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[CIKM 2024] - Final Call for AnalytiCup Competition proposals [June 14th]
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

** Deadline June 14th ** ** Next week! ** =============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-analyticup-competition-proposals/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== CIKM 2024 AnalytiCup is an open competition including compelling data challenges aimed at members of the industry and academia interested in information and knowledge management. The challenges will be rolled out progressively and last for several weeks. The final solutions will be presented at CIKM 2024 AnalytiCup which is to be held in conjunction with the CIKM conference during October 2024. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Proposal due: June 14 2024 * Notification: June 17 2024 * Competition Kickoff: July 1 20224 * Competition Ends: August 30, 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Proposals Submissions -------------------------- We invite proposals from practitioners across industry and academia who are interested in the areas of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. The best fit proposal should include a well-motivated goal with a positive social impact, a novel and challenging task, a fair setup with stable evaluation approach, and adequate amount of real-world data for the competition. * A well-motivated goal: A goal of the proposed competition should be solving a challenging real-world problem at the same time impacting the research and other communities positively. A good competition is where the output of the competition should lead to a greater good of everyone, such proposals are encouraged. * A challenging task: The task should be challenging in the sense that there is enough room for improvement from the basic solutions, and novel ideas are required to succeed in the competition. At the same time the task should be manageable in about 2 months’ time. * A fair setup: The organizers should guarantee the availability of the data and the confidentiality of the test set. The evaluation metrics should be both meaningful for the application in-hand and statistically sound for the objective comparison. The baseline should be established to show that non-trivial results can be achieved. * A real-world dataset: A proposal should clearly explain what data will be provided for competition and the source of the data. Also, explain how/why the provided data is sufficient for the competition. A proposal should cover all the important details such as dates, submission and evaluation of results, etc. and describe the competition rules clearly. Please provide following details with your proposal: * Title: The title of your challenge. * Problem Description: Describe the problem clearly in detail. Explain the importance of the problem and its impact. Discuss different scenarios for the problem with its challenges and limitations. Share the simple data samples and explain the data clearly. If the proposed competition includes more than one track, please describe each track clearly and show unique value for each track. * Evaluation: Describe how you plan to evaluate the submission. Select the evaluation method which is fair and statistically robust. * Suggested Participants: Provide a list of suggested participants in the challenge. * Timeline. Dates for expected start of the competition, user registration, team formation, submission, evaluation, and notification. * Awards. Specify the type and form of the awards you want to share with the winners. * Host information: Names, affiliations, email addresses, and short biographies of the organizers. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the AnalytiCup Chairs at: CIKM2024-analyticup [at] easychair [dot] org Vachik Dave, Walmart Global Tech Carl Yang, Emory University

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WMT24 Metrics Task: Call for Participation
by Eleftherios Avramidis 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Hi all, the 9th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24), collocated with EMNLP 2024, will be featuring this year the Shared Task on evaluation of Automatic Metrics. We are looking for both reference-based metrics and reference-free metrics to evaluate the quality of MT systems. We’ll be using expert-based MQM annotations on English-German, English-Spanish and Japanese⇾Chinese as the primary gold standard for evaluating metrics. Details are at http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/metrics-task.html. We’ll be continuing the challenge sets subtask<http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/metrics-task.html#_challenge_set_subtask> this year: we invite anyone to submit a new test suite and/or an analysis paper on metric behaviour for specific perturbations/phenomena (you’re welcome to resubmit last year’s challenge set!) New this year: * New language pairs: English-Spanish and Japanese⇾Chinese * Additional 13 typologically diverse African languages in a challenge set * We will be using the Codabench platform to improve the metric submission experience Important dates: Challenge sets submission deadline: 11th July Metrics inputs ready to download: 23rd July Metric submission deadline: 30th July Metric scores for challenge sets distributed: 6th August Paper submission deadline to WMT: 20th August Please register your metric submissions here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenoN9svmqkfJshM8bHd8p3Ofyepdvcg9M…> and challenge set submissions <https://forms.office.com/e/uhA74RnjMb> here<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=vfGpYaB-aECyMbtKa_y3APG…> so we can keep track of participants. Looking forward to your submissions, WMT24 Metrics team

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ESSLLI 2024 - Call for Participation [Early Registration Extended to 15 June]
by Tim Van de Cruys 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

We invite you to participate in the 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), taking place from 29 July - 9 August, 2024 at the University of Leuven, Belgium. https://2024.esslli.eu/ * Overview The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is a yearly recurring event, organized under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), and has been running since 1989. The ESSLLI Summer School provides an interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops are offered in logic, linguistics and computer science, also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. ESSLLI attracts around 400 participants from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, as well as from North America and Latin America. ESSLLI has become the main meeting place for young researchers and students in logic, linguistics and computer science to discuss current research and to share knowledge. The event is unique in its interdisciplinary set-up, with no equivalents in Europe. * Programme The ESSLLI Summer School offers an exciting two-week programme, consisting of the following: - Foundational, introductory and advanced courses in three areas: Language and Computation, Logic and Computation, and Logic and Language - Workshops in logic, linguistics and computer science - Student session - Evening lectures - Social activities The full program can be found on the website. * Registration: Registration for attendees, course lecturers, student session and workshop organizers and speakers is now open. The extended early-registration deadline is Saturday, 15th June 2024. https://2024.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html * Accommodation Due to high demand, all student accommodation is fully booked at the moment. However, additional rooms might become available. If you want to be put on the waiting list, send an e-mail to esslli2024(a)kuleuven.be

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Deadline extension: LLM and Lexicography Workshop at Euralex 2024 - new deadline: Monday, 10 June
by Simon Krek 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Dear all, the deadline for the LLM-Lex workshop is extended to Monday, 10 June (EOD). Please check the workshop/submission links below.. Best regards, Simon -------------------------------- Call for Extended Abstracts: Large Language Models and Lexicography 2024 Hotel Croatia, Cavtat, Croatia | 8 October 2024 You are invited to submit extended abstracts for the workshop Large Language Models and Lexicography, which will be held in conjunction with the Euralex 2024 congress <https://euralex.jezik.hr/> . The workshop is organised jointly by the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana, and Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Key Information Workshop link: https://www.cjvt.si/en/research/community/llm-lex-2024/ Euralex 2024 workshops link: https://euralex.jezik.hr/workshops/ Submission link: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llmlex2024> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llmlex2024 Submission deadline: 3 June 2024 (EOD) Notification of acceptance: beginning of July 2024 Please note that submissions should be extended abstracts with a maximum length of 1500 words. Best regards, Simon Krek

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job opening at Tübingen University: Full professorship in Computational Linguistics
by Erhard Hinrichs 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

W3 (Full) Professor of Computational Linguistics (m/f/d) Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Linguistics Application deadline: 20.06.2024 The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a position at the Institute of Linguistics as a *W3 (Full) Professor of Computational Linguistics (m/f/d)* to commence as soon as possible. The future position holder must be outstanding in research in the field of Computational Linguistics, evidenced by relevant publications in leading journals and conference proceedings. Demonstrated expertise in modern NLP methods, such as neural language models or other machine learning techniques, is required. Desirable is a research profile that is compatible with linguistic theory and cognitive science, such as through theoretical or empirical comparisons of machine and human learning and processing. As the professorship will play a key role in the partly international Bachelor and Master programs in Computational Linguistics/Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, and Cognitive Science, the future position holder should be able to represent the full breadth of Computational Linguistics. Willingness to acquire third-party funding and to participate in collaborative interdisciplinary third-party funded projects of the university is expected. Required qualifications include a PhD or equivalent degree as well as postdoctoral qualifications and teaching experience equivalent to the requirements of a full professorship. The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. Female scientists, in particular, are explicitly invited to apply, as are applicants from outside Germany. Applications from equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference. General information on professorships, hiring processes, and the German academic system can be found here: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700 <https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700> Applications including all required documents (curriculum vitae and outline of academic career, copies of certificates and degrees, publications list, list of teaching experience (and teaching evaluations, if available), overview of established and planned research focus) as well as a selection of relevant publications (monographs authored and five articles) should be submitted via the appointment portal of the University of Tübingen at https://berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de <https://berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de> by J*une 20, 2024.* Enquiries can be directed to the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Dr. Dietmar Till (berufungen(a)philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de)

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job opening at Tübingen University: Full professorship in General and Computational Linguistics
by Erhard Hinrichs 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

W3 (Full) Professor of General / Computational Linguistics (m/f/d) Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Linguistics Application deadline: 20.06.2024 The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a position at the Institute of Linguistics as a *W3 (Full) Professor of General / Computational Linguistics (m/f/d)* to commence as soon as possible. The future job holder must be excellently qualified in research in the field of general / computational linguistics, evidenced by relevant publications in leading journals and conference proceedings. Proven excellence in research using current computational linguistic methods is expected. Experience with linguistically informed data formats is desirable. Since the professorship plays a leading role in the partly international Bachelor and Master programs Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics and Cognitive Science, the future position holder needs to be able to represent the full bandwidth of Computational Linguistics including its interdisciplinary connections with General Linguistics and Cognitive Science. The successful candidate must be willing to acquire third-party funding and to participate in collaborative interdisciplinary third-party funded projects at the University. Required qualifications include a PhD or equivalent degree as well as postdoctoral qualifications and teaching experience equivalent to the requirements of a full professorship. The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. Female scientists, in particular, are explicitly invited to apply, as are applicants from outside Germany. Applications from equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference. General information on professorships, hiring processes, and the German academic system can be found here: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700 <https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700> Applications including all required documents (curriculum vitae and outline of academic career, copies of certificates and degrees, publications list, list of teaching experience (and teaching evaluations, if available), overview of established and planned research focus) as well as a selection of relevant publications (monographs authored and five articles) should be submitted via the appointment portal of the University of Tübingen at https://berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de <https://berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de> by *June 20, 2024*. Enquiries can be directed to the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Dr. Dietmar Till (berufungen(a)philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de).

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Neurosymbolic NLP: Three PhD positions, one postdoc
by Alexander Koller 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for 3 PhD students - September 2024 1 Postdoc - September 2024 or later Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”). We will also develop novel machine learning techniques for neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”). Our overarching aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models through interdisciplinary collaboration. The RTG is scheduled to grow to a total of 24 PhD students and one postdoc by 2025; the first six PhD students started in late 2023, and three more have accepted our offer to join us in September 2024. Through the inclusion of ~20 further PhD students and postdocs funded from other sources, it will be one of the largest research centers on neuroexplicit or neurosymbolic models in the world. The RTG brings together researchers at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). All of these institutions are colocated on the same campus in Saarbrücken, Germany. The positions are funded as follows: - PhD students will be funded for up to four years at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. You should have or be about to complete an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated expertise in one of the research areas of the RTG, e.g. through an excellent Master’s thesis or relevant publications. - The postdoc will initially be funded for three years, with the possibility of extension, at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. As the RTG postdoc, you will pursue your own research agenda in the field of neuroexplicit models and work with the PhD students to identify and pursue opportunities for collaborative research. You should have or be about to complete a PhD in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated your expertise in one or more of the RTG’s research areas through publications in top venues. The RTG is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, one of the leading centers for research in computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing in Europe. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries. The CISPA Helmholtz Center, located on the same campus, is home to an additional 350 researchers and on track to grow to 800 by 2026. Researchers at SIC and CISPA are part of the ELLIS network and have been awarded more than 35 ERC grants. Each PhD student in the RTG will be jointly supervised by two PhD advisors from the list of Principal Investigators below. Each student will freely define their own research topic; we encourage the choice of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of research fields. Students may be affiliated with Saarland University or with one of the participating institutes. Vera Demberg, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Philipp Slusallek, DFKI and Saarland University - Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics - Visual Computing, Machine Learning Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning Isabel Valera, Saarland University - Machine Learning Jilles Vreeken, CISPA - Machine Learning, Causality Joachim Weickert, Saarland University - Mathematical Data Analysis Verena Wolf, DFKI and Saarland University - Modeling and Simulation, Reinforcement Learning Ellie Pavlick, Brown University and Google AI, will join us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by 21 June 2024 to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org. Include the reference number W2488 for the postdoc position and the reference number W2487 for the PhD positions. We aim to conduct job interviews in July. For more details on the position, including what materials to submit with your application, please see our website: https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/

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CALL FOR PAPERS: ICNLSP 2024, 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing
by Mourad Abbas 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

We are delighted to invite you to ICNLSP 2024 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2024welcome/>, the 7th edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, which will be held at University of Trento from October 19th to 20th, 2024 (HYBRID). *Topics* - Signal processing, acoustic modeling. - Speech recognition (Architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, language model adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.). - Speech Analysis. - Paralinguistics in Speech and Language (Perception of paralinguistic phenomena, analysis of speaker states and traits, etc.). - Spoken Dialog Systems and Conversational Analysis - Speech Translation. - Speech synthesis. - Speaker verification and identification. - Language identification - Speech coding. - Speech enhancement - Speech intelligibility - Speech Perception - Speech Production - Brain studies on speech - Phonetics, phonology and prosody. - Speech and hearing disorders. - Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language. - Speech technology for disordered speech/hairing. - Cognition and natural language processing. - Machine translation. - Text categorization. - Summarization. - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining. - Computational Social Web. - Arabic dialects processing. - Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora. - Large language models. - Arabic OCR. - NLP tools for software requirements and engineering. - Knowledge fundamentals. - Knowledge management systems. - Information extraction. - Data mining and information retrieval. - Lexical semantics and knowledge representation. - Requirements engineering and NLP. - NLP for Arabic heritage documents. *Submission* Papers must be submitted via the link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/ <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/> Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.The reviewing process is double-blind. Authors can use the *ACL format*: *Latex <https://www.icnlsp.org/ACL%202023%20Proceedings%20Template.zip>*or Word. Authors have the choice to submit their papers as a full or short paper. Long papers consist of up to 8 pages of content + references. Short papers, up to 4 pages of content + references. *Important dates* *Submission deadline:* *30 June 2024 11:59 PM (GMT*) *Notification of acceptance:* 15 September 2024 *Camera-ready paper due:* 25 September 2024 *Conference dates:* 19, 20 October 2024 *Publication* *1- All accepted papers will be published in **ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/>**.* *2- Selected papers will be published (after extension) in:* * 2-a-* A *SPECIAL ISSUE* <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP> of Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction Journal <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make> (MAKE), indexed in *Web of Science <https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results>*, *Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri>, etc. *Special issue title*: <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP> <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP>*Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP>* * 2-b-* Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in *Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/> and *zbMATH* <https://zbmath.org/>.

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reminder: LLM and Lexicography Workshop at Euralex 2024 - deadline: Monday, 3 June
by Simon Krek 31 May '24

31 May '24

This is a reminder that the deadline for LLM-Lex workshop submissions is approaching. -------------------------------- Call for Extended Abstracts: Large Language Models and Lexicography 2024 Hotel Croatia, Cavtat, Croatia | 8 October 2024 You are invited to submit extended abstracts for the workshop Large Language Models and Lexicography, which will be held in conjunction with the Euralex 2024 congress <https://euralex.jezik.hr/> . The workshop is organised jointly by the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana, and Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Key Information Workshop link: https://www.cjvt.si/en/research/community/llm-lex-2024/ Euralex 2024 workshops link: https://euralex.jezik.hr/workshops/ Submission link: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llmlex2024> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llmlex2024 Submission deadline: 3 June 2024 (EOD) Notification of acceptance: beginning of July 2024 Please note that submissions should be extended abstracts with a maximum length of 1500 words. Best regards, Simon Krek

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MILLing 2024: deadline extension, free registration
by William Noble 31 May '24

31 May '24

Apologies for double posting — this will be the final announcement from the Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning committee. The submission deadline has been extended to June 10th for both archival and non-archival track submissions. We would also like to let you know that the event will have free registration, including the conference dinner. However, we ask that anyone who registers please do attend to avoid food waste. Please visit https://gu-clasp.github.io/MILLing/cfp.html for the full call for papers. We look forward to seeing you in Gothenburg in October! Best regards, MILLing 2024 Organising Committee

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