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3rd CfP MILLing 2024 [UPDATE: Non-archival track]
by William Noble 21 May '24

21 May '24

https://gu-clasp.github.io/MILLing *Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing)* will bring together researchers in linguistics and computational linguistics to discuss learning through linguistic interaction, from the perspectives of both human language acquisition and machine learning. We encourage contributions from the fields of theoretical linguistics, experimental linguistics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. The conference is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, <https://gu-clasp.github.io/>), University of Gothenburg. The conference will be held between October 14 and 15 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Important dates ---- - Submission deadline: May 31, 2024, anywhere on Earth - Notification of acceptance: Aug 30, 2024, anywhere on Earth - Camera ready: Sep 20, 2024, anywhere on Earth - Conference: Oct 14--15, 2024, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Invited speakers ---- - Catherine Pelachaud <http://chronos.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/>, Director of Research at CNRS in the laboratory LTCI, TELECOM ParisTech - Charles Yang <https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/> Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania - Napoleon Katsos <https://sites.google.com/site/napoleonkatsos/home> Professor of Experimental Pragmatics at the Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Topics of interest ---- We hope to see innovative work that considers language learning from different perspectives, and we hope to cultivate discussion that reaches across traditionally disparate disciplines. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related areas, including (but not limited to) the following: - Language acquisition: formal, statistical, experimental, and machine learning-based work - Language learning through dialogue in humans and machines - Multi-modality and figurativeness in language learning and dialogue - Linguistic variation, adaptation, and audience design - Low-resource and ecologically plausible language modelling (e.g., BabyLM) - Cognitive architectures for language learning - Information state update in humans and machines - Cognitive approaches to second language acquisition - Dialogue systems for language learning - Online, reinforcement and curriculum learning in NLP - Atypical development and language learning - Ethical considerations in AI-assisted language learning Submission Requirements ---- MILLing will feature two types of submissions: long papers and short papers. Long papers must describe original research, and they must not exceed 8 pages excluding references (position papers are also accepted and should be formatted in the same way). Short papers present work in progress, or they describe systems and/or projects. They must not exceed 4 pages excluding references. All types of papers will be published in the 2024 ACL Anthology as a CLASP Conference Proceedings. Papers should be electronically submitted via the softconf system at: <https://softconf.com/n/MILLing2024/>. Submissions should be PDF files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>). Submissions have to be anonymous. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have problems using softconf. Non-archival track ---- At the time of submission, authors may indicate that their paper should be considered for the non-archival track. The format for non-archival submissions is the same for both long and short papers. Non-archival papers will also undergo peer review. Concurrent Submissions ---- Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences or publications must indicate this at submission time using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at MILLing must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept publications or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Camera Ready Versions ---- Camera ready versions should follow the same guidelines with respect to style and page numbers as the initial submission, i.e. there are no additional pages allowed in the final submission. Please submit the camera ready version by Sep 20, 2024. About CLASP ---- MILLing is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, <https://gu-clasp.github.io/>) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), University of Gothenburg. CLASP focuses its research on the application of probabilistic and information theoretic methods to the analysis of natural language. CLASP is concerned both with understanding the cognitive foundations of language and developing efficient language technology. We work at the interface of computational linguistics/natural language processing, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive science.

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JOB OPENING: TACL EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
by dilek.iataslp＠gmail.com 21 May '24

21 May '24

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is seeking an Editorial Assistant for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), an ACL-sponsored journal published by MIT Press that publishes papers in all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing. This position provides an experience in the world of academic publishing and the peer-review process and a first-hand engagement with the most current and impactful work on computational linguistics. POSITION SUMMARY The Editorial Assistant will: - Manage the submission process using a web-based workflow management system (WMS) - Correspond with authors, in coordination with the Editors-in-Chief (EiC), regarding submissions of articles, revisions and possibility of presentation at ACL conferences for eligible papers - Correspond with action editors and reviewers, in coordination with the EiC, regarding submissions of reviews and decisions - Prepare monthly Activity Report for EiCs - Consult with EiCs when issues arise - Interact with the API developers and oversee updates to the WMS REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Candidates are required to have: - Strong organizational and time-management skills - Demonstrated attention to detail - Strong written communication skills - Knowledge and experience with using APIs The work is done remotely; interaction with the team of Editors-in-Chief, reviewers, and authors will be electronic. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Editorial Assistant is named on the masthead of each issue of TACL. The Editorial Assistant works under the direct supervision of the Editors-in-Chief. The start date of this position is June 1, 2024. The workload varies somewhat over the course of the journal’s annual cycle but averages approximately 20 hours weekly. To apply, submit a cover letter, CV/resume, and three references. If you have questions about this position or to submit an application, contact us via email at: editors-in-chief(a)transacl.org and roireichart(a)gmail.com.

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Last call for participation at the Third Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ LREC-Coling 2024
by Mariana Romanyshyn 20 May '24

20 May '24

We warmly welcome you to attend the third Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2024 <https://unlp.org.ua/>), held in conjunction with LREC-COLING 2024 <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/>! *When: *May 25, 2024, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM CET, in a hybrid format *What to expect:* - amazing keynote speakers — Ivan Vulić <https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=ZX8js60AAAAJ> (University of Cambridge), Vasyl Starko <https://scholar.google.be/citations?hl=uk&user=n3oDJtUAAAAJ> (Ukrainian Catholic University), and Andriy Rysin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriy-rysin-33a5161/> (Independent Researcher) - the latest datasets and tools for processing Ukrainian - findings from our shared task on Fine-Tuning LLMs for Ukrainian <https://github.com/unlp-workshop/unlp-2024-shared-task> - a comprehensive lineup of presentations about innovative uses of LLMs in the Ukrainian context - and much more! The full workshop program is available at https://unlp.org.ua/program/. *Registration* The General Chairs kindly offer free registration for the *remote* participation of people based in Ukraine! Register at https://forms.gle/bqrfP99GCTUnYLSC9. For non-Ukrainian folks, we welcome you to register through https://lrec-coling-2024.org/. *Like and Share* - X <https://x.com/UNLP_workshop/status/1780923178006544464> - Telegram <https://t.me/UNLP_workshop> - Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop/posts/pfbid02dcbzfLyiCGyBs4zCjToHX2C6…> - LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mariana-romanyshyn-b5896529_unlp-2024-regist…>

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SemDial 2024: EXTENDED Submission Deadline: June 2, 2024
by Raffaella Bernardi 20 May '24

20 May '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024 University of Trento, Italy https://tinyurl.com/3c7rracn TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series which aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Keynote speakers Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich and CEU, Vienna Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy # IMPORTANT DATES: * *EXTENDED* l*ong paper submission deadline: June 2, 2024* * Reviews due to: June 24, 2024 * Notification for long papers: July 1, 2024 * Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024 * Notification for short papers: July 17, 2024 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2024 * Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth"). #TOPICS We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: * the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue * common ground/mutual belief * goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * turn-taking and interaction control * semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * dialogue and discourse structure * categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * child-adult interaction * language learning through dialogue * gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * multimodal dialogue * interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * dialogue management * designing and evaluating dialogue systems * modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective * neuroscience of dialogue * Interactivist approaches to dialogue * animal communication # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for ACL. Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog Organizing Committee Raffaella Bernardi Vanessa Maria Caleca Jakub Szymanik Roberto Zamparelli Programme Committee Chairs Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento TrentoLogue is endorsed by SIGdial and SIGsem. ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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CFP: Special Track - Enhancing Online Safety and Wellbeing through AI (WISE 2024)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 19 May '24

19 May '24

**CFP Special Track: Enhancing Online Safety and Wellbeing through AI ** Are you passionate about leveraging AI for a safer, healthier digital world? Join us for an exciting special track that delves into how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) can transform online safety and user wellbeing. All accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Topics Include but not limited to: ---------------- - AI-driven user experience & safety - Detecting & mitigating online harassment - Mental health support via AI - Combating misinformation & fact-checking - Digital literacy & education - Ethical AI deployment - Advanced content moderation - Privacy & data security - Cyberbullying prevention - Empowering vulnerable populations - AI in emergency response - Community building - Regulatory & policy impacts Key Dates: ----------- - Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2024 - Acceptance Notification: 30 August, 2024 - Camera-Ready Submission: 07 September, 2024 For more details and to submit your papers, visit the Special Track Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/onlinesafetyandwellbeing/home Join us in advancing the dialogue on AI's role in creating a secure and empowering digital space! Organizers: ------------ - Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Firoj Alam, QCRI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (fialam(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Reem Suwaileh, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (rs081123(a)student.qu.edu.qa) - Venus Jin, Northwestern University Qatar (venus.jin(a)northwestern.edu) - Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (raali2(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Anis Charfi, Carnegie Mellon University (acharfi(a)andrew.cmu.edu) Submission Guidelines: ------------------------ - Papers should be in PDF format, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. - Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format, not exceeding 15 pages. - Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wise20240 We look forward to your contributions! ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Associate Professor in Digital Humanities* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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ICON 2024
by Asif Ekbal 19 May '24

19 May '24

Dear Colleague, Please disseminate the following. Best regards Asif ================================================================ *First Call for Papers- ICON 2024* The 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2024) will be held at AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India during December 19-22, 2024. The ICON Conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational linguistics (CL) in India and abroad. The main conference is from 20th December 2024 to 21st December 2024. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials / workshops on 19th December 2024 and one day of post conference shared tasks / tools / demos on 22nd December 2024. The papers published in ICON proceedings will be indexed in ACL Anthology. ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in Computational Linguistics for major international conferences under Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), which is one of the most well-known associations for NLP and CL. The previous proceedings of ICON 2014 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W14-51/>, ICON 2015 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W15-59/>, ICON 2016 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W16-63/>, ICON 2017 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W17-75/>, ICON 2019 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/icon-2019/> , ICON 2020 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/icon-2020/> , ICON 2021 and ICON 2022 can be found in ACL Anthology. *Call for Papers* Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research work on all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage submissions from all language families but special emphasis is given for South Asian languages and other less resourced languages, their issues and applications. The areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: Language Resources Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Discourse Machine Translation Large Language Models (LLMs) Interpretability and Explainability of NLP models Summarization Information Extraction Named Entity Recognition Sentiment and Emotion Analysis Question Answering Natural Language Generation Natural Language Understanding Information Retrieval Text Mining Multilingual systems Multimodality Dialogue Systems NLP for Digital Humanities Ethics in NLP NLP for Education Medical NLP NLP Language Documentation and Preservation Speech Recognition Speech Synthesis Video to Text Machine Learning Applications to NLP Cognitive Modeling Psycholinguistics Computational Social Science and Social Media. *Call for Tutorials / Workshops* Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of an extended abstract (1-2 pages) as per the ICON 2024 template (ACL template). This should contain a topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content. Proposals for Tutorial/Workshop can be submitted at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/WS-TUT-ICON2021/>. Send tutorial/workshop proposals to the ICON-2024 Secretariat by email to icon2024(a)gmail.com. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2024 Secretariat. *Call for Doctoral Consortium* The ICON organising committee is pleased to call for papers for the 3rd Doctoral Consortium. This event extends an opportunity for doctoral candidates to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion would include feedback on the evolution and progress of their research. It also helps them to identify the roadmap and additional studies, which could help refine the shape of their doctoral thesis. The doctoral consortium will be a one-day or half day event being organised on December 19, 2024, as part of the ICON-2024 conference. The applicants are required to submit a two-page extended abstract of their PhD research work. Submit your abstracts at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/Doc-Consort-ICON2021/>. The shortlisted candidates would be invited to the consortium where they are required to present a summary of their research. Each candidate will be given 30 minutes for the presentation, which will be followed by a discussion of 15 minutes, led by a panel of experts. Prospective doctoral students from language technologies related disciplines are invited to apply. The selection of participants will be based on the submitted abstracts. *Guidelines* The invitation is open to all participants of ICON 2024. The applicants are required to submit an extended two-page abstract on their ongoing doctoral research. The submission can be extended to a maximum of two pages including all text, figures and tables, plus an additional third page exclusively for references. The submissions must follow the ICON template provided in the author's kit. The abstracts may incorporate published and in-progress work from the authors. Submissions are expected to present a fair picture of the research undertaken towards the thesis. Participants are advised to refrain from submitting a shorter version of their conference papers. Submissions must have the participant as the sole author. Acknowledgements to their supervisors, supporting agencies/bodies, and contributors to the work, can be made in a separate section. The submission must highlight the following: The motivation of the research; Key issues identified/addressed; Major contributions; Methodologies, Experiments; Discussion of results; Future plans and Roadmap for the thesis. *Call for Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos* Proposals are invited for post-conference shared tasks / tools / demos. Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of an extended abstract (1-2 pages) as per the ICON 2024 template (ACL template). This should contain a topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the shared tasks / tools / demos content. Proposals for Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos can be submitted at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/Shared-Demo-ICON2021/>. Send shared task / tool / demo proposals to the ICON-2024 Secretariat by email to icon2024(a)gmail.com. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2024 Secretariat. *Important Dates* Event Date Paper Submission Deadline September 15, 2024 Paper Acceptance Notification November 1, 2024 Paper Camera Ready Paper Submission December 10, 2024 Doctoral Consortium Deadline October 1, 2024 Paper Acceptance Notification (Doctoral Consortium) November 10, 2024 Workshop Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Workshop Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Tutorial Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Tutorial Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Shared Task /Tool/ Demo Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Shared Task /Tool/ Demo Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Conference December 19-22, 2024 *Paper Submission Information* *Long Papers* Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) plus any no of pages for the references. *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 are: A small, focused contribution A negative result An opinion piece An interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given 5 content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions. *Instructions for Double-Blind Review* As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) .." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above ("Smith showed" rather than "we showed"). Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should be anonymized as well. *Authorship* The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author listed on a submission to ICON 2021 will be notified of submissions, revisions and the final decision. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made to submissions to ICON 2021 after the paper submission deadline. *Paper Submission and Templates* Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. The submission will be available here: The deadline for submission of both long and short papers is September 15, 2024 (GMT -12). Both long and short papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines> Style sheets (Latex, Word) are available here: https://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip The Overleaf template is also available here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrk… Please do 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. ====================================================================== -- Asif Ekbal Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Patna Email ids: asif@iitp.ac.in,asif.ekbal@gmail.com Ph no: +91-6115-2338090 <callto:+91-6115-2338090> (office), +91-8521274830 <callto:+91-8521274830> Web: http://www.iitp.ac.in/~asif/

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[Online Panel] Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil (May 24th, 3pm UK time)
by Carol Scarton 17 May '24

17 May '24

Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil Date: May 24, 2024, 3pm UK Location: Join the Zoom Meeting <http://join%20zoom%20meeting%20https//Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94995645…> Climate change and the increase in extreme climatic events present a pressing challenge globally. This panel focuses on the environmental, social, and economic ramifications of climate change in the recent floods in Southern Brazil. With over 2 million people and more than 90% of the region's municipalities affected, heavy rainfalls have disrupted both electricity and treated water supplies, closed the main airport for months and caused extensive damage to traffic on highways. A substantial impact on economic activity is expected. We discuss the role of science in monitoring and preventing these crises and in supporting emergency actions and reconstruction plans. Panellists include: - Márcia Barbosa <https://www.if.ufrgs.br/~barbosa/> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) - Rob Chadwick <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/rob-chadwick> (Met Office, UK) - Andrew Hartley <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/andrew-hartley> (Met Office, UK) - José Marengo <https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=uGuYY_gAAAAJ&hl=en> (National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Brazil) Moderator: Carolina Brito <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GS2zeM0AAAAJ&view_op=list_w…> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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ALT-EDIC seeks a Director
by info＠elda.org 17 May '24

17 May '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] ALT-EDIC seeks a Director who will lead the Alliance for Language Technologies – European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (ALT-EDIC). Application deadline (CET): 31^st May 2024, 12:00 CET Check the full description @ https://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/related-initiatives/alt-edic/alt-e…

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1st Call for Participation AthNLP 2024 - 2nd ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL
by A. Vlachos 17 May '24

17 May '24

1st Call for Participation AthNLP 2024 - 2nd ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL ============================================================== ** Application Deadline: June 20, 2024 ** Preliminary schedule: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/schedule.html ** CFP webpage: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html <https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html> ** Info for sponsors: see here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MuSzi7hvT7AwE_8bwhbIymh-ZWNq3noR/view?usp=…> We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to attend the 2nd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School - AthNLP 2024: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/ Important Dates --------------- * Application Deadline: June 20, 2024 * Decision: June 30, 2024 * Early Registration: July 30, 2024 * Late Registration: September 15, 2024 * Summer School: September 19-25, 2024 Description --------------- Following on from the success of the 1st AthNLP in 2019, AthNLP 2024 will take place at the campus of NCSR “Demokritos" in Athens and is organised jointly by NCSR "Demokritos", the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC "Athena", and Heriot-Watt University. AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS, taking place in Lisbon, in July 11-17. The school will cover a range of NLP topics focusing on machine learning (ML) methods. There will be morning lectures focusing on theoretical aspects, afternoon lab sessions focusing on implementation and experimentation, and evening talks on research topics and perspectives, as well as demos and posters from the participants and industry research labs. The lectures and the evening talks will be given by internationally recognized researchers from academic and industrial research labs. The topics to be covered include: classification, sequence prediction, linear models, neural networks, encoder-decoder architectures, machine translation, large language models, and multimodality. Our target audience is: * Researchers and students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics; * Computer scientists who have interests in natural language processing and machine learning; * Industry practitioners who desire a more in-depth understanding of these subjects. While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of natural language processing and machine learning. The only background required is basic mathematics and Python programming. Features of AthNLP: * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee. * Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing. * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks. * In the demo day, students will be able to interact with technical companies and research institutions working in machine learning. Confirmed Speakers --------------- * Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science * Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam * Ferenc Huszár, University of Cambridge * Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh * Ryan McDonald, ASAPP * Aida Nematzadeh, Google DeepMind * Vlad Niculae, University of Amsterdam * Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich * Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Participation ----------------- To apply, please fill the form here<https://openreview.net/group?id=demokritos.gr/NCSR_Demokritos/Athens_NLP/20…> on OpenReview. The fees are the following: 300 EUR for students 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute 500 EUR for everyone else Any questions should be directed to: athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organisers of AthNLP 2024

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Deadline Extension: LoResMT 2024 at ACL 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 17 May '24

17 May '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024) https://www.loresmt.org/ @ ACL 2024 (August 11–16, 2024) Bangkok, Thailand SUBMISSION https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT TIMELINE Paper submission due: *May 30 (**Thursday**)*, 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: June 24 (Monday), 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1 (Monday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Workshop dates at ACL: August 15, 2024 SCOPE Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 ( https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/), AMTA 2021, COLING 2022 and EACL 2023, we introduce the Seventh LoResMT Workshop at ACL 2024. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers on these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. TOPICS We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages - Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL 2024 style templates. Accepted papers will be published online in the ACL 2024 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at ACL 2024. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2024.aclweb.org/). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jindřich Libovicky, Charles University John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Rajdeep Sarkar, Yahoo Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University CONTACT Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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