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CASE 2022, shared tasks on event extraction
by Hristo Tanev 15 Sep '22

15 Sep '22

Dear NLP Researchers, For the 5th consecutive year the Emerging Market Welfare Project and the Europeam Commission Joint Research Centre would like to invite you to test your event extraction systems at the three shared tasks in The 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text. (CASE 2022). The shared tasks feature detection of politically-motivated conflict events, especially detection of protests and riots. You can use the occasion to test your system in real-life text collection. Please, follow the link to the workshop and register, if you want to participate: https://lnkd.in/dbGp2jRe The organizers of CASE 2022

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Conference: Literary Machine Translation as a Human-Machine Dialectic (ULiège)
by Damien Hansen 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

[Apologies for cross-posting] *Literary Machine Translation as a Human-Machine Dialectic* International conference Thursday, 6 October 2022 University of Liège, Belgium Program and registration: https://www.cirti.uliege.be/litMT2022 The Centre interdisciplinaire de recherches en traduction et en interprétation (CIRTI, University of Liège) will hold a one-day symposium centred around the topic of literary machine translation and dialogue between human and machine as a potential computer-assisted literary creation tool. • Can we re-imagine and use machine translation tools for creative means? • How do we train systems adapted to the literary domain? • What impact would it have on creativity, quality and translators' voice? • What are the ethical challenges brought about by new technologies? Join us for a day of exchanges, presentations and round tables as we tackle these questions. All best, The Organizing Team --- *Damien Hansen* Université de Liège - Université Grenoble Alpes CIRTI - LIG/GETALP - LGL

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multi-modal research opening in Cambridge, UK
by Svetlana Stoyanchev 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

The Speech Technology Group of Toshiba Europe LTD in Cambridge has opening for a researcher to work on multi-modal interfaces. The position offers researchers to work with an interdisciplinary team focussing on both speech and vision modalities. We are looking for candidates with a PhD or Masters with deep learning experience who will contribute to advancing multi-modal research and building prototype systems. Please check here for more details: https://careers.toshiba.eu/displayjob.aspx?jobid=351 ----------------------- Dr Svetlana Stoyanchev Speech Technology Group, Cambridge Research Lab, Toshiba Europe Limited https://www.linkedin.com/in/svetlana-stoyanchev/

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Monday 19 September: Free online course (MOOC) in CL starts
by Brezina, Vaclav 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Dear all, We are really excited to be offering the highly-successful free online course (MOOC) in Corpus linguistics: 'Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation'. This anniversary tenth run of the course starts on 19 September 2022 and runs for eight weeks. If you are interested, you can register now for free at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics by clicking on 'Join today'. As every year, we have included brand new features to the course keeping you up to date with new developments in the field. I hope to see you on the course! Best, Vaclav **Special offer - £500 off Lancaster tuition fees** If you decide to study the free MOOC, or if you actively participated and completed the course within the last three years, you are eligible to apply for our MOOC entry route to Lancaster University's MA (2 years, online) or Postgraduate Certificate (1 year, online). You can still apply for the 2022 start. By doing so, you will not take the first core module of the programme, Fundamentals of Corpus Linguistics, but will be expected to submit two written assessments, in January of year 1, using the knowledge you developed through the MOOC. This entry route has a fee discount of £500, which will be deducted from the first year of your fees. MA https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-… PG Certificate https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-… Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.png@01D8C82C.E9592780]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01D8C82C.E9592780]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Open call for tenders - Corpus collection + Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service
by susanna.fiorini＠operas-eu.org 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

***Translations & Open Science calls for tenders*** The OPERAS Research Infrastructure launches a series of calls for tenders in order to lay the foundation of a technology-based scientific translation service to foster multilingualism in scholarly communication and thus help to remove language barriers according to Open Science principles. The first two calls are now open (submission deadline: 7 October 2022) 1. Mapping and collection of scientific bilingual corpora: identifying, collecting and preparing corpora of bilingual scientific texts which will serve as training dataset for specialised translation engines, source data for terminology extraction, and translation memory creation Link to call 1: https://www.operas-eu.org/mapping-and-collection-of-scientific-bilingual-co… 2. Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service: drafting an overview of the current translation practices and challenges in scholarly communication and defining the use cases of a technology-based scientific translation service (expected users and usage scenarios, features, quality requirements, editorial and technical workflows) Link to call 2: https://www.operas-eu.org/use-case-study-for-a-technology-based-scientific-… Please note that two additional calls will be released in the coming months in the following areas: Machine translation output evaluation and Roadmap and budget projections. For any information about ongoing and future calls, please feel free to contact Susanna Fiorini at susanna.fiorini(a)operas-eu.org

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Full-time Assistant Professor position in Natural Language Processing at FI MU Brno - deadline Sep 30
by Ales Horak 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

We would like to draw your attention to currently open call for full-time academic position of Assistant Professor in the field of Natural Language Processing at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. https://www.muni.cz/en/about-us/careers/vacancies/70340 Assistant Professor Position in Natural Language Processing Department Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics Deadline 30 Sep 2022 Start date By mutual agreement. The Dean of the Faculty of Informatics MU invites applications for a position of Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing, with the Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing. This position is aimed to strengthen the work of the Natural Language Processing Centre (NLP Centre - https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/) at the Faculty of Informatics. NLP Centre conducts basic and applied research in all areas of text and speech analysis and knowledge engineering with applications in data analysis projects (often in cooperation with industrial partners) and education of future language and data analysts. Besides research and education, the abilities to work with a team of graduate students on research targeting top NLP conferences and to engage undergraduate and graduate students in both educational and research exercises are crucial. Job description key points - Active international cooperation, in research and education. - Involvement in teaching in the natural language processing area. - Supervision of Master/Bachelor theses and consultancy or co-supervision of PhDs. - Involvement in expanding industrial cooperation in the natural language processing area. Requirements - PhD in Informatics or related discipline. - Passion for problem solving and desire for continuous improvement in teaching skills. - Existing track record in both education and research in natural language processing. - Expert knowledge in (several) areas covered by courses: - PA153 Natural Language Processing https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA153 - IA161 Natural Language Processing in Practice https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/IA161 - PA164 Machine learning and natural language processing https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA164 - PA154 Language Modeling https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA154 - PV061 Machine Translation https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PV061 - PV277 Programming Applications for Social Robots https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PV277 - PA156 Dialogue Systems https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA156 - IB047 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and Computer Lexicography https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/IB047 - Practical involvement in the development phase of software project(s) with ability to demonstrate tools developed and showcase data analyses performed. - Dynamic, flexible personality, able to work well in teams. - Languages – fluent English (both spoken and written), other language(s) welcome. - Experience from other countries than Czech & Slovak republics (at least half a year). Desired skills and achievements - Experience with research achievements published at the top NLP conferences or best journals publishing NLP research results. - Ability to work well in interdisciplinary teams. - Successfully defended Bachelor and/or Master theses supervised. - Experience with research project team leadership is an advantage. - Open-source projects development and maintenance. Other information The starting salary for this Assistant Professor position is 76,500 CZK, and with the progress in this tenure-track position can in no more than 3 years be modified based on the level of involvement in research and educational projects. Applicants should submit - CV; - degree documents; - summary of work experience, publication and teaching activities and involvement in research grants; - cover letter explaining your interest in the position and the IT area; - title and abstract of a lecture that can be presented as a part of the application process; - names and contacts of three professional and language referees. Please submit your application, including all required documents, preferably online via the MU e-application at Vacancies | Masaryk University (muni.cz) In case this way of submission would not be possible, we also accept a paper application with a declaration of the reason for the such submission. Any queries regarding the submission shall be sent to: pers(a)fi.muni.cz. Queries regarding the position as such can be addressed to assoc. prof. Ales Horak: hales(a)fi.muni.cz. Further information is available Masaryk University at https://www.muni.cz/en Brno at https://www.gotobrno.cz/en/ -- Ales Horak Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Free virtual panel discussion: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the making
by OEDUK 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

[apologies for cross-posting] Free virtual panel discussion: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the making When: 22nd September 2022; 18:00 BST (UTC +1) / 13:00 EDT (UTC -4)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/edt> / 10:00 PDT (UTC -7)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt> Oxford Languages and Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research have partnered for a three-year research project, whose aim is to compile the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE). The project is spearheaded by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor-in-Chief), Director of the Center and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard, and is funded in part by grants from the Mellon and Wagner Foundations. Join some project team members for a panel discussion covering: * Project overview and aims * Where we are now * Why we are compiling ODAAE * The socio-linguistic importance of African American English * Q&A - bring your questions to the panellists or send them in advance to oed.uk(a)oup.com<mailto:oed.uk@oup.com> Book your place: http://tiny.cc/ODAAE-ML With kind regards, The OED Team

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CoCo4MT: Friday, Sept 16 @ AMTA - Program Available
by John Ortega 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

-- Apologies in advance for cross-posting -- CoCo4MT @ AMTA 2022 is only a few days away! The First Workshop on Corpus Generation and Corpus Augmentation for Machine Translation (CoCo4MT) focuses on the topic of creating and augmenting training corpora for low-resource languages and machine translation. The CoCo4MT program is now available and we are happy to present an all-star line-up of presentations and speakers. Registration is still available on the AMTA website: https://web.cvent.com/event/ebca84a9-fd92-4186-a248-e4eda76bdf5e/summary The program and other details about the workshop can be found on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/coco4mt Here are some of of the incredible guest keynote speakers: Jörg Tiedemann - Collecting data, training models and distributing both – the OPUS way Graham Neubig - Unlocking Resources for Under-resourced Languages Ankur Parikh - A Multilingual View of Unsupervised Machine Translation Julia Kreutzer - Tackling Low-Resource Machine Translation with Participation, Data and Scale Maria Nadejde - Formality Control for Machine Translation We will also have a panel discussion on low-resource language corpora and more with Marine Carpuat and Kenneth Ward Church and one surprise guest. See you there!

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Save the date: eLex 2023, 27–29 June 2023
by Ondřej Matuška 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

The eighth biennial conference *eLex 2023* electronic lexicography in the 21st century will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 27–29 June 2023. The topic of this conference is: Invisible lexicography. Save the date and follow the conference on the website, Twitter and Facebook to get updates. More information will be provided in the next couple of days. https://elex.link/elex2023 https://twitter.com/elex_conference www.facebook.com/elexconference We are looking forward to meeting you in Brno. Ondřej Matuška (on behalf of the eLex 2023 organising committee)

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[Job opening] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Cardiff University
by Jose Camacho Collados 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

Dear all, The School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University (Wales, United Kingdom) is now recruiting for 14 posts at the levels of Lecturer (~Assistant Prof) or Senior Lecturer (~Associate Prof) in several areas of Computer Science, with Natural Language Processing (NLP) being one of the priority areas. Further details can be found here: * Lecturer* (Teaching & Research): https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… * Senior Lecturer* (Teaching & Research): https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… The application deadline is Friday, 7 October 2022. More about our Cardiff NLP group can be found here: https://cardiffnlp.github.io/ Best, Jose -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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