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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP: NLP & LLM SECURITY
by Leon Derczynski 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

https://sig.llmsecurity.net/ We're proud to announce a new research special interest group, SIGSEC, to cover work on LLM and NLP security. SIGSEC is part of the Association for Computational Linguistics (www.aclweb.org). We host regular talks on NLP & LLM Security, a mailing list for people interested in NLP & LLM security, and an annual research workshop. The ACL Special Group on NLP Security exists to: * provide infrastructure and community for those many ACL members working in NLP Security; * establish a serious research body that represents NLP and ACL interests in the burgeoning field of LLM and NLP security; and * bridge the Information Security and Computational Linguistics communities, which is a link already actively being pursued by the Information Security community. Membership is free, and there's an exciting talks series. The video links are posted on https://sig.llmsecurity.net/talks/. We start with: * Thursday November 2nd, 10.00 ET / 15.00 CET - Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text - John X. Morris * Thursday November 9th, 11.00 ET / 17.00 CET - LLM-Deliberation: Evaluating LLMs with Interactive Multi-Agent Negotiation Games - Sahar Abdelnabi * Thursday November 23rd, 11.00 ET / 17.00 CET - Privacy Side Channels in Machine Learning Systems - Edoardo Debenedetti All talks present cutting-edge research on LLM security vulnerabilities and assessment methods. Join us here! https://sig.llmsecurity.net/join/ We look forward to welcoming you. SIGSEC President: Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen / NVIDIA Corp SIGSEC Secretary: Muhao Chen, University of Southern California SIGSEC Expert Advisor: Jekaterina Novikova, AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance / Cambridge Cognition

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DEADLINE EXTENSION RATIO-24: 1st Intern. Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines, June 5th-7th, 2024, Bielefeld, Germany
by Anette Frank 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

*Final CFP (EXTENDED DEADLINE) for RATIO-24: The 1st International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO-24) will take place from June 5th-7th, 2024, in Bielefeld, Germany. * https://ratio-conference.net <https://ratio-conference.net> In recent years, we have witnessed significant advances in our ability to develop approaches that support the automated analysis, summarization, aggregation, retrieval and ranking of arguments exchanged “in the wild” at large scale. By "in the wild" we mean arguments exchanged on the web in debate portals or other online formats where users share opinions and viewpoints on topics relevant to them. Argument analysis methods have indeed reached a level of maturity and robustness that make them applicable to the analysis of real online debates, to find the main arguments exchanged, to summarize and group arguments, or even to automatically generate arguments to present different viewpoints and perspectives. We call for submissions of original research work on the following topics: * automatic semantic analysis of arguments, including tasks such as stance detection, keypoint identification, attack/support classification, etc. * analysis of arguments in discourse and dialogue * automatic synthesis and generation of arguments * summarization of arguments * argument retrieval * methods for predicting argument quality * ranking of arguments according to, e.g., quality * methods for rephrasing and repurposing arguments * inferring the frame, viewpoint or perspective of an argument * common sense knowledge in the automated analysis of arguments * scalable reasoning methods for arguments * applications of argument analysis in domains such as political discourse, law, science, education, finance, social sciences, etc. Papers will be peer-reviewed and published by Springer in the LNCS series. Two types of papers will be accepted: * Long Papers(up to 15 pages including references): Description of substantive and original research. * Short Papers(up to 8 pages including references): Description of work in progress or original research contribution of limited scope. Papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ratio24 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ratio24> Important dates (NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINES) Abstract submission deadline: *November 10th, 2023* Full paper submission deadline: *November 24th 2023* Notification of Acceptance: *February 2nd, 2024* Camera-ready version: *March 1st, 2024* Conference Chairs: Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, Bielefeld University) Anette Frank (University of Heidelberg) Michael Kohlhase (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Benno Stein (Bauhaus University Weimar) Jürgen Ziegler (University Duisburg - Essen) Invited Speakers: Elena Cabrio (Université Côte d’Azur, Inria <http://www.unice.fr/>) Yufang Hou (IBM Research Europe) Henning Wachsmuth (Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Leibniz University of Hannover) Venue: The conference will be held in Bielefeld, Germany at the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC). All questions about submissions should be emailed to Philipp Cimiano: cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni.bielefeld.de -- Prof. Dr. Anette Frankhttp://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~frank Computational Linguistics Department email:frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de University of Heidelberg phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247 Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 secr: +49-(0)6221/54-3245 69120 Heidelberg, Germany fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

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1st Call for abstracts - COST Action CA21167 UniDive
by johanna monti 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Call for abstracts COST Action CA21167 UniDive 2nd general meeting, University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy 7-9 February 2024 UniDive (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21167/) is a COST action, i.e. a scientific network, dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. It is structured around 4 Working Groups: - WG1: Corpus annotation - WG2: Lexicon-corpus interface - WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology - WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity The second general meeting of the action will take place on February 7-9, 2024 at the University of Naples L’Orientale in Italy. We invite UniDive WG members <https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21167/#tabs+Name:Working%20Groups%20and%20Mem…> to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. Proposals may describe diverse types of contributions, according to 3 different tracks: - Planned work - Work in progress - Complete work, also previously published A proposal should be anonymous, written in English and submitted in pdf only. It should include (on the title page) the list of the relevant WGs. It should not exceed 2 pages, including figures and tables (bibliographic references may go beyond the 2-page limit). If linguistic examples from languages other than English are included, those should be glossed and translated into English, and an extra half page is allowed for this purpose. For the sake of uniformity and easing the reviewers’ effort, we encourage authors to use the following Overleaf Latex template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/yqbpxcbjmjjw Other formats (not necessarily Latex-based) can also be used, provided that they conform to the following specifications: A4 paper, 11pt font, 1in margins. The submission link will be announced soon. The reviewing process is double-blind. The selection of proposals will be done by UniDive Program Committee according to the following criteria: - relevance to UniDive and the work program of its Working Groups (see pp. 18-20 of the Memorandum of Understanding <https://e-services.cost.eu/files/domain_files/CA/Action_CA21167/mou/CA21167…> ), - clarity - diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program The selected proposals will be presented at the 2nd UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations. At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. Important dates - 26 October 2023, Call for abstracts - 24 November 2023, Submission deadline - 15 December 2023, notification of acceptance - 20 December 2023, communication of the names of the presenters - 12 January 2024, Final versions of abstracts - 7-9 February 2024, UniDive 2nd general meeting The time zone for all deadlines is Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Due to the tight schedule, no extension of the submission deadline is foreseen. Johanna Monti Third Mission Delegate Full Professor in Foreign Languages Teaching Specialised Translation MT and CAT tools, Computational Linguistics Chief Scientist of the UNIOR NLP Research Group Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies University of Naples "L'Orientale" Via Duomo, 219 80138 Napoli tel. +39 081 6909913 http://docenti.unior.it/index2.php?user_id=jmonti&content_id_start=1 *Linkedin*: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-monti-03553310 *UNIOR NLP Research Group*: http://docenti.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=26056&content_id_start=1 *Skype*: johanna5962 *Twitter*: @selena245 Monti J. (2019), Dalla Zairja alla traduzione automatica - Riflessioni sulla traduzione nell'era digitale, Napoli: Loffredo Editore. Mitkov, R., Monti, J., Pastor, G. C., & Seretan, V. (Eds.). (2018). *Multiword units in machine translation and translation technology*(Vol. 341). John Benjamins Publishing Company. (https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.341) ************************************************** *Firma per destinare il tuo 5xmille all’Università L’Orientale e aiuta così i nostri studenti a fare un’esperienza di studio o tirocinio all’estero. Indica il C.F. 00297640633 nel riquadro* *“Finanziamento della ricerca scientifica e della Università”*

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[CfP] The Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (COMPTEXT) will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 2-4 May 2024.
by Johannes B. Gruber 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, COMPTEXT is an international community of quantitative text analysis and computational social science scholars in political science, international relations and beyond. COMPTEXT 2024 in Amsterdam follows in the footsteps of previous conferences in Budapest (2018), Tokyo (2019) and Innsbruck (online, 2020), Dublin (2022), and Glasgow (2023). COMPTEXT conferences offer ample opportunities to network with computational scholars, to exchange technological knowledge of computational methods, and to obtain useful feedback on ongoing research. For COMPTEXT 2024 in Amsterdam we are seeking paper submissions that: - rely on image, video, text or other digital trace data to study social and political phenomena broadly construed - propose or evaluate new computational methods or tools - seek to make contributions at the intersection of social science and computer science We accept both substantive and methodological papers for presentation: substantive papers may be on any studies in social sciences or humanities that utilize computational methods; methodological papers may describe new computational methods, tools and approaches. Note that conference proceeding will not be published, as the conference format follows social science practices. In keeping with our tradition, ahead of the conference a series of methods training tutorials will be held for registered participants. Courses will be offered for both beginner and advanced level participants. *Submission of Paper Abstracts:* Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords, should be submitted by *Wednesday 20 December 2023*. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by *16 February, 2024*. The registration deadline is *15 March, 2024*. Please submit your paper at https://forms.gle/VrzhEzJEcTNdM3RN9 Please be advised that a conference fee will be charged for participants with accepted papers. The COMPTEXT 2024 Organising Committee consists of: - Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Roan Buma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Alona O. Dolinsky (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Johannes Gruber (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Kasper Welbers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Miklós Sebők (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest) *Equality, Diversion, and Inclusion:* COMPTEXT is committed to creating an inclusive conference where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is afforded equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from everyone, including those who identify with any of the protected characteristics that are set out in VU’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy (https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/diversity). We especially encourage scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups, female scholars, and early-career researchers to apply. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.comptextconference.org/ Questions related to COMPTEXT Amsterdam 2024 should be directed to comptext2024(a)gmail.com. Best regards, The Organizers

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Re: [External] Re: NIF: NLP Interchange Format
by Bilgin, Orhan (Postgraduate Researcher) 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Hi Ada, Thank you for your reply. I don't think it is possible to follow your advice to wean ourselves of the concept of a lemma and at the same time think of "a verb that can be conjugated", because that is precisely an example of what I would call a lemma. I never claimed that anything exists beyond the reality of my mind. I only asked why I am not allowed to talk about things that can be conjugated / inflected etc. and to use the word "lemma" to refer to those things. You haven't answered that question. Best, Orhan On 18 Oct 2023 17:49, Ada Wan <adawan919(a)gmail.com> wrote: [To those who do not have shared interests on issues that pertain to Corpora-List matters, such as data/corpora and their handling which includes but is not limited to linguistic/NLP theories/methods (and the validity thereof): please disregard.] Dear Orhan Thanks for your interests in this discussion. I think it is high time that our community comes to a critical (re-)examination of (linguistic) morphology (and to address issues concerning reinterpretation and transition). First of all, allow me to put my traditional grammarian hat on to get to your question more directly. You brought up an example of a morphological paradigm. Now, as linguists or language professionals, we know that language is (re-)productive in nature. So, if you don't mind, we can do a thought experiment and go through this dialectically (pls note that I only check my emails about once a day on weekdays, however). 1. Let's think of a verb that does not yet exist (in any particular language(s) that you can think of or that you are used to). Would you mind conjugating it for me? How many patterns would you have? And what would the forms be like? 2. Where did you get the patterns/paradigm from? If you were able to come up with a "full paradigm" (whatever that should refer to (?) --- but let's suppose, you have 6 forms (as per some textbook paradigms from some "Indo-European languages" --- 1st/2nd/3rd person in sg/pl), you surely haven't seen any of these forms combined with the verb before, have you? So where is your evidence that these forms exist in reality beyond that of your mind? And if such "perfect/ideal paradigm" exists only in your mind (and minds of some of your friends as well), how do you justify that morphological paradigma (the form/"structure"/pattern) are a necessary or intrinsic part of language (may these be of any particular language (which "one"?) or or language in general)? Wouldn't morphology as well as the perpetual construction and reconstruction of morphological patterns be a self-fulfilling prophecy only? And how often do we impose our conceptual/perceptual habits/categories upon whatever "new" that we encounter? 3. If, however, you were not able to construct a "full paradigm" or any part thereof at all, or you claim you were not able to think of a hypothetical verb either, because to you morphology is solely based on what has been written and analyzed beforehand/historically, then what is there to claim about morphological analyses? Not only does such practice not generalize, but it would also just apply to calcified segments analyzed/interpreted in a certain way as part of philological pursuits in the past. One should bear in mind that philological methods can progress and update as well. There are no limits as to how one can *use* (or some might even claim *define* here) "language", including how various modalities can combine/fuse with each other. Meaning has no fixed boundaries. When it comes to language or meaning, there is no "completeness" to "speak of" or to serve as basis of any science/study. And there are no fixed demarcations between any "particular languages" either. Other perspectives on (the shortcomings of) morphology and "words" can be found on my rebuttal page here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=-llS6TiOew. Please also read the references cited therein. I look forward to your reply, comments/remarks, or questions. (Actually, the floor can also be opened to anyone who would like to join.) Thank you and best Ada

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Shared hosting of LLMs for research?
by Amanda Stent 24 Oct '23

24 Oct '23

So, everyone wants to host their own (copy of a) large language model (LLM), but many academic institutions can't spin up multiple LLMs simultaneously, in perpetuity, nor do I believe the Scientific Funding Agencies in each country would want to pay for everyone to get a GPU cluster just to host 500+ copies of tomorrow's version of LLAMA-2(ish). Are you aware of any effort proposing or planning to host LLMs for use by researchers in some shared infrastructure? After all, hosting the LLM costs the same per hour whether 1, 3 or 20 people are calling it, and at most academic institutions usage would be a little bursty. Best, Amanda Stent -- (they/she) Director, Davis Institute for AI Professor, Computer Science Colby College Follow the Davis Institute for AI here <https://web.colby.edu/davisinstitute/> Want to meet? Calendly - Amanda Stent <https://calendly.com/amandastentcolby>

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Say IT again: International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies
by Dola Mullage, Damith P. 24 Oct '23

24 Oct '23

We are pleased to announce "Say IT again: International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies" (SAY-IT AGAIN 2023), which will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2023. Like our previous edition, SAY-IT AGAIN 2023 will also be hybrid, which means that both attendees and participants will have the chance to choose whether they want to attend the workshop ON SITE (at the University of Malaga, Spain) or fully ONLINE, Limited spots! This workshop seeks to act as a meeting point for researchers working in interpreting- related technologies (CAI tools, machine interpreting, speech to text/speech translation, remote interpreting, etc.); practicing tech-savvy interpreters; companies and freelancers providing services in interpreting as well as companies developing tools for interpreters. In addition to the short papers for presentation, SAY-IT AGAIN will feature invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels hosted by practitioners. You can see the full provisional programme here: https://lexytrad.es/SAYITAGAIN2023/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PROGRAMME_SAY… Registration is available through the following link (until full capacity): https://lexytrad.es/SAYITAGAIN2023/registration/ For further information, you can access SAY-IT AGAIN 2023’s official website: https://lexytrad.es/SAYITAGAIN2023/ Thank you so much in advance for disseminating this event among your colleagues and students who might be interested in the latest advances in field of interpreting technologies.

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First Call for Papers: The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
by Sophie Henning 24 Oct '23

24 Oct '23

***First Call for Papers*** **Workshop Description** LAW-XVIII will be the 18th annual meeting endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group for Annotation (SIGANN). It will take place in March 2024 at EACL in St. Julians, Malta. Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. The LAW-XVIII will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. The LAW will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. **Special Theme** The special theme of LAW-XVIII is “Annotation in the Age of Large Language Models (LLMs).” In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the following topics: - Comparison of linguistically annotated datasets vs. datasets created using large language models. Potential topics include: - Comparison of models that have been trained on the respective datasets - Impact of data size of manually annotated resources already available prior to dataset creation with LLMs - Is synthetic dataset creation a viable option for non-standard domains, e.g., the medical domain, where expert knowledge is required? - Non-performance-related considerations of manual vs. synthetic dataset creation (e.g., explainability) - Impact and prevention of test dataset contamination in LLM training - Usefulness of LLMs for linguistic research (in relation to annotation). - Any other topics related to the special theme. **Submissions** We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: - Annotation procedures - Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation - Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation - Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data - Annotation evaluation - Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies - Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations - Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality - Annotation access and use - Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them - Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena - Annotation schemes, guidelines and standards - New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes - Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development - Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes - Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages - Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation - Annotation software and frameworks - Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits. Note: The supplementary material does not count towards page limit and should not be included in the paper, but should be submitted separately using the appropriate field on the submission website. All submissions must be in PDF format. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal the authors’ identity--e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be replaced with citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop co-chairs (law-xviii-2024(a)googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. We follow previous and current ACL policy to establish an anonymity period (from submission to author notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite published versions of papers instead of preprint versions when possible. Papers can be submitted at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/LAW-XVIII/. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs via e-mail or check the workshop website (https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVIII-2024/) for updates. **Dates** (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”) Anonymity period starts: November 18, 2023 Submission of long and short papers: December 18, 2023 ARR Commitment deadline: January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024 Workshop: March 21 or 22, 2024 **Workshop Organizers** Manfred Stede (Program Co-Chair) Sophie Henning (Program Co-Chair) Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President) Ines Rehbein (ACL SIGANN Secretary) **Contact** Website: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVIII-2024/ Submission: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/LAW-XVIII/ E-mail: law-xviii-2024(a)googlegroups.com

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[CFP] Research Topic on "Advances in Structured Information Extraction for Large Language Models " in Journal "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence"
by Jennifer D'Souza 24 Oct '23

24 Oct '23

The journal /Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence <https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence>/ is arranging a Research Topic on "Advances in Structured Information Extraction for Large Language Models." As Topic Editors for the issue, we would like to invite you to contribute a review or research article. The submission deadline will be /25 March 2024/. Learn more about the research topic here https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/58745/advances-in-structured-in… and indicate your interest to contribute by clicking "Participate in this topic." This will ensure you receive timely reminders from the publishers. Your cordially, Dr. Jennifer D'Souza Prof. Dr. Anisa Rula *Research Topic Editors*

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1st CfP: Translation in Transition 2024
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 24 Oct '23

24 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the 7th edition of the Translation in Transition conference (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024). This series of conferences has established itself as a central meeting point for researchers in the field of empirical translation studies through previous editions in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona, Kent and Prague. In its 7th edition held at the Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi it once again wants to be a forum of discussion for empirical research that is based on any kind of empirical methodology and that advances our knowledge in the fields of translation and interpreting. While the Batumi edition will be open to various topics within empirical translation studies, we also want to put special emphasis on two directions: low-resourced and less-researched language pairs, as well as an interplay between different methods and data types, e.g. combining product and process research. First Call for Papers We invite original submissions that deal with any of the conference topics. To encourage a fruitful exchange of ideas and experience among the researchers of various fields of specialization, preference will be given to interdisciplinary contributions that cover two or more of the conference topics. The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 16, 2024. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the open review system (https://openreview.net/group?id=TT/2024/Conference) and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow the abstract submission instructions (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024/submission-instructions). We welcome contributions (in English) grounded in empirical approaches to studying both interlingual and intralingual translation, as well as theoretical and position papers on the following topics: * Empirical methods and models (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) or methods derived from computational linguistics and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to translation studies * Presentation of new resources for translation studies (spoken corpora, multimodal corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * Detection and analysis of specific features of translation (translationese, interpretese, editese, machine translationese, post-editese, etc.) using parallel and comparable corpora * Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation, e.g. variation driven through register/genre, expertise, mode, etc. * Empirical analysis of specialised translation, e.g. legal translation, technical translation and others * Analysis of non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Cognitive and computational insights of variation in translation and translationese * Cognitive modeling of translation processes, including cognitive load measurements * Translation quality assessment and evaluation using corpora or experimental research * Translation in specific settings: between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * The use of corpora in translator and/or interpreter training * Improving understanding of translation in the context of NLP * Computer-assisted translation and/or interpreting (CAT/CAI) * Machine translation (MT): analysis, evaluation, selection and preparation of data for MT, ‘machine translationese’Important dates · Conference abstract submission due: Feb 16, 2024 · Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2024 · Final abstract version due: April 29, 2024 · Registration open: May 6, 2024 · Early-bird registration: June 6, 2024 · Conference date: September 23-25, 2024 The conference is organized by the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi (Georgia) in cooperation with the Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication, University of Hildesheim (Germany). Local organizing committee at the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Khatuna Beridze, Theona Beridze, Khatuna Diasamidze, Tamta Nagervadze Program Chairs at the University of Hildesheim Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Silvana Deilen -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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