February 2025 - Corpora

Job opening: Research position on Watermarking for Large Language Models at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
by Tim Gollub 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

The Webis Group at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (weimar.webis.de) is offering a three-year research position in a joint BMBF project with the Fraunhofer IDMT and Artifact GmbH. Salary is based on the collective agreement for the public sector in Germany, TV-L 13, 100%. The engagement can start immediately, but we are also flexible if the start date of a suitable candidate is later this year. There is the possibility of further employment in our research group. The offered position deals with innovations and current developments in the field of Text Watermarking and Large Language Models and is very attractive for PhD students or experienced postdocs interested in innovative and fundamental research in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. The offered position is considered as qualification position, i.e., for non-postdocs we actively support to do a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.). Prospective candidates should have finished either a master or a PhD in computer science, mathematics, statistics or a related field with excellent or very good grades. Solid knowledge of mathematics and statistics is required for this position - as well as very good programming skills. We are an experienced research group where team spirit and active collaboration are top priorities. We are looking for open-minded graduates, PhD students, or postdocs who want to develop both as researchers and as a person. The working language of our group is English; fluency in German is not required. We are interested in increasing the proportion of women in computer science research and particularly welcome applications from suitably qualified women. We do not discriminate on the basis of religion, color, gender, age, or disability and are committed to a family-friendly recruitment policy. Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their application by March 2nd to tim.gollub(a)uni-weimar.de. The application (preferably as a single PDF file) should contain the following documents: a cover letter describing yourself and your interests, a detailed CV, high school diploma (Abitur), academic transcripts stating courses taken and grades earned, and a list of publications (if any). Benno Stein Online version: https://webis.de/for-students.html#vacancies -- Prof. Dr. Benno Stein Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Intelligent Information Systems Group webis.de | weimar.webis.de

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First call for papers: The fourth Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop
by Simon Mille 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, The fourth iteration of the Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM) Workshop <https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop> will be held as part of ACL <https://2025.aclweb.org/>, July 27–August 1st, 2025. This year we’re planning a major upgrade to the workshop, which we dub GEM2, through the introduction of a large dataset of 1B model predictions together with prompts and gold standard references, encouraging researchers from all backgrounds to submit work on meaningful, efficient and robust evaluation of LLMs. Overview Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is challenging. Running LLMs over medium or large scale corpus can be prohibitively expensive; they are consistently shown to be highly sensitive to prompt phrasing, and it is hard to formulate metrics which differentiate and rank different LLMs in a meaningful way. Consequently, the validity of the results obtained over popular benchmarks such as HELM or MMLU, lead to brittle conclusions. We believe that meaningful, efficient, and robust evaluation is one of the cornerstones of the scientific method, and that achieving it should be a community-wide goal. In this workshop we seek innovative research relating to the evaluation of LLMs and language generation systems in general. We welcome submissions related, but not limited to, the following topics: - Automatic evaluation of generation systems. - Creating evaluation corpora and challenge sets. - Critiques of benchmarking efforts and responsibly measuring progress in LLMs. - Effective and/or efficient NLG methods that can be applied to a wide range of languages and/or scenarios. - Application and evaluation of LLMs interacting with external data and tools. - Evaluation of sociotechnical systems employing large language models. - Standardizing human evaluation and making it more robust. - In-depth analyses of outputs of existing systems, for example through error analyses, by applying new metrics, or by testing the system on new test sets. Following the success of last iterations, GEM2 will also hold an Industrial Track, which aims to provide actionable insights to industry professionals and to foster collaborations between academia and industry. This track will address the unique challenges faced by non-academic colleagues, highlighting the differences in evaluation practices between academic and industrial research, and explore the challenges in evaluating generative models with real-world data. The Industrial Track invites submissions covering the following topics, including (but not limited to): - Breaking Barriers: Bridging the Gap between Academic and Industrial Research. - From Data Diversity to Model Robustness: Challenges in Evaluating Generative Models with Real-World Data. - Beyond Metrics: Evaluating Generative Models for Real-World Business Impact. How to submit? Submissions can take either of the following forms: - Archival Papers describing original and unpublished work can be submitted in a between 4 and 8 page format. - Non-Archival Abstracts To discuss work already presented or under review at a peer-reviewed venue, we allow the submission of 2-page abstracts. Papers should be submitted directly through OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/GEM&referrer=%…>, selecting the appropriate track, and conform to ACL 2025 style guidelines <https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference_papers/#paper-submission-deta…>. We additionally welcome presentations by authors of papers in the Findings of the ACL. The selection process is managed centrally by the workshop chairs for the conference and we thus cannot respond to individual inquiries about Findings papers. However, we will try our best to accommodate authors’ requests. Important Dates - April 11: Direct paper submission deadline (ARR). - May 5: Pre-reviewed (ARR) commitment deadline. - May 19: Notification of acceptance. - June 6: Camera-ready paper deadline. - July 7: Pre-recorded videos due. - July 31 - August 1: Workshop at ACL in Vienna. ContactFor any questions, please check the workshop page <https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop> or email the organisers: gem-benchmark-chairs(a)googlegroups.com. best, simon *ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT* *School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus / Scoil na Ríomhaireachta, Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*

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Second Call: RANLP 2025
by Petya Osenova 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

RANLP 2025 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel “Cherno More” Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Summer School on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and shared tasks: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) We are pleased to announce that the 15th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. In addition to the conference programme of competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on the recent advances of a wide range of NLP topics, the RANLP conference features keynote talks by leading experts in NLP. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP (3-5 September 2025) and two days of tutorials (6-7 September 2025). Post-conference specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics will be held on 11-13 September 2025. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers. As from RANLP 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The SCOPUS SJR of RANLP proceedings is 0,299 (2023). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (University of Lancaster, UK) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced at the conference website in due time. INVITED SPEAKERS: The list of keynote speakers at RANLP 2025 as well as tutorial lecturers and summer school lecturers and tutors includes: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) * Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) TUTORIAL LECTURERS: * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TUTORS: * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Maram Alharbi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (University of Lancaster, UK) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Hansi Hettiarachchi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage (University of Lancaster, UK) * Henry Oldroyd (University of Lancaster, UK) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster, UK) WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS: The RANLP 2025 workshops and shared tasks will be held on 11-13 September 2025. Calls for Proposals of Workshops has been already published. The following SHARED TASKS are accepted: * PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages, organised by Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi * Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organised by Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi * Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark, organised by Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov and Saad Ezzini * Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT), organised by Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El Amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/. The reviewing process will be anonymous. Double submission is acceptable, but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. All RANLP papers have DOI numbers assigned. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. RANLP-2025 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available as from 1 April 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Call for Shared Tasks proposals: September 2024 Shared Tasks selection notification: 4 November 2024 Shared Tasks sample data and task website ready: 15 November 2024 Shared Tasks training data ready: 15 December 2024 Call for workshop proposals: 24 December 2024 Deadline for submission of workshop proposals: 15 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 Conference abstracts submission: April 2025 Conference papers submission: 11 May 2025 (please check dates on RANLP 2025 website) Conference papers acceptance notification: 28 June 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2025 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025 RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) VENUE RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). The conference organisers plan to arrange a visit to Provadia-Solnitsata, the oldest salt-production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC, https://provadia-solnitsata.com/en/ ) which is located 50 km from Varna. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme Committee) Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)

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[IberLEF 2025] Accepted tasks have been published!
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear all, We are pleased to inform you that the IberLEF 2025 accepted tasks have been published on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025/tasks. 15 shared tasks have been accepted, out of a total of 18 proposals. They are NLP tasks on language comprehension, harmful and inclusive content, content curation and generation, and sentiment and figurative analysis. We encourage you to take part in these interesting challenges. Below you can find the title of each task, the link to access the website and the organizers of the challenge. LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION ADoBo 2025: Automatic Detection of Borrowings <https://adobo-task.github.io/> Organised by Elena Álvarez Mellado, Julio Gonzalo, Constantine Lignos, Jordi Porta Zamorano CLEARS: Challenge for Plain Language and Easy-to-Read Adaptation for Spanish texts <https://sites.google.com/gcloud.ua.es/clears> Organised by Beatriz Botella Gil, Alba Bonet Jover, Paloma Moreda Pozo, Isabel Espinosa Zaragoza, Raúl García Cerdá, Itziar González-Dios, Margot Madina, Mª Teresa Martín Valdivia, L.Alfonso Ureña López, Lucas Molino Piñar PROFE: Language Proficiency Evaluation <https://sites.google.com/view/profe2025> Organised by Alvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Alberto Pérez, Rodrigo Agerri HARMFUL AND INCLUSIVE CONTENT DIMEMEX: Detection of Inappropriate Memes from Mexico <https://sites.google.com/view/dimemex-2025> Organised by Horacio Jarquín-Vásquez, Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, Delia Irazú Hernández-Farías, Hugo Jair Escalante, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez HOMO-LAT25: Human-centric polarity detection in Online Messages Oriented to the Latin American-speaking LGBTQ+ population <https://sites.google.com/view/homo-lat25/home> Organised by Gemma Bel Enguix, Helena Gómez Adorno, Sergio Luís Ojeda-Trueba, María Esther Reyes Alonso, Jessica Barco, Edgar Lee MentalRiskES 2025 Early detection of mental disorders risk in Spanish Third edition - Detecting Addiction <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025> Organised by Arturo Montejo Ráez, Alba María Mármol Romero, Pablo Álvarez Ojeda, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, L. Alfonso Ureña López, María Teresa Martín Valdivia, María Dolores Molina González, Adrián Moreno Muñoz MiSongGyny: Misogyny in Song Lyrics <https://sites.google.com/view/misongyny> Organised by Tania Alcántara, Miguel Soto, Cesar Macias, Omar Garcia Vázquez, Alberto Espinosa, Hiram Calvo, José Eduardo Valdez Rodriguez PolyHope at IberLEF 2025: Optimism, Expectation or Sarcasm? <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5509/> Organised by Sabur Butt, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Maaz Amjad, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Hector G. Ceballos, Grigori Sidorov CONTENT CURATION AND GENERATION MIMIC: Multi-Modal AI Content Detection <https://sites.google.com/view/mimic-2025/home> Organised by Areg Mikael Sarvazyan, José Ángel González, Angelo Basile, Ian Borrego, Francisco Rangel PastReader: Transcribing Texts from the Past <https://sites.google.com/view/pastreader2025> Organised by Arturo Montejo Ráez, Elena Sánchez Nogales, Gloria Expósito Álvarez, L. Alfonso Ureña López, María Teresa Martín Valdivia, Jaime Collado Montañez, Isabel Cabrera De Castro, María Victoria Cantero Romero, Ana García Serrano, Rocio Ortuño Casanova, Yanco Amor Torterolo Orta PRESTA: Preguntas y Respuestas sobre Tablas en Español (Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish) <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/> Organised by Jorge Osés Grijalba, Luis Alfonso Ureña-López, Jose Camacho-Collados, Eugenio Martínez Cámara TA1C: Te Ahorré Un Click - Clickbait Detection and Spoiling in Spanish <https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/grupos/pln/ta1c/> Organised by Gabriel Mordecki, Guillermo Moncecchi, Luis Chiruzzo, Santiago Góngora, Ignacio Sastre, Aiala Rosá, Juan José Prada SENTIMENT AND FIGURATIVE ANALYSIS ASQP-PT: Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction in Portuguese <https://sites.google.com/inf.ufpel.edu.br/asqp-pt-2025/> Organised by Emerson Philippe Lopes, Ulisses B. Corrêa, Larissa A. de Freitas, Ricardo Matsumura Araújo, Alexandre Thurow Bender, Gabriel Gomes Rest-Mex 2025: Researching on Evaluating Sentiment and Textual instances selection for Mexican magical towns <https://sites.google.com/cimat.mx/rest-mex-2025/> Organised by Miguel Á. Álvarez-Carmona, Ramón Aranda, Ángel Díaz-Pacheco, Ansel Y. Rodrı́guez-González, Lázaro Bustio-Martínez, Vitali Herrera-Semenets SatiSPeech: Multimodal Audio-Text Satire Classification in Spanish <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21501> Organised by Ronghao Pan, José Antonio García-Díaz, Tomás Bernal-Beltrán, Francisco García-Sánchez, Rafael Valencia-García Best regards, IberLEF general chairs José Ángel González Barba, Symanto Research (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025/ Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Call for Participation: DIMEMEX@IberLEF 2025
by dirazuhf 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DIMEMEX@IberLEF2025: Detection of Inappropriate Memes from Mexico URL: https://sites.google.com/view/dimemex-2025 *** Task description *** Social networks play a crucial role in people's lives by transforming the dynamics of communication and information sharing. Analyzing the content from these platforms has become a hot research topic for the computational linguistics community. However, despite the notable advances made in recent years, there are still open challenges that merit additional research for better treatment or deeper understanding. One such challenge is the detection of abusive content, which includes aspects like hate speech, aggression, offensive language, and other related phenomena. Given the multimodal nature of social media platforms, we aim to promote the research and development of multimodal computational models for detecting abusive content in Mexican Spanish, particularly hate, offensive, and vulgar memes. Memes are well known for providing predominantly a humorous or ironic meaning based on the conjunction of text and images. So, the absence of either text or image may alter its interpretation. DIMEMEX comprises three subtasks, each of which can be approached with textual, visual, or multimodal information: a) Three-way classification: hate speech, inappropriate content, or neither. b) Fine-grained classification: to discriminate instances containing hate speech into different categories such as classism, sexism, racism, and others. c) Three-way classification with LLMs: Same as a), but participants are restricted to exclusively leveraging LLMs to detect the specified categories. Stay tuned! - register to the associated mailing list: https://sites.google.com/view/dimemex-2025/registration *** Important dates *** March 4th - Release of training corpora April 15th - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign. April 29th - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs). May 6th - Publication of official results. May 20th - Deadline for paper submission. Jun 3rd - Acceptance notification. Jun 17th - Camera-ready submission deadline. September - TBD Publication of proceedings. September - TBD IberLEF@SEPLN 2025 Workshop. *** Task organizers *** Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, INAOE, Mexico Horacio Jesús Jarquín, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Marco Casavantes, INAOE, Mexico Contact: dirazuhf(a)inaoep.mx ********* AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualquiera copia de este. Mediante la recepción del presente correo usted reconoce y acepta que en caso de incumplimiento de su parte y/o de sus representantes a los términos antes mencionados, este Centro Público de Investigación tendrá el derecho de reclamar los daños y perjuicios que dicha vulneración le cause; asimismo se hace de su conocimiento que el Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está obligado a salvaguardar los datos personales que le sean proporcionados por terceros, en los términos de la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados. AVISO DE PRIVACIDAD, En cumplimiento con la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados, al recibir datos de carácter personal a través de este medio, se entiende el consentimiento expreso del titular de los datos personales para utilizarlos en actividades propias del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE). Para mayor información, lo invitamos a consultar el Aviso de Privacidad en nuestro portal: https://www.inaoep.mx

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Open Access Publication: Social Group Representation
by Susan Hunston 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Dear list members, I'm delighted to inform you about the latest publication in the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series. The title is: Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus. The author is Irene Elmerot. The Element covers thirty year of newspapers and magazines in Czechia, and details how different social actors are described across that time span. It will be of interest to anyone researching the representation of social actors in the media and anyone interested in diachronic corpus studies. The Element is available Open Access and can be read online here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/social-group-representation-in-a-di…<https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/social-group-representation-in-a-di…> Best wishes Susan Hunston Susan Hunston (she/her) Professor of English Language +44 121 414 5675 University of Birmingham Department of Linguistics and Communication www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Call for Participation: "MiMIC: Multi-Modal AI Content Moderation shared task".
by Mara Chinea 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Event Notification Type: Call for Participation We kindly invite you to participate at the MiMIC: Multi-Modal AI Content Moderation shared task organized under the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum (IberLEF) 2025<https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025> which will be held in Zaragoza (Spain) on September 2025. This shared task focuses on the problem of detecting whether a text-image pair is partially or completely generated by generative models like GPT, Stable Diffusion, and others. We hope to understand whether multi-modal framing can improve the performance of generated content detectors. MiMIC consists of two subtasks focused on the same detection task, both for English and Spanish. Both subtasks involve multiclass classification of (text, image) pairs into four categories: fully-generated, fully-human, image-generated, and text-generated. * Subtask 1: Multimodal Machine Generated Content Detection in English. * Subtask 2: Multimodal Machine Generated Content Detection in Spanish. This shared task is open to everyone! We do not constrain the target community allowing participation from students to companies. Important Links * Task Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mimic-2025/home?authuser=0 Key Dates (All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE) * Training Phase Begins (Training Data Released): March 1, 2025 * Test Phase Begins (Test Data Released): May 1, 2025 * Submission Deadline for Participants' Runs (hard deadline): May 23, 2025 * Results Notification & Ranking Release: May 27, 2025 * Submission Deadline for Participants' Working Notes (hard deadline): June 13, 2025 * Camera-Ready Submission Deadline (hard deadline): June 27, 2025 Task organizers * José Ángel González (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Areg Sarvazyan (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Angelo Basile (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Ian Borrego (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Mara Chinea (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Francisco Rangel (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) Please reach out to the organizers at organizers.mimic(a)gmail.com<mailto:organizers.mimic@gmail.com>, or join the Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/mimic-shared-task) to connect with the other participants and organizers. We look forward to your participation and can’t wait to see the innovative solutions you come up with! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Let’s work together to tackle this important challenge! Mara Chinea-Rios, PhD Research Scientist [cid:ecb6ae3e-1286-4d89-8738-8f9794a2d339] Symanto Research GmbH & Co. KG Pretzfelder Str. 15 | 90425 Nürnberg | Germany t: +49 911 37 84 66-39 m: +49 151 42 22 25-XX www.symanto.com<http://www.symanto.com> Connect with us: [cid:00e8c1b7-e3a5-4871-b1f9-0da56e1d8828] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/symanto> [cid:image002.png@01D357BE.9486EEB0] <https://www.facebook.com/SymantoAI/> [cid:image003.png@01D357BE.9486EEB0] <https://twitter.com/SymantoAI> [cid:bec45db2-18e7-4803-b9d3-62a12d759518] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRubg2VDTS1nV-jexcye2Vw> Please see our Privacy Policy<https://www.symanto.com/privacy-policy/> Handelsregister Nürnberg, HRA 15706 USt-ID Nr.: DE274281064 Persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin: Symanto Research GmbH & Co. KG Sitz in Nürnberg Handelsregister Nürnberg, HRB 26961 Einzelvertretungsberechtigter Geschäftsführer: Khaleeq Aziz

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CLIN35: Call for Abstracts
by vincent.vandeghinste＠ivdnt.org 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

We invite submissions for CLIN35, the 35th edition of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) conference, which will take place in Leuven on September 12th, 2025. Website: https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/ Abstracts describing theoretical or applied research in any area of computational linguistics and natural language processing are welcome. We especially encourage submissions related to the Dutch language, but contributions on other languages and multilingual approaches are equally welcome. Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed 500 words. Submissions should include: Name and affiliation of each author Contact details Presentation title and short abstract (max. 500 words) Keywords Your presentation format preference (We will do our best to accommodate your preference but may need to make changes to provide a well-balanced program) Abstracts must be submitted via the form on the website by Friday, 13th June 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Friday, 27th June 2025. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference as oral or poster presentations. Authors with accepted abstracts will also have the opportunity to submit a full paper after the conference for publication in the CLIN Journal. Please share this call with your interested colleagues and network! For any questions you can reach us at this email address (clin35(a)kuleuven.be). We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to CLIN35! CLIN35 local organizers

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Call for Papers: LxGr2025
by Costas Gabrielatos 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: 4 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. * Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. * Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. * Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@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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[EMNLP 2025] Call for Main Conference Papers
by ACL Announcements 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

EMNLP 2025: Call for Main Conference Papers Overview EMNLP 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2025 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program--in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Paper Submission Information Note that we are following a new ARR cycle schedule (5 cycles/year)! Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 [1] May cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025 May cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EMNLP via the commitment link [2]. Mandatory Reviewing Workload As our pace of research continues to increase, we need to strengthen the commitment to reviewing for each paper submission. During the ARR submission process, authors will be required to specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in this reviewing cycle. Please see the new ARR policy regarding reviewing workload here [3]. As this is an ARR-wide policy for all *CL conferences, questions or clarifications should be addressed to ARR directly. Additional Policies Based on feedback regarding increased reviewing load and (relatedly) decreased review quality, we are planning to implement additional policies to incentivize a lower volume of higher submissions and a higher quality of reviews for the EMNLP'25 ARR cycle. We will be looking into policies similar to those adopted by conferences like SIGKDD'25, CVPR'25 and AAAI'25. We will be announcing these policies on a separate blog post but for now would like to get some input from the community. If you would like to help us shape these policies and have additional suggestions, please use this form [4]. Submission Topics EMNLP 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Safety and Alignment in LLMs * AI/LLM Agents * Human-AI Interaction/Cooperation * Retrieval-Augmented Language Models * Mathematical, Symbolic, and Logical Reasoning in NLP * Computational Social Science, Cultural Analytics, and NLP for Social Good * Code Models * Interpretability, Model Editing, Transparency, and Explainability * LLM Efficiency * Generalizability and Transfer * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse, Pragmatics, and Reasoning * Low-resource Methods for NLP * Ethics, Bias, and Fairness * Natural Language Generation * Information Extraction and Retrieval * Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * Neurosymbolic approaches to NLP * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding * Summarization * Hierarchical Structure Prediction, Syntax, and Parsing * NLP Applications * _Special Theme_: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP _ _ _EMNLP 2025 Theme Track_: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP The core interests of the ACL community are rooted in human-language technologies but also have broad reach into other fields. A couple of recent examples are the burgeoning areas of Code models and Vision models. Earlier cases are exemplified through SIGs connected with the fields of education, medicine, and humanities. Movements such as NLP for Social Good and Computational Social Science show a desire for broad impact, which requires expertise beyond the borders of our own community to achieve. This year's theme of Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP aims to highlight this need for broader connections with other fields to understand and intensify NLP's impact. The goal is to increase our awareness of how advances in NLP can impact other fields, and design better strategies to measure that impact both within and across disciplines. Over the past two decades, the field has advanced at an exponential rate. The term language models is now a household word, industry is booming, and the publication rate is dizzying, but what does that mean about fundamental scientific impact and broader impact on real societal problems? How can we measure that in a rigorous way? Scores on benchmarks are increasing, however, to what extent do our benchmarks reflect the true impact of our technology advances? If we make a distinction between impact within our own field versus impact from our field into other fields, would we see the same magnitude of growth? The conventional measures of success don't facilitate making critical distinctions, like incremental improvement versus transformative change, or within-field uptake versus broad impact across fields. So this year we invite engagement with the theme first through theme-specific submission tracks for papers addressing the fundamental technology advances and papers addressing the evaluation methodology issues. However, we also invite Fireside Chat session proposals designed to bring together NLP researchers with leaders from other fields for agenda setting and new collaboration formation. Finally, we invite multi-disciplinary panel proposals that provide opportunities to engage the broader community in reflection related to the theme. Summary of Theme Track activities Call for submissions for Panels and Boundary-Spanning chats will go out later. In both cases, the submission will describe the topic area and questions that will be addressed as well as an argument for why this topic is strategic now, especially in connection with the conference theme. The submission should also describe who will participate in the panel or as leadership of the Boundary-spanning Chat (including a short bio describing the specific expertise) and how the session will be organized, including who will act as facilitator of the session. Panels should additionally discuss which questions will be addressed by the panelists. Boundary-spanning chat proposals will describe the proposed outcome of the session (e.g., a workshop proposal for 2026, a special issue of a journal, a new shared task, etc.). * Special Theme Best paper award * Panel discussion (special submission category) * Boundary-Spanning Chat sessions (special submission category) Two Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to EMNLP EMNLP 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review [5] (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review [6] platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process: * Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors; * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., EMNLP 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. EMNLP 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2025 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference, or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. Important Dates for EMNLP 2025 * ARR submission deadline (long & short papers): May 19, 2025 * Commitment deadline: July 31, 2025 * Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): August 20, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due (long & short): September 19, 2025 * Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD): November 5-9, 2025 _Note:_ All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Following the ACL and ARR policies [7], there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., EMNLP 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected EMNLP 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to EMNLP 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than EMNLP 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to EMNLP 2025. Paper Submission Details Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements [8], including: * Long Papers [9] (8 pages) and Short Papers [10] (4 pages) * Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review [11] * Authorship [12] * Citation and Comparison [13] * Multiple Submission Policy [14], Resubmission Policy [15], and Withdrawal Policy [16] * ACL's Publication Ethics Policy [17], and ARR's Ethics Policy [18] including the responsible NLP research checklist [19] * Limitations [20] * Writing Assistance [21] * Paper Submission and Templates [22] * Optional Supplementary Materials [23] Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers' comments. Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters. Contact Information General Chair: * Dirk Hovy [24], Bocconi University Program Chairs: * Christos Christodoulopoulos [25], Amazon * Tanmoy Chakraborty [26], Indian Institute of Technology Delhi * Carolyn Rose [27], Carnegie Mellon University * Violet Peng [28], University of California, Los Angeles Links: ------ [1] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/ARR [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP [3] https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-requirement/ [4] https://forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqf [5] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [6] https://openreview.net/ [7] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy [8] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information [9] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers [10] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#short-papers [11] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#instructions-for-two-way-anonymized-review [12] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#authorship [13] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#citation-and-comparison [14] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy [15] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#resubmission-policy [16] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#withdrawal-policy [17] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics [18] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy [19] https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch [20] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#limitations [21] https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/ACL-2023-policy/ [22] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-and-templates [23] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#optional-supplementary-materials-appendice… [24] http://dirkhovy.com/ [25] http://christos-c.com/ [26] https://tanmoychak.com/ [27] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose [28] https://violetpeng.github.io/

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