Evaluation of our #NLProc SemEval shared task on semantic related starts in 5 days!
We'll have a Q/A session tomorrow 4-5 GMT on Zoom (see 👇) and a system description writing tutorial in a month (mid Feb).

Hi #NLProc community, the less resourced and endangered languages track for LREC COLING 2024 needs some emergency reviewers. Please reach out of you can review one or more papers by the 17th. Thank you!

Excited about reviewing papers for less-resourced languages? LREC-COLING is looking for emergency reviewers to review papers in the next week. DM or email me (lastname at brandeis dot edu) if you're interested in reviewing.

Consider participating in our semantic relatedness SemEval shared if you're interested in #NLProc for low-resource languages. We released new datasets in 14 languages, see semantic-textual-relatedness.github.io.
(Evaluation starts in less than 2 weeks!)

#NLProc -ers, you can still register for our semantic relatedness SemEval shared task.
Evaluation starts on January 20th!
QA session: next week. (Exact date & Zoom link to be shared by email and on Slack)
Paper writing mentorship session: mid-February.

If you're at #EMNLP2023 drop by our poster presentation today at 4 pm. We present a new sentiment analysis benchmark for 14 African languages. Happy to chat about work on low-resource languages and about our upcoming SemRel SemEval 2024 Shared Task-1 SemEval shared task.

If you’re at #emnlp2023 come and check our findings paper on the intended uses of automated fact-checking at the BigPicture workshop (starting in 30 mns!)

For more information you can visit our website
semantic-textual-relatedness.github.io
Join our Google group and Slack channel 2/

Organisers
Nedjma Ousidhoum نجمة أوسيدهم
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD
Mohamed Abdalla
Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla
Vladimir Araujo
Meriem Beloucif
Idris Abdulmumin
Seid M
Nirmal Surange
Christine de Kock
Sanchit Ahuja
Alham Fikri Aji
Manish Shrivastava
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Saif M. Mohammad 3/

#NLProc -ers for our SemRel SemEval Shared Task (co-located with #NAACL2024 ), we release new semantic relatedness datasets in 14 languages & we have 3 tracks.
We'll organise a mentorship session in January & a system description writing tutorial in February 1/

📣 We're now (finally) hiring a PhD student within the TrustLLM project!

If you're interested in research on multilingual LLMs for lower-resourced languages, and like the prospect of doing a PhD in Sweden, with fully-funded, full-time employment, this might be for you! 🧵1/4

The call for diversity and inclusion (D&I) subsidies for #EMNLP2023 is online!
EMNLP 2023 is providing D&I funds for registration, caregiving, bandwidth, travel and VPN subsidies.

Deadline: October 20, 2023 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth)

Details: 2023.emnlp.org/calls/subsidie…
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Glad to be part of this team! Check out our website semantic-textual-relatedness.github.io
We’ll release new semantic relatedness datasets in 14 languages. 🙂

Track C. Cross-lingual: systems trained without the use of any labeled semantic similarity or STR datasets in the target language and with the use of labeled datasets from at least one other lgge. Using labeled data from another track is mandatory for submission to this track .5/

Track B. Unsupervised: systems trained without the use of any labeled STR or semantic relatedness datasets between text more than two words long in any language. 4/

Track A. Supervised: systems trained using the labeled training datasets provided (with scores ranging from 0 to 1 representing the degree of STR). 3/

Afrikaans, Algerian Arabic, Amharic, English, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Kinyarwanda, Marathi, Moroccan Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Punjabi, Spanish, and Telugu.
Task website: semantic-textual-relatedness.github.io Join our Google group and Slack channel!
The shared task has 3 tracks👇2/

Happy to be part of this team! We are providing data for 14 languages on semantic relatedness!

Great keynote about Gender Bias in NLP by Isabelle Augenstein RANLP 2023

2 year postdoc on automated fact-checking! 10 days until the application deadline!