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[OM-2022] 2nd CFP: 17th workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC
by Cassia TROJAHN 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

** With apologies for multiple posting ** The Seventeenth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2022) http://om2022.ontologymatching.org/ October 23rd or 24th, 2022, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2022 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., in cloud, with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2022 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than August 9th, 2022) through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022 Contributors to the OAEI 2022 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2022: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6th, 2022: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 20th, 2022: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 23rd or 24th, 2022: OM-2022, hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Majid Mohammadi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA --------------------- Best regards, Cassia

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PhD opening: Adaptive Multimodal Conversational Agents
by Raffaella Bernardi 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

The IECS Doctoral School, at the University of Trento, has several PhD openings. Application deadline on September* 6, 2022 hrs. 04:00 PM *(CEST). See here for details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application If you are interested in the project on *Adaptive Multimodal conversational agents* that will be run in collaboration with Amazon Alexa (in Berlin), please contact me at raffaella.bernardi(a)unitn.it I am looking for PhD candidates with a strong background in Computer Science, in particular on Machine Learning, ideally with some expertise on Natural Language Processing/Natural Language Generation. ============================================================== 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] Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR) @ EMNLP 2022
by Daniel Ferrés 03 Aug '22

03 Aug '22

Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) Workshop and Shared Task at EMNLP 2022 Workshop: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-ws Shared Task: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-st Call for Papers The web provides an abundance of knowledge and information that can reach large populations. However, the way in which a text is written (vocabulary, syntax, or text organization/structure), or presented, can make it inaccessible for many people, especially for non-native speakers, people with low literacy, and people with some type of cognitive or linguistic impairments. The results of the Adult Literacy Survey (OECD, 2013) indicate that approximately 16.7% of the adult population (averaged over 24 highly-developed countries) requires lexical, 50% syntactic, and 89.4% conceptual simplification of everyday texts (Štajner, 2021). Research on automatic text simplification (TS), textual accessibility, and readability have the potential to improve social inclusion of marginalized populations. These related research areas have attracted attention in the past ten years, evidenced by the growing number of publications in NLP conferences. While only about 300 articles in Google Scholar mentioned TS in 2010, this number has increased to about 600 in 2015 and greater than 1000 in 2020 (Štajner, 2021). Recent research in automatic text simplification has mostly focused on proposing the use of methods derived from the deep learning paradigm (Glavaš and Štajner, 2015; Paetzold and Specia, 2016; Nisioi et al., 2017; Zhang and Lapata, 2017; Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021). However, there are many important aspects of automatic text simplification that need the attention of our community: the design of appropriate evaluation metrics, the development of context-aware simplification solutions, the creation of appropriate language resources to support research and evaluation, the deployment of simplification in real environments for real users, the study of discourse factors in text simplification, the identification of factors affecting the readability of a text, etc. To overcome those issues, there is a need for collaboration of CL/NLP researchers, machine learning and deep learning researchers, UI/UX and Accessibility professionals, as well as public organizations representatives (Štajner, 2021). The proposed TSAR workshop builds upon the recent success of several regional workshops that covered a subset of our topics of interest, including READI Workshops at LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, SEPLN 2021 Workshop on Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS) and the SimpleText workshop at CLEF 2021, as well as the birds-of-a-feather events on Text Simplification at NAACL 2021 (over 50 participants) and ACL 2022. The TSAR workshop aims to foster collaboration among all parties interested in making information more accessible to all people. Through the two invited talks, a shared task on lexical simplification, the round table discussion, oral and poster presentations of novel research, we will discuss recent trends and developments in the area of automatic text simplification, text accessibility, automatic readability assessment, language resources and evaluation for text simplification, etc. Topics We invite contributions on the following topics (among others): Lexical simplification; Syntactic simplification; Modular and end-to-end TS; Sequence-to-sequence and zero-shot TS; Controllable TS; Text complexity assessment; Complex word identification and lexical complexity prediction; Corpora, lexical resources, and benchmarks for TS; Evaluation of TS systems; Domain specific/adaptable TS (e.g. health, legal); Other related topics (e.g. empirical and eye-tracking studies); Assistive technologies for improving readability and comprehension including those going beyond text. Text Simplification in Languages other than English Multilingual TS Readability Controlled MT Submissions We welcome two types of papers: long papers and short papers. Submissions should be made to the Softconf submission management system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/tsar. The papers should present novel research. The review will be double blind and thus all submissions should be anonymized. Format: Paper submissions must use the official EMNLP template, which is available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word) (see here: https://2022.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Long Papers: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and long papers presented as posters. Short Papers: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages), so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and short papers presented as posters. Important Dates 7 September 2022: Workshop paper submission deadline (Softconf) 2 October 2022: Workshop paper notification deadline 16 October 2022: Workshop paper camera ready deadline 8 December 2022: Workshop Proceedings All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published in ACL Anthology. Extended versions of best papers will be invited for a special issue of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence focused on: applied research for TS and readability assessment in the context of TS. Organizers Sanja Štajner, NLP Researcher, Germany Horacio Saggion, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the LaSTUS Lab in the TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Wei Xu, Assistant Professor at School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Kai North, Ph.D. student at the Rochester Institute of Technology Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Program committee (Tentative) Rodrigo Alarcón (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) Fernando Alva Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK) Susana Bautista (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain) Antoine Bordes (Facebook, UK) Remi Cardon (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Eric De la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Felice Dell'Orletta (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Italy) Thomas François (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique) Nuria Gala (Université Aix-Marseille, France) Goran Glavaš (University of Mannheim, Germany) Itziar Gonzalez-Dios (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Natalia Grabar (Université de Lille, France) Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Tomoyuki Kajiwara (Ehime University, Japan) David Kauchak (Pomona College, USA) Reno Kriz (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Louis Martin (Facebook, UK) Lourdes Moreno López (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) Christina Niklaus (University St. Gallen, Switzerland) Benoît Sagot (INRIA, France) Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Italy) Victoria Yaneva (National Board of Medical Examiners, USA) CONTACT Feel free to send us messages at: Email: horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu

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Four new books on pluricentric languages and sociolinguistic published at PCL-Press.org
by Rudolf Muhr 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, the editorial committee is happy to inform you that four new books on pluricentric languages and sociolinguistic matters have been published at PCL-Press, the publishing house fo the Working Group on Ono-dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV). The books are downloadable for free and available in print. (See the links below). You find the data of the four volumes below. The editorial committe would be gratefull if you would disseminate this message to friends and colleagues who might be interested in our publications. Kind regards Rudolf Muhr (Coordinator of the WGNDV) (General editor of PCL-Press) ***** Rudolf Muhr, Juan Thomas, Eugenia L. Duarte, Cilene Rodrigues (eds.) (2022): Pluricentric Languages in the Americas. Graz/Berlin. PCL-Press. ISBN: 9783756516636. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muhr-et.al_.-2022-Pluricen… Available in print (hardback) € 28,99: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/pluricentric-languages-in-the-americas-rudo… *********** Rudolf Muhr, Reglindis De Ridder, Gerhard Edelmann, Aditi Ghosh (eds.) (2022): Pluricentric languages in different theoretical and educational contexts. Graz/Berlin, PCL-Press. 151 p. ISBN: 978-3-756516-11-7. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muhr-et.al_.-2022b-Plurice… Available in print (hardback) € 21,50: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/pluricentric-languages-in-different-theoret… Tariq Rahman (2022): Language and Politics in Pakistan. Graz/Berlin. PCL-Press. 331 pages. ISBN 978-3-756517-36-7. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Rahman-Tariq-Language-and-… Available in print (hardback) € 28,99: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/language-and-politics-in-pakistan-tariq-rah… ***** Tariq Rahman (2022): Pakistani English. Graz/Berlin. PCL-Press. ISBN: 9783756516100. 91 pages. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Tariq-Rahman-2022-PAKISTAN… Available in print (hardback) € 17,99: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/pakistani-english-tariq-rahman-978375651610…

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Fwd: EAMT Sponsorship of Activities for 2023 (deadline 07/10/2022)
by Carol Scarton 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

************************************************************** EAMT Sponsorship of Activities for 2023 Deadline: 07/10/2022 ************************************************************** == Call for Proposals == The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT is for the eleventh consecutive year launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities during 2023. == Purpose of the Call == The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as tutorials, workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives, and small research and development projects by its current members. The EAMT particularly encourages proposals from early career researchers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Recent developments in MT research. - MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results. - Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns. - New or prospective commercial users of MT technology. - MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.). - Interaction between users and MT systems. - MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.). - MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc. - MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development. - MT for crisis management. - Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments. - Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public. All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts if necessary. == Submission information == * Eligibility requirements * In order to qualify for funding, the institution(s) or the individual making the proposal must be a confirmed member of the EAMT at submission time. Membership information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php * Selection criteria * - The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and users of MT technologies. - The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be submitted (see below). - Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars, workshops and tutorials. - Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT community (through the development, dissemination or use of project results) are those most likely to be accepted. - Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially valued. - The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or scientifically sound. - The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be evaluated. - The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual implementation of the activity. == Budget == EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities. There are two categories of proposals. The member institutions’ category and the individual members’ category. The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €10,000 to cover all granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project will be €10,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only offer to partially fund a project. A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer is still a current member of the EAMT. == Contact for enquiries == Carolina Scarton EAMT Secretary e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk == Submission procedure == * Overview * Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in English, that is composed of the elements described below. - Proposal description: 2-page maximum - Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum - Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important Dates below) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Project Proposals). Authors are encouraged to use the template available at http://www.eamt.org/eamt2020-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available. * Detailed description of sections of the proposal * 1-) Proposal description (two pages) in English - Complete contact information of the candidate. - A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity. - A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the community. - A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity. 2-) Experience of the proposing person/organisation in the field (up to one page). - It may include a list of experience and related skills of the participants of the team. 3-) Budget and project planning overview (up to one page) - A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event. - Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated. - An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other supporting funds. == Important Dates == - Circulation of the Call: August 1, 2022 - Submission deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022, 23:59 CEST - Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 7, 2022 In case of acceptance: - Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2023, 23:59 CEST - Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2024, 23:59 CET == Additional provisions == - Only complete proposals will be reviewed. - All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this project. - Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed during the negotiation stage. - The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g. Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General assembly, etc.), without any claim for additional funds. - The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project, activity or initiative. == No obligation to award the proposal == The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the proposals pursuant to this call for proposals. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose proposals have not been accepted. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the proposal. -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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Fwd: EAMT Sponsorship of Activities (Students' edition) for 2023 (deadline 07/10/2022)
by Carol Scarton 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

************************************************************** EAMT Sponsorship of Activities (Students' edition) for 2023 Deadline: 07/10/2022 ************************************************************** == Call for Proposals == The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT is for the third consecutive year launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities led by students during 2023. == Purpose of the Call == The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as shared tasks, workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives, dataset creation and small research and development projects by its current student members. The EAMT particularly welcomes proposals from students in all levels of education, including undergraduates, postgraduates and PhD students. This call will also give priority to projects that extend work done during the Machine Translation Marathon 2022 ( https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/mt-marathon-2022), being held in Prague, Czech Republic from 5 to 10 September 2022. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Recent developments in MT research. - MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results. - Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns. - New or prospective commercial users of MT technology. - MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.). - Interaction between users and MT systems. - MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.). - MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc. - MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development. - MT for crisis management. - Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments. - Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public (including shared tasks). - Creation of datasets for MT research. All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts if necessary. == Submission information == * Eligibility requirements * In order to qualify for funding, the individual making the proposal must be a confirmed student member of the EAMT at submission time (Membership information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php). Applicants will also need formal approval from their supervisor. It is important to emphasise that projects are expected to be student-led. Therefore, although we welcome projects showing collaboration with industry and other academic partners, the project is expected to directly benefit the students own career and/or project. * Selection criteria * - The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and/or users of MT technologies. - The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be submitted (see below). - Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars, workshops, shared tasks and tutorials. - Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT community (through the development, dissemination or use of project results) are those most likely to be accepted. - Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially valued. - The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or scientifically sound. - The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be evaluated. - The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual implementation of the activity. == Budget == EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities. The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €4,000 to cover all granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project will be €4,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only offer to partially fund a project. A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer is still a current member of the EAMT. == Contact for enquiries == Carolina Scarton EAMT Secretary e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk == Submission procedure == * Overview * Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in English, that is composed of the elements described below. - Proposal description: 2-page maximum - Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum - Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum - Supervisor's letter of approval: 1-page maximum Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important Dates below) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Project Proposals). Authors are encouraged to use the template available at http://www.eamt.org/eamt2020-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available. * Detailed description of sections of the proposal * 1-) Proposal summary (two pages) in English - Complete contact information of the candidate. - A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity. - A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the community and the development of your studies (you should establish a clear connection between this activity and your degree project). - A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity. 2-) Experience of the proposing person in the field (up to one page) - It may include a list of experience and related skills of the participants of the team (your team may be composed by your supervisors and potential collaborators). 3-) Budget and project planning overview (up to one page) - A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event. - Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated. - An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other supporting funds. 4-) Supervisor's letter of approval (up to one page) - A letter from your supervisor stating that they approve your project submission and that they will act as fund manager if needed (please note that EAMT needs to make payments into a research account set up at your institution). == Important Dates == - Circulation of the Call: August 1, 2022 - Submission deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022, 23:59 CEST - Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 7, 2022 In case of acceptance: - Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2023, 23:59 CEST - Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2024, 23:59 CET == Additional provisions == - Only complete proposals will be reviewed. - All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this project. - Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed during the negotiation stage. - The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g. Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General assembly, etc.). If you think you will not have funds for attending the EAMT event you can add travel costs to your budget. - The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project, activity or initiative. == No obligation to award the proposal == The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the proposals pursuant to this call for proposals. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose proposals have not been accepted. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the proposal. -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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PhD position in multilingual NLP at KU Leuven
by Miryam de Lhoneux 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, The HCI unit within the Computer Science department at KU Leuven (Belgium) has an open PhD position in multilingual NLP. The PhD will be supervised by me. All applications received before the 15th of August will receive full consideration and the position will remain open until filled after that. More information and application link here: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60142077 Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any question! Best, Miryam --- Miryam de Lhoneux (she/her) Postdoc in NLP Incoming assistant professor (oct 2022) Department of Computer Science KU Leuven

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3rd CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Third call for papers Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2022 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Suggested topics include 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 The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop ( https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration will be free. RAIL 2022 submission requirements: * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 ). * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). Important dates Submission deadline: 28 August 2022 Date of notification: 30 September 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom Organising Committee Jessica Mabaso Rooweither Mabuya Muzi Matfunjwa Mmasibidi Setaka 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 CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Text Analysis Instructor (job listing reposted)
by heather froehlich 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

Dear all, ITHAKA is seeking a Text Analysis Instructor to join the Constellate team ( https://constellate.org/). *This is a reposting of a previous listing - they have re-opened the search.* The team develops Constellate, an online platform for teaching, learning, and research in text analysis using Python and Jupyter notebooks. In this role, you will work on a cross-functional, close-knit team to develop educational resources and teach training workshops. Constellate enables schools of all sizes to teach data and text analytics with a platform that empowers faculty, librarians, and other instructors to educate a new generation of learners in text and data analysis. Our solution, centered on student and researcher success, provides text and data analysis capabilities and access to content from some of the world’s most respected databases in an open environment with a variety of teaching materials that can be used, modified, and shared. The role will be responsible for teaching regular courses in text analysis to Constellate users, demonstrating features of the platform, increasing user competency in text analysis, and building communities of practice. The role will also work closely with the rest of the Constellate team, joining in discussions around development and marketing. More information and application details are available here: https://www.ithaka.org/careers/?gh_jid=4024359005. The anticipated pay range for this position is $65,000 - 75,000 per year. *I am not affiliated with this search so please direct questions to careers(a)ithaka.org <careers(a)ithaka.org>.* Thank you! Heather Froehlich -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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Shared Task on Understanding Figurative Language at FigLang2022 Workshop (Test Set Available August 15, 2022)
by Smaranda Muresan 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

*Shared Task on Understanding Figurative Language at FigLang2022* Interested in figurative language understanding, textual entailment, explanation generation? We are happy to announce a new shared task on Understanding Figurative Language as part of the Figurative Language Workshop (FigLang 2022) at EMNLP 2022. *Important dates:* · July 10, 2022: CodaLab competition is open; training data can be downloaded · *Aug 15, 2022: Test data* (available only to registered participants) can be downloaded and results submitted; performance will be tracked on CodaLab dashboard · *Aug 20, 2022: Last day for submitting predictions on test data* · Sept 7, 2022: Papers describing the systems are due · Oct 9, 2022: Notification of acceptance · TBD, 2022: Camera-ready papers due · December 8, 2022: Workshop at EMNLP 2022 In recent years, there have been several benchmarks dedicated to figurative language understanding, which generally frame "understanding" as a recognizing textual entailment task -- deciding whether one sentence (premise) entails/contradicts another (hypothesis) (Chakrabarty et al 2021, Stowe et al 2022). We introduce a new shared task for figurative language understanding around this textual entailment paradigm, where the hypothesis is a sentence containing the figurative language expression (e.g., metaphor, sarcasm, idiom, simile) and the premise is a literal sentence containing the literal meaning. There are two important aspects of this task: 1) the task requires not only to generate the label (entail/contradict) but also to generate a plausible explanation for the prediction; 2) the entail/contradict label and the exploration are related to the meaning of the figurative language expression. For more information about the shared task, including the link to the datasets, evaluation metrics and scripts important dates please visit the Shared task website (https://figlang2022sharedtask.github.io/). Participants can use the following CodaLab ( https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5908) link to participate in the task as well as submit the predictions. *Organizing Team* Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; tuhin.chakr(a)cs.columbia.edu Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University; as5423(a)columbia.edu Debanjan Ghosh, Educational Testing Service; dghosh(a)ets.org Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University; smara(a)columbia.edu

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