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2nd CFP - AAAS-2025
by Kurimo Mikko 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] == Second Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts == 1st Workshop on Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS-2025) We would like to invite you to submit papers to AAAS workshop co-located with NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT<https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu> in Hestia Hotel Europa in Tallinn, Estonia on March 5th, 2025. Workshop website: https://teflon.aalto.fi/aaas-2025/ == Important Dates == Submission DL: 16 December 2024 (both papers and abstracts) Notification of acceptance: 24 January 2025 Camera-ready DL: 3 February 2025 Workshop: 5 March 2025 (full day) All deadlines are 11:55PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). == Overview == Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS) explores the assessment of pronunciation and speaking skills of children, language learners, people with speech sound disorders and methods to provide automatic rating and feedback using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large language models (LLMs). Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) is a rapidly growing field that answers to the need of developing AI tools for self-practising second and foreign language skills. This is not limited to pronunciation assessment, but the AI tools can also provide more complex feedback about fluency, vocabulary and grammar of the recorded speech. ASA is also very relevant for detection and quantification of speech disorders and for developing speech exercises that can be performed independent of time and place. The important applications of non-standard speech also include interfaces for children and elderly speakers as an alternative to using text input and output. The topic is timely, because the latest large speech models allow us now to develop ASR and classification methods for low-resourced data, such as atypical speech, where annotated training datasets are rarely available and expensive and difficult to produce and share. The goal of this workshop is to present the latest results in ASA and discuss the future work and collaboration between the researchers in Nordic and Baltic countries. == Topics of Interest == In particular, we would like to invite students, researchers, and other experts and stakeholders to contribute papers and/or join the discussion on the following (and related) topics: Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) for L2 (second or foreign language) pronunciation ASA for spoken L2 proficiency ASA for speech sound disorders (SSD) Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for L2 learners ASR for children and young L2 learners ASA and ASR for Nordic and other low-resource languages and tasks Spoken L2 learning and speech therapy using games Automatic generation of verbal feedback for spoken L2 learners using LLMs == Submission Details == We accept both short and long papers, as well as demo papers. The submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Paper length: Short and demo papers up to 4 pages. Long papers up to 8 pages. References are not included in the page count, and the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be added to the page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress and will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published in the ACL anthology. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The links to the templates can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osWGzuRnYRQGRS70Lx_pdQKrIT-NefKS/view https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-nodalida-baltic-h… The submission will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaas2025 We also invite submissions of maximum 2-page long extended non-anonymous abstracts with any number of pages for references describing work in progress, negative results and opinion pieces. The abstracts, which should follow the same formatting templates as the peer-reviewed papers, will be considered for presentation by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. The abstracts can be based on results related to our theme and already published elsewhere. The abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but only in the workshop program. Please also consider volunteering to review 2-3 papers. == Invited Speakers == We have the pleasure to announce two invited speakers: 1. Nina R. Benway: What is so hard about AI Speech Therapy? Evidence from Efficacy Trials. Nina R Benway, PhD CCC-SLP, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson. Nina completed her doctoral training in speech-language pathology (concentration: neuroscience) with Dr. Jonathan Preston at Syracuse University, focusing on clinical trials in children with chronic rhotic speech sound disorders. The three studies of her dissertation resulted in the curation of an open-access 175,000-utterance speech corpus, the engineering of audio classification algorithms predicting speech-language pathologist perception of rhotic speech errors, and the clinical trial validation of an artificial intelligence tool that fully automates a speech sound treatment session. Nina’s doctoral training builds upon her undergraduate training in linguistics (acoustic phonetics) at Cornell University, graduate clinical training at The College of Saint Rose, and six years of clinical practice. Through these experiences Nina has refined a multidisciplinary skill set in speech science, speech signal processing, natural language processing, corpus phonetics, machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI), user interface development, cognitive frameworks of learning, and neurocomputational frameworks of speech production. 2. Ari Huhta: Automatic assessment of second/foreign language speaking: Review of developments for examination and teaching/learning purposes. Ari Huhta is a Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include diagnostic foreign/second language (L2) assessment, computerised assessment, self-assessment, as well as the development of reading, writing and vocabulary knowledge in L2. He was involved in developing the large-scale multilingual DIALANG online assessment and feedback system in the early 2000s and since then he has specialised in assessments that support language learning. Although his research has focused on learning and assessing reading and writing, he has been involved in designing several rating scales for speaking and in evaluating rating quality and studying rater behavior. Recently, he has participated in research projects that are developing ASR and automated assessment of L2 speaking, as well as using LLMs to evaluate Finnish L2 learners’ proficiency level. == Organizers == Mikko Kurimo (chair), Aalto University, mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi Giampiero Salvi, NTNU Sofia Strömbergsson, Karolinska Institutet Sari Ylinen, Tampere University Minna Lehtonen, University of Turku Tamas Grosz, Aalto University Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Aalto University Yaroslav Getman, Aalto University Nhan Phan, Aalto University This workshop is supported by “Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages (TEFLON)” https://teflon.aalto.fi/ NordForsk project nr. 103893. == Contact Information == For questions and comments, please email mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi

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2nd CFP: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX)
by Ines Rehbein 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Call for Papers: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX) We invite submissions for LAW-XIX, co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, in July/Aug 2025. The LAW-XIX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. Special Theme The special theme of LAW-XIX is "*Subjectivity and variation in linguistic annotations*". In addition to LAW's general topics, we specifically invite submissions on: * Subjectivity and human label variation in linguistic annotations * Learning from annotation disagreements * Detecting annotation noise in human label variation * Accounting for subjectivity in label aggregation * Ways to aggregate multiple annotators' labels beyond majority vote * Any other topics related to the special theme. Regarding subjectivity, we are particularly interested in work addressing the*annotation of multidimensional constructs from the political and social sciences* and encourage submissions on the following topics: * Theory-driven operationalization of complex political or socio-psychological constructs, * such as populism, moral values, or stereotypes Creation of linguistically annotated datasets that capture such constructs * Relation between theories and textual annotations * Challenges for the measurement of multidimensional constructs from text * Challenges for validating (a) theories, (b) annotations * Implications and risks for manual annotation and automatic prediction of socio-psychological constructs from text. Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth.” Workshop papers due (ARR Commitment) Mar 25, 2025 Workshop papers due (Direct Submission) April 04, 2025 Notification of acceptance May 16, 2025 Camera-ready papers due May 30, 2025 Workshop date July/Aug, 2025 Submissions Please submit your paper here: https://softconf.com/acl2025/law2025 For more information on the workshop and submission formats, please refer to the workshop homepage: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs at law2025workshop(a)gmail.com. Workshop Organizers Siyao (Logan) Peng (Program Co-Chair) Ines Rehbein (Program Co-Chair) Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President) -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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First Call for Papers: Eighth Universal Dependencies Workshop
by Gosse Bouma 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

The eighth workshop on Universal Dependencies Part of SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29 Call for Papers Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 150 languages (https://universaldependencies.org <https://universaldependencies.org/>). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural language processing and enable comparative linguistic studies. The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of the previous workshops have been co-located with Coling, EMNLP, and SyntaxFest. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to: * Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines * Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions * Language typology and linguistic universals * Treebank annotation, conversion and validation * Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing * The use of the UD data for evaluating or understanding language models * Linguistic studies based on the UD data Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective. SyntaxFest 2025 https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/index.html SyntaxFest is a biennial event that brings together a series of events focusing on topics such as empirical syntax, linguistic annotation, statistical language analysis, and natural language processing. Apart from the 8th UDW, it hosts TLT, DepLing, IWPT, and Quasy. Each workshop publishes its own proceedings, but all events follow a shared submission process, timeline, and programme. The UniDive 1st Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing takes place on Aug, 26. Important Dates Paper submission DeadlineApril 15, 2025 Notification of acceptanceJune 2, 2025 Camera-ready version dueJune 16, 2025 Conference datesAugust 26-29, 2025 Submission Information Submission site and paper requirements will be provided in the next CfP Workshop Chairs Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) Cagri Coltekin (University of Tübingen) -- Gosse Bouma, Communication and Information Science, Groningen University, P.o. box 716, 9700 AS Groningen G.Bouma(a)rug.nl tel. +31-50-3635937

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Call-for-Participation: TalentCLEF Shared Task (CLEF) - Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
by Luis Gasco 23 Mar '25

23 Mar '25

(* apologies for cross-posting *) Call for Participation TalentCLEF Shared Task (CLEF 2025) Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ TalentCLEF is an initiative to advance Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Human Capital Management (HCM). It aims to create a public benchmark for model evaluation and promote collaboration to develop fair, multilingual, and flexible systems that improve Human Resources (HR) practices across different industries. Key information: - Web: https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ - Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14002665 - Registration: https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ Motivation In today’s rapidly changing socio-technological landscape, industries and workplaces are transforming quickly. Technological advancements, such as task automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI), are reshaping the labor market by creating new roles that demand specialized skills, often difficult to source. The rise of remote hiring, fueled by technological innovation, has expanded the labor market to a global and multilingual scale. Simultaneously, social progress is narrowing ethnic and gender disparities within companies, fostering more inclusive workplaces. Integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP) into Human Capital Management (HCM) enhances key areas such as sourcing and hiring, onboarding and training, strategic workforce planning, and career development. Despite these benefits, challenges persist in managing multilingual information, ensuring fair AI models, and developing systems flexible enough to work across industries. The TalentCLEF organizers expect that participation in the shared task will contribute to establishing a public benchmark for multilingual job title matching and skill prediction, enabling the evaluation and comparison of different approaches. This initiative will also provide a foundation for measuring gender bias in job-related NLP tasks and lay the groundwork for future benchmarks in other areas of Human Capital Management, fostering fairness, transparency, and adaptability in AI-driven workforce analysis. The inaugural TalentCLEF shared-task aims to tackle these challenges through two key tasks: - Task A - Multilingual Job Title Matching: Participants will develop systems to identify and rank job titles most similar to a given one. For each job title in a test set, systems must generate a ranked list of similar titles from a predefined knowledge base. Evaluation will be conducted in English, Spanish, German, and Chinese, covering both monolingual and cross-lingual (between English and the other languages) matching. - Task B - Job Title-Based Skill Prediction: This task focuses on retrieving relevant skills associated with a given job title. Participants will develop systems that predict and extract key skills based on job titles. The evaluation will be conducted in English. Schedule - 20th January 2025 - Training data available for Tasks A and B - 17th February 2025 – Start of Task A with the release of the development data - 17th March 2025 – Start of Task B with the release of the development data - 21st April 2025 – Test set release - 21st April - 5th May 2025 – Evaluation period of Task A and B - 7th May 2025 – Publication of Official Results - 30th May 2025 – Submission of CLEF 2025 Participant Working Notes (CEUR-WS) - 27th June 2025 - Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers Publications and CLEF 2025 workshop Teams participating in TalentCLEF will be invited to submit a system description paper for the CLEF 2025 Working Notes proceedings, published on CEUR-WS. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to present a brief overview of their approach at the CLEF 2025 workshop, which will take place in Madrid, Spain, from September 9th to 12th, 2025. Main Organizers - Luis Gascó, Avature, Spain - Hermenegildo Fabregat, Avature, Spain - Laura García-Sardiña, Avature, Spain - Daniel Deniz Cerpa, Avature, Spain - Paula Estrella, Avature, Spain - Álvaro Rodrigo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain - Rabih Zbib, Avature, Spain Scientific Committee - Eneko Agirre - Full Professor of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU - ACL Fellow - David Camacho - Full Professor of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) - Debora Nozza - Assistant Professor of Bocconi University - Jens-Joris Decorte - Lead AI Scientist at TechWolf - David Graus - Lead Data Scientist at Randstad Group - Mesutt Kayaa - Postdoctoral Researcher at Jobindex A/S and IT University Copenhagen - Jan Luts - Senior Data Scientist at NTT Data & ESCO - Elena Montiel-Ponsoda - Professor at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) - AI4Labour project - Javier Huertas Tato - Assistant Professor of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) - Patricia Martín Chozas - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ontology Engineering Group (UPM) - AI4Labour project

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 3rd CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

*** Third Call for Papers – DEADLINES UPDATED *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: April 18, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: May 20, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: June 13, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2025/woah2025/ The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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up to 8 PhD student positions in neuroexplicit models of Language, Vision and Action (Saarland Univ. Germany)
by Vera Demberg 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for *up to 8 PhD Students - Fall 2025* Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”). We also develop novel machine learning techniques for neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”). Our overarching aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models through interdisciplinary collaboration. The RTG is scheduled to grow to a total of *24 PhD students* by 2025. An excellent and international group of twelve PhD students and one postdoc have already joined the RTG. Through the inclusion of ~20 associated PhD students and postdocs funded from other sources, it will be one of the largest research centers on neuroexplicit or neurosymbolic models in the world. The RTG brings together researchers at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). All of these institutions are collocated on the same campus in Saarbrücken, Germany. The positions will be *funded for four years* at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. They are intended to start in September 2025. You should have or be about to complete an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated expertise in one of the research areas of the RTG, e.g. through an excellent Master’s thesis or relevant publications. The RTG is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, one of the *leading centers for research* in computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing in Europe. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries. The CISPA Helmholtz Center, located on the same campus, is home to an additional 350 researchers and on track to grow to 800 by 2026. Researchers at SIC and CISPA are part of the ELLIS network and have been awarded more than 40 ERC grants. Each PhD student in the RTG will be *jointly supervised by two PhD advisors* from the list of Principal Investigators below. Each student will freely define their own research topic; we encourage the choice of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of research fields. Students may be affiliated with Saarland University or with one of the participating institutes. Vera Demberg, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Philipp Slusallek, DFKI and Saarland University - Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics - Visual Computing, Machine Learning Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning Isabel Valera, Saarland University - Machine Learning Jilles Vreeken, CISPA - Machine Learning, Causality Joachim Weickert, Saarland University - Mathematical Data Analysis Verena Wolf, DFKI and Saarland University - Modeling and Simulation, Reinforcement Learning Ellie Pavlick, Brown University and Google AI, will join us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by *24th March 2024* to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org and include the reference number W2616. We aim to conduct job interviews in April-May 2025. For more details on the position, including what materials to submit with your application, please see our website: <https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/#phd-2023>https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/

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Reminder/CfR: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Workshop, April 2-4, Berlin)
by Michael Zichert 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, registration is now open for our upcoming workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)"! The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. The event will open at around 1:30 PM on April 2 and end at around 5 PM on April 4. Further information is available at https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss Register here: https://events.tu-berlin.de/en/events/0194f579-606f-75e9-9be9-c2167c356171/… Early registration is greatly appreciated as it will help us with further planning. The deadline for registration is March 28, 2025 but we will also try to accommodate “walk-ins”. Please don’t hesitate to reach out in case you need more information. Kind regards, The organizers

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Webminar by Christian Herff (Maastricht University)
by HiTZ zentroa 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Christian Herff (Maastricht University) *Title:* Speech neuroprostheses based on intracranial EEG *Date: * Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Speech is our most natural way of communication and the loss of the ability to speak is therefore devastating to patients. A speech neuroprostheses that directly reconstructs speech processes from neural activity could provide a new means of communications to these severely affected patients. In this presentation, I will present some approaches to reconstruct different representations of speech from intracranial recordings and highlight how they can be used to build a speech neuroprosthesis. The decoding of speech processes is particularly challenging, as not only the neural, but also the target signal has complex, nonlinear dynamics. I will stress the use of interpretable machine learning models for this task to ensure that meaningful activity is decoded and scientific insights might be generated as a side product. *Bio:* Dr. Christian Herff is an assistant professor in the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience at Maastricht University where he leads the invasive BCI research line. His research interest lays in the application of machine learning technology to neurophysiological data for Brain-Computer Interfaces and neuroscience research. With a particular focus on the decoding of speech processes from intracranial data, he tries to improve the lives of severely paralyzed patients while simultaneously improving our understanding of complex higher order cognition. He emphasizes the ability to achieve interpretable results based on computational models. In particular, visualization of complex dynamic models, such as deep neural networks, is of interest to him. * Upcoming webinars:* · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 2025) · André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 2025) · Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab -- 3rd Call for Participation
by Firoj Alam 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We invite you to participate in the 2025 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025. This year, we feature four tasks ---one follow-up and three new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Subjectivity in news articles. to spot text that should be processed with specific strategies; benefiting the fact-checking pipeline. Available in Arabic, English, Bulgarian, German, Italian, and Multilingual. Task 2 Claim Normalization. to simplify the primary claim made in the social media post into a concise form. This task is offered in 20 languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, German, Greek, French, Hindi, Korean, Marathi, Indonesian, Dutch, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai. Task 3 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims. to verify claims with numerical quantities and temporal expressions. Available in Arabic, English and Spanish. Task 4 Scientific Web Discourse Processing (SciWeb). to (a) classify different forms of science-related online discourse and (b) retrieve the scientific paper that serves as the source for the claim from a given pool of candidate scientific papers. Available in English. Register and participate: https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2025-checkthat-lab Important Dates --------------------- - November 2024: Lab registration opens - December 2024: Release of the training materials - 25 April 2025: Lab registration closes - 30 April 2025: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 10 May 2025 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 30 May 2025: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 30 May – 27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers - 9 June 2025: Submission of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] - 16 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] - 23 June 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] due - 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] - 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Participant Papers and Extended Lab Overviews [CEUR-WS] due - 21-25 July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organizers - 9-12 September 2025: CLEF 2025 Conference in Madrid, Spain Best regards, The CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers

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Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, Cornell University
by heather froehlich 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Corpora-List, Please see below for a great postdoc position at Cornell on behalf of my colleague. *Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, Cornell University* Cornell University’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture (CIVIC) initiative seek a *Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, *to be based in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. We especially welcome applications from scholars engaging data-driven or computational methods in the humanities. The postdoctoral associate will collaborate closely with faculty and librarians as part of Cornell’s Digital Humanities CIVIC research fellows group <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ZbsyCWWA5rT68LlqES6fRToRKqK?domain=…> . Learn more about the position and apply at this link <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Q1l5CXYBgvf4ZPpKQHVhJTWBp2Z?domain=…> by March 21, 2025. The appointment period will begin on July 1, 2025. The pay range for this position is $61,008 - $87,000. Actual salary offers in the College of Arts and Sciences will be based on education, experience, discipline, and relevant skills. *Questions can be directed to Lindsay Thomas (lthomas(a)cornell.edu <lthomas(a)cornell.edu>), Associate Professor of Literatures in English. * *Iliana Burgos* (she/her) Emerging Data Practices Librarian Digital Scholarship Services <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/MH0MCYVDjwfDXWGl7I9iLTx8K0M?domain=…> Olin Library | Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro *this email address is for mailing list subscriptions only and is not monitored regularly.*

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