Jekyll2024-03-20T07:27:25+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/feed.xml{“en”=>nil, “de”=>nil}{"en"=>"German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology", "de"=>"Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik e.V."}CPSS-Workshop @ KONVENS 20232024-03-19T00:00:00+00:002024-03-19T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2024/03/19/Workshop-CPSS-2023<p>The 3rd edition of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) took place on the 22 of September 2023, co-located with KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt. It has been organized by Christopher Klamm (U. Mannheim), Valentin Gold (U. Göttingen), Gabriella Lapesa (U. Stuttgart),Simone Ponzetto (U. Mannheim), and Theresa Gessler (European U. Viadrina).</p>
<p>The workshop featured 21 presentations, distributed over one oral and two poster sessions, and it was attended by approximately 40 participants from both Natural Language Processing and the Social/Political sciences. The event was extremely successful, and the large poster sessions were particularly effective in promoting interdisciplinary exchange. The two invited talks by Lucie Flek (U. Bonn) on “On “fixing” the framing: Is bias detection a pair-wise comparison task?” and Sebastian Pado (U. Stuttgart) on “Computational construction of discourse networks for political debates” provided further input to the discussion by showcasing the interface of NLP with the social sciences and political science, respectively.</p>
<p>Overall, it was a fantastic event and provided an amazing starting point for future research collaborations. We were so grateful for the positive, supportive environment created by the participants, and we could not have been happier with the high number of participants and their active engagement throughout the event. Big thanks to all of you who made this happen and came together to form such an awesome and creative community. We can not wait to see what is next!</p>
<p>The full program and the abstracts and slides of the invited talk can be accessed at: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2023konvens/home-page</p>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>The 3rd edition of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) took place on the 22 of September 2023, co-located with KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt. It has been organized by Christopher Klamm (U. Mannheim), Valentin Gold (U. Göttingen), Gabriella Lapesa (U. Stuttgart),Simone Ponzetto (U. Mannheim), and Theresa Gessler (European U. Viadrina).Announcement of the GSCL Award for the best Doctoral Thesis 20242024-02-28T00:00:00+00:002024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2024/02/28/phd-award<p>In memory of Wolfgang Hoeppner, the GSCL is once again awarding this year’s prize for an outstanding dissertation in the field of language technology or computational linguistics.
The dissertation must be in a subject area of the discipline or its sub-areas. If the dissertation was defended between May 2022 and May 2024 and has made significant progress in language technology or computational linguistics, please apply by <strong>31 May 2024, 23:59 CEST</strong>.</p>
<p>You can find more details about the application process <strong><a href="/activities/phdaward">here</a></strong>.</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>In memory of Wolfgang Hoeppner, the GSCL is once again awarding this year’s prize for an outstanding dissertation in the field of language technology or computational linguistics. The dissertation must be in a subject area of the discipline or its sub-areas. If the dissertation was defended between May 2022 and May 2024 and has made significant progress in language technology or computational linguistics, please apply by 31 May 2024, 23:59 CEST.GSCL New Year’s Greetings2024-01-17T00:00:00+00:002024-01-17T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2024/01/17/card<p>The GSCL wishes all members all the best for 2024.</p>
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<li>This year KONVENS invites you from the 9th to the 13th September 2024 to Vienna. We are looking forward to a personal exchange there again. At this point we would like to thank the KONVENS 2023 organizational team once again, who organized the first face-to-face conference in Ingolstadt after the Covid break, during which there were only online or hybrid events.</li>
<li>Interesting for all students: The Computational Linguistics Fall School (organized jointly with the DGfS-CL) will take place from June 16th to 27th September 2024 in Passau.</li>
<li>We would like to thank our creative member Eugenia Rykova (stage name Remolacha) for the beautiful design of the New Year’s greeting card.</li>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>A ray of hope behind the wintry horizon: KONVENS 2024 will take place in Vienna from September 9th to 13th, 2024, organized by ASAI. In addition to the main conference, there will be events such as workshops, a sexism classification challenge for German, a GSCL meeting and much more.Teaching for NLP Workshop @ KONVENS 20232023-09-17T00:00:00+00:002023-09-17T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2023/09/17/teach4nlp<p>On September 17, 2023, the Teaching for NLP Workshop took place as part of the satellite program of KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt. It was organized by Jannik Strötgen (FH Karlsruhe), Margot Mieskes (Hochschule Darmstadt), Christian Wartena (Hochschule Hannover), Stefan Grünewald (Bosch), and Annemarie Friedrich (University of Augsburg). The workshop brought together over twenty professors, lecturers, trainers, and teaching assistants of natural language processing and computational linguistics from universities, universities of applied science, and industry.</p>
<p>The workshop itself followed an example of open discussion-style sessions and ad-hoc presentations. Participants chose to discuss what should be part of a “Perfect NLP curriculum” (note the irony, please), the special challenges that come with teaching heterogenous or groups coming from special non-technical backgrounds, how to activate students, how to use visualizations effectively, and much more. The workshop also featured eight poster presentations and an informal workshop dinner.</p>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>On September 17, 2023, the Teaching for NLP Workshop took place as part of the satellite program of KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt. It was organized by Jannik Strötgen (FH Karlsruhe), Margot Mieskes (Hochschule Darmstadt), Christian Wartena (Hochschule Hannover), Stefan Grünewald (Bosch), and Annemarie Friedrich (University of Augsburg). The workshop brought together over twenty professors, lecturers, trainers, and teaching assistants of natural language processing and computational linguistics from universities, universities of applied science, and industry.PhD Event at KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt2023-08-06T00:00:00+00:002023-08-06T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2023/08/06/phd-event-konvens<p>We would like to invite all PhD students in the field of Natural Language Processing (or adjacent) to join the PhD Event at KONVENS 2023 @ Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt.</p>
<p>The conference itself provides the ideal opportunity to come into contact with work on Computational Linguistics in both academia and industry. The PhD Event is designed to offer a space for (fun) discussions relating to all aspects of life as a PhD student in NLP and to get to know your community.</p>
<p>PhD students have the opportunity to briefly present their topic in 3-4 minutes lightning talks with a chance to get feedback and exchange ideas with their peers.</p>
<p>We will also have a session showing how applying creativity can help coping with difficulties and with managing insecurities.
The session will consist of:</p>
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<li>Art-therapy warm-up: Expression of emotions through colour</li>
<li>Main activity: Comic drawing and story telling</li>
<li>Art-therapy windup: Transformation of unpleasant experiences</li>
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<p>We’re excited to have you join us for a fun and informative event!
More information here: https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023/</p>We would like to invite all PhD students in the field of Natural Language Processing (or adjacent) to join the PhD Event at KONVENS 2023 @ Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt.GSCL 2023 BA and MA Thesis Awards2023-02-22T00:00:00+00:002023-02-22T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2023/02/22/Call-for-nominatons-2023-ba-ma-student-thesis-awards<p>In line with its mission to promote research, teaching and professional work in natural language processing and computational linguistics, GSCL bi-annually awards two prizes worth € 400 each for the best student undergraduate thesis and for the best master’s thesis.</p>
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<li>Eligible theses for this year’s award are ones submitted between April 2021 and March 2023.</li>
<li>Theses from all German-speaking countries will be considered (Austria, Germany and Switzerland) as well as from any other country, as long as the topic is focused on the German language.</li>
<li>The current selection round takes place in the summer of 2023, with the final selection to be made as part of the KONVENS conference in Ingolstadt (September 18-22, 2023).</li>
<li>Candidates for the awards can be put forward by thesis supervisors.</li>
<li>Nominations must be emailed to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">gscl-preis@gscl.org</code> no later than June 15, 2023.</li>
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<p>For more information on how to apply please visit <a href="https://gscl.org/en/activities/studentaward">https://gscl.org/en/activities/studentaward</a>.</p>In line with its mission to promote research, teaching and professional work in natural language processing and computational linguistics, GSCL bi-annually awards two prizes worth € 400 each for the best student undergraduate thesis and for the best master’s thesis.Shared Task on Speaker Attribution in German News Articles and Parliamentary Debates2023-02-13T00:00:00+00:002023-02-13T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2023/02/13/SpkAtt-2023-Shared-Task<p>We are happy to announce a new shared task on Speaker Attribution in German, as part of the GermEval Campaign, co-located with the Conference for Natural Language Processing (<a href="https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023/">KONVENS 2023</a>) in Ingolstadt, Germany, in Sep 2023. The goal of this shared task is the identification of speakers in political debates and in news articles, and the attribution of speech events to their respective speakers. Being able to identify this information automatically, i.e., identifying who says what to whom, is a necessary prerequisite for a deep semantic analysis of unstructured text. For more information about the shared task, including the task settings, datasets, evaluation metrics and link to the registration form, please visit the shared task website at <a href="https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10431">CodaLab</a>. The SpkAtt-2023 shared task is partially supported by the German Society for Computational Linguistics and endorsed by two of its Special Interest Groups, CPSS and IGGSA.</p>
<p><strong>Important Dates</strong></p>
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<li>April 1, 2023 - Training and development data release</li>
<li>June 15, 2023 - Test data release (blind)</li>
<li>July 1, 2023 - Submissions open</li>
<li>July 31, 2023 - Submissions close</li>
<li>August 14, 2023 - System descriptions due</li>
<li>September 7, 2023 - Camera-ready system paper deadline</li>
<li>September 18-22, 2023 - Workshop at KONVENS 2023</li>
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<p><strong>Organizing team</strong></p>
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<p>Ines Rehbein, Simone Ponzetto (U-Mannheim)</p>
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<p>Fynn Petersen-Frey, Chris Biemann (U-Hamburg)</p>
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<p><strong>Contact</strong></p>
<p>fynn.petersen-frey at uni-hamburg.de, rehbein at uni-mannheim.de</p>We are happy to announce a new shared task on Speaker Attribution in German, as part of the GermEval Campaign, co-located with the Conference for Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2023) in Ingolstadt, Germany, in Sep 2023. The goal of this shared task is the identification of speakers in political debates and in news articles, and the attribution of speech events to their respective speakers. Being able to identify this information automatically, i.e., identifying who says what to whom, is a necessary prerequisite for a deep semantic analysis of unstructured text. For more information about the shared task, including the task settings, datasets, evaluation metrics and link to the registration form, please visit the shared task website at CodaLab. The SpkAtt-2023 shared task is partially supported by the German Society for Computational Linguistics and endorsed by two of its Special Interest Groups, CPSS and IGGSA.Workshops and Tutorials at KONVENS 20232023-01-27T00:00:00+00:002023-01-27T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2023/01/27/konvens<p>We are excited to announce an amazing satellite program for <a href="https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023/">KONVENS</a>, which will take place from September 18-22, 2023 at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt.
Overall, we aim to make this year’s KONVENS a come-back for in-person exchange between anyone interested in NLP and CL, from academic researchers over software developers to students! Save the date! ;)</p>
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<li>Sept 18, 2023: <a href="/events/teach4nlp2023">KONVENS Teach4NLP</a> is a workshop that aims to bring together anyone interested in teaching NLP/CL at university, industry, or college level.</li>
<li>Sept 18, 2023: <strong>PhD Networking Event</strong></li>
<li>Sept 21, 2023: <strong>GermEval Shared Task on Speaker Attribution</strong> (Evaluation Deadline end of July)</li>
<li>Sept 21, 2023: Tutorial <strong>Learning from Task Instructions</strong> by <a href="https://www.wenpengyin.org/">Wenpeng Yin</a> and <a href="https://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/schuetze">Hinrich Schütze</a></li>
<li>Sept 22, 2023: Workshop on <strong>Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing</strong></li>
<li>Sept 22, 2023: Workshop on <strong>Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2023)</strong> by the <a href="activities/politicssocialsciences">GSCL SIG Computerlinguistik für die Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften</a>.</li>
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<p>We are also very happy that the following speakers accepted our invitations for <a href="https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023/program/">invited talks</a> at the KONVENS main conference:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/schuetze/">Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze</a>, Professor, LMU München</li>
<li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hZ6nJ9QAAAAJ&hl=en">Dr. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová</a>, head of research, development and transfer at the German Rescue Robotics Center (DRZ).</li>
<li><a href="https://marc.schulder.info/de/">Dr. Marc Schulder</a>, a junior researcher working on NLP for sign languages.</li>
</ul>We are excited to announce an amazing satellite program for KONVENS, which will take place from September 18-22, 2023 at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. Overall, we aim to make this year’s KONVENS a come-back for in-person exchange between anyone interested in NLP and CL, from academic researchers over software developers to students! Save the date! ;)Language understanding and misunderstanding2022-12-02T00:00:00+00:002022-12-02T00:00:00+00:00https://gscl.gitlab.io/2022/12/02/michael-roth<h3 id="abstract">Abstract</h3>
<p>When we use language, we usually assume that the meaning of
our statements is clear and that others can understand precisely this
meaning. However, that this may not always be the case is for example
demonstrated by vague statements in politics and by humor based on
wordplay. Even unwittingly, it is possible for statements to be
understood differently. Such cases are commonly referred to as
“ambiguities” and the result, when at least one understood meaning does
not match the intended one, as a “misunderstanding”. The potential for
ambiguities and misunderstandings raises the question in how far
computational models of language should be capable of preventing, for
example, users of voice assistants from being misunderstood or texts
from being mistranslated.</p>
<p>In this talk, I will present a series of recent studies towards the
automatic detection of potential sources of misunderstanding in
instructional texts. I will argue that these instructional texts are, by
virtue of their function, particularly suited to this task and I will
show the extent to which potential sources of misunderstanding can be
found through the revision history of such texts. Finally, I will
discuss current results and findings, which may provide an outlook on
how to account for misunderstandings in future NLP models.</p>
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<p>Michael Roth is an independent research group leader in the DFG
Emmy Noether program. He studied computational linguistics at Saarland
University and received his PhD from Heidelberg University in 2014. He
then worked as a postdoc in Stuttgart, Edinburgh, Urbana-Champaign, and
Saarbrücken, where he conducted research on models of lexical and
role-based semantics, implicit meaning, and script knowledge. His
current group is based at the University of Stuttgart and focuses on
modeling sources of misunderstanding in complex instructional texts.
Roth co-organized a number of workshops on semantics and commonsense
knowledge, he is a regular area chair at *ACL conferences, and research
in his group recently led to two best paper awards (at EACL-SRW 2021 and
at SemEval 2022).</p>Abstract When we use language, we usually assume that the meaning of our statements is clear and that others can understand precisely this meaning. However, that this may not always be the case is for example demonstrated by vague statements in politics and by humor based on wordplay. Even unwittingly, it is possible for statements to be understood differently. Such cases are commonly referred to as “ambiguities” and the result, when at least one understood meaning does not match the intended one, as a “misunderstanding”. The potential for ambiguities and misunderstandings raises the question in how far computational models of language should be capable of preventing, for example, users of voice assistants from being misunderstood or texts from being mistranslated.