FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2024
April, 1-5 2024
Aussois (French Alps)
We are pleased to announce the 4th edition of ALPS - the Advanced NLP School to be held in the French Alps in April.
This school targets advanced research students in Natural Language Processing and related fields and brings together world leading experts and motivated students. The programme comprises lectures, poster presentations, practical lab sessions and nature activities - the venue is located near a National Park.
Important Dates
Oct 1st: Application deadline
Nov 1st 2023: acceptance notification
Jan 1st 2024: registration deadline
April 1st 2024: Start of School
Confirmed speakers so far:
- Kyunghyun Cho (New York University)
- Sara Hooker (Cohere)
- André Martins (IT Lisboa)
- Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)
- Titouan Parcollet (Cambridge University)
Website and online application: https://alps.imag.fr/ <http://alps.imag.fr/>
Questions: alps(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
[Apologies for cross-postings]
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*2nd Call for Demonstrations*
PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of
Portuguese
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia)
March 14th & 15th 2024
https://propor2024.citius.gal/
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The PROPOR 2024 demonstration program committee invites submissions for
demonstrations. Following the spirit of previous PROPOR editions, the
demonstration track aims at bringing together academia and industry,
creating a forum where more than written or spoken descriptions of research
are available. Thus, demos should allow attendees to try and test them
during their presentation in a dedicated session that will provide a more
informal and interactive setting. Products, systems, or tools are examples
of acceptable demos. Both early-research prototypes and mature systems may
also be considered.
Demos Submission: December 10 2023
Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 21 2024
Camera-ready demo paper: January 28 2024
Conference: March 14 and 15 2024
*Topics:*
The areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied
issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician, such as, but not
limited to, the same topics as for the conference paper submission:
- Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense
disambiguation, coreference resolution)
- Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering,
subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
- Natural language generation
- Information extraction and information retrieval
- Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and
speaker recognition, spoken language understanding)
- Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue
systems, speech-to-speech translation)
- Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies,
lexicons, grammars)
- NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
- Distributional semantics and language modeling
- Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the
language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia,
Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé, and Principe)
- Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources including
Portuguese/Galician
The systems may be of the following kinds:
- Natural Language Processing systems or system components
- Application systems using language technology components
- Software tools for computational linguistics research
- Software for demonstration or evaluation
- Development tools
*Submissions:*
Submissions should consist of a non-anonymous brief description document of
up to *three pages of content, including references*. Developers must
outline the main characteristics of their system/product/tool, provide
sufficient details to allow its evaluation, and give information on how
they plan to demonstrate it. Developers are encouraged to focus their
description on the relevance of the computational processing component of
Portuguese or Galician in the proposed system. Submissions should be
written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For
the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra
content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers
will be requested to send the source files for the production of the
proceedings.
Submissions must be sent via EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024) — please select the
track: *PROPOR2024 Demo Paper*.
All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL
provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these
requirements. They can be found at:
LaTeX stylesheet:
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex
MS Word stylesheet:
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word
The URL for paper submission will be available soon.
*Publication:*
Accepted demo papers are expected to be published by ACL as a volume in ACL
Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/) as part of the PROPOR 2024
proceedings. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least
one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration
for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline.
*Presentation format:*
Accepted demos will be presented at a designated demo session with an
optional accompanying poster. Developers should make sure they could run
their demos properly. Thus, it is the authors’ responsibility to provide
the necessary technical conditions (i.e. equipment) for the demo at the
conference. Note that the local organizers will not provide any hardware or
software. Free high-speed Internet access will be available.
There will be a best demo award for the best-presented project.
Further details on the date, time, and instructions of the demonstration
session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date.
*Demo chairs:*
Marlo Souza (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
Iria de-Dios-Flores (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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*Iria de-Dios-Flores (PhD)*
*https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/
<https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/>*