Professor Tony McEnery of Lancaster University will give an online talk on
"Discourse, language learning and learner corpora" on 15 November 2022
(Tuesday) at 1.15-2.45 (CET = GMT+01:00). The talk is part of the larger
series of 10 lectures to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Institute of
Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. The talk will also be
simultaneously translated into Polish.
All information about the lecture, i.e. the abstract and the link to
registration, can be found at:
<https://50-lecie.ils.uw.edu.pl/> https://50-lecie.ils.uw.edu.pl/
The information about the previous talks is also posted at this address.
We cordially invite you to participate.
Dr hab. Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska
Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Institute of Applied Linguistics
University of Warsaw
Dobra 55, 00-314 Warszawa
<mailto:a.lenko@uw.edu.pl> a.lenko(a)uw.edu.pl
<http://www.ils.uw.edu.pl/> www.ils.uw.edu.pl
We have several positions available. The postdoctoral fellow will work at
Emory University. Emory is one of the top medical schools in the country.
The position will involve working on projects funded by the National
Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). Apply via link below.
https://faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/102162/post-doctoral-fellow---departme…
Feel free to email me directly with questions.
Cheers
Abeed Sarker, Ph.D.
Vice Chair for Research
Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory
University
101 Woodruff Circle
Office 4101
Atlanta, GA 30322
Email: abeed(a)dbmi.emory.edu | abeed.sarker(a)emory.edu <abeed(a)dbmi.emory.edu>
Phone: +1-602-474-6203
Twitter: @sarkerabeed <https://twitter.com/sarkerabeed>
Website (lab): https://sarkerlab.org/
Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to invite you to participate in SemEval-2023 Shared Task 12, the first SemEval shared task for sentiment analysis targeting African low resource languages.
The AfriSenti-SemEval Shared Task 12 is based on a collection of humanly annotated Twitter datasets in 16 African languages (all low resource) for sentiment classification. This year, we have three sub-tasks, from which the participants can choose one or more tasks depending on their preference.
Task A: Monolingual Sentiment Classification
Given training data in a target language, determine the polarity of a tweet in the target language (positive, negative, or neutral). If a tweet conveys both a positive and negative sentiment, whichever is the stronger sentiment should be chosen. This sub-task covers 15 languages namely, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Nigerian_Pidgin, Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Kinyarwanda, Twi, Mozambican Portuguese, Swahili, Setswana, isiZulu, Moroccan Arabic/Darija, Xitsonga (South-African Dialect), Xitsonga (Mozambique Dialect)
Task B: Multilingual Sentiment Classification
Given a combined training data from 12 African languages, determine the polarity of a tweet in the target language (positive, negative, or neutral).
Task C: Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification
Given unlabeled tweets in two African languages (Oromo, and Tigrinya), leverage any or all of the available training datasets in Subtasks A and B to determine the sentiment of a tweet in the two target languages is positive, negative, or neutral.
Helpful Links:
Codalab competition page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/7320
Task website: https://afrisenti-semeval.github.io/
Prize:
The afriSenti-SemEval competition has a prize and will be awarded to the best performing team in each of the three sub-tasks.
- African League: To encourage African participation, this league is for teams with at least one African .
- Masters and Undergraduate League: This league is dedicated to masters and undergraduate students only .
- Worldwide League: Be a participant from any country.
Important Dates:
- Training data ready - 11 September 2022
- Evaluation Starts - 10 January 2023
- Evaluation End - 31 January 2023
- System Description Paper Due - February 2023
- SemEval workshop Summer 2023 - (co-located with a major NLP conference)
You can reach out to the organizers at afrisenti-semeval-organizers(a)googlegroups.com
Task organizers:
- Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (University of Porto, Portugal, Bayero University, Kano, MasakhaneNLP)
- Seid Muhie Yimam ( Universität Hamburg, Hamburg; MasakhaneNLP)
- Idris Abdulmumin ( Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Masakhane NLP)
- Ibrahim Sa’id Ahmad ( Bayero University, Kano)
- Abinew Ali Ayele ( Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar)
- David Ifeoluwa Adelani ( Saarland University, MasaKhaneNLP)
- Bello Shehu Bello (Bayero University, Kano)
- Vukosi Marivate (University of Pretoria; MasaKhane)
- Sebastian Ruder (Google Research )
- Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council,Canada)
- Nedjma Ousidhoum ( The University of Cambridge)
- Meriem Beloucif (Uppsala University)
- Tadesse Destaw Belay (Wollo University, Dessie)
Dear colleagues,
We are proud to announce the release of a new Brown type of American
English corpus, i.e. CROWN2021, and six comparable corpora of Catalan,
Danish, German, Farsi/Persian, Finnish, Italian, and dozens of similar
corpora to come in the next few months.
CROWN2021 is a balanced Brown family American English corpus of one million
words containing texts published in 2021. It was developed under the
leadership of Prof. Jiajin Xu and the texts were collected by Mingchen Sun
and 12 other graduate students at Beijing Foreign Studies University
(BFSU). CROWN2021 serves as an updated language resource of present-day
American written English, and a reference corpus for contrastive studies
involving diachronic variation (with Brown, Frown, Crown), regional
variation (with LOB, FLOB, CLOB) and cross-linguistic comparison (with
LCMC, ToRCH family corpora, GLOBE family corpora).
Users can have access to the online version of CROWN2021 and other
BFSU-made Brown family corpora at BFSU CQPweb Corpus Portal (
http://114.251.154.212/cqp/). Both user ID and passcode are "*test*".
KEY INFORMATION
Project leader: Jiajin Xu of the National Research Centre for Foreign
Language Education (NRCFLE), BFSU
Text collectors: Mingchen Sun (359 texts), Yagang Chen (47 texts), Shujuan
Deng (21 texts), Tingyan Zhangchen (19 texts), Meijia Hao (15 texts),
Xingke Lv (13 texts), Jiaxi Shen (5 texts), Yuanyuan Lin (4 texts), Junyu
Mao (4 texts), Xinzhi Yang (4 texts), Zinuo Zuo (4 texts), Xinkai Deng (3
texts), Ruotong Zha (2 texts)
Time of compilation: April 2022 - October 2022
Size: Approximately one million words
Language: Contemporary American English
Number of texts/samples: 500 samples of 2000+ words each (Short texts are
pieced together to form one 2000-word text, but saved separately and marked
with A, B, C etc. in the filenames.)
Sampling strategy: The Brown Corpus model (see:
http://korpus.uib.no/icame/manuals/BROWN/INDEX.HTM)
Period: The texts were published in 2021.
Released in: November 2022
POS TagSet: The BNC Basic (C5) Tagset
POS Tagger: TreeTagger
Lemmatiser: TreeTagger
Sentence Segmenter: spaCy
How to cite:
Mingchen Sun, Jiajin Xu et al. 2022. The CROWN2021 Corpus. National
Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies
University
Related work:
Xu, Jiajin & Maocheng Liang. 2013. A tale of two C's: Comparing English
varieties with Crown and CLOB (The 2009 Brown family corpora)
<http://icame.uib.no/ij37/Pages_175-184.pdf>. *ICAME Journal *37: 175-183.
Jiajin Xu
Professor
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Call for Participation: SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3 - Persuasion Techniques,
Framing and Genre Detection in Online News in a Multi-lingual Setup
We are glad to invite you to participate in the SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3
on detecting the genre, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in
online news.
The main drive behind this task is to foster development of methods and
tools to support the analysis of online media content in order to
understand what makes a text persuasive: which writing style is used, what
key aspects are highlighted, and which persuasion techniques are used to
influence the reader.
The data used for for this task is made of articles collected from 2020 to
mid 2022, they revolve around a range of widely discussed topics such as
COVID-19, climate change, abortion, migration, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and
local elections.
The data presents several novelties: it is multilabel, multilingual
(🇫🇷🇵🇱🇬🇧🇷🇺🇮🇹🇩🇪), uses an updated fine-grained taxonomy of
persuasion techniques and covers complementary dimensions of what makes a
text persuasive. The train contains currently more than 1600 documents and
more than 40000 spans annotated for persuasion techniques!
Are you interested in using AI systems to analyse political speech, media
bias or rhetoric? Then you should not miss this task!!!
URL
https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/semeval2023task3/
TASKS
We offer three subtasks on news articles in six languages (English, French,
German, Italian, Polish, and Russian).
Subtask 1: NEWS GENRE CATEGORISATION
Given a news article, determine whether it is an opinion piece, aims at
objective news reporting, or is a satire piece.
This is a multi-class task at article-level.
Subtask 2: NEWS FRAME CATEGORISATION
Given a news article, identify the generic frames used in the article.
This is a multi-class task at article-level.
Subtask 3: PERSUASION TECHNIQUE DETECTION
Given a news article, identify the persuasion techniques in each paragraph.
This is a multi-label task at paragraph level.
PARTICIPATION & EVALUATION
The participants may take part in any number of subtask-language pairs
(even just one), and may train their systems using
the data for all languages (in a multilingual setup).
To promote the development of language-agnostic solutions, there will be
also two "surprise" languages for which we will release only test data for
evaluation purposes.
IMPORTANT DATES
23 September 2022: Registration opens
23 September 2022: Release of the first batch of the training\development
set
12 January 2023: Release of the test set
22 January 2023: Test submission site closes
February 2023: Paper Submission Deadline
March 2023: Notification to authors
April 2023: Camera ready papers due
Summer 2023: SemEval 2023 workshop
TASK ORGANIZERS
Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Jakub Piskorski, Nicolas
Stefanovitch
Dear Corpora members,
Please find below a CFP for the next "Journées de la Linguistique de
Corpus".
* The 11th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics *
3-6 July 2023, Grenoble
* Call for Papers *
https://jlc2023.sciencesconf.org/
The International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (JLC), founded by
Geoffrey Williams in 2001 at the University of South Brittany, Lorient,
France, regularly draws together an interdisciplinary community whose
research focus is corpus linguistics. After seven gatherings in Lorient
and an interlude in Orleans in 2015 (8th International Conference on
Corpus Linguistics), the conference alighted in Grenoble in early July
2017 and in November 2019, organized by the LIDILEM Laboratory with
contributions from LIG, ILCEA4, Litt&Arts and the MSH-Alpes. Université
Grenoble Alpes is honored to host this international conference again
from July 3rd to July 6th 2023. The JLC’23 are organized in
collaboration with other labs from French universities (Lyon,
Montpellier, Toulouse): DDL, ICAR, Praxiling, CLLE.
The objective of JLC'23 is to (re)unite a community that adopts various
approaches, be they methodological or disciplinary, to promote corpus
linguistics, and to contribute to the evolution of practices in the
field by building bridges between different approaches to digital
corpora. The participants are invited to share and compare their
knowledge of tools, experiences, and findings.
In the tradition of previous conferences, the JLC in Grenoble will offer
three days of presentations, guest speakers and discussion sessions
among the participants. Training sessions on tools and methods will be
organized over a half day.
This edition of the JLC will put a particular focus on corpora and
didactics. A part of the conference will be specifically dedicated to
this theme. We expect papers that show and question the use of corpora
in teaching, be they feedback from real uses, presentation of
methodological approaches for various audiences, or more theoretical
points of view...
These days will not be limited to this theme and will be open to all
kinds of contributions on written, oral or multimodal corpora, which may
concern, in a non-exhaustive way :
1. Linguistic approaches to corpora
2. Methods and tools
3. Variations, genres, and discourse
4. Applications and uses of corpora for teaching and learning,
translation, terminology...
Guest speakers include: Florence Mourlhon-Dallies + another speaker to
be confirmed
Submissions for a presentation or a demonstration in French or English
should not exceed three pages (excluding figures and bibliographic
references) and must be anonymous. They will get double peer-reviewing
by members of the scientific board. JLC2023 will adopt the SciencesConf
system to manage communication proposals. In addition to classic
presentations, you may also propose a demonstration (identical
submission guidelines).
Publication: following the colloquium, authors are welcome to submit an
article. This collection of articles will be reviewed and published online.
Timetable:
1. First CFP: November 2022
2. Submission deadline: Friday February 3rd 2023
3. Notification of acceptance: Mid-April 2023
4. Final submission version: Friday May 19th 2023
5. Registration begins: May 2023
Best regards
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Marie-Paule Jacques /Mobilisée pour la défense du service public de
l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche/ Maitre de conférences HDR
Sciences du langage - Senior Lecturer in Linguistics INSPE et LIDILEM
(Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues étrangères et
maternelles) Université Grenoble Alpes
Do you have a favourite YouTuber?
Are you worried that you see too many native ads on Instagram?
Are you following the latest events on Twitter?
Do you have a passion for Natural Language Processing?
Then we need to talk (keep reading)
Together with my colleague from law (Catalina Goanta) we are looking for a PhD candidate working on computational analysis methods for advertising language on social media. This is part of the ERC starting grant project on HUMANads, award to Catalina last year.
We are looking for somebody with a background in Computer Science (or similar) with focus/interest on NLP.
Feel free to reach out if you have more questions.
Check the full ad below (or here<https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319811/phd-position-a-computational-ana…>), apply by December 1st via this link<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-po…>
Best,
-Jerry
PhD position 'A computational analysis of advertising language on social media' (1.0 FTE)
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe at the Utrecht School of Law, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, is looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research in natural legal language processing and social media advertising under the supervision of dr. Catalina Goanta (Utrecht University), and dr. Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis (Maastricht University).
Content monetization reflects a new era of social media business models, changing the nature of digital advertising from platform to human ads. Human ads are Internet influencers (also referred to as content creators) who earn revenue from social media advertising by creating authentic, relatable advertising content for their armies of followers. While their activity has been touted as a new form of creative labour, the overlap between their freedom of expression, political thought and advertising interests raises some serious concerns. One underlying danger is the convergence of speech in two ways. Consumers and citizens can no longer distinguish
(i) between ads and non-ads, and (ii) between commercial and political communications. This is a new form of consumer vulnerability on digital markets where speech cannot be separated from platform infrastructure. Human ads are an emerging category of stakeholders who turn engagement into currency in novel ways. Users are faced with a double transparency problem:
(i) human ads have incentives to hide commercial interests, and
(ii) platforms have incentives to algorithmically amplify human ads engagement in opaque ways.
This reflects a general good faith and fair dealing problem: the social media economy is increasingly based on deceit. However, we know very little about the size of deceit on social media. Even basic questions such as defining influencers or understanding how much sponsored content they post are difficult to formalize and compute.
This PhD project consists in conducting interdisciplinary research to develop methodologies for the classification and detection of advertising language on social media. The PhD project will be mainly focused on the application of natural language processing to regulatory issues arising out of the proliferation of commercial and political advertising on social media, but could potentially also include web measurement and social network analysis approaches. Examples of questions which could fall under the PhD project include:
* What are the characteristics of commercial v political advertising language on social media?
* What kind of research methodologies can be used to classify social media content that is monetized by content creators/influencers?
* How can content creators/influencers be computationally defined?
* How can we use computer science methodologies to identify, describe and measure social media harms arising out of the proliferation of hidden advertising?
This PhD position is part of the European Research Council Starting Grant HUMANads. The PhD candidate will have an opportunity and be expected to further define the initial research objectives set out by the project, in collaboration with the supervision team. This PhD position will be part of a broader project team featuring computer scientists, law and media scholars, and it will be based in the RENFORCE research center and the Molengraaff Institute for private law<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/utrecht-university-school-of-law/about-th…>.
requirements
* Academic excellence proven through a good track record of initiatives related to, among others, academic research;
* Obtained (or obtained by the start of the PhD trajectory) Master in Computer Science or a Master in adjacent fields such as Computational Social Sciences, Data Science or Empirical Legal Studies;
* Interest in being part of an interdisciplinary team;
* Interest in being the first computer science PhD candidate at Utrecht Law School;
* Knowledge of natural language processing (and related programming frameworks);
* Practical experience with programming (esp. Python);
* Affinity to or interest in developing knowledge about social network analysis and web measurement;
* Affinity to or interest in developing practical knowledge about social media technologies;
* Demonstrable strong interest in doing scientific research and specifically research on the subject of the PhD project;
* Ability to process and critically assess large body of complex information;
* Clear, critical and creative thinking;
* Good planning and organizing skills, ability to deliver high-quality results on time;
* Ability to function both independently and under supervision, communicate to the supervisor and process feedback effectively;
* Sense of initiative and proactive thinking;
* Excellent writing skills;
* Excellent command of English.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
This is an appointment of 1.0 FTE for the duration of 18 months. Upon a positive evaluation of the PhD student’s performance the contract will be extended by a further 2.5 years. The gross salary starts with €2,541 per month in the first year and increases to €3,247 per month in the fourth year of employment (scale P according to the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities) for a full-time employment.
Besides that, you will receive a holiday allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. Utrecht University also has an appealing package of terms of employment<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/terms-of-em…>, including the choice for a good balance between work and private (a good arrangement for leave, among other things), possibilities for development and an excellent pension scheme. For more information, please visit working at Utrecht University<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university>
The starting date will be 1 March 2023. The interviews will be scheduled in December 2022.
Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Advanced Computing Sciences | Maastricht Law+Tech Lab
Faculty of Science and Engineering
jerry.spanakis(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:jerry.spanakis@maastrichtuniversity.nl>
https://dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl/jerry.spanakis/
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Postbus 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
T 0031(0)4338-83916
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The Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (www.llf.cnrs.fr <http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/>, LLF) is seeking to support applications in linguistics and language sciences to Research Associate positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs.fr <http://cnrs.fr/>).
CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required.
Although CNRS recruits researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application.
Located at Université Paris Cité (u-paris.fr <http://u-paris.fr/>), the LLF has about 80 members, including 36 permanent faculty members, working on every subfield of linguistics. In recent years, it has extended its focus from formal and theoretical linguistics to domains such as psycholinguistics, experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, dialogue, typology, and Sign language linguistics.
The LLF is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants, with an excellent research record and willing to develop a project that would fit the lab's areas of inquiry.
The official call for application will be published on December 5, 2022 with an application deadline of January 5, 2023 (https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/concours-ch <https://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/concoursch/default-en.htm>). Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by the LLF are invited to contact the lab by December 10, sending a CV (including a publication list) and a short description of their research profile to direction.llf(a)listes.u-paris.fr <mailto:direction-llf@listes.univ-paris-diderot.fr>. Decisions on whether support is granted will be taken by December 16.
Olivier Bonami
Professeur de linguistique, Université de Paris
Directeur du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
UMR 7110 - Université de Paris & CNRS
Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97
Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges (https://goo.gl/maps/96AtUeahUvC2 <https://goo.gl/maps/96AtUeahUvC2>)
8 place Paul Ricoeur
75013 Paris
Bureau 520
Olivier Bonami
Professeur de linguistique, Université Paris Cité
Directeur du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
UMR 7110 - Université de Paris & CNRS
Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97
Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
8 place Paul Ricoeur
75013 Paris
Bureau 520
The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) is
delighted to announce its 2022 Lecture Series, featuring an eclectic
lineup of internal and external speakers.
The talks are intended to familiarize attendees with the latest research
developments in AI and related fields (particularly computational
linguistics and natural language processing), and to forge new
connections with those working in other areas.
Most lectures (see prospective schedule below) will take place on
Wednesdays at 18:30 Central European (Summer) Time. All lectures will be
held online via Zoom; in-person attendance at OFAI Headquarters in
Vienna is also possible for certain lectures.
Attendance is open to the public and free of charge. No registration is
required.
Visit https://www.ofai.at/lectures for full details!
29 June
Scott Patterson
McGill University
Domesticating Wealth Inequality: Hybrid Discourse Analysis of UN General
Assembly Speeches, 1971–2018
6 July
Pamela Breda
Independent artist
Feeling for Nonexsistent Beings
13 July
Brigitte Krenn
OFAI
Robots as Social Agents: Between Construct and Reality
20 July
Tristan Miller
OFAI
What's in a Pun? Assessing the Relationship Between Phonological and
Semantic Distance and Perceived Funniness of Punning Jokes
27 July
Katrien Beuls
Université de Namur
Unravelling the Computational Mechanisms Underlying the Emergence of
Human-like Communication Systems in Populations of Autonomous Agents
7 September
Steffen Eger
Bielefeld University
Text Generation for the Humanities
14 September
Antti Arppe
University of Alberta
Finding Words that Aren't There: Using Word Embeddings to Improve
Dictionary Search for Low-resource Languages
21 September
Roman Pflugfelder
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Title TBA
28 September
Raphael Deimel
TU Wien
Towards Intuitive Object Handovers Between Humans and Robots
5 October
Christoph Scheepers
University of Glasgow
The “Crossword Effect” in Free Word Recall: A Retrieval Advantage for
Words Encoded in Line with their Spatial Associations
12 October
Karën Fort
Sorbonne Université
Title TBA
19 October
Benjamin Roth
University of Vienna
Evaluation and Learning with Structured Test Sets
25 October
Peter Hallman
OFAI
Comparatives in Arabic
2 November
Stephanie Gross
OFAI
Title TBA
9 November
Bernhard Pfahringer
University of Waikato
The World is not IID: Learning from Data Streams to the Rescue
16 November
Paolo Petta
OFAI
Title TBA
23 November
Robert Trappl
OFAI
Title TBA
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Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12
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