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Meta AI is pleased to invite university faculty to respond to this call for research proposals for data collection using the Dynabench platform. Meta AI encourages creative submissions along the theme of “rethinking benchmarking” that leverage the Dynabench platform, with areas of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following: New tasks or benchmarks that would benefit from having a dynamic (adversarial) component, experiments that examine concrete questions about the human-and-model-in-the-loop paradigm for data collection or evaluation, proposals for moving Dynabench beyond natural language processing and/or beyond the English language. A total of 4 to 8 awards are available, in the range of $15,000 to $55,000 each, including overhead in an amount up to 40% of project costs.

We are pleased to invite paper submissions to “The First Workshop on Learning with Natural Language Supervision” at ACL 2022.

Excited by generation, control, and disentanglement? Come to our CtrlGen controllable generation workshop (https://ctrlgenworkshop.github.io) at NeurIPS next Monday, December 13th!

We feature a mix of 7 talks on the latest in controllable generation, a live QA + panel discussion, poster presentations of several interesting works, creative demos of controllable generation systems, and networking opportunities.

COLING 2022

Gyeongju, Republic of Korea

Call for Papers, Main Conference

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SemEval-2022 Task 09: R2VQ - Competence-based Multimodal Question Answering

We invite you to participate in the SemEval-2022 Task 9: Competence-based Multimodal Question Answering (R2VQ).

The task is being held as part of SemEval-2022, and all participating team will be able to publish their system description paper in the proceedings published by ACL.

Codalab (Data download): https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/34056

Final CFP: 1st Workshop on Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision (CtrlGen 2021)

Excited by generation, control, and disentanglement, in either language or vision? Then check out our controllable generation workshop (CtrlGen) which takes place virtually at NeurIPS 2021 on December 13th!

We feature an exciting lineup of speakers, a live QA and panel session, interactive activities, and networking opportunities. We are also inviting both paper and demo submissions related to controllable generation (read further for details).

Final CFP: 1st Workshop on Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision (CtrlGen 2021)

Excited by generation, control, and disentanglement, in either language or vision? Then check out our controllable generation workshop (CtrlGen) which takes place virtually at NeurIPS 2021 on December 13th!

Workshop Website: https://ctrlgenworkshop.github.io/
Contact: ctrlgenworkshop [at] gmail.com

Important Dates:
-Paper Submission Deadline: *September 30, 2021*
-Demo Submission Deadline: *October 29, 2021*
-Workshop Date: December 13, 2021
Note that the above deadlines are all 11:59pm AOE.

Submission portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CtrlGen2021/Submission/Index

Full Call for Papers: https://ctrlgenworkshop.github.io/CFP.html

Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2021. Topics of interest include:

Methodology and Algorithms:
-New methods and algorithms for controllability.
-Improvements of language and vision model architectures for controllability.
-Novel loss functions, decoding methods, and prompt design methods for controllability.

Applications and Ethics:
-Applications of controllability including creative AI, machine co-creativity, entertainment, data augmentation (for text and vision), ethics (e.g. bias and toxicity reduction), enhanced training for self-driving vehicles, and improving conversational agents.
-Ethical issues and challenges related to controllable generation including the risks and dangers of deepfake and fake news.

Tasks (a few examples):
-Semantic text exchange
-Persona-based text generation
-Style-sensitive generation or style transfer (for text and vision)
-Cross-modal tasks such as controllable image or video captioning and generation from text
-New and previously unexplored controllable generation tasks!

Evaluation and Benchmarks
-New and improved evaluation methods and metrics for controllability
-Standard and unified metrics and benchmark tasks for controllability

Cross-Domain and Other Areas
-Work in interpretability, disentanglement, robustness, representation learning, etc.

Position and Survey Papers
-For example, exploring problems and lacunae in current controllability formulations, neglected areas in controllability, and the unclear and non-standardized definition of controllability

Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CtrlGen2021/Submission/Index
Full CFP with more details: https://ctrlgenworkshop.github.io/CFP.html

Full Call for Demonstrations: https://ctrlgenworkshop.github.io/demos.html

Submission deadline: October 29, 2021. Demos of all forms: research-related, demos of products, interesting and creative projects, etc.
Looking for creative, well-presented, and attention-grabbing demos. Examples include:

-Creative AI such as controllable poetry, music, image, and video generation models.
-Style transfer for both text and vision.
-Interactive chatbots and assistants that involve controllability.
-Controllable image and video/graphics enhancement systems.
-Controllability in the form of deepfake and fake news, specifically methods to combat them.
-And much, much more…

Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CtrlGen2021/Submission/Index
Full CFD with more details: https://ctrlgenworkshop.github.io/demos.html

Organizers:
-Steven Feng (CMU)
-Anusha Balakrishnan (Microsoft Semantic Machines)
-Drew Hudson (Stanford)
-Tatsunori Hashimoto (Stanford)
-Dongyeop Kang (UMN)
-Varun Gangal (CMU)
-Joel Tetreault (Dataminr)

The First Workshop on Causal Inference & NLP broadly covers the intersection of language and causality.
It will be held on November 10th and the submission deadline is August 5, 2021.

Call for papers: https://causaltext.github.io/2021/call-for-papers/
Submission website: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2021/CI-NLP/

CALL FOR NTCIR-16 TASK PARTICIPATION

NTCIR-16 tasks: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-16/tasks.html
NTCIR-16 registration: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-16/howto.html

The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician. The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to the automated processing of Portuguese, promoting the development of methodologies, resources and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field.