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CfP: 8th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8)
by Antti Arppe 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Eighth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) March 3-4, 2024 Honolulu, Hawai’i URL: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ EMAIL: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com Read to the end for guidelines for the Special Session submissions deadline. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR REGULAR SESSION We invite submissions to the 8th workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, by October 7, 2024. The ComputEL-8 workshop focuses on the use of computational methods in the study, support, and revitalization of endangered languages. The primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between computational linguists interested in methods for low resource languages, academic linguists documenting languages, and the language communities who are striving to maintain their languages. We encourage submissions from scholars and activists representing any or all of these perspectives. The intention of the workshop is not merely to allow for the presentation of research, but also to build a network of computational linguists, documentary linguists, and community language activists who are able to effectively join together and serve their common interests. WORKSHOP VENUE ComputEL-8 will take place March 3-4, 2024, immediately preceding be co-located with the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Honolulu, Hawaii (https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/). In-person events will be co-located with the ICLDC at the University of Hawai’i Manoa. The workshop will be a virtual/in-person hybrid event. Ability to attend in person will not affect consideration of submissions. CALL FOR PAPERS We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages. (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to issues of data sovereignty and community protocols (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities IMPORTANT DATES 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 3-4 March 2025 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, we offer two modes of submission: extended abstract and full paper. The mode of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Either can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee. A. Extended Abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Extended abstracts must be submitted as attached documents. B. Full Paper: Please submit anonymously either a) a long paper (max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices), or b) a short paper (max. 4 pages excluding references) PROCEEDINGS The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that underwent review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on January 10, 2025. SPECIAL THEME SESSION: BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER In addition to the Regular Session, ComputEL-8 invites self-identified submissions to a Special Themed Session on “Building Tools Together.” This Session will focus on amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization. We invite presentations that: (1) Describe the development of new tools and technologies in collaborative teams, and/or (2) Describe or identify technological or computational needs within community language revitalization contexts, and/or propose solutions. For presentations that describe the development of new tools and technologies in collaboration among language communities, academic researchers, and (in some cases) industry or non-governmental organizations, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. How did the idea for the tool or technology come about? b. How did the team members meet and come to work together? c. What has been the impact of this tool? How are you evaluating it? How has the project benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? d. What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? e. How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? f. What lessons have you learned that might benefit similar collaborations? For presentations that identify technological or computational needs within community language revitalization contexts, and/or propose solutions, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. What is the need that this tool would meet? Who will it serve? b. What is the blue-sky version of this tool? What is the minimum viable product version? c. What kinds of data, digital assets, or media content would be required to create the tool, and how would they be assembled? d. What challenges might the team face in the development process? e. How do you anticipate the collaborative process to best incorporate diverse areas of expertise from cultural and community-grounded knowledge to academic, technical, and production-oriented knowledge? SUBMISSIONS to the SPECIAL THEME SESSION Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions representing community-led collaborations are strongly encouraged. Submissions to the Regular Session may choose to be considered for the Special Session as well. Same considerations will be given for publication whether papers are accepted to the Main Session or the Special Session. Alternatively, authors may submit abstracts only to the Special Session. The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm 7 October, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth). You may indicate that your full paper or extended abstract be considered for inclusion in the Special Session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by November 22, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES (SPECIAL SESSION) 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 3-4 March 2025 Workshop with Special Session MORE INFORMATION about Special Session submissions will follow on our website and subsequent calls for papers, see: URL: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ ComputEL-8 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Godfred Agyapong (University of Florida) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta) Aditi Chaudhary (Google DeepMind) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta) Sarah Moeller (University of Florida) Shruti Rijhwani (Google DeepMind) Daisy Rosenblum (University of British Columbia) CONTACT the OC For further information email us at: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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2nd CfP : Complexity in Language Sciences, December 12-13, 2024, Paris, France
by sascha.diwersy＠univ-montp3.fr 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) Workshop Complexity in Language Sciences December 12-13, 2024 Paris, France Submissions deadline : September 9, 2024 ========= While speaking, writing, listening and reading are easy, simple, and natural activities for those who practice them on a daily basis, what can be said about the cognitive and linguistic processes that underlie them? What about the languages in which these activities are practiced, and the theories and models developed to explain and represent the mechanisms involved? And finally, what can be said about individuals (speakers, listeners, writers, readers) who have not yet finished the learning process of these activities (children in the language acquisition phase, adults learning a second language), especially given that certain processes that may prove particularly difficult or even impossible (e.g.: writing in deaf people)? The question of complexity quickly arises, and the notion is regularly invoked in the language sciences, though often in a vague and intuition-driven way. In practice, this question takes on different forms depending on who is formulating it (psycholinguists, linguists, descriptive or model scientists, etc.) and who is targeted by it (speakers, listeners, natives, non-natives, learners, atypical subjects, etc.). In short, how complex, for whom and why? Is it necessary or contingent complexity? To answer these questions, we need to know what kind of complexity we're talking about: conceptual (e.g. representation of time and reference in languages), formal (e.g. at the phonological, graphic, morphological and syntactic level) or physiological (unnatural articulatory gestures, material constraints)? Does one complexity call for another (e.g. does the complex conception of time in a language call for a complex syntax, does formal complexity imply cognitive complexity and vice versa?). The aim of this conference is to discuss the current state of the art on complexity in the language sciences. It will offer the opportunity to examine the history and use of the notion of complexity in linguistics, through a variety of theoretical and epistemological perspectives. Its ambition is to bring together linguists working on spoken and written language, NLP/computer scientists and psycholinguists, etc., to discuss the complexity that runs, to varying degrees, through the different components of language and discourse (segmental, suprasegmental, morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic). The expected result is to elaborate a concept that will work for the community, however stratified it may be, since the criteria on which it is based are obviously many: • For the linguist, complexity is that which is not simple to represent and model, because (i) it is not easily predictable (e.g. unexpected constructions, productions that escape general rules), (ii) it could be of a continuous nature, and therefore difficult to isolate or categorize (e.g. the prosodic level of representation as opposed to the segmental level; opaque or indefinite reference)[1]. A complex element is also an observable that can be described but which resists explanation (e.g. errors in deaf writing). • For the human subject, everything that is unnatural and therefore difficult to produce or to hear (such as a foreign language) can be considered as complex. Complexity can also refer to units which are linguistically underspecified, and thus ambiguous or implicit, entailing a high cognitive load. While human subjects or linguists might view complexity as an obstacle to learning or a challenge in representing language, complexity is conversely necessary to the very existence of natural languages and their uses. From a synchronic point of view, complexity plays a part in regulating the linguistic system, the internal balance of a language, based on a partition between complex and simple elements (e.g. poor morphology vs. complex tonal system in Chinese). What remains to be understood is how this balance is determined in languages. From a diachronic point of view, complexity seems to play the same role, whether it's a question of simplifying certain processes and maintaining the formal economy of the system (e.g. deletion of phonological oppositions with low functional output, grammaticalization processes), or, on the contrary, reintegrating complexity (e.g. the transition from pidgin to creole). This raises a question for the language sciences: how can we account for linguistic complexity? Which approach would be most adequate: typological and contrastive, or internal, experimental, or inductive on large corpora? How should complexity be measured, and what measurement standard should be proposed? Which scale and which descriptors should be used? For example, can we assume the existence of a neutral SVO sentence in order to work on complex structures in syntax? Can the concepts of transformation and movement proposed by generative grammar be used to work on syntactic complexity? If so, how? If not, what descriptors should be used to replace them: "easily" quantifiable descriptors (cf. work on text readability or simplification, which systematically use them), such as sentence length or the types of dependency between elements (e.g. number, length, direction)? The question of medium sheds a different light on complexity, particularly with regards to the syntactic component. Is the syntactic structure of a message more complex in spoken or written form? And from what point of view? In production or reception? From the point of view of language activity or from the point of view of linguistic representation and modeling? In semantics and pragmatics, how can we deal with the meaning-form relationship? How can we deal with ambiguity and implicitness? Can a text be simple, given that it contains a set of units and constructions that are themselves complex. If so, what mechanism of adjustment or qualitative change are necessary? In text linguistics, the notion of complexity has been seen in various ways; for example, through the study of the textualization process itself; through the measurement and quantification of writers' pauses or revisions; by the methods used in applied linguistics to simplify texts, too difficult to be understood and needing to be adapted for a particular audience. Finally, there's a central question in modeling: how does one manage the complexity of the object that is to be represented? How does one break down a complex object into simple elements without losing information? How can we understand which properties are necessary and sufficient to represent the system's operation? How can we approach the question of how multiple descriptors relate to each other using mathematical formulas that go further than the formulas proposed in the field of readability? Among the descriptors, one could for example be interested in units or dependency relations in syntax, in contours or tones in languages with accentual prosody, in operations underlying the description of the semantics of lexical and grammatical units (e.g. deictic operation), in referencing operations to different spaces of validation of predicative contents (e.g. hypothetic spaces), or even in different types of relations between textual units (e.g. embedding, inclusion, successivity). From the point of view of skill acquisition, a point of interest can be the way we can correlate linguistic structures and the stages of an individual's cognitive development. Important dates: September 9, 2024 – abstract submissions October 15, 2024 - scientific committee decision December 12-13, 2024 - Workshop Submission instructions: Abstracts, written in French or English, are due on September 9 at the latest: - 1 cover page including the name and affiliation of the author(s) ; - 1-2 pages of text (excluding references); - 3 to 5 keywords. They should be sent to MAIL to: Delphine Battistelli, Modyco, Paris Nanterre : delphine.battistelli(a)parisnanterre.fr Georgeta Cislaru, Modyco, Paris Nanterre : georgeta.cislaru(a)parisnanterre.fr Sascha Diwersy, Praxiling, Paul Valéry Montpellier : sascha.diwersy(a)univ-montp3.fr Anne Lacheret, Modyco, Paris Nanterre : anne.lacheret(a)parisnanterre.fr Dominique Legallois, Lattice, Sorbonne Nouvelle : dominique.legallois(a)sorbonne-nouvelle.fr Scientific Committee: Basso Pierluigi, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Blache Philippe CNRS, ILCB, Laboratoire Parole & Langage, Université Aix Marseille Blumenthal-Dramé Alice, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Brunetti Lisa, LLF, Université Paris Cité Feltgen Quentin, Université de Gand François Thomas, Cental, UCLouvain Gala Núria, LPL, Aix Marseille Université. Grandjean Didier, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Université de Genève Heidlmayr Karin, MoDyCo, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre Kahane Sylvain, MoDyCo, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre Lampitelli Nicola, MoDyCo, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre Landragin Frédéric, Lattice, CNRS Nadvornikova Olga, Université Charles, Prague Olive Thierry, CeRCA, CNRS – Université de Poitiers Prévost Sophie, Lattice, CNRS Watine Marie-Albane, BCL, Université Côte d’Azur Ziegler Johannes, Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neuroscience (CRPN) CNRS et Université Aix Marseille. Selected References Barbaresi, Adrien. 2011. La complexité linguistique, méthode d’analyse. TALN Jun 2011, Montpellier, France. pp.229-234. Berthoz, Alain. 2009. La Simplexité, Paris, Odile Jacob. Bottineau, Didier. 2015. Les langues naturelles, objets complexes, systèmes simplexes : le cas du basque. In Begioni et Placella (dir.), Problématiques de langues romanes, Linguistique, politique des langues, didactique, culture, Hommages à Alvaro Rocchetti, Linguistica 69, Fasano, Schena Editore, pp. 55-85. Dahl, Östen. 2004. The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins. Do-Hurinville, Danh-Thành, Dao, Huy-Linh (dir.). 2017. La complexité et la comparaison des langues, ÉLA. Études de linguistique appliquée, n°185. Ehret, Katharina, Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs, Bentz, Christian, and Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice. 2023. Measuring language complexity: challenges and opportunities. Linguistics Vanguard, vol. 9, no. s1, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0133 Ellis, Nick C. & Diane Larsen-Freeman (eds). 2009. Language as a Complex Adaptive System. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Glaudert, Nathalie. 2011. La complexité linguistique : essai de théorisation et d’application dans un cadre comparatiste, Université de la Réunion. Housen, Alex, Kuiken, Folkert, and Vedder, Ineke. (Eds.). 2012. Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Laplantine, Chloé, Joseph, John E., and Aussant, Émilie (dir.) 2023. Simplicité et complexité des langues dans l’histoire des théories linguistiques. Paris : SHESL (HEL Livres, 3). Larsen-Freeman, Diane, & Cameron, Lynne. 2008. Complex Systems and AppliedLlinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lund, Kristine, Basso Fossali, Pierluigi, Mazur, Audrey & Ollagnier-Beldame, Magali (eds.). 2022. Language is a Complex Adaptive System: Explorations and evidence (Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 8). Berlin: Language Science Press. Martinot, Claire, Bosnjak Botica, Tomislava, Gerolimich, Sonia, and Paprocka-Piotrowska, Urszula (eds.) 2019. Reformulation and Acquisition of Linguistic Complexity. Crosslinguistic perspective. London: ISTE & Wiley. Sampson, Geoffrey, Gil, David, Trudgill, Peter (dir.). 2009. Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, Oxford Linguistics. Trudgill, Peter. 2001. Contact and simplification: Historical baggage and directionality in linguistic change. Language Typology, 5, 371–37.

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Workshop on the Future of Event Detection: 2nd Call for Papers (Aug 15 deadline)
by Joel Tetreault 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Second Call for Papers Workshop on the Future of Event Detection Miami, USA November 15 or 16, 2024 (co-located with EMNLP 2024 <https://2024.emnlp.org/>) https://future-of-event-detection.github.io/ Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:59PM AoE Workshop Description In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of publicly generated digital data. One prominent category of this data, and arguably the largest in terms of daily generation, pertains to various real-world events, ranging from natural disasters to political occurrences to sports events. Detecting these events serves various crucial purposes, including early warning systems, emergency response, situational awareness, tracking public health trends, and understanding societal shifts, among others. However, automatic real-time event detection presents intriguing challenges, primarily stemming from the characteristics of the data. These challenges include the diversity of public online data (multimodal nature), the rapid pace at which data is produced (velocity), the sheer volume of data generated, and the reliability of the data (veracity). Moreover, the recent advancements in powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI Systems offer new opportunities to revise event detection pipelines, enabling novel approaches and applications across various domains. The workshop focuses on: - Looking forward and looking back: The workshop will solicit ideas on how the field of event detection should evolve over the next twenty years, as well as solicit papers reflecting on what has worked and not worked in the field thus far. - Expanding Beyond NLP: As noted above, there are many sibling areas that actively research event detection. Many of these areas have remained siloed and there is not much cross-communication though they are working on similar problem areas. This workshop seeks to address this by actively soliciting research and invited speakers from these areas. - Theory to Application: Finally, this workshop will emphasize how event detection technology can be used in real-world applications. We will solicit novel papers, including, but not limited to the following topics: - Position and opinion papers on the state and future of event detection - Retrospectives - Multimodal event detection - Large language models (LLMs) and their applications for event detection and related areas - Event detection on non-traditional sources of data - Inferring causal, temporal, coreference, and sub-event relations for events - Multilingual event detection - Event representation - Event ontology - Never-ending learning - Streaming algorithms for event detection - Interpretability of event detection methods - Bias detection and mitigation - Human-AI Interaction for event detection frameworks - Information visualization for events - Anomaly detection - Practical application of event detection for different domains such as emergency response - Usability of event detection systems - Datasets for Event Detection Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 15 - Notification of Acceptance: Friday, September 20 - Camera Ready Deadline: Friday, October 4 - Workshop: either November 15 or 16 Submission Information We will be using the EMNLP Submission Guidelines <https://2024.emnlp.org/calls/main_conference_papers/#paper-submission-detai…> for the workshop. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages of content with unlimited pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages of content, including unlimited pages for references. Final camera ready versions of accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Please note that unlike EMNLP, which uses ARR for submission management, we will be using the START conference system. The link will be made live when available. https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/FuturED/ Organizing Committee - Joel Tetreault <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fn52EXUAAAAJ&hl=en>, Dataminr - Thien Huu Nguyen <https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~thien/>, University of Oregon - Hemank Lamba <https://sites.google.com/site/hemanklamba/home>, Dataminr - Amanda Hughes <https://cs.byu.edu/department/directory/faculty-directory/amanda-hughes/>, Brigham Young University Contact Information - Workshop contact email address: futureofeventdetection(a)googlegroup.com - Workshop Twitter: @FuturED2024 <https://x.com/FuturED2024>

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[CIKM-2024] - Workshop program announced
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Workshop program * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/workshops/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The workshop program of CIKM 2024 has been published. Workshops are planned to take place on 25 October 2024. Here you can find a summary of each accepted workshop and the website for more information. Deadlines start on July 29th. =============== AI Agent for Information Retrieval =============== The field of information retrieval has significantly transformed with the integration of AI technologies. AI agents, especially those leveraging LLMs and vast computational power, have revolutionized information retrieval, processing, and presentation. Despite these advancements, challenges such as ensuring relevance and accuracy, mitigating biases, providing real-time responses, and maintaining data security remain. This workshop is motivated by the need to explore these challenges, share innovative solutions, and discuss future directions. More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4ir/ =============== DCAI: The 4th International Workshop on Data-Centric AI =============== Machine learning focuses on developing models for datasets, but real-world data is often messy. Improving the dataset itself can be a better way to enhance performance instead of just improving the models. Data-Centric AI (DCAI) is an emerging field that systematically improves datasets, resulting in significant improvements in ML applications. This workshop aims to build an interdisciplinary DCAI community to tackle data problems such as collection, labeling, preprocessing, quality evaluation, debt, and governance. More information at: https://data-centric-ai-dev.github.io/CIKM2024/ =============== GenAI and RAG Systems for Enterprise =============== Generative AI (GenAI) represented by large language models (LLMs) is revolutionizing the way we approach problem-solving and content creation in various domains. This workshop aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners who are interested in building GenAI solutions for enterprise AI, with a special focus on RAG systems. The workshop will provide a platform for sharing the latest research advances, practical experiences, and real-world challenges in this emerging field. More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/cikm2024-rag/home =============== Knowledge Graphs for Responsible AI =============== As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, including the explosion of Generative AI, there is a growing need to address ethical considerations and potential societal impacts of their uses. The workshop aims to investigate the role of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) in promoting Responsible AI principles and creating a cooperative space for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to exchange insights and enhance their comprehension of KGs' impact on achieving Responsible AI solutions. It seeks to facilitate collaboration and idea-sharing to advance the understanding of how KGs can contribute to Responsible AI. More information at: https://deepa-tilwani.github.io/kg-for-responsible-ai-workshop-cikm-2024.gi… =============== LLMs Beyond the Cutoff =============== The workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the temporal limitations of LLMs and proposing technical solutions of how to apply and develop LLMs beyond their cutoff dates. We explore two prominent scenarios, where contexts tend to evolve faster than the LLMs that are used to analyze them: (1) journalism and (2) industry. More information at: https://llmsbeyondthecutoff2024.wordpress.com/ =============== The 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) =============== The advent of multimodal LLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini has significantly boosted the potential for multimodal search and recommendations. Traditional search engines rely mainly on textual queries, supplemented by session and geographical data. In contrast, multimodal systems create a shared embedding space for text, images, audio, and more, enabling next-gen customer experiences. These advancements lead to more accurate and personalized recommendations, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. More information at: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ =============== The 3rd International Workshop on Industrial Recommendation Systems =============== The gap in constraints and requirements between academic research and industry limits the broad applicability of many of academia’s contributions for industrial recommendation systems. This workshop aspires to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers from both academia and industry. Its goal is to serve as a platform via which academic researchers become aware of the additional factors that may affect the chances of algorithm adoption into real production systems, and the performance of the algorithms if deployed. Industrial researchers will also benefit from sharing the practical frameworks at an industrial level. More information at: https://irsworkshop.github.io/2024/ =============== The 4th International Workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems =============== The international workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems (OARS) will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of OARS. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to implement OARS algorithms and systems, and improve user experiences by better modeling and responding to user intent. More information at: https://oars-workshop.github.io/ =============== The 8th Workshop on Graph Techniques for Adversarial Activity Analytics (GTA³ 2024) =============== Graphs are powerful analytic tools for modeling adversarial activities across a wide range of domains and applications. With the rapid development of generative AI, the lifecycle and throughput of adversarial activities, such as generating attacks or synthesizing deceptive signals, have accelerated significantly. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss emerging research problems and novel approaches in graph analysis for modeling adversarial activities in the age of generative AI. More information at: https://gta3.hrl.com/ =============== Trustworthy and Responsible AI for Information and Knowledge Management System =============== The way research and business manage and utilize knowledge is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI offers a unique solution for organizations struggling with information overload and inefficient knowledge transfer. However, such AI systems solicit a trustworthy and responsible solution that can cater the potential misuse and malfunction. In this workshop, we aim to gather researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss the latest advances for trustworthy and responsible AI solutions for information and knowledge management systems. More information at: https://responsible-ai.wiki/cikm24/index.html =============== Workshop on Generative AI for E-Commerce =============== The “Gen AI for E-commerce” workshop explores the role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in transforming e-commerce through enhanced user experience and operational efficiency. E-commerce companies grapple with multiple challenges such as lack of quality content for products, subpar user experience, sparse datasets... This workshop will bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss these challenges and opportunities, aiming to showcase case studies, breakthroughs, and insights into practical implementations of Gen AI in e-commerce. More information at: https://genai-ecommerce.github.io/GenAIECommerce2024

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Deadline extended: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) – Call for Presentations and Papers
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Deadline extended: 31 July 2024 TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for Presentations and Papers https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ "Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration, inspiration" 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. 1. Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 31 July 2. Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/

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Call For Papers: 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24)
by Aditya Nandkishore Chichani 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) Date: October 25, 2024 (Full day workshop) Venue: ACM CIKM 2024 <https://cikm2024.org/> (Boise, Idaho, United States) Website: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ Organizers: Aditya Chichani, Surya Kallumadi, Tracy Holloway King, Andrei Lopatenko Paper submission deadline: August 10, 2024 (23:59 P.M. GMT) Overview: The advent of multimodal LLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini has significantly boosted the potential for multimodal search and recommendations. Traditional search engines rely mainly on textual queries, supplemented by session and geographical data. In contrast, multimodal systems create a shared embedding space for text, images, audio, and more, enabling next-gen customer experiences. These advancements lead to more accurate and personalized recommendations, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cross-modal retrieval techniques Strategies for efficiently indexing and retrieving multimodal data. Approaches to ensure cross-modal retrieval systems can handle large-scale data. Development of metrics to measure similarity across different data modalities. Applications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations to Verticals (e.g. E-commerce, real estate) Implementing and optimizing image-based product searches. Creating multimodal conversational systems to enhance user experience and make search more accessible. Utilizing AR to enhance product discovery and user interaction. Leveraging multimodal search for efficient customer service and support. User-centric design principles for multimodal search interfaces Best practices for designing user-friendly interfaces that support multimodal search. Methods for evaluating the usability of multimodal search interfaces. Personalizing multimodal search interfaces to individual user preferences. Ensuring multimodal search interfaces are accessible to users with disabilities. Ethical Considerations and Privacy Implications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations Strategies for ensuring user data privacy in multimodal applications. Identifying and mitigating biases in multimodal algorithms. Ensuring transparency in how multimodal results are generated and presented. Approaches for obtaining and managing user consent for using their data. Modeling for Multimodal Search and Discovery Multi-modal representation learning Utilizing GPT-4o, Gemini, and other advanced pre-trained multimodal LLMs Dimensionality reduction techniques to reduce complexity of multimodal data. Techniques for fine-tuning pre-trained vision-language models. Developing and standardizing metrics to evaluate the performance of vision-language models in multimodal search. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and judged based on their relevance to the workshop and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must be in PDF format, following the latest CEUR single column format. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, refer to CEUR’s submission guidelines ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART), reading up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submissions must describe original work not previously published, not accepted for publication, and not under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind review process and does not accept anonymous submissions. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. Long paper limit: 15 pages. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Submit to CIKM MMSR’24: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/CIKM/2024/Workshop/MMSR Contact: Aditya Chichani E-mail: aditya_chichani(a)berkeley.edu

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[CFP] COLING 2025 - 2nd Call for Main Conference Papers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Second Call for Main Conference Papers (COLING 2025) Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Deadline for direct submissions September 16, 2024 Commitment deadline for ARR papers October 20, 2024 Author rebuttal phase (for direct submissions) October 30 - November 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024 Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025 Main Conference January 21-24, 2025 ---------- CFP: The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24 2025. COLING 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. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Document Classification and Topic Modeling Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Modeling Language Resources and Evaluation Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP Machine Translation and Translation Aids Multilingualism and Language Diversity Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.) Natural Language Generation Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Lexical Semantics Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc) Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization and Simplification Syntactic analysis (Tagging, Chunking, Parsing) Vision and Robotics Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome. Submission Details COLING 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. Authors should follow the general instructions for COLING 2025 proceedings, which are an adaptation of the general instructions for *ACL proceedings. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: LaTeX Word Overleaf Papers deviating from the provided style files will be rejected without review. COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. There are two routes for paper submission: Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/papers/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Papers Papers which have already been reviewed through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system can be committed to COLING 2025. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data Each COLING 2025 submission can be accompanied by a single .tgz or .zip archive containing supplementary materials, such as program code and datasets. COLING 2025 encourages the submission of such supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results. For the main track, the supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. Additional information, such as preprocessing decisions, model parameters or proofs should be put into the appendix of the main PDF submission. Note that submissions need to remain fully self-contained. In particular, any details that are important for reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be included in the main body of the paper. Anonymity Period COLING 2025 will follow the ACL Anonymity Policy. As a result, no anonymity period will be required, although authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized. Multiple Submission Policy Papers which are submitted to COLING 2025 cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time. The commitment process is treated as being under review for a conference. Authors can either commit their paper through ARR or directly submit it to the conference. Papers reviewed and committed to the conference through ARR cannot be submitted directly to the conference. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected. General chairs, Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University Leo Wanner, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University Program co-chairs Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University For questions about submissions: coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com

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[CIKM-2024] - Student Travel Awards
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Travel Award call* * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/cikm-2024-student-travel-awards-faq/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== Thanks to the generous support from the National Science Foundation, ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGWEB, CIKM will provide travel awards to selected students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. =============== NSF Student Travel Awards =============== Thanks to the generous support from the National Science Foundation, we will provide travel awards to selected US-based students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. The travel award will cover the cost of the conference registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and some travel expenses. The awards will be competitive in the sense that only some applicants are guaranteed to receive a travel award. Awardees are expected to register for the main conference and arrange travel and accommodation. Recipients will be reimbursed after the conference upon submission of the expense receipts. --- Eligibility Applicants need to be full-time students (graduate or undergraduate) at a US-based academic institution. Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. The selection will be made based on the following criteria: * Students selected to present at the PhD Symposium will be given priority * Students from under-represented groups will be given priority * Students with accepted papers (main conference, tutorials, or workshops) will be prioritized. – PhD students will be prioritized. --- Application Procedure Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application: * Student’s full name and email address * Name and address of student’s school * (If available) Advisor’s full name and email address * 1-2 page CV including the duration of the program (Ph.D., Master) along with reference to the accepted paper(s) * A brief statement from the student about (i) their research (summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress), and (ii) how they would benefit from attending CIKM, enriching CIKM and their local community; the statement must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format. * A letter of endorsement from the student’s advisor (is available) or department chair * (Optional) demographic data for reporting purposes: Gender, Ethnic background The student must submit the necessary materials to apply for a grant through the button below --- Important dates * Award Application Submission Due July, 31 2024 * Award Acceptance Notification: August, 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth --- Special Notes from US NSF Grants * To get reimbursement of the airfare by using US NSF, you must book flights with US-flagged carriers (a carrier operating under a code share agreement with a US carrier is considered a US flag carrier, as long as the ticket is issued using the US flag carrier’s airline designator and flight number). * Your airline ticket purchases must comply with the Fly America Act (U.S. carrier or code shared flights are used). Enclosed please find links to the GSA Fly America Act and Code Share fact sheet. * For eligible flights with US-flagged carriers, we suggest you book flights directly from USA airlines, e.g., United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Hawaii Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, etc. Even if the flights are operated by a foreign airline (e.g., Air Canada), it is still eligible as long as you book the flights from USA airlines. However, it may not be eligible if you book a flight from travel agencies (e.g., priceline). More information at: https://cikm2024.org/nsf-student-travel-awards/ =============== ACM SIGIR Student Travel Awards =============== The SIGIR Student Travel Award Program (https://sigir.org/general-information/travel-grants/) provides funding for students who are members of ACM SIGIR to help cover the cost of travel and lodging to attend and contribute to CIKM 2024. SIGIR is pleased to offer Student Travel Award for students presenting their accepted contributions at CIKM 2024. For awardees, the award will cover the cost of in-person registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and U$D 1,000 stipend towards travel and accommodation costs. --- Eligibility To be eligible, the student must: * Be a SIGIR member. (SIGIR student travel awards are only open to SIGIR members. If you are not, you can click here to join SIGIR before continuing.) * Be an author of an accepted contribution. * Be the author presenting said contribution. These awards are competitive (i.e., not every applicant will receive an award).  We will prioritize students presenting with accepted contributions on the main conference track; students from underrepresented countries; and students who have not received an award in the past. --- Application Procedure To be considered for an award, the student must submit an application and their academic advisor must complete a statement of support (a link to the advisor will be sent directly as soon as the student provides all the information requested in their application). --- Important dates * Award Application Submission Deadline: July 31 2024 * Award Acceptance Notification: August 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth Please do not register for the conference ahead of the notification date as SIGIR Awards cannot reimburse you for the registration. If awarded a travel award, you will receive a code for a registration fee waiver. More information at: https://cikm2024.org/acm-sigir-student-travel-awards/ =============== ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Awards =============== Thanks to the generous support of ACM SIGWEB, we will provide travel awards to select students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. This award is designated to support student diversity and students from underrepresented regions. The travel award will cover the cost of the conference registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and some travel expenses. The awards will be competitive in the sense that only some applicants are guaranteed to receive a travel award. Awardees are expected to register for the main conference and arrange travel and accommodation. Awardees will receive a complimentary registration code to cover their registration. Recipients will be reimbursed for travel expenses after the conference is over upon submission of the expense receipts. --- Eligibility Applicants need to be full-time students (graduate or undergraduate). Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. --- Application Procedure * Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application: * Student’s full name and email address * Name and address of student’s school * (If available) Advisor’s full name and email address * 1-2 page CV including the duration of the program (Ph.D., Master) along with reference to the accepted paper(s) * A brief statement from the student about (i) their research (summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress), and (ii) how they would benefit from attending CIKM, enriching CIKM and their local community; the statement must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format * A letter of endorsement from the student’s advisor (if available) or department chair * (Optional) demographic data for reporting purposes: Gender, Ethnic background The student must submit the necessary materials to apply for a grant through the button below. --- Important dates Award Application Submission Due July, 31 2024 Award Acceptance Notification: August, 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth More information at: https://cikm2024.org/acm-sigweb-student-travel-awards/ =============== Travel Award Selection Committee =============== * Tyler Derr Vanderbilt University * Sumit Purohit Pacific Northwest National Lab * Giovanni Stilo University of L’Aquila * Yu Wang Vanderbilt University For further information (please check the FAQ document first), please contact the CIKM2024 Travel Awards Selection Committee by email to cikm2024-travelawards [at] easychair [dot] org

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Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [1] AbjadNLP 2025 aims to advance innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages using the Arabic script, focusing on Abjad and Ajami languages. These languages represent a significant segment of the global linguistic mosaic, spanning numerous countries and regions. By focusing on these languages, we aim to enhance the versatility and adaptability of NLP models and applications, fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism in NLP research. This workshop will address the unique challenges and solutions associated with these languages, promoting inclusive and equitable advancements in NLP. Ajami languages, representing a myriad of African languages that have adopted the Arabic script, span at least 43 distinct languages, including Hausa, Fulfulde, Mandingo, Swahili, Wolof, Kanuri, and Tamazight. The combined number of speakers of these languages is estimated to exceed 200 million within Africa alone. Although Abjad has been traditionally associated with Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac, it has been adopted for writing by many other language communities as in Perso-Arabic scripts used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Sindhi, and Uyghur, with a collective estimated speaker population exceeding 500 million. Altogether, these languages represent an approximate global aggregate of 1 billion speakers. >> We invite submissions on the following topics: Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media, etc. Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK descriptions, open access corpora. Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing, transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP applications. >> Submission Guidelines: We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types: Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. >> Key Dates: 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025 >> Organising Committee: General Chair: - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University Programme Chairs: - Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar - Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University - Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University Review Committee: - Manum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja - Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad Publication Chair: - Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich Publicity Chairs: - Cynthia Amol, Maseno University - Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada - Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey Advisory Committee: - Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [1] Submission URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/ [2] Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VA… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/__;!!…

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July 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

In this newsletter: LDC at IC2S2 Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship Program New publications: MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S07> Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S08> ________________________________ LDC at IC2S2 LDC is delighted to be a bronze sponsor for the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2<https://ic2s2-2024.org/>) held this year on Penn's campus July 17-20. The conference will feature research from around the world across a broad range of relevant fields to advance the many frontiers of computational social science. Be sure to visit LDC's table during the poster sessions July 18 and 19 from 1:30-2:30 pm. Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship Program Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S07> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program. It contains 80 hours of Bulgarian conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 40% of the speech files, and approximately 10% of the speech files were translated into English. This release also includes domain annotations, English queries, and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S08> was developed at the University of Texas at El Paso<https://www.utep.edu/>. It contains 17 hours of conversational speech in English and Spanish by 129 unique bilingual speakers, specifically, short fragments extracted from spontaneous conversations and close re-enactments in the other language by the original speakers, for 3816 pairs of matching utterances. Data was collected in 2022-2023. Participants were recruited from among students at the University of Texas at El Paso; all were bilingual speakers of General American English and of Mexico-Texas Border Spanish. Each speaker pair had a 10 minute conversation in one language. Various fragments from these conversations were chosen for re-enactment, and the original speakers produced equivalents in the other language. Each re-enactment was vetted for fidelity to the original and naturalness in the target language. Also included is metadata about conversations, participants, re-enactments and utterances. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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