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Universal Dependencies, release 2.12
by Dan Zeman 15 May '23

15 May '23

We are very happy to announce the eighteenth release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.12, available at http://universaldependencies.org/. Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective (de Marneffe et al., 2021; Nivre et al., 2020). The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when necessary. The *245* treebanks in v2.12 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *141 languages:* Abaza, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bambara, Basque, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bororo, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Chukchi, Classical Chinese, Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Erzya, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian Dutch, Galician, German, Gheg, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Hebrew, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khunsari, Kiche, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Korean, Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Livvi, Low Saxon, Madi, Maghrebi Arabic French, Makurap, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Marathi, Mbya Guarani, Moksha, Munduruku, Naija, Nayini, Neapolitan, Nheengatu, North Sami, Norwegian, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old French, Old Irish, Old Turkish, Persian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, Soi, South Levantine Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, Swedish Sign Language, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamil, Tatar, Teko, Telugu, Thai, Tupinamba, Turkish, Turkish German, Ukrainian, Umbrian, Upper Sorbian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Warlpiri, Welsh, Western Armenian, Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl, Wolof, Xavante, Xibe, Yakut, Yoruba, Yupik and Zaar. The 141 languages belong to *30 families:* Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Japanese, Korean, Macro-Je, Mande, Mayan, Mongolic, Niger-Congo, Northwest Caucasian, Pama-Nyungan, Sign Language, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Uralic and Uto-Aztecan. Depending on the language, the treebanks range in size from less than 1,000 tokens to over 3 million tokens. We expect the next release to be available in November 2023. The size of the following 28 treebanks changed significantly since the last release: Bororo BDT : 0 → 692 Classical Chinese Kyoto : 310594 → 433168 English ESL : 97681 → 0 English ESLSpok : 0 → 21312 English GENTLE : 0 → 17797 English GUM : 164490 → 187515 French FTB : 573370 → 0 Greek GUD : 0 → 25493 Hindi English HIENCS : 26909 → 0 Irish Cadhan : 3804 → 4783 Irish TwittIrish : 15433 → 47790 Japanese Modern : 14494 → 0 Javanese CSUI : 2067 → 14344 Kyrgyz KTMU : 0 → 7451 Maghrebi Arabic French Arabizi: 0 → 19793 Malayalam UFAL : 202 → 2403 Moksha JR : 3431 → 4081 Nheengatu CompLin : 2146 → 8604 Norwegian NynorskLIA : 55410 → 0 Old Church Slavonic PROIEL : 57563 → 198843 Old East Slavic Ruthenian : 3069 → 10011 Old East Slavic TOROT : 149780 → 246850 Old Irish DipSGG : 0 → 400 Old Irish DipWBG : 0 → 438 Portuguese GSD : 318916 → 0 Teko TuDeT : 1375 → 2272 Vietnamese VTB : 43783 → 58069 Xavante XDT : 120 → 1597 Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Noëmi Aepli, Hamid Aghaei, Željko Agić, Amir Ahmadi, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Salih Furkan Akkurt, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Ika Alfina, Avner Algom, Khalid Alnajjar, Chiara Alzetta, Erik Andersen, Lene Antonsen, Tatsuya Aoyama, Katya Aplonova, Angelina Aquino, Carolina Aragon, Glyd Aranes, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Þórunn Arnardóttir, Gashaw Arutie, Jessica Naraiswari Arwidarasti, Masayuki Asahara, Katla Ásgeirsdóttir, Deniz Baran Aslan, Cengiz Asmazoğlu, Luma Ateyah, Furkan Atmaca, Mohammed Attia, Aitziber Atutxa, Liesbeth Augustinus, Mariana Avelãs, Elena Badmaeva, Keerthana Balasubramani, Miguel Ballesteros, Esha Banerjee, Sebastian Bank, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Starkaður Barkarson, Rodolfo Basile, Victoria Basmov, Colin Batchelor, John Bauer, Seyyit Talha Bedir, Shabnam Behzad, Kepa Bengoetxea, İbrahim Benli, Yifat Ben Moshe, Gözde Berk, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Erica Biagetti, Eckhard Bick, Agnė Bielinskienė, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Rogier Blokland, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Emanuel Borges Völker, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Kristina Brokaitė, Aljoscha Burchardt, Marisa Campos, Marie Candito, Bernard Caron, Gauthier Caron, Catarina Carvalheiro, Rita Carvalho, Lauren Cassidy, Maria Clara Castro, Sérgio Castro, Tatiana Cavalcanti, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Slavomír Čéplö, Neslihan Cesur, Savas Cetin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Fabricio Chalub, Liyanage Chamila, Shweta Chauhan, Ethan Chi, Taishi Chika, Yongseok Cho, Jinho Choi, Jayeol Chun, Juyeon Chung, Alessandra T. Cignarella, Silvie Cinková, Aurélie Collomb, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Daniela Corbetta, Francisco Costa, Marine Courtin, Mihaela Cristescu, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Philemon Daniel, Elizabeth Davidson, Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Mathieu Dehouck, Martina de Laurentiis, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Valeria de Paiva, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Elvis de Souza, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Carly Dickerson, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Elisa Di Nuovo, Bamba Dione, Peter Dirix, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Puneet Dwivedi, Christian Ebert, Hanne Eckhoff, Masaki Eguchi, Sandra Eiche, Marhaba Eli, Ali Elkahky, Binyam Ephrem, Olga Erina, Tomaž Erjavec, Farah Essaidi, Aline Etienne, Wograine Evelyn, Sidney Facundes, Richárd Farkas, Federica Favero, Jannatul Ferdaousi, Marília Fernanda, Hector Fernandez Alcalde, Amal Fethi, Jennifer Foster, Cláudia Freitas, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Federica Gamba, Marcos Garcia, Moa Gärdenfors, Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi, Kim Gerdes, Luke Gessler, Filip Ginter, Gustavo Godoy, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gökırmak, Yoav Goldberg, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Berta González Saavedra, Bernadeta Griciūtė, Matias Grioni, Loïc Grobol, Normunds Grūzītis, Bruno Guillaume, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Tunga Güngör, Nizar Habash, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Jan Hajič, Jan Hajič jr., Mika Hämäläinen, Linh Hà Mỹ, Na-Rae Han, Muhammad Yudistira Hanifmuti, Takahiro Harada, Sam Hardwick, Kim Harris, Dag Haug, Johannes Heinecke, Oliver Hellwig, Felix Hennig, Barbora Hladká, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Florinel Hociung, Petter Hohle, Marivel Huerta Mendez, Jena Hwang, Takumi Ikeda, Anton Karl Ingason, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Ọlájídé Ishola, Artan Islamaj, Kaoru Ito, Siratun Jannat, Tomáš Jelínek, Apoorva Jha, Katharine Jiang, Anders Johannsen, Hildur Jónsdóttir, Fredrik Jørgensen, Markus Juutinen, Hüner Kaşıkara, Nadezhda Kabaeva, Sylvain Kahane, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Neslihan Kara, Ritván Karahóǧa, Andre Kåsen, Tolga Kayadelen, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Václava Kettnerová, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Elena Klyachko, Arne Köhn, Abdullatif Köksal, Kamil Kopacewicz, Timo Korkiakangas, Mehmet Köse, Alexey Koshevoy, Natalia Kotsyba, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Simon Krek, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sandra Kübler, Adrian Kuqi, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Aslı Kuzgun, Sookyoung Kwak, Kris Kyle, Veronika Laippala, Lorenzo Lambertino, Tatiana Lando, Septina Dian Larasati, Alexei Lavrentiev, John Lee, Phương Lê Hồng, Alessandro Lenci, Saran Lertpradit, Herman Leung, Maria Levina, Lauren Levine, Cheuk Ying Li, Josie Li, Keying Li, Yixuan Li, Yuan Li, KyungTae Lim, Bruna Lima Padovani, Yi-Ju Jessica Lin, Krister Lindén, Yang Janet Liu, Nikola Ljubešić, Olga Loginova, Stefano Lusito, Andry Luthfi, Mikko Luukko, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Vivien Macketanz, Menel Mahamdi, Jean Maillard, Ilya Makarchuk, Aibek Makazhanov, Michael Mandl, Christopher Manning, Ruli Manurung, Büşra Marşan, Cătălina Mărănduc, David Mareček, Katrin Marheinecke, Stella Markantonatou, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Lorena Martín Rodríguez, André Martins, Cláudia Martins, Jan Mašek, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yuji Matsumoto, Alessandro Mazzei, Ryan McDonald, Sarah McGuinness, Gustavo Mendonça, Tatiana Merzhevich, Niko Miekka, Aaron Miller, Karina Mischenkova, Anna Missilä, Cătălin Mititelu, Maria Mitrofan, Yusuke Miyao, AmirHossein Mojiri Foroushani, Judit Molnár, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Simonetta Montemagni, Amir More, Laura Moreno Romero, Giovanni Moretti, Shinsuke Mori, Tomohiko Morioka, Shigeki Moro, Bjartur Mortensen, Bohdan Moskalevskyi, Kadri Muischnek, Robert Munro, Yugo Murawaki, Kaili Müürisep, Pinkey Nainwani, Mariam Nakhlé, Juan Ignacio Navarro Horñiacek, Anna Nedoluzhko, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Manuela Nevaci, Lương Nguyễn Thị, Huyền Nguyễn Thị Minh, Yoshihiro Nikaido, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rattima Nitisaroj, Alireza Nourian, Hanna Nurmi, Stina Ojala, Atul Kr. Ojha, Hulda Óladóttir, Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun, Mai Omura, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Noam Ordan, Petya Osenova, Robert Östling, Lilja Øvrelid, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Merve Özçelik, Arzucan Özgür, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Teresa Paccosi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Anastasia Panova, Hyunji Hayley Park, Niko Partanen, Elena Pascual, Marco Passarotti, Agnieszka Patejuk, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, Giulia Pedonese, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, Siyao Peng, Siyao Logan Peng, Rita Pereira, Sílvia Pereira, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Natalia Perkova, Guy Perrier, Slav Petrov, Daria Petrova, Andrea Peverelli, Jason Phelan, Jussi Piitulainen, Yuval Pinter, Clara Pinto, Tommi A Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Magdalena Plamada, Barbara Plank, Thierry Poibeau, Larisa Ponomareva, Martin Popel, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Sophie Prévost, Prokopis Prokopidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Robert Pugh, Tiina Puolakainen, Sampo Pyysalo, Peng Qi, Andreia Querido, Andriela Rääbis, Alexandre Rademaker, Mizanur Rahoman, Taraka Rama, Loganathan Ramasamy, Joana Ramos, Fam Rashel, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Vinit Ravishankar, Livy Real, Petru Rebeja, Siva Reddy, Mathilde Regnault, Georg Rehm, Arij Riabi, Ivan Riabov, Michael Rießler, Erika Rimkutė, Larissa Rinaldi, Laura Rituma, Putri Rizqiyah, Luisa Rocha, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Ivan Roksandic, Mykhailo Romanenko, Rudolf Rosa, Valentin Roșca, Davide Rovati, Ben Rozonoyer, Olga Rudina, Jack Rueter, Kristján Rúnarsson, Shoval Sadde, Pegah Safari, Aleksi Sahala, Shadi Saleh, Alessio Salomoni, Tanja Samardžić, Stephanie Samson, Manuela Sanguinetti, Ezgi Sanıyar, Dage Särg, Marta Sartor, Mitsuya Sasaki, Baiba Saulīte, Yanin Sawanakunanon, Shefali Saxena, Kevin Scannell, Salvatore Scarlata, Nathan Schneider, Sebastian Schuster, Lane Schwartz, Djamé Seddah, Wolfgang Seeker, Mojgan Seraji, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Muh Shohibussirri, Maria Shvedova, Janine Siewert, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, João Silva, Aline Silveira, Natalia Silveira, Sara Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Mária Šimková, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Kiril Simov, Dmitri Sitchinava, Ted Sither, Maria Skachedubova, Aaron Smith, Isabela Soares-Bastos, Per Erik Solberg, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Shafi Sourov, Rachele Sprugnoli, Vivian Stamou, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Antonio Stella, Abishek Stephen, Milan Straka, Emmett Strickland, Jana Strnadová, Alane Suhr, Yogi Lesmana Sulestio, Umut Sulubacak, Shingo Suzuki, Daniel Swanson, Zsolt Szántó, Chihiro Taguchi, Dima Taji, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. Tan, Takaaki Tanaka, Dipta Tanaya, Mirko Tavoni, Samson Tella, Isabelle Tellier, Marinella Testori, Guillaume Thomas, Sara Tonelli, Liisi Torga, Marsida Toska, Trond Trosterud, Anna Trukhina, Reut Tsarfaty, Utku Türk, Francis Tyers, Sveinbjörn Þórðarson, Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson, Sumire Uematsu, Roman Untilov, Zdeňka Urešová, Larraitz Uria, Hans Uszkoreit, Andrius Utka, Elena Vagnoni, Sowmya Vajjala, Socrates Vak, Rob van der Goot, Martine Vanhove, Daniel van Niekerk, Gertjan van Noord, Viktor Varga, Uliana Vedenina, Giulia Venturi, Veronika Vincze, Natalia Vlasova, Aya Wakasa, Joel C. Wallenberg, Lars Wallin, Abigail Walsh, Jonathan North Washington, Maximilan Wendt, Paul Widmer, Shira Wigderson, Sri Hartati Wijono, Seyi Williams, Mats Wirén, Christian Wittern, Tsegay Woldemariam, Tak-sum Wong, Alina Wróblewska, Mary Yako, Kayo Yamashita, Naoki Yamazaki, Chunxiao Yan, Koichi Yasuoka, Marat M. Yavrumyan, Arife Betül Yenice, Olcay Taner Yıldız, Zhuoran Yu, Arlisa Yuliawati, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Shorouq Zahra, Amir Zeldes, He Zhou, Hanzhi Zhu, Yilun Zhu, Anna Zhuravleva, Rayan Ziane References Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher Manning, Joakim Nivre, Daniel Zeman. 2021. Universal Dependencies. In Computational Linguistics 47:2, pp. 255–308. Joakim Nivre, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Filip Ginter, Jan Hajič, Christopher D. Manning, Sampo Pyysalo, Sebastian Schuster, Francis Tyers, Daniel Zeman. 2020. Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection. In Proceedings of LREC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bill MacCartney, and Christopher D. Manning. 2006. Generating typed dependency parses from phrase structure parses. In Proceedings of LREC. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Christopher D. Manning. 2008. The Stanford typed dependencies representation. 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ACL2023 Call for Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies
by Nedjma OUSIDHOUM 15 May '23

15 May '23

Dear corpora-list members, ACL 2023 is providing D&I funds for registration, caregiving, bandwidth, travel, and other subsidies. We strongly encourage researchers with financial hurdles to apply for subsidies. Please fill in this form <https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQA…> on or before May 31st. *Please visit * https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/subsidies/* for more details.* If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the D&I committee. (Email: acl2023dei(a)googlegroups.com). Best regards, Daniel Beck, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Nedjma Ousidhoum.

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Cal for Participation - IWCS 2023 - Early Registration 21st May
by Maxime Amblard 15 May '23

15 May '23

**apologies for cross-postings** ===== Call for Participation IWCS 2023 ===== Program: http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/program/ Early Registration: 21st May 2023 https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/registration/ ============================================ 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Universit�� de Lorraine, Nancy, France 20-23th June 2023 http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/ IWCS is the biennial meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is organized in person by the Loria [3] and IDMC [4] of the Universit�� de Lorraine. [1] http://sigsem.org/ [2] http://aclweb.org/ [3] https://www.loria.fr/fr/ [4] http://idmc.univ-lorraine.fr/ The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation and neuralisation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference and workshops will take place 20-23 June 2023. === TOPICS OF INTEREST === We invite paper submissions in all areas of computational semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Presentations will be oral and posters. Submissions are invited on these closely related areas, including the following: * design of meaning representations * syntax-semantics interface * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics * distributional semantics * alternative approaches to compositional semantics * inference methods for computational semantics * recognising textual entailment * learning by reading * methodologies and practices for semantic annotation * machine learning of semantic structures * probabilistic computational semantics * neural semantic parsing * computational aspects of lexical semantics * semantics and ontologies * semantic web and natural language processing * semantic aspects of language generation * generating from meaning representations * semantic relations in discourse and dialogue * semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts * multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning * semantics-pragmatics interface * applications of computational semantics === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Both types should be submitted not later than 3 March (anywhere on earth). Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references). Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references). Both types will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. Style-files: IWCS papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use our specific style-files or the Overleaf template, taken from ACL 2021. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Submitting: Papers should be submitted in PDF format via Softconf: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have problems using Softconf. No anonymity period IWCS 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. === IMPORTANT DATES === 15 March --> 22 March 2023 (anywhere on earth) Paper submissions 17 April 2023 Decisions sent to authors 15 May 2023 Camera-ready papers due 20-23 June 2023 IWCS conference === CONTACT === For questions, contact: iwcs2023-contact(a)univ-lorraine.fr Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breithloltz (the IWCS 2023 organizers)

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[CfP] LangArc-2023: Extended Deadline
by Hugh Paterson III 15 May '23

15 May '23

Deadline Extended! The 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc 2023), a virtual workshop on digital language archives – digital libraries that preserve, curate, and provide online access to language data – continues (after the initial LangArc 2021 workshop) addressing the growing need for professional solutions to challenging engagement and stewardship issues. LangArc 2023 will explore a broad scope of issues related to digital language archives. This includes challenges and opportunities, strategies and solutions for: facilitating depositing and improving access; information organization, architecture, and retrieval; quality assurance; usability; ethical issues; ways of encouraging reuse of deposited data in research and education; and coursework and other training for information professionals that will develop and maintain digital language archives. This workshop is expected to support interdisciplinary collaboration among information professionals, linguists, educators, representatives of language communities (including indigenous and other underrepresented), students, and other interested audiences. See full call here: https://easychair.org/cfp/LangArc2023 workshop webpage on the UNT COI website https://jcdl2023dla.ci.unt.edu Important dates: New date! May 21 AOE: submission deadline New date! June 5 AOE: acceptance notification New date! June 20 AOE: submission of the camera-ready version of the original submission to be published in the workshop proceedings. June 25, 2023: registration deadline for authors of accepted submissions (at least one author must be registered for JCDL 2023 conference at https://2023.jcdl.org/registration/) June 26-30, 2023: JCDL 2023 main conference June 30, 2023: workshop date Kind Regards, Hugh Paterson III

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May 2023 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 May '23

15 May '23

In this newsletter: LDC at ICASSP 2023 New publications: 2019 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set - CTS Challenge<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S03> LORELEI Zulu Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T06> ________________________________ LDC at ICASSP 2023 LDC will be exhibiting at ICASSP 2023<https://2023.ieeeicassp.org/>, held this year June 4-10 in Rhodes, Greece. Stop by booth 15 to learn more about recent developments at the Consortium and the latest publications. LDC will post conference updates via Twitter<https://twitter.com/LDCupenn> and Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ldc.upenn>. We look forward to seeing you there! ________________________________ New publications: 2019 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set - CTS Challenge<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S03>, developed by LDC and NIST, contains 635 hours of Tunisian Arabic telephone recordings for development and test, answer keys, enrollment, trial files, and documentation from the CTS Challenge portion of the NIST-sponsored 2019 Speaker Recognition Evaluation<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/nist-2019-speaker-recognition-evaluation>. The 2019 evaluation was conducted in two parts: (1) a leaderboard-style challenge based on conversational telephone speech from LDC's Call My Net 2 (CMN2) corpus; and (2) a separate evaluation using audio-visual material collected by LDC for the VAST (Video Annotation for Speech Technology) project (released as LDC2023V01<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023V01>). The telephone speech data for the CTS Challenge was drawn from the CMN2 collection conducted by LDC in Tunisia in which Tunisian Arabic speakers called friends or relatives who agreed to record their telephone conversations lasting between 8-10 minutes. The speech segments include PSTN (public switched telephone network) and VOIP (voice over IP) data. 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Zulu Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T06> is comprised of over 5 million words of Zulu monolingual text, 2.7 million words of found Zulu-English parallel text, and 71,000 Zulu words translated from English data. Approximately 100,000 words were annotated for named entities and over 23,000 words were annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames (identifying entities, needs, and issues). Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Final Call For Papers: 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2023
by Simeon Schüz 15 May '23

15 May '23

*Final Call For Papers: 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2023* We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from 11-15 September in Prague, Czech Republic. INLG 2023 will be (jointly) colocated with SIGDial 2023. *Important dates* All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) - ***UPDATE: START system regular paper title & abstract submission deadline: May 22, 2023 - ***UPDATE: START system full paper submission deadline May 29, 2023 - ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: June 15, 2023 - START system demo paper submission deadline: June 15, 2023 - Notification: July 11, 2023 - Camera ready: July 25, 2023 - Conference: 11-15 September 2023 *Topics* INLG 2023 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Affect/emotion generation - Analysis and detection of automatically generated text - Bias and fairness in NLG systems - Cognitive modelling of language production - Computational efficiency of NLG models - Content and text planning - Corpora and resources for NLG - Ethical considerations of NLG - Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems - Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems - Generalizability of NLG systems - Grounded language generation - Large Language Models for NLG - Lexicalisation - Multimedia and multimodality in generation - Natural language understanding techniques for NLG - NLG and accessibility - NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models - NLG in dialogue - NLG for human-robot interaction - NLG for low-resourced languages - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing, summarization and translation - Personalisation and variation in text - Referring expression generation - Storytelling and narrative generation - Surface realisation - System architectures *Submissions & Format* Three kinds of papers can be submitted: - Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. - Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. - Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2023. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/. Authors must honour the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2023 website (https://inlg2023.github.io/). To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2023, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2023/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting abstracts and titles of papers is May 22, 2023, 11:59:59 AOE and the full paper submission deadline is May 29, 2023, 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2023 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is June 15, 2023, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2023 is April 15, 2023. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2023 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2023 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2023/) by June 15, 2023, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2023 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2023 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. *Awards* INLG 2023 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: - Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. - Best Evaluation Award: The award is a new addition to INLG 2023. This award is designed to honour authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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CfP - MISDOOM 2023 5th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media
by Tommaso Caselli 15 May '23

15 May '23

***** apologies for multiple posting **** *MISDOOM 2023 - *5th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media The Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) is returning for its 5th edition on 21 and 22 November 2023, hosted by the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands. MISDOOM values multidisciplinary research and is designed to be inclusive of different academic disciplines and practices. The symposium provides a platform for researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners from various disciplines such as communication science, computer science, computational social science, political science, psychology, journalism, and media studies to come together and share their knowledge and insights on online disinformation. Symposium Topics Participants can discuss and contribute to the following list of topics: - Cross-platform campaigns and their impact (e.g., diffusion of disinformation and manipulation, observations of campaigns and strategies, communication strategies, hate speech) - Approaches to studying misinformation (e.g., qualitative approaches, case studies, quantitative approaches, experiments) - User involvement with misinformation on various platforms (e.g., engagement, viewership) - Counter-measures for mis- and disinformation and manipulation (e.g., censorship policies, behavioral changes, education, trainings, professional codices, legal actions) - Factors contributing to misinformation beliefs or hampering corrections of false beliefs (e.g., political polarization, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias) - Trending topics in mis- and disinformation research - Automated fact-checking and misinformation detection - Models for misinformation diffusion - Human computation approaches for misinformation detection (crowdsourcing, human-machine interaction) - Information quality (information quality dimensions, metrics, ethics of information quality) - Generative AI tools and disinformation (e.g., ChatGPT, Midjourney, DALL-E) Industry Industries are also invited to participate in the conference by submitting a contribution describing their approach to countering or detecting misinformation. Submission Instructions Given that we welcome both social scientists and computer scientists, and that the publication strategies of these fields differ, we solicit two types of contributions that, upon acceptance, result in the same opportunity to present at MISDOOM: Full papers Full papers to be published with Springer LNCS proceedings. Up to 15 pages (including references) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format describing original unpublished and new research. The work should be structured like a research paper, and cover the context of the problem studied, the research question, approach/methodology, and results in 6 to 15 pages. It should be formatted according to the LNCS Word or LaTeX template. Such submissions will be judged based on scientific quality and relevance for the MISDOOM symposium. Extended Abstracts Authors can also choose to submit an Extended Abstract. The extended abstract should not exceed 500 words, excluding references, and can pertain to previously published work, ongoing projects, or new research ideas. There is no particular format for the extended abstract, but it must include the title, authors, their affiliation, the text of the abstract, and references, particularly if it involves previously published work. Submissions are not archival and are not formally published. Additionally, authors must submit a conference program abstract of no more than 150 words. Authors should add the suffix "(Extended Abstract)" to the title of their extended abstract submission. Important Note about Submissions Both contribution types (full papers and extended abstracts) must specify the discipline they are contributing to as keyword(s) in Easychair at the time of submission (they should enter at least one of the two keywords “computer science” or “social science” in the keyword box). Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=misdoom2023 Important Dates Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023 Notification: 28 August 2023 Camera ready: 11 September 2023 Symposium: 21-22 November 2023 -- Tommaso Caselli, Ph.D. Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands ---------------------------- https://xs4all.academia.edu/TommasoCaselli https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tommaso_Caselli Twitter: @tommaso_caselli

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Job opportunity: Corpus/Computational Linguist at BCU/Renato Software Ltd.
by e.franklin＠senso.cloud 15 May '23

15 May '23

Dear all, (Apologies for cross-posting) I'm very pleased to announce that we (Renato Software Ltd. and Birmingham City University) are looking to hire a Corpus/Computational Linguist for an Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership around online safeguarding for children in schools. Senso.cloud is a cloud-based classroom management tool that allows schools to monitor children's online behaviour and be aware of any potential safeguarding risks their activity might indicate. The role of the KTP Associate is to work with our Safeguarding and Development teams as well as academics at Birmingham City University to enhance this offering and help deliver even better protection to vulnerable students in school. Digital safeguarding saves lives. If you have completed a Master's or a PhD in Corpus/Computational Linguistics and you're for a job in industry with real meaning and impact, we'd love to hear from you! The closing date is Sunday, 11th June and interviews will take place on Monday, 19th June. If you have any questions, feel free to email Emma Franklin at e.franklin(a)senso.cloud. Please share with anyone who might be interested! https://jobs.bcu.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=052023-254

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Final CFP: 1st Symposium on Challenges for Natural Language Processing (CNLPS'23)
by Marek Kubis 15 May '23

15 May '23

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Symposium on Challenges for Natural Language Processing (CNLPS'23) Warsaw, Poland, 17-20 September, 2023 https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps Organized within FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573) Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions) KEY FACTS: Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing: DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science; 70 MEiN points Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. ********************* Statement concerning LLMs ********************* Recognizing developing issue that affects all academic disciplines, we would like to state that, in principle, papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) are prohibited, unless the produced text is used within the experimental part of the work. ********************************************************************* Challenges for Natural Language Processing Symposium is a series of competitions oriented towards advancing human language technologies. The goal of the symposium is to evaluate natural language processing tools in demanding, non-obvious tasks that address multimodal problems, cross-lingual learning and processing of natural languages that are not widely represented in other evaluation campaigns. This year we invite all interested teams and individuals to participate in the following events: + PolEval Competition https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps/poleval + Center for Artificial Intelligence Challenge on Conversational AI Correctness https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps/caiccaic + Temporal Image Caption Retrieval Competition https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps/ticrc More details about the competitions can be found in the linked subpages. Apart from the competitions, we also welcome submissions to the General Session that includes the topics listed below: * Corpora and Language Resources * Machine Learning in NLP * Speech Processing * Language Modeling * Language Generation * Conversational AI * Question Answering * Sentiment and Emotion Detection * Information Extraction Papers submitted for the General Session must comply with all standard FedCSIS requirements. For this session we only accept regular papers that describe new research contributions, present experiences encountered in practice or report on research topics worthy of immediate communication as explained on the page on paper categories. Submission rules: - Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files. - The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop. - Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. - Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation. - Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS technical sessions. Important dates: + Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 7, 2023 + Author notification: July 11, 2023 + Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023 + Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023 CNLPS is organized in collaboration with (within the framework of) Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation COST Action CA18231; https://multi3generation.eu/

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4 year PhD position VU Amsterdam Specializing NLP through reinforcement learning
by Fokkens, A.S. (Antske) 15 May '23

15 May '23

4 YEAR PHD POSITION: SPecializing NLP through reinforcement learning (Hybrid intelligence) VU AMSTERDAM & Utrecht university Deadline: 31 May 2023 23:59 CET Do you have a Masters degree in Computational Linguistics or a related area? Are you interested in reinforcement learning and do you want to dive deeper in the behavior of current models and the kind of errors they make? Do you want to be part of a large consortium that addresses a variety of topics around hybrid intelligence? Do you want to work in a group that cares about core questions in NLP research and aims to provide a positive inspiring environment to young researchers? Then please consider applying for our fully funded 4-year PhD position at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Please find out more & apply at: https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/phd-hybrid-intelligence-specializing-nlp-models-… (applications sent via email will not be processed) -- prof. dr. Antske Fokkens Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Algorithms, Geometry & Applications, Eindhoven University of Technology

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