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http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/mumttt-2022-2/
The 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation
Technology(MUMTTT 2022)
Malaga, 30th September 2022
In conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2022 – International Conference
“‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’”
Third Call for Papers
Following the success of the previous editions of the workshops on
Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and TranslationTechnology–the 2013
edition at the MT Summit in Nice, France, and the editions at the European
Society of Phraseology Conference in Malaga, Spain (2015 and 2019), in
London, UK (2017) we are announcing the fifth edition to be held in
conjunction with the International Conference “Computational and
Corpus-based Phraseology which is jointly organised by the European
Association for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS), the University of Malaga (Research
Group in Lexicography and Translation <http://lexytrad.es/>, IUITLM
<http://iuitlm.uma.es/>), the University of Wolverhampton (Research Group
in Computational Linguistics <http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/>, RIILP
<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp>) and the Bulgarian Association for
Computational Linguistics <http://acl-bg.org/>.
The MUMTTT workshop will be held on the last day of the conference, 30th
September 2022. It will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners
in the fields of (Computational) Linguistics, (Computational) Phraseology,
Translation Studies and Translation Technology to discuss recent advances
in the area of multi-word unit processing and to coordinate research
efforts across disciplines in order to improve the integration of
multi-word units in machine translation and translation technology tools.
Multi-word units are word combinations which range from compounds such as
‘credit card’ to idiomatic expressions such as “’it is raining cats and
dogs’ and are acknowledged as one of the major challenges in natural
language processing (NLP), because of their lexical, syntactic, semantic,
pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncrasies.
In spite of the relative progress achieved in translation technology with
the adoption of neural approaches and in the processing of particular types
of units such as verb-particle constructions, the identification,
interpretation and translation of multi-word units in general still
represent open challenges, both from a theoretical and a practical point of
view. The idiosyncratic morpho-syntactic, semantic and translational
properties of multi-word units pose many obstacles even to human
translators, mainly because of intrinsic ambiguities, structural and
lexical asymmetries between languages, and, finally, cultural differences.
In recent years, growing attention has been paid to integrating multi-word
units (MWUs) in machine translation and translation technology tools, as it
has been acknowledged that it is not possible to create large scale
language solutions without properly handling MWUs of all types. As a matter
of fact, researchers are now addressing the problems posed by MWU
processing and translation using different formalisms and techniques, such
as automatic recognition of MWUs in a monolingual or bilingual setting;
alignment and paraphrasing techniques; development and use of (handcrafted)
monolingual and bilingual language resources; creation of annotated
monolingual and parallel corpora, development of strategies for handling
syntactically flexible units in language analysis and translation modules,
development of evaluation projects. The aim of the workshop is to bring
together researchers and practitioners working on MWU processing from
various perspectives, in order to enable cross-fertilisation and foster the
creation of innovative solutions that can only arise from interdisciplinary
collaborations. In particular, the workshop welcomes interactions between
NLP researchers working on the computational treatment of multi-word units,
experts in (computational) phraseology working on challenging topics of
their discipline, as well as translation practitioners, to the benefit of
applying their latest results to advance the state of the art in MWU
processing.
Topics of Interest
The MUMTTT 2022 workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on
original and unpublished research on topics related to MWU processing in
machine translation and translation technology, including
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Lexical, syntactic, semantic and translational aspects in MWU
representation
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Theoretical approaches to MWUs (e.g., collostructional analysis of MWU,
cognitive approaches to processing MWUs, etc.)
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Development of multilingual MWU resources
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Identification and acquisition of MWUs and variants
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Learning semantic information about MWUs from monolingual, parallel or
comparable corpora
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Development and use of MWU resources in machine translation and
translation technology
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Development of corpora for the extraction and translation of MWUs
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Compilation of resources for the extraction and translation of multiword
units
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Creation of MWU-annotated corpora with a focus on translation aspects
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Paraphrasing of MWUs applied to the improvement of machine translation
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MWUs and word alignment techniques
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MWUs in machine translation
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MWUs in translation memory systems
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MWUs in term extraction
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MWU-centred machine translation evaluation
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Evaluation of MWU translation
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MWUs in CAT tools
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Multilingualism and MWU processing
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Psycholinguistic studies of MWU processing in a bilingual setting.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must consist of full-text papers and should not exceed 7 pages
excluding references, they should be a minimum of 5 pages long. The
accepted papers will be published as workshop e-proceedings together with
Europhras short papers and posters with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and
will be also available at the time of the conference. The papers should be
in English.
Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three programme committee
members. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters, as
determined by the programme committee. There will be no distinction in the
workshop proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters.
Templates
LaTeX
<http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/LaTeX2eProceedi…>
template.
Word
<http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WordTemplate.zip>
template.
Submissions
Access this link <https://www.softconf.com/m/europhras2022/> to make a
submission via the START conference management system (Please, be sure to
select MUMTTT as Topic). The tutorial on how to create a START account can
be found here
<http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/howto_START_202…>
.
Submissions should be compliant with the above templates and should be
uploaded as pdf files in START. (START is configured to accept pdf files
only).
Should you require any assistance with the submission, please do not
hesitate to contact us at mumttt2022(a)gmail.com.
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 10th June 2022 15th July 2022 – EXTENDED
Acceptance notification: 8th July 2022 31st July 2022
Final camera-ready version: 2nd September 2022
MUMTTT 2022 workshop: 30th September 2022
Workshop Chairs
Gloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Maria Pia di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Organising Committee
Gennaro Nolano, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Giulia Speranza, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
Khadija Ait ElFqih, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy
The project EmDiCom "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" will develop a formal semantics for emojis as a prime example of visual communication within the newly established DFG priority program ViCom (“Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives”). The project is carried out in cooperation between Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (University of Oslo, Norway). At the Chair of Digital Forensic Linguistics (Scheffler), Department for German Language and Literature of the Faculty of Philology of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, EmDiCom is looking for a:
Post-doc (m/f/d) with 39,83 hours per week for a period of 3 years (TV-L E13)
to start on 1st September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Your tasks:
- Independent research on the semantics and pragmatics of emojis in the research project "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" (EmDiCom).
- Participation in the interdisciplinary DFG priority program "Visual Communication" (e.g. participation in network meetings)
- Planning and conducting linguistic online experiments (acceptability studies, reading time measurements)
- Collaboration on publications and presentations at international conferences
- Supervision of research assistants
- Organization of scientific events (workshops)
Your profile:
- An above-average linguistics PhD is required
- Focus on formal semantics/pragmatics and experience in experimental linguistics
- Willingness to travel to the project partner in Oslo for research visits is expected (up to 6 months in total)
- Knowledge of tools for creating and conducting online experiments is an advantage
- Prior experience working with digital corpora is desirable
- Very good English skills are required, knowledge of German or Norwegian is an advantage
We offer:
- Challenging and varied tasks with a high degree of personal responsibility
- Exciting research on a current topic
- International cooperation with the "Super Linguistics" group at the University of Oslo and within the "Visual Communication" priority program
- A friendly and enthusiastic team at the interface of formal, digital, and computational linguistics
- Employment at one of the largest universities in Germany, part of the University Alliance Ruhr
- Flexibility for working from home
- Extensive opportunities for further education and training
Further information:
Since this position is part of a third-party funded research project, there is no teaching obligation.
Official job announcement: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f1ec75a1aff56228230b431eedf4678c…
Contact persons for further information:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (p.g.grosz(a)iln.uio.no)
Interviews are expected to take place via Zoom on July 28 and 29. Travel expenses, accommodation costs and loss of earnings or other application costs for interviews cannot be reimbursed according to the guidelines of the state of NRW.
The deadline of application is July 5, 2022. Applicants should submit a short cover letter including their motivation for the position, a full CV, two sample publications and the names of two potential referees, as a single pdf document. We look forward to receiving your application, quoting “EmDiCom”, by July 5, 2022 by e-mail to the following address: malvina.witzki(a)rub.de <mailto:malvina.witzki@rub.de>
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her)
GB 5/157
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik
Universitätsstraße 150
44780 Bochum
Germany
Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de
Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/
Tel.: +49 234 32-21471
Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2022)
Programme and Call for Participation
The symposium will take place online on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 July 2022.
Programme:
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/academic/englishhistorycreativewriti…
Registration (free):
https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences…
For more information, contact the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
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Special Issue "Advances of Machine and Deep Learning in the Health Domain"
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2022.
Guest Editor: Dr. Antonio Celesti
MIFT Department, University of Messina, Viale F. Stagno d'Alcontres, 31
98166 Messina, Italy
Dr. Ivanoe De Falco
Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking of National
Research Council (ICAR-CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy
Dr. Antonino Galletta
MIFT Department, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Dr. Giovanna Sannino
Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking – National
Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/AI_health_2022
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The 1st edition of the IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions
for eHealth (ICTS4eHealth) will be held on 5–8 September 2021 in Athens
(Greece) in conjunction with the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and
Communications (ISCC).
For more information about the conference, please use this link:
https://www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it/
Machine and Deep Learning deal with data, and one of their goals is to
extract information and related knowledge that is hidden in them in
order to make detections and/or predictions and, subsequently, take
decisions. With the terms “Machine and Deep Learning”, we cover a wide
range of theories, methods, algorithms, and architectures that are used
to this end.
This Special Issue will cover promising developments in the related
areas of machine and deep learning applied to the health domain and
offer possible paths for the future.
The authors of selected papers that are presented at the International
IEEE ICTS4eHealth Conference 2021 are invited to submit their extended
versions to this Special Issue of the journal Computers after the
conference. Submitted papers should be extended to the size of regular
research or review articles, with at least 50% extension of new results.
All submitted papers will undergo our standard peer-review procedure.
Accepted papers will be published in open access format in Computers and
collected together in this Special Issue’s website. Accepted extended
papers will be free of charge. There are no page limitations for this
journal.
We are also inviting original research work covering novel theories,
innovative methods, and meaningful applications that can potentially
lead to significant advances in artificial intelligence in the health
domain.
The main topics include but are not limited to:
Knowledge management of health data;
Data mining and knowledge discovery in healthcare;
Machine and deep learning approaches for health data;
Explainable ai models for health, biology, and medicine;
Decision support systems for healthcare and wellbeing;
AI for precision medicine;
Optimization for healthcare problems;
Regression and forecasting for medical and/or biomedical signals;
Healthcare information systems;
Wellness information systems;
Medical signal and image processing and techniques;
Medical expert systems;
Diagnoses and therapy support systems;
Biomedical applications;
Applications of AI in healthcare and wellbeing systems;
machine learning-based medical systems;
medical data and knowledge bases;
neural networks in medicine;
ambient intelligence and pervasive computing in medicine and healthcare;
AI in genomics;
AI for healthcare social networks.
Dr. Antonio Celesti
Dr. Ivanoe De Falco
Dr. Antonino Galletta
Dr. Giovanna Sannino
Guest Edito
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The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (https://www.unibz.it/) has opened a
public competition for 21 fully funded PhD scholarships in Computer Science
(*deadline July 1, 2022*). They cover a range of epistemologies, theories,
methods and applications of computer science. Topics include studies of
theoretical AI, data science and machine learning application, up to the
design of the most advanced user interfaces and critical user research.
In particular, the two following topics (in collaboration with Fondazione
Bruno Kessler) can be of interest for the mailing list.
*Emotions in Multilingual Texts (Carlo Strapparava)*
The affective dimension of word meaning often forms part of our reservoir
of common-sense knowledge, and it is reflected in the way we use words.
This project aims at producing and evaluating new technologies for
recognition of emotional language and possibly other subtle pragmatic
aspects of communication. Because there are diverse subtilties in emotional
expressions in different languages, the project will devote particular
attention in approaching the problem from a multilingual point of view.
*Neural Models of Collaborative Behaviours in Conversational Agents
(Bernardo Magnini)*
Human-human dialogues are characterized by collaborative behaviours,
through which interlocutors achieve their communicative goals. As an
example, proactivity (i.e., anticipating user needs during dialogue) and
grounding (e.g., posing clarification questions) are two relevant cases
that have been investigated from a linguistics perspective. However, such
collaborative behaviours are still largely absent in current neural
dialogue models. There are several open research challenges in this
direction, including investigating how dialogue systems can learn when and
how to be collaborative, depending on the dialogue context, and how do we
evaluate whether collaborative behaviours have improved the efficacy of
dialogue. This PhD project addresses collaborative behaviours in
conversational agents from a computational perspective, exploiting the
integration of machine learning approaches based on neural models,
reinforcement learning, and knowledge-based techniques.
Key information to apply and gain admission to the PhD Programme can be
found here:
https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/
The scholarship includes
University Fees
3-year personal grant (approx. € 17,000 NET per year)
50% pay increase to support international mobility for a
period variable between 6 months and one year according to the type of
projects
Personal budget for research and travel expenses (Euro 2,500)
State-of-the-art technical equipment
Further financial possibilities are available in the form of teaching
contracts and research consultancies during the years of study, for top
students.
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The Natural Language Processing Program (nlp.ucsc.edu) in the Computer
Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa
Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for the Natural Language Processing
Postdoctoral Researcher, under the direction of Professor Marilyn Walker.
We seek outstanding applicants with research expertise in all areas of
Natural Language Processing (NLP). The NLP Postdoctoral Researcher will be
expected to contribute to the research profile of the NLP group. We also
expect the successful candidate to support graduate students and other
Postdoctoral Scholars as a peer mentor.
Feel free to contact me at nlp(a)ucsc.edu with any questions.
Applications are open now, full consideration will be given to applications
submitted by July 15th, 2022 for a start date of September 1st. For
details, and to apply, go here: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01330
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Professor Marilyn Walker
Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Program Director, NLP MS Program, https://nlp.ucsc.edu/
Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California Santa Cruz
users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw
(Dis)embodiment
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, September 14-16, 2022
REMINDER: Late-breaking and non-archival round
https://sites.google.com/view/disembodiment/home
(Dis)embodiment will bring together researchers from various areas looking
to answer the question of the role of grounding and embodiment in modelling
human language tasks and behaviour -- or limits thereof. The conference is
open to viewpoints from machine learning, computational linguistics,
theoretical linguistics and philosophy, cognitive science and
psycholinguistics, as well as artificial intelligence ethics and policy. We
hope to see technical contributions and the full spectrum of reasoned
debate.
Important dates
***** NEW! Late-breaking and archival submission deadline: 2022 July 11,
anywhere on Earth *****
Submission deadline: 2022 May 16 2020 May 30, anywhere on Earth
Notification of acceptance: 2022 June 30, anywhere on Earth
Camera ready: 2022 August 19, anywhere on Earth
Conference: 2022 September 14-16, not anywhere on Earth, but in Gothenburg
The 8th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT @COLING 2022)
The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with COLING 2022 (Hybrid - Gyeongju, Republic of Korea). The website for the workshop is at:
http://noisy-text.github.io/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://noisy-text.github.io/__;!!KGKeukY!jkgFYC…>
The WNUT workshop focuses on Natural Language Processing applied to noisy user-generated text, such as that found in social media, online reviews, crowdsourced data, web forums, clinical records, and language learner essays.
We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same format and page limit as COLING main conference). All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally. We have Best Paper Awards sponsored by Megagon Labs this year.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text
- Part of speech tagging
- Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product names
- Chunking of user-generated text
- Parsing
* Text Normalization and Error Correction
- Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability
- Error detection and correction
* Robustness to Noise, both Natural and Adversarial
* Multilingual NLP in noisy text
* Machine Translation of Noisy Text
* Sentiment analysis
* Crowdsourcing of text data
* User prediction, e.g. gender, age, etc
* Stylistics, e.g. formality, politeness, etc
* Colloquial language, e.g. code-switching, idiom detection
* Bilingual translation of the noisy text
* Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text
* Information extraction from noisy text
* Domain adaptation to user-generated text
* Geolocation prediction
* Global and regional trend detection and event extraction
* Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm, and humor on social media
* Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events
* Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, diachronic analyses, etc...)
= IMPORTANT DATES =
* August 19, 2022: Submission Deadline (dual-submission w/ COLING main conference allowed)
* September 7, 2022: Acceptance Notification
* September 14, 2022: Camera-ready Deadline
* October 17, 2022: Workshop Day
= ORGANIZERS =
Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
Afshin Rahimi (University of Queensland)
Wei Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Alan Ritter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
= SUBMISSION =
Formatting should be according to COLING 2022 specifications.
Dual submission is allowed but must state at the time of submission.
Please submit through the START system at the following URL:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/W-NUT_2022
Our team (cocodev.fr) at Aix-Marseille University offers a fully-funded
Ph.D. research position (with no teaching duties) in the framework of the
ANR grant MACoMiC (Mastering the Art of Conversation in Middle Childhood).
The broad goal of the PhD researcher is to lead the development of deep
learning models of child-parent multimodal communication, across several
cultures, using data of face-to-face conversations recorded using portable
eye-tracking systems and zoom calls.
We are interested in studying the development of various conversational
skills including mechanisms of building shared understanding, multimodal
synchrony/alignment, and discourse coherence/contingency.
We are also interested in the application of this research both to help
design more effective clinical interventions (for children with
communicative difficulties) and to build child-oriented conversational AI.
The selected candidate can focus on one or several of these dimensions,
defining a personalized research program together with the main advisor.
The PhD researcher will be integrated into a supportive and highly
interdisciplinary team of senior and early career researchers in computer
science (with expertise in conversational AI), developmental psychology,
and neuro-linguistics. They will be located at the Department of Computer
science of Aix-Marseille University and part of the Institute of Language
Communication and the Brain (ILCB.fr) <https://www.ilcb.fr/>.
Additionally, the PhD researcher will have the opportunity to
interact/collaborate
with CoCoDev’s internal network, especially researchers from the Dialog
Modelling Group (University of Amsterdam), the Interacting Minds Center (The
University of Aarhus), and the Multimodal Language and Cognition group (Max
Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics).
Requirement
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-The ideal candidate for this position should have a strong
background/training in computer science and experience with deep-learning
modeling.
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-Interest in cognitive science (though no prior experience is required).
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-Good mastery of English
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Key dates
Open until filled.
Please send (as soon as possible for full consideration):
1) a CV
2) A recent transcript (a university document with courses taken and grades)
2) Contact info of one reference (ideally a research supervisor)
3) (Optional) Evidence of prior experience with deep-learning modeling (a
publication, dissertation, code on GitHub, etc.)
*Latest starting date:* October 1st, 2022
Inquiries
All kinds of inquiries (about the scientific project, the university, life
in Marseille, etc) as well as the application documents should be addressed
to Abdellah Fourtassi (abdellah.fourtassi(a)univ-amu.fr)
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Abdellah Fourtassi
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain
Aix-Marseille University, France
https://sites.google.com/site/fourtassi/
***2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> Special
Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings***
***Website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html
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***Submission Deadline: August 1, 2022 ***
***Event Date: August 24, 2022 ***
With a sizeable working population of the world going virtual, resulting in
information overload from multiple online meetings, imagine how convenient
it would be to just hover over past calendar invites and get concise
summaries of the meeting proceedings? How about automatically minuting a
multimodal multi-party meeting? Are minutes and multi-party dialogue
summaries the same? We believe Automatic Minuting is challenging. There are
possibly no agreed-upon guidelines for taking minutes, and people adopt
different styles to record meeting minutes. The minutes also depend on the
meeting's category, the intended audience, and the goal or objective of the
meeting. We hosted the First SummDial Special Session at SIGDial 2021.
Several significant problems and challenges in multi-party dialogue and
meeting summarization came from the discussions in the first SummDial,
which we documented in our event report
<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527546.3527561>.
Since we witnessed enthusiastic participation of the dialogue and
summarization community in the first SummDial special session
<https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html> (
https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html), we are hosting
the Second SummDial special session at SemDial 2022
<https://semdial2022.github.io/#> (https://semdial2022.github.io/#). This
year, we intend to continue discussing these challenges and lessons learned
from the previous SummDial. Our goal for this special session would be to
stimulate intense discussions around this topic and set the tone for
further interest, research, and collaboration in both Speech and Natural
Language Processing communities. Our topics of interest are Dialogue
Summarization, including but not limited to Meeting Summarization, Chat
Summarization, Email Threads Summarization, Customer Service Summarization,
Medical Dialogue Summarziation, and Multi-modal Dialogue Summarization. Our
shared task on Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) at Interspeech 2021 was another
community effort in this direction. Our shared task on Automatic Minuting
(AutoMin) <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/> at Interspeech 2021
<https://www.interspeech2021.org/> was another community effort in this
direction.
***Call for papers***
We invite regular and work-in-progress papers that report:
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Current research in multi-party dialogue summarization for summarizing
meetings, spoken dialogue, using speech, text, or multi-modal data (audio,
video),
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Challenges in dialogue summarization evaluation (manual + automatic),
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New methods and metrics for dialogue summarization evaluation,
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Relevant corpus collection, pre-processing, development, and ethical
issues involved,
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Compare and contrast speech-specific systems to systems imported from
text summarization,
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Tools for meeting transcript generation and automatic summarization,
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Topic detection and span identification in meeting transcripts for
multi-topic summarization,
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Position papers to reflect on the current state of the art in this
topic, to take stock of where we have been, where we are, where we are
going and where we should go.
Researchers may choose to submit:
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***Long papers*** Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8
pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
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***Short papers*** Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at
most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references).
Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request.
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***Position Papers*** Including extended abstracts, work-in-progress,
and late-breaking papers.
***Submission Link***
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=summdial2022
Submissions should follow the ACL format. Papers that have been or will be
submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information
using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SummDial 2022 cannot
accept work for a publication that will be (or has been) published
elsewhere.
***Special Session Program***
The special session would consist of a keynote, a panel, oral and/or poster
paper presentations.
***Organizers***
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Tirthankar Ghosal <https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/>, Institute of
Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
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Muskaan Singh, IDIAP, Switzerland
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Xinnou Xu, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Ondřej Bojar <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ondrej-bojar>, Institute of
Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
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Tirthankar Ghosal
Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ
https://member.acm.org/~tghosal
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