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Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference: first announcement
by Fried, Mirjam 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Dear All, We're very pleased to announce that the 2023 SCLA conference (SCLC-2023) will take place at Harvard University, on June 1-3, 2023, and will be hosted locally by Steven Clancy. Details about the dates, the abstract submission process, fees etc. will be announced in late September. This is just a heads-up about what’s coming and an invitation to start thinking about potential contributions. We anticipate receiving the abstracts within the next 3 months. Please stay tuned! Best regards, Mirjam, Mateusz, and Steven

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CFP: PAC 2023: Spoken English varieties: interfaces and multidimensional approaches
by Anne Przewozny desriaux 11 Sep '22

11 Sep '22

PAC 2023 – Spoken English varieties: interfaces and multidimensional approaches International conference Wednesday, April 12th to Friday, April 14th 2023 @ Université Paris Nanterre, France Guest Speakers David Britain, University of Bern, Switzerland Alexander Haselow, University of Münster, Germany Magdalena Wrembel, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland The PAC programme (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure) is coordinated by Anne Przewozny-Desriaux (Toulouse Jean Jaurès University), Sophie Herment (University of Aix-Marseille), Sylvain Navarro (Paris Cité University) and Cécile Viollain (Paris Nanterre University). The main aims of the programme can be summarized as follows: to give a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic); to test existing theoretical models in phonology, phonetics and sociolinguistics from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation; to favour communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory; and to provide corpus-based data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language. To learn more about us, you can visit the programme’s website: https://www.pacprogramme.net/?lang=en. The 16th edition of the PAC international conference in 2023 will focus on interfaces between phonology and phonetics as well as other levels of linguistic structure in contemporary spoken English varieties on the basis of corpus data. Multidimensional approaches to oral corpora are understood as approaches combining different levels of linguistic analysis and/or tools and methods borrowed from other disciplines (such as sociology, geography, anthropology, computer science, stylistics, psychology, neuro and cognitive sciences, media studies, cultural studies). The conference will be organized around three days of plenary and thematic sessions focusing on the issues detailed hereafter. We will welcome submissions which address, but are not limited to, these topics. Submissions need not be limited to a single thematic session either and may encompass issues from different themes. 1. Identities, attitudes & representations The following topics and questions fall within the scope of this session: • What are the current dynamics of linguistic and cultural communities and identities in the English-speaking world? Are there new linguistic and cultural identities currently emerging? • How are these communities and identities self-perceived and represented, notably in audiovisual and/or literary productions? What is their relationship to traditional standard varieties? • What interfaces or multidimensional approaches can best tackle the issues of sociolinguistic evaluation, representation, authenticity and stereotyping? 2. Standard(s), variation & change The following topics and questions fall within the scope of this session: • What are ongoing changes in contemporary spoken varieties of English (standard and non-standard)? Do they challenge existing theoretical models of speech variation? • What is the impact of regional and social factors on variation and change in the English-speaking world? • What concepts and notions can be borrowed from other disciplines to account for variation and change? • How can corpus phonology shed light on the phonology/phonetics interface? • How do authentic data contribute to empirical approaches in phonology? 3. Suprasegmentals The following topics and questions fall within the scope of this session: • What are the suprasegmental characteristics of contemporary varieties of spoken English? • What interfaces (e.g. prosody/syntax, prosody/pragmatics) or multidimensional approaches (e.g. acoustics, kinesics) can adequately account for the suprasegmental characteristics of spoken varieties of English? • What is the impact of regional and social factors on rhythmic and intonational patterns in spoken English? • How can intonational variation be described, modeled? • What tools are most relevant for the (semi-)automatic annotation of prosody? 4. Interphonology & learner corpora The following topics and questions fall within the scope of this session: • What are the characteristics of L2 varieties of English? How can the acquisition of L2 phonology best be modeled? • How can L2 pronunciation be assessed? What are the most relevant criteria to take into account? How can multidimensional approaches to oral performance help provide feedback to learners? • What is the impact of motivation and self-efficacy on L2 speech productions and perception? • What are learners’ representations of English teaching norms and stereotypes regarding the different varieties of spoken English? 5. Oral syntax The following topics and questions fall within the scope of this session: • What is the syntax of contemporary varieties of spoken English? How can it be described? What are its unique features? • Are the tools and methods used to describe the syntax of written varieties of English appropriate/relevant for the study of spoken English syntax? What adjustments and/or developments can be advocated? • To what extent can oral syntax be studied independently from other linguistic levels of structure? What interfaces (e.g. syntax/prosody, syntax/pragmatics) may be necessary to adequately account for the syntactic characteristics of spoken varieties of English? Are all theoretical frameworks equally equipped to account for the specificities of oral syntax? What syntactic phenomena challenge existing models and frameworks? In tackling these issues, comparisons with written data / varieties are not excluded as long as the main contribution is the characterization of oral syntax. Given the exploratory nature of this topic, we will also welcome presentations reporting work in progress on those issues and technical solutions for the multidimensional study of oral syntax. Dates and deadlines Conference: April 12th to April 14th 2023 Final deadline for submissions: October 3rd 2022 Results of refereeing of abstracts: November 7th 2022 Organised by CREA (Centre de Recherches Anglophones), Université Paris Nanterre TransCrit (Transferts Critiques anglophones), Université Paris 8 with the support of LPL, Aix-Marseille Université CLILLAC-ARP, Université Paris Cité CLLE, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Anne Przewozny-Desriaux Prof. in English linguistics | Phonology and sociolinguistics CLLE | CNRS UMR 5263 Dpt of English Studies University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France https://clle.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/annuaire/anne-przewozny-desriaux#/ The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-corpus-phonology-of-english-h… PAC programme & LVTI project https://www.pacprogramme.net/

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Jobs: Tenure track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at Montclair State University
by Anna Feldman 10 Sep '22

10 Sep '22

The Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics position starting on September 1, 2023. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Linguistics, with a primary specialization in computational linguistics. We seek candidates who are active researchers in a core linguistics area that complements existing departmental strengths. The successful candidate will play an important role in the continued development of our programs in computational linguistics at the graduate and undergraduate levels that prepare students for careers in industry as well as academia. The new faculty will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, have an active research agenda, and participate in graduate mentoring and student advisement. Willingness to provide service to the department, university and the larger professional community is also required. Demonstrated ability in grant seeking/writing is a plus. Link to submit your application: https://montclair.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/JobOpportunities/details/Assi… Further information about the department and the research interests of its faculty is available at http://www.montclair.edu/chss/linguistics/ COLLEGE/SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTIONS The Linguistics Department at Montclair State, housed within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, offers a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate programs including B.A. in Linguistics, M.A. in Applied Linguistics, and M.S. in Computational Linguistics (jointly with Computer Science). The undergraduate concentrations include ASL/English Interpreting, TESL, and Language Engineering. We also offer Graduate Certificates in Teaching English as a Second Language, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Computational Linguistics. The Montclair State Linguistics Department faculty are all actively engaged in research. THE UNIVERSITY Montclair State University is a nationally recognized R2 research doctoral institution that empowers students, faculty, and researchers to rise above their own expectations. Building on a distinguished history dating back to 1908, the University today has 10 colleges and schools that serve 21,000 undergraduate and graduate students with more than 300 doctoral, master’s and baccalaureate programs. Situated on a beautiful, 252-acre suburban campus just 12 miles from New York City, Montclair State welcomes a diverse population of students, many of whom are first generation, and delivers the instructional and research resources of a large public university in a supportive and sophisticated academic environment. QUALIFICATIONS Earned Ph.D. in Linguistics or related discipline required at the time of appointment. Evidence of successful teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels and an active research agenda in computational linguistics. DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT Montclair State University is committed to establishing and maintaining a diverse campus community that is representative of the State of New Jersey through inclusive excellence and equal opportunity. Montclair State University's commitment to access and equity is designed to prepare each graduate to thrive as a global citizen. As an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution we are working to support a campus-wide agenda to foster a community that both values and promotes the varied voices of our students, faculty, and staff. The University encourages candidates to apply who will contribute to the cultural tapestry of MSU and who value teaching a diverse student population, many of whom are first generation students. SALARY RANGE Commensurate with experience STARTING DATE September 1, 2023 REQUIRED MATERIALS: · Cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and representative publications, which can be uploaded during the application process. · 3 letters of recommendation, which can be sent to: lingsearch2022(a)montclair.edu APPLY BY: The position is open until filled and application review begins immediately. You can contact the chair of the search committee, Dr. Jonathan Howell, with questions on the position at lingsearch2022(a)montclair.edu. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INSTITUTION

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PhD position on the topic of hate speech detection at University of Klagenfurt
by Wiegand, Michael 10 Sep '22

10 Sep '22

We are pleased to announce the following *PhD position* in the area of Natural Language Processing at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC) at the University of Klagenfurt to commence at the earliest opportunity. Level of employment: 75% (30hours/week) Minimum salary: € 32.116,00 per annum (gross), Classification according to collective agreement: B1 Limited to: 4 years Application deadline: open until filled Tasks and responsibilities: contributing to a new research project in the area abusive language detection/hate speech detection Prerequistites for the appointment: • A Master’s degree in the field of computational linguistics, linguistics, computer science or alike, graded with excellent success and corresponding knowledge in the field • Good programming skills (preferably Python) • Fluent in English (both spoken and written); knowledge in German is a plus Additional desired qualifications: • Familiarity with setting up annotation tasks via crowdsourcing • Experience with supervised learning, particularly state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms • Profound knowledge of publicly available NLP tools and resources • Experience with NLP on social media, particularly Twitter • Experience with web crawling and processing large amounts of textual data • Publications at scientific conferences and in journals in the field relating to the position • Social and communication skills, ability to work independently Our offer: The employment contract is concluded with a starting salary of € 2.294,00 gross per month (14 times a year; previous experience deemed relevant to the job can be recognised in accordance with the collective agreement). The University of Klagenfurt also offers: • Personal and professional advanced training courses, management and career coaching • Numerous attractive additional benefits, see also https://jobs.aau.at/en/the-university-as-employer/ • Diversity- and family-friendly university culture • The opportunity to live and work in the attractive Alps-Adriatic region with a wide range of leisure activities in the spheres of culture, nature and sports The application: If you are interested in this position, please apply in German or English providing the usual documents: • Letter of application • Curriculum vitae • Proof of all completed higher education programmes (certificates, supplements, if applicable) • Other documentary evidence that may be relevant to this announcement (see prerequisites and desired qualifications) To apply, please send all your application materials to michael.wiegand(a)aau.at. Please also use this address for obtaining further information on this specific vacancy. General information about the university as an employer can be found at https://jobs.aau.at/en/the-university-as-employer/. The University of Klagenfurt aims to increase the proportion of women and therefore specifically invites qualified women to apply for the position. Where the qualification is equivalent, women will be given preferential consideration. People with disabilities or chronic diseases, who fulfil the requirements, are particularly encouraged to apply.

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First Call for Papers: Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop
by Harish Tayyar Madabushi 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Apologies for cross-posting We are organizing the *Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop *as part of the Georgetown University Round Table and we invite long and short papers submissions to the workshop. Please see the call for papers below for details, and do forward this to anyone you think might be interested and do join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the CxGs + NLP 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. *First Call for Papers: Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop* September 2022 | Claire Bonial & Harish Tayyar Madabushi Event Notification Type: Call for Papers Abbreviated Title: CxGs + NLP Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cxgsnlpworkshop Half-day workshop as part of Georgetown University Round Table (GURT), 9-12 March 2023 Location: Washington DC *Contact*: Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop Organizers: Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Lab) Harish Tayyar Madabushi (University of Bath) Construction Grammar (CxG) approaches recognize all levels of linguistic structure as contributing meaning, which makes them a powerful tool for considering a wide variety of linguistic problems, from determining parts-of-speech to aspectual properties. How we look at these problems has an impact on a variety of related NLP and NLU applications, including parsing, question-answering and interactive information extraction, machine translation, language grounding in robotics, etc. For many applications in the traditional NLP pipeline, existing assumptions that meaning is tied to individual lexical items and composed according to rules leave some language phenomena unaccounted for. CxGs offer theoretical solutions to such phenomena and have made headway in the development of computational resources such as constructicons, but there is more to do in fruitfully bringing CxG theories to NLP applications. Similarly, recent advances in NLP, driven in large part by the introduction of pre-trained language models, have led to the development of computational methods independent of a linguistic grounding. Although there exists work in attempting to understand the cognitive and linguistic feasibility of these models, such work remains in its infancy. Given this dichotomy between the recent direction of NLP research and the closely related field of CxGs, we are excited to announce the CxGs + NLP workshop, aimed at bringing together researchers in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Construction Grammar so as to jump-start, what we believe is, an important conversation between these two complementary, yet currently disparate fields. Our aim is to bring together theoretical and computational researchers interested in CxG approaches and encourage topics examining how theoretical research can inform computational approaches and applications, whether existing or needed in the future. Thus, we invite original research papers from a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Theory and Linguistics - Formalisms for construction grammar - Natural Language Understanding (NLU) - Opinion pieces on the interplay between CxGs and NLP - Constructions and Language Models (BERTology) - Constructicons and corpora annotated for construction grammar - Construction grammar learning and adaptation - Applications In addition to the presentation of papers at the intersection of CxGs and NLP, we will have two invited speakers discussing the relation between these fields from different perspectives. The workshop will also include a panel discussion consisting of experts from both fields discussing possible synergies between the two fields. Venue: The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The goal of co-locating these events to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. Please see the GURT website here: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/ In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event. Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports. Important dates: - Workshop papers due: 1 November 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: 28 January 2023 - Workshop date: half day TBD in the period of 9-12 March 2023 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long papers and short papers, following the ACL policy on submission, review, and citation: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submissio… All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the CxGs + NLP 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Additionally, non-archival short papers will be considered for acceptance into the workshop as in-person poster presentations only; these should be submitted by email directly to the organizers for review as opposed to submission through the EasyChair conference website and will not undergo double-blind review. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of main content; short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of main content; and final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Limits on main content do not apply to references or (optional) ethics statements. After the references, the submission may include appendices for supplementary content not necessary for evaluating the contributions of the paper (reviewers will not be required to review the appendices). Submissions should be sent in electronic forms, using the EasyChair conference management system: TBD - submission site Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than CxGs + NLP at the discretion of the organizers. Paper Submission and Templates: Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system. Both long and short papers must follow the ACL two-column format, using the supplied official style files: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. Instructions For Double-Blind Review: As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. More information about the workshop can be found on the GURT and CxGs+NLP website: https://sites.google.com/view/cxgsnlpworkshop

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Call for Participation: ValueEval @ SemEval'23
by Milad Alshomary 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Dear All, We would like to invite you to participate in ValueEval, the shared task on Human Value Detection, organized as part of SemEval'23 and Touche'23. https://valueeval.webis.de Human values have been studied in the social sciences (Schwartz, 1994) and in formal argumentation (Bench-Capon, 2003) for decades. Within computational linguistics, not much research exists, though human values can provide context for categorizing, comparing, and evaluating argumentative statements. Use cases of automated value detection systems are, e.g.: argument strength assessment, audience-based argument generation and selection, ethical discussion overview, large- scale social science research. The ValueEval task is: "Given a textual argument and a human value category, classify whether or not the argument draws on that category." See our ACL paper [1] and the task website (with 4 minute explanation video) for the details. Important Dates: - In November, 2022: Run submission opens. - December 9, 2022: Early-bird run submission closes. - January 24, 2023: Run submission closes. - January 31, 2023: Run evaluation results out. - In February 2023: Paper submission deadline. - In March 2023: Paper notification. - In April 2023: Camera-ready paper submission deadline. - In Summer 2023: SemEval Workshop (co-located with a major NLP conference). Helpful links: - Register here: https://forms.gle/ib72JUtsxhb3ZMNw5 - Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/valueeval - Task website: https://valueeval.webis.de - Twitter: https://twitter.com/ValueEval - Video Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQ4LELCCY4&ab_channel=webis Task organizers: Johannes Kiesel, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth, Benno Stein Kind Regards, Milad Alshomary [1] https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.306/

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Final Call for Papers: EvoNLP Workshop (co-located with EMNLP 2022) + Shared task
by Jose Camacho Collados 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

************************************ Final Call for Papers: EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop (The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP) + Shared task (TempoWiC) Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/ Shared Task (evaluation period still open!): https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task Submission deadline (for papers requiring review / non-archival): 10 October, 2022 Submission deadline (with ARR reviews): 25 October, 2022 Notification of acceptance: 31 October, 2022 Camera-ready paper deadline: 11 November, 2022 Workshop date: 7 December, 2022 (co-located with EMNLP) ************************************ Advances in language modeling have led to remarkable accuracy on several NLP tasks, but most benchmarks used for evaluation are static, ignoring the practical setting under which training data from the past and present must be used for generalizing to future data. Consequently, training paradigms also ignore the time sensitivity of language and essentially treat all text as if it was written at a single point in time. Recent studies have shown that in a dynamic setting, where the test data is drawn from a different time period than the training data, the accuracy of such static models degrades as the gap between the two periods increases. -------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop focuses on these time-related issues in NLP models and benchmarks. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to redesign experimental settings, benchmark datasets, and modeling by especially focusing on the “time” variable. We will welcome papers / work-in-progress on several topics including (but not limited to): - Dynamic Benchmarks: Evaluation of Model Degradation in Time Measuring how NLP models age Random splits vs time-based splits (past/future) Latency (days vs years) at which models need to be updated for maintaining task accuracy Time-sensitivity of different tasks and the type of knowledge which gets stale Time-sensitivity of different domains (e.g., news vs scientific papers) and how domain shifts interact with time shifts Sensitivity of different models and architectures to time shifts - Time-Aware Models Incorporating time information into NLP models Techniques for updating / replacing models which degrade with time Learning strategies for improving temporal degradation Trade-offs between updating a degraded model vs replacing it altogether Mitigating catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge as we update models with new knowledge Improving plasticity of models so that they can be easily updated Retrieval based models for improving temporal generalization - Analysis of existing models / datasets Characterizing whether degradation on a task is due to outdated facts or changes in language use Effect of model scale on temporal degradation – do large models exhibit less degradation? Efficiency / accuracy trade-offs when updating models -------------------------------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings unless requested otherwise by the authors. Submissions can be made either via OpenReview where they will go through the standard double-blind process, or through ACL Rolling Review with existing reviews. See details below. ---- Submission guidelines ---- We seek submissions of original work or work-in-progress. Submissions can be in the form of long/short papers and should follow the ACL main conference template. Authors can choose to make their paper archival/non-archival. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. Archival track We will follow double-blind review process and use OpenReview for the submissions. We also will accept ACL rolling review (ARR) submissions with reviews. Since these submissions already come with reviews, the submission deadline is much later than the initial deadline. We will use Open Review for the submissions. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2022/Workshop/EvoNLP For papers needing review click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP submission” For papers from ARR click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP commitment Submission” ---- Non-archival track ---- Non-archival track seeks recently accepted / published work as well as work-in-progress. It does not need to be anonymized and will not go through the review process. The submission should clearly indicate the original venue and will be accepted if the organizers think the work will benefit from exposure to the audience of this workshop. Submission: Please email your submission as a single PDF file to evonlp(a)googlegroups.com. Include “EvoNLP Non-Archival Submission” in the title and the author names and affiliation within the body of your email. ---- Shared task (TempoWiC) ---- The workshop features a shared task on meaning shift detection in social media. Data is already available and the evaluation phase ends on September 12. Winners of the shared task will also receive a cash prize. More details at the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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Reminder: Application deadline today - PhD & Postdoc positions in NLP and Deep Learning at CIS/LMU Munich
by Barbara Plank 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Application deadline *today* (AOE): September 8th, 2022 The Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich has several fully-funded positions in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning available in the groups of Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze. Details and application: https://www.cis.lmu.de/web/jobs2022.html

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[FinNLP-2022 @ EMNLP] Deadline Extended: 14 Sep, 2022
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, We received a lot of requests about the extension of the submission deadline. Because we still have some time to wait for more interesting submissions, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to* 14 Sep. 2022 (AoE).* EMNLP-2022 at Abu Dhabi is a hybrid conference. We will also provide both online and offline choices for FinNLP workshop participants. We are looking forward to your participation in FinNLP-2022@EMNLP. FinNLP-2022: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022-emnlp/home Best Regards, Chung-Chi Chen --- 陳重吉 (Chung-Chi Chen), Ph.D. Researcher Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan E-mail: c.c.chen(a)acm.org <cjchen(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw> Website: http://cjchen.nlpfin.com FinNLP-2022: The 4th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 8, 2022 Conference website https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022-emnlp/home Submission deadline September 14, 2022 *FinNLP has become a twice-a-year workshop since 2022.* In H1, it keeps in conjunction with IJCAI; in H2, it starts to colocated with EMNLP. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum where international participants share knowledge on applying NLP to the FinTech domain. Recently, analyzing documents related to finance and economics has attracted much attention in the AI community. In the financial field, FinTech is a new industry that focuses on improving financial activity with technology. Thus, in order to bridge the gap between the NLP research and the financial applications, we organize FinNLP workshop series. One of the expected accomplishments of FinNLP is to introduce insights from the financial domain to the NLP community. With the sharing of the researchers in FinNLP, the challenging problems of blending FinTech and NLP will be identified, and the future research direction will be shaped. That can broaden the scope of this interdisciplinary research area. Submission Guidelines All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - *Long Paper:* May consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix. - *Short Paper and Demo Paper: *May consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendix. List of Topics We invite submissions of research papers on all topics related to NLP for Financial Technology (FinTech) applications. Besides, one of our goals of this workshop is to foster collaboration between researchers and developers from computational linguistics and finance and economic areas. Original studies reporting joint work are therefore especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Text-based Market Provisioning - NLP-based Investment Management - Crowdfunding Analysis with Text Data - Text-oriented Customer Preference Analysis - Insurance Application with Textual Information - NLP-based Know Your Customer (KYC) Approach - Applications or Systems for FinTech with NLP Methods CommitteesProgram Committee - Hiroki Sakaji - The University of Tokyo - Emmanuele Chersoni - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Kiyoshi Izumi - The University of Tokyo - Pablo Duboue - Textualization Software Ltd. - Juyeon Kang - Fortia Financial Solutions - Paulo Alves - Católica Porto Business School - Luciano Del Corro - Microsoft Research - Chuan-Ju Wang - Academia Sinica - Ismail El Maarouf - Imprevicible - Damir Cavar - Indiana University Organizing Committee - Chung-Chi Chen <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2F~cjchen%2F&s…> - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hen-Hsen Huang <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2F~hhhuang%2F&…> - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Hiroya Takamura <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lr.pi.titech.ac.jp%2F~takamura…> - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hsin-Hsi Chen <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2Fadvisor.php&…> - Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Venue The conference will be held in conjunction with EMNLP-2022 on December 8, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to finnlp(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw

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Onto4FAIR Workshop at SEMANTICS 2022: programme
by Cassia TROJAHN 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

** With apologies for multiple postings ** -------------- Onto4FAIR Workshop at SEMANTICS 2022 Programme -------------- 13 September 2022 - Hybrid event Programme: https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/programme Registration: https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/prices 09:45 CEST: Welcome from the organisers 09:50-10:20: Invited presentation *O'FAIRe: Ontology FAIRness Evaluator in the AgroPortal semantic resource repository* Emna Amdouni, Syphax Bouazzouni and Clement Jonquet 10:25-10:55 Short papers session *Building a community-based FAIR metadata schema for Brazilian agriculture and livestock trading data* Filipi Miranda Soares, Fernando Elias Corrêa, Luis Ferreira Pires, Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Debora Pignatari Drucker, Kelly Rosa Braghetto, Dilvan de Abreu Moreira, Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem, Roberto Fray da Silva, Celso Oviedo da Silva Lopes and Antonio Mauro Saraiva *Persistent Identifiers and their limitations in a dynamic Web* Marcos Da Silveira and Cédric Pruski 10:55-11:10: Break 11:10-12:10: Long papers session *FAIR Data APIs in the FAIR in vivo data sharing* Felix Schwagereit, Martin Romacker, Fabien Richard, Robert Trypuz, Thomas Liener and Olivier Roche *CALLISTO: A semantics-based platform for sharing FAIR scientific data* Thierry Louge, Emmanuel Courcelle, Michelle Sibilla, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Christophe Marteau, Marianna Braza, Jean-Baptiste To, Laurent Orgogozo 12:10-13:00 Panel and discussion 13:00-14:00 Lunch -------------------------------- Best Onto4FAIR organisers

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