Exciting Opportunity for Summer 2024 NLP Internship at Ulster University!
Are you passionate about Natural Language Processing (NLP) and eager to
join a cutting-edge team at Ulster University? We're thrilled to announce
an internship opportunity for our Core NLP team, and we're looking for
enthusiastic individuals to join us.
Key Details:
1. Duration: 2.5 months, remote mode, from mid-May to July 2024. Open to
graduates from both 2024 and 2025.
2. Focus: You'll be involved in building data pipelines, cleaning,
processing, and analyzing diverse datasets.
3. Requirements: Prior hands-on experience with Machine Learning frameworks
and models is essential.
4. Responsibilities: You'll contribute to the design, training,
integration, testing, and optimization of NLP (LLMs) and ML models.
5. Bonus Skills:Experience with LLM finetuning, RAG-based methods, and
deployments is highly desirable.
How to Apply:
If you're excited about research and scientific dissemination and meet the
qualifications above, we'd love to hear from you! Please apply directly
through the link
https://forms.gle/Unah7Nt522KcDYoC6
The University of Amsterdam invites applications for postdoctoral positions
on the intersection of ML, NLP, and Computer Vision. The research is
funded by NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) grant of Ivan Titov (
http://ivan-titov.org/). The postdocs and PhD students will be employed by
the University of Amsterdam and will be members of the Institute for Logic,
Language, and Computation <https://www.illc.uva.nl/> and the Faculty of
Science. The collaboration is envisaged with researchers at the University
of Amsterdam (e.g., Efstratios Gavves, and Wilker Aziz), as well as at the
University of Edinburgh (e.g., Edoardo Ponti, Hakan Bilen, Sidharth N.,
Pasquale Minervini and Kenny Smith).
The research will focus primarily on the following directions (or their
intersections):
1) Modular and decentralized learning in multimodal settings
2) Learning from language in grounded settings: exploiting knowledge
embedded in language and language models to help solve decision-making
applications and produce generalizable and interpretable models for these
tasks
3) Emergent communication and collaboration: developing agents, which learn
to communicate with each other to solve problems, while
maintaining transparency to humans and improving with human feedback.
*Application deadline: May 31, 2024*
https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/14960/Two-Pos…
<https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/14960/Two-Pos…>
For informal enquiries please contact: Ivan Titov (titov(a)uva.nl)
Ivan is attending ICLR, so please feel free to connect with him for a
discussion.
<https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/14960/Two-Pos…>
<https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/14960/Two-Pos…>
Call for Participation: The 4th Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems
(HumEval’24)
Date: 21 May 2024 (full day)
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin, Italy
Registration
Registration is mandatory for attending the workshop. Find more info about
registration on the LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/
Workshop description
Human evaluation plays a central role in NLP, from the large-scale
crowd-sourced evaluations to the much smaller experiments routinely
encountered in conference papers. Yet there is growing unease about how
human evaluations are conducted in NLP. Researchers have pointed out the
less-than-perfect experimental and reporting standards that prevail (van
der Lee et al., 2019 <https://aclanthology.org/W19-8643/>; Gehrmann et al.,
2023 <https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/13715/26927>), and
that low-quality evaluations with crowdworkers may not correlate well with
high-quality evaluations with domain experts (Freitag et al., 2021
<https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.87>). Only a small proportion of
papers provide enough detail for reproduction of human evaluations, and in
many cases the information provided is not even enough to support the
conclusions drawn (Belz et al., 2023
<https://aclanthology.org/2023.insights-1.1>).
The HumEval workshop (previously at EACL 2021, ACL 2022, and RANLP 2023)
aim to create a forum for current human evaluation research and future
directions, a space for researchers working with human evaluations to
exchange ideas and begin to address the issues human evaluation in NLP
faces in many respects, including experimental design, meta-evaluation and
reproducibility.
Programme
Find the detailed programme on the workshop website:
https://humeval.github.io/2024/programme
Invited speakers
Mark Diaz (Google Research)
Sheila Castilho (ADAPT/DCU)
Organising Committee
Simone Balloccu, Charles University, CZ
Anya Belz, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rudali Huidrom, Dublin City University, Ireland
Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK
João Sedoc, New-York University
Craig Thomson, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
For questions and comments regarding the workshop please contact Simone
Balloccu at balloccu(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz and humeval.ws(a)gmail.com.
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Kind regards, Simone Balloccu.
International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024)
Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 (https://nettt-conference.com/)
Call for ‘Last minute results’ submissions
In view of the special track of the NeTTT'24 event on Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI and the latest dynamic developments with LLMs, we would like to call on researchers and users/companies to submit ‘‘Last minute results” of ongoing studies in the form of short 4-to-page submissions (The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only). The idea is to fast-track the reviewing process for these submissions so that the results presented at the event are as up-to-date as possible.
The presentations can be either in oral or poster format.
Submission deadline: 5 June 2024
Notification: 12 June 2024
Submission is done via the Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024.
We invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates:
* LaTeX<https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…>,
* Overleaf<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Overleaf_Springer_C…>,
* Word<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Word_splnproc2311.p…>.
Registration
Conference registration is open on https://nettt-conference.com/fees-registration/
Venue
The conference will take place at Conference Hotel Cherno More<https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/conference-centre.html>, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach.
Further information and contact details
The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com<https://nettt-conference.com/> and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettt2024@nettt-conference.com>
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Fifth Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing
Bangkok, Thailand, on August 16, 2024
https://genderbiasnlp.talp.cat/
Final Call for Papers and Updated Dates
Gender bias, among other demographic biases (e.g. race, nationality, religion), in machine-learned models is of increasing interest to the scientific community and industry. Models of natural language are highly affected by such biases, which are present in widely used products and can lead to poor user experiences. There is a growing body of research into improved representations of gender in NLP models. Key example approaches are to build and use balanced training and evaluation datasets (e.g. Webster et al., 2018), and to change the learning algorithms themselves (e.g. Bolukbasi et al., 2016). While these approaches show promising results, there is more to do to solve identified and future bias issues. In order to make progress as a field, we need to create widespread awareness of bias and a consensus on how to work against it, for instance by developing standard tasks and metrics. Our workshop provides a forum to achieve this goal.
Topics of interest
We invite submissions of technical work exploring the detection, measurement, and mediation of gender bias in NLP models and applications. Other important topics are the creation of datasets, identifying and assessing relevant biases or focusing on fairness in NLP systems. Finally, the workshop is also open to non-technical work addressing sociological perspectives, and we strongly encourage critical reflections on the sources and implications of bias throughout all types of work.
In addition this year we are organising a Shared Task on Gender Bias Machine Translation evaluation.
Paper Submission Information
Submissions will be accepted as short papers (4-6 pages) and as long papers (8-10 pages), plus additional pages for references, following the ACL 2024 guidelines. Supplementary material can be added, but should not be central to the argument of the paper. Blind submission is required.
Each paper should include a statement which explicitly defines (a) what system behaviors are considered as bias in the work and (b) why those behaviors are harmful, in what ways, and to whom (cf. Blodgett et al. (2020)). More information on this requirement, which was successfully introduced at GeBNLP 2020, can be found on the workshop website. We also encourage authors to engage with definitions of bias and other relevant concepts such as prejudice, harm, discrimination from outside NLP, especially from social sciences and normative ethics, in this statement and in their work in general.
Non-archival option
The authors have the option of submitting research as non-archival, meaning that the paper will not be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work and format as archival submissions.
Updated dates:
May 24, 2024: Workshop Paper Due Date
June 21, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
July 5, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
August 16, 2024: Workshop Dates
Keynote Speakers.
Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland and Microsoft Research NYC
Organizers.
Christine Basta, Alexandria University
Marta R. Costa-jussà, FAIR, Meta,
Agnieszka Falénska, University of Stuttgart
Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Cohere
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
The Department of Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen is
offering a Postdoc position in Natural Language Processing/Computational
Linguistics*,* with a start date of *1 September 2024* or as soon as
possible. The *application deadline is 31* *May** 2024.* Applications for
the position can be submitted via ITU job portal
<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181…>
.
*Proposed project title: *Efficiency and Robustness in Language Model
Pre-training
*Proposed project description.* Recent generative systems based on
pre-trained language models are remarkably fluent, but this is achieved by
extreme volumes of computation and training data. This means not only high
energy costs, but also training on data that is problematic in various
ways: copyright, harmful social stereotypes, non-representative sampling,
misinformation, junk SEO texts, pornography, and contamination with NLP
datasets used for evaluation.
This project will create an ambitious resource for research on transfer
learning, in which pre-training data is held constant, and evaluation takes
into account how much similar data was observed in training, and in what
ways it was similar. This resource will encourage the development of more
efficient and robust approaches, since it will not be possible to improve
benchmark scores by simply training on more data.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Computational
Linguistics/Natural Language Processing and experience developing NLP
resources, as well as core skills in programming in Python and machine
learning.
The position is funded for 1 year, and it is our intention to find
additional funding to extend this postdoc to a 2- or 3-year position.
Besides research, the postdoc will gain experience with organization of an
international workshop and shared task and build up their international
network. For those interested in pursuing an academic career, it is also
possible to:
- gain experience in applying for external funding with professional
support (either for the continuation of the postdoc’s own position, e.g.
Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship, or by contributing to PI’s grant
proposals);
- supervise Master students solo, and/or assist in supervising a PhD
student;
- undertake a formal teacher training program, including teaching guest
lectures in the relevant data science courses at the ITU computer science
department.
The successful candidate will be a member of the national Pioneer Centre
for Artificial Intelligence <https://aicentre.dk/>, a 5-university Danish
research endeavor, and of the NLPnorth <https://nlpnorth.github.io/>research
group at the IT University’s Computer Science Department. Both the centre
and research group are highly international and well-funded, working on a
broad range of research topics.
The project will be supervised by Associate Professor Anna Rogers
<https://annargrs.github.io/> (arog(a)itu.dk), to whom inquiries about the
project can be directed. The candidates attending LREC/COLING 2024 are
welcome to reach out and set up a meeting during the conference.
--
Best regards,
Anna Rogers
Associate Professor
IT University of Copenhagen
http://annargrs.github.io/
*** Last Call for Papers ***
ACM 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
(GoodIT''24)
Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future
https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/
( *** Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024 ***)
SCOPE
Exploring the development of our digital future requires a comprehensive examination of both
individual and societal consequences. Placing excessive emphasis on individual gains, a
common practice in individualistic societies for many years, has hindered the ability to grasp
the complex dynamics and forward-thinking mindset essential for the sustainability of a
contemporary society.
The evolving landscape of technology and the ongoing digital advancements have paved the
way for creative applications in the field of education, allowing us to adapt to the
ever-changing circumstances. When shaping a new approach for Information Systems and
Information Technology education, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of individuals
as key stakeholders and integral members of the wider community, while also recognizing the
pivotal role of collaboration.
In this track, we are searching for papers employing innovative technology and approaches to
educate the future generation towards world equality, collegiality, inclusion and a more
cooperative learning for a sustainable digital future. Values which are emphasized in the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which overall aim towards creating a more equitable,
sustainable, and peaceful world.
This track is particularly relevant to IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who
care about developing a sustainable digital future.
TOPICS
Potential topics for papers include (but are not limited to):
• Sustainable and innovative education technologies and practices
• Universal access to quality education
• The new role for IS/IT in society and education and the value of information and knowledge
• The role of cooperative learning for life-long learning and societal developments
• Digital transformation: opportunities and challenges for education, work, and society
• Digital learning environments: Innovations and trends
• Equality, diversity, and inclusion in education, work, and society
• The use of large language models and generative AI in education
• New topics and domains in IT-enhanced education
We hope to attract the interest of IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care
about developing a sustainable digital future.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please refer to the instructions on the conference web site:
https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/submission-of-papers/ .
All accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library .
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission deadline: 17 May 2024 (AoE)
• Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2024
• Camera ready: 19 July 2024
TRACK CHAIRS
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Vasso Stylianou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
CONTACT DETAILS
Vasso Stylianou, stylianou.v(a)unic.ac.cy
Saarland University, Germany, is a campus university with an
international focus and a strong research profile. With
numerous internationally respected research institutes on campus and
dedicated support for collaborative
projects, Saarland University is an ideal environment for innovation and
technology transfer. The German
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ﴾DFKI﴿ is Germany's leading
application‐driven research institute
with a core technology transfer mission. DFKI is currently the world's
largest research centre for artificial
intelligence operated as a public‐private partnership. DFKI maintains
close collaborative ties with national
and international companies and is firmly rooted in the worldwide
scientific AI landscape.
To further strengthen this excellence in research and teaching, the
Department of Language Science and
Technology ﴾LST﴿ in collaboration with the German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence ﴾DFKI﴿ is inviting
applications for the following position:
Professorship (W3) in Language Technology
(m/f/x; Reference: W2464)
This position is a permanent public sector appointment ﴾equivalent to a
'full‐tenured professorship'﴿ starting
at the earliest possible opportunity. We are looking for an experienced
researcher in the field of language
technology who has extensive knowledge of natural language processing
and machine learning/AI
methodologies. Experience with dialogue systems and reinforcement
learning, the development of
foundation models and/or trustworthy Artificial Intelligence is also
desirable. In addition to holding a
professorship at the university, the successful candidate will also be
appointed as a scientific director at the
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ﴾DFKI﴿ where they
will head a research department. DFKI is
an application‐driven research organization that is largely financed
through external project funding. A
demonstrated ability to attract significant external funding for
research projects at the national and
international level is therefore essential. We also expect candidates to
have experience in interdisciplinary
research and in collaborating with industrial partners. The Department
of Language Science and Technology
is internationally recognized for its collaborative and
interdisciplinary research, and the successful candidate
will be expected to contribute to relevant joint research initiatives.
Language technologies are core elements
of our study programmes at the M.Sc./M.A. and B.Sc./B.A. level and the
person appointed will teach courses
within these programmes.
What we can offer you:
The successful candidate will conduct world‐class research, lead their
own research group at the university
and perform teaching and supervisory duties at the undergraduate,
graduate and doctoral levels. At DFKI,
the person appointed will lead a research department with access to an
extensive worldwide network of
industrial and other research partners, facilitating research and impact
at a scale that is otherwise difficult to
achieve. The position offers excellent working conditions in a lively
and international scientific community.
Saarland University is one of the leading centres for language science
and computational linguistics in
Europe and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The
Department of Language Science
and Technology ﴾LST﴿ employs about 100 research staff across nine
research groups in the fields of
computational linguistics, natural language processing,
psycholinguistics, phonetics and speech science,
speech processing, and corpus linguistics
(https://www.uni‐saarland.de/en/department/lst.html). The
department serves as the focal point of the Collaborative Research
Centre 1102 'Information Density and
Linguistic Encoding' (http://www.sfb1102.uni‐saarland.de) and of the
Research Training Group 'Neuroexplicit
Models of Language, Vision, and Action'
(https://www.neuroexplicit.org/), both of which involve close
collaboration with DFKI. The LST department and the DFKI are both part
of the Saarland Informatics Campus
(SIC: https://saarland‐informatics‐campus.de/en), which brings together
some 800 researchers and over
2000 students from 81 countries. SIC is a collaboration between Saarland
University and world‐class research
institutions on campus, which in addition to DFKI include the Max Planck
Institute for Informatics and the
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
Qualifications:
The appointment will be made in accordance with the general provisions
of German public sector
employment law. Candidates must have experience in and an aptitude for
academic teaching. They will have
a PhD or doctorate in an appropriate subject and will have demonstrated
a particular capacity for
independent academic research, typically by having obtained an advanced,
post‐doctoral research degree ﴾
Habilitation﴿ or by having published an equivalent volume of
peer‐reviewed research or by having been
appointed to a junior professorship or similar position. They will have
a proven track record of leading their
own research group and of acquiring external research funding. The
successful candidate will be expected to
actively contribute to departmental research and teaching. The language
of instruction is English ﴾in the
M.Sc. and M.A. programmes﴿ and German ﴾in the B.Sc./B.A. programmes﴿. We
expect the successful
candidate either to have sufficient proficiency to teach in both
languages or to be willing to acquire this
level of proficiency within an appropriate period.
Your Application:
Applications should be submitted online at
www.uni-saarland.de/berufungen. No additional paper copy is
required. The application must contain:
• a letter of application and CV/résumé (including your telephone number
and email
address)
• a complete list of your academic publications
• a complete list of external funding (stating own share if you were not
the sole beneficiary)
• your proposed research concept (2–5 pages)
• your teaching concept (1 page)
• copies of your degree certificates
• complete copies of your five most significant publications
• the names of three academic references (including email addresses), at
least one of whom is not one of
your previous academic supervisors.
• If you hold a university degree from a foreign university, please
provide proof of equivalence from
Germany's Central Office for Foreign Education ﴾ZAB﴿ if available. If
proof of equivalence has not been
requested at the time of application, it must be submitted later upon
request.
Applications must be received no later than May 30, 2024.
Please include the job reference number W2464 when you apply. Selected
candidates will be interviewed. If
you have any questions, please contact: crocker(a)lst.xn--unisaarland-nf3f.de.
At Saarland University, we view internationalization as a process
spanning all aspects of university life. We
therefore expect members of our professorial staff to engage in
activities that promote and foster further
internationalization. Special support will be provided for projects that
maintain collaborative interactions
within existing international cooperative networks, e.g. projects with
partners in the European University
Alliance Transform4Europe (www.transform4europe.eu) or the University of
the Greater Region (www.uni‐
gr.eu)
Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with
its affirmative action policy,
Saarland University is actively seeking to increase the proportion of
women in this field. Qualified women
candidates are therefore strongly encouraged to apply. Preferential
consideration will be given to
applications from disabled candidates of equal eligibility. We welcome
applications regardless of nationality,
ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation and
identity.
When you submit a job application to Saarland University you will be
transmitting personal data. Please refer
to our privacy notice
(https://www.uni-saarland.de/verwaltung/datenschutz/) for information on
how we
collect and process personal data in accordance with Art. 13 of the
General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). By submitting your application, you confirm that you have taken
note of the information in the
Saarland University privacy notice.
Apologies for cross-postings!
** Please forward to anyone who might be interested **
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics
(ACLing2024)
September 21-22, 2024 (Hybrid Conference)
Brochure: http://acling.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ACLing24_CFP.pdf
Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER (
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science)
Website: https://acling.org/
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* IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission deadline: 31 May 2024 (Extended and Final)
* Notification of Acceptance: 21 June 2024
* Registration: 25 June 2024
* Camera ready version submission: 14 July 2024
* Conference Date: 20 – 21 September 2024
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INTRODUCTION
With the recent advances in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL)
brought on by rapid developments in neural models, the goal of this
conference is to focus on the application of AI/ML in NLP and CL. The
ACLing 2024 aims to bring together leading academicians, scientists,
researchers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange new ideas
and the latest results in Computational Linguistics and NLP; a field that
has become increasingly important. The scope of the conference encompasses
the theory and practice of all aspects of AI/ML in Computational
Linguistics. The British University in Dubai has been chosen to organize
the ACLing2024 conference because it has a mission for establishing itself
as a provider of world class scholarship, education and research.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
ACLing2024 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit their
papers on recent, unpublished research that addresses theoretical and
practical aspects, algorithms, and architectures of Natural Language
Processing systems. Papers describing the creation of resources, as well as
survey and discussion papers, are also welcomed.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Large Language Models and their applications
* Information Retrieval and Question Answering
* Information Extraction
* Linguistic Theories and Resources
* Language Modeling
* Speech and Multimodality
* Machine Learning, Text Categorization, and Text Mining
* Machine Translation
* Multilinguality and Cross-linguality
* NLP Applications
* Segmentation, Tagging, and Parsing
* Semantics
* Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
* Web, Social Media and Computational Social Science
* Natural Language Generation
* Text Categorization and Topic Modeling
* Text Mining
* Language and Vision
* AI applications in Computational linguistics
HOW TO SUBMIT
We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not
currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions
should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format
described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/. All
submissions should be written in English and submitted as PDF. Submissions
will be peer reviewed by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria
will include correctness, originality, technical strength, significance,
quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference
attendees. All the submissions should be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acling2024
* Long papers: 8 pages including including figures, tables and references.
* Short papers: 4 pages including including figures, tables and references.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
* Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan, The British University of Dubai, UAE
* Prof. Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt
* INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT (web sources):
* Abstracting and indexing:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig…
* Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801?origin=sbrowse
* CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801?origin=sbrowse
* SJR (scimago):
https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid
* ACLingy by Google Citation:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en
* ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html
FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS
* Visit the conference website link https://acling.org/ (will be updated on
a regular basis).
* For further information, please contact us at ACLing2024(a)gmail.com