The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a postdoctoral position in Human-Centered Explainable Fact Checking with a start date of 1 September 2023. The application deadline is 24 May 2023.
Applications for the position can be submitted here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…
The Natural Language Processing Section provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/. The successful candidate will join Isabelle Augenstein’s Natural Language Understanding research group (www.copenlu.com/<http://www.copenlu.com/>). The Natural Language Processing research environment at the University of Copenhagen is internationally leading, as e.g. evidenced by it being ranked 2nd in Europe according to CSRankings.
The position is offered in the context of an ERC Starting Grant held by Isabelle Augenstein on ‘Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself)’. ERC Starting Grant is a highly competitive funding program by the European Research Council to support the most talented early-career scientists in Europe with funding for a period of 5 years for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups.
The project team will consist of the principle investigator, two PhD students and postdocs each, collaborators from CopeNLU as well as external collaborators. The role of the postdoctoral researcher to be recruited in this call will be to research explainable fact checking with a focus on diverse user needs of end users in collaboration with the larger project team.
More information about the project can also be found at: http://www.copenlu.com/talk/2022_11_erc/
Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.
Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU)
Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen
augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:s.belongie@di.ku.dk>
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD scholarship in Fair and Accountable Natural Language Processing, with a start date of 1 September 2023. The application deadline is 24 May 2023. Applications for the positions can be submitted here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…
The PhD fellowship is offered in the context of a project supported by the Carlsberg Foundation on understanding employer descriptions in job ads led by Pia Ingold and co-led by Isabelle Augenstein (https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/da/Forskningsaktiviteter/Bevillingsstatistik…). The project team will further include one postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology as well as external partners. The project will comprise studies using methods from experimental psychology, as well as analyses of two existing big datasets on job ads (one in Danish, one in German) using Natural Language Processing. The role of the PhD student to be recruited in this call will be to research fair and accountable Natural Language Processing methods, which can be used to understand what influences the employer images that organisations project in job ads.
Informal enquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.
Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU)
Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen
augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:s.belongie@di.ku.dk>
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
Dear all,
The 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI), co-located with ACL 2023, is calling for Findings paper(s) that is accepted in EACL 2023 or ACL 2023 to be presented at the CODI workshop.
If your work is relevant to discourse, and if you would like to present at CODI in Toronto this July, please submit your paper (in full) as an extended abstract at https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023 as a *non-archival extended abstract*, and make a note that this is a Findings paper in the abstract window during submission. Feel free to also send us an email with your submission number. Note that the paper will not be reviewed.
Many thanks,
Amir, Chloe, Christian, Jessy, Michael, Sharid
(CODI organizers)
Special Issue:
Current Trends in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human Language
Technology (HLT)
MATHEMATICS
IMPACT FACTOR 2.592
An Open Access Journal by MDPI
link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics
• Guest Editor:
Florentina Hristea, University of Bucharest
• Deadline for manuscript submissions: 0ctober 15, 2023
• Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon
as accepted).
Message from the Guest Editor and Special Issue Web page:
https://www.mdpi.com/si/mathematics/NLP_HLT
For further information and questions, please contact:
Florentina Hristea
University of Bucharest
fhristea(a)fmi.unibuc.ro
fhristea(a)mailbox.ro
https://cs.unibuc.ro/~fhristea/
We are happy to announce a new special issue of the Journal for Language
Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) on https://jlcl.org :
"Challenges in Computational Linguistics, Empiric Research &
Multidisciplinary Potential of German Song Lyrics", edited by Roman
Schneider (Mannheim) and Gertrud Faaß (Hildesheim), brings together
inter- and multidisciplinary contributions on a text type that combines
a multitude of styles and registers, shows features of written and
spoken discourse, and can be seen as a representation of language
diversity in the continuum between standard and non-standard language.
The issue features the following articles:
Valentin Werner: English and German pop song lyrics: Towards a
contrastive textology
Jan Langenhorst, Yannick Frommherz, Simon Meier-Vieracker: Keyness in
song lyrics: Challenges of highly clumpy data
Marco Gierke: Ist alte Schule oldschool? Zum "Nutzen" von Anglizismen in
Deutschraptexten
Katrin Hein: "Beinahe-ums-Leben-kommen-in-Regenpfützen" und
"Chauvi-Macho-Macker-Stuss" – kreative Wortbildungen in Songtexten
Elke Donalies: Phraseme im Songkorpus: Etabliertes in
Anti-Establishment-Texten
Sarah Broll, Roman Schneider: Empirische Verortung konzeptioneller
Nähe/Mündlichkeit inner- und außerhalb schriftsprachlicher Korpora
Gertrud Faaß, Helmut Schmid: Segmentierungs- und Annotationsverfahren
für die Texte Udo Lindenbergs: Apostrophe und andere Herausforderungen
Akshay Mendhakar, Mesian Tilmatine: Automatic Authorship Classification
for German Lyrics Using Naïve Bayes
You will find all articles here: https://jlcl.org
Dear All,
I'm very pleased to announce that we (Hochschule Hannover, Germany) are looking to hire a computational linguist for the VidQA project. VidQA is a joint research project of the Institute for Applied Data Science Hannover (DATA|H) of the HsH, the research center L3S of the Leibniz University and the Technical Information Library (TIB). The aim of the project is the development and evaluation of new methods for the semi-automatic generation of comprehension questions and answers for learning videos. We pursue several research questions, such as the aspect of multimodality of video-based learning media, the generation of distractors ("wrong answers") for multiple-choice questions, and the automatic evaluation of answers in open-ended question formats.
We are especially looking for candidates that already have some experience with (neural) language models and have goor programming skills. Basic knowledge of German is an advantage. The position is especially suited for candidates that want to wrtie a PhD thesis related to the project topics.
Application deadline is June 13, 2023. Further details can be found at https://karriere.hs-hannover.de/werbung/beschreibung-900000104-10057.html
Best regards
Christian Wartena
Two Open PhD Positions at Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria (France) on
— Argument Quality Assessment and Improvement
Keywords: argument mining, argument quality, argument generation
— Argument-based counter narratives generation to fight online hate speech
Keywords: hate speech detection, counter-argument generation, argument mining
More details about the two PhD positions are available here: https://3ia.univ-cotedazur.eu/about/apply/call-for-applications-phd-postdoc…
The PhD positions (3 years) is funded by the 3IA Côte d’Azur Interdisciplinary AI Institute (https://3ia.univ-cotedazur.eu/).
-- Research fields --
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Argumentation, Machine Learning, Statistical Learning
-- Candidate profile --
• Master degree in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Science or Computational Linguistics is required.
• Programming skills are required.
• Knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Argumentation is preferred.
• Fluent English required, both oral and written. French is appreciated but not mandatory.
-- Application process --
Apply by sending an email directly to the supervisors (Elena Cabrio <elena.cabrio(a)univ-cotedazur.fr <mailto:elena.cabrio@univ-cotedazur.fr>> and Serena Villata <serena.villata(a)univ-cotedazur.fr <mailto:serena.villata@univ-cotedazur.fr>>).
Deadline for applications: *** May 24th, 2023 ***
The application must include:
- Curriculum vitæ.
- Motivation Letter.
- Academic transcripts of a master’s degree(s) or equivalent.
- At least one letter of recommendation
**Please note the submission category for poster abstracts for various types of work (student projects, thesis descriptions, project descriptions, ...).**
Final Call for Papers
We cordially invite submissions of papers and abstracts to KONVENS 2023, which takes place from September 18-22, 2023 at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (Bavaria, Germany). Next to its technical program, KONVENS will feature a lively exchange between academic researchers and colleagues from industry, as well as workshops, tutorials, shared tasks, and networking events.
NEWS
We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have accepted our invitations to give keynotes at KONVENS 2023: Hinrich Schütze (Professor, LMU München), Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová (Head of Research, Development and Transfer at the German Rescue Robotics Center), and Marc Schulder (PostDoc, University of Hamburg).
In addition to full-length papers, we invite the submission of abstracts for our poster sessions: Bachelor, Master, PhD Students: consider submitting your project or thesis work as a short abstract and present it at our poster sessions in order to get feedback and network! We also accept abstracts describing ongoing projects, software toolkits, the use of NLP technology in industrial products,…
We are looking for sponsors supporting our event, if you are interested, please contact us! KONVENS is a great event to network with NLP talent.
Submission is open!
GSCL is accepting submissions to the GSCL BA and MA Theses Awards.
We have announced an exciting program of satellite events:
Sept 18, 2023: KONVENS Teach4NLP is a workshop that aims to bring together anyone interested in teaching NLP/CL at university, industry, or college level.
Sept 18, 2023: PhD Networking Event
Sept 21, 2023: GermEval Shared Task on Speaker Attribution (Evaluation Deadline end of July)
Sept 21, 2023: Tutorial Learning from Task Instructions by Wenpeng Yin and Hinrich Schütze
Sept 22, 2023: Workshop on Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing
Sept 22, 2023: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2023) by the GSCL SIG Computerlinguistik für die Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften.
SPECIAL THEME
Natural language processing (NLP) technology is already part of our everyday life. We hence particularly invite contributions discussing the interaction of language technology and its users, including the application of speech and text technology in various settings (e.g., dialogue processing, mobility, medicine, e-commerce, or digital humanities). We encourage authors to discuss ethical aspects.
We invite two types of submissions:
long and short papers that will be archived in the ACL Anthology, and
abstracts on ongoing work, student/PhD theses, etc., which will not be archived.
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We welcome original, unpublished contributions on research, development, applications and evaluation, covering all areas of natural language processing, ranging from basic questions to practical implementations of natural language resources, components and systems. We encourage the submission of NLP approaches to the German language, and survey papers describing the state of the art in German language and speech processing. We invite contributions from both academia and industry.
We welcome the following types of paper submissions:
Long papers (8 pages plus references and appendix), describing original research with substantial new results.
Short papers (4 pages plus references and appendix), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources.
Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. The decisions will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. The conference languages are English and German. We encourage the submission of contributions in English. Each submission must include a mandatory discussion of Ethical Considerations as well as a section on Limitations (both sections do not count towards the page limit). Papers without these sections will be desk-rejected. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized accordingly. The conference proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION
To foster interaction and discussion in our community, we also invite abstracts (max. 2 pages plus references) on the following topics:
Ongoing projects, open source toolkits and software, repositories, etc.
Bachelor or Master theses, student projects
PhD theses (ongoing or finished)
Use of NLP technology within industrial products
Opinion pieces
Abstracts should not be anonymized. They will be made available to conference participants, but they will not be archived. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters at the conference.
We explicitly invite students and doctoral researchers to join the event and present their work and obtain feedback in our student poster session by submitting an abstract.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 19th, 2023: Paper submission due (all submission types)
June 30th, 2023: Notification of acceptance
July 15th, 2023: Camera-ready papers due
September 18-22 2023: KONVENS
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Papers and abstracts must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheets. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Papers must be submitted electronically via https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KONVENS2023.
On Behalf of the Organization Committee
Munir Georges, TH Ingolstadt (General Chair)
Aaricia Herygers, TH Ingolstadt (Local Chair)
Annemarie Friedrich, Universität Augsburg (Program Chair)
Benjamin Roth, Universität Wien (Program Chair)
DEADLINE EXTENSION TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH
The workshop is a joint initiative by the European Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructures CLARIN <http://www.clarin.eu/> and DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and it will be organised as part of the DH 2023 Collaboration and Opportunity Conference<https://dh2023.adho.org/> that will take place on July 10-14 in Graz, Austria.
Dates and Location
Main conference: 10-14 July, Messe Congress Graz convention centre<http://www.mcg.at/messegraz.at/en/locations/messecongress-graz/veranstalter…>
TwinTalks workshop: 10 July, 9:00 - 17:00 CEST, University of Graz<https://www.uni-graz.at/en/>
Important Dates
* 15 March 2023: Call for Papers
* 22 May 2023: Submission deadline (extended)
* 15 June 2023: Notification of acceptance
* 30 June 2023: Deadline for the final version of extended abstracts
* 10 July 2023 (9:00 - 17:00 CEST): Workshop
Workshop Aims
The main objective of the workshop is to develop a better understanding of the dynamics on the Digital Humanities work floor when researchers, teachers and/or professionals with different – but often overlapping – areas of competence engage in remote collaboration to solve humanities research questions, and to explore how education and training of humanities scholars, cultural heritage professionals and technical experts can help to make remote collaboration across disciplines more efficient and effective, more creative and innovative, and more inclusive and rewarding for all participants.
To this end, we invite submissions reporting on all aspects and stages of engaging in remote collaborative research and teaching in DH, including the obstacles encountered and solutions found. We also welcome position papers on the role of research infrastructures in facilitating remote collaboration in DH.
The insights gained should help those involved in the education of humanities scholars, professionals and technical experts alike to develop better training programmes, tailored towards the needs of a diverse group of potential learners.
The workshop is a follow-up of three previous successful TwinTalks workshops that have taken place at various DH conferences from 2019 onwards (TwinTalks 1 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2365/>; TwinTalks 1 blog<http://www.parthenos-project.eu/clarin-and-parthenos-twintalks>; TwinTalks 2+3 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2717/>).
Audience
Researchers, cultural heritage professionals, educators, scientific programmers, research infrastructure operators and policy-makers with a special interest in creating the conditions where people with humanities research skills and technical expertise (or both) can fruitfully collaborate in answering humanities research questions remotely.
Workshop Format
The programme starts with an invited talk by a prominent speaker, which will set the scene for the rest of the day. The main component of the workshop programme consists of two types of (submitted) talks:
* Twin talks, i.e. talks presented by pairs or teams consisting of someone rooted primarily in humanities research (with a humanities research problem, i.e. not a technical problem or tool), someone with a background in a totally different discipline (e.g. technical) who has contributed their specific capabilities to arrive at the answers, and/or a cultural heritage professional whose collection knowledge has contributed to the development of the research corpus. Talks will usually consist of three parts, followed by questions from the audience: In the first part, the humanities research question is the point of focus, while in the second part, it is shown how the joint effort resulted in an answer to the respective question. In the third part, these perspectives come together, as the team describes how the remote collaboration went, including obstacles that were encountered, and how better training and education could help to make remote collaboration more efficient and effective.
* Teach talks by teachers/lecturers/trainers with experience with or interesting ideas about how remote cross-discipline collaboration is or can be addressed in curricula or other training activities.
Submissions
The language of the workshop is English.
What we expect from the submissions for the Twin Talks track:
* They are authored and presented by one or more humanities scholars and one or more digital experts
* They start from a humanities research question (i.e. not a technical question, a presentation of a tool, a platform or a data collection)
* They describe the remote research carried out jointly and its results
* They describe the technical aspects of the methods used and the results obtained
* They analyse the way the scholars and the technicians collaborated remotely, addressing issues such as (but not limited to):
* What was easy and what was difficult, and why?
* How did the researchers, technicians or cultural heritage professionals change each other’s way of looking at things?
* Did they, for instance, make each other aware of blind spots they had?
* Did the combination of thinking from a DH research question and thinking from a technical solution lead to new insights?
* How could better training or education of scholars and digital experts make remote collaboration easier, more effective and more efficient?
With regards to the TeachTalks track, one single author and presenter is sufficient. Of course, multi-author papers are equally welcome.
Submission instructions
* Format: PDF. For format instructions, see http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
* Size: Extended abstracts, size ca 4-8 pages (between 2000-4000 words), covering research questions and answers, technical aspects and collaboration experience for Twin Talks, or relevant educational experience for Teach Talks.
* Publication: The workshop proceedings will be published at CEUR-WS<https://ceur-ws.org/>.
* Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twintalksdh2023
Workshop Programme Committee
* Bente Maegaard (CLARIN ERIC / University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Barbara McGillivray (King's College London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK)
* Benjamin Wiggins (University of Manchester, UK)
* Eleni Gouli (Academy of Athens, Greece)
* Francesca Frontini (CNR, Italy & CLARIN ERIC)
* Frank Uiterwaal (EHRI / NIOD / KNAW, Netherlands)
* Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, KNAW, Netherlands)
* Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada)
* Hitoshi Isahara (Center for IT-Based Education, Japan)
* Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
* Koenraad De Smedt (CLARINO, University of Bergen, Norway)
* Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece)
* Menno Van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, South Africa)
* Milena Dobreva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria)
* Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
* Radim Hladik (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
* Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany)
* Vicky Garnett (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Chairs and Organisers
The workshop is a joint initiative by European SSH Research Infrastructures CLARIN (www.clarin.eu<http://www.clarin.eu/>) and DARIAH (https://www.dariah.eu/).
* Steven Krauwer (CLARIN ERIC / Utrecht University, Netherlands)
* Darja Fišer (CLARIN ERIC / Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia)
* Iulianna van der Lek-Ciudin (CLARIN ERIC, Netherlands)
* Sally Chambers (DARIAH-EU / Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium)
* Agiatis Benardou (DARIAH-EU / Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C., Athens, Greece)
Contact Information
For any questions, please contact Iulianna van der Lek at events(a)clarin.eu<https://mailto:events@clarin.eu>.
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Elisa Gorgaini
CLARIN ERIC External Relation Officer
elisa(a)clarin.eu
+31648213015
www.clarin.eu