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Call for Shared Task Participation: Multilingual Protest Event Detection, CASE @ EMNLP 2022
by ali hürriyetoglu 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

Apologies for cross posting. FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CASE-2022 Shared Task: Multilingual Protest Event Detection ================================================ We invite you to participate in the CASE-2022 Shared Task 1: Multilingual Protest Event Detection. The task is being held as part of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2022). This is a continuation of the shared task CASE 2021 Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2021) [1]. The training set is the same as CASE 2021. But the evaluation phase will include data from additional languages in CASE 2022. Please see the workshop website for further details: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2022/ & Contact address: ali.hurriyetoglu(a)gmail.com Important Dates ================================================ Training data available: please follow instructions on the repository of the task: https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event. You will obtain the test data for CASE 2021 as well, with a Codalab page ( https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/31639) available to obtain a score for your predictions. New test data available: September 15, 2022 Test end: September 25, 2022 System Description Paper submissions due: October 2, 2022 Notification to authors after review: Oct 09, 2022 Camera-ready: Oct 16, 2022 Workshop period @ EMNLP: Dec 7-8, 2022 Motivation ================================================ Event extraction has recently attracted a lot of attention in the NLP community, as well as among political and social scientists: It has emerged as a robust technology for identifying the most important information inside media streams. At the same time, it provides a basis for quantitative assessment of the political situation in the World. Event extraction has long been a challenge for the natural language processing (NLP) community as it requires sophisticated methods for detection and classification of events: machine learning, syntactic and semantic parsing, event ontologies, event co-reference resolution, acquisition of language resources, grammar learning, terminology learning, temporal and spatial reasoning, and other algorithmic approaches (Pustojevsky et al. 2003; Boroş, 2018; Chen et al. 2021). Social and political scientists have been working to create socio-political event (SPE) databases such as ACLED, EMBERS, GDELT, ICEWS, MMAD, PHOENIX, POLDEM, SPEED, TERRIER, and UCDP following similar steps for decades. These projects and the new ones increasingly rely on machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and NLP methods to deal better with the vast amount and variety of data in this domain (Hürriyetoğlu et al. 2020). Automation offers scholars not only the opportunity to improve existing practices, but also to vastly expand the scope of data that can be collected and studied, thus potentially opening up new research frontiers within the field of SPEs, such as politically-motivated violence and social movements. Automated approaches, however, suffer from major issues like bias, generalizability, class imbalance, training data limitations, and ethical issues that have the potential to affect the results and their use drastically (Lau and Baldwin 2020; Bhatia et al. 2020; Chang et al. 2019). SPEs are varied and nuanced. Both the political context and the local language used may affect whether and how they are reported. Therefore, all steps of information collection (event definition, language resources, and manual or algorithmic steps) may need to be constantly updated, leading to a series of challenging questions: Do events related to minority groups are represented well? Are new types of events covered? Are the event definitions and their operationalization comparable across systems? This workshop aims at finding answers to these questions as well. Inspiring innovative technological and scientific solutions for tackling these issues and quantifying the quality of the results. Task Overview ================================================ The task consists of four subtasks relevant to Event Causality Identification: Subtask 1: Document classification ⇒ Does a news article contain information about a past or ongoing event? Subtask 2: Sentence classification ⇒ Does a sentence contain information about a past or ongoing event? Subtask 3: Event sentence coreference identification ⇒ Which event sentences (subtask 2) are about the same event? Subtask 4: Event extraction ⇒ What is the event trigger and what are its arguments? Participants may design mono- or multilingual solutions that work on a single, multiple, or all subtasks concurrently. Participants are also allowed to combine annotations for either task. Additional datasets can be utilized for training or validation purposes. The systems developed for one or more of these subtasks will be invited to process a news archive to measure the correlation between automatically and manually created event datasets. This task will be referred as Task 2. Please see Guigni et al. (2021) for the similar task we performed last year. You can find the task repository at https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event, which contains sample data and scripts. Data ================================================ Training data: The training data we use for the Task 1 is the training data for CASE-2021 and consists of English, Portuguese, and Spanish news articles. Please find the detailed description of the data on Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2021), https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.11.pdf. Test data: There will be two test sets for Subtask 1. These are i) test data from CASE 2021, which is already available, and ii) new test data for CASE 2022 including new data both in existing and in new languages, e.g. Japanese, Urdu, Mandarin, and Turkish. The test data for subtasks 2, 3, and 4 will be the same as CASE 2021 test data for subtasks 2, 3, and 4 respectively. Evaluation ================================================ The F1-macro score on predictions for test data in each language will be calculated separately for Subtasks 1 and 2. The subtask 2 will be evaluated using F1-macro. Subtask 3 will be evaluated using scorch - a python implementation of CoNLL-2012 average score for the test data ( https://github.com/LoicGrobol/scorch). Finally, we will use CoNLL-03 evaluation script (https://github.com/sighsmile/conlleval) for subtask 4. The new test data for subtask 1 may be utilized to improve performance on these subtasks. The evaluation will be managed on a Codalab page. Participants will submit their scores and the highest performing submission will be used for ranking teams. There will be a limit on the number of submissions that can be performed. After the test deadline, an additional Codalab page will be set for additional scoring. Participation ================================================ Please send your team name and the participation form that is on https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event/blob/main/… to ali.hurriyetoglu(a)gmail.com. We will share the CASE-2021 data with you right away and notify you when the CASE-2022 evaluation data is ready. Publication ================================================ All participating teams will have the opportunity to submit their system description papers to be considered for publication in the workshop proceedings published by ACL Anthology. The papers should be submitted on http://softconf.com/emnlp2022/case2022. Organization ================================================ Ali Hürriyetoğlu, KNAW Humanities Cluster, DHLab, the Netherlands Erdem Yörük, Koc University, Turkey Hristo Tanev, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EU JRC), Italy Osman Mutlu, Koc University, Turkey Vanni Zavarella, Italy Reyyan Yeniterzi, Sabanci University, Turkey Fatih Beyhan, Sabanci University, Turkey Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo, Brazil Fırat Duruşan, Koc University, Turkey Yaoyao Dai, UNC Charlotte, United States Aaqib Javid, Koc University, Turkey Benjamin Radford, UNC Charlotte, United States Kalliopi Zervanou, Leiden University, the Netherlands Milena Slavcheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Niklas Stoehr, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Guillem Ramirez, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shaina Raza, Public Health Ontario and University of Toronto, Canada Farhana Ferdousi Liza (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Japan Alaeddin Selçuk Gürel, Huawei, Turkey YiJyun Lin, University of Arizona, U.S.A & National Taiwan University, Taiwan Tiancheng Hu, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Onur Uca, Mersin University, Turkey Fiona Anting Tan, Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hansi Hettiarachchi, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom References ================================================ [1] Giorgi, S., Zavarella, V., Tanev, H., Stefanovitch, N., Hwang, S., Hettiarachchi, H., ... & Hurriyetoglu, A. (2021, January). Discovering black lives matter events in the United States: Shared task 3, In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021) (pp. 218-227). ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.27/ [2] Hürriyetoğlu, A., Mutlu, O., Yörük, E., Liza, F. F., Kumar, R., & Ratan, S. (2021, August). Multilingual Protest News Detection - Shared Task 1, CASE 2021. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021) (pp. 79-91). URL: https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.11/

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Third Call for Papers: The 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
by Stan Szpakowicz 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

*LaTeCH-CLfL 2022:* ***The 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature* to be held in a /hybrid/ manner on October 16, 2022 in conjunction with COLING 2022 in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2022/ Third Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organisers: Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz LaTeCH-CLfL 2022 is the sixth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) ran ten times in 2007-2016. The five Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place in 2012-2016. The first five joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held in 2017-2021. *Topics and Content* In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation). Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature; • automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data; • complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces; • creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources; • creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters; • discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature; • emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature; • generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; • identification and analysis of literary genres; • linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains; • modelling dialogue literary style for generation; • modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage; • profiling and authorship attribution; • search for scientific and/or scholarly literature; • work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language. *Information for Authors* We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers. • Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. • A short paper / demo presenting work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. • A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. All submissions are to use the ACL stylesheets adopted by COLING 2022 (see https://coling2022.org/Submission, styles for LaTeX <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/blob/master/latex/acl_latex.tex>, MS Word <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/blob/master/word/acl.docx> or Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>). Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/LaTeCH-CLfL_2022/. Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings available as usual in the ACL Anthology. *Important Dates* Papers due: July 11, 2022 Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2022 Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 Workshop: October 16, 2022 The two due dates are Anywhere On Earth. *More on the organisers* Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council Canada Nils Reiter, Department for Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa *Contact* latech-clfl(a)googlegroups.com

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[CFP] - 🏃‍♂️ SocialDisNER track 🥇 : Detection of Disease Mentions in Social Media
by Darryl Estrada 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

Apologies for cross-posting ******************************* *** 2nd CFP- SocialDisNER track: Detection of Disease Mentions in Social Media *** (SMM4H Shared Task at COLING2022) https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/3e71c1bed2ad679dff794153eb37d9eefb27b320?ur…> Development set, large-scale silver standard, and disease-comoborbility network are now available Despite the high impact & practical relevance of detecting diseases automatically from social media for a diversity of applications, few manually annotated corpora generated by healthcare practitioners to train/evaluate advanced entity recognition tools are currently available. Developing disease recognition tools for social media is critical for: - Real-time disease outbreak surveillance/monitoring - Characterization of patient-reported symptoms - Post-market drug safety - Epidemiology and population health, - Public opinion mining & sentiment analysis of diseases - Detection of hate speech/exclusion of sick people - Prevalence of work-associated diseases SocialDisNER is the first track focusing on the detection of disease mentions in tweets written in Spanish, with clear adaptation potential not only to English but also other romance languages like Portuguese, French or Italian spoken by over 900 million people worldwide. For this track the SocialDisNER corpus was generated, a manual collection of tweets enriched for first-hand experiences by patients and their relatives as well as content generated by patient-associations (national, regional, local) as well as healthcare institutions covering all main diseases types including cancer, mental health, chronic and rare diseases among others. As a novelty, we have published a large-scale additional corpus of +85k tweets annotated with diseases, in addition to a disease gazzetter extracted from medical terminologies and a disease-comoborbility network extracted from the large-scale additional corpus. Info: - Web: https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9d2545b93fc6172e6e1cfd016ca9042d4a5e3398?ur…> - Data: <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/75e30761b1d2a05960c484153cdc496035092d00?ur…> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6359365 <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a618de145de70b0ada1fd37699b0727391efc5fb?ur…> - Additional large-scale data: https://zenodo.org/record/6773099 <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/13e20bfcbf66f28252dc074da5459a1d3aed7b25?ur…> - Registration: https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/registration <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/eef3909672c1e204f68f7e0a3f9b9dddcf6ba744?ur…> Schedule - Development Set Release: June 14th - Additional large-scale corpus with disease annotations: June 28th - Test Set Release: July 11th - Participant prediction Due: July 15th - Test set evaluation release: July 25th - Proceedings paper submission: August 1st - Camera ready papers: September 1st - SMM4H workshop @ COLING 2022: October 12-17 Publications and SMM4H (COLING 2022) workshop Participating teams have the opportunity to submit a short system description paper for the SMM4H proceedings (7th SMM4H Workshop, co-located at COLING 2022). More details are available at https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/183f37b0b6c75261379edcec81c92588f0e28eda?ur…> SocialDisNER Organizers - Luis Gascó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Darryl Estrada, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Eulàlia Farré-Maduell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Salvador Lima, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Scientific Committee & SMM4H Organizers - Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA - Davy Weissenbacher, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Arjun Magge, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Ari Z. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Ivan Flores, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Karen O’Connor, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland - Lucia Schmidt, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland - Juan M. Banda, Georgia State University, USA - çAbeed Sarker, Emory University, USA - Yuting Guo, Emory University, USA - Yao Ge, Emory University, USA - Elena Tutubalina, Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong - Jey Han Hau, The University of Melbourne (Australia) - Luca Maria Aiello, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark) - David Camacho, Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis Research Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) - Torsten Zesch, Fernuniversitat in Hagen (Germany) - Eiji ARAMAKI, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) - Rafael Valencia-Garcia, Universidad de Murcia (Spain) - Antonio Jimeno Yepes, RMIT University (Australia) - Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Universidad da Coruña (Spain) - Anália Lourenço, Universidade de Vigo (Spain) - Paloma Martínez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) - Eugenio Martinez Cámara, Universidad de Granada (Spain) - Gema Bello Orgaz, Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis Research Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) - Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health (USA) - Héctor D. Menendez, King’s College London (UK) - Manuel Montes y Gómez, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico) - Helena Gómez Adorno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) - Rodrigo Agerri, IXA Group (HiTZ Centre), University of Basque Country EHU (Spain) - Miguel A. Alonso, Universidad da Coruña (Spain) - Ferran Pla, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) - Jose Alberto Benitez-Andrades, Universidad de Leon (Spain) Darryl Estrada Full Stack - Web Developer * Text Mining Unit | Barcelona Supercomputing Center*

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Deadline approaching: 7 July 2022. CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Extraction
by Wan, Stephen (Data61, Eveleigh) 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

Multiple CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Natural Language Processing. Australia's CSIRO Data61<https://data61.csiro.au/> is looking for multiple CERC Fellows to join an NLP team of researchers and engineers to work on a number of public-good projects. NLP research areas of interest: information extraction, text summarization, question answering, semantic parsing, semantic role labelling, paraphrase detection and generation, and NLP for Information Retrieval. Domains of research: (1) Working with scientific literature, and (2) Computational Social Science About the CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship program: CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system. Relocation costs are supported for successful candidates. Location: Sydney, NSW Salary: AU$89k - AU$98k plus up to 15.4% superannuation Tenure: Specified term of 3 years Reference: 77986 Applications close: 7 July 2022 To be considered you will need: * A doctorate (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD) in a relevant discipline area, such as Computer Science (Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics or Machine Learning with text data). * Experience using deep learning and other machine learning techniques in NLP. * High-level written and oral communication skills with the ability to represent the research team effectively internally and externally, including the presentation of research outcomes at national and international conferences. * A sound history of publication in peer-reviewed journals and/or conferences. For more information or to apply, please visit: https://jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/77986/

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1st Call for Participation - EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2022 track @FIRE 2022
by Sabur Butt 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

*EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu* CICLing 2022 track @FIRE 2022* Website: Link <https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home> Registration is now open: Link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWSPSM5wlgkucnhq3lDEsnWdaitwfq2EF…> The training set is now available. Participants are invited to publish Working Notes of FIRE 2022* *Task Description* With the growth of spread and importance of social media platforms, the effect of their misuse became more and more impactful. In particular, numerous posts contain abusive language towards certain users and hence worsen users’ experience from communication via such platforms, while other posts contain actual threats that potentially put platform users in danger. The Urdu language has more than 230 million speakers worldwide with vast representation on social networks and digital media. We encourage participants to participate in *EmoThreat: Emotion and Threat detection in Urdu (Nastaliq)* *Task A: Multi-label emotion classification in Urdu *Link <https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-a> Task A requires you to classify the tweet as one, or more of the six basic emotions (plus neutral) which is the best representation of the emotion of the person tweeting. *Task B: Threatening Language Detection Task in Urdu *Link <https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-b> Task B focuses on detecting Threatening language using Twitter tweets in Urdu language. This is a binary classification task in which participating systems are required to classify tweets into two classes, namely: Threatening and Non-Threatening. *Note: Participants in this year’s shared task can choose to participate in either one or both subtasks. Please visit the website for more information.* *Important Dates* 30th June – Training data release 25th July – Codalab submission link release (Task A) 31st August - Test set release (Task B) 10th September – Run submission deadline 17th September – Results declared 12th October - Working Note submission 26th October - Review Notifications 2nd November – Camera Ready Due 9th - 13th December - FIRE 2022 (Online Event) *Organizers* Sabur Butt, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Maaz Amjad, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Noman Ashraf, Mayo Clinic Arizona, United States Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico *Contact* Email: emothreat2022(a)gmail.com Google-group: Link <https://groups.google.com/g/emothreat> *FIRE 2022: Link <http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2022/home> -- Sabur Butt *IPN - Computer Research Center*

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Open PostDoc position in Helsinki on High-Performance Language Technologies
by Tiedemann, Jörg 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Link to the call: https://www.hiit.fi/open-positions/ Projects in the call: https://www.hiit.fi/artificial-intelligence-projects/ Deadline: 21 August at 11:59 pm UTC+3 The University of Helsinki is opening a position for a post-doctoral researcher as part of the EU project on High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT). HPLT is a new EU-Horizon project in collaboration with 5 European universities (Prague, Edinburgh, Oslo, Turku and Helsinki), 2 HPC centers (in Norway and the Czech Republic) and one Spanish LT company on the development of language and translation models at scale. We propose a language data space and sustainable procedures to lower barriers to train large and competitive NLP models. The project focuses on multilinguality, reproducibility and openness. We will use modern high-performance compute infrastructures for scalable integration of data, code and models and we will create frameworks that are at the forefront of AI with language data. Reach out for more information and feel free to forward this message. Thank you! -- ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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Associate professorship or tenure-track assistant professorship in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing - applications by August 1. 2022
by Costanza Navarretta 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Associate professorship or tenure-track assistant professorship in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing ================================================================================================ The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for an associate professorship or a tenure-track assistant professorship in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) to be filled by December 1st, 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be attached to the Centre for Language Technology (CST), see Center for Sprogteknologi - Københavns Universitet (ku.dk)<javascript:void(0)>. CST conducts research in different areas of language technology, such as computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), language technology resources and the infrastructure around them, multimodal communication, computational cognitive modelling, digital humanities, and machine learning applied to NLP. The Centre has a strong international profile, at the same time as pursuing the development of language technology methods and resources for the Danish language. CST has considerable experience managing international research projects, frequently attracts visiting researchers and has organised major conferences in the field. Together with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Copenhagen, it offers an international MSc programme in IT and Cognition. The programme, which currently admits about 30 students a year, offers a range of courses in the areas of NLP, computer science, and cognitive Job requirements and content The candidate must demonstrate: · A research record in the field of computational linguistics and NLP · Knowledge of and experience with machine learning and deep learning methods applied to the study of language · Programming skills, preferably using Python · Relevant teaching experience at university level. The following qualifications constitute additional strengths: · A demonstrated interest in linguistics · Interest in and experience with human language technology applications The successful candidate will engage in cutting-edge research in computational linguistics and NLP in collaboration with the CST researchers and is expected to contribute actively to the Centre's research environment. The candidate will also be expected to strengthen the Centre's project portfolio by applying for external funding for research and development. Furthermore, the candidate will contribute with teaching to the MSc in IT and Cognition. More specifically, the candidate is expected to contribute to the Language Processing courses and to supervise students for thesis and electives projects within computational linguistics and NLP. For details about the qualification requirements and the application procedure: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=1307&ProjectId=15… For further information about the position, please contact Head of Department, Anne Jensen, e-mail: annejensen(a)hum.ku.dk<javascript:void(0)> or Deputy Head of Department for research Bolette S. Pedersen, bspedersen(a)hum.ku.dk<javascript:void(0)>. The closing date for applications is 1 August 2022 at 23:59 [*CEST/CET] · Costanza Navarretta PhD, senior researcher/assoc.professor Centre for Language Technology Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics University of Copenhagen DIR +45 35329079 costanza(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:costanza@hum.ku.dk>

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by Liudmila Rychkova 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

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SIGSEM election: update your participation to its mailing list
by Raffaella Bernardi 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Dear all, It is time to elect SIGSEM officers for the next three-year term. Candidates will be nominated via the SIGSEM mailing list [1]. If you would like to take part in the nomination and election process, make sure to be registered in the SIGSEM mailing list with the email address you check regularly. Best, Raffaella On Behalf of SIGSEM Board [1] http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Join_SIGSEM ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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[CfP] 2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 Special Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings
by Tirthankar Ghosal 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

***2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> Special Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings*** ***Website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html *** ***Submission Deadline: August 1, 2022 *** ***Event Date: August 24, 2022 *** With a sizeable working population of the world going virtual, resulting in information overload from multiple online meetings, imagine how convenient it would be to just hover over past calendar invites and get concise summaries of the meeting proceedings? How about automatically minuting a multimodal multi-party meeting? Are minutes and multi-party dialogue summaries the same? We believe Automatic Minuting is challenging. There are possibly no agreed-upon guidelines for taking minutes, and people adopt different styles to record meeting minutes. The minutes also depend on the meeting's category, the intended audience, and the goal or objective of the meeting. We hosted the First SummDial Special Session at SIGDial 2021. Several significant problems and challenges in multi-party dialogue and meeting summarization came from the discussions in the first SummDial, which we documented in our event report <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527546.3527561>. Since we witnessed enthusiastic participation of the dialogue and summarization community in the first SummDial special session <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html> ( https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html), we are hosting the Second SummDial special session at SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> (https://semdial2022.github.io/#). This year, we intend to continue discussing these challenges and lessons learned from the previous SummDial. Our goal for this special session would be to stimulate intense discussions around this topic and set the tone for further interest, research, and collaboration in both Speech and Natural Language Processing communities. Our topics of interest are Dialogue Summarization, including but not limited to Meeting Summarization, Chat Summarization, Email Threads Summarization, Customer Service Summarization, Medical Dialogue Summarziation, and Multi-modal Dialogue Summarization. Our shared task on Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) at Interspeech 2021 was another community effort in this direction. Our shared task on Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/> at Interspeech 2021 <https://www.interspeech2021.org/> was another community effort in this direction. ***Call for papers*** We invite regular and work-in-progress papers that report: - Current research in multi-party dialogue summarization for summarizing meetings, spoken dialogue, using speech, text, or multi-modal data (audio, video), - Challenges in dialogue summarization evaluation (manual + automatic), - New methods and metrics for dialogue summarization evaluation, - Relevant corpus collection, pre-processing, development, and ethical issues involved, - Compare and contrast speech-specific systems to systems imported from text summarization, - Tools for meeting transcript generation and automatic summarization, - Topic detection and span identification in meeting transcripts for multi-topic summarization, - Position papers to reflect on the current state of the art in this topic, to take stock of where we have been, where we are, where we are going and where we should go. Researchers may choose to submit: - ***Long papers*** Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). - ***Short papers*** Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. - ***Position Papers*** Including extended abstracts, work-in-progress, and late-breaking papers. ***Submission Link*** https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=summdial2022 Submissions should follow the ACL format. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SummDial 2022 cannot accept work for a publication that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. ***Special Session Program*** The special session would consist of a keynote, a panel, oral and/or poster paper presentations. ***Organizers*** - Tirthankar Ghosal <https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/>, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic - Muskaan Singh, IDIAP, Switzerland - Xinnou Xu, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ondřej Bojar <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ondrej-bojar>, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ https://member.acm.org/~tghosal +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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