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CFP: WebNLG Challenge 2023 on low-resource languages (Breton, Maltese, Welsh and Irish) and on Russian
by Claire Gardent 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

WebNLG 2023: Call for Participation Special focus on multilingual NLG for under-resourced languages We are delighted to announce a new edition of the WebNLG challenge, which will take place in 2023. WebNLG 2023 will focus on multilingual generation for under-resourced languages. Registration If you intend to participate or if you download the data, please fill in this form 👍 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfytc1rUMUOKrDc9vV658uiLh1_jUS7G0X… Motivation With the development of large-scale pretrained models, research in automatic text generation has acquired new impetus. Yet, the current state-of-the-art is dominated by a handful of languages, for which training data is relatively easy to acquire. At the same time, the field has recently witnessed some encouraging developments which focus on generation for under-resourced and under-represented languages. This trend is paralleled by a growing interest in multilingual models and applications in NLP more broadly. The WebNLG 2023 Challenge is being organised in response to these trends and specifically addresses generation in few-shot and/or zero-shot settings for four under-resourced languages. About WebNLG The WebNLG Challenge consists in mapping data, in the form of RDF triples, to natural language text. The input is a set of RDF triples sourced from DBPedia for example: (John_E_Blaha birthDate 1942_08_26) (John_E_Blaha birthPlace San_Antonio) (John_E_Blaha occupation Fighter_pilot) where the corresponding output text might be: John E Blaha, born in San Antonio on 1942-08-26, worked as a fighter pilot The WebNLG challenge was launched in 2017. A second edition, in 2020, extended the task to Russian, in addition to English. WebNLG 2023 The new edition of WebNLG focuses on four under-resourced languages which are severely under-represented in research on text generation, namely Maltese, Irish, Breton and Welsh. In addition, WebNLG 2023 will once again include Russian, which was first featured in WebNLG 2020. For WebNLG 2023, we are soliciting submissions encompassing a variety of approaches to automatic text generation, from neural architectures to rule-based systems. We especially encourage submissions addressing generation in few-shot or zero-shot settings. Data Development and test data is now available for all 5 languages, namely Breton, Maltese, Irish and Welsh (the target languages for WebNLG 2023), as well as Russian. Participants can download the development data; the test data will be reserved for the final evaluation. Data for each language was obtained by sourcing high-quality, professional translations of the original English texts in the WebNLG 2020 dev and test sets. Training data is also available for the original WebNLG English data and, as per WebNLG 2020, for Russian. In addition, we provide ‘noisy’ training data for the target languages (Maltese, Breton, Welsh and Irish), obtained via machine translation of the texts in the English WebNLG 2020 train split. Evaluation As in previous editions of WebNLG, submitted results will be evaluated using both automatic and human evaluation methods. I nstructions for participants Data and instructions for the task are available from the WebNLG repo: https://github.com/WebNLG/2023-Challenge Teams who submit systems for evaluation at WebNLG 2023 will subsequently be invited to contribute a short paper describing their approach and results. The task as a whole, as well as individual submissions, will be presented at a special session in an event to be announced later. General information about the WebNLG challenges can be found on the following URL: https://synalp.gitlabpages.inria.fr/webnlg-challenge/challenge_2023/ Timeline February 2023: First call for participation. Development data and noisy training data available. 8 June 2023: Release of test data 15 June 2023: Deadline for submission of system outputs. 15 August 2023: Deadline for submission of short papers describing systems. The final presentation of results will be held during a workshop. Current plans are to hold this in September 2023. Organisation WebNLG 2023 is being organised under the auspices of LT-Bridge, supported by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation (WIDESPREAD) 2018-2020 and the ANR funded xNLG Chair on multi-lingual, multi-source NLG. Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France Albert Gatt, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and University of Malta Claudia Borg, University of Malta Enrico Aquilina, University of Malta Anya Belz, Dublin City University, Ireland John Judge, Dublin City University, Ireland Liam Cripwell, CNRS/LORIA and Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France William Soto-Martinez, CNRS/LORIA and Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Contact : webnlg-challenge(a)inria.fr

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RA/PhD position (language & vision & interaction) at Potsdam, 3yrs, from Nov 2023
by David Schlangen 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

#### Research Assistant / PhD Student, 3 Years We are looking to fill a research position (wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter*in, 75% TV-L) for November 1st, 2023, in the Computational Linguistics / NLP group led by David Schlangen at the University of Potsdam. The position comes with a small teaching load (3 hours per semester), but is mostly a research position offering time to work towards a PhD, on a topic relevant to the research interests of the group. (Language & vision, interaction / dialogue, embodied AI / human-robot interaction, self-explaining agents; see <http://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de>.) The ideal candidate has an excellent degree in a related field (Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology), strong programming skills, strong writing skills, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to carry a research project through. * Deadline for applications: March 31st 2023 * The Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam is a great place with many research activities (collaborative research center in linguistics; part of the University’s “designated research focus” on cognitive science); popular CL/NLP BA and MSc (taught in English); well established contacts with NLP industry in Berlin / Potsdam area. * Potsdam and the general Berlin/Potsdam metropolitan area is a great place to live. To apply, send a) a statement of research interests, relating them to the research of the group; b) electronic copies of your degree certificates; c) a CV with a list of publications, code repositories, etc, (if such already exists; otherwise, any other kind of writing and coding samples); d) the names of references, to David Schlangen ( first.last(a)uni-potsdam.de ), by email. For any enquiries, please also contact David Schlangen.

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1st Symposium on Challenges for Natural Language Processing (CNLPS’23), 20 September, 2023, Warsaw, Poland
by Marek Kubis 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Symposium on Challenges for Natural Language Processing (CNLPS’23), 20 September, 2023, Warsaw, Poland, <https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps>. Challenges for Natural Language Processing Symposium is a series of competitions oriented towards advancing human language technologies organized at 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS 2023) <https://fedcsis.org>. 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> 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 * Conversational AI * Question Answering * Sentiment and Emotion Detection * Information Extraction IMPORTANT DATES Submission dates for each competition can be found at the respective websites. For the General Session the regular FedCSIS deadlines apply, i.e.: + Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there will be no extension) + Author notification: July 11, 2023 + Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023 + Conference date: September 17-20, 2023 ORGANIZERS Łukasz Kobyliński, Marek Kubis CONTACT cnlps2023(a)fedcsis.org <https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/cnlps>

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Learning with Small Data -- 2nd CfP
by Sharid Loáiciga 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Learning with Small Data September 11-12, 2023 CLASP, University of Gothenburg Come visit us in Gothenburg! Great topic, free registration, proceedings published in the ACL anthology, amazing keynote speakers: Aurélie Herbelot -- University of Trento Tal Linzen -- NYU & Google Danielle Matthews -- University of Sheffield https://sites.google.com/view/learning-with-small-data/home There is now an acute need for intensive research on the possibility of effective learning with small data. Our 2023 conference, LSD, is devoted to work on this problem, with application to computational linguistics. Learning with Small Data will bring together researchers from various areas to discuss the sustainability of current state of the art methods in computational linguistics which rely on very large models, such as GPT2-3, BERT, and XLNet. The conference encourages contributions from machine learning, computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and psycholinguistics, as well as from artificial intelligence ethics and social policy. We hope to see innovative technical proposals, and we will cultivate a wide spectrum of views within a lively dialog on the issues that the conference addresses. The workshop is organized by CLASP, University of Gothenburg. https://gu-clasp.github.io/ ## Important Dates: Submission deadline: 2023 May 5, anywhere on Earth Notification of acceptance: 2023 June 12, anywhere on Earth Camera ready: 2023 August 14, anywhere on Earth Conference: 2023 September 11-12, not anywhere on Earth, but in Gothenburg Additional details in our website: https://sites.google.com/view/learning-with-small-data/home

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[PoliticES@IberLEF2023] IberLEF 2023 Task - PoliticEs: Political ideology detection in Spanish texts - Training set released!
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Training set released! SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IberLEF 2023 Task - PoliticEs: Political ideology detection in Spanish texts Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2023> in the XXXIX edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2023 <http://sepln2023.sepln.org/en/home/>) September 26, 2023. Jaén, Andalusia, Spain Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10173 Dear All, We are inviting researchers and students to participate in the shared-task PoliticEs 2023: Political ideology detection in Spanish texts, held as part of IberLEF 2023, the shared evaluation campaign for Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, collocated with SEPLN 2023 Conference. The goal of this task is to extract political ideology information from Spanish texts. For this, an automatic document classification task on clusters of texts is proposed. It consists of extracting the self-assigned gender and profession as demographic traits, and the political ideology as a psychographic trait from a set of texts written in Spanish from several authors that share those traits. Political ideology is considered as a binary and as a multiclass problem. The PoliticES 2023 shared task is based on a previous task named PoliticES 2022 presented at IberLEF2022 (García-Díaz et. al. 2022b) where the dataset was an extension of the PoliCorpus 2020 dataset (García-Díaz et al., 2022a). The novelty of this year is that participants will work with clusters of texts written by different users, but with the same traits, instead of profiling users to prevent legal and ethical issues. The participants will be provided development, development_test, training and test datasets in Spanish from an extension of the PoliCorpus 2020 (García-Díaz et al., 2022) and the corpus used for the PoliticES 2022 shared task (García-Díaz et. al. 2022b). The dataset was collected between 2020 and 2022 from the Twitter accounts of politicians, political journalists and celebrities in Spain using the UMUCorpusClassifier (García-Díaz et al., 2020). We automatically created clusters of texts mixing some of these extracted tweets in order to prevent ethical and privacy issues about author profiling in Twitter. Each cluster is composed of 80 tweets written by different users that share all the traits under evaluation. We labeled each cluster with the self-assigned gender (male, female), profession (politician, celebrity, journalist) and political spectrum on two axes: binary (left, right) and multiclass (left, moderate_left, moderate_right, right). Moreover, the Twitter mentions of the politicians were anonymised by replacing them with the token @user. In addition, other Twitter accounts mentions were also encoded as @user. Other entities, such as political party references, are also replaced with the @political_party token. Consequently, the text traits cannot be guessed trivially by reading the user's name and searching information on them on the Internet. The dataset is composed of approximately 2800 different clusters. Finally, in order to facilitate participation in the competition, a notebook with two baselines will be provided. The first one will be based on BoW and the second one will be based on Transformers. To download the data, the notebook and participate, go to https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10173. Yesterday, we released the training dataset that can be found in the "Files" subsection of the "Participate" tab. It is worth mentioning that this dataset includes all the instances that were also released during the Practice stage; so, it is not needed to combine both datasets. Finally, remember that the CodaLab competition is open to submit your results with the development dataset provided. This dataset is also available in the same section as the training dataset. Best regards, The PoliticES 2023 organizing committee References - García-Díaz, J. A., Almela, Á., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., & Valencia-García, R. (2020). UMUCorpusClassifier: Compilation and evaluation of linguistic corpus for Natural Language Processing tasks. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 65, 139-142. - García-Díaz, J. A., Colomo-Palacios, R., & Valencia-García, R. (2022a). Psychographic traits identification based on political ideology: An author analysis study on Spanish politicians’ tweets posted in 2020. Future Generation Computer Systems, 130(1), 59-74. - García-Díaz, J. A., Jiménez Zafra, S. M., Martín Valdivia, M. T., García-Sánchez, F., Ureña López, L. A., & Valencia García, R. (2022b). Overview of PoliticEs 2022: Spanish Author Profiling for Political Ideology. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 69, 265-272. Important dates - Release of development corpora: Feb 13, 2023 - Release of training corpora: Mar 13, 2023 - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign: Apr 17, 2023 - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): May 3, 2023 - Publication of official results: May 5, 2023 - Paper submission: May 29, 2023 - Review notification: Jun 17, 2023 - Camera ready submission: Jun 27, 2023 - IberLEF Workshop (SEPLN 2023): Sep 26, 2023 (Jaén, Andalusia, Spain) - Publication of proceedings: Sep ??, 2023 Organizing committee - José Antonio García-Díaz (UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia) - Salud María Jiménez-Zafra (SINAI, Universidad de Jaén) - María-Teresa Martín Valdivia (SINAI, Universidad de Jaén) - Francisco García-Sánchez (UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia) - L. Alfonso Ureña-López (SINAI, Universidad de Jaén) - Rafael Valencia-García (UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia) [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 219 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Second CfP: Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG)
by Jia Loy 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

[With apologies for cross-posting] Second call for submissions for the Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG). Important dates: Submission deadline: 1st May 2023 Notification date: 5th June 2023 Workshop dates: 18th September (all day) and 19th September (morning) 2023 Workshop venue: Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (the workshop is collocated with XPRAG in Paris, 20th-23rd September) ** Call for submissions: Experimental research in pragmatics and discourse processing has consistently found that not all comprehenders behave the same: while some seem to draw rich pragmatic inferences, others respond in a way that is more consistent with a literal interpretation (Fairchild & Papafragou, 2021; Mayn & Demberg, 2022). Similarly for discourse inference, experiments have found differences with respect to the sensitivity to discourse cues and the readiness for discourse predictions between participants (Scholman, Demberg & Sanders, 2020; Tskhovrebova, Zufferey & Gygax, 2022). This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in exploring individual differences at the level of pragmatics and discourse, as well as methods for relating those differences to cognitive properties, and approaches for modelling the mechanism driving the individual differences effects. IndiPRAG Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions: - To what extent do pragmatic processing and discourse inferences differ between individuals? - How consistent are interpretation biases across different types of pragmatic implicatures? - What individual difference measures are particularly suitable for measuring IDs related to pragmatic processing? - How can we computationally model individual differences in discourse and pragmatics? - What statistical methods are best suited to identifying latent groups of participants and relating ID measures to task performance? ** Formatting guidelines: The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text (excl. captions), 10000 characters for references, 2 figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with 2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced. Please indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract, which will be used for session planning. Abstracts must be written in English and should include a title but no information revealing the author(s). We welcome submissions for work that is being considered by other conferences, workshops, or journals. Submissions should be handed in via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=indiprag2023 ** We will have invited talks by: Kirsten Abbot-Smith, University of Kent Morten Christiansen, Cornell University Craig Hedge, Aston University Petra Hendriks, University of Groningen Antje Meyer & Florian Hintz, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen ** IndiPRAG is being organised by: Vera Demberg, Jia Loy, Alexandra Mayn, Dongqi Pu, Margarita Ryzhova, Merel Scholman, Sebastian Schuster You can contact us at: indiprag(a)lst.uni-saarland.de

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Job opening at Lingnan University (Hong Kong): Assistant Professor [Department of English]
by HO Nga Man 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

The Department of English (http://www.LN.edu.hk/eng/) of Lingnan University (Hong Kong) now invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to contribute to research and teaching in Linguistics (Contemporary Language Studies). Candidates who can contribute to both the Linguistics and Literature strands of the programme, for example by specializing in literary linguistics, stylistics, corpus linguistics and/or digital humanities, will be given priority. Applicants should have: 1. 2. A Ph.D. degree in linguistics, applied linguistics, or a related field; 3. A good publication record in peer-reviewed journals with a good international standing; 4. A track record of developing and teaching courses on literary linguistics, stylistics, corpus linguistics, and/or digital humanities; 5. Experience in academic administration and curriculum development. Applicants are required to provide information about their research records and evidence of high-quality teaching in relevant subjects. The appointee is expected to deliver and develop courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervise final-year projects, produce quality research outputs, and participate in competitive grant exercises. He or she is also expected to engage in knowledge transfer activities, and assist the Department with administration. Details and how to apply: https://lingnan.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/1859?c=lingnan [Lingnan University Hong Kong] <https://www.ln.edu.hk> [Transformation For Life] <https://www.ln.edu.hk/transformation-for-life>

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11 PhD Positions in the MSCA Doctoral Network HYBRIDS
by Patricia Martín Rodilla 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

11 PhD Positions in the MSCA Doctoral Network HYBRIDS Excellent work conditions at top European universities in disinformation, hate speech, and related topics. Join call: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/78878 Web: https://hybridsproject.eu/phd-projects/

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PhD Position in NLP at JGU Mainz, Germany, Deadline: March 31
by Katharina Kann 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Dear Colleagues, I'm looking for a PhD student with an interest in multilingual natural language processing (NLP) and transfer learning to join my group NALA at the Institute of Computer Science of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Details can be found in this posting: https://karriere.uni-mainz.de/files/2023/03/00323-08-wiss-nk.pdf If you have questions, please feel free to email me directly, and please forward this information to anyone who might be interested! Thanks, Katharina Kann -- Dr. Katharina Kann Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder Personal page: https://kelina.github.io Group page: https://nala-cub.github.io

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CFP deadline extension - IWCS 2023
by Maxime Amblard 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

**apologies for cross-postings** ===== CFP deadline extension IWCS 2023 ===== Paper submissions: 15 March 2023 --> 22 March 2023 https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers ============================================ 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Université 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 Université 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 2023 -> 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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