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**Deadline: 15 August** - Postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics with a focus on grounding language in computer vision and robotics
by Simon Dobnik 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[apologies for x-posting] We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics and/or natural language processing to work on the project "Beyond pixels and words: language technology generation and understanding of spatial language in interaction" (2023-01552) funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). Application deadline on August 15, 2024 23:59 (CEST, UTC+2) Project description: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… (English) and https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038… (Swedish) and from my personal page (coming soon) I am looking for candidates with a strong background in computational linguistics, natural language processing (or neighbouring fileds such computer vision and robotics) and machine learning, ideally with experience of computational semantics, language modelling and working with multi-modal representations. Best regards, Simon — Simon Dobnik Professor of Computational Linguistics CLASP & FLoV, University of Gothenburg https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/simondobnik

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BlackboxNLP 2024: The 7th Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
by Hosein Mohebbi 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*Last Call for Papers*: The seventh edition of the BlackboxNLP workshop, co-located with EMNLP 2024, in Miami on November 15, 2024. . *Important dates* --------------------- *August 15, 2024* - Paper submission deadline (through OpenReview). September 20, 2024 - Notification of acceptance. October 4, 2024 - Camera-ready deadline. *November 15, 2024* - Workshop date. All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”). We will accept ARR submissions; corresponding deadlines will be announced at a later moment in time. *Workshop description:* ----------------- Many recent performance improvements in NLP have come at the cost of understanding of the systems. How do we assess what representations and computations models learn? How do we formalize desirable properties of interpretable models, and measure the extent to which existing models achieve them? How can we build models that better encode these properties? What can new or existing tools tell us about these systems’ inductive biases? The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers focused on interpreting and explaining NLP models by taking inspiration from fields such as machine learning, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. We hope the workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary meetup that allows for cross-collaboration. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applying analysis techniques from neuroscience to analyze high-dimensional vector representations in artificial neural networks; * Analyzing the network’s response to strategically chosen input in order to infer the linguistic generalizations that the network has acquired; * Examining network performance on simplified or formal languages; * Mechanistic interpretability, reverse engineering approaches to understanding particular properties of neural models; * Proposing modifications to neural architectures that increase their interpretability; * Testing whether interpretable information can be decoded from intermediate representations; * Explaining specific model predictions made by neural networks; * Generating and evaluating the quality of adversarial examples in NLP; * Developing open-source tools for analyzing neural networks in NLP; * Evaluating the analysis results: how do we know that the analysis is valid? *Submissions* ----------------- We call for two types of papers: 1) *Archival papers*. These are papers reporting on completed, original and unpublished research, with a maximum length of 8 pages + references (papers shorter than this maximum are also welcome). Broader Impacts/Ethics and Limitations sections are optional and can be included on a 9th page. An optional appendix may appear after the references in the same pdf file. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings of the ACL Anthology, meaning they cannot be published elsewhere. They should report on obtained results rather than intended work. These papers will undergo double-blind peer-review, and should thus be anonymized. 2) *Extended abstracts*. These may report on work in progress or may be cross-submissions that have already appeared (or are scheduled to appear) in another venue in 2024-2025. The extended abstracts are of a maximum of 2 pages + references. These submissions are non-archival and will not be included in the proceedings. The selection will not be based on a double-blind review and thus submissions of this type need not be anonymized. Submissions should follow the official EMNLP 2024 style guidelines. Accepted submissions for both tracks will be presented at the workshop: most as posters, some as oral presentations (determined by the program committee). *The submission site is:* https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/BlackBoxNLP *Organizers* ----------------- Yonatan Belinkov, Technion Najoung Kim, Boston University Jaap Jumelet, University of Amsterdam Hosein Mohebbi, Tilburg University Aaron Mueller, Northeastern University & Technion Hanjie Chen, Rice University *Contact* --------------------- Please contact the organizers via email (blackboxnlp(a)googlegroups.com) for any questions. Read more on the workshop's website: https://blackboxnlp.github.io

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PhD position at Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO
by dai.xiang.au＠gmail.com 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Hi colleagues, We are seeking candidates for a PhD position in Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing. Location: Brisbane or Sydney, Australia Deadline: We will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis until a suitable candidate for the role is found. Project title: “Spot, what’s happening?” Explaining a robot’s state through language Details about the project Collaborative human-robot teams are increasingly being used for a variety of tasks. When working with robots, humans sometimes need to understand what the robot is currently doing, why and how it got to that state, and how it interprets its environment. This is important for the human operator to ensure the robot is working according to plans and particularly important if the human needs to intervene or react when the robot needs help. This project aims to explore the use of language as an interaction modality to facilitate the collaboration between robots and humans. The project will investigate what information about a robot’s state and perception is relevant to human operators in a given interaction and task context and how to present that information through language, including dialogue or chat interfaces. The project requires expertise in Human-Computer Interaction and/or Human-Robot Interaction. In addition, knowledge or a willingness to upskill in natural language processing (including using large language models), Explainable AI, and robotics are highly desired. This project addresses Dynamic Situation Awareness and Human-AI Communication, two of the foundational research questions being addressed in Collaborative Intelligence research programme at CSIRO CINTEL. The project also fits into a collaboration between CINTEL and the Australian Cobotic Centre’s research on Human-Robot Interaction. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available at https://www.australiancobotics.org/project/project-2-5-spot-whats-happening…. Thanks, Dai

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[Deadline Extended to Aug 16] Final Call For Papers: Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations, CIKM MMSR ‘24
by Aditya Nandkishore Chichani 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

============================================================================================================================ We are pleased to announce an extension of the submission deadline for CIKM MMSR 24. The new deadline is August 16, 2024. ============================================================================================================================ Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) Date: October 25, 2024 (Full day workshop) Venue: ACM CIKM 2024 (Boise, Idaho, United States) Website: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ Organizers: Aditya Chichani, Surya Kallumadi, Tracy Holloway King, Andrei Lopatenko Keynote Speakers: Vamsi Salaka, Yubin Kim Paper submission deadline: August 16, 2024 (23:59 P.M. GMT) https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/CIKM/2024/Workshop/MMSR 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. Contact: Aditya Chichani E-mail: aditya_chichani(a)berkeley.edu

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The 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024) – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Zinsmeister, Heike 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[With apologies for cross-posting] We are excited to announce the 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), which will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is endorsed by ACL SIGPARSE and will be hosted by Universität Hamburg in Germany on December 5th-6th, 2024. ----------------------------- VENUE ----------------------------- TLT 2024 will take place at the guest house of Universität Hamburg. In order to support rich discussions and networking, TLT 2024 will primarily be an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live / synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. Universität Hamburg and its guest house are conveniently located near the Dammtor train station / metro station Stephansplatz which are well-connected with many parts of the city and beyond, providing an easy commute for attendees. Hamburg is a vibrant city known for its rich maritime history as one of the leading cities in the medieval Hanseatic League, as well as its modern cultural diversity, including events at the world-famous Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall. The city is easily accessible by train or plane (Hamburg Airport (HAM); about 1 to 1.5 hours train ride: Bremen Airport (BRE) and Hannover Airport (HAJ)). ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. Submissions (in both tracks) may either be archival—in case of unpublished work—or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2024 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Non-archival papers must have been published or accepted for publication at another CL conference. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and all full and short papers must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Long and short paper submission deadlines: August 15th, 2024 * Reviews Due: September 26th, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2024 * Final version of papers due: November 6th, 2024 * TLT2024: December 5th-6th, 2024 in Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Heike Zinsmeister, Universität Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 COMMUNICATION CHAIR ----------------------------- Sarah Jablotschkin, Universität Hamburg Contact: tlt2024.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024.html

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2025 - Twelfth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by Jauhiainen, Tommi S 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Hello all, here is our Call for Papers: VarDial 2025 - Twelfth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects VarDial 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/home Co-located with COLING 2025, VarDial deals with computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties; - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Timeline Publication of call for papers: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 Notification of acceptance: Monday, November 25th, 2024 Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: TBD Camera-ready papers due: Friday, December 13th, 2024 Workshop date: Sunday, January 19th, 2025 Submission information We invite submissions of up to 8 pages of content, plus up to one page for ethical considerations and/or limitations, plus unlimited pages of references. We also welcome shorter contributions, but we do not make an explicit distinction between long and short papers. For shared task system description papers, we recommend a length of 4-5 pages of content. Detailed submission guidelines available on the COLING 2025 website. All submissions must use the official COLING templates. Contributions must be submitted to Softconf: https://softconf.com/coling2025/VarDial25/ It will also be possible to submit rejected COLING main conference papers to VarDial 2025. Instructions on committing such papers to VarDial will be provided here at a later date. Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Oslo (Norway) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA) Cheers, Tommi — Tommi Jauhiainen (PhD, Language Technology) Projektisuunnittelija / Project Planning Officer FIN-CLARIN & Kielipankki – The Language Bank of Finland Digitaalisten ihmistieteiden osasto / Department of Digital Humanities Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki https://www.kielipankki.fi Member Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires, University of Helsinki

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CFP: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) @ COLING 2025.
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the first CfP for The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) @ COLING 2025. The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) 20 January 2025, in conjunction with COLING'2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [1] Description The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL - 4) will serve as an outstanding international platform for exchanging knowledge and outcomes in the theory, methodology, and applications of language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following * Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora * Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects * Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating Arabic Dialects * Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects * Dialect Identification and Classification * Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects * Machine Translation involving Arabic Dialects * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Arabic Dialects * Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction for Arabic Dialects * Development of Open Access Resources for Arabic Dialects * Text Processing and Transliteration Challenges for Arabic Dialects * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations in NLP Applications for Arabic Dialects * Resources and Tools for Computational Analysis of Arabic Dialects * Applications of Arabic Dialects NLP in Real-World Scenarios Paper Submission Submissions should adhere to the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to review and follow the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, available at https://coling2025.org/ [2]. Submission link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [3] If authors are describing dialectal variations, we request that they include relevant linguistic details and sociolinguistic contexts to enrich the understanding of the presented work. Submissions may be of two types * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages including references, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages including references, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, or system demonstrations, etc. Important dates * Call for Papers Announcement: 07 August 2024 * Abstract Submission Deadline: 03 October 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 10 October 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 1 November 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 Organising Committee * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (General Chair) * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Review Chair) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Publication Chair) * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK (Publicity Co-Chair) * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco (Publicity Co-Chair) * Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain (Publicity Co-Chair) * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine (Advisory Committee) * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) Anti-Harassment policy The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy https://coling2022.org/policy [4] Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [2] https://coling2025.org/ [3] https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [4] https://coling2022.org/policy

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Lacuna Fund Proposals
by Felipe Bravo 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear Community, I am writing to share an exciting chance to fund projects focused on creating or strengthening Natural Language datasets in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish. In collaboration with Lacuna Fund, the National Center for Artificial Intelligence <https://www.cenia.cl/> (CENIA) has opened a call for proposals focused on Latin America and Africa. I kindly ask for your assistance in spreading the word about this initiative. This is a significant opportunity to contribute to the development of language technologies that are inclusive and representative of diverse linguistic communities. By supporting the creation of high-quality datasets, we can ensure that innovations in AI and Natural Language Processing are accessible and beneficial to a broader range of people, particularly in regions that are often underrepresented in global research efforts. Lacuna Fund is an initiative that funds the creation of high-quality open data to close critical knowledge gaps. Its goal is to empower institutions, organizations, and academic groups by providing resources that enable the development of innovative and sustainable solutions. I invite you to learn more about the call for proposals here: https://lacunafund.org/apply/. Cheers, Felipe

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Call for Questions about the IR community
by tim gollub 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear fellow researchers, as part of a bachelor thesis on Text2SQL models, we are collecting questions about the IR community. In order to get realistic and diverse questions, we’d like to ask for your help: What questions do you have about the IR research community and the publications in the field? All questions are welcome; simply submit them via our form; no additional information is required. https://forms.gle/aTKXA2PFqWVK96rYA Thank you in advance! Tim Gollub https://webis.de

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Last Call for the Future!
by Joel Tetreault 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

My friends, it is time to look to the future. All the way to *August 15, 2024*. On that day you will happily submit one or more submissions to the Workshop on the Future of Event Detection <https://future-of-event-detection.github.io/> (FuturED). Your work will help set the agenda for years to come of this long-standing subfield of NLP, CV, HCI and other main areas of AI. The future can be yours! Look forward to seeing you on Softconf <https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/FuturED/> in 11 days and the workshop itself on November 15 at EMNLP <https://2024.emnlp.org/>. Yours truly, for the Future.

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