February 2025 - Corpora

[CfP] LAST EXTENSION: Canadian AI 2025 – Final Deadline Feb 20 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
by pmvul089＠uottawa.ca 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this extended deadline CFP] ---------- LAST EXTENSION: Canadian AI 2025 - Final Deadline Extension ---------- ---------- May 26-29, 2025, in Calgary, Alberta ---------- ---------- FINAL Deadline Extension: Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE) ---------- Dear Colleagues, We want to thank all those who have submitted papers so far to our conference. In response to ongoing requests, we are granting one FINAL extension. The new and final submission deadline is **Thursday, Feb 20, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. AoE**. We invite submissions in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied, to the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, taking place in Calgary on May 26-29. We also welcome position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily introducing a new system. Conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open-access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, and Google Scholar. ---------- Submission Details ---------- Canadian AI is accepting submissions of both long and short papers: Long papers: Maximum 12 pages (including references) Short papers: Maximum 6 pages (including references) Formats: LaTeX and Word submissions are accepted **NEW: Each submission may include an Appendix (PDF) as supplementary material.** More information and submission templates are available under Submission Details here: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2025/call-papers **The portal for submission can be found here:** https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2025/ All submissions must be original, anonymized for double-blind review, and not under review elsewhere (preprints are acceptable if the title differs). ---------- Topics of Interest Include ---------- - Agent Systems - AI Applications - Automated Reasoning - Case‐based Reasoning - Cognitive Models - Constraint Satisfaction - Data Mining - Deep Learning and Neural Models - E‐Commerce - Ethics in AI, AI for social good - Evolutionary Computation - Explainable AI - Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI - Games - Information Retrieval and Search - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation - Large Language Models - Machine Learning - Multimedia Processing - Natural Language Processing - Planning - Robotics - Uncertainty - User Modeling - Web Mining and Applications Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review. Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form matches the corresponding author listed on the paper. ---------- Important Dates ---------- - FINAL Submission Deadline: **Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE)** - Author Notification: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - Camera-Ready Copy Due: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - Conference Dates: May 26-29, 2025 ---------- Awards ---------- Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference. To qualify for the student award, the first author must be a registered student at submission. ---------- Program Chairs ---------- Paula Branco School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa pbranco(a)uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/4218?lang=en Amine Trabelsi Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke Amine.Trabelsi(a)USherbrooke.ca https://www.usherbrooke.ca/informatique/trabelsi We look forward to your participation in Canadian AI 2025!

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February 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

In this newsletter: LDC at LT4ALL 2025 LDC membership discounts expire March 3 Spring 2025 data scholarship recipients New publications: AIDA Scenario 3 Practice Topic Source Data and Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T02> MATERIAL Georgian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S01> ________________________________ LDC at LT4All 2025 LDC is pleased to be a sponsor of The 2nd International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4All 2025)<https://www.lt4all2025.eu/overview/>, February 24-26, 2025, organized by ELRA and SIGUL, the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages, and in partnership with UNESCO as part of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032). The conference theme, "Advancing Humanism through Language Technologies," focuses on community empowerment within the larger discussion on the many ways technology impacts language communities. The conference will also commemorate the Silver Jubilee of International Mother Language Day (February 21). LDC membership discounts expire March 3 Time is running out to save on 2025 membership fees. Renew your LDC membership, rejoin the Consortium, or become a new member by March 3 to receive a discount of up to 10%. For more information on membership benefits and options, visit Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc>. Spring 2025 data scholarship recipients Congratulations to the recipients of LDC's Spring 2025 data scholarships: Sair Buckle: Charles Sturt University (Australia): PhD student, AI and Cyber Futures Institute. Sair is awarded a copy of Avocado Research Email Corpus LDC2015T03 for her work in behavioral science. Le Phuoc Thinh Tien, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam); Bachelor's student, Faculty of Information Technology. Le is awarded a copy of Penn Discourse Treebank Version 3.0 LDC2019T05 for his research in natural logical reasoning. The next round of applications will be accepted in September 2025. For information about the program, visit the Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: AIDA Scenario 3 Practice Topic Source Data and Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T02> was developed by LDC and is comprised of English, Russian, and Spanish web documents (text, video, image) and annotations. Each phase of the AIDA program centered on a specific scenario, or broad topic area, with related subtopics designated as either practice subtopics or evaluation subtopics. The Phase 3 scenario focused on the COVID-19 global pandemic. This corpus contains source documents and annotations for the Scenario 3 practice topics. The corpus contains 1417 root documents; 279 documents were annotated. Annotations include: * Event, relation, and entity annotation (64 documents) * Claim frame annotation: claims (true or not) relating to the COVID-19 pandemic (203 documents) * Practice topic query claim frames: example claim frames intended to be used by systems as queries to extract similar claims from additional documents (30 documents) The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations, and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating, and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Georgian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S01> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 79 hours of Georgian conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately half of the speech files, and approximately 3% of the speech data was translated into English. This release also includes English queries and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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CfP 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora)
by Fábián-Trost, Annamária 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Dear List, the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 (CfP below). Keynotes Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and social media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics: * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC * Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences * Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science * Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science * Contrastive CM studies across different languages The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of: * Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations * Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Submission and review Authors of accepted papers are invited to present their work at the conference (30-minute timeslots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress or early-stage research during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers for one or more special issue journal or a volume publication. Instructions for authors All contributions will be collected via ConfTool. Templates Submission templates for MS Word and LaTeX are provided on the conference’s homepage: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/. Important Dates * Platform opening for short paper and abstract submission: 17th February 2025 (platform open) * Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST More information on the CMC2025 conference: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc2025(a)uni-bayreuth.de. More information on the “International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora)”: https://cmc-corpora.org/series/# Local organizing committee: * Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science) * Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau) Scientific chairs: * Dr. Steven Coats (University Oulu) * Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth) * Prof. Dr. Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris University) * Prof. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/U. of Passau) * Prof. Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp) * Dr. Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University) Scientific committee (so far confirmed): * Paul Baker (Lancaster University) * Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) * Noah Bubenhofer (University of Zürich) * Mario Cal Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) * Louis Cotgrove (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Steven Coats (University of Oulu) * Orphée DeClercq (Ghent University) * Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg) * Francisco Javier Fernández Polo (University of Santiago de Compostela) * Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation – Bavarian Academy of Science) * Jenny Frey (European Academy of Bozen) * Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano) * Claire Hardaker (Lancaster University) * Stefan Hartmann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) * Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) * Besim Kabashi (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg) * Erik-Tjong Kim-Sang (Netherlands eScience Center) * Alexander Koenig (CLARIN ERIC) * Marc Kupietz (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) * Els Lefever (Ghent University) * Julien Longhi (Cergy-Pontoise Université) * Harald Lüngen (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Konstanze Marx-Wischnowski (University of Greifswald) * Maja Miličević-Petrović (University of Bologna) * Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University) * Jan Oliver Rüdiger (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) * Steven Schoonjans (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt) * Mirco Schönfeld (University of Bayreuth) * Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) * Egon Stemle (Eurac Research) * Caroline Tagg (The Open University) * Stefanie Ullmann (University of Cambridge) * Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/Universität Passau) * Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp) * Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University) * Stefanie Walter (Technical University Munich) * Katrin Weller (GESIS Cologne) All the best, Annamaria Fabian (Bayreuth) and Igor Trost (Klagenfurt/Passau) Dr. Annamaria Fabian Principal Investigator (Post-Doc) of the project "Disability diversity and the communicative realization of inclusion on Social Media" Department German Linguistics University of Bayreuth https://www.gl.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/A-Fabian/index.php Member of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (Bavarian Academy of Science) Head of the Research Group "Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Societies" Newly published: Annamaria Fabian, Igor Trost, Kevin Altmann & Mara Schwind (2024): The analysis of ‘inclusion’ and ‘accessibility’ in Computer-Mediated-Communication for an inclusive transformation in digital societies. pp. 16-20 (double-side print). In: Céline Poudat, Mathilde Guernut. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC 2024), CORLI; Université Côte d’Azur, 2024. halshs-04673776v1 available here: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/CMC2024_2_.pdf

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Shared Task on Critical Questions Generation: Call for Participation
by Blanca Calvo 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

We are pleased to announce the first shared task on Critical Questions Generation, hosted at The 12th Workshop on Argument Mining, co-located in ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. All details can be found in: https://hitz-zentroa.github.io/shared-task-critical-questions-generation/ **Introduction** In recent years, a growing concern within the educational community has been whether the widespread use of LLM-based chats could foster superficial learning habits and weaken students' critical thinking skills. To counter this trend, in this task, we propose using LLMs to guide users towards asking critical questions. That is, questions that can uncover fallacious or poorly constructed arguments. In short: **we want to foster critical thinking by developing a system that generates insightful critical questions when given argumentative texts**. In the same line, Natural Language Processing applications to deal with misinformation are a popular line of research. However, most applications face challenges regarding three issues: LLMs often lack the required up-to-date knowledge for these tasks, there is not always an agreement on what is the truth, and LLMs themselves can produce hallucinations or rely on unfaithful data, generating misinformation of their own making. **Yet, instead of requiring the LLMs to output factual knowledge, could we use them to point at the missing or potentially uninformed claims?** **What is the task of Critical Questions Generation?** The task of Critical Questions Generation consists of generating useful critical questions when given an argumentative text. For this purpose, a dataset of real debate interventions with associated critical questions will be released. Critical Questions are the set of inquiries that should be asked in order to judge if an argument is acceptable or fallacious. Therefore, these questions are designed to unmask the assumptions held by the premises of the argument and attack its inference. In the dataset, the argumentative texts are interventions of real debates, which have been annotated with Argumentation Schemes and later associated with a set of critical questions. For every intervention, the speaker, the set of Argumentation Schemes, and the critical questions are provided. These questions have been annotated according to their usefulness for challenging the arguments in each text. The labels are either Useful, Unhelpful, or Invalid. The goal of the task is to generate critical questions that are Useful. The participant will be asked to develop a system that gets one of the interventions as input, and outputs exactly 3 critical questions. The 3 critical questions should all be useful for challenging the arguments in the intervention. Each of these 3 critical questions will be evaluated separately and then the punctuation will be aggregated. You can either create a system that generates only Useful CQs, or you can decide to generate many CQs and choose the top 3. For more information on Critical Questions Generation, please read Critical Questions Generation: Motivation and Challenges <https://aclanthology.org/2024.conll-1.9/> **Important Dates** - Sample data available: 17th February - Validation data ready: 21st February - Evaluation start: 28th March - Evaluation end: 4th April - Paper submission due: 25th April - Notification to authors: 2nd May - Camera ready due: 9th May - Workshop: 31st July (co-located with ACL 2025) **Organizers of the shared task** - Blanca Calvo Figueras <https://github.com/BlancaCalvo>, HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain - Rodrigo Agerri <https://ragerri.github.io/>, HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain - Elena Cabrio <https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Elena.Cabrio/>, University of Côte d’Azur and member of the Inria-I3S research team Wimmics - Serena Villata <https://webusers.i3s.unice.fr/~villata/Home.html>, University of Côte d’Azur and member of the Inria-I3S research team Wimmics **Do you have other questions?** Please become a member of the Google Group "critical-questions-generation-shared-task" <https://groups.google.com/g/critical-questions-generation-shared-task> to keep yourself updated. For specific questions, contact blanca.calvo(a)ehu.eus Website: https://hitz-zentroa.github.io/shared-task-critical-questions-generation/

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Third Call for Papers, Participation and Demo - IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *ACL – 22nd IWSLT 2025 – **Third** Call for Participation* *31 July-1 August 2025 - Vienna, Austria* http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/> of ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/>, ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/> and ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>. With a track record of 21 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be run as a hybrid ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>/ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> event, co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> from 31 July to 1 August 2025. *Important Dates* *January 1, 2025*: Release of shared task training and dev data *March 15, 2025*: Scientific paper submission deadline *Apr 1-15, 2025*: Evaluation period *April 21, 2025*: System description paper and demo submission deadline *May 15, 2025*: Notification of acceptance *June 1, 2025*: Camera-ready deadline (all paper) *July 31-Aug 1*, *2025*: IWSLT conference *Evaluation* The IWSLT 2025 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2025/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - High-resource ST: Offline track, Simultaneous track, Subtitling track, Model compression track - Low-resource ST: Low-resource and Indic (multilingual) tracks - Instruction-following Speech Processing track: Technical domain ST, ASR, Summarization, and QA Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organisers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. *Conference* IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT submission site (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review. Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., Findings for the *ACL, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT, and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. *Demo Session* We invite researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to participate in an engaging demo session highlighting innovative systems, tools, and component technologies that advance the field of speech translation. The session will include live and interactive system demonstrations to foster discussion and knowledge exchange among participants across the field. For more information, please see our Call for Demos <https://iwslt.org/2025/call-for-demos>. *Contact* Please email iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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Lectureship in NLP at University of Surrey
by Diptesh Kanojia 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Surrey is seeking to recruit lecturers in Computer Science (NICE Research group) and at the Institute for People-Centred AI. Please find information about both positions below and listings for other senior roles as well. Lecturer in Natural Language Processing [https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525] The School is home to two established research centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Computer Science Research Centre and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP). This post is aligned to the Nature Inspired Computer and Engineering group within Computer Science. The Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering group solves real-world problems in healthcare and sustainability, complex networks, robotics, natural language processing (NLP), and other areas, as well as foundational research in Machine Learning. For example, our colleagues specialising in NLP research have expertise in language modelling, machine translation, semantic web, and multimodal challenges aligned with NLP. This role encourages applicants from the areas of natural language processing including language modelling, language generation (machine translation/summarisation), explainability and reasoning in NLP, and/or aligned multimodal challenges for NLP (vision-language, audio-language, and so on) and we are particularly interested in candidates who enhance our current strengths and bring complementary areas of AI expertise. Department: Computer Science Location: Guildford Salary: £46,735 to £55,755 per annum Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Wednesday 12 March 2025 Interviews are planned to take place on 7th April, 2025 For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Steve Schneider, s.schneider(a)surrey.ac.uk Lecturer in People-Centred AI [https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725] The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering together with the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI is seeking to recruit a full-time Lecturer in People-Centred Artificial Intelligence to expand our team of dynamic and highly skilled AI researchers. The School is home to two established research centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and the Computer Science Research Centre. This post is aligned to CVSSP. CVSSP is an internationally recognised leader in artificial intelligence for audio-visual machine perception pioneering foundational research in the field over the past 40 years. With a diverse community of more than 150 researchers, we are one of the largest audio and vision research groups in the UK. Research in the Centre has led to award-winning spin-out companies in the biometric, communication, healthcare, and creative industries. CVSSP has a long-standing international track record in AI research, ranking 1st in the UK for computer vision and 3rd in the UK for computer vision, AI and robotics based on publication in leading academic forums (CSRankings.org). CVSSP and Computer Science are at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI) established in 2021 as a pan-University initiative which brings together leading AI research with cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to shape future AI to benefit people and society. This role encourages applicants from the areas of creative technologies, media provenance, audio-visual AI, foundation models, generative AI, and complementary areas of people-centred AI expertise. Department: Centre of Vision, Speech & Signal Processing Location: Guildford Salary: £46,735 to £55,755 per annum Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Wednesday 12 March 2025 Planned Interview Date: Monday 31 March 2025 For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Adrian Hilton, a.hilton(a)surrey.ac.uk -- Full list of vacancies at the School of CS and EE: *Role Title* *Role Link* Professor in Satellite Communications *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009225 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009225>* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525>* Lecturer in Cyber Security *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009425 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009425>* Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009325 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009325>* Lecturer in Robotics *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009625 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009625>* Lecturer in People-Centred AI *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725>* Surrey has an established international reputation in AI research, 1st in the UK for computer vision and top 10 for AI, computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing (CSRankings.org) and were 7th in the UK for REF2021 outputs in Computer Science research. Computer Science and CVSSP are at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), established in 2021 as a pan-University initiative which brings together leading AI research with cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to shape future AI to benefit people and society. PAI leads a portfolio of £100m in grant awards including major research activities in creative industries and healthcare, and two doctoral training programmes with funding for over 100 PhD researchers: the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion, and the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Network in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility. The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore, we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities. Regards, *Dr Diptesh Kanojia <https://dipteshkanojia.github.io/> **(he/him)* Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing <https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/dr-diptesh-kanojia> Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI <https://www.surrey.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence> | School of CS & EE <https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-computer-science-and-electronic-engineering> Office: 13BA02, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK *"Nearly everyone can stand adversity, but if you want to test their character, give them power."*

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CfP: RAG Workshop, ICCS, Singapore
by Magda Król 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

Dear All, 28th February is the deadline for RAG Workshop proposals. The Workshop takes place during 25th ICCS meeting in Singapore, 7-9 July 2025. Details: https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2025/workshops/#ragw Description: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical and rapidly evolving theme in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). RAG systems address a significant limitation of Large Language Models (LLMs): their inability to incorporate real-time updates and private knowledge efficiently, as their knowledge is static and embedded within the model’s weights, making updates costly and time-intensive. By integrating traditional and modern information retrieval (IR) techniques with the generative capabilities of LLMs, RAG systems offer a dynamic solution that allows models to access and utilize the most up-to-date and domain-specific information. This combination makes RAG a promising approach for building systems that are not only powerful but also accurate, efficient, and adaptable to specialized contexts. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on RAG systems, particularly those focused on complex and high-stakes domains such as law, biology, physics, and medicine, where accuracy and reliability are paramount. Our goal is to foster discussions, share novel approaches, and identify emerging challenges in the development and application of RAG systems. Topics of Interest We invite high-quality submissions addressing various aspects of RAG systems, including but not limited to: 1. Core Improvements and Architectures – Innovations in information retrieval models. – New architectures and frameworks for RAG systems. – Enhanced techniques for vector representation and storage. 2. Efficiency and Scalability – Methods to improve processing speed and reduce memory consumption in RAG pipelines. – Quantization techniques for efficient vector storage and retrieval. – Scalable solutions for large-scale domain-specific datasets. 3. Domain-Specific Applications – Development of RAG systems tailored for specialized fields such as legal, biomedical, and scientific domains. – Strategies for adapting LLMs to retrieval tasks in niche contexts. 4. Fusion and Retrieval Optimization – Models for combining results from diverse retrieval systems. – Novel fusion techniques to enhance relevance and accuracy. 5. Evaluation and Robustness – Creation of new evaluation datasets and benchmarks. – Metrics and methodologies for assessing RAG performance. – Techniques for controlling hallucinations in generated outputs. 6. Broader Applications and Challenges – Ethical considerations and biases in RAG systems. – Cross-lingual or multilingual RAG applications. – Use of RAG systems in low-resource or under-represented domains. Who Should Attend? This workshop is designed for researchers, industry professionals, and students interested in the intersection of retrieval systems and generative models. Whether your focus is on improving foundational technologies, developing novel applications, or tackling real-world challenges in specialized domains, we invite you to join us in advancing the field of RAG. We look forward to your contributions and to stimulating discussions that will shape the future of Retrieval-Augmented Generation! Best regards Magda Król

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First call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

* Registration open!!* ****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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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[CfP] 6th Workshop on Patent Text Mining (PatentSemTech2025) @ SIGIR
by rkr＠informatik.uni-kiel.de 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

The PatentSemTech2025 workshop, co-located with SIGIR 2025 (https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/) in Padua, Italy, aims to bring together deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and patent mining, analysis, and retrieval. As a forum for researchers and practitioners from the patent domain, we are interested in all kinds of insights from the intellectual property (IP) domain. Workshop website: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/ Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 23, 2025 Notification: May 21, 2025 SIGIR PatentSemTech2025 workshop: July 17, 2025 Topics of Interest ================== We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics related to patents. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): + Information retrieval, text mining, machine learning, large language models (LLMs), ... applied to patents, in particular for: - Representation learning - Multi-modal retrieval and analysis - Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) - Application of LLMs - Large language model pre-training and fine-tuning - Explainability and interpretation - Query expansion / rewriting - Clustering and classification - Recommendation - IPC/CPC prediction - Trend detection - Entity extraction - Linking semantic information - Integrating external knowledge sources - Patent landscaping - Hot spot / White spot analysis - Technology trend analysis - Visual user interface concepts - Metadata and citation analysis - Evaluation, benchmarks, and metrics Call for Contributions ====================== We solicit two types of submissions from both, industry and academia: full papers and short papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and evaluated based on innovativeness, novelty, interestingness, impact and fit to the workshop's topics. + For full papers we solicit contributions that present novel and mature research work. + For short papers we solicit contributions that present research ideas, demos, case studies, and system descriptions. Submission Guidelines ===================== Submissions must be in English as PDF and making use of the CEUR two-column conference format. The LaTeX files for the new CEURART style are available as Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… and as downloadable ZIP file https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Please use the "twocolumn" option. Submissions should have at most 8 (full) or 4 (short) pages (plus unlimited references). Submissions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patentsemtech2025. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work in person at the workshop. Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit extended, full papers to Elsevier’s World Patent Information (WPI) journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information/ Organizers ========== Ralf Krestel (ZBW & CAU Kiel, Germany), Hidir Aras (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany), Linda Andersson (Artificial Researcher, Austria), Florina Piroi (Data Science Studio, RSA FG, Austria), Allan Hanbury (TU Wien, Austria), Dean Alderucci (CMU, USA) All questions about submissions should be emailed to: rkr(a)informatik.uni-kiel.de and hidir.aras(a)fiz-karlsruhe.de.

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1st Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '25

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025. We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following details: 1. Overview of the proposed task 2. Motivation for the task 3. Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: planned, in progress, or ready) 4. Task Description 5. Pilot Run Details (if available) 6. Tentative Timeline 7. Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation) Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long. Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9 Selection Process The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task. Task Organization Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers. Shared Task Proposal Submission All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). April 6th, 2025: Shared task proposals due April 20th, 2025: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals: Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation scripts July 20, 2025: Registration deadline and release of test data July 25, 2025: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes) July 30, 2025: Final results released August 15, 2025: System description paper submissions due August 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance September 5, 2025: Camera-ready versions due November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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