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IWSLT 2025 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Dear all, The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20+ years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new applications scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, automatic evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for *shared tasks*. If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send it to *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com <iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2024. *Decisions about which tasks will run in 2025 will be announced by November 1st, 2024. For further information on this initiative, please refer to *https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>.* Best, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul IWSLT Organisers

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call for papers - ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by Patrizio Bellan 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

***************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu . -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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2nd call for Workshops: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLida, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. We would like to invite proposals for workshops, to be held on Sunday, March 2, immediately before the main conference, or on Wednesday, March 5, immediately after the main conference. Workshops can be scheduled either for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. Workshops are free to offer online presentations if they wish to do so. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech processing, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form as a pdf file, by email to ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects: - proposed workshop title - topic and goals of the workshop - target group and estimated attendance - workshop organizer(s) and contact(s) - mode of organization and program design, including: - information on full versus half-day workshop - information on the preference of workshop day: March 2, March 5, or either - information on whether you plan an on-site only or hybrid event SCHEDULE * Monday, August 26, 2024: Submission of workshop proposals * Tuesday, September 10, 2024: Notification of workshop selection * Monday, December 16, 2024: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline * Monday, February 3, 2025: Camera-ready workshop papers due * Sunday, March 2, 2025: Pre-conference workshops * Sunday, March 5, 2025: Post-conference workshops Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including sending out calls for papers, reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting day. SELECTION The assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 Workshop Chairs: * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway To inquire about the workshop submission process or any practical aspect of the organization of workshops, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. For any question about the conference in general, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’ and for any general practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.ee<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc@eki.ee>’. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 a success! Sara Stymne, NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 20205 general chair PS: please also check our call for papers: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Job Opening for Data Scientist with a focus on natural language processing
by Menno Van Zaanen 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

Job Opening for Data Scientist with a focus on natural language processing Application link: https://bit.ly/4fqI2Sl Application deadline: 31 August 2024 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is looking for a data scientist with a focus on natural language processing (permanent position). As a Data Scientist at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead projects focusing on Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely together with a team of researchers as part of SADiLaR's extended network, both on your own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at national and international conferences will be encouraged and supported. This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the Department of Science and Innovation. Read more about SADiLaR at https://www.sadilar.org. Key responsibilities: - Research: Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. - Project work: Initiating and contributing to Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects. - Teaching: Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. - Mentorship: Mentorship of researchers in the field of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. Minimum requirements: - A PhD (NQF level 10) in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human Language Technology, Digital Humanities, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields. The PhD should have a focus on computational aspects of linguistics. - A minimum of (five) 5 years' experience in the use of Python (other programming languages used within the computational linguistics or Digital Humanities domain can also be considered). - Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. - A minimum of (three) 3 years' experience as a supervisor/co- supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals. - A minimum of (three) 3 years' experience with using and/or developing computational tools. - A minimum of (three) 3 years experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. - A minimum of (one) 1 year experience related to teaching or training within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. More information can be found at the application link. For informal inquiries please contact: Menno van Zaanen <menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za> Application link: https://bit.ly/4fqI2Sl -- 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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First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2024) - Call for Participation
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2024) Lancaster, UK, 29-30 July 2024 Call for Participation We are pleased to share the NLPAICS 2024 conference programme, which you can view by clicking here - https://nlpaics.com/programme-2/. To register, please visit https://nlpaics.com/registration/. We very much hope to welcome you to NLPAICS 2024 at Lancaster! The conference Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce the NLPAICS’2024 keynote speakers - Iva Gumnishka (Humans in the Loop) - Sevil Şen (Hacettepe University) - Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València) - Jacques Klein (University of Luxembourg) Sponsors We are proud to announce the conference sponsors: CodeAgent – Collaborative Agents for Software Engineering Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nlpaics.com/ and will be updated on a regular basis. The conference updates will also be available on social media (X - https://x.com/nlpaics, LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/nlpaics/ ) Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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First Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 19 Jul '24

19 Jul '24

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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CfP: 8th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8)
by Antti Arppe 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

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

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Final Call for Papers - ‘Last minute results’ submissions at NeTTT’2024
by Tharindu Ranasinghe 30 May '24

30 May '24

One week left to submit your papers to ‘Last minute results’ at NeTTT’2024 International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 (https://nettt-conference.com/) Final Call for ‘Last minute results’ submissions In view of the special track of the NeTTT'24 event on Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI and the latest dynamic developments with LLMs, we would like to call on researchers and users/companies to submit ‘‘Last minute results” of ongoing studies in the form of short 4-to-page submissions (The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only). The idea is to fast-track the reviewing process for these submissions so that the results presented at the event are as up-to-date as possible. The presentations can be either in oral or poster format. Submission deadline: 5 June 2024 Notification: 12 June 2024 Submission is done via the Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024. We invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates: * LaTeX<https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…>, * Overleaf<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Overleaf_Springer_C…>, * Word<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Word_splnproc2311.p…>. Registration Conference registration is open on https://nettt-conference.com/fees-registration/ Venue The conference will take place at Conference Hotel Cherno More<https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/conference-centre.html>, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com<https://nettt-conference.com/> and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettt2024@nettt-conference.com>

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Deadline Extension: LoResMT 2024 at ACL 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 17 May '24

17 May '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024) https://www.loresmt.org/ @ ACL 2024 (August 11–16, 2024) Bangkok, Thailand SUBMISSION https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT TIMELINE Paper submission due: *May 30 (**Thursday**)*, 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: June 24 (Monday), 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1 (Monday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Workshop dates at ACL: August 15, 2024 SCOPE Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 ( https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/), AMTA 2021, COLING 2022 and EACL 2023, we introduce the Seventh LoResMT Workshop at ACL 2024. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers on these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. TOPICS We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages - Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL 2024 style templates. Accepted papers will be published online in the ACL 2024 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at ACL 2024. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2024.aclweb.org/). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jindřich Libovicky, Charles University John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Rajdeep Sarkar, Yahoo Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University CONTACT Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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Call for Workshops: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 13 May '24

13 May '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLida, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. We would like to invite proposals for workshops, to be held on Sunday, March 2, immediately before the main conference, or on Wednesday, March 5, immediately after the main conference. Workshops can be scheduled either for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. Workshops are free to offer online presentations if they wish to do so. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech processing, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form as a pdf file, by email to ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects: - proposed workshop title - topic and goals of the workshop - target group and estimated attendance - workshop organizer(s) and contact(s) - mode of organization and program design, including: - information on full versus half-day workshop - information on the preference of workshop day: March 2, March 5, or either - information on whether you plan an on-site only or hybrid event SCHEDULE * Monday, August 26, 2024: Submission of workshop proposals * Tuesday, September 10, 2024: Notification of workshop selection * Monday, December 16, 2024: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline * Monday, February 3, 2025: Camera-ready workshop papers due * Sunday, March 2, 2025: Pre-conference workshops * Sunday, March 5, 2025: Post-conference workshops Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including sending out calls for papers, reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting day. SELECTION The assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 Workshop Chairs: * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway To inquire about the workshop submission process or any practical aspect of the organization of workshops, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. For any question about the conference in general, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’ and for any general practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.xn--ee-o2t. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 a success! Sara Stymne, NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 20205 general chair När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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