The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories –
FIRST CALL
FOR PAPERS
The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT)
will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated
natural language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th–12th,
2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of
GURT 2023.
VENUE
The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a
peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at
Georgetown University in Washington D.C., with topics and co-located events
varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and
Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are
workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to
syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop
(UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All
talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary
session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The
goal of co-locating these events is to promote cross-fertilization of ideas
across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each
event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology.
In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead
and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however,
accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations,
prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University
policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event.
Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of
the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the
region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and
Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As
‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken,
signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various
levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics,
and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general
graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational
processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations,
methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or
conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage are but some
examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT.
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of
completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to
the conference, and interest to the attendees.
We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:
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long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research,
including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
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short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress,
negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces.
All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in
the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology.
Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references
and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content
(excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an
additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow
the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend
the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates
created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page
or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020)
…”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020)
previously showed …”. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and
uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming).
Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will
be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including
information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors
withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication).
Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review.
All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with
final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may
be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than TLT at the
discretion of the organizers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Long and short paper submission deadlines: November 1st, 2022
Reviews Due: December 10th, 2022
Notification of acceptance: January 9th, 2023
Final version of papers due: January 28th, 2023
GURT2023: March 9th-12th, 2023
TLT WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Daniel Dakota, Indiana University
Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University
Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University
Contact: ddakota(a)iu.edu
Website: https://cl.indiana.edu/tlt2023
GURT Website: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Baltic HLT 2022: The Tenth Baltic Conference "Human Language
Technologies - the Baltic Perspective"
October 6-7, 2022
Riga, Latvia
Conference Web page: http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/
The Tenth International Conference "Human Language Technologies - the
Baltic Perspective" will be held at the University of Latvia. The
conference aims to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and
recent advances in human language processing and to promote cooperation
between the research communities of computer science and linguistics.
The conference brings together scientists, developers, providers and
users to discuss state-of-the-art of HLT in the Baltic sea states, to
exchange information and to discuss problems, to find new synergies and
to promote initiatives for international cooperation.
Accepted papers: http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/node/26
REGISTRATION
The early-bird registration closes on September 23, 2022.
To register visit http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/registration.
Contact: hlt2022(a)tilde.lv
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We welcome submissions to the special issue of the Cambridge University
Press journal
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering>Natural
Language Engineering
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering> on
Natural Language Processing Application on Low-Resource Languages.
*Cambridge NLE - Special Issue*
*Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages*
*The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2022.*
*Call for Papers*
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
● *Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages*
● *Caption Generation for Low-Resource Languages*
● *POS Tagging on Low-Resource Languages*
● *Optical character recognition and generation of Low-Resource
Languages.*
● *Chatbot assistant for Low-Resource Languages*
● *Speech/Language recognition*
● *Regional music identification and classification*
● *Textual Entailment of Low-Resource Languages*
● *Face-to-Face Translation of Low-Resource Languages*
● *News/Social media analysis*
● *Text prediction and suggestion*
● *Sentiment analysis*
● *Text classification*
*Important Dates*
*Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2022
*First-round author notification*: Between March 30, 2023 and April 30, 2023
*Submission of revised versions*: Between June 30, 2023 and July 30, 2023
*Second-round author notification (final)*: Between August 30, 2023 and
September 30, 2023
*Camera-ready versions*: Between Oct 01, 2023 and Oct 30, 2023
*Submissions*
Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural
Language Engineering* are available
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…>
here
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…>
.
Please submit your article through the NLE
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript,
please select *Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource
Languages *in the field *Special Issue Designation.*
*Guest Editors*
*Dr. Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology Silchar*
*Prof. Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City,
Mexico*
*Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, National Institute of Technology Silchar*
Yours Cordially,
Professor Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
Guest Editors
Director, National Institute of Technology(NIT) Silchar (Assam)
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department
NIT Silchar (Assam)
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department (on lien)
Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032
INDIA
Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR) at EMNLP 2022
website: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-ws
Call for Papers
The web provides an abundance of knowledge and information that can reach large populations. However, the way in which a text is written (vocabulary, syntax, or text organization/structure), or presented, can make it inaccessible for many people, especially for non-native speakers, people with low literacy, and people with some type of cognitive or linguistic impairments. The results of the Adult Literacy Survey (OECD, 2013) indicate that approximately 16.7% of the adult population (averaged over 24 highly-developed countries) requires lexical, 50% syntactic, and 89.4% conceptual simplification of everyday texts (Štajner, 2021).
Research on automatic text simplification (TS), textual accessibility, and readability have the potential to improve the social inclusion of marginalized populations. These related research areas have attracted attention in the past ten years, as evidenced by the growing number of publications in NLP conferences. While only about 300 articles in Google Scholar mentioned TS in 2010, this number has increased to about 600 in 2015 and greater than 1000 in 2020 (Štajner, 2021).
Recent research in automatic text simplification has mostly focused on proposing the use of methods derived from the deep learning paradigm (Glavaš and Štajner, 2015; Paetzold and Specia, 2016; Nisioi et al., 2017; Zhang and Lapata, 2017; Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021). However, there are many important aspects of automatic text simplification that need the attention of our community: the design of appropriate evaluation metrics, the development of context-aware simplification solutions, the creation of appropriate language resources to support research and evaluation, the deployment of simplification in real environments for real users, the study of discourse factors in text simplification, the identification of factors affecting the readability of a text, etc. To overcome those issues, there is a need for the collaboration of CL/NLP researchers, machine learning and deep learning researchers, UI/UX and Accessibility professionals, as well as public organizations representatives (Štajner, 2021).
The proposed TSAR workshop builds upon the recent success of several regional workshops that covered a subset of our topics of interest, including READI Workshops at LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, SEPLN 2021 Workshop on Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS), and the SimpleText workshop at CLEF 2021, as well as the birds-of-a-feather events on Text Simplification at NAACL 2021 (over 50 participants) and ACL 2022.
The TSAR workshop aims to foster collaboration among all parties interested in making information more accessible to all people. Through the two invited talks, a shared task on lexical simplification, the round table discussion, oral and poster presentations of novel research, we will discuss recent trends and developments in the area of automatic text simplification, text accessibility, automatic readability assessment, language resources and evaluation for text simplification, etc.
Topics
We invite contributions on the following topics (among others):
* Lexical simplification;
* Syntactic simplification;
* Modular and end-to-end TS;
* Sequence-to-sequence and zero-shot TS;
* Controllable TS;
* Text complexity assessment;
* Complex word identification and lexical complexity prediction;
* Corpora, lexical resources, and benchmarks for TS;
* Evaluation of TS systems;
* Domain-specific/adaptable TS (e.g. health, legal);
* Other related topics (e.g. empirical and eye-tracking studies);
* Assistive technologies for improving readability and comprehension including those going beyond text.
* Text Simplification in Languages other than English
* Multilingual TS
* Readability Controlled MT
Submissions
We welcome two types of papers: long papers and short papers. Submissions should be made to the Softconf submission management system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/tsar. The papers should present novel research. The review will be double-blind and thus all submissions should be anonymized.
Format: Paper submissions must use the official EMNLP template, which is available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word) (see here: https://2022.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
Long Papers: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and long papers presented as posters.
Short Papers: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages), so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and short papers presented as posters.
Important Dates
13 September 2022 (extended): paper submission deadline
2 October 2022: acceptance notification deadline
16 October 2022: camera-ready deadline
8 December 2022: Workshop at EMNLP
Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published in ACL Anthology. Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for a special issue of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence focused on: applied research for TS and readability assessment in the context of TS.
Organizers
* Sanja Štajner, NLP Researcher, Germany
* Horacio Saggion, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the LaSTUS Lab in the TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
* Wei Xu, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
* Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
* Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
* Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
* Kai North, Ph.D. student, Rochester Institute of Technology
* Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Discours Journal, Issue 32, Publication June 2023
Deadline: October 15th 2022
Coordinators: Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac and Nicolas Hernandez
Dear colleagues, we are inviting submissions for the next issue of
Discours, to appear in June 2023.
THE DISCOURS JOURNAL
Discours is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed
e-journal, which publishes two issues a year in open access. The
journal is intended as a forum for exchanging and comparing data,
analyses and opinions for all linguists, psycholinguists and computer
linguists working in fields involving the description, comprehension,
formalization and processing of text organization.
EDITORIAL LINE
It focuses on the following topics (not limited to): discourse
structure and discursive markers, discourse relations, coherence,
cohesion, linearization, indexation, information structure, word
order, discourse comprehension and production, and other related
topics.
For this issue, we are particularly interested in studies that
investigate the following topics:
- discourse and dialogue-level annotated corpora (e.g. rhetorical and
argumentative structures, dialogue acts, reference chains,
enumerative structures, document structures, thematic segmentation)
- studies on discourse and dialogue structures in (very) large
corpora
- tools and methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational
Linguistics for discourse and dialogue-level processing
- exploitation of discourse or dialogue-level processing in end-user
applications (e.g. human language technology, education, health,
risk management)
SUBMISSION
Papers (in English or French) should be sent to discours(a)univ-nantes.fr
Full instructions can be found on
https://journals.openedition.org/discours/224
IMPORTANT DATES
- Manuscript submission: October 15th 2022
- Final decision of the editorial board: First quarter of 2023
- Online publication: June 2023
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
- Scientific Committee https://journals.openedition.org/discours/122
- Referees outside the Scientific Committee
https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8977
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Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences)
Nantes Université - LS2N UMR6004
https://nicolashernandez.github.io/
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https://sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/programme-du-m1-atal
Dear colleagues and friends,
*We invite submissions to a special issue on "Information Extraction and
Language Discourse Processing" of journal Information
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information> (ISSN 2078-2489).*
*Special Issue Information*
This Special Issue seeks novel research reports on the spectrum that blends
information extraction and language discourse processing research in
diverse communities. The editors welcome submissions along various
dimensions derived from the nature of the extraction task, the advanced
neural techniques used for extraction, the variety of input resources
exploited, and the type of output produced. Quantitative, qualitative, and
mixed methods studies are welcome, as are case studies and experience
reports if they describe an impactful application at a scale that delivers
useful lessons to the journal readership.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Knowledge base population with discourse-centric information
extraction (IE)
- Coreference resolution and its impact on discourse-centric IE
- Relationship extraction leveraging linguistic discourse
- Template filling
- Impact of pragmatics or rhetorics on information extraction
- Discourse-centric IE at scale
- Intelligent and novel assessment models of discourse-centric IE
- Survey of discourse-centric IE in natural language processing (NLP)
- Challenges implementing discourse-centric IE in real-world scenarios
- Modeling domains using discourse-centric IE
- Human–AI hybrid systems for learning discourse and IE
*Submission Instructions*
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/WYS02U2GTD
*Deadline for manuscript submissions* Submissions to the SI will be
accepted and published on a rolling basis until the close of the issue on
10 December 2022
Yours cordially,
Dr. Jennifer D'Souza
Prof. Dr. Chengzhi Zhang
*Guest Editors*
***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
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP]
Special Issue on Trends in Social Media Analysis to Address Fake News, Hate Speech, or Bias
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Springer Datenbank-Spektrum https://www.springer.com/13222
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Social media has many benefits: from staying in contact with close and not-so-close friends, over exercising the right to voice one's opinion, to communicating with many like-minded people all over the world and providing an additional channel for information exchange. Unfortunately, social media has also been abused and misused ever since its inception. Hate speech is prevalent on many sites alienating trusting users and hindering fruitful discussions. Fake news are distributed through social media platforms with dangerous effects. But even without malicious intention, social media can be misleading due to various biases in the system.
Topics of Interest
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In this special issue of Datenbank-Spektrum, we will explore and present current trends in the field of automatically detecting and managing hate speech, fake news, bias and other toxic content in the context of social media.
We welcome original contributions including technical papers, application-oriented papers, case studies, survey papers and position papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Automatic detection of hate speech
- Methods to improve online discussions
- Trust and reputation of social media actors
- Identification of fake news
- Countermeasures to fight fake news
- Detection and/or mitigation of bias
- Dealing with bias in training data
- Content analysis and NLP
- Opinion mining and sentiment analysis on social media
- Information extraction and retrieval on social media
- Information diffusion within social networks
- Ethical and legal aspects
Submission Guidelines
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Paper format: 8-10 pages, double-column (cf. author guidelines at https://www.springer.com/13222). We welcome contributions in both German and English through the Springer submission system https://www.editorialmanager.com/dasp/
Deadline for submissions: Oct. 1st, 2022;
Publication of special issue: DASP-1-2023 (March 2023)
Guest editors
=============
Feel free to contact the guest editors in case you have questions.
Ralf Krestel, ZBW & CAU Kiel, r.krestel(a)zbw.eu
Udo Kruschwitz, Universität Regensburg, udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de
Michael Wiegand, Universität Klagenfurt, michael.wiegand(a)aau.at
*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2024*
The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2024 EACL conference, to
be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably
April/May) 2024. The 2024 conference will be the 18th meeting of the EACL.
*At this stage, we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders.* These
will be evaluated and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional
information for the final selection. The EACL Board will appoint the
general chair for the conference, the programme committee co- chairs, and
all other chairs (tutorial co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, etc.), except for
the local arrangements chair.
Draft bid proposals (due *October 15th, 2022*) should include information
on all of the following items:
1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably April/May) 2024
2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the
conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention center. Bear
in mind that EACL is growing. While Gothenburg (EACL 2014) had 520
registered participants, Valencia (EACL 2017, the last Conference held in
person) had 680 registered participants. So please suggest a location that
could host 800+ people for plenary sessions, plus at least 4 conference
rooms hosting parallel sessions (200-250 people each), a large poster or
exhibit room; 11 rooms on the workshops/tutorials days among which at least
two host 200 people and the others 60 persons; and rooms for demos, small
meetings and registration
3. *Local arrangements team:* local chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer
labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team
will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms,
equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant
internet access, the reception, the conference dinner, and working with the
other chairs and the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration
materials. Indicate whether a professional conference organizer (PCO) will
be involved in the organization. Also, indicate whether any
national/regional Computational Linguistics association would be on board
of the local organization
*The final bids will also include detailed information on the following
items:*
1. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in
conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the
audiovisual facilities are
2. Printing of conference booklet
3. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and
conference dinner
4. Accommodation options at the venue, including low-cost student
accommodation
5. Travel alternatives to the venue from Europe and beyond
6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event
and reception
7. Potential for local sponsorships
8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings
9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be
indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below).
Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria
(unordered):
- Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated
number of registrants
- Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price
categories) and proximity to the conference facilities
- Adequacy of expenses projections and expected surplus
- Appropriateness of proposed dates
- Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL
conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing conferences held
in EMEA
- Co-location with national/regional conferences
- Experience of the local arrangements team
- Local CL community support
- Local government and industry support
- Appropriateness of expected registration fees
- Accessibility of proposed site
To help with your bid, you can check:
- Bid Guidelines
<https://wiki.coli.uni-saarland.de/eacl/Bid%20guidelines?highlight=%28bids%29>
- EACL 17 report
<http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_EACL_2017>
Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years:
- Previous Calls for Conference Bids
<https://wiki.coli.uni-saarland.de/eacl/Call%20for%20conference%20bids>
The EACL conference handbook:
- EACL conference handbook
<https://wiki.coli.uni-saarland.de/eacl/EACL_conference_handbook>
Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL
Chair-elect:
Roberto Basili, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy –
basili(a)info.uniroma2.it
The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask
questions about how to prepare the proposal.
*Important Dates:*
- *October 15th, 2022:* Deadline for draft bids
- *October 31st, 2022:* Feedback to bidders and announcement of
shortlist of bidders
- *December 22nd, 2022:* Deadline for final bids
- *January 15th, 2023:* Final bid chosen
- *April or May, 2024:* EACL Conference
Best regards,
Georg Rehm
– Secretary of EACL –
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*Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>*
Principal Researcher and Research Fellow
DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810
georg.rehm(a)dfki.de
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern
Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Gabriël Clemens
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
*[Apologies for cross-posting]*
*EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu*
CICLing 2022 track @FIRE 2022*
Website: Link
<https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home>
Registration is now open: Link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWSPSM5wlgkucnhq3lDEsnWdaitwfq2EF…>
The training set is now available. Participants are invited to publish
Working Notes of FIRE 2022*
*Task Description*
With the growth of the spread and importance of social media platforms, the
effect of their misuse became more and more impactful. In particular,
numerous posts contain abusive language towards certain users and hence
worsen users’ experience from communication via such platforms, while other
posts contain actual threats that potentially put platform users in danger.
The Urdu language has more than 230 million speakers worldwide, with vast
representation on social networks and digital media.
We encourage participants to participate in *EmoThreat: Emotion and Threat
detection in Urdu (Nastaliq)*
*Task A: Multi-label emotion classification in Urdu *Link
<https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-a>
Task A requires you to classify the tweet as one, or more of the six basic
emotions (plus neutral), which is the best representation of the emotion of
the person tweeting.
*Task B: Threatening Language Detection Task in Urdu *Link
<https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-b>
Task B focuses on detecting Threatening language using Twitter tweets in
Urdu language. This is a binary classification task in which participating
systems are required to classify tweets into two classes, namely:
Threatening and Non-Threatening.
*Note: Participants in this year’s shared task can choose to participate in
either one or both subtasks. Please visit the website for more information.*
*Important Dates*
30th June – Training data release
25th July – Codalab submission link release (Task A)
7th September - Test set release (Task B)
20th September – Run submission deadline
30th September – Results Declared
12th October - Working Note submission
26th October - Review Notifications
2nd November – Camera Ready Due
9th - 13th December - FIRE 2022 (Online Event)
*Organizers*
Sabur Butt, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Maaz Amjad, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Noman Ashraf, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, United
States
Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia
Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
*Contact*
Email: emothreat2022(a)gmail.com
Google-group: Link <https://groups.google.com/g/emothreat>
*FIRE 2022: Link <http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2022/home>
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*With my best regards,*
*Maaz Amjad**, PhD*
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