February 2025 - Corpora

Launch of the Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (GCND)
by Melissa Farasyn 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

We are excited to announce the release of the first parsed corpus of spoken Dutch dialects, the Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND). This resource offers extensive data for linguistic research and is now accessible online. Corpus Highlights: * Speakers: 1,206 individuals, with the eldest born in 1871. * Geographical Coverage: 639 distinct locations. * Audio Data: Over 430 hours of recordings across 650 sessions. * Transcriptions: Over 600 time-aligned, highly detailed transcriptions. * Total Tokens: Approximately 4.77 million. * GrETEL Treebank: 50,111 verified sentences and 452,459 verified tokens. These figures represent the corpus as of its initial release. Ongoing efforts, supported by additional funding (GCND+), aim to expand the corpus with more transcriptions, including northern dialects from the Meertens Institute collection, and to enhance grammatical annotations. The latest updates are available through the corpus application. Access Information: The GCND is available online * GCND corpus application (requires CLARIN login): https://gcnd.ivdnt.org<https://gcnd.ivdnt.org/> * GCND project website: https://www.gcnd.ugent.be/ Acknowledgments: This project was made possible through the funding of the Research Foundation Flanders and the dedicated efforts of numerous student assistants, volunteers and our project partners. The GCND team (at Ghent University): Anne Breitbarth (anne.breitbarth(a)ugent.be<mailto:anne.breitbarth@ugent.be>) Anne-Sophie Ghyselen (annesophie.ghyselen(a)ugent.be<mailto:annesophie.ghyselen@ugent.be>) Melissa Farasyn (melissa.farasyn(a)ugent.be<mailto:melissa.farasyn@ugent.be>) Lien Hellebaut (lien.hellebaut(a)ugent.be<mailto:lien.hellebaut@ugent.be>)

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CFPapers: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA) workshop
by Lasha Abzianidze 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks - Generalization of NLU&R systems - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu), 28 July-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany). The submission deadline is 25 April. Please visit https://naloma.github.io for more details about the call. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva -- Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor at Utrecht University Institute for Language Sciences

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Call for papers: Analogy-ANGLE II
by Pia Sommerauer 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Second Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II) Our 2nd workshop on ANALOGY-ANGLE will take place at ACL 2025 (July 31st/August 1st 2025) in Vienna. https://analogy-angle.github.io/ Analogy-Angle II is a multidisciplinary workshop to advance research on analogical abstraction by bridging the fields of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology. This workshop seeks to foster collaboration among researchers by providing a platform for sharing novel insights, benchmarks, methodologies, and analogy applications across disciplines. Analogy-Angle II welcomes diverse contributions, including original research, reviews, and previously accepted papers from leading conferences. Analogy-Angle I was co-located with IJCAI 2024. IMPORTANT DATES: * Direct submission deadline: March 1, 2025 * Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready paper deadline: May 16, 2025 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 30, 2025 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025 * Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025 TOPICS OF INTEREST * Cognitive modeling * Analogy and abstraction * Analogy and Conceptual Metaphor * Analogy, figurative language, sarcasm, and irony * Cognitive frameworks of analogy *Cognitive/psychological studies on analogy involving human participants * Algorithms and methods * Studies of the analogical abilities of large language models and visual diffusion models * Algorithmic approaches to analogy * Augmentation and verification of large language and vision models through analogy * Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for analogical abstraction * Extracting analogies from knowledge bases * Tasks and benchmarks * Matching narratives and situational descriptions through narratives * Novel tasks and benchmarks for evaluating analogies in text and vision * Analogy in longer formats, e.g., narratives and videos * Analogy and visual abstraction tasks * Analogical discovery and computational creativity * Applications * Analogies for personalization, explanation, and collaboration * Novel applications of analogical abstraction * Studies of the impact of analogy in specific applications and domains, including education, innovation, and law We invite full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and dissemination papers (already published papers). Please refer to our website for more information and submit your contribution via Open Review (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/Analogy-ANGLE#…). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Filip Ilievski, Giulia Rambelli, Marianna Bolognesi, Ute Schmid, Pia Sommerauer

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PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter
by Aline Villavicencio 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear all, We have a fully funded PhD studentship to work on the project Compositional and Holistic UNits of Knowledge in Sentences at the University of Exeter, for a September start, as part of the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award. With Rodrigo Wilkens and Marco Idiart. Start Date: September 2025 Application Deadline: 10 February 2025 More details in https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-research/funding/phdfunding/epsrc-dla-stu… and https://www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recruitmentsites/documents/Compositional_a… Please contact me if you're interested! All the best, Aline ---------------------------------------------------- Prof. Aline Villavicencio <https://sites.google.com/view/alinev>(she/her) Professor in Natural Language Processing Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence <https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/idsai/>, University of Exeter (UK) and University of Sheffield

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Fully funded PhD on "Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI" at University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)
by Tommaso Caselli 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

*** apologies for cross-posting *** *JOINT PhD POSITION: University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)* *Application deadline: 28/02/2025* *Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI**.* Recent advancements in AI offer solutions to address vaccine misinformation and rebuild public trust in vaccination efforts. Vaccine hesitancy, described by the WHO as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite available services,” is influenced by complacency, convenience, and confidence. This project focuses on the confidence dimension, targeting misinformation and reinforcing trust in vaccines through accurate, accessible information. The project will leverage AI to tackle three core challenges: (1) detecting vaccine-related misinformation, (2) verifying misinformation using trusted knowledge sources via Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and (3) crafting persuasive, evidence-based counter-narratives to combat hesitancy. *What we offer: *Enrol at two universities for a truly global PhD. You will be jointly supervised by staff at both universities, spend time (18 months) at each campus and upon successful completion of the program, will graduate from both universities with a PhD. Macquarie University will fund a living allowance scholarship per position at an annual rate of AUD 38,500 (tax exempt), paid pro-rata, while the student is in Australia and a Macquarie tuition fee scholarship will be granted for the period of joint enrolment up to 36 months. Macquarie will also provide an airfare allowance for flights between The Netherlands and Australia up to a maximum of $4,000 AUD. During time on campus in Groningen the PhD candidate will be employed according to the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (here <https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/collective-labour-agreement-of…> ). A salary of € 2.872 gross per month in the first year, up to a maximum of € 3.670 gross per month in the final year, based on a full-time position (NOTE: the precise amount can vary according to which year(s) of the PhD the candidate spends in Groningen *Eligibility**:* Admission and scholarship criteria of both universities must be met. For University of Groningen: *GSH Admission requirements.* <https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/phd-programme/phd-admissi…> For Macquarie University: PhD entry and English language requirements <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/explore-research-de…>, and graduate research scholarship eligibility criteria <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply/schola…> . *Mode of study**: *Full time *Year of entry**: *2025 *Duration:* 3 years Students will enrol at both institutions from the outset on *01 October 2025*.* The location the student commences the program in can be determined in consultation with their supervisors.* *Additional criteria**: *Applicants must not already (i) hold a doctoral degree; or (ii) be matriculated for a doctoral degree at the University of Groningen, Macquarie University, or another institution. *Expression of Interest (EOI)*: Students are to submit their EOIs to the MQ supervisor, Dr. Usman Naseem(usman.naseem(a)mq.edu.au) and the University of Groningen’s supervisor, Dr Tommaso Caselli (t.caselli(a)rug.nl) and cc gr.globalprograms(a)mq.edu.au including the following documents: - CV including information about publications. - Transcripts of most relevant/recent degrees. - Information about thesis components (thesis mark, word count, weight/length in comparison to the degree overall). - To apply, applicants must submit an EOI detailing their suitability for the project by addressing the required skills and key responsibilities in under 800 words. The Global Office at University of Groningen will work with the Graduate Research Academy at Macquarie to arrange official notification of scholarship awards, invite scholarship awardees to formally apply for admission to both universities by mid-March 2025, and conclude contractual arrangements which must be in place prior to the start of the degree. Students who are nominated for the award will be asked to formally apply for candidature through the MQ application portal: https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply -- Tommaso Caselli, Ph.D. Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands ---------------------------- https://xs4all.academia.edu/TommasoCaselli https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tommaso_Caselli Twitter: @tommaso_caselli

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First CFP: AmericasNLP 2025 @ NAACL 2025
by John Ortega 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hello. Please excuse any cross-posting issues. We are happy to announce the following workshop at NAACL this year! -- Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas -- AmericasNLP 2025 will be co-located with NAACL2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA! -- Call for Papers -- The goal of AmericasNLP is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of: Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication). Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: creation of datasets for NLP applications; incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems; linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP; transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning; weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning; machine translation of low-resource languages; applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages of the Americas; morphology and phonology of low-resource languages; NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas; ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by Indigenous communities; language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context of NLP models and research. Submissions will be accepted until March 7th, 2025 via softconf: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/americasnlp Note: Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do not count towards the page limit. -- Shared Tasks -- To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2025 features three shared tasks: machine translation of truly low-resource languages; creation of educational resources for indigenous languages; and our new shared task of developing metrics for MT in indigenous languages. The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in Albuquerque. More information can be found at https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2025_st.html. -- Important Dates -- Submission deadline: March 7th, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 31th, 2025 Camera ready papers due: April 11th, 2025 Workshop: May 4th, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE). -- Organizing Committee -- Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs, pywirrarika(a)gmail.com Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh, a.oncevay(a)ed.ac.uk Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi(a)colorado.edu Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research, rijhwani(a)google.com Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, pughrob(a)iu.edu Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College, rolando.a.coto.solano(a)dartmouth.edu John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, katharina.kann(a)colorado.edu -- Contact -- Contact: americas.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/

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Call for papers: CODI-CRAC 2025, 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse and 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference
by Chloé Braud 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: joint call for papers November 5-9 2025 - EMNLP 25 - Suzhou, China We are pleased to announce that we are organizing in 2025 the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop that will be held during EMNLP! More information on: https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2025/ We will host 2 shared tasks, the CRAC and the DISRPT shared tasks. Aims and scope The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems and Large Language Models to understand and produce words, sentences and in some cases longer texts. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form documents and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse pretraining tasks, coherence models, summarization for long texts and conversations, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension and formal parsing, as well as discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. Discourse, roughly the interactions of context, form and meaning above the sentence level, is at the intersection of many areas in Computational Linguistics and NLP, since it is concerned with all levels of linguistic representation, allowing the modeling of textual coherence and inference leveraging long-distance links within documents. It thus brings together researchers working on different areas but facing similar issues with coherence and cohesion, document-level structure, long text and long context. In 2025, we organize the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse level problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. This joint edition corresponds to the 6th CODI workshop and the 8th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state of the art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking and the fourth edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. The workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. Topics of interest We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * discourse structure * discourse connectives * discourse relations * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena * discourse parsing * cross-lingual discourse processing * cross-domain discourse processing * anaphora and coreference resolution * event coreference * argument mining * coherence modeling * discourse and semantics * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. * evaluation methodology for discourse processing * discourse pretraining tasks * long-text modeling and generationSubmissions We solicit three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with reviews, with timeline TBA.Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EMNLP 2025 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Submission website will be announced later.Tentative schedule * 2025-07: CODI papers due * 2025-?: Direct submission (papers rejected at a main conference) * 2025-09: Notification of acceptance * 2025-09: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2025-11: CODI-CRAC workshop All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").Invited Speakers * Tanya Goyal, Cornell University. * Nancy F. Chen, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, SingaporeOrganizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen * Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, University of British Columbia * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas * Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague * Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences * Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht * Sameer Pradhan, University of Pennsylvania and cemantix * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes * Vincent Ng * Maciej Ogrodniczuk * Michal Novák * Massimo Poesio * Sameer Pradhan To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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SAGE-MLU Workshop: Structure & Generalization in Multimodal Language Understanding
by Lucia Donatelli 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

The first workshop on Structure and Generalization in Multimodal Language Understanding (SAGE-MLU) will be held at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam on March 10 and 11, 2025. The SAGE-MLU workshop brings together speakers and participants to explore the questions of whether and how current language models can use abstract conceptual and linguistic structure to generalize in human-like ways. The program is split over two days and features four keynote speakers, interactive discussion panels, and a hackathon. For additional information on the program, please see the workshop website <https://sites.google.com/view/sage-mlu-2025/home?authuser=0>. We welcome researchers and students from various fields, such as (computational) linguistics, conversation analysis, computer science, AI, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. We especially encourage Master's & PhD students to attend the workshop, as the workshop is also geared towards promoting research collaborations. To register, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvpSUI64BaOYnFCyV7diBmn0iEfs47NSH…> .

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CfP: Symposium on the language of foreign language teaching materials and reference works
by Elen Le Foll 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium: *The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works* Date: Friday 7 November 2025 Location: Osnabrück University (Germany) Organisers: Elen Le Foll & Anna Fankhauser Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2025 BACKGROUND Foreign language teaching and reference works play a crucial role in institutionalised foreign language teaching and are known to constitute an important source of learners’ foreign language (e.g. Huang, 2019). However, multiple studies suggest that the language of these textbooks often differs considerably from the kind of language typically used in communicative situations outside the foreign language classroom (e.g., Barbieri & Eckhardt, 2007; Gilmore, 2004; Römer, 2005; Rössler, 2010; Winter & Le Foll, 2022). The language of textbooks may even be considered a distinct language variety (Le Foll, 2024a; 2024b). Reference works traditionally used in foreign language teaching have also been shown to under- or misrepresent various lexico-grammatical features, as seen in comparisons with recent corpus-based reference works (e.g., Fankhauser, 2024; Siepmann & Bürgel, 2023). FOCUS This symposium is intended to provide an opportunity to present and discuss new descriptive, comparative, and evaluative studies on the language of foreign language teaching materials. We look forward to empirical examinations of textbooks, language learning apps, and other (digital) teaching materials, as well as of reference works designed for foreign language teaching, e.g., learner dictionaries and (learner) pedagogical grammars. The symposium will also allow us to discuss key concepts such as authenticity, pedagogical norms, and the relationship between teaching materials and syllabi in foreign language teaching. FORMAT We welcome contributions in English, German, French or Spanish in the form of presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) and posters (especially for research-in-progress contributions). The symposium will take place at Osnabrück University and will be on-site only. Submissions from early career researchers are expressly welcome. Following the symposium, participants will be invited to contribute to an edited volume or special issue. SUBMISSION To be included in the programme, please send an abstract of your planned contribution (300-500 words plus bibliography) to elefoll(a)uni-koeln.de or anna.fankhauser(a)uni-osnabrueck.de by 1 March 2025. Remember to indicate whether you would like to give an oral presentation or present a poster. We will get back to you by 1 May 2025. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at the aforementioned e-mail addresses. -- *Dr. Elen Le Foll* /Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer/ Department of Romance Studies <https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • Data Center for the Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • University of Cologne <https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home> Applied Linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • Language Teaching & Learning ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> • HAL Science <https://cv.hal.science/elenlefoll>

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CTiELS 2 - submission deadline EXTENSION
by Leszek Szymański 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues,the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra organizes the "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 2" conference. This year's edition will be held in a hybrid mode on April 3-4, 2025.On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to inform you that the abstract submission deadline has been extended, and the new deadline is February 10, 2025.The 2025 edition of the conference is organized under the honorary patronage of the Polish Linguistic Society.More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you!Leszek Szymański

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