September 2024 - Corpora

CFP - Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL) @ COLING2025
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Hello everyone, Don’t miss this unique opportunity to discuss key issues and contribute to the advancement of language processing in the South Asian region, home to 25% of the world’s population and rich in linguistic and cultural diversity. Submit your papers by October 30, 2024, and join us at the first Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), taking place at COLING 2025 on January 19, 2025. Please submit your papers via *https://softconf.com/coling2025/CHiPSAL25 <https://softconf.com/coling2025/CHiPSAL25> * ---- *CHiPSAL 2025*, the First workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), will be held as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on *January 19, 2025*. The workshop will be conducted in *virtual mode*. CHiPSAL 2025 invites the submission of original research papers, review/opinion papers, and system demonstration papers, in short or long forms, on topics that highlight the challenges related to South Asian languages, including but not limited to the following areas: - Encoding and Unicode Issues in South Asian Scripts - Orthographic Complexities and Their Impact on Language Technology - Morphological Analysis and Generation in South Asian Languages - Dialectal Variations and Language Standardisation - Code-Mixing and Multilingualism in South Asian Contexts - Building Linguistic Resources for South Asian Languages - Speech Recognition and Synthesis for South Asian Languages - Preserving Linguistic Heritage through Technology - Benchmarking Models for South Asian Languages *Important Dates* All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). The First CFP Monday, 15 July 2024 Submission Deadline October 30, 2024 Notification of acceptance November 29, 2024 Camera-ready papers December 13, 2024 Pre-recorded video due January 5, 2024 Workshop (Virtual) January 19, 2025 *For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal <https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal>* Regards Sarves -- *Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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Celtic Language Technology Workshop 2025 (CFP)
by abigail.walsh＠adaptcentre.ie 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ ***The Fifth Celtic Language Technology Workshop*** │ │ Co-located at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. │ │ │ │ Website: https://cltworkshop.github.io │ │ │ │ Important Dates │ │ * Call for Papers: 13th August 2024 │ │ * Paper Submission Deadline: 18th October 2024 │ │ * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 15th November 2024 │ │ * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 2nd December 2024 │ │ * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 │ │ │ │ Submission platform: https://softconf.com/coling2025/CLT25/ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────┘ The CLTW community and workshop – inaugurated at COLING (Dublin) in 2014 – has become a critical focus and forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP) and language technologies for Celtic languages. We are delighted to announce that the fifth edition in the Celtic Language Technology Workshop series will be co-located with COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. We invite submissions of long and short papers featuring original contributions on resources, theories, systems, applications, and methods in Natural Language Processing for any of the Celtic languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Knowledge-based NLP/ Neural NLP/Hybrid approaches to processing Celtic Languages * Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Language Models (PLM) * Experiments and Evaluations (Prompting and Fine-Tuning) of Large Languages Model (LLMs) * Evaluating Celtic Language NLP systems * Celtic Language Resources * Corpus Development/Analysis * Treebanking * Parsing/Chunking * Ontology-lexica * Linked Data Resources * Syntax, Semantics * Lexicons * Terminology and Knowledge Representation * Linguistic Annotation of Celtic-language Texts * Machine Translation * Natural Language Generation * Speech Processing/Generation * Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) * Celtic Digital Humanities * Information Extraction * Transfer Learning * Cross-lingual Methods * NLP/LT for historical Celtic languages For more information, including submission instructions, please see the website (https://cltworkshop.github.io/) or for queries, contact the email address (celticlanguagetechnology(a)gmail.com) Kind regards, Brian Davis, Theodorus Fransen, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Abigail Walsh

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2ndCFP - Coling-Rel 25: New Horizons in Computational Linguistics for Religious Texts
by Majdi Sawalha 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

==================================================================================== COLING 2025 Workshop: New Horizons in Computational Linguistics for Religious Texts (Coling-Rel 25) ==================================================================================== Part of the COLING 2025 Conference Abu Dhabi, UAE January 19-24, 2025 https://tinyurl.com/Coling-Rel25 We invite submissions for the COLLING 2025 Workshop on New Horizons in Computational Linguistics for Religious Texts that will be held with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE) (COLING 2025). This workshop invites researchers exploring the intersection of language technology and religious texts. This workshop aims to foster discussion on cutting-edge applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to religious texts, including: • Analyzing faith-defining canons and authoritative interpretations • Extracting insights from sermons, liturgy, prayers, and poetry • Leveraging Large Language Models for novel research avenues The Coling-Rel25 workshop will explore the potential of NLP to unlock new understandings of religious traditions and chart the future of this exciting research area. The workshop welcomes researchers from computational linguistics, digital humanities, and related fields. 1. Workshop Topics and Contents We welcome submissions on a range of topics, including but not limited to: • Computational Morphology and Syntax for Religious texts; • analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech; recitation styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious texts; • suitability of modal and other logics for knowledge representation and inference in religious texts; • issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious texts; • text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for religious texts; • corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora; • dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious texts; • measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts; • (new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for religious texts; • annotation and analysis of religious metaphor; • genre analysis for religious texts; • LLMs adaptation for religious texts; • ethical issues of LLMs for religious texts; • application of computer-supported methods in the analysis of religious texts in other disciplines (e.g., theology, classics, philosophy, literature). 2. Organizing Committee • Dr. Majdi Sawalha, Artificial Intelligence Department, The University of Jordan, Jordan • Prof. Sane Yagi, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Sharjah, UAE. • Dr. Faisal Alshargi, Magdeburg University, Germany. • Dr. Abdallah Al-Shdaifat, Arabic Language Department, Mohamad bin Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. • Prof. Ashraf Elnagar, Computer Science Department, University of Sharjah, UAE. • Dr. Bayan Abu Shawar, College of Engineering, Al-Ain University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. • Dr. Noorhan Abbas, School of Computing, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. 3. Important Dates - 15 July 2024: First Call for papers - 09 September 2024: Second Call for papers - 29 September 2024: Final Call for papers - 11 November 2024: Paper Submission due - 05 December 2024: Notification for Acceptance - 13 December 2024: Camera-ready format (cannot be changed) - 19 January 2025: COLING-2025 Workshops - 21-24 January 2025: COLING-2025 conference 4. Submission Information Coling-Rel25 workshop invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages (limits only apply to the main body of the paper). We are following the instructions for COLING 25 proceedings which can be found on this page. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/Coling-Rel25/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible. 5. Contact Majdi Sawalha, sawalha.majdi(a)gmail.com or sawalha.majdi(a)ju.edu.jo Workshop link https://tinyurl.com/Coling-Rel25 -- =========================================================== Majdi Sawalha, *Associate professor,* Computer Information Systems Department, King Abdullah II School of Information Technology, The UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN, Amman, Jordan.

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free 8-week course on Corpus linguistics - starts 16 September
by Brezina, Vaclav 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Dear all, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University offers a free 8-week course on Corpus linguistics: Corpus MOOC. We start in one week's time on Monday 16 September. You can register at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB029E.3C32EBA0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB029E.3C32EBA0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Journal of Digital Islamicate Research
by Mai Zaki 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

Dear list members, We are excited to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of the *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* (JDIR <https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/1/1-2/jdir.1.issue-1-2.xml>), a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the intersection of digital humanities and Islamicate studies, published by Brill. The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* offers an academic platform for exploring the ways in which digital methodologies are transforming the study of the Islamicate world. Our scope includes, but is not limited to: - Digital historical, religious and cultural studies of the Islamicate world - Islamic and Islamicate arts from a digital humanities perspective - Computational analysis of social, political, and religious dynamics within the Islamicate world - Manuscript studies and digital editions - Digital tools and methods for studying Islamicate heritage and languages - Digital methods in media and communication studies - Digital humanities explorations of literature - The intersection between AI and digital humanities Submissions are open on a rolling basis, and we encourage contributions from scholars across the globe. Manuscripts can be submitted in either English or Arabic through our editorial management system on the Journal website <https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?contents=journaltoc>. For more information on how to submit, please visit our page: Submit Your Manuscript. In addition to individual papers, we welcome proposals for special issues on any topic within the scope of the journal. Special issue editors will have the opportunity to bring together a collection of cutting-edge research centered around a cohesive theme related to the digital study of the Islamicate world. We invite you to explore the first issue of JDIR and consider contributing your own work to this exciting and growing field. For inquiries or to discuss potential special issues, please feel free to reach out to the editors on the journal's email jdir(a)brill.com <%20jdir(a)brill.com>. We look forward to your contributions! Eid Mohamed and Mai Zaki Editors-in-chief

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COLING 2025 Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content, 2nd Call for participation
by Firoj Alam 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit as the COLING 2025 main conference). In addition, there will be three shared tasks. All accepted submissions will be presented as talks and/or posters at the workshop, prior to the COLING 2025 main conference. Research Papers We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Detection methods for text, image, speech and other modalities - Multilingual detection methods - Detection Methods Image Modality - Detection Methods Multimodal Content - Real-time detection systems: real-time systems for detecting AI-generated content in live scenarios. - Attacks for detection systems - Datasets and resources - Benchmarking for AI generated content detection - AI generated fake news detection - Deep Fakes in audio, videos and images - Ethical and legal implications of AI generated content Shared Tasks We plan to run three shared tasks: - Task 1: Binary Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection (Human vs. Machine) - Task 2: AI vs. Human – Academic Essay Authenticity Challenge - Task 3: Cross-domain Machine-Generated Text Detection Important dates: Regular Submission (including shared tasks) Deadline: November 15, 2024 (dual-submission allowed) Resubmission (with a rebuttal) Deadline: December 2, 2024 Acceptance Notification: December 7, 2024 Camera-Ready Deadline: December 13, 2025 Workshop Day: January 19-20, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission Details: Papers must describe original, completed or in-progress, and unpublished work. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by multiple reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be given up to 9 pages (for full papers), 5 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented as oral paper or poster. We are seeking submissions under the following categories: - Full/long papers (8 pages) - Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals: 4 pages) - Shared task papers (4 pages) Long, short, and shared task papers must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences, using the official templates. The templates can be downloaded in style files and formatting. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Verification to guarantee conformance to publication standards, we will be using the ACL pubcheck tool. The PDFs of camera-ready papers must be run through this tool prior to their final submission, and we recommend its use also at submission time. Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. For the anonymity, double-blind submission, and reproducibility criteria please follow the COLING 2025 instructions. Submission portal Submissions must be made using the START portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/DAIGenC25/ Website for further information: https://genai-content-detection.gitlab.io/ Best regards The Organizers

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PhD-Position in Educational NLP
by Horbach, Andrea 07 Sep '24

07 Sep '24

1 PhD-Position in Educational NLP We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position (100%, TV-L E13 according to the German system) at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in Kiel, Germany, at the newly established research group “Teaching and Learning in the Digital World” in the field of Educational NLP on topics such as automatic free-text assessment, feedback and exercise generation. The position starts in November, a later date is negotiable. It is initially funded for 3 years, an extension is possible. An ideal candidate has a master’s degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related discipline. Programming experience in Python and some experience in machine learning is expected. For more details including information on the application process, please refer to: https://www.leibniz-ipn.de/de/das-ipn/ueber-uns/karriere/stellenangebote/pa… The application deadline is September 30. I am happy to answer questions (andrea.horbach(a)fernuni-hagen.de). Best regards, Andrea Andrea Horbach CATALPA - Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/forschung/schwerpunkte/catalpa/index.shtml> Nachwuchsgruppenleitung / Junior Research Group Leader „EduNLP“ ________________________________ FernUniversität in Hagen Gebäude 5 (PRG) www.fernuni-hagen.de<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/>

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CFP for Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2024)
by Bhargav Dave 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ------------------------------------- *Call for Papers* *FIRE 2024: 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* 12th - 15th December 2024 DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India *Extended Submission Deadline: 16th September 2024* Website: fire.irsi.org.in Submission Link : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 ------------------------------ The 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2024 will be held at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. It will be an in-person conference. We are seeking submissions of high-quality and original papers. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of IR/NLP. Authors are also encouraged to describe work in progress and late-breaking research results. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to* 1. Search and Ranking: Research on core algorithmic topics in IR: 1. Queries and query analysis (e.g., Query understanding, query reformulation, query representation etc.) 2. Retrieval models and ranking (e.g., Cross lingual IR with a particular focus on Indian languages, ranking algorithms, language models, retrieval algorithms, learning to rank etc) 3. Efficiency and scalability (e.g., distributed search, search engine architecture, indexing, crawling etc). 4. Supervised/Weakly supervised deep neural networks. 5. Other domain-specific applications of IR. 2. Evaluation: Research on evaluation of IR systems: 1. User centric evaluation (e.g., User experience, user engagement etc) 2. System centric evaluation (e.g., Evaluation metrics). 3. Query Performance Prediction and its applications. 3. Generative Models for IR/NLP. 1. Conversational and Interactive Search Systems 2. Simulated Data for Personalized IR. 3. Issues related to fairness and trustworthiness of IR/Recsys models 4. In-Context Learning or Retrieval Augmented Generation for Search and NLP downstream tasks, such as Question Answering, Summarization 5. Domain-specific generation, such as Code generation, Argument generation, Workflow generation. 4. Explainability, Fairness and Trust of IR/Recsys models 1. Explainable models for ranking, text classification/clustering, summarization etc. 2. User studies for explainable AI (XAI) applied to IR/Recsys 3. Issues related to fairness and trustworthiness of IR/Recsys models 5. Multimodal and Crossmodal IR/Recsys model 1. Visual Question Answering 2. Image search/recommendation 3. Question answering 4. Multimodal document summarization *Important dates* *25th July 2024* Paper submission link <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024> will be available *5th September 202 16th September 2024 * Paper submission deadline *30th October 2024 * Paper acceptance notification *10th November 2024 * Camera ready copy submission deadline *12th-15th December 2024* In-person conference Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth). *Submission Guidelines* Submissions must describe substantial, original and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis must be included. If the paper being submitted is under review at any other venue, the same should be explicitly mentioned when making the submission. Such a paper, if accepted, should be withdrawn from all other places. The FIRE conference track, this year, is subdivided into 2 different subtracks (described later), each with a different scope and objective, and with different reviewing policy. Please make sure that you are submitting your paper in the correct track. No requests for switching papers across tracks will be entertained after the deadline for paper submission expires. Submissions will be taken through Microsoft CMT. Select the "Conference Track" while submitting the paper and in the subject area select the appropriate paper type (Regular Paper, Resource and Demo Paper, Extended Abstract). Please note that incorrect submission will be desk rejected. Link to submit the paper: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 *Paper Template and Submission* The submitted papers must follow LNCS (Springer conference) template available on https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… . The only accepted format of submissions is PDF. Papers which do not conform to the requirements may get rejected without review. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the PDF submission has been uploaded successfully (we suggest that you try downloading your paper again yourself, to check). Authors are invited to submit in any of the following tracks: - *Regular paper* Similar to last year, this year, also we don’t make any explicit distinction between long and short papers. More time will be allocated for longer papers during the presentation. Submitted papers can be of *variable length* up to a *maximum of 12* pages of *content (excluding references)* . Reviewing policy: Double-blind. - *Resource and Demo paper* The papers submitted at this track should describe data or software resources towards a research problem that will be helpful to the IR/NLP/AI community. Such resources should ideally be made publicly available for reviewers to judge the merit of the resources. The demo papers should contain a link to a working software that demonstrates the application of existing research methods as a proof-of-the-concept. Reviewing policy: Single-blind. Number of pages: *variable length* up to a *maximum of 9* pages of *content (excluding references).*. *Double-blind Reviewing Policy* All submissions to the regular track of FIRE conference 2024 will be reviewed on the basis of originality, relevance, importance, and clarity. For papers submitted to the regular track, the authors must not mention their names or institutional details anywhere in the paper. Authors should refer to themselves in third person when citing their own work. Expressions like "In our earlier work..." or "We previously showed that..." must be avoided. *Presentation Requirements* If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference and present their work in-person. *Conference Track Co-ordinator* - Debasis Ganguly (University of Glasgow, UK) - Debarshi Kumar Sanyal (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India) For queries related to conference please email us at [ clia(a)isical.ac.in ] For latest updates subscribe the FIRE mailing List [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fire-list ]

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First call for papers: "WR•AI•CogS•1 Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science, and NLP"
by Michael Zock 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

First call for papers: WRAICogS1 - Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science, and NLP https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1 Co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, https://coling2025.org/ Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2024 Paper submission: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AAC-AI25/ *Keynote speaker: Cerstin Mahlow, Professor of Digital Linguistics and Writing Research, ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, Winterthur, Switzerland MOTIVATION This workshop is dedicated to developing writing aids grounded in human cognition (limitations of attention and memory, typically observed habits, knowledge states, and information needs). In other words, we focus on the cognitive and engineering aspects of interactive writing. Our goal is not only to help people acquire and improve their writing skills but also to enhance their productivity. By leveraging computer technology, we aim to enable them to produce better texts in less time. Writing is one of the four cornerstones of communication. By leaving a trace, it allows us to reach many people, to transcend space and time, and to spare ourselves the trouble of memorization. Writing is undeniably important, whether as a communication tool, a thinking aid, or a memorial support. However, what is less obvious is the process—that is, the precise steps required to transform an intuition or vague idea into concrete, well-polished prose. Producing readable, well-written text requires many skills, deep and broad knowledge of various sorts (topic, language, audience, metaknowledge, i.e., how to use the information at hand?)— a lot of practice and appropriate feedback. No one can learn all this overnight. The quantity and diversity of knowledge to interiorize, as well as the variety of cognitive states encountered, may explain why writing is so difficult and why it takes time to gain control over the whole process and become an expert writer. Unfortunately, knowledge alone is not enough. Writing is also a time- and energy-consuming endeavor. It is very hard work. Since writing is difficult, and since there are now computer programs capable of doing it, one may wonder: (a) whether we should leave the job entirely to the machine, or (b) whether we could use these programs to help people write or to acquire the skill of writing. Indeed, there are situations where it makes sense to rely on machines (e.g., routine work, business letters), but there are also many situations where this strategy is not recommended (e.g., writing to understand, writing to enrich and clarify our thoughts, writing to support thinking). That being said, one may find a middle ground where humans and machines work together, each contributing their strengths. It remains to be seen where machines can assist in the process (e.g., idea generation, idea structuring, translation into language, revision, editing) and where it is better to leave control to humans. Hence, the main question is not whether we should use LLMs to produce texts, but rather how, when, and at what level to use them or other techniques to help people produce written text. In sum, our main goal is not to substitute machines for people or to have them do the job in people's place, but rather to have machines assist people. Specifically, we aim to help people learn to write, speed up the process, gain better control, and reduce stress and cognitive load. Our motivation is largely practical and educational. Obviously, we are not the first ones to pursue this goal. However, while many workshops focused on developing educational software, creating intelligent writing assistants, or evaluating written text, the submitted papers have primarily addressed formal aspects, such as grammatical error detection and spotting spelling mistakes. Yet good writing (text composition) requires much more than just the production of well-formed sentences. Our mission is to go beyond merely identifying errors or mistakes made at the very end of the writing process, such as those due to ignorance or inattention. Instead, we aim to evaluate the quality of the choices made at higher levels. In other words, we are interested in the full spectrum of writing, including technology-based writing aids that address all tasks involved in writing: conceptual planning (ideation, organization), linguistic expression, editing, and revision. Hence, we welcome papers that focus on the higher levels of composition—such as thinking, reasoning, and planning (idea generation, outline planning)—as well as those concerned with the lower levels (grammar, spelling, and punctuation). Arguably, this is the first workshop to: a) Consider the entire spectrum of writing rather than only the lower levels, b) Integrate humans right from the start into the development cycle of writing aids, and c) Provide support and feedback at any moment —before, during, and after writing— rather than only at the very end. TOPICS We welcome contributions on all topics related to writing aids, including but not limited to the following: 1. The Human Perspective: Cognitive scientific viewpoints, including education, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. * Support: How can AI tools support critical thinking and logical reasoning in writing? How can writing assistants tailor feedback to individual writers, considering their unique needs and styles? How can we assess the quality and impact of AI-generated feedback on students' writing (methods, metrics, etc.)? * Topical coherence: How can we help people organize their ideas into a coherent whole? How do we model or operationalize the concept of a topic, the paragraph's most central element? How do we detect possible topics within our data? What are typical subtopics of a given topic, and how do we identify them? How do we cluster content/ideas into topics and give the clusters appropriate names? * Building software: How do we include humans in the development cycle of writing aids? How and at what level can engineers use insights from psycholinguistics and neuroscience? How can they model the writing process while accounting for human and technological factors? * Metacognition: What do people typically know about writing in general and their own writing in particular? What are their problems and needs? How do people manage to coordinate the different processes? What should an authoring ecosystem look like (components)? What could be automated, and what is best left for interactive processing? * Shared task: What kind of shared task would be meaningful while being technically feasible? 2. The Engineering Side * LLMs: Where in the writing process could we use methods developed in AI (e.g., LLMs) or computational linguistics (e.g., content generation, content structuring, translation into language, revision)? What are the potential benefits, dangers, and limitations of LLMs as writing aids? How could revealing the 'knowledge' embedded within black-box models improve their effectiveness, particularly in terms of increasing the accuracy and relevance of the feedback they provide? How can we address challenges related to data collection, privacy, and ethical considerations in developing and deploying AI writing tools? * Tools and resources: What kind of tools and resources (e.g., Sketch Engine, Rhetorical Structure Theory, knowledge graphs, and linked data) could be useful? * Quality assessment: How can we check the veracity of facts, relevance, cohesion, coherence, style, fluency, proper use of pronouns, grammar, word choice, spelling, and punctuation? * Enhancement and evaluation: How do we enhance text analysis during or after writing (e.g., quality of coherence, style) using corpus linguistic tools? How do we evaluate or compare existing writing assistants (e.g., adequacy, design features, ease of use, lessons learned)? SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please submit your papers via the START/SoftConf submission portal (https://softconf.com/coling2025/AAC-AI25/), following the COLING 2025 templates. Submitted versions must be anonymous and should not exceed 8 pages for long papers and 4 pages for short papers. References do not count toward the page limit, and may be up to 4 pages long. Supplementary material and appendices are also allowed. We also invite papers discussing tools and applications (system demonstrations) related to our workshop topics. PARTICIPATION The workshop requires a physical presence. If any authors are unable to attend and present in person, alternative arrangements (such as remote presentations or video recordings) may be considered. However, we cannot guarantee these options, as the COLING organizers and local chairs have informed us that they will not provide technical support or online access. Generally, work presented in person will be given preference over work presented virtually. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) * Kentaro Inui (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE; Tohoku University, Japan; RIKEN, Japan) * Zheng Yuan (King's College London and the University of Cambridge, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE 1. Barbu Mititelu, Verginica (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, RACAI, Bucharest, Romania) 2. Biemann, Chris (Language Technology Group, Universität Hamburg, Germany) 3. Bryant, Christopher (Writer Inc., USA; University of Cambridge, UK) 4. Bunt, Harry (Tilburg University, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence) 5. Church, Ken (Northeastern University, USA) 6. Cristea, Dan (University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania) 7. Coyne, Steven (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) 8. Dale, Robert (Language Technology Group, Church Point, NSW, Australia) 9. Delmonte, Rodolfo (Department of Computer Science, Università Ca’ Foscari, Italy) 10. Evert, Stephani (Computational Corpus Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) 11. Ferret, Olivier (CEA LIST, France) 12. Fontenelle, Thierry (European Investment Bank, Luxembourg) 13. François, Thomas (CENTAL, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 14. Gadeau, Gabriella (Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK) 15. Galván, Diana (University of Cambridge) 16. Guerraoui, Camélia (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) 17. Hernandez, Nicolas (University of Nantes, France) 18. Hovy, Edward (University of Melbourne, Australia, and Carnegie Mellon, USA) 19. Iacobacci, Ignacio (London's Speech and Semantics Lab, UK) 20. Ishii, Yutaka (Chiba University) 21. Ito, Takumi (Langsmith/Tohoku University ) 22. Lafourcade, Mathieu (Université de Montpellier, France) 23. Langlais, Felipe. (DIRO/RALI, University of Montreal, Canada) 24. Mahlow, Cerstin (ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, Winterthur, Switzerland) 25. Matsubayashi, Yuichiro (Tohoku University) 26. Pease, Adam (Parallax Research, Beavercreek, OH, USA) 27. Pirrelli, Vito (Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Pisa) 28. Raganato, Alessandro (DISCO, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) 29. Redeker, Gisela (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 30. Reed, Chris (University of Dundee, Scotland) 31. Reiter, Ehud (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) 32. Rosso, Paolo (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) 33. Saggion, Horacio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 34. Schwab, Didier (GETALP-LIG, Grenoble, France) 35. Strapparava, Carlo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) 36. Tesfaye, Debela (University of Dundee, Scotland) 37. Varzandeh, Mohsen (Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran) 38. Wanner, Leo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 39. Winniwarter, Werner (CSLEARN, Educational Technologies, Vienna, Austria) 40. Zheng, Yuan (King's College London and University of Cambridge, UK) FOR MORE DETAILS * Background knowledge: https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1/home/background-and-topics -- Michael ZOCK Emeritus Research Director CNRS LIS UMR 7020 (Group TALEP) Aix Marseille Université 163 avenue de Luminy - case 901 13288 Marseille / France Mail: michael.zock(a)lis-lab.fr <mailto:michael.zock@lis-lab.fr> Tel.: +33 (0)6 51.70.97.22 Secr.: +33 (0)4.86.09.04.60 http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ <http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/%7Emichael.zock/>

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Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 1 is now available online
by Prof CK Jung 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

*Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) is now available online:* http://icr.or.kr/ejournals-apjcr *The Incredible Shrinking Noun Phrase: Ongoing Change in Japanese Word Formation*Kevin Heffernan, (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN; Yusuke Imanishi (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.1 ________________________________________ *Identifying Key Grammatical Errors of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners in a Learner Corpus: Toward Focused Grammar Instruction with Data-Driven Learning* Atsushi Mizumoto (Kansai University), JAPAN; Yoichi Watari (Chukyo University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.25 ________________________________________ *A Comparison of the Constructions Make / Take a Decision in Malaysian English with the Supervarieties * Christina Sook Beng Ong (Wawasan Open University), MALAYSIA DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.43 ________________________________________ *Effects of Corpus Use on Error Identification in L2 Writing * Yoshiho Satake (Aoyama Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.61 --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129 H(EN): http://ckjung.org

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