- Corpora - ELRA lists

TOC: Lexique 33
by Nabil Hathout 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

We are happy to announce a new special issue of the Lexique journal on “Démonette: a French Derivational Database”, edited by Nabil Hathout and Fiammetta Namer. The issue focuses on the results of the ANR Démonext "Derivation in Extension" project (2018-2022) and on uses of some of these results. https://www.peren-revues.fr/lexique/942 The issue features the following articles: * Nabil Hathout et Fiammetta Namer Démonette : une base de données dérivationnelle du français * Fiammetta Namer, Nabil Hathout, Dany Amiot, Lucie Barque, Olivier Bonami, Gilles Boyé, Basilio Calderone, Julie Cattini, Georgette Dal, Alexander Delaporte, Guillaume Duboisdindien, Achille Falaise, Natalia Grabar, Pauline Haas, Frédérique Henry, Mathilde Huguin, Nyoman Juniarta, Loïc Liégeois, Stéphanie Lignon, Lucie Macchi, Grigoriy Manucharian, Caroline Masson, Fabio Montermini, Nadejda Okinina, Franck Sajous, Daniele Sanacore, Mai Thi Tran, Juliette Thuilier, Yannick Toussaint et Delphine Tribout Démonette-2, a derivational database for French with broad lexical coverage and fine-grained morphological descriptions * Mathilde Huguin, Lucie Barque, Pauline Haas et Delphine Tribout Typage sémantique des noms dans la ressource morphologique Démonette * Basilio Calderone, Nabil Hathout et Olivier Bonami Phonolette: a grapheme-to-phoneme converter for French * Nabil Hathout, Fiammetta Namer, Olivier Bonami, Georgette Dal et Stéphanie Lignon Generation of exercises for derivational morphology using the Démonette database * Stéphanie Caët, Caroline Masson, Loïc Liégeois, Lucie Macchi, Christine Da Silva-Genest et Nadejda Okinina Explorer des corpus oraux à l’aide de la base de données Démonette-2 : usage de mots construits dans des interactions adulte(s)-enfant(s) * Frédérique Brin-Henry et Fiammetta Namer Mesurer la similarité morphologique entre mot produit et mot attendu chez les adultes avec aphasie : étude pilote * Guillaume Duboisdindien, Julie Cattini et Georgette Dal Améliorer les compétences lexicales dans le cadre d’un Trouble Développemental du Langage avec la base Démonette-2 * Guillaume Duboisdindien et Georgette Dal Programme de recherche participative DEMONEXT : partenariat et co-construction des savoirs entre chercheurs et orthophonistes * Bernard Fradin Repères critiques sur « Les familles dérivationnelles : comment ça marche ? » * Michel Roché Les familles dérivationnelles : comment ça marche ? Best regards, Fiammetta Namer et Nabil Hathout -- CLLE, CNRS & Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès Maison de la Recherche. F-31058 Toulouse cedex 9 Tél. (+33) 561-504-013. Nabil.Hathout(a)univ-tlse2.fr http://nabil.hathout.free.fr/

1 0

Call for ARR Commitment UncertaiNLP 2024 @ EACL
by Tiedemann, Jörg 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Dear all, The First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP (UncertaiNLP) is welcoming paper commitments from ARR. More info on the workshop: https://uncertainlp.github.io/ ARR commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP_ARR… Our ARR commitment deadline is January 18th anywhere on earth, so you can also commit EACL submissions after rejection. —————————————— Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/

1 1

CALL for ARR Commitment MOOMIN @ EACL2024
by Tiedemann, Jörg 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Dear all, The First Workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP (MOOMIN) is welcoming paper commitments from ARR. More info on the workshop: https://moomin-workshop.github.io/<https://moomin-workshop.github.io/> ARR commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/MOOMIN_ARR_Comm… Our ARR commitment deadline is January 17th anywhere on earth, so you can also commit EACL submissions after rejection. —————————————— Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/

1 0

Scholar Inbox - Your Personal Paper Recommender
by a.geiger＠uni-tuebingen.de 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

The body of scientific literature is growing at an ever-increasing rate. Especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the number of publications is growing every month with currently more than 300 new papers every day. As a result, it is increasingly difficult for researchers to keep an overview over the current state-of-the-art. While a number of tools simplify literature retrieval today, none of them is able to deliver accurate personalized recommendations with high recall on a daily basis. This motivated us to develop scholar-inbox.com, a personal paper recommendation system which enables researchers to stay up-to-date with the most relevant progress by delivering personal suggestions directly to your inbox - free of charge. Scholar Inbox learns which papers you like and dislike and recommends papers to you that are similar to papers you like based on neural language processing techniques. Scholar Inbox focuses entirely on the written contents and hence also suggests relevant papers that don't receive social media hype. https://www.scholar-inbox.com/ https://sites.google.com/view/avg-blog/scholar-inbox/ We hope that you will find this tool as useful as we find it ourselves! Andreas Geiger & Scholar Inbox Team University of Tübingen

1 0

1st Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries (ILLC-NLP 2024) -- Final CFP
by Aline Paes 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *1st Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries (ILLC-NLP 2024) -- 2nd CFP* *January 17, 2024: Papers submission due (extended)* February 01, 2024: Notification of Acceptance March 12, 2024: Workshop Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/illc-nlp-2024/home <https://sites.google.com/view/illc-nlp-2024/home> Co-located with PROPOR 2024 <https://propor2024.citius.gal/> in Santiago de Compostela —————————————————————————————————— *Overview and goals:* The workshop aims to explore, discuss, and enhance the development of resources, methods, and applications of NLP for indigenous languages, especially those spoken or that have influenced languages spoken in countries where Portuguese is currently the official language. We hope to contribute to the preservation and promotion of these languages. This is one of several initiatives to expand knowledge and research in NLP for underrepresented languages. We encourage the participation of everyone who shares an interest in preserving and enriching the linguistic and cultural heritage of indigenous languages in a broad sense. This way, we welcome the submission of works including languages from all Portuguese-speaking nations, like those of African origin in Angola, Mozambique, and the Atlantic islands, as well as minority languages in Portugal. *Submissions*: IILC-NLP seeks submissions under the following categories: - Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited reference - Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals, research ideas): 4 pages+unlimited reference - Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, papers must be in PDF format only. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra content page to consider the reviews. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files to produce the proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines (Latex <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex> or Word <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word>). Both long and short papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=illcnlp2024 Reviewing format: At least two reviewers will evaluate each submission. The reviewing format will be single-blind. Please help us spread the word about this event by sharing this call with your contacts and institutions. Your participation and support are crucial for the success of this workshop. Sincerely, Aline Paes, Aline Villavicencio, Claudio Pinhanez, Edward Gow-Smith, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin (Workshop organisers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-2 and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

1 0

First Call for Task Proposals: SemEval-2025
by Semeval Organizers 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of SemEval-2025 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2025/>. SemEval (the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantics systems, organized under the umbrella of SIGLEX <https://siglex.org/>, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SemEval tasks explore the nature of meaning in natural languages: how to characterize meaning and how to compute it. This is achieved in practical terms, using shared datasets and standardized evaluation metrics to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and possible solutions. SemEval tasks encompass a broad range of semantic topics from the lexical level to the discourse level, including word sense identification, semantic parsing, coreference resolution, and sentiment analysis, among others. For SemEval-2025 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2025/cft>, we welcome tasks that can test an automatic system for the semantic analysis of text (e.g., intrinsic semantic evaluation, or an application-oriented evaluation). We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, cross-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of computational semantics. See the websites of previous editions of SemEval to get an idea about the range of tasks explored, e.g. SemEval-2020 <http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/> and SemEval-2021-/2023/2024 <https://semeval.github.io/>. We strongly encourage proposals based on pilot studies that have already generated initial data, evaluation measures and baselines. In this way, we can avoid unforeseen challenges down the road which that may delay the task. In case you are not sure whether a task is suitable for SemEval, please feel free to get in touch with the SemEval organizers at semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com to discuss your idea. === Task Selection === Task proposals will be reviewed by experts, and reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Everything else being equal, more innovative new tasks will be given preference over task reruns. Task proposals will be evaluated on: - Novelty: Is the task on a compelling new problem that has not been explored much in the community? Is the task a rerun, but covering substantially new ground (new subtasks, new types of data, new languages, etc.)? - Interest: Is the proposed task likely to attract a sufficient number of participants? - Data: Are the plans for collecting data convincing? Will the resulting data be of high quality? Will annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for use and re-use of the data after the evaluation been secured? Have all international privacy concerns been addressed? Will the data annotation be ready on time? - Evaluation: Is the methodology for evaluation sound? Is the necessary infrastructure available or can it be built in time for the shared task? Will research inspired by this task be able to evaluate in the same manner and on the same data after the initial task? - Impact: What is the expected impact of the data in this task on future research beyond the SemEval Workshop? - Ethical: The data must be compliant with privacy policies. e.g. a) avoid personally identifiable information (PII). Tasks aimed at identifying specific people will not be accepted, b) avoid medical decision making (compliance with HIPAA, do not try to replace medical professionals, especially if it has anything to do with mental health) c) these are representative and not exhaustive === New Tasks vs. Task Reruns === We welcome both new tasks and task reruns. For a new task, the proposal should address whether the task would be able to attract participants. Preference will be given to novel tasks that have not received much attention yet. For reruns of previous shared tasks (whether or not the previous task was part of SemEval), the proposal should address the need for another iteration of the task. Valid reasons include: a new form of evaluation (e.g. a new evaluation metric, a new application-oriented scenario), new genres or domains (e.g. social media, domain-specific corpora), or a significant expansion in scale. We further discourage carrying over a previous task and just adding new subtasks, as this can lead to the accumulation of too many subtasks. Evaluating on a different dataset with the same task formulation, or evaluating on the same dataset with a different evaluation metric, typically should not be considered a separate subtask. === Task Organization === We welcome people who have never organized a SemEval task before, as well as those who have. Apart from providing a dataset, task organizers are expected to: - Verify the data annotations have sufficient inter-annotator agreement - Verify licenses for the data allow its use in the competition and afterwards. In particular, text that is publicly available online is not necessarily in the public domain; unless a license has been provided, the author retains all rights associated with their work, including copying, sharing and publishing. For more information, see: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-is-copyright-and-why-does-it-matter - Resolve any potential security, privacy, or ethical concerns about the data - Commit to make the data available after the task - Provide task participants with format checkers and standard scorers. - Provide task participants with baseline systems to use as a starting point (in order to lower the obstacles to participation). A baseline system typically contains code that reads the data, creates a baseline response (e.g. random guessing, majority class prediction), and outputs the evaluation results. Whenever possible, baseline systems should be written in widely used programming languages and/or should be implemented as a component for standard NLP pipelines. - Create a mailing list and website for the task and post all relevant information there. - Create a CodaLab or other similar competition for the task and upload the evaluation script. - Manage submissions on CodaLab or a similar competition site. - Write a task description paper to be included in SemEval proceedings, and present it at the workshop. - Manage participants’ submissions of system description papers, manage participants’ peer review of each others’ papers, and possibly shepherd papers that need additional help in improving the writing. - Review other task description papers. - Define Roles for each Organizer: - Lead Organizer - main point of contact, expected to ensure deliverables are met on time and participate in contributing to task duties (see below). - Co-Organizers - provide significant contributions to ensuring the task runs smoothly. Some examples include, maintaining communication with task participants, preparing data, creating and running evaluation scripts, and leading paper reviewing and acceptance. - Advisory Organizers - more of a supervisor role, may not contribute to detailed tasks but will provide guidance and support. === Important dates === - Task proposals due March 31, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Task selection notification May 18, 2024 === Preliminary timetable === - Sample data ready July 15, 2024 - Training data ready September 1, 2024 - Evaluation data ready December 1, 2024 (internal deadline; not for public release) - Evaluation starts January 10, 2025 - Evaluation end by January 31, 2025 (latest date; task organizers may choose an earlier date) - Paper submission due February 2025 - Notification to authors on March 2025 - Camera-ready due April 2025 - SemEval workshop Summer 2025 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Tasks that fail to keep up with crucial deadlines (such as the dates for having the task and CodaLab website up and dates for uploading sample, training, and evaluation data) or that diverge significantly from the proposal may be cancelled at the discretion of SemEval organizers. While consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances, our goal is to provide sufficient time for the participants to develop strong and well-thought-out systems. Cancelled tasks will be encouraged to submit proposals for the subsequent year’s SemEval. To reduce the risk of tasks failing to meet the deadlines, we are unlikely to accept multiple tasks with overlap in the task organizers. === Submission Details === The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 3 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the ACL template <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Each proposal should contain the following: - Overview - Summary of the task - Why this task is needed and which communities would be interested in participating - Expected impact of the task - Data & Resources - How the training/testing data will be produced. Please discuss whether existing corpora will be re-used. - Details of copyright, so that the data can be used by the research community both during the SemEval evaluation and afterwards - How much data will be produced - How data quality will be ensured and evaluated - An example of what the data would look like - Resources required to produce the data and prepare the task for participants (annotation cost, annotation time, computation time, etc.) - Assessment of any concerns with respect to ethics, privacy, or security (e.g. personally identifiable information of private individuals; potential for systems to cause harm) - Pilot Task (strongly recommended) - Details of the pilot task - What lessons were learned and how these will impact the task design - Evaluation - The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - For Task Reruns - Justification for why a new iteration of the task is needed (see criteria above) - What will differ from the previous iteration - Expected impact of the rerun compared with the previous iteration - Task organizers - Names, affiliations, email addresses - (optional) brief description of relevant experience or expertise - (if applicable) years and task numbers, of any SemEval tasks you have run in the past - Role of each organizer Proposals will be reviewed by an independent group of area experts who may not have familiarity with recent SemEval tasks, and therefore all proposals should be written in a self-explanatory manner and contain sufficient examples. *The submission webpage is:* SemEval2025 Task Proposal Submission <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SemEval> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SemEval) For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2025/cft === Chairs === Atul Kr. Ojha, Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics, DSI, University of Galway A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padua Harish Tayyar Madabushi, The University of Bath Sara Rosenthal, IBM Research AI Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República - Uruguay Contact: semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com

1 0

36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: First Call for DC Papers
by Announce 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th March, 2024 AoE ***) The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD students will have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the needs and interests of PhD students. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD students: • receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors, • provide an opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from established researchers and practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community, • develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, • discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways. To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD students (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected completion), and early-stage PhD students (with at least 6 months of work already performed prior to the submission date). WHY SUBMITTING TO THE CAiSE'24 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM? The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD students will receive constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium event. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (https://ceur-ws.org/), which are indexed in DBLP. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award. SUBMISSION PROCESS Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . Each submission should contain (i) a recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor, and (ii) a paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress (see more details in the Paper Submission Guidelines section). Submissions must have a single author, but the name of the PhD advisors should be mentioned in the paper (usually in the Acknowledgments section). Submissions should concern original research. All submitted materials must be in English. Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the academic discussions of the Consortium. Submissions of both early and late-stage PhD students are welcome. Submissions of early-stage PhD students should concentrate on the selection of the research methods to apply, the realization and contextualization of the relevant literature, the expected pitfalls and ways to mitigate them. Submissions of late-stage PhD students should also include preliminary research results and discuss to some extent conclusions and threats. The recommendation letter from the PhD advisor should include an assessment of the current status of the research, an expected date for the completion of the dissertation, a delineation of the anticipated benefits for the student's participation at the Consortium and details of any submissions associated with the research. PAPER CONTENT AND FORMAT The paper must: • clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis, • identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering, • outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions, • describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts, • outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness, • present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students), • conform to the CEURART template using the 1-column layout format (thus, NOT the Springer LNCS format and NOT in multiple column layouts); the most recent template (including Word and LaTeX) can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html, • contain up to 4,000 words (including everything, e.g., references, tables, figures). REVIEW PROCESS Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring Board. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, clarity and the expected benefits to the student from participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes. ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 5-7 June 2024. The presentations and decisions are expected to take place in person, so attendance in the entire Doctoral Consortium is required. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants, attendance to the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the Mentoring Board. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: 8th March 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2024 • Camera-ready Copy: 26th April 2024 • Doctoral Consortium: 5th-7th June 2024 QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’24 Doctoral Consortium chairs at caise2024_dc(a)easychair.org . MENTORING BOARD • Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy • Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland • Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands • Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium • Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland • Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel • Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy • Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece

1 0

Open position in Geneva Switzerland
by DEWAN Akshat 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Hello, Hello everyone, we are hiring a Software Engineer in ML. The post is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a great opportunity to work on ML systems development through all stages of their lifecycle. The position is based in a specialized agency of the UN - World Intellectual Property Organization. You can find the details in the LinkedIn ad here - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3790127610/ Kind regards Akshat Classification: WIPO FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY World Intellectual Property Organization Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain privileged, confidential and copyright protected information. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all its attachments. Please ensure all e-mail attachments are scanned for viruses prior to opening or using.

1 0

CfP: Games and NLP 2024 Workshop @ LREC-COLING
by Udo Kruschwitz 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

GAMES AND NLP 2024 @ LREC-COLING 2024 ===================================== Co-located with LREC-COLING in Turin, Italy 21st May 2024 https://gamesandnlp.com Call for Papers -------------------- The 10th Workshop on Games and Natural Language Processing (Games and NLP 2024)—to be held at LREC-COLING 2024 — will examine the use of games and gamification for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, as well as how NLP research can advance player engagement and communication within games. The Games and NLP workshop aims to promote and explore the possibilities for research and practical applications of games and gamification that have a core NLP aspect, either to generate resources and perform language tasks or as a game mechanic itself. This workshop investigates computational and theoretical aspects of natural language research that would be beneficial for designing and building novel game experiences, or for processing texts to conduct formal game studies. NLP would benefit from games in obtaining language resources (e.g., construction of a thesaurus or a parser through a crowdsourcing game), or in learning the linguistic characteristics of game users as compared to those of other domains. Topics (include, but are not limited to) -------------------------------------------------- • Games for collecting data useful for NLP • Gamification of NLP tasks • Player motivation and experience • Game design • Novel uses of natural language processing or generation as a game mechanic • Natural language in games as an alternative method of input for people with disabilities • Processing NLP game data • Analysis of large-scale game-related corpora • Real-time sentiment analysis of player discourse or chat • Evaluation of games for NLP • Serious games for learning languages • Player immersion in language-enabled mixed reality or physically embodied games • Narrative plot or text generation of text-based interactive narrative systems • Natural language understanding and generation of character dialogue • Ethical and privacy concerns of ownership of text and audio chat in massively multiplayer online games Submissions: ------------------ The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of LREC-COLING conference (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/). Submissions are to be made via Softconf/START Conference Manager at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/gamesandnlp2024/ Important Dates --------------------- • Submission Deadline: Feb 19th • Notification of Acceptance: Mar 26th • Camera Ready Deadline: Apr 1st • Workshop: May 21st Organisation Committee -------------------------------- • Chris Madge, chair (Queen Mary University of London) • Jon Chamberlain (University of Essex, UK) • Karën Fort (Sorbonne Université, France) • Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg, Germany) • Stephanie Lukin (U.S. Army Research Laboratory) Programme Committee ------------------------------- • Alice Millour (Sorbonne Université) • Brent Harrison (University of Kentucky, US) • Ian Horswill (Northwestern University) • Jonathan Lessard (Universite Condoria) • Luisa Coheur (INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon) • Mariët Theune (University of Twente) • Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University, UK) • Mathieu Lafourcade (LIRMM, France) • Morteza Behrooz (University of California, Santa Cruz, US) • Pedro Santos (INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon) • Richard Bartle (University of Essex, UK) • Seth Cooper (Northeastern University, US) • Valerio Basile (University of Turin, Italy) • Fatima Althani (Queen Mary University, UK)

1 0

NLPerspectives 2nd CfP
by Abercrombie, Gavin 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

NLPerspectives: The 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP Collocated with LREC-COLING in Turin, Italy 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/3rd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach… Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique ‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase minority voices. Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to modelling, evaluation and explanation. In line with the first<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/w2022/> and second<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…> editions, the third NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including these perspectives in NLP pipelines, as well as evaluation and applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., fairness and inclusion in a perspectivist framework. Following our previous workshops, a key outcome of the third edition will be to continue the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling. Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) and provide essential information about resources (i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the 14th edition of LREC-COLING 2024<https://lrec-coling-2024.org> in Torino, Italy, in May 20-25, 2024. Submissions The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of LREC-COLING conference: authors-kit<https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/> We accept three types of submissions: * Regular research papers; * Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; * Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 4 pages of content. More details will be up soon. Please make submissions at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/nlperspectives2024/ Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks * Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm * Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning * Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement * Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation * Fairness and inclusive modelling * Perspectivist approaches for social good * Applications of multi-perspective modelling * Computing with (dis)agreement * Perspectivist Natural Language Generation * Foundational aspects of perspectivism * Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work.. Important Dates * Friday February 23, 2024: Paper submission * Friday March 29, 2024: Notification of acceptance * Friday April 12, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * Tuesday May 21, 2024: Workshop Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University Simona Frenda, University of Turin Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/ ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. With campuses and students across the entire globe we span the world, delivering innovation and educational excellence in business, engineering, design and the physical, social and life sciences. This email is generated from the Heriot-Watt University Group, which includes: 1. Heriot-Watt University, a Scottish charity registered under number SC000278 2. Heriot- Watt Services Limited (Oriam), Scotland's national performance centre for sport. Heriot-Watt Services Limited is a private limited company registered is Scotland with registered number SC271030 and registered office at Research & Enterprise Services Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS. The contents (including any attachments) are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of its contents is strictly prohibited, and you should please notify the sender immediately and then delete it (including any attachments) from your system.

1 0

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022