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Job announcement: PhD/Postdoc in the NLP group at the University of Mannheim
by Simone Paolo Ponzetto 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

The NLP Group at the University of Mannheim [1] invites applications for ONE PHD/POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Applicants should have a strong (undergraduate/graduate) profile in computer science, NLP, AI, machine learning or a related discipline. Applicants for the postdoc position are expected to have a proven academic track record (as demonstrated by publications at top-tier conferences) and be good team players. The researcher will be located at the NLP group of the University of Mannheim, which is part of the larger DWS Group [2] – see DBLP [3] for a list of publications and research topics we work on. Mannheim is a very multicultural city in the south-west of Germany, we offer a sustainable life/work balance and non-toxic academic environment. We are strongly committed to diversity and welcome applications from members of underrepresented groups. Duration: 2-3 years depending on the position and qualification. Salary range: according to German public scale TV-L E13 100% (full time, commensurate with experience and qualifications). Applications can be made per e-mail (jobs(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de<mailto:jobs@informatik.uni-mannheim.de>) and should include a research statement and CV including a list of publications and published software. All documents should be e-mailed as a single PDF. All applications sent before December 20 2022 will receive full consideration. The positions remain open until filled. Potential applicants are welcome to get in touch with Simone Paolo Ponzetto for informal enquiries before applying. Thanks! Simone [1] http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/nlp [2] http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de [3] https://dblp.org/pid/04/2532 -- Simone Paolo Ponzetto Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/ponzetto Tel: +49 621 181 2647

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Learning With Disagreements - task11 @Semeval2023: presentation of task and Invitation to online meeting with organizers
by Elisa Leonardelli 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Dear All, We are pleased to announce an online meeting with the organizers of the task Learning With Disagreements (LeWiDi) shared task @Semeval2023, to find out more about the task. *WHEN?* FRIDAY, 2TH DEC 2022, 1 p.m. CET *WHERE?* ON ZOOM *WHO?* The online meeting is open to everyone who is interested in the task, also who's not subscribed yet *WHAT?* The meeting will be structured as follow: - introduction to datasets and task from the organisers - Q&A time *HOW?* find the details of the meeting: - on the pages of our codalab competition https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/6146 - by adding the event on your calendar at the following link *https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N3RzMHJmcHBib29jYTZlNG9wcXBwYWhpb3AgbGV3aWRpc2VtZXZhbDIwMjNAbQ&tmsrc=lewidisemeval2023@gmail.com <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N3RzMHJmcH…>* We hope to see you numerous at the meeting! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *ABOUT THE TASK * The assumption that natural language expressions have a single and clearly identifiable interpretation is more and more recognized as just a convenient idealization. Focus of LeWiDi task is entirely on subjective tasks, where usage of aggregated labels makes much less sense. The objective of the LeWiDi task is to provide a unified testing framework for learning from disagreements and developing methods able to capture them, using datasets containing disaggregated annotations. We propose 4 diverse (textual) datasets: - with different characteristics in terms of genres (social media and conversations), languages (English and Arabic), tasks (misogyny, hate speech, offensiveness detection) and annotations' methodology (experts, specific demographic groups, AMT-crowd) - all datasets are equipped with disaggregated annotations - all datasets provides relevant information about annotators We developed an *harmonized json format* for the 4 datasets so to encourage participants in *developing methods able to capture agreements/disagreements*, rather than focusing on developing the best model for each dataset Performance is evaluated using two metrics: 1. 'classical hard evaluation' (F1): how well the model predicts the aggregated labels (binary, based on majority) 2. 'soft' evaluation' (cross-entropy): how well the model's probabilities reflect the level of agreement among annotators An ideal model would have high F1 and low cross-entropy results. PARTECIPATE: get the data and participate https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/6146 CONTACT US: le-wi-di-semeval2023_contactus(a)googlegroups.com DATES: Current status: train and dev are released, unlimited submissions via Codalab are allowed (evaluation on dev) January 10, 2023: evaluation phase starts, unlabeled test is released. Limited submissions on Codalab are allowed (evaluation on test) February 2023: Participant paper submission March 2023: Peer review notification April 2023: Camera-ready participant papers submission Summer 2023: SemEval workshop (co-located with a major NLP conference) ORGANIZERS: Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Valerio Basile, Torino University, Italy Tommaso Fornaciari, Bocconi University, Italy Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Alexandra Uma, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Best regards, the LeWiDi organizers -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

*Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics* https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ GdR LIFT is happy to announce the three forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics: - 2022/12/14 16:00-17:00 UTC+1: *Guy Emerson* (University of Cambridge; 15:00-16:00 UTC+0) Title: *Learning meaning in a logically structured model: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics* Abstract: *The aim of distributional semantics is to design computational techniques that can automatically learn the meanings of words based on the contexts in which they are observed. The mainstream approach is to represent meanings as vectors (such as Word2Vec embeddings, or contextualised BERT embeddings). However, vectors do not provide a natural way to talk about basic concepts in logic and formal semantics, such as truth and reference. While there have been many attempts to extend vector space models to support such concepts, there does not seem to be a clear solution. In this talk, I will instead go back to fundamentals, questioning whether we should represent meaning as a vector I will present the framework of Functional Distributional Semantics, which makes a clear distinction between words and the entities they refer to. The meaning of a word is represented as a binary classifier over entities, identifying whether the word could refer to the entity – in formal semantic terms, whether the word is true of the entity. The structure of the model provides a natural way to model logical inference, semantic composition, and context-dependent meanings, where Bayesian inference plays a crucial role. The same kind of model can also be applied to different kinds of data, including both grounded data such as labelled images (where entities are observed) and also text data (where entities are latent). I will discuss results on semantic evaluation datasets, indicating that the model can learn information not captured by vector space models like Word2Vec and BERT. I will conclude with an outlook for future work, including challenges and opportunities of joint learning from different data sources.* - 2023/01/18 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: *Carolyn Anderson* (Wellesley College; 11:00-12:00 UTC-5) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2023/02/15: *Steven T. Piantadosi* (UC Berkeley) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc

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CFP - Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural - issue 70 - Extension
by Eugenio Martínez Cámara 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** *Call for papers for the issue 70 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural* The submission deadline for the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural has just extended until 16 December, 2023. *Important dates* * *Submission deadline: 16 December 2022* * Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2023 * Camera ready: 6 February 2023 * Publication: March 2023 Submission platform: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln70/ ** *Introduction* The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2021 JCR index (JCI: 0.21, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR: 0.217, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (CiteScore: 1.5, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 0.37 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. *Topics* * Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language * Machine learning in NLP * Computational lexicography and terminology * Corpus linguistics * Development of linguistic resources and tools * Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis * Semantics, pragmatics and discourse * Word sense disambiguation * Monolingual and multilingual text generation * Machine translation * Knowledge and common sense * Multimodality * Speech synthesis and recognition * Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants * Audio indexing and retrieval * Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval * Question answering systems * Evaluation of NLP systems * Automatic textual content analysis * Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining * Plagiarism detection * Negation and speculation processing * Text mining in blogosphere and social networks * Text summarization * Text simplification * Image retrieval * NLP in biomedical domain * NLP-based generation of teaching resources * NLP for languages with limited resources * NLP industrial applications * Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation *Submission Information* The proposal must be submitted by *December 16nd, 2022* and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the Myreview system available at: *http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln70*. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. *Categories of papers* * Regular papers with original contributions. * Summary of PhD thesis. *Information for Authors* The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: * The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). * An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). * A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). * The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines *Note on camera ready* The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. *Preprint policy* The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. *Important dates* * *Submission deadline: 16 December 2022* * Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2023 * Camera ready: 6 February 2023 * Publication: March 2023 Contact person: Eugenio Martínez Cámara (emcamara(a)decsai.ugr.es) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. *Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 70.* *Fechas importantes* * Envío de trabajos: 16 de diciembre de 2022 * Notificación de aceptación o rechazo: 31 de enero de 2023 * Versión final: 6 de febrero de 2023 * Publicación: Marzo de 2023 Plataforma de envío: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln70/ *Objetivos de la revista* La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2021 (JCI: 0,21, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR: 0,217, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (CiteScore: 1,5, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 0,37 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. *Áreas temáticas* * Modelos de lenguaje matemáticos y psicolingüísticos * Aprendizaje automático en PLN * Lexicografía y terminología computacional * Lingüística de corpus * Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas * Gramáticas y formalismos para análisis morfológico y sintáctico * Semántica, pragmática y discurso * Resolución de ambigüedad léxico-semántica * Generación de texto monolingüe y multilingüe * Traducción automática * Multimodalidad * Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla * Sistemas de diálogo/ asistentes conversacionales * Auto-indexación * Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe * Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas * Evaluación de sistemas de PLN * Análisis automático de contenido textual * Análisis de sentimiento y minería de opiniones * Detección de plagio * Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación * Minería de texto en la blogosfera y las redes sociales * Resumen automático de texto * Simplificación de texto * Recuperación de imágenes * Conocimiento y sentido común * PLN en el ámbito biomédico * Generación de recursos didácticos basada en PLN * PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados * Aplicaciones industriales del PLN * Tratamiento del Lenguaje Hablado *Envío de trabajos* Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del *16 de diciembre de 2022*. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema Myreview: *http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln70/*. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. *Tipos de trabajos* * Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. * Reseñas de tesis doctorales. *Instrucciones para los Autores* Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: * El título del artículo (en español e inglés). * Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. * Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). * Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. *Nota sobre la versión final* La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. *Política de prepublicación* La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. *Fechas importantes* * Envío de trabajos: 16 de diciembre de 2022 * Notificación de aceptación o rechazo: 31 de enero de 2023 * Versión final: 6 de febrero de 2023 * Publicación: Marzo de 2023 Persona de contacto: Eugenio Martínez Cámara (emcamara(a)decsai.ugr.es) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. -- Eugenio Martínez Cámara Profesor Ayudante Doctor | Junior Lecturer DaSCI, Instituto Andaluz de Inteligencia Artificial | DaSCI, Andalusian Institute in Artificial Intelligence. Dpto. Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence department. Universidad de Granada

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Save the date: CMC-Corpora Conference | 14-15 September 2023
by cotgrove＠ids-mannheim.de 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to announce that the 10th edition of the Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora (CMC-CORPORA) will be jointly hosted by Mannheim University and the Leibniz Institute for the German Language on September 14-15, 2023 in Mannheim, Germany. Save the date! For more information go to https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023/ . The Call for Papers will be released in January 2023. The submission deadline will be around the end of April 2023. Looking forward to seeing you there! The Organizers: Jutta Bopp, Louis Cotgrove, Laura Herzberg, Harald Lüngen, Andreas Witt

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Re: HPLT & NLPL Winter School on Large-Scale Language Modeling and Neural Machine Translation with Web Data
by Maria Guzenko 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

Dear Stephan, Would Master’s-level students be eligible, too? Thank you. Best, Maria Guzenko

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Second Call for Papers: EACL 2023 Student Research Workshop
by Matthias Lindemann 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

EACL 2023 Student Research Workshop Second Call for Papers View on the web at https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2023srw/call-for-papers Main Conference: May 2-6, 2023 Paper Submission Deadline: December 16, 2022 ============== ## General Rules for Submission The EACL 2023 Student Research Workshop (SRW) provides a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for student participants to present their work and receive valuable feedback from the international research community. The workshop’s goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education: including undergraduate, masters, junior, and senior PhD students. We invite papers in two different categories: Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and ideas about future directions for their work. Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work-in-progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author MUST BE a current graduate or undergraduate student. We encourage submissions from Ph.D. students, as well as Masters or advanced undergraduate students. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main conference (https://2023.eacl.org/calls/papers/). Please see the submission guidelines page for more information at https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2023srw/submission-guidelines. ============== ## Benefits of participation All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main conference poster session, giving students an opportunity to interact with and present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors. Submissions (in both categories) may either be archival or non-archival, based on the wishes of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the EACL 2023 SRW Proceedings. All non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except another SRW. Each willing participant is also assigned a mentor - an experienced researcher - who can provide mentoring during the conference. ============== ## Important Dates Paper submission deadline: December 16, 2022 Acceptance notification: February 24, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: March 17, 2023 EACL conference dates: May 2-6, 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). ============== ## Submission Requirements We accept both archival submissions (i.e., the work can be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (the work will be presented in the workshop, but will not be part of the proceedings). The “archival” submissions should follow the anonymity period and restrictions of the main conference as appears in https://2023.eacl.org/calls/papers/. Papers can be submitted as short or long papers. Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. Thesis proposals consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. Paper submissions must use the official EACL 2023 style templates. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files. The review process is blind; hence, all submissions must be anonymized. The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to: Anaphora, Discourse and Pragmatics Computational Social Science and Social Media Dialogue and Interactive Systems Document analysis, Text Categorization and Topic Models Generation and Summarization Ethical and Sustainable NLP Information Retrieval and Search Information Extraction Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP Language Resources and Evaluation Language Grounding and Multi-Modality Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Machine Learning in NLP Machine Translation Multilinguality Multidisciplinary and NLP Applications Question Answering Semantics: lexical Semantics: sentence level and other areas Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation Tagging, Chunking, Syntax, and Parsing Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs Elisa Bassignana, IT University of Copenhagen Matthias Lindemann, University of Edinburgh Alban Petit, University of Paris-Saclay Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisor Valerio Basile, University of Turin Contact The organizers of the workshop can be contacted by email at eacl.srw23(a)gmail.com More details can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2023srw

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NBME Summer Internship in Assessment Science, Psychometrics, and EdTech
by Christopher Runyon 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners) Summer 2023 Internships in Assessment Science, Psychometrics, and Educational Technology June 5 - July 28, 2023 This year's internship is fully virtual. Both part-time and full-time internship positions are available. The internship is suitable for students that have completed at least two years of coursework and are actively enrolled in a doctoral program in computer science, statistics, measurement, cognitive science, medical education, or related field. Interns will be assigned to one or more mentors and will interact with other graduate students and NBME staff. The expected deliverables from the summer internship project are an internal research presentation, as well as a conference submission / presentation and/or a paper submitted for publication. Application deadline is Tuesday, January 31, 2023, at midnight PST. More information about the summer internship program can be found in the application portal: https://nbme.applicantpro.com/jobs/2627749.html Compensation The pay is $45 an hour. Total stipend for full-time interns (35 hours per week) is $12,600. Total stipend for part-time interns will range from $5,400 (15 hour per week) to $7,200 (20 hours per week). Applicants will indicate their preference (full-time and/or part-time) when applying. In addition, NBME will provide a $1000 stipend toward attending a conference for all full-time and part-time interns. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Chris Runyon: CRunyon(a)nbme.org<mailto:CRunyon@nbme.org> This email message and any attachments may contain privileged and/or confidential business information and are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments.

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In memory of Gerry Nelson
by Sean Wallis 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

In memory of Gerry Nelson We are extremely sad to announce the death of our friend and colleague, Gerald (Gerry) Nelson, Professor Emeritus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who has died following a short illness on 20 October 2022. Gerry will be laid to rest on Saturday 3 December at 10am in St Mary's Catholic Church in his home town of Mynooth, Kildare, Ireland. If you would like to leave a tribute to Gerry, you can do so here: https://uclsurveyofenglish.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/in-memory-of-gerry-nels… ------ Gerry was born in 1959 in Maynooth, Ireland, and studied at Maynooth University for his BA and MA. He received his PhD in theories of linguistic form in the 18th Century from University College Dublin, and worked in public libraries until he got what he referred to as ‘his big break’ in 1991, when he joined the Survey of English Usage as a Research Fellow on a three-year ESRC grant. This was followed by a two-year Leverhulme project, during which he contributed substantially to Sidney Greenbaum’s Oxford English Grammar. Later on, he took over the reins of three further editions of Sidney’s Introduction to English Grammar. Gerry joined an ambitious project, the International Corpus of English (ICE), which became central to his academic life. This project, initially proposed by Sidney Greenbaum in 1989, would be a multi-centre international project. Every member of the network (some 20 teams) would create a corpus according to the same strict criteria, permitting English varieties to be meaningfully compared for the first time. Although this challenge later proved difficult, data would be collected synchronically within a short time window from 1990 to 1992. Gerry and Sid updated Randolph Quirk’s Survey Corpus model of a corpus of both speech and writing, refining the design in a number of ways. There were to be more varied genres and contexts, texts would be shorter at 2,000 words each, and there were a number of practical stipulations on corpus participants, some of which were easier to apply than others! Crucially, every requirement would be applied equally to every variety of English captured by project teams – a task that proved challenging. Gerry was the principal coordinator for the British Component of ICE, ICE-GB. As well as obtaining recordings and texts, Gerry, the ex-librarian, had to obtain permission forms from a thousand participants, ranging from individuals to the BBC Copyright and Artists’ Department. Gerry designed the structural markup for transcribing and annotating the corpus. Gerry took on the process of data collection and archival, and it was Gerry and Sid, with Nelleke Oostdijk and Hans van Halteren in Nijmegen, who applied the Quirk grammar to the corpus. The two books Comparing English Worldwide (1996, edited by Greenbaum) and Exploring Natural Language (2002, authored with Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts) stand in testament to the huge contribution that Gerry made to the field of corpus annotation, and to the highly collaborative way of working that these projects represented. Following Sidney’s death in 1996, Bas Aarts took over the reins as Director of the Survey, and Chuck Meyer in Boston initially coordinated the ICE project. Gerry remained the leader of the ICE-GB component, which was completed under his stewardship in 1998, with a second release in 2006. Gerry was offered a Research Professorship at the University of Hong Kong in 2000, where he stayed for two years. He returned to UCL as a lecturer and became the Deputy Director of the Survey in 2002. It was during this second period at UCL that he worked on the Diachronic Corpus of Present Day Spoken English (DCPSE) corpus, which was released in 2006 alongside the second release of ICE-GB. Gerry worked at the Survey from 2002 to 2007, when he left to take up a Chair at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he remained until his retirement in 2020. In 2001, Gerry became the ICE project’s principal coordinator, a responsibility he undertook for fifteen years, finally handing over the project reins to colleagues in Zurich in 2016. Under his stewardship, the ICE project continued to grow, despite the usual problems of funding. Gerry was the principal expert advising ICE teams around the world on their collection and annotation strategies, applying a healthy dose of humour and pragmatism to the inevitable challenges that corpus building in multiple jurisdictions by teams with limited resources inevitably represents. He was very well-known internationally, especially in the circles of scholars working on World Englishes. Gerry was looking forward to further collaborations following his retirement. He continued to have a close relationship with his English Department colleagues at CUHK and UCL, and it was a terrible shock for all of us to hear of his untimely death in October 2022. Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts Survey of English Usage University College London -- Sean Wallis Principal Research Fellow Survey of English Usage, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage Home: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/staff/sean Blog: http://corplingstats.wordpress.com Out now: /Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research <https://www.routledge.com/Statistics-in-Corpus-Linguistics-Research-A-New-A…>/ (Routledge, 2021). Joint editor, with J. Holmwood, R. Cohen and T. Hickey, 2016. /In Defence of Public Higher Education: Knowledge for a Successful Society/ (The Alternative White Paper for HE <http://heconvention2.wordpress.com/>). London: HE Convention.

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HPLT & NLPL Winter School on Large-Scale Language Modeling and Neural Machine Translation with Web Data
by Stephan Oepen 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Dear colleagues: We invite participants to a three-day winter school on large-scale neural NLP research – language modeling and machine translation for non-English languages – using massive Web data. The school will provide lectures, possibly some hands-on exercises, and space for discussion by and with Emily M. Bender, Philipp Koehn, Teven Le Scao, Nikola Ljubešić, Sebastian Nagel, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Anna Rogers, Zeerak Talat, and Ivan Vulić. The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Horizon Europe project High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) and the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 6–8, 2023, in Norway. For additional information, please see: http://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and HPLT will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (at about NOK 3200 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on December 5, another one on December 12, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Thursday, December 15, 2022. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2023! Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team)

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