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Call for paper: THE 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE & INFORMATION SYSTEMS
by Asad Abdi 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

About the event The 28th International Conference on Natural Language and Information Systems will be held at the University of Derby, United Kingdom and will be a face to face. https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/nldb-2023/ Since 1995, the Natural Language to Data Bases (NLDB) conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in various applications of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term "Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked Data and Social Networks. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has recently experienced several exciting developments. In research, these developments have been reflected in the emergence of neural language models (Deep Learning, Word Embeddings, Transformers) and the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and fairness, a (renewed) interest in various linguistic phenomena, such as in discourse and argumentation mining, and in new problems such as the detection of disinformation and hate speech in social media, as well of mental health disorders that increased during the recent pandemic. Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its applications in information systems that the 28th edition of the NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers. Call for Papers NLDB 2023 invites authors to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. Authors should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format and submit their manuscripts as a PDF via Easychair. Important Dates Full paper submission: 14 March 2023 Paper notification: 10 April 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 24 April 2023 Conference: 21 - 23 June 2023

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Journal of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Special Issue on Plagiarism Detection using Natural Language Processing Techniques
by Seyed Esfandani 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

Abstract Submission Deadline 17 February 2023 Manuscript Submission Deadline 24 May 2023 About this Research Topic: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/50171/plagiarism-detection-usin… Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield and a key technology of artificial intelligence. In recent years, many highly recognized efforts in NLP have emerged. NLP is a field where the use of Machine/Deep learning-based models in the past few years has allowed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance toward human levels like performances in different real-world applications. The significant advances in NLP have brought significant opportunities but also opened up new challenges for research. In this Research Topic collection, researchers and practitioners, both from academia and industry are invited to contribute with research work that presents significant originality, concepts, and methods in the field of NLP and AI applied to various areas of plagiarism detection. Furthermore, these applications have reached most languages and especially those with low and limited resources. This Research Topic will aim at gathering state-of-the-art research and development in not only NLP applications but will include new theoretical frameworks and methodologies. This Research Topic addresses plagiarism detection. Due to the growing amount of information available on the internet, it makes it easier for someone to pass off and claim someone else's ideas as their own work without properly crediting the original source or owner. As a matter of ethics, plagiarism should be avoided. Currently, both academic and non-academic communities have become concerned about this issue. When someone plagiarises, they make an effort to pass off another person's contribution or words as their own. Furthermore, other forms of plagiarism involve taking credit for results, inventions, and mental activities produced by other people without acknowledgment. Additionally, it is also considered plagiarism to present someone else’s knowledge or idea as one’s own. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: • Architectures and systems for plagiarism detection • External/Intrinsic plagiarism detection • Cross-lingual plagiarism detection for low-resource languages • Self-plagiarism or multiple submissions to different journals • NLP-based deep learning approaches for plagiarism detection • Short text similarity measurement

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Analytical linguist internship at Grammarly
by Courtney Napoles 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

Grammarly is looking for a motivated Ph.D. student to work with our Language Research team in the USA or Canada for three months in 2023. The internship has flexible start dates in the summer of 2023. We seek students who, ideally, are in the latter half of their Ph.D. program and have a strong foundation in linguistic research and analysis, with good exposure to natural language processing and the conceptual fundamentals of machine learning. Read more and apply here: https://www.grammarly.com/jobs/engineering/analytical-linguist-intern?gh_ji… Description: Our team works on several challenging problems, such as writing assistance, text generation, summarization, threaded communication, and others. As an intern, you will work closely with your mentor and other linguists, software and machine learning engineers, and research scientists to explore the frontiers of language data pipelines, high-quality linguistic analysis, and natural language processing according to a defined research agenda. In this role, you’ll apply your knowledge and learn new skills to help improve our tooling and analysis pipelines and writing assistance systems. You’ll conduct research that ultimately contributes to the next generation of communication assistance tools. You will also have the opportunity to design and implement experiments to test ideas related to language data management, augmentation, or analysis. These could relate to annotation quality and efficiency, topic and metadata extrapolation, anonymization, inclusivity enrichment, summarization, paraphrasing, sentiment and tone analysis, register or stylistic variation, etc. You may have an opportunity to collaborate on high-quality research papers destined for top conferences. == Courtney Napoles Lead of Language Research, Grammarly courtney.napoles(a)grammarly.com

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REMINDER for 10th LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, April 21-23, 2023, Poznań, Poland (LTC 2023)
by Marta Witkowska 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

Dear Sir/Madame, Dear Colleague! We kindly remind you that December 12, 2022 is the deadline for submitting a paper to LTC 2023. CONFERENCE DATES/DEADLINES*): * Deadline for submission of papers for review: December 12, 2022 * Acceptance/Refusal notification: January 7, 2023 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: January 16, 2023 * Conference: April 21-23, 2023 *) Notice. The above deadlines do not apply to workshops, see below. For more info please do visit the LTC WEB SITE: http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/(the Paper Submission section). PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format, see templates) are due by December 12, 2022 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2023 web submission system (EasyChair). Paper templates in Word and LaTeX are available at . IMPORTANT In case you have any questions about the conference or workshops, like a problem with the approaching deadline, questions about the submission procedure, the paper format, any issues regarding participation to the conference, workshops and special sessions or social program, please do not hesitate to contact us directly: LTC23 Co‑chairs: Zygmunt Vetulani (vetulani(a)amu.edu.pl) and Patrick Paroubek (pap(a)lisn.fr) LTC23 Secretary: Marta Witkowska (marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl) LTC’23 SPECIAL TRACKS/WORKSHOPS/OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS The 7 th Less Ressourced Languages Workshop (LRL 2023) - Deadline for paper submissions: January 6, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: January 12, 2023 - Camera-ready version due: January 26, 2023 The Fourth Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions (EDO 2023) - Deadline for paper submissions: February 1st, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: February 20th, 2023 - Camera-ready papers: March 1nd, 2023 The 1st Workshop on Human Language Technologies as Business Management Communication Support (HLT4BM 2023) - Deadline for paper submissions: January 6, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2023 - Camera-ready papers: February 15, 2022 For more information regarding the conference (topics, style sheet, publication etc.) and other special LTC events please visit the LTC 2023 website at http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/. Looking forward to meeting you in Poznań, Z. Vetulani, P. Paroubek, M. Witkowska. Contact: Zygmunt Vetulani (vetulani(a)amu.edu.pl) and Patrick Paroubek (pap(a)lisn.fr) (LTC23 Co-chairs), Marta Witkowska (LTC23 Secretary) (marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl) (cc ltc23(a)amu.edu.pl).

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Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2024 - Submit by 5 March 2023
by Nicola Ferro 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

------------------------------------------- Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2024 Deadline: 5 March 2023 Further details: https://www.essir.eu/ Contact: chair(a)essir.eu ------------------------------------------- The Steering Committee of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) invites interested parties to submit bids to host ESSIR in 2024. ## INTRODUCTION ## The ESSIR initiative is a self-organized body, whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems by educating junior and senior researchers, students, professionals, developers, and practitioners on the latest developments in the field, both methodological and technological. The ESSIR event is a week-long event, organized over the summer, where renowned lecturers and students interact together in a number of ways, e.g. lectures, hands-on sessions, flipped classrooms, aimed at the most effective teaching and learning of both basic and advanced topics on information access at large. By targeting information access at large, ESSIR places itself at the crossroad of several neighbors disciplines, namely + Information Retrieval (IR) + Recommender Systems (RecSys) + Natural Language Processing (NLP) + Machine Learning (ML) + Artificial Intelligence (AI) + Data Science (DS) ESSIR gives participants a grounding in the core subjects such as architectures; algorithms; formal theoretical models; evaluation theory and practice, as well as a coverage of recent topics and trends in the field, such as fairness, conversational search, and more. ESSIR is aimed at: advanced undergraduate students; PhD students; post-doctoral researchers; academic and industrial researchers; developers. Traditionally, ESSIR is co-located with accompanying events (such as the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access, FDIA) that give the participants an excellent opportunity for focused discussions on recent emerging topics in Information Retrieval. Further details on ESSIR can be found at: https://www.essir.eu/ ## PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND SELECTION ## Parties interested in hosting ESSIR 2025 are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the ESSIR Steering Committee chair Nicola Ferro at chair(a)essir.eu by ** 5 MARCH 2023 ** Proposals will be evaluated by the ESSIR Steering Committee. Evaluation will take into account: + venue and timing: attractiveness of the location, hosting facilities, transportation options, accommodation, social program options, targeted event week, key dates, avoidance of timing conflicts with other relevant IR events and large-scale local public events. + scientific program: foundational topics, special lectures, accompanying events (podium discussions, poster sessions, etc.), strategy for acquiring and organizational support of high-quality IR lecturers. Proposals should also take into consideration the scheduling of relevant co-located events (symposiums, workshops) like FDIA. + support for student participants: grants, special conditions for participation and/or accommodation, opportunity to collect ECTS credit points, networking events, opportunities for personal dialogue with ESSIR lecturers. + financial viability: initial draft of the financial plan including major fixed and variable costs, budget cut-off points, strategy of sponsoring acquisition. + plans for organisation: local organizer consortium and its expertise in event/hosting management, key roles and initial responsibility assignments. Analysis of major risks (such as appropriate number of participants, commitment of key lecturers, sufficient amount of sponsoring) and reasonable fallback options. + dissemination and publicity: plans for reaching the target audience through mailing lists, direct contacts to research groups, scientific social networks, Web 2.0 channels, Web presence. Opportunities to share ESSIR materials within research community: slides, video lectures, scripts, post-proceedings, etc. The ESSIR charter and a bid template is available at: https://www.essir.eu/assets/charter/essir-sc-charter.pdf ## INQUIRIES AND FURTHER INFORMATION ## For any inquiries or if any additional information is needed, please write to chair(a)essir.eu

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REMINDER 2-year full-time postdoc in computational linguistics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
by Stephanie Evert 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

REMINDER: One week left to apply! Please note that the URL of the job ad has changed in the meantime (correct link appears in the text below). Don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions. The project “Reading concordances in the 21st century (RC21)”, run jointly by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Birmingham is looking for a POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (100%, E13 TV-L, starting ASAP) Application deadline: 16 Dec 2022 Interviews: week beginning 19 Dec 2022 (held via zoom) Format of application: by email to stephanie.evert(a)fau.de (including evidence of all relevant qualifications, preferably in a single PDF) Start of position: 1 Feb 2023 Duration of employment: until 31 Jan 2025 Placement: Computational Corpus Linguistics group (www.linguistik.fau.de) Contact / queries: Stephanie Evert https://www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/postdoctoral-researcher-in-computational-lingu… This is the first of two postdoctoral positions. The second post, which will be based at the University of Birmingham, will be advertised in the new year, with a starting date in the spring. PROJECT INFO In today's digital world, the amount of text communicated in electronic form is ever-increasing and there is a growing need for approaches and methods to extract meanings from texts at scale. Corpus linguists have long been studying recurring patterns in digitised texts with the help of concordances, i.e. displays that show many occurrences of a word, phrase or construction across a range of contexts in a compact format. However, lacking a well-established and clear-cut methodology, the art of reading concordances has not yet realised its full potential. At the same time, there has been very little innovation in algorithms in the concordance software packages available to corpus linguists. This project proposes an innovative approach to reading concordances in the 21st century. Through the collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg we combine strengths in theoretical work in corpus linguistics with expertise in computational algorithms in order to develop a systematic methodology for reading concordances and corresponding algorithms for the semi-automatic analysis of concordance lines. Through two case studies on English and German data sets, we will establish an approach that not only provides innovation in corpus linguistics, but also has wider implications for the analysis of textual data at scale, while still retaining a humanities perspective. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER • Developing, implementing, and applying novel computer algorithms to support and improve the manipulation of concordance displays • Producing documentation • Carrying out interdisciplinary case studies using the new methodology in close collaboration with other researchers • Leading on the organisation of workshops and other dissemination activities • Developing training materials for workshops and materials for web presence • Analysing data, writing up results, and co-authoring publications • Managing project tasks, supervising student assistants, and providing progress reports • Managing collaborative activities with the UK team REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS • PhD or DPhil in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Humanities, or similar subject (completed or near completion) • Evidence of strong programming skills, ideally in Python • Evidence of ability to analyse linguistic data • Native-like language skills in German and English • Excellent communication skills in English, including the ability to write for publication, present research proposals and results, and represent the project team at meetings and research events • Ability to work independently, manage own academic research and associated activities, and to supervise student assistants OPTIONAL QUALIFICATIONS • Strong publication record (commensurate with opportunities and experience) at relevant international conferences (computational linguistics, DH, corpus linguistics) • Experience in interdisciplinary research is a plus • Experience with deep learning approaches and/or statistical methods is a plus

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Postdoc on social data science and online harms at QMUL, London, UK
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

If you are interested in working on abusive language detection and analysis from an NLP or computational social science angle, consider applying for this postdoc opportunity with us at QMUL, London, UK. The position will involve exploring large-scale social media datasets to understand how people behave during major life transitions; devising novel methodologies to automatically target support for people during such transitions; exploring how this can be offered in a privacy-centric fashion. The role is part of AP4L project (https://ap4l.github.io/), alongside the Universities of Surrey, Cambridge, Strathclyde, and Edinburgh. Candidates should have experience in Social Computing, Data Science, Machine Learning and/or NLP, as well as good/excellent general programming skills and technical writing skills. The closing date for applications is 14th December 2022. For info and to apply: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUU622/research-assistant-or-postdoctoral-resear… Ignacio Castro <https://icastro.info/>, Gareth Tyson <https://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/>, Arkaitz Zubiaga <http://www.zubiaga.org/>

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Open (tenure-track) Positions at the Department of Computer Science (DCC), University of Chile
by Felipe Bravo 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

The Department of Computer Science (DCC) <https://www.dcc.uchile.cl/> is offering 2 full-time permanent positions to carry out research and teaching at both undergraduate and graduate level. As assistant professors in tenure-track positions, candidates are expected to develop a strong and competitive research program. *Details and application link (in Spanish) can be found at: https://concurso-academico.uchile.cl/ <https://concurso-academico.uchile.cl/>(look for code FM2202). The application deadline is February 1st, 2023.* *Candidates* Candidates should be pursuing internationally recognized research in the following areas (one position per area is offered): 1. Theoretical Computer Science 2. Artificial Intelligence 3. Software Engineering 4. Computer Security and Privacy 5. Networking Successful candidates are expected to complement the existing strengths of the Department and its current activities. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree and must have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship within the field of interest. Successful candidates will be expected to: • move to Chile (if currently living elsewhere), • establish and lead their own research team, • develop innovative research at the highest international standards, • deliver high quality teaching, • supervise undergraduate, master and PhD students, • obtain competitive research funding from external funding bodies, • write and speak English fluently, and • develop a good command of Spanish within 1 year of appointment. *The Department of Computer Science (DCC)* The DCC is the leading Computer Science Department in Chile, and one of the most prominent in Latin America. It pioneered the use of Unix and the adoption of the Internet in Chile. Today it has 21 full-time professors, where 8 come from Argentina, Uruguay, France, Ireland, and Peru. They carry out research at the highest level, publishing around 100 articles per year in international conferences and journals. The department is responsible for teaching Computer Science, with about 600 undergraduate, 80 MSc and 40 PhD students majoring in Computer Science. For further information, please contact Prof. Gonzalo Navarro ( gnavarro(a)dcc.uchile.cl). *CENIA and IMFD* Many academics at DCC form part of two well-funded research centers in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: the National Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CENIA) <https://www.cenia.cl/> (Funded by Programa Centros Basales, ANID, Chile) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) <http://www.imfd.cl/> (Funded by Programa Milenio, ANID, Chile). Joining DCC will provide the possibility to cooperate with these centers. ------------------------------ https://comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/650-llamado-a-concurso-academico-…

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[PhD-Position] Research Position in Speech- and Text Anonymization in Medical Domain in Berlin
by Tim Polzehl 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

Dear colleagues, there are 2 new PhD vacancies in the field of speech- and text anonymization in the medical domain in Berlin, Germany. Both positions are in the "Medinym" project, where the department of Speech and Language Technoplogies of German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence works jointly with the Quality and Usability Labs of Berlin Institute of Technology. In both departments, we're looking for a Researcher or Junior Researcher level, offer a 2 years contract with optional prolongation and PhD perspective. Application deadline: Dec 23 More details and links: DFKI: https://jobs.dfki.de/en/internal/vacancy/en-researcher-m-w-d-in-506968.html TU Berlin: https://tub.stellenticket.de/de/offers/157309/?locale=en Please circulate upon potentially interested. Many thanks! In case of questions pls contact me, I'm happy to help and forward you with respect to both vacancies. Best regards from Berlin, Tim -- Dr.-Ing. Tim Polzehl Senior Researcher Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Speech & Language Technology Associate Senior Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab DFKI Labor Berlin Alt-Moabit 91c, D-10559 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49.30.238951863 Fax: +49 30 23895 1810 E-Mail tim.polzehl(a)dfki.de<mailto:tim.polzehl@dfki.de> ------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender) Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 -------------------------------------------------------------

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[Deadline Extended] [CFP] Special Issue on "Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing" of Journal Information (ISSN 2078-2489)
by Jennifer D'Souza 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

Paper invitation **with 100% discount**. The open access journal /Information/ is arranging a Special Issue on "*Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing*" topic. As the guest editors of this special issue, we welcome you to contribute an article or a review to this special issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/WYS02U2GTD Furthermore, we have an extended deadline to support preparation of ongoing manuscripts and new submissions. The new deadline for the SI is /20 June 2023/. If you are interested in submitting to us, please contact the Section Managing Editor Frances Wu (frances.wu(a)mdpi.com) directly; we will retain *the 100% discount* for you. Yours cordially, Dr. Jennifer D'Souza Prof. Dr. Chengzhi Zhang *Guest Editors*

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