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Call for participation - GURT/SyntaxFest 2023 - CxGs+NLP, Depling, TLT, UDW
by Amir Zeldes 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION � GURT/SyntaxFest 2023 - CxGs+NLP, Depling, TLT, UDW � Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics & SyntaxFest � <https://gurt.georgetown.edu> https://gurt.georgetown.edu � Theme: Computational and Corpus Linguistics Workshops: CxGs+NLP, Depling, TLT, UDW Location: Washington, DC Date: March 9-12, 2023 � The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. � Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will consist of four workshops focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax: a new workshop on CxGs+NLP, and three returning SyntaxFest workshops, Depling, TLT, and UDW. Talks will take place in plenary sessions to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. � � Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. � New Workshop: * Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) � Returning SyntaxFest events: * Depling - International Conference on Dependency Linguistics * TLT - Treebanks and Linguistic Theories * UDW - Universal Dependencies Workshop � Keynote speakers: * Guy Perrier * Joan Bresnan * Joakim Nivre * Jonathan Dunn � The detailed conference program is now online here: � <https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/program/> https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/program/ � � GURT/SyntaxFest is an in-person event with a modest registration fee. For a discounted rate, register by Feb. 28 at <https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/registration-gurt-2023> https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/registration-gurt-2023. � We look forward to seeing you in Washington DC! � The GURT organizers � �

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[2nd Call] Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals SEMANTiCS 2023
by Jennifer D'Souza 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

SEMANTiCS 2023 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2023 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives in these areas. Workshops and tutorials may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon request as well. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics - Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques - Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Reasoning, Rules and Policies - Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics - Social and Human aspects of Semantic Web - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Semantics in Data Science - Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems - Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as law, medicine, life sciences, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities, etc. We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop proposals on *emerging themes* for the topics listed above are encouraged. Detailed Call for Workshops and Tutorials: https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws Workshops Deadline: March 07, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Tutorials Deadline: June 06, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23>* *We are looking forward to your contribution!* Jennifer D’Souza, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany Anisa Rula, University of Brescia, Italy *Workshop & Tutorial Chairs*

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1st Call for Participation: DISCOTEX @ EVALITA 2023
by Dominique Brunato 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] *************************** First Call for Participation **************************** *TASK*: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX) @ EVALITA 2023 *Info*: https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home *Final Workshop*: September 7th-8th, 2023, Parma, Italy We invite interested parties from academia and industry to participate in the *DisCoTEX Task*, which will be held in the context of Evalita 2023 <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2023/>. DisCoTEX is the first shared task focused on modeling discourse coherence for Italian real-word texts. Coherence is a key property of any well-organized text and it plays a fundamental role in human discourse processing as well as in a number of NLP applications. Inspired by previous literature on coherence modeling, the DisCoTEX task will be articulated into two subtasks: 1. Last sentence classification: this is conceived as a binary classification task. Specifically, given a short textual passage and an individual sentence, participants will be asked to predict whether the sentence follows or not, thus joining it to the passage gives out a coherent or incoherent passage. 2. Human score prediction: this is conceived as a regression task in which participants will be asked to predict the average coherence score assigned by human raters to short passages (either in their original or modified version). Participants are free to participate in either one of them or both. More details about the definition, source data and evaluation are available at the task website <https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home>. Given the novelty of the task and the crucial role that coherence modeling plays in a variety of application scenarios, we expect to attract groups from communities working on distinct fields, such as automatic essay scoring, readability assessment and document summarization. Moreover, we hope that beyond the competition, the task would rise the interest of scholars working on theoretical models of coherence from a linguistic and a cognitive perspective, as well as those involved in the interpretability of current language models based on deep learning networks. ----------------------- Important Dates ----------------------- 7th February 2023: training data available to participants 30th April 2023: registration closes 2nd – 9 May 2023: evaluation windows 30th May 2023: results notification to participants 14th June 2023: technical report from participants due to task organizers 28th June 2023: final reports from task organizers due to EVALITA chairs 10th July 2023: review deadline 25th July 2023: camera ready version deadline 7th-8th September 2023: EVALITA workshop in Parma Updates will be made available at the Evalita 2023 website, check it often. ---------------- Organizers ---------------- Dominique Brunato* Davide Colla** Felice Dell'Orletta* Irene Dini* Daniele Paolo Radicioni** Andrea Amelio Ravelli* * ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC-CNR), Pisa ** Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino ---------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts:*discotex.evalita2023@gmail.com* ----------------------------------------------------------------* * __ Feel free to contact us for further information! The DisCoTEX organizing committee

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Formality Control for Spoken Language Translation at IWSLT 2023
by Sweta Agrawal 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

We would like to invite participation in the second edition of Formality Control for Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/2023/formality> organized at IWSLT 2023 <https://iwslt.org/2023/>. This special task invites participants to advance research on controlling formality in machine translation for a diverse set of languages, focusing on zero-shot transfer across languages. Important links: - Formality task webpage: https://iwslt.org/2023/formality - Data and metric: https://github.com/amazon-science/contrastive-controlled-mt/tree/main/IWSLT… - Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign - IWSLT conference webpage: https://iwslt.org/2023/ HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group <https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign> and access the registration using the following link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewDMutBgat38bIvgNwiHBWrJ6NJ7T33XI…> . We have released a formality-annotated training dataset here: https://github.com/amazon-research/contrastive-controlled-mt. Allowable generic training data is listed on the task website <https://iwslt.org/2023/formality#conditions>. Task submissions will be made on a dedicated GitHub repository. More information will be added here <https://iwslt.org/2023/formality#submission> at a later date. More resources: We will be releasing a trained multilingual classifier for both evaluation and analysis purposes. IMPORTANT DATES - Jan 14, 2023 Release of shared task training and dev data <https://github.com/amazon-science/contrastive-controlled-mt/tree/main/IWSLT…> - Apr 1-15, 2023 Evaluation period - Apr 24, 2023 Paper submission deadline (all papers) - Apr 30, 2023 System papers update deadline - May 22, 2023 Notification of acceptance - May 31, 2023 Camera-ready paper due - July 12, 2023 Pre-recorded video due - July 13-14, 2023 IWSLT conference LANGUAGE PAIRS - English → Korean - English → Vietnamese - Zero-shot languages (no training data released): - English → Portuguese - English → Russian You may participate in any subset of the language pairs. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sweta Agrawal (UMD) Marine Carpuat (UMD) Elijah Rippeth (UMD) Anna Currey (AWS AI Labs) Benjamin Hsu (AWS AI Labs) Phu Mon Htut (AWS AI Labs) Maria Nadejde (AWS AI Labs) Xing Niu (AWS AI Labs)

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CfP: Measuring Meanings | Computing Concepts. Practices of Operationalization and their Implications for Text Studies
by Nils Reiter 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Measuring Meanings | Computing Concepts: Practices of Operationalization and their Implications for Text Studies All details can also be found here: https://cretaverein.de/mmcc/ Since the work of physicist Percy Bridgman (1927, 5), ›operationalization‹ is used to refer to the practice of determining or measuring concepts by means of a »set of operations«. In Bridgman’s strong variant of operationalization, he regarded the meaning of concepts as synonymous with the operations used to measure it. In Bridgman’s view, such operational definitions are fundamental to all research in physics. The concept of length, for instance, would thus be defined by the operations which are necessary for measuring the length of a physical object. Early on, this position was intensively discussed (cf. Frank 1956), and also criticized for that, in extreme cases, each new measurement method of a concept is equivalent to a new operational definition: »it becomes a tautology that any measurement operation is the correct one for the concept associated with it« (Chang, Cartwright 2008, 367). Text-oriented DH projects seem to align with a weaker variant of operationalization in that their activities are structured by clearly delineable sub-steps (cf. Pichler, Reiter 2022; Krautter 2022). Thereby, operationalization can both contribute to the definitional refining of (humanities’) concepts, and facilitate opportunities for their empirical examination. The workshop aims to address these questions from scientific, computational, and praxeological perspectives, and thus attempts to provide an overview of the different theoretical positions and practical approaches; in particular with regard to operationalization in the field of digital humanities and digital text analysis. We especially solicit contributions that develop their theoretical reflections by means of concrete data. Please refrain from submitting textual analyses that do not include a theoretical reflection on their operationalization practice. Guiding questions include, but are not limited to: • What is referred to as a concept in the text studying fields of the humanities? What is the role of such concepts in theory building? • What is the function of quantitative, formal or computational analysis in terms of conceptualization in text studying fields? • How does the practice of operationalization relate to traditional and current approaches to conceptualization in philosophy, e.g., Carnapian explication and conceptual engineering? • What is the practice of operationalization in text studying fields of the humanities? • How does operationalization interact with established machine learning workflows? Which understanding of operationalization is inherent in these workflows? • How does operationalizing engage with interpreting? • How do we compare and evaluate operationalizations? • How can we conceptualize the ›agent‹ that conducts the measurement (e.g., computer vs. human)? What impact do different agents and their capacities have on our understanding of operationalization? • What are the differences between expressing measurement rules in natural (such as annotation guidelines) and formal language in relation to the operationalized concepts? How do these as well as their guiding background assumptions affect our understanding of operationalization? • Does the advent of large language models (such as BERT and GPT) change our notion of operationalization -- and if so, how? Submission We invite the submission of abstracts (1 page) in English on any of the above mentioned or closely related topics. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format to axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de; they do not need to be anonymised (non-blind). Prior to the workshop, the accepted abstracts must be extended into full papers (5000–6000 words), which will be circulated before the workshop. At the workshop, each paper is presented briefly, followed by an in-depth-discussion. The revised full papers will be published. Further details on publication will follow after acceptance. For the specific deadlines, please see the timeline below. Timeline Abstract submission deadline: May 1st, 2023 Notification: May 15 2023 Paper submission: August 31 2023 Workshop: September 25/26 2023 Venue Cologne Please contact Axel Pichler (axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de) for further questions. Organizers Axel Pichler, University of Stuttgart Benjamin Krautter, University of Cologne Nils Reiter, University of Cologne References Bridgman, Percy W.: The Logic of Modern Physics. New York 1927. Chang, Hasok / Cartwright, Nancy: Measurement. In: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, ed. by Stathis Psillos / Martin Curd. Abingdon, New York 2008, 367–375. Krautter, Benjamin: Die Operationalisierung als interdisziplinäre Schnittstelle der Digital Humanities. In: Scientia Poetica 26 (2022), S. 215–244. Pichler, Axel / Reiter, Nils: From Concepts to Texts and Back: Operationalization as a Core Activity of Digital Humanities. In: Journal of Cultural Analytics 7.4 (2022), https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.57195. Frank, Philipp G. (eds.): The Validation of Scientific Theories. Boston 1956.

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Open research position, NLP, Question Answering over Social Media for Healthcare
by Philipp Cimiano 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

There is an open research position on Question Answering over Social Media data for Healthcare Semantic Computing Group [1] at Bielefeld University. The project funding the position is concerned with automatically extract statements from health fora on the Web about how people managed their disease, what burdens they have, what symptoms affect them and how they cope with them. The goal of the project is to automatically fill questionnaires on the basis of the posts in such fora and compare the results to existing surveys in which the same questions have been directly asked to patients. Methodologically, we intend to push the state-of-the-art in QA while at the same time making a contribution to improving healthcare by discovering unmet needs and priorities of patients. Position requirements: - MSc in computational linguistics, NLP - demonstrated ability to work scientifically (e.g. through Master thesis or publications) - strong analytical, conceptual and communicative skills - ability to work in a larger team - strong programming skills The following aspects are a plus but not necessary: - PhD in NLP/computational linguistics - experience in question answering - experience in analysing social media data - experience with applications n the field of healthcare. The position is available for at least three years starting from May 2023 and is suited both for postdoctoral and PhD researchers. The group offers an intellectually stimulating and international environment with sufficient freedom to pursue own research interests. There is no teaching involved. Knowledge of German is not required. The application deadline is March 13th. Please send your applications directly to Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano at cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de <mailto:cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> [1] http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/home/ <http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/home/> Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano AG Semantic Computing Exzellenzcluster für Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) Universität Bielefeld Tel: +49 521 106 12249 Fax: +49 521 106 6560 Mail: cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de Office CITEC-2.307 Universitätsstr. 21-25 33615 Bielefeld, NRW Germany

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Third CFP: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
by Kiril Simov 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA) CLaDA-BG 2023 Conference https://clada-bg.eu/en/dissemination/events/international-clada-bg-conferen… Sofia, Bulgaria 10-12 May 2023 CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history. This is the second edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research. Topics of Interest The topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones: Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history Invited Speakers Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa, Italy Erhard Hinrichs, Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and Tübingen University, Germany Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Important Dates Submission deadline: 24.02.2023 Notification of acceptance: 3.04.2023 Final Submission: 3.05.2023 Conference: 10-12.05.2023 Submissions We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). There are two modes of submissions: Full papers (6 to 12 pages) or extended abstracts (3-5 pages, references excluded) in PDF format, in accordance with the Springer Computer Science Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ltdhra2023 For contacting organizers please use the following email: ltadh-ra(a)bultreebank.org The CLaDA-BG Organizer

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Call for Papers: IPAN - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa
by gloria.gagliardi＠unibo.it 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

*Apologies for cross-posting* __________________________________________________________________________________ Full Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa Short Title: IPAN Date: May 26th 2023 Location: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Contact Persons: Gloria Gagliardi; Paola Vernillo Meeting Email: gloria.gloria(a)unibo.it; paola.vernillo(a)unibo.it Web Site: https://site.unibo.it/metaphan/it Research Field(s): Clinical Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Psychology, and Neuropsychiatry. Call Deadline: 19th March 2023 We are pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference IPAN (“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa”), to be held at the University of Bologna (Italy) on May 26th, 2023, in hybrid (both in-person and online) format. The conference is centered on the study of AN in its various aspects, but it particularly focuses on its linguistic profile. Call for Papers: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychopathological gendered disorder characterized by disturbance in eating behavior, which manifests in the form of dysfunctional routines, such as food deprivation, obsessive weight control, and compulsive physical exercise. Beyond the disordered eating behaviors, AN appears to be also characterized by inflexible thinking, rigid habits, disconnection from the bodily experience, strong sensitivity to praise, anxiety, and perfectionism. Interestingly, from a very linguistic point of view, evidence of the linguistic changes characterizing patients with eating disorders seems to be less clear and the overall picture more blurred. Despite the fact that in the last decade a growing body of linguistic studies have been devoted to the investigation of linguistic changes in various clinical conditions, only a limited number of works have been specifically conducted on the linguistic profile of patients with eating disorders (ED), and an even smaller number has specifically focused on AN. This has meant that not only many issues are still unsolved, but also that several linguistic aspects of AN happen to be unexplored territory. “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa” (IPAN) is a conference aimed at fostering multidisciplinary exchange about research on AN and, more in general, on eating disorders. It invites contributions from all fields related to the study of this subject, including (but not limited to) Linguistics, Psychology, and Neuropsychiatry. The conference is open for research on various aspect of eating disorders. Topics of interest include the following: - Linguistic profile of AN: morphosyntactic and lexical markers - Conceptual representation of AN: abstraction deficits and concretism - Relationship between altered body image and disordered eating - NLP detection of online pro-ana and pro-mia communities - NLP and altered linguistic patterns in AN - Representation of eating disorders in social media - Analysis of voice disturbance in patients with eating disorders This conference aims to provide an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on eating disorders, both from theoretical and experimental viewpoints. Since our main aim is to bring together experts on ED/AN from different backgrounds and provide an environment for dialogue, we invite researchers from all related fields to submit abstracts to the conference. Time and Venue:       Date: May 26th 2023 Venue: Bologna (more information soon) Invited Speakers: Laura A. Cariola, The University of Edinburgh More to be announced… Abstract Submission Abstracts should be submitted, in word/rtf format, with your name, affiliation, and e-mail address directly to gloria.g...(a)unibo.it and paola.v...(a)unibo.it. Abstracts should not be longer than 400 words of text (excluding references) and should include up to 5 keywords.  Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion and will be in English. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at gloria.gloria(a)unibo.it; paola.vernillo(a)unibo.it __________________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates and Key Information Abstract submission opens: February 6th 2023 Abstract submission deadline: March 19th 2023 Registration: Participation at the conference is free of charge, but registration is compulsory. Scientific Committee: Marianna Bolognesi Vittoria Cuteri Gloria Gagliardi Caterina Mauri Antonia Parmeggiani Jacopo Pruccoli Paola Vernillo Local Organizers:   Gloria Gagliardi Paola Vernillo

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[PhD-Position] Research Position in Speech- and Text Anonymization in Medical Domain in Berlin
by Polzehl, Tim, PD Dr.-Ing. 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, we have a new PhD vacancy in the field of speech- and text anonymization in the medical domain in Berlin, Germany. The position is in the “Medinym” project of the department of Quality and Usability Labs of Berlin Institute of Technology. We’re looking for a Researcher or Junior Researcher level, offer a 2 years contract with optional prolongation and PhD perspective. Application deadline: Feb 28 More details and how to apply: TU Berlin: https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-postings/161912 Please circulate upon potentially interested. Many thanks! In case of questions pls contact me, I'm happy to help. Best regards from Berlin, Tim -- Dr.-Ing. Tim Polzehl Associate Senior Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 D-10587 Berlin, Germany Email: tim.polzehl(a)qu.tu-berlin.de Web: www.qu.tu-berlin.de

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The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems - Second call for papers
by Farid Meziane 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

NLDB 2023 The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 21-23 June 2023, University of Derby, United Kingdom. https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/nldb-2023/ About NLDB The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems will be held at the University of Derby, United Kingdom and will be a face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term "Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked Data and Social Networks. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has itself recently experienced several exciting developments. In research, these developments have been reflected in the emergence of neural language models (Deep Learning, Word Embeddings, Transformers) and the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and fairness, a (renewed) interest in various linguistic phenomena, such as in discourse and argumentation mining, and in new problems such as the detection of disinformation and hate speech in social media, as well of mental health disorders that increased during the recent pandemic. Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its applications in information systems that the 28th edition of the NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers. Call for Papers NLDB 2023 invites authors to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. This year's edition of NLDB also introduces an Industry Track, to foster fruitful interaction between the industry and the research community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Social Media and Web Analytics: Opinion mining/sentiment analysis, irony/sarcasm detection; detection of fake reviews and deceptive language; detection of harmful information: fake news and hate speech; sexism and misogyny; detection of mental health disorders; identification of stereotypes and social biases; robust NLP methods for sparse, ill-formed texts; recommendation systems. * Deep Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Deep learning architectures, word embeddings, transparency, interpretability, fairness, debiasing, ethics. * Argumentation Mining and Applications: Automatic detection of argumentation components and relationships; creation of resource (e.g. annotated corpora, treebanks and parsers); Integration of NLP techniques with formal, abstract argumentation structures; Argumentation Mining from legal texts and scientific articles. * Question Answering (QA): Natural language interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, non-factoid QA(how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets, QA over linked data (QALD). * Corpus Analysis: multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-modal corpora; machine translation, text analysis, text classification and clustering; language identification; plagiarism detection; information extraction: named entity, extraction of events, terms and semantic relationships. * Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, and Ontologies: Ontology learning and alignment, ontology population, ontology evaluation, querying ontologies and linked data, semantic tagging and classification, ontology-driven NLP, ontology-driven systems integration. * Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling: Analysis of natural language descriptions, NLP in requirement engineering, terminological ontologies, consistency checking, metadata creation and harvesting. * Natural Language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive computing, embedded, robotic and mobile applications; conversational agents; NLP techniques for Internet of Things (IoT); NLP techniques for ambient intelligence * Big Data and Business Intelligence: Identity detection, semantic data cleaning, summarisation, reporting, and data to text. Important Dates: Full paper submission: 14 March, 2023 Paper notification: 10 April, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 24 April, 2023 Conference: 21-23 June 2023 Submission Guidelines Authors should follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ) and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2023 ) Submissions can be full papers (12 pages maximum including references), short papers (8 pages including references) or papers for a poster presentation or system demonstration (6 pages including references). The programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or poster papers. The reviewing process of NLDB 2023 is double-blind, i.e., submissions must not contain author names or other identifying information, such as funding sources, acknowledgments and must use the third person to refer to work the authors have previously undertaken. System demonstration papers may not be anonymous. [University of Derby] Professor Farid Meziane, PhD, FHEA Professor of Data Science Data Science Research theme lead Head Data Science Research Centre<https://www.derby.ac.uk/research/about-our-research/centres-groups/data-sci…> Chair, College Research Committee College of Science and Engineering University of Derby, Markeaton Street, Derby DE22 3AW NLDB2023 Conference at Derby <https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/ndlb-2023/> Te: 01332 594031 f.meziane(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:f.meziane@derby.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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