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CFP - Reflection on Intelligent Systems (University of Stuttgart, online, 20/21 October)
by Gabriella Lapesa 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Workshop title: Reflection on intelligent systems: towards a cross-disciplinary definition When: October 20-21, 2022 (Digital Workshop) Deadline (2-pages abstract): September 7th Website: https://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/public-engagement/news/Call-for-Papers-00… What does it mean to reflect on intelligent systems? Which tools and methods are needed to successfully engage in (critical) reflection on intelligent systems? What is the purpose of this reflection, its outcome, and who is the target audience? Which lessons can we learn from discipline-internal reflection practices? To what extent can these lessons be “translated” into interdisciplinary collaborations, teaching, science-policy debates, and science communication to a broader public? Taking these questions as a starting point for this digital workshop, we aim to take the first steps towards a cross-disciplinary definition of the notion of reflection on intelligent systems by approaching the topic of reflection from various interdisciplinary perspectives. The conceptual outline of our workshop is defined by the goals and targets of reflection or, more specifically, by its end-users and their needs. We thus invite submissions that investigate empirical or theoretical work on the challenges and desiderata of reflection practices across different levels: Theme 1: At a discipline-specific level, e.g., interpretability/introspection of intelligent systems. Why is reflection necessary if it does not improve performance? What are the ethical issues or catalysts of reflection at this level (e.g., bias, sustainability)? Theme 2: At an interdisciplinary level: successful interdisciplinary collaboration requires a "translation" of the ontologies/methods of one discipline into the “language” of the other. While the outcome of reflection for interdisciplinary exchange likely shares features with discipline-specific reflection(s), the translation process reveals specific features that only "exist" at the intersection between different disciplines. Theme 3: From one discipline to the public: yet another type of reflection is driven by this practical question: Why do we want the public to gain a deeper understanding of an intelligent system? And as a consequence, which aspects do we want the public to understand (clearly, not everything is necessary)? And what does the public want to know? Special Theme: Reflection and Teaching Teaching is one of the strongest driving forces for reflection. As educators, we all feel at some point that we have only really understood the subject through the preparation of a lecture and sharing it with a class. How does this deep understanding relate to the three-layer structuring of reflection defined above? Indeed, students are part of the public (theme 3), but they are also experts in their respective disciplines to some extent (theme 1). Besides, the reflection on intelligent systems in teaching can be seen as a form of the conceptual translation we engage in when collaborating with experts of other disciplines who have limited knowledge of our domain (theme 2). Submissions Submissions (2-page abstracts) should relate to one or multiple workshop themes. We particularly encourage submissions that report on unpublished empirical or theoretical work or present relevant aspects of already published work. As this is a workshop, working papers are welcome! All submissions should be sent to reflection.workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de with a short bio by August 7th, 2022. The participants will be notified of the acceptance by mid-September. Invited speaker: Gregor Betz (https://www.gregorbetz.de/) + TBA Organizers: This two-day online event is hosted by the University of Stuttgart, Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS), and organized by Gabriella Lapesa, Lukas Erhard, Curtis Runstedler, and Sierra Kaiser. Contact: gabriella.lapesa(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de & reflection.workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de

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Lecturer vacancies at University of Birmingham, UK
by Mark Lee 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Dear All The School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham is looking to appoint several assistant/associate professors in all areas of AI/Computational Life Sciences including Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics. The deadline is 16th of August with interviews to be held in September. Further details and the link for applying are at https://bham.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?job=220001IV&tz… (I welcome informal enquiries to me but I’m absent 1-12th of August) Best regards Mark Lee Head of School, Computer Science, University of Birmingham www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl For appointments, contact Wendy Pan w.pan.1(a)bham.ac.uk

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CFP - The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP)
by Hatem Haddad 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

*WiNLP 2022 – Call for Submissions* http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ Workshop Date December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD) EMNLP 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP’s workshop period either December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD). We invite authors from underrepresented groups in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to submit a two-page abstract to be considered for a poster presentation at our workshop. *Important Dates:* Last date to join author workshopping <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQA…>: August 24, 2022 Submission deadline: September 7, 2022 Acceptance notification: October 9, 2022 Travel grant applications due: October 21, 2022 Travel grant notification: October 25, 2022 *Workshop Description*The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL environment. It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented group [based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, or otherwise] is invited to submit a two-page abstract for a poster presentation. In our 2022 iteration, we hope to be more intentional about centering discussions of access and disability, as well as contributing to diversity in scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large. *Submission guidelines* While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career levels: students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers. Since many submissions are works in progress, we act as a non-archival repository for these works: while authors may elect to have their papers linked from our website, they will not be archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect to not have their submission listed on the website if they wish to avoid de-anonymizing themselves for later submissions to other venues. Submissions should be two pages long (not including references). Authors must use the ACL Rolling Review <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#style-files>style files to format their submission, and must submit it electronically in PDF format via the WiNLP 2022 online submission system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/. https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/ *Travel Support* There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to cover expenses, similar to the previous editions. Funding is available for travel, lodging, registration, and visa costs for one author for each submission. The funded author may elect to attend virtually if they prefer. The selected author should be identified as part of the travel grant submission form. If we find ourselves with extra funds, we will attempt to support further funding for virtual attendance for additional authors, but we do not guarantee we can support any further in-person attendance. We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further funding. For further details please visit our website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/

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Call for (Raw) Data: ValueEval @ SemEval'23
by Milad Alshomary 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Dear corpora community, We are organizing the ValueEval competition [1] as part of SemEval'23. We are looking for data suggestions or contributions to diversify our training and test datasets. The task of ValueEval is to automatically identify human value categories (e.g., "concern," "tradition," or "self-directed thinking") from which a statement draws persuasive power. For example, the statement "Nuclear weapons have the potential to cause massive destruction" can draw on social security values to appeal to the statement "Nuclear weapons should be abolished." For more details, see our paper and the existing dataset [2]. Specifically, we are looking for data that fulfill these criteria: - The data consists of pairs of two causally related short statements (1 to 3 sentences each): - the first statement of the pair must provide one or more reasons - the second statement of the pair provides context for the first statement: the first statement must either be supporting or attacking the second statement - The data contains between 50 and 1000 such pairs - The statements are in English (possibly translated from a different language) and grammatically sound The suitable datasets we know (mainly from the computational argumentation community) focus on US or Western topics and contain debate-style statements. We are thus specifically looking for datasets that focus on issues from other parts of the world or other genres. We are grateful for pointers to resources we could use (e.g., specific websites) or to existing corpora. After assessing suitability per the criteria outlined above, we will take care of annotation. We will write a paper on the final dataset and invite each data contributor to join as a co-author. Please respond with suggestions or contributions to this mail by August 31, 2022. Yours sincerely, Milad, Johannes, Henning, and Benno -- Milad Alshomary, M.Sc. Computational Social Science Paderborn University Zukunftsmeile 2 33102 Paderborn Germany Office A.03.03 Phone (+49) (0) 5251 60-6587 E-Mail milad.alshomary(a)uni-paderborn.de

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CfP: "Educational NLP for a Multilingual World: Research, Applications, and Challenges", Special Issue, IJAIED
by Mamoru Komachi 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that we are guest editing in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) a Special Issue (SI) titled: “Educational NLP for a Multilingual World: Research, Applications, and Challenges” The SI will have a semi-open call where we will have a mandatory initial extended abstract submission (1000 words max) that shall be submitted to the guest editors <ijaied.nlp.mlw(a)gmail.com <mailto:ijaied.nlp.mlw@gmail.com>> by October 15, 2022. Find the full description and CfP at: https://www.springer.com/journal/40593/updates/23181128 <https://www.springer.com/journal/40593/updates/23181128> Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of the guest editors if you have any questions. Thank you, the guest editors: Giora Alexandron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel <giora.alexandron(a)weizmann.ac.il <mailto:giora.alexandron@weizmann.ac.il>> Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA <bbeigmanklebanov(a)ets.org <mailto:bbeigmanklebanov@ets.org>> Mamoru Komachi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan <komachi(a)tmu.ac.jp <mailto:komachi@tmu.ac.jp>> Torsten Zesch, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany <torsten.zesch(a)fernuni-hagen.de <mailto:torsten.zesch@fernuni-hagen.de>>

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Call for Papers - COGALEX-VII (The 7th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon)
by HSU, Yu-Yin [CBS] 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Call for papers for COGALEX-VII “The 7th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon” https://sites.google.com/view/cogalexvii2022/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1k0oFmGnZrOFaeI2HxANlZJVh9778WCiULXiYbE7x-WQAT…> co-located with AACL-IJCNLP 2022 https://www.aacl2022.org/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1LY2S6Ya1SruiPXs7YiiKXrv5aA6yt5lTULbqcJkA6PZD4…> Taipei, Taiwan Submission Deadline: 25-Aug-2022 Workshop date : Date: 24-Nov-2022 Key words: Dictionary, (Mental)Lexicon, Brain, Cognition, Neuroscience, Computational Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics, Complex graphs, Navigation Meeting Description: COGALEX is a workshop devoted to the cognitive aspects of the lexicon. While in the past, it has always been co-located with COLING, this time it will be hosted by AACL-IJCNLP 2022, at the NTUH International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan (https://www.aacl2022.org/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1LY2S6Ya1SruiPXs7YiiKXrv5aA6yt5lTULbqcJkA6PZD4…>). The accepted papers will be published as proceedings appearing in the ACL anthology. The goal of COGALEX is to provide a snapshot of the current state of the art in the different disciplines —lexicography, psycholinguistics, neuroscience— dealing words, their organization (lexicon) and usage (for example: navigation in a hybrid conceptual-lexical resource; word production and analysis). The approach being deliberately cross-disciplinary. In sum, we solicit original and unpublished work related to the cognitive aspects of the lexicon. For details, see: https://sites.google.com/view/cogalexvii2022/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1k0oFmGnZrOFaeI2HxANlZJVh9778WCiULXiYbE7x-WQAT…> Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length and long papers up to 8 pages. Both submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet. We don’t accept submissions that consist only of an abstract. The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Papers must be submitted via SoftConf by August 25, 2022. Submission page: https://softconf.com/aacl2022/CogALex-VII/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCus…<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1vswo2xA3aiELwmmGnyoJD5x5LLE9_KHWNQNlH3Da5BErV…> At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register for the main conference and present the paper. Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the workshop proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera-ready submission can then be 4 pages for a short paper and 8 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references. We consider to invite the authors of the accepted papers to submit an extended version of their workshop paper for a special issue. Important dates - Paper submission (full and short): August 25, 2022 - Notification of acceptance: September 25, 2022 - Camera ready deadline: October 10, 2022 - Workshop: November 24, 2022 Workshop organizers ; - Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) - Emmanuele Chersoni (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Yu-Yin Hsu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Enrico Santus (Bayer, Whippany, NJ, 07981, USA) For specific requests or information Please send an e-mail to cogalex2022(a)gmail.com<mailto:cogalex2022@gmail.com>, or to Michael Zock (michael.zock(a)lis-lab.fr<mailto:michael.zock@lis-lab.fr>), Emmanuele Chersoni (emmanuelechersoni(a)gmail.com<mailto:emmanuelechersoni@gmail.com>) -- Yu-Yin Hsu Assistant Professor Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/85A-PolyU_Email_Signature.jpg] Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. The University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed are only those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the University and the University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information.

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Final CFP (COLING 2022 Workshop) *Deadline extended to July 31, 2022*
by Atul K. Ojha 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

*3rd (Online) Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2022)* Co-located with COLING 2022, October 17, 2022 Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea *Third Call for Papers and Deadline Extension* *Workshop Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/trac2022/home *Paper Submission*: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TRAC-2022/ **Submission Deadline*: July 31, 2022* As in the earlier editions of the workshop, TRAC-2022 will focus on the applications of NLP, ML and pragmatic studies on aggression and impoliteness to tackle these issues. We invite *long (8 pages)* and *short papers (4 pages)* as well as *position papers* and opinion pieces (5 - 20 pages), *demo proposals* and *non-archival extended abstracts* (2 pages) based on, but not limited to, any of the following themes from academic researchers, industry and any other group/team working in the area. - Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language. - Cyberbullying, threatening, hateful, aggressive and abusive language on the web. - Multilingualism and aggression. - Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and Best Practices for threat and aggression detection. - Computational Models and Methods for aggression, hate speech and offensive language detection in text and speech. - Detection of threats and bullying on the web. - Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological issues and challenges. For any clarifications, contact coling.aggression(a)gmail.com.

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Workshop on Transcript Understanding submission deadline extended to August 1, 2022
by Viet Lai 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Call for Paper: 1st workshop on Transcript Understanding Venue: COLING 2022 Location: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Submission deadline: August 1, 2022 Submission Site: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU <https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU> Workshop Website: https://tuworkshop.github.io <https://tuworkshop.github.io/> Overview: Videos have become an omnipresent source of knowledge: courses, presentations, conferences, documentaries, livestreams, meeting recordings, vlogs. This has created a strong demand for transcript understanding. However, the quality of audio and video content shared online and the nature of speech, video transcripts pose many challenges to the existing natural language processing technologies. At the First workshop on Transcript Understanding (TU@COLING2022), we aim to bring together researchers from various domains to make the best of the knowledge that all these videos contain. Researchers from related domains are invited to paper on recent advanced technologies, resources, tools, and challenges for Transcript Understanding. Topics: The TU workshop holds a research track and a shared task track. The research track aims to explore recent advances and remaining challenges on video transcript understanding. As this topic is a multi-modal subject, researchers from artificial intelligence, computer vision, speech processing, natural language processing, data mining, statistics, and other fields are invited to submit papers on recent advances, resources, tools, challenges for video transcript understanding. To this end, the topics of the workshop include but are not limited to the following: - Fundamental processing for video transcript, such as punctuation restoration, chunking, parsing, and named entity recognition. - Subtitle segmentation - Text summarization and keyword extraction for transcripts - Event extraction, intent detection, and slot filling - Sentiment analysis for speech text processing - Noisy text processing - Fact-checking, evidence extraction - Question-Answering extraction from transcripts - Automatic Speech Recognition, and related system such as speaker identification and filler word detection - Multi-modal, multilingual video-speech-text processing Important Dates Papers Due (extended): Aug 1, 2022 (Monday) Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2022 (Monday) Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 (Monday) Workshop proceedings due: September 19, 2022 (Monday) Workshop date: October 17, 2022 All deadlines are “anywhere on earth” (UTC-12) Submissions: Authors are invited to submit their unpublished work that represents novel research. The papers should be written in English using the *ACL style. Authors can also submit the supplementary materials, including technical appendices, source codes, datasets, and multimedia appendices. All submissions, including the main paper and its supplementary materials, should be fully anonymized. For more information on formatting and anonymity guidelines, please refer to COLING 2022 submission guidelines. TU accepts both long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages). The paper can include unlimited appendix and references. Upon the acceptance, the authors are provided with 1 more page to address the reviewer comments. All papers will be double blind peer reviewed. Two reviewers with the same technical expertise will review each paper. Authors of the accepted papers will present their work in either the Oral or Poster session. All accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published on CEUR-WS. The authors will keep the copyright of their papers that are published on CEUR-WS. The workshop proceedings will be indexed by DBLP. Both research paper and shared task paper must be submitted using SoftConf at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU/ <https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU/>. We look forward to seeing you all at the virtual conference. TU@COLING2022 Organizers: Franck Dernoncourt (Adobe Research, USA) Thien Huu Nguyen (University of Oregon, USA) Viet Dac Lai (University of Oregon, USA) Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh (University of Oregon, USA)

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Webinar: Lexical Multidimensional Analysis
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Webinar CEPRIL Talks Series Title: Lexical Multidimensional Analysis Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9am Corpus Christi 11am Sao Paulo 3pm Lancaster Speakers: Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan (Texas A&M Corpus Christi, USA): Exploring the Distribution of Selected Migrant Education Ideological Discourses Over Time and Register. Isobelle Clarke (Lancaster University, UK): Using keyword co-occurrence analysis to reveal the discourses of climate change across pseudo-science and conspiracy websites Tony Berber Sardinha (Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Claudia Delfino (Sao Paulo Technical College, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Joe Collentine (Northern Arizona University, USA): Exploring a large corpus of English pop music from a multimodal perspective using Lexical MD Analysis Register here: https://bit.ly/3chVjR2 Capacity: 100 attendees This webinar will be broadcast via Zoom. — PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO -- PUC-SP GRADUATE PROGRAM IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS *** LAEL 52 YEARS *** (he/him/his) Tony Berber Sardinha Deputy coordinator LAEL, Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics Coordinator CEPRIL, Center for Language Research, Resources and Information Rua Monte Alegre 984, sala 4B02, São Paulo, SP 05014-901 Brazil Tel.: +55 (11) 3670-8374 E-mail: tony(a)pucsp.br | www2.lael.pucsp.br — Disclaimer This message is reserved and its disclosure, distribution, reproduction or any other form of use is prohibited and shall depend upon previous proper authorization. The sender uses the electronic mail in the exercise of his/her work or by virtue thereof, and the institution accepts no liability for its undue use. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please delete it immediately.

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AK Prize
by Ilan Kernerman 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

* apologies for cross-posting * We invite applications for the Adam Kilgarriff Prize. Full information for potential applicants can be found here<https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/adam-kilgarriff-prize/>. The deadline for applications is 30th September 2022. A winner will be announced on or before 31st December 2022, and the Prize will be awarded at the next eLex conference<https://elex.link/>, which will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, in June 2023. This is the fourth iteration of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize, which has so far had three excellent winners. (You can read about them here<https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/winners/>.) We look forward to receiving your applications! The Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize. https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/

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