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PhD position in Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg
by Eleni Gregoromichelaki 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded Ph.D. position in Linguistics. Information about the institution The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV) at the University of Gothenburg is home to a large number of national and international research projects and offers courses and degree programs for philosophers, logicians, linguists, language technologists, theorists of science, historians of philosophy, philologists and philosophy teachers. Linguistics is a subject authorised to award qualifications at all levels, including in third-cycle studies. At the department, there is also the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), funded by a 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (2015-2025). CLASP is devoted to research and advanced training in the application of probabilistic modelling and machine learning methods to core issues in linguistic theory and cognition. The department offers an international English-speaking research environment. The research is interdisciplinary and aims at bringing together insights from various fields such as logic, mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, philology, and philosophy. Job description: The current position is within the area of Linguistics at the department. Linguistic interaction is the main overarching theme for research in linguistics at FLoV. The focus is on conversational dialogue as a research topic within psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics and pragmatics, and language technology/computational linguistics. The ideal candidate should be motivated to develop an original PhD thesis project in any single or combination of these fields. We will fund one well-qualified and highly motivated candidate to carry out research using experimental and/or formal methods on any of the following general topics in relation to dialogue modelling and/or grammar design: - Incremental processing in conversation - Multimodal phenomena - Theories of joint action and linguistic meaning - Context and common ground - Probabilistic models of inference and linguistic processing - Dialogue acts - Turn-taking We are looking for candidates who have solid prior experience in linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, or computational linguistics. More particularly, demonstrable ability and experience in the modelling of, or experimentation with dialogue phenomena is highly desirable. The candidate should be able to provide evidence of the ability for conducting original independent research. Candidates with an interdisciplinary background are particularly encouraged to apply. How to apply: In order to apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to register an account in our online recruitment system: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the job advertisement and that it is submitted before the deadline. The selection of candidates is made on the basis of the qualifications registered in the application. Further information: Queries about the recruitment process should be directed to Jennifer Stråle, HR Administrator, jennifer.strale(a)gu.se Queries about possible topics for study should be directed to Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Professor of Linguistics, +46 31-786 52 33, eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is: 15 September 2022 all the best Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33 Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33 From: Eleni Gregoromichelaki <eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se> Sent: 12 July 2022 07:55 To: sigsem(a)list.rug.nl <sigsem(a)list.rug.nl>; iva-list(a)lists.uni-bielefeld.de <iva-list(a)lists.uni-bielefeld.de>; sigdial(a)list.sigdial.org <sigdial(a)list.sigdial.org>; semantik(a)uni-duesseldorf.de <semantik(a)uni-duesseldorf.de>; folli(a)folli.info <folli(a)folli.info>; amlap-list(a)coli.uni-sb.de <amlap-list(a)coli.uni-sb.de>; corpora(a)uib.no <corpora(a)uib.no>; sentproc(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu <sentproc(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu>; Eleni Gregoromichelaki <eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se> Subject: SemDial 2022: deadline extension for short papers ** Short papers SemDial 2022 ** ** Submission deadline extended to 22 July 2022 ** --------------------------------------------------------------- SemDial 2022 - DubDial THE 26TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE https://semdial2022.github.io/ 22-24 August 2022 Dublin // Online --------------------------------------------------------------------- DubDial will be the 26th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2022 the workshop will be hosted by the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. There will also be an online component for those who cannot travel to Dublin. Please see the website for updates closer to the date. *WEBSITE:* https://semdial2022.github.io/ This year, there will be a guiding theme for the conference: Interactivism. The interactivist model (Bickhard, 2009) offers a new dynamic approach to understanding language, communication, and cognition. Across many disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience and robotics, there is recognition that explanations of life and mind need to be grounded in the physics of far-from-equilibrium, interactive systems. From this starting point, explanations have been developed for phenomena ranging from representation, perception, and action to motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology. This work has yet to develop interfaces with studies of specific phenomena in dialogue modelling and our purpose is to open the discussion on how dialogue researchers can take advantage of this and related perspectives like Enactivism and Ecological Psychology. *SCOPE:* We welcome submissions on this special theme of Interactivism and we continue to welcome any papers with formal, computational and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: - the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue - common ground / mutual belief - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - turn-taking and interaction control - semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue - dialogue and discourse structure - categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora - child-adult interaction - psycholinguistics of dialogue - language learning through dialogue - gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication - multimodal and multi-party dialogue - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems - modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair - applications of the Interactivist model in dialogue phenomena - enactive approaches to interaction - dialogue/interaction studies from an Ecological Psychology perspective *INVITED SPEAKERS:* Mark H. Bickhard Yvette Graham Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi *DEADLINE EXTENSION for short-paper submissions* We invite NON-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS for 2-page short papers. The deadline has now been extended to the *22 July 2022* Authors should submit a paper of at most 2 pages of content (1 additional page is allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site are available on the DubDial website: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=call# Short-paper submissions will not be refereed but evaluated for relevance only by the chairs. As such, papers do not need to be anonymised. They will be presented as posters at the workshop. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Short paper submissions due: 22 July 2022 Notification: 25 July 2022 Camera-ready submissions deadline: 8th August 2022 *REGISTRATION* Registration is now open: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=registration# DubDial - SemDial 2022 SemDial 2022 (LondonLogue) - The 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. TUD, August 22-24th, 2022 semdial2022.github.io *RELATED EVENTS* The final session of SemDial will be the second edition of SummDial, a special session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings, for which there is a separate submission process - please see the SummDial website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Eleni Gregoromichelaki (University of Gothenburg) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) John Kelleher (Technological University Dublin) Contact: pcchairs.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* John Kelleher, the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. Contact: organisers.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* Jedediah Allen, Maxime Amblard, Ron Artstein, Alex Berman, Mark Bickhard, Maria Boritchev, Ellen Breitholtz, Harry Bunt, Heather Burnett, Robin Cooper, Valeria de Paiva, Emilie Destruel, Simon Dobnik, Kerstin Fischer, Kallirroi Georgila, Emer Gilmartin, Jonathan Ginzburg, Christine Howes, Julie Hunter, Nikolai Ilinykh, Ruth Kempson, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Andy Lücking, Chiara Mazzocconi, Gregory Mills, Robert Mirski, Bill Noble, Massimo Poesio, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Hannes Rieser, Robert Ross, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, David Schlangen, Matthew Stone, Peter Sutton, Lucas Thorpe, Ye Tian, Shu-Chuan Tseng *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg)) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) http://semdial.org/ Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33

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RiCL CFPs Issue 11/1
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, *Research in Corpus Linguistics* (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the *Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics* (AELINCO), is seeking for contributions to be published in the first issue of 2023 (11/1). RiCL invites previously unpublished submissions in four main forms: 1. *Papers reporting on* research based on or derived from *corpora*. 2. *Research* *papers* *reporting* *on* *corpus* *construction*, annotation, the development and application of corpus tools, software, etc. 3. *Book reviews* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. 4. *Review articles* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. Further information about RiCL’s editorial policies can be found here <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/editorial-policies>. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation, and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. Please note that submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions> of RiCL. Further information at: *https://ricl.aelinco.es* <https://ricl.aelinco.es/> All the best, Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso *Editors-in-chief* -- Paula Rodríguez Puente paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm

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CFP: Semantics and Natural Language Processing in Agriculture
by Mathieu Roche 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

======== Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Special issue: Semantics and Natural Language Processing in Agriculture ======== Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 September 2022 https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/35711/semantics-and-natural-lan… Currently, agriculture is at a crossroads. There has been an increase in the world?s population, a reduction in available farmland as well as competition for agricultural land from biofuels. Advances from traditional agricultural areas have been resisted by consumers and politicians, and consequently increases in productivity need to come from non-traditional areas to ensure that the world's population has access to basic nutrition at an affordable price. The Semantic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) community can assist the agricultural domain by providing unique insights from data or by providing greater clarity to current agricultural processes. Agricultural researchers, in common with other domains, have access to large collections of agricultural documents such as scientific papers, news, social media data, etc. These textual documents can be analyzed and processed with NLP methods, supported by semantic knowledge, to resolve agricultural issues in digital agriculture. To date, the application of text mining and semantics in the agricultural domain remains under-explored. This Research Topic invites original research, surveys, and position papers that address issues in Agricultural Text Mining or Agri Semantics, in order to increase the visibility and application potential of this important and emerging research area. The scope of this article collection is broad and seeks submissions on, but not limited to: - novel agricultural NLP methods - multilingual agricultural text mining - agricultural information retrieval - agricultural information extraction - agricultural named entity recognition and disambiguation - agricultural text visualization - NLP agricultural applications - societal impacts of agricultural text mining, language resources, and datasets - agricultural web crawling - novel agrisemantic resources - bias or gaps in existing agrisemantic resources - agrisemantic data integration - novel argisemantic backed agricultural applications - and agribusiness industry case studies Keywords: nlp, agriculture, Text Mining, Information Extraction, Agricultural Applications, Web Crawling, Agrisemantic, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Currently, agriculture is at a crossroads. There has been an increase in the world?s population, a reduction in available farmland as well as competition for agricultural land from biofuels. Advances from traditional agricultural areas have been resisted by consumers and politicians, and consequently increases in productivity need to come from non-traditional areas to ensure that the world?s population has access to basic nutrition at an affordable price. The Semantic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) community can assist the agricultural domain by providing unique insights from data or by providing greater clarity to current agricultural processes. Agricultural researchers, in common with other domains, have access to large collections of agricultural documents such as scientific papers, news, social media data, etc. These textual documents can be analyzed and processed with NLP methods, supported by semantic knowledge, to resolve agricultural issues in digital agriculture. To date, the application of text mining and semantics in the agricultural domain remains under-explored. This Research Topic invites original research, surveys, and position papers that address issues in Agricultural Text Mining or Agri Semantics, in order to increase the visibility and application potential of this important and emerging research area. The scope of this article collection is broad and seeks submissions on, but not limited to: - novel agricultural NLP methods - multilingual agricultural text mining - agricultural information retrieval - agricultural information extraction - agricultural named entity recognition and disambiguation - agricultural text visualization - NLP agricultural applications - societal impacts of agricultural text mining, language resources, and datasets - agricultural web crawling - novel agrisemantic resources - bias or gaps in existing agrisemantic resources - agrisemantic data integration - novel argisemantic backed agricultural applications - and agribusiness industry case studies Topic Editors - Mathieu Roche, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France - Brett Drury, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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TRAC 2022: Third CFP (COLING 2022 Workshop) *Deadline extended to July 25, 2022*
by Ritesh Kumar 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*3rd (Online) Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC - 2022)* Co-located with COLING 2022, October 17, 2022 Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea *Third Call for Papers and Deadline Extension* *Workshop Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/trac2022/home *Paper Submission*: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TRAC-2022/ *Submission Deadline*: July 25, 2022 (Regular) / July 31, 2022 (ACL ARR) As in the earlier editions of the workshop, TRAC-2022 will focus on the applications of NLP, ML and pragmatic studies on aggression and impoliteness to tackle these issues. We invite *long (8 pages)* and *short papers (4 pages)* as well as *position papers* and opinion pieces (5 - 20 pages), *demo proposals* and *non-archival extended abstracts* (2 pages) based on, but not limited to, any of the following themes from academic researchers, industry and any other group / team working in the area. - Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language. - Cyberbullying, threatening, hateful, aggressive and abusive language on the web. - Multilingualism and aggression. - Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and Best Practices for threat and aggression detection. - Computational Models and Methods for aggression, hate speech and offensive language detection in text and speech. - Detection of threats and bullying on the web. - Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological issues and challenges. For any clarifications, contact coling.aggression(a)gmail.com. Looking forward to your participation!

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New publication: Shaping Writing Grades
by Susan Hunston 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Dear list members, I am delighted to announce a new publication in the Elements in Corpus Linguistics series, by Lee McCallum and Philip Durrant. The Element title is: "Shaping Writing Grades: Collocation and Writing Context Effects". It explores relationships between collocations, writing quality and learner and contextual variables in a first-year university composition programme. The Element can be viewed here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/search?q=9781009074445&_csrf=Bx66KnU6-7EI4dZ…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambr…>. It will be available free of charge for 2 weeks. The full Element abstract can be seen at the bottom of this email. This publication brings the number of Elements in this series to eight. The other titles in the series so far are: Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures (Caple, Huan & Bednarek) Doing Linguistics with a Corpus (Egbert, Larsson & Biber) Citations in Interdisciplinary Research Articles (Muguiro) Conducting Sentiment Analysis (Lei & Liu) Natural Language Processing for Corpus Linguistics (Dunn) The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (Hocking) Analysis Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback (Baker & Brookes) Best wishes Susan Hunston (Series Editor) Abstract This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual variables in a first-year composition (FYC) programme. Comprising three studies, the Element is anchored in understanding phraseological complexity and its sub-constructs of sophistication and diversity. First, the authors look at sophistication through association measures. They tap into how these measures may tell us different types of information about collocation via a cluster analysis. Selected measures from this clustering are used in a cumulative links model to establish relationships between these measures, measures of diversity and measures of task, the language background of the writer and individual writer variation, and writing quality scores. A third qualitative study of the statistically significant predictors helps understand how writers use collocations and why they might be favoured or downgraded by raters. This Element concludes by considering the implications of this modelling for assessment. Professor Susan Hunston (she/her) Department of English Language and Linguistics University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT UK (+44) 0121 414 5675 s.e.hunston(a)bham.ac.uk

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Second CFP: The 7th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP-7 2022) / Co-located with EMNLP 2022
by Wajdi Zaghouani 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The 7th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP2022) will be a full-day event taking place on December 7 or 8, 2022 (in a hybrid mode). This year’s WANLP is co-located with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Workshop URL: http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net/ Submission URL: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022 Important Dates - September 5: Workshop Paper Due Date - October 10: Notification of Acceptance - October 21: Camera-ready papers due (strict!) - December 7-8: Workshop Dates We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Enabling core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions§ must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. We have several submission tracks including long, short, and demo tracks. If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp2022(a)gmail.com The WANLP 2022 Organizing Committee http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net/ ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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Call for Nominations: The Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award 2022
by Jochen L. Leidner 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Call for Nominations: The Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award 2022 TLDR: Closing date: 9 September 2022 ~ An award to commemorate Karen Spärck Jones ~ A pioneer of information retrieval, the computer science sub-discipline that also underpins the technology of modern Web search engines, Karen Spärck Jones was a British professor of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Her contributions to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding, highly influential and lasting, and include the introduction of Inverse Document Frequency for relevance ranking. Her achievements resulted in her receiving a number of prestigious accolades such as the BCS Lovelace medal for her advancement in Information Systems, and the ACM Salton Award for her significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. Karen was also an outspoken advocate for women in computing, and we encourage former advisors of talented scientists to provide the judges with a rich and diverse candidate pool to select from. To learn more about Karen and her work, visit: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8FecRxSiUM * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYeKiebpuo In order to honour Karen's achievements, the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has established an annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Natural Language Processing or Information Retrieval with significant experimental contributions. To celebrate the commemorative event, the recipient of the 2021 award will be invited to present a keynote lecture at BCS IRSG’s annual conference — the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) next year. This forum provides an excellent venue to present and announce the award as the conference attracts many new and young researchers. Eligibility. Open to all NLP/IR researchers who have no more than 10 years experience after their Ph.D. at the closing date for nominations (non-research times, e.g. parental leave or career breaks, will be taken into account to ensure equity; please point at such times in the nominee's CVs). Criteron. The candidate ought to have substantially advanced our understanding of NLP or IR or both through experimentation. Nominations. The following should be provided: • Name of nominee, position, affiliation, years since completion of the Ph.D.; • Name of person proposing the nominee, position, and affiliation; • Short case for the award, not to exceed 2,500 words, highlighting the contributions the individual has made; • List of the individual's top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these; and • Exactly two supporting letters from people who would like to encourage/support the nomination. Nominations should be emailed to the panel chair below. The support letters can be emailed separately by the referees. It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, in which case they should provide three support letters. Please note that we anticipate that people who provide support letters will do so only for a single candidate. Award Panel. The Award Panel Chair, appointed by the BCS IRSG Committee, will invite panel members from amongst representatives of the BCS main council, the BCS IRSG Committee, the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), the Award-sponsoring organisation (unless there could be a conflict of interest), as well as seasoned experts in IR and NLP from academia and industry. Prize. The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses for the awardee to travel to ECIR 2023. Note that the Karen Spärck Jones Award will now alternate between ECIR and EACL to promote integration between the IR and NLP communities that Karen Spärck Jones was an active member of. The 2022 prize award lecture will take place at ECIR 2023. Timeline for the 2022 Award: • 9 September 2022 — closing date for nominations; • 17 September 2022 — deadline for support letters; • 9 December 2022 — notification of the prize recipient; • 2 April-6 April 2023 — recipient presents keynote at ECIR 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. The Karen Spärck Jones Award is sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge; we would like to thank our generous sponsors. Current Award Chair: Professor Jochen L. Leidner <leidner AT acm.org>. -- Prof. Jochen L. Leidner *M.A. M.Phil. Ph.D. FRGS* Professor of Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Insurance, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Coburg, Germany Visiting Professor of Data Analytics, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom [ E-Mail: leidner (at) acm.org <leidner(a)acm.org> | Web: *https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/jleidner <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/jleidner>* | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leidner/ | Twitter: @jochenleidner <https://twitter.com/jochenleidner> ]

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QURATOR 2022 – Call for Papers – Deadline: 31 July
by Georg Rehm 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*QURATOR 2022 – Third Conference on Digital Curation Technologies* *Call for Papers* *– Due to numerous requests the submission deadline has been extended to 31 July 2022 –* 23 September 2022 – Berlin, Germany Part of the QURATOR Conference 2022 – 19-23 September 2022 *https://qurator.ai/conference-qurator-2022/call-for-papers/* <https://qurator.ai/conference-qurator-2022/call-for-papers/> Digital curation is a complex time and knowledge intensive process, in which knowledge workers across various industries and application domains create new content artifacts and insights from heterogeneous sources (content, data, knowledge). The work required for this includes, e.g., selecting, summarizing, scheduling, translating, localising, structuring, condensing, enriching, visualizing and explaining the various contents, taking into account the steadily growing speed, volume and number of sources such as online newspapers, news portals, social media, linked data, business information systems, IoT data streams etc. AI methods, in particular from the field of language and semantic knowledge technologies, are used to support these tasks and thereby accelerate and qualitatively improve them. The Qurator conference provides a forum on the use of digital curation technologies in application domains for, e.g., media, journalism, logistics, cultural heritage, health care and life sciences, energy, industry. Of particular relevance are submissions that demonstrate the applied use of digital curation technologies and tools in domain-specific use cases and that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Web, data analytics and machine learning, information/content and knowledge management systems, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and computational linguistics. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to* Management of Digitally Curated and Semantically Expressive Information and Knowledge: • Knowledge representation and semantic knowledge management • Semantic content and data modeling and digital knowledge curation • Semantic integration, including transformation rules, ontology matching, merging, etc. • Ontology and rule engineering and metadata management • Ontology-based data management, linked data management, semantic big data management • Processes, workflows, roles and responsibilities in digital curation AI-based / Semantic Large Scale and Complex Information and Content Analysis: • Indexing, search and query answering in large volumes of data • Digital curation, semantic annotation, extraction, enrichment, summarization, and integration • Semantic storytelling, identification and generation of story paths and story lines • Text and content classification, especially for advanced class-specific processing workflows • Text genre and hypertext genre (web genre) classification • (Smart/big) data analytics, data mining, and machine learning / deep learning • Information and knowledge extraction including text mining • Streaming analytics, and semantic complex event processing Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences of applying digital curation technologies, standards, and tools including but not limited to the following domains: • AI / Semantic technology standards and tools • (Corporate) Semantic Web and Linked Data • Curation technologies and the Covid-19-pandemic • Document analysis and recognition • Semantic enterprise information systems and knowledge management • Semantic business process management (SBPM) and decision models • Semantic Web and the Internet of Things (IoT) • Crowdsourcing, human computation, and the People Web • AI/Semantic services and semantic Multi Agent Systems (MAS) • Personalisation and digital content interaction • Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia • Semantic storytelling and corporate smart content • Ubiquitous and mobile information systems • Information/data governance, information assurance, security, compliance • Semantic cloud computing, edge computing, fog computing • Semantic Web applications and tools for eCommerce, eScience, eCulture, media, Industrie 4.0 • Legal ontologies, rules, and reasoning • Distributed ledger/blockchain technologies for novel data/content management and smart contracts *Important Dates * Paper submission: 31 July 2022 – *extended submission deadline* Notification of acceptance: 22 August 2022 Camera ready due: 11 September 2022 QURATOR Conference Scientific Workshop: 23 September 2022 QURATOR Conference: 20-23 September 2022 The following types of submissions are invited: *Regular papers* (10-15 pages): Research papers – Original research on a topic of interest. In-use papers – New applications and tool descriptions addressing a topic of interest. *Short papers* (5-9 pages): Use Case and Position papers – use case descriptions and application notes, discovery notes, using digital curation applications and tools. Poster and Software demo papers – present software and tools in action. Industry application papers – report on industrial applications addressing a topic of interest *Student papers* (5-15 pages): Describe results of Bachelor/Master theses or student projects; the best student paper will receive an award. *Instructions for authors* All submissions are handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qurator2022. All papers and posters/demos must be in English and submitted in PDF using the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published in the CEUR-WS.org online proceedings at http://ceur-ws.org: - An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt - An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip - The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: Qurator 2022: 3rd Conference on Digital Curation Technologies, September 19-23, 2022, Berlin, Germany - The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English - Please, choose the single-column template - According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en) - If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR: - In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02 - If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02 Submissions for regular papers must be between 10-15 pages and submissions for short papers must be between 5-9 pages. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR-WS.org online proceedings at http://ceur-ws.org. *Organizing Committee* Adrian Paschke, Fraunhofer FOKUS and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany Clemens Neudecker, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia, Germany Venue: the scientific workshop will take place ONLINE +++ Apologies for cross-posting +++ -- *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>* Principal Researcher and Research Fellow DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Gabriël Clemens Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Search Solutions 2022 - Call for Presentations (*** deadline extended to 22 July ***)
by Udo Kruschwitz 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Search Solutions 2022: Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval ===================================================== Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval. We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the information retrieval (IR) community and to share insights between research and practice. SS 2022 will be held at the BCS London office on Wednesday 23rd November with tutorials on Tuesday 22nd. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------ We solicit speaker proposals for talks around the following categories: • Innovative approaches used in IR production systems and products • Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness • Presentations that build bridges across disciplines, e.g information science, data science, user experience • Presentations that discuss IR practice across professional communities, e.g. eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, etc. • Case-studies, e.g. best practices, design principles, evaluation techniques We encourage presentations from startups and open-source projects. The presentation format of the event will be a combination of long and short presentations plus panels. We prefer on-site presentations, but will consider remote participation. Proposals should be no more than 1 page and include: • Title • Abstract • Main contribution & take-aways for attendees • A short bio of the presenter and/or a brief organisation outline • Preference for on-site or remote presentation Proposals should be submitted electronically to irsg(a)bcs.org.uk. There will be a separate call for tutorials at SS 2022. Important Dates ---------------------- • Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) • Talk proposal due: *** extended *** 22 July • Notifications: 30 July Organisers --------------- • Ingo Frommholz • Frank Hopfgartner • Udo Kruschwitz • Tony Russell-Rose • Martin White • Haiming Liu (tutorials chair) Past Events ---------------- For past Search Solutions events and links to slides and videos please check out https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Contact ---------- For further details, contact irsg(a)bcs.org.uk.

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[job] PhD position in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing at the University of Amsterdam
by vlad.niculae.uva＠gmail.com 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

PhD position in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing at the University of Amsterdam, Language Technology Lab. The call text is below my signature, mirrored from the official listing: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-in-Machine-Learning-for-Natur… Apply, only through the link above, before August 21, 2022. For more context, see also my web site https://vene.ro/jobs.html. For further questions, don’t hesitate to e-mail me—please include [PhD 9665] in the subject line so my filters can catch your email. If you are interested in joining the team, perhaps this specific listing does not speak to you, but you are interested in: - Uncertainty-aware generative models of language / conversations - Explainability methods for language generation and structured prediction - Adaptable, multimodal generation and translation - Use of context in natural language generation problems then I very much encourage you to apply (mentioning this in the motivation letter). Vlad Niculae [he/him] Asst. Prof. @ LTL, IvI, University of Amsterdam https://vene.ro ---- The Language Technology Lab at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam invites application for a fully-funded, four-year PhD position in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in connection with the Hybrid Intelligence Centre. Are you eager to work on fundamental research questions in generative models, latent variables, optimization, and geometric representation learning, for the benefit of building hybrid natural language technologies that can collaborate with people in trustworthy and controllable ways, for concrete use cases like translation, summarization, question answering, or dialogue systems? This position could be the one for you. What are you going to do You will work alongside LTL colleagues under the supervision of Dr. Vlad Niculae to investigate and improve NLP deep generative models along the axes of expressiveness, controllability, transparency, and efficiency. We will be particularly looking into overcoming the tension between the discreteness of language and the continuity of deep learning and taking cue from recent developments in continuous energy-based models and diffusion models. A main motivation comes from language technology in Hybrid Intelligence, that is, intelligent systems that empower people and take human expertise and intentionality into account through interaction, controllability, and uncertainty awareness. We will always put first the social and political impact of any technology we develop. Tasks and responsibilities With our help and support, you will: - Innovate deep generative models of language, pushing boundaries in expressiveness, controllability, transparency, and/or efficiency; - Design, implement, and perform controlled experiments to verify research hypotheses and answer fundamental research questions; - Complete and defend your PhD thesis; - Become an active participant in the research community and collaborate within and outside the Language Technology Lab; - Publish and present work regularly at international conferences, workshops, and journals; - Assist in teaching activities (labs / tutorials) and in supervising bachelor and master projects. We care strongly about respecting work-life balance and contractual hours. What do you have to offer Your experience and profile: - A Master’s degree (completed or near completion) with a thesis in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or similar relevant areas; - serious interest in pursuing fundamental research with concrete applications; - a good background in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning; - advanced programming skills; - professional command of the English language; - commitment to maintaining an inclusive, collaborative, diverse, and supportive work environment. Interdisciplinary collaborations and backgrounds are appreciated, especially along fields related to linguistics and communication science. If this describes you, we encourage your application. If you are interested but unsure if you are qualified, please contact Dr. Vlad Niculae before applying. If your Master’s degree is near completion, it must be completed before the start date. Knowledge of the Dutch language is not required for this position, and it is helpful but not necessary for living in Amsterdam. The UvA provides the opportunity to attend Dutch language classes. Our offer A temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 4 years (the initial contract will be for a period of 18 months and after satisfactory evaluation it will be extended for a total duration of 4 years). The preferred starting date is September-October 2022. This should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). We will draft an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. We also expect you to assist in teaching undergraduates and master The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 2,541 to € 3,247 (scale P). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile PhD Candidate (Promovendus) is applicable. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable. Besides the salary and a vibrant and challenging environment at Science Park we offer you multiple fringe benefits: 232 holiday hours per year (based on fulltime) and extra holidays between Christmas and 1 January. Multiple courses to follow from our Teaching and Learning Centre. A complete educational program for PhD students. Multiple courses on topics such as leadership for academic staff. Multiple courses on topics such as time management, handling stress and an online learning platform with 100+ different courses. 7 weeks birth leave (partner leave) with 100% salary. Partly paid parental leave. The possibility to set up a workplace at home; A pension at ABP for which UvA pays two third part of the contribution. The possibility to follow courses to learn Dutch; Help with housing for a studio or small apartment when you’re moving from abroad. Are you curious to read more about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits, take a look here. About us The University of Amsterdam is the Netherlands' largest university, offering the widest range of academic programmes. At the UvA, 30,000 students, 6,000 staff members and 3,000 PhD candidates study and work in a diverse range of fields, connected by a culture of curiosity. The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 8,000, as well as 1,800 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain. The mission of the Informatics Institute (IvI) is to perform curiosity-driven and use-inspired fundamental research in Computer Science. The main research themes are Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science and Systems and Network Engineering. Our research involves complex information systems at large, with a focus on collaborative, data driven, computational and intelligent systems, all with a strong interactive component. This position is with dr. Vlad Niculae, Assistant Professor in the Language Technology Lab (LTL). The LTL is a research group focusing on information access from natural language data. Our work ranges from basic research in natural language processing to key applications in human language technology, and covers areas such as machine translation, summarization, question answering, language modeling, and image captioning. You will also benefit from collaborating with the Hybrid Intelligence Centre, a 10-year program funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science through the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, a collaboration between top research institutions in the Netherlands. Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam. Questions Do you have any questions or do you require additional information? Please contact: Dr. Vlad Niculae, Assistant Professor Job application If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the button below. We accept applications until and including 21 August 2022. Applications should include the following information (all files besides your CV should be submitted in one single pdf file): A Curriculum Vitae; A letter of motivation (max 2 pages) in which you: motivate your choice for this position; indicate your preferred starting date and availability; sketch out some thoughts and ideas about the project (not a fully-detailed proposal); A summary of, or a copy of, your Master’s thesis; A copy of your Master’s and Bachelor’s transcript/diploma. Please mention the months (not just years) in your CV when referring to your education and work experience. If your MSc thesis is not finished or not in English, submit a brief summary in 1-4 pages. If your transcripts or diplomas are not available yet, please attach a note clearly stating which documents are not available, and when they will be available. This note can be in your own words. Please do not submit applications by e-mail. Please use the CV field to upload your resume as a separate pdf document. Use the Cover Letter field to upload the other requested documents, including the motivation letter, as one single pdf file. Only complete applications received within the response period via the link below will be considered. We will invite potential candidates for interviews soon after the expiration of the vacancy. The UvA is an equal-opportunity employer. We prioritize diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We value a spirit of enquiry and perseverance, provide the space to keep asking questions, and promote a culture of curiosity and creativity. If you encounter Error GBB451, reach out to our HR Department directly. They will gladly help you continue your application. No agencies please.

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