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Research scientists (m/f/d) in Natural Language Processing, UKP and TrustHLT research groups, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by Habernal, Ivan 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab and the research group Trustworthy Human Language Technologies (TrustHLT) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany have four job openings for **Research scientists (m/f/d)** in the recently acquired projects funded by the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE in the research area of Security and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence (SenPAI). These positions will focus on research questions related to privacy- preserving natural language processing. As part of our work in digital mental health, the project "Privacy-Aware Domain-Adaptive Medical NLP" will explore and evaluate different approaches to privacy methods for dataset creation and deep learning in the medical domain. This project covers a variety of tasks, from semi-automatic de-identification to synthetic training data generation and downstream tasks. The latter require research in large language models for clinical applications in close collaboration with experts from the psychiatric domain. The project "Protecting Privacy and Sensitive Information in Texts" touches the heart of privacy preservation in NLP and will explore a wide range of domain-agnostic techniques. A solid background in machine learning for natural language processing is essential, prior knowledge of formal privacy methods such as differential privacy, or experience in clinical NLP is a plus. The salary is based on the collective agreement applicable to the TU Darmstadt (TV-TU Darmstadt). The starting date is as soon as possible. ## Candidates The ideal candidate holds a PhD (for a Post-Doc position) or Master degree (for a PhD position) in computer science, computational linguistics, machine learning, or a related discipline, has a strong interest in privacy in natural language processing, excellent analytical and programming skills, is a team player, and is fluent in English. ## Diversity TU Darmstadt is strongly committed to diversity and particularly welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups. Applications from female candidates are highly encouraged. ## Team The Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the best in Germany. The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab) in Darmstadt led by Prof. Iryna Gurevych offers an excellent research environment. The UKP Lab is committed to cutting-edge research, publishing in top-tier venues, cooperative work style, and close interaction of all team members. See ukp-lab.de for more details. TrustHLT is an independent research group led by Dr. Ivan Habernal, appointed at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt. The group conducts research in the field of natural language processing with a focus on privacy-preserving technologies and legal argumentation, see www.trusthlt.org for more details. ## Application Please provide us with your CV including an outline of previous work or research experience, names of two referees, and a letter of motivation outlining your research interests. Submit your application via the following form by December 18, 2022: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment (please enter "ATHENE" as the name of the application position) Applications arriving after the deadline will still be considered if the position is not filled yet.

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1-year position for NLP data curation software engineer
by Lluís Padró 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

The Natural Language research group in IDEAI <https://ideai.upc.edu/en> Research center (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) is looking for a engineer to participate in a Spanish-government funded project to push forward the digital transformation of organizations. The project includes to main research lines: a) Advancing business process automation from natural language descriptions or human-machine interactions b) Detecting new process automation opportunities from human-human interactions (mail threads, slack conversations, etc). The successful candidate will be in charge of the development of tools to support the linguist team in the curation of data used to fine-tune Large Language Models (GPT, BLOOM, ...), as well as in the training, evaluation, and deployment of tuned models. Find more details about the offer at https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/jobs/engineer-SE.pdf <https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/jobs/engineer-SE.pdf> Lluís Padró Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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1-year postdoc in NLP/DL/Text mining
by Lluís Padró 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

The Natural Language research group in IDEAI <https://ideai.upc.edu/en> Research center (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) is looking for a Postdoc to participate in a Spanish-government funded project to push forward the digital transformation of organizations. The project includes to main research lines: a) Advancing business process automation from natural language descriptions or human-machine interactions b) Detecting new process automation opportunities from human-human interactions (mail threads, slack conversations, etc). Find more details about the offer at https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/jobs/postdoc-IA.pdf Lluís Padró Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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PhD scholarship in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (NHH, Norway)
by Gisle Andersen 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues A 4-year position as PhD scholar is available at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in the field of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). See advertisement at jobbnorge.no: PhD Research Scholar position - Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication (235701) | NHH Norwegian School of Economics (jobbnorge.no)<https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/235701/phd-research-scholar-…> Gisle Andersen, professor, NHH [NHH Logo]<https://www.nhh.no/> Gisle Andersen Professor Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication Together for sustainable value creation T: + 47 55 95 93 26 / 934 68 641 E: gisle.andersen(a)nhh.no<mailto:gisle.andersen@nhh.no> www.nhh.no<http://www.nhh.no/> [logosalat3]<https://www.nhh.no/en/about-nhh/international-networks/>

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Reykjavik University: Faculty positions in AI and ML
by Hrafn Loftsson 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Dear colleagues, The Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, Iceland, invites applications for two full-time, permanent faculty positions at any rank in fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, among other fields. For further information, please go to: https://jobs.50skills.com/ru/en/16728 Regards, Hrafn Loftsson, Ph.D., www.ru.is/~hrafn<http://www.ru.is/~hrafn> Dósent | Associate Professor Tölvunarfræðideild | Department of Computer Science Tæknisvið | School of Technology Háskólinn í Reykjavík | Reykjavik University

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Call for Participation DSTC11 - Track4 (Automatic & Robust Dialogue Evaluation)
by Luis Fernando D'Haro 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

*Track 4: Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems - Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11.T4)* *Call for Participation* *TRACK GOALS AND DETAILS: Two main goals and tasks:*• Task 1: Propose and develop effective Automatic Metrics for evaluation of open-domain multilingual dialogs. • Task 2: Propose and develop Robust Metrics for dialogue systems trained with back translated and paraphrased dialogs in English. *EXPECTED PROPERTIES OF THE PROPOSED METRICS:*• High correlation with human annotated assessments. • Explainable metrics in terms of the quality of the model-generated responses. • Participants can propose their own metric or optionally improve the baseline evaluation metric deep AM-FM (Zhang et al, 2020). *TASK 1: METRICS FOR MULTILINGUAL DATA*In this task, the goal for participants is to propose a single metric model effective for the automatic evaluation of multilingual dialogs in English, Spanish and Chinese. The model will provide scores to obtain high correlations with human-annotations. Participants are expected to use pre-trained or fine-tune multilingual models and train them to predict multidimensional quality metrics by using self-supervised techniques. *TASK 2: ROBUST METRICS*In this task, the goal for participants is to propose robust metrics for automatic evaluation when dealing with English sentences that have been back translated or automatically paraphrased. Here, robustness is understood when using sentences having the same semantic meaning as the original sentence but different wording. The proposed metric model will be evaluated when comparing the scores produced on the original sentences w.r.t. with the scores produced when using the back-translated/paraphrased sentences. Therefore, the expected performance must be on par with the correlations with human-annotations obtained over the original sentences. *DATASETS:*For training: Up to 18 Human-Human curated multilingual datasets (+3M turns), with turn/dialogue level automatic annotations including QE metrics or toxicity. Dev/Test: Up to 10 Human-Chatbot curated multilingual datasets (+150k turns), with turn/dialogue level human annotations. *REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION:*ChatEval: https://chateval.org/dstc11 GitHub: https://github.com/Mario-RC/dstc11_track4_robust_multilingual_metrics *PROPOSED SCHEDULE:*Training/Validation data release: From November to December in 2022 Test data release: Middle of March in 2023 Entry submission deadline: Middle of March in 2023 Submission of final results: End of March in 2023 Final result announcement: Early of April in 2023 Paper submission: From March to May in 2023 Workshop: July-September/2023 in a venue to be announced with DSTC11 *ORGANIZATIONS:*Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) National University of Singapore (Singapore) Tencent AI Lab (China) New York University (USA) Carnegie Mellon University (USA) *Mario Rodríguez Cantelar* Postgraduate Non-Doctoral Researcher / PhD student Centre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC)

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PhD position: Neuro-Symbolic Models, Saarland University, Germany
by Dietrich Klakow 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

PhD position: Neuro-Symbolic Models, Saarland University, Germany ========================================================= (Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or similar) We are looking for an excellent candidate who is interested * exploring the limits for neural networks on symbolic tasks and/or * integrating symbolic knowledge into neural networks. Ideal candidate for the position would have: 1. A good understanding of natural language processing 2. Excellent knowledge of machine learning 3. Excellent programming skills 4. Masters degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or similar Salary: The PhD position will be 75% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) which is about 3055€ per month before tax and social security contributions. The appointments will be for three years with a possible extension. Starting day will be spring 2023. About the department: The department of Language Science and Technology t Saarland University is one of the leading departments in the speech and language area in Europe. The flagship project at the moment is the CRC on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding. It also runs a significant number of European and nationally funded projects. In total, it has seven faculty and around 50 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The department is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus. With 900 researchers, two Max Planck institutes, CISPA, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, it is one of the leading locations for Informatics in Germany and Europe. How to apply: Please send us a letter of motivation, a one page research proposal, your CV, your transcripts, if available a list of publications, and the names and contact information of at least two references, as a single PDF or a link to a PDF if the file size is more than 3 MB. Please apply latest by November 15th, 2022. Earlier applications are welcome and will be processed as they come in. Contact: Applications and any further inquiries regarding the project should be directed to dietrich.klakow(a)lsv.uni-saarland.de

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

21 Nov '22

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

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

21 Nov '22

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

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

21 Nov '22

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

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