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Genre-enriched web corpora and multilingual genre classifier
by Taja Kuzman 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Dear all, If you are involved in (web) corpora creation and curation, interested in large multilingual corpora for European languages, or working with automatic genre annotation, the following resources might be useful for you. Multiple multilingual genre-related resources and technologies are now available on the CLARIN.SI and Hugging Face repositories: - 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗖𝗼𝗖𝘂-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗯 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮 - MaCoCu web corpora for 13 European languages (Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Icelandic, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian), automatically annotated with genre labels. In total, the corpus collection comprises 67 million texts and 28.5 billion words. They are available on the CLARIN.SI repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1969 - 𝗫-𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗿 - multilingual text genre classifier, applicable to any of the 100 languages that are included in the XLM-RoBERTa model - available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-cla…) and CLARIN.SI repository (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1961) - 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵-𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗫-𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 - manually-annotated genre dataset, used for training and evaluation of the X-GENRE classifier - available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/datasets/TajaKuzman/X-GENRE-text-genre-dataset) and CLARIN.SI repository (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1960). Additionally, we set up a 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (https://github.com/TajaKuzman/AGILE-Automatic-Genre-Identification-Benchmark) for continuous evaluation of the emerging technologies on this task. The benchmark is based on unpublished manually-annotated datasets - if you wish to test your own systems on the task, let me know, and we'll be happy to share them with you. Best regards, -- TajaKuzman Research Assistant Department of Knowledge Technologies | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia CLASSLA Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages | CLARIN.SI twitter <https://twitter.com/TajaKuzman> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/taja-kuzman/>

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COLING 2025 - Call for Emergency Reviewers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Dear Colleagues, The COLING2025 conference aims for a high-quality peer reviewing process by experts on a wide range of topics. We are looking for people who are willing to serve as emergency reviewers for COLING 2025. Emergency reviewing will take place between 23 and 29 October. We are counting on your help to provide 1 or 2 reviews with a quick turnaround time during this period. To volunteer, please fill in your information on this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDIxZGeyKOe5nV8YFUreNxA4Uw367oYpP…

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3 open PhD or PostDoc Positions University of Technology Nuremberg [UTN]
by Steffen Eger 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

The Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG) at University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) has three fully funded PhD / PostDoc positions in Natural Language Processing. Deadlines: 31.11.2024, 02.11.2024, 04.11.2024 Topics are: Next Generation LLMs, Multimodal Evaluation Metrics for Generative AI, NLP for science Detailed information: https://nl2g.github.io/positions Please direct all inquiries regarding scientific content to Steffen Eger (steffen.eger(a)utn.de<mailto:steffen.eger@utn.de>). For general questions, contact stars(a)utn.de<mailto:stars@utn.de>. Applications must be made to stars(a)utn.de with the corresponding reference numbers. --------------------------------------------- Heisenberg Professor Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) https://nl2g.github.io/ <https://nl2g.github.io/>https://www.utn.de/en/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/<https://www.utn.de/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/> https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-engineering/nllg-lab/ <https://nl2g.github.io/> Ulmenstraße 52i 90443 Nürnberg

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Call for Bids to Host TPDL 2026 - applications due 13 December 2024
by Antoine Doucet 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Invitation to Tender for a TPDL Conference The Steering Committee of the TPDL conference invites interested parties to submit bids to host the TPDL 2026 Conference, held in conjunction as an event of the duration of 3 days. One additional day for workshops can be proposed. Please note that proposals may also may considered for TPDL 2027. Institutions submitting a bid for TPDL 2026 also commit themselves to collect the fees and manage the conference budget. TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries,” embracing the whole spectrum of the LAM (Library, Archive, and Museum) community; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. From 2024, TPDL is expanding its scope to prominently include Document Analysis, Recognition and Information Retrieval, acknowledging the vital role of those research areas in the creation (by means of digitization and information extraction from heterogeneous sources), access, discovery, and dissemination of digital content. Parties interested in hosting TPDL are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the TPDL Steering Committee Chair (Antoine Doucet <antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr <mailto:<antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr>>) and Deputy Chair (Gianmaria Silvello<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it <mailto:<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it>>) by Friday, December 13th, 2024. The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Important dates: - Bid submission deadline: Friday, December 13th, 2024 - Feedback to bidders and discussion (if needed): January 2025 - Bid selection: February 2025 Proposals should cover the topics covered by the attached (proposed) template. Feel free to get in touch well ahead of submission. Best regards, Antoine Doucet and Gianmaria Sivello (Chair and Deputy Chair of the TPDL steering committee)

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
by Menno Van Zaanen 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, a national research infrastructure hosted at the North-West University within the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications from outstanding early career researchers for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF) in applied linguistics in general and language for academic purposes in particular. Full details available here: https://bit.ly/3UeRf7h -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Estimado Manuel, adjunto información sobre un webinar relevante para los miembros de AEPIA. Agradecería que se distribuyera en la lista. gracias! un saludo oier & eneko **** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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ACL Anthology Graph
by Hugh Paterson III 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Greetings, Does anyone have a citation graph of the ACL Anthology? Kind regards, Hugh Paterson III

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Interspeech 2025: Call for papers
by Grzegorz Chrupała 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Papers https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-papers ============================================ Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Portal Open: 18 December 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: 12 February 2025 Paper Update Deadline: 19 February 2025 Paper Acceptance Notification: 21 May 2025 Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from psycholinguistic theories of human speech processing to advanced applications of speech technology. The theme of Interspeech 2025 is “Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology” and aims to celebrate and incorporate the vast speech diversity both within and between individuals, as well as within and between languages. This theme emphasizes diversity as a source of richness and information, contributing to the development of fairer, more robust, and personalized speech technology applications and more accurate theories of human speech processing. By embracing this diversity, we can create theories and technologies that are inclusive of everyone, ensuring that speech science and technology benefit all individuals and communities. Interspeech 2025 will feature the usual oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events. Following Interspeech 2024 we will feature a Blue Sky track. New this year is a Speech Science Festival for the general public on the Sunday prior to Interspeech. Watch our website for more information in the coming months on how you can participate! Paper Submission Please note that the paper submission deadline is earlier than previous years because the conference is held in August. The paper submission deadline is February 12 2025. Interspeech 2025 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of human and machine speech science and technology. The language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references and acknowledgments only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the paper kit provided on the conference website (and as an overleaf template) and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Interspeech 2025 will follow a double-blind review process so papers submitted for review should not reveal the identity or affiliation of the authors. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole. If accepted, each paper needs to be presented by one of the authors during the in-person conference. Blue Sky Track Interspeech 2024 introduced the new BLUE SKY track of highly innovative papers in fields or directions that have not yet been explored. Large-scale experimental evaluation will not be required for papers in this track. If you think your work satisfies these requirements, please consider submitting a paper to this challenging and competitive track. Please note that to achieve the objectives of this BLUE SKY track, we will ask the most experienced reviewers to assess the proposals. Venue Interspeech 2025 will take place at Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Center in the Netherlands. For more information, you can visit the website https://www.interspeech2025.org Scientific Areas and Topics Interspeech 2025 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including – but not limited to – the following topics: ● Human Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition ● Speech Synthesis ● Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody ● Spoken Language Generation ● Paralinguistics in Speech and Language ● Automatic Speech Recognition ● Analysis of Conversation ● Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems ● Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders ● Spoken Language Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization ● Speaker and Language Identification ● Technologies and Systems for New Applications ● Speech and Audio Signal Analysis ● Resources and Evaluation ● Speech Coding and Enhancement ● Speech and Language Processing for Health ● Beyond traditional speech topics (not limited to the provided list) Contact For questions regarding the technical programme: TPC-chairs(a)interspeech2025.org For general questions: pco(a)interspeech2025.org

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II Andaluz.IA Forum - Deadline extension
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

==================================================================== CFP II Andaluz.IA Forum December 20, 2024, Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén) *Deadline for submissions of papers extended to October 27, 2024* ==================================================================== From ten Andalusian universities, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and several Andalusian researchers currently at other national and international institutions, we are organizing the II Andaluz.IA Forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/home>, a meeting whose main objective is to show the potential and give visibility to the academic and research community in Artificial Intelligence in our region. This forum seeks to highlight the work of Andalusian scientists, both those who are currently working in Andalusia, as well as those who have spent part of their training or career in the region, regardless of their current place of work. The first edition of the Andaluz.IA forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia2023/> was organized at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Seville and this year it will take place at Universidad de Jaén. With this second edition, we want to continue highlighting the great potential for research and academic development in Artificial Intelligence that Andalusia has, in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, robotics and natural language processing. The event will be held in person on December 20, 2024 at the Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén). Interested researchers can participate by presenting their results in oral or poster format, provided that they have been accepted in relevant conferences or journals in the area. In addition, professionals and companies wishing to participate may do so through sponsorship or direct participation by registering on the event's website. For more information on registration, submission of papers and forms of sponsorship, please consult the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers>. IMPORTANT DATES ● *Deadline for submission of papers: October 15, 2024 October 27, 2024* ● Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2024 ● Deadline for registration at a reduced rate: November 15, 2024 CONTACT INFORMATION maite(a)ujaen.es sjzafra(a)ujaen.es ORGANIZING COMMITTEE https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/organisers [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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