November 2025 - Corpora

Postdocs/Research Engineer positions on Multimodal LLMs & Responsible NLP at FBK
by Luisa Bentivogli 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

The Machine Translation Unit <http://mt.fbk.eu> at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) <https://www.fbk.eu/en/>, Trento, Italy, is hiring three researchers to work on multilingual and multimodal LLMs and Responsible and Trustworthy NLP. For full announcements and to apply, see: - Researcher in Multimodal Large Language Models <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Researcher_in_Multimodal_La…> - Researcher in Responsible and Trustworthy NLP <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Researcher_in_Responsible_a…> - Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal Large Language Models <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Junior_Research_Engineer_in…> *Application Details:* - Deadline: December 10, 2025 (positions remain open until filled) - PhD not required at the time of application - Expected start: Feb 2026 (flexible) *About the MT Unit:* The MT Unit is a competitive research team of ~12 researchers and students with a long tradition in machine translation, speech translation, and inclusivity research. The group is involved in several international projects and offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible workweek, full reimbursement for conferences, and a competitive salary. The unit is located in Trento, Italy, in the beautiful Alps. We encourage talented researchers and engineers interested in multimodal LLMs or responsible NLP to apply. -- Luisa Bentivogli Head of the Machine Translation Research Unit Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy *mt.fbk.eu/author/bentivogli/ <http://mt.fbk.eu/author/bentivogli/>* -- -- 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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Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart)
by Michael Roth 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

________________________________________ Von: Agnieszka Faleńska <agnieszka.falenska(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Gesendet: Montag, 24. November 2025 10:29 An: Roth, Michael (UTN) Betreff: Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart) Warning: This email was sent by an external email address. Please verify if this email is authentic. Attachments, links or intent might be harmful. Dear colleagues, We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the interdisciplinary project "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" (APHIC) at the University of Stuttgart. The project is led by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska [1] and Prof. Judith Tonhauser [2] under the IRIS-HISIT initiative. Project APHIC is part of the "Human-Intelligent Systems Interaction and Teaming" (IRIS-HISIT) programme [3] funded by the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg [4]. The project investigates authority presuppositions—implicit assumptions that an AI system has the expertise to deliver high-stakes advice (e.g., medical or legal). The project aims to (1) develop a theoretically grounded taxonomy of authority presuppositions, and (2) design and evaluate conversational repair strategies that maintain trust and informativeness while ensuring user safety. Position • Duration: 18 months • Start: February 2026 (latest starting date: July 2026) • Salary: TV-L 13 (100%), see [5] for details • Environment: The researcher will be embedded in the IRIS community [6] and collaborate closely with colleagues at the Institute for Natural Language Processing [7] and the Institute of Linguistics [8]. Candidate Profile • PhD in linguistics, computational linguistics, or a related field • Background in formal pragmatics is an advantage • Strong programming skills • Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research • Proficiency in English (German not required) How to Apply Please submit one PDF containing: • a brief motivation letter outlining your research interests, • your CV with publication list • contact information for one to two references. Applications should be sent to: Agnieszka Faleńska (agnieszka.falenska at ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://ims.uni-stuttgart.de/>). Applications received before 15th December 2025 will be given full consideration. The position will remain open until filled, so do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening after 15th of December. The University of Stuttgart would like to increase the proportion of women in the scientific field and is therefore particularly interested in applications from women. Severely disabled persons are given priority in the case of equal suitability. University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university in Germany. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly, both nationally and internationally. The city of Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is a lively and international city, known for its strong economy and rich culture. With Germany's high-speed train system, it is well-connected to many other interesting places, for instance, Munich and Cologne (~2.5 hours), Paris (~3.5 hours), Berlin (~5.5 hours), Strasbourg (<1.5 hours), and Lake of Constance (~2.5 hours). Links [1] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska> [2] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/> [3] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interaction-an…<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interac…> [4] mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite<http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite> [5] oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025<http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025> [6] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/> [7] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/> [8] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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CfP Special Issue - Information - Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for the analysis of online social behavior
by Thomas Mandl 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

Special Issue on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for the analysis of online social behavior. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J Natural language processing has seen tremendous progress in recent years and many technologies can be applied and adopted to social media discourse. This Special Issue will collect contributions from diverse domains that leverage NLP technologies for relevant questions regarding human behavior. Potential topics that could be explored in this Special Issue include the following: 1. How can NLP be used to analyze social media posts and comments related to social issues like climate change? What insights can be gained into public opinion and sentiment on these topics? 2. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to everyday life, such as conversations about food, travel, or hobbies? What can be learned about human behavior and preferences through this type of analysis? 3. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to political attitudes and behaviors? What insights can be gained into how people engage with politics online? 4. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to discourse behavior, such as online debates, discussions, and arguments? What can be learned about how people engage with each other online and how this relates to offline interactions? 5. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to negative impacts, such as hate speech, cyberbullying, online harassment, or the spread of misinformation? What insights can be gained into the causes and consequences of these phenomena? These are just a few examples of the many potential topics that could be explored in this Special Issue. I am sure there are many more exciting areas of research that could be explored through the application of NLP technologies to social media discourse. What are some of the specific research questions or topics that you'd like to see explored in this Special Issue? Some discounts for the APC are available Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl /Guest Editor/ https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J

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SCOLIA 2026 at ECIR – Call for Papers and Shared Tasks
by Ingo Frommholz 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === CALL FOR PAPERS & SHARED TASKS === **************************************************************************** The 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA ’26) held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '26), April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026 **************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit your contribution to the 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026), following SCOLIA 2025 and the successful BIR workshop series (https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/), to be held as part of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026, https://ecir2026.eu/) in Delft, The Netherlands. https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026 The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Delft (NL). === Important Dates === All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone - Submissions: 19th January 2026 - Notifications: 1st March 2026 - Camera Ready Contributions: 15th March 2026 - Workshop: 2nd April 2026 === tl;dr === The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop. === Keywords === Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing === Workshop Topics === SCOLIA 2026 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g., * Chatting with papers via chatbots * Bibliometrics & Scientometrics and IR * Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review * Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission * Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature * Recommendation of citations based on the context * Discourse modelling and argument mining * Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation * Agent-based scholarly search and recommendation * Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs. * Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g., * Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM * Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references * Simulated users. * User Models and Collections, e.g., * Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search * Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction * Building test collections. * Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g., * Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers * Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour * Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers, scientific fact checking and claim verification * Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper * Flagging predatory conferences and journals. We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. In addition to regular research papers we encourage the submission of shared task proposals (4 pages). Shared tasks are to be presented at SCOLIA 2026 and carried out so that participants’ results can be presented at SCOLIA 2027 in a dedicated session. Proposals should contain a brief discussion the tasks to be carried out highlighting their connection to SCOLIA’s goals, artefacts expected to be submitted by participants, the evaluation setup including datasets and measures, a preliminary timeline as well as details on organisers. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. * CEURART: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip, Overleaf template of CEURART: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… * Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2026 Page limits: * Full paper: 12 pages excluding references * Short paper: 6 pages excluding references * Shared task proposal: 4 pages excluding references Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation). === Workshop Chairs === Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse & Institut Universitaire de France, France For any enquiries please email scolia2026(a)easychair.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ — Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor and Head of School of Applied Data Science Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Chair, BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, UK Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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Second CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '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). *Shared Tasks: * We are going to have a machine translation competition for several low resource Turkic languages, namely, Chuvash, Bashkir, Tatar and Kazakh. The pairs you can evaluate your models are: Chuvash-English, Chuvash-Russian, Bashkir-English, Bashkir-Russian, Tatar-English, Kazakh-Russian. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with training data for these language pairs, but nevertheless you can use any data you find useful or collect by yourself. We expect you to share your findings as a report. Best reports will be included in the LoResMT proceedings. for futher information please visit to LoResMT website. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #18
by Costas Gabrielatos 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 19 December 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). * Topic: Philosophies of Language and Corpus Linguistics * Speaker: Alan Partington (SiBol Group / CoLiTec) * Title: Language Distrusted, Language Ignored, Language Recovered: From Plato to Corpus Linguistics and Beyond The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 17 December. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email 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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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
by Gualtiero Volpe 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

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program now set for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160 We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day. If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to the online program and get in touch with our presenters to find out more about their innovative work in the field. And please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com to find out more about how NARNiHS can help you develop your work in Historical Sociolinguistics. Kelly Elizabeth Wright NARNiHS Convenor on behalf of the NARNiHS 2026 organizers

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Circle U, NLPL, & OpenEuroLLM 2026 Winter School on Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation
by Andrey Kutuzov 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We again invite participants to a three-day winter school on web-scale NLP research, with a thematic focus on multilinguality in LLM development and evaluation. The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by the following invited speakers: - Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - Laurie Burchell and Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl - Max Idahl, ellamind - Julia Kreutzer, Cohere for Labs - other international experts to be confirmed (please monitor the school web page for updates) The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL) network and Digital Europe project OpenEuroLLM (https://openeurollm.eu/). It seeks to stimulate community formation, i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC consortium (https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en) and is endorsed as a doctoral training event in the European Circle U university alliance (https://www.circle-u.eu/). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 2–4, 2026, in Norway. For additional information, please see: https://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and the organizers will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on November 28, another one on December 5, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Friday, December 19, 2025. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2026! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team) -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Application still open: Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Application for Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) is still open until 23.11.2025: https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/7d827ce2da7b901b5456d2297a87… -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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