March 2025 - Corpora

BEA 2025 Shared Task: Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors
by Ekaterina Kochmar 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Conversational agents offer promising opportunities for education as they can fulfill various roles (e.g., intelligent tutors and service-oriented assistants) and pursue different objectives (e.g., improving student skills and increasing instructional efficiency), among which serving as an AI tutor is one of the most prevalent tasks. Recent advances in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) provide our field with promising ways of building AI-based conversational tutors, which can generate human-sounding dialogues on the fly. The key question posed in previous research, however, remains: *How can we test whether state-of-the-art generative models are good AI teachers, capable of replying to a student in an educational dialogue?* In this shared task, we will focus on educational dialogues between a student and a tutor in the mathematical domain grounded in student mistakes or confusion, where the AI tutor aims to remediate such mistakes or confusions, with the goal of evaluating the quality of tutor responses along the key dimensions of tutor’s ability to (1) identify student’s mistake, (2) point to its location, (3) provide the student with relevant pedagogical guidance, that is also (4) actionable. Dialogues used in this shared task include the dialogue contexts from MathDial (Macina et al., 2023) and Bridge (Wang et al., 2024) datasets, including the last utterance from the student containing a mistake, and a set of responses to the last student’s utterance from a range of LLM-based tutors and, where available, human tutors, aimed at mistake remediation and annotated for their quality. **Tracks** This shared task will include five tracks. Participating teams are welcome to take part in any number of tracks. - Track 1 - Mistake Identification: Participants are invited to develop systems to detect whether tutors' responses recognize mistakes in students' solutions. - Track 2 - Mistake Location: Participants are invited to develop systems to assess whether tutors' responses accurately point to genuine mistakes and their locations in the students' responses. - Track 3 - Pedagogical Guidance: Participants are invited to develop systems to evaluate whether tutors' responses offer correct and relevant guidance, such as an explanation, elaboration, hint, examples, and so on. - Track 4 - Actionability: Participants are invited to develop systems to assess whether tutors' feedback is actionable, i.e., it makes it clear what the student should do next. - Track 5 - Guess the tutor identity: Participants are invited to develop systems to identify which tutors the anonymized responses in the test set originated from. **Participant registration** All participants should register using the following link: https://forms.gle/fKJcdvL2kCrPcu8X6 **Important dates** All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - March 12, 2025: Development data release - April 9, 2025: Test data release - April 23, 2025: System submissions from teams due - April 30, 2025: Evaluation of the results by the organizers - May 21, 2025: System papers due - May 28, 2025: Paper reviews returned - June 9, 2025: Final camera-ready submissions - July 31 and August 1, 2025: BEA 2025 workshop at ACL **Shared task website**: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 **Organizers** - Ekaterina Kochmar (MBZUAI) - Kaushal Kumar Maurya (MBZUAI) - Kseniia Petukhova (MBZUAI) - KV Aditya Srivatsa (MBZUAI) - Justin Vasselli (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) - Anaïs Tack (KU Leuven) **Contact**: bea.sharedtask.2025(a)gmail.com

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: The Second Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II) - deadline EXTENDED
by Pia Sommerauer 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Our 2nd workshop on ANALOGY-ANGLE will take place at ACL 2025 (July 31st/August 1st 2025) in Vienna. https://analogy-angle.github.io/ IMPORTANT: deadline has been extended Analogy-Angle II is a multidisciplinary workshop to advance research on analogical abstraction by bridging the fields of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology. This workshop seeks to foster collaboration among researchers by providing a platform for sharing novel insights, benchmarks, methodologies, and analogy applications across disciplines. Analogy-Angle II welcomes diverse contributions, including original research, reviews, and previously accepted papers from leading conferences. Analogy-Angle I was co-located with IJCAI 2024. IMPORTANT DATES: * Direct paper submission deadline: April 21st * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: May 16th * Notification of acceptance: May 26th * Camera-ready paper due: June 7, 2025 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 30, 2025 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025 * Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025 All deadline times are 23:59 anywhere on Earth. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Cognitive modeling * Analogy and abstraction * Analogy and Conceptual Metaphor * Analogy, figurative language, sarcasm, and irony * Cognitive frameworks of analogy *Cognitive/psychological studies on analogy involving human participants * Algorithms and methods * Studies of the analogical abilities of large language models and visual diffusion models * Algorithmic approaches to analogy * Augmentation and verification of large language and vision models through analogy * Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for analogical abstraction * Extracting analogies from knowledge bases * Tasks and benchmarks * Matching narratives and situational descriptions through narratives * Novel tasks and benchmarks for evaluating analogies in text and vision * Analogy in longer formats, e.g., narratives and videos * Analogy and visual abstraction tasks * Analogical discovery and computational creativity * Applications * Analogies for personalization, explanation, and collaboration * Novel applications of analogical abstraction * Studies of the impact of analogy in specific applications and domains, including education, innovation, and law We invite full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and dissemination papers (already published papers). Please refer to our website for more information and submit your contribution via Open Review (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/Analogy-ANGLE#…). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Filip Ilievski, Giulia Rambelli, Marianna Bolognesi, Ute Schmid, Pia Sommerauer

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Calls for bids to host EACL 2026
by Nina Tahmasebi 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026* The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2026 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April/May) 2026. The 2026 conference will be the 18th meeting of the EACL. *At this stage, we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders.* These will be evaluated, and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. The EACL Board will appoint the general chair for the conference, the programme committee co- chairs, and all other chairs (tutorial co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, etc.), except for the local arrangements chair. Draft bid proposals (due *April 14th, 2025*) should include information on all of the following items: 1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably March/April) 2026 2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention center. Bear in mind that EACL is growing. While Gothenburg (EACL 2014) had 520 registered participants, Valencia (EACL 2017) had 680 registered participants and EACL 2024 had over 800 participants. So please suggest a location that could host 1000 people for plenary sessions, plus at least 4 conference rooms hosting parallel sessions (200-250 people each), a large poster or exhibit room; 11 rooms on the workshops/tutorials days among which at least two host 200 people and the others 60 persons; and rooms for demos, small meetings and registration. 3. *Local arrangements team:* local chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether a professional conference organizer (PCO) will be involved in the organization. Also, indicate whether any national/regional associations for Computational Linguistics would be on board of the local organization *The final bids will also include detailed information on the following items:* 1. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are 2. Printing of conference booklet 3. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and conference dinner 4. Accommodation options at the venue, including low-cost student accommodation 5. Travel alternatives to the venue from Europe and beyond 6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event and reception 7. Potential for local sponsorships 8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings 9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below). Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (unordered): - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities - Adequacy of expenses projections and expected surplus - Appropriateness of proposed dates - Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing conferences held in EMEA - Co-location with national/regional conferences - Experience of the local arrangements team - Local CL community support - Local government and industry support - Appropriateness of expected registration fees - Accessibility of proposed site Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years: - EACL 23 report <http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_EACL_2017> https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf<https://ems-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2…> The EACL conference handbook: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf<https://ems-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2…> Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Board: eacl-info(a)aclweb.org<mailto:eacl-info@aclweb.org> The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal. *Important Dates:* 14th April 2025: Deadline for draft bids April 2025: Feedback to bidders, announcement of shortlist of bidders May 2025: Deadline for final bids June 2025: Final bid chosen (to be publicly announced in July at ACL2025) April/May 2026: EACL Conference Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi – Secretary of EACL – Nina N. Tahmasebi, Associate Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Intelligence + Effort = Achievement" S. Mendaglio

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GUM Corpus V11 - new documents and annotations
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

(Apologies for cross-postings) � *** The GUM Corpus - Release 11.0.0 *** *** Georgetown University Multilayer corpus *** � Corpling@GU <https://gucorpling.org/corpling/> is happy to announce the first release of series 11 of the Georgetown University Multilayer corpus (GUM V11.0.0): � https://gucorpling.org/gum/ � New in this version: � * GUM and the out-of-domain test set GENTLE have now merged! * New documents – the corpus now contains 268,208 tokens * Five different summaries per document * Graded salience scores (0-5) for each entity in every document � GUM is an open source corpus of richly annotated English texts from 24 genres: � * Main genres: (available in train/dev/test) * academic writing * biographies * courtroom transcripts * essays * fiction * how-to guides * interviews * letters * news * online forum discussions * podcasts * political speeches * spontaneous face to face conversations * textbooks * travel guides * vlogs � * Out-of-domain test genres: (test2, aka GENTLE partition): * dictionary entries * live esports commentary * legal documents * medical notes * poetry * mathematical proofs * course syllabuses * threat letters � The corpus is created by students as part of the Computational Linguistics curriculum at Georgetown University and is available under Creative Commons licenses. � This is the first version of GUM series 11, containing roughly 281 documents annotated for: � * Multiple POS tags (100% manual gold PTB, extended PTB, converted CLAWS5 and UPOS) and UD morphological features * Manually corrected lemmatization and morphological segmentation * Sentence segmentation and rough speech act (manual) * Document structure using TEI tags (paragraphs, headings, figures, captions etc., all manual) * Constituent and dependency syntax (manually corrected Universal Dependencies, and PTB parses from gold tags with function labels and enhanced dependencies) * Construction Grammar annotations following UCxn * Information status (given-active/inactive, accessible-inferable/common ground/aggregate, and new) * Entity type, graded salience (0-5) and coreference annotation (including non-named entities, singletons, appositions, cataphora and several types of bridging), as well as Centering Theory annotations * Entity linking (Wikification) of all named entities with Wikipedia articles, including their non-named and pronominal mentions * Discourse parses in enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory (eRST) and discourse dependencies, including multiple concurrent and non-projective relations * Discourse signal annotations classified into 9 major and 45 minor types indicating how the presence of a relation is marked (based on the Signaling Corpus scheme) * Shallow discourse relations following the PDTB v3 scheme * Five abstractive summaries for each document following strict, comparable guidelines across genres � Note on Reddit data: token text is not contained in the release but can be downloaded with an included script. � For more information and to search or download the corpus online, see the corpus website <https://gucorpling.org/gum/> . � Best wishes, The GUM team � PS – if you like GUM, also check out our automatically annotated AMALGUM <https://github.com/gucorpling/amalgum/> corpus! � � �

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19th International Symposium on Social Communication in Santiago de Cuba, January 2026
by Leo Cosme 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Dear colleague, Please, read the announcement of the 19th International Symposium on Social Communication organized by the Center for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" of Santiago de Cuba and that will take place in this city from January 19 to 23, 2026. It will be a pleasure to welcome you to Santiago de Cuba. Yours sincerely, Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares President of the Organizing Committee Applied Linguistics Center "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Social Sciences and Humanities Agency Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment Calle 9 Nr. 253 entre 10 y 12. Reparto Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba, C.P. 90400 Telephones: 53-22646390; 53-52857559 E-mail: linguisticaaplicada1971(a)gmail.com Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication: http://www.cla.cu/simposio/indexEN.php Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics: http://www.cla.cu/clanuevo/en/ Web site of our Basic School Dictionary: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html X: @CLA_ComSoc ***** [To spread, please, thank you. Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.] 19th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JANUARY 19-23, 2026 The Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" of the Social Sciences and Humanities Agency from Santiago de Cuba’s branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the 19th International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 19 through the 23, 2026. This interdisci- plinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: . University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Basque Country University, Basque Country . University of Verona, Verona, Italy . Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile . Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain . Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain . Institute for Linguistic Research, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica . Latino Education and Advocacy Days Organization (LEAD), California St. University, USA Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Corpus Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Terminology - Translation and Interpretation - Linguistics Rights - Linguistics Policy 2. Computational Linguistics as branch of Artificial Intelligence: - Software related to linguistics research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Information extraction and its applications - Speech recognition and synthesis - Related issues 3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 4. Mass Media: - Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, print, electronic media and social network articles 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication 6. Communication and Education: - Studies related to teaching of the mother tongue and other related subjects Activities that will take place within the event are: - Presymposium seminars - Keynote speeches - Discussion of papers in commissions - Books presentation - Cultural activities PRESYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January 19th, 2026. The courses will be: "Introduction to audiovisual translation and accessibility: modalities, technical, linguistic and cultural aspects" Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain IXA Group Basque Country University, Basque Country Participants should say in advance what presymposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 50.00 EUROS will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. KEYNOTE SPEECHES In this Symposium several plenary conferences will be given, which will be offered by prestigious specialists. Already confirmed their attendance: Prof. Dr. Marlen Domínguez Hernández Cuban Academy of Language Havana University Havana,Cuba Prof. Dr. Antoni Nomdedeu Rull Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain Prof. Dr. Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso Valparaiso, Chile The deadline of submission of papers is July 1st, 2025. The papers should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium’s Scientific Committee will be sent before July 31st, 2025. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium’s documentation -as we did since 1997-, accepted papers must be sent before August 15, 2025 if the Scientific Committee had done some observations. Requirements for papers: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium’s address: linguisticaaplicada1971(a)gmail.com as attached file. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event’s official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. 5. The pages of the text should be unnumered. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and no leaving space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 1.5 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 200.00 USD/EUROS Companions 100.00 USD/EUROS Payment of the fee must be sent before December 15, 2025 via bank transfer to the bank account to be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker’s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. ACCOMMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Papers submission deadline: July 1st, 2025 - Notification on paper’s approval by Scientific Committee: by July 31st, 2025 - Delivery of papers by e-mail: August 15, 2025 (in case of the observations done by the Scientific Committee) - Payment of registration fee: Until December 15, 2025 - Presymposium seminars: January 19, 2026 - 19th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20 through 23, 2026 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Leonel Ruiz Miyares Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Nancy Cristina Alamo Suárez Centre for Applied Linguistics Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Alex Muñoz Alvarado Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Humberto Ocanna Dayar Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Javier Tamayo Lozada Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Rolando Urrutia Cleger Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba María Rosa Álvarez Silva Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Fidelia Pozo Pozo Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Irina Bidot Martínez University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Anton Nijholt Twente University Enschede, The Netherlands Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Basque Country University Basque Country Iñaki Alegría Loinaz Basque Country University Basque Country Xabier Artola Zubillaga Basque Country University Basque Country Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Basque Country University Basque Country Sven Tarp University of Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark Lucia Marconi Institute for Computational Linguistics Chapter Genoa, Italy Paola Cutugno Institute for Computational Linguistics Chapter Genoa, Italy Rosa María Rodríguez Abella Università degli Studi di Verona Verona, Italia Luisa Chierichetti Università degli Studi di Bergamo Bergamo, Italia Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso Valparaiso, Chile Jorge Antonio Leoni de León Institute for Linguistic Research, University of Costa Rica San Jose, Costa Rica Antoni Nomdedeu Rull University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Luis Alfonso Ureña Lopez President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN) Jaen University, Jaen, Spain Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. LEAD, California State University, USA ***** REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms.: University: City: Country: WhatsApp: E-Mail: Paper title: Date:

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CLARIN Annual Conference 2025-Third Call for Abstracts
by Kontino, T. (Thalassia) 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Third Call for Abstracts CLARIN Annual Conference 2025 CLARIN2025 is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there is a need, its actual use by researchers and teachers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. We are pleased to welcome authors of accepted papers, members of national consortia and representatives of CLARIN centres, representatives from partner organisations, and many others who are interested in becoming part of the CLARIN community. IMPORTANT DATES * 4 April 2025: Submission deadline * 16 June 2025: Notification of acceptance * 1 September 2025: Final version of the abstract * 30 September - 2 October 2025: CLARIN Annual Conference CONFERENCE TOPICS We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond * Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services * Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases * Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI * Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure * Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing * Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms * Access, including authentication and authorisation * Search functions, including Federated Content Search * Web applications, web services and workflows * Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services * Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation * Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination: * User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) * CLARIN portals and outreach to users * Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures * Knowledge centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives: * SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and CESSDA<https://www.cessda.eu/> and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster<https://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-ssh-open-cluster>, etc. * Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as <https://www.clarin.eu/glossary#EUDAT> EOSC<https://eosc.eu/about-eosc>, Europeana<https://www.europeana.eu/>, Language Data Space<https://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/>, etc. * Projects such as ATRIUM<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-atrium>, EOSC Focus<https://www.clarin.eu/content/factsheet-clarin-eosc-focus>, ERIC Forum<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-eric-forum-2>, EOSC Future<https://eoscfuture.eu/>, FAIRCORE4EOSC<https://faircore4eosc.eu/>, OSCARS<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-oscars>, OSTrails<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-ostrails> * National and regional initiatives. Education and Training: * Using CLARIN language resources and services in teaching and training activities targeting audiences from different sectors (academia, GLAM, industry) and lessons learnt * The impact of the DH Course Registry (e.g. development of the DH curricula, student exchange programmes) * Guidelines and best practices for using CLARIN in the university curricula * Developing new courses reusing existing materials from the CLARIN Learning Hub (e.g. UPSKILLS) SUBMISSIONS The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t0y7zfm7fc2ubo01gawo4/ABS07ggkXbYm9yAZPfHAfp…>, Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f> template). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN’s activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. Authors are not required to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. For more information and to access the submission system, please visit: https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-extended-abstracts-clarin-annual-confere…

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Call for Papers: Miniconference on the temporal dimension of data--“The times they are a-changin’” in Digital Humanities--hosted by the 2025 International Digital Humanities Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
by mg2957＠nau.edu 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

CFP: “The times they are a-changin’” in Digital Humanities – a mini-conference on the temporal dimension of data Date: July 15th (DH2025 Pre-Conference Program) Digital Humanities Conference “Accessibility and Citizenship” 2025, 14 - 18 July 2025, Lisbon, Portugal Digital Humanities (DH) methods have advanced significantly in recent decades. However, several blind spots still persist across the field, the insufficient attention to temporal dynamics in data being one of them. Temporal change plays an integral role in a number of disciplines within DH, affecting data, methodology, analyses, and the field itself (Glawion et al., 2025). Digital art history, especially provenance research, is challenged by changing or missing object information, such as varying titles (Kim, 2015) or attributions (Hofbauer, 2021), complicating access and tracing their (ownership) history over time and space. In geographical studies on mobility, this movement in space and time is mediated by practices of sense-making changing slowly over time (Creswell, 2010). Discourse analysis examines time frames around key public events that set specific communicative strategies in motion (Islentyeva, 2022), corpus-based studies employ quantitative linguistic analyses to generate meaningful time periods for studying linguistic change (e.g., Gries & Hilpert, 2008), and studies of register, text varieties associated with the situation of use (Biber & Conrad, 2019), are beginning to examine emergence and evolution of registers as cultural constructs (Gracheva et al., forthcoming). Digital Literary Studies raise questions about cultural evolution (Sobchuk, 2023), genre history (Wagner-Egelhaaf, 2014) and editorial histories of literary works (Bottigheimer, 1987) on the level of texts, the evolution of authorial style over the course of an author’s life (Piper, 2018) and different types of time-series data such as eye movements and EEG data in empirical studies of reader-response (Dimigen et al., 2011; Weitin et al., 2024). We particularly invite proposals that relate to the theme of temporal change, including but not limited to the following questions: How should we address temporal change methodologically in DH? What role should visualizations play? Are time periods implemented to categorize data from the start (top-down), or are they the result of data-driven classification (bottom-up)? And how can we ensure that project data remains FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) across disciplines long after the project concludes? Target audience: The mini-conference welcomes researchers from all career stages from diverse disciplines and backgrounds who are engaged with the temporal dimensions of data. We encourage submissions from those involved in DH, data analysis, historical studies, linguistic and literary research, art history, geo-spatial studies and related fields. Submission types: The mini-conference invites submissions of finalized projects or work-in-progress reports on theoretical or methodological reflections, empirical studies, and/or practical applications on the topic of time in DH (15 min. + 15 min. discussions). Submissions can focus on but are not limited to the domains of “images & objects”, “text & language” and “place & space”. Submission format and deadline: Submissions should include a presentation title, the presenter’s affiliation, and an abstract of max. 250 words (bibliography excluded). Please send your submission as a single PDF file to anastasia.glawion(a)fau.de. The submission deadline is April 10, 2025; acceptance notifications will be sent out by April 30, 2025. For questions, please contact anastasia.glawion(a)fau.de . Bibliography Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2019). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press. Bottigheimer, R. B. (1987). Silenced women in the Grimm’s tales: The 'fit' between fairy tales and society in their historical context. In R. B. Bottigheimer (Ed.), Fairy tales and society: Illusion, allusion, and paradigm (pp. 115–133). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201505 Cresswell, T. (2010). Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(1), 17–31. https://doi.org/10.1068/d11407 Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., Hohlfeld, A., Jacobs, A. M., & Kliegl, R. (2011). Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: Analyses and review. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(4), 552–572. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023885 Glawion, A., Kremer, D., Lang, S., Mahlberg, M., & Wagner, A. (2025). Applied digital humanities: Calling for a more engaged digital humanities. In Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd), Bielefeld, Book of Abstracts (pp. 298–301). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14942990 Gracheva, M., Keller, D., & Egbert, J. (forthcoming). Evolution of registers as cultural constructs: The case of blogs. Gries, S. Th., & Hilpert, M. (2008). The identification of stages in diachronic data: Variability-based neighbor clustering. Corpora, 3(1), 59–81. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1749503208000075 Hofbauer, M. (2021). Cranach: Parerga und Paralipomena: Neues zu Lucas Cranach und seinen Söhnen. arthistoricum.net. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.722 Islentyeva, A. (2022). British media representations of EU migrants before and after the EU referendum. CADAAD Journal, 14(2), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.21827/cadaad.14.2.41617 Kim, S. (2015). Bildtitel: Eine Kunstgeschichte des Bildtitels. Kovač. Piper, A. (2018). Enumerations: Data and literary study. University of Chicago Press. Sobchuk, O. (2023). Evolution of modern literature and film. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of cultural evolution (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.45 Wagner-Egelhaaf, M. (2014). Literaturgeschichte als operative Fiktion. In M. Buschmeier (Ed.), Literaturgeschichte: Theorien - Modelle - Praktiken. Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (Vol. 138, pp. 86–101). http://d-nb.info/1032799404/04 Weitin, T., Fabian, T., Glawion, A., Brottrager, J., & Pilz, Z. (2024). Is bad fiction processed differently by the human brain? An electrophysiological study on reading experience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, Article 1333965. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1333965

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SwissText 2025: Final CfP and Submission Deadline Extension
by Tuggener Don (tuge) 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, partners, and friends This is the final Call for Papers for the SwissText 2025 Conference. !!! Note that we extend the submission deadline to 22.03.2025 (23:59 AOE) !!! If you plan to make a submission, it helps us with the planning if you already submit an abstract and/or a draft now. You can still revise the submission until the submission deadline. We invite you to submit a contribution to the 10th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) which takes place on May 14-15, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). SwissText<https://swisstext.org/> is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). This edition of SwissText will be special, since we celebrate its 10th anniversary! For the occasion, we introduce the Impact Track which replaces and extends the scope of the Applied Track, and we introduce the Corpus Track that offers the opportunity to present Swiss-related NLP datasets. The conference now features the following tracks and submissions (more details in the below sections): * Impact Track (formerly Applied Track): Describe impactful applied and practical NLP projects. Short abstract (approx 0.5-1 page). * Scientific Research: Describe original research. * Regular Track: Full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) * Junior Track: Short paper (up to 4 pages) * Corpus Track (new): Present your Swiss-related NLP dataset. Short paper (up to 4 pages). TRACKS Impact Track (formerly Applied Track) Contribute to the conference by submitting a presentation with a strong focus on practical application and impact. Have you developed an interesting NLP solution that solves a challenging problem in your organization? Did you write an impactful blog article on an NLP-related topic? Have you released a cool new NLP Python library? Is there an important idea presented in a paper you have read or written that you think needs more exposure to a broader audience? The impact track is open to various NLP-related contributions. The selection criteria here is how exciting and relevant the presentation will be for the broad audience. Presentations can be (non-exhaustive list): * Applications * Applied research results * Showcases * Paper discussions (only already published papers; original work can be submitted to the scientific track) * System demonstrations Submission Format: * A PDF document that contains * a short abstract (approx. 0.5-1 page of main content) describing your contribution; * a screenshot or system diagram (optional) * CV of the team (text format, no tables — max. 500 characters) * Description of the intended audience (e.g. developers, decision makers, project managers, researchers; max. 300 characters) * Language: English * Please submit online via <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> Scientific Track Contribute to the conference by submitting original papers that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works that describe new concepts, innovative research, systems, or standards in the areas of NLP. (If you have a live demonstration, please submit to the Impact Track instead) Submission Format: * Full Paper of maximum of 8 pages, or Short Paper with maximum of 4 pages (both versions have additional pages for references and appendix) * Use the ACL style<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> * Language: English * Anonymization: The review process will be double blind; we ask authors to anonymize their submission reasonably. For instance, instead of “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” write “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” * All data is entered online via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> Scientific Junior Track We offer PhD/Master students a unique opportunity to submit ongoing or finished work relevant to the NLP field and receive extensive professional feedback. Several senior researchers in the NLP field in Switzerland have expressed their support for this initiative and will be members of the programme committee. They will provide extensive reviews to the students to help them improve their paper writing skills. Submission Format: * Please use the ACL style<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> * Language: English * Short Paper with maximum of 4 pages, with additional pages for references and appendix. * Content: ongoing or finished work, relevant to the NLP field. * The first author must be a student registered at a Swiss academic institution. * Anonymization: The review process will be double blind; we ask authors to anonymize their submission reasonably. For instance, instead of “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” write “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” * Submission will be made through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> Corpus Track This special track focuses on the creation, curation, and release of datasets that address challenges and opportunities in NLP in the context of Switzerland. The aim is to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to share innovative dataset contributions that support linguistic, cultural, and technical advancements in the Swiss NLP ecosystem. Submissions can describe already published or original work. It might be possible to host your data at Swiss NLP if you are unable to do so yourself. Please get in touch at info(a)swissnlp.org<mailto:info@swissnlp.org> if you are interested in this option. The submission is a “Corpus Description Paper”, which should contain the following: * What and how much data was collected? * How was the data collected and annotated? * Corpus statistics * Quality assessments such as annotator agreements * Where is the corpus available? (please take into account long-term availability) * Under which license(s) is the corpus distributed? * For which use cases can the corpus be used? * Optional: baseline systems and results Submission Format: * Please use the ACL style<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> * Language: English * Corpus description paper with maximum of 8 pages, with additional pages for references and appendix. * Please use the appendix to describe technical details of the corpus creation, in particular how data was collected, full annotation guidelines, etc. * Content: new/existing NLP datasets within the context of Switzerland. * Submission will be made through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> GENERAL INFORMATION Presentation Modes For all tracks, there are the following presentation modes: * Talk: a classical presentation of approx. 15min + 5min discussion * Poster: you can hang up an A1 poster during the poster session * Demo: you get a booth where you can show your solution as live-demo during the exhibition time (approx 2 hours) During submission you can choose your preferred presentation mode and the SwissText Program Committee will decide which format your submission best fits in. Proceedings We plan to publish the proceedings of the Scientific, Corpus and Junior track in the ACL Anthology. To appear in the proceedings, each contribution has to be presented by at least one author at the conference. Important Dates * Submission deadline: March 22, 2025 (23:59 AOE) * Author notification: April 5, 2025 * Camera-ready version due: April 19, 2025 * Conference: May 14-15, 2025 Venue The conference will take place in Winterthur at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Organization * General Chair: Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak (ZHAW) * Program Chairs: Dr. Don Tuggener (ZHAW), Manuela Hürlimann (ZHAW) Contact Please direct all questions regarding the submission process to info(a)swisstext.org<mailto:info@swisstext.org>.

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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Bari, Italy
by Ondřej Matuška 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

*<Lexicom/>* a workshop in digital lexicography and lexical computing *Registration open* *Bari, Italy*15 – 19 September 2025 Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments in *corpus-driven lexicography* and to practice your *corpus building and corpus query skills* with some of the top experts in the field. For the programme, lecturers, invited speakers, fees and registration, visit this website *lexicom.courses <https://lexicom.courses/upcoming-lexicom/>* I hope to meet you in Bari in September! Ondřej *Ondřej Matuška* sketchengine.eu <http://www.sketchengine.eu/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/SketchEngine/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejmatuska> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/SketchEngine>

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Appel : 1st Call for papers: MLP-LLM 2025 Workshop @ CORIA-TALN 2025
by Aman Sinha 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

**** French version below **** * Workshop on Medical Language Processing in the era of Large Language Models (MLP-LLM 2025) * Colocated with CORIA-TALN 2025 -- 30 June 2025 , Marseille * Call for Papers * [ https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ | https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ ] The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing across various domains, including healthcare. However, the complexities of medical language—marked by specialized terminologies, the use of abbreviations and code ontologies such as ICD, UMLS or SNOMED, implicit contextual dependencies (based on the context, the medication information may be different: temporality, action, certainty, etc.) —pose unique challenges and opportunities. Medical NLP is at critical stakes, given the importance of finding the right diagnosis and treatment for each patient. Moreover, the field of health includes not only the human aspect represented by the practitioner-patient relationship, but also the contact with the biological world (animals, plants, viruses, microbes). This workshop, MLP-LLM, aims to bring together researchers from NLP, medicine, bioNLP and linguistics to explore advancements, limitations, and ethical considerations of using LLMs in medical contexts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Fine-tuning and adapting LLMs for medical applications and for different languages. * Addressing biases in medical language understanding along with LLM hallucinations. * Proposing evaluation methods to assess the quality of medical NLP tools. * Ensuring transparency, interpretability, and uncertainty awareness in medical AI systems. * Developing domain-specific benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in healthcare. * Developing applications for LLMs in clinical decision support, medical transcription and communication between practitioners and patients. Keynote speaker : Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille We welcome articles that are: * new contributions, * state-of-the-art articles, * work in progress, * short/translated version of a paper accepted at a major conference. Important Dates : * Submission Due: 30 April 2025 * Author Notification: 15 May 2025 * Camera ready: 21 May 2025 * Workshop: 30 June 2025 Submissions are accepted both in English or French. Contact : Workshop Organizers ( [ mailto:mlpllm2025@gmail.com | mlpllm2025(a)gmail.com) ] Ioana Buhnila ( [ mailto:ioana.buhnila@univ-lorraine.fr | ioana.buhnila(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) Aman Sinha ( [ mailto:aman.sinha@univ-lorraine.fr | aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) --------------------------------------------------------- **** V ersion anglaise ci-dessus **** * L'atelier Traitement du langage médical à l'époque des LLMs (MLP-LLM 2025) * Coloc avec CORIA-TALN 2025 -- 30 juin 2025, Marseille * Appel à communications * [ https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ | https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ ] L’avènement des grands modèles de langue (LLMs) a révolutionné le traitement automatique des langues dans divers domaines, y compris la santé. Cependant, la complexité du langage médical - marquée par des terminologies spécialisées, l’utilisation des abréviations et des ontologies médicales de type CIM, UMLS or SNOMED, des dépendances contextuelles implicites (dans un contexte donné, le contenu médical peut changer en fonction de la temporalité, l’événement ou le degré de certitude) - pose des défis et des opportunités uniques. Le TAL médical peut aider les praticiens hospitaliers dans le diagnostic et le traitement des patients. De plus, le domaine de la santé comprend non seulement l’aspect humain représenté par la relation praticien-patient, mais également le contact avec le monde biologique (animaux, plantes, virus, microbes). Cet atelier, MLP-LLM, vise à rassembler des chercheurs en TAL, bioinformatique, médecine et linguistique afin d’explorer les avancées, les limites et les considérations éthiques de l’utilisation des LLMs dans des contextes médicaux. Les sujets d’intérêt incluent, mais ne sont pas limités à: * Affiner et adapter les LLMs pour les applications médicales et pour différentes langues. * Proposer des méthodes d’évaluation adaptées au domaine médical. * Traiter les biais dans la compréhension du langage médical et les hallucinations des LLMs. * Garantir la transparence, l’interprétabilité, le niveau de certitude et la responsabilité dans les systèmes d’IA médicale. * Développer des benchmarks spécifiques au domaine pour évaluer les LLMs dans le domaine de la santé. * Développer des applications des LLMs dans l’aide à la décision clinique, la transcription médicale et la communication entre les praticiens et les patients. Keynote speaker : Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille Les types d'article acceptés sont: * contribution nouvelle, * état de l'art, * travaux en cours, * version courte/traduite d'un article accepté dans une grande conférence. Calendrier de l'appel : * Soumission des articles: 30 Avril 2025 * Notification aux auteurs: 15 Mai 2025 * Version finale: 21 Mai 2025 * Atelier : 30 Juin 2025 Les soumissions sont acceptées en anglais ou en français. Comités et contact ----------------- Organizers : Ioana Buhnila, ATILF, CNRS - Université de Lorraine (co-responsable) Aman Sinha, IECL- ATILF - ICANS Strasbourg (co-responsable) Hanbyul Song, ATILF, CNRS - Université de Lorraine Laura Zanella, POSOS Salomé Klein, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg Joé Laroche, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg Delphine Charuau, Trinity College Dublin Sam Bigeard, INRIA, Université de Lorraine Comité scientifique : Aurélie Névéol, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille Remi Cardon, CENTAL, IL&C, Université Catholique de Louvain Cyril Grouin, LISN, CNRS - Université Paris-Saclay Amalia Todirascu, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg Lina F. Soualmia, Université Rouen Normandie Patrick Watrin, CENTAL, UCLouvain Adrien Coulet, Inria Paris - Université de Lorraine Benoit Favre, Université d’Aix-Marseille Emmanuel Morin, Université de Nantes Richard Dufour, Université de Nantes Mathieu Constant, Université de Lorraine Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki Claire Nedellec, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Lisa Raithel, DFKI Ioana Buhnila, ATILF, CNRS - Université de Lorraine Aman Sinha, IECL- ATILF - ICANS Contact : Workshop Organizers ( [ mailto:mlpllm2025@gmail.com | mlpllm2025(a)gmail.com) ] Ioana Buhnila ( [ mailto:ioana.buhnila@univ-lorraine.fr | ioana.buhnila(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) Aman Sinha ( [ mailto:aman.sinha@univ-lorraine.fr | aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] )

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