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Fwd: Fully funded PhD studentships in NLP, Queen Mary University of London
by Matthew Purver 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

A reminder of the funded PhD studentships in NLP/computational linguistics available at Queen Mary University of London - application deadline 31st January 2023 - see below for details of topics and funding. Please note that our EPSRC and Principal's fund studentships have some restrictions on eligibility, and for these we are particularly seeking applicants with *UK home fee status*. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Matthew Purver via Corpora <corpora(a)list.elra.info> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 12:44 Subject: [Corpora-List] Fully funded PhD studentships in NLP, Queen Mary University of London To: corpora(a)list.elra.info <corpora(a)list.elra.info> A number of funded PhD studentships in NLP/computational linguistics are available in the Computational Linguistics Lab in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London, UK, for September 2023 entry. Studentships are available on a range of specified topics with particular supervisors. Funding conditions, length of studentship and eligibility vary with topic - please see the links in the list below for details. - Unsupervised text anonymisation using pre-trained language models: Dr Julia Ive <https://julia-ive.github.io/>, funded via CSC (see here) <http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electro…> . - Understanding word embeddings via their algebraic-topological structures: Dr. Haim Dubossarsky <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2EDsENQAAAAJ>, funded via CSC (see here) <http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electro…>. - Prompt-based learning for adaptive context-dependent NLP: Prof. Matthew Purver <http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/>, funded via CSC (see here) <http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electro…> . - Evaluating and Learning with Disagreements: Prof. Massimo Poesio <http://www.massimopoesio.org/>, funded via CSC (see here) <http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electro…>. - Next-generation NLP methods for meaning change: Dr. Haim Dubossarsky <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2EDsENQAAAAJ>, funded via QMUL's Principal's fund (see here) <http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/principal-and-epsrc-dtp-phd-stu…> . - Meaning coordination in dialogue: Prof. Matthew Purver <http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/>, funded via EPSRC (see here) <http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/principal-and-epsrc-dtp-phd-stu…> . More details on the topics and funding conditions are available from this page: http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/ If you are interested, please get in touch with the relevant supervisor directly. Final applications are due by 31st January 2023. -- Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/ Computational Linguistics Lab - http://compling.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Cognitive Science Research Group - http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK *My working days for QMUL are Tuesday-Thursday; responses to mail on other days may be delayed.*

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PhD position: Conversational Agents in Healthcare | Reykjavik University
by Stefán Ólafsson 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

PhD position: Conversational Agents in Healthcare The Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University is looking for one PhD student to conduct research on conversational agents in healthcare under the supervision of Dr. Stefán Ólafsson. Conversational agents are increasingly becoming ubiquitous and being used in safety-critical domains. This project aims to investigate conversational agents for use in healthcare, research dialog management methods that take advantage of state-of-the-art NLP (e.g., large language models, AI planning, and reinforcement learning), and study aspects of their performance, such as safety, trustworthiness, and information credibility. The ideal candidate should be knowledgeable about AI and language technologies and be passionate about research. The position is at the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA) and the Language and Voice Lab (LVL) at Reykjavik University in Iceland. The position is for three years. The starting monthly salary is 412,000 ISK (approximately 2,760 €) per month before taxes. The successful candidate will spend 20% of their employment working as a teaching assistant in selected courses. Please visit https://jobs.50skills.com/ru/17159/ for more information. The application deadline is January 31st, 2023.

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Call for Papers: HealthNLP workshop co-located with the 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2023)
by Halil Kilicoglu 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Call for Papers --------------- The 6th International Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing (HealthNLP 2023) ICHI 2023 workshop, June 10th, 2023, Houston, Texas, USA https://www.healthnlp.info/ Submission deadline: March 10th, 2023 We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 6th International Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing (HealthNLP 2023) that will take place June 10, 2023, in Houston, Texas, United States of America (https://www.healthnlp.info/). In the past few decades, we have seen exponential growth in clinical narratives and biomedical articles. As a result, the natural language process (NLP) specialized in biomedicine, which can unlock information from text, receives great attention in the biomedical and clinical domains. Many NLP methods and systems have been developed and have shown promising results in various information extraction, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery tasks. These methods and tools have also been successfully applied to facilitate biomedicine research and support healthcare applications. At the same time, the availability and use of health information online have exploded through the use of social media, question-answering and community discussion forums, health-related websites, and biomedical articles. These present additional challenges and opportunities for further development of new methodologies and applications. This workshop aims to provide a unique, interdisciplinary, and high-quality platform to bring together researchers and practitioners in healthcare informatics working with health-related free text, and facilitate close interaction among students, scholars, and industry professionals on health NLP challenges. Topics of interest ------------------ - NLP methods: any original methodological research, including but not limited to the following areas: language models and learning architectures (e.g., transformers), deep learning, named entity recognition, word sense disambiguation, relation extraction, syntactic parsing, semantic role labeling, topic modeling, discourse analysis, question answering, and other topics related to health NLP. - NLP software tools: any general or specific NLP tools for health data such as clinical notes, social media, and biomedical literature. - NLP applications: uses of NLP for clinical research or operation, examples including pharmacovigilance, clinical decision support, phenotyping, predictive modeling, risk prediction, and social media mining. Important Dates --------------- - Deadline for all submissions: March 10th, 2023 - Notification of decisions: March 23rd, 2023 - Deadline for camera-ready papers: March 30th, 2023 - Workshop date: June 10th, 2023 Call for Submissions -------------------- Template: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html HealthNLP will accept both regular papers (4-8 pages, including references) and abstracts (2 pages, including references). Regular papers will describe mature ideas, where a substantial amount of implementation, experimentation, or data collection and analysis has been completed. Abstracts will describe innovative ideas, where preliminary implementation and validation work have been conducted. Submissions will be handled electronically through EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeichi2023). When submitting papers, the authors must select the "HealthNLP Workshop" track. Papers must adhere to the IEEE Proceedings Format ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and be submitted as a single PDF file. Before a submission is sent to the reviewers, the program chairs will perform an assessment to determine the best fit for the submission. HealthNLP uses a single-blind two-layer peer-reviewing process. The final decision will be made by the program chairs based on at least two reviews by program committee members. All accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and published in the IEEE ICHI 2023 Proceedings (archived in IEEE Xplore Digital Library). Thank you, Yifan Peng, Cornell University Medical College, US Halil Kilicoglu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US HealthNLP 2023 Co-Chairs Qingyu Chen HealthNLP 2023 Publication Chair *HALIL KILICOGLU* *Associate Professor* School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign halil(a)illinois.edu https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/halil-kilicoglu

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED]: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - Special Topic on Natural Language Processing for Low-resource Languages and Domains
by Surangika Ranathunga 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the research topic *Natural Language Processing for Low-resource Languages and Domains* in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligencehas been extended to *15th February 2023*. We welcome any type of contributions related to low resource languages and domains. These include, but are not limited to: *• NLP Techniques for low-resource languages or domains* • Domain adaptation • Transfer learning • Zero-shot and few-shot learning • Meta learning • Knowledge distillation • Multilingual and cross-lingual learning • Data augmentation *• Dataset and Evaluation for low-resource languages or domains* • New benchmarks • evaluation mechanism • Multimodal resources Language resources (multilingual/monolingual, annotated/unannotated) *• NLP Tasks for low-resource languages or domains* • Bias, fairness and ethics in NLP • Dialog and interactive systems • Discourse and pragmatics • Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval • Natural language generation • Information extraction, text mining, and question answering • Language-inclusive multimodal integration • Machine translation • Multilinguality • Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation • Semantics • Text classification • Fake news and hate-speech detection • Sentiment analysis and opinion mining • Social media analysis: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums, and other social media • Speech, prosody, and spoken dialog • Summarization • Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing For more information, visit https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/28809/natural-language-processi… Regards, The topic editors Matthew Purver, Surangika Ranathunga, Ravi Shekhar, Rishemjit Kaur, En-Shiun Annie Lee Surangika Ranathunga, PhD Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa surangika(a)cse.mrt.ac.lk

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Postdoctoral Researcher – Translation and Global Media
by Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

**Apologies for cross-posting** The University of Galway is recruiting a full-time, fixed term Postdoctoral Researcher for 36 months. The successful candidate will join a diverse and international research team on the PIETRA Project led by Professor Anne O’Connor, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. The position is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor O’Connor and is available from March 2023 for 36 months. *The project* PIETRA is the first, large-scale, multilingual study of the translation products and processes that underpin communication in global religion. The project focuses on translation practices in the institution of the Catholic Church and the multilingual communication of religious messages against a background of technological change. It poses key research questions relating to consistency of message in a large multilingual institution across different languages, cultures and communicative formats. PIETRA analyses the translation processes and products of the Catholic Church across three different media (print, web and social media) and in two different time periods to advance understandings of how multilingual dissemination intersects with technological change and institutional ideology. PIETRA combines the latest advances in empirical translation research, data capture and analytics, with sociological and ethnographic investigations to form a model for the analysis of the products and processes of large-scale multilingual dissemination. *The place* This post will be based in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, located in the Hardiman Research Building at the University of Galway. The researcher will work with the other members of the research team and will benefit from dedicated training, mentorship and networking activities. The research team will comprise of the PI, 2 postdoctoral researchers, 2 Research Assistants and 3 doctoral students. *Job Description:* The Postdoctoral Researcher (PDR) will work on the analysis of translations published on digital platforms, social media and news websites by the Catholic Church. The PDR will be responsible for the transcription and pseudonymisation of interviews and will be involved in the dissemination of project findings. This will include co-authoring and presenting conferences papers; co-authoring peer-reviewed articles; coordinating social media communications, and co-creating and organising dissemination events. *Duties:* - Using corpus analysis tools for the study of translations across multiple platforms. - Conducting ethnographic research on translation practices. - Analysing the religious translation processes and output. - Promotion of the project including project website and social media. - Contribution to project progress reports and day to day running of the project. - Building collaborative relationships with researchers - Attending core meetings - Preparation of research work for publication, individually or in collaboration with research team, and dissemination of results as appropriate (peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations) *Qualifications/Skills Required:* *Essential Requirements:* Suitable candidates must meet the following criteria - PhD in Translation or related area (submitted before interview date) - Excellent writing and communication skills - Evidence of strong organizational and interpersonal skills - English proficiency plus proficiency in at least two additional languages (including one of the following: Polish, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese) *Desirable Requirements:* - Familiarity with religious translation/religious contexts - Ability to work both collaboratively and independently - Good evidence of quantitative research skills and/or experience working with multilingual corpora/large data sets - Experience of ethnographic research - Peer-reviewed publication record *Salary*: Point one of Postdoctoral Researcher scale, currently €41,026 per annum (public sector pay policy rules pertaining to new entrants will apply) *Start: *Earliest possible start date: March 2023 *Continuing Professional Development/Training*: Researchers at University of Galway are encouraged to avail of a range of training and development opportunities designed to support their personal career development plans. University of Galway provides continuing professional development support for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia.  Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment – see HERE <http://www.nuigalway.ie/rdc> for further information. Further information on research and working at University of Galway is available on Research at University of Galway <http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/> For information on moving to Ireland please see www.euraxess.ie Further informal enquiries concerning this position may be made by contacting Professor Anne O’Connor: anne.oconnor(a)universityofgalway.ie. *To Apply* Applications should include a covering letter outlining the applicant’s suitability for the role, a sample of academic written work (e.g. published article, thesis chapter), a CV, and the contact details of two referees. Applications should be sent as one pdf file via email to mooreinstitute(a)universityofgalway.ie Please put the relevant reference number *University of Galway 315-22* in the subject line of the email application. *Closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00 pm, 11th January 2023.* University of Galway reserves the right to readvertise or extend the closing date for this post. University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer. All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment. -- Anna Furtado Research Assistant to the PIETRA <https://pietra.universityofgalway.ie/> Project

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Full-time Postdoc in Germany (Framing, Fake News, Opinion Analysis) for 2 years
by Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

We are hiring in the CAISA Lab! (https://caisa-lab.github.io/team/, https://twitter.com/CaisaLab) The position is part of the BMBF project "Dynamically Social Natural Language Processing for Online Discourse Analysis" ( https://caisa-lab.github.io/projects/). In this project we develop novel representation methods for users + language + network, to model the stance framing as well as the perception of opinionated statements in a personalized manner. The position is available for 2 years starting asap, with the foreseen salary of E13-3 100% (about 3k Eur net/month, health and social insurance included). Fluent scientific English is necessary, German not required. Relevant experience in the field (e.g. some of: argument mining, computational social science, misinformation analysis, discourse modeling) is expected, as well as an ability to work independently and support more junior researchers. Apply here until Jan 29th: https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/f66a7770882c529633774957a… Or contact lucie.flek(a)uni-marburg.de for more information.

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[ECIR 2023] Second Call for Industry Day Presentations
by Esraa Ali 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

Hello All, We are pleased to announce the call for industry day presentations at the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23). The Industry Day of ECIR’23 will be held on Thursday 6th April 2022 in Dublin, Ireland, immediately after the main conference program. Our goal is to bring together product developers, information professionals and IR researchers to promote knowledge sharing and innovation across academia and industry. This year, our primary focus will be on *differences and challenges in building dedicated information access systems versus building “search as a service”*. Applications may cover search or recommendation systems in various domains (e-commerce, vertical search, etc) and modalities (voice, music, images, etc). Similarly to 2021, we also encourage presentations of research works carried out during student internships and showing how interns contributed impactfully on real-world products with innovative ideas. Submissions about topics relevant to ECIR in general are encouraged. - *Deadline for proposal submission*: January 30, 2023, 11:59 pm (AoE) Please find submission instructions : http://ecir2023.org/calls/industry.html *Industry Day Chairs:* - Nicolas Fiorini (Algolia, France) - Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson Reuters, US) Thank you! Esraa Ali, Ph.D. DCU Publicity officer, ECIR 2023 -- * *Séanadh Ríomhphoist/Email Disclaimer* *Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://sites.google.com/view/seanadh-riomhphoist>* *This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://sites.google.com/view/dcu-email-disclaimer>* * -- <https://www.facebook.com/DCU/> <https://twitter.com/DCU> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dublin-city-university> <https://www.instagram.com/dublincityuniversity/?hl=en> <https://www.youtube.com/user/DublinCityUniversity>

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Workshop on identifying and analysing nostalgia
by Anna Marchi 04 Jan '23

04 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to apply to our residential workshop on identifying and analysing nostalgia using corpus & discourse methods. Details: Bertinoro (FC) 3-5 May 2023, accommodation and meals fully funded by CoLiTec (Corpora Linguistics and Technology Resaerch Centre at DIT - Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione - UniBo): https://centri.unibo.it/colitec/en/events/two-day-workshop-using-corpus-dis… . Deadline for expression of interest: 16 Jan. 2023. Best, Anna

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Postdoc Position (Hate Speech Detection) for up to 3 years in Milan
by mail＠dirkhovy.com 04 Jan '23

04 Jan '23

We are looking for postdocs to work with us on INDOMITA! Online hate speech has resulted in actual hate crimes. INDOMITA offers automated assistance to combat online hate speech. However, hatred is complex. The offensiveness of a phrase is determined by social customs and user demographics: “Yo, a**hole!” is acceptable among friends but not strangers. Our user-centric approach takes into account social customs and user demographics to enhance detection of nuanced forms of hate speech. We will use three strategies: - modeling a complex problem with socio-demographic context, - automating counter-argument and responding to aggressive users, and - creating evaluation methods to analyze fairness, performance, and subjectivity. Our research will bridge language gaps and shed light on the relationships between online actors and online hatred. We are seeking candidates to work on NLP, machine learning, and neural networks for representation learning, natural language understanding, and hate speech detection in various languages and modalities. Successful candidates will work closely with Prof. Dirk Hovy, Prof. Debora Nozza, and the MilaNLP lab. Your profile: • a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics/NLP, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related fields. • Excellent programming skills in Python. Additional languages (C++, R, etc) a plus. • Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement. • Knowledge of current neural network models and implementation tools for neural networks (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, etc.). • Proven track record with publications in top-tier venues in the field of NLP/Computational Linguistics/ML. Position Details: • Starting date: March 1 2023, or any time thereafter • Duration: 2 years, 1 year extension possible • Deadline: 23rd January 2023 • Salary: 42k EUR p.a. (median salary Milan: 37k EUR) Applicants from outside Italy may qualify for a researcher taxation scheme How to apply: Go to the https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?type=a&urlBack=/wps/wcm/connect/Bocconi/Si… <https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?type=a&urlBack=/wps/wcm/connect/Bocconi/Si…> and search for “INDOMITA”, you will then have to click on “Apply online” for proceeding with the application. Candidates should attach publications and a cover letter to their application. Online interviews will take place during February 2023. Please contact dirk.hovy(a)unibocconi.it <mailto:dirk.hovy@unibocconi.it> if you have any question.

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Two fully-funded 4-year PhD positions at the HiTZ center, in the Basque Country
by Gorka Labaka 04 Jan '23

04 Jan '23

(apologies for cross posting) The HiTZ center (https://hitz.ehu.eus) has received several large multiyear grants to advance research in all aspects of NLP and Language Technologies, with a focus on Large Language Models, common sense, cross-lingual evaluation and low-resource languages, covering all modalities including text, speech, images and videos. The center will be offering a number of PhD, post-doctoral and research engineer positions shortly with relatively flexible starting dates. Please contact us if interested. HiTZ is a reference research center on Language Technologies. Its aim is to promote research, training, technological transfer and innovation in Artificial Intelligence focused on language and speech. HiTZ is a leader in research in Spain. It holds, among other, two Spanish Research Awards in Computer Science, one of the 15 fellows that the main professional association in the area (Association for Computational Linguistics) has in Europe, and the award for the beTwo fully-funded 4-year PhD positions at the HiTZ center, in the Basque Countryst PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence in Europe (EurAI 2020). The center is part of the University of the Basque Country (https://ehu.eus), one of the top 400 universities in the world according to the Shanghai ranking. The center has offices in San Sebastian and Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain), two cities which rank at the top of places-to-visit and happiness rankings. This message is specifically about two fully-funded positions that need to be filled quickly. The recipients of these PhD positions will be awarded a fully-funded four-year scholarship, as well as additional funding for the payment of doctoral tuition fees and research stays abroad. The PhD theses will be carried out in the framework of the TRAIN (EXTREMELY LOW-RESOURCED MACHINE TRANSLATION) and DeepKnowledge (DEEP LANGUAGE MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND REASONING WITH MULTILINGUAL CONTENT) projects. The TRAIN project will explore techniques for machine translation between languages with very scarce resources, including multimodal translation from Spanish Sign Language (LSE) to written Spanish. The main research objective of DeepKnowledge consists in advancing the state-of-the-art towards NLU and NLG by generating and exploiting new language models by taking into account a multitask and multimodal objective during the pre-training, as well as exploring novel ways to exploiting new large language models. The official deadline for the two FPI pre-doctoral grants is 26 January, but contact us asap if interested (https://www.ehu.eus/es/web/ikerketaren-kudeaketa/-/fpi-2022). If you are interested in these two positions (or any of the future positions), please send your CV and academic transcript to Gorka Labaka (gorka.labaka(a)ehu.eus). -- Gorka Labaka Dept. of Computer Languages and Systems HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technologies - Ixa University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Tel: (+34) 946 01 44 86 e-mail: gorka.labaka(a)ehu.eus

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