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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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