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Free virtual panel discussion: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the making
by OEDUK 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

[apologies for cross-posting] Free virtual panel discussion: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the making When: 22nd September 2022; 18:00 BST (UTC +1) / 13:00 EDT (UTC -4)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/edt> / 10:00 PDT (UTC -7)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt> Oxford Languages and Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research have partnered for a three-year research project, whose aim is to compile the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE). The project is spearheaded by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor-in-Chief), Director of the Center and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard, and is funded in part by grants from the Mellon and Wagner Foundations. Join some project team members for a panel discussion covering: * Project overview and aims * Where we are now * Why we are compiling ODAAE * The socio-linguistic importance of African American English * Q&A - bring your questions to the panellists or send them in advance to oed.uk(a)oup.com<mailto:oed.uk@oup.com> Book your place: http://tiny.cc/ODAAE-ML With kind regards, The OED Team

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CoCo4MT: Friday, Sept 16 @ AMTA - Program Available
by John Ortega 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

-- Apologies in advance for cross-posting -- CoCo4MT @ AMTA 2022 is only a few days away! The First Workshop on Corpus Generation and Corpus Augmentation for Machine Translation (CoCo4MT) focuses on the topic of creating and augmenting training corpora for low-resource languages and machine translation. The CoCo4MT program is now available and we are happy to present an all-star line-up of presentations and speakers. Registration is still available on the AMTA website: https://web.cvent.com/event/ebca84a9-fd92-4186-a248-e4eda76bdf5e/summary The program and other details about the workshop can be found on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/coco4mt Here are some of of the incredible guest keynote speakers: Jörg Tiedemann - Collecting data, training models and distributing both – the OPUS way Graham Neubig - Unlocking Resources for Under-resourced Languages Ankur Parikh - A Multilingual View of Unsupervised Machine Translation Julia Kreutzer - Tackling Low-Resource Machine Translation with Participation, Data and Scale Maria Nadejde - Formality Control for Machine Translation We will also have a panel discussion on low-resource language corpora and more with Marine Carpuat and Kenneth Ward Church and one surprise guest. See you there!

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Save the date: eLex 2023, 27–29 June 2023
by Ondřej Matuška 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

The eighth biennial conference *eLex 2023* electronic lexicography in the 21st century will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 27–29 June 2023. The topic of this conference is: Invisible lexicography. Save the date and follow the conference on the website, Twitter and Facebook to get updates. More information will be provided in the next couple of days. https://elex.link/elex2023 https://twitter.com/elex_conference www.facebook.com/elexconference We are looking forward to meeting you in Brno. Ondřej Matuška (on behalf of the eLex 2023 organising committee)

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[Job opening] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Cardiff University
by Jose Camacho Collados 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

Dear all, The School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University (Wales, United Kingdom) is now recruiting for 14 posts at the levels of Lecturer (~Assistant Prof) or Senior Lecturer (~Associate Prof) in several areas of Computer Science, with Natural Language Processing (NLP) being one of the priority areas. Further details can be found here: * Lecturer* (Teaching & Research): https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… * Senior Lecturer* (Teaching & Research): https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… The application deadline is Friday, 7 October 2022. More about our Cardiff NLP group can be found here: https://cardiffnlp.github.io/ Best, Jose -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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Postdoctoral position: Research associate in AI and text analytics for digital community collections
by Riza theresa Batista-navarro 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

The University of Manchester invites applications for a post-doctoral Research Associate in AI and text analytics to work on an AHRC-funded multi-disciplinary research project "Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection". The project, part of the Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World (TaNC) programme, will develop cutting-edge approaches for scalable search, linking and discoverability across community-generated digital content (CGDC) and the national collections of The National Archives (TNA). The successful candidate will focus on developing natural language processing-based methods for automated extraction and semantic enrichment of CGDC metadata from disparate collection descriptions, and will build associated knowledge graphs to enable complex representations and search. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic researcher to join a multi-disciplinary team to work with real-world community data and demonstrate the potential of AI in making previously unfindable and unlinkable CGDC, discoverable within the national collection, while respecting and embracing its complexity and diversity. Based in the Department of Computer Science at Manchester, the post will be closely linked to the Emerging Technologies Research team at TNA and researchers in digital humanities, archives, history and linguistics at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, and will collaborate with leading UK heritage organisations, including Tate, the British Museum, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and a network of smaller regional and local heritage organisations holding digital content created by and relating to communities. Further details can be found at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=23281 How to apply: Applications are to be submitted online at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=23281 Deadline for applications: 27 September 2022

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Second Call for Papers: 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium 2023
by Multimodal Communication Symposium 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, Could you please help distribute the information below regarding the 2nd CFP? Thank you very much in advance! ------------------------------------------------ ***With apologies for multiple postings*** We are delighted to announce that the *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2023)*, which will take place in Barcelona in April 2023 (27th-28th), has just issued a Call for Papers. The abstract submissions are now open. *Call for Papers: MMSYM 2023* *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium, April 27-28 2023, Barcelona* The *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (**MMSYM 2023)* will be held from Thursday 27th to Friday 28th April 2023 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia. *MMSYM 2023* follows up on a tradition established by the Swedish Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 1997 until 2000, and continued by the Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 2003 to 2012. Since 2013, the symposium has acquired a broader European dimension, with editions held in Malta (2013), Tartu (2014), Dublin (2015), Copenhagen (2016), Bielefeld (2017), and Leuven (2019). To acknowledge its international ambition, this year, the symposium in Barcelona has updated its name to *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium*. The symposium is locally organized at Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the support of the research groups collaborating within the GEHM network (GEstures and Head Movements in Language, https://cst.ku.dk/english/projects/gestures-and-head-movements-in-language-…), whose goal is to foster research into the way hand gestures and head movements interact with speech in face-to-face and human-computer multimodal communication. We welcome works aimed at exploring different approaches to multimodal communication, including research on multimodality in human communication and/or in human-computer interaction. In addition, this year’s symposium has a particular interest in three main research themes: 1) the language-specific characteristics of gesture-speech interaction 2) multimodal prominence 3) the conceptual and statistical modelling of multimodal contributions, with particular regard to head movements and the use of gaze. Therefore, we particularly encourage contributions dealing with––but not limited to––the three topics described above. The symposium will feature *keynote talks* by three confirmed invited speakers: - *Alan Cienki*, Professor of Language Use & Cognition and English Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Website: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/alan-cienki - *Jelena Krivokapić*, Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Michigan. Website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jelenakrivokapic/ - *Catherine Pelachaud*, Director of Research, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Université. Website: https://www.isir.upmc.fr/personnel/pelachaud/ *Abstract submission guidelines* 1) Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 2 A4 pages (max. 700 words) including examples, figures and references. The format should comply with the MS Word model provided *here*: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eyi9laqglihk7OmfFWv8QsEd1jqzYjIi/edit?r… 2) Add at least three keywords to your submission. 3) Abstracts should be *anonymous* and submitted in pdf format. All references to authors should be omitted for purposes of blind review. 4) Authors may submit one abstract as first author and up to three abstracts as a co-author. Please use our *EasyChair* website for abstract submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2023 Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Accepted abstracts will be allocated as either oral talk or poster presentation, and will be published in the book of abstracts. *Abstract submission*: September 30, 2022 *Notification of acceptance*: approximately December 15, 2022 For more information, please visit the symposium website at http://mmsym.org/ If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Local organizing committee:* Pilar Prieto (coordinator) Florence Baills Júlia Florit-Pons Celia Gorba Sara Muñoz Mariia Pronina Patrick Rohrer Ïo Valls Ingrid Vilà-Giménez Xiaotong Xi Ting Yao Yuan Zhang *Program committee:* Patrizia Paggio (coordinator, University of Copenhagen) Jens Edlund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) Marianne Gullberg (Lund University) David House (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) Maria Koutsombogera (Trinity College Dublin) Pilar Prieto (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin) Margaret Zellers (Kiel University) ------------------------------------------------ Please feel free to share the call with your colleagues/networks. Best wishes, The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee -- *The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee* *Website*: mmsym.org *Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023>

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conference call for LTC 2023
by pap 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Dear manager of the corpora mailing list, could you please post the following call for paper. In advance, thank you for you help. Patrick Paroubek LISN - CNRS - U. Paris-Saclay ----- 10th LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, April 21-23, 2023, Poznań, Poland (LTC 2023) CALL FOR PAPERS VENUE: April 21-23, 2023 in Poznań, Poland. IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES: * Deadline for submission of papers for review: October 22, 2022 * Acceptance/Refusal notification: November 30, 2022 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: December 28, 2022 * Conference: April 21-23, 2023 WEB SITE: http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation organize the 10th LTC on April 21-23, 2023. Following the tradition of the past events, it is supported by ELRA, FlaReNet and META-NET. Since 2005 LTC is organized every two years as the “Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics”. Started 27 years ago, the conference find its origin in the Language and Technology Awareness Days, a meeting organized in 1995 with the assistance of the European Commission (DG XIII), with among the key speakers: Antonio Zampolli (Italy), Dafydd Gibbon (Germany), Dan Tufiş (Romania) and Orest Kossak (Ukraina). The conference welcomes researchers, advanced and beginning students, as well as all other people interested in the new advances at the borderline between computer science, human language industries and linguistics. CONFERENCE TOPICS LTC 2023 welcomes the submission of original unpublished papers on various aspects of Human Language Technology of both theoretical and practical importance: * AI-oriented studies of human language competence * communicative intelligence * computational semantics * computer modeling of language competence * corpora-based methods in language engineering * electronic language resources and tools * formalization of natural languages * HLT related policies * HLT standards and best practices * HLTs as support for e-learning * HLTs as support for foreign language teaching * HLTs as support in solving Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects) * knowledge representation * language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English) * legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges) * Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing * human- machine NL interfaces * methodological issues in HLT * neural networks in language engineering * NL applications in robotics * NL understanding by computers * NL user modeling * NLP methods in cyber-criminality detection and prevention * paralinguistic phenomena in Natural Language Processing * parsing and other forms of NL processing * question answering * sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis * socio-political aspects of HLTs * speech processing * system prototype presentations * technological aspects of nonverbal linguistics * text-based information retrieval and extraction * tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems * translation enhancement tools * validation in all areas of HLTs * visionary papers in the field of HLT * WordNet-like ontologies PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by October 22, 2022 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at the submission stage. All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2023 web submission system (EasyChair). Paper templates will be available soon at http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). PUBLICATION POLICY Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (blind peer review by tree experts). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard and electronic copy, with ISBN number). The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one co-authors in the due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Since 2005 until now, post-conference volumes with substantially extended versions of selected conference papers were published. Since 2007 these post-conference monographs were published in the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. We intend to continue this tradition. Papers will be selected based on reviewers’ reports among the best evaluated papers of general interest with new innovative results. Preference will be given to papers providing significant content extension with respect to the paper presented at the conference. More details will be provided via the LTC23 web site. AWARDS FOR BEST STUDENT PAPERS Special awards will be granted to the best student (status at the date of paper submission). The majoritarian student contribution to the paper must be confirmed by all paper co-authors in a written form. More details will be provided at the LTC website. To find information out about the winners at previous conferences please visit www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. ACCOMPANYING EVENTS Please do not hesitate to contact us with new suggestions and ideas concerning . We are open to suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed directly to ltc23(a)amu.edu.pl or to the LTC23 Chairs via email (cc marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl). LANGUAGE: The conference language is English. Contacts: Zygmunt Vetulani (vetulani(a)amu.edu.pl) and Patrick Paroubek (pap(a)lisn.fr) (LTC23 Cochairs), Marta Witkowska (LTC23 Secretary) (marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl) MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE at the LTC23 website: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl *) City of Poznań: https://www.poznan.pl/mim/en/ -----

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Tenure Track faculty position in Computational Linguistics at Brandeis University
by Nianwen Xue 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

*Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics* The Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in computational linguistics, beginning Fall 2023. Qualifications required of all applicants include a Ph.D., in hand by Fall 2023, in Computer Science or a related discipline, a strong research record, and a commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Particular attention will be given to candidates pursuing research in the broad area of speech, dialogue, or multimodal language processing. This position is subject to budgetary approval. The Department consists of a diverse group of 20 full-time faculty members and researchers and offers programs leading to B.A./B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and an M.S. in Computational Linguistics. The Department has research strengths in computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, machine learning, computer vision, data mining, networking, distributed systems, operating systems, databases, algorithms, and software design and implementation. In addition, members of the Department collaborate closely with faculty across the university including biology, neuroscience, economics, physics, political science, among others. At Brandeis, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential components of academic excellence. Brandeis University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating equitable access and opportunities for applicants to all employment positions. Because diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of Brandeis’ history and mission, we value and are seeking candidates that represent a variety of social identities, including those that have been underrepresented in higher education, who possess skills that spark innovation, and who, through their scholarly pursuits, teaching, and/or service experiences, bring expertise in building, engaging, and sustaining a pluralistic, just, and inclusive campus community. Applicants should submit a CV, research statement, and teaching statement, and arrange for at least three reference letters to be submitted to AcademicJobsOnline. Because Brandeis is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in all areas of faculty effort, applicants should address at least one of these areas in their cover letter and/or the teaching statement. Qualified applicants should apply at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22659 . First consideration will be given to applications received by December 20, 2022. Questions about the position can be directed to Professor Nianwen Xue at xuen(a)brandeis.edu. Additional information about the Department is available at https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science <https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/,>, and information about the Computational Linguistics program is available at https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/index.h… .

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EVALITA 2023: Call for NLP tasks
by Marco Polignano 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

****************************************************** *********** EVALITA 2023: Call for tasks *********** ****************************************************** *EVALITA 2023 *is an initiative of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale, *AILC* https://www.ai-lc.it/). As in the previous editions (https://www.evalita.it/), EVALITA 2023 will be organized along a few selected tasks, which provide participants with opportunities to discuss and explore both emerging and traditional areas of *Natural Language Processing and Speech*. The participation is encouraged for teams working both in academic institutions and industrial organizations. *TASK PROPOSAL SUBMISSION* Tasks proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and should include: - task title and acronym; - names and affiliation of the organizers (minimum 2 organizers); - brief task description, including motivations and state of the art; - explanation of the international relevance of the task; - description and examples of the data, including information about their availability, development stage, and issues concerning privacy and data sensitivity. The examples are mandatory because they are intended to give potential participants an idea of what the task data will look like, how it’ll be formatted, etc. - expected number of participants and attendees; - names and contact information of the organizers. /In submitting your proposal, please bear in mind that we encourage:/ - c*hallenging tasks* involving linguistic analysis, e.g., beyond “simple” classification problems; - tasks focused on multimodality, e.g., considering both textual and visual information; - tasks characterized by *different levels of complexity*, e.g., with a straightforward main subtask and one or more sophisticated additional subtasks; - the re-annotation/expansion of datasets from previous years with new annotation levels, and texts from publicly available corpora; - both new tasks and re-runs: for new tasks, organizers will have to specify in the proposal why it would attract a reasonable number of participants, and why it is needed; - application-oriented tasks, that is tasks that have a clearly defined end-user application showcasing; - *multilingual tasks*, i.e. with data both in Italian and in other languages; - *industrial tasks*, i.e. task with real data provided by companies. The organizers of the accepted tasks should take care of planning, according to the scheduled deadlines (see below): - the development and distribution of datasets needed for the contest, i.e. data for training and development, and data for testing; the scorer to be used to evaluate the submitted systems should be included in the release of development data; - the development of task guidelines, where all the instructions for the participation are made clear together with a detailed description of data and evaluation metrics applied for the evaluation of the participant results; - the collection of participants results; - the evaluation of participants results according to standard metrics and baseline(s); - the solicitation of participation and of submissions; - the reviewing process of the papers describing the participants approach and results (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2023 chairs); - the production of a paper describing the task (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2023 chairs). **** Email your proposal in PDF format to evalita2023(a)gmail.com with "EVALITA 2023 TASK Proposal" as the subject line by the submission deadline: October 4th 2022. **** Please feel free to contact the EVALITA 2023 chairs at evalita2023(a)gmail.com in case of any questions or suggestions. * **Deadlines of the task proposal:* - October 4th 2022: submission of task proposals - October 18th 2022: notification of task proposal acceptance *Timelines of EVALITA 2023: To be Announced Shortly* *EVALITA 2023 CHAIRS* Mirko Lai (Università di Torino) Stefano Menini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Marco Polignano (Università di Bari Aldo Moro) Valentina Russo (Logogramma SRL) Rachele Sprugnoli (Università degli Studi di Parma) Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” - CNR)

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Historical political corpus
by Alexander Osherenko 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Hi all, I am looking for a historical corpus containing political speeches of the Weimar Republic in Germany (1919-1932). Best, Alexander -- Alexander Osherenko, Dr. rer. nat. Socioware Development <http://www.socioware.de/osherenko_page.html> Founder and R&D LMU Project <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Researching-radicalization-and-genocide> Profile: ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander_Osherenko> Profile: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin <https://wirsindhumboldt.de/de/VKkZNyFaeu> Channel: Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/user/MrOsherenko>

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