December 2024 - Corpora

PostDoc in NLP: Multilingual Coreference Resolution
by michael.strube＠h-its.org 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Dear all, HITS is looking for a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing (m/f/x) to perform research in multilingual coreference resolution. Application deadline: January 15th, 2025. Starting date (negotiable): March 1st, 2025. Please see for details https://www.h-its.org/hits-job/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-language-… If you have further questions please don't hesitate to contact Michael Strube at michael.strube(a)h-its.org. With best regards, Michael Strube -- Michael Strube NLP Group HITS gGmbH Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35 69118 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.h-its.org/nlp

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CfP deadline extension: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL 2025)
by Annika Simonsen - HI 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL) has been extended from December 16th to December 23rd, 2024. The workshop will be held on March 2, 2025, as part of the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn, Estonia. About the Workshop This half-day workshop focuses on the responsible evaluation and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to address the unique challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - Ethical benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in Nordic and Baltic languages - Methods for creating culturally sensitive and inclusive evaluation datasets - Responsible techniques for generating or collecting alignment data - Challenges and solutions in ethical LLM alignment for less-resourced languages - Case studies on responsible LLM evaluation or alignment projects - Ethical considerations in LLM evaluation and alignment - Comparative studies of LLM performance and fairness in Nordic and Baltic languages - Innovative approaches to leveraging limited language resources in evaluation or alignment of language models Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: January 13, 2025 Camera-Ready Deadline: February 3, 2025 Workshop Date: March 2, 2025 Workshop Format NB-REAL 2025 will be a half-day workshop held on March 2, 2025 (pre-conference). It will be a hybrid event with both on-site and online participation available. Submission Submissions can be long papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The templates are available at the official conference website, see https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers#h.v2k63awq0fpe. All submissions will undergo peer review by the program committee. To submit your paper please visit NB-REAL 2025 Workshop | OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Workshop/NB-REAL#t…> Organizers Hafsteinn Einarsson, Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Iceland (hafsteinne(a)hi.is) Annika Simonsen, PhD Student, University of Iceland (annika(a)hi.is) Dan Saattrup Nielsen, Senior AI Specialist, Alexandra Institute (dan.nielsen(a)alexandra.dk) For more information, please visit our website: https://nbreal.xyz/ We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at NB-REAL 2025!

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Workshop "Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science" (2-4 April 2025, TU Berlin)
by Arno Simons 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submissions to our workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)" is fast approaching! The deadline is December 31, 2024—just two weeks away. To contribute a talk, please send an abstract of your planned contribution of 300-600 words by e-mail to arno.simons(a)tu-berlin.de <mailto:arno.simons@tu-berlin.de>. We encourage every contributor to present on site and to participate in the whole workshop program. In exceptional cases, we will offer the possibility to present remotely. The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. We look for contributions that help resolve questions like these: How can LLMs help gain new perspectives on long-standing problems in HPSS such as determining the relevant contexts of knowledge claims, the dynamics of scientific controversies, problems of incommensurability, and generalizability of case studies? How can LLMs handle the specialized language of scientific texts, including technical jargon, citations, and mathematical formulas? How can LLMs bridge the gap between qualitative and computational methods and help overcome their limitations? How can LLMs be integrated into existing theoretical and methodological frameworks in HPSS, or how should these frameworks evolve to accommodate LLM-based analysis? How can we evaluate the validity of results generated by LLMs, given their opacity? How can LLMs account for the temporal development of scientific language and knowledge over time? For more details about the workshop and the CFP, please visit: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss We look forward to your contributions! Best regards, Arno Simons -- Arno Simons Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/arno-simons

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IWCS 2025: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Kilian Evang 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Call for Workshop Proposals 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany 22-24 September 2025 https://iwcs2025.github.io/ IWCS is a biennial conference on computational semantics. This year's edition is organized by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The conference is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. The aim of IWCS is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation, and learning of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference and workshops will take place 22-24 September 2025. === WORKSHOP PROPOSALS === We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IWCS 2025. Accepted workshops will have the option to publish their proceedings in the ACL Anthology. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Workshops are invited on these closely related areas, including the following: * design of meaning representations * syntax-semantics interface * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics * distributional semantics * alternative approaches to compositional semantics * inference methods for computational semantics * recognizing textual entailment * learning by reading * methodologies and practices for semantic annotation * machine learning of semantic structures * probabilistic computational semantics * neural semantic parsing * computing meaning with large language models * computational aspects of lexical semantics * semantics and ontologies * semantic web and natural language processing * semantic aspects of language generation * generating from meaning representations * semantic relations in discourse and dialogue * semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts * multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning * semantics-pragmatics interface * applications of computational semantics === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Proposals for workshops should contain: * A title and brief (max two pages) description of the workshop topic and content; * The names, affiliation and email addresses of the organisers; * An estimate of the expected audience size; * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted and how many attendees the workshop attracted; * Whether you plan a half-day or full-day workshop; * Whether or not the workshop proceedings should be published in the ACL Anthology. Proposals should be submitted on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/SIGSEM/IWCS/2025/Workshop_Propos… The person submitting the proposal will need an OpenReview account. Please note OpenReview's moderation policy, where newly created accounts with an institutional email address are approved automatically, but other email addresses can take up to two weeks to approve. === FINANCES === Workshops must cover their own costs for invited speakers as well as organizers' traveling costs. === IMPORTANT DATES === 31 January 2025 Workshop proposal submissions due 07 February 2025 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance 24 September 2025 Workshop date === CONTACT === For questions, contact: iwcs2025-program-chairs(a)uni-duesseldorf.de Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Sylvain Pogodalla (the IWCS 2025 program chairs) -- Dr. Kilian Evang · Institut für Linguistik · Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 · 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany · https://kilian.evang.name

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NLP4Ecology 2025 – Deadline Extension Announcement
by Valerio Basile 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Great news—we’ve extended the paper submission deadline for our workshop to *December 30th, 2024*. Below is the Call for Papers. Please feel free to share it widely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Papers *for the *NLP4Ecology 2025 Workshop*, titled "The 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing," The workshop will be co-located with *the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)*. We are inviting submissions that explore how NLP and computational linguistics can help address ecological challenges. The workshop focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to tackle the environmental crises by leveraging NLP tools to, e.g., analyze harmful narratives, detect misinformation, and examine public discourse related to ecological issues. Topics of interest include sentiment analysis, bias detection, framing analysis, and more. We aim to attract a highly interdisciplinary audience and welcome contributions at the intersection of *linguistics*, *ecology*, and *computer science*, particularly from fields such as *AI*, *computational linguistics* , *digital humanities*, *ecolinguistics*, *ethics*, *philosophy*, and *environmental humanities, *with the goal of fostering collaboration between the NLP community and scholars from diverse disciplines to explore how language technology can help address climate change and environmental crises. More details on the Call for Papers are on the workshop website <https://econlpws2025.di.unito.it/>. Key dates: *Paper Submission Deadline*: December 16, 2024 *December 30, 2024* *Camera-Ready Deadline*: February 3, 2025 *Workshop Date*: March 2, 2025 (Tallinn, Estonia)

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[IberLEF 2025] Second Call for Task Proposals
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

================================= IberLEF 2025 -- Second Call for Task Proposals ================================= IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, whose 2025 edition will be held as part of the 41th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The 2025 edition of the SEPLN conference will take place in Zaragoza, Spain. The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2024. Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2024 are. - Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 3, 2025). - Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2025. Task selection procedure Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 24, 2025. Proceedings IberLEF 2025 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JCI: 0.21), CiteScore (Scopus): 2,9 and SJR: 0,421) in its September 2025 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the acceptance of their works by June 20, 2025, and send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 3, 2025. Important dates - Task proposals due: December 22, 2024. - Notification of acceptance: January 24, 2025. - Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 20, 2025. - Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2025. - IberLEF Workshop: September 2025. IberLEF general chairs Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) José Ángel González Barba, Symanto Research (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com ================================= [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ ACL 2025: First CFP
by Mariana Romanyshyn 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

*The Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2025) <https://unlp.org.ua/>* *Call For Papers* UNLP 2025 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on July 31 or August 1, 2025, in conjunction with ACL 2025. The workshop will bring together leading professionals from academia and industry who develop language resources, tools, and NLP solutions for the Ukrainian language or do cross-lingual research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. The workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-lingual models applicable to Ukrainian, - Ukrainian dialects, sociolects, and code-switching, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Note: *The workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of the indigenous people of Ukraine. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. *Shared Task* UNLP 2025 organizes a Shared Task on Detecting Social Media Manipulation. This Shared Task aims to challenge and assess AI capabilities to detect and classify manipulation, laying the groundwork for progress in cybersecurity and the identification of disinformation within the context of Ukraine. Organized jointly with Texty.org.ua, the task will be based on 9,500 Telegram posts manually annotated for ten manipulation techniques by media experts. The shared task will have two tracks: techniques classification and detection of manipulative text spans. More details will follow soon. Check for updates at https://unlp.org.ua/. *Important dates* April 14, 2025 — Workshop paper due (direct submission) May 5, 2025 — Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline May 12, 2025 — Notification of acceptance June 2, 2025 — Camera-ready papers due June 30, 2025 — Pre-recorded video due July 31 or August 1, 2025 — Workshop *Submissions* UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the broader public are strongly encouraged. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished, and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. The paper submission link will be added soon. Check for updates at https://unlp.org.ua/. The workshop will provide Grammarly Premium to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please fill in this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemG2fVh_KJo6JZF9pC4TNQ9gdMawd-TC_…> . *Workshop Organizers* *Main Organizers* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Olena Nahorna, Grammarly, Germany Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine *Shared Task Organizers* Nataliia Romanyshyn, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Syvokon, Microsoft, Ukraine Roman Kyslyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Volodymyr Sydorskyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Find our program committee at https://unlp.org.ua/committees/. *Follow us* Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. X: https://x.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop. Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua.

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12th Workshop on Argument Mining @ACL2025: Call for Shared Task Proposals
by Gabriella Lapesa 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

12th Workshop on Argument Mining - Call for Shared Task Proposals (Deadline: January 7th) We cordially invite submissions of shared task proposals, as part of ArgMining 2025, the “12th Workshop on Argument Mining”. The workshop will be co-located with ACL 2025 (to be held in Vienna, Austria). The call for papers will be circulated separately, in the next days Argument mining (also known as “argumentation mining”) is a gradually maturing research area within computational linguistics. It involves the automatic identification of argumentative structures in free text, as well as argument quality assessment, argument persuasiveness, and the synthesis of argumentative texts. To advance research on specific aspects of argument mining, previous editions of the ArgMining workshop series have promoted shared tasks, including key point analysis for quantitative summarization of arguments (see Argmining 2021), the validity and novelty of arguments (see Argmining 2022), multimodal argument mining and pragmatic tagging of peer reviews (see Argmining 2023), and argument mining considering perspective and dialogical aspects (see Argmining 2024). Following the success of previous workshops, ArgMining 2025 plans to share one or more unsolved problems to be investigated by the community. Proposals for shared tasks should include: • a title and a brief description of the task • a description of the datasets that will be used in the task and their readiness, and a proposed plan for data collection and annotation • previous work on the datasets, including publications (if any) • a few lines regarding evaluation of the submitted systems • a brief introduction of the task organizers Shared task organizers will have the opportunity to publish a task overview paper in the workshop proceedings. Please submit your shared task proposal via email to argmining.org2025 [at] gmail.com. The submission deadline is January 7th, 2025, and task organizers will be notified of proposal acceptance on January 19th. While exact dates are not yet available, we assume the following tentative schedule: • End of February - Training data release • Mid of April - Test data release, evaluation start • End of April - Evaluation end • Mid of May - Results announcement • End of May - Paper submission due • Mid of June - Camera-ready version due • July 31st or August 1st 2025 - ArgMining 2025 workshop (ACL) The timeline will be finalized with the shared task organizers. Organizers: Elena Chistova, Philipp Cimiano, Gabriella Lapesa, Shoreh Haddadan, Ramon Ruiz-Doiz

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KONVENS 2025: Call for Tutorials and Workshop Proposals
by Christian Wartena 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

We cordially invite proposals for workshops and tutorials as part of KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 9-12). KONVENS is an annual conference series on computational linguistics that started in 1992 and that is organized under the auspices of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society, the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence and SwissText. Past conferences are listed here: https://konvens.org. See https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ for more information! Workshop Proposals Workshop proposals should contain: * a title and a brief description (at most 4 pages in ACL format) of the workshop topic * the desired workshop length (half-day or full-day) * the names and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed to serve Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings. The time schedule for workshops is: Workshop Proposal Deadline February 14, 2025 Workshop Proposal Notification February 21, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Deadline July 2, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Notification August 4, 2025 Mandatory Camera Ready Deadline August 15, 2025 Proceedings Camera Ready Deadline August 22, 2025 Tutorials Tutorials are intended to either provide a comprehensive introduction to core techniques/areas of interest or address advanced topics relevant for the KONVENS community. We invite half-day tutorials on established or emerging research topics in these areas but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or applications. Tutorials may be explicitly introductory, targeting experienced researchers or attracting a wide audience by addressing basic as well as advanced topics. Tutorial proposals should contain: * a title and abstract of the tutorial * the language in which the tutorial will be held (English/German) * a brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the KONVENS community * a brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in half a day * the names and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere Tutorial proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Proceedings Peer-reviewed workshop papers can be published in the KONVENS 2025 Proceedings. A camera-ready version of all accepted papers should be available at latest on August 22, 2025. Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein]

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2nd CFP: Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ NAACL 2025
by Paul Thompson 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ NAACL 2025 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2025/ Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The second workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful inaugural CL4Health workshop (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue that focuses on language related to health of the public. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health-literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health; SHARED TASK Perspective-aware Healthcare Answer Summarization (PerAnsSumm) will be co-located with the workshop. In community / consumer health question answering, several aspects, such as question understanding and answer generation, have been studied for over a decade. A new and important question posed by this task is the different perspectives provided in the answers to questions posted to online forums. The responses to the questions offer different answer perspectives, e.g., personal experiences, factual information, and suggestions. Traditionally, the CQA answer summarization task has focused on a single best-voted answer as a reference summary. A single answer does not capture all the perspectives. Moreover, a structured presentation of the information in the form of perspective-specific summaries may be more useful for the end-users. To address these gaps, this challenge introduces a novel perspective-specific answer summarization task within a CQA setup. The task will use the Perspective-aware healthcare Answer SuMmarizAtion (PUMA) dataset, a corpus of medical question-answer pairs created by the task organizers. The PUMA dataset consists of 3,167 CQA threads with approximately 10K answers filtered from the Yahoo! L6 corpus. Each answer in PUMA is annotated with five perspective spans: ‘cause’, ‘suggestion’, ‘experience’, ‘question’, and ‘information’. Further details are about the shared task are available at: https://peranssumm.github.io/ IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) January 30, 2025 -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 1, 2025 - Notification of acceptance March 10, 2025 - Camera-ready papers due April 8, 2025 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 3 OR 4, 2025 - Workshop SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Submission site: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/cl4health2025 Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Deepak Gupta, US National Library of Medicine -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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