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CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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4 - 6 December 2024, Pisa, Italy
https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Italian Conference on
Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it! To commemorate this milestone,
CLiC-it will be hosted in Pisa, just as it was in 2014. Over the years,
CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of
researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language
Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality,
original research covering different aspects of automatic language
processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it
seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental
methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives.
The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted
nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary
expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different
fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer
Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital
Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages,
with a particular emphasis on Italian.
CLiC-it 2024 will be held in Pisa, from the 4th to the 6th of December.
CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational
Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/).
Conference topics
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CLiC-it 2024 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for
the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):
- Computational Historical Linguistics
- Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
- Dialogue and Interactive Systems
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- Ethics and NLP
- Generation
- Handwritten Text Recognition
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
- Large Language Models
- Linguistic Diversity
- Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
- Machine Learning for NLP
- Machine Translation
- Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP
- NLP Applications
- NLP for the Humanities
- Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
- Pragmatics and Creativity
- Question Answering
- Resources and Evaluation
- Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and
Other Areas
- Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
- Speech and Multimodality
- Summarization
- Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Paper Submission
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Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and
unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis
should be included.
CLiC-it 2024 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of
acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate
this information to the CLiC-it 2024 Chairs as soon as possible.
Papers may consist of up to five (5) pages of content, plus unlimited
pages of acknowledgments, references and appendices. Upon acceptance,
final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content,
so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- soundness of approach
- relevance to computational linguistics
- novelty and clarity of relation with related work
- quality of presentation
- quality of evaluation (if applicable)
- verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable)
Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in
English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented
at the conference either orally or as a poster.
Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author
information from manuscripts.
Research Communications
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CLiC-it 2024 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers
accepted in 2023 by major publication venues, namely the major
international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international
journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2024 as short
research communications. Research communications will not be published
in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the
dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community.
Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it
2024 conference.
The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit
a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including
the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original
conference or journal where the paper was published.
If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process
overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been
reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original
publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most
closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation
across various conference topics.
Submission template and procedure
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The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with
CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted
version at the following links:
LaTeX template:
https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CLiC-it-2024-templat…
Word template:
https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CLiC_it_2024_templat…
Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR
template has historically presented some challenges and is not
modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a
read-only Overleaf template
(https://www.overleaf.com/read/sjxmxsssfvyb#c76746). This template can
be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties.
Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START
platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2024
For research communications the appropriate track should be selected.
Awards
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To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the
title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided
that a Master's or PhD student is among the authors and presents the
work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to
submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of
Computational Linguistics (IJCoL).
To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness
of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for
the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics
submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus
free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the
upcoming CLiC-it. The complete call is available on the conference
website at: “Calls > AILC Master Thesis Award”.
Invited Speakers
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- Giosuè Baggio, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta AI Research, Paris, France
Important Dates
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- 15/07/2024: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research
communications
- 23/09/2024: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome
- 21/10/2024: Camera ready version of accepted papers
- 4-6/12/2024: CLiC-it 2024 Conference, Pisa
People
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Conference Chairs:
- Felice Dell’Orletta (CNR-ILC)
- Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
- Simonetta Montemagni (CNR-ILC)
- Rachele Sprugnoli (University of Parma)
Program Committee:
- Dominique Brunato (CNR-ILC)
- Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia)
- Roberta Claudia Combei (University of Pavia)
- Diego Frassinelli (University of Konstanz)
- Marco Guerini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
- Gianluca Lebani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
- Alessandro Mazzei (University of Torino)
- Johanna Monti (Orientale University of Naples)
- Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen)
- Debora Nozza (Bocconi University)
- Lucia Passaro (University of Pisa)
- Marco Polignano (University of Bari)
- Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento)
- Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
Local Organizing Committee:
- Chiara Alzetta (CNR-ILC)
- Serena Auriemma (University of Pisa)
- Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa)
- Luca Dini (CNR-ILC)
- Chiara Fazzone (CNR-ILC)
- Martina Miliani (University of Pisa)
Proceedings Chairs:
- Danilo Croce (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
- Andrea Zaninello (FBK)
Webmaster:
- Alessio Miaschi (CNR-ILC)
- Marta Sartor (CNR-ILC)
Publicity Chair:
- Sofia Brenna (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Further information
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- Conference website: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/
- Mail: clicit2024(a)gmail.com
- X: https://x.com/CLiC_it_conf
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Simonetta Montemagni
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC) - CNR
Area della Ricerca di Pisa
Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ITALY
e-mail simonetta.montemagni(a)ilc.cnr.it
direct tel. no +39 050 3152850
fax no. +39 050 3152839
cell. +39 349 7656651
[apologies for x-posting]
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics and/or natural language processing to work on the project "Beyond pixels and words: language technology generation and understanding of spatial language in interaction" (2023-01552) funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR).
Application deadline on August 15, 2023 23:59 (CEST, UTC+2)
Project description: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… (English) and https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038… (Swedish) and from my personal page (coming soon)
I am looking for candidates with a strong background in computational linguistics, natural language processing (or neighbouring fileds such computer vision and robotics) and machine learning, ideally with experience of computational semantics, language modelling and working with multi-modal representations.
Best regards,
Simon
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Simon Dobnik
Professor of Computational Linguistics
CLASP & FLoV, University of Gothenburg
https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/simondobnik
TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - CALL FOR
PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS
"NAVIGATING THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE: INNOVATION, INTEGRATION,
INSPIRATION"
https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/
Embracing innovation in language technologies - From AI to traditional
practices -, TC46 welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics
related to language technologies in the provision of language services.
While there is a special emphasis on the advancements and implications
of AI and Generative AI, we strongly encourage contributions that cover
a wide range of interests and perspectives in the language services
field. Whether you are deeply involved in AI-driven projects or are
focused on traditional or emerging practices independent of AI, your
insights are invaluable.
* Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic
and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 15
July
* Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is
extended to 15 August
https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/
Kind regards,
Amal Haddad
*Submission DEADLINE Extended*
*Important dates*
*Submission deadline: **30 June 2024 11:59 PM (GMT) * *08 July 2024
11:59 PM (GMT)*
*Notification of acceptance:* 15 September 2024
*Camera-ready paper due:* 25 September 2024
*Conference dates:* 19, 20 October 2024
We are delighted to invite you to ICNLSP 2024
<https://www.icnlsp.org/2024welcome/>, the 7th edition of the International
Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, which will be held at
University of Trento from October 19th to 20th, 2024 (*HYBRID*).
*Topics*
- Signal processing, acoustic modeling.
- Speech recognition (Architecture, search methods, lexical modeling,
language modeling, language model adaptation, multimodal systems,
applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition,
etc.).
- Speech Analysis.
- Paralinguistics in Speech and Language (Perception of paralinguistic
phenomena, analysis of speaker states and traits, etc.).
- Spoken Dialog Systems and Conversational Analysis
- Speech Translation.
- Speech synthesis.
- Speaker verification and identification.
- Language identification
- Speech coding.
- Speech enhancement
- Speech intelligibility
- Speech Perception
- Speech Production
- Brain studies on speech
- Phonetics, phonology and prosody.
- Speech and hearing disorders.
- Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language.
- Speech technology for disordered speech/hairing.
- Cognition and natural language processing.
- Machine translation.
- Text categorization.
- Summarization.
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
- Computational Social Web.
- Arabic dialects processing.
- Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora.
- Large language models.
- Arabic OCR.
- NLP tools for software requirements and engineering.
- Knowledge fundamentals.
- Knowledge management systems.
- Information extraction.
- Data mining and information retrieval.
- Lexical semantics and knowledge representation.
- Requirements engineering and NLP.
- NLP for Arabic heritage documents.
*Submission*
Papers must be submitted via the link:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/
<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/>
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.The
reviewing process is double-blind. Authors can use the *ACL format*: *Latex
<https://www.icnlsp.org/ACL%202023%20Proceedings%20Template.zip>*or Word.
Authors have the choice to submit their papers as a full or short paper
. Long papers consist of up to 8 pages of content + references. Short papers,
up to 4 pages of content + references.
*Publication*
*1- All accepted papers will be published in **ACL Anthology
<https://aclanthology.org/>**.*
*2- Selected papers will be published (after extension) in:*
* 2-a-* A *SPECIAL ISSUE*
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP> of Machine
Learning and Knowledge Extraction Journal
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make> (MAKE), indexed in *Web of Science
<https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results>*, *Scopus*
<https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri>, etc.
*Special issue title*:
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP>
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP>*Knowledge
Graphs and Large Language Models.
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP>*
* 2-b-* Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in
*Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/> and *zbMATH* <https://zbmath.org/>.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media Journal (OSNEM)
Special issue on
AI in Online Social Networks: opportunities and challenges
Submission Deadline: Continuous submissions until July 31st, 2024
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/online-social-networks-and-media
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Online Social Networks and Media are a fundamental component of everyday life and the use of AI technologies in OSNEM can further boost their role. The use of AI in online social networks offers great opportunities and, at the same time, raises several challenges. AI's ability to analyze vast amounts of data in real-time allows social media platforms to offer highly personalized experiences to users. The use of AI may raise concerns about ethical issues such as privacy, algorithmic bias, misinformation, etc., but AI can also be used for content moderation on social media to detect and remove harmful or inappropriate content, identifying and mitigating the spread of fake news. etc. The use of AI on OSNEM can promote the democratic processes by facilitating the dissemination of information and encourage political engagement. On the other hand, AI algorithms can create echo chambers, influence voting behavior and generate significant risks for democracy. AI-driven security measures can help to protect OSNEM users from fraud and privacy breaches but, malicious actors can also use AI to support their attacks. The exponential diffusion of generative AI adds novel dimensions to this landscape, on the one hand supporting novel forms of interactions spanning into the Metaverse, but on the other hand exposing vulnerable users to dramatic threats.
The aim of this special issue is to push the state of the art in using AI in OSNEM, by presenting quantitative contributions that investigate the opportunities and challenges of using AI in Online Social Networks. Within this framework, topics include, but are not limited to:
- Using AI in OSNEM for personalization, efficiency, and recommendations;
- AI-based studies for analysis and modelling of information and opinion dynamics in OSNEM;
- AI-based predictions based on OSNEM data analysis;
- AI impact on OSNEM security, trustworthiness and privacy;
- Generative AI in OSNEM;
- AI and social networking in the Metaverse;
- AI methodologies for large-scale OSNEM data collection and analysis
- AI methods to safeguard OSNEM users (e.g., bot detection, toxic content identification,
content moderation, echo chamber avoidance)
- Case studies of AI application in OSNEM
Online Social Networks and Media is a multidisciplinary journal for the wide community of computer and network scientists working on developing OSNEM platforms and services and using OSNEM as a big data source to mine, learn and model the (online) human behaviour. Manuscripts only based on questionnaires, even focused on the reported use of social media, are outside the scope of the journal. On the other hand, the journal welcomes papers which present analyses based on big data mined from social networks/media.
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Schedule
Manuscript submission deadline: continuous submission until July 31st, 2024 (*)
First notification: two months after the submission
Expected publication: papers are published a few weeks after acceptance.
Guest Editors
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
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Instructions for submission
Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If prior work was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should include a substantial extension of at least 35% novel contributions. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.
The submission website for this journal is located at https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/osnem/default2.aspx. Please select ''VSI:AI&OSNEM'' when you reach the ''Article Type'' step in the submission process. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified, for consideration by the special issue, the authors should indicate in the cover letter that the manuscript has been submitted for the special issue on “AI&OSNEM”.
(*) Manuscripts can be submitted continuously until the deadline. Once a paper is submitted, the review process will start immediately. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (in the first issue available as soon as the paper is accepted). All accepted papers will be listed together in an online virtual special issue published in the journal website.
For further information, please contact the guest editors at {m.conti,a.passarella} at iit.cnr.it
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ICS 2024: 2024 International Computer Symposium
Taipei, Taiwan
October 24-26, 2024
Website: https://ics2024.conf.nycu.edu.tw/
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International Computer Symposium (ICS) is one of the most prestigious
international ICT symposiums held in Taiwan. Founded in 1973, it is
intended to provide a forum for researchers, educators, and professionals
to exchange their discoveries and practices, and to explore future trends
and applications in computer technologies. The biennial symposium offers a
great opportunity to share research experiences and to discuss potential
new trends in the ICT industry. ICS 2024 will provide workshops, panels and
keynotes to facilitate discourse on and deepen the understanding of the
challenges in computer and communication technologies.
Important Dates
Paper submission due date: July 6, 2024
Paper notification: August 22, 2024
Final paper due date: September 15 ,2024
Conference date: October 24-26, 2024
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Submission Guidelines
International Computer Symposium (ICS) is one of the most prestigious
international ICT symposiums held in Taiwan. Founded in 1973, it is
intended to provide a forum for researchers, educators, and professionals
to exchange their discoveries and practices, and to explore future trends
and applications in computer technologies. The biennial symposium offers a
great opportunity to share research experiences and to discuss potential
new trends in the ICT industry. ICS 2024 will provide workshops, panels and
keynotes to facilitate discourse on and deepen the understanding of the
challenges in computer and communication technologies.
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Workshops
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference. The conference will include the following workshops:
Algorithms, Bioinformatics, and Computation Theory
Cloud Computing and Big Data
Computer Vision and Image Processing
Cryptography and Quantum Computing
Mobile and Wireless Networks
Autonomous Driving and UAV
Human Computer Interaction and AR/VR/MR
Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, SoC, and VLSI/EDA
Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
Cybersecurity Attack, Defense, and Resilience (Cadence)
AI/ML and Application
AI and Smart Healthcare (Special Session)
AI and Precision Medicine (Special Session)
Digital Transformation and AI in Dental Application (Special Session)
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Submission
Submissions should be made through the ICS 2024 submission page, handled by
the EasyChair conference management system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ics2024.
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Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ics2024(a)nycu.edu.tw.
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SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue
The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
11 and 12 September 2024
University of Trento, Italy
https://tinyurl.com/3c7rracn
TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series
which aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and
pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence,
philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
Keynote speakers
Uri Hasson, Princeton University
Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich and CEU, Vienna
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler (FBK)
# IMPORTANT DATES:
* Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024
* Notification for short papers: July 17, 2024
* Camera Ready: August 26, 2024
* Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth").
#TOPICS
We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical
approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but
not limited to:
* the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue
* common ground/mutual belief
* goals, intentions, and commitments in communication
* turn-taking and interaction control
* semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
* dialogue and discourse structure
* categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
* child-adult interaction
* language learning through dialogue
* gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
* multimodal dialogue
* interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
* dialogue management
* designing and evaluating dialogue systems
* modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair
* dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective
* neuroscience of dialogue
* Interactivist approaches to dialogue
* animal communication
# SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most
2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references).
Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request.
Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word
(https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for
ACL.
Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be
submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this
information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions.
SemDial 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that
will be (or has been) published elsewhere.
Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management
system at our Easychair submission site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog
Organizing Committee
Raffaella Bernardi
Vanessa Maria Caleca
Jakub Szymanik
Roberto Zamparelli
Programme Committee Chairs
Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento
Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento
TrentoLogue is endorsed by SIGdial and SIGsem.
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University of Trento
CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN),
DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN)
Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC)
http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/
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*North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)
2025 Annual Meeting: Call for abstracts*
Please find below our Call for Abstracts for the next Annual Meeting in
2025. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
*Call for Abstracts*
*NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical
SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting*
*100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Annual Meeting*
*Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025*
We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related
fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America)
to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting.
*Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 16 August 2024, 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 Seventh Annual Meeting
(NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 – Sunday, January 12,
2025.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 16 August 2024, 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 both 20-minute papers and posters. Please
note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an
integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts
will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations
in the review process about the most effective format for the submission.
However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for
poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract.
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 significantly increase the likelihood of
non-acceptance (see also point (c) below).
General Requirements:
1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/
2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author
abstract and one co-authored abstract.
3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at
the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA
Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA).
4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered
primarily for a poster presentation.
5) 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.
6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or
represent bona fide developments of the same research.
7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present
their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event.
Abstract Format Guidelines:
a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
b) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 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.
c) 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 <NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com>* with any
questions.
Carolina Amador-Moreno (on behalf of the organising committee)
*****We apologize for possible cross-posting*****
*************** Second Call for Papers ***************
The 19th International Workshop on
ONTOLOGY MATCHING
(OM-2024)
http://om.ontologymatching.org/2024/
November 11th or 12th, 2024,
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program,
Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks
dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies
as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of
correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies.
These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology
merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed
with the matched ontologies to interoperate.
The workshop has three goals:
1.
To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions
to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial
and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user
representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their
requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology
matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to
data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks.
2.
To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching
and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through
the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2024 campaign:
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/
3.
To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging,
techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings.
TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data);
Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios;
Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access;
Matching and knowledge graphs;
Matching and deep learning;
Matching and embeddings;
Matching and big data;
Matching and linked data;
Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them;
Privacy-aware matching;
Process model matching;
Large-scale and efficient matching techniques;
Matcher selection, combination and tuning;
User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
Explanations in matching;
Social and collaborative matching;
Uncertainty in matching;
Expressive alignments;
Reasoning with alignments;
Alignment coherence and debugging;
Alignment management;
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) alignments;
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science);
Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs).
SUBMISSIONS
Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and
posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching
as well as participating in the OAEI 2024 campaign. Long technical papers should
be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 6 pages.
Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 3 pages.
All contributions have to be prepared using the CEUR-ART, 1-column style.
Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at
https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt,
while offline version with the style files is available from
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.
Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format
through the workshop submission site at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2024
Contributors to the OAEI 2024 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions
and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/.
DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
August 9th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of papers.
August 30th, 2024: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
September 9th, 2024: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
November 11th or 12th, 2024: OM-2024, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA.
Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko
Trentino Digitale, Italy
2. Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway
4. Oktie Hassanzadeh
IBM Research, USA
5. Cássia Trojahn
IRIT, France
6. Sven Hertling
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
7. Huanyu Li
Linköping University, Sweden
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be added soon).
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More about ontology matching:
http://www.ontologymatching.org/http://book.ontologymatching.org/
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