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Fully funded PhD in NLP, London (QMUL)
by Haim Dubossarsky 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

A fully funded 4-year PhD position at the intersection of NLP and Topology is offered at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. It is part of the collaboration scheme between QMUL and the China Scholarship Council (CSC), and is therefore available for Chinese candidates only. The CSC scheme provides full tuition fee waiver and living stipend for 4 years, and requires (among other things) an English Language test (IELTS) from the last 2 years. You can read more about the scheme's requirements here <https://www.qmul.ac.uk/scholarships/items/china-scholarship-council-scholar…> . I am looking for brilliant candidates who hold (or about to hold) MSc in Computer Science with a strong NLP research background. Prospective students can learn more about the project here <http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electro…>, under the section: *Understanding neural representations via their algebraic-topological structures*. The PhD student will work in an interdisciplinary environment, and will be at the forefront of NLP research. If you are interested, please get in touch with me on: h.dubossarsky(a)qmul.ac.uk. Bests, Haim

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION - LongEval @ CLEF 2023
by Lorraine Goeuriot 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

We kindly invite you to participate in LongEval 2023, a shared task on longitudinal evaluation of NLP models at CLEF 2023. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION LongEval @ CLEF 2023 Longitudinal Evaluation of Models Performance https://clef-longeval.github.io <https://clef-longeval.github.io/> Lab description: The LongEval aims at identifying the types of models that offer better temporal persistence for NLP tasks on data that evolves across time in both shorter and longer time periods. LongEval is built on a common framework for its Information Retrieval and Text Classification tasks: for one system, we evaluate its efficiency when operating on test data acquired at the same time than the training data, when operating on data acquired shortly after time t (sub-task 1), and when operating on data acquired at time t" ( longer after time t, sub-task 2). For each sub-task of each task, two evaluation measures are proposed: an absolute quality measure, and a relative drop compared to an initial time t test result for each system LongEval 2023 proposes two tasks: • Task 1: Information Retrieval. For this task, the data is a sequence of Web document collections and queries, each containing a few million documents and hundreds of queries, provided by Qwant. Relevance assessments are to be computed using a Click Model acquired from real users of the Qwant search engine. As the initial corpus contains only French documents, an automatic translation into English will be provided. • Task 2: Text Classification. For this task, the training data is the TM-Senti sentiment analysis dataset extended with a development set and three human-annotated novel test sets for submission evaluation. TM-Senti is a general large-scale Twitter sentiment dataset in the English language, spanning over a 9-year period from 2013 to 2021. Tweets are labeled for sentiment as either “positive” or “negative”. The annotation is performed using distant supervision based on a manually curated list of emojis and emoticons. You can register for the task at: https://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ <https://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/> Lab Organizers: Rabab Alkhalifa, Iman Bilal, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Jose Camacho-Collados, Romain Deveaud, Alaa El-Ebshihy, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez, Petra Galuscakova, Lorraine Goeuriot, Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Daniel Loureiro, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Philippe Mulhem, Florina Piroi, Martin Popel, Christophe Servan, and Arkaitz Zubiaga. Important dates: Release of training data: 03/01/2023 Release of test data: 30/04/2023 Runs submissions date: 30/06/2023 LongEval Workshop: during CLEF 2023, Thessaloniki, 18-21 September 2023.

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2nd Call for Papers - Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children (deadline extended)
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children https://aichildinteraction.github.io/ February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format) Paper Submission Deadline: January 13th, 2023 (extended) Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiaic23 Contact: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com =================================================== In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers looking into multimodal interactions between children and artificial agents to discuss research problems that center around interactivity and go beyond just processing child speech. We are interested in discussing approaches to collecting and annotating datasets involving child speech, intent classification in child speech, designing dialogue flow with artificial agents that primarily interact with children, as well as repair strategies, active listening behavior, and other aspects of dialogue modeling. Moreover, multiparty conversations involving several children, children, and their adult caregivers or several artificial agents are of particular interest to this workshop. Acknowledging the early-stage nature of research in this area, the workshop will invite short position papers as contributions. In addition to selected talks that will be invited based on the submitted papers, we will host roundtable discussions allowing attendees to discuss ideas, share challenges they have faced, and highlight ideas for future research.  ## Topics of Interest The workshop welcomes contributions across a wide range of topics including, but not limited to: Natural Language Understanding of Child Speech  Dialogue Modeling of Child-Agent, Child-Robot, Child-Child, and Child-Adult Speech  Conversational Flow and Repair in Dialogue with Children  Multiparty-Interaction Involving Children  Multimodal Processing of Child Interactions  Automatic Speech Recognition of Child Speech  Evaluating Child Interactions with Artificial Agents/Robots Challenges in Designing Interactions for Children  Datasets of Child-Child, Child-Adult, or Child-Agent/Robot Interaction Ethics and Responsible AI for Child-Agent/Robot Interaction Related Topics ## Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: January 13th, 2023 (extended) - Author Notification deadline: February 1st, 2023 - Workshop: February 21st, 2023 (morning session) ## Submission Guidelines We invite short position papers of 3-4 pages (plus additional pages for references and appendices without page limitation), including work in progress containing preliminary results, technical reports, case studies, surveys, and state-of-the-art research in language-based AI agent interactions with children. Recently submitted or published papers are welcome to be submitted to this workshop if they are highly relevant to the topic of the workshop. Please select the appropriate track during the EasyChair submission to mark the submission accordingly. Papers will be reviewed for their relevance, novelty, and scientific and technical soundness. Submissions do not need to be anonymized for review. All manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiaic23 Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website. However, papers are still considered non-archival and can be submitted to other conferences. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper during the workshop in the form of a short talk, which can either be given in person in Los Angeles, USA, or virtually via Zoom. Authors should use the official IWSDS template: Latex Style and Template: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mnzjvTlIVEsdPb2IZXbzxU8WRJj3mLiJ Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/djcrwzgrdjvj Word Template: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WmO9iLvJtO0cH1E0VSC1bPsC0vRDpzbd ## Contact If you have questions, please get in touch via our public Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or by sending an e-mail to aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com

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Permanent CNRS Research Fellow Position in NLP for Under-resourced Languages
by Thierry Poibeau 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Dear All, CNRS offers one permanent research position (research fellow) in computer sciences for under-resourced languages. https://gestionoffres.dsi.cnrs.fr/fo/offres/detail-en.php?&offre_id=18 Details about the selection process and the kind of positions offered by CNRS is presented here: https://www.cnrs.fr/en/competitive-entrance-examinations-researchers-womenm…. Note that these are permanent (non tenured) positions, after a probatory period of one year. Lattice is a lab in Paris (https://lattice.cnrs.fr/, funded by CNRS, Ecole normale supérieure-PSL and Université Sorbonne nouvelle) with a strong team both in linguistics and in natural language processing. Lattice would be happy to host the above position (candidates are free to mention in their application the lab that best suits their research projects among CNRS labs in linguistics with a strong NLP component). Candidates with a strong CV who would like apply at Lattice for this position can contact Sophie Prévost or Thierry Poibeau (both firstname.lastname(a)ens.psl.eu <mailto:firstname.lastname@ens.psl.eu>) with a CV and a research proposal. A record of international publications (including major computer science conferences) is mandatory. Best regards, Thierry Poibeau

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[WWW-2023 - FinWeb] CFP - The 3rd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share the information of The 3rd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web (FinWeb) with you. FinWeb-2023 is to be held in April 30-May 4, 2023 in conjunction with The Web Conference 2023. We invite the submission of papers on original research in this area. We offer the prize in the main track (USD$500 to the Best Paper Award winner). In addition to the main track, there is a shared task collocated with FinWeb-2023: Exaggerated numeral detection (ExNum) shared task. *Submission Deadline: Feb. 06, 2023* The proceedings of the workshops will be published jointly with the conference proceedings. Please refer to the site of FinWeb-2023 for more details: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finweb-2023/home Sincerely, Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hiroya Takamura, Hsin-Hsi Chen FinWeb-2023 Organizers --- 陳重吉 (Chung-Chi Chen), Ph.D. Researcher Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan E-mail: c.c.chen(a)acm.org <cjchen(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw> Website: http://cjchen.nlpfin.com

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Learner Corpus Research Summer School, CECL/UCLouvain, 3-7 July 2023
by Gaëtanelle Gilquin 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL) is organizing the fifth edition of its Learner Corpus Research Summer School, which will take place at the University of Louvain, Belgium, from 3 to 7 July 2023. The aim of the Summer School is to introduce learner corpus research through a series of lectures, workshops and hands-on sessions. It is intended both for (junior and seasoned) researchers who have recently embarked on a learner corpus project and those who simply want to know more about this exciting field of research. No prior knowledge in learner corpus research is expected. Teaching staff: Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Sylviane Granger, Marie-Aude Lefer, Magali Paquot and Jennifer Thewissen. The following topics will be covered: Learner corpus design/compilation Learner corpus annotation (including error annotation) Learner corpus analysis (including data coding, Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis, Integrated Contrastive Model, introduction to statistics for learner corpus research) Interpreting learner corpus data Applications of learner corpus research Hands-on sessions will help participants familiarize themselves with a range of software tools for linguistic analysis and native and learner corpora, in particular the International Corpus of Learner English and the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Participants will have the opportunity to give a brief presentation of their project at the Learner Corpus Colloquium which will take place on the first day. The Summer School will also feature one-to-one sessions with members of the CECL team to answer questions related to the design of individual projects. Registration will open on 23 January 2023. Please note that the number of participants is limited to 30. Information about the Summer School can be obtained from the following website: https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/learner-corpus-researc…

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CfPs RiCL 11/1
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Dear colleagues, *Research in Corpus Linguistics* (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the *Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics* (AELINCO), is seeking for contributions to be published in the first issue of 2023 – June (11/1). Authors interested in publishing their work in this issue should* submit their contributions by February 15*. RiCL invites previously unpublished submissions in four main forms: 1. *Papers reporting on* research based on or derived from *corpora*. 2. *Research* *papers**reporting* * on* *corpus* *construction*, annotation, the development and application of corpus tools, software, etc. 3. *Book reviews* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. 4. *Review articles* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. Further information about RiCL’s editorial policies can be found here <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/editoria…>. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation, and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. Please, note that submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/su…> of RiCL. Further information at: *https://**ricl**.aelinco.es* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ricl.aelinco.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!S3r4UM…> All the best, Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso *Editors-in-chief* -- Paula Rodríguez Puente paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm

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December 2022 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

In this newsletter: LDC 2023 membership discounts now available Approaching deadline for Spring 2023 data scholarship applications 30th Anniversary Highlight: AMR ________________________________ New publications: CAMIO Transcription Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022T07> Global TIMIT Thai<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S13> Third DIHARD Challenge Evaluation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S14> LDC 2023 membership discounts now available Now through March 1, 2023, current 2022 members receive a 10% discount for renewing their membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5% discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for details on membership options and benefits. Approaching deadline for Spring 2023 data scholarship applications Attention students: don't miss out on the chance to receive no-cost access to LDC data for your research. Applications for Spring 2023 data scholarships are due January 15, 2023. For more information on requirements and program rules, see LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. 30th Anniversary Highlight: AMR Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) annotation was developed by LDC, SDL/Language Weaver, Inc., the University of Colorado's Computational Language and Educational Research group, and the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. It is a semantic representation language that captures "who is doing what to whom" in a sentence. Each sentence is paired with a graph that represents its whole-sentence meaning in a tree-structure. AMR utilizes PropBank frames, non-core semantic roles, within-sentence coreference, named entity annotation, modality, negation, questions, quantities, and so on to represent the semantic structure of a sentence largely independent of its syntax. LDC's Catalog contains three cumulative English AMR publications: Release 1.0 (LDC2014T12<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014T12>), Release 2.0 (LDC2017T10<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2017T10>), and Release 3.0 (LDC2020T02<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T02>). The combined result in AMR 3.0 is a semantic treebank of roughly 59,255 English natural language sentences from broadcast conversations, newswire, weblogs, web discussion forums, fiction, and web text, and includes multi-sentence annotations. LDC has also published Chinese Abstract Meaning Representation 1.0 (LDC2019T07<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2019T07>) and 2.0 (LDC2021T13<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2021T13>), developed by Brandeis University and Nanjing Normal University. These corpora contain AMR annotations for approximately 20,000 sentences from Chinese Treebank 8.0 (LDC2013T21<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013T21>). Chinese AMR follows the basic principles developed for English, making adaptations where necessary to accommodate Chinese phenomena. Abstract Meaning Representation 2.0 - Four Translations (LDC2020T07<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T07>), developed by the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, consists of Spanish, German, Italian, and Chinese Mandarin translations of a subset of sentences from AMR 2.0. Visit LDC's Catalog <https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/> for more details about these publications. ________________________________ New publications: CAMIO Transcription Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022T07> was developed by LDC and contains nearly 70,000 images of machine printed text with corresponding annotations and transcripts in 13 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Russian, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese. This corpus is a subset of data created for a broader effort to support the development and evaluation of optical character recognition and related technologies for 35 languages across 24 unique script types. Most images were annotated for text localization, resulting in over 2.3M line-level bounding boxes; 1250 images per language were also annotated with orthographic transcriptions of each line plus specification of reading order, yielding over 2.4M tokens of transcribed text. The resulting annotations are represented in an XML output format defined for this corpus. Data for each language is partitioned into test, train, or validation sets. 2022 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Global TIMIT Thai<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S13> consists of 12 hours of read speech and time-aligned transcripts in Standard Thai from 50 speakers (33 female, 17 male) reading 120 sentences selected from the Thai National Corpus<https://www.arts.chula.ac.th/ling/tnc/>, the Thai Junior Encyclopedia<https://www.au.edu/royal-activities/the-thai-encyclopedia-for-youth-project…>, and Thai Wikipedia, for a total of 6000 utterances. Data was collected in 2016. Speakers were recruited in the Bangkok metropolitan area; they were native Thais, fluent in Standard Thai, and literate. This data set was developed as part of LDC's Global TIMIT project which aims to create a series of corpora in a variety of languages with a similar set of key features as in the original TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus (LDC93S1)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S1> which was designed for acoustic-phonetic studies and for the development and evaluation of automatic speech recognition systems. 2022 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Third DIHARD Challenge Evaluation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S14> was developed by LDC and contains 33 hours of English and Chinese speech data along with corresponding annotations used in support of the Third DIHARD Challenge<https://dihardchallenge.github.io/dihard3>. The DIHARD third development and evaluation sets were drawn from diverse sources including monologues, map task dialogues, broadcast interviews, sociolinguistic interviews, meeting speech, speech in restaurants, clinical recordings, and amateur web videos. Annotations include diarization and segmentation. 2022 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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Call for Papers: ACL 2023 Student Research Workshop
by Devamanyu Hazarika 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Student Research Workshop co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada (July 10th-12th, 2023) ***Paper Submission Deadline: May 5th, 2023*** Important Dates - Pre-submission mentoring deadline: March 10, 2023 - Pre-submission feedback: April 26, 2023 - Paper submission deadline: May 5, 2023 - Review deadline: May 20, 2023 - Acceptance notifications: May 30 2023 - Camera-ready deadline: June 6, 2023 - ACL 2023 conference dates: July 10-12, 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). About the Student Research Workshop The ACL 2023 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community. The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, including undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research. General Rules for Submission We invite papers in two different categories: - Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author **MUST BE** a current student (graduate or undergraduate). Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main ACL 2023 conference: <https://www.2022.aclweb.org/calls> https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference/ - Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work. Submissions (in both categories) may either be archival or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the ACL 2023 SRW Proceedings. Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except for another SRW. The submission links are on our website (https://acl2023-srw.github.io/). Please read the guidelines carefully. Why Submit to ACL SRW? There are many good reasons to submit to the ACL SRW, such as: - Mentorship program: ACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and to improve their work through a pre-submission mentorship program. - Improving your publication record: publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a MSc/MA student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an ACL SRW workshop can be really helpful for improving students’ publication record. - Explorative Studies: We encourage the submission of studies with positive and negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method succeeds and fails. All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented either as oral presentations or during poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors. Pre-Submission Mentorship Program The SRW offers students the opportunity to receive feedback prior to submitting their work for review. The goal of the pre-submission mentorship program is to improve the quality of writing and presentation of the student's work, not to critique the work itself. Participation is optional but encouraged. The pre-submission mentorship is not anonymous. Students wishing to participate in the pre-submission mentorship must submit their paper draft by March 10, 2023. Note that even though the mentoring is not done anonymously, the paper needs to be anonymized. We will check for the formality of the paper including formatting before we match it with mentors. The participants will be assigned a mentor who will review and will provide feedback within four weeks. This mentor will not be the same person who will review the final submission. The feedback will be in the form of guidelines and suggestions to improve the overall writing, which should ideally be incorporated before the actual submission deadline. You CAN submit a paper at the SRW submission deadline even if you did not participate in the pre-submission mentoring. If you did submit a draft for pre-submission mentoring, you will need to make a new submission for the final version of the paper. The submission website will have separate tracks for pre-submission mentorship and the final paper submission. Submission Requirements We accept both archival submissions (which will be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (which will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings). All submissions (archival and non-archival) must follow the anonymity period and the restrictions of the main conference. Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages). Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages). Authors are encouraged to use the additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available as an Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr> and also downloadable directly <https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates> (Latex and Word). We strongly encourage participants to use the Latex template. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files. The review process will be double-blind, and thus all submissions must be anonymized. The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to the following: - Computational Social Science and Social Media - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics, and Beyond - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation and Multilinguality - NLP Applications - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical - Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing Grants We expect to have grants to offset some portion of students' travel, conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted on the SRW website. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at: acl2023.srw(a)gmail.com.

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Postdoc or PhD student in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University
by Alexander Koller 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Research and teaching position (postdoc or PhD student) in computational linguistics HTML version with hyperlinks: https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~koller/page.php?id=jobs We are looking to fill a research and teaching position in computational linguistics at the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University. The position is part of the research group of Prof. Alexander Koller, but offers great flexibility in developing your own research and teaching agenda, and collaborations with other research groups are encouraged. The position is flexible with respect to topic, but it should connect thematically with current topics of interest to the research group. These include syntactic and semantic parsing, semantics, dialogue, and natural language generation; themes of particular interest are currently user adaptation in interactive NLP and neurosymbolic models. You should have expertise in neural and/or linguistically principled methods in computational linguistics and be willing to take an active role in shaping the research and teaching environment of the department. The position includes a teaching load of up to four hours per week in the BSc Computational Linguistics (in German) and/or the MSc Language Science and Technology (in English). Both programs attract excellent and highly motivated students; it is not unusual for our students to publish papers at peer-reviewed conferences before graduation. The MSc students in particular are a very international crowd, with two thirds joining us from abroad. You will typically teach two seminars per semester on topics of your choice, which will allow you to motivate students to do BSc and MSc theses under your supervision. This is a position on the German TV-L E13 scale (100% position at the postdoc level; 75% position at the PhD student level). The starting salary of a 100% TV-L E13 position is a bit over 50,000 Euros per year and increases with experience. The initial appointment will be for three years; the position can be extended up to the limits of the German law for academic contracts (WissZeitVG). The starting date is April 1 or later: We want to fill the position in 2023, but could leave it open beyond April for the ideal candidate. Requirements We are looking for candidates who have finished, or are about to complete, an excellent PhD degree (at the postdoc level) or MSc degree (at the PhD student level) in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related discipline. You must be proficient in English (spoken and written); the ability to teach in German is a plus. Priority will be given to applicants at the postdoc level, who should have demonstrated their research expertise through high-quality publications. However, we will also consider applicants at the PhD student level. About the department Saarland University is one of the leading centers for computational linguistics in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. The department is the centerpiece of the Collaborative Research Center 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding". It is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus, such as the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2100 students from 81 countries; SIC faculty have won 36 ERC grants. Saarland University is located in Saarbrücken, a mid-sized city in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg. Saarbrücken combines a lively culture scene with a relaxed atmosphere, and is quite an affordable place to live in. Our department maintains an international and diverse work environment. The primary working language is English; learning German while you are here will make it easier to connect with the local culture, but is not necessary for your work. How to apply Please submit your application at http://apply.coli.uni-saarland.de/ak22. Preference will be given to applications received by 22 January 2023. Include a single PDF file with the following information: • a statement of research interests that motivates why you are applying for this position and outlines your research agenda; • a full CV including your list of publications; • scans of transcripts and academic degree certificates; • the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of two people who can provide letters of reference for you. Saarland University especially welcomes applications from women and people with disabilities. If you have further questions, please email Alexander Koller <koller(a)coli.uni-saarland.de>. Applications should _not_ be emailed to this address, but submitted through the online form.

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