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Fully funded PhD position in Multilingual Natural Language Processing (ÚFAL, Charles University, Prague)
by Jindrich Libovicky 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

We are looking for a PhD student to work with Jindřich Libovický on a 4-year project focusing on a better understanding of multilingual language representations, improving their language neutrality and language coverage. The prospective PhD thesis topic is: Study if and how cultural aspects of meaning (e.g., moral values) are encoded in the representations and methods to make multilingual more culture-aware. However, the exact topic is negotiable. The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL) has an active community working on cutting-edge natural language processing. There will be significant interaction with the other researchers at the institute, especially the groups of Ondřej Bojar, Daniel Zeman, Pavel Pecina, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, and Jan Hajič. Charles University is the top-ranking university in Czechia, attracting strong talents locally and internationally. If you are interested in applying, please send me: * A cover letter (clearly indicate which position you are applying for and include possible starting dates); * A CV; * A short research plan addressing past, current, and future interests; * A brief statement of teaching experience and interest; * The names and addresses of two references. The working language is English, and no knowledge of Czech is required. Candidates with a strong background in natural language processing and machine learning are preferred, but other backgrounds are also welcome. Please submit your applications by March 15, 2023, via email to <my_surname> at ufal dot mff dot cuni dot cz. The expected starting date is October 1, 2023. Thanks, Jindřich Libovický ------ Charles Univeristy, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Malostranské náměstí 25 118 00 Praha Czech Republic Email: <my_surname> at ufal dot mff dot cuni dot cz Web: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/jindrich-libovicky

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Call for Participation: PAN 2023 "Profiling Cryptocurrency Influencers with Few-shot Learning"
by mara.chinea＠symanto.com 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Event Notification Type: Call for Participation Website: <a href="https://pan.webis.de/clef23/pan23-web/author-profiling.html">https://pan.webis.de/clef23/pan23-web/author-profiling.htmlt</a> Software submission deadline: May 29, 2023 Submission Deadline: June 05, 2023 We kindly invite you to participate at the Pan-2023 Task 2 - “Profiling Cryptocurrency Influencers with Few-Shot Learning”. This task is being held as part of CLEF 2023, and all participating teams will be able to publish their system description paper at the CLEF proceedings. This shared task focuses on the author profiling of cryptocurrency influencers in social media from a low-resource perspective, that is, with little training data. Moreover, we propose to profile types of influencers also using a low-resource setting. Specifically, we focus on English Twitter posts for three different sub-tasks: Low-resource influencer profiling (subtask-1): profile authors according to their degree of influence (null, nano, micro, macro, mega). Low-resource influencer interest profiling (subtask-2): profile authors according to their main interests or areas of influence (technical information, price update, trading matters, gaming, other). Low-resource influencer intent profiling (subtask-3): profile authors according to the intent of their messages (subjective opinion, financial information, advertising, announcement). Important Links Task Website Dataset site Slack workspace Important Dates February 20, 2023: Training data ready May 10, 2023: Early bird software submission phase (optional) May 29, 2023: Software submission deadline June 05, 2023: Participant paper submission September 18-21, 2023: Conference Task organizers Francisco Rangel (Symanto) Mara Chinea-Rios (Symanto) Contact Email: mara.chinea(a)symanto.com Marc Franco-Salvador (Symanto) Paolo Rosso (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) Please reach out to the organizers at crypto-influencers-pan-organizers(a)googlegroups.com, or join the Slack workspace (https://pan2023profil-0q48349.slack.com) to connect with the other participants and organizers.

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3rd CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Third call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 Note: deadline extension and submission system information The 4th RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous* Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources *: The term indigenous languages used in the RAIL workshop is intended to refer to non-colonial languages (in this case those used in Africa). In no way is this term used to cause any harm or discomfort to anyone. Many of these languages were or are still marginalised, and the aim of the workshop is to bring attention to the creation, curation, and development of resources for these languages in Africa. Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system which can be found at https://softconf.com/eacl2023/RAIL2023. Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Please make sure you also go through the responsible NLP checklist (https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/). Also, submissions should have a section titled “Limitations” (as described in the stylesheets). Authors are also encouraged to include an explicit ethics statement. Important dates: Submission deadline 20 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 5 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. 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[1st CFP][ICWSM 2023] TrueHealth 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing
by Rishabh Gyanendra Upadhyay 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Call for Papers *Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing*Workshop @ ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social MediaJune 5th – 8th 2023, Limassol, Cyprus https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/ ------------------------------ *Scope and topics* In recent years, *people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions*, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole. From this perspective, it becomes necessary to *study and propose technological solutions* to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being. To this end, it is essential to promote *research of an interdisciplinary nature*, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can *address the problem of health misinformation* from different points of view by combining their expertise. The* topics of interest* of the TrueHealth 2023 Workshop at ICWSM include, but are not limited to: - Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI); - Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access; - Debunking health misinformation; - Fake news/rumors and healthcare; - Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection; - Health misinformation detection; - Health literacy and information genuineness; - Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI); - Misinformation and public opinion on health; - Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health; - Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation; - Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI). ------------------------------ *Submission Instructions* Instructions can be found on the official ICWSM website: https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html ------------------------------ *Important Dates* - *Workshop Papers Submissions*: March 27, 2023 - *Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification*: April 10, 2023 - *Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due*: May 6, 2023 - *ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day*: June 5, 2023 ------------------------------ *Organizers* - *Gabriella Pasi* <https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/gabriella-pasi/> (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy - *Rishabh Upadhyay <https://en.unimib.it/rishabh-gyanendra-upadhyay>* (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy - *Marco Viviani <https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/>* (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy ------------------------------ *Program Committee* - *Sanda Harabagiu* <https://personal.utdallas.edu/~sanda/>, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA - *Liadh Kelly <https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-science-engineering/our-people/li…>*, Maynooth University, Ireland - *Dongwon Lee <https://ist.psu.edu/directory/dul13>*, Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University, USA - *Yelena Mejova <https://www.isi.it/en/people/yelena-mejova>,* ISI Foundation, Italy - *Michael Sirivianos* <https://netsysci.cut.ac.cy/michael.sirivianos/>, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus - *Angelo Spognardi <https://angelospognardi.site.uniroma1.it/>*, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - *Bei Yu <https://ischool.syr.edu/bei-yu/>*, Syracuse University, USA - *Arkaitz Zubiaga <http://www.zubiaga.org/>*, Queen Mary University of London, UK - Other members are going to be added in the coming days --- Rishabh Upadhyay, IKR3 Lab, UNIMIB, Milan, Italy

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Call for participation: The CLINKART and TESTLINK twin evaluation tasks
by Begoña Altuna 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

The CLINKART and TESTLINK twin evaluation tasks We invite you to participate in the CLINKART and TESTLINK twin tasks on the extraction of relations from clinical cases. Both tasks mainly consist in identifying test results and measurements and linking them to the textual mentions of the laboratory tests and measurements from which they were obtained. CLINKART (https://e3c.fbk.eu/clinkart) is organised in the context of Evalita 2023 and focuses on Italian. Training data is already available. TESTLINK (https://e3c.fbk.eu/testlinkiberlef) is organised in the context of IberLEF 2023 and proposes three different challenges: two tasks on monolingual datasets in Spanish and Basque and a third one requiring a multilingual approach. Training data due on February 27. The datasets of both tasks are based on the European Clinical Case Corpus (E3C), which consists of clinical cases in five European languages and is freely available (CC-BY-NC-4.0). Join us in one or many of the proposed challenges! The CLINKART and TESTLINK organisation teams

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Second Call for Papers - NLP4Disability
by Hend Al-Khalifa 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

*NLP4Disability: Call for Papers * *The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023 <http://www.petrae.org/>*. July 5-7, 2023. CORFU ISLAND, GREECE *Website*: https://nlp4disability.github.io/ *Submission link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petra2023 *Topics of interest* This workshop will explore how natural language processing can be used to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of disabilities from text - Development of accessible natural language interfaces - Generating alternative text descriptions of images for people with visual impairments - Improving automatic speech recognition for people with hearing impairments - Accessible natural language interfaces - Assistive technologies for people with disabilities - Computational linguistics for people with disabilities - Language processing for people with disabilities - Text processing for people with disabilities - NLP Bias Against Disabled People *Important Dates* Workshop paper submission deadline: *March 10, 2023* Review Period: March 11 - April 07, 2023 Notification date: April 10, 2023 Camera-Ready: April 30, 2023 *Publications* All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be published with the *ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program*. Also, Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Nafath newsletter (ISSN: 2789-9144) indexed in DOAJ and Google Scholar ( https://nafath.mada.org.qa). *Workshop Organizers* - *Hend Al-Khalifa*. Faculty at the Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - *Zainab AlMeraj*. Faculty at the Information Science Department, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait - *Achraf Othman*. Mada Center, Qatar - *Dena Al-Thani*. College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

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Third Call for Participation- IWSLT 2023
by Atul K. Ojha 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* ACL – 20th IWSLT 2023 July 13-14, 2023 – Toronto, Canada http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 19 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as references for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. In 2023, IWSLT will be co-located with ACL and will be run as a hybrid meeting. Important Dates January 14, 2023: Release of shared task training and dev data April 24, 2023: Scientific paper submission (all papers) April 01-15, 2023: Evaluation period April 30, 2023: System papers submission May 22, 2023: Notification of acceptance May 31, 2023: Camera-ready paper due July 12, 2023: Pre-recorded video due July 13-14, 2023: Conference Evaluation IWSLT 2023 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2023/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - Speech translation of talks - Speech-to-speech translation of multi-source data - Speech dubbing of multi-source data - Dialectal and Low-resource speech translation - Formality control for SLT Registration <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewDMutBgat38bIvgNwiHBWrJ6NJ7T33XI…> for the evaluation is now open and training and development data for each shared task are available through the website. The results of all tasks will be collected and discussed in an overview paper that will be presented at the conference. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Please submit scientific papers and system papers through the *submission portal <https://softconf.com/acl2023/iwslt2023/>*. Contact Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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Call for Participation - Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children (Registration now open)
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children https://aichildinteraction.github.io/ February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format) Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration Virtual participation is free! Program: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule Contact: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com =================================================== In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers looking into multimodal interactions between children and artificial agents to discuss research problems that center around interactivity and go beyond just processing child speech. The first part of the workshop will be concerned with conversational agents for child learning with four short presentations followed by a roundtable discussion. After a coffee break, the workshop will then focus on collecting data and practical and ethical considerations when building datasets involving children. We invite all researchers interested in AI-Child Interaction independent of their background and their previous experience with speech-based interaction to participate in the workshop. ## Accepted Papers A list of accepted papers can be found here: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission A link to the PDF version of the papers will be added a week before the workshop and will remain on the website available to everyone even after the workshop has concluded ## Schedule An overview of the schedule is available on our website (all times are PST - UTC-8): https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule In addition to two keynote presentations, the first by Prof. Khiet Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands, and the second by Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA, and seven short paper presentations, we will host two roundtable discussion sessions. These are interactive sessions in which we can dive deeper into the topics covered by our speakers and we welcome all participants to contribute with questions and statements. ## Registration If you would like to attend our workshop, please register using the IWSDS registration website: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration There are three types of registration: (i) If you are already registered for the IWSDS main conference (in-person or virtual), then your workshop participation is already covered. There is no need for any extra registration. (ii) If you would like to attend the workshop in person without registering for the main conference, please choose "In-Person Workshop Only" non-student (100 USD) or student (50 USD) options towards the end of the registration form. (iii) Virtual registration is completely free of charge! Please use the same link and select the "Virtual Workshop Only - Non-students and students" option. We will send registered participants information about in-person and virtual participation as well as the Link to the Zoom Webinar the day before the workshop. ## Contact If you have questions, please get in touch via our public Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or by sending an e-mail to aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com

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[CfP] TermTrends - Terminology in the Era of Linguistic Data Science Workshop @ LDK2023
by Patricia Martín Chozas 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

* Apologies for cross-posting * *Call for papers for the TermTrends Workshop at LDK Conference 2023* *12-15 September, Vienna, Austria* TermTrends 2023 <https://termtrends.linkeddata.es/> – Terminology in the Era of Linguistic Data Science – will be co-located with LDK 2023 <http://2023.ldk-conf.org/> at the University of Vienna, Austria, on September 13, 2023 This half-day workshop, initiated within the COST Action NexusLinguarum – European network for Web-centred Linguistic Data Science (CA 18209) <https://nexuslinguarum.eu/>, aims to provide a discussion forum regarding the theoretical and methodological approaches that have characterised Terminology in recent years, especially its central role in the organisation and sharing of specialised knowledge, both at a conceptual and linguistic level. In particular, we would like to focus on its connection to the Linguistic Linked (Open) Data (LLOD) paradigm and to Semantic Web formats and technologies through the use of ontologies, thereby promoting the creation of interoperable terminological resources. In addition, the workshop intends to explore the advantages and challenges underlying various Terminology-related standardisation approaches, ranging from the initially proposed standards to represent terminology within the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO), to models that represent linguistic data in the Semantic Web, including emerging vocabularies still under development. Moreover, Terminology is currently benefiting from neural network approaches and architectures, and new methods are being proposed to enhance both term extraction and terminology enrichment tasks. We also aim to address novel ways to represent terminological knowledge, especially in multiple domains and applications, such as Digital Humanities, e-lexicography, or Life Sciences. *Call for Papers* This cross-domain workshop strongly encourages, therefore, contributions focusing on the interrelation between Terminology and Linked Data. The main topics include, but are not limited to: - Definitions in Terminology - Terminology and Information Retrieval - Terminology and Information Science - Terminology and Knowledge Organisation - Terminology and Lexicography - Lexical and conceptual relations - Terminological Resource modelling and conversion to Linked Data - Terminology and Linguistic Linked (Open) Data - Terminology and Natural Language Processing and AI - Terminology and Ontologies - Terminology and the Semantic Web - Terminology Models and Standards - Term formation, neoterms - Terminology extraction (terms, relations, definitions) - Terminology validation - Text mining - Application of Terminological Resources in Language Model-driven Tasks *Submissions* Please submit your paper here <https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2023/Workshop/TermTrends>. Accepted proposals will be invited to submit a full (short or long) paper to be included in the LDK 2023 Proceedings. Templates and author instructions are available here <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> . *Important Dates* - *19 May 2023* - Deadline for paper submission - *16 June 2023* - Deadline for notification for paper submission - *30 June 2023* - Deadline for camera-ready paper submission - *13 September 2023* - TermTrends Workshop More info on the TermTrends website: https://termtrends.linkeddata.es/ Best wishes, Rute, Elena, Sara and Patricia -------------------------------------------- *Patricia Martín Chozas - Predoctoral Researcher* * Ontology Engineering Group* Artificial Intelligence Department ETSI Informáticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Phone: (+34) 910673091

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PhD student position: NLP and causal inference
by Richard Johansson 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) is looking for a PhD student in NLP for a project on text-based causal inference with applications in the social sciences. The project will be run jointly by Chalmers and the Institute for Analytical Sociology (at Linköping, Sweden). To apply, please follow the instructions in the application portal: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I003/304/job?site=5&lang=UK&validator=a72ae… The application deadline is February 28. For any questions about the position, please get in touch with Richard Johansson (richard.johansson(a)gu.se). Best regards, Richard Johansson

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