February 2025 - Corpora

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 04 Feb '25

04 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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3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
by Yevgeni Berzak 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dates: June 5–7, 2025 Location: University of Stuttgart, Germany Web: https://tmalsburg.github.io/ComprehensionWorkshop ## Workshop theme: Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for education and instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. **In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking combined with machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments**. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, eye-tracking-based reading research, and machine learning. The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging ideas for the next generation of reading assessments aided by eye-tracking and machine learning technologies, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary research collaborations. ## Important dates: - Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2025 - Acceptance notifications: March 14, 2025 - Registration period: March 14 – April 14 - Workshop dates: June 5–7, 2025 ## Workshop format: The first two days will feature a structured program, including talks, poster sessions, and group discussions. On the third day, the focus shifts to a more relaxed format, providing participants with the opportunity to connect in an informal setting while enjoying a scenic hike or unwinding during a leisurely picnic. ## Relevant topics for submission: - Machine learning approaches to reading assessment - Eye movements as indicators of reading comprehension - Methodology and design of reading assessments, including large scale reading assessments (LSAs) - Reading assessments for different populations (e.g. children, adults, elderly, populations with cognitive impairments) - Reading development - Cognitive processes underlying reading comprehension ## Invited speaker: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kaakinen Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology University of Turku, Finland ## Submissions: - We invite submissions of short abstracts of up to 350 words. - To submit your abstract, please fill in the abstract submission form at: https://forms.gle/AntXQ3K5dwxZLjVH6 - Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers primarily with an eye to relevance. - We expect to accept 25–35 submissions. ## Venue: The workshop will take place at the International Meeting Center of the University of Stuttgart, a modern and welcoming venue designed to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas. The facility features a lecture hall for up to 80 participants, as well as two smaller seminar rooms ideal for focused discussions and breakout sessions. Attendees will also enjoy the charming amenities of the venue, including a cozy fireside lounge—perfect for informal networking—and a spacious garden that provides a serene atmosphere for relaxation between sessions. The garden is equipped with facilities for barbecues, making it an great setting for social events and fostering meaningful connections in a laid-back environment. Venue description with photos: https://www.beschaeftigte.uni-stuttgart.de/uni-services/infrastruktur/ibz/ ## Funding The workshop is sponsored by the University of Stuttgart and the MultiplEYE COST Action. The workshop will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial and priority will be given to junior researchers. ## Workshop organizers Titus von der Malsburg Inst. of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany titus.von-der-malsburg(a)ling.uni-stuttgart.de Lena Jäger Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Zurich, Switzerland jaeger(a)cl.uzh.ch Yevgeni Berzak Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion, Israel berzak(a)technion.ac.il

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Sexism identification in tweets, memes and videos: CFP EXIST 2025
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation: Task: EXIST 2025: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sexism identification in social networks. EXIST aims to foster the automatic detection of sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviours (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022, EXIST 2023, EXIST 2024). The fifth edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab in CLEF 2025, on September 9-12, 2025, at UNED, Madrid, Spain. In the 2024 EXIST campaign the datasets contained multimedia content in the format of memes, stepping forward research on more robust techniques to identify sexism in social networks. Following this line, this year the challenge will focus on TikTok videos, so that the dataset includes the three more important multimedia elements used to spread sexism: text, images and videos. Consequently, it is essential to develop automated multimodal tools capable of detecting sexism in text, images, and videos, to raise alarms or automatically remove such content from social networks because platforms’ algorithms often amplify content that perpetuates gender stereotypes and internalized misogyny. This lab will contribute to the creation of applications that identify sexist content in social media across all three formats. Similar to the approach in the 2023 and 2024 edition, this edition will also embrace the Learning With Disagreement (LeWiDi) paradigm for both the development of the dataset and the evaluation of the systems. The LeWiDi paradigm doesn’t rely on a single “correct” label for each example. Instead, the model is trained to handle and learn from conflicting or diverse annotations. This enables the system to consider various annotators’ perspectives, biases, or interpretations, resulting in a fairer learning process. Participants will be asked to classify tweets, memes and videos (in English and Spanish) according to the following tasks: TASK 1: Sexism detection in Tweets: SUBTASK 1.1 - Sexism Identification in Tweets: The first subtask is a binary classification. The systems have to decide whether or not a given tweet contains sexist expressions or behaviours (i.e., it is sexist itself, describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classify it according to two categories: YES and NO. SUBTASK 1.2 - Source Intention in Tweets: For the tweets that have been classified as sexist, the second task aims to classify each tweet according to the intention of the person who wrote it. We propose a ternary classification task: (i) DIRECT sexist message, (ii) REPORTED sexist message and (iii) JUDGEMENTAL message. SUBTASK 1.3 - Sexism Categorization in Tweets: Once a message has been classified as sexist, the third subtask aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to a categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 2: Sexism detection in Memes: TASK 2.1 - Sexism Identification in Memes: This is a binary classification subtask consisting on determining wheter a meme describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classifying it into two categories: YES and NO. Task 2.2: Source Intention in Memes: As in subtask 1.2, this subtask aims to categorize the meme according to the intention of the author. Due to the characteristics of the memes, the REPORTED label is virtually null, so in this task systems should only classify memes into the DIRECT or JUDGEMENTAL categories. Task 2.3: Sexism Categorization in Memes: This task aims to classify sexist memes according to the categorization provided for subtask 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 3: Sexism detection in Videos: SUBTASK 3.1 - Sexism Identification in Videos: This is a binary classification task as in Subtasks 1.1 and 2.1. SUBTASK 3.2: Source Intention in Videos: This subtask replicates subtask 2.2 for memes, but it takes as source videos. SUBTASK 3.3: This subtask aims to classify sexist videos according to the categorization provided for Task 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks and in both languages, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g. subtask 1) and in one language (e.g. English). During the training phase, the task organizers will provide the participants with the manually-annotated EXIST 2025 dataset. For the evaluation of the systems, the unlabeled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2025 Labs Registration site (https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/). You will receive information about how to join the Discord Group for the EXIST 2025 shared task. Important Dates: * 18 November 2024: Registration opens. * 3 February 2025: Training and development sets available. * 7 April 2025: Test set available. * 25 April 2025: Registration closes. * 18 May 2025: Runs submission due to organizers. * 8 June 2025: Results notification to participants. * 15 June 2025: Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 29 June 2025: Notification of acceptance (peer reviews). * 7 July 2025: Camera-ready participant papers due to organizers. * 9-12 September 2025: EXIST 2025 at CLEF Conference. ** Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Enrique Amigó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Roser Morante, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Iván Arcos, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ AVISO LEGAL. 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