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WMT 2022 Quality Estimation Shared Tasks, Call for Participation
by Chrysoula Zerva 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Dear all, we invite you to participate in this year's WMT shared tasks on Quality Estimation, where the goal is to predict the translation quality based on just the source and translation text. This year we introduce the following new elements: - Updated quality annotation scheme: the majority of the tasks uses Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) instead of direct assessments (DA); - QE as a Metric: we share part of the data used in this year's Metrics task, to promote research that bridges the two domains; - New language pairs: English-Marathi, with sentence level and word level annotations (direct assessments) and a _surprise_ language pair in the testing phase; - An explainability subtask, following up on the 1st edition of Eval4NLP shared task; - Updated data and task definition for the critical error detection task. ## Tasks description Task 1 -- Quality prediction - Word-level: predict the translation errors, assigning OK/BAD tags to each word of the target. - Sentence-level: predict the quality score for each source-target sentence pair. Task 2 -- Explainable QE Infer translation errors as an explanation for sentence-level quality scores. Task 3 -- Critical Error Detection Predict sentence-level binary scores indicating whether or not a translation contains a critical error. Links to the data on the QE shared task website: https://wmt-qe-task.github.io/ ## Important dates: - Release of training data: 30 May - Release of dev data: TBA - Release of test data: 21 July - Test predictions deadline: 16 August - System description paper: 18 August - Conference: 7-8 December To ask questions and receive the latest announcements, join our Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/wmt-qe-shared-task/ Best, The organisers.

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[Corpora-List]Call for Paper: 16th Workshop on Graph-based Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs 2022)
by Yanjun Gao 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Call for Paper: 16th Workshop on Graph-based Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs) Venue: COLING 2022 Location: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Date: October 16, 2022 Papers Due: July 11, 2022 (Monday) Workshop Description For the past sixteen years, the workshops in the TextGraphs series have published and promoted the synergy between the field of Graph Theory (GT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The mix between the two started small, with graph-theoretical frameworks providing efficient and elegant solutions for NLP applications. Graph-based solutions initially focused on single-document part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, and semantic role labeling. They became progressively larger to include ontology learning and information extraction from large text collections. Nowadays, graph-based solutions also target Web-scale applications such as information propagation in social networks, rumor proliferation, e-reputation, multiple entity detection, language dynamics learning, and future events prediction, to name a few. We plan to encourage the description of novel NLP problems or applications that have emerged in recent years, which can be enhanced with existing and new graph-based methods. The sixteenth edition of the TextGraphs workshop aims to extend the focus on graph-based representations for (1) integration and joint training and use of transformer-based models for graphs and text (such as Graph-BERT and BERT), and (2) domain-specific natural language inference. Related to the former point, we would like to advance the state-of-the-art natural language understanding facilitated with large-scale language models like GPT-3 and linguistic relationships represented by graph neural networks. Related to the latter point, we are interested in addressing a challenging task contributing to mathematical proof discovery. Furthermore, we also encourage research on applications of graph-based methods in knowledge graphs to link them to related NLP problems and applications. TextGraphs-16 invites submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics * Graph-based and graph-supported machine learning methods: Graph embeddings and their combinations with text embeddings; Graph-based and graph-supported deep learning (e.g., graph-based recurrent and recursive networks); Probabilistic graphical models and structure learning methods * Graph-based methods for Information Retrieval and Extraction: Graph-based methods for word sense disambiguation; Graph-based strategies for semantic relation identification; Encoding semantic distances in graphs; Graph-based techniques for text summarization, simplification, and paraphrasing; Graph-based techniques for document navigation and visualization * New graph-based methods for NLP applications: Random walk methods in graphs; Semi-supervised graph-based methods * Graph-based methods for applications on social networks * Graph-based methods for NLP and Semantic Web: Representation learning methods for knowledge graphs; Using graphs-based methods to populate ontologies using textual data Important dates * Papers Due: July 11, 2022 (Monday) * Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2022 (Monday) * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 (Monday) * Conference date: October 12-17, 2022 * Shared task: TBD Submission * We invite submissions of up to eight (8) pages maximum, plus bibliography for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers. * The COLING 2022 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and also Microsoft Word format. Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format. Download the Word and LaTeX templates here: https://coling2022.org/Cpapers<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcoling2022.org%2FCpapers&sa=D&sn…>. * Submit papers by the end of the deadline day (timezone is UTC-12) via our Softconf Submission Site. Contact Please direct all questions and inquiries to our official e-mail address (textgraphsOC(a)gmail.com<mailto:textgraphsOC@gmail.com>) or contact any of the organizers via their individual emails. Also you can join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/900711756665369<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F9007…>. Organizers * Dmitry Ustalov, Yandex * Yanjun Gao, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Abhik Jana, University of Hamburg * Thien Huu Nguyen, University of Oregon * Gerald Penn, University of Toronto * Arti Ramesh, Binghamton University * Alexander Panchenko, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) * Mokanarangan Thayaparan, University of Manchester & Idiap Research Institute * Marco Valentino, University of Manchester & Idiap Research Institute -- Yanjun Gao, Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Research Associate, ICU Data Science Lab Department of Medicine School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin-Madison https://serenayj.github.io/

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[Corpora-List]3rd CFP and deadline extension: CL for Political Text Analysis (CPSS)
by Ines Rehbein 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2022) https://gscl.org/en/arbeitskreise/cpss/cpss-2022/cfp-2022 * Workshop description * Recent years have seen more and more applications of computational methods to the analysis of political texts. This has led to the emergence of different communities (one with a background in political / social science and the other in the areas of NLP/computer science) which struggle to get awareness of the relevant work taking place in the respective other community. The main goal of this workshop is to bridge this gap and bring together researchers and ideas from the different communities, to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts. *Keynote* by David Jurgens https://jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/ * Important Dates * Workshop papers due: **10.07.2022** (extended) Notification of acceptance: 10.08.2022 Camera-ready papers due: 01.09.2022 Workshop date: 12.09.2022 * Submissions * We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to any aspect of Political Text Analysis using computational methods. Our workshop will accept two types of submissions: * archival papers describing original and unpublished work * non-archival papers (abstracts) that present already published research or ongoing work. The availability of both submission formats will meet the different needs of researchers from different communities, allowing them to come together and exchange ideas in an "get to know each other" environment which is likely to foster future collaborations. * Special Theme and Panel * The workshop will host a panel with invited speakers from the different communities, with a focus on theory-driven modelling of complex political or socio-psychological constructs in text, such as populism, polarisation or political cynicism. The panel will discuss challenges for modelling such multifaceted concepts from a theoretical as well as from a machine learning point of view, and how such models can be evaluated in a meaningful way. For more information, please refer to the workshop website: gscl.org/en/arbeitskreise/cpss/cpss-2022 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs: ines(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de * Organisers * * Ines Rehbein (U-Mannheim) * Christopher Klamm (U-Mannheim) * Gabriella Lapesa (U-Stuttgart) * Simone Ponzetto (U-Mannheim) -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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[Corpora-List]Translation in Transition 6: Call for participation
by Michal Křen 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

[apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to take part in the Translation in Transition conference that will be held in Prague on 22-23 September 2022. The conference will be held in hybrid form, which means that you can choose between online and in-person participation. The registration is still open for non-presenting participants: https://tt2022.ff.cuni.cz/registration/ Please find more details in the newly released Call for participation: https://tt2022.ff.cuni.cz/calls-and-circulars/call-for-participation/ Regards, Michal Křen (on behalf of the organizing committee)

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[Corpora-List]2nd CfP: Onto4FAIR Workshop at SEMANTICS 2022 (deadline extension)
by Cassia 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

** With apologies for multiple posting ** -------------- Onto4FAIR Workshop at SEMANTICS 2022 -------------- 1st Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR) in conjunction with SEMANTiCS 2022, Vienna, Austria Website: https://onto4fair.github.io -------------- Important dates -------------- - **July 04, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)**: Submission deadline (extension) - July 30, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance - August 15, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time): Camera-ready version - September 13, 2022: Workshop The workshop is planned to take place physically in Vienna, Austria. https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/venue -------------- Presentation -------------- Making the huge and diverse kinds of data produced by researchers, data stewards, and service providers, fully reusable and understood requires specific efforts. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles were elaborated to address these issues, describing a set of requirements for data reusability and interoperability. These principles have been gaining increasing attention in a range of different areas and applications, including in the industrial area. A key aspect in making data FAIR is the ability of machines to automatically find, access, interoperate, and reuse data with none or minimal human intervention. For that, the ability of properly and semantically describing data is essential. The workshop has the following main goals: - to bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to discuss the adoption of FAIR principles in real-world requirements. - to serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. - to investigate how the FAIR principles are supported by the use of schemes, vocabulaires, and ontologies that ideally are themselves FAIR.%, including creation, reuse and alignment of schemas, vocabularies and ontologies, to support the FAIR principles and their adoption in diverse areas of application. - to discuss the challenges and perspectives in adopting FAIR principles. -------------- Workshop topics -------------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - schemes, ontologies and vocabulaires for FAIR data and metadata; - domain and cross-domain ontologies for FAIR data; - making vocabularies and ontologies FAIR; - alignment of schemes, vocabulaires and ontologies for FAIR; - data management for FAIR data; - best practices for implementing the FAIR principles; - FAIRification process and use cases; - metrics for FAIRness assessment; - provenance in FAIR environments; - FAIR principles and open science; - FAIR principles and linked open data; - FAIR in industry, scientific communities (life science, digital humanities, health, smart cities, etc.). -------------- Submissions -------------- - Full research papers: 12 pages (including references). - Short papers: 6 pages (including references). Please submit your contribution on EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=28690100). Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of LNCS conference proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be published in the CEUR-WS.org online proceedings. -------------- Workshop Chairs -------------- - Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente and Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy & University of Twente, the Netherlands - Clement Jonquet, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Mathematics, Informatics and STatistics for Environment and Agronomy research unit, Montpellier, France - Cassia Trojahn, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France -------------- Program Committee -------------- (to be completed) Joao Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo Emna Amdouni, Université de Lyon 2 Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT CNRS Maria Luiza Campos, PPGI - IM/NCE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid María Poveda-Villalón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Tiago Prince Sales, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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Deadline approaching: Open Position in Online Toxicity Mitigation at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
by Abercrombie, Gavin 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

* Title: Research Associate in Online Toxicity Mitigation * Location: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK * Duration: full-time position, 12-36 months * Deadline: 22 July 2022 * Contact: Prof. Verena Rieser [v.t.rieser(a)hw.ac.uk] This is an exciting opportunity to work within multi-disciplinary team to develop novel toxicity mitigation techniques for a project funded by the UK Research Council to detect and mitigate online Gender Based Violence (GBV). You will be closely collaborating with teams of researchers working in NLP, Social Science and Education. The project is hosted at the Interaction Lab (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab), one of the biggest research groups in Conversational AI, and is in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and third sector charities specialising in online abuse and GBV. We are looking for candidates with a PhD and expertise in neural approaches to natural language generation, or closely related fields, and with a proven publication track record in ACL* venues etc. To apply, please follow the instructions here: https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/j… ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. With campuses and students across the entire globe we span the world, delivering innovation and educational excellence in business, engineering, design and the physical, social and life sciences. This email is generated from the Heriot-Watt University Group, which includes: 1. Heriot-Watt University, a Scottish charity registered under number SC000278 2. Heriot- Watt Services Limited (Oriam), Scotland's national performance centre for sport. Heriot-Watt Services Limited is a private limited company registered is Scotland with registered number SC271030 and registered office at Research & Enterprise Services Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS. The contents (including any attachments) are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of its contents is strictly prohibited, and you should please notify the sender immediately and then delete it (including any attachments) from your system.

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[Corpora-List]LxGr2022: Programme and Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2022) Programme and Call for Participation Registration closes on Thursday 7 July, 10am (BST). The symposium will take place online on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 July 2022. Programme & Registration: https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr Abstracts: https://www.academia.edu/82101749 and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361490343 For more information, contact the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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[Corpora-List]Rome Workshop on 10 Years of BabelNet and Multilingual Neurosymbolic NLU
by Roberto Navigli 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

It is my pleasure to invite you all to the Workshop on 10 Years of BabelNet and Multilingual Neurosymbolic NLU <http://mousse-project.org/events/event-a5f3r5.html> which will take place in *Rome*, at *Sapienza*, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG), on *4-5 July*. The workshop includes a *slate of invited speakers *who will participate in person, including in Dagstuhl-like brainstorming sessions, and is *open online to all interested attendees* (sign up here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5yVnaxXsT5t63_peEvZOTw3CyY-oIPEz…>). We will celebrate the most far-reaching and novel multilingual dictionary and knowledge base, BabelNet <https://babelnet.org>, a popular resource currently used by* more than 1000 universities and research institutions*, and discuss the future of neurosymbolic approaches to multilingual Natural Language Understanding. BabelNet is an output of the Sapienza NLP <https://nlp.uniroma1.it> Group and two ERC projects acknowledged among the 15 projects through which the ERC "transformed science" <https://erc.europa.eu/how-ERC-transformed-science/stories.html>, but it also led to the creation of a spinoff company, Babelscape <https://babelscape.com>, that is one of the most successful in the Sapienza startup portfolio. Notably, besides the ERC and Babelscape, this event is also co-sponsored by Accademia della Crusca <https://accademiadellacrusca.it/> (the oldest linguistic academy in the world), the Artificial Intelligence Journal <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence> and the European Language Grid <https://www.european-language-grid.eu/>. A *new updated version of BabelNet will be available* in conjunction with the event together with the *brand-new Python API* (available on PyPi <https://pypi.org/project/babelnet/>)! A smartphone app is also available on Android and iPhone. Enjoy! -- ============================================== Roberto Navigli* - Professor* Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto, 25 00185 Roma Italy Phone: +39 06 77274109 Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it Co-founder of Babelscape <https://babelscape.com> ==============================================

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[Corpora-List]Third CfP MUMTTT 2022 - The 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (Malaga)
by Giulia Speranza 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

*apologies for cross-posting* http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/mumttt-2022-2/ The 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology(MUMTTT 2022) Malaga, 30th September 2022 In conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2022 – International Conference “‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’” Third Call for Papers Following the success of the previous editions of the workshops on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and TranslationTechnology–the 2013 edition at the MT Summit in Nice, France, and the editions at the European Society of Phraseology Conference in Malaga, Spain (2015 and 2019), in London, UK (2017) we are announcing the fifth edition to be held in conjunction with the International Conference “Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology which is jointly organised by the European Association for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS), the University of Malaga (Research Group in Lexicography and Translation <http://lexytrad.es/>, IUITLM <http://iuitlm.uma.es/>), the University of Wolverhampton (Research Group in Computational Linguistics <http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/>, RIILP <http://www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp>) and the Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics <http://acl-bg.org/>. The MUMTTT workshop will be held on the last day of the conference, 30th September 2022. It will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in the fields of (Computational) Linguistics, (Computational) Phraseology, Translation Studies and Translation Technology to discuss recent advances in the area of multi-word unit processing and to coordinate research efforts across disciplines in order to improve the integration of multi-word units in machine translation and translation technology tools. Multi-word units are word combinations which range from compounds such as ‘credit card’ to idiomatic expressions such as “’it is raining cats and dogs’ and are acknowledged as one of the major challenges in natural language processing (NLP), because of their lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncrasies. In spite of the relative progress achieved in translation technology with the adoption of neural approaches and in the processing of particular types of units such as verb-particle constructions, the identification, interpretation and translation of multi-word units in general still represent open challenges, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. The idiosyncratic morpho-syntactic, semantic and translational properties of multi-word units pose many obstacles even to human translators, mainly because of intrinsic ambiguities, structural and lexical asymmetries between languages, and, finally, cultural differences. In recent years, growing attention has been paid to integrating multi-word units (MWUs) in machine translation and translation technology tools, as it has been acknowledged that it is not possible to create large scale language solutions without properly handling MWUs of all types. As a matter of fact, researchers are now addressing the problems posed by MWU processing and translation using different formalisms and techniques, such as automatic recognition of MWUs in a monolingual or bilingual setting; alignment and paraphrasing techniques; development and use of (handcrafted) monolingual and bilingual language resources; creation of annotated monolingual and parallel corpora, development of strategies for handling syntactically flexible units in language analysis and translation modules, development of evaluation projects. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on MWU processing from various perspectives, in order to enable cross-fertilisation and foster the creation of innovative solutions that can only arise from interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular, the workshop welcomes interactions between NLP researchers working on the computational treatment of multi-word units, experts in (computational) phraseology working on challenging topics of their discipline, as well as translation practitioners, to the benefit of applying their latest results to advance the state of the art in MWU processing. Topics of Interest The MUMTTT 2022 workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on original and unpublished research on topics related to MWU processing in machine translation and translation technology, including - Lexical, syntactic, semantic and translational aspects in MWU representation - Theoretical approaches to MWUs (e.g., collostructional analysis of MWU, cognitive approaches to processing MWUs, etc.) - Development of multilingual MWU resources - Identification and acquisition of MWUs and variants - Learning semantic information about MWUs from monolingual, parallel or comparable corpora - Development and use of MWU resources in machine translation and translation technology - Development of corpora for the extraction and translation of MWUs - Compilation of resources for the extraction and translation of multiword units - Creation of MWU-annotated corpora with a focus on translation aspects - Paraphrasing of MWUs applied to the improvement of machine translation - MWUs and word alignment techniques - MWUs in machine translation - MWUs in translation memory systems - MWUs in term extraction - MWU-centred machine translation evaluation - Evaluation of MWU translation - MWUs in CAT tools - Multilingualism and MWU processing - Psycholinguistic studies of MWU processing in a bilingual setting. Submission Guidelines Submissions must consist of full-text papers and should not exceed 7 pages excluding references, they should be a minimum of 5 pages long. The accepted papers will be published as workshop e-proceedings together with Europhras short papers and posters with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and will be also available at the time of the conference. The papers should be in English. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three programme committee members. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the programme committee. There will be no distinction in the workshop proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters. Templates LaTeX <http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/LaTeX2eProceedi…> template. Word <http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WordTemplate.zip> template. Submissions Access this link <https://www.softconf.com/m/europhras2022/> to make a submission via the START conference management system (Please, be sure to select MUMTTT as Topic). The tutorial on how to create a START account can be found here <http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/howto_START_202…> . Submissions should be compliant with the above templates and should be uploaded as pdf files in START. (START is configured to accept pdf files only). Should you require any assistance with the submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at mumttt2022(a)gmail.com. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: 10th June 2022 15th July 2022 – EXTENDED Acceptance notification: 8th July 2022 31st July 2022 Final camera-ready version: 2nd September 2022 MUMTTT 2022 workshop: 30th September 2022 Workshop Chairs Gloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Maria Pia di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Organising Committee Gennaro Nolano, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Giulia Speranza, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Khadija Ait ElFqih, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy

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[Corpora-List]Post doc position: Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication
by Tatjana Scheffler 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

The project EmDiCom "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" will develop a formal semantics for emojis as a prime example of visual communication within the newly established DFG priority program ViCom (“Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives”). The project is carried out in cooperation between Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (University of Oslo, Norway). At the Chair of Digital Forensic Linguistics (Scheffler), Department for German Language and Literature of the Faculty of Philology of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, EmDiCom is looking for a: Post-doc (m/f/d) with 39,83 hours per week for a period of 3 years (TV-L E13) to start on 1st September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. Your tasks: - Independent research on the semantics and pragmatics of emojis in the research project "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" (EmDiCom). - Participation in the interdisciplinary DFG priority program "Visual Communication" (e.g. participation in network meetings) - Planning and conducting linguistic online experiments (acceptability studies, reading time measurements) - Collaboration on publications and presentations at international conferences - Supervision of research assistants - Organization of scientific events (workshops) Your profile: - An above-average linguistics PhD is required - Focus on formal semantics/pragmatics and experience in experimental linguistics - Willingness to travel to the project partner in Oslo for research visits is expected (up to 6 months in total) - Knowledge of tools for creating and conducting online experiments is an advantage - Prior experience working with digital corpora is desirable - Very good English skills are required, knowledge of German or Norwegian is an advantage We offer: - Challenging and varied tasks with a high degree of personal responsibility - Exciting research on a current topic - International cooperation with the "Super Linguistics" group at the University of Oslo and within the "Visual Communication" priority program - A friendly and enthusiastic team at the interface of formal, digital, and computational linguistics - Employment at one of the largest universities in Germany, part of the University Alliance Ruhr - Flexibility for working from home - Extensive opportunities for further education and training Further information: Since this position is part of a third-party funded research project, there is no teaching obligation. Official job announcement: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f1ec75a1aff56228230b431eedf4678c… Contact persons for further information: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (p.g.grosz(a)iln.uio.no) Interviews are expected to take place via Zoom on July 28 and 29. Travel expenses, accommodation costs and loss of earnings or other application costs for interviews cannot be reimbursed according to the guidelines of the state of NRW. The deadline of application is July 5, 2022. Applicants should submit a short cover letter including their motivation for the position, a full CV, two sample publications and the names of two potential referees, as a single pdf document. We look forward to receiving your application, quoting “EmDiCom”, by July 5, 2022 by e-mail to the following address: malvina.witzki(a)rub.de <mailto:malvina.witzki@rub.de> --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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