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Fwd: Call for funding applications: ‘Short-Term Scientific Mission’ (STSM), Language In The Human-Machine Era (rolling deadlines on the website)
by Maite Melero 10 May '24

10 May '24

fyi ========================================= Maite Melero *Barcelona Supercomputing Center* https://www.linkedin.com/in/maite-melero-48530913/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Dave Sayers <dave.sayers(a)cantab.net> Date: dv., 10 de maig 2024 a les 15:29 Subject: Call for funding applications: ‘Short-Term Scientific Mission’ (STSM), Language In The Human-Machine Era (rolling deadlines on the website) To: <LITHME(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> Language In The Human-Machine Era (LITHME, https://lithme.eu) welcomes applications for the latest round of STSM funding. An STSM is one of COST’s standard networking activities, for an individual to visit a host organization located in a different country than their country of affiliation, to gain and share knowledge. Eligibility follows the COST Association’s rules: basically anyone in a European country or ‘Near Neighbour’ country - https://www.cost.eu/about/cost-strategy/cost-global-networking/ (although please note COST has removed Russia from that list). We are looking for people with specialisms in either technology or in linguistics (or both), who want to gain and share knowledge across those academic boundaries. Moreover, we want to fund visits that will pursue our goals to produce new insights on the effects of new and emerging human-integrated language technologies. More information about our themes and interests can be found on our Working Groups page ( https://lithme.eu/working-groups) and in our open access forecast report ( https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1), as well our professionally commissioned animations (https://lithme.eu/animations). Clearly understanding and referring to these resources will increase the quality of any application. Further information about eligibility, our deadlines, and the online application form can be found at https://lithme.eu/stsm2024call Please forward this email on to anyone who may be interested, and repost our announcement: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1788913371166695553 All the best, Dave __________________ Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132 Senior Lecturer & Docent, Dept Language & Communication Studies, U. Jyväskylä, Finland | www.jyu.fi Chair, EU COST Action CA19102 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' | www.lithme.eu Founder & Moderator, TeachLing | https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/teachling dave.sayers(a)cantab.net | https://jyu.academia.edu/DaveSayers ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the LITHME list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=LITHME&A=1

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Second CFP: LoResMT 2024 at ACL 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 09 May '24

09 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 17 (Friday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: June 17 (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 Papers : NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 08 May '24

08 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. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference SUBMISSIONS NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, 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. We invite paper submissions of three types: * regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and * demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations. We particularly encourage submission of papers on completed or ongoing work, where the first author is a Master's or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 proceedings, which are published in the ACL Anthology and the NEALT Proceedings Series at DSpace at Tartu University Library (negotiations for indexation are ongoing and expected to be in place at publication time) SCHEDULE * Monday, October 21, 2024: Submission of Papers * Monday, December 9, 2024: Notification of Acceptance * Monday, January 13, 2025: Camera-Ready Manuscripts * Monday and Tuesday, March 3–4, 2025: Main Conference The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2025 style files, which will be available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word. Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices. DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa/Baltic_HLT must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements, and no later than (end of day, anywhere on earth): Monday, October 21, 2024. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 uses the OpenReview conference management system for the submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair * Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden Program Chairs * Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Estonia * Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway * Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Lativa * Andrius Utka, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Workshop chairs * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway Publication chair * Richard Johansson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden Social media chair * Mike Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific program of the conference, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.xn--com-to0a. Local Chairs * Helen Kaljumäe, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Kadri Vare, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Merily Remma, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.xn--ee-o2t. Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference 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 08 May '24

08 May '24

Job Opening for Data Scientist with a focus on natural language processing Application link: https://bit.ly/3QAkC1M Application deadline: 31 May 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> Menno will be attending LREC-COLING, so please feel free to connect with him for a discussion. Application link: https://bit.ly/3QAkC1M -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za<mailto:menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za> Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org<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: Call for applications (all areas of linguistics): fully funded conference, ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human-Machine Era’, UCLouvain, Belgium, 2-3 Sept 2024
by Maite Melero 08 May '24

08 May '24

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dave Sayers <dave.sayers(a)cantab.net> Date: Tue, 7 May 2024, 20:24 Subject: Call for applications (all areas of linguistics): fully funded conference, ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human-Machine Era’, UCLouvain, Belgium, 2-3 Sept 2024 To: <LITHME(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (https://lithme.eu/) welcomes everyone interested in the impact of new and emerging language technologies that integrate with human senses. Whether you are a tech developer who wants to learn more about linguistics, or a linguist who wants to know more about tech, we want to hear from you! You can find out more about our themes of interest from our published forecast report ( https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1) and our animations ( https://lithme.eu/animations). Our 4th annual conference will be held at UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) on 2-3 September 2024. This year's theme is: ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human-Machine Era’. The call for papers is now open, and we warmly encourage submissions from any eligible researcher or practitioner who is interested in exploring these timely topics. We welcome experienced developers, but no technological expertise is required, only an interest in exploring the possible effects of these near-future advances in language technology. Presentations can address any of the topics that fall within the interests of LITHME. Selection for funded places will be made by the conference scientific committee. The deadline for submitting your abstract is June 8th, 2024. More details of funding eligibility, the conference theme, and a link to the abstract submission form are on our website: https://lithme.eu/conference2024/ Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the social media announcements here: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1787799682338390457 https://bsky.app/profile/lghumanmachine.bsky.social/post/3krvwfjaqpk2f We hope to see you at the conference! All the best, Dave (on behalf of the organising committee) __________________ Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132 Senior Lecturer & Docent, Dept Language & Communication Studies, U. Jyväskylä, Finland | www.jyu.fi Chair, EU COST Action CA19102 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' | www.lithme.eu Founder & Moderator, TeachLing | https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/teachlingdave.sayers@cantab.net | https://jyu.academia.edu/DaveSayers ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the LITHME list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=LITHME&A=1

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NeTTT’2024 Call for Last minute results’ submissions
by Tharindu Ranasinghe 06 May '24

06 May '24

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 (https://nettt-conference.com/) 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: 1st UniDive Training School 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 02 May '24

02 May '24

======================================== 1st UniDive Training Summer School 2024 ======================================== ===== LATEST NEWS AND CLARIFICATIONS ===== - Due to recently *extended budget*, UniDive can now fund more than 50 trainees. - The *funding* covers travel and stay for 6 nights - The project submission deadline is extended to *Monday 6 May* (or until budget exhaustion) - One does not have to be a UniDive member to apply. - Gradate research master students are eligible - Eligibility for funding depends on the *affiliation* (not the nationality). The eligible countries are: * COST countries <https://www.cost.eu/about/members/> * Near-Neighbor Countries (Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia) - Please, *circulate this call* to all potential candidates to help us enhance the coverage of low-resourced languages ====================================== Dates: *8 — 12 July 2024* Location: *Technical University of Moldova*, Chișinău, Moldova Coordinating Project: UNIDIVE <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start> (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unid… Cost: *Participants selected on the basis of their application will be reimbursed, details are below.* *Apply by:* *May 06, 2024* ====================================== CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We are happy to announce the 1st edition of UNIDIVE Summer School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES - Annotation of Universal Dependencies treebank for a new language - a course by Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre, France) - Annotation of multiword expressions in a new language - course by Verginica Mititelu (Romanian Academy) and Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and ILSP, ATHENA RC, Greece) - Corpus annotation infrastructure- a course by Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia), Bruno Guillaume (LORIA, France) and Agata Savary (Université Paris-Saclay, France) - A brainstorming hackathon on topics submitted by the trainees - Poster sessions APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each applicant should *submit a project* for a construction of a resource related to the topics of the training school (e.g. a new/enhanced UD treebank, a new PARSEME corpus, a resource adding a new annotation layer on top of a UD/PARSEME corpus, etc.). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: - The title - Applicant's name and affiliation (including the country) - A list of 3-4 key-words - Description of a resource related to the topics of the training school - Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project - Open questions related to the project which could be addressed during the brainstorming hackathon - Short statement of the project phase (planning, started, in the process of creation) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/Training_School> portal. TRAINEE'S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund at least 40 trainees, the selection criteria include: - Trainee's country: trainees only from COST countries[1] <https://mail.math.md/?_task=mail&_caps=pdf%3D1%2Cflash%3D0%2Ctiff%3D0%2Cweb…> and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here <https://www.cost.eu/about/members/> and here <https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/international-collaboration/>. - Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted - Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) - Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee - Status of the language on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects or varieties are promoted) *If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. * *The authors of the selected projects may optionally present them in a poster session during the Training School. * IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for project submission: May 6, 2024 Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2024 Summer school: July 8-12, 2024 For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at: victoria.bobicev(a)ia.utm.md Looking forward to seeing you in Moldova, Organizing Committee

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Second CFP: 1st UniDive training Summer School 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 26 Apr '24

26 Apr '24

1st UniDive Training Summer School 2024 Dates: *8 — 12 July 2024* Location: *Technical University of Moldova*, Chișinău, Moldova Coordinating Project: UNIDIVE <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start> (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unid… Cost: *Participants selected on the basis of their application will be reimbursed, details are below.* *Apply by:* *May 01, 2024* CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We are happy to announce the 1st edition of UNIDIVE Summer School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES - Annotation of Universal Dependencies treebank for a new language - a course by Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre, France) and Francis Tyers (Indiana University, USA) - Annotation of multiword expressions in a new language - course by Verginica Mititelu (Romanian Academy) and Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and ILSP, ATHENA RC, Greece) - Corpus annotation infrastructure (annotation platforms, format validators, Git etc.) - a course by Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia), Bruno Guillaume (LORIA, France) and Agata Savary (Université Paris-Saclay, France) - A brainstorming hackathon on topics submitted by the trainees - Poster sessions APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each applicant should *submit a project* for a construction of a resource related to the topics of the training school (e.g. a new/enhanced UD treebank, a new PARSEME corpus, a resource adding a new annotation layer on top of a UD/PARSEME corpus, etc.). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: - The title - Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country) - A list of 3-4 key-words - Description of a resource related to the topics of the training school - Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project - Open questions related to the project which could be addressed during the brainstorming hackathon - Short statement of the project phase (planning, started, in the process of creation) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/Training_School> portal. TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund at least 40 trainees, the selection criteria include: - Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries[1] <#m_5787468061823227072_m_-5162026155145348429__ftn1> and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here <https://www.cost.eu/about/members/> and here <https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/international-collaboration/>. - Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted - Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) - Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee - Status of the language on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects or varieties are promoted) *If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. * *The authors of the selected projects may optionally present them in a poster session during the Training School. * IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for project submission: May 01, 2024 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 Summer school: July 8-12, 2024 For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at: victoria.bobicev(a)ia.utm.md Looking forward to seeing you in Moldova, Organizing Committee ------------------------------ [1] <#m_5787468061823227072_m_-5162026155145348429__ftnref1> COST members include 3 categories: COST Full Members, COST Cooperating Members (Israel), COST Partner Members (South Africa).

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Important Update: KI 2024 Conference Abstract and Full Paper Submission Deadline Extended
by Janna Omeliyanenko 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Dear KI 2024 Conference Participants, as the 47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2024) approaches, we have some exciting news to share! Extension of Abstract and Full Paper Submission Due to overwhelming interest and numerous requests, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract and full paper submissions has been extended. This extension provides you with additional time to refine your research and contribute to the vibrant discussions at KI 2024. Here are the revised submission deadlines: • Abstract Submission: New deadline is *May 3rd*, 2024 • Full Paper Submission: You now have until *May 12th*, 2024 to submit your full papers. Summary of Already Accepted Papers at other AI-Conferences as Extended Abstracts We are delighted to inform you that the deadline for submitting summaries of papers already accepted at other AI conferences, as extended abstracts, has been set for *June 2nd*. We encourage all researchers, academics, and industry professionals interested in artificial intelligence to take advantage of this opportunity. KI 2024 is a premier German AI conference that brings together experts from various domains, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange. For more details about the conference program, venue, and submission guidelines, please visit the official KI 2024 website <https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/> ( https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/). Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to your valuable contributions at KI 2024! Best regards, KI 2024 Team

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[CFP] Deadline extended - 2024 SIGIR First Workshop on Large Language Models, LLMs, for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
by Guglielmo Faggioli 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

The first workshop on evaluating IR systems with Large Language Models (LLMs) is accepting submissions that describe original research findings, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, and recent relevant studies already published in high-quality venues. Topics of interest We welcome both full papers and extended abstract submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to: - LLM-based evaluation metrics for traditional IR and generative IR. - Agreement between human and LLM labels. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs to produce robust relevance labels. - Investigating LLM-based relevance estimators for potential systemic biases. - Automated evaluation of text generation systems. - End-to-end evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation systems. - Trustworthiness in the world of LLMs evaluation. - Prompt engineering in LLMs evaluation. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs as ranking models. - LLMs in specific IR tasks such as personalized search, conversational search, and multimodal retrieval. - Challenges and future directions in LLM-based IR evaluation. Submission guidelines We welcome the following submissions: - Previously unpublished manuscripts will be accepted as extended abstracts and full papers (any length between 1 - 9 pages) with unlimited references, formatted according to the latest ACM SIG proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. - Published manuscripts can be submitted in their original format. All submissions should be made through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llm4eval All papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. For already published studies, the paper can be submitted in the original format. These submissions will be reviewed for their relevance to this workshop. All submissions must be in English (PDF format). All accepted papers will have a poster presentation with a few selected for spotlight talks. Accepted papers may be uploaded to arXiv.org, allowing submission elsewhere as they will be considered non-archival. The workshop’s website will maintain a link to the arXiv versions of the papers. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: April 25th May 2nd, 2024 (AoE time) - Acceptance Notifications: May 31st, 2024 (AoE time) - Workshop date: July 18, 2024 Website For more information, visit the workshop website: https://llm4eval.github.io/ Contact For any questions about paper submission, you may contact the workshop organizers at llm4eval(a)easychair.org

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