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by Imadedine Jerbi 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

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CODI workshop: deadline extension for direct submissions
by Chloé Braud 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse 2024-03-21 - EACL 2024 - Malta ** Direct Submission deadline: January 22th, 2024 ** Direct submission: We now open submissions for papers rejected at another main conference. The deadline has been updated to account for the delay in EACL notifications. Note that notifications will be sent on January 25 for direct submissions, and camera-ready will be due on January 30. Website link: https://sites.google.com/view/codi2024 CODI considers for publication papers rejected at one of the main conferences, authors will have to submit both the paper and the reviews as a supplemantary pdf file. If modifications have been made since the original submission, please submit an additional file describing briefly the modifications made. The organizers will decide on the acceptance of the papers based on the quality of the paper and its fit with the workshop. As a reminder, CODI also invites presentations of paper accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Please submit your workshop papers (category: "direct submission") at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CODI-2024/

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January 2023 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

In this newsletter: Renew your LDC membership today New publications: KASET - Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish Speech and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S01> LORELEI Farsi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T01> ________________________________ Renew your LDC membership today The importance of curated resources for language-related education, research, and technology development drives LDC's mission to create them, to accept data contributions from researchers across the globe, and to broadly share such resources through the LDC Catalog. LDC members enjoy no-cost access to new corpora released annually, as well as the ability to license legacy data sets from among our 950+ holdings at reduced fees. Ensure that your data needs continue to be met by renewing your LDC membership or by joining the Consortium today. Now through March 1, 2024, 2023 members receive a 10% discount on 2024 membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5% discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/communications/newsletter/january-2022-newsletter> for more details on membership options and benefits. ________________________________ New publications: KASET - Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish Speech and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S01> consists of 147 hours of telephone conversations (289 recordings) and broadcast news (410 recordings) in two Kurdish dialects: Kurmanji Kurdish and Sorani Kurdish along with transcripts covering 60 hours of those recordings. Kurdish is spoken primarily in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Sorani and Kurmanji are the two widely spoken dialects of the Kurdish language. The telephone speech was generated from calls by native Kurdish speakers in the United States to North American acquaintances in their social network. The broadcast news audio was collected from multiple streaming radio and television broadcast programs (narrowband and wideband audio), many of which contained a mix of Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish. Native speaker auditors identified a 5-10 minute span from each broadcast recording for transcription. Full telephone recordings that passed the native speaker audit were transcribed. This release includes speaker information, such as gender, year of birth, and language. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Farsi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T01> was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 250 million words of Farsi monolingual text, 120,000 Farsi words translated from English data, and 751,000 words of found Farsi-English parallel text. Approximately 75,000 words were annotated for named entities and up to 22,000 words were annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames (identifying entities, needs, and issues). Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Shared Task on Fine-Tuning LLMs for Ukrainian (UNLP @ LREC-Coling 2024)
by Mariana Romanyshyn 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

*The Third Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2024)* <https://unlp.org.ua/> UNLP 2024 features the first *Shared Task on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Ukrainian*. This Shared Task aims to challenge and assess LLMs' capabilities to understand and generate Ukrainian, paving the way for LLM development in Slavic languages. *Task Description* In this shared task, your goal is to instruction-tune a large language model that can answer questions and perform tasks in Ukrainian. The model should possess knowledge of Ukrainian history, language, and literature, as well as common knowledge, and should be capable of generating fluent and factually accurate responses. The evaluation will be two-fold: accuracy of answers to multiple-choice questions and human evaluation on a selection of text generation tasks. You can find the instructions, sample data, and scripts at https://github.com/unlp-workshop/unlp-2024-shared-task. *Registration* Teams that intend to participate should register by filling in this form <https://forms.gle/MiC7pWsWbwBdSmoX9>. *Publication* Participants in the shared task are invited to submit a paper to the UNLP 2024 <https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/> workshop. Submitting a paper is *not mandatory* for participating in the Shared Task. Papers must follow the workshop submission instructions and will undergo regular peer review. Their acceptance will not depend on the results obtained in the shared task, but on the quality of the paper. Accepted papers will appear in the ACL anthology and will be presented at a session of UNLP 2023 specially dedicated to the Shared Task. *Important Dates* January 15, 2024 — Shared task announcement February 15, 2024 — Release of test data to registered participants February 22, 2024 — Registration deadline February 23, 2024 — Submission of system responses March 1, 2024 — Shared Task paper due March 7, 2024 — Results of the Shared Task announced March 29, 2024 — Notification of acceptance TBD (mid-April) — Camera-ready Shared Task papers due May 25, 2024 — Workshop date *Contact* Discord for the shared task: https://discord.gg/kCc6xgWbCJ Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua Website: https://unlp.org.ua/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLP_workshop Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop

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TEICAI workshop-direct submission from EACL
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

TEICAI, Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights at EACL 2024 on Malta-March 17-22, 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/ Submission Deadline: 17 Januray 2024 (anywhere on earth) Submissions are now being accepted for papers that were previously rejected at a major conference. Authors are required to submit their paper alongside the reviews it received, provided as a supplementary PDF file. In cases where the paper has undergone revisions since its original submission, authors should also include a separate file briefly outlining the changes made. The acceptance of these papers for the workshop will be determined by the organizers, based on the paper's quality and relevance to the workshop's theme. We are also pleased to announce that our sponsor, e-COST ACTION Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME), is offering two to three travel grants for authors of selected accepted papers. More information about LITHME can be found at https://lithme.eu/. Workshop Organizers: Sviatlana Höhn, LuxAI, Luxembourg Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dimitra Anastasiou, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Angela Soltan, State University of Moldova, Moldova Bettina Migge, University College Dublin, Ireland Doris Dippold, University of Surrey, UK Fred Philippy, Zortify, Luxembourg Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Translatables Program Committee: A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to teicai2024(a)gmail.com . You can follow us on LinkedIn (TEICAI) and Twitter (teicai2024) to get more updates about the workshop. On behalf of the organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani University of Luxembourg

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Second Call for Participation- IWSLT 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *21st IWSLT 2024 – **Second** Call for Participation* *August 15-16, 2024 – Bangkok, Thailand* *http://iwslt.org <http://iwslt.org/>* The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 20 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 21st edition of IWSLT <https://iwslt.org/2024/> will be run as an *ELRA/ACL* event and co-located with ACL 2024 <https://2024.aclweb.org/> on August 15-16, 2024. It will be run as a hybrid event. Important Dates January 15, 2024: Release of shared task training and dev data April 01-15, 2024: Evaluation period April 29, 2024: Paper submission due (all papers) June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance June 24, 2024: Camera-ready paper due July 22, 2024: Pre-recorded video due August 15-16, 2024: Conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2024 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2024/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - Speech-to-speech track - Simultaneous track - Subtitling track - Offline track - Dubbing track - Low-resource track - Indic track Training, development and test data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organizers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. For further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/#paper-submission> Contact Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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CfP: Corpus Linguistics at the 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), 8–14 September 2024, Poznan
by maciej.ogrodniczuk＠gmail.com 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

The International Congress of Linguists (ICL) is organized once every five years as the meeting place for international linguistics, where all areas and sub-disciplines of linguistics as well as interdisciplinary topics can be discussed. Its 21st edition (https://icl2024poznan.pl/) will be held from 8 to 14 September 2024 in Poznań and now invites abstracts for Sections, Focus streams, and Workshops. Call for Abstracts: Corpus Linguistics Focus stream 8 invites abstracts of papers that examine the methods and applications of corpus linguistics. Topics may include the design and construction of corpora, the analysis and interpretation of corpus data, the use of corpus tools and software, and the implications of corpus findings for various linguistic domains and disciplines. The focus stream also explores the challenges and opportunities of corpus linguistics in the era of big data, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. Abstracts should clearly state the research question(s), approach, method, data, and (expected) results. They should not display the names of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other information that could reveal their authorship. They should contain the title, five keywords, and a text between 300 and 400 words (including examples, excluding references). Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers (section/focus stream/workshop convenor + external reviewer). Important dates Feb 1, 2024: (Extended) submission deadline (12.00 PM CET). Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icl2024poznan Apr 15, 2024: Notification of acceptance. Sep 11, 2024: Focus stream date Presentations and posters Authors may apply, upon abstract submission, for a presentation or a poster. Presentations will be organized in 30 minute slots (20 min. presentation, 7 min. discussion, 3 min. room change). Posters are always displayed during one full day. Separate time slots will be included in the program in which participants can discuss with the poster presenters. Best regards – Maciej Ogrodniczuk Convenor of FS8: Corpus Linguistics at ICL 2024

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2nd CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC- COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 16 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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CfP Second International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability @ LREC-COLING, Turin (Italy), Saturday 25th May 2024.
by fgaspari＠sslmit.unibo.it 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP TOWARDS DIGITAL LANGUAGE EQUALITY (TDLE): FOCUSING ON SUSTAINABILITY _ _ co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Saturday 25th May 2024, Turin (Italy) _ _ https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/ 1 DESCRIPTION AND AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP The key aim of this half-day workshop co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/), to be held in Turin (Italy) on Saturday 25th May 2024, is to discuss and promote the importance of sustainability in the design, development, creation, use, distribution and sharing of language data, resources, platforms, infrastructures, tools and technologies, with the intention of achieving Digital Language Equality (DLE). While some important work has recently addressed these crucial areas (e.g. Fort and Couillault, 2016; Hessenthaler et al., 2022; Ramesh et al., 2023; Castilho et al., forthcoming), the relevant contributions seem to be as yet unsystematic and relatively isolated. The workshop intends to provide an inclusive forum to encourage in-depth debate and facilitate collaborations to promote the sustainability of resources and technologies in any (combination of) languages, in support of multilingualism and of the overarching goal of DLE. _The sustainability of language resources and technologies is key to enabling multilingualism and digital language equality in the age of Artificial Intelligence._ 2 TOPICS OF INTEREST The _Second International Workshop_ _Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE) _focuses on sustainability in relation to the design, development, creation, use, distribution and sharing of language data, resources, platforms, infrastructures, tools and technologies, with a view to promoting the broader goal of Digital Language Equality (DLE). The concept of DLE has been firmly established in relation to all languages of Europe (Rehm and Way, 2023), and has the potential to also benefit other languages throughout the world, to support the prosperity of the respective communities at a time of impressive - but as yet very unevenly distributed and severely imbalanced - progress in language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI), e.g. through large language models (LLMs). The workshop places particular emphasis on multilingualism and on leveling up digital support for languages, domains and applications that have so far been underserved, and wishes to explore ways to develop policies and funding streams to work towards sustainability in connection with DLE, especially in support of regional, minority and territorial languages. To this end, recognizing that the sustainability of Language Resources and Technologies (LRTs) is key to enabling multilingualism and DLE in the age of AI, topics of particular interest for the workshop on which we invite original contributions covering any (combination of) languages include, but are not limited to, the following: * research on the factors affecting DLE and the sustainability of LRTs; * best practices, case studies and validated guidelines related to the design, implementation and improvement of sustainability of written, oral/spoken, signed and/or multimodal LRTs (including LLMs), particularly in support of DLE; * how multilingual LLM technology can support DLE; * retrospectively assessing the sustainability of legacy LRTs, and future-proofing new LRTs in the interest of DLE; * analyzing the costs and benefits of foregrounding sustainability for LRTs; * the role of metadata, accompanying documentation and licenses in showing and improving the sustainability of LRTs; * sustainability, fairness and accessibility (e.g. for users with physical or cognitive disabilities, limited computing resources and connectivity) of platforms and infrastructures hosting, distributing and sharing LRTs in the interest of DLE; * how current data and computing access inequality is affecting DLE (in particular regarding LLMs); * ecological sustainability and environmental fairness of developing and deploying state-of-the-art LRTs, e.g. LLMs with regard to energy consumption, global warming and climate change; * developing data and parameter efficient methods to train or adapt language models to new languages; * how to evaluate, measure, compare and improve the sustainability of LRTs; * establishing benchmarks and protocols to ensure the sustainability of LRTs; * how to avoid the potential dangers of developing and using _un_fair and _un_sustainable LRTs, e.g. for malicious, ill-intentioned or harmful purposes; * ethical, legal, cultural and/or socio-economic implications of (ignoring) fairness and sustainability of LRTs; * developing and implementing forward-looking policies to promote fairness and long-term sustainability of LRTs to achieve DLE; * education and training needs and experiences in relation to promoting fairness and sustainability of LRTs and ways to raise broad awareness of DLE and related topics, e.g. among the general public, policy- and decision-makers. Given this wide-ranging and inclusive remit, the workshop intends to bring together developers, creators, vendors, distributors, brokers, users, evaluators and researchers of written, oral/spoken, signed and/or multimodal LRTs in any (combination of) languages. 3 BACKGROUND AND FIRST TDLE WORKSHOP HELD IN 2022 The second 2024 edition of the workshop builds on the success of the first _Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE) workshop_,[1] that was held at LREC 2022 in Marseille (France) on 20 June 2022, and whose accepted papers were published in a dedicated volume of proceedings, Aldabe et al. (2022).[2] Following this well-received inaugural workshop held in June 2022, the second event in the series will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin (Italy) on Saturday 25th May 2024, and will focus specifically on the highly relevant topic of the sustainability of LRTs in connection with multilingualism and DLE. 4 SUBMISSIONS Up-to-date information on the workshop, including materials for authors, guidelines, templates, stylesheet and key dates can be found at the dedicated website https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/. To contact the organizing committee of the workshop directly, you can email tdle2024.hitz(a)ehu.eus. Papers submitted to the workshop should be completely anonymous for double-blind peer review, written in English, and prepared using the official LREC-COLING 2024 author's kit and submission stylesheet/template available at https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/. The submissions to the workshop should not exceed 8 pages, excluding references, and be saved in unprotected PDF format. Papers should be submitted no later than 23 February 2024 through the START submission management system available at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/tdle2024/. The workshop seeks original papers, i.e. it does not accept submissions that have been, or will be, published elsewhere. The workshop allows simultaneous submissions, and in these cases the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript to which other conference, workshop or venue they have submitted the paper for review. Each paper submitted to the workshop will receive three double-blind peer reviews. Papers accepted for presentation will be included in the proceedings of the workshop. In light of the LREC-COLING 2024 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative, when submitting their papers through the START system authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of their research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). 5 KEY DATES Paper submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2024 Camera-ready papers due: 8 April 2024 Half-day workshop date: Saturday, 25th May 2024 6 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Itziar Aldabe (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Begoña Altuna (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Aritz Farwell (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Federico Gaspari (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy & ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland - co-chair) * Joss Moorkens (School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies/ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland - co-chair) * Stelios Piperidis (Institute of Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies, Greece) * Georg Rehm (Speech and Language Technology Lab, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany) * German Rigau (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) 7 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Antonios Anastasopoulos (GMU, USA) * Anya Belz (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) * Steven Bird (CDU, Australia) * Fred Blain (Uni. Tilburg, Netherlands) * Franco Cutugno (Uni. Naples "Federico II", Italy) * Bessie Dendrinos (NKUA, Greece & ECSPM, Denmark) * Félix do Carmo (Uni. Surrey, UK) * Annika Grützner-Zahn (DFKI, Germany) * Ana Guerberof-Arenas (Uni. Groningen, Netherlands) * Davyth Hicks (ELEN, Belgium) * Monja Jannet (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) * John Judge (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) * Dorothy Kenny (SALIS/CTTS/ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) * Sabine Kirchmeier (EFNIL, Luxembourg) * Teresa Lynn (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates) * Maite Melero (BSC, Spain) * Helena Moniz (Uni. Lisbon, Portugal & EAMT) * Johanna Monti (UniOR, Italy) * Rachele Raus (UniBO, Italy) * Wessel Reijers (Uni. Paderborn, Germany) * Celia Rico Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Dimitar Shterionov (TU, Netherlands) * Carlos S. C. Teixeira (IOTA Localisation Services & Uni. Rovira i Virgili, Spain) * Antonio Toral ( Groningen, Netherlands) * Vincent Vandeghinste (Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium) REFERENCES Itziar Aldabe, Begoña Altuna, Aritz Farwell and German Rigau, editors. 2022. _Proceedings of the Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE)_ [1]. European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France. Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari, Joss Moorkens, Maja Popović and Antonio Toral, editors. Forthcoming. _Journal of Specialised Translation_ [2]. Special Issue n. 41 on "Translation Automation and Sustainability". Karën Fort and Alain Couillault, 2016. "Yes, We Care! Results of the Ethics and Natural Language Processing Surveys [3]". _Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)_ [4]. European Language Resources Association, Portorož, Slovenia. 1593-1600. Marius Hessenthaler, Emma Strubell, Dirk Hovy and Anne Lauscher, 2022. "Bridging Fairness and Environmental Sustainability in Natural Language Processing [5]". _Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing_ [6], Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 7817-7836. András Kornai, 2013. "Digital Language Death [7]". _PLoS ONE_, 8(10):e77056. Krithika Ramesh, Sunayana Sitaram and Monojit Choudhury, 2023. "Fairness in Language Models Beyond English: Gaps and Challenges [8]". _Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023_ [9]. Association for Computational Linguistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 2106-2119. Georg Rehm and Andy Way, editors. 2023. _European Language Equality: A Strategic Agenda for Digital Language Equality_ [10]. Berlin: Springer. 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[PhD-Position] Muiltimodal Fake-News and Disinformation Detection incl. xAI in DFKI Berlin
by Tim Polzehl 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Job offer: Researcher for Multimodal Fake-News and Disinformation Detection at DFKI Berlin The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) since 1988. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major "Center of Excellence" by the international scientific community. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI as Germany’s biggest public and independent organisation dedicated to AI research and development, has focused on the goal of human-centric AI for more than 30 years. Research is committed to essential, future-oriented areas of application and socially relevant topics. We are looking for a highly motivated research assistant to join our existing team and work on a project focused on fake-news and disinformation detection from speech and multimedia data. Content authenticity verification of speech combined with other modalities like text, visuals or meta-data will be a center part. In any case, xAI and bias analysis are aspects of high relevance to the position as well. The successful candidate will work closely with high-impact partners in this field, e.g. Technical University of Berlin, RBB (Berlin TV and news broadcaster), Deutsche Welle (Germany's broadcaster abroad), and 5 other partners. Responsibilities will include developing and testing different AI/NLP models and techniques, analyzing the performance of machine learning models in the context of applicable fake-news and disinformation fighting for journalists, and communicating project progress and results to relevant stakeholders. The position offers opportunities for pursuing a doctorate and publishing research results in scientific journals and conferences. Qualified candidates will have a completed university degree in (technical) computer science or computational linguistics, excellent programming skills in Python, and a strong background in machine learning/AI and signal processing or NLP. Previous experience in the field of fake-news or spoofing / authenticity detection of multimedia data is an advantage. DFKI offers an agile and lively international and interdisciplinary environment for working in a self-determined manner. If you are interested in contributing to cutting-edge research and working with a dynamic team, please apply! More details and link: https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/researcher-m-f-d-547585.html Application deadline: Jan 23, 2024. In terms of questions please don’t hesitate to contact tim.polzehl(a)dfki.de<mailto:tim.polzehl@dfki.de> -- Dr.-Ing. Tim Polzehl Senior Researcher Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Speech & Language Technology Associate Senior Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab DFKI Labor Berlin Alt-Moabit 91c, D-10559 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49.30.238951863 Fax: +49 30 23895 1810 E-Mail tim.polzehl(a)dfki.de<mailto:tim.polzehl@dfki.de> ------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender) Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 -------------------------------------------------------------

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