* Title: Research Associate in Online Toxicity Mitigation
* Location: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
* Duration: full-time position, 12-36 months
* Deadline: 22 July 2022
* Contact: Prof. Verena Rieser [v.t.rieser(a)hw.ac.uk]
This is an exciting opportunity to work within multi-disciplinary team to develop novel toxicity mitigation techniques for a project funded by the UK Research Council to detect and mitigate online Gender Based Violence (GBV).
You will be closely collaborating with teams of researchers working in NLP, Social Science and Education.
The project is hosted at the Interaction Lab (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab), one of the biggest research groups in Conversational AI, and is in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and third sector charities specialising in online abuse and GBV.
We are looking for candidates with a PhD and expertise in neural approaches to natural language generation, or closely related fields, and with a proven publication track record in ACL* venues etc.
To apply, please follow the instructions here: https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/j…
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Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2022)
Programme and Call for Participation
Registration closes on Thursday 7 July, 10am (BST).
The symposium will take place online on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 July 2022.
Programme & Registration: https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr
Abstracts: https://www.academia.edu/82101749 and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361490343
For more information, contact the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
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It is my pleasure to invite you all to the Workshop on 10 Years of BabelNet
and Multilingual Neurosymbolic NLU
<http://mousse-project.org/events/event-a5f3r5.html> which will take place
in *Rome*, at *Sapienza*, Department of Computer, Control and Management
Engineering (DIAG), on *4-5 July*. The workshop includes a *slate of
invited speakers *who will participate in person, including in
Dagstuhl-like brainstorming sessions, and is *open online to all interested
attendees* (sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5yVnaxXsT5t63_peEvZOTw3CyY-oIPEz…>).
We will celebrate the most far-reaching and novel multilingual dictionary
and knowledge base, BabelNet <https://babelnet.org>, a popular resource
currently used by* more than 1000 universities and research institutions*,
and discuss the future of neurosymbolic approaches to multilingual Natural
Language Understanding.
BabelNet is an output of the Sapienza NLP <https://nlp.uniroma1.it> Group
and two ERC projects acknowledged among the 15 projects through which the
ERC "transformed science"
<https://erc.europa.eu/how-ERC-transformed-science/stories.html>, but it
also led to the creation of a spinoff company, Babelscape
<https://babelscape.com>, that is one of the most successful in the
Sapienza startup portfolio. Notably, besides the ERC and Babelscape, this
event is also co-sponsored by Accademia della Crusca
<https://accademiadellacrusca.it/> (the oldest linguistic academy in the
world), the Artificial Intelligence Journal
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence> and the European
Language Grid <https://www.european-language-grid.eu/>.
A *new updated version of BabelNet will be available* in conjunction with
the event together with the *brand-new Python API* (available on PyPi
<https://pypi.org/project/babelnet/>)! A smartphone app is also available
on Android and iPhone.
Enjoy!
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Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Ariosto, 25
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Phone: +39 06 77274109
Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/
Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it
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http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/mumttt-2022-2/
The 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation
Technology(MUMTTT 2022)
Malaga, 30th September 2022
In conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2022 – International Conference
“‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’”
Third Call for Papers
Following the success of the previous editions of the workshops on
Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and TranslationTechnology–the 2013
edition at the MT Summit in Nice, France, and the editions at the European
Society of Phraseology Conference in Malaga, Spain (2015 and 2019), in
London, UK (2017) we are announcing the fifth edition to be held in
conjunction with the International Conference “Computational and
Corpus-based Phraseology which is jointly organised by the European
Association for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS), the University of Malaga (Research
Group in Lexicography and Translation <http://lexytrad.es/>, IUITLM
<http://iuitlm.uma.es/>), the University of Wolverhampton (Research Group
in Computational Linguistics <http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/>, RIILP
<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp>) and the Bulgarian Association for
Computational Linguistics <http://acl-bg.org/>.
The MUMTTT workshop will be held on the last day of the conference, 30th
September 2022. It will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners
in the fields of (Computational) Linguistics, (Computational) Phraseology,
Translation Studies and Translation Technology to discuss recent advances
in the area of multi-word unit processing and to coordinate research
efforts across disciplines in order to improve the integration of
multi-word units in machine translation and translation technology tools.
Multi-word units are word combinations which range from compounds such as
‘credit card’ to idiomatic expressions such as “’it is raining cats and
dogs’ and are acknowledged as one of the major challenges in natural
language processing (NLP), because of their lexical, syntactic, semantic,
pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncrasies.
In spite of the relative progress achieved in translation technology with
the adoption of neural approaches and in the processing of particular types
of units such as verb-particle constructions, the identification,
interpretation and translation of multi-word units in general still
represent open challenges, both from a theoretical and a practical point of
view. The idiosyncratic morpho-syntactic, semantic and translational
properties of multi-word units pose many obstacles even to human
translators, mainly because of intrinsic ambiguities, structural and
lexical asymmetries between languages, and, finally, cultural differences.
In recent years, growing attention has been paid to integrating multi-word
units (MWUs) in machine translation and translation technology tools, as it
has been acknowledged that it is not possible to create large scale
language solutions without properly handling MWUs of all types. As a matter
of fact, researchers are now addressing the problems posed by MWU
processing and translation using different formalisms and techniques, such
as automatic recognition of MWUs in a monolingual or bilingual setting;
alignment and paraphrasing techniques; development and use of (handcrafted)
monolingual and bilingual language resources; creation of annotated
monolingual and parallel corpora, development of strategies for handling
syntactically flexible units in language analysis and translation modules,
development of evaluation projects. The aim of the workshop is to bring
together researchers and practitioners working on MWU processing from
various perspectives, in order to enable cross-fertilisation and foster the
creation of innovative solutions that can only arise from interdisciplinary
collaborations. In particular, the workshop welcomes interactions between
NLP researchers working on the computational treatment of multi-word units,
experts in (computational) phraseology working on challenging topics of
their discipline, as well as translation practitioners, to the benefit of
applying their latest results to advance the state of the art in MWU
processing.
Topics of Interest
The MUMTTT 2022 workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on
original and unpublished research on topics related to MWU processing in
machine translation and translation technology, including
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Lexical, syntactic, semantic and translational aspects in MWU
representation
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Theoretical approaches to MWUs (e.g., collostructional analysis of MWU,
cognitive approaches to processing MWUs, etc.)
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Development of multilingual MWU resources
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Identification and acquisition of MWUs and variants
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Learning semantic information about MWUs from monolingual, parallel or
comparable corpora
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Development and use of MWU resources in machine translation and
translation technology
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Development of corpora for the extraction and translation of MWUs
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Compilation of resources for the extraction and translation of multiword
units
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Creation of MWU-annotated corpora with a focus on translation aspects
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Paraphrasing of MWUs applied to the improvement of machine translation
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MWUs and word alignment techniques
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MWUs in machine translation
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MWUs in translation memory systems
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MWUs in term extraction
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MWU-centred machine translation evaluation
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Evaluation of MWU translation
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MWUs in CAT tools
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Multilingualism and MWU processing
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Psycholinguistic studies of MWU processing in a bilingual setting.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must consist of full-text papers and should not exceed 7 pages
excluding references, they should be a minimum of 5 pages long. The
accepted papers will be published as workshop e-proceedings together with
Europhras short papers and posters with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and
will be also available at the time of the conference. The papers should be
in English.
Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three programme committee
members. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters, as
determined by the programme committee. There will be no distinction in the
workshop proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters.
Templates
LaTeX
<http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/LaTeX2eProceedi…>
template.
Word
<http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WordTemplate.zip>
template.
Submissions
Access this link <https://www.softconf.com/m/europhras2022/> to make a
submission via the START conference management system (Please, be sure to
select MUMTTT as Topic). The tutorial on how to create a START account can
be found here
<http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/howto_START_202…>
.
Submissions should be compliant with the above templates and should be
uploaded as pdf files in START. (START is configured to accept pdf files
only).
Should you require any assistance with the submission, please do not
hesitate to contact us at mumttt2022(a)gmail.com.
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 10th June 2022 15th July 2022 – EXTENDED
Acceptance notification: 8th July 2022 31st July 2022
Final camera-ready version: 2nd September 2022
MUMTTT 2022 workshop: 30th September 2022
Workshop Chairs
Gloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Maria Pia di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Organising Committee
Gennaro Nolano, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Giulia Speranza, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Khadija Ait ElFqih, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
The project EmDiCom "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" will develop a formal semantics for emojis as a prime example of visual communication within the newly established DFG priority program ViCom (“Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives”). The project is carried out in cooperation between Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (University of Oslo, Norway). At the Chair of Digital Forensic Linguistics (Scheffler), Department for German Language and Literature of the Faculty of Philology of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, EmDiCom is looking for a:
Post-doc (m/f/d) with 39,83 hours per week for a period of 3 years (TV-L E13)
to start on 1st September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Your tasks:
- Independent research on the semantics and pragmatics of emojis in the research project "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" (EmDiCom).
- Participation in the interdisciplinary DFG priority program "Visual Communication" (e.g. participation in network meetings)
- Planning and conducting linguistic online experiments (acceptability studies, reading time measurements)
- Collaboration on publications and presentations at international conferences
- Supervision of research assistants
- Organization of scientific events (workshops)
Your profile:
- An above-average linguistics PhD is required
- Focus on formal semantics/pragmatics and experience in experimental linguistics
- Willingness to travel to the project partner in Oslo for research visits is expected (up to 6 months in total)
- Knowledge of tools for creating and conducting online experiments is an advantage
- Prior experience working with digital corpora is desirable
- Very good English skills are required, knowledge of German or Norwegian is an advantage
We offer:
- Challenging and varied tasks with a high degree of personal responsibility
- Exciting research on a current topic
- International cooperation with the "Super Linguistics" group at the University of Oslo and within the "Visual Communication" priority program
- A friendly and enthusiastic team at the interface of formal, digital, and computational linguistics
- Employment at one of the largest universities in Germany, part of the University Alliance Ruhr
- Flexibility for working from home
- Extensive opportunities for further education and training
Further information:
Since this position is part of a third-party funded research project, there is no teaching obligation.
Official job announcement: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f1ec75a1aff56228230b431eedf4678c…
Contact persons for further information:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (p.g.grosz(a)iln.uio.no)
Interviews are expected to take place via Zoom on July 28 and 29. Travel expenses, accommodation costs and loss of earnings or other application costs for interviews cannot be reimbursed according to the guidelines of the state of NRW.
The deadline of application is July 5, 2022. Applicants should submit a short cover letter including their motivation for the position, a full CV, two sample publications and the names of two potential referees, as a single pdf document. We look forward to receiving your application, quoting “EmDiCom”, by July 5, 2022 by e-mail to the following address: malvina.witzki(a)rub.de <mailto:malvina.witzki@rub.de>
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her)
GB 5/157
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik
Universitätsstraße 150
44780 Bochum
Germany
Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de
Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/
Tel.: +49 234 32-21471
Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2022)
Programme and Call for Participation
The symposium will take place online on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 July 2022.
Programme:
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/academic/englishhistorycreativewriti…
Registration (free):
https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences…
For more information, contact the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
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Special Issue "Advances of Machine and Deep Learning in the Health Domain"
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2022.
Guest Editor: Dr. Antonio Celesti
MIFT Department, University of Messina, Viale F. Stagno d'Alcontres, 31
98166 Messina, Italy
Dr. Ivanoe De Falco
Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking of National
Research Council (ICAR-CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy
Dr. Antonino Galletta
MIFT Department, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Dr. Giovanna Sannino
Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking – National
Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/AI_health_2022
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The 1st edition of the IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions
for eHealth (ICTS4eHealth) will be held on 5–8 September 2021 in Athens
(Greece) in conjunction with the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and
Communications (ISCC).
For more information about the conference, please use this link:
https://www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it/
Machine and Deep Learning deal with data, and one of their goals is to
extract information and related knowledge that is hidden in them in
order to make detections and/or predictions and, subsequently, take
decisions. With the terms “Machine and Deep Learning”, we cover a wide
range of theories, methods, algorithms, and architectures that are used
to this end.
This Special Issue will cover promising developments in the related
areas of machine and deep learning applied to the health domain and
offer possible paths for the future.
The authors of selected papers that are presented at the International
IEEE ICTS4eHealth Conference 2021 are invited to submit their extended
versions to this Special Issue of the journal Computers after the
conference. Submitted papers should be extended to the size of regular
research or review articles, with at least 50% extension of new results.
All submitted papers will undergo our standard peer-review procedure.
Accepted papers will be published in open access format in Computers and
collected together in this Special Issue’s website. Accepted extended
papers will be free of charge. There are no page limitations for this
journal.
We are also inviting original research work covering novel theories,
innovative methods, and meaningful applications that can potentially
lead to significant advances in artificial intelligence in the health
domain.
The main topics include but are not limited to:
Knowledge management of health data;
Data mining and knowledge discovery in healthcare;
Machine and deep learning approaches for health data;
Explainable ai models for health, biology, and medicine;
Decision support systems for healthcare and wellbeing;
AI for precision medicine;
Optimization for healthcare problems;
Regression and forecasting for medical and/or biomedical signals;
Healthcare information systems;
Wellness information systems;
Medical signal and image processing and techniques;
Medical expert systems;
Diagnoses and therapy support systems;
Biomedical applications;
Applications of AI in healthcare and wellbeing systems;
machine learning-based medical systems;
medical data and knowledge bases;
neural networks in medicine;
ambient intelligence and pervasive computing in medicine and healthcare;
AI in genomics;
AI for healthcare social networks.
Dr. Antonio Celesti
Dr. Ivanoe De Falco
Dr. Antonino Galletta
Dr. Giovanna Sannino
Guest Edito
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The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (https://www.unibz.it/) has opened a
public competition for 21 fully funded PhD scholarships in Computer Science
(*deadline July 1, 2022*). They cover a range of epistemologies, theories,
methods and applications of computer science. Topics include studies of
theoretical AI, data science and machine learning application, up to the
design of the most advanced user interfaces and critical user research.
In particular, the two following topics (in collaboration with Fondazione
Bruno Kessler) can be of interest for the mailing list.
*Emotions in Multilingual Texts (Carlo Strapparava)*
The affective dimension of word meaning often forms part of our reservoir
of common-sense knowledge, and it is reflected in the way we use words.
This project aims at producing and evaluating new technologies for
recognition of emotional language and possibly other subtle pragmatic
aspects of communication. Because there are diverse subtilties in emotional
expressions in different languages, the project will devote particular
attention in approaching the problem from a multilingual point of view.
*Neural Models of Collaborative Behaviours in Conversational Agents
(Bernardo Magnini)*
Human-human dialogues are characterized by collaborative behaviours,
through which interlocutors achieve their communicative goals. As an
example, proactivity (i.e., anticipating user needs during dialogue) and
grounding (e.g., posing clarification questions) are two relevant cases
that have been investigated from a linguistics perspective. However, such
collaborative behaviours are still largely absent in current neural
dialogue models. There are several open research challenges in this
direction, including investigating how dialogue systems can learn when and
how to be collaborative, depending on the dialogue context, and how do we
evaluate whether collaborative behaviours have improved the efficacy of
dialogue. This PhD project addresses collaborative behaviours in
conversational agents from a computational perspective, exploiting the
integration of machine learning approaches based on neural models,
reinforcement learning, and knowledge-based techniques.
Key information to apply and gain admission to the PhD Programme can be
found here:
https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/
The scholarship includes
University Fees
3-year personal grant (approx. € 17,000 NET per year)
50% pay increase to support international mobility for a
period variable between 6 months and one year according to the type of
projects
Personal budget for research and travel expenses (Euro 2,500)
State-of-the-art technical equipment
Further financial possibilities are available in the form of teaching
contracts and research consultancies during the years of study, for top
students.
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The Natural Language Processing Program (nlp.ucsc.edu) in the Computer
Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa
Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for the Natural Language Processing
Postdoctoral Researcher, under the direction of Professor Marilyn Walker.
We seek outstanding applicants with research expertise in all areas of
Natural Language Processing (NLP). The NLP Postdoctoral Researcher will be
expected to contribute to the research profile of the NLP group. We also
expect the successful candidate to support graduate students and other
Postdoctoral Scholars as a peer mentor.
Feel free to contact me at nlp(a)ucsc.edu with any questions.
Applications are open now, full consideration will be given to applications
submitted by July 15th, 2022 for a start date of September 1st. For
details, and to apply, go here: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01330
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Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Program Director, NLP MS Program, https://nlp.ucsc.edu/
Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California Santa Cruz
users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw
(Dis)embodiment
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, September 14-16, 2022
REMINDER: Late-breaking and non-archival round
https://sites.google.com/view/disembodiment/home
(Dis)embodiment will bring together researchers from various areas looking
to answer the question of the role of grounding and embodiment in modelling
human language tasks and behaviour -- or limits thereof. The conference is
open to viewpoints from machine learning, computational linguistics,
theoretical linguistics and philosophy, cognitive science and
psycholinguistics, as well as artificial intelligence ethics and policy. We
hope to see technical contributions and the full spectrum of reasoned
debate.
Important dates
***** NEW! Late-breaking and archival submission deadline: 2022 July 11,
anywhere on Earth *****
Submission deadline: 2022 May 16 2020 May 30, anywhere on Earth
Notification of acceptance: 2022 June 30, anywhere on Earth
Camera ready: 2022 August 19, anywhere on Earth
Conference: 2022 September 14-16, not anywhere on Earth, but in Gothenburg