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Two positions at Bergen (linguistics, psycholinguistics)
by Koenraad de Smedt 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

At the University of Bergen, two positions are open: Postdoc in Psycholinguistics (https://www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-stillingar/stilling/240671/postdoktor…) PhD in Linguistics (https://www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-stillingar/stilling/240695/stipendiat…) The announcements are in Norwegian and English. Best regards, Prof. Koenraad De Smedt

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death announcement - prof. Karel Pala
by Miloš Jakubíček 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Karel Pala, professor emeritus of our faculty. He passed away on Wednesday morning, February 15, 2023, at the age of 83. Karel was an early corpus-enthusiast who pioneered corpus linguistics in Czechia. His friendly attitude inspired many of us to pursue our careers in this field. This will always be remembered with deep gratitude. Official announcement: https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en/DeathAnnouncementKarelPala Best regards, Milos Jakubicek Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno, Czechia

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24 February: free corpus online event and tool launch
by Brezina, Vaclav 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear all, We've been really encouraged by the overwhelming positive response to the #LancsBox X launch event, which will take place on Friday 24 February 2.00-3.30pm UK time. We will be showcasing a brand new version of #LancsBox X, a powerful tool for the analysis and visualisation of very large corpora: millions and billions of words. The event is organised jointly by The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (https://cass.lancs.ac.uk), Lancaster University and CLARIN-UK (https://www.clarin.ac.uk). The event will take place online via MS Teams. Attendance in person is also possible. Free registration is still open: https://forms.office.com/e/LBLqyZiqX9 Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [8ED5AC37]@vaclavbrezina [B213DA5D]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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[PhD] position at CIS, University of Munich
by hangyav＠cis.lmu.de 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

We are looking for a PhD student interested in transfer learning in natural language processing. The candidate will work on the "Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection" project which focuses on supporting various hate speech detection scenarios in low-resource setups, such as low-resource languages or domains. The main goal is to leverage already existing resources in order to build high quality models for the target scenarios. Offer We offer employment as a full-time doctoral researcher for three years. Starting date is as soon as possible. The salary amounts to TV-L E13 (roughly 52,000 EUR gross income per year). The position is open until filled. The "Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection" project is funded by the German Science Foundation. It is led by Dr. Viktor Hangya in the research group of Prof. Alexander M. Fraser at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), University of Munich (LMU). The group has multiple activities with other groups at CIS, such as the groups led by Prof. Barbara Plank and Prof. Hinrich Schuetze, as well as with the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) providing ample opportunities to collaborate with other researchers. Other than the research related to the doctoral program, the candidate is expected to assist in teaching duties, such as giving presentations at student seminars or proposing and leading bachelor and master theses. Qualifications Ideal PhD candidates have a master in computer science, computational linguistics or a related discipline, a strong interest in natural language processing and machine learning, excellent mathematical and programming skills, are team players and fluent in English. Application Please send CV, transcript or records, a copy of your Master's thesis and a motivation letter stating your research interests, as well as two reference letters to hangyav[at]cis.lmu.de, subject: "PhD application". Send all documents as a single PDF, give the PDF a name that includes your name. Diversity LMU is strongly committed to diversity and especially welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups. Location CIS is located in the city center of Munich near the English Garden, one of the world's largest urban public parks. Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is a vibrant international city with many cultural and recreational offerings, including the nearby Alps.

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[Cfp] Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies
by Leszek Szymański 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear Colleagues, The Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, announces a conference titled "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies". This year's edition will be held entirely online on May 18-19. More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you! Leszek

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Call for Participation: 4th Slav-NER Shared Task - Named EntitiesinSlavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

* Call for Participation * ** ** * The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task: Named Entities in Slavic Languages — Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-Lingual Linking ** co-located with the Slav-NLP <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>Workshop, EACL 2023 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> TASK DESCRIPTION: The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task focuses on Named Entities in Slavic languages. Due to rich inflection, free word order, derivation, and other phenomena common to the Slavic languages, work on Named Entities poses important challenges. Fostering research & development on the problems of Named Entities — detecting names, lemmatization (normalization), classification, and cross-lingual matching — is crucial for information access and wider use of NLP in Slavic languages. The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task covers three languages: * Czech, * Polish, * Russian. ** with five types of named entities: ** * persons, * locations, * organizations, * *products* * ***events,*. ** For information about training and test data, and *guidelines* please see Shared Task Home Page. <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> ** IMPORTANT: Participants are *NOT* required to perform all tasks or for all languages. For example, a monolingual entry, without lemmatization, can participate. The Shared Task focuses on cross-lingual extraction of named entities — the systems should recognize, classify, and extract the names in a document. Detecting the positionof every name mention is NOT required. Name mentions should be lemmatized, and mentions referring to the same real-world object should be linked across documents and languages. The text collections consist of documents retrieved from the Web, each set about a major /entity or event/. The corpus was collected by crawling the Web and parsing the HTML documents. For background, see the1^st edition (2017) <http://bsnlp-2017.cs.helsinki.fi/shared_task.html>, 2^nd edition (2019) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2019/shared_task.html>and the3^rd edition (2021) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html>of this shared task. Participation Participating teams should register via email to: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fiwith the following information: * name of team, * team members, * contact person and *email.* **** Important Dates ** * Shared task announcement: 11 January 2023 ⇒ *Training Data Available* ! * Registration deadline: *06 March 2023* * Release of *Test**Data* to registered participants: 07 March2023 * Submission of system responses: 09 March 2023 * Results announced to participants: 11March 2023 * Submission of shared task papers: 13 March 2023 * Camera-ready shared task papers: 03 April 2023 * * * -- Roman Yangarber Associate Professor, University of Helsinki Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learninghelsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> Language Learning Labhelsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Journal of Language and Aging Research: New journal announcement
by Annette Gerstenberg 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Oh my, don’t talk about aging! — Journal of Language and Aging Research open for submissions What one of our participants said (in French: “ah là là, parlez pas de vieillir,” Ms. Moreau, 85 years old) holds for much of linguistic research: topics addressing the relation of old age and language receive little attention. The newly founded open-access Journal of Language and Aging Research is the first journal to deal with the intersection of two things that are part of our constant, everyday experience: language and aging. The idea for the journal grew out of the CLARe (Corpora for Language and Aging Research) conference series that began in 2014, and which have shown the fruitfulness of sharing research and ideas on this topic in a common venue. Supported by an advisory board of outstanding representatives of a wide range of linguistic fields dealing with related topics, its three editors have developed the journal to provide such a platform. Our website is online <https://deref-1und1-02.de/mail/client/oDQEoGA2o6o/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=h…>, and the first issue will be published in the spring of 2023. Starting now, we are open for submissions <https://deref-1und1-02.de/mail/client/t6wnsjl40iM/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=h…>!

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2nd CfP: Workshop on Modelling Translation at NoDaLiDa 2023
by Maria Kunilovskaya 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

**Second Workshop on Modelling Translation: Translatology in the Digital Age** (MoTra-2023) Second Call for Papers Submissions deadline: March 20, 2023 Workshop Day: May 22, 2023 Location: Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (hybrid format) *Submissions page: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/2023/Workshop/MoTra* Website: https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/news/motra23-workshop-call-for-papers/ **Topic and Goals of the Workshop** MoTra-2023 aims to promote interdisciplinary and computational approaches to human translation, offering an opportunity for researchers in empirical translation studies, computational and corpus linguistics, NLP, cognitive science to exchange knowledge and methodological expertise in modelling various aspects of translation. Along with traditional research questions related to translationese, variation in translation, translation quality assessment, we encourage submissions on interpreting studies, multimodal translation, modelling translational strategies from cognitive, semantic and pragmatic perspectives as well as contributions presenting language resources for translation studies and translation-related software. We are particularly interested in forging a link between translation studies and machine translation and invite research at the interface of these fields. This event seeks to follow up on the investigations reported by the previous edition of the workshop. The proceedings of MoTra-2021 covered a wide range of topics in translatology enhancing the understanding of *translationese*, i.e linguistic specificity of translations setting them apart from non-translations in the target language and exploring *variation in human translation*, including in contrast with machine translation (https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.motra-1/). The contributions described computational and NLP methods to model translation varieties (student/professional, human/machine, written/spoken) and translation processes/solutions, especially around particular items (translation problem triggers, discourse markers, adjectives, polarity items), and reported the results of manual linguistic analysis of modelling outcomes. **The workshop invites submissions on relevant research topics, including but not limited to:** - Translation and translationese detection, source language identification and quantitative analysis of translations - NLP approaches to translationese - Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation according to context (domain, register, genre), mode and medium (spoken, written, audio-visual), translator (professional, novice, crowd-sourced), recipient (simplified language) etc. - Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of translation models - Research at the interface between translation studies and machine translation - Contextualized and multimodal translation analysis - Computational semantics and pragmatics applied to translation studies - Sentiment and emotion analysis of translations - Human translation quality assessment and annotation - Computational models of translation types such as communicative translation, semantic translation, transcreation, intralingual translation, etc. - New corpora for translation studies, such as literary translation corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, learner translator corpora, etc. - Translation, post-editing, (error) annotation software - Cognitive modelling of translation processes, including cognitive load measurements and communication optimisation in translation **Invited Speakers** Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland) **Program Committee** Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) Mario Bisiada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Yuri Bizzoni (Aarhus University) Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa) Michael Carl (Kent State University) Oliver Czulo (Leipzig University) Cristina España i Bonet (DFKI GmbH) Alex Fraser (LMU Munich) Alina Karakanta (University of Trento) Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University) Antoni Oliver (Open University of Catanlunya) Maja Popovic (ADAPT Centre, DCU) Moritz Schaeffer (University of Mainz) Tatiana Serbina (RWTH Aachen University) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) Antonio Toral (University of Gröningen) **Organizers’ Contacts** Maria Kunilovskaya (maria.kunilovskaya(a)uni-saarland.de) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (lapshinovakoltun(a)uni-hildesheim.de) Elke Teich (e.teich(a)mx.uni-saarland.de) **Important Dates** - Monday, March 20, 2023: Workshop paper submission deadline - Monday, April 17, 2023: Notification of acceptance - Monday, May 1, 2023: Camera-ready workshop papers due - Monday, May 22, 2023: The workshop day **Paper Submission** We invite submissions of three kinds: - long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation of results, up to 8 pages without references; - short papers on smaller, focused contributions, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces, up to 4 pages without references; and - demonstration papers on software, systems, interfaces, infrastructures, language resources, data collections, or annotations, up to 4 pages without references. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will appear in the NoDaLiDa 2023 proceedings, published as part of the NEALT Proceedings Series and in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop website (https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/news/motra23-workshop-call-for-papers/), too. All submissions should be anonymous and should follow the official Nodalida 2023 LaTeX template (see https://www.nodalida2023.fo/call-for-papers/). The ACL author guidelines and anonymity rules apply. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa 2023. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to attend the workshop. The submissions are planned through OpenReview. Submissions page: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/2023/Workshop/MoTra To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or generally the workshop’s scientific program, please email: Maria Kunilovskaya maria.kunilovskaya(a)uni-saarland.de The workshop will be held in a hybrid format in conjunction with the NoDaLiDa Conference (https://www.nodalida2023.fo/) in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.

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Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in computational cognitive modelling and natural language processing - closing date for applications is 23:59 CET, 20 March 2023
by Costanza Navarretta 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

*** With apologies for multiple postings *** Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in computational cognitive modelling and natural language processing The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant/associate professorship in computational cognitive modelling and natural language processing to be filled by August 1, 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. Job content The successful candidate will engage in cutting-edge research in computational cognitive modelling in collaboration with the CST researchers and is expected to contribute actively to the Centre's research environment, see also: Research - University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)<https://cst.ku.dk/english/research/> The ideal candidate will have expertise in working with neurocognitive methods such as eye-tracking or EEG; they will have worked with computational modelling, preferably of language phenomena; they will have active knowledge of machine learning and deep modelling techniques. The candidate will also be expected to strengthen the Centre's project portfolio by applying for external funding, in particular to support projects at the interface between computational cognitive modelling and NLP. The candidate will also contribute with teaching to the MSc in IT and Cognition, more specifically to the Cognitive Science courses, as well as supervise master's dissertations. More detail on the programme as a whole and the individual study units are provided at: Master of Science (MSc) in IT and Cognition - University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)<https://studies.ku.dk/masters/it-and-cognition/> The closing date for applications is 23:59 CET, 20 March 2023 Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered. More information about the qualification requirements and the application procedure can be found on the following link: https://jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=158556 Costanza Navarretta PhD, senior researcher/assoc.professor Centre for Language Technology Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics University of Copenhagen DIR +45 35329079 costanza(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:costanza@hum.ku.dk>

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PostDoc / PhD positions in Legal Tech at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg [deadline̵: 26 Feb]
by Stephanie Evert 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

We are looking for PostDoc / Doctoral Researchers (100% or 65% TV-L E13) duration: up to 3 years for research projects in the area of Legal Tech. We are interested in different profiles with background in computational linguistics, law, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, or possibly computer science / data science. Good knowledge of German is required. Application deadline: 26 Feb 2023 Full consideration will be given to all applications received by the deadline, but positions are open for further applications until filled. If you want to apply but need a few extra days to prepare your dossier, please get in touch with me. Full details in German here: https://www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/wissenschaftlichen-mitarbeiterin-m-w-d-im-bere… https://www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen-m-w-d-im-be… Looking forward to your application! Stephanie Evert

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