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Corpus of Australian and New Zealand Spoken English and Corpus of German Speech
by Steven Coats 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Dear Corpora subscribers, I'm pleased to announce the availability of two new corpora of automatic speech recognition transcripts from the YouTube channels of municipalities and other local government entities: * The Corpus of Australian and New Zealand Spoken English (CoANZSE: https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoANZSE.html), a 196-million-word corpus of 57k transcripts from 482 YouTube channels, corresponding to 24k hours of video. * The Corpus of German Speech (CoGS: https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoGS.html): 51m words, 1.3k channels, 39k transcripts, 7.2k hours of video. The corpora were created using methods similar to those used to create the Corpus of North American Spoken English (https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoNASE.html) and the Corpus of British Isles Spoken English (https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoBISE.html). Transcript metadata includes location and video URL. Because tokens have word timing information, the corpora can serve as starting points for the collection of audio or video data targeting specific utterances. The corpora are available free of charge for academic/research purposes. Download links are on the web pages. With kind regards, Steven Coats University of Oulu, Finland

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NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting: Program and free registration
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! Just in case you missed the Tweet (from @NARNiHS), the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) 2023 Annual Meeting (Jan 6-7) program is now "live" on our website! ==> https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2291 <==. The full program booklet, including the full abstracts, has also been posted with the Annual Meeting program. Note that no registration is necessary for NARNiHS members to attend the fully online NARNiHS 2023. Conference access information will be sent to all NARNiHS members in a separate message as we get closer to the conference dates (06-07 January 2023). Not a member yet, but interested in joining NARNiHS? Membership is free! For details on how to join NARNiHS, check out: ==> https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 <==. We hope to see you at our Annual Meeting! Israel Sanz (2022 NARNiHS Convenor), on behalf of the NARNiHS 2022 organizing committee (Joshua Bousquette, Mark Richard Lauersdorf, Israel Sanz, Sandrine Tailleur): https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2160 .

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Shared Task in GEC for Ukrainian (UNLP @ EACL 2023)
by Mariana Romanyshyn 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

*The Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2023)* <https://unlp.org.ua/> The Second UNLP features the first *Shared Task in Grammatical Error Correction for Ukrainian*. *Task Description* In this shared task, your goal is to correct a text in the Ukrainian language to make it grammatical or both grammatical and fluent. We see this shared task as an opportunity to facilitate research of GEC for Slavic languages. There are two tracks in this shared task: GEC-only and GEC+Fluency. It is not mandatory to participate in both subtasks, i.e., participating in either GEC-only or GEC+Fluency is acceptable. You can find the detailed instructions, train and validation data, and the evaluation script at https://github.com/asivokon/unlp-2023-shared-task. *Registration* Teams that intend to participate should register by filling in this form <https://forms.gle/46gamdVXhFkBeZeX8>. *Publication* Participants in the shared task are invited to submit a paper to the UNLP 2023 <https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/> workshop. Submitting a paper is *not mandatory* for participating in the Shared Task. Papers must follow the workshop submission instructions and will undergo regular peer review. Their acceptance will not depend on the results obtained in the shared task, but on the quality of the paper. Accepted papers will appear in the ACL anthology and will be presented at a session of UNLP 2023 specially dedicated to the Shared Task. *Important Dates* December 23, 2022 — Shared task announcement February 12, 2023 — Registration deadline February 13, 2023 — Release of test data to registered participants February 20, 2023 — Shared Task paper submission March 10, 2023 — Submission of system responses March 13, 2023 — Notification of acceptance March 14, 2023 — Results of the Shared Task announced to participants March 27, 2023 — Camera-ready Shared Task papers due May 2 or 6, 2023 — Workshop dates *Contact* Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua Website: https://unlp.org.ua/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLP_workshop Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop

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PhD Offer on Analogies in Natural Language at the University of Toulouse, France
by stergos.afantenos＠irit.fr 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

3-year PhD position in Computational Models of Analogy Making in Natural Language (IRIT and University of Toulouse, France) We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position for 3 years at the IRIT laboratory and the University of Toulouse, Paul Sabatier, France, in the context of the recently funded project AT2TA on Analogy Making. Analogy Making is a remarkable cognitive capability during which similarities and differences between two parallel situations are exploited in order to draw a common "essence" allowing us thus to categorize an object or a particular situation to a preexisting concept or create a new one. Reasoning by analogy allows us thus to transfer our understanding of a previous situation to a new one and appropriately adapt it. It has been argued that analogy making lies at the core of cognition (Hofstadter 2001) and has recently drawn the attention of Deep Learning pioneers (Chollet 2017, LeCun 2022). In Natural Language Processing analogies usually take the form of a quadruplet a:b :: c:d traditionally expressed as "a is to b as c is to d" (for example, Paris is to France as Berlin is to Germany). Most of the extant work considers a, b, c, d as word embeddings and then relies on geometrical properties of those embedding in a higher dimensional space in order to recognise a quadruplet as an analogy or to generate a d such that a:b :: c:d forms analogy given a, b and c. Despite the importance of analogies, most works in NLP do not consider analogies between sentences and do not concentrate on the underlying latent relations that form the common essence between pairs (a,b) and (c,d). The successful PhD candidate will work on computational models which can identify analogies between sentences or even bigger chunks of text with a particular focus on the identification of common latent relations which are also an essential part for an explainable AI. The successful candidate should hold a Master's degree in computational linguistics or computer science or cognitive science and has prior experience in word embedding models or deep learning approaches in general. The candidate should have strong programming skills and expertise in machine learning. The position is affiliated with the IRIT laboratory at Toulouse and there will be frequent interactions with researchers at the Loria laboratory in Nancy in the context of the AT2TA project. Applications will be considered until the position is filled, but applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since applications will be considered at the moment of reception. Applications, in English or French, should include a detailed CV, a letter of motivation and at least two recommendation letters. Applications should be sent to Stergos Afantenos (stergos.afantenos at irit.fr). More information can be found here: https://cloud.irit.fr/index.php/s/OpwyvCBzadRFKxY

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NooJ 2023_Second Call for Papers
by Anita Bartulovic 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

NooJ 2023: Second Call for Papers Conference URL: https://conference.unizd.hr/noojconference/ ********************************************************************************* The 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 Zadar, Croatia May, 31st – June, 2nd 2023 ********************************************************************************* The University of Zadar (Department of Classical Philology and Department of Information Sciences), in cooperation with the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles (C.R.I.T.) from the Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon) and the NooJ association are organizing the 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 to be held from May 31st to June 2nd, 2023 in Zadar (Croatia). NooJ annual conferences give NooJ users the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; to present the latest linguistic resources, Digital Humanities experiments and NLP applications developed with NooJ; to offer researchers and graduate students a tutorial to help them parse corpora and build NLP applications with NooJ. ABOUT NOOJ ******************** NooJ is a linguistic development environment software as well as a corpus processor. NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, Regular Grammars, Context-Free Grammars, Context-Sensitive Grammars, as well as their graphical equivalents, to formalize various linguistic phenomena. NooJ’s multi-layer approach allows linguists to accumulate elementary descriptions across different linguistic levels. NooJ is used as a corpus processor in the Digital Humanities as it allows researchers in the Social sciences to apply sophisticated queries to large corpora in real time, annotate texts automatically and perform various statistical analyses. NooJ’s linguistic engine has been integrated into various NLP applications that perform automatic semantic annotation, Named Entities Recognition, Information extraction, Paraphrase Generation, Business Intelligence, Machine Translator, Web Semantics. NooJ is a free open-source software promoted by the METASHARE European programme. It can run on Windows (C# .NET), macOS, LINUX and UNIX (Java). Its new engine and its source “RA” can be downloaded from GitLab and runs natively on Windows, macOS and LINUX. TOPICS OF INTEREST ******************** * Linguistic Resources: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis. * Digital Humanities: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences. * Natural Language Processing Applications: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc. SUBMISSIONS ******************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until January 15th, 2023. Abstracts should be between 300 and 600 words and submitted via Easy Abstract: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nooj2023. The scientific committee will review all proposals and authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than March 1st, 2023. All papers must be original and cannot simultaneously be presented to another journal or conference. IMPORTANT DATES ******************** Abstract submission: January 15th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2023 Camera-ready abstract submission: March 20th, 2023 Early Registration: until April 15th, 2023 Selected papers submission: September 13th, 2023 POST-PROCEEDINGS ******************** A selection of the papers presented at the NooJ 2023 will be published by Springer Verlag in their CCIS Series. Deadline for submission of full camera-ready papers is September 13th, 2023. Meeting Location: Zadar, Croatia Contact Information: Linda Mijić nooj2023conf(a)gmail.com Meeting Dates: May 31st, 2023 to June 2nd, 2023 Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from November 11th, 2022 until January 15th, 2023.

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NooJ 2023_Second Call for Papers
by abartulo＠unizd.hr 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

NooJ 2023: Second Call for Papers Conference URL: https://conference.unizd.hr/noojconference/ ********************************************************************************* The 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 Zadar, Croatia May, 31st – June, 2nd 2023 ********************************************************************************* The University of Zadar (Department of Classical Philology and Department of Information Sciences), in cooperation with the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles (C.R.I.T.) from the Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon) and the NooJ association are organizing the 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 to be held from May 31st to June 2nd, 2023 in Zadar (Croatia). NooJ annual conferences give NooJ users the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; to present the latest linguistic resources, Digital Humanities experiments and NLP applications developed with NooJ; to offer researchers and graduate students a tutorial to help them parse corpora and build NLP applications with NooJ. ABOUT NOOJ ******************** NooJ is a linguistic development environment software as well as a corpus processor. NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, Regular Grammars, Context-Free Grammars, Context-Sensitive Grammars, as well as their graphical equivalents, to formalize various linguistic phenomena. NooJ’s multi-layer approach allows linguists to accumulate elementary descriptions across different linguistic levels. NooJ is used as a corpus processor in the Digital Humanities as it allows researchers in the Social sciences to apply sophisticated queries to large corpora in real time, annotate texts automatically and perform various statistical analyses. NooJ’s linguistic engine has been integrated into various NLP applications that perform automatic semantic annotation, Named Entities Recognition, Information extraction, Paraphrase Generation, Business Intelligence, Machine Translator, Web Semantics. NooJ is a free open-source software promoted by the METASHARE European programme. It can run on Windows (C# .NET), macOS, LINUX and UNIX (Java). Its new engine and its source “RA” can be downloaded from GitLab and runs natively on Windows, macOS and LINUX. TOPICS OF INTEREST ******************** * Linguistic Resources: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis. * Digital Humanities: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences. * Natural Language Processing Applications: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc. SUBMISSIONS ******************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until January 15th, 2023. Abstracts should be between 300 and 600 words and submitted via Easy Abstract: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nooj2023. The scientific committee will review all proposals and authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than March 1st, 2023. All papers must be original and cannot simultaneously be presented to another journal or conference. IMPORTANT DATES ******************** Abstract submission: January 15th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2023 Camera-ready abstract submission: March 20th, 2023 Early Registration: until April 15th, 2023 Selected papers submission: September 13th, 2023 POST-PROCEEDINGS ******************** A selection of the papers presented at the NooJ 2023 will be published by Springer Verlag in their CCIS Series. Deadline for submission of full camera-ready papers is September 13th, 2023. Meeting Location: Zadar, Croatia Contact Information: Linda Mijić nooj2023conf(a)gmail.com Meeting Dates: May 31st, 2023 to June 2nd, 2023 Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from November 11th, 2022 until January 15th, 2023.

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Good news about Research in Corpus Linguistics
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to announce that the official journal of AELINCO, *Research in Corpus Linguistics* <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl>, has begun the year with very good news, for having been accepted for inclusion in the *Scimago Journal Rank*. It will take approximately a month until it can be found in the search engine with a quartile, but its inclusion in SJR has been already confirmed. RiCL's editorial team kindly encourages you to send your papers to the journal to make its quality keep on growing. Best regards and warmest season's greetings, Paula and Carlos -- Paula Rodríguez Puente paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm

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Jobs: two assistant professors computational linguistics University of Groningen
by Bos, Johan 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

Reminder: deadline for applying is January 10! The #GroNLP <https://sigmoid.social/tags/GroNLP> at the University of Groningen is looking for two assistant professors (Dutch: UD) interested in speech and language technology, artificial intelligence, data science, and computational social science. Follow the link for more information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… Find out more about #GroNLP here: https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/research/cl/

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2023 - Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by Jauhiainen, Tommi S 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

Call for Papers: VarDial 2023 - Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects VarDial 2023: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023 Shared Tasks: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023/shared-tasks Together with VarDial 2023, we'll be organizing shared tasks. The website will be updated with shared task information as soon as they are confirmed, latest on January 13. Please check the website for more details. Co-located with EACL 2023 at VarDial, we anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties, and dialects; - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties, and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties; - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. In addition to the topics listed above, we welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g., phylogenetic methods and historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the EACL template and submitted in PDF format. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website. Important Dates Submission deadline: February 13, 2023 (anywhere on earth) Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 VarDial Workshop at EACL 2023 (hybrid): May 2-6, 2023 - the exact date of the workshop to be announced Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Helsinki (Finland) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Zagreb (Croatia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:yves.scherrer@helsinki.fi> or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:tommi.jauhiainen@helsinki.fi>

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looking for time-aligned spoken corpora
by Laura Becker 30 Dec '22

30 Dec '22

Dear all, I am looking for large spoken corpora of spontaneous speech in any language (ideally > 100 hours) with a time-aligned transcription. I am not committed to a specific genre as long as it is spontaneous speech. It should be available as a download (for research, no commercial use), ideally free but I may be able to pay for it as well. Thank you, Laura Becker

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