A new article by members of project A1 entitled „Splitting event‐related potentials: Modeling latent components using regression‐based waveform estimation“ has been published in the European Journal of Neuroscience.
Read the full article here.
A new journal article by the members of project B1 entitled „Linguistic Variation and Change in 250 years of English Scientific Writing: A Data-driven Approach“ has been published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
You can access the full article here.
Congratulations to our PI Vera Demberg who has been awareded with a 1.5 million euro grant over 5 years from the European Research Council. The aim of the research project is to improve human-machine communication by reducing misunderstandings and ensuring that people can communicate with computers more naturally.
Get more information on her current work and read the full article here.
Barcelona, Spain — December 13, 2020
Workshop website: https://www.lantern.uni-saarland.de/2020/
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
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LANTERN: The Second Workshop Beyond Vision and LANguage: InTEgrating Real World KNowledge
Language is acquired, used, and evaluated by understanding the world around us. It is thus essential to capture such an understanding by exploiting knowledge from sources that are useful for grounding language. Recent work showed the potential of visually-grounded language in addressing task-specific challenges (e.g., visual captioning, VQA, dialog, etc.). In this workshop, we aim to go beyond the task-specific integration of language and vision, and encourage submissions that leverage knowledge from external sources that are either provided by an environment or some fixed knowledge.
Our motto: When you are groping in the dark, knowledge gives you the light!
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for submission: August 21, 2020
Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2020
Deadline for camera-ready version: October 11, 2020
Workshop date: December 13, 2020
All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC – 12h)
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Yonatan Bisk, Microsoft Research & CMU
Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & ICREA
Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind
Stefan Lee, Oregon State University
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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We solicit two categories of papers: long and short workshop papers that will be included in the workshop proceedings as archival publications. All submissions should be in PDF format and made through the Softconf link (https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/LANTERN/)
Submissions will go through a double-blind review process, where each submission is reviewed by at-least two program committee members. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors in a regular workshop session either as a talk or a poster.
All submissions must be written in English and follow the COLING 2020 formatting requirements using either Word or LaTeX template files provided by COLING 2020 (https://coling2020.org/).
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SPONSORS
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SFB 1102 (http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/)
Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/) [Best Papers]
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CONTACTS
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The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at: lantern2019@googlegroups.com
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Aditya Mogadala, Saarland University
Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam
Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University
Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven
Zeynep Akata, University of Tübingen
The workshop is organised by Aditya Mogadala (project B4) and will take place on December 13, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.
Workshop website: https://www.lantern.uni-saarland.de/2020/
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
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LANTERN: The Second Workshop Beyond Vision and LANguage: InTEgrating Real World KNowledge
Language is acquired, used, and evaluated by understanding the world around us. It is thus essential to capture such an understanding by exploiting knowledge from sources that are useful for grounding language. Recent work showed the potential of visually-grounded language in addressing task-specific challenges (e.g., visual captioning, VQA, dialog, etc.). In this workshop, we aim to go beyond the task-specific integration of language and vision, and encourage submissions that leverage knowledge from external sources that are either provided by an environment or some fixed knowledge.
Our motto: When you are groping in the dark, knowledge gives you the light!
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for submission: September 11, 2020 [Extended Deadline]
Notification of acceptance: October 07, 2020 [Extended Deadline]
Deadline for camera-ready version: October 16, 2020 [Extended Deadline]
Workshop date: December 13, 2020
All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC – 12h)
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Yonatan Bisk, Microsoft Research & CMU
Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & ICREA
Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind
Stefan Lee, Oregon State University
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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We solicit two categories of papers: long and short workshop papers that will be included in the workshop proceedings as archival publications. All submissions should be in PDF format and made through the Softconf link (https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/LANTERN/)
Submissions will go through a double-blind review process, where each submission is reviewed by at-least two program committee members. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors in a regular workshop session either as a talk or a poster.
All submissions must be written in English and follow the COLING 2020 formatting requirements using either Word or LaTeX template files provided by COLING 2020 (https://coling2020.org/).
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SPONSORS
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SFB 1102 (http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/)
Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/) [Best Papers]
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CONTACTS
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The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at: lantern2019@googlegroups.com
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Aditya Mogadala, Saarland University
Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam
Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University
Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven
Zeynep Akata, University of Tübingen
LaTeCH-CLfL 2020:
The 4th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
to be held in conjunction with COLING 2020 in Barcelona as a virtual event
https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2020/
Renewed Second, and Last, Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)
Organisers: Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
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COLING will be run virtually, and so will our workshop. Look for more details on the workshop Web site.
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LaTeCH-CLfL 2020 is the fourth joint meeting of two communities with overlapping research goals and a similar research focus. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) have been a forum for researchers who develop new technologies for improved information access to data from the broadly understood humanities and social sciences. The ACL Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) have focussed on applications of NLP to a wide variety of literary data. The first three joint workshop (LaTeCH-CLfL 2017, 2018 and 2019) brought together people from both communities. We count on this workshop to broaden the scope of our work even further, and to encourage new common research initiatives.
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TOPICS AND CONTENT
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In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).
Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry.
NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context.
More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources;
• creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• profiling and authorship attribution;
• search for scientific and/or scholarly literature;
• work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language.
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INVITED SPEAKER
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The workshop will feature an invited talk, as usual. The speaker will be Professor Elke Teich. See the relevant workshop Web page for her profile.
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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
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We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.
• Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references; final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
• A short paper / demo can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
• A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed six (6) pages including references.
All submissions must adhere to the COLING stylesheets (for LaTeX and MS Word) posted at https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip. Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, at https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/LaTeCH-CLfL/.
Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and later available in the ACL Anthology.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: September 25, 2020
Notification of acceptance: October 26, 2020
Camera-ready papers due: November 1, 2020 (if possible, we will push the deadline several days forward)
Workshop date: December 12, 2020
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MORE ON THE ORGANISERS
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Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada
Nils Reiter, Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart University
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
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CONTACT
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We’re thrilled to announce that two members of Project C3 were awarded their PhD theses in July!
Elli Tourtouri defended her thesis “Rational Redundancy in Situated Communication” on July 2nd, and has now taken up a post-doc at the MPI in Nijmegen.
Torsten Jachmann defended his thesis “The Immediate Influence of Speaker Gaze on Situated Speech Comprehension: Evidence from Multiple ERP Components” on June 24th, and will be staying on as a post-doc in Matt Crocker’s group.
Congratulations to them both!
At the 15th annual meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society, a presentation on ‚Phonetic distance in cross-lingual priming: Evidence from Bulgarian, Czech, Polish and Russian‘ is held by Jacek Kudera and Philip Georgis (Project C4).
Check out the new article by Vera Demberg and Tim Schröder on smart voice assistants published in the latest issue of DFG magazine „forschung“.
Read the full article here.
A joint paper by members of Projects B6 and B7 has been accepted for publication and will be presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation @ACL 2020!
Bizzoni, Yuri; Juzek, Tom S; España-Bonet, Cristina; Chowdhury, Koel Dutta; van Genabith, Josef; Teich, Elke
How Human is Machine Translationese? Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Text and Speech
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation ACL (IWSLT 2020)