February 2025 - Corpora

Development set released: BioNLP @ACL 2025 Shared Task on Grounded Electronic Health Record Question Answering, ArchEHR-QA ("Archer")
by Soni, Sarvesh (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E] 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

We are excited to share that the ArchEHR-QA development set is now available via PhysioNet: * https://doi.org/10.13026/zzax-sy62 Shared Task Website: * https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Introduction to ArchEHR-QA 2025 Responding to patients’ medical inbox messages through patient portals is increasingly a contributor to clinician burden. To this end, automatically generating answers to questions from patients considering their medical records is important. The overarching goal of the ArchEHR-QA 2025 shared task is to develop automated responses to patients' questions by generating answers that are grounded in key clinical evidence from their electronic health records (EHRs). ArchEHR-QA Dataset The proposed dataset comprises hand-curated, realistic patient questions (reflective of patient portal messages), relevant focus areas identified within these questions (as determined by a clinician), corresponding clinician-rewritten versions (crafted to aid in formulating responses), and note excerpts providing essential clinical context. For more information and examples, please visit the shared task website at https://archehr-qa.github.io/. Important Dates (Tentative) * Release of the public and hidden test datasets: March 25 (Tuesday), 2025 * Submission of system responses: April 25 (Friday), 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): May 2 (Friday), 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 10 (Saturday), 2025 * BioNLP Workshop Date: July 31 (Thursday) OR August 1 (Friday), 2025 We are also looking for people to join the program committee, where the responsibilities will include reviewing papers. If you are interested, please send an email to sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov>. Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/archehr-qa Email: sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov> Looking forward to your participation, Sarvesh Soni, National Library of Medicine, US Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, US

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RAG Workshop on ICCS Meeting, Singapore 2025
by Magda Król 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues, I would like to inform you that the submission deadline for the Advances in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Specialized Domains Workshop, taking place in Singapore, has been extended. The new final deadline is March 7, 2025. This workshop is part of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2025), which will be held from July 7 to July 9, 2025, in Singapore. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical and rapidly evolving theme in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). By integrating traditional and modern information retrieval (IR) techniques with the generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs), RAG systems address key limitations related to knowledge updates and domain specificity. This approach is particularly valuable in high-stakes fields such as law, biology, physics, and medicine, where accuracy and reliability are paramount. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on RAG systems to discuss novel approaches, share insights, and explore emerging challenges in efficiency, scalability, domain adaptation, retrieval optimization, and evaluation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovations in RAG architectures and retrieval models * Techniques for improving efficiency, scalability, and storage * Domain-specific applications in legal, biomedical, and scientific fields * Fusion methods and retrieval optimization strategies * Evaluation benchmarks and robustness techniques * Ethical considerations, cross-lingual applications, and challenges in low-resource settings We encourage you to share this information with students and other potentially interested individuals. More details about the workshop, including submission guidelines, can be found on the official conference website: 🔗 ICCS 2025 – RAG Workshop [https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2025/] We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in fruitful discussions at the workshop. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Best regards, Best regards, Magda Król

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #15
by Costas Gabrielatos 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 7 March 2025, 3:15-4:30 pm (GMT). Topic: LLMs Speaker: Yannis Korkontzelos<https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/persons/yannis-korkontzelos> (Edge Hill University, UK) Title: Detecting Text generated by Large Language Models: A Novel Statistical Technique to address Paraphrasing The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Thursday 6 March. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to: gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk> ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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IndiREAD Workshop – 1st Call for Papers
by Iza Škrjanec 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

*IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 1st Call for Papers* Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025 IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project "Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC <https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in…> and the MultiplEYE COST <https://multipleye.eu/> action "Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research". While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in identifying key factors that influence reading patterns—including text properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word predictability, and dependency length—recent studies have emphasized the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g., Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016; Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills, linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This informs our understanding of how text characteristics and individual reader attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading. IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in *investigating individual differences in reading using both experimental and computational approaches*. This workshop will focus on methods such as eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task, with particular interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with individual differences. We also encourage submissions of computational models for eye movements or reading behavior that shed light on the mechanisms behind these differences. The goal is to foster collaboration between experimental and computational researchers to better understand individual variability among readers. We especially welcome submissions of reading time experiments and modelling of languages beyond English. The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions: 1. How do individual differences impact the way people read? 2. How do reading patterns vary across different languages, particularly in bilinguals? 3. How do reading patterns change across the lifespan? 4. Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing variability in reading patterns? 5. How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and sentence processing across languages? 6. How can computational models account for individual differences in reading? 7. How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and comprehension among different individuals? 8. What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying latent groups and relating individual differences to reading performance? *Workshop dates*: November 26-27, 2025 Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in *Saarbrücken, Germany*. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well as contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number of submissions we receive. *Submission deadline*: July 23, 2025. We invite 1000-word abstracts from interested presenters. Information about submission and formatting will be available on our website soon. Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread Contact email: indiread(a)lst.uni-saarland.de Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action, which 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. Best, Iza Škrjanec IndiREAD Organizing Committee

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1st CFP - Mind the AI-GAP 2025 at HHAI 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

1st CALL FOR PAPERS First “Mind the AI-GAP 2025: Co-Designing Socio-Technical Systems” International Workshop at HHAI 2025 9/10 June 2025, Pisa, Italy https://aigap2025.isti.cnr.it/ **Important Dates** (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 7 April, 2025 Notification of acceptance: 2 May, 2025 Camera Ready due: 12 May, 2025 **Aim and scope** The Mind the AI-GAP 2025 workshop aims to critically address unwanted bias and discrimination in AI technologies by proactively integrating fairness and inclusivity within the design process, fostering social and structural change. The workshop explores how Participatory AI can shape solutions that better reflect community values, needs, and preferences and aims to bring together diverse stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, NGOs, civil society, and designers. Through a combination of talks, roundtables, and hands-on activities, participants will collectively discuss participatory approaches and develop actionable outputs, such as guidelines or a white paper, to advance Participatory AI as a tool for equitable, transparent, and impactful systems. **Topics** We welcome technical and non-technical submissions with experimental, theoretical, or methodological contributions. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions focusing on participatory approaches to AI development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Methods and frameworks for participatory AI design Case studies of co-design processes in AI development Approaches to stakeholder engagement and community value integration Analyses of power dynamics in participatory AI design Strategies for balancing individual and collective needs in AI design Methods and evaluation frameworks for participatory AI processes Tools and techniques for enhancing AI transparency for diverse stakeholders Experiences and lessons learned from co-design and stakeholder engagement Ethical considerations in participatory AI development Citizen science and democratizing AI design and deployment Real-world impacts and challenges of participatory AI design in practice The workshop is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the venue. **Submission** We welcome the following types of submissions: - Full original research paper that presents original, impactful work (from 5 up to 9 pages); - Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (from 5 up to 9 pages); Both types of papers will be published in the conference proceedings. - Extended abstracts describing ongoing research, personal experiences with the topic, proof of concept, etc.. Authors can opt for having their paper included in the proceedings (5 pages required) or for non-archival presentations (from 2 up to 5 pages); - Research communication of already published papers that serve to promote the dissemination of contributions aligned with the scope of the workshop (up to 2 pages). They will not be published in the conference proceedings. All paper lengths exclude references, which are unlimited. All submissions should adhere to the CEUR-WS guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word available at https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) with single column format. Submissions are to be uploaded on Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aigap2025. Accepted submissions shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication in a dedicated free, open-access volume in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Since CEUR partners with Scopus, these proposals will also be indexed in it. Contributions will be presented either as oral presentations (lightning talks) or posters. All presentations are expected to be in person, except in exceptional cases (e.g., a speaker encounters a last-minute issue and cannot attend the conference). **Workshop organizers** Costanza Alfieri, Università dell’Aquila Eleonora Cappuccio, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Donatella Donati, Università dell’Aquila Miriam Felici, Independent Researcher Marta Marchiori Manerba, Università di Pisa Benedetta Muscato, Scuola Normale Superiore Clara Punzi, Scuola Normale Superiore Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler For more information: Website: https://aigap2025.isti.cnr.it/ Contact: mind-the-ai-gap(a)googlegroups.com

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1st CALL FOR PAPERS: ICNLSP 2025, 8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, August 25-26, 2025, Odense, Denmark
by Mourad Abbas 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

The *8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2025)* <https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> welcomes contributions on both the *theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing*. The conference will feature regular sessions, along with keynote talks delivered by distinguished international researchers. We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to *ICNLSP 2025* <https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> and contribute to advancing research in the field. *The conference will be hybrid.* Topics (ICNLSP 2025) invites contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: -Natural Language Processing (NLP): Cognition and NLP Machine translation Text categorization Summarization Sentiment analysis and opinion mining Computational social web Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora Large language models (LLMs) NLP tools for software requirements and engineering Text annotation tools Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems Information extraction Data mining and information retrieval Lexical semantics and knowledge representation Visualization for nlp -Speech Processing: Signal processing and acoustic modeling Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.) Speech analysis Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.) Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis Speech translation Speech synthesis Speaker verification and identification Language identification Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility Speech perception and production Brain studies on speech Phonetics, phonology, and prosody Speech and hearing disorders Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing *Important dates* All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). *Submission deadline:* May 25, 2025 11:59 PM (GMT). *Notification of acceptance:* July 20, 2025. *Camera-ready paper due:* August 3, 2025. *Conference dates:* August 25-26, 2025. *Publication* 1- *All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/>.* *2- **Selected** papers will be published (after extension) in:* Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in *Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/> and *zbMATH* <https://zbmath.org/>. *Best paper award* To recognize outstanding scientific contributions, *ICNLSP 2025* will present two awards: - *Best Full Paper Award* - *Best Short Paper Award* These awards will be judged by the *Scientific Committee*, based on recommendations from the *Program Committee*. The selection process will consider the *originality, significance, and quality* of the research, as well as the clarity of presentation. We look forward to honoring exceptional contributions to the field of *Natural Language and Speech Processing*! For more information check the conference website : *icnlsp.org/2025welcome* <http://icnlsp.org/2025welcome>

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Final Cfp: 6th AfricaNLP Workshop @ ACL 2025
by Constantine Lignos 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Final Call for Participation for the 6th AfricaNLP WorkshopCall For Papers The 6th AfricaNLP workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2025/home) will be co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. We invite your submissions with a deadline of March 7, 2025 (AoE). Submission Details We welcome submissions in the following formats: - Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages): Non-archival submissions. - Papers (4-8 pages): Authors can decide whether their submission is archival or non-archival. We encourage longer papers (more than 4 pages) to opt for archival submission. - ARR Submissions: We accept papers previously submitted to ARR. Papers must have been submitted to the ARR December 2024 cycle or an earlier cycle and have received reviews and a metareview. All submissions must not have been previously published in an archival venue. Formatting: Submissions must be anonymous and must follow the ACL template (LaTeX and Word formats available). The Overleaf template is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… Submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/AfricaNLP <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/AfricaNLP#tab-…> Important Dates - Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025 (AoE) - Acceptance Notification: April 17, 2025 (AoE) - Camera-ready Deadline: May 9, 2025 (AoE) - Workshop Date: July 31 or August 1, 2025 About AfricaNLP 2025 The AfricaNLP workshop has become a core event for the African NLP community and has drawn global attendance and interest for researchers working on African languages, African corpora, and tasks with importance in the African context. In the current landscape, large language models (LLMs) have seen widespread use and significant innovation, yet African languages remain underrepresented. To address this disparity, the theme for the 2025 workshop is "Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs." The workshop aspires to bring together a diverse group of researchers to explore solutions, collaborations, and innovation around enhancing LLMs’ capabilities in African languages and ensuring cultural awareness in their applications. This workshop has several aims: - Engage diverse stakeholders: invite a variety of speakers from industry, research networks and academia to get their perspectives on the state of multilingual and multicultural-aware LLMs in African languages. - Address challenges and opportunities: Provide a platform to discuss both the potential benefits and risks of deploying LLMs in African contexts. - Foster collaboration: Encourage interaction between academic, industry, and independent researchers to advance NLP for the African continent. - Bridge communities: Strengthen connections between the African linguistics and NLP communities, highlighting the importance of linguistic expertise for African languages. - Showcase African NLP: Provide a platform for the African NLP community to share their work with a global audience. - Promote inclusivity and mentorship: Support junior researchers and first-time authors through mentorship and engagement. Topics include, but are not limited to: - analyses of African languages by means of computational linguistics - empirical studies reporting results from applying or adapting NLP developed for high-resource languages to African languages - new model architectures tailored for African languages - new corpora for African languages - using NLP techniques on African datasets - text generation for African languages - methods addressing out-of-domain generalization for NLP tasks with training data in very limited domains - transfer learning between African languages or from higher-resourced to lower-resourced languages - challenges or solutions for resource gathering for African NLP tasks - crowd-sourcing and open-sourcing software for African NLP - multidisciplinary and participatory research in African NLP - tutorials for African NLP for education or development purposes - new resources for African NLP - development of NLP systems for African languages for production - socio-linguistic research for African languages and their decolonization - ethical considerations for African NLP This workshop follows the previously successful editions in 2020-24. It will be hybrid and co-located with ACL 2025. Keynote Speakers We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers: - Sebastian Ruder (Meta) - Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (UBC, MBZUAI) - Jesujoba Alabi (Saarland University) - Hellina Hailu Nigatu (UC Berkeley, MBZUAI) - Joyce Nabende (Makerere University) Contact For any questions, please contact the workshop organizers at africanlp-acl2025(a)googlegroups.com. We look forward to your submissions and participation. Best regards, AfricaNLP 2025 Organizers https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2025/home

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Second call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

*Release of trial corpora* *!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of detecting a type of Addiction. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification) 2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025. MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 14th Registration open *Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available)* Mar 19th Release of training corpora Mar 31st Registration closed Apr 7th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 12th Deadline for paper submission May 30th Acceptance notification Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025. The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee.

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12 pm UK time Open Research Group meeting
by Brezina, Vaclav 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Dear all, Please see the invitation below to our fortnightly meetings of Lancaster’s Open Research Group (in person and online). Between #naturalism and #conventionalism: 1. How does language differ from a stone? 2. How does what a linguist does differ from what a geologist does? Open research group meeting. 🕛 Today 12pm – 12.50pm Everybody is welcome forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB8836.EDE7BB00]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB8836.EDE7BB00]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Call for Participation in Our Upcoming Shared Task: Software Mention Detection (SOMD 2025)
by sharmila.upadhyaya＠gesis.org 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Dear all, We are excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming shared task, Software Mention Detection (SOMD) 2025 co-located with the SDP workshop, ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. This event is designed to encourage innovation and collaboration in the Information Extraction field, focusing on software mentioned in scholarly articles. Task Overview: Software plays an essential role in scientific research and is considered one of the crucial entity types in scholarly documents. However, the software is usually not cited formally in academic documents, resulting in various informal software mentions. Automatic identification and disambiguation of software mentions, related attributes, and the purpose of software mentions contributes to the better understanding, accessibility, and reproducibility of research but is a challenging task. This competition invites participants to develop a system that detects software mentions and their attributes as named entities from scholarly texts and classifies the relationships between these entity pairs. The dataset includes sentences from full-text scholarly documents annotated with Named Entities and Relations. Participation Details: To participate, please register using this link [https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5840/]. All necessary materials, including detailed task guidelines and data, will be provided upon registration. Competition Timeline Overview • Competition Registration starts on February 24, 2025 • First phase: Training and Test Dataset release: February 28, 2025 • The first phase ends on: March 18, 2025 • Second phase data release: March 18, 2025 • The competition ends on: April 3, 2025 • Paper submission deadline: April 17, 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2025 • Camera-ready Paper Deadline for Workshop: May 16, 2025. • Workshop Date: July 21-August 1, 2025 Successful entries will be featured in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP). For more detailed information about the task, including participation guidelines and data access, please visit our competition in codabench or our website and contact us directly. Looking forward to your participation. Warm Regards, Sharmila Upadhyaya FAIR Data Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (KTS) Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, D-50667 Cologne, Germany Email: sharmila.upadhyaya(a)gesis.org Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-725

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