March 2025 - Corpora

Upcoming DFIR Stream 0xE Webinar — “Identifying Fraudulent CAPTCHA Solvers Using Network Propagation Analysis”
by Andrew Zayine 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

Dear All, We are excited to invite you to an upcoming DFIR Stream 0xE webinar: Title: “Identifying Fraudulent CAPTCHA Solvers Using Network Propagation Analysis” Presenters: -Martynas Buožis — Information Security Architect, Amadeus Data Processing GmbH -Umberto Fontana — PhD Candidate, Telecom SudParis & Amadeus IT Group Abstract: Malicious actors often use CAPTCHA Farms to bypass bot protection, enabling fraud such as inventory denial and SMS pumping. These farms cleverly mirror IP addresses and client fingerprints, making traditional detection methods ineffective. Meanwhile, their CAPTCHA-solving times are indistinguishable from legitimate users. In this talk, our speakers will present a novel technique for uncovering the use of CAPTCHA Farms by analyzing network propagation times. By comparing observed delays with the geographic distances implied by IP addresses, this approach aims to statistically identify suspicious patterns. - Date & Time: Tuesday, March 25, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (GMT+00:00) - Location: Online (Pre-registration required) - Event Registration Link: https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xe - Online Registration Ends: March 23 at 04:00 PM (GMT+00:00) Don’t miss this chance to learn about cutting-edge research on detecting fraudulent CAPTCHA solvers and to provide valuable feedback! ======Housekeeping Notes====== - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers #CyberSecurity #DFIR #CAPTCHA #OnlineFraud Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat

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CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026
by ACL Announcements 16 Mar '25

16 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 the same time, we also invite expressions of interest to host the 2027 EACL conference. *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 https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf The EACL conference handbook: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Board: eacl-info(a)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 –

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ClinIQLink 2025 – CodaBench Testing Framework Now Live!
by Brandon 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the ClinIQLink 2025 CodaBench Testing Framework is now live and ready for model submissions: CodaBench Competition Page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5117/ This is an important milestone in the shared task, allowing participants to test their models under real evaluation conditions ahead of the April 15, 2025 submission deadline. With almost 40 participants and growing, we encourage early engagement to refine methodologies and optimize performance. Why Participate? ClinIQLink 2025, part of the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025, evaluates models on their ability to retrieve accurate medical knowledge and analyze hallucinations in generative responses. This challenge provides an opportunity to benchmark systems, advance research in medical AI, and contribute to a deeper understanding of knowledge retrieval in generative models. Getting Started with CodaBench Participants should begin testing their models as soon as possible. Submission guidelines and instructions are available on the challenge page: * CodaBench ClinIQLink Docker Setup (GitHub): https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup * Submission Guidelines: Models under 10GB can be submitted directly to CodaBench, while models between 10GB and 750GB must be uploaded via Globus following the instructions provided on the challenge homepage. * Globus Connect Personal (Required for Uploading Large Models): https://www.globus.org/globus-connect-personal Key Upcoming Deadlines * April 15, 2025 – System Submission Deadline * April 25, 2025 – Results Feedback Provided * May 15, 2025 – Final Paper Submission Deadline * July 31, 2025 – BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 Useful Links * Official Challenge Page: https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/ * Sample Dataset: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_Sample-dataset * Google Form for Large Model Submission (10GB - 750GB): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerRZnVHm-Trk9eYp6ebrJHQKTPvSBrI6n… For any questions or further details, please feel free to reach out. Contact: Brandon Colelough – brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov> We look forward to your participation and contributions to this initiative. Kind regards, Brandon Colelough (He / Him) [News, Events, and Updates]NIH Fellow | Fulbright Scholar | ADF Signals Officer | Electrical Engineer National Institutes of Health – National Library of Medicine (LHC) M: +61 481 269 667<tel:+61481269667> (AUS) | M: +1 (202) 367-7230<tel:+12023677230> (US) E: brandcol(a)umd.edu<mailto:brandcol@umd.edu> | E: brandon.colelough(a)gmail.com<mailto:brandon.colelough@gmail.com> L: www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-colelough<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linked…>

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Call for Participation - RANLP 2025 Shared Tasks
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

We invite researchers to participate in RANLP 2025 shared tasks. RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of natural language processing and related communities are invited to participate. The following tasks have been accepted for RANLP 2025. 1. PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages Organisers - 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 Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ 1. Multilingual Coreference Resolution Organisers - Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/ 1. Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT) Organisers - Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ 1. Identification of the severity of the depression in forum post Organisers - Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/ 1. Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark Organisers - Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ For inquiries regarding the individual shared tasks, please contact the corresponding task organisers. Shared Task Proceedings At least one member from each team needs to register and attend the RANLP 2025 shared task (which will take place on 11, 12 or 13 September 2025) and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings. More information about the RANLP main conference and its co-located events are available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Shared Task Chairs Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Dr Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia RANLP 2024 Chairs Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lancaster University

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Fwd: [CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: International Conference on Computational Creativity < iccc25.computationalcreativity(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 09:11 Subject: [CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity To: <hroliv(a)dei.uc.pt> Submissions due: April 21, 2025‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ *The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25)* June 23–27, 2025 — Campinas, Brazil Hi Hugo, Below, you will find the official Call for Short Papers for the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25), which will be held in Campinas, Brazil, from June 23 to 27, 2025. We hope that you may be able to contribute to the conference by submitting your research. We would also like to remind you that the Call for Venues for hosting the International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2027 (ICCC'27) is open. The Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) invites all its members and colleagues interested in the field to submit a proposal. You can find more information [here]. <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dINmNvd1ZDhKWHmANLs/EKm8yp…> Please feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested. We hope to see you at ICCC'25 in Campinas, Brazil, in June 2025! *Call for papers: short papers* http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/short-papers/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIPRQNvB3X6sRsu60eu/iWdBrr…> Computational Creativity (CC) is a discipline with its roots in scientific disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy that each explores the potential for computers to be creative – either in partnership with humans or as autonomous creators in their own right. The International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on systems that act as creative partners for human creators, on frameworks that offer greater clarity or computational felicity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on. **** Themes and Topics **** The ICCC call for short papers invites research on the same topics as the main call. See Full Papers <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIR6SqDKXqWQNU21dxw/aBnttR…> for more information. In summary, new papers reflecting all computational approaches and perspectives on creativity are welcome, including e.g., symbolic approaches, neural and statistical approaches, hybrid approaches, big-data approaches, rule-based approaches, curated approaches, and so on. The onus is on authors to argue and/or explicitly demonstrate the relevance of their work to the topic of computational creativity. *A note on generative AI models:* while the study of generative AI models is both welcomed and encouraged, such models and their application must be properly situated in the CC literature and evaluated according to acceptable practices in the field. Papers that fail to do this are unlikely to be reviewed favorably. *Difference between long and short papers:* Short papers are intended to share new directions and ideas, spark debate, and enrich the conference and program, without the same evaluation and rigor requirements of long papers. They are not merely long papers with fewer pages. To this end, different review criteria will be applied to long and short papers. **** Paper Types **** Short papers offer concise treatments of work and ideas that are better suited to this concentrated format. We anticipate submissions in the short paper category along any or all of the following lines: — Debate Sparks — System Demonstrations — CC Translations — Nuggets and Gems — Late Breaking Results — CC Bridges — Pilot Studies — Grand Challenges — Meta-Perspectives — Field and event reports **** Important Dates **** Submissions due: April 21, 2025 Acceptance notification: May 7, 2025 Camera-ready copies due: May 14, 2025 Conference: June 23–27, 2025 **** More Information **** More information on themes, topics, paper types and the submission process can be found at: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/short-papers/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dISlVIVU29vyJ59xHGy/Qth-xV…> *ICCC Proceedings:* http://computationalcreativity.net/home/resources/bibliography/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIUQXkndWTLWEgHsua0/kZlzg2…> *Follow us at:* Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pg/computationalcreativity/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIW5aD5n0ml4AHPoXt2/WkgarN…> X – https://x.com/iccc_conf <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIXkcfNwV6Ac5sXkBC4/LPmET7…> Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/iccc_conf/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIZPf7g5zPaA1TffoV6/Ct1hUU…> Subscribe to our mailing list. <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIb4hZyFTizhx4nbRo8/PfreJo…> <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIcjk2GOy2PFsfvX57A/16ZYL6…> <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK1E8tHeFuYwWCmfDQGiS4o4b4i/eOl3v…> <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK1E8tHeG1QOf1jqNZkoHNY2tey/KcfpI…> This email was sent to hroliv(a)dei.uc.pt. <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK1E8tHeG8Hqnqh1XjEu6gI1CFE/I-i5s…>unsubscribe from this list <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK1E8tHeGF9IwfeChsizvz1zUpU/IFSho…> <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK1E8tHeGM0l5UbNs2D5lHlxnPk/I2Bu_…> update subscription information <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/up/sh/6rqJ8GwSbkJhKcZxDIBcJ84d2xU/ty2vGoO4…> Association for Computational Creativity · Departamento Engenharia Informática, FCTUC, Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos · Coimbra 3020-290 · Portugal <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK1E8tHeGSsDEJYZ2BhBaaVw600/fNN5j…> Se você desejar cancelar nossa newsletter, clique aqui <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/un/sh/6rqJ8GqndAnmOusb6DEBo2aGp7w/u31mgPVq…>

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Call for Papers: FEL XXIX 2025 - Basque Country, Spain - 22-25 October - Deadline 15 May 2025
by Steven Krauwer 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

The 29th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages - FEL XXIX 2025 The Foundation for Endangered Languages and the UNESCO Chair on World Language Heritage are organising the 2025 edition of the FEL conference, “The Missing SDG: Endangered Languages and Sustainable Development”. Date: 22-25 October, 2025 Place: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Faculty of Arts at the UPV/EHU (Basque Country, Spain) Call for Papers OPEN until 15 May. More information on the website: https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/mho-unesco-katedra/fel-xxix-2025 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/ILS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl

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PhD or postdoc position in NLP/computational linguistics at the University of Vienna
by Sebastian Schuster 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

I am looking to fill a PhD (3 years) or postdoc (2 years) position in natural language processing/computational linguistics at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna, as part of my new research group there. About the position This position offers great flexibility in developing your own research agenda, and collaborations with other research groups are encouraged. It is also flexible with respect to topic, as long as it connects thematically with topics of interest to the research group. These currently include: - evaluation of large language models and large language model agents - robust long context understanding - computational pragmatics - computational psycholinguistics The annual salary for the PhD position is approximately EUR 39,000/year and for the postdoc position, approximately EUR 69,000/year. Profile of successful candidates - Master degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or related fields - Strong background in mathematics, statistics and/or machine learning - Strong motivation to publish in top refereed conferences/journals - Strong interest in recent developments in large language models, deep learning, and natural language processing - Good knowledge of a deep learning programming framework - Very good command of written and spoken English For the postdoc position, additionally: - A strong publication record, including publications at EMNLP, *ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or COLM - A PhD in computer science, computational linguistics, or related fields How to apply Application deadline: April 4, 2025 (Late applications maybe considered but for full consideration, please apply by this date.) Start date: Autumn 2025 (start date flexible) Please submit your application by email to s.schuster(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:s.schuster@ucl.ac.uk> and use the subject "[PhD position]" or "[Postdoc position]", depending on which position you are applying to. Include a single PDF file with the following information: - a statement of research interests that motivates why you are applying for this position and outlines your research interests (1-3 pages) - a full CV, including a list of publications (if applicable) - university transcripts - the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of two people who can provide letters of reference for you The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates. If you have any questions about these positions, please contact me at s.schuster(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:s.schuster@ucl.ac.uk>. ---- Sebastian Schuster https://sebschu.com

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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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