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[SEBD 2023] Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers
by Stefano Marchesin 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers ================================================= Important dates Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2023 (AoE) Papers Notification: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (AoE) Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 01, 2023 (AoE) Doctoral Consortium Day: Sunday, July 02, 2023 Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ ================================================= The SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium will take place in a dedicated session during the 31st Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2023), Galzignano Terme, Padova (Italy), July 02-05, 2023, http://sebd2023.dei.unipd.it/. The goal is to provide a forum for PhD candidates to present their ongoing research and receive feedback from renowned and experienced members of the research community. The Consortium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the PhD students in their future careers – as well as of the community. Submissions from students who are in the early stages of their research should provide a clear description of the problem to be addressed and the planned methodology. Submissions from students who are in the middle or final stages of their PhD research should clearly indicate the contributions made to date and future work directions. Each doctoral symposium paper must be single-authored by a current PhD student or a PhD student who submitted the thesis between September and December 2022. The paper should be written in English and must be 6-7 pages long, including selected references. Submissions must be formatted in PDF, prepared in CEUR-ART Column 1 Style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip), and submitted electronically via the submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee (appointed by the Doctoral Consortium Chairs). All papers will be reviewed with respect to the overall presentation quality, the potential for the future impact of the research on the field, and the expected benefit to the other doctoral students attending the conference. The accepted papers will be published as part of the SEBD 2023 proceedings on WS-CEUR.org and indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar. ================================================= Topics The SEBD Symposium and its Doctoral Consortium cover a broad range of topics, including traditional database management, as well as new challenges for data management in any possible domain. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: - Big Data and Smart Computing; - Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated DBMS; - Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and machine learning; - Data visualization; - Data warehousing; - Distributed and parallel databases; - Grid, peer-to-peer databases, and Cloud Computing; - Incompleteness, inconsistency, and other aspects of data quality; - Uncertainty in databases; - Ethical problems posed by Big Data Analysis; - Keyword-based and natural language access to structured, semistructured, and unstructured data; - Knowledge representation and reasoning; - Ontology-based data management; - Privacy, security and trust management; - Query processing and optimization, approximate query answering; - Real-time, embedded, sensor, and mobile databases; - Scientific and Statistical Databases; - Semantic Web and Open Linked data; - Social networks and Graph databases; - Transaction and workflow management, interoperability and Web services. ================================================= Contact For any questions regarding Doctoral Consortium submissions, please email the Doctoral Consortium Chairs: - Letizia Tanca (letizia.tanca(a)polimi.it) - Stefano Marchesin (stefano.marchesin(a)unipd.it) -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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Call-for-papers: 2nd ACM Int. Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation @ ACM ICMR 2023
by Bogdan Ionescu 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation MAD'23 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'23 Thessaloniki, Greece, June 12-15, 2023 https://mad2023.idmt.fraunhofer.de/ https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icmr20230 *** Call for papers *** * Paper submission due: February 28, 2023 * Acceptance notification: March 31, 2023 * Camera-ready papers due: April 20, 2023 * Workshop @ACM ICMR 2023: June 12, 2023 (TBD) Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on classic media like newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup in the amount of information available, however, also led to an increased amount and quality of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda Conversely, the fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and NGOs (among others) take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of citizens' opinions being distorted, became even more crucial and demanding, especially for what concerns sensitive topics such as politics, health and religion. Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, market-ready AI-based tools for content creation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech, textual and video content have emerged under the collective name of “deepfakes”, undermining the perceived credibility of media content. It is, therefore, even more crucial to counter these advances by devising new analysis tools able to detect the presence of synthetic and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and fact-checkers, robust and trustworthy, and possibly based on AI to reach greater performance. Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the combination of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest advances of deep learning approaches and architectures. These raise new challenges and questions that need to be addressed in order to reduce the effects of disinformation campaigns. The workshop, in its second edition, welcomes contributions related to different aspects of AI-powered disinformation detection, analysis and mitigation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, images) - Multimodal verification methods - Synthetic and manipulated media detection - Multimedia forensics - Disinformation spread and effects in social media - Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains - Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world complexities - Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia content - Explaining disinformation /disinformation detection technologies for non-expert users - Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation - Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation - Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification - Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools - Multimedia verification systems and applications - System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques - Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks *** Submission guidelines *** When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2023 instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are available here https://icmr2023.org/paper-submissions/. *** Organizing committee *** Luca Cuccovillo, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece Symeon Papadopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, Saclay, France The workshop is supported under the H2020 project AI4Media “A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy” https://www.ai4media.eu/, and the Horizon Europe project vera.ai “VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence” https://www.veraai.eu/. On behalf of the organizers, Bogdan Ionescu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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First CFP: Modelling Translation: Translatology in the Digital Age at NoDaLiDa-2023
by Maria Kunilovskaya 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

**Second Workshop on Modelling Translation: Translatology in the Digital Age** (MoTra-2023) First Call for Papers Submissions deadline: March 20, 2023 Workshop Day: May 22, 2023 Location: Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (hybrid format) Website: https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/?s=motra **Topic and Goals of the Workshop** MoTra-2023 aims to promote interdisciplinary and computational approaches to human translation, offering an opportunity for researchers in empirical translation studies, computational and corpus linguistics, NLP, cognitive science to exchange knowledge and methodological expertise in modelling various aspects of translation. Along with traditional research questions related to translationese, variation in translation, translation quality assessment, we encourage submissions on interpreting studies, multimodal translation, modelling translational strategies from cognitive, semantic and pragmatic perspectives as well as contributions presenting language resources for translation studies and translation-related software. We are particularly interested in forging a link between translation studies and machine translation and invite research at the interface of these fields. This event seeks to follow up on the investigations reported by the previous edition of the workshop. The proceedings of MoTra-2021 covered a wide range of topics in translatology enhancing the understanding of *translationese*, i.e linguistic specificity of translations setting them apart from non-translations in the target language and exploring *variation in human translation*, including in contrast with machine translation (https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.motra-1/ <https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.motra-1/>). The contributions described computational and NLP methods to model translation varieties (student/professional, human/machine, written/spoken) and translation processes/solutions, especially around particular items (translation problem triggers, discourse markers, adjectives, polarity items), and reported the results of manual linguistic analysis of modelling outcomes. **The workshop invites submissions on relevant research topics, including but not limited to:** - Translation and translationese detection, source language identification and quantitative analysis of translations - NLP approaches to translationese - Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation according to context (domain, register, genre), mode and medium (spoken, written, audio-visual), translator (professional, novice, crowd-sourced), recipient (simplified language) etc. - Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of translation models - Research at the interface between translation studies and machine translation - Contextualized and multimodal translation analysis - Computational semantics and pragmatics applied to translation studies - Sentiment and emotion analysis of translations - Human translation quality assessment and annotation - Computational models of translation types such as communicative translation, semantic translation, transcreation, intralingual translation, etc. - New corpora for translation studies, such as literary translation corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, learner translator corpora, etc. - Translation, post-editing, (error) annotation software - Cognitive modelling of translation processes, including cognitive load measurements and communication optimisation in translation **Invited Speakers** Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland) **Program Committee** Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) Mario Bisiada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Yuri Bizzoni (Aarhus University) Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa) Michael Carl (Kent State University) Oliver Czulo (Leipzig University) Cristina España i Bonet (Saarland University) Alex Fraser (LMU Munich) Alina Karakanta (University of Trento) Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University) Antoni Oliver (Open University of Catanlunya) Maja Popovic (ADAPT Centre, DCU) Moritz Schaeffer (University of Mainz) Tatiana Serbina (RWTH Aachen University) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) Antonio Toral (University of Gröningen) **Organizers’ Contacts** Maria Kunilovskaya (maria.kunilovskaya(a)uni-saarland.de) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (lapshinovakoltun(a)uni-hildesheim.de) Elke Teich (e.teich(a)mx.uni-saarland.de) **Important Dates** - Monday, March 20, 2023: Workshop paper submission deadline - Monday, April 17, 2023: Notification of acceptance - Monday, May 1, 2023: Camera-ready workshop papers due - Monday, May 22, 2023: The workshop day **Paper Submission** We invite submissions of three kinds: - long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation of results, up to 8 pages without references; - short papers on smaller, focused contributions, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces, up to 4 pages without references; and - demonstration papers on software, systems, interfaces, infrastructures, language resources, data collections, or annotations, up to 4 pages without references. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will appear in the NoDaLiDa 2023 proceedings, published as part of the NEALT Proceedings Series and in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop website (https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/?s=motra/), too. All submissions should be anonymous and should follow the official Nodalida 2023 LaTeX template (see https://www.nodalida2023.fo/call-for-papers/). The ACL author guidelines and anonymity rules apply. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa 2023. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to attend the workshop. The submissions are planned through OpenReview. The link to the submission page will appear in the Second Call for Papers. To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or generally the workshop’s scientific program, please email: Maria Kunilovskaya maria.kunilovskaya(a)uni-saarland.de The workshop will be held in a hybrid format in conjunction with the NoDaLiDa Conference (https://www.nodalida2023.fo/) in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.

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Call for Book Proposals _ Natural Language Processing (John Benjamins’ book series)
by amalhaddad＠ugr.es 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Natural Language Processing (John Benjamins' book series) CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS John Benjamins' Natural Language Processing Book Series invites new book proposals to respond to the growing demand for Natural Language processing (NLP) literature. Three general types of books are considered for publication: _Monographs_ - featuring (i) original leading cutting-edge research (the monograph could be based on an outstanding PhD thesis), or (ii) surveys of the state-of-the art of specific NLP tasks or applications. _Collections_ - (i) books focusing on a particular NLP area (e.g. emerging from successful NLP workshops or as a result of editors' calls for papers) or (ii) books which include papers covering a wide range of topics (e.g. emerging from competitive NLP conferences or as a result of proposals for books of the type "Readings in NLP"). _Course books_ - (i) general NLP course books or (ii) course books on a particular key area of NLP (e.g. Speech Processing, Computational Syntax/Parsing). Authors will be encouraged to append supplementary materials such as demonstration programs, NLP software, corpora etc. and to indicate websites, computational language resources etc. where appropriate. This call invites proposals from potential authors of the types of books described above. Proposals on any topic related to Natural Language Processing are welcome. Topics The scope of the series is comprehensive ranging from fundamental Computational Linguistics topics (Computational Syntax, Computational Semantics etc.) through NLP methods (statistical methods, Machine Learning, Deep Learning) to NLP applications (machine translation, information extraction, information retrieval, question answering etc.). The series covers both written language and speech; it welcomes works covering (but not limited to) areas such as: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, text understanding and generation, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools, corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces, knowledge acquisition, information extraction, text summarisation, text classification, computer-aided language learning, language resources. Particularly welcome are books describing the development and use of latest Deep Learning techniques. Editor/Advisory board The new series' editor is Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) and the advisory board of the series includes: - Eduardo Blanco (University of North Texas) - Gloria Corpas (University of Malaga) - Robert Dale (Macquarie University) - Elizaveta Goncharova (National Research University) - Veronique Hoste (Veronique Hoste) - Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University) - Lori Lamel (The Computer Sciences Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences) - Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University) - Johanna Monti (University of Naples "L'Orientale" ) - Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) - Nicolas Nicolov (Head of AI/ML, Avalara Inc.) - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València) - Raheem Sarwar (University of Wolverhampton) - Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam) - Richard Sproat (Google Research) - Key-Yih Su (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica) The managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes (Email kees.vaes(a)benjamins.nl). SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS Interested authors should submit proposals by email (plain text or pdf files) to the series Editor-in-Chief: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov Email ruslanmitkov(a)yahoo.co.uk with a copy to the editorial assistants Ms Rocío Caro Quintana (R.Caro(a)wlv.ac.uk), Ms Amal Haddad Haddad (amalhaddad(a)ugr.es) and Ms Dayana Abuin Rios (dayana.abuinr(a)gmail.com). The proposals should include an outline of the book (1-2 pages), a preliminary table of contents, the target readership, related publications, how the book will differ from other similar books in the area (if applicable), time-scale and information about the prospective author (relevant experience in the field, publications etc.). Each proposal will be reviewed by members of the advisory board or additional reviewers. MORE INFORMATION More information on the new available at Natural Language Processing (https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp).

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Assistant professor position (fast tenure track) in NLP at Maastricht University
by Spanakis, Jerry (DACS) 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Hi all, At my department at Maastricht University, we are looking for an assistant professor in NLP (all focus areas included). If you are interested and/or know somebody and/or can forward it in your networks, I would be grateful. See below for the full ad/more details (or here<https://www.academictransfer.com/en/322163/assistant-professor-in-computer-…>). Deadline is February 5th. I am happy to answer any questions (informally). Best, -Jerry ————— Are you a computer scientist with a passion for research and teaching? The Department of advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) at Maastricht University is excited to welcome a new colleague who is keen to continue growing our research and to keep up our excellent standard of education. JOB DESCRIPTION We invite applications for an assistant professor position in computer science, focused on natural language processing (NLP). The position is open to all areas of NLP. We are particularly interested in candidates who have expertise in applying NLP in areas such as human-machine interaction, cognitive and social robotics, decision making, text mining, dialogue and communicative systems, automated argumentation, question answering, machine translation, information extraction, and NLP for social good. As an assistant professor, you will undertake cutting-edge research in an academic environment that is intellectually stimulating, welcoming, and collaborative. You will also contribute to our top-rated education, which is integrated with ongoing research in the department. Responsibilities | More specifically, you will: * Conduct leading research in your field of expertise; * Teach courses at the bachelor and master level (in English); * Supervise students at all levels (BSc, MSc, PhD); * Network and collaborate with internal and external research partners; * Apply for research funding on a national and European level. REQUIREMENTS Profile | Our ideal candidate has: * A PhD degree in computer science, computational linguistics, machine learning, applied mathematics, engineering, or a strongly related field; * At least 1 year working experience in an academic environment post-PhD; * A track record in research and teaching; * Experience with applying for research funding; * Experience with guiding Bachelor/Master/PhD students; * Fluent mastery of the English language; * A personality characterized by team spirit, ambition, and vision; * A keenness to build bridges between disciplines and to work in an interdisciplinary environment. We will help you develop yourself as a teacher and obtain a University Teaching Qualification (BKO, for basiskwalificatie onderwijs: an official certification for teaching at Dutch universities) through a training programme, in case you are not yet certified. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT We offer a position (1.0 FTE) as Assistant Professor (universitair docent), starting as soon as possible. Upon satisfactory performance in the one and a half year probationary period, this initially 18 months position will become permanent. We offer a salary as stipulated in the Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Universities. Within this framework, we offer a competitive salary with a minimum of € 3,974 and a maximum of € 6,181 per month (depending on your experience) for a full-time position of 38 hours/week. On top of this, there is an annual holiday allowance (8% of annual income) and an annual end-of-year bonus (8.3% of annual income). Applicants from outside The Netherlands may be eligible for the so-called 30% ruling, a tax cut for highly skilled migrants that applies for a maximum of five years. If you are moving to Maastricht from more than 40 kilometers away, you may qualify for a one-time reimbursement of your relocation costs. The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. Notable terms include a pension scheme, an optional collective healthcare plan and partially paid parental leave. Furthermore, UM makes use of a selection model, which allows you to exchange employment conditions to adapt them to your preferences and circumstances. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl<http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/> > About UM > Working at UM. EMPLOYER Maastricht University Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 22,000 students and 5,000 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl<http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/>. Living and working in Maastricht | DACS is housed in the historical city center of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Situated in the heart of Europe and within 30 kilometers from the German and Belgian borders, Maastricht and its 120,000 inhabitants have a strong international character. It is a safe and family-friendly city with a history spanning more than 2,000 years. The city’s rich past is reflected everywhere in the streets: the ratio of monuments-to-inhabitants is roughly 1:73. If you are unfamiliar with The Netherlands, UM’s Knowledge Centre for International Staff will gladly assist you with practical matters such as housing. DEPARTMENT Department of Advanced Computing Sciences | The Department of Advanced Computing Sciences is Maastricht University’s largest and oldest department broadly covering the fields of artificial intelligence, data science, computer science, mathematics and robotics. Over 100 researchers work and study in the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, whose roots trace back to 1987. The department’s staff teaches approximately 800 bachelor’s and master’s students in 3 specialized study programmes in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/dacs Faculty of Science and Engineering | Maastricht University heavily invests in the growth of its STEM research and education. The Faculty of Science and Engineering is one of the focal points of these developments. Within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, over 260 researchers and more than 2,700 students work on themes such as data science and artificial intelligence, circularity and sustainability, and fundamental physics. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION More information If you have questions about this position, you can refer to: Prof. Mark Winands, Professor in Machine Reasoning, Chair of DACS E-mail: m.winands(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:m.winands@maastrichtuniversity.nl> If you are interested in the position of Assistant Professor in Computer Science / NLP at DACS, we welcome you to apply via Academic Transfer (link<https://www.academictransfer.com/en/322163/assistant-professor-in-computer-…>). We strongly believe in diversity (including but not limited to nationality, age and gender) and encourage you to apply if you are qualified for this position.

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Fully-funded PhD position at University of Bremen
by Molina León, Gabriela Carolina 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Dear all, We have an open full-time PhD position in the Collaborative Research Center "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" at the University of Bremen, funded for at least 3 years. The research of our project focuses on computational social science, especially natural language processing and data visualization. Currently, we are looking for someone interested in focusing their doctoral research on challenging NLP tasks involving the analysis of multilingual social science data from social media and official documents published worldwide since 1880. The goal is to empower social science researchers with advanced computational methods. You can find more information about the job offer here: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-v… Please feel free to share with any interested students and reach out for any questions to Prof. Andreas Breiter (abreiter at uni-bremen.de) who leads the team. Best regards, Gabriela C. Molina León Doctoral Researcher ifib - Institute for Information Management Bremen & CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy Universität Bremen Unicom, 7.1040 Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen molina(a)uni-bremen.de

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Postdoc Position (Hate Speech Detection) for up to 3 years in Milan, deadline 23rd Jan
by mail＠dirkhovy.com 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

We are looking for postdocs to work with us on INDOMITA! Online hate speech has resulted in actual hate crimes. INDOMITA offers automated assistance to combat online hate speech. However, hatred is complex. The offensiveness of a phrase is determined by social customs and user demographics: “Yo, a**hole!” is acceptable among friends but not strangers. Our user-centric approach takes into account social customs and user demographics to enhance detection of nuanced forms of hate speech. We will use three strategies: - modeling a complex problem with socio-demographic context, - automating counter-argument and responding to aggressive users, and - creating evaluation methods to analyze fairness, performance, and subjectivity. Our research will bridge language gaps and shed light on the relationships between online actors and online hatred. We are seeking candidates to work on NLP, machine learning, and neural networks for representation learning, natural language understanding, and hate speech detection in various languages and modalities. Successful candidates will work closely with Prof. Dirk Hovy, Prof. Debora Nozza, and the MilaNLP lab. Your profile: • a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics/NLP, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related fields. • Excellent programming skills in Python. Additional languages (C++, R, etc) a plus. • Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement. • Knowledge of current neural network models and implementation tools for neural networks (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, etc.). • Proven track record with publications in top-tier venues in the field of NLP/Computational Linguistics/ML. Position Details: • Starting date: March 1 2023, or any time thereafter • Duration: 2 years, 1 year extension possible • Deadline: 23rd January 2023 • Salary: 42k EUR p.a. (median salary Milan: 37k EUR) Applicants from outside Italy may qualify for a researcher taxation scheme How to apply: Go to the https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?type=a&urlBack=/wps/wcm/connect/Bocconi/Si… <https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?type=a&urlBack=/wps/wcm/connect/Bocconi/Si…> and search for “INDOMITA”, you will then have to click on “Apply online” for proceeding with the application. Candidates should attach publications and a cover letter to their application. Online interviews will take place during February 2023. Please contact dirk.hovy(a)unibocconi.it <mailto:dirk.hovy@unibocconi.it> if you have any question.

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NLP Scientific Officer Job opportunity at EC JRC - Ispra, Italy
by DE LONGUEVILLE Bertrand 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

DEADLINE EXTENDED : new deadline = 23/01/2023 Dear List, Please take good note of the Job Opportunity at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (see details blow). Please feel free to forward it to any potentially interested member of your networks. I enjoy the opportunity to whish happy Holidays season to all. Best Regards, Bertrand DE LONGUEVILLE, PhD Head of the Text Mining and Analysis Competence Centre (TMACC) [1601448337241] European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) Directorate T:Digital Transformation and Data<https://intracomm.ec.testa.eu/SYSPER2/org/vieworganisationjobs_jd.do?viewOb…> Unit T5 Text and Data Mining [cid:image002.jpg@01D929B6.08458220] The European Commission Text Mining and Analysis Competence Centre (TMACC - https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/text-mining/ ), hosted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), is looking for a Machine Learning expert to reinforce our Natural Language Processing team. The Unit's day-to-day work involves processing vast amounts of textual data, including legal acts, political speeches, discussion fora, news and social media postings, to the benefit Science-for-Policy projects within the EU Institutions. The job is based in Ispra, Italy. An ideal candidate will have a PhD or a minimum of 3 years of professional experience after university, an academic background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or similar, and hands-on experience in developing Text Mining applications. Contract duration: 36 months initial contract with possible renewals up to maximum 6 years. The basic monthly salary for Function Group IV (depending on years of experience): 3 555,98 - 6 593,66€. In addition to the basic salary, the candidate may be eligible for various allowances (including expatriation and household allowances). For further information, see: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020XC1211(0… The JRC has short-term accommodation facilities for newcomers, nearby the its green campus situated close to Lago Maggiore. The JRC has childcare facilities for children under 4 years old. Children above 4 years can attend the European School of Varese (https://www.eurscva.eu/en/home/ ), for which transport is organised from the surrounding areas. To apply: 1. Create a profile on one of these two application portals: a. EPSO Permanent CAST https://epso.europa.eu/en/documents/2240 OR b. JRC specialised call for researchers https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/working-us/jobs-jrc/temporary-po… 2. Once you have created your profile via one of the above portals, create your application via: https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=AX The available position appears among the open positions with the following identifiers: 2022-IPR-I3-FGIV-022149 Title: FG IV – IT Project Officer – NLP Scientific Research https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=A&id=2439&target= !! Deadline: 23/01/2023 !!

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EAMT 2023 Call for Papers
by Carol Scarton 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

******************************************************************* EAMT 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers deadline: 3rd March 2023 Conference dates: 12th-15th June 2023 Location: Tampere, Finland Website: https://events.tuni.fi/eamt23/ ******************************************************************* The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites everyone interested in machine translation and translation-related tools and resources -- developers, researchers, users, translation and localization professionals and managers -- to participate in this conference. Driven by the state of the art, the research community will demonstrate their cutting-edge research and results. Professional machine translation users will provide insight into successful MT implementation of machine translation (MT) in business scenarios as well as implementation scenarios involving large corporations, governments, or NGOs. Translation studies scholars and translation practitioners are also invited to share their first-hand MT experience, which will be addressed during a special track. Note that papers that have been archived in arXiv can be accepted for submission provided that they have not already been published elsewhere. We expect to receive manuscripts in these four categories: ** Research: technical ** Submissions (up to 10 pages, including references) are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of machine translation and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluation component, or have a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution where results and in-depth evaluations may not be appropriate. Papers are welcome on all topics in the areas of machine translation and translation-related technologies, including, but not limited to: - Deep-learning approaches for MT and MT evaluation - Advances in classical MT paradigms: statistical, rule-based, and hybrid approaches - Comparison of various MT approaches - Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation, domain adaptation, etc. - Resources and evaluation - MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high volume, low computing resources - MT applications: translation/localization aids, speech translation, MT for user generated content (blogs, social networks), MT in computer-aided language learning, etc. - Linguistic resources for MT: corpora, terminologies, dictionaries, etc. - MT evaluation techniques, metrics, and evaluation results - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Related multilingual technologies: natural language generation, information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, optical character recognition, etc. Papers should describe original work. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Where appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (including references). Submit the paper as a PDF to the EasyChair EAMT 2023 page ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 -- submission type: EAMT2023 technical research). ** Research: translators & users ** Submissions (up to 10 pages, including references) are invited for academic research on all topics related to how professional translators and other types of MT users interact with, are affected by, or conceptualize machine translation. Papers should report significant research results with a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - The impact of MT and post-editing: including studies on processes, effort, strategies, usability, productivity, pricing, workflows, and post-editese - Human factors and psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession) - Emerging areas for MT & post-editing: audiovisual, game localization, literary texts, creative texts, social media, health care communication, crisis translation - MT and ethics - The impact of using translators’ metadata and user activity data for monitoring their work - The evaluation and reception of different modalities of translation: human translation, post-edited, raw MT - MT and interpreting - Human evaluations of MT output - MT for gisting and the impact of MT on users: use cases, expectations, perceptions, trust, views on acceptability - MT and usability - MT and education/language learning - MT in the translation/interpreting classroom Papers should describe original work. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (including references). Submit the paper as a PDF to the EasyChair EAMT 2023 page ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 -- submission type: EAMT2023 translator and user research). ** Implementations & case studies ** Submissions (approximately 4–6 pages) are invited for reports on case studies and implementation experience with MT in organizations of all types, including small businesses, large corporations, governments, NGOs, or language service providers. We also invite translation practitioners to share their views and observations based on their day-to-day experience working with MT in a variety of environments. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - Integrating or optimizing MT and computer-assisted translation in translation production workflows (translation memory/MT thresholds, mixing online and offline tools, using interactive - - MT, dealing with MT confidence scores) - Managing change when implementing and using MT (e.g. switching between multiple MT systems, limiting degradations when updating or upgrading an MT system) - Implementing open-source MT (e.g. strategies to get support, reports on taking pilot results into full deployment, examples of advanced customization sought and obtained thanks to the open-source paradigm, collaboration within open-source MT projects) - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting (e.g. error detection strategies employed, metrics used, productivity or translation quality gains achieved) - Ethical and confidentiality issues when using MT, especially MT in the cloud - Using MT in social networking or real-time communication (e.g. enterprise support chat, multilingual content for social media) - MT and usability - Implementing MT to process multilingual content for assimilation purposes (e.g. cross-lingual information retrieval, MT for e-discovery or spam detection, MT for highly dynamic content) - MT in literary, audiovisual, game localization and creative texts - Impact of MT and post-editing on translation practices and the profession: processes, effort, compensation - Psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession) - Error analysis and post-editing strategies (including automatic post-editing and automation strategies) - The use of translators’ metadata and user activity data in MT development - Freelance translators’ independent use of MT - MT and interpreting Papers should highlight real-world use scenarios, solutions, and problems in addition to describing MT integration processes and project settings. Where solutions do not seem to exist, suggestions for MT researchers and developers should be clearly emphasized. For papers on implementations and case studies produced by academics, we require co-authorship with the actual organizations working with MT implementations. Papers (approximately 4–6 pages, with a maximum of 10 pages including references) should be formatted according to the templates specified below and submitted as PDF files to the EasyChair EAMT 2023 page ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 -- submission type: EAMT2023 Implementations). Anonymization is not required in the Implementations & Case Studies track submissions. ** Products & Projects ** Submissions (2 pages, including references) are invited on either of the subtracks (Products or Projects). - Products: Tools for machine translation, computer-aided translation, and other translation technologies (including commercial products and free/open-source software). Descriptions should include information about product availability and licensing, an indication of cost if applicable, basic functionality, (optionally) a comparison with other products, and a description of the technologies used. The authors should be ready to present the tools in the form of demos or posters during the conference. - Projects: Research projects, funded through grants obtained in competitive public or private calls related to machine translation. Descriptions should contain: project title and acronym, funding agency, project reference, duration, list of partner institutions or companies in the consortium if there is one, project objectives, and a summary of partial results available or final results if the project has ended. The authors should be ready to present the projects in the form of posters during the conference. This follows on from the successful ‘project villages’ held at the last EAMT conferences. There will be a poster boaster session for this track, in which authors will have 120 seconds to attract attendees to their posters or demos with a two-slide presentation. Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymization is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 2 pages (including references), and submitted as PDF files to the EasyChair EAMT 2023 page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 -- submission type: EAMT2023 Products–Projects). ** Best thesis award ** The EAMT Best Thesis Award 2022 for PhD theses defended during 2022 will be awarded at the conference, together with a presentation of the winner’s work. Information for candidates to the award is available at https://eamt.org/2023/01/09/the-anthony-c-clarke-award-for-the-2022-eamt-be… . The deadline is the same as for the paper submission. Theses should be submitted to the EasyChair EAMT 2023 page ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 -- Submission type: Thesis Award). ** Templates for Papers ** Use one of the templates below to prepare your submission: - LaTeX (https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip) - Cloneable Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw) - Microsoft Word ( https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx) - Libre Office/Open Office ( https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt) - PDF (https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf) ** Important deadlines ** Deadline for paper submission: 3 March 2023 Notification to authors: 6 April 2023 Author Registration: 5 May 2023 Camera ready deadline: 5 May 2023 All deadlines are at 23:59 CEST. -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

First call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 The 4rd RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system (link will be provided once available). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Important dates: Submission deadline 13 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 2 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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