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CfP Journal of Open Humanities Data
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

[https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/6pUIP3BR24AzmruTUlFA4sluufOwqVuTMxj0nXD7y…] Call for Papers for 2023 The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/> features peer-reviewed publications describing humanities research objects with high potential for reuse. These might include curated resources like (annotated) linguistic corpora, ontologies, and lexicons, as well as databases, maps, atlases, linked data objects, and other data sets created with qualitative, quantitative, or computational methods. We are currently inviting submissions of two varieties: 1. Short data papers contain a concise description of a humanities research object with high reuse potential. These are short (1000 words) highly structured narratives. A data paper does not replace a traditional research article, but rather complements it. 2. Full length research papers discuss and illustrate methods, challenges, and limitations in humanities research data creation, collection, management, access, processing, or analysis. These are intended to be longer narratives (3,000 - 5,000 words), which give authors the ability to contribute to a broader discussion regarding the creation of research objects or methods. Humanities subjects of interest to the JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Linguistics, Literature, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc. Research that crosses one or more of these traditional disciplinary boundaries is highly encouraged. Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/#repo>. More information about the submission process<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions>, editorial policies<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/editorialpolicies/> and archiving<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/> is available on the journal’s web pages. JOHD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. We accept online submissions via our journal website. See Author Guidelines <https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions/> for further information. Alternatively, please contact the editor<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/contact/> if you are unsure as to whether your research is suitable for submission to the journal. Authors remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> licence agreement. -- 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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SIGUL2023 Workshop - 1st call for papers
by Claudia Soria 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

** ****Apologies for cross-postings***** * ********Please help disseminate**** 1st Call for Papers SIGUL 2023 Workshop <https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it> Co-located with Interspeech 2023 <https://www.interspeech2023.org/> Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 August 2023 The 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA <http://www.elra.info/>/ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php>Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>(SIGUL 2023) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2023 carries on the tradition of the SIGUL and the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organized since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this Workshop will span the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages. *Workshop website*: https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it Special Features This year, the workshop will be marked with three special events: (1) Special Session in Celtic Language Technology (August 18) SIGUL 2023 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language technologies for Celtic languages. (2) Joint Session with SlaTE 2023 (August 19) SIGUL 2023 will have a joint session with The 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SlaTE 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/slate2023>). The goal is to accelerate the development of spoken language technology for under-resourced languages through education. (3) Social outing and dinner near Dublin (optional on August 20) Workshop Topics Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in natural language processing and spoken language processing for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers and also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to: * Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages) * Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages * Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models * Zero-resource speech technologies and self-supervised learning * Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling * Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects * Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems * Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages * Special topic: o Celtic language technology o Spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages via education We also welcome various typologies of papers: * research papers; * position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches); * research posters for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources; * demo papers, and early-career/student papers, to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters. Instructions for submission Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions according to the following guidelines. * Research and position papers and posters: a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references. * Demo papers, and early-career/student papers: a maximum of three pages with the 3rd page reserved for references. Both types of submissions must conform to the Interspeech format <https://www.interspeech2023.org/author-resources/>defined in the paper preparation guidelines as instructed in the author’s kit <https://www.interspeech2023.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/INTERSPEECH_2023…>on the Interspeech webpage. Papers do not need to be anonymous. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2023 - Camera-ready paper: 21 July 2023 - Workshop date: 18-20 August 2023 Outline of the Program SIGUL 2023 will continue the tradition of the previous SIGUL event <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it> that features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and poster sessions, and panel discussions to discuss a better future for under-resourced languages and under-resourced communities. Full list of organizers SIGUL Board Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) SIGUL 2023 Organizers Kolawole Adebayo (ADAPT, Ireland) Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Brian Davis (ADAPT, Ireland) John Judge (ADAPT, Ireland) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) To contact the organizers, please mail sigul2023(a)ml.jaist.ac.jp <mailto:sigul2023@ml.jaist.ac.jp>(Subject: [SIGUL2023]). * -- Claudia Soria Researcher Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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AT4SSL2023 - Second Call For Papers
by Fred Blain 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL2023 @EAMT2023) Second Call For Papers https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/at4ssl2023/ ****** Apologies for cross -posting ****** SCOPE According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via Sign Language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-spoken, spoken-to-sign and sign-to-sign language translation. The availability and cost of these professionals is often a limiting factor in communication between signers and non-signers. Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach (Bragg et al., 2019)<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308561.3353774>. The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages. This one-day workshop aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields. We are delighted to confirm that two interpreters for English<>International Sign (IS) will be present during the event, to make it as inclusive as possible to anyone who wishes to participate. Theme of the workshop: Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, large veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions. The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation -- deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. TOPICS This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome: * Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle * Use-cases, applications * Ethics, privacy and policies * Sign language linguistics * Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation) * Natural language processing * Interpreting of sign and spoken languages * Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition) * 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis * Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies * Sign language in the media SUBMISSION FORMAT Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: * Research, review, position and application papers Unpublished papers that present original, completed work. The length of each paper should be at least four (4) and maximum eight (8) pages, with unlimited pages for references. * Extended abstracts Extended abstracts should present original, ongoing work or innovative ideas. The length of each extended abstract is four (4) pages, with unlimited pages for references. Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates (LaTex<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip>. Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw>, MS Word<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx>, Libre/Open Office<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt>, PDF<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf>). Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. SUBMISSION POLICY * Submissions must be anonymized. * Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted using EASY Chair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023>. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at AT4SSL, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. * The review will be double-blind. IMPORTANT DATES: * First call for papers: 13-March-2023 * Second call for papers: 3-April-2023 * Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 * Review process: between 17-April-2023 and 05-May-2023 * Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023 * Camera ready submission: 01-June-2023 * Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023 * Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023 * Workshop date: 15-June-2023 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: Dimitar Shterionov (TiU) Mirella De Sisto (TiU) Mathias Muller (UZH) Davy Van Landuyt (EUD) Rehana Omardeen (EUD) Shaun O’Boyle (DCU) Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University) Floris Roelofsen (UvA) Frédéric Blain (TiU) Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent) Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI) FOR CONTACTS: Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov(a)tilburguniversity.edu Registration will be handled by the EAMT2023 conference. (To be announced)

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Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE ACM/TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages
by Joseph Mariani 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Call for Papers: IEEE ACM/TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages Date : Wed, 29 Mar 2023 04:01:36 -0400 De : IEEE Signal Processing Society <marketing(a)signalprocessingsociety.org> Répondre à : marketing(a)signalprocessingsociety.org Pour : mariani(a)limsi.fr Call for Papers: IEEE ACM/TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages SPS_Logo_KO_RGB (1) CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages *Submit Your Manuscript* <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> Speech and language processing is a multi-disciplinary research area that focuses on various aspects of natural language processing and computational linguistics. Speech and language technologies deal with the study of methods and tools to develop innovative paradigms for processing human languages (speech and writing) that can be recognized by machines. Thanks to the incredible advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques that effectively interpret speech and textual sources. In general, speech technologies include a series of artificial intelligence algorithms that enables the computer system to produce, analyze, modify, and respond to human speech and texts. It establishes a more natural interaction between humans and computers as well as the translation between all human languages with effective analysis of text and speech. These techniques have significant applications in computational linguistics, natural language processing, computer science, mathematics, speech processing, machine learning, and acoustics. Another important application of this technology is the machine translation of text and voice. There exists a huge gap between speech and language processing in low-resource languages as they have lesser computational resources. With the ability to access vast computational sources from various digital sources, we can resolve numerous language processing problems in real time with enhanced user experience and productivity measures. Speech and language processing technologies for low-resource languages are still in their infancy. Research in this stream will enhance the likelihood of these languages becoming an active part of our life, as their importance is paramount. Furthermore, the societal shift towards digital media along with spectacular advances in digital media along with processing power, computational storage, and software capabilities with a vision of transferring low-resource computing language resources into efficient computing models. This special issue aims to explore the language and speech processing technologies to novel computational models for processing speech, text, and language. The novel and innovative solutions focus on content production, knowledge management, and natural communication of low-resource languages. We welcome researchers and practitioners working in speech and language processing to present their novel and innovative research contributions for this special section. Topics of Interest * Artificial intelligence-assisted speech & language technologies for low-resource languages * Pragmatics for low-resource languages * Emerging trends in knowledge representation for low-resource languages * Machine translation for low-resource language processing * Automatic speech recognition & speech technology for low-resource languages * Sentiment & statistical analysis for low-resource languages * Multimodal analysis for low-resource languages * Augment mining for low-resource language processing * Text summarization & speech synthesis * Sentence-level semantics for speech recognition * Information retrieval & extraction of low-resource languages Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should be submitted through the Manuscript Central system <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…>. *Submit Your Manuscript* <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> *Important Dates* * *Submission deadline: 30 May 2023* * Authors notification: 25 July 2023 * Revised version submission: 29 September 2023 * Final decision notification: 15 December 2023 Guest Editors * Dr. Chi Lin <mailto:clindut@ieee.org>, Dalian University of Technology, China * Dr. Chang Wu Yu <mailto:cwyu@chu.edu.tw>, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Dr. Ning Wang <mailto:wangn@rowan.edu>, Rowan University, USA * Dr. Qiang Lin <mailto:lqchina@dlust.edu.cn>, Dalian University of Technology, China Facebook <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> LinkedIn <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> Twitter <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> Instagram <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> YouTube <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> IEEE Signal Processing Society, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA Unsubscribe <https://hs-4789515.s.hubspotemail.net/hs/manage-preferences/unsubscribe-all…> Manage preferences <https://hs-4789515.s.hubspotemail.net/hs/manage-preferences/unsubscribe?lan…> -- Depuis le 1er janvier 2021, le LIMSI a fusionné avec le LRI et est devenu le LISN (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique) Since January 1st 2021, LIMSI merged with the LRI lab and became the LISN (Interdisciplinary Computer Science Laboratory) - Joseph MARIANI Directeur de Recherche Émérite au CNRS LISN Rue John von Neumann Université Paris-Saclay Batiment 508 91405 ORSAY Cedex (France) Tel: +33 1 69 15 78 56 Email:Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr Web:https://perso.limsi.fr/mariani/index Web IMMI:http://immi.cnrs.fr/

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[CfP] IIR2023: 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, June 8th - 9th, 2023, Pisa, Italy
by Guglielmo Faggioli 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Scope The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR) is to provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating research in Information Retrieval, where Italian researchers (especially young ones) and researchers affiliated with Italian institutions can network and discuss their research results in an informal way. IIR 2023 is the 13th edition of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop. It will take place on June 8th - 9th, 2023 and is organized by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the University of Pisa. Participation in the IIR 2023 workshop will be free of charge. However, advance registration will be strictly required. Topics IIR 2023 offers the opportunity to present and discuss theoretical and empirical research. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to: - Search and Ranking. Research on core Information Retrieval (IR) algorithmic topics, including IR at scale, covering topics such as: - Theoretical models and foundations of IR and access - Retrieval models and ranking models, including diversity and aggregated search - Web search, including link analysis, sponsored search, search advertising, adversarial search and spam, and vertical search - Queries and query analysis - Recommendation, Content Analysis, and Classification. Research focusing on recommender systems (RS), rich content representations and content analysis, covering topics such as: - Filtering and recommender systems - Document representation - Content analysis and information extraction, including summarization, text representation, readability, sentiment analysis, and opinion mining - Cross- and multilingual search - Clustering, classification, and topic models - Artificial Intelligence, NLP, Semantics, and Dialog. Research bridging AI and IR --, especially toward deep semantics -- and dialog with intelligent agents, covering topics such as: - Question Answering - Conversational systems and retrieval, including spoken language interfaces, dialog management systems, and intelligent chat systems - Semantics and knowledge graphs - Deep learning for IR, embeddings, Large Language Models, and agents - NLP techniques used to enhance search and recommendation - Domain-Specific Applications. Research focusing on domain-specific challenges, covering topics such as: - Social search - Search in structured data including email and entity search - Multimedia search - Search and recommendation for Educational, Legal, Health - including genomics and bioinformatics -, and Academic domains - Other domains such as digital libraries, enterprise, news, app, and archival search - Human Factors and Interfaces. Research into user-centric aspects of IR, including user interfaces, behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive systems, covering topics such as: - Mining and modeling search activity, including user and task models, click models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, and attention modeling - Interactive and personalized search and recommendation - Collaborative search, social tagging and crowdsourcing - Information privacy and security - Evaluation. Research that focuses on the measurement and evaluation of IR systems, covering topics such as: - User-centered evaluation methods, including measures of user experience and performance, user engagement and search task design - Test collections and evaluation metrics, including the development of new test collections - Eye-tracking and physiological approaches, such as fMRI - Evaluation of novel information access tasks and systems such as multi-turn information access - Statistical methods and reproducibility issues in information retrieval evaluation - Efficiency and scalability - Future Directions. Research with theoretical or empirical contributions on new technical or social aspects of IR, especially in more speculative directions or with emerging technologies, covering topics such as: - Novel approaches to IR - Ethics, economics, and politics - Applications of search to social good - IR and RS with new devices, including wearable computing, neuroinformatics, sensors, Internet-of-Things, vehicles Submissions Papers may range from theoretical works to system descriptions. We particularly encourage PhD students or Early-Stage Researchers to submit their research. We also welcome contributions from the industry and papers describing ongoing funded projects which may result useful to the IIR community. Authors are invited to submit one of the following types of contributions: - Full original papers (10 pages, plus additional pages for references if needed) - Short original papers (5 pages, plus additional pages for references if needed) - Extended abstracts containing descriptions of ongoing projects or presenting already published results (up to 4 pages, plus additional pages for references if needed). If presenting already published results the extended abstract should be single-blind and contain a reference to the original published paper. Submissions of full research papers must be in English, in PDF format in the CEUR-WS single-column conference format available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_onwNQpVPD0ViZPrhGfardLrsP0sgmIp/view?usp=… . Submission will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the CEUR workshop series (at the authors’ discretion). Submission will be through CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IIR2023/. Important Dates - Submission website opens: March 15, 2023 - Submission deadline: April 15, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2023 - Camera-ready deadline: May 30th, 2023 - IIR 2023: June 8th-9th, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. For further information, visit the website http://iir2023.isti.cnr.it/ or contact us to guglielmo.faggioli(a)unipd.it

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AT4SSL2023 - First Call For Papers
by Fred Blain 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL2023 @EAMT2023) First Call For Papers https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/at4ssl2023/ ****** Apologies for cross-posting ****** SCOPE According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via Sign Language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-spoken, spoken-to-sign and sign-to-sign language translation. The availability and cost of these professionals is often a limiting factor in communication between signers and non-signers. Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach (Bragg et al., 2019)<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308561.3353774>. The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages. This one-day workshop aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields. Theme of the workshop: Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, large veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions. The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation -- deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. TOPICS This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome: * Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle * Use-cases, applications * Ethics, privacy and policies * Sign language linguistics * Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation) * Natural language processing * Interpreting of sign and spoken languages * Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition) * 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis * Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies * Sign language in the media SUBMISSION FORMAT Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: * Research, review, position and application papers Unpublished papers that present original, completed work. The length of each paper should be at least four (4) and maximum eight (8) pages, with unlimited pages for references. * Extended abstracts Extended abstracts should present original, ongoing work or innovative ideas. The length of each extended abstract is four (4) pages, with unlimited pages for references. Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates (LaTex<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip>. Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw>, MS Word<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx>, Libre/Open Office<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt>, PDF<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf>). Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. SUBMISSION POLICY * Submissions must be anonymized. * Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted using EASY Chair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023>. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at AT4SSL, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. * The review will be double-blind. IMPORTANT DATES: * First call for papers: 13-March-2023 * Second call for papers: 31-March-2023 * Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 * Review process: between 17-April-2023 and 05-May-2023 * Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023 * Camera ready submission: 01-June-2023 * Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023 * Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023 * Workshop date: 15-June-2023 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: Dimitar Shterionov (TiU) Mirella De Sisto (TiU) Mathias Muller (UZH) Davy Van Landuyt (EUD) Rehana Omardeen (EUD) Shaun O’Boyle (DCU) Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University) Floris Roelofsen (UvA) Frédéric Blain (TiU) Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent) Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI) FOR CONTACTS: Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov(a)tilburguniversity.edu Registration will be handled by the EAMT2023 conference. (To be announced)

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Final Reminder: Reminder: Surveying the Landscape of Ethics Consideration Sections Grounded in Research Data
by Kolagar, Zahra 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Dear colleagues, This is our final reminder to invite you to participate in our survey entitled "Surveying the Landscape of Ethics Consideration Sections Grounded in Research Data Lifecycle". We would like to remind you that the survey is still available until 15.03.2023, should you wish to take part. If you would like to participate in our survey, please click on this link: <https://umfrage.iis.fhg.de/index.php/765534?lang=en> https://survey.iis.fraunhofer.de/index.php/765534?lang=en We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to each and every one of you who took the time to participate in our survey; your input has been immensely helpful and we are truly grateful for your support. Sincerely, Zahra Kolagar and Hadiseh Yadollahi P.S, If for any technical reasons, you cannot access the link in this email, please report to zahra.kolagar(a)iis.fraunhofer.de<mailto:zahra.kolagar@iis.fraunhofer.de>

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Re: Surveying the Landscape of Ethics Consideration Sections Grounded in Research Data Lifecycle
by Kolagar, Zahra 08 Mar '23

08 Mar '23

Dear Colleague, We hope our email finds you well. We are a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany. Our research is focused on the application of natural language processing in various fields. Our current research is focused on adapting the existing ethical principles to ensure that they are still relevant and adequate to various stages of the research data lifecycle. To this end, we have created a survey and would like to invite you to participate in our survey entitled: Surveying the Landscape of Ethics Consideration Sections Grounded in Research Data Lifecycle. We believe that your expertise will help identify relevant and important points in regard to ethical considerations that both researchers and reviewers need to bear in mind at various stages of research. You can find more information on this survey by clicking on the link below. If you would like to participate in our survey, please click on this link: https://survey.iis.fraunhofer.de/index.php/765534?lang=en . This link will stay active until 15.03.2023. Please also feel free to share the link to this survey with anyone who might be interested in participating. Sincerely, Zahra Kolagar and Hadiseh Yadollahi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Associates at Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits (IIS) Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany ________________________________ From: Kolagar, Zahra Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 12:28:25 AM Subject: Surveying the Landscape of Ethics Consideration Sections Grounded in Research Data Lifecycle Dear Colleague, We hope our email finds you well. We are a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany. Our research is focused on the application of natural language processing in various fields. Our current research is focused on adapting the existing ethical principles to ensure that they are still relevant and adequate to various stages of the research data lifecycle. To this end, we have created a survey and would like to invite you to participate in our survey entitled: Surveying the Landscape of Ethics Consideration Sections Grounded in Research Data Lifecycle. We believe that your expertise will help identify relevant and important points in regard to ethical considerations that both researchers and reviewers need to bear in mind at various stages of research. You can find more information on this survey by clicking on the link below. If you would like to participate in our survey, please click on this link: https://survey.iis.fraunhofer.de/index.php/765534?lang=en . This link will stay active until 15.03.2023. Please also feel free to share the link to this survey with anyone who might be interested in participating. Sincerely, Zahra Kolagar and Hadiseh Yadollahi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Associates at Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits (IIS) Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

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International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS2023), 21-24 February
by Claudia Soria 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Check this out! FYI, the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology <https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/home> (IWSDS2023) is taking place this week, 21-24 February. As this year’s conference theme is "Diversity in Dialogue Systems", many contributions also address under-resourced languages. Check the program for interesting papers here <https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/program/detailed-schedule>. A special session on Dialogue Systems for Multilingual and Under-resourced Language Speakers <https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/special-sessions-workshops> is planned on Friday 24. Best, Claudia -- Claudia Soria Researcher Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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website to do transcription and respeaking
by Alex CRISTIA 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, My team is heading to Bolivia again and this time we'll have internet access! We'd love to find a system (online app or code) that allows us to put audio files in a secure server, and which has a simple and intuitive interface where our informants can log in, listen to an audio clip, re-speak it, transcribe it on a piece of paper, take a photo of the paper (perhaps with their phone) & upload that photo to be stored together with the rest of the information on that clip, and then move on to the next clip. Does anything like that exist? What would you recommend? Feel free to email just me, and if so, let me know if I can share back the suggestions with the group. Thank you in advance, Alex --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex (Alejandrina) Cristia Researcher, CNRS Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, FRANCE My site: www.acristia.org --------------------------------------------------------------- If you donate, ask me about effective charities <https://effectivealtruism.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52b028e7f799cca…>. / Si vous faites des dons, posez-moi des questions sur le don efficace <https://www.altruismeefficacefrance.org/guide-don-efficace-1/>.

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3rd CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Third call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 Note: deadline extension and submission system information The 4th RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous* Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources *: The term indigenous languages used in the RAIL workshop is intended to refer to non-colonial languages (in this case those used in Africa). In no way is this term used to cause any harm or discomfort to anyone. Many of these languages were or are still marginalised, and the aim of the workshop is to bring attention to the creation, curation, and development of resources for these languages in Africa. Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system which can be found at https://softconf.com/eacl2023/RAIL2023. Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Please make sure you also go through the responsible NLP checklist (https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/). Also, submissions should have a section titled “Limitations” (as described in the stylesheets). Authors are also encouraged to include an explicit ethics statement. Important dates: Submission deadline 20 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 5 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- 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. 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2nd CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Second call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 The 4th RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous* Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources *: The term indigenous languages used in the RAIL workshop is intended to refer to non-colonial languages (in this case those used in Africa). In no way is this term used to cause any harm or discomfort to anyone. Many of these languages were or are still marginalised, and the aim of the workshop is to bring attention to the creation, curation, and development of resources for these languages in Africa. Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system (link will be provided once available). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Please make sure you also go through the responsible NLP checklist (https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/). Also, submissions should have a section titled “Limitations” (as described in the stylesheets). Authors are also encouraged to include an explicit ethics statement. Important dates: Submission deadline 13 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 5 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- 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. 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SMaLL-100: Introducing Shallow Multilingual MT Model for Low-Resource Languages
by Claudia Soria 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

On behalf of our colleague, Laurent Besacier: hi everyone i thought this info could be useful for scientists working on NMT for low resource languages we recently released SMaLL-100 model, a Shallow Multilingual MT Model for Low-Resource Languages it is a distilled version of the large 12B MTM-100 model released by Meta you can find out more here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11621 but the reason why i want to share this to SIGUL & EAMT community is because we provide models (which are a good pre-trained model to develop MT for low resource language pair) and also a demo platform to access MT for those 10,000 language pairs ! Models: https://huggingface.co/alirezamsh/small100 Online MT demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/alirezamsh/small100 (still a bit slow because currently running on 2 v*CPU* - 16GB RAM) Best regards Laurent Besacier Naver Labs Europe -- Claudia Soria Researcher Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Fwd: Request to forward: Please become a reviewer for ISCA conferences
by Claudia Soria 24 Jan '23

24 Jan '23

FYI. Best, Claudia -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Request to forward: Please become a reviewer for ISCA conferences Data: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:49:13 +0100 Mittente: TPC chairs INTERSPEECH 2023 <tpc-chairs(a)interspeech2023.org> Rispondi-a: tpc-chairs(a)interspeech2023.org Organizzazione: INTERSPEECH 2023 A: petra.wagner(a)uni-bielefeld.de Dear speech researcher, In preparation for INTERSPEECH 2023, we are currently searching for reviewers to evaluate submitted manuscripts. The reviewing period will be between 8th March and 19th April 2023. If you are not already a reviewer for ISCA conferences, we encourage you to sign up at https://isca-speech.org/iscareviewers/reviewer.php, using the same email address as your CMT account. If you do not have a CMT account, you will need to create one, as reviewing will take place fully within CMT (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/). To be eligible as a reviewer for ISCA you should have previously published at INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, ICPhS or related conferences and satisfy two or more of the following conditions: - Hold a Ph.D. - Published at least one journal article as first author in a speech-related journal (e.g., IEEE/ACM T-ASLP; Speech Communication; Computer, Speech & Language; JASA; Phonetica; - Journal of Phonetics; or other comparable journals) - Published at least 3 INTERSPEECH/ICASSP/ASRU/SLT or major NLP conference (ACL/EMNLP/NAACL) papers as first author - Received at least 100 citations on first authored papers - Have an h-index of at least 7 and i10-index of at least 10 - Be recommended by an ISCA Fellow, ACL Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, or current/past INTERSPEECH Area Chair To help conference organisers match the papers allocated to you, please also register with the Toronto Paper Matching System at http://torontopapermatching.org using the same email address as CMT. This should result in you being assigned papers that better match your interests and expertise. Kind regards, Simon, Kate, Petra -- Simon King, Kate Knill, Petra Wagner Technical Programme Committee chairs INTERSPEECH 2023 Dublin, Ireland - 20-24th August 2023

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CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

First call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 The 4rd RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system (link will be provided once available). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Important dates: Submission deadline 13 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 2 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- 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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Fwd: Low-Resource NLP Workshop
by Claudia Soria 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

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First CFP: QPP++ 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks colocated with ECIR 2023
by Guglielmo Faggioli 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

*QPP++ 2023 is a workshop of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (2-6 April, Dublin, Ireland).* *Query Performance Prediction (QPP) *is currently primarily used for ad-hoc retrieval tasks. The Information Retrieval (IR) field is reaching new heights thanks to recent advances in large language models and neural networks, as well as emerging new ways of searching, such as conversational search. Such advancements are quickly spreading to adjacent research areas, including QPP, necessitating reconsidering how we perform and evaluate QPP. *Important Dates* Submission deadline: February 5th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 5th, 2023 Camera ready: March 15th, 2023 Workshop day: April 2nd, 2023 Conference days: April 3rd-6th, 2023 *Call for Papers* This workshop aims at stimulating discussion on three main aspects concerning the future of QPP: - *What are the emerging QPP challenges* posed by new methods and technologies, including but not limited to dense retrieval, contextualized embeddings, and conversational search? - How might these *new techniques be used to improve the quality of QPP*? - Can we claim that the current techniques for *evaluating QPP are effective in all arising scenarios*? Can we envision new evaluation protocols capable of granting generalizability in new domains? We plan to foster the discussion via *two focus groups* led by the workshop's organizers. The first focus group will identify what possibilities the QPP offers regarding new research models and IR tasks, primary considerations, issues linked to different aspects of the QPP, and the potentialities provided by new tools. The second focus group will gather the community’s concerns and solutions with respect to the QPP evaluation, especially for what concerns emerging domains. The workshop will focus on the following themes: - *Query performance prediction applied to new tasks*: Can existing QPP techniques be exploited, or which new QPP theories and models need to be devised for new tasks, such as passage-retrieval, Q&A, and conversational search? - *Query performance prediction exploiting new techniques*: How can new technologies like contextualized embeddings, large language models, and neural networks be exploited to improve QPP? - *Evaluation of query performance prediction*: How should QPP techniques be evaluated, including best practices, datasets, and resources, and, in particular, should QPP be evaluated the same for different IR tasks? It is possible to submit three main categories of manuscripts to the workshop: *Full papers*: up to 6 pages. *Short papers*: up to 3 pages. *Discussion papers*: up to 3 pages. All manuscripts are expected to address the workshop's themes as mentioned above. *Full and short papers* should contain *innovative ideas and* their experimental evaluation. *We are also interested in works containing* (methodologically sound) *preliminary results and incremental endeavours*. *Discussion papers should include work with or without preliminary results, position papers, and papers describing failures*. Such papers should foster the discussion and thus are not required to contain full-fledged results. In this sense, the experimental evaluation of the submitted discussion paper is appreciated but not required. *We are also interested in receiving contributions regarding* (methodologically sound) *failed experiments*; since the workshop will focus on new research directions, we consider it necessary also to discuss the reasons and causes of failures. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members. *Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series.* Submit your contribution via Easychair at the following link *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpp2023 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpp2023>* To prepare the submission, use the one-column CEUR template. A precompiled version is available at *https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sTW16i0vlsVHVf75t0rC_30UVMPUmn3Z/view?usp=share_link <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sTW16i0vlsVHVf75t0rC_30UVMPUmn3Z/view?usp=…>* *Website* *https://qpp.dei.unipd.it/ <https://qpp.dei.unipd.it/>*

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ELE2 consortium launched an open call for SRIA Contribution Projects
by Claudia Soria 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Dear All, I am pleased to forward the open call for SRIA Contribution Projects launched by the ELE2 Consortium. Full information, including the call documentation and related annexes is available on the open call website <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. Please note that only research organisations, NGOs, incorporated associations, companies from EU Member States are eligible to apply. Proposals can be submitted until 29 November 2022. Best regards, Claudia -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: ELE2 consortium launched an open call for SRIA Contribution Projects Data: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:23:04 +0200 (CEST) Mittente: Jana Hamrlova <hamrlova(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz> A: langeq-2020 <langeq-2020(a)adaptcentre.ie> CC: open-call <open-call(a)european-language-equality.eu> Dear all, I would like to remind you that ELE2 consortium launched an open call for SRIA Contribution Projects. For more details see the text below, full information including the call documentation and related annexes is available on the open call website <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. With best regards, Jana Hamrlova ELE Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects Management Team open-call(a)european-language-equality.eu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- European Language Equality initiative <https://european-language-equality.eu/> launched an open call for SRIA Contribution Projects <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. TOPICS TheSRIAcontributionprojectsaremeanttoprovidemeaningful,sofarmissing,convincing and compellinginputfortheStrategicAgendaandRoadmapforachievingfulldigitallanguageequalityinEuropeby2030.The projects should provide defined use cases and feasibility studies for concrete application scenarios in one of the following topics: 1. Data sets for more robust speech technology 2. Study of language coverage for text mining and natural language understanding in key European industrial sectors 3.Legal Assessment (Desk Research) 4. General NLP/LT/AI Landscaping (Desk Research) 5. General NLP/LT Domains (Desk Research) 6. Analysis of AI and LT in European news media 7. Computing facilities for LT (Desk Research) 8. Demonstrably Greener Models of MT 9. Survey of the use of LT in the hospital sector 10. Basic LAnguageResource Kit (BLARK) (re)definition (Desk Research) TIMELINE Publication of the call: *29 September 2022* Submission deadline: *29 November 2022 (23:59 CET)* Evaluation and selection of the submitted proposals: December 2022 Contract signing and projects start: December 2022 – January 2023 Project duration: 2-3 months ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS * research organisations (including but not limited to higher education organisations and independent research organisations), NGOs, incorporated associations and companies * legally established in EU member states * one organisation per project only (mono-beneficiary projects) FUNDING * €185,000 allocated for the call * maximum amount of eligible costs per single project: €25,000, funding rate: 90% * financial support will be provided in the form of a lump sum after completing all project activities HOW TO APPLY Apply via the open call submission platform <https://opencall.european-language-equality.eu/>, follow the Call documentation and related annexes on the open call website <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/> CONTACT open call management team: open-call(a)european-language-equality.eu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "langeq-2020(a)adaptcentre.ie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to langeq-2020+unsubscribe(a)adaptcentre.ie.

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Special Session on "Diologue Systems for Multilingual and Under-resourced Language Speakers" (IWSDS'2023)
by A. Seza Doğruöz 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

Dear All, Together with Sunayana Sitaram, we are organizing a special session (Dialogue Systems for Multilingual and Under-resourced Language Speakers<https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/special-sessions>) at IWSDS’2023 (hosted by University of Southern California/Institute for Creative Technologies). Looking forward to the academic and industrial contributions (deadline for papers: Oct.28th). Feel free to email us if you have any questions. Kind regards, A.S. Doğruöz & Sunayana Sitaram Here is the call: "Current dialogue systems target mostly monolingual and high resource languages and their speakers. However, millions of speakers around the world (e.g., India, Africa, Europe as well as indigenous and immigrant communities in the US) are multilingual and it is normal for these speakers and communities to switch within or across languages in daily lives (Doğruöz & Sitaram, 2022; Doğruöz et al., 2021; Sitaram et al., 2019). In addition, most languages of the world are still under-resourced. Therefore, there is a need for dialogue systems to be more inclusive and target both the multilingual and under-resourced languages and their speakers. The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers from the SDS community and encourage research and discussion around the unique challenges (e.g., data collection, model building, sociolinguistic aspects and system evaluation) for multilingual and under-resourced languages." References: Doğruöz, A. S., & Sitaram, S. (2022). Language technologies for low resource languages : sociolinguistic and multilingual insights.<https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8756694> In M. Melero, S. Sakti, & C. Soria (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (pp. 92–97). Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Doğruöz, A. S., Sitaram, S., Bullock, B. E., & Toribio, A. J. (2021). A survey of code-switching : linguistic and social perspectives for language technologies<https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8712328>. In C. Zong, F. Xia, W. Li, & R. Navigli (Eds.), 59TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOL 1 (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) (pp. 1654–1666). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.131 Sitaram et al., (2019). A Survey of Code-switched Speech and Language Processing. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00784>

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SIGUL2022 papers available on ACL Anthology
by Claudia Soria 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

Dear All, the SIGUL 2022 papers are now available on ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/events/lrec-2022/#2022-sigul-1). Thanks Seza Doğruöz for letting us know! All the best, Claudia

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CFP ACM TALLIP Special Issue on Language Technology for Safer Online Social Media Platforms in Low-resource Eurasian Languages
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Special Issue on Language Technology for Safer Online Social Media Platforms in Low-resource Eurasian Languages * Link: https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tallip/pdf/TALLIP-SI-Lang… * Aims, Scope and Objective of Special Issue: * Our everyday lives have become more reliant on online platforms. Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), discussion websites (Reddit), messaging services (WhatsApp, Snapchat), blogs, forums, and online chats have all been used to spread ideas and data. Without a doubt, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram benefit society by enabling individuals to express themselves and seek support from others in the online community. Additionally, these platforms have an unmistakable wrong side: cyberbullying, cyberstalking, cyberterrorism, e-bile, fake news, flaming, hate speech, impersonation, pornography, glorification of dangerous behavior (e.g., eating disorders), and trolling. Various news sites in recent years have recorded numerous incidences of suicide, grief, and fear. Additionally, although individuals from many linguistic origins are exposed to online social media, English remains at the forefront of continuing advances in language technology research. Recently, several study investigations on highly resourced languages, such as Arabic, German, Hindi, and Italian, have been done. However, more research on making social media platforms safer in low-resource Eurasian languages is still needed. This special issue aims to gather original research articles that add to the body of knowledge about the use of intelligent natural language systems to build a safer social media environment in low-resource Eurasian languages. Topics Among the special issue's topics of interest are the following: - • Early detection of radicalization in low-resource Eurasian languages • Mechanisms for recognizing and preventing cyber predators in low-resource Eurasian languages • Identifying and resolving hate speech (abusive language, cyberbullying, etc.) in low-resource Eurasian languages • Simulated propagation and transmission of potentially harmful information via social media in low-resource Eurasian languages • Data collection and annotation methodologies for to safer social media in low resourced Eurasian languages • Content moderation strategies in low-resource Eurasian languages • Cybersecurity and social media in low-resource Eurasian languages • Fake news detection in low-resource Eurasian languages * Important Dates • Submissions deadline: 10 February 2023 * with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Special Issue on Language Technology for Safer Online Social Media Platforms in Low-resource Eurasian Languages <https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tallip/pdf/TALLIP-SI-Lang…>

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last call for application to ALPS 2023 winter school !
by LAURENT BESACIER 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Hi This is the last call for application to ALPS 2023 winter school. We extended the deadline to Sept 30th 2022 Our list of invited speakers has also been updated and it is awesome ! See more on [ http://alps.imag.fr/ | http://alps.imag.fr ] Laurent

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android app to collect recordings of read text & similar offline?
by Alex CRISTIA 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Dear all, I'm a big fan of lig-aikuma, which allowed us to collect key data in remote regions in Bolivia, and recommended it to a team member who is heading back there in a week. But only today we realized it doesn't work with the android version in the phone that's being taken to the field. I wonder if any of you know of something that works like lig-aikuma, allowing us to provide the app with: - a list of texts to be shown on the screen, & collect the audio while the informant reads the text; - a list of sound files that can be listened to, & collect the audio while the informant repeats what they heard (or discusses it) I read about ODK & jotforms mobile, which may be programmable to have those functionalities, but I'm hoping we don't need to develop this in a rush. So if you've used them to do one or the both above, we'd be grateful if we can take a peek at your code. Your help will be greatly appreciated! -Alex --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex (Alejandrina) Cristia Researcher, CNRS Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, FRANCE My site: www.acristia.org --------------------------------------------------------------- If you donate, ask me about effective charities <https://effectivealtruism.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52b028e7f799cca…>. / Si vous faites des dons, demandez moi sur le don efficace <https://www.altruismeefficacefrance.org/guide-don-efficace-1/>.

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job opening to share
by Alex CRISTIA 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, Can you please forward this opportunity broadly in your network? We are particularly inviting applications by folks from under-represented backgrounds, who thrive in our team! Thank you in advance, Alex *Short summary: *We are looking for someone with experience with deep learning, ideally using scikit-learn & pytorch, to join our technical team. We specialize in long-form audio-recordings, and your job will be to design, fine-tune, and evaluate neural networks on such data. French is NOT required - our team works in English! For more details see https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR8554-ALECRI1-001/Default.aspx?lang=EN --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex (Alejandrina) Cristia Researcher, CNRS Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, FRANCE My site: www.acristia.org --------------------------------------------------------------- If you donate, ask me about effective charities <https://effectivealtruism.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52b028e7f799cca…>. / Si vous faites des dons, demandez moi sur le don efficace <https://www.altruismeefficacefrance.org/guide-don-efficace-1/>.

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ALPS 2023 Summer School, 1st Call for Participation
by LAURENT BESACIER 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) January, 16-20 2023 Virtual Event We are opening the registration for the third Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS), co-organized by University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe. *Target Audience* This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry. *Characteristics* Advanced lectures by first class researchers. A (virtual) atmosphere that fosters connections and interaction. A poster session for attendees to present their work, gather feedback and brainstorm future work ideas. *Speakers* The current list of speakers is: Kyunghyun Cho (New York University, USA); Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA); Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University, Italia); Colin Raffel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hugging Face, USA); Lucia Specia (Imperial College, UK), François Yvon (LISN/CNRS, France). *Application* To apply to this winter school, please follow the instructions at [ http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ | http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ ] . The deadline for applying is Sept 16th, and we will notify acceptance on October 3rd. *Contact* Website: [ http://alps.imag.fr/ | http://alps.imag.fr/ ] E-mail: [ mailto:alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr | alps(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr ]

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