December 2024 - Corpora

Invitation for Research Collaboration in Multimodal and Explainable AI
by Dushyant Chauhan 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Hello everyone, I am Dushyant Singh Chauhan, a PhD graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, India, where I conducted my research under the guidance of Prof. Asif Ekbal (IIT Jodhpur) and Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay). Dr. Dushyant Singh Chauhan --> https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Gs8MoW4AAAAJ&hl=en Prof. Asif Ekbal --> https://ekbalasif.github.io/ Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya --> https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb/ Prof. Asif Ekbal and I are looking for research collaborators in the following areas: - [Multimodal Causal Reasoning] refers to how AI systems can infer cause-and-effect relationships across multiple data modalities to enhance decision-making and reasoning capabilities. - [Missing Modalities] refer to scenarios where certain data modalities are absent or incomplete, aiming to ensure robust performance and adaptability despite missing information. - [Topic Switching] refers to how AI systems manage abrupt shifts in topics or contexts, ensuring smooth and coherent transitions during conversation. - [Multimodal Question-Answering] refers to AI systems integrating multiple data modalities to provide accurate, context-aware answers. - [Video Summarization] refers to condensing long videos into shorter summaries while preserving key information and context for easier understanding. - [Interpretability and Explainability] refer to ensuring that AI systems are not only understandable in terms of their internal workings (interpretability) but also provide clear human understandable justifications for their decisions (explainability). - And similar research areas of your interest. If you are interested in collaborating on these topics with the ultimate goal of publishing impactful research, we would be delighted to hear from you. Additionally, we welcome discussions about your research interests and are open to exploring ideas in alignment with your expertise. To express your interest and reach out for collaboration, please fill out this form at https://forms.gle/fM7xsXgHTxjiuGLV6. Please note that this is not a paid collaboration but rather a shared academic effort aimed at advancing research in these exciting fields and contributing to high-quality publications. Looking forward to your response. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Regards, Dushyant Singh Chauhan Ph.D. Scholar, Department of CSE, AI-NLP-ML Lab, IIT Patna, India +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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2nd CFP - AAAS-2025
by Kurimo Mikko 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] == Second Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts == 1st Workshop on Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS-2025) We would like to invite you to submit papers to AAAS workshop co-located with NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT<https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu> in Hestia Hotel Europa in Tallinn, Estonia on March 5th, 2025. Workshop website: https://teflon.aalto.fi/aaas-2025/ == Important Dates == Submission DL: 16 December 2024 (both papers and abstracts) Notification of acceptance: 24 January 2025 Camera-ready DL: 3 February 2025 Workshop: 5 March 2025 (full day) All deadlines are 11:55PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). == Overview == Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS) explores the assessment of pronunciation and speaking skills of children, language learners, people with speech sound disorders and methods to provide automatic rating and feedback using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large language models (LLMs). Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) is a rapidly growing field that answers to the need of developing AI tools for self-practising second and foreign language skills. This is not limited to pronunciation assessment, but the AI tools can also provide more complex feedback about fluency, vocabulary and grammar of the recorded speech. ASA is also very relevant for detection and quantification of speech disorders and for developing speech exercises that can be performed independent of time and place. The important applications of non-standard speech also include interfaces for children and elderly speakers as an alternative to using text input and output. The topic is timely, because the latest large speech models allow us now to develop ASR and classification methods for low-resourced data, such as atypical speech, where annotated training datasets are rarely available and expensive and difficult to produce and share. The goal of this workshop is to present the latest results in ASA and discuss the future work and collaboration between the researchers in Nordic and Baltic countries. == Topics of Interest == In particular, we would like to invite students, researchers, and other experts and stakeholders to contribute papers and/or join the discussion on the following (and related) topics: Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) for L2 (second or foreign language) pronunciation ASA for spoken L2 proficiency ASA for speech sound disorders (SSD) Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for L2 learners ASR for children and young L2 learners ASA and ASR for Nordic and other low-resource languages and tasks Spoken L2 learning and speech therapy using games Automatic generation of verbal feedback for spoken L2 learners using LLMs == Submission Details == We accept both short and long papers, as well as demo papers. The submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Paper length: Short and demo papers up to 4 pages. Long papers up to 8 pages. References are not included in the page count, and the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be added to the page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress and will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published in the ACL anthology. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The links to the templates can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osWGzuRnYRQGRS70Lx_pdQKrIT-NefKS/view https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-nodalida-baltic-h… The submission will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaas2025 We also invite submissions of maximum 2-page long extended non-anonymous abstracts with any number of pages for references describing work in progress, negative results and opinion pieces. The abstracts, which should follow the same formatting templates as the peer-reviewed papers, will be considered for presentation by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. The abstracts can be based on results related to our theme and already published elsewhere. The abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but only in the workshop program. Please also consider volunteering to review 2-3 papers. == Invited Speakers == We have the pleasure to announce two invited speakers: 1. Nina R. Benway: What is so hard about AI Speech Therapy? Evidence from Efficacy Trials. Nina R Benway, PhD CCC-SLP, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson. Nina completed her doctoral training in speech-language pathology (concentration: neuroscience) with Dr. Jonathan Preston at Syracuse University, focusing on clinical trials in children with chronic rhotic speech sound disorders. The three studies of her dissertation resulted in the curation of an open-access 175,000-utterance speech corpus, the engineering of audio classification algorithms predicting speech-language pathologist perception of rhotic speech errors, and the clinical trial validation of an artificial intelligence tool that fully automates a speech sound treatment session. Nina’s doctoral training builds upon her undergraduate training in linguistics (acoustic phonetics) at Cornell University, graduate clinical training at The College of Saint Rose, and six years of clinical practice. Through these experiences Nina has refined a multidisciplinary skill set in speech science, speech signal processing, natural language processing, corpus phonetics, machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI), user interface development, cognitive frameworks of learning, and neurocomputational frameworks of speech production. 2. Ari Huhta: Automatic assessment of second/foreign language speaking: Review of developments for examination and teaching/learning purposes. Ari Huhta is a Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include diagnostic foreign/second language (L2) assessment, computerised assessment, self-assessment, as well as the development of reading, writing and vocabulary knowledge in L2. He was involved in developing the large-scale multilingual DIALANG online assessment and feedback system in the early 2000s and since then he has specialised in assessments that support language learning. Although his research has focused on learning and assessing reading and writing, he has been involved in designing several rating scales for speaking and in evaluating rating quality and studying rater behavior. Recently, he has participated in research projects that are developing ASR and automated assessment of L2 speaking, as well as using LLMs to evaluate Finnish L2 learners’ proficiency level. == Organizers == Mikko Kurimo (chair), Aalto University, mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi Giampiero Salvi, NTNU Sofia Strömbergsson, Karolinska Institutet Sari Ylinen, Tampere University Minna Lehtonen, University of Turku Tamas Grosz, Aalto University Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Aalto University Yaroslav Getman, Aalto University Nhan Phan, Aalto University This workshop is supported by “Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages (TEFLON)” https://teflon.aalto.fi/ NordForsk project nr. 103893. == Contact Information == For questions and comments, please email mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi

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Labs CLEF 2025: Call for Participation
by Damiano Spina 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

RMIT Classification: Trusted CLEF 2025 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/ 9-12 September 2025, Madrid, Spain *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** CLEF 2025 is the 16th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. Building on the format first introduced in 2010, CLEF 2025 consists of an independent peer-reviewed conference on a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information retrieval systems. Together, the conference and the lab series will maintain and expand upon the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues. *** LABS REGISTRATION *** Registration for participation in labs is now open and available at https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/registration.html *** 2025 TASKS *** BioASQ: A Challenge in Large-scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering https://www.bioasq.org/workshop2025 The aim of the BioASQ Lab is to push the research frontier towards systems that use the diverse and voluminous information available online to respond directly to the information needs of biomedical scientists. CheckThat!: Lab on Subjectivity, Fact-Checking, Claim Extraction & Normalization, and Retrieval https://checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2025/ The eighth edition of the CheckThat! lab at CLEF presents a diverse set of challenges aimed at advancing technology to support and enhance the journalistic verification process. This edition revisits core tasks in the verification pipeline while also introducing auxiliary tasks such as subjectivity identification, claim normalization, and fact-checking numerical claims, with a particular emphasis on scientific web discourse. These tasks pose complex classification and retrieval problems at both the document level, including in multilingual contexts. ELOQUENT lab for evaluation of generative language model quality https://eloquent-lab.github.io/ The ELOQUENT lab for evaluation of generative language model quality and usefulness addresses high-level quality criteria through a set of open-ended shared tasks implemented to require minimal human assessment effort. eRisk: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet https://erisk.irlab.org/ eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet. EXIST: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks https://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ EXIST aims to capture and categorize sexism, from explicit misogyny to other subtle behaviors, in social networks. In 2024 the EXIST campaign included multimedia content in the format of memes, stepping forward research on more robust techniques to identify sexism in social networks. Following this line, in 2025 we will focus on TikTok videos in the challenge, thus including in the dataset the three most important sources of sexism spreading: text, images and videos. Consequently, it is essential to develop automated multimodal tools capable of detecting sexism in text, images, and videos, to raise alarms or automatically remove such content from social network because platforms’ algorithms often amplify content that perpetuates gender stereotypes and internalized misogyny. This lab will contribute to the creation of applications that identify sexist content in social media across all three formats. ImageCLEF: Multimodal Challenge in CLEF https://www.imageclef.org/ ImageCLEF 2025 focuses on evaluating technologies for annotating, indexing, classifying, retrieving and generating multimodal data, providing access to large datasets across a veriety of scenarios, including medical, social media, and internet-based applications. Building on the success of recent editions, it encourages interdisciplinary methods by engaging participants in diverse domains, providing large amounts of challenging multimodal data and providing am evaluation platform for a large number of use cases. JOKER: Humour in the Machine https://www.joker-project.com/clef-2024/ JOKER aims to foster interdisciplinary approaches to the (semi-)automatic analysis and processing of humour and wordplay. LifeCLEF: Challenges on Species Presence Prediction and Identification, and Individual Animal Identification https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF The LifeCLEF 2025 lab focuses on advancing AI-driven solutions for biodiversity monitoring through challenges on species and individuals recognition and prediction. LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance https://clef-longeval.github.io/ The goal of this task is to ignite the development of Information Retrieval systems that can handle temporal data evolution. The retrieval systems evaluated in this task are expected to be persistent in their retrieval efficiency over time, as Web documents and Web queries evolve. To evaluate such features of systems, we rely on collections of documents and queries, corresponding to real data acquired from actual Web search engines. PAN Lab on Stylometry and Digital Text Forensics https://pan.webis.de/ PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics and stylometry whose goal is to advance the state of the art and provide for an objective evaluation on newly developed benchmark datasets in those areas. QuantumCLEF https://qclef.dei.unipd.it/ The second edition of the QuantumCLEF lab is composed of three tasks and aims at: (i) Discovering and evaluating Quantum Annealing approaches compared to their traditional counterpart; (ii) Identifying new ways of formulating Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems algorithms and methods, so that they can be solved with Quantum Annealing; (iii) Establishing collaborations among researchers from different fields to harness their knowledge and skills to solve the considered challenges and promote the usage of Quantum Annealing. This lab allows participants to use real quantum computers provided by CINECA, one of the most important computing centers worldwide. SimpleText: Simplify Scientific Text https://simpletext-project.com/ The SimpleText track aims at improving accessibility to scientific information for everyone, developing corpora, evaluation measures, and new IR/NL models able to reduce scientific text complexity with strict faithfulness to the original text. TalentCLEF: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ TalentCLEF aims to drive technological advancement in Human Capital Management by establishing a public benchmark for NLP models that facilitates their application in real-world Human Resources (HR) scenarios, incorporating evaluation criteria incluiding multilingualism, fairness, and cross-industry adaptability. The lab also seeks to build a community for researchers and practitioners to generate, evaluate, and discuss ideas on the use of AI in Human Resources, pushing the state-of-the-art of NLP applications for Human Resources. Touché: Argumentation Systems https://touche.webis.de/ Touché is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on computational argumentation and causality. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** (may vary depending on the task) 18 November 2025: Registration opens 25 April 2025: Registration closes 10 May 2025: End of Evaluation Cycle [submission of runs] 30 May 2025: Submission of Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 30 May–27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Participant Papers and Extended Lab Overviews [CEUR-WS] due 9-12 September 2025, CLEF 2025 Conference, Madrid, Spain *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** General Chairs Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Alba García Seco de Herrera, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Lab Chairs Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Australia

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TOC: Journal of Language Modelling 12(2) (special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology )
by Adam Przepiórkowski 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 12(2) – a special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology – of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/32. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial: “Computational approaches to morphological typology” Micha Elsner, Sacha Beniamine 271–286 Articles: “Alignment everywhere all at once: Applying the late aggregation principle to a typological database of argument marking” David Inman, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Melvin Steiger 287–347 “Zero marking in inflection: A token-based approach” Laura Becker 349–413 “An analogical approach to the typology of inflectional complexity” Matías Guzmán Naranjo 415–475 “Corpus-based measures discriminate inflection and derivation cross-linguistically” Coleman Haley, Edoardo M. Ponti, Sharon Goldwater 477–529 The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief) ====================================================================== EDITORIAL BOARD: • Steven Abney (University of Michigan, USA) • Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester, USA) • Igor Boguslavsky (Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN) • Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS) • Olivier Bonami (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, France) • Robert D. Borsley (Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM; Honorary Professor, Bangor University, UNITED KINGDOM) • António Branco (University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL) • David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, USA) • Dan Cristea (University of Iași, ROMANIA) • Berthold Crysmann (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE) • Jan Daciuk (Gdańsk University of Technology, POLAND) • Łukasz Dębowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, POLAND) • Mary Dalrymple (Professor Emerita, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) • Anette Frank (Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY) • Claire Gardent (LORIA, CNRS and Université de Lorraine, FRANCE) • Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE; Laboratoire d’Excellence LabEx-EFLt, FRANCE) • Thomas Graf (Stony Brook University, UNITED STATES) • Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) • Adam Jardine (Rutgers Department of Linguistics, UNITED STATES) • Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (University of Tartu, ESTONIA) • Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY) • Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA) • Kimmo Koskenniemi (Professor Emeritus, University of Helsinki, FINLAND) • Jonas Kuhn (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) • Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, ITALY) • John J. Lowe (University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) • Ján Mačutek (Comenius University, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA) • Igor Meľčuk (Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal, CANADA) • Richard Moot (CNRS, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, FRANCE) • Glyn Morrill (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN) • Stefan Müller (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY) • Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM) • Petya Osenova (Sofia University, BULGARIA) • David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) • Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, POLAND) • Christopher Potts (Stanford University, USA) • Agata Savary (University of Paris-Saclay, FRANCE) • Sabine Schulte im Walde (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) • Stuart M. Shieber (Harvard University, USA) • Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM) • Stan Szpakowicz (Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa, CANADA) • Shravan Vasishth (Universität Potsdam, GERMANY) • Aline Villavicencio (Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Exeter, UNITED KINGDOM; University of Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM) • Veronika Vincze (University of Szeged, HUNGARY) • Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, ISRAEL) • Zdeněk Žabokrtský (Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC) ====================================================================== -- Adam Przepiórkowski Visiting Professor @ MIT (Linguistics) Full Professor @ Polish Academy of Sciences (Computer Science) Full Professor @ University of Warsaw (Cognitive Science) Editor-in-Chief @ Journal of Language Modelling <https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/> WWW: https://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/AdamPrzepiorkowski

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REMINDER: (Self-)nominations for the ACL 2025 review process
by Anette Frank 14 Dec '24

14 Dec '24

Dear NLP community members, Reminder from ACL 2025: We invite for *nominations* and *self-nominations* to join the ACL 2025 programme committee, as a*reviewer *or an *area chair*, depending on your interest, availability and experience. The ACL 2025 review process will be run through ARR in the February cycle. The tentative timeline for the review period is 1 March to 20 March 2025 and the rebuttal period is 26 March to 31 March 2025. Area chairs need to be available throughout the ARR February cycle. Please submit your (self-)nominations through this form by *20 December 2024 (slightly extended deadline):* https://forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8R4A Afterwards, you will be invited to join the ARR February reviewer or area chair (action editor) pool through the ARR OpenReview platform. Please share this message with your colleagues, postdocs and PhD students. Many thanks in advance for your time and contribution! on behalf of the ACL 2025 PC chairs -- Prof. Dr. Anette Frankhttp://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~frank Computational Linguistics Department email:frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de University of Heidelberg phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247 Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 secr: +49-(0)6221/54-3245 69120 Heidelberg, Germany fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

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Deadline extended and final CfP - TheWebConf 2025 workshop on Protecting Women Online
by Debora Nozza 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM TSWWW 2025 Towards a Safer Web for Women - First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online co-located with The Web Conference 2025 Sydney, Australia 28 April - 2 May 2025 https://tsww25.github.io/ ******************************************************************** NEXT DEADLINES (all deadlines are AoE) ******************************************************************** 22nd December 2024 18th December 2024: Workshop paper submission deadline 13th January 2025: Notification of acceptance ******************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ The workshop is dedicated to addressing the pressing issue of online violence against women by fostering dialogue and innovation. The workshop will explore global challenges and solutions for gender-based violence and the impact of online harms on women, among others. We aim to encourage the development of technological and interdisciplinary frameworks and innovations to ensure women's online safety. The workshop aims to review progress in approaches combating online violence against women, identify persistent barriers, and propose solutions to emerging challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Detection and prevention of gender-based online violence (e.g., harassment, stalking, cyberbullying) * Sentiment and emotion analysis in abusive or harmful online interactions towards women * Gender bias identification and mitigation in AI * Human-centered approaches for online safety applications * Approaches to preventing, understanding, identifying and mitigating online harms faced by women with multiple marginalised identities (e.g., misogynoir, LGBTQ+ women, or women from religious or cultural minorities) * Analysis of tracking devices, surveillance tools, and hidden cameras misused against women * Detection and mitigation of non-consensual deepfake generation and dissemination * Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing online harm * Legal and ethical frameworks for protecting women online * Psychological, social, and legal impacts of online technology when used for gender-based abuse PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ We welcome both new and recent research, including non-archival submissions to showcase work published elsewhere, if it is especially relevant to the workshop's theme. Accepted formats include: * Long papers: Maximum 8 pages (excluding references) * Short papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Position, idea, and emerging problem papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Non-archival submissions: Up to 2 pages (excluding references) All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsww25 For full details, visit our Call for Papers page. Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants. Accepted papers (except for non-archival submissions) will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ____________________ Workshop chairs: * Ángel Pavón Pérez, The Open University * Miriam Fernandez, The Open University * Tracie Farrell, The Open University * Debora Nozza, Bocconi University * Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne

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CfP for CMCL at NAACL 2025: 14th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Call for Papers The 14th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2025) CMCL 2025 will be co-located with the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025). Workshop Description CMCL 2025 is a one-day workshop held in conjunction with NAACL 2025. CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and, more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition/perception. The 2025 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013, ACL 2014, NAACL 2015, EACL 2017, LSA 2018, NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, ACL 2022, and ACL 2024. Scope and Topics The research interests/questions include, but are not limited to: * Analysis of computational models that process language data (e.g., neural language models, parsers) to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition. * Analysis of human language data to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition. * Comparing/aligning computational models (e.g., neural language models, parsers) with human language data to understand/reverse-engineer what and how humans compute during language comprehension/production/acquisition. * How insights from CogSci/linguistics and NLP fields can contribute to each other. * Sufficient conditions/pressures for the emergence of human-like communication/language. A more comprehensive description of the workshop scope is: * Models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics. * Models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word and phrase meaning and composition. * Models of incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms and their psychological plausibility. * Psychologically plausible models of discourse and dialogue. * Models of speaker-specific linguistic adaptation and/or generalization. * Models of first and second language acquisition and bilingual language processing. * Models of language disorders, such as aphasia, dyslexia, or dysgraphia. * Datasets or resources for modeling language processing or production in languages other than English. * Models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communities. * Analyzing computational models that process language data (e.g., neural language models, parsers) from the above perspectives. Invited Speakers We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers for the 2025 edition: * John T. Hale<https://cogsci.jhu.edu/directory/john-t-hale/> (Johns Hopkins University) * Tessa Verhoef<https://sites.google.com/view/tessa-verhoef/home> (Leiden University) Sponsoring Institutions This workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Important Dates * February 16, 2025: Paper submission/commitment deadline * March 10, 2025: Notification of acceptance * March 17, 2025: Camera-ready paper due * May 3 or May 4, 2025: Workshop dates (the exact date TBA) Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The timeline may change slightly. We are trying to set our CMCL deadline to be after the completion of the ARR December cycle (Feb. 16), in contrast to the timeline suggested in https://2025.naacl.org/calls/workshops/ That is, the authors in the ARR December cycle will have options to resubmit/commit it to the upcoming ARR rounds OR make a new direct submission to CMCL (see Submission types and Cross-submission policy Sections). Workshop submissions CMCL accepts direct submissions through the OpenReview site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/CMCL This year, we do not accept the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers. Submission types We invite three types of submissions: (1) Archival regular workshop submissions that present original research in either long (8 pages + references) or short (4 pages + references) paper format. (2) Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references). (3) Non-archival cross-submission of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere (including ACL “Findings of…” papers). Other submission details: * Authors must indicate if the paper is archival (1) or non-archival (2,3) when submitting the paper. That is, authors are not allowed to decide/change the archival/non-archival mode after receiving the reviews/notification. * Only regular workshop papers submitted via (1) will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will have a presentation opportunity in the workshop. * Submissions must be formatted using the ACL style template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) and submitted via a PDF file. * It is strongly recommended that the paper include a “Limitations” section (after the main parts and before the references), which is not counted in the part of the page limit. * Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments. * Non-archival papers (2,3) will be reviewed in a separate process than archival papers (1), although the timeline is the same; specifically, non-archival papers will be evaluated with more priority to broader factors, such as the fit of the topic with the workshop, the status of the paper (e.g., already accepted to elsewhere or not), and the entire diversity of the topic/community in the workshop, as well as the soundness of the paper. * We adhere to the new ACL anonymity policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy * This year, we do not host a shared task. * This year, we do not receive the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers to simplify the logistics. Instead, authors should submit their work via direct submission (without past reviews). Cross-submission policy For regular archival submission (1), CMCL will refuse papers that are under review or will be submitted to other conferences, including the ARR cycles. For non-archival submissions (2,3), we allow the submission of papers that have been or will be published elsewhere, but again, authors can not change the presentation mode to be archival after their submission. Workshop Organizers Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, tatsuki.kuribayashi(a)mbzuai.ac.ae<mailto:tatsuki.kuribayashi@mbzuai.ac.ae>) Giulia Rambelli (University of Bologna, giulia.rambelli4(a)unibo.it<mailto:giulia.rambelli4@unibo.it>) Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University, e.k.takmaz(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.k.takmaz@uu.nl>) Philipp Wicke (Ludwig Maximilian University LMU, pwicke(a)cis.lmu.de<mailto:pwicke@cis.lmu.de>) Jixing Li (City University of Hong Kong, jixingli(a)cityu.edu.hk<mailto:jixingli@cityu.edu.hk>) Byung-Doh Oh (New York University, oh.b(a)nyu.edu<mailto:oh.b@nyu.edu>) Website https://cmclorg.github.io/ Contact cmclorganizers2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclorganizers2025@gmail.com>

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Two senior researcher positions at GESIS/Cologne in NLP & Computational Social Science
by Dietze, Stefan 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Dear all, We are offering two exciting positions as postdoc / senior researcher within the department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (https://gesis.org/en/kts) at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. Both positions are concerned with computational methods (NLP) for mining and analysing web data in the social sciences, one with a methodological focus and the other with an more applied perspective. The positions are limited to 4 years, with option for tenure/permanency. Further information can be found at: - PostDoc in Computational Social Science: https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/45089/Se… - PostDoc in NLP & Knowledge Graphs: https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/45112/Se… For any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me. Best regards, Stefan -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze Scientific Director Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts Chair of Data & Knowledge Engineering Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Web: https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering Phone: +49 (0)221-47694-421 Web: http://stefandietze.net

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Postdoc Position: Multimodal Contexts & LLMs in Language Research
by Sharid Loáiciga 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

We’re hiring a postdoc to investigate how multimodal contexts shape human judgments of sentence well-formedness, with a focus on leveraging LLMs. Location: CLASP, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 2 years Interested or have questions? I’m happy to provide more details. Apply here: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89…

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[Call for Papers] Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS)
by Aline Paes 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Call for Papers *Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese* of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) JBCS <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/> invites the submission of papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of creating, adapting, using, and evaluating *Language Models for Portuguese*. The use of Language Models in the most diverse areas of computing has raised several issues that deserve the attention of researchers. In the specific case of the Portuguese language, we face major challenges. Whereas efforts are put forward for the construction of good Portuguese models, the most diverse applications are still created using multilingual models or even models built for other languages. It is extremely important that the Portuguese-speaking scientific community makes an effort to build adequate resources to ensure safe and quality systems. This Special Issue aims to gather original papers discussing Portuguese language models. In addition to automatic evaluation measures, submissions should also discuss the linguistic issues regarding these models' capabilities, limitations, and biases. Topics covered by this Special Issue extend to all research works involving the creation, adaptation, use and evaluation of Language Models for Portuguese processing, including the topics of interest below. Topics of interest: Comparative and critical analyses of language models Social, ethical, financial, and ecological issues related to language models Discussion on alternative solutions to language models Domain-specific language models Adequacy of not-so-large language models for specific tasks Multilingual x Portuguese-specific models Semantic issues in language models Cultural issues in language models Resources for training language models Evaluation of language models The papers must be written in English and the authors should follow the Author Guidelines of the JBCS described here <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions> using this JBCS LaTeX template <https://www.overleaf.com/project/63b08a6f82cc2ad5aa297ac8>. - Submission deadline: *March 1, 2025* - Review deadline (1st round): *April 30, 2025* - Submission of revised version deadline: *May 31, 2025* - Review deadline (2nd round): *June 30, 2025* - Submission of revised version deadline: *July 31, 2025* - Decision deadline (rejection, acceptance): *August 2025* - Camera-ready submission deadline: *September 2025* - Publication: *October, 2025* The submission for this Special Issue will be opened soon, and will be made through the JBCS website https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions. Guest Editors: Renata Vieira - UEVORA Aline Paes - IC-UFF Graça Nunes - ICMC-USP Helena Caseli - DC-UFSCar An initiative of Brasileiras em PLN group (https://brasileiraspln.com/) in partnership with CE-PLN <https://www.sbc.org.br/>, the special group in NLP of the Brazilian Computing Society <https://www.sbc.org.br/>. contact email: jbcs-si-lmpt(a)googlegroups.com homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/jbcs-si-on-portugueselm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

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