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Extended CFP - SIMBig 2022, 8 Keynotes Speakers, Peru (AI, Data Science, NLP, ML)
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > > **** The Submission Deadline is Extended to August 12 **** > > ================================================================= > CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION - SIMBig 2022 > ================================================================= > > SIMBig 2022 - 9th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data > Where: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, PERU > When: November 16 - 18, 2022 > Website: http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/ <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/> > > ================================================================= > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2022 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ------------- > > Leman Akoglu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > Jiang Bian, University of Florida, USA > Rich Caruana, Microsoft, USA > Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI, USA > Monica Lam, Stanford University, USA > Wang-Chiew Tan, Facebook AI, USA > Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA > Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ------------- > > August 05, 2022 August 12, 2022--> Papers submission deadline > September 09, 2022 --> Notification of acceptance > October 07, 2022 --> Camera-ready versions > November 16 - 18, 2022 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru > > PUBLICATION AND TRAVEL AWARDS > ------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > The best 8-10 papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be selected to submit an extension to be published with the Springer SN Computer Science Journal. <https://www.springer.com/journal/42979> > Thanks to the support of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) <http://naacl.org/>, SIMBig 2022 will offer 4 student travel awards for the best papers. > > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Data Science > Machine Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > OLAP and Business intelligence > Data-driven Software Engineering > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 proposes three special tracks in addition to the main conference: > > ANLP <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/anlp.html> - Applied Natural Language Processing > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/dise.html> - Data-drIven Software Engineering > SNMAM <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/snmam.html> - Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining > > CONTACT > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru (halatrista(a)pucp.pe <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>) >

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CFP - The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP)
by haddad.hatem＠gmail.com 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

WiNLP 2022 – Call for Submissions http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ Workshop Date December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD) EMNLP 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP’s workshop period either December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD). We invite authors from underrepresented groups in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to submit a two-page abstract to be considered for a poster presentation at our workshop. Important Dates: Last date to join author workshopping: August 24, 2022 Submission deadline: September 7, 2022 Acceptance notification: October 9, 2022 Travel grant applications due: October 21, 2022 Travel grant notification: October 25, 2022 Workshop Description The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL environment. It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented group [based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, or otherwise] is invited to submit a two-page abstract for a poster presentation. In our 2022 iteration, we hope to be more intentional about centering discussions of access and disability, as well as contributing to diversity in scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large. Submission guidelines While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career levels: students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers. Since many submissions are works in progress, we act as a non-archival repository for these works: while authors may elect to have their papers linked from our website, they will not be archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect to not have their submission listed on the website if they wish to avoid de-anonymizing themselves for later submissions to other venues. Submissions should be two pages long (not including references). Authors must use the ACL Rolling Review style files to format their submission, and must submit it electronically in PDF format via the WiNLP 2022 online submission system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/.https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNL… Travel Support There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to cover expenses, similar to the previous editions. Funding is available for travel, lodging, registration, and visa costs for one author for each submission. The funded author may elect to attend virtually if they prefer. The selected author should be identified as part of the travel grant submission form. If we find ourselves with extra funds, we will attempt to support further funding for virtual attendance for additional authors, but we do not guarantee we can support any further in-person attendance. We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further funding. For further details please visit our website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-c…

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[OM-2022] Final CFP: 17th wshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC: the submission deadline is approaching on Aug. 9th
by Cassia TROJAHN 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

The Seventeenth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2022) http://om2022.ontologymatching.org/ October 23rd or 24th, 2022, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China ===================================================================== The submission deadline for tech. papers is approaching in 2 weeks on Aug. 9th: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022 ===================================================================== BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2022 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., in cloud, with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2022 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than August 9th, 2022) through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022 Contributors to the OAEI 2022 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2022: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6th, 2022: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 20th, 2022: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 23rd or 24th, 2022: OM-2022, hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Majid Mohammadi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best regards Cassia Trojahn

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NLP Capstone Workshop on August 26: Register to attend online
by Emelye Neff 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Greetings! We invite you to participate in *UC Santa Cruz's Natural Language Processing Capstone Workshop* to be held online on August 26th. UCSC's specialized Natural Language Processing master's program equips students with the skills and in-depth knowledge needed for a successful career in the rapidly growing NLP field. Over the past year, students have worked in teams mentored by industry experts to develop Capstone projects that address real-world NLP challenges. Join us online on August 26 (1 - 5 PM PDT) to learn about each project and participate in our NLP Industry Panel. *To register for the 2022 NLP Capstone Workshop,* visit https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xOV5vxrgQpWjaeCcK_ZFMA *Workshop Sessions:* - Keynote Address: Hear insights about the future of NLP from incoming UCSC CSE and NLP faculty member, Professor Ian Lane. - NLP Capstone Projects: Watch student teams present Capstone projects mentored by industry experts from IBM, Interactions, LinkedIn and Google. - NLP Industry Panel: Join our expert panel of leading scientists for insights on career opportunities in the NLP field. *About our Workshop:* The NLP M.S. program at UCSC balances theory with practice including a Capstone project that enables students to apply the skills they've acquired in the program to a current, industry-relevant NLP topic. Register for this free online workshop to see our talented students showcase their work and answer questions from attendees. *The 2022 NLP Capstone Projects and Mentors are:* - *IBM Research:* Probing of Language Models for Code - *Interactions: *Neural Models of Supertagging for Semantic Role Labeling and Beyond - *LinkedIn:* Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings - *Google and UCSC: *Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Question Answering in Farming The workshop will conclude with a discussion about careers in NLP hosted by our expert NLP Industry Panel. Learn more about this year's Capstone projects and mentors by visiting https://nlp.ucsc.edu/capstone-projects If you have any questions about the event, please contact UCSC's NLP Program Team by emailing nlp(a)ucsc.edu. We look forward to seeing you at this year's workshop! All the best, Emelye -- *Emelye Neff* Program Coordinator Natural Language Processing Program <https://nlp.ucsc.edu/> Baskin Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz MA IEM - Middlebury Institute of International Studies Peace Corps Fellow - Guatemala

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CFP: #SMM4H'22, 7th Social Media Mining for Health Applications - Workshop at COLING 2022
by Davy Weissenbacher 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

============================= Last call for papers, submission deadline is August 17, 2022 ============================= *Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP* Location: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Workshop Date: October 16-17, 2022 Workshop link: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/7thSMM4H/ The workshop will include two components — a standard workshop and a shared task Workshop The Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) workshop serves as a venue for bringing together researchers interested in automatic methods for the collection, extraction, representation, analysis, and validation of social media data (e.g., Twitter, Reddit, Facebook) for health informatics. The 7th #SMM4H Workshop, co-located at COLING 2022 ( https://coling2022.org/index), invites 4-page paper (unlimited references in standard COLING format) submissions on original, unpublished research in all aspects at the intersection of social media mining and health. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Methods for the automatic detection and extraction of health-related concept mentions in social media Mapping of health-related mentions in social media to standardized vocabularies Deriving health-related trends from social media Information retrieval methods for obtaining relevant social media data Geographic or demographic data inference from social media discourse Virus spread monitoring using social media Mining health-related discussions in social media Drug abuse and alcoholism incidence monitoring through social media Disease incidence studies using social media Sentinel event detection using social media Semantic methods in social media analysis Classifying health-related messages in social media Automatic analysis of social media messages for disease surveillance and patient education Methods for validation of social media-derived hypotheses and datasets Shared task The workshop organizers this year are hosting 10 shared tasks i.e. NLP challenges as part of the workshop. Participating teams will be provided with a set of annotated posts for developing systems, followed by a three-day window during which they will run their systems on unlabeled test data and upload it to Codalab for evaluation. For additional details about the tasks and information about registration, data access, paper submissions, and presentations, go to https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ Task 1 – Classification, detection, and normalization of Adverse Events (AE) mentions in tweets (in English) Task 2 – Classification of stance and premise in tweets about health mandates related to COVID-19 (in English) Task 3 – Classification of changes in medication treatments in tweets and WebMD reviews (in English) Task 4 – Classification of tweets self-reporting exact age (in English) Task 5 – Classification of tweets containing self-reported COVID-19 symptoms (in Spanish) Task 6 – Classification of tweets which indicate self-reported COVID-19 vaccination status (in English) Task 7 – Classification of self-reported intimate partner violence on Twitter (in English) Task 8 – Classification of self-reported chronic stress on Twitter (in English) Task 9 – Classification of Reddit posts self-reporting exact age (in English) Task 10 – Detection of disease mentions in tweets – SocialDisNER (in Spanish) Organizing Committee Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Davy Weissenbacher, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Arjun Magge, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ari Z. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ivan Flores, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Karen O’Connor, University of Pennsylvania, USA Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Lucia Schmidt, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Juan M. Banda, Georgia State University, USA Abeed Sarker, Emory University, USA Yuting Guo, Emory University, USA Yao Ge, Emory University, USA Elena Tutubalina, Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong Luis Gasco, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Darryl Estrada, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Program Committee Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA Natalia Grabar, French National Center for Scientific Research, France Thierry Hamon, Paris-Nord University, France Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science, Japan Corrado Lanera, University of Padova, Italy Robert Leaman, US National Library of Medicine, USA Kirk Roberts, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA Yutaka Sasaki, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan Pierre Zweigenbaum, French National Center for Scientific Research, France Contact All questions should be emailed to Davy Weissenbacher ( davy.weissenbacher(a)cshs.org)

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Re: WMT22 Chat Translation Task
by Amin Farajian 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Dear all, The evaluation week of the Chat Task is postponed by 1 week: it will now happen between 28th June - 6th August. For more information about the submission formats check the corresponding section in https://wmt-chat-task.github.io <https://wmt-chat-task.github.io/> . Best regards, Amin Farajian (On behalf of the Chat Translation Task organisers) > On 22 Jun 2022, at 16:48, Amin Farajian <ma.farajian(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > I would like to inform you that the second edition of the chat translation translation task for WMT22 is live now! > This year we release real conversational data for the following three language pairs: English-German, English-French, and English-Portuguese (Brazilian). > You can find more details of the task in our website: > https://wmt-chat-task.github.io <http://www.statmt.org/wmt20/chat-task.html> > > Best, > Amin Farajian > (on behalf of the Chat Translation Task organisers)

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5th CRAC Workshop: Deadline extension to August 1, 2022
by Maciej Ogrodniczuk 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

The 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference <https://sites.google.com/view/crac2022/> (held at COLING 2022 <https://coling2022.org/> ) provides a forum where work on all aspects of computational work on reference annotation and resolution can be presented, e.g. * all aspects of annotation, resolution and evaluation of anaphora, coreference and other reference relations * reference resolution for less-researched languages * interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references) * investigation of difficult cases of reference and their resolution * reference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media) * new applications of reference resolution * Universal Anaphora <https://github.com/UniversalAnaphora/> WHAT'S NEW IN 2022? * a new <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac22> CRAC 2022 shared task on multilingual coreference resolution * a <https://bit.ly/codi-crac-2022-sharedtask> CODI-CRAC 2022 joint shared task on Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue co-organized with the <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-2022> CODI workshop IMPORTANT DATES: * Workshop papers due: Aug 1, 2022 * Notification of acceptance: Sep 1, 2022 * Camera-ready papers due: Sep 12, 2022 * Workshop date: Oct 16-17, 2022 PAPER CATEGORIES: * Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result) * Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference resolution) * Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue) * Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years) * Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations) * Extended abstracts (describe work in progress) Research papers, survey papers, position papers, and challenge papers can have up to 8 pages of content for long papers and up to 4 pages of content for short papers, plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Demo papers can have up to 4 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Extended abstracts can have up to 2 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references. You can also include a supplementary document and/or (sample) data along with your paper. Essentially, materials that can help the program committee make a better determination of the quality of your submission. Code/data submission is strongly encouarged for resource/evaluation papers. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content. DOUBLE SUBMISSION: We allow for double submissions. Please indicate during submission to which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted. We also invite authors of papers accepted to Findings of the main conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop. It these papers were removed from the Findings, they can be included in the proceedings of the workshop without additional review. SUBMISSION LINK: Please <https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CRAC_2022/> submit your paper to SoftConf. All submissions must follow <https://coling2022.org/Submission> the COLING 2022 formatting instructions. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon) * Arie Cattan (Bar-Ilan University) * Haixia Chai (Heidelberg University) * Stephanie Dipper (Ruhr-University Bochum) * Yansong Feng (Peking University) * Yulia Grishina (Amazon) * Christian Hardmeier (IT University of Copenhagen) * Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) * Veronique Hoste (Ghent University) * Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University) * Sobha Lalitha Devi (AU-KBC Research Center, Anna University of Chennai) * Loic De Langhe (Ghent University) * Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Saarland University) * Sharid Loáiciga (University of Gothenburg) * Costanza Navaretta (University of Copenhagen) * Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague) * Michal Novák (Charles University in Prague) * Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London) * Marta Recasens (Google) * Carolyn Rosé (Carnegie Mellon University) * Nobuhiro Ueda (Kyoto University) * Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) * Yaqin Yang (Brandeis University) * Juntao Yu (Queen Mary University of London) * Yilun Zhu (Georgetown University) * Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) * Sameer Pradhan (University of Pennsylvania and cemantix) * Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague) * Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas) * Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London)

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CFP - Reflection on Intelligent Systems (University of Stuttgart, online, 20/21 October)
by Gabriella Lapesa 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Workshop title: Reflection on intelligent systems: towards a cross-disciplinary definition When: October 20-21, 2022 (Digital Workshop) Deadline (2-pages abstract): September 7th Website: https://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/public-engagement/news/Call-for-Papers-00… What does it mean to reflect on intelligent systems? Which tools and methods are needed to successfully engage in (critical) reflection on intelligent systems? What is the purpose of this reflection, its outcome, and who is the target audience? Which lessons can we learn from discipline-internal reflection practices? To what extent can these lessons be “translated” into interdisciplinary collaborations, teaching, science-policy debates, and science communication to a broader public? Taking these questions as a starting point for this digital workshop, we aim to take the first steps towards a cross-disciplinary definition of the notion of reflection on intelligent systems by approaching the topic of reflection from various interdisciplinary perspectives. The conceptual outline of our workshop is defined by the goals and targets of reflection or, more specifically, by its end-users and their needs. We thus invite submissions that investigate empirical or theoretical work on the challenges and desiderata of reflection practices across different levels: Theme 1: At a discipline-specific level, e.g., interpretability/introspection of intelligent systems. Why is reflection necessary if it does not improve performance? What are the ethical issues or catalysts of reflection at this level (e.g., bias, sustainability)? Theme 2: At an interdisciplinary level: successful interdisciplinary collaboration requires a "translation" of the ontologies/methods of one discipline into the “language” of the other. While the outcome of reflection for interdisciplinary exchange likely shares features with discipline-specific reflection(s), the translation process reveals specific features that only "exist" at the intersection between different disciplines. Theme 3: From one discipline to the public: yet another type of reflection is driven by this practical question: Why do we want the public to gain a deeper understanding of an intelligent system? And as a consequence, which aspects do we want the public to understand (clearly, not everything is necessary)? And what does the public want to know? Special Theme: Reflection and Teaching Teaching is one of the strongest driving forces for reflection. As educators, we all feel at some point that we have only really understood the subject through the preparation of a lecture and sharing it with a class. How does this deep understanding relate to the three-layer structuring of reflection defined above? Indeed, students are part of the public (theme 3), but they are also experts in their respective disciplines to some extent (theme 1). Besides, the reflection on intelligent systems in teaching can be seen as a form of the conceptual translation we engage in when collaborating with experts of other disciplines who have limited knowledge of our domain (theme 2). Submissions Submissions (2-page abstracts) should relate to one or multiple workshop themes. We particularly encourage submissions that report on unpublished empirical or theoretical work or present relevant aspects of already published work. As this is a workshop, working papers are welcome! All submissions should be sent to reflection.workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de with a short bio by August 7th, 2022. The participants will be notified of the acceptance by mid-September. Invited speaker: Gregor Betz (https://www.gregorbetz.de/) + TBA Organizers: This two-day online event is hosted by the University of Stuttgart, Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS), and organized by Gabriella Lapesa, Lukas Erhard, Curtis Runstedler, and Sierra Kaiser. Contact: gabriella.lapesa(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de & reflection.workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de

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Lecturer vacancies at University of Birmingham, UK
by Mark Lee 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Dear All The School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham is looking to appoint several assistant/associate professors in all areas of AI/Computational Life Sciences including Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics. The deadline is 16th of August with interviews to be held in September. Further details and the link for applying are at https://bham.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?job=220001IV&tz… (I welcome informal enquiries to me but I’m absent 1-12th of August) Best regards Mark Lee Head of School, Computer Science, University of Birmingham www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl For appointments, contact Wendy Pan w.pan.1(a)bham.ac.uk

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CFP - The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP)
by Hatem Haddad 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

*WiNLP 2022 – Call for Submissions* http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ Workshop Date December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD) EMNLP 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP’s workshop period either December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD). We invite authors from underrepresented groups in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to submit a two-page abstract to be considered for a poster presentation at our workshop. *Important Dates:* Last date to join author workshopping <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQA…>: August 24, 2022 Submission deadline: September 7, 2022 Acceptance notification: October 9, 2022 Travel grant applications due: October 21, 2022 Travel grant notification: October 25, 2022 *Workshop Description*The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL environment. It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented group [based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, or otherwise] is invited to submit a two-page abstract for a poster presentation. In our 2022 iteration, we hope to be more intentional about centering discussions of access and disability, as well as contributing to diversity in scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large. *Submission guidelines* While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career levels: students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers. Since many submissions are works in progress, we act as a non-archival repository for these works: while authors may elect to have their papers linked from our website, they will not be archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect to not have their submission listed on the website if they wish to avoid de-anonymizing themselves for later submissions to other venues. Submissions should be two pages long (not including references). Authors must use the ACL Rolling Review <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#style-files>style files to format their submission, and must submit it electronically in PDF format via the WiNLP 2022 online submission system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/. https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/ *Travel Support* There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to cover expenses, similar to the previous editions. Funding is available for travel, lodging, registration, and visa costs for one author for each submission. The funded author may elect to attend virtually if they prefer. The selected author should be identified as part of the travel grant submission form. If we find ourselves with extra funds, we will attempt to support further funding for virtual attendance for additional authors, but we do not guarantee we can support any further in-person attendance. We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further funding. For further details please visit our website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/

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