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PhD position on SocialNLP at University of Tartu
by Somnath Banerjee 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

Dear all, I am looking for motivated students for PhD (4-year) on SocialNLP. SocialNLP is a new interdisciplinary area of natural language processing (NLP) and social computing. The scope of doctoral thesis proposals (but is not restricted to) is based on the following topics: - Content analysis on Social Media (Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment analysis, etc.) - Information Disorder on Social Media (Fake news, Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, misinformation, etc.) - Disaster Management Using Social Media - Explainable AI in SocialNLP Why the University of Tartu<https://ut.ee/en>? - The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities (founded in 1632) in Northern and Eastern Europe. The University of Tartu is known for its high-quality studies and research. The unique intellectual atmosphere and fine living and working environment that characterise Tartu have attracted prominent scientists and experts for almost 390 years. - As of 2023, the University of Tartu belongs to the top 1% of the world's universities. - The University of Tartu is the strongest research university in Estonia. We belong to various networks of renowned research universities, such as ENLIGHT, the Coimbra Group, LERU, etc. - Here, 13 000 students and 3000 staff members study and work in a diverse range of fields connected by the power of curiosity. - Estonia is famous for its digital society and has the highest number of startups per capita in Europe. Estonia is famous for its digital innovations, and it is home to many startups like Skype, Transferwise, and Bolt to name a few. Scholarship: - Competitive scholarship which covers health insurance (as per the UT rules and regulations) - Additional benefits: Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops, etc. If you are interested, please drop me an email (somnath.banerjee(a)ut.ee) with the followings: - CV which must include: - final year undergraduate/graduate project (brief description: max 150 words) - pursued relevant subjects at undergraduate and/or Master level (if any) - relevant work experience (if any) - publications (if any) - The name and email contacts of academic referees(optional) Please Note: - Master-level students, who are in their final semester, also can apply. - Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as the processing of the applications will start soon after receiving them. - Upon initial selection based on CV, additional documents will be asked for further processing, such as motivation later, etc. For queries: If you need more information, please contact me with the subject line "SocialNLP: PhD position queries". Kind regards, Somnath Banerjee Lecturer (~ Assistant Professor), Chair of Data Science, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Narva mnt 18 room 3063 51009 Tartu, ESTONIA webpage: http://www.ut.ee/~somnath/

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Final Call for Papers @ Fourth Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023)
by Fahad Khan 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

Call for Papers @ Fourth Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) Dates: 12–13 September 2023 (Workshops/Tutorials), 14–15 September 2023 (Main Conference) Location: Vienna, Austria Website: http://2023.ldk-conf.org Submission Deadline: 27 March 2023 (revised, was previously 10 March 2023) Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2023/Conference ============== We invite submissions to the fourth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) to be held in Vienna, Austria in September 2023. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, and the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021. Invited speakers We are happy to announce Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield), Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University), and Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University/University of Vienna), as keynote speakers for LDK 2023. Paper submission We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of: Long papers: 9–12 pages; Short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published by ACL in an open-access conference proceedings volume, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2023/Conference All articles must represent original work: when submitted, the submission must not have been previously published*, and the material in it must not have been/be submitted for review at another journal or conference while under review at LDK 2023. *This excludes papers on preprint archives, such as arXiv, which we do not consider to have been previously published. The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site). There will be no registration fee administered for participating in LDK 2023. Presentation format Accepted submissions will be selected for oral or poster presentation based on recommendations from the reviewers. This decision will not reflect any difference in the quality of the papers, and there will be no distinction between oral and poster presentations in the published proceedings. Authors of accepted short papers or posters are welcome to present their work as a demo in addition to the regular presentation. Topics Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields: Language Data Language data construction and acquisition Language data annotation FAIR data practices for language data Language data portals and metadata about language data Organisational and infrastructural management of language data Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data Visualisation of language data Standards and interoperability of language data Legal aspects of publishing language data Under-resourced languages e-Lexicography Semantic processing Knowledge Graphs Linguistic linked data and the multilingual semantic web Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning) Data, information and knowledge integration across languages (cross-lingual) ontology alignment Entity linking and relatedness Linked data profiling Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge Question answering and semantic search Text analytics on big data NLP for language documentation and preservation Speech recognition and synthesis Spoken language processing Semantic content management Computer-aided language learning Natural language interfaces to big data Knowledge-based NLP Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD Other applications Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity. Organising committee Conference Chairs Jorge Gracia – University of Zaragoza John P. McCrae – University of Galway Program Chairs: Sara Carvalho – University of Aveiro | NOVA CLUNL Anas Fahad Khan – Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Ana Ostroški Anić – Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics Blerina Spahiu – University of Milano-Bicocca Local Organisers: Dagmar Gromann – University of Vienna Barbara Heinisch – University of Vienna Proceedings Chair: Ana Salgado – NOVA CLUNL | Lisbon Academy of Sciences Important Dates (Revised) 27 March 2023 New paper submission deadline 5 May 2023 Notification 2 June 2023 Camera-ready submission deadline 12–13 September 2023 Pre-conference events 14–15 September 2023 Main conference All deadlines refer to anywhere-on-earth time. Program Committee http://2023.ldk-conf.org/program-committee/ Workshops and tutorials You can check the list of accepted workshops and tutorials at http://2023.ldk-conf.org/workshops-tutorials/

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Release of the International Corpus of English - The Gibraltarian Component (ICE-GBR)
by Cristina Suárez Gómez 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the Gibraltarian written component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GBR) is now available to all members of the research community. ICE-GBR was compiled by members of the ViEW research group<http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/> and contains 400,000 words of written text in Gibraltarian English. We expect the spoken component to be out soon, since we have recently managed to establish successful collaboration with our colleagues from different Gibraltarian Institutions (Ministry of the Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Heritage and Culture of Gibraltar, Gibraltar Cultural Services, University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar College, Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce, etc.). We truly appreciate their selfless help and that of the Gibraltarian writer and project member M.G. Sanchez. The corpus with a description of the contents can now be accessed at view0.webs.uvigo.es/ice-gibraltar<http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/ice-gibraltar>, via links to Zenodo and to the ICE hub in Zurich. The ViEW research group

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SIGDIAL/INLG 2023: Second Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals (Submit by March 24)
by Svetlana Stoyanchev 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2023) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023. We now welcome the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals, which will take place on September 11 and 12 before the main conference. We encourage submissions of proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse, dialogue, and natural language generation communities. This program is intended to offer new perspectives and bring together researchers working on related topics. We especially encourage the sessions that would bring together researchers from SIGDial and INLG communities. Topics of interest include all aspects related to Dialogue, Discourse and Generation including (but not limited to) annotation and resources, evaluation, large language models, adversarial and RL methods, explainable/ethical AI, summarization, interactive/multimodal/situated/incremental systems, data/knowledge/vision-to-text, and applications of dialogue and NLG. The proposed workshops/tutorials may include a poster session, a panel session, an oral presentation session, a hackathon, a generation/dialogue challenge, or a combination of the above. Workshop organizers will be responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and selecting papers or abstracts. The workshop papers will be published in a separate proceedings. Workshops may, at the discretion of the SIGDial/INLG organizers, be held as parallel sessions. Submissions Workshop and Tutorial proposals should be 2-4 pages containing: title, type (workshop or tutorial), a summary of the topic, motivating theoretical interest and/or application context; a list of organizers and sponsors; duration (half-day or full-day), and a requested session format(s): poster/panel/oral/hackathon session. Please include the number of expected attendees. The workshop proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co-chairs. Links Those wishing to propose a workshop or tutorial may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDial meetings: Natural Language in Human Robot Interaction (NLiHRI 2022) <https://2022.sigdial.org/call-for-papers-nlihri/> NLG4health 2022 <https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/> SummDial 2021 <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html> SafeConvAI 2021 <https://sites.google.com/view/safety4convai/home> RoboDIAL 2022 <https://robodial.github.io/> BigScience Workshop: LLMs 2021 <https://bigscience.huggingface.co/> Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence 2019 <https://sites.google.com/view/nl4xai2019/> https://www.inlg2019.com/workshop https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/workshops/ Important Dates Mar 24, 2023: Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline April 14, 2023: Workshops/Tutorials Notifications The proposals should be sent to conference(a)sigdial.org

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CFP TAL journal - special issue "Robustness and limitations of natural language processing models"
by Aurélie Névéol 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

[sent on behalf of the special issue editors] Hello all, apologies for the cross-posting. This special issue of the TAL journal calls for papers on the topic of the robustness and limitations of natural language processing (NLP) models (written text). The deadline for submission of articles is 12 May 2023 contrary to what had been announced earlier by mistake. The corrected call is available below. Kind regards, Caio Corro ----- **Robustness and limitations of natural language processing models** This special issue of the TAL journal calls for papers on the topic of the robustness and limitations of natural language processing (NLP) models (written text). Call for submission: http://tal-64-2.sciencesconf.org/ Paper submission deadline : May 12th, 2023 THE TAL JOURNAL Since 1960, ATALA has been publishing the international journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (formerly La Traduction Automatique, then TA Informations), with the support of the CNRS. This journal is published three times a year. The journal is open-access: free to submit, free to publish and free to read. Published articles will be available on the ATALA* website and on the ACL Anthology**. Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. * https://www.atala.org/revuetal ** aclanthology.org/ GUEST EDITORS - Caio Corro (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN) - Gaël Lejeune (Sorbonne Université, STIH) - Vlad Niculae (Language Technology Lab, University of Amsterdam) FOCUS OF THE ISSUE Machine learning methods have made it possible to achieve spectacular results on numerous NLP tasks and benchmarks, giving the impression that many problems related to NLP are "solved" or soon to be solved. Nevertheless, it is still an open question as whether or not these models are really effective, or even usable, in non-controlled environments. This thematic issue of the TAL journal aims at questioning the robustness and limits of modern NLP models, in particular related to the following aspects: 1. "Non-standard" data: the use of models on non-standard data, that is data presenting variations with respect to language (diachronic language variation, diatopic variations, variation in word order, code-switching, user-generated content, inconsistent spelling, accidentally noisy data due to pre-processing, incomplete data, presence of specialized domain vocabulary...). 2. Out-of-domain data: the use of models on data from a different domain that the one seen during training; 3. Linguistic structures unseen during training: compositional generalization [1], structural generalization [2], or generalization related to gender bias [3], among others. Relevant topics for this thematic issue include, but are not limited to, the following areas : - identification and evaluation of linguistic phenomena that are problematic for neural networks and other NLP systems; - analysis and correction of error propagation in NLP systems (cascading error analysis); - feedback on the use of NLP systems that have been found to be non-functional on specific types of data; - critical analysis of datasets used for learning or evaluation; - construction of datasets to evaluate robustness with respect to linguistic variations; - data augmentation to improve robustness; - out-of-domain adaptation or learning with domains that are underrepresented in the data; - neural architectures or training methods that improve robustness. All standard NLP tasks can be considered. Works on other languages than French and English are warmly welcomed. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline : May 12th, 2023 via https://tal-64-2.sciencesconf.org/ - Notification to the authors after first review : July 2023 - Notification to the authors after second review : November 2023 - Publication : February 2024 LANGUAGE Articles are written in English or French. Submissions in English are accepted only if one of the co-authors is not French speaking. SUBMISSION FORMAT The length of the papers must be between 20 and 25 pages. The TAL journal has a double-blind review process. It is necessary to anonymize the article, the name of the file, and to avoid self-references. Style sheets are available on the journal's website: https://www.atala.org/content/instruction-authors-style-files-0 Authors are invited to submit their paper by clicking on the menu "Paper submission" (PDF article" menu (PDF format). To do so, you will need to have an account on the sciencesconf platform ( http://www.sciencesconf.org ). Click on "create account" next to the "Connect" button at the top of the page. To submit, come back to the page https://tal-64-2.sciencesconf.org/, connect to your account and upload your submission. CONTACT tal-64-2(a)sciencesconf.org REFERENCES [1] COGS: A Compositional Generalization Challenge Based on Semantic Interpretation (Najoung Kim, Tal Linzen), EMNLP 2020 https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.731/ [2] Structural generalization is hard for sequence-to-sequence models (Yuekun Yao, Alexander Koller), EMNLP 2022 https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13050 [3] Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation (Gabriel Stanovsky, Noah A. Smith, Luke Zettlemoyer), ACL 2019 https://aclanthology.org/P19-1164/ -- Aurélie Névéol, PhD, HdR LISN-CNRS Bâtiment 507, bureau A111 Rue du belvédère Université Paris-Saclay 91403 ORSAY France Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 81 59

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MultiGED-2023 shared task: last call, data updates and extension
by Elena Volodina 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Updates to MultiGED-2023 shared task on multi-lingual error detection (https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023): (1) Train and dev data have been updated following reports from the participants. Please, re-download to use the latest version! (https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023). Apologies for the last-minute updates! Discussion on the nature of data corrections is on the google group: https://groups.google.com/g/multiged-2023 Dev data on CodaLab is updated accordingly. (2) The test phase is now open on CodaLab: (https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9784) (3) In connection to (1), we are extending the deadline for system submissions till Monday, 13 March, 23:59:59 UTC Read more about the shared task here: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 Best regards, Computational SLA working group (https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/compsla) ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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Paris 8 Summer Corpus Intensive
by Daniel HENKEL 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

(Texte en français ci-dessous) Paris 8 University is pleased to announce their upcoming Summer Intensive Program "*Corpus Methods in Linguistics--compilation, annotation, and quantitative analysis*", to be held 5-9 June 2023. This will be a 30h week-long course consisting of: --morning sessions devoted to data collection, extraction and organization, as well as DIY corpus building --afternoon sessions focusing on statistical analysis of the data produced during the morning sessions --several half-day sessions on automatic annotation and manual annotation methods Participants will learn how to: --formulate advanced search queries in a concordancer (e.g. TextSTAT, AntConc) --compile a text corpus with BootCaT --automatically annotate a text corpus in TreeTagger --manually annotate a text corpus in UAM CorpusTool --measure keyword specificity and collocation strength using AntConc --perform statistical analyses of categorical variables in R This program is intended primarily for researchers and upper-level students (Masters or Doctorate). Tuition will be 90€ (60€ reduced rate for students from Paris 8). To participate*, or request further information, please send an email to the organizers indicating name, status (e.g. Doctoral student, Post-doctoral researcher, Faculty) and 5 keywords describing your research interests using this link <mailto:daniel.henkel@univ-paris8.fr?subject=Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive&body=Name:%0D%0A%0D%0AStatus%2FAffiliation:%0D%0A%0D%0AKeywords:%0D%0A%0D%0AHow%2FWhere%20did%20you%20learn%20about%20the%20Paris%208%20Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%3F:%0D%0A%0D%0AMessage:%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ANB.%20Please%20leave%20the%20subject%20line%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22%20unchanged.%0D%0AVeuillez%20ne%20pas%20modifier%20la%20ligne%20objet%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22.&cc=dsg.up8@gmail.com,summer.school.paris8@gmail.com>. Please note that this is an international Summer School and that we will work with corpora in English, French and possibly other languages. Knowledge of French is thus an advantage but is not strictly necessary. /*Pending confirmation/ *** Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer l'ouverture prochaine du Séminaire Intensif « *Méthodes en Linguistique de Corpus--compilation, annotation et analyse quantitative* », de l'Université Paris 8 qui aura lieu du 5 au 9 juin 2023. Ce programme, d'une durée d'une semaine, comprend 30h de cours répartis de la manière suivante : --le matin, des séances consacrées à la récolte et à la préparation des données --l'après-midi, des cours dédiés à l'analyse statistique des données récoltées lors des séances du matin --plusieurs demi-journées d'entraînement à l'annotation automatique et manuelle. Les participants apprendront à : --concevoir des formules de recherche complexes dans un concordancier (p.ex. TextSTAT, AntConc) --rassembler un corpus thématique avec BootCaT --étiqueter un corpus de texte automatiquement avec TreeTagger --annoter un corpus de texte manuellement dans UAM CorpusTool --mesurer la spécificité des mots clefs et la force des collocations dans AntConc --réaliser des analyses statistiques de variables catégoriques dans R Ce programme s'adresse principalement à des enseignants-chercheurs et étudiants de deuxième ou troisième cycle (Master, Doctorat). Les frais de participation seront de 90€ (tarif réduit 60€ pour les étudiants de Paris 8). Pour y participer*, ou pour tout complément d'information, envoyez un courriel aux organisateurs indiquant votre nom, statut (p.ex. Doctorant, Post-doc, Enseignant-chercheur) et 5 mots clefs décrivant vos intérêts de recherche en cliquant ici <mailto:daniel.henkel@univ-paris8.fr?subject=Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive&body=Name:%0D%0A%0D%0AStatus%2FAffiliation:%0D%0A%0D%0AKeywords:%0D%0A%0D%0AHow%2FWhere%20did%20you%20learn%20about%20the%20Paris%208%20Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%3F:%0D%0A%0D%0AMessage:%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ANB.%20Please%20leave%20the%20subject%20line%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22%20unchanged.%0D%0AVeuillez%20ne%20pas%20modifier%20la%20ligne%20objet%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22.&cc=dsg.up8@gmail.com,summer.school.paris8@gmail.com>. /*Sous réserve de confirmation/

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Last call for onsite registrations/abstract submissions: Workshop on L2 profiles, Gothenburg, Sweden, 20-21 April
by Elena Volodina 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Workshop on Profiling second language vocabulary and grammar Språkbanken Text<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/> and HumInfra<https://www.huminfra.se/> are organizing a workshop on tools and resources aimed at research on profiling second language vocabulary and grammar, to take place on April 20-21, 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Venue (hybrid mode): Gothenburg, Sweden -- University of Gothenburg, Humanisten<https://www.gu.se/en/humanities>; Dates: 20-21 April, 2023 Deadline for registration (& abstract submission<https://forms.gle/jQ8UnBAp4dx5vEyC8>): 10 March, 2023. (For online attendees without presentations, the registration is possible until April, 18.) Participation is free. For registered onsite participants, lunches and coffee breaks will be offered free of charge. Webpage: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/l2p-2023 We invite researchers and teachers working with or interested in profiling second language lexical, grammatical and other types of competencies to join our workshop. To participate, please, fill in this registration form<https://forms.gle/jQ8UnBAp4dx5vEyC8> by March, 10, 2023. It is not obligatory, but possible to present your work during the workshop. In that case, please, add a short abstract (100-500 words), in the same registration form. We will come back to you with details shortly after March, 10. Some of the topics of interest: * descriptions of existing resources, work-in-progress or planned resources for profiling L2 competences * examples of practical use of such resources * lexical profiles * grammatical profiles * morphological profiles * word families * linguistic complexity studies based on L2 profiles * etc. Some areas of interest: * lexicography * teaching * (Second) Language Acquisition * language assessment * Intelligent Computer-Assisted language learning * Natural Language Processing * language learning app development * etc. Invited speakers * Aleksandrs Berdicevskis<https://sites.google.com/view/sasha-berdicevskis/>, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: We need to know more about relative complexity and learnability * Jelena Kallas<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jelena-Kallas>, Eesti Keele Instituut, Estonia: Aligning leaners' dictionaries with the CEFR: the case of Estonian Vocabulary and Grammar Profiles * Gabrielle Palotti<http://www.gabrielepallotti.it/engwho.html>, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy: Profiling complexity: methodological issues and applications to L2 morphology * Geraldine Mark, Cardiff University, Wales: Building on insights from the English Grammar Profile: From really good to painfully obvious Description Efforts are made to create electronic resources that could help analyze learner language to feed into research and development projects within Teaching and Didactics, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Assessment, Lexicography, Intelligent CALL applications, automatic analysis of learner language, automatic exercise generation, course book writing and various applied derivative products, such as learning apps. Such resources, called second language profiles, are research infrastructure components that often focus on second language (L2) learners, covering descriptions/listings of vocabulary, grammar and morphology learners acquire by level of proficiency. We witness the appearance of such resources, e.g. English Profile<https://www.englishprofile.org/>, Teacher's Tools<https://sonaveeb.ee/teacher-tools/#/grammar> for Estonian and Swedish L2 profile<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/larkalabb/svlp>, however, since such resources are quite few and, most importantly, new to users/researchers, we need a forum where we can discuss them, practically test them, explore their possibilities for research together and exchange experiences. In this workshop, through presentations, discussions, demos and hands-on sessions, we intend: (1) to establish some common practices, among others, how to use L2 profiles practically and how to apply them to different research questions (2) to showcase scenarios for using them in research & teaching and outline benefits of their use (3) to exchange experiences and lessons learnt between projects that have created such resources, reflecting on the ways to improve user-friendliness and identifying missing functionalities (4) to inspire other languages to work on similar resources stimulating the creation of a new family of resources. Projects of that kind can hardly be “re-run” to fix errors that are discovered post-factum, and therefore planning such projects “right from the start” is a prerequisite. With the experiences from the L2 profile projects for Swedish, Estonian and English, we intend to offer our expertise (à la "advisory role") and help researchers in other countries set up their projects. Organizers: * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland * David Alfter, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Contact: * Elena Volodina < elena dot volodina at svenska dot gu dot se > Feel free to distribute this call to your networks! Welcome! ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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Summer Corpus Intensive PreRegistration
by Daniel HENKEL 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

(Texte en français ci-dessous) Thank-you for your request to pre-register or for information regarding the Paris 8 Summer Corpus Intensive. As we receive many more requests than the number of places available, applications will be reviewed first to ensure that we have a group whose interests are largely compatible with one another. We'll keep you informed as soon as possible as to whether your application has been accepted, and how to enroll. Classes will be held at the main Paris 8 campus in St. Denis (Metro station St. Denis Université). The language used in classes will primarily be English, depending on participants' preferences (and language abilities). As we will be working with corpora in both English and French, knowledge of both languages will be an advantage, but not strictly necessary. The overall schedule (subject to modifications between now and June) is roughly as follows: --mornings, 9:30-12:30, we'll start with a plain-text French corpus on Monday, then move to tagged corpora on Tues.-Wednesday, DIY corpus compilation on Wed.-Thurs. --afternoons, 14:00-17:00, the statistics classes will start out with the basics of loading data into R, performing a Chi2 analysis, and will depend to some extent on the work accomplished in the morning sessions and on the interests expressed by participants. --automatic and manual annotation workshops are planned for Thurs.-Fri. Participants should plan bring their own computers and a list of software to pre-install will be sent in late May. *** Merci pour votre demande de pré-inscription et/ou d'informations complémentaires concernant l'école d'été en Linguistique de Corpus de l'Université Paris 8. Étant donné que le nombre de demandes dépasse toujours le nombre de places disponibles, nous chercherons à sélectionner parmi les candidatures un groupe de participants dont les intérêts seront compatibles entre eux. Nous vous tiendrons au courant dès que possible de la suite donnée à votre demande, et des modalités d'inscription. Les séminaires se tiendront au campus principal de l'Université Paris 8 à St. Denis (M. St. Denis Université). Les cours seront dispensés principalement en anglais selon les préférences (et compétences langagières) des participants. Dans la mesure où nous travaillerons sur des corpus en anglais et français, des compétences dans les deux langues pourraient s'avérer utiles mais ne seront pas absolument nécessaires. Le planning provisionnel des séances (sous réserve de modification d'ici juin) sera grosso modo comme suit : --le matin, 9h30-12h30, nous commencerons par l'extraction et la préparation de données à partir d'un corpus de texte brut en français le lundi, puis commencerons à interroger des corpus étiquetés le mardi et le mercredi, pour terminer par des techniques de compilation le mercredi-jeudi. --l'après-midi, 14h00-17h00, les séminaires d'analyse statistique débuteront par l'importation des données dans R, l'analyse Chi2, et dépendront en partie du travail accompli dans les séances matinales et des intérêts exprimés par les participants eux-mêmes. --les ateliers d'annotation automatique et manuelle auront lieu le jeudi-vendredi. Chaque participant devra apporter son propre ordinateur, en ayant installé au préalable une liste de logiciels qui sera communiquée fin mai. Best regards, Meilleures salutations, Daniel Henkel & Dylan Glynn

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CFP: CLEF 2023 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
by Anastasia Giachanou 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Call for papers for CLEF 2023: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 18-21 September 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece https://clef2023.clef-initiative.eu Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) - Submission of Long, Short, Best of 2023 Labs Papers: 12 May, 2023 - Notification of Acceptance: 9 June, 2023 - Camera Ready Copy due: 30 June, 2023 - Conference: 18-21 September, 2023 Aim and Scope The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The CLEF conference includes presentation of research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2023 is the 14th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. The CLEFconference has a clear focus on experimental IR as carried out within evaluation forums (e.g., CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, and TAC) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search also considering specific classes of users as children, students, impaired users in different tasks (e.g., academic, professional, or everyday-life). We invite paper submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield style evaluation paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. CLEF also welcomes past runs/results/data analysis and new data collections. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Topics Relevant topics for the CLEF 2023 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information access in any language or modality: information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, information extraction and summarisation, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for information retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis, data enrichment, etc. - User studies either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing. - Past results/run deep analysis both statistically and fine grain based. - Evaluation initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive information retrieval evaluation: interactive evaluation of information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific application domains: information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, and in the form of text, audio and/or image data. - New data collection: presentation of new data collection with potential high impact on future research, specific collections from companies or labs, multilingual collections. - Work on data from rare languages, collaborative, social data. Format Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… Two types of papers are solicited: - Long papers: 12 pages max (excluding references). Aimed to report complete research works. - Short papers: 6 pages max (excluding references). Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Review Process Authors of long and short papers are asked to submit the following TWO versions of their manuscript: Methodology version: This version does NOT report anything related to the results of the study. At this stage, the manuscripts will be evaluated based on the importance of the problem addressed and the soundness of the methodology. Manuscripts can include an introduction, description of the proposed methodology and datasets used. However, there should be no result and discussion sections. The authors should also remove mentions of results in the included sections (e.g., abstract, introduction) Experimental version: This is the full version of the manuscript that contains all the sections of the paper including the experiments and results. Papers will be peer-reviewed by 3 members of the program committee in two stages. At the first stage, the members will review the methodology version of the manuscripts based on originality and methodology. At the second stage, the full version of the manuscripts that passed from the first sage will be reviewed. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. The deadline for the submission of both versions is 12th of May. Paper submission Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=clef2023 - Submit the methodology version at the Methodology Track - Submit the experimental version at the Experimental Track Organisation General Chairs Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Theodora Tsikrika, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, GR Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, GR Avi Arampatzis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Program Chairs Anastasia Giachanou, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Dan Li, Elsevier Evaluation Lab Chairs Mohammad Aliannejadi, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Michalis Vlachos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Lab Mentorship Chair Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada

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