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> On 5 Aug 2022, at 14:00, [email protected] wrote: > > Send Corpora mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Corpora digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. TempoWiC shared task at EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop: Evaluation starts > (deadline: September 12) > (Jose Camacho Collados) > 2. PhD Position in Speech Translation at Fondazione Bruno Kessler > (Matteo Negri) > 3. [QPP++] 2nd CfP Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New > Tasks @ CIKM 2022 > (Guglielmo Faggioli) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 16:04:09 +0000 > From: Jose Camacho Collados <[email protected]> > Subject: [Corpora-List] TempoWiC shared task at EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop: > Evaluation starts (deadline: September 12) > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected] > P265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_LO2P265MB578930 > 1B4C033C1A12DC3F218E9F9LO2P265MB5789GBRP_" > > ************************************ > > Call for participation: TempoWiC shared task at EvoNLP shared task > (co-located with EMNLP) > > > Training and test data available! > > > Shared Task website: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task > > Codalab evaluation page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5360 > > > Important dates: > > * 1 August 2022: Test data released and evaluation phase starts > > * 12 September 2022: Evaluation phase ends > > * 16 September 2022: Results released > > * 10 October 2022: System description paper deadline > > ************************************ > > > TempoWiC is the Shared Task for the "EvoNLP: The First Workshop on Ever > Evolving NLP" workshop, co-located with EMNLP 2022. For this novel temporal > meaning shift task, users are given a pair of sentences (or, in this case, > tweets) and a target word (e.g. delta), and the task consists of deciding > whether the meaning of the target word is the same or not. Basically, the > framing is the same binary classification as the original WiC > (Word-in-Context) task but adapted so the temporal aspect is taken into > account (tweets in each pair were selected from different time periods). > > > For example, we can observe a meaning shift happening to the word folklore in > the following instance, where its meaning represents a recent music album in > the second example. > > (1) There's a thunderstorm outside so clearly it's the perfect time to watch > videos about folklore monsters. (August 2019) > > (2) Cardigan on folklore is my favorite song. I wish @taylorswift13 would > love me (August 2020) > > > > -- > > > Jose Camacho Collados > http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/> > > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 6177 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 22:58:14 +0200 > From: Matteo Negri <[email protected]> > Subject: [Corpora-List] PhD Position in Speech Translation at > Fondazione Bruno Kessler > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Message-ID: > <CAOE0tRuS5pwrcaujkihv=kqW5TBiNOaed=xyvxuu5uqvq+1...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="0000000000005bab1c05e5709cf4" > > -- > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > -- > > Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree > in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, > engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research > on Speech Translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a > part of your life in a pleasant city in the heart of the Italian Alps? > > WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! > > The Machine Translation <https://ict.fbk.eu/units/hlt-mt/> (MT) group at > Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT > International Doctorate School of the University of Trento > <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the > following fully-funded Ph.D. position in Speech Translation. > > TITLE: Application-oriented Speech Translation > > DESCRIPTION: > > The need to translate audio input from one language into text in a target > language has dramatically increased in the last few years with the growth > of audiovisual content freely available on the Web. Current speech > translation (ST) systems are now required to be flexible and robust enough > to operate in different application scenarios. On one side, the industry > calls for key features like real-time processing, domain adaptability, > extended language coverage, and the capability to meet application-specific > constraints. On the other side, society calls for new efforts towards > inclusiveness with respect to specific categories and groups (e.g. > gender-sensitivity, customization to the needs of impaired users). Both > industry and society face the orthogonal challenges posed by the > variability of audio conditions (e.g. background noise, strong speakers’ > accent, overlapping speakers). The objective of this Ph.D. is to make ST > flexible and robust to these and other factors. > > CONTACT: [email protected] > > COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: > https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application > > > IMPORTANT DATES: > > The deadline for application is September 6, 2022, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) > > Potential candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for > preliminary interviews. Precedence for interviews will be given to > short-listed candidates that will send us a complete CV via email ( > [email protected]) by August 18, 2022. > > Candidate profile > > The ideal candidate must have recently completed or expect very soon an MSc > or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, > computational linguistics, engineering, or a closely related area. In > addition, the applicant should: > > - > > Have interest in Machine and Speech Translation > - > > Have experience in deep learning and machine learning, in general > - > > Have good programming skills in Python and experience in PyTorch > - > > Enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets > - > > Have good knowledge of written and spoken English > - > > Enjoy working in a closely collaborating team > > Working Environment > > The doctoral student will be employed at the MT group at Fondazione Bruno > Kessler, Trento, Italy. The group (about 10 people including staff and > students) has a long tradition in research on machine and speech > translation and is currently involved in several projects. Former students > are nowadays employed in leading IT companies in the world. > > Benefits > > Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a > flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, > a competitive salary, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help > for housing, full health insurance, the possibility of Italian courses, and > sporting facilities. > > Further Information > > For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about > the position, please contact Matteo Negri ([email protected]). > > Best Regards, > > Matteo Negri > > -- > -- > Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura > privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate > esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente > legate al relativo contenuto. 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If you received this in > error, please contact the sender and delete the material. > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 18048 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 10:05:10 +0200 > From: Guglielmo Faggioli <[email protected]> > Subject: [Corpora-List] [QPP++] 2nd CfP Query Performance Prediction > and Its Evaluation in New Tasks @ CIKM 2022 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <CAD3vDD-Ts1eGy6Mzq=gjKiwrq6PO=j+58ohjdpycpiywnnz...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="00000000000076a3d705e579ed95" > > 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 a reconsideration of how we perform and > evaluate QPP. > > Important Dates > --------------------- > Submission deadline: September 2, 2022 > Notification of acceptance: September 27, 2022 > Camera ready: October 06, 2022 > Conference days: October 17-20, 2022 > Workshop day: October 21, 2022 > > 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. > Themes and Topics > > 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, such as 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. > > Website > -------------- > qpp2022.dei.unipd.it > > Organizers > -------------- > Guglielmo Faggioli, University of Padova, Italy, [email protected] > <http://faggiolidei.unipd.it/> > Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy, [email protected] > <http://ferrounipd.it/> > Josiane Mothe, Université de Toulouse, IRIT, France, [email protected] > <http://josiane.motheirit.fr/> > Fiana Raiber, Yahoo Research, Israel, [email protected] > <http://fianayahooinc.com/> > > ---------- > Guglielmo Faggioli > Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Padua > Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35138, Padua, Italy > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 4759 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Corpora Digest, Vol 212, Issue 1 > *************************************** _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
