October 2025 - Corpora

Public online talk on 4 November on genAI and corpus linguistics (Sydney Corpus Lab)
by Monika Bednarek 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

We welcome you to an online talk hosted by the Sydney Corpus Lab on 4 November on genAI and corpus linguistics Scheduled: Tuesday 4 November at 7 pm (AEDT - Sydney) Location: Online (https://sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dinnertalk_kklee_fly…) Title: Artificial intelligence in corpus linguistic research Abstract: The advent of large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has led to AI being used in many facets of everyday life as well as in education and research. This talk will explore the potential of AI in corpus linguistic research based on a synthesis of recent publications on corpus linguistics and generative AI/LLMs. The focus is on how AI can be incorporated into different stages of corpus linguistic research such as data processing/cleaning and analysis. Additionally, the talk will cover general debates around the use of AI in corpus linguistic research, in particular, the concerns around the lack of transparency and replicability. Speaker: Dr Kelvin Lee is the current Project Manager at the Sydney Corpus Lab. He also teaches Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. Aside from corpus linguistics, Kelvin's broad research interests include topics in the areas of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, language and identity, and media discourse. He is currently working on research that incorporates corpus linguistic analysis in the examination of language use in Japanese speculative telecinematic texts.

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PhD Positions in the RAI (Reasonable Artificial Intelligence) Cluster of Excellence, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

🚀 Join the new RAI Cluster of Excellence and become part of Germany’s leading research network in Reasonable Artificial Intelligence. Are you passionate about advancing Artificial Intelligence and exploring the foundations of reasoning, perception, and adaptability in intelligent systems? You don’t just want to study AI, you want to build it, test it, and understand it. 🔗 More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_rai_phd.e… 📩 Apply via the TU Darmstadt career platform: https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/#/tu-darmstadt/jobs 📅 Application deadline: November 16, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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SemEval-2026 Task 5 CfP: Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Sentences through Narrative Understanding.
by Michael Roth 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

# Call for Participation We are delighted to announce SemEval-2026 Task 5: Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Sentences through Narrative Understanding. Word Sense Disambiguation tasks commonly assume that only one word sense is "correct", but this does not always reflect how humans perceive meaning. Ambiguity, underspecification and subjective factors such as individual linguistic experience can influence which word senses are perceived as plausible in a given context. For these reasons, human intuitions and model predictions may frequently diverge. This shared task addresses this challenge using the AmbiStory dataset. The dataset consists of five-sentence English short stories, each containing a lexically ambiguous sentence with human plausibility judgements. Surrounding context may provide clues or influence how plausible different word senses appear. Example: > "The detectives followed the track." > Depending on the given context, either the rail track or the piece of evidence sense may be perceived as plausible. ## Task Given a short story with a lexically ambiguous sentence and a pair of candidate word senses, participating systems must predict the plausibility of each sense on a scale from 1 (implausible) to 5 (highly plausible). Systems will be evaluated based on two metrics: * Accuracy within standard deviation (SD): the proportion of predictions that fall within one standard deviation of the average human judgment. * Ranked correlation: the correlation between model predictions and aggregated human judgments. ## Participation Website and Data: https://nlu-lab.github.io/semeval.html Code: https://github.com/Janosch-Gehring/semeval26-05-scripts Registration and Submission: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/10877/ We invite researchers and students of all experience levels to participate in this task and help us disambiguate the world, story by story! Do you have any questions? Please join our Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/semeval2026-task5-participants ## Important Dates Development phase: now -- Jan 10, 2026 Evaluation phase: Jan 10 -- Jan 31, 2026 Feb 2026 (tentative): Shared task papers due Mar 2026 (tentative): Notification of acceptance Apr 2026 (tentative): Camera-ready submission Summer 2026: SemEval workshop ## Organizing Committee Janosch Gehring, University of Technology Nuremberg Selina Meyer, University of Technology Nuremberg Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg

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EACL 2026 - Second Call for System Demonstrations
by ACL Announcements 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

EACL 2026 - Second Call for System Demonstrations The EACL 202 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative, given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: * Natural language processing systems or system components * Application systems using language technology components * Software tools for natural language processing research * Software for demonstration or evaluation * Software supporting learning or education * Tools for data visualization and annotation * Tools for model inspection * Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the EACL 2026 conference proceedings. We require at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at EACL 2026, with an accompanying poster. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2026 and present the demo. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program. Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 * Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, 10 February 2026 * Camera-ready submission: Friday, 20 February 2026 * Main Conference: Tuesday-Sunday, 24-29 March 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Note that there is no rebuttal stage. Please check the details at: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/demos/ [1] EACL 2026 Demonstration Co-chairs * Danilo Croce * Jochen Leidner * Nafise Sadat Moosavi Contact: eacl-demo-chairs-2026(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/demos/

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #17
by Costas Gabrielatos 25 Oct '25

25 Oct '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA) Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org Details and registration: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Calls for Papers, Posters & Workshops/Tutorials | 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

🌐 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 – Calls for Papers, Posters & Workshops/Tutorials Braunschweig, Germany | May 26–29, 2026 🎉 Celebrating 20 Years of Web Science! The 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 (WebSci’26<https://websci26.org/>) invites submissions exploring how the Web shapes—and is shaped by—society, technology, and people. Join us in Braunschweig for an interdisciplinary exchange on the future of the Web! 📝 Call for Papers<https://websci26.org/?page_id=77> * Submission: Dec 10, 2025 * Notification: Feb 4, 2026 * Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2026 * More details here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=77> Topics include*, but are not limited to: * Understanding the web * Making the web inclusive * The web and everyday life * Doing web science *This is only a small selection from the list of examples. 🎨 Call for Posters<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> * Submission: Feb 18, 2026 * Notification: Mar 11, 2026 * Final version: Apr 1, 2026 * More details here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> * Qualitative study of community * Theorizing web behavior, content, and structures * Artwork providing challenges to and imaginings around the web * Emerging legal frontiers around web science * Practitioner perspectives from industry 🧩 Call for Workshops & Tutorials<https://websci26.org/?page_id=79> * Proposal submission: Dec 15, 2025 * Notification: Dec 19, 2025 * Workshops/Tutorials Day: May 26, 2026 * More details here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=79> * Responsible web science in the age of generative AI * Resilience against misinformation and disinformation * Web inclusivity and digital justice * Privacy, security, and trust online * New methodologies for web research * The cultural and creative web * Education and capacity building in web science Be part of the global conversation on Web Science—its evolution, inclusivity, ethics, and innovation. 👉 Learn more & submit: www.websci2026.org<http://www.websci2026.org> ------------------- Sierra Kaiser (she/her) Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin / Scientific Coordinator Stuttgart Research Focus – Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Universität Stuttgart Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D | 3.352 | 70174 Stuttgart-Mitte Universitätsstr. 32 | 00.121 | 70569 Stuttgart-Vaihingen Tel.: +49 (0)711 685 84 371 Email: sierra.kaiser(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:sierra.kaiser@iris.uni-stuttgart.de> Mastodon<https://bawü.social/@Stuttgart_IRIS> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-forum-for-reflecting-on-intell…> | IRIS Newsletter<https://t63605f96.emailsys1a.net/91/8138/3f626b8c5a/subscribe/form.html?_g=…> www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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Call for Participation - GSI:detect at EVALITA 2026
by Manuela Speranza 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

*Call for Participation - GSI:detect at EVALITA 2026* We are happy to announce that, in the context of EVALITA 2026 <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/> (the 9th evaluation campaign of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian), we are organizing GSI:detect, the first shared task on gender stereotypes detection in Italian. *Task Description:* The GSI:detect task aims at evaluating systems' ability to detect and classify gender stereotypes (GSs) in Italian short texts and is organized as follows: - GS Detection (main task): given a text, assign is a numerical score, the GS value, that quantifies the degree to which the text contains or refers to a gender stereotype. - GS Classification (subtask, optional but strongly encouraged): Assign each text to one of the following categories: Role, Personality, Competence, Physical, Sexual, and Relational. *Participation:* We invite participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. Please visit our website <https://gsi-d-evalita.fbk.eu/> where more information is available. To indicate your intention to participate, fill out the EVALITA form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKLnMNzds1oaGwPYOVB7FTbmzWTqhTG5f…> (open until November 21st 2025) selecting GSI:detect as a task of interest. *Data:* We just released the development data at the following link: download devset <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScorCdSGtF_Q3ZYk4AzYWXuMO1yocmPR06…> *Publication:* Participants will submit a report (that will undergo regular peer review) to be presented at the EVALITA 2026 final workshop, which will take place in Bari (Italy), 26-27 February 2026 (submission instructions will be available on the EVALITA website <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/>). *Important Dates *(refer to the EVALITA website <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/> for updates): - 1st December - 8thDecember 2025: GSI:detect evaluation window - 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants - 9th January 2026: submission of participants’ reports - 16th January 2026: submission of organizers’ reports - 7th February 2026: review deadline - 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline - 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy) *Task Organizers: * - Gloria Comandini - Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici - Manuela Speranza - FBK - Sofia Brenna - FBK ~ Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Davide Testa - FBK ~ Università di Roma La Sapienza - Stefania Cavagnoli - Università di Roma Tor Vergata - Bernardo Magnini - FBK *Contact: *gsievalita(a)gmail.com *Website:* https://gsi-d-evalita.fbk.eu/ -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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CTS Convergence Lecture Series: Professor Susan Hunston
by Constantin Orasan 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

Dear all, The Centre for Translation Studies (CTS)<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> at University of Surrey is delighted to announce the next lecture in the Convergence Lecture Series<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPICDXUv_Pk&list=PLZSxmBFXjnSWymm6NBNzNo9bE…> . Professor Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham, will present 'Pattern, Construction, System: Reconciling approaches to lexis and grammar' Date & time: Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 GMT Abstract: This presentation describes the outcome of a project which aims to reconcile three different approaches to the lexis and grammar of English: Pattern Grammar (from the Cobuild corpus project); Construction Grammar (from Cognitive Linguistics); and Systemic Functional Grammar (from Systemic Functional Linguistics). In the project, 50 verb complementation patterns were reinterpreted as verb argument constructions, and system networks were produced to show how numerous constructions contribute to specific semantic fields. The presentation will give examples of this work and argue that it demonstrates the advantage of finding common ground between very different approaches to language. Bio: Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham. She has worked previously at the National University of Singapore, the University of Surrey, and the Cobuild project. She has published in Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, and her most recent book is Pattern, Construction, System: a unified approach to grammar and lexis (2025: Cambridge University Press). This book is available Open Access. Participation is free, please register here<https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/de9cc9fa-b86e-4e4c-9a76-d6f30825af…> You are most welcome to share this invitation with others who might be interested in attending. --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> | School of Literature and Languages<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-literature-languages> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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First CFP: The 8th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2026)
by Priya Rani 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

*To be held at EACL 2026 (March 24-29 in Rabat, Morocco)* *Workshop description* The 8th SIGTYP Workshop aims to provide a forum for bridging linguistic typology, multilingual NLP, and adjacent areas to develop truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop raises awareness of linguistic typology and its potential to broaden the global reach of multilingual NLP and introduces computational approaches to typology. We welcome open problems and discussion, inviting contributions from researchers in multilingual/cross-lingual NLP and leading scholars in linguistic typology. In 2026, we place a special emphasis on the utility of LLMs for typological research. *SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):* - *Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. *Beyond techniques such as “selective sharing,” what other ways can we encode heterogeneous external knowledge in ML algorithms? - *Development of unified taxonomy and resources. *Building universal databases/models to support the understanding and processing of diverse languages. - *Automatic inference of typological features. *Pros/cons of existing techniques (e.g., heuristics from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from related languages, supervised Bayesian/neural models) and emerging approaches. - *Typology and interpretability. *Using typological knowledge to interpret hidden representations of multilingual models, guide multilingual data generation/selection, and annotate texts. - *Improvement and completion of typological databases. *Combining linguistic expertise with data-driven methods to advance knowledge of cross-linguistic variation and universals. - *Linguistic diversity and universals; cross-lingual annotation. *Which phenomena/categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? - *Using LLMs for typological studies. *Can LLMs help formulate/test typological hypotheses? Can they make valid cross-linguistic generalisations? - - *Additional topics include* constructed language generation, universals in diachronic language change, information-theoretic approaches to typology, and automated approaches to etymology. *Important Dates (23:59 AoE)* - *Direct submission deadline: December 19, 2025* - *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026* - *Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026* - *Camera-ready deadline: February 3, 2026* - *Workshop date: During EACL 2026 (March 24–29, 2026; exact day TBA)* *Submissions* We invite extended *abstract submissions (non-archival) *and *general paper submissions (archival)*. The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should *not exceed two (2) pages*. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, while ensuring that engaging and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions, we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should* not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages.* Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. *Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person.* *Format: * Submissions must follow the ACL 2025 stylesheet ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files), and both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. *SIGTYP 2026: *https://sigtyp.github.io/ *Organizing Committee* Priya Rani, Michael Hahn, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Alexey Sorokin, Ryan Cotterell and Kat Vylomova *Anti-harassment policy* The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy. *Contact* For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organising Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com Regards, Priya.

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash October
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, The October edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: - The release of the first CLARIN Data Citation Guidelines - Prof. Dr. Els Lefever’s (CLARIN-BE) insightful contribution on European data sovereignty at the European Parliament - The publication of the fifth volume of Tour de CLARIN Read it here: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-october-2025 Kind regards, CLARIN ERIC --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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