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[apologies for cross posting] DeTermIt! Workshop @ LREC-COLING 2024 Workshop on Automatic Text Simplification: Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context Location: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia) ##################### Second Call for Papers - Paper submissions due: 23 February 2024 - Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2024 - Camera-ready: 5 April 2024 - Workshop: 21 May 2024 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) For updates and news follow us on: https://twitter.com/DeTermIt2024 https://determit2024.dei.unipd.it/ ##################### In today's interconnected world, where information dissemination knows no linguistic bounds, it is mandatory to ensure that knowledge is accessible to diverse audiences, regardless of their language proficiency. Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) is the process that involves the reduction of linguistic complexity within a text to enhance its comprehensibility and readability. ATS plays a pivotal role in enhancing content and conveying clear, unambiguous information (comprehensibility and readability) for diverse audiences. The DeTermIt! workshop builds upon the recent achievements of several initiatives that addressed specific areas within our realm of interest. It is aligned with the CLEF SimpleText Track which provides appropriate reusable data and benchmarks for scientific text summarization and simplification [1], [2]. DeTermIt! aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of text simplification, with a particular focus on the intersection of lexicography, terminology, and keyword extraction. This workshop will explore the theoretical and practical perspectives surrounding the evaluation of text difficulty in a multilingual context, and it will serve as a platform for discussing advancements, methodologies, and applications in simplification techniques that target different linguistic nuances and audiences. We welcome contributions that present different viewpoints on automatic text simplification, considering document genres, diverse languages, and the challenges posed by linguistic complexities in general. In particular, we encourage authors to explore: theoretical elements identifying text or lexical complexity and experimental analyses for aligning text with the reading proficiency of diverse audiences. The workshop seeks contributions including, but not limited to, the following themes: 1. Theoretical Perspectives: - Refinement of models and strategies for Automated Text Simplification. - Identification of common linguistic patterns and challenges in different languages for ATS. - Role of multilingual resources in simplifying complex terminology. - Exploration of innovative methodologies for simplifying complex terminologies without compromising meaning. - Study the role of lexicography in simplifying texts; for example, the development of lexicons and dictionaries tailored for simplification tasks. 2. Practical Applications: - Creation of effective tools and multilingual resources for linguistic inclusivity. - Development and utilization of language resources like bilingual and multilingual glossaries, translation memories, and terminology databases. - Evaluation of machine translation and NLP techniques in text simplification across languages. - Analysis of practical methods to adapt domain-specific terminology for enhanced accessibility in various fields such as medicine, law, or technology. - Creation of lexical resources that assist in the automatic generation of simplified texts across different domains and languages. - Enhancement of summarization techniques by effectively identifying and prioritizing key information in simplified content. Submission Guidelines: We invite original contributions, including research papers, case studies, and system demonstrations. Submissions may include previously unpublished work or work in progress. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Papers must be compliant with the stylesheet adopted for the LREC-COLING conference Proceedings. Workshop Proceedings will be published on the LREC-COLING 2024 website. PAPER TYPES Submissions may be of three types: Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages maximum,(*) presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Short papers – up to four (4) pages,(*) describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Position papers – up to eight (8) pages,(*) discussing key hot topics, challenges and open issues, as well as cross-fertilization between computational linguistics and other disciplines. Important Dates: - Paper submissions due: 23 February 2024 - Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2024 - Camera-ready: 5 April 2024 - Workshop: 21 May 2024 Organizers: Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy Federica Vezzani, University of Padua, Italy Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Hosein Azarbonyad, Elsevier, The Netherlands Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Scientific Committee Florian Boudin - Nantes University, France Lynne Bowker - University of Ottawa, Canada Ricardo Campos - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Sara Carvalho - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa / Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Rute Costa - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio - Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Eric Gaussier - University Grenoble Alpes, France Natalia Grabar - CNRS, France Rodolfo Maslias - Head of Terminology Coordination, European Parliament (2008-2022), Luxembourg Ana Ostroški Anić - Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia Horacio Saggion - University Pompeu Fabra Sara Vecchiato - University of Udine, Italy Federica Vezzani - Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Cornelia Wermuth - KU Leuven, Belgium Contact: For inquiries, please contact giorgiomaria.dinunzio@unipd.it References: [1] L. Ermakova, E. SanJuan, S. Huet, O. Augereau, H. Azarbonyad, and J. Kamps, ‘Overview of simpletext-clef-2023 track on automatic simplification of scientific texts’, presented at the Avi Arampatzis, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2023), 2023. [2] L. Ermakova et al., ‘Overview of the CLEF 2022 SimpleText Lab: Automatic simplification of scientific texts’, in Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2022, Bologna, Italy, September 5–8, 2022, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing Cham, 2022, pp. 470–494. -- Federica Vezzani, PhD Ricercatrice (RTDb) Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari (DiSLL) Università degli Studi di Padova Via Elisabetta Vendramini, 13 35137 Padova email: federica.vezzani@unipd.it skype: federica.vezzani92 home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~vezzanif/ zoom: https://unipd.zoom.us/my/federica.vezzani
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