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16th BUCC Workshop at RANLP 2023: New submission deadline July 31, 2023
by Reinhard Rapp 29 Jul '23

29 Jul '23

************************************************************** 16th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) with Shared Task on Multilingual Terminology Extraction from Comparable Specialized Corpora Co-located with RANLP 2023 September 7, 2023 Workshop website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2023/ Shared task website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2023/bucc2023-task.html RANLP website: http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/ Workshop proceedings to be published in ACL Anthology Invited speaker: Sida I. Wang, Meta AI (FAIR) ************************************************************** MOTIVATION In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, unrelated corpora on the other. Comparable corpora have been used in a range of applications, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual text classification, etc.? The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP, for example to extract parallel corpora from comparable corpora for neural MT. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. TOPICS We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora: * Automatic and semi-automatic methods * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora * Rare and minority languages, across language families * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of comparable corpora: * Human translation * Language learning * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization * Bilingual and multilingual projections * (Unsupervised) Machine translation * Writing assistance * Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora: * Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora * Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words, multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, paraphrases etc. from comparable corpora * Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora * Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora Comparable Corpora in the Humanities: * Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics * Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies * Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics * Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics * Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis * Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics * Analyzing language universals in typological research IMPORTANT DATES July 31, 2023: Paper submission deadline (extended) August 12, 2023: Notification of acceptance August 25, 2023: Camera ready final papers September 7, 2023: Workshop date For updates see the workshop website at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2023/ PRACTICAL INFORMATION Workshop registration is via the main conference registration site, see http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/fees-registration/ The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please follow the style sheet and templates (for LaTeX, Overleaf and MS-Word) provided for the main conference at http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://softconf.com/ranlp23/BUCC/ Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be included in the ACL Anthology. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately (i.e. as soon as known to the authors) notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail. For further information and updates see the BUCC 2023 website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2023/ BUCC 2023 SHARED TASK Bilingual Term Alignment in Comparable Specialized Corpora The BUCC 2023 shared task is on multilingual terminology alignment in comparable corpora. Many research groups are working on this problem using a wide variety of approaches. However, as there is no standard way to measure the performance of the systems, the published results are not comparable and the pros and cons of the various approaches are not clear. The shared task aims at solving these problems by organizing a fair comparison of systems. This is accomplished by providing corpora and evaluation datasets for a number of language pairs and domains. Moreover, the importance of dealing with multi-word expressions in Natural Language Processing applications has been recognized for a long time. In particular, multi-word expressions pose serious challenges for machine translation systems because of their syntactic and semantic properties. Furthermore, multi-word expressions tend to be more frequent in domain-specific text, hence the need to handle them in tasks with specialized-domain corpora. Through the 2023 BUCC shared task, we seek to evaluate methods that detect pairs of terms that are translations of each other in two comparable corpora, with an emphasis on multi-word terms in specialized domains. For the schedule and further details see the shared task website at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2023/bucc2023-task.html WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) * Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Contact workshop: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de Contact shared task: pz (at) lisn (dot) fr PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Ebrahim Ansari (Institue for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) * Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain) * Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) * Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) * Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA) * Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA) * Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) * Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, USA) * Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Belgium) * Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France) _______________________________________________ GSCL-Mitglieder mailing list GSCL-Mitglieder(a)lists.ids-mannheim.de https://lists.ids-mannheim.de/mailman/listinfo/gscl-mitglieder

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BioREd Track @ BioCreative VIII Challenge and Workshop (Call for Participation)
by Islamaj, Rezarta (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

[apologies for cross-posting] BioRED track @ BioCreative VIII Challenge and Workshop Where, When: The BioCreative VIII workshop<BioCreative%20VIII%20workshop> will run with AMIA 2023, November 11-15, 2023, In New Orleans, LA. BioCreative VIII Track 1: BioRED (Biomedical Relation Extraction Dataset) Track. (Rezarta Islamaj and Zhiyong Lu) This track aims to foster the development of systems that automatically extract biomedical relations in journal articles, and the final resource -- freely available to the community -- will consist of 1000 MEDLINE articles fully annotated with biological and medically relevant entities, biomedical relations between them, and the novelty of the relation (whether the relation is a key point of the article versus background knowledge that can be found elsewhere). The participants will use the training data (600 articles) to design and develop their NLP systems to extract asserted relationships from free text and are encouraged to classify relations that are novel findings. In the BioCreative setting we will enrich the BioRED training dataset with 400 recently published MEDLINE articles fully annotated, bringing this valuable resource to 1000 articles. This track serves as a continuation of previous BioCreative Workshops that addressed the individual extraction of bio entities and/or specific relations such as disease-gene, protein-protein, or chemical-chemical, in biomedical articles. In contrast from previous challenges, this track calls for the extraction of all semantic relations expressed in the article and their novelty factor. Participation: Teams can participate in one or more of these tracks. Team registration will continue until final commitment is requested by the individual tracks. To register a team go to the Registration form<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/forms.gle/cwEPevGPjrjm687z5__;!!KOmnBZxC…>. If you have restrictions accessing Google forms please send e-mail to BiocreativeChallenge(a)gmail.com<mailto:BiocreativeChallenge@gmail.com> Key dates: * Test data (only title/abstract) available: September 1, 2023 * Results Submission (sub-task 2, end-to-end system): September 7, 2023 * Test data (title/abstract and entity annotation) available: September 8, 2023 * Results Submission (sub-task 1, relation extraction): September 12, 2023 * Short technical systems description paper due: September 30, 2023 * Invites for presentation at the workshop: October 10, 2023 Workshop Proceedings and Special Issue: The BioCreative VIII Proceedings will host all the submissions from participating teams, and it will be freely available by the time of the workshop. In addition, we are happy to announce that the journal Database will host the BioCreative VIII special issue for work that has passed their peer-review process. Invitation to submit will be sent after the workshop. More Information: Webpage<https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-viii/track-1/> Organizing Committee * Rezarta Islamaj, National Library of Medicine * Po-Ting Lai, National Library of Medicine * Chih-Hsuan Wei, National Library of Medicine * Ling Luo, Dalian University of Technology * Zhiyong Lu, National Library of Medicine

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PhD and Postdoc in CSS, University of Tartu, Estonia
by Rajesh Sharma 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Hello All, Computational Social Science Group (https://css.cs.ut.ee/) is looking for PhD and Postdoctoral applicants which starts this autumn or ASAP ! What is the topic about? ==================== We are interested in topics related to misinformation, media biasness (fairness and explainability) on online social media. We are also open to other topics if they overlap with the interests of our group. Please do contact if you are interested at contact(a)css.cs.ut.ee Why join us? ==================== You'll be part of Estonia's esteemed University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science (https://cs.ut.ee/en) which is in the modern Delta Centre ( https://delta.ut.ee/en/), a beacon of technological innovation and research excellence. Scholarship/Salary: For PhD applicants, the gross salary is 2000 Euros per month for four years, and for postdocs, it will be 2500 Euros gross per month. We will support research related travels and there is no tuition fees for PhD students. Education Qualification: For PhD applicants, master's degree is required and for postdoc, PhD degree should be in hand. We are open to discuss positions with non-computer science students (who have good programming knowledge). Kind Regards Rajesh Sharma Associate Prof, and Erasmus+ Coordinator, Institute of Computer Science, Head, Computational Social Science Group, University of Tartu, Estonia. Email: rajesh.sharma(a)ut.ee https://cs.ut.ee/en

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

[Apologies for multiple postings]* * We are happy to announce that 66 new monolingual lexicons and 1 speech resource are now available in our catalogue. Moreover, 4 speech resources are now available at reduced fees. *1) New Language Resources:* *Bitext Lexical Datasets* <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=Bitext+Lexical+Dataset> The series of *Bitext Lexical Datasets* for the generic vocabulary includes Lemmas, POS tagging, Frequency, Named Entities and Offensive features. Depending on the dataset and language, other syntactic and morphological features are also provided. The following 15 languages are available: As a complement to the datasets mentioned above, 11 datasets of *Language Variants* can also be obtained: 1. Arabic (MSA) <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0136/>dataset and Arabic Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0151/>dataset consisting of Arabic Gulf, Arabic Najdi, Arabic Egypt and Arabic MSA variants, 2. Chinese (Simplified) <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0137/>dataset, Chinese (Traditional) <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0138/>dataset, and Chinese Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0152/>dataset (Simplified + Traditional), 3. Dutch <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0139/>dataset and Dutch Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0153/>dataset consisting of Netherlands and Belgium variants, 4. English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0140/>dataset and English Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0154/>dataset consisting of United States, United Kingdom and India variants, 5. Finnish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0141/>dataset and Finnish Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0155/>dataset consisting of Standard and Colloquial Finnish variants, 6. French <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0142/>dataset and French Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0156/>dataset consisting of France, Canada and Switzerland variants, 7. German <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0143/>dataset and German Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0157/>dataset consisting of Germany and Switzerland variants, 8. Indonesian <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0144/>dataset, 9. Italian <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0145/>dataset and Italian Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0158/>dataset consisting of Italy and Switzerland variants, 10. Malay <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0146/>dataset, 11. Norwegian (Bokmal) <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0147/>dataset and Norwegian Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0159/>dataset consisting of Bokmal and Nynorsk variants, 12. Portuguese <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0148/>dataset and Portuguese Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0160/>dataset consisting of Portugal and Brazil variants, 13. Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0149/>dataset and Spanish Language Variants <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0161/>dataset consisting of Spain, North America, Central America, Andes and Southern Cone variants, *Bitext Synthetic Data* <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=Bitext+Synthetic+Data> The Bitext Synthetic Data consist of pre-built training data for intent detection and are provided for 20 verticals for English and Spanish languages. They cover the most common intents for each vertical and include a large number of example utterances for each intent, with optional entity/slot annotations for each utterance. Data is distributed as models or open text files. For each language, the following verticals are available: 1. Automotive: 52 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0162/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0182/>) 2. Retail banking: 26 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0163/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0183/>) 3. Education: 37 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0164/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0184/>) 4. Event and ticketing: 25 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0165/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0185/>) 5. Field Service: 27 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0166/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0186/>) 6. Healthcare: 40 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0167/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0187/>) 7. Hospitality: 24 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0168/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0188/>) 8. Insurance: 38 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0169/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0189/>) 9. Legal : 29 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0170/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0190/>) 10. Manufacturing: 34 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0171/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0191/>) 11. Media Streaming: 24 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0172/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0192/>) 12. Mortgage and loans: 39 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0173/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0193/>) 13. Moving and storage: 29 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0174/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0194/>) 14. Real estate and construction: 28 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0175/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0195/>) 15. Restaurant/ bar chains: 30 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0176/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0196/>) 16. Retail Ecomm: 34 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0177/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0197/>) 17. Telecommunication: 26 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0178/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0198/>) 18. Travel: 33 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0179/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0199/>) 19. Utilities: 21 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0180/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0200/>) 20. Wealth management: 24 intents (English <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0181/>, Spanish <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0201/>) *Persian Kids’ Speech Corpus* <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0487/> The Persian Kids’ Speech Corpus consists of speech signals recorded by 286 children (141 girls, 145 boys), from 6 to 9 years old, through an Andreas Mic Anti-Noise microphone and a Premium Speechmike headphone. This recorded data was manually checked and labeled. Finally, a corpus containing 162,395 samples with a duration of 33 hours and 44 minutes was created. The samples are distributed as follows: 1. 29,057 Words (478 minutes), 2. 17,429 SubWords (260 minutes), 3. 43,838 Syllables (485 minutes), 4. 70,078 Phonemes (765 minutes), 5. 1,993 Extra Vocabulary (36 minutes). The prepared speech corpus comprehensively contains all the 29 Persian phonemes, 118 syllables, 56 sub-words, and 711 words and is particularly applicable to speech recognition and linguistics studies. *2) Reduced fees for the following speech resources:* * *Chinese Mandarin (South) database* <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0397/> * *Chinese Mandarin (North) database* <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0398/> * *Japanese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade)* <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0411/> * *Japanese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade)* <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0412/>** For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us* <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the *ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources* <http://catalog.elra.info> Visit the *Universal Catalogue* <http://universal.elra.info>** *Archives * <http://www.elra.info/en/catalogues/language-resources-announcements>of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates /Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement./

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CMC-Corpora Conference 2023 14-15th September 2023, Mannheim: Last Chance for Early Bird Tickets
by cotgrove＠ids-mannheim.de 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Dear List Members, You still have until 31st July (inclusive) to benefit from the Early Bird Discount when registering for the CMC-Corpora Conference 2023 in Mannheim, Germany on 14-15th September 2023. Registration is via EasyChair using the link: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023/registration Keynote Speakers: Unn Røyneland (University of Oslo) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University of Bochum) The conference programme and list of talks are available here: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023/programme We look forward to seeing you in Mannheim in September! The CMC-Corpora Conference 2023 organising committee Jutta Bopp, Louis Cotgrove, Laura Herzberg, Harald Lüngen, Andreas Witt

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Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2023
by Menno Van Zaanen 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2023 https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/ Theme: "Digital Humanities for Inclusion" The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fourth conference, focusing on the theme "Digital Humanities for Inclusion." In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organized, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalized voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalized communities in the creation and use of digital tools and resources; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonizing knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities research related; * The role of digital humanities in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organizations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2023 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers consisting of a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (up to 9 pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (up to 6 pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented as posters. * Abstracts: Authors can submit abstracts of 250-300 words. Note that before submitting your contribution, you are required to submit an abstract before the abstract submission deadline. This holds for *all* submissions. The actual submission will need to be submitted before the submission deadline. More information on the submission process can be found on the submission page: https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the Journal of Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the abstracts of the full papers and the lightning talks will be published in a book of abstracts before the conference. Important dates Abstract submission deadline: 8 August 2023 Ful paper submission deadline: 15 August 2023 Date of notification: 30 September 2023 Camera-ready copy deadline: 6 November 2023 Conference: 27 November 2023 - 1 December 2023 Conference format: Face-to-face Conference venue: Nelson Mandela University, Eastern Cape South Africa NOTE: Non-presenting delegates have the option to attend online. Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared. These will be updated on the conference website. Organizing Committee * Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University * Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Alan Murdoch, Nelson Mandela University * Amanda du Preez, University of Pretoria * Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources * Andiswa Mvanyashe, Nelson Mandela University * Avashna Govender, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Gabby Dlamini, Nelson Mandela University * Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Jonathan van der Walt, Nelson Mandela University * Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Mukhtar Raban, Nelson Mandela University * Nomfundo Khumalo, Nelson Mandela University * Menno Van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Research Associate for the project “Predicting COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake from Public Discourse”
by Robert Fuchs 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Research Associate (English linguistics) for the project “Predicting COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake from Public Discourse” https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=7d287ef… Start date 01.10.2023 Application deadline 20.08.2023 The Department of English at the University of Hamburg is seeking a Research Associate to join a team of researchers working on an interdisciplinary project, funded through the Cross-Disciplinary Labs initiative, titled "Predicting COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake from Public Discourse: A Machine Learning Approach". In this project, we will explore the relationship between public discourse and COVID-19 vaccination uptake and how to use real world data from Germany and England to track public opinion on COVID-19 vaccination, with the ultimate aim of identifying strategies to increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations. The analysis will apply big data and machine learning techniques to Twitter data and will link these to information on local vaccination rates. From a policy perspective, the output of this project will inform public health responses in real time in future pandemics. At the heart of the project is an interdisciplinary approach, combining health economics and linguistics with new methods from data science. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Professor Robert Fuchs (English Linguistics) and will join a vibrant working group focused on research in the fields of data-intensive discourse analysis, varieties of English and Learner Corpus Research (see https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/home). We offer flexible working arrangements, a supportive research environment and the opportunity for professional growth through skills development in cutting edge research methods in linguistics and data science. Specific duties of the Research Associate include the collection and analysis of Twitter data, the preparation and co-authorship of research publications and conference presentations, participation in international conferences as well as contributing to the strengthening of data science at the University of Hamburg through the Cross-Disciplinary Labs network. The position does not involve any teaching duties. The Research Associate is also encouraged to work towards a PhD, the topic of which should be broadly aligned with the Principal Investigator’s research interests, and may be, but does not need to be, connected to the project. Applicants need to be in possession of a Master’s degree (or equivalent) by the starting date of the position. Applications should include a cover letter explaining the candidate’s qualifications and interest in the position, a CV, copies of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree certificates (where applicable), a representative piece of writing (e.g. MA thesis, term paper) demonstrating the candidate’s skills in academic writing, data analysis and/or English linguistics , as well as a PhD proposal (optional, no more than five pages). Requirements A university degree in a relevant field. excellent proficiency in English excellent skills in academic writing experience with the statistical analysis of linguistic data (esp. with R and/or Python), the analysis of metaphorical language, corpus linguistics and/or discourse analysis are of advantage -- Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs (JP) | Department of English Language and Literature/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | University of Hamburg | Überseering 35, 22297 Hamburg, Germany | Room 07076 | https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RobertFuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ Mailing list on varieties of English/World Englishes/ENL-ESL-EFL. Subscribe here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/var-eng/join Are you a non-native speaker of English? Please help us by taking this short survey on when and how you use the English language: https://lamapoll.de/englishusageofnonnativespeakers-1/

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Call4Papers: GEM (Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop) @ EMNLP 2023
by Kaustubh Dhole 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hello All, The Third Version of the Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM) Workshop<https://gem-benchmark.com/> will be held as part of EMNLP<https://2023.emnlp.org/>, December 6-10, 2023, Singapore. The GEM workshop aims to encourage the development of model auditing & human evaluation strategies, and to popularize model evaluations in languages beyond English. We welcome submissions related, but not limited to, the following topics: * 💎 Automatic evaluation of generation systems (example<https://aclanthology.org/2021.gem-1.8/>, example<https://aclanthology.org/2021.gem-1.1/>, example<https://aclanthology.org/2022.gem-1.26/>) * 💎 Creating NLG corpora and challenge sets (example<https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.4/>, example<https://openreview.net/forum?id=CSi1eu_2q96>, example<https://aclanthology.org/2022.gem-1.6/>) * 💎 Critiques of benchmarking efforts and responsibly measuring progress in NLG (example<https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.393/>, example<https://openreview.net/forum?id=j6NxpQbREA1>) * 💎 Effective and/or efficient NLG methods that can be applied to a wide range of languages and/or scenarios (example<https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.47/>, example<https://aclanthology.org/2021.gem-1.16/>, example<https://aclanthology.org/2022.gem-1.1/>) * 💎 Application and evaluation of generation models interacting with external data and tools (example<https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761>, example<https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09842>, example<https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07842>) * 💎 Sociotechnical perspectives of employing large language models (example<https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3531146.3533088>) * 💎 Standardizing human evaluation and making it more robust (example<https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.87/>, example<https://aclanthology.org/2022.humeval-1.7/>, example<https://aclanthology.org/2022.gem-1.12/>) If you are interested, you can check out last year's workshop websites from ACL 2021<https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop/2021> and EMNLP 2022<https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop/2022>. Industrial Track - Unleashing the Power of NLP: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry GEM 2023 is proud to announce the launch of its Industrial Track, which aims to provide actionable insights to industry professionals and to foster collaborations between academia and industry. Shared Task We are organizing a shared task focused on multilingual summarization, including human and automatic evaluation. The Shared Task will be run "Backwards": the workshop will serve as a platform to pre-register your hypotheses. More info on how to participate to come! Important Dates Note: For any questions, please email gem-benchmark-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:gem-benchmark-chairs@googlegroups.com> Paper Submission Dates * 📅 8 September 2023: Workshop paper submission deadline * 📅 6 October 2023: Workshop paper notification deadline * 📅 18 October 2023: Workshop paper camera ready deadline Workshop Dates * 📅 December 2023 EMNLP Website: https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop Regards, Kaustubh Dhole Twiiter<https://twitter.com/KaustubhDhole> <http://in.linkedin.com/pub/kaustubh-dhol%C3%A9/2a/9b3/392>

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Deadline extension 15 August: Workshop on Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies (ConTeNTs)
by amalhaddad＠ugr.es 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

The 1st Workshop on Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies (ConTeNTs) Varna, 7th-8th September, 2023 In conjunction with RANLP 2023 – International Conference “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” Final call for papers Computational Terminology and new technologies applied to translation studies have attracted the interest of researchers with very different multidisciplinary backgrounds and motivations. Those fields cover a range of areas in Natural Language Processing (NLP) such as information retrieval, terminology extraction, question-answering systems, ontology building, machine translation, computer-aided translation, automatic or semi-automatic abstracting, text generation, etc. Terminological identification, extraction and coinage of new terms are essential for knowledge mining from texts, both in high and low resources languages. Quick evolutions and new developments in specialised domains require efficient and systematic automatic term management. New terms need to be coined and translated to ensure the equitable development of domains in all languages. During the last decade, deep learning and neural methods have become the state of the art for most NLP applications. Those applications were shown to outperform previous methods on various tasks, including automatic term extraction, language mining, assessment of quality in machine translation, accessibility of terminology, etc. On the one hand, NLP and computational linguistics try to improve the work of translators and interpreters by developing Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, Translation Memories (TMs), terminological databases and terminology extraction tools, etc. On the other hand, the NLP field still needs the efforts and knowledge of translators, interpreters and linguists to provide better services and tools based on the real necessities of those language professionals. The aim of this workshop is to promote new insights into the ongoing and forthcoming developments in computational terminology by bringing together NLP experts, as well as terminologists and translators. By uniting researchers with such diverse profiles, we hope to bridge some of the gaps between these disciplines and inspire a dialogue between various parties, thus paving the way to more artificial intelligence applications based on mutual collaboration between language and technology. Topics of Interest The ConTeNTs workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on original and unpublished research on topics related to Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies, including but not limited to: - Automatic term extraction: monolingual and multilingual extraction of terms from parallel and comparable corpora, including single and multiword expressions; - Extraction and acquisition of semantic relations between terms; - Extraction and generation of domain specific definitions and disambiguation of terms; - Representation of terms, management of term variation and the discovery of synonym terms or term clusters and its relation to NLP applications; - Extraction of terminological context, through the use of comparable and parallel corpus; - Accessibility of terminology in certain domains, relevant to non-experts or to laypersons, and its relevance to NLP applications such as, chatbots, automatic email generation or spoken language interface; - The impact of terminology on MT (applying terminology constraints, evaluation of MT in domain-specific settings, etc.); - The creation of domain ontologies, thesaurus, terminological resources in specialised domains; - The use of new technologies in translation studies and research and the use of terminological resources in specialised translation; - Identification of key problems in terminology and new technologies used in translation studies; - Evaluation of terminological resources in various NLP applications and the impact of these resources have on the performance of the automatic systems; - Emerging language technologies: how the increased reliance on real-time language technologies would change the structure of language; - Corpus based studies applied to translation and interpreting: the use of parallel and comparable corpora for translating phraseological units; - Phraseology and multiword expressions in cross-linguistic studies; - Translation and interpreting tools, such as translation memories, machine translation and alignment tools; - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools. 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 ConTeNTs workshop e-proceedings 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 two programme committee members. Accepted papers will be presented orally as part of the programme of the workshop. Submissions Link to START system: https://softconf.com/ranlp23/ConTeNTS Website of the workshop: https://contents2023.kulak.kuleuven.be/ Should you require any assistance with the submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at amalhaddad(a)ugr.es and ayla.rigoutsterryn(a)kuleuven.be. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: 15 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 31 August 2023 ConTeNTs workshop: 7/8 September 2023 Workshop Chairs & Organising Committee Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Amal Haddad Haddad, Universidad de Granada, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Programme Committee - Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester) - Maria Andreeva Todorova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) - Melania Cabezas García (Universidad de Granada) - Rute Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - Esther Castillo Pérez (Universidad de Granada) - Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal) - Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada) - Mercedes García de Quesada (Universidad de Granada) - Dagmar Gromann (Centre for Translation Studies – University of Vienna) - Tran Thi Hong Hanh (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle) - Rejwanul Haque (National College of Ireland) - Amir Hazem (Nantes University) - Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo) - Barbara Karsch (BIK Terminology – USA) - Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University) - Miloš Jakubíček (Sketch Engine) - Hendrik Kockaert (KU Leuven) - Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University) - Maria Kunilovskaya (Saarland University) - Marie-Claude L’Homme (Université de Montréal) - Hélène Ledouble (Université de Toulon) - Pilar León-Araúz (Universidad de Granada) - Rodolfo Maslias (former Head of TermCoord, European Parliament) - Silvia Montero Martínez (Universidad de Granada) - Emmanuel Morin (LS2N-TALN) - Rogelio Nazar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) - Sandrine Peraldi (University College Dublin) - Silvia Piccini (Italian National Research Council) - Thierry Poibeau (CNRS) - Senja Pollak (Jožef Stefan Institute) - Maria Pozzi Pardo (El Colegio de México) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) - Arianne Reimerink (Universidad de Granada) - Andres Repar (Jožef Stefan Institute) - Christophe Roche (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc) - Antonio San Martín Pizarro (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) - Beatriz Sánchez Cárdenas (Universidad de Granada) - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) - Irena Spasic (Cardiff University) - Elena Isabelle Tamba (Romanian Academy, Iași Branch) - Rita Temmerman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Jorge Vivaldi Palatresi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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International workshop NLP for translation and interpreting applications (NLP4TIA)-Last Call for Papers
by Nanomi Arachchige, Isuri 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

International workshop NLP for translation and interpreting applications (NLP4TIA) Varna, Bulgaria, 8 September 2023 https://nlp4tia.web.uah.es/ Last Call for Papers ***Extended deadline: 10 August 2023*** In the last two decades, we have been able to witness a technological turn in translation and interpreting studies with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and deep learning playing more and more prominent part. There is already a growing number of NLP applications that are used to support the work of translators and interpreters. In addition, the recent advances in (and latest models of) deep learning have powered the further development and success of high performing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. Translation technology has revolutionised the translation profession and nowadays most professional translators employ tools such as translation memory (TM) systems in their daily work. Latest advances of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) have resulted in NMT not only becoming an integral part of most state-of-the art TM tools but also typical for the translation workflow of many companies, organisations and freelance translators. Although translation has benefited more from technological advances, interpreting has also experienced a technological turn. However, it has not been until some years ago that soft technology has permeated interpreting practice and research. Computer assisted translation, MT and NLP tools have been adapted to be used by interpreters. In addition, corpus-based studies have also underpinned dialogue interpreting. The increasing interest in NLP, MT and the automation of processes has brought us to multidisciplinary projects that deal with the development of models for automated oral communication. Machine interpreting has already been developed and is being improved, focusing on speed and accuracy matters. Either domain-specific (commercial, military, humanitarian) or general (Skype Translator), there is still a long way to go to render machine interpreting more human-like. Many of the above recent developments have to do with the employment of Natural Language Processing tools and resources to support the work of translators and interpreters. This workshop is expected to discuss the growing importance of NLP in different translation and interpreting scenarios. Workshop topics The workshop invites submissions reporting original unpublished work on topics including but not limited to: * NLP and MT for under-resourced languages; * Translation Memory systems; * NLP and MT for translation memory systems; * NLP for CAT and CAI tools; * Integration of NLP tools in remote interpreting platforms; * NLP for dialogue interpreting; * Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services); * Corpus-based studies applied to translation and interpreting.; * Machine translation and machine interpreting; * Resources for translation and machine translation; * Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology application; * Quality estimation of human and machine translation; * Post-editing strategies and tools; * Automatic post-editing of MT; * NLP and MT for subtitling. * Technology acceptance by interpreters and translations; * Machine Translation and translation tools for literary texts; * Evaluation of machine translation and translation and interpreting tools in general; * The impact of the technological turn in translation and interpreting; * Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation and interpreting; * Development of models for research and practice of translation and interpreting; * Multidisciplinary cooperation in NLP applied to translation and interpreting. Submissions and publication 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 NLP4TIA workshop e-proceedings with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and will be also available at the time of the conference. The papers should be in English and should be submitted via the conference management system START using this link<https://softconf.com/ranlp23/NLP4TIA/>. 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 two programme committee members. Accepted papers will be presented orally as part of the programme of the workshop. Submissions should be compliant with the below templates and should be uploaded as pdf files in START (START is configured to accept pdf files only). The following templates should be used: LaTeX at Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-ranlp-2023-procee…>, LaTeX<http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/Templates/ranlp2023-LaTeX.zip> , MS Office<http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/Templates/ranlp2023-word.docx> Important dates Deadline for paper submission: 23 July 2023 Deadline for paper submission (extended): 10 August 2023 Acceptance notification: 20 August 2023 Final camera-ready version: 30 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 3 September 2023 NLP4TIA workshop: 8 September 2023 Workshop Chairs Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez (Universidad de Alcalá) Antonio Pareja Lora (Universidad de Alcalá) Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) Programme Committee Cristina Aranda (Big Onion) Juanjo Arevalillo (Hermes Traducciones) Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) Gabriel Cabrera Méndez (Dualia Teletraducciones) Matt Coler (University of Groningen) Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) Elena Davitti (University of Surrey) Joanna Drugan (Heriot-Watt University) Marie Escribe (LanguageWire) Claudio Fantinuoli (Mainz University/KUDO Inc) Antonio García Cabot (Universidad de Alcalá) Adriana Jaime Pérez (Migralingua Voze) Miguel Ángel Jiménez Crespo (Rutgers University) Óscar Luis Jiménez Serrano (University of Granada) Koen Kerremans (Free University Brussel) Maria Kunilovskaya (Saarland University) Els Lefever (Ghent University) Pilar León Arauz (University of Granada) Johanna Monti (University of Naples L'Orientale) Elena Montiel Ponsoda (Polytechnic University of Madrid) Helena Moriz (University of Lisbon) Elena Murgolo (Orbital 14) Dora Murgu (Interprefy) Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) María Teresa Ortego Antón (University of Valladolid) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) Celia Rico (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Caroline Rossi (University Grenoble les Alpes) María del Mar Sánchez Ramos (Universidad de Alcalá) Miriam Seghiri (University of Malaga) Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) Rui Manuel Sousa Silva (University of Porto) Nicoletta Spinolo (University of Bologna) Venue The workshop will take place at hotel Cherno More<https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/> in Varna. Further information and contact details Registration for NLP4TIA is now open and is done via the RANLP main conference page. To register, please complete the registration form<https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1pii0v-000B6E-3x&d=4%7Cmail%2F14%2F16…>. The conference website (https://nlp4tia.web.uah.es/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email raquel.lazaro(a)uah.es<mailto:raquel.lazaro@uah.es>.

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