January 2025 - Corpora

January 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

In this newsletter: Renew your LDC membership today New publications: Iraqi Arabic - English Lexical Database<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025L01> LORELEI Hungarian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T01> ________________________________ Renew your LDC membership today The importance of curated resources for language-related education, research, and technology development drives LDC's mission to create them, to accept data contributions from researchers across the globe, and to broadly share such resources through the LDC Catalog. LDC members enjoy no-cost access to new corpora released annually, as well as the ability to license legacy data sets from among our 960+ holdings at reduced fees. Ensure that your data needs continue to be met by renewing your LDC membership or by joining the Consortium today. Now through March 3, 2025, 2024 members receive a 10% discount on 2025 membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5% discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for more details on membership options and benefits. ________________________________ New publications: Iraqi Arabic - English Lexical Database<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025L01> was developed by LDC. It has six interrelated tables presenting over 67,000 Iraqi Arabic words as orthographic forms in Arabic script and pronunciation forms in IPA format, along with more than 120,000 English tokens. This release is the result of a collaboration with Georgetown University Press <https://press.georgetown.edu/> to enhance and update three dialectal Arabic dictionaries -- Iraqi, Moroccan, and Syrian -- originally published in the 1960s. The Georgetown Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic<https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Georgetown-Dictionary-of-Iraqi-Arabic> was published in 2013. That work was based on, and expanded, two dictionaries, A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic: English-Arabic (Clarity, Stowasser, and Wolfe, eds., 2003) and A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic: Arabic-English (Woodhead and Beene, eds., 2003). The several enhancements developed by LDC in the updated and enhanced dictionary and the lexical database included facilitating comparisons across Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic by providing Arabic script spellings and IPA pronunciations to Iraqi words and phrases; promoting ease of use by language learners and researchers by developing reasonable orthographic conventions for applying the Arabic alphabet to the dialect; and facilitating a user's understanding of morphological and lexical relations by adding information on the linguistic structures of Iraqi Arabic. The documentation accompanying this release includes instructions for combining into one database the tables in this corpus with the tables in Moroccan Arabic - English Lexical Database LDC2023L01.<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023L01> 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Hungarian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T01> is comprised of over 686 million words of Hungarian monolingual text, 165,000 words of which were translated into English, 2.3 million words of found Hungarian-English parallel text, and 87,000 Hungarian words translated from English data. Approximately 72,500 words were annotated for named entities and over 25,000 words were annotated for full entity (including nominals and pronouns), entity linking and situation frames (identifying entities, needs and issues); over 17,000 words have simple semantic annotation; and close to 10,000 words were annotated for noun phrase chunking. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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EUROCALL 2025: CfP
by Passarotti Marco Carlo (marco.passarotti) 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

The call for papers for EUROCALL 2025 is out. See: https://eurocall2025.com/call-for-papers/ EUROCALL is the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning. The conference will be held in Milan at Università Cattolica on 27-30 August 2025. IMPORTANT DATES 01 December 2024: first call for papers mid December 2024: submission opens 03 February 2025: submission of abstracts closes 21 February 2025: deadline to sign up as reviewer of abstracts on OpenConf w/c 24th February/ 3rd March 2025: reviews assigned 31 March 2025: deadline for completion of all reviews 14 April 2025: notification to authors 15 April - 15 June 2025: early bird registration 16 June 2025 - 16 July 2025: ordinary conference registration 27-30 August 2025: EUROCALL 2025 Best, Marco Prof. Marco C. Passarotti Computational Linguistics Index Thomisticus Treebank https://itreebank.marginalia.it/ ERC Grantee, P.I. LiLa https://lila-erc.eu/ (Grant Agreement No. 769994) CIRCSE Research Centre https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html [cropped-europe-flag.png] [cropped-erc_high_res.png] [cropped-lila-logo-9.png] Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli, 1 20123 Milan, Italy marco.passarotti(a)unicatt.it tel. +39-02-72342380 [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille_firma_mail_2023.jpg] <https://www.unicatt.it/uc/5xmille>

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Postdoc in TrustLLM project at Linköping University
by Marcel Bollmann 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

The NLP group at Linköping University<https://liu-nlp.ai/>, Sweden, is looking for a Postdoc in Natural Language Processing within the EU-funded TrustLLM project on developing open, trustworthy, and factual large language models. The position is full-time (100%) for a fixed term of two years, with the potential of an extension to a total of three years, and comes without teaching obligation. Starting date is by agreement, but ideally as soon as possible. Research areas include language adaptation and modularisation of LLMs, tokenization for multilingual LLMs, as well as evaluation of relevant qualities (e.g. trustworthiness, factuality) in multilingual LLMs. For more information about this position and how to apply, see: https://liu-nlp.ai/postdoc-trustllm-2025/ The application deadline is 2025-02-05. Please do not hesitate to contact me for details and discussion! Best regards, Marcel -- Marcel Bollmann, Dr. phil. Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden www: https://marcel.bollmann.me/

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[CFP] ACL 2025 Call for Papers (second)
by ACL Announcements 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

ACL 2025 Call for Papers Main Conference ACL 2025 Website: https://2025.aclweb.org/ Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025 Conference Dates: July 27 to August 1, 2025 Location: Vienna, Austria Special Theme: “Generalization of NLP Models” Contact: Roberto Navigli (General Chair) Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Ekaterina Shutova (Program Chairs) Overview ACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. ACL 2025 has a goal of a diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Papers submitted to ACL 2025, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Paper Submission Information Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 February cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025 February cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to ACL 2025 via the conference commitment site (TBA). Submission Topics ACL 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Generation Human-centered NLP Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Modeling Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Machine Learning for NLP Machine Translation Multilinguality and Language Diversity Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond NLP Applications Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding Summarization Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models ACL 2025 Theme Track: Generalization of NLP Models Following the success of the ACL 2020-2024 Theme tracks, we are happy to announce that ACL 2025 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting and stimulating discussion about the current state of development of the field of NLP. Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly, reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically important for models used in real-world applications, as they should emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various dimensions—compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness? What factors affect the generalization of NLP models? What are the most effective methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models? While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in this regard? The theme track submissions can be either long or short. We anticipate having a special session for this theme at the conference and a Thematic Paper Award in addition to other categories of awards. Two-Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to ACL 2025 ACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process: Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and area chairs; Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., ACL 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. ACL 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2024 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. Mandatory Reviewing Workload As the pace of research in the field continues to increase, we need to strengthen the commitment to reviewing for each paper submission. During the ARR submission process, authors will be required to specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in this reviewing cycle. Please see the new ARR policy regarding reviewing workload here. As this is an ARR-wide policy for all *CL conferences, questions or clarifications should be addressed to ARR directly. Important Dates: Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR): February 15, 2025 ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of the February cycle: April 15, 2025 Commitment deadline for ACL 2025: April 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2025 Withdrawal deadline: May 30, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2025 Tutorials: July 27, 2025 Conference: July 28 - 30, 2025 Workshops: July 31 - August 1, 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Paper Submission Details Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements at https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp, including: Long Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages): Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review: Authorship Citation and Comparison Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, and Withdrawal Policy Ethics Policy including the responsible NLP research checklist Limitations Paper Submission and Templates Optional Supplementary Materials 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. Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., ACL 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected ACL 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to ACL 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than ACL 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to ACL 2025. Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters.

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Call for participation: MultiLexNorm 2: Multilingual Lexical Normalization
by Rob van der Goot 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

Dear all, Today, the data freeze of the MultiLexNorm 2 shared task is in effect. As defined in the previous iteration of the task, lexical normalization is: The task of transforming an utterance into its standard form, word by word, including both one-to-many (1-n) and many-to-one (n-1) replacements. This time, the focus is on non-Indo-European languages. We have manged to obtain (new) datasets for: Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean. More information can be found on: https://noisy-text.github.io/2025/multi-lexnorm.html# Deadlines: Data available: Nov 15, 2024 Data freeze: Jan 14, 2025 Test data: Jan 25, 2025 Final Evaluation: Feb 07, 2025 Paper deadline: Feb 25, 2025 Paper reviewed: Mar 01, 2025 Camera ready: Mar 10, 2025 Workshop: May 03, 2025 (TBD) Best, The organizers

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Call for Participation: CHiPSAL-COLING-2025
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

*Call for Participation* *First workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2025)Co-located with the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)* *Virtual* *January 19, 2025 8.30 AM - 3.00 PM (GMT +4)* *Accepted papers - *https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/accepted-papers *W**orkshop program** -* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/workshop-program *Workshop Website - https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/ <https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/>* Please join us! We are excited to engage with the research community in advancing NLP for South Asian languages and fostering meaningful collaborations. *Why CHiPSAL?* South Asia, with over 1.97 billion people, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions globally, home to 700+ languages and 25+ major scripts. This region is rich in cultural and linguistic heritage but faces significant challenges in natural language processing (NLP). These include encoding and orthographic issues, resource constraints, linguistic complexities, dialectal diversity, and more. *CHiPSAL* addresses these challenges and advances NLP research for South Asian languages while fostering collaborations across linguistic, technical, and cultural domains. *Organizing Chairs:* Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal Sana Shams, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA *Program Committee Members (alphabetical order):*A M Abirami, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India. Abhai Pratap Singh, Amazon, USA. Akaash Vishal Hazarika, Splunk, USA. Aloka Fernando, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Aman Shakya,Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Anitha Dhakshina Moorthy, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India. Ann Sinthusha Anton Vijeevaraj, University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany. Ashwini Vaidya, IIT Delhi, India. Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Nepal. Balaram Prasain, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Bareera Sadia, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Brinda Gurusamy, Cisco, USA. Buddhika Karunarathne, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Eugene Y A Charles, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Farah Adeeba, University of Engineering and Technology, KSK, Pakistan. Farhan Jafri, Jamia Millia Islamia, India. Gihan Dias, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. H N D Thilini, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Hariram Veeramani, UCLA, USA. Hassan Sajjad, Dalhousie University, Canada. Jayeeta Putatunda, Fitch Ratings, USA. Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Krishna Chalise, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Kritesh Rauniyar, IIMS College, Nepal. Lekhnath Pathak, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, CMU, USA. Mahak Shah, Columbia University, USA. Manjunath Chandrashekaraiah, Astera Labs, USA. Menan Velayuthan, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Munief Tahir, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Parameswari Krishnamurthy,IIIT Hyderabad, India. Paritosh Katre, PayPal, USA. Prakash Poudyal, Kathmandu University, Nepal. Preetish Kakkar, Adobe, USA. Qurat-ul-Ain Akram, University of Engineering and Technology, KSK, Pakistan. Randil Pushpananda, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Sahar Rauf, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Sana Shams, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Shuvam Shiwakoti, Virginia Tech, USA. Siddhant Bikram Shah, Northeastern University, USA. Sinnathamby Mahesan, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Suganya Ramamoorthy, Vellore Institute of Technology University, India. Surabhi Adhikari, Columbia University, USA. Surangika Ranathunga, Massey University, New Zealand. Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA. Tafseer Ahmed, Alexa Translations, Canada. Toqeer Ehsan, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates. Usman Naseem, Macquarie University, Australia. Uthayasanker Thayasivam, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Vijayrajsinh Gohil, New York University, USA. *Volunteers (alphabetical order):* Ahrane Mahaganapathy, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Menan Velayuthan, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Suthakar Sivashanth, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Thank you -- *Dr Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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Call for participation: WACL4 at COLING’2025 - Registration and Programme
by Amal Haddad 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) [1] WACL4 AT COLING’2025 WITH FOCUS ON ARABIC DIALECTS The field of Arabic language research using corpora and corpus methods has experienced significant growth and development in recent years. What once were isolated efforts have now transformed into a vibrant and expansive area of study, advancing rapidly across multiple dimensions in both corpus and computational linguistics. Building upon the success of previous editions--WACL-1 in 2011, WACL-2 in 2013 in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics Conference at Lancaster University, and WACL-3 in 2019 at the Corpus Linguistics 2019 conference at Cardiff University--we are excited to announce the fourth edition of the Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4). The primary objectives of WACL-4 are to highlight the latest developments in the creation, annotation, and application of Arabic corpora, including the introduction of new corpora and advancements in annotation techniques, while fostering collaboration among researchers from diverse institutions and regions to stimulate joint research projects and interdisciplinary initiatives. This edition will place a special emphasis on the study of Arabic dialects, including non-standard and regional varieties, to broaden the understanding of Arabic in its various manifestations and support research on under-resourced linguistic varieties. Additionally, WACL-4 aims to encourage the development and refinement of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems and tools tailored for Arabic, integrating corpora into NLP workflows, creating new computational tools, and evaluating existing systems to improve their efficacy in processing Arabic text. The workshop will be held online on January 20th, 2025 in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). We are pleased to share the programme of WACL4 2025 with you. Please visit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSNC1r4dx023cb_FuQWhWa8d3Si4fvvp/view?usp=… To register for the workshop, please visit https://coling2025.org/registration/ We are looking forward to welcoming you at WACL4 at COLING'2025 Kind regards, WACL4 Organising Committee -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4

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Reminder: Call for participation in Web Survey on Data Bottlenecks in Supervised NLP
by Romberg, Julia 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

++ 1st reminder to participate in our web survey on data annotation bottlenecks and active learning; apologies for cross-posting ++ Dear list members, We invite you to participate in our web survey exploring how recent advancements in NLP, such as LLMs, have changed the need for labeled data in Supervised Machine Learning. Survey details: * Topic: Web survey on Data Annotation and Active Learning * Target group: Researchers and practitioners alike in the fields of NLP, Supervised Machine Learning, and Active Learning in particular (knowledge of Active Learning is not required) * Duration: 5-15 minutes * Deadline for participation: January 12, 2025 * Survey link: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/umfragen/limesurvey/index.php/538271 Why should I invest my time in this survey? * Make an impact: Participate in a community-effort and help to gain a better understanding of the current state and open issues on methods that are used to overcome a lack of labeled data. * Gain insights: Receive a report with key findings to incorporate these insights into research and development of new methods and technologies. Thank you for considering participating in our survey! If you have any questions or require additional information, please don't hesitate to contact us directly at activelearningsurvey2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:activeLearningSurvey2024@gmail.com>. If you know colleagues or peers who might be interested, we'd be grateful if you could forward this survey to them as well. Best regards, Julia Romberg (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany) Christopher Schröder (Institut für Angewandte Informatik e. V., Germany) Julius Gonsior (TUD Dresden University of Technology) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [gesis-logo-new-50-50] Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Julia Romberg Computational Social Science, Team Data Science Methods +49(221)47694-742

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PhD studentship on analysis of multimodal videos/transcripts of children's interactions
by Colin Bannard 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Dear colleagues Please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in a PhD studentship focused on discovering drivers of child language development from videos/multimodal transcripts of early child-parent/educator interactions: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/identifying-drivers-of-language-devel… The student will be based at the University of Manchester in the UK, but will spend at least 12 months at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Best, Colin

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Call for Participation: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM 2025 will be a physical workshop co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi on 20th January 2025. We are pleased to share the programme of LoResLM 2025 with you. Please visit https://loreslm.github.io/program for the full programme. To register for the workshop, please visit https://coling2025.org/registration/ We are looking forward to welcoming you at LoResLM 2025 in Abu Dhabi. The workshop is supported in part by CLARIN-UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities programme. >> Keynote Speaker Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University. Title - "Multilinguality and Cultural Awareness in Language Models" >> Organising Committee Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France Samuel Cahyawijaya - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Raj Dabre - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA Bonaventure F. P. Dossou - McGill University, Canada Daan van Esch - Google Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Daisy Lal - Lancaster University, UK Colin Leong - University of Dayton, USA Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Farhad Nooralahzadeh - University of Zurich, Switzerland Rrubaa Panchendrarajan - Queen Mary University of London, UK Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA Omid Rohanian - University of Oxford, UK Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK Claytone Sikasote - University of Cape Town, South Africa Marjana Prifti Skenduli - University of New York Tirana, Albania Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Edlira Vakaj - Birmingham City University, UK John Vidler - Lancaster University, UK Phil Weber - Aston University, UK Bryan Wilie - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Artūrs Znotiņš - University of Latvia, Latvia URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/loreslm/

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