Multiple CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Natural Language Processing.
Australia's CSIRO Data61<https://data61.csiro.au/> is looking for multiple CERC Fellows to join an NLP team of researchers and engineers to work on a number of public-good projects.
NLP research areas of interest: information extraction, text summarization, question answering, semantic parsing, semantic role labelling, paraphrase detection and generation, and NLP for Information Retrieval.
Domains of research: (1) Working with scientific literature, and (2) Computational Social Science
About the CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship program:
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system. Relocation costs are supported for successful candidates.
Location: Sydney, NSW
Salary: AU$89k - AU$98k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified term of 3 years
Reference: 77986
Applications close: 7 July 2022
To be considered you will need:
* A doctorate (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD) in a relevant discipline area, such as Computer Science (Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics or Machine Learning with text data).
* Experience using deep learning and other machine learning techniques in NLP.
* High-level written and oral communication skills with the ability to represent the research team effectively internally and externally, including the presentation of research outcomes at national and international conferences.
* A sound history of publication in peer-reviewed journals and/or conferences.
For more information or to apply, please visit: https://jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/77986/
*EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu*
CICLing 2022 track @FIRE 2022*
Website: Link
<https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home>
Registration is now open: Link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWSPSM5wlgkucnhq3lDEsnWdaitwfq2EF…>
The training set is now available. Participants are invited to publish
Working Notes of FIRE 2022*
*Task Description*
With the growth of spread and importance of social media platforms, the
effect of their misuse became more and more impactful. In particular,
numerous posts contain abusive language towards certain users and hence
worsen users’ experience from communication via such platforms, while other
posts contain actual threats that potentially put platform users in danger.
The Urdu language has more than 230 million speakers worldwide with vast
representation on social networks and digital media.
We encourage participants to participate in *EmoThreat: Emotion and Threat
detection in Urdu (Nastaliq)*
*Task A: Multi-label emotion classification in Urdu *Link
<https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-a>
Task A requires you to classify the tweet as one, or more of the six basic
emotions (plus neutral) which is the best representation of the emotion of
the person tweeting.
*Task B: Threatening Language Detection Task in Urdu *Link
<https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-b>
Task B focuses on detecting Threatening language using Twitter tweets in
Urdu language. This is a binary classification task in which participating
systems are required to classify tweets into two classes, namely:
Threatening and Non-Threatening.
*Note: Participants in this year’s shared task can choose to participate in
either one or both subtasks. Please visit the website for more information.*
*Important Dates*
30th June – Training data release
25th July – Codalab submission link release (Task A)
31st August - Test set release (Task B)
10th September – Run submission deadline
17th September – Results declared
12th October - Working Note submission
26th October - Review Notifications
2nd November – Camera Ready Due
9th - 13th December - FIRE 2022 (Online Event)
*Organizers*
Sabur Butt, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Maaz Amjad, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Noman Ashraf, Mayo Clinic Arizona, United States
Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia
Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
*Contact*
Email: emothreat2022(a)gmail.com
Google-group: Link <https://groups.google.com/g/emothreat>
*FIRE 2022: Link <http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2022/home>
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Sabur Butt
*IPN - Computer Research Center*
Link to the call: https://www.hiit.fi/open-positions/
Projects in the call: https://www.hiit.fi/artificial-intelligence-projects/
Deadline: 21 August at 11:59 pm UTC+3
The University of Helsinki is opening a position for a post-doctoral researcher as part of the EU project on High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT). HPLT is a new EU-Horizon project in collaboration with 5 European universities (Prague, Edinburgh, Oslo, Turku and Helsinki), 2 HPC centers (in Norway and the Czech Republic) and one Spanish LT company on the development of language and translation models at scale. We propose a language data space and sustainable procedures to lower barriers to train large and competitive NLP models. The project focuses on multilinguality, reproducibility and openness. We will use modern high-performance compute infrastructures for scalable integration of data, code and models and we will create frameworks that are at the forefront of AI with language data.
Reach out for more information and feel free to forward this message.
Thank you!
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Jörg Tiedemann
Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/
University of Helsinki
Associate professorship or tenure-track assistant professorship in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
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The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for an associate professorship or a tenure-track assistant professorship in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) to be filled by December 1st, 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The successful candidate will be attached to the Centre for Language Technology (CST), see Center for Sprogteknologi - Københavns Universitet (ku.dk)<javascript:void(0)>. CST conducts research in different areas of language technology, such as computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), language technology resources and the infrastructure around them, multimodal communication, computational cognitive modelling, digital humanities, and machine learning applied to NLP. The Centre has a strong international profile, at the same time as pursuing the development of language technology methods and resources for the Danish language. CST has considerable experience managing international research projects, frequently attracts visiting researchers and has organised major conferences in the field. Together with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Copenhagen, it offers an international MSc programme in IT and Cognition. The programme, which currently admits about 30 students a year, offers a range of courses in the areas of NLP, computer science, and cognitive
Job requirements and content
The candidate must demonstrate:
· A research record in the field of computational linguistics and NLP
· Knowledge of and experience with machine learning and deep learning methods applied to the study of language
· Programming skills, preferably using Python
· Relevant teaching experience at university level.
The following qualifications constitute additional strengths:
· A demonstrated interest in linguistics
· Interest in and experience with human language technology applications
The successful candidate will engage in cutting-edge research in computational linguistics and NLP in collaboration with the CST researchers and is expected to contribute actively to the Centre's research environment. The candidate will also be expected to strengthen the Centre's project portfolio by applying for external funding for research and development.
Furthermore, the candidate will contribute with teaching to the MSc in IT and Cognition. More specifically, the candidate is expected to contribute to the Language Processing courses and to supervise students for thesis and electives projects within computational linguistics and NLP.
For details about the qualification requirements and the application procedure: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=1307&ProjectId=15…
For further information about the position, please contact Head of Department, Anne Jensen, e-mail: annejensen(a)hum.ku.dk<javascript:void(0)> or Deputy Head of Department for research Bolette S. Pedersen, bspedersen(a)hum.ku.dk<javascript:void(0)>.
The closing date for applications is 1 August 2022 at 23:59 [*CEST/CET]
·
Costanza Navarretta
PhD, senior researcher/assoc.professor
Centre for Language Technology
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics
University of Copenhagen
DIR +45 35329079
costanza(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:costanza@hum.ku.dk>
Dear all,
It is time to elect SIGSEM officers for the next three-year term.
Candidates will be nominated via the SIGSEM mailing list [1].
If you would like to take part in the nomination and election process, make
sure to be registered in the SIGSEM mailing list with the email address you
check regularly.
Best,
Raffaella
On Behalf of SIGSEM Board
[1] http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Join_SIGSEM
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University of Trento
CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN),
DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN)
Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC)
http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/
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***2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> Special
Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings***
***Website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html
***
***Submission Deadline: August 1, 2022 ***
***Event Date: August 24, 2022 ***
With a sizeable working population of the world going virtual, resulting in
information overload from multiple online meetings, imagine how convenient
it would be to just hover over past calendar invites and get concise
summaries of the meeting proceedings? How about automatically minuting a
multimodal multi-party meeting? Are minutes and multi-party dialogue
summaries the same? We believe Automatic Minuting is challenging. There are
possibly no agreed-upon guidelines for taking minutes, and people adopt
different styles to record meeting minutes. The minutes also depend on the
meeting's category, the intended audience, and the goal or objective of the
meeting. We hosted the First SummDial Special Session at SIGDial 2021.
Several significant problems and challenges in multi-party dialogue and
meeting summarization came from the discussions in the first SummDial,
which we documented in our event report
<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527546.3527561>.
Since we witnessed enthusiastic participation of the dialogue and
summarization community in the first SummDial special session
<https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html> (
https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html), we are hosting
the Second SummDial special session at SemDial 2022
<https://semdial2022.github.io/#> (https://semdial2022.github.io/#). This
year, we intend to continue discussing these challenges and lessons learned
from the previous SummDial. Our goal for this special session would be to
stimulate intense discussions around this topic and set the tone for
further interest, research, and collaboration in both Speech and Natural
Language Processing communities. Our topics of interest are Dialogue
Summarization, including but not limited to Meeting Summarization, Chat
Summarization, Email Threads Summarization, Customer Service Summarization,
Medical Dialogue Summarziation, and Multi-modal Dialogue Summarization. Our
shared task on Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) at Interspeech 2021 was another
community effort in this direction. Our shared task on Automatic Minuting
(AutoMin) <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/> at Interspeech 2021
<https://www.interspeech2021.org/> was another community effort in this
direction.
***Call for papers***
We invite regular and work-in-progress papers that report:
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Current research in multi-party dialogue summarization for summarizing
meetings, spoken dialogue, using speech, text, or multi-modal data (audio,
video),
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Challenges in dialogue summarization evaluation (manual + automatic),
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New methods and metrics for dialogue summarization evaluation,
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Relevant corpus collection, pre-processing, development, and ethical
issues involved,
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Compare and contrast speech-specific systems to systems imported from
text summarization,
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Tools for meeting transcript generation and automatic summarization,
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Topic detection and span identification in meeting transcripts for
multi-topic summarization,
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Position papers to reflect on the current state of the art in this
topic, to take stock of where we have been, where we are, where we are
going and where we should go.
Researchers may choose to submit:
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***Long papers*** Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8
pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
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***Short papers*** Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at
most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references).
Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request.
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***Position Papers*** Including extended abstracts, work-in-progress,
and late-breaking papers.
***Submission Link***
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=summdial2022
Submissions should follow the ACL format. Papers that have been or will be
submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information
using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SummDial 2022 cannot
accept work for a publication that will be (or has been) published
elsewhere.
***Special Session Program***
The special session would consist of a keynote, a panel, oral and/or poster
paper presentations.
***Organizers***
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Tirthankar Ghosal <https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/>, Institute of
Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
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Muskaan Singh, IDIAP, Switzerland
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Xinnou Xu, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Ondřej Bojar <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ondrej-bojar>, Institute of
Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
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Tirthankar Ghosal
Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ
https://member.acm.org/~tghosal
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Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to our public Workshop on Pronouns and Machine Translation, which will be held on-line on 19 August 2022. The workshop features a series of lectures on recent work related to understanding, modelling and evaluating pronouns and other discourse-level phenomena in neural machine translation and a panel discussion. Here is the link to the workshop: https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/workshop/pronouns-and-mt-2022/
**Registration**
Registration is free. Please sign up with the following link:
https://uu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50rd-qgrjoiGtK8YvlWZ1hecbzHsxp9oBRa
**Draft Schedule** (Titles and abstracts will be available around the 10th August.)
Time (UTC+2) Speaker
11:00-11:45 Sheila Castilho, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
11:45-12:30 Deyi Xiong, Tianjin University
12:30-13:00 Christian Hardmeier, Uppsala University/IT University of Copenhagen
13:00-13:30 Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Nanyang Technological University
13:30-14:00 Break
14:00-14:30 Panel discussion
14:30-15:00 Gongbo Tang, Uppsala University
15:00-15:30 Biao Zhang, University of Edinburgh
15:30-16:00 Kayo Yin, DeepMind/UC Berkeley
Best Regards,
Christian Hardmeier and Gongbo Tang
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[apologies for cross-posting]
Dear all,
We are offering a fully funded PhD position at the crossroads between
Natural Language Processing and Information Theory. The proposed title
is "Statistical analyses of lexical distributions with an application to
anomaly detection in natural texts", and the thesis will be jointly
supervised by:
- François Yvon (LISN, CNRS),
- Pablo Piantanida (ILLS, CNRS - University of Paris-Saclay)
Application deadline: July 14th, 2022
The thesis will be a collaboration between LISN (Laboratoire
Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique) of Université Paris-Saclay
and the ILLS (International Laboratory on Learning Systems) of McGill
University jointly with ETS Montreal and MILA (Institut québécois
d'intelligence artificielle) in Canada. Further information are
available on the respective web sites:
- LISN: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/
- ILLS:
https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/fr/channels/news/un-laboratoire-internationa…
Applications should be submitted only via this link, where more
information about the position is available:
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offre/Default.aspx?Ref=UMR9015-FRAYVO-009
If you are interested, please submit your application including the
following elements:
• Detailed CV,
• Letter of motivation,
• Details of transcripts (especially M1 and M2),
• Elements of bibliography or personal achievements related to a
research activity (e.g. master project, research internship subject, etc.),
• 2 recommendation letters
François Yvon and Pablo Piantanida
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F. Yvon
LISN/CNRS
01 69 15 82 42
rue John Von Neumann
Campus Universitaire d'Orsay - Bâtiment 508
91 405 Orsay Cédex
http://perso.limsi.fr/yvon
The Data Science Chair at JMU Würzburg [1] as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS) offers two positions for doctoral researchers (m/w/d) in the area of machine learning.
Both positions are bound to a project, with an initial duration of two years with the possibility of further extension. Payment is at the level of E13 according to the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Candidates are expected to have a strong background in computer science and mathematics, with a specialisation in machine learning and interest in the topic of one of the projects.
The first project is focused on the development and application of methods to enrich live chats of typical stream platforms like Twitch.tv with links to relevant information: you will work with industry partners to analyse the current topics of discussions in live chats and provide links to the partners' websites with information about these topics. This will be done, for example, by developing metric learning methods to find accurate representations of the available content and matching them with the current topics as well as the users' interests.
The second project, HydrAS [2] has a stronger focus on theoretical research. Here, you have the opportunity to work on our HypTrails method, which can be used to compare different hypotheses about user behaviour by means of bayesian statistics. HydrAS aims to extend this method with (semi-)automatic generation and testing of hypotheses as well as include more powerful statistical models like continuous time Markov chain models.
Please send your application (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records) at your earliest convenience, but no later than July 15th, 2022, to Prof. Dr. Andreas Hotho (dmir-jobs(a)uni-wuerzburg.de). You are welcome to contact us on the same address for additional details.
[1] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/datascience/home/
[2] https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/438232455?context=projekt&task=showDet…
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Albin Zehe
Chair for Computer Science X — Data Science
University of Würzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
phone.: +49-(0)931-31-83217
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/datascience/staff/zehe/