March 2025 - Corpora

2nd Call-for-Participation: ImageCLEF 2025 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF Lab
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] ImageCLEF 2025 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF http://www.imageclef.org/2025/ *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ImageCLEF 2025 is an evaluation campaign that is being organized as part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs. The campaign offers several research tasks that welcome participation from teams around the world. The results of the campaign appear in the working notes proceedings, published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented in the CLEF conference. Selected contributions among the participants, will be invited for publication in the following year in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with the annual lab overviews. Target communities involve (but are not limited to): information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social media, sensor data, etc.), machine learning, deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, image and video processing, computer vision, with special attention to the challenges of multi-modality, multi-linguality, and interactive search. *** 2025 TASKS *** ImageCLEFmedical Automatic Image Captioning ImageCLEFmedical Synthetic Medical Images Created via GANs ImageCLEFmedical Visual Question Answering ImageCLEFmedical Multimodal And Generative TelemedICine (MAGIC) Image Retrieval/Generation for Arguments ImageCLEFtoPicto ImageCLEF Multimodal Reasoning #ImageCLEFmedical Automatic Image Captioning (9th edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/caption Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical images such as radiology output is a time-consuming task that involves highly trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis pipelines.The Automatic Image Captioning task is split into 2 subtasks: Concept Detection Task, based on identifying the presence and location of relevant concepts in a large corpus of medical images and the Caption Prediction Task, where participating systems are tasked with composing coherent captions for the entirety of an image Organizers: Hendrik Damm, Johannes Rückert, Christoph M. Friedrich, Louise Bloch, Raphael Brüngel, Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Benjamin Bracke (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany), Asma Ben Abacha (Microsoft, USA), Alba García Seco de Herrera (University of Essex, UK), Henning Müller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland), Henning Schäfer, Tabea M. G. Pakull (Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Germany), Cynthia S. Schmidt, Obioma Pelka (Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Germany) #ImageCLEFmedical Synthetic Medical Images Created via GANs (3rd edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/gan The task aims to further investigate the hypothesis that generative models generate synthetic medical images that retain "fingerprints" from the real images used during their training. These fingerprints raise important security and privacy concerns, particularly in the context of personal medical image data being used to create artificial images for various real-life applications. In the first subtask, participants will analyze synthetic biomedical images to determine whether specific real images were used in the training process of generative models. In the second subtask, participants will link each synthetic biomedical image to the specific subset of real data used during its generation. The goal is to identify the particular dataset of real images that contributed to the training of the generative model responsible for creating each synthetic image. Organizers: Alexandra Andrei, Liviu-Daniel Ștefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin, Mihai Dogariu, Bogdan Ionescu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania), Ahmedkhan Radzhabov, Yuri Prokopchuk (National Academy of Science of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus), Vassili Kovalev (Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus), Henning Müller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland) #ImageCLEFmedical Visual Question Answering (3rd edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/vqa This year, the challenge looks at the integration of Visual Question Answering (VQA) with synthetic gastrointestinal (GI) data, aiming to enhance diagnostic accuracy and learning algorithms. The challenge includes developing algorithms that can interpret and answer questions based on synthetic GI images, creating advanced synthetic images that mimic accurate diagnostic visuals in detail and variability, and evaluating the effectiveness of VQA techniques with both synthetic and real GI data. The 1st subtask asks participants to build algorithms that can accurately interpret and respond to questions pertaining to gastrointestinal (GI) images. This involves understanding the context and details within the images and providing precise answers that would assist in medical diagnostics, while the 2nd subtask focuses on the generation of synthetic GI images that are highly detailed and variable enough to closely resemble real medical images. Organizers: Steven A. Hicks, Sushant Gautam, Michael A. Riegler, Vajira Thambawita, Pål Halvorsen (SimulaMet, Norway) #ImageCLEFmedical Multimodal And Generative TelemedICine (MEDIQA-MAGIC) (3rd edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/mediqa The task extends on the previous year’s dataset and challenge based on multimodal dermatology response generation. Participants will be given a clinical narrative context along with accompanying images. The task is divided into two relevant sub-parts: (i) segmentation of dermatological problem regions, and (ii) providing answers to closed-ended questions (participants will be given a dermatological query, its accompanying images, as well as a closed-question with accompanying choices – the task is to select the correct answer to each question) Organizers: Asma Ben Abacha, Wen-wai Yim, Noel Codella (Microsoft), Roberto Andres Novoa (Stanford University), Josep Malvehy (Hospital Clinic of Barcelona) #Image Retrieval/Generation for Arguments (4th edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2025/argument-images Given a set of arguments, the task is to return for each argument several images that help convey the argument. A suitable image could depict the argument or show a generalization or specialization. Participants can optionally add a short caption that explains the meaning of the image. Images can be either retrieved from the focused crawl or generated using an image generator. Organizers: Maximilian Heinrich, Johannes Kiesel, Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Moritz Wolter (Leipzig University), Martin Potthast (University of Kassel, hessian.AI, scads.AI) #ImageCLEFtoPicto (3rd edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2025/topicto The goal of ToPicto is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, and translators to develop new translation methods to translate either speech or text into a corresponding sequence of pictograms. The task refers to the relationship between text and related pictograms and is composed of 2 subtasks: the Text-to-Picto task, which focuses on the automatic generation of a corresponding sequence of pictogram terms and the Speech-to-Picto task, which focuses on directly translating speech to pictogram terms. Organizers: Diandra Fabre, Cécile Macaire, Benjamin Lecouteux, Didier Schwab (Université Grenoble Alpes, LIG, France) #ImageCLEF Multimodal Reasoning (new) https://www.imageclef.org/2025/multimodalreasoning MultimodalReason is a new task focusing on Multilingual Visual Question Answering (VQA). The formulation of the task is the following: Given an image of a question with 3-5 possible answers, participants must identify the single correct answer.The task is split into many subtasks, each handling a different language (English, Bulgarian, Arabic, Serbian, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Urdu, Kazakh, Spanish, with a few more on the way). The task's goal is to assess modern LLMs' reasoning capabilities on complex inputs, presented in different languages, across various subjects. Organizers: Dimitar Dimitrov, Ivan Koychev (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria), Rocktim Jyoti Das, Zhuohan Xie, Preslav Nakov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE) *** IMPORTANT DATES *** (may vary depending on the task) - Run submission: May 10, 2025 - Working notes submission: May 30, 2025 - CLEF 2025 conference: September 9-12, 2025, Madrid, Spain *** REGISTRATION *** Follow the instructions here https://www.imageclef.org/2025 *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Henning Müller, HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland Cristian Stanciu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania On behalf of the organizers, Cristian Stanciu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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2nd Call For Papers: 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’25) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'25 Chicago, USA, June 30 - July 3, 2025 https://www.mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/ https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mad2025 *** Call for papers *** ************************ * Paper submission due: April 10, 2025 * Acceptance notification: April 29, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: May 5, 2025 * Workshop @ACM ICMR 2025: June 30, 2025 Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on mainstream media like newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup of distribution and the amount of information available, however, also led to an increased amount of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda. Conversely, the fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and NGOs (among others) take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of citizens' opinions being distorted, became even more crucial and demanding, especially for what concerns sensitive topics such as politics, health and religion. Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, AI-based tools for content generation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech, textual and video content have emerged under the collective name of "deepfakes", and more recently with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), undermining the perceived credibility of media content. It is, therefore, even more crucial to counter these advances by devising new robust and trustworthy AI tools able to detect the presence of inaccurate, synthetic and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and fact-checkers. Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the combination of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest advances of deep learning approaches and architectures. These raise new challenges and questions that need to be addressed to reduce the effects of disinformation campaigns. The workshop, in its fourth edition, welcomes contributions related to different aspects of AI-powered disinformation detection, analysis and mitigation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, images) - Multimodal verification methods - Synthetic and manipulated media detection - Multimedia forensics - Disinformation spread and effects in social media - Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains - Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world complexities - Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia content - Explaining disinformation detection results to non-expert users - Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation - Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation - Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification - Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools - Large Language Models for analyzing and mitigating disinformation campaigns - Large Multimodal Models for media verification - Multimedia verification systems and applications - System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques - Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks *** Submission guidelines *** When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2025 instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are available here: https://mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/submissions/. *** Organizing committee *** Dan-Cristian Stanciu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania) Roberto Caldelli (CNIT and Mercatorum University, Italy) Milica Gerhardt (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany) Bogdan Ionescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania) Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia) Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ΙΤΙ, Greece) Adrian Popescu (CEA LIST, France) Vera Schmitt (Technical University Berlin, Germany) The workshop is supported under the following projects: (i) UEFISCDI DeteRel SOL12/2024 Detection of relationships between entities in unstructured and structured data sets (https://deterel.aimultimedialab.ro/), (ii) AI4Debunk (https://ai4debunk.eu/), (iii) vera.ai “VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence” (https://www.veraai.eu/), and (iv) News-Polygraph (https://news-polygraph.com/). On behalf of the organizers, Cristian Stanciu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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CoNLL 2025: 3rd and final Call for Papers
by anveshrao1＠gmail.com 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

CoNLL 2025: 3rd and final Call for Papers Vienna, Austria, July 31 - August 1, 2025 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/ NEW! We’re happy to announce that the invited speakers will be Raquel Fernández and Jean-Rémi King! SIGNLL invites submissions to the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025). CoNLL seeks to explore the interaction between theoretical issues in linguistics and cognition, on the one hand, and computational modeling, on the other. Questions that CoNLL addresses are e.g.: How do computational models inform us about how language and cognition work? Which phenomena do they capture, and which do they not capture? Conversely, how do linguistics and cognitive science contribute to understanding, and possibly improving, AI models? We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including but not only: - Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics - Interaction and Dialogue - Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution - Multimodality and Grounding - Typology and Multilinguality - Speech and Phonology - Syntax and Morphology - Semantics and Pragmatics - Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP - Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research Invited Speakers - Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam - Jean-Rémi King, CNRS / Meta AI Submissions Submission will be via OpenReview. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival. Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. The aim of this submission mode is to allow for recently published CoNLL-related research to be disseminated in the CoNLL community. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2023, 2024, and 2025 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). Submissions that are accepted will be presented at the conference either as talks or as poster presentations. While they will be included in the schedule information, they will not appear in the proceedings. The submission form is now open here: https://forms.gle/M8i23bMZLUTsqQxk7 Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2025. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. The appendix should be submitted as a separate PDF file (reviewers are not required to consider the materials in the appendix so it should not include any essential content to the understanding of the paper). Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix. The submission page for archival papers can be found here: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/CoNLL Multiple submission policy: CoNLL 2025 follows the ACL 2025 policy, which follows the ARR policy: CoNLL “precludes multiple submissions […] will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the […] review period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival conferences and workshops […] In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.” Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2025 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. As for submission of pre-prints to arXiv and other platforms, we again follow the same policy as ARR: “[archival] submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time.” Also please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles —we advise you to create a profile well in advance: - New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. - New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. Venue / visa CoNLL 2025 will be held in Vienna, Austria. Please note that it is an in-person conference. We expect all accepted papers to be presented physically and presenting authors must register through ACL (workshop). If you need a visa, we encourage you to submit your visa application at submission time. Timeline ARR Commitment deadline CoNLL only accepts direct submissions this year! (All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12h, AoE) - Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): March 14 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 23 2025 - Camera-ready papers due: June 17 2025 - Conference: July 31 - August 1, 2025 Contact Questions? E-mail conll.chairs(a)gmail.com Organization committee Program Chairs Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg Area Chairs Christian Bentz, University of Passau Zhenguang G. Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Tanise Ceron, Bocconi University Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, McGill University Iria De Dios, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Max van Duijn, Leiden University Kilian Evang, HHU Düsseldorf Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart Aina Garí Soler, INRIA Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta AI Research Xixian Liao, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Brielen Madureira, University of Potsdam Yohei Oseki, University of Tokyo Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam Emily Prud’hommeaux, Boston College Tanja Samardžić, University of Zurich Carina Silberer, University of Stuttgart Ece Takmaz, Utrecht University Tessa Verhoef, Leiden University Yang Xu, University of Toronto Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen Publicity Chairs Snigdha Chaturvedi, UNC-Chapel Hill Anvesh Rao Vijjini, UNC-Chapel Hill Publication Chairs Emily Cheng, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Selina Meyer, Technische Universität Nürnberg

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CFP: Special Issue on Neurosymbolic Generative Models
by Kordjamshidi, Parisa 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Neurosymbolic Generative Models Explore the future of AI by contributing to the Special Issue on Neurosymbolic Generative Models! We invite cutting-edge research that integrates symbolic reasoning with deep generative models (DGMs), such as large language models, to improve performance, interpretability, and robustness in AI applications. Topics include: - Neurosymbolic learning and reasoning in DGMs - Enhancing interpretability, robustness, and fairness in DGMs - Applications in science, healthcare, finance, and more Fast Track Opportunity for extended versions of recently published conference papers. Submission Deadlines: - Regular & Fast Track: March 31st 2025 Submit your paper today and join a transformative discussion shaping the future of AI! Visit https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com/content/call-papers-special-issue-neur… for more details or contact the guest editors at: nesy-genai(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:nesy-genai@googlegroups.com> Please note that the Open Access cost of the Journal does NOT apply to this special issue, which is free of any cost. Submission Guide You must use the NeSy Journal Submission system to submit a paper to the Neurosymbolic Generative Models special issue. Here is an overview of the paper submission process: You will need to create an account on https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com/user/register. Ensure this is done in advance as the account approval may take a few days. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email. This confirms that your account has been created, however, there is an additional step required to get your account approved. You need to request account approval by sending an e-mail to eic(a)neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com <mailto:eic@neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com> from the registered email address. If your account is not approved within a day, please inform Pascal Hitzler phitzler(a)googlemail.com <mailto:phitzler@googlemail.com>. Once your account is approved, you will receive a link to set your password. Set your password and confirm that your contact details are correct. Once you are logged in, navigate to the submission page: https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com/node/add/submit-paper. In the submission form Enter details about your details and information about your paper Under “Submission Type” select “Article in Special Issue” Upload your paper as a PDF document. Please note that the file cannot exceed 48 MB in size. Write a brief cover letter indicating that you are submitting your paper to the “Neurosymbolic Generative Models” special issue. If you are submitting an extended paper, please also summarise your additional contributions. Click Preview to double-check your submission. If everything is okay, click the “Submit” button. You should immediately receive an email, confirming your paper submission. If you encounter any issues with the submission process (e.g., registration delays), please do not hesitate to contact the mailing list: nesy-genai(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:nesy-genai@googlegroups.com>. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------ Kordjamshidi, Parisa Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University http://www.cse.msu.edu/~kordjams/ Heterogeneous Learning & Reasoning Lab: https://hlr.github.io/ Woman, Life, Freedom

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ACL 2025 - Call for Demos
by Horacio Saggion 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

ACL 2025 - Call for System Demonstrations The ACL 2025 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: - Natural language processing systems or system components - Application systems using language technology components - Software tools for natural language processing research - Software for demonstration or evaluation - Software supporting learning or education - Tools for data visualization and annotation - Tools for model inspection - Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2025 conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at ACL 2025 in Vienna, with an accompanying poster. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program Check the full Call at: https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/ Link to submission system: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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RANLP-2025 - Second Call for Workshop Proposals: Extended Deadline!
by Petya Osenova 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Second Call for Workshop Proposals: Extended Deadline! ================================================ RANLP-2025: 15th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Summer School Deep Learning and Large Language Models 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) Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ ================================================ Following the workshops held in conjunction with the Conferences "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" RANLP-2005, RANLP-2007, RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011, RANLP-2013, RANLP-2015, RANLP-2017, RANLP-2019, RANLP-2021 and RANLP-2023, we are pleased to announce a call for workshop proposals for RANLP-2025. RANLP-2025 invites workshop proposals on any topic of interest to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, ranging from fundamental research issues to more applied industrial or commercial aspects. We encourage workshops related to (or discussing the employment of) the latest NLP methods including Large Language Models/Generative AI. Workshops can vary in length from a half day to full 1-2 days and can also feature demo sessions. The format of each workshop (face-to-face or hybrid) can be determined by its organisers the condition being that onsite sessions are held in Varna for the whole workshop duration so that other RANLP participants can take part in the event. Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to RANLP-2025 (full registration including the summer school, tutorials, all workshops, main conference, reception, conference dinner). VENUE The workshops will take place in Hotel "Cherno More", Varna, the main RANLP-2025 conference venue. If more than 5 workshops are selected, the RANLP-2025 organisers will provide conference halls in some of the neighbouring hotels or universities in downtown Varna. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals due: 15 March 2025 31 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 2 April 2025 Workshop website due: 5 April 2025 15 April 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 6 July 2025 (shortly after main conference notification) Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 8 September 2025 Workshops: 11-13 September 2025 REQUIREMENTS Proposals should be no longer than five pages and should contain the following: 1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that it will focus on; 2. Brief description of the target audience, including estimates of the numbers of submissions and attendees (a tentative list of potential contributors would be useful); 3. List of related workshops/events held in the last three years or to be held in 2025; 4. Tentative workshop programme committee; 5. Names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organising committee; 6. Description of the experience of the proposed organisers in the workshop topics and in organising workshops or related events. The workshop Organising Committee is responsible for the following: * Setting up and maintaining the workshop website; * Disseminating call for papers/participation; * Organising paper submission, review process, authors notification, and collecting audio/visual presentation requirements; * Verifying the camera-ready copies, providing electronic conference proceedings which are to be generated with the conference management system START; * In case of hybrid workshops, organising an onsite workshop component and chairing the live sessions in Varna. Workshop invited speakers: If the workshop organisers intend to host an invited talk, it is recommended that they invite somebody from the main conference keynote speakers or participants. If the workshop organisers decide to invite another speaker, it is very likely that the workshop organisers will have to secure financial support for this speaker. The RANLP-2025 Organising Committee is responsible for the following: * Providing a link to the workshop web page; * Publishing the workshop proceedings with ISBN numbers, and registering DOI numbers for all accepted papers; * Providing the workshop venue; * Organising registration, audio/visual support, coffee breaks, registration facilities, Internet access. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Workshop proposals in PDF format should be e-mailed to Tharindu Ranasinghe <t.ranasinghe[at]lancaster[dot]ac[dot]uk>, Kiril Simov <kivs[at]bultreebank[dot]org>, Petya Osenova <petya[at]bultreebank[dot]org> and cc'ed to <workshops2025(a)ranlp.org<mailto:workshops2025@ranlp.org>> EVALUATION Submitted proposals will be reviewed with respect to the following criteria: * Relevance, importance, and timeliness of the topics; * Completeness, clarity, and quality of the workshop proposal; * Experience of the organisers in the proposed topics; * Viability of the workshop. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme Commitee) 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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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - 2nd Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Kossi Amouzouvi 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 - Second Call for Workshops and Tutorials 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 03-05, 2025 Important Dates for Workshops: - *Proposals WS Deadline: March 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers): - *Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 11, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* *Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>* *SEMANTiCS Workshops and Tutorials* SEMANTiCS 2025 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2025 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives and/or challenges in these areas. Workshops and tutorials may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon request as well. *Scope and Goals* Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2025 allow your organization or project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility. The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the SEMANTiCS website, and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and tutorials can be incubators for industrial and scientific communities that form and share a particular research and development agenda, and they will provide a forum for presenting contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. *Proceedings* Workshop papers will be published in the SEMANTiCS side event proceedings through CEUR. Side events proceedings will include posters & demos and contributions from workshops. *Setup and Requirements* SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full-day long. Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after the main SEMANTiCS 2025 EU conference (03th of September 2025). Further details will be communicated in due time. Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets (only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will only be charged a reduced fee to cover the basic costs. Workshop and tutorial proposals must include the following information: - outline of the *themes and goals of the event*, including a title and a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2025 website. - a statement addressing *why the event is important*, *why the event is timely*, and how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2025 and the field of Semantic Web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a high-quality introduction to the topic. - *related workshops and conferences*, i.e., specifying if this is a continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop. Please provide information about past versions (in any) and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available). - a statement addressing the *quality assurance criteria* that will be used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and the presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation by event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be responsible for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be responsible also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers) and proceedings production. - *structure of the event* and plans for generating and stimulating discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event. - expected *number of event participants* and (in case of previously held events) number of registered attendees and website for previous editions of the event - a description of the intended *audience* and the expected learning *outcomes.* - desired *prerequisite* knowledge of the audience. - proposed *duration of the event* (i.e., half or full day), different sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance with the SEMANTiCS program). - any *equipment*, room capacity, or other logistic constraints. - full *contact information* of all organizers of the event and main contact person; a brief description of each *organizer's background*, including relevant past experience in organizing events. Proposals for workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via Easychair: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025> (max 4 pages) *Important Dates* Important Dates for Workshops: - *Proposals WS Deadline: 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Workshop website is online: April 15th, 2025* *Suggested* dates for Workshop organizers (with Call for Papers) - *Submission WS papers Deadline: June 14, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: July 05, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers): - *Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 11, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* *Review and Evaluation Criteria* Workshop and tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2025 Workshop Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2025 organizing committee, according to the following criteria: - The potential to advance the state of Semantic Web research and practice - The quality assurance criteria proposed by the organizers to select high-quality papers for workshops and presenters for tutorials - The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event - Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics - The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2025 events *Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):* - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Interplay between Large Language Models, generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval Augmented Generation) - Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs - Semantics in Data Science - Semantics in Blockchain environments - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems - Provenance and Data Change Tracking - Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data - User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) - Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: - Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and Preventive Healthcare - Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches - AI for Environmental Challenges - Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs - AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions - Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0 - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage - LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act - Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop proposals on *emerging themes* and *open challenges* for the topics listed above are encouraged. In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair. We are looking forward to your contribution! *Workshop & Tutorial Chairs:* - Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (email: daniel.garijo(a)upm.es) - David Chaves-Fraga, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain (email: david.chaves(a)usc.es) Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee. ========================= Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden -- DISCLAIMER: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and you are herewith notified that the contents are legally privileged and that you do not have permission to disclose the contents to anyone, make copies thereof, retain or distribute or act upon it by any means, electronically, digitally or in print. The views expressed in this communication may be of a personal nature and not be representative of AIMS-NEI and/or any of its Centres or Initiatives.

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Call for Track Proposals - FIRE 2025 - Annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation - December in Varanasi
by Thomas Mandl 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

*Call for Tracks* *FIRE 2025: 17th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi 17th - 20th December Website: fire.irsi.org.in <http://fire.irsi.org.in/> *Call for Tracks* We invite proposals for offering evaluation tracks at FIRE 2025. FIRE 2025 is the 17th edition of the annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (fire.irsi.org.in). Since its inception in 2008, FIRE had a strong focus on shared tasks similar to those offered at Evaluation forums like TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. The shared tasks focus on solving specific problems in the area information access and, more importantly help in generating evaluation datasets for the research community. It is not required for the tasks to focus on a specific language, and they can broadly cover any problem in the fields related (but not limited) to IR, NLP, multi-modal information access, and ML. However, the organizers especially encourage proposals for tracks related to South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages. In the past, FIRE has hosted tracks from Arabic, Persian, German, Russian, and Urdu languages besides several Indian languages. We aim to continue these efforts and include more language groups from these regions. For knowing more about tracks in past FIRE meetings, you can visit fire.irsi.org.in <http://fire.irsi.org.in> Informal inquiries can also be sent to the track chairs. Please include the following details in your proposal: 1. Track name 2. Track description 3. Use case/s 4. Target Audience and number of expected submissions 5. Data(*) (Fair Details) 6. Evaluation plan 7. Timeline: Please try to align with the FIRE conference dates as given below 8. Organizer/s Details 9. Prior experience in organizing shared task/workshop at relevant venues *Tentative Timeline* *23rd March, 2025* Track proposals due *10th April, 2025* Track acceptance notification *15th May, 2025* Open track websites and release of training data *15th June, 2025* Test data release *30th June, 2025* Run submission deadline *15th July, 2025* Track results declaration *30th August, 2025* Working notes due *30th September, 2025* Camera-ready copies of working notes and overview paper due *17th December, 2025* FIRE Conference Please send these details in a pdf format to clia(a)isical.ac.in with a copy to fire2025(a)itbhu.ac.in , kripa.ghosh(a)gmail.com and mandl(a)uni-hildesheim.de (*) We require that after FIRE, the data should be made publicly available through Information Retrieval Society of India. In case, data can not be distributed publicly (e.g., Twitter data), a unique identifier that can be used to recreate the original corpus can be provided (e.g., tweet ids in case of Twitter data). This disbursal will be governed by a copyright form, which the users have to sign before getting the data. A sample form is available at ( fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data <http://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data> ).

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CFP-Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2025) -reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2025) at LDK 2025 – 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge The broader objective of LT-EDI-2025 will be - To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for EDI. - To promote research in inclusive LT. - To adopt and adapt appropriate LT models to suit EDI. - To provide opportunities for researchers from the LT community around the world to collaborate with other researchers to identify and propose possible solutions for the challenges of EDI. Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create LT of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people. *Call for Papers:* Our main theme in this workshop is equality, diversity, and inclusion in LT. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit datasets, mitigating these issues, as well as papers reporting on these issues. We also encourage qualitative studies related to these issues and papers discussing how to mitigate these issues. LT-EDI-2025 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any languages that contribute to research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical applications or improving resources. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* - Data set development to include EDI. - Gender inclusivity in LT. - LGBTQ+ inclusivity in LT. - Racial inclusivity in LT. - Persons with disability inclusivity in LT. - Speech and language recognition for minority groups. - Unconscious bias and how to avoid them in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and other applications of LT. - Tackling rumors and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. - Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. - Counter-narrative applied over LGBTQ+ minorities. *Submission Link: * *https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Workshop/LT-EDI* <https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Workshop/LT-EDI> - Workshop paper due: 15 May 2025 - Notification of acceptance: 12 June 2025 - Camera-ready papers due: 26 June 2025 - Workshop dates: 9 September 2025 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar… <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar…>

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): Second Call for Papers
by Announce 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

*** Second Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) December 12-13, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) The annual IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG) provides a premier international forum for presentation of original research results in knowledge discovery and graph learning, discussion of opportunities and challenges, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning • Knowledge engineering with big data. • Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. • Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. • Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. • Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. • Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. • Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. • Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. • Ontologies and reasoning. • Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. • Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. • Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. • Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. • Big knowledge systems and applications. • Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. • Large language models and applications • Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. • Datasets and benchmarks for graphs • Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems • Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. • Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building • Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. • Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model • Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning • Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database • Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. • Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. • Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “Survey:”, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled “A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”, should be changed as “Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as “Survey:”, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “SS##:”, where “##” is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled “Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as “SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (abstract and full paper): July 15, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2025 • Camera-ready deadline and copyright forms: October 15, 2025 • Early Registration Deadline: Oct. 29, 2025 • Conference: December 12-13, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference and Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chair • Dan Guo, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs • Cesare Alippi, Università della Svizzera italiana • Shirui Pan, Griffith University Local Organising Vice Chair • Irene Kinlanioti, National Technical University of Athens Finance Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee Chair • Xindong Wu, Hefei University Of Technology

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