computational linguistics

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems by democratizing their use. These models have shown remarkable advancements in various applications such as conversational AI and machine translation, marking the undeniable advent of the human-machine era. However, despite their significant achievements, state-of-the-art systems still exhibit shortcomings in language understanding, raising questions about their true comprehension of human languages.
The concept of language understanding has always been contentious, as meaning-making depends not only on form and immediate meaning but also on context. Therefore, understanding natural language involves more than just parsing form and meaning; it requires access to grounding for true comprehension. Equipping language models with linguistics-grounded capabilities remains a complex task, given the importance of discourse, pragmatics, and social context in language understanding.
Understanding language is a doubly challenging task as it necessitates not only grasping the intrinsic capabilities of LLMs but also examining their impact and requirements in real-world applications. While LLMs have shown effectiveness in various applications, the lack of supporting theories raises concerns about ethical implications, particularly in applications involving human interaction.
The “Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era” (LUHME) workshop aims to reignite the debate on the role of understanding in natural language use and its applications. It seeks to explore the necessity of language understanding in computational tasks like machine translation and natural language generation, as well as the contributions of language professionals in enhancing computational language understanding.

LaTeCH-CLfL 2024:
The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held in March 2024 in conjunction with EACL 2024 in St Julian’s, Malta.

https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2024/

Third Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2024:
The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held in March 2024 in conjunction with EACL 2024 in St Julian’s, Malta.

https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2024/

Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organisers: Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz

LaTeCH-CLfL 2024:
The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

to be held in March 2024 in conjunction with EACL 2024 in Malta.

https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2024/

First Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)

Organizers: Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz

2nd Call for Papers

Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Language Learning, Representation, and Processing in Humans and Machines

** Guest Editors **

Marianna Apidianaki (University of Pennsylvania)
Abdellah Fourtassi (Aix Marseille University)
Sebastian Padó (University of Stuttgart)

** NEW: Abstract submission deadline: November 10 **

** Paper submission deadline: December 10 **

The Organizers of LREC-COLING 2024 invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the joint conference in Lingotto Conference Centre – Turin (Italy). We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science and the digital humanities.

IMPORTANT DATES

2nd CFP for the main conference for LREC-COLING 2024. Please refer to the new website.

https://lrec-coling-2024.org/2nd-call-for-papers/

22 September 2023: Paper anonymity period starts
13 October 2023: Final submissions due (long, short and position papers)
22–29 January 2024: Author rebuttal period
5 February 2024: Final reviewing
19 February 2024: Notification of acceptance
25 March 2024: Camera-ready due
20-25 May 2024: LREC-COLING2024 conference

The IJCNLP-AACL 2023 Student Research Workshop (SRW) will be held in conjunction with IJCNLP-AACL 2023 conference in Bali, Indonesia on Nov 1st, 2023. The SRW gives student researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive feedback and mentorship by experienced members of the ACL community.

If you submit your draft by Aug 4th, we will match you with one of the mentors, who can provide you with feedbacks on how to improve your paper for the final submission (Sep 1st).

Registration is open for Bridging fieldwork, corpus, and experimental methods to study sociolectal variation, July 8-9, 2023, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, during the 2023 Linguistic Institute! Registration closes at the end of the day June 9, 2023.

Website: https://blogs.umass.edu/bridging-socio/

Register by June 9, 2023, at our website to attend either in-person or virtually. Note: availability of accommodations for in-person attendance is very limited. Registration is free.

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PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia)
March 14th to 15th 2024
1st Call for Papers
https://propor2024.citius.gal/
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