October 2025 - Corpora

First CFP: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA@EACL2026)
by Oramas, Sergio 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

[??]First Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/home Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshops/NLP4MusA Shared Task: Conversational Music Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS) - Challenge information: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/shared-task - Baselines: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-baselines - Evaluations: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-evaluator Contact: nlp4musa2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:nlp4musa2026@gmail.com> == About the Workshop == Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content - such as songs or podcasts - contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations. We welcome submissions on topics such as: NLP for Music and Audio Understanding - Music Tagging and Auto-tagging, Knowledge Graph Construction, Semantic Ontologies - Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, and Entity Linking - Multimodal Representation Learning, Lyrics and Symbolic Representation Analysis - Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Culture-specific Music Understanding, Corpora Bias - Music Captioning and Description Generation NLP for Music Retrieval or Recommendation - Conversational Interfaces, Query understanding and Intent Prediction - Multimodal, Cross-modal Music Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems - Natural Language User Modeling - Music Question Answering - Fairness and Transparency NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics Generation, Audio/Symbolic Query-driven Music Generation - Synthetic Music Content Detection == Submission Instructions == We invite short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (ACL Anthology) and presented orally or as posters. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here (no Word templates is provided): https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Shared tasks papers should be submitted as a 2-page report describing the solution, using the same LaTeX template above (see specific instructions on the website). The best works will be selected for oral or poster presentations. == Key Dates (tentative, AoE) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 Shared Task: Important Dates Shared task release: October 15, 2025 Submission site opens: December 1, 2025 Blind evaluation dataset release: December 1, 2025 Final submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Results notification: January 23, 2026 == Organizers == Elena V. Epure, Deezer Sergio Oramas, SiriusXM SeungHeon Doh, KAIST Anna Kruspe, Munich University of Applied Sciences Mohamed Sordo, SiriusXM

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SEPLN CFP issue 74 ***Deadline November 22nd***
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** Call for papers for issue 76 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 1.61 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics NLP for low-resource languages Efficient and sustainable NLP methods Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP Truthworthy and explainability in NLP Security and privacy in NLP Text and Multimodal Generation Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision Knowledge and common sense Computational lexicography and terminology Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Morphological and Syntactic analysis Corpus linguistics Development of linguistic resources and tools Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse Machine translation Speech synthesis and recognition Audio indexing and retrieval Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval Question answering systems Automatic textual content analysis Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining Plagiarism detection Negation and speculation processing Text summarization Text simplification Image retrieval NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education) Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by November 29nd, 2025 and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions. Summary of PhD thesis. Information for Authors The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates Submission deadline: November 29nd, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2026 Camera ready: February 7th, 2026 Publication: March 2026 Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 76 http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 1,61 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados Diversidad y PNL para lenguas de bajos recursos Métodos de PNL eficientes y sostenibles LLM: Diseño, Creación, Evaluación Ética, Sesgo y Equidad en la PNL PNL veraz y explicable Seguridad y Privacidad en PNL Generación Texto y Multimodal Multimodalidad y fundamento del lenguaje para la visión Conocimiento y sentido común Teorías lingüísticas, modelado cognitivo y psicolingüística Análisis Morfológico y Sintáctico Lingüística de corpus Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas Semántica, pragmática y discurso Traducción automática Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla Indexación y recuperación de Audio Sistemas de diálogo y sistemas interactivos/Asistentes conversacionales Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas Análisis automático de contenido textual Análisis de opiniones, emociones y minería de la argumentación Detección de plagio Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación Resumen automático de texto Simplificación de texto Recuperación de imágenes PLN especifico al dominio (Medico, Juridico-administrativo, Educación, etc) Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 29 de Noviembre de 2025. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema OpenReview. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. Reseñas de tesis doctorales. Instrucciones para los Autores Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: El título del artículo (en español e inglés). Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes Envío de trabajos: 29 de Noviembre 2025 Notificación de aceptación/rechazo: 27 de Enero 2026 Versión final: 7 de febrero de 2026 Publicación: Marzo de 2026 Persona de contacto:Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects @ EACL
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Dear all, Here is our CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects: -- VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Helsinki (Finland) Noëmi Aepli - University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke - LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Zagreb (Croatia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi -- Best regards, Verena Blaschke

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Postdoc position at Uppsala University: Multilingual NLP
by Joakim Nivre 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

The Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on multilingual NLP: https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:866727 The position is not tied to a specific project, so candidates are asked to submit their own project proposal with the application. Questions about the position can be directed to joakim.nivre(a)lingfil.uu.se. När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Student contest: 2025 Babel Young Writers' Competition
by Tristan Miller 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

Dear all, Below is a call for submissions to our annual contest for student writers. Contributions from students of computational linguistics are most welcome. Sincerely, Tristan Miller Babel Advisory Panel ---------------------- Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> is running the 11th edition of its Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language. The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and higher education. The winner(s) will have their article published in Babel and receive a year's subscription to the magazine. Competition guidelines: Deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 Length: 2000 to 2500 words Topic: Entries can be on any linguistic topic -- the important thing is that the discussion of it is accessible and interesting. Format: Entries should be clearly presented in a Word file, with images submitted as separate high-resolution JPEGs. Submission: By e-mail to babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com with the subject "Young Writers' Competition" For inspiration, you can browse past articles in the sample issues available for free on the magazine's website, or check out articles featured on the magazine's social media accounts: Bluesky: @babelzine.bsky.social X: @Babelzine Instagram: @babel_zine Mastodon: @babel@masto.ai Please e-mail babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com if you have any questions about the competition. -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award and the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
by Announce 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** *** Last Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by October 31, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu). 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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Second CFP: SemEval 2026 Task 1 on Humor Generation
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Second Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA – Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA (Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate) is SemEval 2026's Task 1 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/> and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push NLP models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The development data for the evaluation trial phase has just been released, and we are accepting submissions for this phase! The task is organized into two subtasks: - Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. - Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. Subtask B1 uses only an image, while B2 uses an image and a starting prompt. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 15, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026

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First CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 18 Oct '25

18 Oct '25

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)* *Rabat, Morocco* *SUBMISSION* ARR submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT *TIMELINE* - Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 - Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD - EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026 *SCOPE* Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. *TOPICS* We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference ( https://2026.eacl.org/registration). *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be confirmed)* Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Ali Hatami, University of Galway Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jinliang Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Milind Agarwal, George Mason University Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University Pengwei Li, Meta Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University Yasmin Moslem, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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Internship in Machine Learning and Semantic Web for Dataset Discovery
by Anaïs Ollagnier UNICA 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

English version below Bonjour, Dans le cadre du projet DataLens, nous proposons un stage de M2 en Machine Learning et Web sémantique visant à améliorer la complétion et la structuration des métadonnées de jeux de données pour faciliter la fédération de sources hétérogènes. Plus d’informations et candidature : https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, As part of the DataLens project, we are offering a Master’s internship in Machine Learning and the Semantic Web focused on improving the completion and structuring of dataset metadata to support the federation of heterogeneous sources. More information and application: https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456. Best regards, -- Anaïs OLLAGNIER Assistant Professor at Université Côte d'Azur | I3S | INRIA wimmics team -------------------------------------------- Templiers 1, Bureau 417, 930 Route des Colles, BP 145 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France anais.ollagnier(a)inria.fr |https://aollagnier.github.io/

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Call for Papers: First Workshop on Multilingual Multicultural Evaluation (MME@EACL'26)
by pinzhen.chen＠ed.ac.uk 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

*Workshop co-located with EACL, 24-29 March 2026, Rabat, Morocco* LLMs in so many languages? When can such a claim be substantiated, and how should it be evaluated? This workshop brings together the community to answer these questions through three goals: - Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies; - Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability; - Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation. *Call for Papers* We invite archival (ACL Anthology) or non-archival submissions, in ACL's short or long format. We accept both direct and ARR-reviewed submissions. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Evaluation resources beyond English or Western-centric perspectives and materials; - Annotation methodology and procedures; - Standardised reporting, and scientific comparison of multilingual performance; - Evaluation protocols: ranking vs direct assessment, rubric-based vs reference-based vs reference-free, prompt variations, etc; - Metrics, LLM judges, and reward models; - Complex tasks: multimodality, fairness, long I/O, tool using, code-switching, literary, etc; - Sociocultural and cognitive variation affecting the use and evaluation across languages; - Scalable evaluation of cultural and factual knowledge; - Efficient evaluation of a massive number of languages and tasks; - AI-assisted evaluation: data, methods, metrics, and standards; - Other position, application-, or theory-focused contributions. *Dates* (tentative, all dates are 23:59 AoE) - Direct submission deadline: 19 Dec 2025 - Pre-reviewed ARR submission deadline: 02 Jan 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 23 Jan 2026 - Camera-ready version due: 03 Feb 2026 - Workshop date: 28 or 29 Mar 2026 --- Website: https://multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io/ Email: mme-workshop(a)googlegroups.com Submission: OpenReview, link TBD Best regards, Pinzhen Chen on behalf of MME organizers

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