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Search Solutions 2022 - Second call for tutorials
by Haiming Liu 16 Jul '22

16 Jul '22

Call for Tutorials: Search Solutions 2022 Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. Search Solutions consists of two parts: a tutorial day and a conference day. We invite tutorial proposals which focus on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real world problems, for the tutorial day due to take place on 22nd Nov 2022 before the conference day on 23rd Nov 2022. Tutorials in previous years have included: designing usability for search, multimedia information retrieval, evaluation, pattern search, city search in SmartCities, text analysis, introduction to natural language processing and introduction to reinforcement learning, etc. The details of the previous tutorials can be found here: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Tutorials Proposals for both full day (5-6 hours including breaks and lunch) and half day (2-3 hours including breaks) tutorials are invited. The tutorials will take place on Tuesday 22nd November 2022 at the BCS offices in London and/or online depending on the situation near the time. We encourage in person tutorials at the BCS offices if possible. Proposal submission Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the tutorial chair (h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk>) by midnight Friday 22nd July 2022, using the following template: * Name of presenter(s): please list the names and affiliations of presenter(s). * Title: title of the tutorial. * Contact details: email and snail mail address, phone numbers etc. * Type of tutorial: half day or full day. * Delivery format: Online only or in person only or could be both * Tutorial Abstract: for publicity. * Target audience: please outline the practitioner audience to be addressed. * Learning outcomes: what would the practitioners gain from attending this tutorial? * Tutorial schedule and description: provide a draft schedule and detailed description of each of the items. * Tutorial logistics/materials: required media and formats for tutorial. What will be provided to attendees (e.g. slides). * Bio of presenter(s): including track record of presenting tutorials, lecturing experience etc. (200/300 words) Selection Procedure All tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chair and approved by the organising committee. The selection criteria will focus on the quality of the tutorial content and the appropriateness of it to the main theme of search solutions. Honorarium and other issues Each tutorial will receive an honorarium of around £300. All travel and accommodation expenses must be met by the presenters themselves. The organising committee of Search Solutions reserves the right to cancel tutorials unless a minimum of four participants have registered. Contact Tutorial Chair: Dr Haiming Liu, h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk> Dr Haiming Liu, PhD, PgCAP, SFHEA Associate Professor Web and Internet Science (WAIS) Research Group School of Electronics and Computer Science Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ Email: h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk>

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July 2022 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

In this newsletter: Fall 2022 LDC Data Scholarship Program 30th Anniversary Highlight: ATIS0 Complete New publications: Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022T04> Second DIHARD Challenge Evaluation - SEEDLingS<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S07> ________________________________ Fall 2022 LDC Data Scholarship Program Student applications for the Fall 2022 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2022. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. 30th Anniversary Highlight: ATIS0 Complete The ATIS corpora were among the first publications that appeared with the launch of LDC's catalog in 1993. ATIS0 Complete (LDC93S4A)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4A> is comprised of spontaneous speech, read speech, and other material from participants in the ATIS collection that is contained in ATIS0 Pilot (LDC93S4B),<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4B> ATIS0 Read (LDC93S4B-2)<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4B-2>, and ATIS0 SD-Read (LDC93S4B-3<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4B-3>). The ATIS (Air Travel Information Services) collection was developed to support the research and development of speech understanding systems. Participants were presented with various hypothetical travel planning scenarios and asked to solve them by interacting with partially or completely automated ATIS systems. The resulting utterances were recorded and transcribed. Data was collected in the early 1990s at five US sites: Raytheon BBN, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, National Institute for Standards and Technology, and SRI International. The ATIS collection has been widely used to further research in spoken language understanding and slot filling (Kuo et al., 2020<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14386.pdf>). Other data sets published from the collection include ATIS2 (LDC93S5)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S5>, ATIS3 Training and Test Data (LDC94S19,<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC94S19> LDC95S26<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC95S26>) and, more recently, Multilingual ATIS (LDC2019T04)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2019T04> and ATIS - Seven Languages (LDC2021T04)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2021T04>. All ATIS corpora are available for licensing by Consortium members and non-members. Visit Obtaining Data <https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/obtaining> for more information. ________________________________ New publications: (1) Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022T04> was developed by Qatar University<http://www.qu.edu.qa/>, University of Exeter<https://www.exeter.ac.uk/>, and Hamad Bin Khalifa University<https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en>, and is comprised of approximately 200,000 tokens of Arabic and English writing by undergraduate students (159 female, 36 male) along with annotations and related metadata. Students were native Arabic speakers and fluent in English; each student wrote one Arabic and one English essay in response to specific argumentative prompts. They were instructed to include in their essays a clear thesis statement supported by relevant evidence. The corpus is divided into Arabic and English parts, each of which contains 195 essays. Metadata includes information about the students (gender, major, first language, second language) and information about the essay texts (serial numbers of texts, word limits, genre, date of writing, time spent on writing, place of writing). Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing is distributed via web download. 2022 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2022 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * (2) Second DIHARD Challenge Evaluation - SEEDLingS<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S07> was developed by Duke University and LDC and contains approximately two hours of English child language recordings along with corresponding annotations used in support of the Second DIHARD Challenge<https://dihardchallenge.github.io/dihard2>. Source data is from the SEEDLingS<https://homebank.talkbank.org/access/Password/Bergelson.html> (The Study of Environmental Effects on Developing Linguistic Skills) corpus, designed to investigate how infants' early linguistic and environmental input plays a role in their learning. Recordings were generated in the home environment of infants in the Rochester, New York area. A subset of that data was annotated by LDC for use in the First and Second DIHARD Challenges Second DIHARD Challenge Evaluation - SEEDLingS is distributed via web download. 2022 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. 2022 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options; or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Call for papers: Special issue on Computational Approaches to Morphological Typology
by Sacha Beniamine 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

We invite researchers in the broad area of computational morphology to submit their recent, unpublished work to a special issue of the Journal of Language Modelling <https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM><https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM>. Motivation: Computational techniques have a long history of use in the study of morphology, where they have been used both for practical tasks such as the analysis and production of complex word forms and for theoretical ones such as structural and informational analysis of morphological systems. As both systems and datasets improve, these techniques are increasingly developed and evaluated on a typologically diverse array of languages, including many which are endangered or lack large-scale resources. Detailed comparisons across languages can help to reveal typological biases or assumptions within existing computational techniques [1, 2]. Alternatively, computational methods and analyses can also shed light on questions within linguistic typology [3, 4, 5, 6]. The goal of this special issue is to bring researchers from multiple communities together in exploring issues of linguistic typology across a wide range of different languages and phenomena. We encourage the submission of work on endangered or less-studied languages. The Journal of Language Modelling is a free (for readers and authors alike) open-access peer-reviewed journal. All articles are peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, usually including at least one member of the Editorial Board. Topics of interest: - Typological clustering or classification of languages - Investigation of particular linguistic features which improve or detract from the performance of computational morphology tools - Comparison of morphological structures (e.g., inflection classes, implicative networks) across typologically different languages - Investigation of diachronic typological change using computational methods - Creation, curation or analysis of typological databases via computational methods Submissions: The submissions should be journal papers, not proceedings papers, totalling 25-50 pages, excluding references. Authors are advised to use the online manuscript submission for the journal. Make sure to select the special issue when asked to provide the article type. More information, including formatting instructions for authors can be found on the journal's webpage at: https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/about/submissions. Important dates: Call for papers issued: 15/7/2022 Submissions due: 15/1/2023 Author notification: Spring 2023 Guest editors: Sacha Beniamine (University of Surrey) Micha Elsner (The Ohio State University) Katharina Kann (University of Colorado, Boulder) References [1] Ryan Cotterell, Christo Kirov, John Sylak-Glassman, David Yarowsky, Jason Eisner, and Mans Hulden. 2016a. The SIGMORPHON 2016 shared Task— Morphological reinflection. In Proceedings of the 14th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 10–22, Berlin, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics. [2] Huiming Jin, Liwei Cai, Yihui Peng, Chen Xia, Arya McCarthy, and Katharina Kann. 2020. Unsupervised morphological paradigm completion. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 6696– 6707, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [3] Neil Rathi, Michael Hahn, and Richard Futrell. 2021. An Information-Theoretic Characterization of Morphological Fusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10115–10120, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics. [4] Parker, J., Reynolds, R., & Sims, A. (2022). Network Structure and Inflection Class Predictability: Modeling the Emergence of Marginal Detraction. In A. Sims, A. Ussishkin, J. Parker, & S. Wray (Eds.), Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition (pp. 247-281). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108807951.010 [5] Guzmán Naranjo, Matías and Becker, Laura. Statistical bias control in typology. Linguistic Typology, to appear, 2021. DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2021-0002 [6] Sacha Beniamine. 2021. One lexeme, many classes: Inflection class systems as lattices. In Berthold Crysmann & Manfred Sailer (eds.), One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics, 23--51. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4729789

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PhD position in Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg
by Eleni Gregoromichelaki 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded Ph.D. position in Linguistics. Information about the institution The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV) at the University of Gothenburg is home to a large number of national and international research projects and offers courses and degree programs for philosophers, logicians, linguists, language technologists, theorists of science, historians of philosophy, philologists and philosophy teachers. Linguistics is a subject authorised to award qualifications at all levels, including in third-cycle studies. At the department, there is also the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), funded by a 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (2015-2025). CLASP is devoted to research and advanced training in the application of probabilistic modelling and machine learning methods to core issues in linguistic theory and cognition. The department offers an international English-speaking research environment. The research is interdisciplinary and aims at bringing together insights from various fields such as logic, mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, philology, and philosophy. Job description: The current position is within the area of Linguistics at the department. Linguistic interaction is the main overarching theme for research in linguistics at FLoV. The focus is on conversational dialogue as a research topic within psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics and pragmatics, and language technology/computational linguistics. The ideal candidate should be motivated to develop an original PhD thesis project in any single or combination of these fields. We will fund one well-qualified and highly motivated candidate to carry out research using experimental and/or formal methods on any of the following general topics in relation to dialogue modelling and/or grammar design: - Incremental processing in conversation - Multimodal phenomena - Theories of joint action and linguistic meaning - Context and common ground - Probabilistic models of inference and linguistic processing - Dialogue acts - Turn-taking We are looking for candidates who have solid prior experience in linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, or computational linguistics. More particularly, demonstrable ability and experience in the modelling of, or experimentation with dialogue phenomena is highly desirable. The candidate should be able to provide evidence of the ability for conducting original independent research. Candidates with an interdisciplinary background are particularly encouraged to apply. How to apply: In order to apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to register an account in our online recruitment system: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the job advertisement and that it is submitted before the deadline. The selection of candidates is made on the basis of the qualifications registered in the application. Further information: Queries about the recruitment process should be directed to Jennifer Stråle, HR Administrator, jennifer.strale(a)gu.se Queries about possible topics for study should be directed to Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Professor of Linguistics, +46 31-786 52 33, eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is: 15 September 2022 all the best Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33 Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33 From: Eleni Gregoromichelaki <eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se> Sent: 12 July 2022 07:55 To: sigsem(a)list.rug.nl <sigsem(a)list.rug.nl>; iva-list(a)lists.uni-bielefeld.de <iva-list(a)lists.uni-bielefeld.de>; sigdial(a)list.sigdial.org <sigdial(a)list.sigdial.org>; semantik(a)uni-duesseldorf.de <semantik(a)uni-duesseldorf.de>; folli(a)folli.info <folli(a)folli.info>; amlap-list(a)coli.uni-sb.de <amlap-list(a)coli.uni-sb.de>; corpora(a)uib.no <corpora(a)uib.no>; sentproc(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu <sentproc(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu>; Eleni Gregoromichelaki <eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se> Subject: SemDial 2022: deadline extension for short papers ** Short papers SemDial 2022 ** ** Submission deadline extended to 22 July 2022 ** --------------------------------------------------------------- SemDial 2022 - DubDial THE 26TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE https://semdial2022.github.io/ 22-24 August 2022 Dublin // Online --------------------------------------------------------------------- DubDial will be the 26th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2022 the workshop will be hosted by the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. There will also be an online component for those who cannot travel to Dublin. Please see the website for updates closer to the date. *WEBSITE:* https://semdial2022.github.io/ This year, there will be a guiding theme for the conference: Interactivism. The interactivist model (Bickhard, 2009) offers a new dynamic approach to understanding language, communication, and cognition. Across many disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience and robotics, there is recognition that explanations of life and mind need to be grounded in the physics of far-from-equilibrium, interactive systems. From this starting point, explanations have been developed for phenomena ranging from representation, perception, and action to motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology. This work has yet to develop interfaces with studies of specific phenomena in dialogue modelling and our purpose is to open the discussion on how dialogue researchers can take advantage of this and related perspectives like Enactivism and Ecological Psychology. *SCOPE:* We welcome submissions on this special theme of Interactivism and we continue to welcome any papers with formal, computational and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: - the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue - common ground / mutual belief - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - turn-taking and interaction control - semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue - dialogue and discourse structure - categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora - child-adult interaction - psycholinguistics of dialogue - language learning through dialogue - gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication - multimodal and multi-party dialogue - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems - modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair - applications of the Interactivist model in dialogue phenomena - enactive approaches to interaction - dialogue/interaction studies from an Ecological Psychology perspective *INVITED SPEAKERS:* Mark H. Bickhard Yvette Graham Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi *DEADLINE EXTENSION for short-paper submissions* We invite NON-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS for 2-page short papers. The deadline has now been extended to the *22 July 2022* Authors should submit a paper of at most 2 pages of content (1 additional page is allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site are available on the DubDial website: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=call# Short-paper submissions will not be refereed but evaluated for relevance only by the chairs. As such, papers do not need to be anonymised. They will be presented as posters at the workshop. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Short paper submissions due: 22 July 2022 Notification: 25 July 2022 Camera-ready submissions deadline: 8th August 2022 *REGISTRATION* Registration is now open: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=registration# DubDial - SemDial 2022 SemDial 2022 (LondonLogue) - The 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. TUD, August 22-24th, 2022 semdial2022.github.io *RELATED EVENTS* The final session of SemDial will be the second edition of SummDial, a special session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings, for which there is a separate submission process - please see the SummDial website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Eleni Gregoromichelaki (University of Gothenburg) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) John Kelleher (Technological University Dublin) Contact: pcchairs.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* John Kelleher, the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. Contact: organisers.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* Jedediah Allen, Maxime Amblard, Ron Artstein, Alex Berman, Mark Bickhard, Maria Boritchev, Ellen Breitholtz, Harry Bunt, Heather Burnett, Robin Cooper, Valeria de Paiva, Emilie Destruel, Simon Dobnik, Kerstin Fischer, Kallirroi Georgila, Emer Gilmartin, Jonathan Ginzburg, Christine Howes, Julie Hunter, Nikolai Ilinykh, Ruth Kempson, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Andy Lücking, Chiara Mazzocconi, Gregory Mills, Robert Mirski, Bill Noble, Massimo Poesio, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Hannes Rieser, Robert Ross, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, David Schlangen, Matthew Stone, Peter Sutton, Lucas Thorpe, Ye Tian, Shu-Chuan Tseng *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg)) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) http://semdial.org/ Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33

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RiCL CFPs Issue 11/1
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, *Research in Corpus Linguistics* (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the *Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics* (AELINCO), is seeking for contributions to be published in the first issue of 2023 (11/1). RiCL invites previously unpublished submissions in four main forms: 1. *Papers reporting on* research based on or derived from *corpora*. 2. *Research* *papers* *reporting* *on* *corpus* *construction*, annotation, the development and application of corpus tools, software, etc. 3. *Book reviews* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. 4. *Review articles* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. Further information about RiCL’s editorial policies can be found here <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/editorial-policies>. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation, and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. Please note that submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions> of RiCL. Further information at: *https://ricl.aelinco.es* <https://ricl.aelinco.es/> All the best, Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso *Editors-in-chief* -- Paula Rodríguez Puente paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm

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CFP: Semantics and Natural Language Processing in Agriculture
by Mathieu Roche 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

======== Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Special issue: Semantics and Natural Language Processing in Agriculture ======== Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 September 2022 https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/35711/semantics-and-natural-lan… Currently, agriculture is at a crossroads. There has been an increase in the world?s population, a reduction in available farmland as well as competition for agricultural land from biofuels. Advances from traditional agricultural areas have been resisted by consumers and politicians, and consequently increases in productivity need to come from non-traditional areas to ensure that the world's population has access to basic nutrition at an affordable price. The Semantic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) community can assist the agricultural domain by providing unique insights from data or by providing greater clarity to current agricultural processes. Agricultural researchers, in common with other domains, have access to large collections of agricultural documents such as scientific papers, news, social media data, etc. These textual documents can be analyzed and processed with NLP methods, supported by semantic knowledge, to resolve agricultural issues in digital agriculture. To date, the application of text mining and semantics in the agricultural domain remains under-explored. This Research Topic invites original research, surveys, and position papers that address issues in Agricultural Text Mining or Agri Semantics, in order to increase the visibility and application potential of this important and emerging research area. The scope of this article collection is broad and seeks submissions on, but not limited to: - novel agricultural NLP methods - multilingual agricultural text mining - agricultural information retrieval - agricultural information extraction - agricultural named entity recognition and disambiguation - agricultural text visualization - NLP agricultural applications - societal impacts of agricultural text mining, language resources, and datasets - agricultural web crawling - novel agrisemantic resources - bias or gaps in existing agrisemantic resources - agrisemantic data integration - novel argisemantic backed agricultural applications - and agribusiness industry case studies Keywords: nlp, agriculture, Text Mining, Information Extraction, Agricultural Applications, Web Crawling, Agrisemantic, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Currently, agriculture is at a crossroads. There has been an increase in the world?s population, a reduction in available farmland as well as competition for agricultural land from biofuels. Advances from traditional agricultural areas have been resisted by consumers and politicians, and consequently increases in productivity need to come from non-traditional areas to ensure that the world?s population has access to basic nutrition at an affordable price. The Semantic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) community can assist the agricultural domain by providing unique insights from data or by providing greater clarity to current agricultural processes. Agricultural researchers, in common with other domains, have access to large collections of agricultural documents such as scientific papers, news, social media data, etc. These textual documents can be analyzed and processed with NLP methods, supported by semantic knowledge, to resolve agricultural issues in digital agriculture. To date, the application of text mining and semantics in the agricultural domain remains under-explored. This Research Topic invites original research, surveys, and position papers that address issues in Agricultural Text Mining or Agri Semantics, in order to increase the visibility and application potential of this important and emerging research area. The scope of this article collection is broad and seeks submissions on, but not limited to: - novel agricultural NLP methods - multilingual agricultural text mining - agricultural information retrieval - agricultural information extraction - agricultural named entity recognition and disambiguation - agricultural text visualization - NLP agricultural applications - societal impacts of agricultural text mining, language resources, and datasets - agricultural web crawling - novel agrisemantic resources - bias or gaps in existing agrisemantic resources - agrisemantic data integration - novel argisemantic backed agricultural applications - and agribusiness industry case studies Topic Editors - Mathieu Roche, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France - Brett Drury, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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TRAC 2022: Third CFP (COLING 2022 Workshop) *Deadline extended to July 25, 2022*
by Ritesh Kumar 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*3rd (Online) Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC - 2022)* Co-located with COLING 2022, October 17, 2022 Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea *Third Call for Papers and Deadline Extension* *Workshop Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/trac2022/home *Paper Submission*: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TRAC-2022/ *Submission Deadline*: July 25, 2022 (Regular) / July 31, 2022 (ACL ARR) As in the earlier editions of the workshop, TRAC-2022 will focus on the applications of NLP, ML and pragmatic studies on aggression and impoliteness to tackle these issues. We invite *long (8 pages)* and *short papers (4 pages)* as well as *position papers* and opinion pieces (5 - 20 pages), *demo proposals* and *non-archival extended abstracts* (2 pages) based on, but not limited to, any of the following themes from academic researchers, industry and any other group / team working in the area. - Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language. - Cyberbullying, threatening, hateful, aggressive and abusive language on the web. - Multilingualism and aggression. - Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and Best Practices for threat and aggression detection. - Computational Models and Methods for aggression, hate speech and offensive language detection in text and speech. - Detection of threats and bullying on the web. - Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological issues and challenges. For any clarifications, contact coling.aggression(a)gmail.com. Looking forward to your participation!

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New publication: Shaping Writing Grades
by Susan Hunston 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Dear list members, I am delighted to announce a new publication in the Elements in Corpus Linguistics series, by Lee McCallum and Philip Durrant. The Element title is: "Shaping Writing Grades: Collocation and Writing Context Effects". It explores relationships between collocations, writing quality and learner and contextual variables in a first-year university composition programme. The Element can be viewed here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/search?q=9781009074445&_csrf=Bx66KnU6-7EI4dZ…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambr…>. It will be available free of charge for 2 weeks. The full Element abstract can be seen at the bottom of this email. This publication brings the number of Elements in this series to eight. The other titles in the series so far are: Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures (Caple, Huan & Bednarek) Doing Linguistics with a Corpus (Egbert, Larsson & Biber) Citations in Interdisciplinary Research Articles (Muguiro) Conducting Sentiment Analysis (Lei & Liu) Natural Language Processing for Corpus Linguistics (Dunn) The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (Hocking) Analysis Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback (Baker & Brookes) Best wishes Susan Hunston (Series Editor) Abstract This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual variables in a first-year composition (FYC) programme. Comprising three studies, the Element is anchored in understanding phraseological complexity and its sub-constructs of sophistication and diversity. First, the authors look at sophistication through association measures. They tap into how these measures may tell us different types of information about collocation via a cluster analysis. Selected measures from this clustering are used in a cumulative links model to establish relationships between these measures, measures of diversity and measures of task, the language background of the writer and individual writer variation, and writing quality scores. A third qualitative study of the statistically significant predictors helps understand how writers use collocations and why they might be favoured or downgraded by raters. This Element concludes by considering the implications of this modelling for assessment. Professor Susan Hunston (she/her) Department of English Language and Linguistics University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT UK (+44) 0121 414 5675 s.e.hunston(a)bham.ac.uk

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Second CFP: The 7th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP-7 2022) / Co-located with EMNLP 2022
by Wajdi Zaghouani 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The 7th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP2022) will be a full-day event taking place on December 7 or 8, 2022 (in a hybrid mode). This year’s WANLP is co-located with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Workshop URL: http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net/ Submission URL: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022 Important Dates - September 5: Workshop Paper Due Date - October 10: Notification of Acceptance - October 21: Camera-ready papers due (strict!) - December 7-8: Workshop Dates We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Enabling core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions§ must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. We have several submission tracks including long, short, and demo tracks. If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp2022(a)gmail.com The WANLP 2022 Organizing Committee http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net/ ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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Call for Nominations: The Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award 2022
by Jochen L. Leidner 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Call for Nominations: The Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award 2022 TLDR: Closing date: 9 September 2022 ~ An award to commemorate Karen Spärck Jones ~ A pioneer of information retrieval, the computer science sub-discipline that also underpins the technology of modern Web search engines, Karen Spärck Jones was a British professor of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Her contributions to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding, highly influential and lasting, and include the introduction of Inverse Document Frequency for relevance ranking. Her achievements resulted in her receiving a number of prestigious accolades such as the BCS Lovelace medal for her advancement in Information Systems, and the ACM Salton Award for her significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. Karen was also an outspoken advocate for women in computing, and we encourage former advisors of talented scientists to provide the judges with a rich and diverse candidate pool to select from. To learn more about Karen and her work, visit: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8FecRxSiUM * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYeKiebpuo In order to honour Karen's achievements, the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has established an annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Natural Language Processing or Information Retrieval with significant experimental contributions. To celebrate the commemorative event, the recipient of the 2021 award will be invited to present a keynote lecture at BCS IRSG’s annual conference — the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) next year. This forum provides an excellent venue to present and announce the award as the conference attracts many new and young researchers. Eligibility. Open to all NLP/IR researchers who have no more than 10 years experience after their Ph.D. at the closing date for nominations (non-research times, e.g. parental leave or career breaks, will be taken into account to ensure equity; please point at such times in the nominee's CVs). Criteron. The candidate ought to have substantially advanced our understanding of NLP or IR or both through experimentation. Nominations. The following should be provided: • Name of nominee, position, affiliation, years since completion of the Ph.D.; • Name of person proposing the nominee, position, and affiliation; • Short case for the award, not to exceed 2,500 words, highlighting the contributions the individual has made; • List of the individual's top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these; and • Exactly two supporting letters from people who would like to encourage/support the nomination. Nominations should be emailed to the panel chair below. The support letters can be emailed separately by the referees. It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, in which case they should provide three support letters. Please note that we anticipate that people who provide support letters will do so only for a single candidate. Award Panel. The Award Panel Chair, appointed by the BCS IRSG Committee, will invite panel members from amongst representatives of the BCS main council, the BCS IRSG Committee, the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), the Award-sponsoring organisation (unless there could be a conflict of interest), as well as seasoned experts in IR and NLP from academia and industry. Prize. The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses for the awardee to travel to ECIR 2023. Note that the Karen Spärck Jones Award will now alternate between ECIR and EACL to promote integration between the IR and NLP communities that Karen Spärck Jones was an active member of. The 2022 prize award lecture will take place at ECIR 2023. Timeline for the 2022 Award: • 9 September 2022 — closing date for nominations; • 17 September 2022 — deadline for support letters; • 9 December 2022 — notification of the prize recipient; • 2 April-6 April 2023 — recipient presents keynote at ECIR 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. The Karen Spärck Jones Award is sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge; we would like to thank our generous sponsors. Current Award Chair: Professor Jochen L. Leidner <leidner AT acm.org>. -- Prof. Jochen L. Leidner *M.A. M.Phil. Ph.D. FRGS* Professor of Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Insurance, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Coburg, Germany Visiting Professor of Data Analytics, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom [ E-Mail: leidner (at) acm.org <leidner(a)acm.org> | Web: *https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/jleidner <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/jleidner>* | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leidner/ | Twitter: @jochenleidner <https://twitter.com/jochenleidner> ]

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