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Swisstext: call for papers
by Ghorbel Hatem 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Swisstext: call for papers https://www.swisstext.org/ Dear Colleagues, Partners and Friends, We invite you to submit a contribution to the 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) which takes place on June 12-14, 2023 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland at HES-SO // HE-Arc<https://www.he-arc.ch/en/>. SwissText<https://www.swisstext.org/> is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO // HE-Arc) as well as the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the data innovation alliance. SwissText 2023 is part of the "Networking Event Series - Natural Language Processing" funded by InnoSuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. It is supported by more than 10 universities and scientific associations. The conference will feature the following tracks: * Applied track: Short abstract (approx 0.5-1 page) in the form of a talk, poster or Demo. * Scientific Research * Regular Track: Full paper (6-8 pages) * Junior Track: Short paper (up to 4 pages), extended feedback, possibility to re-submit revised version Important dates * submission deadline: March 15, 2023 (23:59 CEST) * Author notification: May 01, 2023 * Conference: June 12-14, 2023 * Camera-ready version due: July 15, 2023 Prof. Dr. Hatem Ghorbel Computer Science Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie (HES-SO) Rue de la Serre 7 Tél. direct +41 32 930 22 06<tel:+41%2032%20930%2022%2006> CH-2610 Saint-Imier Tél. mobile +41 76 557 22 06<tel:+41%2076%20557%2022%2006> Internet www.he-arc.ch/ingenierie<http://www.he-arc.ch/ingenierie>

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ACL 2025 Call for Proposals to Host
by Emily M. Bender 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

ACL 2025 Call for Proposals The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Europe/Middle East/Africa Region in the summer of 2025. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective conference host cities in relevant regions. Contributors of promising proposals will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. ACL 2025 will be organized in collaboration with EACL. The ACL 2025 Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of the ACL and representatives from EACL, will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. Draft proposals should identify Local Arrangements Chair(s), who will work with the General Chair and the Coordinating Committee to develop a detailed conference plan and budget. To facilitate efficient conference organization and economies of scale, the ACL Office will be centralizing many more tasks than in previous years (e.g. registrations, AV, hybrid hosting platform, venue negotiations, hotel blocks, financial transactions and accounting, etc), with a much less burdensome role for the local team in the conference organization. In addition, our goal is to make it substantially easier for local teams to make proposals without the heavy overhead and responsibilities that previously discouraged academics from getting involved. We would like to simplify all aspects of the traditional bid process, and make it as easy as scouting for promising locations and offering as much (or as little) as you feel you and your local community can contribute to the conference. In light of the centralization of conference organization tasks, please note the following changes: 1) Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest (but not negotiate) promising locations and/or venues based on your personal experience, publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities. 2) Local organizers should not pick specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible and recommended dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc. 3) Detailed financial spreadsheets are not required and the local team will have no financial responsibilities for the conference. Simple contrastive summaries of publicly available pricing are helpful (e.g. typical hotel room costs). In general, the most useful proposal content is a contrastive summary of what you believe to be the pros and cons of the conference and social event venues you believe to be promising. 4) When there are multiple viable proposals for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable. == Proposal highlights == Preliminary proposals should ideally include the following information: - Details about candidate venues for the primary conference location - Please include as much information as possible (from publicly available sources) about capacity and services. If you can, it is good to do a private but non-official walk-through of the space (and take photographs). - If possible, please list pros and cons for multiple venue candidates. - Details about hotels, candidate social event venues, and candidate locations for the ACL recognition dinner - Again, please work from publicly available information, rather than formally approaching venues or any PCOs on behalf of the ACL. - Information about potential local and regional sponsors - Please include information about direct contacts within those organizations and degree of likely interest as well as any further particulars about what about our events would interest each sponsor. - Information about candidate dates, including information about local holidays or events of note that would positively or negatively impact an ACL event - Please do not enquire about availability with venues, either individually or on behalf of the ACL. - Information about transportation to the region - Include distances, durations and representative seasonal costs of trains and typically available flights to major cities in EMEA and further away with representative concentrations of ACL members - Notes on legal/cultural factors relevant to conference organization - Please include a candid assessment of openness and potential barriers to ACL's diverse communities. - Information about general financial factors, such as: - VAT tax rules and VAT tax rebates - Any publicly available information about assistance opportunities (financial and logistical) from local or national tourism and convention bureaus. It’s fine to express interest, but please do not apply for these without coordination with the ACL. No specific template is required for proposal submission. The above information is helpful and should be communicated in the most natural medium, but even a partial survey and assessment of recommended locales and venues will be considered. == Evaluation == Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (in no particular order): - Experience, flexibility, and creativity of proposed local team - Local Computational Linguistics community support - Available local government and industry support - Accessibility and attractiveness of the proposed locale - Availability of adequate conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants in the proposed locale, and the quality and adequacy of specific available venues - Adequacy of accommodation and food services across a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities - Venue pricing and value, based on post-proposal research and negotiations conducted by the ACL office - Geographical balance with regard to ACL and EACL region in the decade prior to 2025. == Background and Important Dates == Location information of recent major regionally-relevant conferences: - ACL: 2022 Dublin, Ireland; 2019 Florence, Italy; 2016 Berlin, Germany; 2013 Sofia, Bulgaria; 2010 Uppsala, Sweden - EACL: 2023 Dubrovnik, Croatia; 2017 Valencia, Spain; 2014 Gothenburg, Sweden; 2012 Avignon, France - EMNLP: 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE; 2018 Brussels, Belgium; 2017 Copenhagen, Denmark; 2015 Lisbon, Portugal - COLING: 2014 Dublin, Ireland - LREC: 2022 Marseille, France; 2016 Portorož, Slovenia; 2014 Reykjavik, Iceland; 2012 Istanbul, Turkey; 2010 Valletta, Malta Important dates - November, 2022: Call for proposals - December 15, 2022: Notify intention to submit proposal - January 21, 2023: Draft proposals due - Through March 1, 2023: Feedback and questions to proposers - April 1 2023: Final proposals due - July 2023: Venue selection and announcement at ACL 2023 For any queries please contact Emily M. Bender (ebender(a)uw.edu): ACL2025 Coordinating Committee Chair Please send notifications of intent and draft proposals to: acl25cc(a)aclweb.org -- Emily M. Bender (she/her) Department of Linguistics University of Washington Twitter: @emilymbender

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[EVALITA 2023]: Call for interest
by Giulia Venturi 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

(Apologies for cross-posting) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVALITA 2023 Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***EVALITA 2023 - Call for Interest*** Following the success of the previous editions, we are pleased to announce EVALITA 2023, the eighth evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian. The general objective of EVALITA (http://www.evalita.it <http://www.evalita.it/>) is to promote the development of language technologies for the Italian language, providing a shared framework where different systems and approaches can be evaluated in a consistent manner. EVALITA is an initiative of theItalian Association for Computational Linguistics <http://www.ai-lc.it/>(AILC). In the context of EVALITA 2023 we are organising the following tasks (https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2023/tasks/ <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2023/tasks/>): * DisCoTEX: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts. (https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home?pli=1 <https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home?pli=1>) * EMit 2022: Emotion Detection in Italian Tweets (http://www.di.unito.it/~tutreeb/emit23/index.html <http://www.di.unito.it/~tutreeb/emit23/index.html>). * HODI: Homotransphobia Detection in Italian. (https://hodi-evalita.github.io/ <https://hodi-evalita.github.io/>) * ACTI: Automatic Conspiracy Theory Identification. (https://russogiuseppe.github.io/ACTI/ <https://russogiuseppe.github.io/ACTI/>) * WiC-ITA: Word in Context for Italian. (https://wic-ita.github.io/ <https://wic-ita.github.io/>) * GeoLingIt: Geolocation of Linguistic Variation in Italy. (https://sites.google.com/view/geolingit <https://sites.google.com/view/geolingit>) * LangLearn: Language Learning Development. (https://sites.google.com/view/langlearn2023?pli=1 <https://sites.google.com/view/langlearn2023?pli=1>) * MULTI-Fake-DetectiVE: MULTImodal Fake News Detection and VErification. (https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/multi-fake-detective/home <https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/multi-fake-detective/home>) * NERMuD: Named-Entities Recognition on Multi-Domain Documents. (https://nermud.fbk.eu/ <https://nermud.fbk.eu/>) * Haspeede3: Hate Speech Detection. (https://di.unito.it/haspeede23 <https://di.unito.it/haspeede23>) * CLinkaRT:Linking a Lab Result to its Test Event in the Clinical Domain. (https://e3c.fbk.eu/clinkart <https://e3c.fbk.eu/clinkart>) * PoliticIT: PoliticIT. Political ideology detection in Italian texts.(https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/8507 <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/8507>) * EmotivITA: Dimensional and Multi-dimensional emotion analysis. (https://sites.google.com/view/emotivita <https://sites.google.com/view/emotivita>) As with other international evaluation campaigns, guidelines describing the different tasks will be distributed among the participants. Participants to the tasks will also be provided with training data and will have the chance to test their systems according to the metrics and procedures to be used in the formal evaluation. The results of the evaluation will be disseminated at the final workshop, which will be organised in Parma on 7th-8th September 2023. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organisations. Please visit the EVALITA web site where information about all tasks is currently available, and indicate your intention to participate and the specific task(s) you are interested in. You can do so by filling out the form at the following link, which will be available until April 30th 2023: https://forms.gle/TW2NveAZMZodF7Z59 <https://forms.gle/TW2NveAZMZodF7Z59> Your expression of interest is not at all binding and you can participate in any of the tasks, but it’s very important to us to best organise this evaluation campaign. IMPORTANT DATES: * February 7th, 2023: release of training data * May 2nd-9th, 2023: first evaluation window * May 7th-14th, 2023: second evaluation window * May 12th-19th, 2023: third evaluation window * May 30th, 2023: results to participants * June 14th, 2023: submission of participants’ report * July 10th, 2023: reviews to participants * July 25th, 2023: camera ready * September 7th-8th, 2023: workshop EVALITA 2023 Chairs: * Mirko Lai (Università di Torino) * Stefano Menini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) * Marco Polignano (Università di Bari Aldo Moro) * Valentina Russo (Logogramma SRL) * Rachele Sprugnoli (Università degli Studi di Parma) * Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” – CNR) Contact: evalita2023[AT]gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> FOLLOW US! Twitter: @EVALITAcampaign

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European Language Equality: Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects (last reminder)
by Georg Rehm 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

The European Language Equality <https://european-language-equality.eu/> (ELE) initiative launched an Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. TOPICS The SRIA contribution projects are meant to provide meaningful, so far missing, convincing and compelling input for the Strategic Agenda and Roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030 developed by the ELE EU project. The projects should provide defined use cases and feasibility studies for concrete application scenarios in one of the following ten topics: 1. Data sets for more robust speech technology 2. Study of language coverage for text mining and natural language understanding in key European industrial sectors 3. Legal Assessment 4. General NLP/LT/AI Landscaping 5. General NLP/LT Domains 6. Analysis of AI and LT in European news media 7. Computing facilities for LT 8. Demonstrably Greener Models of MT 9. Survey of the use of LT in the hospital sector 10. Basic LAnguage Resource Kit (BLARK) (re)definition TIMELINE Publication of the call: 29 September 2022 Submission deadline: 29 November 2022 (23:59 CET) Evaluation and selection of the submitted proposals: December 2022 Contract signing and projects start: December 2022 – January 2023 Project duration: 2-3 months ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS * Research organisations (including but not limited to higher education organisations and independent research organisations), NGOs, incorporated associations and companies * Legally established in EU member states * One organisation per project only (mono-beneficiary projects) FUNDING * €185,000 allocated for the call * maximum amount of eligible costs per single project: €25,000, funding rate: 90% * financial support will be provided in the form of a lump sum after completing all project activities HOW TO APPLY Apply via the open call submission platform <https://opencall.european-language-equality.eu/>, follow the Call documentation and related annexes on the open call website <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. CONTACT Open Call management team: open-call(a)european-language-equality.eu <mailto:open-call@european-language-equality.eu> -- Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow <http://www.dfki.de/> DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de <mailto:georg.rehm@dfki.de> Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Research Position in Speech- and Text Anonymization at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Berlin
by Tim Polzehl 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Dear colleagues, I'm happy to announce a new research position in the field of speech- and text anonymization at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany. We're looking for a Researcher or Junior Researcher level, offer a 2 years contract with optional prolongation and PhD perspective. Application deadline: Dec 23 More details and link: https://jobs.dfki.de/en/internal/vacancy/en-researcher-m-w-d-in-506968.html Please circulate upon potentially interested. Many thanks! In case of questions pls contact me, I'm happy to help. Best regards from Berlin, Tim -- Dr.-Ing. Tim Polzehl Senior Researcher Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Speech & Language Technology Associate Senior Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab DFKI Labor Berlin Alt-Moabit 91c, D-10559 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49.30.238951863 Fax: +49 30 23895 1810 E-Mail tim.polzehl(a)dfki.de<mailto:tim.polzehl@dfki.de> ------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender) Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Participation - Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children https://aichildinteraction.github.io/ February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format) Paper Submission Deadline: December 21st, 2022 Contact: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com =================================================== In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers looking into multimodal interactions between children and artificial agents to discuss research problems that center around interactivity and go beyond just processing child speech. We are interested in discussing approaches to collecting and annotating datasets involving child speech, intent classification in child speech, designing dialogue flow with artificial agents that primarily interact with children, as well as repair strategies, active listening behavior, and other aspects of dialogue modeling. Moreover, multiparty conversations involving several children, children, and their adult caregivers or several artificial agents are of particular interest to this workshop. Acknowledging the early-stage nature of research in this area, the workshop will invite short position papers as contributions. In addition to selected talks that will be invited based on the submitted papers, we will host roundtable discussions allowing attendees to discuss ideas, share challenges they have faced, and highlight ideas for future research.  ## Topics of Interest The workshop welcomes contributions across a wide range of topics including, but not limited to: Natural Language Understanding of Child Speech  Dialogue Modeling of Child-Agent, Child-Robot, Child-Child, and Child-Adult Speech  Conversational Flow and Repair in Dialogue with Children  Multiparty-Interaction Involving Children  Multimodal Processing of Child Interactions  Automatic Speech Recognition of Child Speech  Evaluating Child Interactions with Artificial Agents/Robots Challenges in Designing Interactions for Children  Datasets of Child-Child, Child-Adult, or Child-Agent/Robot Interaction Ethics and Responsible AI for Child-Agent/Robot Interaction Related Topics ## Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: December 21st, 2022 - Author Notification deadline: January 20th, 2023 - Workshop: February 21st, 2023 (morning session) ## Submission Guidelines We invite short position papers of 3-4 pages (plus additional pages for references and appendices without page limitation), including work in progress containing preliminary results, technical reports, case studies, surveys, and state-of-the-art research in language-based AI agent interactions with children. Recently submitted or published papers are welcome to be submitted to this workshop if they are highly relevant to the topic of the workshop. Please select the appropriate track during the EasyChair submission to mark the submission accordingly. Papers will be reviewed for their relevance, novelty, and scientific and technical soundness. Submissions do not need to be anonymized for review. All manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website. However, papers are still considered non-archival and can be submitted to other conferences. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper during the workshop in the form of a short talk, which can either be given in person in Los Angeles, USA, or virtually via Zoom. Authors should use the official IWSDS template: Latex Style and Template: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mnzjvTlIVEsdPb2IZXbzxU8WRJj3mLiJ Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/djcrwzgrdjvj Word Template: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WmO9iLvJtO0cH1E0VSC1bPsC0vRDpzbd ## Contact If you have questions, please get in touch via our public Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or by sending an e-mail to aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com

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Get your PhD @ the UT Austin iSchool (applications due Dec. 1)
by Matt Lease 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

The University of Texas at Austin's School of Information (iSchool) is seeking talented students to join our Ph.D. Program in Fall 2023! *December 1st is the deadline for fall 2023 admissions. *Late applications may be submitted but are not guaranteed equal consideration. - https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/programs/phd-admissions - Recorded information session: https://youtu.be/_9OJ-uGo-Cg We are a top-ranked PhD program committed to making a difference in the world through high-impact research <https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research>. We seek to engage the best and brightest people who thrive on challenges to join our Ph.D. program for cutting-edge research to benefit the world and its people. Our research seeks to harness the massive scale and value of information, discover the principles and processes to manage it, and leverage information to enhance human lives. We seek to design information management solutions that are accessible, useful, usable, and sustainable. To increase scientific understanding of the role and impact of information in all human endeavors, we study problems and develop solutions for better information design, management, organization, preservation, and retrieval. Please see https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research/research-areas. The study of information extends beyond any existing field. Our world-class, interdisciplinary faculty <https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/ischool-faculty-staff-students> spans a wide range of expertise, from computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering to communications, science & technology studies, and more. We seek students who can see beyond current approaches to problems, who recognize that information transcends boundaries, and who are comfortable crossing disciplines in search of answers. Our school has a strong tradition of fully financially supporting our doctoral students through a combination of Fellowships, Research Assistantships, and Teaching Assistantships. Our support packages are competitive, including tuition, health insurance, and a stipend sufficient to live comfortably in Austin. Beyond our top-ranked international graduate program, UT Austin is one of the world's premier research universities and is located in one of the USA's sunniest and most vibrant cities in which to live and work: - http://www.utexas.edu/about/overview - http://www.utexas.edu/campus-life/life-in-austin - https://www.austintexas.org/things-to-do/ Our university’s motto is not only that "What Starts Here Changes the World" <https://www.utexas.edu/>, but also that "What Starts Here Starts with YOU". We hope that you will embrace the opportunity and challenge that our PhD program offers and join us in conducting high-impact research that truly changes the world. We look forward to your application! For any questions about admissions to our doctoral program, please contact us at graduateadmit(a)ischool.utexas.edu. -- Matt Lease Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin Voice: (512) 471-9350 · Fax: (512) 471-3971 · Office: UTA 5.536 http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml

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FOIS 2023: Call for Papers
by Selja Seppälä 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Call for papers: FOIS 2023 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 For any questions, please email: fois2023(a)gmail.com 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/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Important dates • Paper submission deadline: 31 January 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: week of September 18, 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 21, 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). • 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. 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 Submissions Instructions (coming soon) for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. 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 TBA Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland

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NooJ2023_Call for papers
by abartulo＠unizd.hr 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

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

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Arabic NLP Research Assistant or Post-Doctoral Associate Opening in Camel Lab
by Nizar Habash 19 Nov '22

19 Nov '22

We are hiring in Camel Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi! We are looking for research assistants or postdocs who are interested in Arabic Natural Language Processing. Research Assistant apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/111550 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__apply.interfolio.com_11…> Post-Doctoral Associate apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/117800 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__apply.interfolio.com_11…> Camel Lab website: http://www.camel-lab.com/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.camel-2Dlab.com_&d=…> Camel Lab publications: http://scholar.camel-lab.com/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__scholar.camel-2Dlab.com…> If you are attending EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, visit our booth (with New York University Abu Dhabi). -- Nizar Habash Professor of Computer Science New York University Abu Dhabi

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