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Call for Applications: Study NLP at UC Santa Cruz! - Apply by March 1
by The NLP Program Team 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, The UCSC Natural Language Processing (NLP) master’s degree program <http://nlp.ucsc.edu/> 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 currently accepting applications for Fall 2023 admission consideration. Program Highlights: - A 15-18 month program with a Capstone project mentored by NLP faculty and industry experts. - NLP students receive an in-depth, systematic education in NLP, machine learning, and data science and analytics with faculty who have both academic and industry experience. - Our Industry Advisory Board provides insight and career advice through mentoring, guest lectures, and attendance at networking and professional development events. - All our courses are exclusive to NLP students and are designed with input from our Industry Advisory Board ensuring the content is current, relevant, and grounded in real-world context. - Our program is based at state-of-the-art facilities at the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, located in Santa Clara, California. Applying to the NLP MS Program This program is intended for students with a strong background in computer science. We are looking for multifaceted individuals with solid skills in programming, algorithms, machine learning, probability, statistics, and linguistics. Visit our Admissions page <http://nlp.ucsc.edu/admissions> to review admission requirements and tips for applying, and to connect with our support team. Applications for Fall 2023 admission consideration are now open. Apply by March 1, 2023 <https://applygrad.ucsc.edu/apply/>. If you have questions about the program or the application process, please contact the NLP Support Team. The NLP Program Team Natural Language Processing MS Program <http://nlp.ucsc.edu/> Baskin Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz

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Internship: Computational Linguist, Dublin (Summer 2023)
by Lamia Tounsi 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Hi everyone, We’re looking for a summer intern Computational Linguist to join our team at Linkedin! https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3448033554 Please feel free to reach out if you have any enquiries about this internship, or pass this along to any student you think would enjoy working in Computational Linguistics and Language Technologies this summer. Many thanks, Kind regards, Lamia

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DMR 2023 First Call for Papers
by Nianwen Xue 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

DMR 2023, the Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, will be co-located with IWCS 2023 <http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/>. It will be held on June 20th, 2023 in Nancy, France. While deep learning methods have led to many breakthroughs in practical natural language applications, most notably in Machine Translation, Machine Reading, Question Answering, Recognizing Textual Entailment, and so on, there is still a sense among many NLP researchers that we have a long way to go before we can develop systems that can actually “understand” human language and explain the decisions they make. Indeed, “understanding” natural language entails many different human-like capabilities, and they include but are not limited to the ability to track entities in a text, understand the relations between these entities, track events and their participants described in a text, understand how events unfold in time, and distinguish events that have actually happened from events that are planned or intended, are uncertain, or did not happen at all. We believe a critical step in achieving natural language understanding is to design meaning representations for text that have the necessary meaning “ingredients” that help us achieve these capabilities. Such meaning representations can also potentially be used to evaluate the compositional generalization capacity of deep learning models. There has been a growing body of research devoted to the design, annotation, and parsing of meaning representations in recent years. The meaning representations that have been used for semantic parsing research are developed with different linguistic perspectives and practical goals in mind and have different formal properties. Formal meaning representation frameworks such as Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) and Discourse Representation Theory (as exemplified in the Parallel Meaning Bank) are developed with the goal of supporting logical inference in reasoning-based AI systems and are therefore easily translatable into first-order logic, requiring proper representation of semantic components such as quantification, negation, tense, and modality. Other meaning representation frameworks such as Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Tecto-grammatical Representation (TR) in Prague Dependency Treebanks and the Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA), put more emphasis on the representation of core predicate-argument structure, lexical semantic information such as semantic roles and word senses, or named entities and relations. There is also a more recent effort in developing a Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) that is based on AMR but extends it to cross-linguistic settings and enhances it to represent document-level semantic content. The automatic parsing of natural language text into these meaning representations and the generation of natural language text from these meaning representations are also very active areas of research, and a wide range of technical approaches and learning methods have been applied to these problems. This workshop will bring together researchers who are producers and consumers of meaning representations, and through their interaction develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of meaning representations that are the most valuable to the NLP community. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for meaning representation researchers to critically examine existing frameworks with the goal of using their findings to inform the design of next-generation meaning representations. A third goal of the workshop is to explore opportunities and identify challenges in the design and use of meaning representations in multilingual settings. A final goal of the workshop is to understand the relationship between distributed meaning representations trained on large data sets using network models, and the symbolic meaning representations that are carefully designed and annotated by NLP researchers and gain a deeper understanding of areas where each type of meaning representation is the most effective. The workshop will solicit papers that address one or more of the following topics: — Design and annotation of meaning representations; — Cross-framework comparison of meaning representations; — Challenges and techniques in automatic parsing of meaning representations; — Challenges and techniques in automatically generating text from meaning representations; — Meaning representation evaluation metrics; — Lexical resources, ontologies, and grounding in relation to meaning representations; — Real-world applications of meaning representations; — Issues in applying meaning representations to multilingual settings and lower-resourced languages; — The relationship between symbolic meaning representations and distributed semantic representations; — Formal properties of meaning representations; — Any other topics that address the design, processing, and use of meaning representations. Important dates: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Paper due: April 3, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: June 1, 2023 Workshop date: June 20, 2023 Submission instructions: Submission site: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/dmr2023 Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Here is the link <https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/dmr2023> to the DMR submission site. Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues: please use our specific style-files <https://iwcs2021.github.io/download/iwcs2021-templates.zip> or the Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceed…>, taken from ACL 2021. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. If a paper is accepted, it will be given an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the final version of the paper. References and appendices do not count against these limits. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations or self-references that reveal the author's identity--e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be replaced with citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop organizers ( dmr2023-chairs(a)googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. DMR 2023 does not have an anonymity period. However, we ask you to be reasonable and not publicly advertise your preprint during (or right before) review. More information will be posted to the DMR 2023 website: http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/dmr-2023-the-fourth-international-workshop-on-desi…

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Corpora on the theme of sustainability
by Laura Narisano 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Dear Corpora members, Is anybody aware of any corpora focussing on the topic of sustainability? Possibly with different genres of texts, but not necessarily. Thank you! Laura Narisano

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Fully funded PhD position in Multilingual Natural Language Processing (ÚFAL, Charles University, Prague)
by Jindrich Libovicky 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

We are looking for a PhD student to work with Jindřich Libovický on a 4-year project focusing on a better understanding of multilingual language representations, improving their language neutrality and language coverage. The prospective PhD thesis topic is: Study if and how cultural aspects of meaning (e.g., moral values) are encoded in the representations and methods to make multilingual more culture-aware. However, the exact topic is negotiable. The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL) has an active community working on cutting-edge natural language processing. There will be significant interaction with the other researchers at the institute, especially the groups of Ondřej Bojar, Daniel Zeman, Pavel Pecina, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, and Jan Hajič. Charles University is the top-ranking university in Czechia, attracting strong talents locally and internationally. If you are interested in applying, please send me: * A cover letter (clearly indicate which position you are applying for and include possible starting dates); * A CV; * A short research plan addressing past, current, and future interests; * A brief statement of teaching experience and interest; * The names and addresses of two references. The working language is English, and no knowledge of Czech is required. Candidates with a strong background in natural language processing and machine learning are preferred, but other backgrounds are also welcome. Please submit your applications by March 15, 2023, via email to <my_surname> at ufal dot mff dot cuni dot cz. The expected starting date is October 1, 2023. Thanks, Jindřich Libovický ------ Charles Univeristy, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Malostranské náměstí 25 118 00 Praha Czech Republic Email: <my_surname> at ufal dot mff dot cuni dot cz Web: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/jindrich-libovicky

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Call for Participation: PAN 2023 "Profiling Cryptocurrency Influencers with Few-shot Learning"
by mara.chinea＠symanto.com 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Event Notification Type: Call for Participation Website: <a href="https://pan.webis.de/clef23/pan23-web/author-profiling.html">https://pan.webis.de/clef23/pan23-web/author-profiling.htmlt</a> Software submission deadline: May 29, 2023 Submission Deadline: June 05, 2023 We kindly invite you to participate at the Pan-2023 Task 2 - “Profiling Cryptocurrency Influencers with Few-Shot Learning”. This task is being held as part of CLEF 2023, and all participating teams will be able to publish their system description paper at the CLEF proceedings. This shared task focuses on the author profiling of cryptocurrency influencers in social media from a low-resource perspective, that is, with little training data. Moreover, we propose to profile types of influencers also using a low-resource setting. Specifically, we focus on English Twitter posts for three different sub-tasks: Low-resource influencer profiling (subtask-1): profile authors according to their degree of influence (null, nano, micro, macro, mega). Low-resource influencer interest profiling (subtask-2): profile authors according to their main interests or areas of influence (technical information, price update, trading matters, gaming, other). Low-resource influencer intent profiling (subtask-3): profile authors according to the intent of their messages (subjective opinion, financial information, advertising, announcement). Important Links Task Website Dataset site Slack workspace Important Dates February 20, 2023: Training data ready May 10, 2023: Early bird software submission phase (optional) May 29, 2023: Software submission deadline June 05, 2023: Participant paper submission September 18-21, 2023: Conference Task organizers Francisco Rangel (Symanto) Mara Chinea-Rios (Symanto) Contact Email: mara.chinea(a)symanto.com Marc Franco-Salvador (Symanto) Paolo Rosso (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) Please reach out to the organizers at crypto-influencers-pan-organizers(a)googlegroups.com, or join the Slack workspace (https://pan2023profil-0q48349.slack.com) to connect with the other participants and organizers.

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3rd CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Third call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 Note: deadline extension and submission system information The 4th RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous* Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources *: The term indigenous languages used in the RAIL workshop is intended to refer to non-colonial languages (in this case those used in Africa). In no way is this term used to cause any harm or discomfort to anyone. Many of these languages were or are still marginalised, and the aim of the workshop is to bring attention to the creation, curation, and development of resources for these languages in Africa. Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system which can be found at https://softconf.com/eacl2023/RAIL2023. Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Please make sure you also go through the responsible NLP checklist (https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/). Also, submissions should have a section titled “Limitations” (as described in the stylesheets). Authors are also encouraged to include an explicit ethics statement. Important dates: Submission deadline 20 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 5 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. 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[1st CFP][ICWSM 2023] TrueHealth 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing
by Rishabh Gyanendra Upadhyay 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Call for Papers *Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing*Workshop @ ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social MediaJune 5th – 8th 2023, Limassol, Cyprus https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/ ------------------------------ *Scope and topics* In recent years, *people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions*, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole. From this perspective, it becomes necessary to *study and propose technological solutions* to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being. To this end, it is essential to promote *research of an interdisciplinary nature*, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can *address the problem of health misinformation* from different points of view by combining their expertise. The* topics of interest* of the TrueHealth 2023 Workshop at ICWSM include, but are not limited to: - Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI); - Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access; - Debunking health misinformation; - Fake news/rumors and healthcare; - Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection; - Health misinformation detection; - Health literacy and information genuineness; - Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI); - Misinformation and public opinion on health; - Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health; - Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation; - Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI). ------------------------------ *Submission Instructions* Instructions can be found on the official ICWSM website: https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html ------------------------------ *Important Dates* - *Workshop Papers Submissions*: March 27, 2023 - *Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification*: April 10, 2023 - *Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due*: May 6, 2023 - *ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day*: June 5, 2023 ------------------------------ *Organizers* - *Gabriella Pasi* <https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/gabriella-pasi/> (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy - *Rishabh Upadhyay <https://en.unimib.it/rishabh-gyanendra-upadhyay>* (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy - *Marco Viviani <https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/>* (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy ------------------------------ *Program Committee* - *Sanda Harabagiu* <https://personal.utdallas.edu/~sanda/>, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA - *Liadh Kelly <https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-science-engineering/our-people/li…>*, Maynooth University, Ireland - *Dongwon Lee <https://ist.psu.edu/directory/dul13>*, Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University, USA - *Yelena Mejova <https://www.isi.it/en/people/yelena-mejova>,* ISI Foundation, Italy - *Michael Sirivianos* <https://netsysci.cut.ac.cy/michael.sirivianos/>, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus - *Angelo Spognardi <https://angelospognardi.site.uniroma1.it/>*, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - *Bei Yu <https://ischool.syr.edu/bei-yu/>*, Syracuse University, USA - *Arkaitz Zubiaga <http://www.zubiaga.org/>*, Queen Mary University of London, UK - Other members are going to be added in the coming days --- Rishabh Upadhyay, IKR3 Lab, UNIMIB, Milan, Italy

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Call for participation: The CLINKART and TESTLINK twin evaluation tasks
by Begoña Altuna 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

The CLINKART and TESTLINK twin evaluation tasks We invite you to participate in the CLINKART and TESTLINK twin tasks on the extraction of relations from clinical cases. Both tasks mainly consist in identifying test results and measurements and linking them to the textual mentions of the laboratory tests and measurements from which they were obtained. CLINKART (https://e3c.fbk.eu/clinkart) is organised in the context of Evalita 2023 and focuses on Italian. Training data is already available. TESTLINK (https://e3c.fbk.eu/testlinkiberlef) is organised in the context of IberLEF 2023 and proposes three different challenges: two tasks on monolingual datasets in Spanish and Basque and a third one requiring a multilingual approach. Training data due on February 27. The datasets of both tasks are based on the European Clinical Case Corpus (E3C), which consists of clinical cases in five European languages and is freely available (CC-BY-NC-4.0). Join us in one or many of the proposed challenges! The CLINKART and TESTLINK organisation teams

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Second Call for Papers - NLP4Disability
by Hend Al-Khalifa 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

*NLP4Disability: Call for Papers * *The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023 <http://www.petrae.org/>*. July 5-7, 2023. CORFU ISLAND, GREECE *Website*: https://nlp4disability.github.io/ *Submission link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petra2023 *Topics of interest* This workshop will explore how natural language processing can be used to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of disabilities from text - Development of accessible natural language interfaces - Generating alternative text descriptions of images for people with visual impairments - Improving automatic speech recognition for people with hearing impairments - Accessible natural language interfaces - Assistive technologies for people with disabilities - Computational linguistics for people with disabilities - Language processing for people with disabilities - Text processing for people with disabilities - NLP Bias Against Disabled People *Important Dates* Workshop paper submission deadline: *March 10, 2023* Review Period: March 11 - April 07, 2023 Notification date: April 10, 2023 Camera-Ready: April 30, 2023 *Publications* All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be published with the *ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program*. Also, Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Nafath newsletter (ISSN: 2789-9144) indexed in DOAJ and Google Scholar ( https://nafath.mada.org.qa). *Workshop Organizers* - *Hend Al-Khalifa*. Faculty at the Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - *Zainab AlMeraj*. Faculty at the Information Science Department, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait - *Achraf Othman*. Mada Center, Qatar - *Dena Al-Thani*. College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

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