Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2023)* <https://unlp.org.ua/> *Update: *the submission link can be found at https://softconf.com/eacl2023/UNLP/. *Call For Papers* UNLP 2023 <https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/> will be held online in conjunction with the EACL 2023 conference in May 2023. The workshop will bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics who work with the Ukrainian language or do cross-Slavic research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. The workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-Slavic models, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Shared Task* The Second UNLP features the first *Shared Task in Grammatical Error Correction for Ukrainian*. The Shared Task focuses on correction of grammatical errors and disfluencies, and we see this shared task as an opportunity to facilitate research of GEC for Slavic languages. You can find more details on the web page of the Shared Task <https://unlp.org.ua/shared-task/>. *Important dates* December 22, 2023 — First call for workshop papers January 9, 2023 — Second call for workshop papers February 13, 2023 — Workshop paper due March 13, 2023 — Notification of acceptance March 27, 2023 — Camera-ready papers due May 5 or 6, 2023 — Workshop dates *Keynote speakers* Mona Diab <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mona-diab-55946614/>, The George Washington University, US Gulnara Muratova <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulnara-muratova-0206/>, QIRI`M YOUNG, Ukraine *Submissions* The workshop will provide Grammarly Premium to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please submit the form on the website <https://unlp.org.ua/>. UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the wider public are strongly encouraged. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. All submissions will be judged on correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation, usability, and significance/relevance to the Workshop. Every submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Paper review will be blind. The papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-citations and other references that reveal the authors’ identity must be avoided. Long papers should follow the two-column format of EACL 2023 proceedings not exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) pages for references. Short paper submissions should follow the same format, and should not exceed five (5) pages for content plus two (2) pages for references. All submissions must conform to the official style guidelines of EACL 2023 <https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/#:~:text=style%20guidelines%20of%20EACL…> contained in the style files and must be in PDF. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers must be provided both in LaTeX and PDF format. *Workshop Organizers* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Molchanovskii, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Oleksii Syvokon, Microsoft, Ukraine *Program Committee* Andrii Babii, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine Andrii Liubonko, Grammarly, Ukraine Anna Rogers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Artem Chernodub, Grammarly, Ukraine Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Germany Bogdana Oliynyk, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Bohdan Kolchygin, Shelf, Ukraine Dmytro Karamshuk, Meta, UK Dmytro Sytnyk, Institute of Mathematics NAS, Ukraine Galyna Kriukova, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Igor Samokhin, Grammarly, Ukraine Iuliia Makogon, Semantrum, Ukraine Julia Rogushina, Institute of Software Systems NAS, Ukraine Kostiantyn Omelianchuk, Grammarly, Ukraine Maksym Tarnavskyi, Shelf, Poland Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Natalia Grabar, CNRS, Université de Lille, France Natalia Kocyba, Samsung Research Poland, Poland Nataliia Cheilytko, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Oleksandr Marchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi, Grammarly, Ukraine Oleksii Turuta, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine Olena Siruk, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Olga Kanishcheva, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Ruslan Chorney, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Serhii Havrylov, University of Edinburgh, UK Svitlana Galeshchuk, Université Paris Dauphine, BNP Paribas, France Taras Lehinevych, Amazon, Ireland Taras Shevchenko, Proxet (Giphy project), Ukraine Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Thierry Hamon, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LIMSI & Université Sorbonne, France Veronika Solopova, FU Berlin, Germany Volodymyr Taranukha, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Vsevolod Dyomkin, Projector, Ukraine Yevhen Kupriianov, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine *Contact* Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua. Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop.

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2nd CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Second call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 The 4th RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous* Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources *: The term indigenous languages used in the RAIL workshop is intended to refer to non-colonial languages (in this case those used in Africa). In no way is this term used to cause any harm or discomfort to anyone. Many of these languages were or are still marginalised, and the aim of the workshop is to bring attention to the creation, curation, and development of resources for these languages in Africa. Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system (link will be provided once available). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Please make sure you also go through the responsible NLP checklist (https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/). Also, submissions should have a section titled “Limitations” (as described in the stylesheets). Authors are also encouraged to include an explicit ethics statement. Important dates: Submission deadline 13 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 5 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. 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