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PhD Position in Document-Level MT Human Evaluation (Dublin City University) - deadline approaching
by Sheila Castilho M de Sousa 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

*apologies for cross posting* We are looking for a PhD student in the area of the are of *MT Human Evaluation* at the ADAPT Centre and the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University, Ireland. The student will be supervised by Dr Sheila Castilho and Dr Maja Popovic. *Application deadline:* 14th of October 2022 *Minimum qualifications:* - Bachelors in Translation, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, or related fields, *with some knowledge of Machine Translation evaluation*. - English language requirements for non-native speakers of English is available here, under Post Graduate>>Faculty of Humanities and Social Science: https://www.dcu.ie/registry/english-language-requirements-non-native-speake… *Preferred qualifications:* - Masters in Translation Technologies, Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing or related fields. - Experience with machine translation evaluation. *Application Process:* As part of your application you will be required to submit: - A letter of introduction (max 1500 words). In the letter, applicants should include the following details: - An explanation of your interest in this research, highlighting why you think you are a suitable candidate. - Highlight any experience you have with machine translation evaluation, or any other relevant experience e.g., working as a translator/linguist, MT developer, or any relevant projects in the area. - Details of your final year undergraduate project (if applicable), and or of your MSc project (if applicable). - Details of any relevant modules previously taken, at undergraduate and/or Master level. - Details of any relevant work experience (if applicable) - Detailed CV, including – if applicable – relevant publications; - Transcripts of degrees *Enquiries*: sheila.castilho(a)dcu.ie More details and application form can be found here: https://www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/phd-in-document-level-human-evaluation-o… *----* *Sheila Castilho* Ollamh Cúnta | Scoil na dTeangacha Feidhmeacha & Staidéar Idirchultúrtha | Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath Assistant Professor | School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies | Dublin City University ADAPT Centre - Tel: + 353 1 700 5832 -- __ 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://www.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml> <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml>* _ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://www.dcu.ie/iss/email-disclaimer.shtml> _ *_

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Final Call for Papers Global WordNet Conference 2023 - Deadline extension
by Begoña Altuna 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

Final Call for Papers Global WordNet Conference 2023 - Deadline extension [Apologies for cross posting] Call for Papers 12th International Global Wordnet ConferenceDonostia / San Sebastian, Basque Country January 23-27, 2023 Global Wordnet Association: www.globalwordnet.org Conference website: https://hitz.eus/gwc2023 The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the 12th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2023) in Donostia / San Sebastian (Spain) hosted by HiTZ, Basque Center for Language Technology at the University of the Basque Country. NOTE: COVID-19 allowing, the conference will be in person only. Organisers: Begoña Altuna, Itziar Aldabe, Xabier Arregi, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Aritz Farwell and Esther Miranda. Details about the association and the full announcement for the conference can be found on the conference website: https://hitz.eus/gwc2023 We invite submissions with original contributions addressing, but not limited to, the topics listed below. Proposals for tutorials are welcome as well. Conference Topics 1. Lexical semantics and meaning representation * Critical analysis and applications of lexical and semantic relations * Proposed new relations * Definitions, semantic components, co-occurrence and frequency statistics * Word, Sense and Context Embeddings * Necessity and completeness issues * Ontology and wordnet * Other lexicographical and lexicological questions pertaining to wordnet-style meaning representation * Wordnets and other modalities 1. Architecture of lexical databases * Language independent and language dependent components * Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (like CLARIN, ELG, etc.) * Wordnets and Linked Open Data (LOD) 1. Tools and methods for wordnet development * User and Data entry interfaces * Methods for constructing, extending and enriching wordnets * Methods for linking wordnets to other lexical and semantic resources * Methods for leveraging existing wordnets and semantic networks with large language models 1. Applications of wordnet * Word sense disambiguation * Text generation * Commonsense reasoning * Machine translation * Information extraction and retrieval * Document structuring and categorisation * Automatic hyperlinking * Language pedagogy * Psycholinguistic applications * Embeddings and pretrained language models * Probing large neural language models 1. Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools. Submissions will fall into one of the following categories (page limits exclude references): * long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minute presentation * short papers: 5 pages max; 15 minute presentation * project reports: 5 pages max., 10 minute presentation * demonstrations : 5 pages max, with an additional 3 pages screen dumps or images; 20 minute presentation Submissions should be anonymous and any identifying information must be removed. Authors must state the preferred category, though acceptance may be subject to change in the category of the presentation, e.g. a long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper. Final papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF only). Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available from here <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to “*ACL” conferences available here <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Authors are kindly requested to submit a tentative abstract of their work (not assessed) for reviewer assignment purposes. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2023 Important Dates (NEW DATES!!!) 1. Still open for abstract submissions! 2. October 21, 2022 (Deadline extension) Deadline for paper submission 1. November 25, 2022 Notification of acceptance 1. December 1, 2022 Registration opens 1. December 23, 2022 Deadline author registration, final version paper 1. January 23-27, 2023 Conference Proceedings Conference proceedings will be open access and downloadable from the GWA website. The proceedings will have an ISBN and be published in the ACL anthology. Papers are only included in the proceedings if at least one author has registered. Inclusion of accepted submissions into the final program and the proceedings is contingent upon at least one author’s registration. Late registration and on-site registration for participants is possible without inclusion of the paper and without presentation. Conference Chairs German Rigau - german.rigau(a)ehu.eus Francis Bond - bond(a)ieee.org Local Organizing Chairs Begoña Altuna - begona.altuna(a)ehu.eus Itziar Aldabe - itziar.aldabe(a)ehu.eus Xabier Arregi - xabier.arregi(a)ehu.eus Itziar Gonzalez-Dios - itziar.gonzalezd(a)ehu.eus Aritz Farwell - asfarwell(a)ehu.eus Esther Miranda - esther.miranda(a)ehu.eus Program Committee (to be confirmed and extended) Adam Pease, Articulate Software Ales Horak, Masaryk University Alexandre Rademaker, IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV Bolette Pedersen, University of Copenhagen Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University Darja Fiser, University of Ljubljana David Lindemann, IWiSt, University of Hildesheim Diptesh Kanojia, IIT Bombay Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country Ewa Rudnicka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology Francis Bond, Palacký University Gerard De Melo, Rutgers University German Rigau, IXA Group, UPV/EHU Haldur Oim, University of Tartu Heili Orav, University of Tartu Hugo Gonçalo-Oliveira, Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra Janos Csirik, University of Szeged John Mccrae, National University of Ireland, Galway Kadri Vider, University of Tartu Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University Kyoko Kanzaki, Otemon Gakuin University Maciej Piasecki, Department of Computational Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology Marten Postma, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam. Sanni Nimb, The Danish Society for Language and Literature Shan Wang, The Education University of Hong Kong Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan Normal University Sonja Bosch, Department of African Languages, University of South Africa Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Saarbruecken Tim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne Tomaž Erjavec, Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute Umamaheswari Vasanthakumar, Nanyang Technological University Valeria Depaiva, Natural Language and AI Research Laboratory of Nuance Communications, Inc. Verginica Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Sponsors Keler https://www.keler.eus/en

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ACL Anthology Reference Corpus, Version 2
by Veronika Mitická 02 Oct '22

02 Oct '22

To whom it may concern, I am writing in search of the "ACL Anthology Reference Corpus, Version 2" mentioned in the following email from 2016: https://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/2016-March/024214.html As the link for the corpus is no longer functional, I was hoping to get more information about it and tips as to where to find it. Yours sincerely, Veronika Miticka, SketchEngine

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Call for Papers – IWSDS (International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology) 2023
by Kallirroi Georgila 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

Call for Papers – IWSDS (International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology) 2023 February 21-24, 2023, Los Angeles, USA Website: http://www.iwsds.tech<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.iwsds.tech__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!ukr0B0Do…> The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2023 invites paper submissions. IWSDS 2023 will be held February 21-24, 2023 in Los Angeles, USA at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies. IWSDS 2023 will be a primarily in person event with a hybrid component for those who cannot travel to Los Angeles and wish to attend virtually. This year’s conference theme is “Diversity in Dialogue Systems” (DiDS). We especially invite paper submissions on the following topics: -Diversity in languages spoken -Diversity in domain/task being performed (e.g., range of tasks, dialogue systems that engage in multiple tasks) -Diversity in user population -Diversity in training data (e.g., ethics/bias considerations) -Diversity in methods/architectures used for dialogue system development (e.g., end-to-end vs. module-based) -Diversity in dialogue system evaluation methodologies -User engagement and emotion in dialogue systems -Proactive, anticipatory, or incremental interaction -Use of humor and metaphors in dialogue systems -Multimodal and situated dialogue systems -Companions and personal assistant dialogue systems -Educational and healthcare applications -Big data and large scale dialogue systems -Digital resources for interactive dialogue management -Domain transfer and adaptation techniques for dialogue systems -Dialogue systems for low-resource languages -Multilingual dialogue systems -Dialogue system evaluation -Machine learning for dialogue systems -Interaction styles in dialogue systems However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems. Special Sessions: In addition, IWSDS will host two special sessions. Authors can submit papers to either of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. Multi-party Conversational AI: The program of IWSDS 2023 will include a special session on multi-party conversational AI, where more than two agents are involved in a conversational interaction. The objectives of this session are to review work done in the past in the field of multi-party conversational AI, to showcase recent and ongoing work, and to identify paths forward. Topics of interest are (but are not limited to): designing social state representations and models for multi-party interactions, addressee identification, speaker diarization, common ground detection, transformers for multi-party dialogue, datasets and simulators for multi-party dialogue, reinforcement learning for managing multi-party dialogue, handling split utterances (user utterances split between dialogue turns and utterances of other speakers), anaphora and ellipsis resolution in multi-party dialogue, multimodal input and output in multi-party dialogue systems, monitoring conversation status (sentiment analysis, detection of (dis)agreements and misunderstandings, etc.), methods and metrics for evaluating multi-party dialogue systems. Dialogue Systems for Multilingual and Under-resourced Language Speakers: Current dialogue systems target mostly monolingual and high resource languages and their speakers. However, millions of speakers around the world (e.g., India, Africa, Europe as well as indigenous and immigrant communities in the US) are multilingual and it is normal for these speakers and communities to switch within or across languages in daily lives (Doğruöz et al., 2021<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8712328__;!…>; Sitaram et al., 2019<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00784__;!!LIr3w8kk_X…>). In addition, most languages of the world are still under-resourced. Therefore, there is a need for dialogue systems to be more inclusive and target both the multilingual and under-resourced languages and their speakers. The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers from the SDS community and encourage research and discussion around the unique challenges (e.g., data collection, model building, sociolinguistic aspects and system evaluation) for multilingual and under-resourced languages. Important Dates: (All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, Anywhere on Earth) Paper submission: October 28, 2022 Paper notification: December 9, 2022 Camera ready papers due: January 11, 2023 Workshop: February 21-24, 2023

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ACL Rolling Review Commitment Deadline: the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE @ EMNLP 2022)
by ali hürriyetoglu 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Dear all, Please be reminded that the ACL Rolling Review commitment deadline for the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE <https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2022/> @ EMNLP 2022 <https://2022.emnlp.org/>) is *October 5th (extended), 2022 (AoE)*. The submissions should be done on http://softconf.com/emnlp2022/case2022 (track: case 2022 arr) deadline. The notification date is October 9th. We are looking forward to your submissions/comments/questions! Best wishes, Ali

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Two Research positions in the field of Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction in the Clinical Domain
by Alberto Lavelli 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

*Two Research positions in the field of Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction in the Clinical Domain* *Application deadline: 27 October, 2022* Within the context of the eCREAM and of the IDEA4RC projects, funded by the European Union, we are inviting applications for two research positions on the subject of information extraction in the clinical domain in a multilingual perspective. *Job Description* FBK is looking for candidates to cover 2 positions with dynamic, highly motivated, researchers in the field of “Natural Language Processing” for the NLP Unit of the Digital Health and Wellbeing (dHWB) Center. The candidates will be asked to advance state-of-the-art research in the field of NLP, with particular emphasis on the development of techniques for information extraction in the clinical domain. On the topics above, the candidates will have the possibility to supervise PhD students and develop their own specific research directions in accordance with the strategies of the Research Unit and the dHWB Center. The candidates will work in collaboration with other researchers of the NLP Unit and of the dHWB Center, as well as with the partners involved in EU projects. The candidate is also expected to contribute to proposals for funded activities, including reporting and dissemination of results (in both academic and popular venues). Furthermore, we expect the successful candidates to contribute to maintain a strong role of FBK in the Italian and international NLP community. The purpose of the current call is an opportunity of working into an internationally renewed NLP group and develop their own research path in accordance with the long term strategy of the NLP Unit and the dHWB Center. *Job requirements* *The ideal candidates should have:* · PhD Degree in areas related to Computer Science or Computational Linguistics; · Research Expertise in Information Extraction; · Publication track record in the field of NLP; · Good Knowledge in application of deep learning techniques in NLP; · Strong programming skills; · Good knowledge and proficiency of the English language; · Team working attitude; · Good communication and relational skills; · Autonomy in developing research and organising work activities; *Additional requirements:* · Experience in supervision of internship and thesis of bachelor and master level on topics related to NLP; · Experience in working for international research projects; *FBK actively seeks diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is also committed in promoting gender equality.* *Employment* *Type of contract*: fixed term contract – full time *Start date*: preferably from November 2022 *End date*: 31 August, 2027 (eCREAM) / 31 August, 2026 (IDEA4RC) *Gross annual salary*: about € 39.500 *Workplace*: Povo - Trento (Italy) *Application* Interested candidates are requested to submit their application by completing the online form (https://jobs.fbk.eu/). Please make sure that your application contains the following attachments (in pdf format): · Detailed CV including list of scientific publications · Motivation letter · Email address contact for two referees *Application deadline: 27 October, 2022* *About FBK* FBK is a private research institution devoted to excellence in research in numerous disciplines and designated to the role of keeping the Autonomous Province of Trento in the mainstream of European and international research. Each research area is assigned to a specific research center, of which there are eleven totals. Information regarding the research centers, their activities and production is available at http://www.fbk.eu/research-centers. The Digital Health and Wellbeing (dHWB) Center <https://www.fbk.eu/it/digital-healthwellbeing/> focuses on supporting an equitable and sustainable public healthcare system based on the pervasive use of digital technologies and AI by both empowered citizens and healthcare professionals, in the context of the 4P medicine. The activities of the dHWB Center focus on promoting and supporting a value-chain that combines high-quality scientific research (open and targeted) and innovation (social and technological) to have a significant impact on society (citizens and healthcare system) and market. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) research unit <https://ict.fbk.eu/units/nlp/> develops computational models of human languages, focusing on written texts. We are active in the following areas: *text mining (*document classification, information extraction and ontology population from text, semantic inferences, analysis of the sentiment and of the emotional content of texts); *conversational agents (*task oriented dialogue systems, collaborative human-machine dialogues, generation of explanations); and development of *linguistic resources*, particularly for the Italian language. In all the above areas, deep learning techniques are exploited. A common issue concerns the “explainability” of the choices carried out by the systems. We are fond of contributing to the Italian NLP community. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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Coptic Scriptorium corpora release 4.4.0
by Amir Zeldes 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

We are pleased to announce release 4.4.0 of Coptic Scriptorium <https://copticscriptorium.org/> ! Our data now includes over 1,267,000 tokens of searchable, linguistically analyzed Coptic data from dozens of ancient Coptic works (an increase of almost 100,000 tokens from the previous release). Annotations include POS tagging, lemmatization, morphological analysis, dependency parses, nested NNER, entity linking and more. We are very grateful to all of our collaborators and contributors, without whom this project could not function. This release corrects a large number of consistency errors identified in our existing data, and also adds some new documents: * Sections of three works by Shenoute of Artipe <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/search?author=Shenoute> : * I Have Been Considering <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/shenouteconsidering/> * So Concerning the Little Place <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/shenouteplace/> * The Lord Thundered <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/shenoutethundered/> * New documents added to existing works: * Acephalous Work 22 <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/acephalous_work_22/> * Apophthegmata Patrum <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/ap/> * The remaining books 2-4, as well as the postscript of Pistis Sophia <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/pistissophia/> , which are now added to the previously released book 1 in our online interfaces * Newly treebanked data with syntactic gold standard annotations for the Life of John the Kalybites <https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/lifejohnkalybites/> , part 1 We would like to thank the Marcion Project <https://marcion.sourceforge.net/> for making the underlying digitized text of Pistis Sophia available, and all of the annotators for their hard work. Tamara Siuda, Rebecca Krawiec, Philippe Zaher, and Lance Martin contributed, in addition to Amir and Carrie. As our current DHAG grant <https://copticscriptorium.org/dhag> ends, we would like to give special thanks to Lance, who has been working as our DH specialist on the project since 2019, for doing an amazing job of keeping track of all the data and the various tasks he’s been in charge of over the past three years! As with all releases, raw machine readable data for all corpora can be found, including morphological and syntactic analysis, as well as named entity recognition and entity linking, on our GitHub repository, in a variety of popular formats: https://github.com/copticscriptorium/corpora You can also search for complex linguistic annotations in the data using our ANNIS server – please see our new tutorial here to get started with some query tips and a helpful cheat sheet: https://copticscriptorium.org/ANNIS_tutorial We hope this release will be useful and look forward to the next one as always, The Coptic Scriptorium team � �

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[Deadline extended] EvoNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2022
by Jose Camacho Collados 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

************************************ EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop: The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP -> The main submission deadline has been extended to October 12. Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/ Shared Task: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task Submission deadline (for papers requiring review / non-archival): 12 October, 2022 [EXTENDED!] Submission deadline (with ARR reviews): 25 October, 2022 Notification of acceptance: 31 October, 2022 Camera-ready paper deadline: 11 November, 2022 Workshop date: 7 December, 2022 (co-located with EMNLP) ************************************ Advances in language modeling have led to remarkable accuracy on several NLP tasks, but most benchmarks used for evaluation are static, ignoring the practical setting under which training data from the past and present must be used for generalizing to future data. Consequently, training paradigms also ignore the time sensitivity of language and essentially treat all text as if it was written at a single point in time. Recent studies have shown that in a dynamic setting, where the test data is drawn from a different time period than the training data, the accuracy of such static models degrades as the gap between the two periods increases. -------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop focuses on these time-related issues in NLP models and benchmarks. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to redesign experimental settings, benchmark datasets, and modeling by especially focusing on the “time” variable. We will welcome papers / work-in-progress on several topics including (but not limited to): - Dynamic Benchmarks: Evaluation of Model Degradation in Time Measuring how NLP models age Random splits vs time-based splits (past/future) Latency (days vs years) at which models need to be updated for maintaining task accuracy Time-sensitivity of different tasks and the type of knowledge which gets stale Time-sensitivity of different domains (e.g., news vs scientific papers) and how domain shifts interact with time shifts Sensitivity of different models and architectures to time shifts - Time-Aware Models Incorporating time information into NLP models Techniques for updating / replacing models which degrade with time Learning strategies for improving temporal degradation Trade-offs between updating a degraded model vs replacing it altogether Mitigating catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge as we update models with new knowledge Improving plasticity of models so that they can be easily updated Retrieval based models for improving temporal generalization - Analysis of existing models / datasets Characterizing whether degradation on a task is due to outdated facts or changes in language use Effect of model scale on temporal degradation – do large models exhibit less degradation? Efficiency / accuracy trade-offs when updating models -------------------------------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings unless requested otherwise by the authors. Submissions can be made either via OpenReview where they will go through the standard double-blind process, or through ACL Rolling Review with existing reviews. See details below. ---- Submission guidelines ---- We seek submissions of original work or work-in-progress. Submissions can be in the form of long/short papers and should follow the ACL main conference template. Authors can choose to make their paper archival/non-archival. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. Archival track We will follow double-blind review process and use OpenReview for the submissions. We also will accept ACL rolling review (ARR) submissions with reviews. Since these submissions already come with reviews, the submission deadline is much later than the initial deadline. We will use Open Review for the submissions. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2022/Workshop/EvoNLP For papers needing review click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP submission” For papers from ARR click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP commitment Submission” ---- Non-archival track ---- Non-archival track seeks recently accepted / published work as well as work-in-progress. It does not need to be anonymized and will not go through the review process. The submission should clearly indicate the original venue and will be accepted if the organizers think the work will benefit from exposure to the audience of this workshop. Submission: Please email your submission as a single PDF file to evonlp(a)googlegroups.com. Include “EvoNLP Non-Archival Submission” in the title and the author names and affiliation within the body of your email. ---- Shared task (TempoWiC) ---- The workshop features a shared task on meaning shift detection in social media. Official competition is closed, but new submissions can be made to Codalab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5360 -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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5 October - Prof Tony McEnery online talk Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use
by Pascual Pérez-Paredes 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use Online talk. October 5, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) Prof Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster Free registration link<https://umurcia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ey8fEpC3RkC7_vAUKEpAgg>. You’ll receive an email with the ZOOM link and code. Abstract In this talk I will explore the relationship between learner corpus and second language acquisition research. I begin by considering the origins of learner corpus research, noting its roots in smaller scale studies of learner language. This development of learner corpus studies will be considered in the broader context of the development of corpus linguistics. I then consider the aspirations that learner corpus researchers have had to engage with second language acquisition research and explore why, to date, the interaction between the two fields has been minimal. By exploring some of the corpus building practices of learner corpus research, and the theoretical goals of second language acquisition studies, I will identify reasons for this lack of interaction and make proposals for how this situation could be fruitfully addressed. Tony McEnery is distinguished professor of Linguistics and English Langauge in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University and Changjiang Chair at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. He has published widely on corpus linguistics and is the author of Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (with Andrew Hardie, Cambridge University Press, 2011). His latest book, Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics (with Vaclav Brezina) is due out from Cambridge University Press soon. More info: https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2022/09/20/corpus-linguistics-learner-cor… Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf

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announcement for circulation
by Sara Bartl 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Dear All, Sorry for the confusion. Please see the updated version below. Could you please circulate the following announcement about the revised application deadline for the R for Stylistics Workshop? Thank you. Sara Bartl Dear Colleagues, Due to the high number of sign-ups for the R for Stylistics workshop, we have decided to close applications early. The new deadline is 7 October. Please note that this is an in-person event only! R for Stylistics is a two-day (January 19-20, 2023), hands-on workshop for students and scholars of stylistics/literary linguistics who are eager to learn how to use the R programming environment to handle textual data. The workshop will follow an intensive two-day program in which participants will learn the basics of working with R and R Studio, as well as some methods of basic textual analysis with R. The workshop is best suited to advanced students (i.e. MA, PhD) and scholars of stylistics with no prior programming experience. For more information and to register/apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Wrv14EmX2_hsXG_rt0IkxXPvnibl9Qd… Sara Bartl (she/they) @SaraBartl<https://twitter.com/SaraBartl> Doctoral Researcher English Language and Linguistics University of Birmingham Currently reading: Everything Under - Daisy Johnson

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