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TextDetox 2024 Call for participants
by Daryna Dementieva 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

TextDetox CLEF 2024 We are glad to invite you to participate in the first of its kind multilingual Text Detoxification shared task! https://pan.webis.de/clef24/pan24-web/text-detoxification.html TL;DR Task formulation: transfer a text style from toxic to neutral (i.e. what a f**k is this about? -> what is this about?) 9 Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, German, Russian, Ukrainian, and Amharic More details: Identification of toxicity in user texts is an active area of research. Today, social networks such as Facebook, Instagram are trying to address the problem of toxicity. However, they usually simply block such kinds of texts. We suggest a proactive reaction to toxicity from the user. Namely, we aim at presenting a neutral version of a user message which preserves meaningful content. We denote this task as text detoxification. In this competition, we suggest you create detoxification systems for 9 languages from several linguistic families. However, the availability of training corpora will differ between the languages. For English and Russian, the parallel corpora of several thousand toxic-detoxified pairs (as presented above) are available. So, you can fine-tune text generation models on them. For other languages, for the dev phase, no such corpora will be provided. The main challenge of this competition will be to perform both supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual detoxification. You are very welcome to test all modern LLMs on text detoxification and safety with our data as well as experiment with different unsupervised approaches based on MLMs or other paraphrasing methods! The final leaderboard will be built on a manual evaluation of a test set subset performed via crowdsourcing at Toloka.ai platform. In the end, you will have an opportunity to write and then present a paper at CLEF 2024 (https://clef2024.imag.fr/) which will take place in Grenoble, France! Important Dates February 1, 2024: First data available and run submission opens. April 22, 2024: Registration closes. May 6, 2024: Run submission deadline and results out. May 31, 2024: Participants paper submission. July 8, 2024: Camera-ready participant papers submission. September 9-12, 2024: CLEF Conference in Grenoble and Touché Workshop. On behalf of TextDetox Shared Task Organizers, Daryna Dementieva https://dardem.github.io/

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Free online taster session - 21 March
by Brezina, Vaclav 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Hi all, It is still possible to register for a free taster session, which will introduce corpus linguistics and other training offered at Lancaster University as part of our flexible online programmes (2-year Master's, 1-year Postgraduate Certificate and 3-month specialization courses). When: Thursday 21 March 2024, 10:00am to 11:00am UK time https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/events/study-online-corpus-linguist… Best, Vaclav

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32nd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2024): Track on Learning, Education, and Training
by Announce 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

================= CALL FOR PAPERS ================= Track on Learning, Education, and Training at the 32nd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2024) ISD is recognized as a premier international venue that brings together the fields of Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Data Science. The theme for ISD 2024 is "Harnessing Opportunities: Reshaping ISD in the Post-COVID-19 and Generative AI Era." August 26-28, 2024 Sopot/Gdansk, Poland https://isd2024.ug.edu.pl/call-for-papers/tracks/#track_6 ============ TRACK TOPICS OF INTEREST ============= ** Activity theory approaches to IS development education ** Computer-supported collaborative learning ** Creativity and innovation in IT-based education ** Curriculum development, including local implementation of AIS/IEEE/ACM curricula ** Digital literacy ** IS Education Managementa ** Generative AI Assistants in IS Education ** Educational systems design, development, and evaluation ** HCI issues in IS development for education ** Instructional design ** Integrated IS application in education ** IS for online education ** Learning platforms: mobile apps, MOOC ** Longitudinal and comparative studies of learning ** Open educational resources in IS development education ** Serious games, gamification, and virtual worlds for learning ** Social and crowd computing in educational contexts ** Social media and learning ** Socio-constructivism in IS development education ** User-generated content in IS development education ** Work-integrated learning =============== IMPORTANT DATES =================== Paper Submission: April 16, 2024 Author Notification: June 4, 2024 Final Paper Submission: June 30, 2024 =============== CONFERENCE FEES =================== The registration fee for presenting authors is 500 EUR, with a 100 EUR discount for active AIS members and students. Discounts apply for additional papers and non-presenting participants. The registration fee includes lunch, coffee breaks, welcome reception and a gala dinner. =============== TYPES OF SUBMISSION =============== ** Full research papers: 12 pages ** Short research papers: 8 pages ** Posters: 4 pages ** Journal-First papers The ISD Proceedings will be available as open access in the Association for Information Systems (AIS) eLibrary. Additionally, Springer will publish a selection of the best papers (by invitation) as a separate volume of the Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization (LNISO) series. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, and Web of Science. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, Karlstad University, Sweden Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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[CFP] Shared Task on Text-Graph Representations for KGQA @TextGraphs-17 @ACL 2024
by xi.yan＠uni-hamburg.de 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

*Venue*: ACL 2024, TextGraph workshop *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/textgraphs2024/home/shared-task TextGraph-17 workshop co-located with ACL-2024 features a shared task. TextGraph fosters the investigation of synergies between methods for text and graph processing. This edition focuses on the fusion of LLMs with KGs. In line with this goal, we propose a shared task on Text-Graph Representations for Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA). The shared task is to select a KG entity (out of several candidates) that corresponds to an answer given a textual question. The specificity of the task is that for each question-answer (Q-A) pair not only a textual Q-A pair is given but also a graph of shortest paths in the KG from entities in the query to the LLM-generated candidate entity (including links of the intermediate nodes). This way, participants easily may experiment with various strategies of text-graph modality fusion for the given task in a controllable manner. Participants can submit reports about their participation to the TextGraphs workshop. An example of a previous TextGraphs shared task can be found here: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.textgraphs-1/. *Task Description* Participants are given: - text: question with a list of Wikidata entities mentioned, - text: 5-10 answer candidates in the form of Wikidata entities, - graph: a Wikidata sub-graph composed of the shortest paths between entities in question and entities in answer is provided. One of the candidates is correct, others are incorrect. The goal is to find the correct answer ie. perform a binary classification. Participants are provided a train and development dataset in the form of Q-A-Subgraph triples. Besides, a submission to Codalab public and private leaderboard of the test set Q-A solutions will be available. Examples of visualization for the question "Who was formerly an actor and now a Republican senator?" can be found on our challenge website (https://sites.google.com/view/textgraphs2024/home/shared-task). The participants are provided both textual labels of candidates and such graphs so additional features can be extracted from them, such as graph density, length of paths, textual labels on the paths, etc. * Important Dates* - Training dataset released: 10th March 2024 - Test set released: 25 March 2024 - End of evaluation: 25 April 2024 - Submission deadline for technical reports: 17 May 2024 Contact Please write all questions about the shared task to textgraphs17(a)googlegroups.com. Also, you are invited to join our Telegram group where you can connect to organizers and get updates: https://t.me/+kRTCZYTrpJ5jZGVi Organizers: Irina Nikishina, Universität Hamburg Aida Usmanova, Leuphana University Lüneburg Angelie Kraft, Universität Hamburg Cedric Möller, Universität Hamburg Debayan Banerjee, Universität Hamburg Junbo Huang, Universität Hamburg Longquan Jiang, Universität Hamburg Rana Abdullah, Universität Hamburg Xi Yan, Universität Hamburg Andrey Sakhovskiy, KFU Elena Tutubalina, KFU Mikhail Salnikov, AIRI Alexander Panchenko, AIRI Ricardo Usbeck, Universität Hamburg Xi Yan and Cedric Möller, On behalf of the Organizing Committee

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Deadline approaching: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing (1500 - 1920)
by Dario Del Fante 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Please forward as appropriate. The deadline is due on March 15th. *Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing - 18th - 19th June 2024 - University of Ferrara* This conference aims to discuss the representation of epidemic remedies in medical writing in England and in France between 1500 and 1920. Prospective presenters are invited to address epidemic remedies across five centuries, bearing three main methodological observations in mind. Firstly, the pivotal role of the plague and the Spanish influenza as opening and closing points to the selected timeframe. Secondly, the working definition of “remedy” as a cure “for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.” (OED, remedy 2). This comprehensive definition intends to allow for historical specification and diachronic terminological variation, which the prospective presenters are invited to explore and specify. Thirdly, the definition of representation as “the process by which members of a culture use language (broadly defined as any system which deploys signs, any signifying system) to produce meaning” (Hall 1997: 61), with particular emphasis on language use at lexical and discourse level, as well as the interaction between semiotic systems (e.g. word and image). The present aim is not only to offer a diachronic perspective on the linguistic and visual representation of remedies, but also to focus on remedies prescribed during epidemics, with a view to better understanding the history of medical and health communication. Potential research questions straddle multiple standpoints - historical linguistics, the analysis of discourse, the analysis of lexis, as well as images - and multiple text types (medical treatises, medical dictionaries, periodical publications, medical advertisements through time). They include but are not limited to: - The lexical description of remedies in medical writing - The metaphorical description of remedies in medical writing - The rhetorical construction of ethos in medical writing dealing with epidemic remedies - The visual representation of remedies in medical writing - The visual representation of remedies in newspapers/magazines - The linguistic-visual construal of remedies in texts containing multiple semiotic systems (i.e. advertisements) - the insurgence of misinformation and disinformation in/about health communication (these categories may be epistemologically relevant in papers dealing with the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries) We invite proposals from a wide range of methodological perspectives. To name but a few: corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, historical lexicography and terminology, new historicism, cultural theory, epistemology, philosophy of science, gender medicine, and gender theory. Please submit a *one-page abstract *(*ca. 200 – 300 words excluding references*). Presentations (*in English or in French*) will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please note, there is no fee for registration. All research papers should be delivered in person. All abstracts should be submitted to *remediesconference2023(a)unife.it <remediesconference2023(a)unife.it>*. All abstracts should be *anonymised *and include *a title * and up to *five keywords*. Conference Website <https://www.unife.it/it/cla/progetti/epidemic-remedies-in-medical-writing-1…> -- *Dario Del Fante, PhD* Junior Assistant Professor (Rtd-A) English Language and Linguistics *Humanities Department - University of Ferrara* Via Paradiso 12 - 44121 Ferrara E-mail: dario.delfante(a)unife.it

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[CFP] SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce: paper deadline Apr 25, 2024
by Yubin Kim 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Call For Papers - SIGIR eCom'24 - https://sigir-ecom.github.io/ The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP and Vision research relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) The special theme of this year's workshop is eCommerce Search in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs. The workshop will also include a data challenge. This year we will collaborate with TREC on a product search data challenge ( https://trec-product-search.github.io/index.html). The overarching goal is to study how end-to-end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. The data challenge provides a corpus of products and a set of user intents (queries): the goal is to find the product that suits the user’s needs. SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in conjunction with SIGIR 2024. SIGIR eCom'24 will be an in-person workshop. ________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline - April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) Notification of acceptance - May 23, 2024 Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - June 24, 2024 SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 18, 2024 We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite submission of both papers and posters. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - eCommerce search in the age of Generative AI and LLMs (2024 special theme) - Ranking and Whole Page Relevance - Optimization for IR and business metrics - Diversity in product search and recommendations - Relevance models for multi-faceted entities - Relevance vs. revenue - Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high) - Temporal dynamics and seasonality - Query and Document Understanding - Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion - Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries - Converting across modalities (e.g., text, structured data, images) - Categorization and facets - Reviews and sentiment analysis - Recommendation and Personalization - Personalization & contextualization, including the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location - Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR - Blending recommendations and search results - Representations and Data - Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers - Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce - IR Fundamentals for eCommerce - Unified and universal search and recommendations - Cross-lingual search and machine translation - Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction sites) - Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed bandits - Visual Search in ecommerce - Large-scale Visual Search Challenges and Solutions - Multimodal Search and combining visual and textual information - Combining Vision and language models - Explainable AI for Visual Search - Other challenges - Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce - UX for eCommerce - The role of search in trust and security for marketplaces - Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce Data/Resource Track: In order to promote academic research in the eCommerce domain, we plan to accept a small number of high quality dataset contributions. These submissions should be accompanied by a clear and detailed description of the dataset, some potential questions and applications that arise from it. Preliminary empirical investigations conveying any insight about the data will increase the quality of the submission. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process, i.e. author names must be on the papers. We do not accept anonymized submissions. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. All submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single column format; the short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART Read up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submit your paper PDF through the SIGIR eCom’24 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom24 Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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SEPLN AWARD to the best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] EDICIÓN XXIII PREMIO SEPLN A LA MEJOR TESIS DOCTORAL EN PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL [Plazo de presentación: 2 de mayo de 2024] La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural convoca la Edición XXIII del Premio SEPLN a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, que se regirá por las siguientes bases: La finalidad de este premio es la promoción y divulgación de la investigación en el campo del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. La tesis será premiada con una computadora portátil compacta (tablet) y 300€ para la asistencia al congreso. Se dará entrega del premio en el 40 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2024), tras una breve presentación del trabajo premiado por parte del autor. Para poder concursar, el autor de la tesis doctoral debe ser socio de la SEPLN en el momento de presentar el trabajo. Ninguna persona concursante podrá participar como autora en más de un trabajo. Se podrán presentar a concurso tesis doctorales leídas durante el año 2023, escritas en una lengua del Estado español o en lengua inglesa. Además de la tesis completa, es imprescindible enviar: Un breve resumen de 4 páginas donde claramente se indique el tema y la relevancia de la investigación, los objetivos, métodos, resultados alcanzados y contribuciones. Una breve descripción de la trayectoria científica del autor de la tesis, en la que se describa la participación en actividades científicas como organización de de tareas competitivas, congresos, generación de recursos open access como conjuntos de datos, modelos de lenguaje, etc, y participación en proyectos, contratos, y/o patentes. La calidad de la presentación, la corrección técnica y metodológica, la relevancia, originalidad, la generación, evaluación y publicación de recursos, así como la trayectoria investigadora durante el periodo predoctoral serán los criterios empleados para la adjudicación del premio por parte del jurado. Los trabajos se enviarán a través de la web de la revista de la Sociedad (http://journal.sepln.org) en formato PDF antes del 2 de mayo de 2024. La resolución del premio se comunicará durante el 40 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2024). Documento con las instrucciones (aquí) Para más información dirigirse a aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus 23rd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING [Submission deadline: May 2nd, 2024] The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 23rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Languag e Processing, which will be governed by the following bases: The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing. The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and 300€ grant to help cover the cost of attending the conference. The award will be presented at the 40th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author. In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as an author in more than one work. Doctoral theses read during the year 2023, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition. In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send: a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions. a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents. The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury. The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 2nd 2024. The final decision will be communicated during the 40th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024). Submission instructions (here) For more information aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus

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2nd CFP: The ClinicalNLP 2024 Workshop & Shared Tasks @ NAACL 2024
by Asma Ben Abacha 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

The 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop@ NAACL 2024 <https://2024.naacl.org/>. 20 or 21 June 2024, Mexico City, Mexico. https://clinical-nlp.github.io/2024 Clinical text is growing rapidly as electronic health records become pervasive. Much of the information recorded in a clinical encounter is located exclusively in provider narrative notes, which makes them indispensable for supplementing structured clinical data in order to better understand patient state and care provided. The methods and tools developed for the clinical domain have historically lagged behind the scientific advances in the general-domain NLP. Despite the substantial recent strides in clinical NLP, a substantial gap remains. The goal of this workshop is to address this gap by establishing a regular event in CL conferences that brings together researchers interested in developing state-of-the-art methods for the clinical domain. The focus is on improving NLP technology to enable clinical applications, and specifically, information extraction and modeling of narrative provider notes from electronic health records, patient encounter transcripts, and other clinical narratives. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Modeling clinical text in standard NLP tasks (tagging, chunking, parsing, entity identification, entity linking/normalization, relation extraction, coreference, summarization, etc.) - De-identification and other handling of protected health information - Disease detection and other coding of clinical documents (e.g., ICD) - Structure of clinical documents (e.g., section identification) - Information extraction from clinical text - Integration of structured and textual data for clinical tasks - Domain adaptation and transfer learning techniques for clinical data - Generation of clinical notes: summarization, image-to-text, generation of notes from clinical conversations, etc. - Annotation schemes and annotation methodology for clinical data - Evaluation techniques for the clinical domain - Bias and fairness in clinical text In 2024, Clinical NLP will encourage submissions from the following special tracks: - Clinical NLP in low-resource settings (e.g., languages other than English) - Clinical NLP for clinical conversations (e.g., doctor-patient) - Risk analysis of large language models for clinical NLP (e.g., privacy, bias) The 6th Clinical NLP Workshop will be co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City on June 20 or 21. Shared Tasks Clinical NLP 2024 is hosting four shared tasks: - Task 1 - MEDIQA-CORR: Medical Error Detection & Correction - Task 2 - MEDIQA-M3G: Multilingual & Multimodal Medical Answer Generation - Task 3 - EHRSQL: Reliable Text-to-SQL Modeling on Electronic Health Records - Task 4 - Chemotherapy Timelines Extraction Please visit the shared task websites to register to participate and for additional information about the shared tasks. - MEDIQA-CORR: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024/mediqa-corr - MEDIQA-M3G: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024/mediqa-m3g - EHRSQL: https://github.com/glee4810/ehrsql-2024 - Chemotherapy Timelines Extraction: http://chemotimelines2024.healthnlp.org Submissions The OpenReview submission site is: - https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2024 /Workshop/Clinical_NLP All submissions must follow ACL formatting guidelines <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>, including: - Submissions should be anonymous and must not include any identifying information about the authors <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/review-version.html> - Long papers may have up to eight (8) pages of content and short papers may have up to four (4) pages of content. - You are allowed unlimited pages for references <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#paper-length>. Any “Limitations” section or “Ethics Statement” is similar to references; it does not count toward the page limit. Clinical NLP 2024 has no preprint restrictions; you may post to arXiv at any time. Clinical NLP 2024 workshop proceedings are archival and will be published on the ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/venues/clinicalnlp/>. We encourage submissions of papers submitted to but not accepted by EACL 2024 <https://2024.eacl.org/>, NAACL 2024 <https://2024.naacl.org/>, or ACL Rolling Review <https://aclrollingreview.org/>, as long as the topics are relevant to Clinical NLP. Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>). EventDate Submission deadline *Tuesday, March 19, 2024* Notification of acceptance Tuesday April 18, 2024 Final versions of papers due Wednesday April 24, 2024 Workshop June 20 or 21, 2024Shared Task Dates EventDate Shared task registration opens Monday January 8, 2024 Shared task release of training / validation sets Friday January 26, 2024 Shared task release of the test sets Tuesday March 26, 2024 Shared task run submission deadline Thursday March 28, 2024 Shared task release of official results Monday April 1, 2024 Shared task paper submission deadline Wednesday April 10, 2024Workshop Organizers - Asma Ben Abacha (Microsoft) - Danielle Bitterman (Harvard Medical School) - Kirk Roberts (UTHealth Houston) - Steven Bethard (University of Arizona) - Tristan Naumann (Microsoft Research) Contact For inquiries, please contact: clinical-nlp -workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.

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Re: Doctoral Programme in Epidemiology with Emphasis on Biostatistics and Data Science Integration
by Satvik Singh 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 12:43 PM Satvik Singh <satvik.singh(a)ahduni.edu.in> wrote: > Dear all, > Greetings! > > Apologies for cross-posting. > ******************************************* > > I am writing to seek your help in circulating information about our PhD > programme in Epidemiology > <https://ahduni.edu.in/admission/doctoral-admission/phd-at-school-of-public-…> Please > adapt the text below as needed to send to people who can help in > circulating the information to potential candidates. > > There is a growing demand for well-trained Epidemiologists, especially > those with strong quantitative skills in academic as well as Government, > nonprofit, and for-profit institutions. As you may be aware, Epidemiology > and Statistics go hand in hand together. Studying Epidemiology will > enable people with a statistical background to evaluate and impact the > habits, risk/preventive factors, and health concerns of people and > communities. Our PhD programme in Epidemiology > <https://ahduni.edu.in/admission/doctoral-admission/phd-at-school-of-public-…> > will not only give students expertise in an important domain, but will > also enable them to learn data science and advanced biostatistics and apply > their knowledge to conceive and design, analyse, and interpret research > studies and address major public health concerns. > > Epidemiologists can access complex datasets from hospitals, public health > agencies, and research institutions to analyse real-world health patterns > and gain insights into risk, preventive factors, and biological pathways > using simple and advanced analytical methods. Studying epidemiology would > also enable them to model the spread of infectious diseases. There is also > scope to develop innovative study designs, and analytical techniques > integrating statistics, epidemiological methods and data science. > Importantly, a combined expertise in statistics and epidemiology will > enable them to make a positive impact on human and planetary health. > > The application portal > <https://auris.ahduni.edu.in/core-emli-au-develop/online-admission/portal/on…> is > open for the academic programme starting this August. Ahmedabad > University awards full tuition fee waiver and financial support to > full-time doctoral students. The University also encourages Indian and > foreign students to apply for funding from external sources The financial > support could be either University Assistantship or University Fellowship, > or from external sources. We offer University Assistantships at INR 40,000 > per month plus tuition fee waiver, and University Fellowships at INR 50,000 > per month plus tuition fee waiver. > > Please circulate this information along with the attached poster to reach > potential candidates as you think appropriate. If you send us your mailing > address, we can also mail you a physical poster to put up on your notice > board. > > Regards, > Satvik > > -- > > Satvik Singh > > Research Associate > > Centre for Inter-Asian Research > > Room B-19, Hub-2, SEAS > > Phone: +91.9473394011 | Ext: 1151 > > > -- *Disclaimer:* *This email (including any attachments) is meant solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential information and/or content protected by intellectual property laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this email and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any use, disclosure, replication, copying, distribution, or other kinds of unauthorised dissemination of the content of the emails is strictly forbidden and will be considered as a violation of the Ahmedabad University Code of Conduct.*

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Deadline Extension: The Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024)
by dghosh＠ets.org 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Processing of figurative language is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including computational modeling of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, simile, and other figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic, ordinary, scientific, social media) and, thus, to all types of discourse, figurative language becomes an important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes figurative language an important research area for computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification, interpretation and generation indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application. The proposed workshop will be the fourth edition of the biennial Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, whose first editions were held at NAACL 2018, ACL 2020 and EMNLP 2022, respectively. The workshop builds upon a long series of related workshops that the current organizers have been involved with: “Metaphor in NLP” series (2013-2016) and “Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity” series (2009-2010). We expand the scope to incorporate various types of figurative language, with the aim of maintaining and nourishing a community of NLP researchers interested in this topic. The main focus will be on computational modeling of figurative language, however papers on cognitive, linguistic, social, rhetorical, and applied aspects are also of interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, formal, or a quantitative framework. Recent advancement in language models have led to several works on figurative language understanding (Chakrabarty et al 2022a; Chakrabarty et al 2022b; Liu et al 2022; Hu et al 2023) and generation (Stowe et al 2021; Chakrabarty et al 2021; Sun et al 2022; Tian et al 2021) At the same time large language models have opened up opportunities to utilize figurative language in scientific (Kim et al 2023) as well as creative writing (Chakrabarty et al 2022c; Tian et al 2022). Additionally there have also been recent work on multimodal figurative language generation (Chakrabarty et al 2023; Akula et al 2023), understanding (Hessel et al 2023; Yosef et al 2023) and interpretation (Hwang et al 2023; Desai et al 2022; Kumar et al 2022). We encourage submissions along these axes. Topics of Interest The workshop will solicit both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following: Identification and interpretation of different types of figurative language: Linguistic, conceptual and extended metaphor; irony, sarcasm, puns, simile, metonymy, personification, synecdoche, hyperbole Generation of different types of figurative language: sarcasm, simile, metaphors, humor, hyperbole Multilingual and multimodal figurative language processing Resources and evaluation Annotation of figurative language in corpora Datasets for evaluation of tools Evaluation methodologies Figurative use in low-resource languages Processing of figurative language for NLP applications Figurative language in sentiment analysis; dialogue systems; computational social science; educational applications Figurative language and mental health Figurative language in digital humanities Figurative language in creative writing Figurative language and cognition Cognitive models of processing of figurative language by the human brain Human-AI collaboration for figurative language Shared Tasks Multilingual euphemisms detection: Euphemisms are a linguistic device used to soften or neutralize language that may otherwise be harsh or awkward to state directly (e.g. "between jobs" instead of "unemployed", "late" instead of "dead", "collateral damage" instead of "war-related civilian deaths"). By acting as alternative words or phrases, euphemisms are used in everyday language to maintain politeness, mitigate discomfort, or conceal the truth. While they are culturally-dependent, the need to discuss sensitive topics in a non-offensive way is universal, suggesting similarities in the way euphemisms are used across languages and cultures. We propose a shared task in which participants will need to disambiguate sentences in multiple languages as either euphemistic or not. The dataset will include English, Mandarin, Spanish, Yoruba, and possibly additional languages. https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1959/ Understanding of Figurative Language through Visual Entailment: One important modality that has gained interest recently is vision, namely the interpretation of figurative language in media such as memes, art, or comics. This task is challenging because it involves reasoning abstractly about images, and also involves understanding social commonsense and cultural context. We will frame this as a visual entailment task where a model not only has to predict if a caption entails the content in the image but also provide free text explanations justifying the label prediction. These tasks have proved difficult for state-of-the-art multimodal models in the past. We will have a paper and a baseline for the same. https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1970/ Important Dates Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Submission: March 10th, 2024 Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: April 14th, 2024 Final Paper Submission: April 24th, 2024 Workshop: June 20/21, 2024 For more information, please check https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2024

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