- Corpora - ELRA lists

Last Call for Course Proposals: ESSAI - European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence
by Roberto Navigli 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

*ESSAI - European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence*24-28 July 2023 Ljubljana, Slovenia *CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS* 1st European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence - ESSAI 2023 24-28 July, 2023 Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia https://eurai.org/essai ESSAI 2023 is organized jointly with ACAI 2023, the Twentieth Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence, and with the third TAILOR Summer School on Artificial Intelligence. *IMPORTANT DATES:* 24 Jan 2023: Course Title submission deadline (mandatory) 31 Jan 2023: Final submission 28 Feb 2023: Notification The European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI) is a new annual summer school held under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). ESSAI build on initiatives of the EU project TAILOR, and the 1st edition of ESSAI is simultaneously the 3rd edition of the TAILOR Summer School. The ambition of ESSAI is to become the central meeting place for students and young researchers in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research and share knowledge. ESSAI will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. The format of ESSAI is analogous to the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) which has been running since 1989. Courses will consist of five 90-minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week, to allow students to develop in-depth knowledge of a topic. The first ESSAI will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in between the 24th and 28th of July 2023. ESSAI 2023 aims to attract around 400 participants from all parts of Europe, as well as from North and Latin America, and Asia. *TOPICS AND FORMAT* ESSAI aims to cover all subdisciplines of AI and the interactions between them. Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2023 are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: - Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems (MAS) - Ethics, Legal Issues, Explainable and Trustworthy AI (XAI) - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) - Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy) - Planning & Strategic Reasoning (PLAN) - Reinforcement Learning (RL) - Robotics (ROB) - Search & Optimization (SO) - Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (ML) - Vision (VIS) Each course will consist of five 90-minute lectures, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. While foundational courses will typically focus on one subarea of AI, introductory and advanced courses are encouraged to present a broader perspective on AI, and should be of interest beyond one specific area. *CATEGORIES* Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FOUNDATIONAL COURSES * Foundational courses present the basics of a research area to students with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be at an elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to become comfortable with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSAI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to become competent in the course topic. Introductory courses that are cross-disciplinary may presuppose general knowledge of the relevant disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily at graduate students who wish to acquire an understanding of current research in a field of Artificial Intelligence. *PROPOSAL GUIDELINES* To be considered, course proposals should closely adhere to the following guidelines: Course proposals must be submitted by the lecturers who will present the course. Normally, a course should have no more than two or three lecturers, and each lecturer should hold a PhD or equivalent degree. Course proposals should explicitly state the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example, as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essai2023 and include all of the following: a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) b. General proposal information: Title, category c. Information about the course content: Abstract of up to 150 words Motivation and description (up to two pages) Tentative outline Expected level and prerequisites Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) d. Information about the proposer(s) and course: Proposers’ experience of delivering courses in an intensive interdisciplinary setting Evidence that the proposers are excellent lecturers Where there is more than one lecturer, the role of each lecturer and their teaching commitment to the course should be specified. To keep participation fees to a minimum, all the instructional and organizational work of ESSAI is performed on a completely voluntary basis. However, the registration fees of organizers and instructors will be waived, and travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed up to a level which will be communicated along with the proposal notification. ESSAI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course lecturer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers from outside of Europe. The organizers of ESSAI would appreciate any help in reducing the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* By Jan 24, 2023: Proposers must submit on EasyChair at least the name(s) of the lecturers(s), the ESSAI area+course level and a short abstract. By Jan 31, 2023: Submission must be completed by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. *SUBMISSION PORTAL* Please submit your proposals to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essai2023 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Magdalena Ortiz, Umeå University (chair) Brian Logan, Utrecht University (associate co-chair) Sašo Džeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana (co-chair and ACAI chair) *AREA CHAIRS* Natasha Alechina, Utrecht University Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt Günter Klambauer, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Alessandro Saffiotti, University of Örebro Sungho Suh, DFKI *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* Aleksander Sadikov, University of Ljubljana Vida Groznik, University of Primorska, University of Ljubljana, Sašo Džeroski, Jožef Stefan Institute Jure Žabkar, University of Ljubljana *STANDING COMMITTEE* Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza University of Rome, Head of SC and EurAI Board Representative -- ============================================== Roberto Navigli - Professor Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto, 25 00185 Roma Italy Phone: +39 06 77274109 Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it Co-founder of Babelscape ==============================================

1 0

FOIS 2023 final CfP - deadline extended
by Selja Seppälä 21 Jan '23

21 Jan '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** FOIS 2023: 3rd Call for Papers - deadline extended ============================== 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online) http://fois2023.griis.ca <http://fois2023.griis.ca/> We are happy to announce three exciting keynote speakers for FOIS 2023: - Deborah McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA - John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, USA and Durham University, UK - Michael Gruninger, Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada More information about our keynotes speakers: https://fois2023.griis.ca/keynote-speakers/ <https://fois2023.griis.ca/keynote-speakers/> New dates ========== Abstract submission : January 31, 2023 Full paper submission : February 12, 2023 Definition and scope ==================== The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/ <http://iaoa.org/>), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Important dates (NEW !) =============== - Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2023 - Paper submission deadline: February 12, 2023 - Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative) - Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative) - Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023 - Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023 - Virtual conference: September 18-20, 2023 The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate for this workshop. Location ======== FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 20, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). The main conference will be from July 17 to 19 and workshops and tutorials will be held mostly on July 20. This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. To plan for this two-part event, authors must at the time of submission indicate their preference and constraints for presenting either on site in Sherbrooke or virtually. Acceptance will be either for in-person presentation or for online presentation, at which time authors can no longer change the modality. Since the numbers of in-person and online presentations are limited, we encourage authors to be as flexible as possible to maximize your chance of paper acceptance. More details are provided in the Submission Instructions. Submissions =========== FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use. Please refer to the submission instructions for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. The conference will also offer workshops and tutorials related to formal ontologies. See the separate call for workshops and tutorials for more information. Topics of interest ================== Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following: - Foundational Issues - Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes - Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation - Vagueness and granularity - Space, time, and change - Methodological issues - Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies - Role of reference ontologies - Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation - Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality - Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution - Ontology compliance with FAIR principles - Formal comparison among ontologies - Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies - Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context - Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies - Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies - Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies - Applications - Technical applications of ontologies, such as - Semantic Web - Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules) - Qualitative modeling - Systems applications of ontologies, such as - Ontology-driven information systems design - Ontology-based data access - Knowledge management - Information retrieval - Computational linguistics - Metadata management - Domain applications of ontologies, such as - Ontologies for business modeling - Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.) - Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. - Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc. - Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc. - Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing - Domain-specific ontologies - Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) - Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.) - Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.) - Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles - Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.) Conference Organization ======================= General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/ <https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/>

1 0

Call for Papers: LxGr2023
by Costas Gabrielatos 21 Jan '23

21 Jan '23

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2022) Call for Papers Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 31 March 2023 The symposium will take place online on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July 2023. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Make sure that the abstract clearly specifies the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques and metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday's view of lexis and grammar as "complementary perspectives" (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that "if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers" (1992: 64). For more information and details of past symposia, visit the LxGr website: https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr. If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

1 0

Multiple Research Positions on ML+KRR at CYENS Center of Excellence, Cyprus (applications reviewed on a rolling basis)
by Loizos Michael 21 Jan '23

21 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, The CYENS Center of Excellence is offering multiple fully-funded (post-doc and junior researcher) positions for pure and applied research on: - integrated learning and reasoning, - cognitive computing, - personal assistants, - explainable and trustworthy AI, - machine learning / learning theory, - preference and policy elicitation, - neural-symbolic integration, - conversational AI, - natural language understanding / generation, - formal argumentation, - knowledge-based systems. Interested candidates should apply as soon as possible. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until positions are filled. https://www.cyens.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/job-listings/research-associates/r… Regards, Loizos

1 0

Join the NLP at UCSC Information Session on January 31st
by Emelye Neff 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, The UC Santa Cruz Natural Language Processing (NLP) master's degree program provides both depth and breadth in core algorithms and methods for NLP. Taught intensively over 15-18 months, our program design combines theoretical learning with hands-on practice to ensure our students have the right skill set to prepare for a professional career in this fast-growing field. We are accepting applications for Fall 2023 admission consideration, and will be hosting a series of information sessions about the NLP MS program. To review our information session schedule, visit nlp.ucsc.edu/admissions. Join us at our next virtual information session on January 31st at 12 PM PST to learn more about studying NLP at UCSC and to meet with our current students and faculty. Please complete the following registration form by 11 AM PST on January 31st to attend the session: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwoc-uorD8jG9R-2UojWP2bPZLQc_oaiJAp Applications for Fall 2023 admission consideration are now open. Apply by March 1st, 2023: nlp.ucsc.edu/apply If you have questions about the program or our upcoming information session, please contact the NLP Support Team at nlp(a)ucsc.edu. All the best, The NLP Support Team Natural Language Processing MS Program Baskin Engineering UCSC Silicon Valley Campus

1 0

PhD position in Computational Linguistics at CiTIUS (University of Santiago de Compostela, Galiza)
by Pablo Gamallo 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

4-year PhD position in Computational Linguistics The CiTIUS Research Center on Intelligent Technologies of the University of Santiago de Compostela (https://citius.gal) offers a 4-year PhD position in Computational Linguistics. The selected candidate will work on the research project LingUMT: Linguistically MotivatedStrategies for Unsupervised Machine Translation. LingUMT aims at exploring, defining, and implementing linguistically motivated strategies for unsupervised machine translation. For this purpose, we will use monolingual corpora focusing on concepts such as contextualized meaning, distributional-based similarity, semantic compositionality, and syntactic-semantic constructions. Candidate profile - Preferably a MA/MSc in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Linguistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline. - Knowledge of Linux/Unix command line tools. - Familiarity with NLP tools (Spacy, UDPipe, Stanza, Transformers, etc.). - Programming skills (e.g.,python). - Fluency in English. - Ability to carry out research and work in a team. Terms and conditions This is a 4-year position granted by the Spanish Ministry. Check the call conditions in the following link: https://www.aei.gob.es/en/announcements/announcements-finder/ayudas-contrat… How to Apply The application will be made through a public call ("Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores"), opening January 12 until January 26. Visit the previous link (under Terms and conditions) for more information. AboutCiTIUS CiTIUS is as research center specialized in Intelligent Technologies with a team of more than 150 researchers. Our team is the greatest asset of our center and we are continuously looking for talent. CiTIUS provides a stimulating, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge scientific environment, where our team can foster and develop their career in an international environment. We are in a high-level scientific environment with four research centers specialized in different areas (CiQUS,CiMUS, IGFAE and CiTIUS). Santiago de Compostela is a UNESCO World Heritage City with more than 5 million square meters of green spaces and one of the 100 best places in the world by TIME Magazine 2021. More information:citius.kmt@usc.es;marcos.garcia.gonzalez@usc.gal; http://imaisd.usc.es/guiaconvocatorias.asp?i=gl&s=-2-26-31-56&id=4911&t=9&s…

1 0

[ECIR2023] Call for Sponsorship
by Esraa Ali 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

Hello All, The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. In 2023, the forty fifth ECIR conference (ECIR'23) will be held in Dublin, Ireland from the 2nd to the 6th of April 2023. ECIR'23 will feature a high quality programme including long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, workshops & tutorials and an Industry Day. ECIR offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities suitable for organisations of all sizes. Sponsors of ECIR gain visibility for their companies and contribute to the success of the conference. Sponsorship will be used to support student grants or enhanced delegate experiences. For more information about the Levels of sponsorship available at ECIR 2023 and their benefits, please visit *http://ecir2023.org/calls/sponsorship.html <http://ecir2023.org/calls/sponsorship.html>* Potential sponsors should send an e-mail to the *sponsorship(a)ecir2023.org <sponsorship(a)ecir2023.org>* including details of the person to contact, telephone number, return e-mail address, level of sponsorship desired. Best Regards, Esraa Ali, Ph.D. DCU Publicity officer, ECIR 2023 -- * *Séanadh Ríomhphoist/Email Disclaimer* *Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://sites.google.com/view/seanadh-riomhphoist>* *This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://sites.google.com/view/dcu-email-disclaimer>* * -- <https://www.facebook.com/DCU/> <https://twitter.com/DCU> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dublin-city-university> <https://www.instagram.com/dublincityuniversity/?hl=en> <https://www.youtube.com/user/DublinCityUniversity>

1 0

Second CFP: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
by Kiril Simov 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA) CLaDA-BG 2023 Conference https://clada-bg.eu/en/dissemination/events/international-clada-bg-conferen… Sofia, Bulgaria 10-12 May 2023 CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history. This is the second edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research. Topics of Interest The topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones: Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history Invited Speakers Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa, Italy Erhard Hinrichs, Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and Tübingen University, Germany Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria TBA Important Dates Submission deadline: 24.02.2023 Notification of acceptance: 3.04.2023 Final Submission: 3.05.2023 Conference: 10-12.05.2023 Submissions We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). There are two modes of submissions: Full papers (6 to 12 pages) or extended abstracts (3-5 pages, references excluded) in PDF format, in accordance with the Springer Computer Science Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ltdhra2023 For contacting organizers please use the following email: ltadh-ra(a)bultreebank.org The CLaDA-BG Organizer

1 0

Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2024 - Deadline: 5 March 2023
by Nicola Ferro 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

------------------------------------------- Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2024 Deadline: 5 March 2023 Further details: https://www.essir.eu/ Contact: chair(a)essir.eu ------------------------------------------- The Steering Committee of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) invites interested parties to submit bids to host ESSIR in 2024. ## INTRODUCTION ## The ESSIR initiative is a self-organized body, whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems by educating junior and senior researchers, students, professionals, developers, and practitioners on the latest developments in the field, both methodological and technological. The ESSIR event is a week-long event, organized over the summer, where renowned lecturers and students interact together in a number of ways, e.g. lectures, hands-on sessions, flipped classrooms, aimed at the most effective teaching and learning of both basic and advanced topics on information access at large. By targeting information access at large, ESSIR places itself at the crossroad of several neighbors disciplines, namely + Information Retrieval (IR) + Recommender Systems (RecSys) + Natural Language Processing (NLP) + Machine Learning (ML) + Artificial Intelligence (AI) + Data Science (DS) ESSIR gives participants a grounding in the core subjects such as architectures; algorithms; formal theoretical models; evaluation theory and practice, as well as a coverage of recent topics and trends in the field, such as fairness, conversational search, and more. ESSIR is aimed at: advanced undergraduate students; PhD students; post-doctoral researchers; academic and industrial researchers; developers. Traditionally, ESSIR is co-located with accompanying events (such as the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access, FDIA) that give the participants an excellent opportunity for focused discussions on recent emerging topics in Information Retrieval. Further details on ESSIR can be found at: https://www.essir.eu/ ## PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND SELECTION ## Parties interested in hosting ESSIR 2024 are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the ESSIR Steering Committee chair Nicola Ferro at chair(a)essir.eu by ** 5 MARCH 2023 ** Proposals will be evaluated by the ESSIR Steering Committee. Evaluation will take into account: + venue and timing: attractiveness of the location, hosting facilities, transportation options, accommodation, social program options, targeted event week, key dates, avoidance of timing conflicts with other relevant IR events and large-scale local public events. + scientific program: foundational topics, special lectures, accompanying events (podium discussions, poster sessions, etc.), strategy for acquiring and organizational support of high-quality IR lecturers. Proposals should also take into consideration the scheduling of relevant co-located events (symposiums, workshops) like FDIA. + support for student participants: grants, special conditions for participation and/or accommodation, opportunity to collect ECTS credit points, networking events, opportunities for personal dialogue with ESSIR lecturers. + financial viability: initial draft of the financial plan including major fixed and variable costs, budget cut-off points, strategy of sponsoring acquisition. + plans for organisation: local organizer consortium and its expertise in event/hosting management, key roles and initial responsibility assignments. Analysis of major risks (such as appropriate number of participants, commitment of key lecturers, sufficient amount of sponsoring) and reasonable fallback options. + dissemination and publicity: plans for reaching the target audience through mailing lists, direct contacts to research groups, scientific social networks, Web 2.0 channels, Web presence. Opportunities to share ESSIR materials within research community: slides, video lectures, scripts, post-proceedings, etc. The ESSIR charter and a bid template is available at: https://www.essir.eu/assets/charter/essir-sc-charter.pdf ## INQUIRIES AND FURTHER INFORMATION ## For any inquiries or if any additional information is needed, please write to chair(a)essir.eu

1 0

Call-for-Papers: ACM TOMM SI on Realistic Synthetic Data: Generation, Learning, Evaluation
by Bogdan Ionescu 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Special Issue on Realistic Synthetic Data: Generation, Learning, Evaluation Impact Factor 4.094 https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tomm Submission deadline: 31 March 2023 *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** [Guest Editors] Bogdan Ionescu, Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, România Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University of London, UK Henning Muller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland Alberto Del Bimbo, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy [Scope] In the current context of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), data and especially high-quality data are central for ensuring proper training of the networks. It is well known that DL models require an important quantity of annotated data to be able to reach their full potential. Annotating content for models is traditionally made by human experts or at least by typical users, e.g., via crowdsourcing. This is a tedious task that is time consuming and expensive -- massive resources are required, content has to be curated and so on. Moreover, there are specific domains where data confidentiality makes this process even more challenging, e.g., in the medical domain where patient data cannot be made publicly available, easily. With the advancement of neural generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), or, recently diffusion models, a promising way of solving or alleviating such problems that are associated with the need for domain specific annotated data is to go toward realistic synthetic data generation. These data are generated by learning specific characteristics of different classes of target data. The advantage is that these networks would allow for infinite variations within those classes while producing realistic outcomes, typically hard to distinguish from the real data. These data have no proprietary or confidentiality restrictions and seem a viable solution to generate new datasets or augment existing ones. Existing results show very promising results for signal generation, images etc. Nevertheless, there are some limitations that need to be overcome so as to advance the field. For instance, how can one control/manipulate the latent codes of GANs, or the diffusion process, so as to produce in the output the desired classes and the desired variations like real data? In many cases, results are not of high quality and selection should be made by the user, which is like manual annotation. Bias may intervene in the generation process due to the bias in the input dataset. Are the networks trustworthy? Is the generated content violating data privacy? In some cases one can predict based on a generated image the actual data source used for training the network. Would it be possible to train the networks to produce new classes and learn causality of the data? How do we objectively assess the quality of the generated data? These are just a few open research questions. [Topics] In this context, the special issue is seeking innovative algorithms and approaches addressing the following topics (but is not limited to): - Synthetic data for various modalities, e.g., signals, images, volumes, audio, etc. - Controllable generation for learning from synthetic data. - Transfer learning and generalization of models. - Causality in data generation. - Addressing bias, limitations, and trustworthiness in data generation. - Evaluation measures/protocols and benchmarks to assess quality of synthetic content. - Open synthetic datasets and software tools. - Ethical aspects of synthetic data. [Important Dates] - Submission deadline: 31 March 2023 - First-round review decisions: 30 June 2023 - Deadline for revised submissions: 31 July 2023 - Notification of final decisions: 30 September 2023 - Tentative publication: December 2023 [Submission Information] Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically through the ACM TOMM online submission system (see https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tomm) while adhering strictly to the journal guidelines (see https://tomm.acm.org/authors.cfm). For the article type, please select the Special Issue denoted SI: Realistic Synthetic Data: Generation, Learning, Evaluation. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If the submission is an extended work of a previously published conference paper, please include the original work and a cover letter describing the new content and results that were added. According to ACM TOMM publication policy, previously published conference papers can be eligible for publication provided that at least 40% new material is included in the journal version. [Contact] For questions and further information, please contact Bogdan Ionescu / bogdan.ionescu(a)upb.ro. [Acknowledgement] The Special Issue is endorsed by the AI4Media "A Centre of Excellence delivering next generation AI Research and Training at the service of Media, Society and Democracy" H2020 ICT-48-2020 project https://www.ai4media.eu/. On behalf of the Guest Editors, Bogdan Ionescu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

1 0

2025

2024

2023

2022