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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Fifth Call for Submissions
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 02 May '23

02 May '23

*** Fifth Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Cambridge, UK
by Ondřej Matuška 02 May '23

02 May '23

*<Lexicom/>* a workshop in digital lexicography and lexical computing *SAVE THE DATE* *Jesus College, Cambridge, UK*11 – 15 September 2023 Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments in *corpus-driven lexicography* and to activate and enhance your *corpus building and corpus query skills* with some of the top experts in the field. For the programme, lecturers, invited speakers, fees and registration, visit this website *lexicom.courses <https://lexicom.courses/lexicom-2023-cambridge-uk-lexicography-workshop/>* I hope to meet you in Cambridge in September! Ondřej *Ondřej Matuška* sketchengine.co.uk <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/SketchEngine/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejmatuska> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/SketchEngine>

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Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies (ConTeNTs)
by amalhaddad＠ugr.es 01 May '23

01 May '23

The 1st Workshop on Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies (ConTeNTs) Varna, 7th-8th September, 2023 In conjunction with RANLP 2023 - International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" Second call for papers Computational Terminology and new technologies applied to translation studies have attracted the interest of researchers with very different multidisciplinary backgrounds and motivations. Those fields cover a range of areas in Natural Language Processing (NLP) such as information retrieval, terminology extraction, question-answering systems, ontology building, machine translation, computer-aided translation, automatic or semi-automatic abstracting, text generation, etc. Terminological identification, extraction and coinage of new terms are essential for knowledge mining from texts, both in high and low resources languages. Quick evolutions and new developments in specialised domains require efficient and systematic automatic term management. New terms need to be coined and translated to ensure the equitable development of domains in all languages. During the last decade, deep learning and neural methods have become the state of the art for most NLP applications. Those applications were shown to outperform previous methods on various tasks, including automatic term extraction, language mining, assessment of quality in machine translation, accessibility of terminology, etc. On the one hand, NLP and computational linguistics try to improve the work of translators and interpreters by developing Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, Translation Memories (TMs), terminological databases and terminology extraction tools, etc. On the other hand, the NLP field still needs the efforts and knowledge of translators, interpreters and linguists to provide better services and tools based on the real necessities of those language professionals. The aim of this workshop is to promote new insights into the ongoing and forthcoming developments in computational terminology by bringing together NLP experts, as well as terminologists and translators. By uniting researchers with such diverse profiles, we hope to bridge some of the gaps between these disciplines and inspire a dialogue between various parties, thus paving the way to more artificial intelligence applications based on mutual collaboration between language and technology. Topics of Interest The ConTeNTs workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on original and unpublished research on topics related to Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies, including but not limited to: * Automatic term extraction: monolingual and multilingual extraction of terms from parallel and comparable corpora, including single and multiword expressions; * Extraction and acquisition of semantic relations between terms; * Extraction and generation of domain specific definitions and disambiguation of terms; * Representation of terms, management of term variation and the discovery of synonym terms or term clusters and its relation to NLP applications; * Extraction of terminological context, through the use of comparable and parallel corpus; * Accessibility of terminology in certain domains, relevant to non-experts or to laypersons, and its relevance to NLP applications such as, chatbots, automatic email generation or spoken language interface; * The impact of terminology on MT (applying terminology constraints, evaluation of MT in domain-specific settings, etc.); * The creation of domain ontologies, thesaurus, terminological resources in specialised domains; * The use of new technologies in translation studies and research and the use of terminological resources in specialised translation; * Identification of key problems in terminology and new technologies used in translation studies; * Evaluation of terminological resources in various NLP applications and the impact of these resources have on the performance of the automatic systems; * Emerging language technologies: how the increased reliance on real-time language technologies would change the structure of language; * Corpus based studies applied to translation and interpreting: the use of parallel and comparable corpora for translating phraseological units; * Phraseology and multiword expressions in cross-linguistic studies; * Translation and interpreting tools, such as translation memories, machine translation and alignment tools; * User requirements for interpreting and translation tools. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must consist of full-text papers and should not exceed 7 pages excluding references, they should be a minimum of 5 pages long. The accepted papers will be published as ConTeNTs workshop e-proceedings with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and will be also available at the time of the conference. The papers should be in English. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two programme committee members. Accepted papers will be presented orally as part of the programme of the workshop. Submissions Link to START system: https://softconf.com/ranlp23/ConTeNTS Website of the workshop: https://contents2023.kulak.kuleuven.be/ Should you require any assistance with the submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at amalhaddad(a)ugr.es and ayla.rigoutsterryn(a)kuleuven.be. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: 10 July 2023 Acceptance notification: 5 August 2023 Final camera-ready version: 25 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 31 August 2023 ConTeNTs workshop: 7/8 September 2023 Workshop Chairs & Organising Committee Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Amal Haddad Haddad, Universidad de Granada, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Programme Committee * Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester) * Maria Andreeva Todorova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) * Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) * Melania Cabezas García (Universidad de Granada) * Rute Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) * Esther Castillo Pérez (Universidad de Granada) * Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal) * Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada) * Mercedes García de Quesada (Universidad de Granada) * Dagmar Gromann (Centre for Translation Studies - University of Vienna) * Tran Thi Hong Hanh (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle) * Rejwanul Haque (National College of Ireland) * Amir Hazem (Nantes University) * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo) * Barbara Karsch (BIK Terminology - USA) * Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University) * Miloš Jakubíček (Sketch Engine) * Hendrik Kockaert (KU Leuven) * Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University) * Maria Kunilovskaya (Saarland University) * Marie-Claude L'Homme (Université de Montréal) * Hélène Ledouble (Université de Toulon) * Pilar León-Araúz (Universidad de Granada) * Rodolfo Maslias (former Head of TermCoord, European Parliament) * Silvia Montero Martínez (Universidad de Granada) * Emmanuel Morin (LS2N-TALN) * Rogelio Nazar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) * Sandrine Peraldi (University College Dublin) * Silvia Piccini (Italian National Research Council) * Thierry Poibeau (CNRS) * Senja Pollak (Jožef Stefan Institute) * Maria Pozzi Pardo (El Colegio de México) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) * Arianne Reimerink (Universidad de Granada) * Andres Repar (Jožef Stefan Institute) * Christophe Roche (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc) * Antonio San Martín Pizarro (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) * Beatriz Sánchez Cárdenas (Universidad de Granada) * Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) * Irena Spasic (Cardiff University) * Elena Isabelle Tamba (Romanian Academy, Iași Branch) * Rita Temmerman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) * Jorge Vivaldi Palatresi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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Deadline extension - Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG)
by Jia Loy 01 May '23

01 May '23

We are happy to announce that we have extended the deadline for the workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG). Extended deadline: 8th May 2023 Notification date: 5th June 2023 Workshop dates: 18th September (all day) and 19th September (morning) 2023 Workshop venue: Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (the workshop is collocated with XPRAG in Paris, 20th-23rd September) ** Call for submissions: Experimental research in pragmatics and discourse processing has consistently found that not all comprehenders behave the same: while some seem to draw rich pragmatic inferences, others respond in a way that is more consistent with a literal interpretation (Fairchild & Papafragou, 2021; Mayn & Demberg, 2022). Similarly for discourse inference, experiments have found differences with respect to the sensitivity to discourse cues and the readiness for discourse predictions between participants (Scholman, Demberg & Sanders, 2020; Tskhovrebova, Zufferey & Gygax, 2022). This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in exploring individual differences at the level of pragmatics and discourse, as well as methods for relating those differences to cognitive properties, and approaches for modelling the mechanism driving the individual differences effects. IndiPRAG Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions: - To what extent do pragmatic processing and discourse inferences differ between individuals? - How consistent are interpretation biases across different types of pragmatic implicatures? - What individual difference measures are particularly suitable for measuring IDs related to pragmatic processing? - How can we computationally model individual differences in discourse and pragmatics? - What statistical methods are best suited to identifying latent groups of participants and relating ID measures to task performance? ** Formatting guidelines: The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text (excl. captions), 10000 characters for references, 2 figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with 2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced. Please indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract, which will be used for session planning. Abstracts must be written in English and should include a title but no information revealing the author(s). We welcome submissions for work that is being considered by other conferences, workshops, or journals. Submissions should be handed in via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=indiprag2023 ** We will have invited talks by: Kirsten Abbot-Smith, University of Kent Morten Christiansen, Cornell University Craig Hedge, Aston University Petra Hendriks, University of Groningen Antje Meyer & Florian Hintz, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen ** IndiPRAG is being organised by: Vera Demberg, Jia Loy, Alexandra Mayn, Dongqi Pu, Margarita Ryzhova, Merel Scholman, Sebastian Schuster You can contact us at: indiprag(a)lst.uni-saarland.de

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IACT’23@SIGIR: deadline extension to May 9
by Marina Litvak 01 May '23

01 May '23

Call for Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23) The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Workshop website: https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23 July 27, 2023. Taipei, Taiwan. Paper submission deadline extended to May 9, 2023, AoE Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iact23 To bring the research community's attention to the limitations of current models in recognizing and characterizing AI vs. human authors, we organize the first edition of IACT workshops under the umbrella of the SIGIR conference. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster scientific advances in all aspects of author characterization. Organizing Committee: - Marina Litvak - marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Irina Rabaev - irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Alípio Mário Jorge - amjorge(a)fc.up.pt; University of Porto; Porto, Portugal - Ricardo Campos - ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Portugal; Porto, Portugal - Adam Jatowt - adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck, Austria Invited Speakers: - Prof. Mark Last - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Prof. Dr. Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany IACT’23 proceedings will be published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they do not conflict with previous publication rights. Contact: - Dr. Marina Litvak: litvak.marina(a)gmail.com - Dr. Irina Rabaev: irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il -- Best regards, Marina Litvak

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Three open positions in emotion analysis at Uni Stuttgart
by Roman Klinger 30 Apr '23

30 Apr '23

Reminder: I have three open positions at the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart, application deadline is May 10. More information: https://romanklinger.de/projects/job-item.pdf https://romanklinger.de/projects/job-emcona.pdf Please get in touch if you have questions (at EACL in Dubrovnik or via email). Roman

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Computational Linguistics: PhD position, “Archimedes” Center for Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms
by stiliani.markantonatou＠gmail.com 30 Apr '23

30 Apr '23

This is a call for a funded, three-year PhD position in Athens, Greece at the “Archimedes” Center for Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms (https://www.athenarc.gr/en/archimedes). Through “Archimedes” Greece is expected to be at the forefront of science, in a field of knowledge whose importance is constantly increasing and now has multifaceted applications across the spectrum of economy, society, industry, etc. The successful candidate will work with an interdisciplinary team who focus on the processing of under-resourced language varieties. The main objective of this position is to develop morphologically, syntactically and probably semantically annotated corpora for Greek dialectal varieties, use them for comparative studies of language models and infuse neural models with knowledge from linguistics. Background required: (Near-)native knowledge of Modern Greek, Degree in Linguistics (or equivalent, degree in Modern Greek Linguistics is preferred), background in Corpus Annotation for NLP purposes (morphology and/or syntax), Python programming, familiarity with Machine Learning principles. The candidates should have completed or be close to complete a relevant MA or MSc course. Desired qualifications: Studies in formal and computational linguistics, experience in the formal analysis of language, experience with NLP and ML tools. Contact: Stella Markantonatou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, "Athena" Research Center, GR, https://www.ilsp.gr/en/members/markantonatou-stella-2/), marks(a)athenarc.gr Deadline: 14 May 2023

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RANLP 2023 Deadline extension
by Nanomi Arachchige, Isuri 29 Apr '23

29 Apr '23

Final Call for Papers ***We are extending the submission deadline by 10 days to 16 May 2023*** RANLP 2023 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel "Cherno More" Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/ Summer school 'Deep Learning in NLP': 30 August - 1 September 2023 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 2-3 September 2023 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference and Student Research Workshop: 4-6 September 2023 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops: 7-8 September 2023 (Thursday-Friday) We are pleased to announce that the 14th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2023 at the Black Sea city of Varna. In addition to the conference programme of competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on the recent advances of a wide range of NLP topics, the RANLP conference features 5 keynote speeches. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning in NLP (30 August - 1 September 2023) and two days of tutorials (2-3 September 2023). Post-conference workshops will be held on 7-8 September 2023. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshop (now in its 8th edition) is a vibrant discussion forum for young researchers. As from RANLP 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The SCOPUS SJR of RANLP proceedings is 0,316 (2021). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced at the conference website in due time. INVITED SPEAKERS: The list of keynote speakers at RANLP 2023, tutorial presenters as well as summer school lecturers and tutors includes: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Isabelle Augenstein (Copenhagen University, Denmark) * Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Sandra Kübler (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) * Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, Greece) TUTORIAL PRESENTERS: * Oana-Maria Camburu (UCL, UK) * Iacer Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands) * Sanja Stajner (Karlsruhe, Germany) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Aston, UK) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TUTORS: * Lucas Beyer (Google Brain, USA) * Oana-Maria Camburu (UCL, UK) * Iacer Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Aston, UK) * Isuri Anuradha (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Laurence Dyer (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Anthony Huges (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Damith Premasiri (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) WORKSHOPS: Nine workshops will be organised on 7-8 September 2023: * LT-EDI 2023 - Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion * DravidianLangTech 2023 - Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages * TSAR 2023 - Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability * ALP 2023 - Workshop on Ancient Language Processing * HumEval 2023 - Third Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems * BUCC 2023 - 16th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora * ASE 2023 - 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text * ConTeNTS 2023 - Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies * NLP4TIA 2023 - NLP tools and resources for translation and interpreting applications Further details are available at http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/post-conference-events/ . SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS RANLP invites submission of papers containing original research results that has not been published elsewhere. The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/ . The reviewing process will be anonymous, except for the demo submissions. Double submission is acceptable but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. Every accepted paper will have a DOI number. RANLP-2023 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors' names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available on 1 April 2023. IMPORTANT DATES Conference abstracts submission: after 1 April 2023 Conference papers submission: 6 May 2023 16 May 2023 Conference papers acceptance notification: 26 June 2023 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2023 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 10 July 2023 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 5 August 2023 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 25 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2023 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 30 August - 1 September 2023 RANLP tutorials: 2-3 September 2023 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 4-6 September 2023 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops: 7-8 September 2023 (Thursday-Friday) LOCATION and TRAVEL RANLP 2023 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Hotel "Cherno More" (http://www.chernomorebg.com/home ). The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis ). THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2023 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair) Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator)

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ESSAI 2023 Summer School - Call for Participation
by Roberto Navigli 29 Apr '23

29 Apr '23

===================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1st European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence - ESSAI 2023 24-28 July 2023 Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia https://essai.si/ With a set of exciting courses! https://essai.si/courses/ ===================================== We are happy to announce that registration for the First European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI) is now open! ESSAI is a new, yearly recurring, event organized under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) < https://www.eurai.org/>. ESSAI that intends to serve as a central hub for PhD students and young researchers working in “all aspects of AI”. The need for such a school emerged in early discussions within CLAIRE < https://claire-ai.org/> and transformed into a concrete proposal by the ICT-48 EU research network TAILOR <https://tailor-network.eu/>, and finalized by EurAI. The structure of ESSAI has been deeply inspired by the ESSLLI (European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information), organized since 1989 under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSAI Summer School covers two weeks of courses and workshops in the summer, in different sites around Europe, for beginning and advanced students, as well as senior researchers, on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSAI provides foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within all areas of AI, and any related, broader or more specific, disciplines. In addition, it hosts four evening lectures in which prominent researchers present interdisciplinary overviews of recent developments for a broad audience. ESSAI also offers a number of social activities for students and senior researchers alike. ESSLLI summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 400 students from Europe and elsewhere, we expect that ESSAI will be of the same size or larger. ESSAI wants to develop into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Artificial Intelligence in a broad sense. One of the main attraction points is ESSAI’s special scientific and social atmosphere. ESSAI 2023 offers 24 one-week courses in different areas of artificial intelligence, offering a wide perspective and bridging across subdisciplines. The courses, organized in six parallel tracks, are at foundational, introductory, and advanced levels. ESSAI 2023 comprises the third TAILOR Summer School, and includes EurAI’s Advanced Course on AI (ACAI 2023), consisting of 10 invited tutorials on the topic of AI for Science as an additional advanced track of ESSAI. The courses and tutorials, presented by top AI researchers from all over the world, are complemented with keynotes and social events. ESSAI 2023 will be an in-person one-week-long event in beautiful Ljubljana, a relaxed, green, and vibrant European capital. ESSAI 2023 is colocated with the 34th School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2023, happening one week later at the same location. Attendees of both schools benefit from reduced registration. *Early registration is available until the 15th of May 2023; go to https://essai.si/registrations/ <https://essai.si/registrations/>* -- ============================================== Roberto Navigli* - Professor* Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto, 25 00185 Roma Italy Phone: +39 06 77274109 Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it Co-founder of Babelscape <https://babelscape.com> ==============================================

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MS/PhD positions in NLP at Koç University, Istanbul
by Gozde Gul 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Dear all, We have several openings for fully funded Ph.D. and MS student positions in NLP at Koç University <https://www.ku.edu.tr/en/>, Istanbul. The positions will focus on understanding and processing procedural language provided as natural language instructions (e.g., step-by-step instructions to fix WiFi). Some of the topics are (but are not limited to): - Investigating and designing neural/hybrid models with long-range reasoning on procedural text, - Document-grounded task-oriented dialogue on procedural text, - Designing evaluation metrics and benchmarks for procedural text The "Automatic Learning of Procedural Language from Natural Language Instructions for Intelligent Assistance" is funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye and is led by Asst. Prof. Gözde Gül Şahin <https://gozdesahin.github.io/>. The position will also be affiliated with KUIS AI <https://ai.ku.edu.tr/>, a thriving international research environment with more than 50 graduate students working on NLP-related topics spread over computer vision, robotics, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with other researchers at the KUIS AI and at Koç University. The primary communication language is English. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible. Qualifications The ideal candidates should be enthusiastic about natural language processing, have excellent mathematical and programming skills, should be team players, and have Bachelor's degrees in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related discipline. Offer Salary: Current KUIS AI fellowship salaries are 11.200TL/mo for MSc and 18.600TL/mo for Ph.D. students. Scholarship raises after a qualified publication as the first author: 1000 TL/mo for MS, 1500 TL/mo for Ph.D., to be re-evaluated every semester. Travel: Full support for top-tier conference publications. Computation: A laptop (or workstation if preferred). Full access to the 2nd largest GPU cluster in Turkiye. Side benefits: Private health insurance, meal card, and student housing based on availability (only for Ph.D. students) How to apply? If you are interested in any of the positions, please send an email to gosahin[at]ku.edu.tr <gosahin(a)ku.edu.tr> with the subject "Ph.D. (or MS) application". Please send a CV, transcript (or records), a copy of a work that you're most proud of (e.g., Master's thesis, conference paper), and a motivation letter stating your research interests. The official application still needs to be done via the application portal as instructed here <https://international.ku.edu.tr/graduate-programs/how-to-apply/>. The official deadline is the 4th of June, however, the applications will be reviewed on a regular basis. Please indicate "NLP" and "Procedural text" as your research interests and mention Dr. Gözde Gül Şahin in your Statement of Purpose. Why Koç University? According to the Times Higher Education, we rank 1st in Türkiye and 36th in the world among universities under 50 years old. - The number of research articles per faculty at Koç University is one of the top in the country. - The working language at KU is English. Koç University (KU) is an endowed, non-profit institution of higher education, located in Istanbul, Türkiye. Founded in 1993 by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, its mission is to produce the most capable graduates by providing a world-class education, to advance the frontiers of knowledge and to contribute to the benefit of Türkiye and humanity at large. KU is spread over a main campus, a separate university hospital campus, and two smaller locations in Istanbul. Since its establishment, KU has quickly become one of the leading research universities in Türkiye, attracting accomplished, high-caliber researchers from all over the world. The vast majority (97%) of 400 faculty members have received their Ph.D. degrees from the most highly selective and reputable universities in the world, including the United States and Europe. The majority of the students enrolled in the undergraduate programs are ranked within the top 1% in the National University Entrance Exam. Currently, the university is ranked among the top three universities in Türkiye in terms of the number of international research publications per faculty member per year. Best, Gözde Gül Şahin Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department Koç University https://gozdesahin.github.io/

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