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Corpus of events with geolocation
by Hristo Tanev 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Dear Corpora members, I am searching for a corpus of conflict events, annotated with geolocation. I am well aware of ACLED, but it's event descriptions are created manually. Ideally it should be a corpus of news or social media messages containing descriptions of armed conflicts and protests and annotated with geographical information. If any of you is aware of a similar resource and directs me to it, I will be very thankful! Hristo Tanev, JRC, Ispra

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Open full-time permanent positions -- NLP & argumentation
by elena_cabrio 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Dear all, To develop its NLP activity, the WIMMICS team (https://team.inria.fr/wimmics/) at Inria Sophia Antipolis and Université Côte d’Azur (France) is looking for candidates for full-time permanent researcher and full-time assistant professor positions in natural language processing (NLP) and argumentation to join us in the beautiful French Riviera. We welcome profiles for both junior and senior positions. A PhD and at least one post-doctoral experience in NLP or ML for NLP are required for junior positions, whereas a longer track record is required for senior positions. Inria is the French national research institute for computer science and applied mathematics. World-class research, and, where relevant, transfer to industry and start-up creation are its main missions. The I3S Laboratory of Université Côte d’Azur and CNRS is one of the largest information and communication science laboratories in the French Riviera. The NLP research in WIMMICS focuses on NLP and argumentation, at the crossroad between machine and deep learning, linguistics and argumentation theory. Joining the NLP researchers of WIMMICS means working in a highly international and inclusive team within an exceptional scientific environment. The team is also part of the national Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence 3IA Côte d’Azur (https://3ia.univ-cotedazur.eu/). Junior permanent researchers are eligible to receive a welcome package including a full PhD grant and expenses. If you are interested, please contact Elena Cabrio (elena.cabrio(a)univ-cotedazur.fr) and Serena Villata (serena.villata(a)univ-cotedazur.fr) by February 15th, 2023. All the best, Elena Cabrio (Full professor - Université Côte d’Azur) Serena Villata (Research director - CNRS)

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Call for Paper - Journal of Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering (JICSE)
by Mehrnoush Shams fard 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to contribute either a review paper or an original research paper for the inaugural issue of the newly launched journal - Journal of Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering (JICSE, https://jicse.sbu.ac.ir/) free of charge. Your paper will be easily accessed and read, as it will be freely available online. Domains to be covered include, but are not limited to: • Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cognitive Computing • Cloud and Distributed Computing • Computer Architecture and Network • Security and Privacy • Software and Information Systems Submission guidelines To submit a manuscript, please visit https://jicse.sbu.ac.ir/. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed in accordance with the established policies and procedures of the journal. Papers will be selected for publication following the outcome of the peer review process. Important Dates Submission deadline: February 19, 2023 First notification: March 31, 2023 Final decision notification: May 31, 2023 Expected publication date: July 31, 2023 Background Journal of Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering (JICSE) is an international research journal sponsored by the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran . It is published Semiannual in English in both print and online versions. JICSE provides a high-quality international platform for academic researchers, industry professionals and other constituent communities in the broad field of Computer Science and Engineering to impart and share the latest research results and knowledge in the form of research articles and reviews. Authors can take advantage of the following benefits: open access; free of APC, rapid publication, and thorough peer review. If you are interested in this invitation, you could directly submit at: https://jicse.sbu.ac.ir/ Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghadam Journal Address: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Email: jicse(a)sbu.ac.ir Phone: +982129904147 Kind Regards Mehrnoush Shamsfard, PhD. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering. NLP Research Lab, Head. Shahid Beheshti University Tehran, Iran

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[FinWeb-2023] Extended Deadline - Feb. 14, 2023
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP * Dear colleagues, We are writing to inform you that the submission deadline for FinWeb-2023 has been extended to Feb. 14, 2023 (AoE). Below are some bullet points of this year's FinWeb. (1) FinWeb-2023 will be held on April 30, 2023 in conjunction with The Web Conference 2023 (WWW-2023) in AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA. (2) Dr. James Zhang, Managing Director of AI Prediction and Strategy Platform of Ant Group, will share their experience on the topic of China‘s First Natural Language-based AI Chatbot Trader. (3) We offer a USD$500 prize in the main track to the Best Paper Award winner. (4) We invite both regular papers (8 pages) and posters/demonstrations (4 pages). Please refer to our site for more details: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finweb-2023/home Looking forward to your joining! Best Regards, Chung-Chi --- 陳重吉 (Chung-Chi Chen), Ph.D. Researcher Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan E-mail: c.c.chen(a)acm.org <cjchen(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw> Website: http://cjchen.nlpfin.com

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Call for Participation: 5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD’23), June 11-16, Croatia
by Thierry Declerck 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

[apologies for cross-posting] 5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD’23) =============================================================== The 5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-23)will be held physically from June 11thto June 16rd2023 at Castle Luznica, Zaprešić, Croatia. See https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/ <https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/> The SD-LLOD datathon has the main goal of providing practical knowledge to people from industry and academia in the application of Linked Open Data technology to Linguistics and Language Technology. The ultimate goal is to enable participants to migrate their own (or other’s) linguistic data and publish them as Linked Data on the Web and/or develop applications on top of Linguistic Linked Data (LLD). One of the main focus points this year will be the use ofdeep learning and neural approaches to/from LLD. This datathon series is unique in its topic worldwide and continues from the success of the previous editions in 2015 and 2017 in Cercedilla (Spain), 2019 in Dagstuhl (Germany), and 2022 in Cercedilla again. This edition is supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) https://cost.eu/ <https://cost.eu/>through NexusLinguarum, the “European network for Web-centred linguistic data science” COST Action (CA18209, https://nexuslinguarum.eu/ <https://nexuslinguarum.eu/>). During the datathon, participants will be able to: * Generate their own Linguistic Linked Data from existing data sources, using visual toolslike VocBench and community standards like OntoLex lemon * Applysemantic technologies(linked data, knowledge graphs, RDF, SPARQL) to the field of language resources and learn about their benefits and applications for specific use cases, particularly those involving multilingual and/or multimodal aspects. * Explore the potential use of embeddings, machine learning, and deep learningtechniques in combination with Linguistic Linked Data. For instance: * Neural machine translation from Natural Language to SPARQL * Generating natural language from knowledge graphs * Acquiring relations with neural language models The program of the summer datathon will contain three types of sessions: 1. Seminars to explain theoretical aspects and discuss selected topics. 2. Hands-on sessionsto introduce the basic foundations of each topic, method, and technique, which participants will apply directly through different practical assignments. 3. Datathon sessions,where participants will work, in groups of 3-5, on miniprojects and where they will apply what they have learned, involving the generation and/or use of Linguistic Linked Data. Participants are invited to propose a “miniproject” related to the topics of the datathon, which might include some datasets for their conversion into linked data. In this edition, we particularly encourage miniprojects that involve interaction with machine learning, deep learning, or embeddings techniques. A selection of proposals will form the basis for the miniprojects which the participants will work on during the datathon sessions. Participants who do not propose a miniproject, or whose miniproject is not selected, will be able to join another miniproject. There will be an award for the best miniproject. Registration ============ The datathon is a sponsored event, and it hasno registration fee, but participants are expected to cover the cost of their meals and accommodation at the castle residence. Details about the registration can be found at the datathon website: https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/ <https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/> Registration will close on 25/04/2023. At least ten travelling grantsfor students will be provided by NexusLinguarum (covering accommodation, meals and travel expenses), more details will appear in the datathon website. COVID statement ============== The datathon is planned as a physical event. The local organisation is committed to guaranteeing a safe event. Note that there might be some COVID rules to comply with at the time of celebration of the event. These will be announced in due course. Important dates (tentative) ====================== Registration opens: 13/02/2023 Registration closes: 25/04/2023 Notification: 4/05/2023 Datathon: 11/06/2023 to 16/06/2023 Organisers ========= Jorge Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany)Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany) Milan Dojchinovski (CTU in Prague, Czech Republic / DBpedia Association, Germany) Local organiser ============= Ana Ostroški (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia) Kristina Despot (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia) Confirmed tutors and lecturers [to be completed] ========================================= Mehwish Alam (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany)Michael Cochez (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany) Milan Dojchinovski (CTU in Prague, Czech Republic / DBpedia Association, Germany) Jorge Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Max Ionov (University of Cologne, Germany) Armando Stellato (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Andon Tchechmedjiev (IMT École des Mines d’Alès, France) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prêt-à-LLOD" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to Pret-a-llod+unsubscribe(a)insight-centre.org. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/a/insight-centre.org/d/msgid/Pret-a-llod/CAMe8T%2… <https://groups.google.com/a/insight-centre.org/d/msgid/Pret-a-llod/CAMe8T%2…>.

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Call for participation: BioLaySumm shared task @BioNLP Workshop, ACL 2023
by Tomas Goldsack 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

*BioLaySumm 2023* *Shared Task*: *Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles @BioNLP Workshop, ACL 2023* Biomedical publications contain the latest research on prominent health-related topics, ranging from common illnesses to global pandemics. This can often result in their content being of interest to a wide variety of audiences including researchers, medical professionals, journalists, and even members of the public. However, the highly technical and specialist language used within such articles typically makes it difficult for non-expert audiences to understand their contents. Abstractive summarization models can be used to generate a concise summary of an article, capturing its salient point using words and sentences that aren’t used in the original text. As such, these models have the potential to help broaden access to highly technical documents when trained to generate summaries that are more readable, containing more background information and less technical terminology (i.e., a “lay summary”). This shared task surrounds the abstractive summarization of biomedical research articles, with an emphasis on controllability and catering to non-expert audiences. Through this task, we aim to help foster increased research interest in controllable summarization that helps broaden access to technical texts and progress toward more usable abstractive summarization models in the biomedical domain. It is the second shared task being run as part of the BioNLP workshop 2023, which is being hosted at ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada (July 13th or 14th). For more information, see: - Main site: https://biolaysumm.org/ - Subtask 1 - Lay Summarisation - CodaLab page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9541 - Subtask 2 - Readability-controlled Summarization - CodaLab page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9544 Detailed descriptions of the motivation, the tasks, and the data are also published in: - Goldsack, T., Zhang, Z., Lin, C., Scarton, C.. Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of Scientific Literature. EMNLP 2022. - Luo, Z., Xie, Q., Ananiadou, S.. Readability Controllable Biomedical Document Summarization. EMNLP 2022 Findings. *Organizers:* - Chenghua Lin, Deputy Director of Research in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. - Sophia Ananiadou, Turing Fellow, Director of the National Centre for Text Mining, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Data Science and AI at the University of Manchester - Carolina Scarton, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield - Qianqian Xie, University of Manchester - Tomas Goldsack, University of Sheffield - Zheheng Luo, University of Manchester - Zhihao Zhang, Beihang University

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Final CfP - VarDial 2023
by Scherrer, Yves 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

VarDial 2023, the Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, will be co-located with EACL 2023. VarDial 2023 will be organized on May 5 or 6 as a hybrid workshop with options for both on-site and remote participation. We welcome research paper submissions discussing computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. We also accept pre-reviewed research papers with their ARR reviews. Full call for papers: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023/call-for-papers Paper submission site: https://softconf.com/eacl2023/VarDial2023/ Important dates: - Paper submission for reviewing: February 20 (EXTENDED) - Submission of pre-reviewed papers: March 6 - Notification of acceptance: March 16 - Camera-ready papers due: March 27 Together with VarDial 2023, we are organizing three shared tasks: - SID for low-resource language varieties (SID4LR) - Discriminating Between Similar Languages - True Labels (DSL-TL) - Discriminating Between Similar Languages - Speech (DSL-S) Full call for participation: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023/shared-tasks Paper submission site: https://softconf.com/eacl2023/VarDial2023/ Important dates: - Submission of test set predictions due: February 27 (EXTENDED) - System description submission: March 6 (EXTENDED) - Notification of acceptance: March 16 - Camera-ready papers due: March 27

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Call for Participation: PAN 2023 Challenge on Authorship Verification, Author Profiling, Multi-Author Analysis, and Trigger Detection
by Magdalena Anna Wolska 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAN 2023: Call for Participation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks: 1. Cross-Discourse Type Authorship Verification Given two texts from written and oral Discourse Types, determine if they are written by the same author. 2. Profiling Cryptocurrency Influencers with Few-shot Learning Given a small set of tweets, determine the interest and intent of an influencer. 3. Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis Given a document, determine at which positions the author changes. 4. Trigger Detection Given a document, assign all appropriate trigger warning labels. Find out more at pan.webis.de/clef23/pan23-web PAN 2023 will be held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Thessaloniki. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates (tentative) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- now open Registration May 10, 2023 Early bird software submission (optional) May 29, 2023 Software submission June 05, 2023 Participant paper submission June 23, 2023 Peer review notification July 07, 2023 Camera-ready participant papers submission Sep 18-21, 2023 Conference

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SIGDial/INLG Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by Svetlana Stoyanchev 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2023) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2022. We now welcome the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals, which will take place on September 11 and 12 before the main conference. We encourage submissions of proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse, dialogue, and natural language generation communities. This program is intended to offer new perspectives and bring together researchers working on related topics. We especially encourage the sessions that would bring together researchers from SIGDial and INLG communities. Topics of interest include all aspects related to Dialogue, Discourse and Generation including (but not limited to) annotation and resources, evaluation, large language models, adversarial and RL methods, explainable/ethical AI, summarization, interactive/multimodal/situated/incremental systems, data/knowledge/vision-to-text, and applications of dialogue and NLG. The proposed workshops/tutorials may include a poster session, a panel session, an oral presentation session, a hackathon, a generation/dialogue challenge, or a combination of the above. Workshop organizers will be responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and selecting papers or abstracts. The workshop papers will be published in a separate proceedings. Workshops may, at the discretion of the SIGDial/INLG organizers, be held as parallel sessions. Submissions Workshop and Tutorial proposals should be 2-4 pages containing: title, type (workshop or tutorial), a summary of the topic, motivating theoretical interest and/or application context, a list of organizers and sponsors, duration (half-day or full-day), and a requested session format(s): poster/panel/oral/hackathon session, the number of expected attendees. The workshop proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co-chairs. Links Those wishing to propose a workshop or tutorial may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDial meetings: Natural Language in Human Robot Interaction (NLiHRI 2022) <https://2022.sigdial.org/call-for-papers-nlihri/> NLG4health 2022 <https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/> SummDial 2021 <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html> SafeConvAI 2021 <https://sites.google.com/view/safety4convai/home> RoboDIAL 2022 <https://robodial.github.io/> BigScience Workshop: LLMs 2021 <https://bigscience.huggingface.co/> Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence 2019 <https://sites.google.com/view/nl4xai2019/> https://www.inlg2019.com/workshop https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/workshops/ Important Dates Mar 24, 2023: Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline April 14, 2023: Workshops/Tutorials Notifications The proposals should be sent to conference(a)sigdial.org Sincerely, SIGdial/INLG Program Committee

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Job alert: Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics - University of Birmingham
by Michaela Mahlberg 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

The AHRC / DFG-funded project “Reading concordances in the 21st century (RC21)”, run jointly by the University of Birmingham and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, is looking for a RESEARCH FELLOW IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS Application deadline: 26 Feb 2023 Interviews: week beginning 6 Mar 2023 Start date: 1 May 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter Contract type: fixed term for 21 months Contact: Prof. Michaela Mahlberg m.a.mahlberg(a)bham.ac.uk<mailto:m.a.mahlberg@bham.ac.uk> For more information and to apply visit: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWZ304/research-fellow-in-corpus-linguistics This is the second of two postdoctoral positions. The other post is based at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. PROJECT INFORMATION In today's digital world, the amount of text communicated in electronic form is ever-increasing and there is a growing need for approaches and methods to extract meanings from texts at scale. Corpus linguists have long been studying recurring patterns in digitised texts with the help of concordances, i.e. displays that show many occurrences of a word, phrase or construction across a range of contexts in a compact format. However, lacking a well-established and clear-cut methodology, the art of reading concordances has not yet realised its full potential. At the same time, there has been very little innovation in algorithms in the concordance software packages available to corpus linguists. This project proposes an innovative approach to reading concordances in the 21st century. Through the collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg we combine strengths in theoretical work in corpus linguistics with expertise in computational algorithms in order to develop a systematic methodology for reading concordances and corresponding algorithms for the semi-automatic analysis of concordance lines. Through two case studies on English and German data sets, we will establish an approach that not only provides innovation in corpus linguistics, but also has wider implications for the analysis of textual data at scale, while still retaining a humanities perspective. Person Specification * First degree in area of specialism (English language or linguistics) and normally a PhD in corpus linguistics (or near to completion), linguistics, computational linguistics or equivalent qualifications * High level expertise in corpus linguistics * Knowledge of German * High level analytical capability * Ability to communicate complex information clearly * Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones * Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively * Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes * Contribute to the planning and organising of the research programme and/or specific research project * Ability to manage own time efficiently and effectively * Co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort, including collaboration across two institutions Main Duties The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below. * Analyse and interpret data under the supervision of the principal investigators * Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding * Disseminate research findings for publication, conferences, research seminars etc * Lead and co-lead work packages * Take responsibility for specific dissemination tools, such as project blog, workshops * Develop and maintain relevant project documentation * Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline * Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods * Undertake management/administration arising from research, including the * Contribute to writing bids for research funding * Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration * Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader * Collect research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation, literature reviews, and research interviews * Prepare presentations of research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at conferences and as posters * Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research * Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines --------------- Professor Michaela Mahlberg Director of the Centre for Corpus Research University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl Host of the Life and Language Podcast https://anchor.fm/michaela-mahlberg/ @MichaMahlberg<https://twitter.com/MichaMahlberg> http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/mahlberg-michaela.aspx https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/michaela-mahlberg https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-mahlberg/

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