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Multilingual text bank anywhere (same text translated to different languages?) . . .
by Albretch Mueller 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

wikipedia has a list, (notoriously without books in Russian): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_works_by_number_of_translati… gut they didn't include links to the actual source texts and their derivative translations lbrtchx

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CFP - Springer (Scopus Indexed) SPELLL 2022 - First International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages
by Thenmozhi D 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this email. *First Call for Papers Springer - SPELLL 2022 - 1st International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages23 – 25 November, 2022SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CHENNAI, INDIAURL: http://www.spelll.org/ <http://www.spelll.org/>* *Greetings!!!* *The Department of CSE, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India is organizing 1st International conference on **Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages (SPELLL - 2022**), during 23-25 November, 2022.* *We invite submissions of original, unpublished technical papers in the following tracks:* * Track 1: Language and Speech Resources - Lexicons and machine-readable dictionaries- Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics- Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation- Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data- Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications- Annotation, analysis, enrichment of text archivesTrack 2: Language Technologies - Code-mixing- Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics- Computer-assisted language learning - Covid-19 alert, NLP applications for emergency situations and crisis management- Equality, diversity, and inclusion for language technology- Fake news, spam, and rumour detection- Hate speech detection and offensive language detection- Machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization- Text and data mining for social sciences and humanities research- Text and data mining of (bio) medical literature, including pandemics- Knowledge representation and reasoning- Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis- Applications for language, data and knowledge- Question answering and semantic search- Text analytics on big data- Semantic content management- Computer-aided language learning- Natural language interfaces to big data- Knowledge-based NLPTrack 3: Speech Technologies - Speech technology and automatic speech recognition- Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation- Spoken language processing — translation, information retrieval, summarization resources and evaluation- Speaker verification and identification- Multimodal/multimedia speaker recognition and diarization- Analysis of speech and audio signals- Speech coding and enhancement- Speech recognition - architecture, search, and linguistic components- Speech, voice, and hearing disorders- Speech synthesis and spoken language generation- Cross-lingual and multilingual components for speech recognition / code switching- Dialect identificationTrack 4: Other Related Topics - Analysis of para-linguistics in speech and language- Multimodal analysis- Visualisation of social sciences and humanities research IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Due: July 30, 2022.- Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2022.- Camera Ready Submission: October 30, 2022.- Conference: November 23-25, 2022* *The conference accepts regular and short papers. Accepted papers that are presented at the conference will be included in the conference proceedings published in the Springer CCIS (*Communications in Computer and Information Science*) series. *Volumes published will be indexed in Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) - part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar and Scopus. Papers have to be submitted via https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/SPELLL2022 * For further details please visit our website: www.spelll.org <http://www.spelll.org/>* *We also request you to kindly circulate this among your peer research group.* *For any queries, feel free to contact the coordinators.* -- Dr. D.Thenmozhi Associate Professor / CSE SSN College of Engg OMR Road Kalavakkam - 603 110 -- ::DISCLAIMER:: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of SSN Institutions (SSN) or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of SSN is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Header of this mail should have a valid DKIM signature for the domain ssn.edu.in <http://www.ssn.edu.in/>

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Extended deadline: COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda
by Anna Feldman 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda Workshop website: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING-2022, Oct 12-17, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea *Submission deadline: August 5, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)* NLP4IF (http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are strictly controlled by censorship. The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following: Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website Detection of self-censorship; Identifying potentially censorable content; Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; Identification of hate speech and offensive language (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts Automatic generation of persuasive content Automatic debiasing of news content Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; Identity and private information detection; Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; Ethics in NLP; “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space; Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another COLING workshop at the time of submission will not be considered. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/NLP4IF Formatting requirements: https://coling2022.org/Submission Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 5, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2022 * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 * Workshop: co-located with COLING-2022, October 12-17, 2022

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Call for Abstracts - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics - Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023)
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 24 Jul '22

24 Jul '22

***** Call for Abstracts ***** NARNiHS 2023 ***** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics ***** Fifth Annual Meeting Despite the recent relaxation of global pandemic travel policies, travel concerns remain for many communities as of the summer of 2022. In light of these concerns, and in response to the positive feedback we have received concerning our recent all-online events, our NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting will once again be taking place as a **free, entirely online event**. This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us online for our Fifth Annual Meeting. ==> Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 19 September 2022, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ----- Call for Abstracts -----. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023), to take place Wednesday, January 4 - Sunday, January 8, 2023. Since NARNiHS is a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS 2023 will partially overlap with the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. The NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting, however, will be organized independently from the LSA Annual Meeting. ==> Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Monday, 19 September 2022, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. * Late abstracts will not be considered *. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for 20-minute presentations to be delivered "live" through an online video-conferencing platform. *** Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria ***. - explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; - sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; - clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will increase the likelihood of non-acceptance. *** General Requirements ***. 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/5THnarnihs2023 . 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 4) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 5) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 6) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Annual Meeting will be sent to authors in due time. 7) After acceptance, authors will be given an option to have their live presentation recorded during the meeting and archived for future online viewing. *** Abstract Format Guidelines ***. 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between "inability to anonymize completely" (due to the nature of the research) and "careless non-anonymizing" (for example: "In Jones 2021, I describe..."). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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Invitation to QUALICO 2023 conference, Switzerland
by Adam Pawłowski 23 Jul '22

23 Jul '22

Dear Colleagues, I include below an invitation to the conference QUALICO 2023. Best regards, Adam Pawłowski Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Institute of Information and Media Sciences Head of the Digital Humanities Lab Call for Papers Submission Deadline : January 8th, 2023 QUALICO 2023 Lausanne, Switzerland, June 28-30, 2023 https://www.unil.ch/qualico2023/ The 12th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 28-30, 2023. QUALICO 2023 is organized by the International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA) and the Department of Language and Information Sciences (SLI) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Topics All contributions relating to quantitative linguistics and text analysis are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions on: Descriptions of all aspects of language and text phenomena, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics, language typology, language acquisition, language evolution, usage-based approaches, information science, etc., insofar as they use quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic processes, differential and difference equations, multidimensional analysis, fuzzy logics and set theory, function theory, etc.). Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative linguistics to problems of natural language processing, text classification, stylistics, authorship attribution, language teaching, scientometrics, bibliometrics, text mining, language complexity and complex network analysis. Methods of linguistic measurement, model construction, sampling and test theory. Epistemological issues relevant to quantitative linguistics such as explanation of language and text phenomena, contributions to theory construction, systems theory, philosophy of science. Oral and Poster Sessions Presentations should be in English. Each paper will be allotted 30 minutes (20 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of discussion). There will also be a poster session. Multiple Works by the Same Author The maximum number of submissions by the same author or co-author is two papers. Submissions exceeding this threshold will be automatically deleted without notification. Submission of Abstracts The submission of an abstract will be via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qualico2023 Abstracts must be in English and should include keywords, authors affiliations and references. They should not exceed 500 words (excluding keywords, authors affiliations and references) and 2 pages all included. The requested format for submission is PDF. The deadline for submission is January 8th 2023, 11:59:59 pm (GMT). Notification of Acceptance Notification of acceptance will be sent to the contact author by February 28th 2023. Conference Volume We will invite authors of accepted abstracts to submit full papers for publication in the conference volume, which will be proposed for publication with a leading publisher. Participation Fees Participation fees must be paid before April 30th, 2023. The fees are: Regular: 250€ IQLA Member: 150€ Participation fees include: An abstract book for the conference. Conference volume of full papers. One lunch break meal voucher and 2 coffee break vouchers for every day. For participants interested in the special social event, an extra fee will be added (still to be determined). Conference Venue Anthropole, UNIL-Chamberonne. 1015 Chavannes-près-Renens, SWITZERLAND https://goo.gl/maps/d6QtQM2SCzRTutAG9 The conference will take place on-site unless the sanitary situation in June 2023 requires switching to a remote, online modality. Contact qualico2023(a)unil.ch For further details, visit the conference webpage: https://www.unil.ch/qualico2023/ Scientific Committee François Bavaud, University of Lausanne Radek Cech, University of Ostrava Xinying Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong University Sheila Embleton, York University Guillaume Guex, University of Lausanne Emmerich Kelih, University of Vienna Ján Mačutek, Slovak Academy of Sciences & Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Coline Métrailler, University of Lausanne George Mikros, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Hermann Moisl, University of Newcastle Adam Pawłowski, University of Wrocław Haruko Sanada, Rissho University Benjamin Storme, University of Lausanne Arjuna Tuzzi, University of Padua Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne Organizing Committee François Bavaud, Guillaume Guex, Coline Métrailler, Stéphanie Pichot, Benjamin Storme, and Aris Xanthos. Please read IQLA’s position regarding the war in Ukraine

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3rd CODI workshop: Deadline extension to July 28, 2022
by Chloé Braud 23 Jul '22

23 Jul '22

** apologies for cross-postings ** CODI, 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse Gyeongju, Republic of Korea ** Submission deadline: Extension to July 28, 2022 ** * Important information: The CODI workshop will be a hybrid workshop following COLING’s format. The workshop will take place on October 16-17, 2022. * Aims and scope The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. At this juncture, we have organized two Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020 and at EMNLP 2021 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. The 3rd CODI workshop is planned as a 1 1/2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2021 the shared task on coreference resolution (encompassing entity and abstract coreference and bridging anaphora) in dialogue will be held again in 2022 as the CODI-CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Anaphora, Bridging, and Discourse Deixis in Dialogue, next to the CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. Topics of interest We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * discourse structure * discourse connectives * discourse relations * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena * discourse parsing * cross-lingual discourse processing * cross-domain discourse processing * anaphora and coreference resolution * event coreference * argument mining * coherence modeling * discourse and semantics * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. * evaluation methodology for discourse processing Submissions We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be notified at submission. Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the COLING 2022 formatting instructions described here: https://coling2022.org/Submission Please submit your workshop papers at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CODI/ Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages. Important dates * 2022-07-25 --> 2022-07-28: CODI papers due * 2022-08-03: Reviewing period * 2022-08-24: Reviews due * 2022-09-01: Notification of acceptance * 2022-09-12: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2022-10-16 – 2022-10-17: CODI workshopAll deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Invited Speakers * Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh Organizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown UniversityTo contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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[Job] Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d) in NLP, TrustHLT research group, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by ivan.habernal＠tu-darmstadt.de 22 Jul '22

22 Jul '22

# Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d) in Natural Language Processing, TrustHLT research group, TU Darmstadt, Germany The independent research group Trustworthy Human Language Technologies (TrustHLT) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany has a job opening for a **Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d)** in the recently acquired project “PrivaLingo: Truly Privacy-Preserving Machine Translation” by Dr. Ivan Habernal. This position will focus on a broad range of research questions related to privacy-preserving NLP models with a special focus on neural machine translation. A solid background in machine learning for natural language processing is essential, prior experience with differential privacy in model training is a plus. Wages and salaries are based on the collective agreement applicable to the TU Darmstadt (TV-TU Darmstadt). The starting date is as soon as possible, the position is funded for 2 years. Candidates The ideal candidate holds a PhD degree in computer science, computational linguistics, machine learning, or a related discipline, has a strong interest in privacy in natural language processing, excellent analytical and programming skills, is a team player, and is fluent in English. Diversity TU Darmstadt is strongly committed to diversity and particularly welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups. Applications from female candidates are highly encouraged. Team TrustHLT is an independent research group led by Dr. Ivan Habernal, appointed at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt. The group conducts research in the field of natural language processing with a focus on privacy-preserving technologies and legal argumentation, see www.trusthlt.org for more details. The Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt regularly ranks among the top in Germany. ## Application Please send your detailed CV including a publication list, names of two referees, and a letter of motivation outlining your research interests to ivan.habernal(a)tu-darmstadt.de, subject: “Postdoc application PrivaLingo”. Send all documents as a single PDF (“PDF Arranger” is a helpful tool, for instance). Please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Habernal should you have any further questions. Deadline for applications is August 5, 2022. Applications arriving after the deadline will still be considered if the position is not filled yet.

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[Job] Postdoctoral fellow: Georgetown University Neuroscience of Language training program (Washington, DC)
by Nathan Schneider 22 Jul '22

22 Jul '22

Sharing on behalf of colleagues—note that applicants may come from a variety of fields! See contact info at the bottom of the ad. Postdoctoral fellow: Georgetown University Neuroscience of Language training program (Washington, DC) Georgetown University’s new Neuroscience of Language T32 training program <https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/neuro-lang> is seeking postdoctoral fellows. The Neuroscience of Language program provides training in the brain basis of language, as well as sensory, motor, and cognitive systems as they pertain to language and communication. Georgetown has a number of faculty focused on Neuroscience of Language research, ranging from basic work on auditory or language processing (spoken, signed, and written language) to clinical trials in adults and children with brain injuries affecting language. Interactions with Georgetown’s highly regarded Linguistics Department, as well as Children’s National Hospital and MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, provide us with access to additional faculty and research populations and further enrich the training environment. Individuals with doctoral degrees from any field related to Neuroscience of Language (Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Communication Disorders, etc.) are encouraged to apply. Fellows will be supported for two years and will develop an individualized training plan to provide expertise across disciplines important to Neuroscience of Language research. Fellows will take coursework as needed and will participate in a regular journal club and seminar series, clinical experiences, community engagement activities, and professional development activities, in addition to conducting research in the neuroscience of language. The overall goal of the program is to develop well-rounded scientists who have a broad perspective on basic and clinical Neuroscience of Language. Fellows will work with one or more of the following investigators: Drs. Thomas Coate, Guinevere Eden, Rhonda Friedman, William Gaillard, Anna Greenwald, Xiong Jiang, Elissa Newport, Josef Rauschecker, Max Riesenhuber, Ella Striem-Amit, Ted Supalla, Peter Turkeltaub, and Michael Ullman. Collaborations among our faculty are common and a strength of our program. Appointments are funded at standard NIH NRSA stipend rates, with an initial one-year term to be renewed for an additional year if fellows meet the program requirements. U.S. citizens or permanent residents who currently hold a doctoral degree or will have met all doctoral program requirements before starting the program are eligible to apply. Individuals from groups recognized to be underrepresented in the sciences are encouraged to apply <http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/>. Please submit the following application materials via the application form <https://forms.gle/eEBab9cYSGwYYmrk7>. - CV - Personal statement describing career goals, prior research, goals for postdoctoral training, and lab(s) of interest (3 pages) - Names and contact information for three references - Writing sample (manuscript or dissertation) Contact Dr. Peter Turkeltaub (peter.turkeltaub(a)georgetown.edu) with any questions about the program or eligibility. Contact Rachel Galginaitis ( rg1171(a)georgetown.edu) with questions about the application process. -- Nathan Schneider Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Georgetown University http://nathan.cl

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Shared Task on Dialect Identification
by Salam Khalifa 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hello All, We are pleased to announce the *Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI)* shared task as part of the Workshop on Arabic NLP WANLP2022 <https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp2022/>. *Summary:* Arabic has a widely varying collection of dialects. Many of these dialects remain under-studied due to the rarity of resources. The goal of the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task series is to alleviate this bottleneck by providing datasets and modeling opportunities for participants to carry out dialect identification. Dialect identification is the task of automatically detecting the source variety of a given text or speech segment. In addition to nuanced dialect identification at the country level, NADI 2022 also offers a new subtask focused on country-level sentiment analysis. While we invite participation in either of the two subtasks, we hope that teams will submit systems to both tasks (i.e., participate in the two tasks rather than only one task). By offering two subtasks, we hope to receive systems that exploit diverse machine learning architectures. This could include multi-task learning systems as well as sequence-to-sequence architectures in a single model such as the text-to-text Transformer. Other approaches could also be possible. We introduce the two subtasks next. *Organizers:* Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, Abdelrahim Elmadany, Nizar Habash, and Houda Bouamor. To find more information about the shared task please visit: https://nadi.dlnlp.ai/ Looking forward to your participation, Salam Khalifa (On behalf of the WANLP publicity chairs) -- *Salam Khalifa* *PhD Student* *Linguistics Department* *Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS)* *Stony Brook University* salam.khalifa(a)stonybrook.edu

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CfP: Special Issue of RiCL on spoken corpora
by Robbie Love 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Dear colleagues You may be interested to know that I am guest editing a special issue of the Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL) journal on "Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora". The deadline for proposals is in October. Please find more information below. If this is of interest to you and you would like to discuss any ideas you may have, then please don't hesitate to email me directly. Best wishes Robbie *** Corpora derived from recordings of spoken language present unique challenges for linguists, from the perspectives of corpus design, compilation, processing and analysis, among others. Over the last few decades, there have been many developments in these areas, largely driven by technological innovations, for example: the ubiquity of digital recording devices for the easy capture of speech; the wide availability of video and audio data, from a variety of discourse contexts; advancements in automated transcription; developments in the exploitation of multimodal corpora; and advancements in the functionality of popular corpus tools to process highly-annotated corpora. This special issue of RiCL intends to capture recent innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora - both monomodal and multimodal - and highlight the current challenges and future opportunities in this area of study. Potential topics for the special issue include innovations in: * The design of (monomodal or multimodal) spoken corpora in a variety of domains * The collection, processing and exploitation of metadata (e.g. social variables, contextual variables, etc.) * The transcription of audio or audio-visual data * The analysis of spoken corpora, including but not limited to: theoretical frameworks, tool development, visualisation * The generation of knowledge about language and communication deriving from spoken corpora * The annotation and processing of spoken corpus data * The applications and impacts of spoken corpus analysis * The compilation and analysis of spoken corpora in lesser-studied language varieties This is an indicative and non-exhaustive list. To be clear, research on any language variet(y/ies) is welcome. If you have an idea but are not sure whether it would be suitable, please get in touch. Important Dates * Deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022 * Outcome of proposal review: October 28, 2022 * Deadline for manuscript first drafts: May 5, 2023 * Notification of reviewer outcome: September 1, 2023 * Deadline for manuscript final drafts: December 15, 2023 Special issue publication: Spring 2024 Proposal Format & Submission Submit a one-page abstract and tentative title for your proposed paper. The abstract should introduce the topic, motivate the study, summarise the methods and (where appropriate) describe the data to be analysed. Preliminary results are welcome but not required (i.e. we will consider proposals based on planned but not yet completed research). Please also include your name(s) and full contact information. Submit your proposal to Robbie Love (r.love(a)aston.ac.uk<mailto:r.love@aston.ac.uk>). RiCL's submission guidelines can be found at: https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions Peer Review All accepted manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review. Dr Robbie Love FHEA (he/him) Lecturer in English Language Director of Undergraduate English Programmes [cid:image001.png@01D89D20.AF468BA0] Department of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics, NW914A Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK aston.ac.uk @lovermob<https://twitter.com/lovermob>

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