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cfp @ 4s :Academic Automation, Machine Un/Learning and Artificial Non/Intelligence
by Jeremy Hunsinger 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

7. Academic Automation, Machine Un/Learning and Artificial Non/Intelligence Over the last 70 years, computational and networked media have become deeply integrated with higher education and have slowly adopted and integrated various technologies. The newest generation of technologies engaging higher education centers around what is popularly called artificial intelligence, otherwise known as machine learning. Machine learning creates models that, in part self-design solutions that may include interaction, prediction, and other simulatable aspects. This panel invites papers that engage with questions of academic automation, machine un/learning, and artificial non/intelligence in the academic context. It seeks critical papers that examine questions around automatic grading, artificial teaching assistants, robotic instructors, other academic technologies, and the transformation of the student and professor roles concerning these technologies. This panel also seeks papers that engage these technologies in other academic roles, such as research or service as work. How are these technologies mediating different academic functions? Who benefits from these technologies? And who is privileged by them? We have to consider the roles of craft, artistry, and humanity in those roles. Is there an argument to be made for automation in the academy? Is there an argument to be made for AI/Machine learning in the academy? What kind of relations do these establish? Following Ivan Illich, should we be rethinking our relations to develop tools and systems that treat us as human, perhaps even more human than our current system? Following Virilio, what will be their accident? What are the good relations between our academic institutions, their people, and these new technologies? Keywords: academic automation, AI in the academy, new academic technologies call-for-submissions Directions and rules https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/index.php direct link to submissions -- Jeremy Hunsinger Associate Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University

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Funding for international students: MA in IR and Global Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University
by Adi Kuntsman 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Deareveryone, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested in applyingfor this programme Weare proud to announce that our successful MA in International Relations andGlobal Communications (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/ma-international-relations-… offering scholarships of up to £3,000 to international students applying forfull time study for September 2021. Details of the scholarship are here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/international/before-you-apply/fees-and-funding… Furtherinformation about the MA: The relationship between politics and communications hasnever been more dynamic or more important than it is today. Digital media,particularly social media, is fundamentally changing the terrain of politics.This course allows you to study those interactions within an interdisciplinaryenvironment, drawing on research and expertise from the fields of politics,international relations, information and communications, journalism andlinguistics. You will study media and communications theory, plus thehistorical development of international relations and key issues incontemporary global politics, becoming an expert in how new communicationtechnologies shape societies, politics and individual lives. Furtherinformation about funding: ·Applicants must hold an offer for a full, taught Masters course (180 credits)at Manchester Metropolitan University. ·This offer is only available for programmes commencing in September 2021 orJanuary 2022. ·Eligible applicants who achieve a UK First Class degree, or the internationalequivalent, in their undergraduate studies will be awarded a £3,000Scholarship. ·Eligible applicants with a degree classification which is lower than a UK FirstClass degree, or the international equivalent, in their undergraduate degreewill be awarded a £2,000 Scholarship. Dr Adi Kuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics Programme Leader, MA in International Relations and Global Communications Coordinator, PhD pathway in Digital Politics Department of Politics | Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building| Manchester | M15 6LL| Web| Online office hours (term time only): Thursday 1-2pm and Friday 4-5pm on Teams (chat or call). Latest publications: --“Reverberation, Affect and Digital Politics ofResponsibility”, in Boler and Davis, AffectivePolitics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means, Routledge. --“Environmentalmedia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic”, rapid response special issue of Journal of Environmental Media (co-edited with Becky Alexis-Martin and Liu Xin)

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MGRL Lecture Series: David Parisi & Justin Grandinetti
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

*** Apologies for cross-postings*** Department of Communication Mobile Gaming Research Lab Spring ‘21 Lecture Series Please join us for the Mobile Gaming Research Lab’s Spring ‘21 Lecture Series webinar. To celebrate the release of the Retro Mobile Gaming Database (http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu <http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu/>/), this webinar will feature scholars whose research is at the intersection of mobile games, archives and history. The talks will explore the history of touch-based mobile game interfaces and how Pokémon Go contributes to the creation of digital memory. WHEN: April 7, 2021 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST Featured Presentations Instrumentalities of Touch in Mobile Game Interfaces Dr. David Parisi, Associate Professor of Communication, College of Charleston (USA) Touch-based mobile game interfaces, by opening up new sites of contact between players and games, participate in a fantastical re-imagination of touch that originated in 1950s theories of information transmission. According to this model, touch could be deployed as the standing reserve of audiovisual interfaces, an alternative pathway for transmitting messages that compensates for the overloading and overcrowding of seeing and hearing in the modern media environment. By mapping the gap between these imagined transformative uses for digital touch and touch’s comparatively mundane deployment in contemporary mobile games, this talk provides a framework for further explorations of the relationship between mobile gaming and tactility. Speaker Bio (https://communication.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/parisi-david.php <https://communication.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/parisi-david.php>) » Pokémon GO and Digital Memory Dr. Justin Grandinetti, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of North Carolina Charlotte (USA) Critical to the functionality of the location-aware augmented reality mobile gameplay of Pokémon GO are elements of pervasive data collection, storage, and processing. For the player, this manifests in location-aware log and journal features, but also through the new Pokéstop scanning process that allows developer Niantic to “crowdsource” AR maps. In this presentation, Dr. Grandinetti will examine the digital memory of Pokémon GO as posthuman cognitive assemblage (Hayles, 2016; Lee, 2018) and part of a lineage of a personalized relation to space. Speaker Bio (http://www.justingrandinetti.com/ <http://www.justingrandinetti.com/>)» REGISTER HERE: https://ncsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mxndqj3NQbCTlMS9aqoFmw <https://ncsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mxndqj3NQbCTlMS9aqoFmw> _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com

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Culturally Responsive Research Webinars presented by NVivo & SAGE - FREE WEBINAR SERIES
by Silvana di Gregorio 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

We're proud to be partnering with SAGE Publishing on a webinar series focused on the importance of culturally responsive research in all the stages of the research process. The series starts in March 2021, below are the first two webinars: March 18, 2021 What More Can I Do?: An Exploration of Critical Advocacy Research and Decision Points toward Culturally Responsive Research Penny A. Pasque PhD, professor in Educational Studies and director of Qualitative Methods & QualLab for the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University March 19, 2021 Youth-Led Antiracism Research Adriana Aldana, MSW, PhD, assistant professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of Social Work. Katie Richards-Schuster, AM, PhD, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. See the full schedule and register now - https://my.visme.co/view/y4mx14gx-culturally-responsive-webinar-series-sd Best wishes, Silvana Silvana di Gregorio, PhD Academic Research Director QSR International (UK) Limited Eastside, King's Cross Station, London N1C 4AX United Kingdom T +44 (0)1925 358 095 E s.digregorio(a)qsrinternational.com qsrinternational.com Disclaimer This transmission may contain information which is confidential and privileged and intended only for the addressee. If you are not the addressee you may not use, disseminate or copy this information. If you have received this information in error please notify the sender immediately. Thank you. QSR Privacy Policy

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CfP: 4th International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data at ESWC2021 (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to March 15th)
by Beyza Yaman 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Apologies for cross-posting! The 4th International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data will be co-located with the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) on 7th June 2021 ( dice-group.github.io/GeoLD2021/). Abstract: ======================================= Geospatial data is vital for both traditional applications like navigation, logistics, and tourism and emerging areas like autonomous vehicles, smart buildings, and GIS on demand. Spatial linked data has recently transitioned from experimental prototypes to national infrastructure. However, the next generation of spatial knowledge graphs will integrate multiple spatial datasets with the large number of general datasets that contain some geospatial references (e.g., DBpedia, Wikidata). This integration, either on the public Web or within organizations has immense socio-economic as well as academic benefits. The upsurge in Linked data related presentations in the recent Eurogeographics data quality workshop shows the deep interest in Geospatial Linked Data (GLD) in national mapping agencies. GLD enables a web-based, interoperable geospatial infrastructure. This is especially relevant for delivering the INSPIRE directive in Europe. Moreover, geospatial information systems benefit from Linked Data principles in building the next generation of spatial data applications e.g., federated smart buildings, self-piloted vehicles, delivery drones or automated local authority services. This workshop invites papers covering the challenges and solutions for handling with GLD, especially for building high quality, adaptable, geospatial infrastructures and next-generation spatial applications. We aim to demonstrate the latest approaches and implementations and to discuss the solutions to challenges and issues arising from research and industrial organizations. The best papers will be invited to submit their extended version to the special issue in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Semantic Spatial Web. Topics of interest ======================================= • GLD vocabularies and standards (GeoSPARQL, INSPIRE, W3C, OGC) • Extraction/transformation of GLD from native geospatial data sources • Integration (schema mapping, interlinking, fusion) techniques for Geospatial RDF Data • Enrichment, quality and evolution of Linked Data with Geospatial information • Machine Learning improving GLD processing • Distributed solutions for GLD management (storing, querying, mapping) • Algorithms and tools for large scale, scalable GLD management • Efficient Indexing and Querying of GLD • Geospatial-specific Reasoning on RDF Data • Ranking techniques on querying Geospatial RDF Data • Advanced querying capabilities on Geospatial RDF Data • Benchmarking of GLD applications • GLD in social web platforms and applications • Visualization models/interfaces for browsing/authoring/querying GLD • Real world applications/use cases/paradigms using GLD • Evaluation/comparison of tools/libraries/frameworks for GLD • Data governance models for GLD Important Dates ======================================= Paper submission: 1st March 2021 15 March 2021 (Extended) Camera-ready paper submission: 9th April 2021 Workshop Date: 7th June 2021 *Organizing Committee: * ======================================= Dr. Beyza Yaman (ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland) Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Sherif (University of Paderborn, Germany) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Armin Haller (Australian National University, Australia) Prof. Dr. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (University of Paderborn, Germany) We are looking forward to your submissions! Best Regards, Beyza Yaman.

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Global Media and China Webinar: Creative Labour in East Asia
by Xiao Han 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Dear All, Global Media and China is is co-organised with the Global Digital Cultures from the University of Amsterdam to hold this webinar to explores the nuanced situations of governance, digitisation, and labour experiences in the cultural economies of East Asia. Time: Tuesday March 2 at 12.00pm (Amsterdam) / 19.00pm (Beijing) Title: Global Media and China and Global Digital Cultures Present: Creative Labour in East Asia Join Zoom Meeting https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/87846515546 <https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/87846515546> Meeting ID: 878 4651 5546 Join by SIP 87846515546(a)zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) Meeting ID: 878 4651 5546 Speakers: Jeroen de Kloet, Professor of Globalisation Studies and Head of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. CHOW Yiu Fai, Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University. Jian Lin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. Changwook Kim, Assistant Professor of sociology at Handong Global University, South Korea. Michael Keane, Adjunct Professor of Chinese Media and Communications at Queensland University of Technology. Anthony Y.H. Fung, Co-Director of Hong Kong Institue of Asia-Pacific Studies, Director of Global Studies Program; Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sun Meicheng, PhD student in Communication at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Yvette Lok Yee Wong, PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Qing Wang, PhD Candidate in the Center for Culture and Technology, Curtin University and the Institute for Cultural Industries, Shenzhen University (joint award).

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CFP-Beyond Zoom: Promise and Reality of XR
by John P. Bell 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

Beyond Zoom: Promise and Reality of XR CFP Submission Deadline: March 15, 2021 (250 word abstract) Conference Date: April 15-16, 2021 Submit Proposals at http://dartgo.org/beyond-zoom-cfp Register to Attend at http://dartgo.org/beyond-zoom-reg Send Questions to beyond.zoom.conference(a)gmail.com This conference is a sequel to last year's "Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era," which highlighted the role of XR in remote teaching, learning and research contexts. In this follow-up conference we are seeking speakers to present their work in the context of the future promise and current reality of XR, particularly in response to changing world events like COVID, social polarization, and erosion of trust in scientific research and communication. Like many new technologies, XR is often spoken about as either a panacea for or contributor to any number of challenges in higher education. We would like to hear about your expectations when you began a project, your experiences using building and using XR thus far, and where you think we can go next based on what you've learned. We welcome proposals for brief (5-minute) lightning talks showing off existing or developing XR projects in any discipline as well as institutional initiatives built around XR. These brief presentations will be organized into sessions that seed generative discussions as part of a two-day event. - Retrospectives of recent teaching and research projects along with prospective looks at next steps - How XR can-and can't-explore issues of institutional racism, social justice, and agency - How virtual worldbuilding can demonstrate differences in perception among those with varying physical, cognitive, or sensory conditions - When XR can be used to effectively disseminate ideas and concepts (to the public or to students) that are not easily conveyed in other media - Data privacy issues for students, research subjects, and the general public - XR in the academy vs. XR in the consumer space, particularly with commodified hardware and software ecosystems - Research into XR's role in promoting empathy for the 'other' - Explorations of XR's digital divide and how to bridge it in higher ed - Discussions of tools that can democratize access to XR for creators and distributors - Use of XR spaces for collaboration among researchers, students, or others HOSTS Dartmouth College: Information, Technology, and Consulting The Neukom Institute Film and Media Studies University of Pennsylvania: Online Learning Initiative Cinema and Media Studies This conference is sponsored by Dartmouth ITC and the University of Pennsylvania Online Learning Initiative. Thank you, Beyond Zoom Conference Committee John P. Bell, Dartmouth College Peter Decherney, University of Pennsylvania Barbara Knauff, Dartmouth College Rebecca Stein, University of Pennsylvania Mark Williams, Dartmouth College

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Vote Climatophosis by Yohanna Joseph Waliya as The best use of DH for Fun please
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

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8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): Last Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

*** Last Call for Papers *** 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development" July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/ Extended submision deadlines! (Proceedings to be published by Springer) End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use. Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term "end-user development" acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology. Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas. IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community. Conference Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: · describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development · describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts · present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development · develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: · User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices · Conversational interfaces for end-user development · End-user development for big data visualization and exploration · End-user development for collaborative robotics · End-user development for social robotics · End-user development in Industry 4.0 · End-user development and explainable AI-based systems · Cybersecurity and end-user development · End-user development in daily life · Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development · Empirical studies of end-user development · Recommender systems to support end-user development · Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches · Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies · Evaluation of end-user development technologies · Supporting creative work through end-user development Submissions We invite two types of paper submissions: 1. Regular papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Workshop proposals are invited (max 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long and will be held on July 6, 2021. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication. Submissions of regular papers, short papers and workshop proposals should indicate in the title page "Regular", "Short" or "Workshop" respectively. Demonstration and Work in Progress papers are also welcomed. A Demonstration paper (max 6 pages) should be structured according to the following: · Abstract (150 words maximum) · Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community · Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity · Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) · Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) · References Work in Progress submissions (max 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Demonstration, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium submissions should indicate in the title page "Demo", "WiP" or "DC" respectively. Accepted submissions will be included in IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication. Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and should be submitted through the Easy Chair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2021 Important Dates (Extended!) · Regular and Short papers submission: March 22, 2021 · Notification: April 14, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 15, 2021 · Workshop proposal submission: March 8, 2021 · Notification: March 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 · Demonstration and Work in Progress submission: April 21, 2021 · Notification: May 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 · Doctoral Consortium submission: April 21, 2021 · Notification: May 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 Organizers General Chairs · Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) · George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Chairs · Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Daniel Tetteroo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Short papers Chairs · Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Simone Borsci (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Work in Progress Chairs · Jelle Van Dijk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) · Carmen Santoro (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Demonstration Chair · Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) Workshop Chairs · Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) · Simone Stumpf (City University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Monica Maceli (Pratt Institute, USA) · Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy)

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Call for Shared Task Participation at CASE @ ACL-IJCNLP: Socio-political and Crisis Events Detection
by ali hürriyetoglu 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- Event information detection consists of multiple subsequent steps that could drastically affect the quality of the resulted event database. Thus, we believe one must consider a complete scenario that consists of document and sentence classification as relevant or not, event coreference resolution, event information extraction, and event classification in relation to an event taxonomy, and test the results on a list of events created manually to determine performance of the state-of-the-art on this task. With this objective in mind, we organize a shared task on socio-political and crisis event detection at the workshop CASE @ ACL-IJCNLP 2021 ( https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2021/) Although the subtasks form a coherent flow, task participants can focus on one or more of them. Therefore, participants can choose the tasks or subtask(s) they would like to participate in. Participants will have access to all of the data for all tasks and subtasks. Any combination of these resources to achieve high performance for any of the tasks is allowed. The tasks and subtasks are: *Task 1. Multilingual protest news detection* · Subtask 1: Document classification o Does a news article contain information about a past or ongoing event? · Subtask 2: Sentence classification o Does a sentence contain information about a past or ongoing event? · Subtask 3: Event sentence coreference identification o Which event sentences (subtask 2) are about the same event? · Subtask 4: Event extraction o What is the event trigger and its arguments? We particularly focus on events that are in the scope of contentious politics and characterized by riots and social movements, i.e., the “repertoire of contention” (Giugni 1998, Tarrow 1994, Tilly 1984), which we name GLOCON Gold in our operationalization (Hürriyetoğlu et al. 2020a). The aim of the shared task is to detect and classify socio-political and crisis event information at document, sentence, cross-sentence, and token levels in a multilingual setting. The detailed description of the subtasks can be found in Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2019, 2020b). The data size for English is increased and data for Portuguese, Spanish, and Hindi are added in this edition. *Task 2: Fine-grained classification of Socio-political events* The objective of this task is to evaluate zero-shot learning event classification approaches to classify short text snippets reporting socio-political events with fine-grained event types using the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) event taxonomy, which consists of 25 event subtypes pertaining to political violence, demonstrations (rioting and protesting) and selected non-violent, politically important events. One should keep in mind that the event definitions for task 1 and task 2 are not fully compatible. *Task 3: Discovering Black Lives Matter events in United States* This task is only an evaluation task where the participants of task 1 will have the possibility to evaluate their systems on reproducing a manually curated Black Lives Matter (BLM) related protest event list. Participants will use document collections provided by us to extract mainly place and date of the BLM events. The event definition applied for determining these events is the same as the one facilitated for task 1. Data There will be training and test data for each of the tasks and subtasks. Sample data, submission formats, scripts, baseline scores, application form, and any additional information will be shared on the dedicated online repository of the shared task: https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2021-shared-task. Copyright of the news articles is protected by sharing URLs and code (Docker image) for retrieving text of the articles using these URLs for subtask 1. In all other tasks and subtasks only relevant portions of the articles such as only event sentences will be utilized. Training Data Task 1: This edition of the task 1 extends the data in English and includes training and test data in Spanish, and Portuguese. The format and approximate dataset sizes for each task will be comparable to the previous editions of the subtasks. However, the Spanish and Portuguese training data for subtasks 3 and 4 will be relatively less. Task 2: For the training purposes one will use a relatively large human-created/coded data set of event type-labeled short text snippets (circa 600K event records) extracted and curated from ACLED event database. The training data for this task is the "ACLED-III" event dataset described in Piskorsky et al. (2020) and available under http://cidportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/LANGUAGE-TECHNOLOGY/2020… . Each line of the file in the corpus consists of three tab-delimited elements, namely: (a) text snippet reporting an event, (b) event main type, and (c) event subtype. In this subtask the focus is on the classification of events represented by the text snippets using one of the 25 subtypes (single-label classification problem). Task 3: There will not be any additional training data for the task 3. The systems developed for task 1 or task 2 should be used to process the test data that will be provided to the participants. Test data Task 1: Test data for subtasks 1-4 will be in the formats described in Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2019, 2020b) and %25 of the training data, which is 80/20 split of the original data. There will be test data in English, Portuguese, and Spanish for all subtasks. Data in Hindi language will be available only for evaluation of the multilingual models for the subtask 1. Task 2: Test data for this task will be around 1,000 text snippets from news, web pages reporting socio-political events and artificially created event descriptions labelled using the ACLED event taxonomy, (not from ACLED). The registered participants will be provided a single file, where each line consists of three tab-separated elements, i.e., an ID (integer), followed by a text snippet reporting an event. The system response files should have per event a line with the event ID and an event label separated by a tab. Task 3: The test set for task 3 will consists of two separate and independent datasets that are a tweet dataset (tweet IDs) by Giorgi et al. (2020) and a list of URLs (or document IDs in the target news archive) to news articles. The code that can be used to access to this data will be provided by the organizers of the shared task. Evaluation plan Evaluation is carried out on the system responses returned by the participants on the test data for each task. The evaluations will be performed on Codalab (https://codalab.org/) Each team will be allowed to submit multiple valid system responses for each task or subtask. The ranking will be based on the best result of a team. The evaluation metrics for each task are provided below. Task 1: F1-macro will be calculated on the predictions on the test data for the subtasks 1, 2, and 4. We use conll-03 evaluation script for subtask 4. The subtask 3 will be evaluated using Adjusted Rand Score for the test data in each language. There will be a separate evaluation for each subtask in Task 1 using the test data for each separate language, which are English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Hindi. Task 2: The systems will be evaluated mainly using: Precision, Recall, and Micro and Macro F-1 metrics, where the last two are the most important ones. Task 3: The evaluation data will be a list of protest events pertaining to Black Lives Matter. Each event record should include information such as place and time of a single event. Spatio-temporal correlation between the manually curated event list and the submissions will be calculated to determine the score for each submission, using an adaptation of the method used in Hammond and Weidman (2014) and applied for analysis of the dynamics of conflicts (Zavarella et al. 2020). Participation You can participate either individually or as a team. In any case, you should provide us with a list consisting of: - Team name - A contact person - Contact email - A list of the team members. For the tasks 1 and 3, all members of a team should complete, sign, and send the application form, which can be found on the shared task repository with the name “CASE2021-Socio-political-and-Crisis-Events-Shared-Task-Individual-Application-Form.pdf”, to Ali Hürriyetoğlu (ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr) For the task 2, there is no need to sign the application form. In order to participate and register for this task the aforementioned team details should be sent via email to case2021.task.finegrained(a)gmail.com. Participation requests must be completed by the registration deadline, that is April 8. Publication Participants in the Shared Task are expected to submit a paper to the CASE 2021 workshop co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2021 ( https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2021/) Submitting a paper is not mandatory for participating in the Shared Task. Papers must follow the CASE 2021 workshop submission instructions (ACL 2021 style template: https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers) and will undergo regular peer review. Their acceptance will not depend on the results obtained in the shared task, but on the quality of the paper. Authors of accepted papers will be informed about the evaluation results of their systems prior to the paper submission deadline (see the important dates). Contact Please reach us using the following e-mail address for anything you may think we can support you: Ali Hürriyetoğlu, ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr (Task 1 and Task 3 and any other issue), Jakub Piskorski case2021.task.finegrained(a)gmail.com (Task 2), Salvatore Giorgi, sgiorgi(a)sas.upenn.edu (Task 3, collecting an on the ground events list and using the tweet collection). The Github repo of the shared task ( https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2021-shared-task will be updated regularly. Important dates Release of training data for Task 1: March 1, 2021, Task 2: already available Registration deadline: April 8, 2021 Release of test data for all tasks to registered participants: 23 April 2021, Submission of system responses: April 26, 2021 (12:00 CET) Results announced to participants: April 28, 2021 Shared Task Papers Due: May 10, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: May 28, 2021 Camera-ready papers due: June 7, 2021 CASE 2021 Workshop (presentation of the ST results): August 5-6, 2021 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth) and in the year 2021, unless otherwise stated above. References * Giorgi, S., Guntuku, S. C., Rahman, M., Himelein-Wachowiak, M., Kwarteng, A., & Curtis, B. (2020). Twitter corpus of the# blacklivesmatter movement and counter protests: 2013 to 2020. arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00596. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00596, Dataset: https://zenodo.org/record/4056563, GitHub: https://github.com/sjgiorgi/blm_twitter_corpus * Giugni, Marco G. (1998). Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements. Annual Review of Sociology 24 (January): 371–93. 1998. URL: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.371 * Hammond, J., & Weidmann, N. B. (2014). Using machine-coded event data for the micro-level study of political violence. Research & Politics, 1 (2). URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168014539924 * Hürriyetoğlu A., Yörük E., Yüret D., Mutlu O., Yoltar Ç., Duruşan F., Gürel B. (2020a). Cross-context News Corpus for Protest Events related Knowledge Base Construction. In the Proceedings of Automatic Knowledge Base Construction Conference. URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.24432/C5D59R * Hürriyetoğlu A., Zavarella V., Tanev H., Yörük E., Safaya A., and Mutlu O. (2020b) Automated extraction of socio-political events from news (AESPEN): Workshop and shared task report. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from News, pages 1{6, Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ISBN 979-10-95546-50-4. URL: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.aespen-1.1. * Hürriyetoğlu A., Yörük E., Yüret D., Yoltar Ç., , Gürel B., Duruşan F., Mutlu O., and Akdemir A. (2019) Overview of Clef 2019 Lab Protestnews: Extracting Protests from News in a Cross-context Setting. In Proceedings of the Conference Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, pages 425{432, Cham, 2019b. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-28577-7. URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2380/paper_249.pdf * Piskorski, J., Haneczok, J., & Jacquet, G. (2020). New Benchmark Corpus and Models for Fine-grained Event Classification: To BERT or not to BERT?. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 6663-6678). URL: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.coling-main.584.pdf Tarrow, S. (1994). Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511813245 Tilly, C. (1984). Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610447720 Zavarella, V., Piskorski, J., Ignat, C., Tanev, H., & Atkinson, M. (2020). Mastering the Media Hype: Methods for Deduplication of Conflict Events from News Reports. In Proceedings of the Workshop Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence for Narratives (AI4Narratives). URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2794/paper6.pdf

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