[Mt-list] Call for Participation - CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab

2022-03-13 Thread Wajdi Zaghouani
CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab -- Call for Participation (apologies for
cross-posting)

We invite you to participate in the 2022 edition of CheckThat!@CLEF. This

year, we feature three tasks that correspond to important components of the
full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages:

Task 1: Identifying Relevant Claims in Tweets (Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch,
English, Spanish, and Turkish)

- Subtask 1A: Check-Worthiness Estimation: Given a tweet, predict whether
it is worth fact-checking by professional fact-checkers.

- Subtask 1B: Verifiable Factual Claims Detection. Given a tweet, predict
whether it contains a verifiable factual claim.

- Subtask 1C: Harmful Tweet Detection. Given a tweet, predict whether it is
harmful to society.

- Subtask 1D: Attention-Worthy Tweet Detection. Given a tweet, predict
whether it should get the attention of policy makers.


Task 2. Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims

Given a check-worthy claim in the form of a tweet or a sentence in the
context of a debate, and a set of previously fact-checked claims, determine
whether the claim has been previously fact-checked. (English and Arabic)

- Subtask 2A: Detect Previously Fact-Checked Claims in Tweets: Given a
tweet, detect whether the claim the tweet makes has been previously
fact-checked with respect to a collection of fact-checked claims.

- Subtask 2B: Detect Previously Fact-Checked Claims in Political
Debates/Speeches: Given a claim in a political debate or a speech, detect
whether the claim has been previously fact-checked with respect to a
collection of previously fact-checked claims.

Task 3. Fake news detection

Given the text and the title of an article, determine whether the main
claim made in the article is true, partially true, false, or other (e.g.,
articles in dispute and unproven articles). This task is offered as a
mono-lingual task in English and a cross-lingual task for English and
German.


Further information: https://sites.google.com/view/clef2022-checkthat/home

Data repository:
https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2022-checkthat-lab/clef2022-checkthat-lab

Register and participate:
https://clef2022-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php


Important Dates

-

22 April 2022: Registration closes

2 May 2022: End of the evaluation cycle

27 May 2022: Submission of participant papers [CEUR-WS]

11 June 2022: Notification of acceptance for the participant papers
[CEUR-WS]

1 July 2022: Camera-ready version of the participant papers due [CEUR-WS]

5-8 September 2022: Conference (Bologna, Italy)



*Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.*

*Assistant Professor*
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar
tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992

wzaghou...@hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building
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[Mt-list] [1st Call for Papers] ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages - SIGUL 2022 Workshop

2022-03-13 Thread ELRA ELDA Information

{Apologies for multiple postings]

1st Call for Papers - *SIGUL 2022 Workshop *

a post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2022 in Marseille (FR), on 24-25 June 
2022



The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on 
Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022) will provide a forum for the 
presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech 
processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry 
researchers. SIGUL 2022 will carry on the tradition of the CCURL-SLTU 
(Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken 
Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, 
which has been organised since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. 
As usual, this Workshop spans the research interest areas of 
less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority and minoritized 
languages. Since this year LREC includes a track dedicated specifically 
to endangered and less-resourced languages, the workshop aims to be a 
venue for networking and discussion as much as for scientific debate.


Over the last years, research in NLP for less-resourced languages has 
taken momentum. The multiplication of research interest makes it even 
more necessary for the community that revolves around less-resourced 
languages to find opportunities for aggregation and discussion. 
Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue 
will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in 
NLP, MT and Speech Technologies for under-resourced languages to both 
academic and industry researchers, and also to offer a venue where 
researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can 
fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development 
while honouring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced 
languages.


Topics include but are not limited to:

 * General research on *under-resourced languages*.
 * *Transfer-learning techniques for under-resourced languages* (use of
   multilingual, pretrained models, unsupervised, semi-supervised,
   zero-shot, few-shot training,...) in *NLP, MT and Speech technologies*.
 * We also invite *position papers *on methodological, ethical, or
   institutional issues

*Instructions for submission can be found **here 
*


*Important Dates*

 * Paper submission deadline: 11 April 2022
 * Notification of acceptance: 3 May 2022
 * Camera-ready paper: 23 May 2022
 * Workshop date: 24-25 June 2022


*Organizing Committee*

 *      Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
 *      Sakriani Sakti - NAIST, Japan
 *      Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy


To contact the organisers, please mail sigul2...@ilc.cnr.it (Subject: 
[SIGUL2022]).
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