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PhD positions in Computational Linguistics, University of Manitoba
by Tristan Miller 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

The Computational Linguistics at Manitoba (CLAM) Lab [1] at the University of Manitoba [2] is offering funded PhD positions starting in 2025 for the following research topics: 1. Computational humour, with a focus on validation of linguistic theories of humour, translation of humour, and/or classification of aggressive humour. 2. Historical born-digital corpora, with a focus on constructing and analyzing structured, annotated text corpora from Usenet or other pre-Web archives. 3. Indigenous language technology, with a focus on developing digital resources for text processing, writing, typesetting, and/or language revitalization. We are seeking highly motivated candidates with a strong interest in linguistically informed approaches to these topics. ROLE DESCRIPTION Successful candidates will pursue a doctoral degree in the Computer Science [3] or Individual Interdisciplinary Studies [4] program while working as a graduate research assistant. In these roles, and supported by their supervisor(s), they will design and carry out scientific experiments, construct and analyze text corpora or other data sets, develop and publish research software, collaborate with local and international researchers, and write papers for high-quality journals and conferences. The prospective starting date is September 2025. QUALIFICATIONS Required: * A research-based Master's degree in computer science or a related discipline, together with a strong background in (computational) linguistics or natural language processing. (Candidates with a Master's degree in linguistics and strong technical and programming skills may also be considered.) * Fulfillment of the admission requirements for the Computer Science PhD program or the Individual Interdisciplinary Studies PhD program. * Ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Highly desirable: * Past research publications in computer science or linguistics * Knowledge of any of the following: * theories of verbal humour or verbal aggression * text corpora * history of computing (pre-WWW) * language tools and resources (dictionaries, wordnets, parsers, etc.) * an indigenous language (particularly one of the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Dene, or Métis people) ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA The University of Manitoba [2] is consistently ranked among the top research-intensive universities in Canada [5]. Its strong and rapidly growing Department of Computer Science [6] advances research at the frontiers of artificial intelligence, human–computer interaction, autonomous agents, and other areas, with a track record of interdisciplinary and industry collaboration. Winnipeg [7], the sixth-largest city in Canada, and one of the most livable [8], boasts a vibrant, multicultural community and ample opportunities for sport, leisure, and entertainment. It is home to internationally renowned festivals, galleries, and museums; the historic Exchange District and The Forks; and ever-expanding research, education, and business sectors. From the Hudson Bay waters, across the farmland fields, to the pulse of the cities and towns, the province of Manitoba [9] has 100,000 lakes, 92 provincial parks, winding river valleys, and storied prairie skies. HOW TO APPLY Send the following to Dr. Tristan Miller [10] at Tristan.Miller(a)umanitoba.ca: * Your curriculum vitae * Copies of your degree certificates and transcripts * A copy of your Master's thesis and any academic publications * A cover e-mail that summarizes your interest in and aptitude for one of the three research topics above, with specific reference to your background and to any relevant projects or publications you were involved in. Applications will be accepted until December 1, 2024 or until the positions are filled. Applications are particularly encouraged from those who are women, non-binary, indigenous, or members of other underrepresented groups. Only those candidates who are shortlisted for an interview will be contacted. [1] https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ [2] https://www.umanitoba.ca/ [3] https://umanitoba.ca/explore/programs-of-study/computer-science-phd [4] https://umanitoba.ca/explore/programs-of-study/individual-interdisciplinary… [5] https://u15.ca/about-us/our-members/ [6] https://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/ [7] https://www.tourismwinnipeg.com/ [8] https://www.economicdevelopmentwinnipeg.com/newsroom/read,post/1026/winnipe… [9] https://www.travelmanitoba.com/ [10] https://logological.org/ -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. - call for registration
by Michael Pace-Sigge 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Dear friends and colleagues (apologies for cross-posting) Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. Final Call for registration (ends 05/12/2024) University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, December 10 ̶ 12, 2024 https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Please register here: https://registration.contio.fi/uef/Registration/Login?id=7500-T_7500-8717 Today, there are many ways in which the human and social sciences use digital tools to investigate different aspects of human life and society. As the significance and use of digital resources continually expands into new fields of study, there are some disciplines which have already been working with digital methods for decades. This conference aims to present an overview of the current state of research in fields such as archival studies, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy where novel approaches are being made available through digital tools. The 2024 conference focusses on novel and innovative approaches to make use of digital applications, in particular in the light of the advent of machine learning and A.I. solutions. DRDHum 2024 is organized by the University of Eastern Finland. The first (D)RDHum Conference was hosted at the University of Oulu in 2019, where the focus was specifically on linguistic text corpora. The second conference, 2022 at the University of Jyväskylä was more expansive, looking at digital resources and technologies within the humanities and include multi-modal approaches. Plenary Speakers: Professor Katherine Bode, Australian National University Professor Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden Professor Michaela Mahlberg, FAU, Germany Professor Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK Dr Michael Pace-Sigge (he/him/his) School of Humanities Dept. of English Language and Culture University of Eastern Finland Room 155 Agora Tel.+ 358 (0) 504423473 P.O. Box 111 FI-80101 Joensuu Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-5242 https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/

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ENEOLI Survey on Studying and Documenting Neologisms: deadline extension
by kris.heylen＠ivdnt.org 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Dear colleague, working on lexical innovation and neologisms, If you didn’t have the chance yet, we kindly invite you to participate in the ENEOLI survey on neology by November 15 and help us get valuable information about available resources for neology research and documentation: https://1ka.arnes.si/eneoli . The survey is being conducted as part of the European Network on Lexical Innovation (ENEOLI) Cost Action CA22126. Its objective is to gather insights into the methods, practices, tools, and resources used in neology, the study of lexical innovations, including both neologisms (new words or expressions) and new senses of existing words. We want to reach as many people as we can, so please share the survey with your colleagues, your local research and expert communities and through social media channels Best regards, On behalf of the ENEOLI action, Kris Heylen (Dutch Language Institute, Leiden, The Netherlands)

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[Extended Deadline] Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

[Due to many requests, we have extended the submission deadline] Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 12th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee * Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK * Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany * Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK * Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA * Daan van Esch - Google * Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK * Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland * Amal Htait - Aston University, UK * Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands * Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia * Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK * Jean Maillard - Meta * Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain * Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK * Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK * Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia * Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK * Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Phil Weber - Aston University, UK URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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UCCTS 2025 - First Call for Papers
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

UCCTS 2025 - First Call for Papers The eighth edition of the UCCTS conference (www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025) will be held on the 8-10th of September 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany. UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs). Conference topics include: * Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies, in particular with multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) and advanced statistical modeling * Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive linguistics and translation studies * LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data annotation, data analysis, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * New or remodeled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies * Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting) corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode of production, etc. * Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product) properties * Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication * Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching * Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology * Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting * Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation, audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.) The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts (in PDF) that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 10, 2025. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the Open review system and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow abstract submission instructions given below. Abstract text must be in single-spaced 12pt Arial font, with no indents and 1 inch borders on each side (2.54 cm). The title should be in 12pt Arial, bold and centered, in title case. Page numbers should be omitted. Figure and table captions should be in 10pt Arial font. Table and figure captions should appear below the table or figure. References must be in 9pt Arial font, in APA7 format.Publications The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in an online book of abstracts. We also plan to publish selected papers in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course. Important dates * Conference abstract submission due: Feb 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2025 * Final abstract version due: May 5, 2025 * Registration open: May 12, 2025 * Early-bird registration: July 7, 2025 * Conference date: September 8-10, 2025 -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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ACL 2025 Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

ACL 2025 Call for Papers MAIN CONFERENCE ACL 2025 Website: https://2025.aclweb.org/ [1] Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025 Conference Dates: July 27 to August 1, 2025 Location: Vienna, Austria Special Theme: "Generalization of NLP Models" Contact: * Roberto Navigli [2] (General Chair) * Wanxiang Che [3], Joyce Nabende [4], Mohammad Taher Pilehvar [5], Ekaterina Shutova [6] (Program Chairs): For questions related to paper submission, email: editors(a)aclrollingreview.org For all other questions, email: acl2025pcs(a)gmail.com OVERVIEW ACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. ACL 2025 has a goal of a diverse technical program--in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Papers submitted to ACL 2025, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 February cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025 February cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to ACL 2025 via the conference commitment site (TBA). SUBMISSION TOPICS ACL 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP * Ethics, Bias, and Fairness * Generation * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Language Modeling * Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models ACL 2025 Theme Track: Generalization of NLP Models Following the success of the ACL 2020-2024 Theme tracks, we are happy to announce that ACL 2025 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting and stimulating discussion about the current state of development of the field of NLP. Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly, reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically important for models used in real-world applications, as they should emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various dimensions--compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness? * What factors affect the generalization of NLP models? * What are the most effective methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models? * While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in this regard? The theme track submissions can be either long or short. We anticipate having a special session for this theme at the conference and a Thematic Paper Award in addition to other categories of awards. TWO-STAGE REVIEW: SUBMISSION TO ARR, COMMITMENT TO ACL 2025 ACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review [7] (ARR) https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review [8] platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process: * Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors; * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., ACL 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. ACL 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2024 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. MANDATORY REVIEWING WORKLOAD AS THE PACE OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD CONTINUES TO INCREASE, WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE COMMITMENT TO REVIEWING FOR EACH PAPER SUBMISSION. DURING THE ARR SUBMISSION PROCESS, AUTHORS WILL BE REQUIRED TO SPECIFY WHICH CO-AUTHORS ARE COMMITTING TO COVER REVIEWING IN THIS REVIEWING CYCLE. PLEASE SEE THE NEW ARR POLICY REGARDING REVIEWING WORKLOAD HERE. AS THIS IS AN ARR-WIDE POLICY FOR ALL *CL CONFERENCES, QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO ARR DIRECTLY. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR) February 15, 2025 ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of the February cycle April 15, 2025 Commitment deadline for ACL 2025 April 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance May 15, 2025 Withdrawal deadline May 30, 2025 Camera-ready papers due May 30, 2025 Tutorials July 27, 2025 Conference July 28 - 30, 2025 Workshops July 31 - August 1, 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Paper Submission Details Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements [9], including: * Long Papers [10] (8 pages) and Short Papers [11] (4 pages) * Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review [12] * Authorship [13] * Citation and Comparison [14] * Multiple Submission Policy [15], Resubmission Policy [16], and Withdrawal Policy [17] * Ethics Policy [18] including the responsible NLP research checklist [19] * Limitations [20] * Paper Submission and Templates [21] * Optional Supplementary Materials [22] Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers' comments. Following the ACL and ARR policies (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy) [23], there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., ACL 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected ACL 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to ACL 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than ACL 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to ACL 2025. Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters. Links: ------ [1] https://2025.aclweb.org/ [2] https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ [3] http://ir.hit.edu.cn/~car/ [4] https://sites.google.com/view/jnabende/home?authuser=0 [5] https://pilehvar.github.io/ [6] https://www.shutova.org/ [7] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [8] https://openreview.net/ [9] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information [10] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers [11] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#short-papers [12] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#instructions-for-two-way-anonymized-review [13] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#authorship [14] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#citation-and-comparison [15] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy [16] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#resubmission-policy [17] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#withdrawal-policy [18] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy [19] https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch [20] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#limitations [21] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-and-templates [22] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#optional-supplementary-materials-appendice… [23] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy

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CfP: Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology
by Nannan Liu 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology 8–10 May 2025, Forlì, Italy, and online Call for Papers The Department of Interpreting and Translation at the University of Bologna is organising the Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications on 8–10 May 2025 in Forlì, Italy, and online. Background The Forlì International Workshop series was launched in 2015 to stimulate the creation of interpreting corpora and corpus-based research projects. The first workshop gathered more than 100 scholars from around the world, resulting in a volume of state-of-the-art research (Russo et al. 2018<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-6199-8>) and a special issue (Bendazzoli et al. 2018<https://www.intralinea.org/specials/cbis>). The tenth anniversary of the first workshop marks an opportune occasion to take stock of recent developments and chart new directions in light of corpora’s fundamental role in technological advancements. Theme Interpreting corpora serve as the descriptive foundation of research and the ground truth against which machine interpreting technologies are evaluated. Corpus-based interpreting studies, as envisaged by Shlesinger (1998<https://doi.org/10.7202/004136ar>), have developed into a highly productive line of inquiry with theoretical inputs from cognitive linguistics and sociology and methodological contributions from natural language processing, prosody research, and multimodality. Recently, large interpreting corpora have fuelled the deployment of machine interpreting technologies, together with deep learning algorithms that synthesise signing images and texts (e.g. Saunders et al. 2022<https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00508>). Amidst changing conceptual boundaries (Pöchhacker 2024<https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.23028.poc>), methodological developments, and technological landscape, a field-wide reflection on the role of corpora is necessary. In this context, we view the Second Forlì International Workshop as an opportunity to bring together researchers who create, analyse, and use corpora to study interpreting and develop tools and applications for corpus-based research, computer-assisted interpreting, machine interpreting, automated interpreting quality assessment, pedagogy, and other related domains. Submissions We particularly welcome abstracts addressing the following topics: * Theory testing and comparisons using corpora * Replication studies using corpora * Quantitative and qualitative approaches to corpus-based studies * Triangulating corpora with other data sources (e.g. user response, eye-tracking, EEG, and workplace ethnography) * Underrepresented corpora, e.g. those involving signed language interpreting and onsite versus remote interpreting * Corpora of constrained communication (Kotze & van Rooy 2024<https://doi.org/10.1075/coll.60.01kot>), e.g. those by untrained interpreters and learners * Multimodal and multiple interpreting corpora * Computer-assisted interpreting software and applications * Machine interpreting systems * Automated interpreting quality assessment based on corpora * Corpus design according to principles of scientific data management (e.g. FAIR principles; Wilkinson et al. 2016<https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18>) The first page of the submission should contain each author’s name, affiliation (if any), and e-mail address. The abstract should be placed from the second page onwards, including the title, a text between 300 and 400 words (including examples, excluding references) that clearly states the research questions, methods, data, and (preliminary) results, and up to five keywords. The abstract should not contain any identifying information to allow for double-blind peer reviewing. There will be three types of presentations: * Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q & A) * Poster * Software demonstration Abstracts will be submitted to unic(a)dipintra.it<mailto:unic@dipintra.it>. Authors may indicate a full paper, a poster, or a software presentation upon submission. Posters will be displayed on Day 1 of the Workshop, and a time slot will be reserved in the programme for participants to discuss with poster presenters. Software demonstrations will be held on Day 2 in a dedicated time slot. A selection of papers will be published in an edited volume and a special issue in a scientific journal. Language of the conference English Important dates * Submission deadline: 1 February 2025 * Notification of acceptance and rejection: 1 March 2025 * Pre-workshop session on the Unified Interpreting Corpus (UNIC; https://unic.dipintra.it/) platform: 15:00–17:30, 8 May 2025 * Workshop: 9–10 May 2025 Pre-workshop session convenors * Nannan Liu * Mariachiara Russo Scientific committee members Claudia Angelelli (Herriot-Watt University) Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna) Claudio Bendazzoli (University of Verona) Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) Sabine Braun (University of Surrey) Agnieszka Chmiel (Adam Mickiewicz University) Elena Davitti (University of Surrey) Bart Defrancq (Ghent University) Adriano Ferraresi (University of Bologna) Min-hua Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University) Nannan Liu (University of Bologna) Bernd Meyer (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna) Koen Plevoets (Ghent University) Bianca Prandi (University of Bologna) Mariachiara Russo (University of Bologna) Annalisa Sandrelli (University of the International Studies of Rome) Elisabet Tiselius (Stockholm University) Ira Torresi (University of Bologna) Kim Wallmach (Stellenbosch University) Organising committee members Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna) Michela Bertozzi (University of Bologna) Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) Francesca D’Angelo (University of Bologna) Bart Defrancq (Ghent University) Adriano Ferraresi (University of Bologna) Serena Ghiselli (University of Bologna) Nannan Liu (University of Bologna) Marco Lobascio (University of Bologna) Natacha Niemants (University of Bologna) Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna) Bianca Prandi (University of Bologna) Mariachiara Russo (University of Bologna) Nicoletta Spinolo (University of Bologna) Han Wang (University of Bologna) Contact unic(a)dipintra.it<mailto:unic@dipintra.it> Workshop website Website coming soon. Dr Nannan Liu Marie Curie Fellow Project FAITH<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108651> Department of Interpreting and Translation University of Bologna

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SwissText 2025: 1ST CALL FOR SHARED TASK, WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
by Tuggener Don (tuge) 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite submissions of proposals for shared tasks, workshops, and tutorials to be held at the SwissText 2025 conference. SwissText will take place from June 17-18, 2025 at ZHAW in Winterthur. ABOUT SwissText SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). SPECIAL EDITION This edition of SwissText will be special, since we celebrate its 10th anniversary! This is a great opportunity to look back. Hence, in addition to novel ideas for shared tasks, we also invite previous organizers of shared tasks to re-submit their ideas: What has changed since the last run of the shared task? Is the task still relevant? Do LLMs solve everything now? This offers us to see what progress has been made over the years. To give you some ideas, here is a list of previous shared tasks: * NLP for Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring * Swissdox Hackathon * Detecting greenwashing signals through a comparison of ESG reports and public media * Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Shared Task * Low-Resource Speech-to-Text * The Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG text (SEPP-NLG) * German Text Summarization Challenge * .. and many more (see the SwissText website archive)! FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS Proposals for shared tasks should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic of the task * a description of the data sets that will be used in the shared task and their readiness * a sketch of how the submitted systems will be evaluated * a tentative timeline Proposals for workshops should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic * a description of the intended audience * workshop format (paper presentations, poster session, etc.) * a tentative timeline Proposals for tutorials should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic and the goal of the tutorial * an introduction of the workshop speakers and their background and expertise * a description of the intended audience and the required level of expertise (beginners, experts, etc.) * a tentative outline of the tutorial schedule Note that the organization and running of the shared tasks, workshops, and tutorial is in the hands of the respective organizers. The SwissText organizers will provide infrastructure (rooms, paper submission platform) and assist where they can, of course. Interested? We are looking forward to your proposals. Submit your proposals by email to info(a)swisstext.org<mailto:info@swisstext.org> no later than November 30, 2024. Notifications will be sent out by December 15, 2024. Kind regards, Don ________________________________ ZHAW School of Engineering / CAI Dr. Don Tuggener Technikumstrasse 71 Postfach 8401 Winterthur Tel: +41 58 934 78 55 Web: https://www.zhaw.ch/de/ueber-uns/person/tuge/

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Call for Applications: Georgetown Linguistics PhD and MS Programs
by Ethan Wilcox 03 Nov '24

03 Nov '24

Call for Applications: Georgetown University MS and Ph.D. programs in Computational Linguistics Georgetown University (Washington, DC) invites applications to our MS and Ph.D. programs for students wishing to study Computational Linguistics starting in Fall 2025. Georgetown is strategically located in the nation's capital with proximity to government institutions, a thriving tech industry, and other major universities. Our programs offer advanced training and cutting-edge research opportunities in topics such as natural language processing, syntactic/semantic analysis, corpora, contemporary machine learning/deep learning methods for language, and applications of Large Language Models and AI technologies. Current research priorities include computational psycholinguistics, computational models of discourse, and linguistics-based language modeling. Students have the opportunity to learn from faculty across a range of departments and to participate in our interdisciplinary research community (http://gucl.georgetown.edu/). Additionally, students who apply to the Ph.D. program in Computational Linguistics may elect to participate in the university’s Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science. Admitted Ph.D. applicants are offered full funding. Admissions and funding decisions are made without regard to domestic vs. international status. Our programs include: - MS in Computational Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/graduate/master-degree-programs/master-o…> (Dept. of Linguistics, Jan. 15 deadline) - Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/graduate/phd-programs> (Dept. of Linguistics, Dec. 1 deadline) - Optional: Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science <https://cogsci.georgetown.edu/concentration/> Requirements: A bachelor’s degree by August 2025 is required to enter either program. Both programs include core courses in Linguistics, so a prior degree in Linguistics is not required. Ph.D. applicants are expected to have some programming experience and a commitment to participating in computational linguistics research. See recommendations for the Ph.D. Statement of Purpose <https://medium.com/@nschneid/inside-ph-d-admissions-what-readers-look-for-i…> . Applications: https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/programs/apply/ Questions about application requirements and procedures should be directed to Erin Esch Pereira (eee8(a)georgetown.edu), Graduate Program Coordinator, Dept. of Linguistics. Sincerely, Nathan Schneider <http://nathan.cl/>, Depts. of Linguistics and Computer Science; concentration director Amir Zeldes <https://gucorpling.org/amir/>, Dept. of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox <https://wilcoxeg.github.io/>, Dept. of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics -- Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics Georgetown University www.wilcoxeg.github.io

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #13
by Costas Gabrielatos 02 Nov '24

02 Nov '24

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 15 November 2024, 2-4 pm (GMT). Topic: Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies 2-3 pm Katia Adimora (Edge Hill University) Mexican immigration/immigrants in American and Mexican newspapers 3-4 pm Dan Malone (Edge Hill University) When is the extreme also typical? Using prototypicality to investigate representations of the lone-wolf terrorist Attendance is free. The abstracts and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Registration closes on Wednesday 13 November, 11 am (GMT). If you have any questions, please contact Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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