Introducing the PerAnsSumm: Perspective-aware Healthcare answer summarization Shared Task at the CL4Health Workshop colocated with NAACL 2025!
Website: peranssumm.github.io
Motivation: Healthcare community question-answering (CQA) forums are rich with diverse user perspectives ranging from personal experiences and factual advice to thoughtful suggestions. However, traditional summarization methods focus on a single "best" answer, overlooking this diversity in perspectives.
Tasks:
- Task A: Identifying and classifying perspective-specific spans in answers.
- Task B: Generating structured, perspective-specific summaries for question-answer threads.
Key Dates:
- Registration and Training Data Live now!
- Release of test data: 25th January, 2025
- Submission of Results: 1st February, 2025
Learn More & Join the Shared Task:
- More information: peranssumm.github.io
- CodaBench Registration page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/4312/
Contact us via email at sagarw38(a)uic.edu
Dear all,
A Guide for Creating and Documenting Language Datasets with Data Statements
Schema Version 3 (Angelina McMillan-Major and Emily M. Bender, 2024) is now
available!
You can find the Guide along with templates for data statements and other
resources here:
https://techpolicylab.uw.edu/data-statements/
Data Statements schema version 3 builds on McMillan-Major's 2023
dissertation Language Dataset Documentation Design: Learning from Deaf and
Indigenous Communities <http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50854>. The updated
guide serves as both both as a resource for writing data statements and as
an aid for planning data collection.
Emily
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Emily M. Bender (she/her)
Department of Linguistics
Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor
University of Washington
Fedi: @emilymbender@dair-community.social
The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with NAACL 2025 (Albuquerque,
New Mexico). The website for the workshop is at:
http://noisy-text.github.io/
The WNUT workshop focuses on core NLP tasks (e.g., POS/NER tagging and
translation; not computational social science) over user-generated text, such
as that found on social media, web forums, online reviews, digital health
records, or language learner essays.
We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work
(same format and page limit as NAACL main conference). All accepted
submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions
will be presented orally. There will be best paper awards for both short and
long papers.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* NLP of noisy text, e.g. POS, NER tagging, Parsing
* Text normalization and error correction
* Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy
text
* Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events
* Machine translation and Multilingual NLP over noisy text
* Information extraction from noisy text, global and regional trend
detection, and event extraction
* Colloquial language, e.g. idiom detection
* Domain adaptation to user-generated text
* Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social
media
* Sentiment analysis
* Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions,
concept drift, etc...)
* Representing and mining language variation in user-generated content
* Processing of automatically generated data
[IMPORTANT DATES]
* Submission Deadline: January 30, 2025 (anytime on earth; dual-submission
allowed)
* Final ARR Submission Date: February 15, 2025
* ARR Commitment Date: February 20, 2025
* Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2025
* Camera-Ready Deadline: March 10, 2025
* Workshop Day: May 3 or 4, 2025 (TBD)
[INVITED SPEAKERS]
* Su Lin Blodgett
* Verena Blaschke
[ORGANIZERS]
* JinYeong Bak (SungKyunKwan University)
* Wei Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* Alan Ritter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* Rob van der Goot (IT University of Copenhagen)
* Hyeju Jang (Indiana University)
* Weerayut Buaphet (Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology)
[SUBMISSION]
Submissions should conform to the ACL style guidelines. Long and short paper
submissions must be anonymized. Please submit your papers via OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/WNUT
or commit them through ARR:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/WNUT_ARR_Com…
Call for Abstracts: FOM@Play Conference on Migration, Identity, and Transnational Discourses
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the FOM@Play Conference: Migration, Identity, and Transnational Discourses, to take place 2–5 September 2025 in Granada, Spain.
Organized by the University of Granada, this conference offers a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on migration, identity, and the lived experiences of transnational communities in Europe and beyond.
The conference is an activity of the FOM@Play project,<http://www.um.es/fomatplay> funded by the European Commission, which aims to shed light on the complexities of migration, the concept of freedom of movement, and how these shape collective and individual identities. The discussions will focus on the intersections of migration policies, societal narratives, and personal journeys, fostering a deeper understanding of transnational discourses in an era of globalization and socio-political change. FOM@Play is not just a conference but a forum for meaningful exchange among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Attendees will have opportunities to network, present cutting-edge research, and engage in thought-provoking discussions about the future of migration and identity in Europe.
We invite scholars from diverse fields, including but not limited to:
- Migration studies
- Discourse analysis and sociolinguistics
- Political science and international relations
- Cultural studies and anthropology
- Sociology and psychology
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Narratives of migration in media and politics
- The role of freedom of movement in shaping transnational identities
- The impact of migration policies on social cohesion and inclusion
- The representation of migrants in European cultural production
- Methodological advancements in studying migration and identity (e.g., corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis)
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadline: 21 March 2025
- Notification of acceptance: 7 April 2025
- Early registration deadline: 7 May 2025
For detailed submission guidelines and further information, please visit our website: https://www.granadacongresos.com/fomaplay
For any inquiries, feel free to contact fomatplay(a)granadacongresos.com<mailto:fomatplay@granadacongresos.com>
We look forward to your contributions and hope to see you in Granada!
Warm regards,
Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes
On behalf of the FOM@Play Organising Committee
Dear colleagues,
As announced at LCR2024, we are pleased to confirm the formation of a new Working Group on Metadata in Learner Corpus Research, established under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association (LCA) and in collaboration with the CLARIN K-centre for Learner Corpora (https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/clarin-knowledge-centre-for…).
This initiative follows the successful release of the second version of the Core Metadata Schema for Learner Corpora (LC-meta), a milestone that reflects our collective commitment to advancing the field. To understand the rationale behind LC-meta, we invite you to read our recently published open-access article in the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.24010.paq. Alternatively, if you prefer listening to a lecture, you can tune into a talk given by M. Paquot at the Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2023 online seminar series: https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2023/09/14/the-core-metadata-schema-for-l…. The schema itself is downloadable at: https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/AAUEM2.
The Working Group will focus on evaluating and refining the schema, promoting its adoption, and addressing metadata-related challenges in learner corpus research. It will also work towards integrating the schema into relevant infrastructures and developing user-friendly interfaces that enhance accessibility. We believe that by working together, we can significantly enhance the quality, accessibility, and impact of learner corpora.
As a first step, we invite interested colleagues to express their interest in joining the working group by contacting us at kc-l2corpora(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:kc-l2corpora@uclouvain.be> by January 20. We extend our thanks to everyone who has already reached out and will be in touch shortly. Due to busy schedules over the coming months, we have decided to schedule the first WGT meeting for early spring 2025. This additional time will allow us to better organize the event and ensure we can share updates on accessibility and user-friendliness.
In the meantime, we would greatly appreciate hearing from colleagues who have already attempted to use the schema in new corpus compilation projects. If that is the case, we would be delighted to discuss your experiences with you!
We look forward to your active participation and to collectively driving forward this important aspect of learner corpus research.
Best regards,
Magali Paquot, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Alexander König, and Egon Stemle
Dear colleague,
(We apologize if you receive this email multiple times from different
mailing lists.)
We are excited to invite you to submit your paper to the
FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal Workshop at COLING-2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE! This
event brings together three workshops in the fields of financial
technology, narrative processing, and the emerging role of large language
models in finance and legal domains.
The submission deadline is Nov. 25th, 2025. Below are more details of the
call for papers. Please visit our website for more details (
https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-fnp-llmfinlegal/). We
have 5 shared tasks and will have 5 invited speakers for this event.
Looking forward to your participation.
Best Regards,
FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal Organizers
Chung-Chi Chen, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Qianqian Xie, Jimin Huang, Sophia
Ananiadou, Hsin-Hsi Chen
*Topics of Interest*We invite submissions of original contributions on
methods, theories, applications, and systems on artificial intelligence,
machine learning, natural language processing & understanding, big data,
statistical learning, data analytics, and deep learning, with a focus on
knowledge discovery in the financial services domain. The scope of the
workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
- Language modeling on financial corpora, including tabular and
numerical data, and multi-modal modeling
- Graph representation learning and mining on financial data
- Multi-source knowledge integration and fusion
- Synthetic and genuine financial datasets and benchmarks
- Transfer learning applications for financial data
- Financial search and question answering systems
- Event discovery and impact on organizational equity price
- ESG event discovery, evaluation, and impact assessment
- Compliance monitoring
- Cross-disciplinary LLM-based methodologies for financial and legal
domains
- Applications of LLMs in financial auditing and regulatory reporting
- Ethical implications and bias mitigation in AI applications
- Hallucination mitigation and evaluation in LLMs
- Privacy concerns and data protection strategies
- Enhancing interpretability and explainability of LLM models
- Responsible AI practices and governance
- Methods, evaluation metrics, benchmarks, and datasets for LLMs in
finance and law
*Submission Details*
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*Submission Deadline: November 25th, 2024 (Time zone: Anywhere On Earth
(AOE)) *
- *Submission System: https://softconf.com/coling2025/FinNLP25/
<https://softconf.com/coling2025/FinNLP25/>*
- Paper Notification: December 5th, 2024
- Camera-Ready Deadline: December 13th, 2024
- FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal-2024: Jan 19-20, 2025 (Two-Day Workshop)
Format
- The ACL Template MUST be used for your submission(s).* Accepted papers
proceedings will be published at ACL Anthology.*
- Long Paper: May consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited
pages for references and appendix.
- Short Paper and Demo Paper: May consist of up to 4 pages of content,
plus unlimited references and appendix.
Policies
- The reviewing process will be double-blind for Long and Short Paper,
and single-blind for Demo Paper. Submissions must be in electronic form
using the FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal-2024 paper submission link above.
- At least one author of each accepted paper should register and present
their work in FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal-2024.
Dear all,
We are hiring for two faculty positions in UT Austin Linguistics, in the area of computational linguistics. One assistant professor position, the other can be either assistant or associate. Deadline: December 1.
See the ad here: https://apply.interfolio.com/158280 and below.
Feel free to reach out to me or my colleague (and search chair) Jessy Li jessy(a)austin.utexas.edu<mailto:jessy@austin.utexas.edu> if you have questions!
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ad: https://apply.interfolio.com/158280
Description
The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for two positions in computational linguistics to begin Fall of academic year 2025-26. One position will be at the Assistant Professor rank, and one can be at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure. We seek candidates whose work develops computational methods in any area of linguistics and specifically connects linguistics to artificial intelligence, with particular interest in candidates who can interface with any of our current major areas of research in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sounds, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, language documentation, historical linguistics, sign language linguistics, or sociolinguistics. Duties will include research, service, and teaching linguistics courses at all levels (lower- and upper-division undergraduate, and graduate), and training the next generation of researchers working in AI, natural language processing and machine learning, and computational methods for language.
Qualifications
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, or a related field by the time of appointment and have demonstrated a strong research and teaching trajectory.
Application Instructions
Applicants must upload a letter of application, a CV, a statement describing their research program, a statement of teaching interests (including a list of courses that the applicant would be prepared to teach), evidence of past teaching performance or teaching potential, three letters of recommendation, and three writing samples. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on December 1, 2024, and continue until the position is filled.
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Position funding is subject to budget availability.
For further information, please contact:
Prof. Jessy Li, Search Committee Chair
Email:jessy@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:Email%3Ajessy@austin.utexas.edu>
Libraries are at the heart of our society and education, so we believe in
driving technological innovation in these age-old institutions as well as
modern digital libraries when we can! If you're passionate about bringing
AI and LLMs into library workflows, join computer science researchers and
AI enthusiasts worldwide in the LLMs4Subjects shared task!
*We are excited to announce the 2nd Call for Participation to the
LLMs4Subjects Shared Task organized as part of SemEval 2025.*
*Overview:* As the first of its kind, LLMs4Subjects invites the research
community to *develop cutting-edge LLM-based semantic solutions for the
subject tagging of the Leibniz University's Technical Library's open-access
collection*. The shared task provides an opportunity for the research
community to creatively utilize LLMs for subject tagging of technical
records. *Systems need to demonstrate bilingual language modeling in
understanding technical documents in both German and English.* Moreover,
successful solutions may be directly integrated into the operational
workflows of the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
University Library.
*What we provide to participants:* a human-readable form of a subject's
taxonomy (this is the *GND* or *Gemeinsame Normdatei*, the integrated
authority file used for cataloging in German-speaking countries) and a
large collection of technical records tagged with these subjects from the
TIB's open-access collection called *TIBKAT*.
More details on the task website:
https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects/
*LLMs4Subjects defines the following three tasks:*
- Task 1: Learn the GND
- Task 2: Align subject tagging to the TIBKAT collection
- (Optional and Fun) Task 3: Develop Elegant Frontend Interfaces for
Subject Tagging
*LLMs4Subjects will have three separate evaluations:*
- Evaluation 1: Quantitative Metrics-based Evaluations
- Evaluation 2: Qualitative Evaluations by the Human Subject Specialists
- (Optional) Evaluation 3: HCI evaluations for subject indexing interfaces
submitted
*To participate in the LLMs4Subjects shared task,*
1. please submit your interest to participate using our online form (
https://forms.gle/YQzupcoySAyJi45c6),
2. sign up to the shared task Google Groups (
https://groups.google.com/u/6/g/llms4subjects) for FAQs, news, and
announcements, and,
3. last but not the least, download the datasets (
https://github.com/jd-coderepos/llms4subjects/) to begin development.
*Dates*
Training and validation datasets available:October 2, 2024
Test data available/Evaluation starts: January 10, 2025
Evaluation ends: January 31, 2025
Participant paper submissions due: February 28, 2025
Notification to authors: March 31, 2025
Camera ready due: April 21, 2025
SemEval workshop: TBD
*Task Organizers*
Jennifer D'Souza, Sameer Sadruddin, Holger Israel, Mathias Begoin et al.
All organizers are affiliated with the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for
Science and Technology - Germany (https://www.tib.eu/en/)
*We look forward to having you on board!*
*Contact: *llms4subjects [at] gmail.com
Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups.
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Call for papers for issue 74 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
http://www.sepln.org/en/journalhttp://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines
Introduction
The journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural aims to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses.
The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2023 JCR index (JIF: 1.2, JCI: 0.39, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2023 SJR: 0.677, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2023 CiteScore: 5.4) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 2.07 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality.
Topics
NLP for low-resource languages
Efficient and sustainable NLP methods
Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP
Truthworthy and explainability in NLP
Security and privacy in NLP
Text and Multimodal Generation
Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision
Knowledge and common sense
Computational lexicography and terminology
Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Morphological and Syntactic Analysis
Corpus linguistics
Development of linguistic resources and tools
Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
Machine translation
Speech synthesis and recognition
Audio indexing and retrieval
Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants
Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
Question answering systems
Automatic textual content analysis
Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining
Plagiarism detection
Negation and speculation processing
Text summarization
Text simplification
Image retrieval
NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education)
Submission Information
The proposal must be submitted by November 22nd, 2024, and must meet certain format and style requirements.
All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system.
Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three program committee members.
Categories of papers
Regular papers with original contributions.
Summary of PhD thesis.
Information for Authors
The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses.
The papers must include the following sections:
The title of the communication (in English and Spanish).
An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words).
A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish).
The documents must not include headers or footers.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords, and the proposal.
We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines
Note on camera ready
The final version of the paper (camera-ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the reviewers' suggestions were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered when deciding whether to accept or reject the selected paper.
Preprint policy
The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper.
Important dates
Submission deadline: ****EXTENSION TO DECEMBER 5th****
Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2025
Camera-ready: February 7th, 2025
Publication: March 2025
Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus)
Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups.
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Call for papers for issue 74 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
http://www.sepln.org/en/journalhttp://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines
Introduction
The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses.
The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2023 JCR index (JIF: 1.2, JCI: 0.39, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2023 SJR: 0.677, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2023 CiteScore: 5.4) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 2.07 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality.
Topics
NLP for low-resource languages
Efficient and sustainable NLP methods
Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP
Truthworthy and explainability in NLP
Security and privacy in NLP
Text and Multimodal Generation
Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision
Knowledge and common sense
Computational lexicography and terminology
Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Morphological and Syntactic Analysis
Corpus linguistics
Development of linguistic resources and tools
Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
Machine translation
Speech synthesis and recognition
Audio indexing and retrieval
Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants
Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
Question answering systems
Automatic textual content analysis
Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining
Plagiarism detection
Negation and speculation processing
Text summarization
Text simplification
Image retrieval
NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education)
Submission Information
The proposal must be submitted by November 22nd, 2024, and must meet certain format and style requirements.
All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system.
Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee.
Categories of papers
Regular papers with original contributions.
Summary of PhD thesis.
Information for Authors
The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses.
The papers must include the following sections:
The title of the communication (in English and Spanish).
An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words).
A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish).
The documents must not include headers or footers.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords, and the proposal.
We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines
Note on camera ready
The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper.
Preprint policy
The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper.
Important dates
Submission deadline: November 22nd, 2024
Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2025
Camera ready: February 7th, 2025
Publication: March 2025
Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus)
Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural