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Invitation to a Postdoctoral Fellowship Application at the University of Vienna
by Benjamin Roth 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

The Natural Language Processing Lab [1] at the Data Mining and Machine Learning Research Group, University of Vienna, invites researchers (who have or will have a PhD degree at the call deadline in September 2023 and fulfill the eligibility criteria) to prepare a joint application for an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship [2,3]. Potential topics can be in current areas of NLP research, e.g.: - Measuring and improving interpretability, fairness, robustness in large language models - Privacy-preserving learning with language data - Using additional knowledge sources for information extraction from text - Reasoning with knowledge graphs and language Potential candidates should have published at top NLP or ML conferences (EMNLP,ACL,NAACL,NeurIPS,ICML,ICLR). In case of agreement on a Fellowship application, the NLP lab will support the candidate in the preparation, including a fully funded research visit at the University of Vienna (if desired). If you want to learn more, please send an email to Benjamin Roth (benjamin.roth [at] univie.ac.at) with your CV attached and the subject line "msca ml nlp". [1] https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/about-us/natural-language-processing/ [2] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fe… [3] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral… -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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PhD Position in Conversational AI / NLP in St. Gallen, Switzerland
by Handschuh, Siegfried 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

The Chair of Data Science and Natural Language Processing (Prof. Siegfried Handschuh) invites applications for a PhD position as part of the recently granted Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) research project "Conversational AI: Dialogue-based Adaptive Argumentative Writing Support". You will contribute to its successful implementation, as well as the chair's varied activities in teaching and outreach. Our research at the Data Science and NLP Chair at ICS-HSG focuses on the cutting-edge field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Our group delves into various aspects, including conversational AI, Large Language Models (LLM), intricate language analysis, Knowledge Graphs and more. Utilising sophisticated methods and algorithms, we aim to extract deeper knowledge and understanding from vast amounts of textual and auditory data. Our research not only delves into the core principles of NLP but also explores its practical applications across various industries. Details of the post and how to apply: https://bit.ly/phd_conversational_ai -- Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh Full Professor of Data Science and Natural Language Processing Director, Institute of Computer Science University of St.Gallen E-mail: siegfried.handschuh(a)unisg.ch

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Second Shared Task on Automatic Minuting at INLG 2023
by Tirthankar Ghosal 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

*** Second Shared Task on Automatic Minuting *** *** AutoMin 2023 as INLG 2023 Generation Challenge *** Automatic summarization of meetings into meeting minutes (aka `minuting') would be an amazing tool. Superficially, large language models like BART, GPT*, and friends may seem to have solved it already, but serious concerns still remain regarding completeness and factual correctness. We would like to invite you to take part in AutoMin 2023, the second instance of the shared on automatic minuting, i.e., summarization of English and Czech meeting transcripts into meeting minutes and their evaluation. See the details on task options below. AutoMin 2023 is a registered INLG Challenge this year. *** Website *** https://ufal.github.io/automin-2023/ *** Key Tasks (one or both) *** - Task A: The main task consists of automatically creating minutes from multiparty meeting transcripts. The generated minute will be evaluated both via automatic and manual metrics. - Task D: Given a meeting transcript, a candidate minutes, and a set of one or more reference minutes, assign a score indicating the quality of the candidate. Task D will not be evaluated by a single criterion. All submissions to Task D will be evaluated in terms of Pearson correlation against all manual and all automatic evaluation scores available in AutoMin 2023, including other submissions to Task D. *** Registration *** Registration and participation are free of charge. All participants need to register to get access to the test data. Use this form and provide us with your GitHub user name (one member per team is fine): https://forms.office.com/e/jdvsdtV5Tm After registration, we will give you GitHub access to the test data. Please get in touch in case you would be willing to contribute to the manual evaluation of AutoMin submissions. *** Important Dates (EXTENDED) *** May 1, 2023 System Submission Deadline May 15, 2023 Report Submission Deadline July 25, 2023 Camera Ready Submission; in line with INLG September, 2023 AutoMin @ INLG 2023 *** Publication *** All teams are required to submit a brief technical report describing their method. Please submit using the INLG paper template (details here: https://inlg2023.github.io/calls.html). All reports must be a minimum of 2 pages and a maximum of 4 pages excluding references. Reports must be written in English. The proceedings will be published in ACL Anthology. *** Organizers *** Ondřej Bojar, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Tirthankar Ghosal, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Marie Hledikova, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Anja Nedoluzhko, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic *** Contact *** For inquiries, contact <automin(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz>. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal https://member.acm.org/~tghosal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CFP: TRUEHEALTH 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing [ICWSM 2023]
by Rishabh Upadhyay 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

TrueHealth 2023: Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing Workshop @ ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social Media June 5th – 8th 2023, Limassol, Cyprus https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/ Scope and topics: In recent years, people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole. From this perspective, it becomes necessary to study and propose technological solutions to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being. To this end, it is essential to promote research of an interdisciplinary nature, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can address the problem of health misinformation from different points of view by combining their expertise. The topics of interest of the TrueHealth 2023 Workshop at ICWSM include, but are not limited to: Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI); Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access; Debunking health misinformation; Fake news/rumors and healthcare; Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection; Health misinformation detection; Health literacy and information genuineness; Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI); Misinformation and public opinion on health; Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health; Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation; Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI). Submission Instructions We welcome both 2-page abstracts, as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers – excluding references (11 pages max with references and ethics statement). Abstracts are ideal as Demo or Position papers, Short papers as presentations of ongoing research with preliminary results or summaries of previous work, and Long papers as presentations of novel research and results. Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop Proceedings (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/). All submissions should be double-blind. Papers have to follow the AAAI format, as outlined here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/aaai-2023-author-kit/wxnmhzcrjbpc Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=truehealth2023 Other ICWSM submission instructions: https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html Important Dates Workshop Papers Submissions: March 27, 2023 Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2023 Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 6, 2023 ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day: June 5, 2023 Organizers Gabriella Pasi (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Rishabh Upadhyay (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Marco Viviani (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Program Committee Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Sanda Harabagiu, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Liadh Kelly, Maynooth University, Ireland Dongwon Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Italy Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics (CNR), Italy Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Xingyi Song, University of Sheffield, UK Hanna Suominen, Australian National University, Australia Francesca Spazzano, Boise State University, USA Angelo Spognardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Bei Yu, Syracuse University, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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Call for participations-Homophobia/Transphobia Detection in social media comments-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

Apologies for cross-posting Link:https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11077 Shared Task on Homophobia/Transphobia Detection in social media comments: at LT-EDI 2023- RANLP 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2023/home?authuser=0> *Languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam*. Participants will be provided with sentences in comment, extracted from social. Given a comments, a system must predict whether or not it contains any form of homophobia/transphobia. The seed data for this task is the Homophobia/Transphobia Detection dataset [1], a collection of comments from social media. The comments are manually annotated to show whether the text contains homophobia/transphobia. The participants will be provided development, training and test dataset in *English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam*. To download the data and participate, go to codalab and click “Participate" tab. As far as we know, this is the first shared task on Homophobia/Transphobia Detection. *Important Dates for shared task:* Task announcement: Feb 20, 2023 Release of Training data: Feb 28, 2023 Release of Test data: May 10, 2023 Run submission deadline: June 1, 2023 Results declared: June 10, 2023 Paper submission:1 July 2023 Peer review notification: 5 August 2023 Camera-ready paper due: 20 August 2023 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/bharathirajaasokachak… Special Issue on Language Technology for Safer Online Social Media Platforms in Low-resource Eurasian Languages <https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tallip/pdf/TALLIP-SI-Lang…> Cyber-Social Issues Prediction in Low-Resource Languages with Deep Internet of Things (DIoT) <https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tallip/pdf/TALLIP-SI-Pred…>

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[CFP] [SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION] "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies"
by Leszek Szymański 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Dear Colleagues, the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra announces a linguistics conference: "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies". This year's edition will be held entirely online on May 18-19, 2023. SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 31, 2023. More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you! Leszek Szymański

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CfP: 2023-2024 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
by rdml＠bloomberg.net 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Hello, Bloomberg is happy to announce an exciting funding opportunity for Ph.D. students. The sixth edition of the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship Program invites Ph.D. students working in broadly-construed data science to apply for fellowships. Our fellowship program, launched in 2018, provides the opportunity for outstanding Ph.D. candidates to be funded for up to three years of their Ph.D studies to work on their research proposal. The recipients will collaborate and be supported by our Data Science community throughout this time and will complete 14-week summer internships with Bloomberg for the duration of their fellowships. The past year's recipients of the fellowship are presented here: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/introducing-the-fifth-cohort-of-b… Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year must be submitted by April 28, 2023. Fellowship recipients will be announced by June 16, 2023. Full details about the fellowship and application process can be found at: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/values/tech-at-bloomberg/data-science/aca… We would appreciate it if you can share this opportunity with interested parties. Please direct all questions and future communications to rdml(a)bloomberg.net. Bloomberg

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CLEF 2023 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Call for Participants LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance CLEF 2023 Lab 18-21 September, Thessaloniki, Greece -------------------------------------------------------- ** Registration open, training data available ** The CLEF 2023 LongEval lab is motivated by recent research showing that the performance of information retrieval and text classification models drops as the test data becomes more distant in time from the training data. LongEval differs from traditional IR and classification shared tasks with special considerations on evaluating models that mitigate performance drop over time. It encourages participants to develop temporal information retrieval systems and longitudinal text classifiers that survive through dynamic temporal text changes, introducing time as a new dimension for ranking models performance. The lab consists of two tasks: * Task 1. LongEval-Retrieval: The goal of Task 1 is to propose an information retrieval system which can handle changes over the time. The proposed retrieval system should follow the temporal timewise evolution of Web documents. Contact: longeval-ir-task(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr * Task 2. LongEval-Classification: The goal of Task 2 is to propose a temporal persistence classifier which can mitigate performance drop over short and long periods of time compared to a test set from the same time frame as training. Contact: r.a.a.alkhalifa(a)qmul.ac.uk Registration ------------ Please use the CLEF registration form (http://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/) to register to the tasks. The registration closes on Friday, 28 April 2023. Timeline -------- April 2023: Test data release 28 April 2023: Registration closes 10 May 2023: End of Evaluation Cycle [submission of runs] 5 June 2023: Submission of Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 5–23 June 2023: Review process of participant papers July 2023: Camera ready paper submission September 2023: CLEF Conference Organisers ---------- Rabab Alkhalifa, Iman Bilal, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Jose Camacho-Collados, Romain Deveaud, Alaa El-Ebshihy, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez, Petra Galuščáková, Lorraine Goeuriot, Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Daniel Loureiro, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Philippe Mulhem, Florina Piroi, Martin Popel, Christophe Servan, Arkaitz Zubiaga.

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Call-for-Participation: Aware Task @ ImageCLEF 2023 (Unveiling Real-Life Effects of Online Photo Sharing)
by Bogdan Ionescu 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] ImageCLEFaware (3rd edition) Registration: https://www.imageclef.org/2023/aware Run submission: May 10, 2023 Working notes submission: June 5, 2023 CLEF 2023 conference: September 18-21, Thessaloniki, Greece *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Images constitute a large part of the content shared on social networks. Their disclosure is often related to a particular context and users are often unaware of the fact that, depending on their privacy status, images can be accessible to third parties and be used for purposes which were initially unforeseen. For instance, it is common practice for employers to search information about their future employees online. Another example of usage is that of automatic credit scoring based on online data. Most existing approaches which propose feedback about shared data focus on inferring user characteristics and their practical utility is rather limited. We hypothesize that user feedback would be more efficient if conveyed through the real-life effects of data sharing. The objective of the task is to automatically score user photographic profiles in a series of situations with strong impact on her/his life. Four such situations were modeled this year and refer to searching for: (i) a bank loan, (ii) an accommodation, (iii) a job as waitress/waiter, and (iv) a job in IT. The inclusion of several situations is interesting in order to make it clear to the end-users of the system that the same image will be interpreted differently depending on the context. The final objective of the task is to encourage the development of efficient user feedback, such as the YDSYO Android app https://ydsyo.app/. *** TASK *** Given an annotated training dataset, participants will propose machine learning techniques which provide a ranking of test user profiles in each situation which is as close as possible to a human ranking of the test profiles. *** DATA SET *** This is the third edition of the task. A data set of more than 1,000 user profiles with 100 photos per profile was created and annotated with an appeal score for a series of real-life situations via crowdsourcing. Participants to the experiment were asked to provide a global rating of each profile in each situation modeled using a 7-points Likert scale ranging from strongly unappealing to strongly appealing. An averaged and normalized appeal score will be used to create a ground truth composed of ranked users in each modeled situation. User profiles are created by repurposing a subset of the YFCC100M dataset. *** METRICS *** Participants to the task will provide an automatically ranking of user ratings for each situation which will be compared to a ground truth rating obtained by crowdsourcing. The correlation between the two ranked list will be measured using Pearson's correlation coefficient. The final score of each participating team will be obtained by averaging correlations obtained for individual situations. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Run submission: May 10, 2023 - Working notes submission: June 5, 2023 - CLEF 2023 conference: September 18-21, Thessaloniki, Greece (https://clef2023.clef-initiative.eu/) *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** Jérôme Deshayes-Chossart, CEA LIST, France Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, France Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania *** ACKNOWLEDGEMENT *** The task is supported under the H2020 AI4Media â€œA European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracyâ€ project, contract #951911 https://www.ai4media.eu/. On behalf of the Organizers, Bogdan Ionescu https://www.AIMultimediaLab.ro/

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2nd CfP for 4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2023) @ SIGIR 2023
by Krestel, Ralf 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2023) ================================================================================ The PatentSemTech2023 workshop aims to establish a long-term collaboration and a two-way communication channel between the IP industry and academia from relevant fields such as natural language processing (NLP), text and data mining (TDM), and semantic technologies (ST) in order to explore and transfer new knowledge, methods, and technologies for the benefit of industrial applications as well as support research in applied sciences for the IP and neighboring domains. Call for Contributions ====================== PatentSemTech2023 will be held as a full-day event in conjunction with SIGIR 2023. Workshop website: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/ Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 25, 2023 Notification: May 23, 2023 SIGIR PatentSemTech2023 workshop: July 27, 2023 Topics of Interest ================== We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics related to the IP domain. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Text mining and retrieval from patents, legal documents, or other scientific-technical information sources * Machine learning methods, in particular deep learning methods for - Representation learning (word and document embeddings) - Query expansion - Clustering and classification - Recommendation - IPC/CPC prediction - Trend detection - Entity extraction * Semantic approaches for - Linking semantic information - Integrating external knowledge sources - Semantic enrichment * Methods and applications for retrieving, mining, and analysing, including - Patent landscaping - Hot spot / White spot analysis - Multi-modal analysis - Technology trend analysis - Innovative user interfaces - Visual user interface concepts Contributions ============= We solicit two types of submissions: full papers and short papers for three tracks: research, demo, and summarization task. Full papers will be limited to 8 pages (including references); short papers will be 4 pages (including references). The submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and evaluated based on innovativeness, novelty, interestingness, and impact. We plan for three tracks: *Research Track (full or short papers)* For this track, we solicit contributions from academia that present * Novel applications of existing state of the art methods for the IP domain * Novel methods or tasks in the IP domain * Novel user interfaces for the IP domain * Novel evaluation or analysis insights in the IP domain * Novel benchmark datasets or other resources of interest * A survey or overview related to a particular task in the IP domain *Demo/System Track (short papers)* We solicit demos, case study, insights, or novel ideas from industry that present * Focused case studies making use of semantic technologies or machine learning * Interesting IP-related task descriptions or best practices for patent analysis * In-use systems or prototype implementations of semantic technologies * Demos on processing or analysing data from the IP domain, or user interfaces * In-use resources related to patents or external resources, e.g., linked open data. *Summarization Task Track (short papers)* Within the patent text mining community, especially from the industry, there is an interest in developing text mining tools targeting text summarization. * Participants are free to use publicly available data sets to train their models. We recommend exploring US Patents, which many contain the text section SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION. * We will also publish a small training and test data set on the 23rd of February. The provided data set is composed of patents within the field of Green Plastics Technology. * Participants are asked to submit a short (4 pages) scientific paper, which will be peer-reviewed by the workshop organizers. The most interesting submissions will be invited to present their solution at the workshop. * Furthermore, we will have an additional interactive evaluation to reflect a more real-life scenario at the workshop, making it possible to evaluate not only the performance in terms of F1, ROUGE, recall, precision etc., but also efficiency. Therefore the invited participants will be asked to set-up their solutions as a service and provide a REST API. Input will be a patent document (PDF,DOCX), and output should be a summary of not more than 700 words. Submission Guidelines ===================== Submissions must be in English, in PDF, and in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ("sigconf" template for LaTeX; Interim Template for Word). Submissions should be at most 8 (full) or 4 (short) pages (including figures and references) in length. Submissions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patentsemtech2023. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work in person at the workshop. Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit extended, full papers to Elsevier's World Patent Information (WPI) journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information/ Organizers ========== Ralf Krestel (ZBW & CAU Kiel, Germany), Hidir Aras (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany), Linda Andersson (Artificial Researcher, Austria), Florina Piroi (Data Science Studio, RSA FG, Austria), Allan Hanbury (TU Wien, Austria), Dean Alderucci (CMU, USA) All questions about submissions should be emailed to: r.krestel(a)zbw.eu and hidir.aras(a)fiz-karlsruhe.de

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