- Corpora - ELRA lists

CFP CODI 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Amir Zeldes 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

*apologies for cross-postings* � CODI, 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse � 2023-07-13–14 - ACL 2023 - Toronto, Canada � ** Submission deadline: April 24th, 2023 ** � Aims and scope � The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse phenomena as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few, but the problems in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized three Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021 and COLING 2022 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed work to improve the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse relation parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems in discourse. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. � The 4th CODI workshop is planned as a 2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2019 and 2021 the shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT) will be held again in 2023, with three tasks: discourse segmentation, discourse connective identification and discourse relation classification, including new datasets and languages. For more information on the shared task see: � <https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/> https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/ � � Topics of interest � We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � * discourse structure � * discourse connectives � * discourse relations � * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena � * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena � * discourse parsing � * cross-lingual discourse processing � * cross-domain discourse processing � * anaphora and coreference resolution � * event coreference � * argument mining � * coherence modeling � * discourse and semantics � * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. � * evaluation methodology for discourse processing � � Submissions � � We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. � � Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. � � Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. � Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be indicated at submission. � � Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2023 formatting instructions described here: <https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/> https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/ � � Please submit your workshop papers at <https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023> https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023 Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages. � Important dates * 2023-04-24: CODI papers due * 2023-05-22: Notification of acceptance * 2023-06-06: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2023-07-13 – 2022-07-14: CODI workshop � All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). � Invited Speakers � * Yufang Hou, IBM Research � * Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia � � Organizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:codi-workshop@googlegroups.com> � � �

1 0

Open (tenure-track) Positions at the Department of Computer Science (DCC), University of Chile
by Felipe Bravo 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

The Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the University of Chile <https://www.dcc.uchile.cl> is offering 2 full-time permanent positions to carry out research and teaching at both undergraduate and graduate level. As assistant professors in tenure-track positions, candidates are expected to develop a strong and competitive research program. *Details and application link (in Spanish) can be found at: https://concurso-academico.uchile.cl/ <https://concurso-academico.uchile.cl/> (look for code FM2202). The application deadline is March 1st, 2023.* *Candidates* Candidates should be pursuing internationally recognized research in the following areas (one position per area is offered): - Theoretical Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence - Software Engineering - Computer Security and Privacy - Networking Successful candidates are expected to complement the existing strengths of the Department and its current activities. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree and must have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship within the field of interest. Successful candidates will be expected to: • move to Chile (if currently living elsewhere), • establish and lead their own research team, • develop innovative research at the highest international standards, • deliver high quality teaching, • supervise undergraduate, master and PhD students, • obtain competitive research funding from external funding bodies, • write and speak English fluently, and • develop a good command of Spanish within 1 year of appointment. *The Department of Computer Science (DCC)* The DCC is the leading Computer Science Department in Chile, and one of the most prominent in Latin America. It pioneered the use of Unix and the adoption of the Internet in Chile. Today it has 21 full-time professors, where 8 come from Argentina, Uruguay, France, Ireland, and Peru. They carry out research** at ** at the highest level, publishing around 100 articles per year in international conferences and journals. The department is responsible for teaching Computer Science, with about 600 undergraduate, 80 MSc and 40 PhD students majoring in Computer Science. For further information, please contact Prof. Gonzalo Navarro ( gnavarro(a)dcc.uchile.cl). *CENIA and IMFD* Many academics at DCC form part of two well-funded research centers in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: the National Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CENIA) (Funded by Programa Centros Basales, ANID, Chile) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) (Funded by Programa Milenio, ANID, Chile). Joining DCC will provide the possibility to cooperate with these centers. https://comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/650-llamado-a-concurso-academico-…

1 0

CfP. Workshop on Lexicography and CEFR at eLex 2023
by kris.heylen＠ivdnt.org 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Workshop URL: https://elex.link/elex2023/workshop-on-lexicography-and-cefr/ INTRODUCTION The workshop ‘Lexicography and CEFR: Linking lexicographic resources and language proficiency levels’ will be held in conjunction with eLex 2023 in Brno, Czech Republic, on June 29 afternoon, in hybrid mode. The focus is lexicographic projects connected with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). CEFR is a generally established international standard for describing language proficiency, and CEFR-graded resources have been developed for many languages in Europe. However, incorporating their information is still not a common practice in modern lexicography for most languages, notably except for two English dictionaries for advanced learners (Cambridge and Oxford). Moreover, there are substantial unsolved issues, such as inconsistencies in vocabulary size per level between languages; no, or limited, sense disambiguation in CEFR resources; words from a higher CEFR level in definitions and example sentences; and limited collaboration among the related fields of lexicography, language acquisition, and linguistic linked data. The main objectives are to examine approaches and methods used for linking lexicographic data and language proficiency levels and to discuss strategies for more convergence between lexicographic resources with CEFR-based language learning programs. TOPICS The workshop will feature an overview by the organizers as well as invited talks. In addition, we invite submissions for papers (20 minutes, plus discussion) on the following topics: • the creation of CEFR-graded lexicographic resources • the implementation of vocabulary and grammar profiles in lexicographic resources • the creation of crosslingual concept-based CEFR resources • the use of lexicographic resources for creating language proficiency-level learning applications and tools • the use of CEFR-graded lexicographic resources in CALL • the linking of lexicographic resources to CEFR-graded vocabularies • data collection for creating CEFR-graded lexicographic resources SUBMISSION AND DATES Abstracts including 300-500 words should be submitted by February 15, 2023 via Indico [https://indico.elex.link/event/1/]. Please choose the ‘cefr’ track when submitting your abstract. Notification of acceptance will be made by February 22. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a full paper for the eLex 2023 Proceedings (indexed by SCOPUS). Paper submissions will be due by March 31 and acceptance notification will be made by April 15, 2023. ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT Kris Heylen. Dutch Language Institute Jelena Kallas. Institute of the Estonian Language (jelena.kallas(a)eki.ee) Ilan Kernerman. Lexicala by K Dictionaries Carole Tiberius. Dutch Language Institute (carole.tiberius(a)ivdnt.org) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Following this workshop at eLex, a related workshop ‘Linking Lexicographic and Language Learning Resources’ (4LR 2023) will be held in conjunction with LDK 2023 – the fourth conference on Language, Data and Knowledge – on September 13 in Vienna, Austria. 4LR will emphasize the linked data and knowledge management methodologies and technologies for linking lexicography and language learning in general. The call for papers will be published in February 2023.

1 0

Full-time Postdoc in Germany (Framing, Fake News, Opinion Analysis) for 2 years
by Charlie 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

We are hiring in the CAISA Lab! (https://caisa-lab.github.io/team/, https://twitter.com/CaisaLab) The position is part of the BMBF project "Dynamically Social Natural Language Processing for Online Discourse Analysis" ( https://caisa-lab.github.io/projects/). In this project we develop novel representation methods for users + language + network, to model the stance framing as well as the perception of opinionated statements in a personalized manner. The position is available for 2 years starting asap, with the foreseen salary of E13-3 100% (about 3k Eur net/month, health and social insurance included). Fluent scientific English is necessary, German not required. Relevant experience in the field (e.g. some of: argument mining, computational social science, misinformation analysis, discourse modeling) is expected, as well as an ability to work independently and support more junior researchers. Apply here until Jan 29th: https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/f66a7770882c529633774957a… Or contact lucie.flek(a)uni-marburg.de for more information.

1 0

Call for Submission of Extended Abstracts CLARIN2023
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Call for Submission of Extended Abstracts CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 CLARIN ERIC is pleased to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023<https://www.clarin.eu/event/2023/clarin-annual-conference-2023> and calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from a wide range of disciplines, coordinates the collection of language resources and tools, and offers advanced tools to explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine such datasets, regardless of their location. Submission deadline: 14 April 2023 ________________________________ Location After the successful hybrid edition of 2022, we plan to repeat the same format in 2023. The CLARIN Conference 2023 will be a face-to-face event, which will also be fully accessible virtually. The conference will take place in the historic city of Leuven, Belgium, at the heritage campus of the Irish College<https://www.irishcollegeleuven.eu/>. The event will be hosted and organised by CLARIN ERIC, in collaboration with KU Leuven, <https://www.kuleuven.be/english/about-kuleuven/> CLARIN-BE <https://clarin-be.ivdnt.org/> and the Instituut voor Nederlandse Taal<http://www.ivdnt.org>. ________________________________ Important Dates * 23 January 2023: First call published on CLARIN website, disseminated, and submission system open * 14 April 2023: Submission deadline * 30 June 2023: Notification of acceptance * 4 September 2023: Camera-ready version deadline * 16-18 October 2023: CLARIN Annual Conference ________________________________ Conference Aims The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH) community in order to exchange experiences and best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to share plans for future developments. The programme will cover a range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, teachers or interested parties, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. ________________________________ Keynote Speakers To be confirmed. ________________________________ Conference Topics We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond * Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services * Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases * Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI * Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN * Teaching and learning cases for which CLARIN resources and services are used. Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure * Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing * Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms ] * Access, including single-sign-on authentication and authorisation * Search functions, including Federated Content Search * Web applications, web services and workflows * Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services * Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation * Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination: * User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) * CLARIN portals and outreach to users * Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures * Researcher training activities, hackathons * Knowledge infrastructure centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives: * SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and CESSDA<https://www.cessda.eu/> and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster<https://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-ssh-open-cluster>, etc. * Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as <https://www.clarin.eu/glossary#EUDAT> EOSC<https://eosc.eu/about-eosc>, Europeana<https://www.europeana.eu>, Language Data Space, etc. * Projects such as EOSC Future<https://eoscfuture.eu/>, FAIRCORE4EOSC<https://faircore4eosc.eu/> and TRIPLE<https://project.gotriple.eu/about/> * National and regional initiatives ________________________________ Format of the Programme Sessions The programme of the conference will include oral presentations and posters, and may also include demos. Papers are allocated a presentation format based on the suitability of the paper for the type of session (i.e. more or less interactive), not based on their quality or other factors. Authors of accepted submissions will be offered the opportunity to demo their work in addition to their presentation. ________________________________ Submissions The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive<https://www.dropbox.com/s/s7ocg2i15y0q1gy/Template_CLARIN2023.zip?dl=0>, Overleaf template<https://www.overleaf.com/read/qtvdcbqrmpfs>). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN’s activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. It is not required for authors to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2023> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: * Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the CLARIN infrastructure or be relevant for it (e.g. its use, design, construction, operation, exploitation, illustration of possible applications, etc.), and this relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission. * Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. * Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. * Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. * Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. * Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. * Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. ________________________________ Attendance For each accepted abstract, one author will be granted reimbursement of travel costs up to 220 Euros, free accommodation and meals (conditional on the event taking place face-to-face; this does not apply if the conference needs to shift to a virtual format due to epidemiological reasons). ________________________________ Proceedings Accepted submissions will be published in the online conference Book of Extended Abstracts, ISSN: 2773-2177. After the conference, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Accepted full papers will be published in a digital conference proceedings volume after the conference: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed) ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online) https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx ________________________________ Conference Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: * Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland (Chair) * Starkaður Barkarson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland * Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic * Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics ‘A. Zampolli’, Italy * Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria * Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden University, the Netherlands * Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland * Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece * Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia * Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway * Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia * Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania * Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute), the Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium * Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary * Joshua Wilbur, Center of Estonian Language Resources, Estonia * Andreas Witt, University of Mannheim, Germany * Friedel Wolff, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, North-West University, South Africa * Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom * Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich, Switzerland ________________________________ Links * CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 website: https://www.clarin.eu/event/2023/clarin-annual-conference-2023 * EasyChair submission: available here<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2023> * Template for submissions: * ZIP-archive: available here<https://www.dropbox.com/s/s7ocg2i15y0q1gy/Template_CLARIN2023.zip?dl=0> * Overleaf template: available here<https://www.overleaf.com/read/qtvdcbqrmpfs> * Contact for any questions regarding the conference: events(a)clarin.eu<https://mailto:events@clarin.eu> (Please mention [CLARIN2023] in the email subject) * Proceedings of selected papers from previous CLARIN conferences: * CLARIN 2021: https://doi.org/10.3384/9789179294441 * CLARIN 2020: https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp180 * CLARIN 2019: https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020172 * CLARIN 2018: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=159 * CLARIN 2017: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=147 * CLARIN 2016: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=136 * CLARIN 2015: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=123 * CLARIN 2014: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=116 <http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=116> --- Elisa Gorgaini External Relations Officer CLARIN ERIC www.clarin.eu E-mail: elisa(a)clarin.eu Phone: +31648213015

1 0

[WWW-2023 - FinWeb] Last CFP - The 3rd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share the information of The 3rd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web (FinWeb) with you. FinWeb-2023 is to be held on April 30, 2023 in conjunction with The Web Conference 2023. Our keynote speaker, Dr. James Zhang, Managing Director of AI Prediction and Strategy Platform of Ant Group, will share their experience on the topic of China‘s First Natural Language-based AI Chatbot Trader. We invite the submission of papers on original research in this area. We offer the prize in the main track (USD$500 to the Best Paper Award winner). *Submission Deadline: Feb. 06, 2023* The proceedings of the workshops will be published jointly with the conference proceedings. Please refer to the site of FinWeb-2023 for more details: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finweb-2023/home Sincerely, Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hiroya Takamura, Hsin-Hsi Chen FinWeb-2023 Organizers *Topics of Interest* We list some possible topics below with the research tracks of The Web Conference, but the submissions from participants are not limited to these topics. - - *FinTech* - Analyzing Cloud, Online, and Mobile Financial Services - Anti-Money Laundering - Client Financial Security - Credit Analysis and Pricing - Crowdfunding - Digital Financial Advising - Financial Crime Detection - Financial Digital Authentication - Internet Payment - Internet Wealth Management - Mobile Payment - Modeling Financial Chaos, Uncertainty, and Change - Novel Financial Service Design - Online Banking - Peer-to-Peer Lending - Regulation - *Web and Internet Economics* - Algorithmic Game Theory - Algorithmic Mechanism Design - Auction Algorithms and Analysis - Computational Advertising - Computational Aspects of Equilibria - Computational Social Choice - Learning in Markets and Mechanism Design - Learning under Strategic Behavior - Coalitions, Coordination, and Collective Action - Economic Aspects of Security and Privacy - Economic Aspects of Distributed Computing and Cryptocurrencies - Econometrics, Machine Learning, and Data Science - Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Modeling - Fairness and Trust in Games and Markets - Price Differentiation and Price Dynamics - Revenue Management - Social Networks and Network Games *Best Paper Award* We will offer *USD$500* to the Best Paper Award winner. *Submission Details *(Time zone : Anywhere On Earth (AOE) <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeanddate.com%2Ftime%2Fzon…> ) *Submission System: * *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd* <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3…> - *Submission Deadline: Feb. 06, 2023* - Notification: March 06, 2023 - Camera-ready version ready: March 20, 2023 The proceedings of the workshop will be published jointly with the conference proceedings. *Instructions for Authors of **Main **Track submissions* - *Regular Paper (A**nonymous**):* *8 pages* for the main text (including all figures but excluding references), and one additional page for references. - *Poster & **Demonstration (non-anonymous)**: 4 pages* in total (including all figures and references). - Papers submitted to the main track must be formatted according to *The Web Conference 2023 Guidelines* <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2023.thewebconf.org%2Fcalls%2…> and must follow the page limitation. Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the ACM format published in the ACM guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Papers must be self-contained and in English. - At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the work. *All presenters need to be physically present.* No virtual presentations are allowed. As such, registration is mandatory for all presenters / speakers. It is allowed to foresee a proxy (i.e. somebody else who presents the paper physically) in case the author cannot attend. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission.

1 0

PhD position at Innsbruck University
by Laura Giacomini 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Dear Colleagues I am writing to advertise a new PhD position in Translation Studies and Lexicography at Innsbruck University. All details (German and English) and the link for applying are at https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=13221 Kind regards, Laura Giacomini -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Laura Giacomini Institut für Translationswissenschaft Herzog-Siegmund-Ufer 15 A-6020 Innsbruck

1 0

NLP Special Issue - Last call for papers
by Florentina Hristea 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Special Issue: Current Trends in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human Language Technology (HLT) MATHEMATICS NEW IMPACT FACTOR 2.592 An Open Access Journal by MDPI link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics Guest Editor: * Florentina Hristea, University of Bucharest Deadline for manuscript submissions: April 23, 2023 Accepted papers are published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted). Message from the Guest Editor and Special Issue Web page: https://www.mdpi.com/si/mathematics/NLP_HLT A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/instructions> page. For further information and questions, please contact: Florentina Hristea University of Bucharest fhristea(a)fmi.unibuc.ro https://cs.unibuc.ro/~fhristea/

1 0

First CfP: Workshop on RESOURCEs and representations For Under-resourced Languages and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023)
by Simon Dobnik 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

[apologies for x-posting] Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts Workshop on RESOURCEs and representations For Under-resourced Languages and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023) collocated with the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) Norðurlandahúsið - The Nordic House in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 22nd May 2023 https://resourceful-workshop.github.io/resourceful-2023/ Important dates: - Submission deadline (both papers and abstracts): 28th March 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 25th April 2023 - Camera-ready version: 9th May 2023 - Workshop date: 22nd May 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Workshop description The second workshop on resources and representations for under-resourced language and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023) explores the role of the kind and the quality of resources that are available to us and challenges and directions for constructing new resources in light of the latest trends in natural language processing. Data-driven machine-learning techniques in natural language processing have achieved remarkable performance (e.g., BERT, GPT, ChatGPT) but in order to do so large quantities of quality data (which is mostly text) is required. Interpretability studies of large language models in both text-only and multi-modal setups have revealed that even in cases where large text datasets are available, the models still do not cover all the contexts of human social activity and are prone to capturing unwanted bias where data is focused towards only some contexts. A question has also been raised whether textual data is enough to capture semantics of natural language processing and other modalities such as visual representations or a situated context of a robot might be required. Annotator-based resources have been constructed over years based on theoretical work in linguistics, psychology and related fields and a large amount of work has been done both theoretically and practically. The purpose of the workshop is to initiate a discussion between the two communities involved in building resources (data vs annotation-based) and exploring their synergies for the new challenges in natural language processing. We encourage contributions in the areas of resource creation, representation learning and interpretability in data-driven and expert-driven machine learning setups and both uni-modal and multi-modal scenarios. In particular we would like to open a forum by bringing together students, researchers, and experts to address and discuss the following questions: - What is relevant linguistic knowledge the models should capture and how can this knowledge be sampled and extracted in practice? - What kind of linguistic knowledge do we want and can capture in different contexts and tasks? - To what degree are resources that have been traditionally aimed at rule-based natural language processing approaches relevant today both for machine learning techniques and hybrid approaches? - How can they be adapted for data-driven approaches? - To what degree data-driven approaches can be used to facilitate expert-driven annotation? - What are current challenges for expert-based annotation? - How can crowd-sourcing and citizen science be used in building resources? - How can we evaluate and reduce unwanted biases? Intended participants are researchers, PhD students and practitioners from diverse backgrounds (linguistics, psychology, computational linguistics, speech, computer science, machine learning, computer vision etc). We foresee an interactive workshop with plenty of time for discussion, complemented with invited talks and presentations of on-going or completed research. This workshop is a continuation of the first workshop on resources and representations for under-resourced languages and domains held together with the SLTC 2020, https://gu-clasp.github.io/resourceful-2020/. Submission We invite submissions of both long (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) with any number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word, the templates are available at the official conference website, https://www.nodalida2023.fo/authorkit-nodalida23 Submissions must be anonymous and submitted in the PDF format through OpenReview. We also invite submissions of maximum 2-page extended non-anonymous abstracts with any number of pages for references describing work in progress, negative results and opinion pieces. Papers related to our theme and already presented at other venues or have already been published elsewhere will be considered for acceptance for presentation as well. The abstracts, which should follow the same formatting templates as the archival track, will be reviewed by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. Workshop organisers Dana Dannélls, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg Simon Dobnik, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Adam Ek, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Stella Frank, University of Copenhagen Nikolai Ilinykh, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University Felix Morger, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg Joakim Nivre, RISE and Uppsala University Magnus Sahlgren, AI Sweden Sara Stymne, Uppsala University Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo resourceful-2023(a)listserv.gu.se

1 0

Second CfP: 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023) @EACL2023
by Kilian Evang 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

******************************************************************************** Second Call for Papers 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023) Organized and sponsored by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL Full-day workshop collocated with EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2 or 6, 2023 Hybrid (on-site & on-line) Submission deadline: February 13, 2023 NEW: ARR commitment deadline: March 6, 2023 NEW: Special track on MWEs in Clinical NLP (see below) NEW: Best paper award (see below) MWE 2023 website: https://multiword.org/mwe2023/ ******************************************************************************** Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin & Kim 2010), such as by and large, hot dog, pay a visit and pull one's leg. The notion encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalised phrases, etc. Their behaviour is often unpredictable; for example, their meaning often does not result from the direct combination of the meanings of their parts. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modelling (e.g. annotation), NLP tasks (e.g. parsing), and end-user applications (e.g. natural language understanding and MT), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Constant et al. 2017). For almost two decades, modelling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the topic of the MWE workshop organised by the MWE section of SIGLEX in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realised as MWEs. Following previous years, for this 19th edition of the workshop, we identified the following topics on which contributions are particularly encouraged: MWE processing and identification in specialized languages and domains: Multiword terminology extraction from domain-specific corpora (Bonin et al. 2010) is of particular importance to various applications, such as MT (Semmar & Laib, 2017), or for the identification and monitoring of neologisms and technical jargon (Chatzitheodorou et al, 2021). We expect approaches that deal with the processing of MWEs as well as the processing of terminology in specialised domains can benefit from each other. MWE processing to enhance end-user applications: MWEs have gained particular attention in end-user applications, including MT (Zaninello & Birch 2020; Han et al. 2021), simplification (Kochmar et al. 2020), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al. 2019; Christiansen & Arnon 2017), social media mining (Maisto et al 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al. 2020; Caselli et al. 2020). We believe that it is crucial to extend and deepen these first attempts to integrate and evaluate MWE technology in these and further end-user applications. MWE identification and interpretation in pre-trained language models: Most current MWE processing is limited to their identification and detection using pre-trained language models, but we still lack understanding about how MWEs are represented and dealt with therein (Nedumpozhimana & Kelleher 2021; Garcia et al. 2021, Fakharian & Cook 2021), how to better model the compositionality of MWEs from semantics (Moreau et al. 2018) Now that NLP has shifted towards end-to-end neural models like BERT, capable of solving complex tasks with little or no intermediary linguistic symbols, questions arise about the extent to which MWEs should be implicitly or explicitly modelled (Shwartz & Dagan, 2019). MWE processing in low-resource languages: The PARSEME shared tasks (Ramisch et al. 2020; 2018; Savary et al. 2017), among others, have fostered significant progress in MWE identification, providing datasets that include low-resource languages, evaluation measures, and tools that now allow fully integrating MWE identification into end-user applications. A few efforts have recently explored methods for the automatic interpretation of MWEs (Bhatia, et al. 2018; 2017), and their processing in low-resource languages (Liu & Wang 2020; Kumar et al. 2017). Resource creation and sharing should be pursued in parallel with the development of methods able to capitalize on small datasets (Han et al. 2020). Through this workshop, we would like to bring together and encourage researchers in various NLP subfields to submit MWE-related research, so that approaches that deal with processing of MWEs including processing for low-resource languages and for various applications can benefit from each other. We also intend to consolidate the converging effects of previous joint workshops LAW-MWE-CxG 2018, MWE-WN 2019 and MWE-LEX 2020, the joint MWE-WOAH panel in 2021, and the MWE-SIGUL 2022 joint session, extending our scope to MWEs in e-lexicons and WordNets, MWE annotation, as well as grammatical constructions. Correspondingly, we call for papers on research related (but not limited) to MWEs and constructions in: Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, and WordNets (also for low-resource languages); Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; Multiword terminology extraction; Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Shared Task We do not have a shared task this year, but a new release of the PARSEME corpus of verbal MWEs is currently underway. We encourage submission of research papers that include analyses of the new edition of the PARSEME data and improvements over the results for PARSEME 2020 shared task as well as SemEval 2022 task 2 on idiomaticity prediction. *** Special Track on MWEs in Clinical NLP *** Pursuing the MWE Section’s tradition of synergies with other communities, this year, we are organizing a joint session with the Clinical NLP workshop for shared papers/poster presentations. Since clinical texts contain an important amount of multiword expressions (e.g. medical terms or domain-specific collocations), a joint session is deemed beneficial for both communities. The goal is to foster future synergies that could address scientific challenges in the creation of resources, models and applications to deal with multiword expressions and related phenomena in the specialised domain of ClinicalNLP. Submissions describing research on MWEs in the specialized domain of ClinicalNLP, especially introducing new datasets or new tools and resources, are welcome. Papers accepted in this track will have the option to present their work in the Clinical NLP workshop at ACL 2023 as well, after being presented at MWE 2023. Best paper award All full papers in the workshop will be considered by the program committee for a best paper award. Submission formats The workshop invites two types of submissions: archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's START submission page (link will be provided once available). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL 2023 stylesheet. Archival papers with existing reviews from ACL Rolling Review will also be considered. A paper may not be simultaneously under review through ARR and MWE. A paper that has or will receive reviews through ARR may not be submitted for review to MWE. Important Dates Paper submission: February 13, 2023 ARR paper commitment: March 6, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 Workshop: May 2 or 6, 2023 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth) Organizing Committee Program chairs: Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Shiva Taslimipoor Publication chair: Archna Bhatia Publicity chair: Kilian Evang Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mweworkshop2023(a)googlegroups.com.

1 0

2025

2024

2023

2022

Corpora