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Shared Task on Lexical Simplification for English, Portuguese and Spanish / TSAR-2022 @EMNLP2022
by Horacio Saggion 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

Shared Task on Lexical Simplification for English, Portuguese and Spanish In conjunction with the TSAR-2022 Workshop @EMNLP2022 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Lexical Simplification is the process of reducing the lexical complexity of a text by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expressions while preserving the original information and meaning. Lexical Simplification (LS) aims at facilitating reading comprehension to different target readerships such as foreign language learners, native speakers with low literacy levels, second language learners or people with different kinds of reading impairments. This new Lexical Simplification Shared Task features three similar datasets in three different languages: English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. Definition of the task Given a sentence containing a complex word, systems should return an ordered list of “simpler” valid substitutes for the complex word in its original context. The list of simpler words (up to a maximum of 10) returned by the system should be ordered by the confidence the system has in its prediction (best predictions first). The ordered list must not contain ties. An instance of the task for the English language is: 1. “That prompted the military to deploy its largest warship, the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, which was recently acquired from the United States.” Complex word: deploy For this instance a system may suggest the following ranked substitutes: send, move, position, redeploy, employ, situate… Systems should only produce simplifications that are good contextual fits (semantically and syntactically). Participating teams can register (details below) for three different tracks, one per language. * English monolingual (EN) * Portuguese (Brazilian) monolingual (PT-BR) * Spanish monolingual (ES) It is possible to participate in one, two or all three tracks. Participating teams will be allowed to submit up to 3 runs per track. Data The three datasets (trial data with gold annotations and test data without gold annotations)and the evaluation script will be available through a GitHub repository. There is no training dataset. However, a sample of 10 or 12 instances with gold standard annotations will be provided. Note that participating teams are allowed to use any other lexical simplification datasets or resources for developing their systems. Test data with gold annotations will also be released via the same GitHub repository at the end of the evaluation period. Evaluation Metrics The evaluation metrics to be applied in the TSAR-2022 Shared Task are the following: MAP@K (Mean Average Precision @ K): K={1,3,5,10}. The MAP@K metric is used commonly for evaluating Information Retrieval models and Recommender Systems. For this Lexical Simplification task, instead of using a ranked list of relevant and irrelevant documents to evaluate our ranking output, we use a ranked list of predicted substitutes, which can be matched (relevant) and not matched (irrelevant) terms against the set of the gold-standard annotations for evaluation. The traditional Precision metric, in the context of Lexical Simplification, can be used to see how many of the predicted substitutes are relevant. But precision fails to capture the order in which correctly predicted substitutes are. Mean Average Precision is designed to work for binary relevance: candidates that match or not in the list of gold annotations. So MAP@K for Lexical Simplification evaluates the following aspects: 1) are the predicted substitutes relevant?, and 2) are the predicted substitutes at the top positions? Potential@K: K={1,3,5,10}. The percentage of instances for which at least one of the substitutions predicted is present in the set of gold annotations. Accuracy@K@top1: K={1,2,3}. The ratio of instances where at least one of the K top predicted candidates matches the most frequently suggested synonym/s in the gold list of annotated candidates. Note 1: Potential@1/MAP@1/Precision@1 will give the same value. Note 2: The exact computation of the metrics will be provided in the official evaluation script. Publication Participating teams will be invited to submit system description papers (four pages with an unlimited number of pages for references) which will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 reviewers (at least one member of each participating team will be required to help with the review process) and papers will be published in the TSAR-2022 Workshop proceedings. The submissions will be via SoftConf and details for submission will be communicated to registered teams in due time. Important dates * Registration opens: July 19th, 2022 * Release of sample/trial instances with gold annotations: July 20th, 2022 * Release of evaluation metrics and code: July 22th, 2022 * Registration deadline: September 7, 2022 * Test set release (without gold annotations): September 8, 2022 * Submissions of systems' output due: September 15, 2022 * Official results announced: September 30, 2022 * Test set release (wit gold annotations): September 30, 2022 * Submission of Shared Tasks papers deadline: October 15, 2022 * Shared Task Papers Reviews due: November 1, 2022 * Camera-ready deadline for Shared-task papers: November 10, 2022 * TSAR Workshop and Shared Task: December 8, 2022 Registering your team: Please access this form to register for the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Lexical Simplification. https://forms.gle/6iNm5cTRueA78ri17 Website and Shared Task Guidelines Please visit the TSAR-2022 Shared Task website to obtain further information about the Guidelines, Datasets, and team registration. https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-st Organisers * Horacio Saggion, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the LaSTUS Lab in the TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Sanja Štajner, Senior Research Scientist and R&D Application Manager at Symanto Research * Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University * Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology * Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Kai North, PhD student at the Rochester Institute of Technology * Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra -- Professor Horacio Saggion Head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence TALN / DTIC Universitat Pompeu Fabra [image: https://twitter.com/h_saggion] [image: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916]

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[CfP] 2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 Special Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings
by Tirthankar Ghosal 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to participate and submit your paper in the 2nd SummDial @ SemDial 2022 ( https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html). The First SummDial special session was held at SIGDial 2021 and witnessed enthusiastic participation from the dialogue, summarization, NLP, and speech communities. https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527546.3527561 (Report on SummDial @ SIGDial 2021) The second SummDial would be held as a hybrid session at SemDial 2022 ( https://semdial2022.github.io/). Papers accepted in SummDial will appear in the SemDial Anthology (http://semdial.org/anthology/venues/semdial/). ***2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> Special Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings*** ***Website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html *** ***Submission Deadline: August 1, 2022 *** ***Event Date: August 24, 2022 *** With a sizeable working population of the world going virtual, resulting in information overload from multiple online meetings, imagine how convenient it would be to just hover over past calendar invites and get concise summaries of the meeting proceedings? How about automatically minuting a multimodal multi-party meeting? Are minutes and multi-party dialogue summaries the same? We believe Automatic Minuting is challenging. There are possibly no agreed-upon guidelines for taking minutes, and people adopt different styles to record meeting minutes. The minutes also depend on the meeting's category, the intended audience, and the goal or objective of the meeting. We hosted the First SummDial Special Session at SIGDial 2021. Several significant problems and challenges in multi-party dialogue and meeting summarization came from the discussions in the first SummDial, which we documented in our event report <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527546.3527561>. Since we witnessed enthusiastic participation of the dialogue and summarization community in the first SummDial special session <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html> ( https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html), we are hosting the Second SummDial special session at SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> (https://semdial2022.github.io/#). This year, we intend to continue discussing these challenges and lessons learned from the previous SummDial. Our goal for this special session would be to stimulate intense discussions around this topic and set the tone for further interest, research, and collaboration in both Speech and Natural Language Processing communities. Our topics of interest are Dialogue Summarization, including but not limited to Meeting Summarization, Chat Summarization, Email Threads Summarization, Customer Service Summarization, Medical Dialogue Summarziation, and Multi-modal Dialogue Summarization. Our shared task on Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) at Interspeech 2021 ( https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/) was another community effort in this direction. ***Call for papers*** We invite regular and work-in-progress papers that report: - Current research in multi-party dialogue summarization for summarizing meetings, spoken dialogue, using speech, text, or multi-modal data (audio, video), - Challenges in dialogue summarization evaluation (manual + automatic), - New methods and metrics for dialogue summarization evaluation, - Relevant corpus collection, pre-processing, development, and ethical issues involved, - Compare and contrast speech-specific systems to systems imported from text summarization, - Tools for meeting transcript generation and automatic summarization, - Topic detection and span identification in meeting transcripts for multi-topic summarization, - Position papers to reflect on the current state of the art in this topic, to take stock of where we have been, where we are, where we are going and where we should go. Researchers may choose to submit: - ***Long papers*** Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). - ***Short papers*** Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. - ***Position Papers*** Including extended abstracts, work-in-progress, and late-breaking papers. ***Submission Link*** https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=summdial2022 Submissions should follow the ACL format. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SummDial 2022 cannot accept work for a publication that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. ***Special Session Program*** The special session would consist of a keynote, a panel, oral and/or poster paper presentations. ***Organizers*** - Tirthankar Ghosal <https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/>, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic - Muskaan Singh, IDIAP, Switzerland - Xinnou Xu, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ondřej Bojar <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ondrej-bojar>, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic -- Tirthankar Ghosal, Researcher, EU H2020 Project ELITR <https://elitr.eu/> and NEUREM3 <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grants/neurem3> Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/home-page>, Charles University <https://cuni.cz/uken-1.html>, Czech Republic https://member.acm.org/~tghosal

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TreeTagger for the Mac M1 chip?
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Dear all I was wondering if anyone would have a version of the TreeTagger that can run on machines with the new M1 chip? I tried to run the tagger on an M1 Mac using the Mac version available on the tagger site, but the response was ‘bad CPU architecture’, which I think is because that version is for the Intel chip only. Thank you ahead ! Tony tonycorpuslg(a)gmail.com — PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO -- PUC-SP GRADUATE PROGRAM IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS *** LAEL 52 YEARS *** (he/him/his) Tony Berber Sardinha Deputy coordinator LAEL, Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics Coordinator CEPRIL, Center for Language Research, Resources and Information Rua Monte Alegre 984, sala 4B02, São Paulo, SP 05014-901 Brazil Tel.: +55 (11) 3670-8374 E-mail: tony(a)pucsp.br | www2.lael.pucsp.br — Disclaimer This message is reserved and its disclosure, distribution, reproduction or any other form of use is prohibited and shall depend upon previous proper authorization. The sender uses the electronic mail in the exercise of his/her work or by virtue thereof, and the institution accepts no liability for its undue use. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please delete it immediately.

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2nd CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Second call for papers Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2022 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Suggested topics include 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 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop ( https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration will be free. RAIL 2022 submission requirements: * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 ). * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). Important dates Submission deadline: 28 August 2022 Date of notification: 30 September 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2021, North-West University - Potchefstroom Organising Committee Jessica Mabaso Rooweither Mabuya Muzi Matfunjwa Mmasibidi Setaka 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 CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ 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. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Job opening: Computational linguist
by Menno Van Zaanen 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Computational Linguist Purpose of the position: As a Computational Linguist at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely with a team of researchers as part of SADiLaR’s extended network, both on your own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at national and international conferences will be encouraged and supported. This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the Department of Science and Innovation. Minimum Requirements * PhD in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, General Linguistics, Human Language Technology, Digital Humanities, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence or related fields with a focus on computational aspects of linguistics. * Applicable experience in the use of Python (recommended). Other programming languages used within the computational linguistics domain can also be considered. * Experience as a supervisor/co-supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals. * Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. * Advanced computer literacy. Other competency requirements * Ability to work independently or as part of a team. * Ability to effectively liaise and communicate with public, students, colleagues, and other stakeholders at various levels and from diverse backgrounds. * Demonstration of language proficiency in order to function optimally in the various multilingual environments of SADiLaR. Recommendations: * Experience with writing research reports. * Ability to lead research projects. * Evidence of acquiring research funding. * Experience with using and/or developing computational tools. * Experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. * Experience in the presentation of research-based results at national and international conferences. * Experience related to teaching within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. * Strong interest in the advancement of under-resourced South African languages. Responsibilities: * Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Initiating and leading Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects. * Mentorship of researchers in the field of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities. ENQUIRIES: Prof Menno van Zaanen, menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za CLOSING DATE: 29 July 2022 COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES: As soon as possible TO APPLY: https://bit.ly/3yQqcnd -- 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 CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ 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. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Cancelled event: ALTA abstract presentation @ Sun 2 Oct 2022 (corpora@list.elra.info)
by dai.xiang.au＠gmail.com 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

This event has been cancelled. ALTA abstract presentation Sunday 2 Oct 2022 Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/vnf-axwm-htx?hs=224 ******************************************************************************************* 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) ** Flinders University, Adelaide ** 14th - 16th December 2022 http://alta2022.alta.asn.au/ ******************************************************************************************* Important Dates Submission Deadline (short and long papers): 30 September, 2022 Submission Deadline (presentation abstracts) 7 October, 2022 Author Notification: 7 November, 2022 Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 November, 2022 Tutorials: 14 December, 2022 Main Conference: 15-16 December, 2022 Submission deadlines are UTC-11 Overview The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at Flinders University, Adelaide, from the 14th to the 16th of December 2022. The hybrid format gives participants a v... Organiser dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee of the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Invitation: ALTA abstract presentation @ Sun 2 Oct 2022 (corpora@list.elra.info)
by dai.xiang.au＠gmail.com 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

ALTA abstract presentation Sunday 2 Oct 2022 Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/vnf-axwm-htx?hs=224 ******************************************************************************************* 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) ** Flinders University, Adelaide ** 14th - 16th December 2022 http://alta2022.alta.asn.au/ ******************************************************************************************* Important Dates Submission Deadline (short and long papers): 30 September, 2022 Submission Deadline (presentation abstracts) 7 October, 2022 Author Notification: 7 November, 2022 Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 November, 2022 Tutorials: 14 December, 2022 Main Conference: 15-16 December, 2022 Submission deadlines are UTC-11 Overview The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at Flinders University, Adelaide, from the 14th to the 16th of December 2022. The hybrid format gives participants a v... Organiser dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com Guests dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com- organiser pradeesh(a)cs.otago.ac.nz corpora(a)list.elra.info View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MG90cXJidWU2ODg5… Reply for corpora(a)list.elra.info and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MG90cXJidWU2ODg5… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee of the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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[Second Call for Papers] Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) Hybrid Workshop
by pradeesh＠cs.otago.ac.nz 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

******************************************************************************************* 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) ** Flinders University, Adelaide ** 14th - 16th December 2022 http://alta2022.alta.asn.au/ ******************************************************************************************* Important Dates Submission Deadline (short and long papers): 30 September, 2022 Submission Deadline (presentation abstracts) 7 October, 2022 Author Notification: 7 November, 2022 Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 November, 2022 Tutorials: 14 December, 2022 Main Conference: 15-16 December, 2022 Submission deadlines are UTC-11 Overview The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at Flinders University, Adelaide, from the 14th to the 16th of December 2022. The hybrid format gives participants a valuable opportunity to socialise either in-person or via online platform. The ALTA 2022 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in natural language processing and computational linguistics, with presentations and posters from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we would also like to encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in recently updated CORE 2021 Conference Rankings as Australasian B. See details from CORE Rankings Portal. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse speech recognition, understanding and generation interpreting spoken and written language natural language generation linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language NLP-based information extraction and retrieval corpus-based and statistical language modelling machine translation and translation aids question answering and information extraction natural language interfaces and dialogue systems natural language and multimodal systems message and narrative understanding systems evaluations of language systems embodied conversational agents computational lexicography summarisation language resources topic modelling, semantics and ontology unsupervised language learning and analysis social media analysis and processing search and information retrieval domain-specific adaptation of natural language processing algorithms applied natural language processing and/or applications in industry We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical applications of language technology and through multi-disciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from industry. Format We invite submissions of two different formats: (1) Original Research Papers and (2) Abstract-based Presentations. (1) Original Research Papers We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing. Long papers should be 6-8 pages and short papers should be 3-4 pages. Accepted papers will either be delivered as an oral presentation or as a poster presentation. Both short and long papers may include unlimited pages of references in addition to the page count requirements. Note that the review process is double-blind, and accordingly submitted papers should not include the identity of author(s) and the text should be suitably anonymised, e.g. using third person wording for self-citations, not providing URLs to your person website, etc. Original research papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published online in the ACL anthology and the ALTA website. Long papers will be distinguished from short papers in the proceedings. (2) Abstract-based Presentations To encourage broader participation and facilitate local socialisation of international results, we invite 1-2 page presentation abstracts. The organisers may offer the opportunity to give an oral presentation or a poster presentation. Submissions should include presentation title and abstract, name of the presenter, any publications relating to the work, and any information on collaboration with the local ALTA community. Abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but simply reviewed by the ALTA executive committee to ensure that they are on topic, coherent and likely to be of interest to the ALTA community. Abstracts on work in progress and work published or submitted elsewhere are encouraged. ALTA invites submissions of all manner interesting research, not limited to, but including: established academics giving an overview of an exciting paper or paper/s published in international venues; completing research students giving an overview of their thesis work; early candidature research students presenting their work-in-progress and ideas, which may not have been published; and industry presenting research and development over linguistic data in the context of their business. Presentation abstracts should not be anonymised, any publications relating to the work should be cited in the submission, and the person who will give the presentation should be clearly stated. Multiple Submission Policy Original research papers that are under review for other publication venues or that you intend to submit elsewhere may be submitted in parallel to ALTA. We require that you declare at submission that your paper is submitted to another venue, and identify the venue. Should your paper be accepted to both ALTA and another venue, we allow you to decide whether the paper should be published in the ALTA proceedings, or if it should be treated as a Presentation (without archival publication). In this case you would still be able to present a research talk at the ALTA workshop. This is to encourage more internationally leading research to be presented at the workshop. Instructions for AuthorsPaper Submission Authors should submit their papers via Easychair. There are 3 tracks in EasyChair this year: ALTA 2022 (Long) – use this for long papers ALTA 2022 (Short) – use this for short papers ALTA 2022 (Abstracts) – use this for abstracts Formatting Guidelines Submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. We therefore strongly recommend you use LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word template. Paper Length Long papers should be 6-8 pages Short papers should be 3-4 pages Abstracts ideally should be a few paragraphs and no more than 2 pages Anonymisation Short and long papers must be anonymised. Abstracts are NOT to be anonymised and must include the author's/authors' affiliation

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Open research position in NLP at Uni Würzburg
by Goran Glavaš 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

The Natural Language Processing Chair at JMU Würzburg (WüNLP) as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas) offers one research position in the area of natural language processing (NLP). The position is bound to a European project EUINACTION ( https://www.euinaction.eu/), carried out in collaboration with two Political Science research groups, at the University of Leiden and the University of Strathclyde. The candidate's role in the project will be to apply and advance state-of-the-art neural NLP to help answer interesting research questions in Political Science. The position is available from 1.10.2022 and is available until the end of the grant, 31.12.2023. There is a possibility of extension, subject to mutual interest and availability of third-party research funding. Payment is at the level of E13 according to the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Candidates are expected to have a strong background in computer science, with a specialisation in machine learning or natural language processing and interest in the topic of the project. Both applicants with completed Master (or equivalent) degree as well as those with a completed PhD (postdocs) are welcome to apply. Please send your application (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records) at your earliest convenience, but no later than 31.7.2022 to Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš (goran.glavas(a)uni-wuerzburg.de). You are welcome to contact Prof. Glavaš (via the same email address) for additional information. WüNLP is a young research group that takes diversity very seriously. Female and diversity candidates as well as international candidates are warmly encouraged to apply. Among candidates of equal aptitude and qualifications, a person with disabilities will be given preference.

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Open research position in NLP at Uni Würzburg
by Goran Glavaš 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

The Natural Language Processing Chair at JMU Würzburg (WüNLP) as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas) offers one research position in the area of natural language processing (NLP). The position is bound to a European project EUINACTION ( https://www.euinaction.eu/), carried out in collaboration with two Political Science research groups, at the University of Leiden and the University of Strathclyde. The candidate's role in the project will be to apply and advance state-of-the-art neural NLP to help answer interesting research questions in Political Science. The position is available from 1.10.2022 and is available until the end of the grant, 31.12.2023. There is a possibility of extension, subject to mutual interest and availability of third-party research funding. Payment is at the level of E13 according to the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Candidates are expected to have a strong background in computer science, with a specialisation in machine learning or natural language processing and interest in the topic of the project. Both applicants with completed Master (or equivalent) degree as well as those with a completed PhD (postdocs) are welcome to apply. Please send your application (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records) at your earliest convenience, but no later than 31.7.2022 to Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš (goran.glavas(a)uni-wuerzburg.de). You are welcome to contact Prof. Glavaš (via the same email address) for additional information. WüNLP is a young research group that takes diversity very seriously. Female and diversity candidates as well as international candidates are warmly encouraged to apply. Among candidates of equal aptitude and qualifications, a person with disabilities will be given preference.

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2024

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