March 2025 - Corpora

New Publication: Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube
by cotgrove＠ids-mannheim.de 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

New Publication! Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube Louis Cotgrove This book explores the vibrant linguistic world of young speakers through their YouTube comments. Combining linguistics, youth language and digitally mediated communication, this study is anchored in the groundbreaking NottDeuYTSch corpus, a collection of over 33 million words taken from YouTube comments spanning a decade (2008-2018). The book examines lexical, morphological, syntactic, and orthographic phenomena through three detailed corpus linguistic case studies. From the development of iconic slang terms to non-standard syntax and the creative use of graphical characters, Abogeil! reveals how young people innovate and reshape language in digital spaces. Essential for linguists, educators and anyone interested in digital youth culture, this work highlights the intersection of language, technology and identity in the 21st century. Open access: https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13056 Order it (for your libraries or personal collection): https://buchshop.ids-mannheim.de/publikationen/amades/042e63b29f0a79101.php What people are saying about Abogeil! "The cover has a big play button on it but when I press it nothing happens" Dr. S. Wolfer (no relation) "What does Abogeil signify? Can you tell me so I don't need to read the book?" F. de Saussure (no relation) "I always want to know what my children are writing online. Now with Abogeil! I understand their messages from seven years ago!" L. Cotgrove (no relation)

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CfP: The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
by Pablo Gamallo 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25) Track of EPIA’25* PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts. [1] *Track Description* The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline. [2] *Topics of Interest* Theories, Algorithms and Models - Language and Cognitive Modeling - Tagging, Chunking and Parsing - Morphology and Word Segmentation - Natural Language Generation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics and Text Inference - Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition - Entailment and Paraphrases - Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation - Natural language understanding - Language modeling - Mathematical Properties of Language - NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications - Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization - Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining - Computational Social Science - Multi-Word Units - Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining - Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining - Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction - Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems - Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting - Web Content Annotation - Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications - Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis [3] *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 [4] *Paper submission* Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025 submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another venue during the EPIA 2025 review period. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set out in the Springer Nature code of conduct. [5] *Track Fees:* Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference. [6] *Organizing Committee:* Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Irene Rodrigues, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Alípio Jorge, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto [7] *Contacts:* Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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2nd CFP: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
by Lasha Abzianidze 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks - Generalization of NLU&R systems - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu), 28 July-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany). The submission deadline is 25 April 2025. Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva -- Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor at Utrecht University Institute for Language Sciences

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Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship, The University of Manchester- NLP-Medical LLMs
by Sophia Ananiadou 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

An exciting job opportunity at the University of Manchester for an outstanding researcher in NLP/LLMs. The fellowship is for 5 years and associated with the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence https://www.bhf-cre.manchester.ac.uk/ and the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering. Areas of interest for this post: Development of a Foundation Clinical LLM for the Cardiovascular Domain. Trustworthy, explainable multimodal LLMs for Medicine. Further details about the fellowship and how to apply here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=31702 Deadline of applications: 7th April 2025. ---------- Professor Sophia Ananiadou Department of Computer Science Director, National Centre for Text Mining Deputy Director, Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence ELLIS Fellow sophia.ananiadou(a)manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester

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HealTAC 2025 - extended deadline for contributions (April 4th)
by Bea Alex 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

---------------------------- HealTAC 2025 June 16-18th, 2025, Glasgow (UK) https://healtac2025.github.io/ ---------------------------- 1) Call for contributions – deadline extended to 4 April 2) Keynotes, panels and workshop 3) Registration fees 4) Key dates ---------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Call for contributions - reminder ---------------------------------------- The 8th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2025) invites contributions that address any aspect of healthcare text analytics. We invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts that describe either methodological or application work that has not been previously presented in a conference. Submissions (up to 2 pages) should be prepared based on a template that is available at the conference web site. We also invite PhD and fellowship project submissions that describe ongoing PhD research (any stage) or a planned fellowship application. The conference will provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts. Deadline for all submissions is now April 4th, 2025. As in previous years, there will be a post-conference call to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in Frontiers in Digital Health. ---------------------------- Programme ---------------------------- We are delighted to announce keynotes by Dr Jason Fries from Stanford University and Dr Alison O'Neil from Canon Medical Research, and panels on "Opportunities and challenges in LLMs for health research: social inequalities, bias detection, and mitigation " and "Challenges in AI deployment within NHS" (industry forum). A pre-conference workshop on June 16th will focus on "NLP in mental healthcare and research" (https://healtac2025.github.io/workshop/). ---------------------------- Registration fees ---------------------------- Due to generous support from Health Data Research UK, CogStack, Frontiers, University of Glasgow, Research Data Scotland and Healtex, we will keep the registration fee low as before: an early registration fee for students is £100 and for others £200, and includes the full 3-day programme, lunches and the conference dinner. ---------------------------- Key dates ---------------------------- Deadline for all contributions: April 4th 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 18th 2025 Early-bird registration: by May 16th 2025 Pre-conference workshop: June 16th 2025 Conference: June 17-18th 2025 Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2025 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2025. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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2nd call for papers: 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025)
by heike.zinsmeister＠uni-hamburg.de 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

The 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to TLT 2025: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ ----------------------------- INVITED TALK ----------------------------- Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. SyntaxFest joint submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025 ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * April 15, 2025: Paper submission deadline * June 2, 2025: Notification of acceptance * June 16, 2025: Camera-ready papers due * August 26-29, 2025: SyntaxFest conference (about two workshop days for TLT; attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole SyntaxFest.) All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). ----------------------------- TLT2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- * Sarah Jablotschkin, University of Hamburg * Sandra Kübler, Indiana University * Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg Contact: tlt2025.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html

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Call for Papers: DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
by Fernando Batista 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

============================================================= DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> ============================================================= We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is “Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View“. The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and is proudly sponsored by ISCA. We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025 - Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025 - DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template <https://www.interspeech2025.org/author-resources> (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025>. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers. COMMITTEES Organizers - Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden - Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Publicity Chair - Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Local Organisation - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Scientific Committee - Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain - Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon - Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France - Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA - David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain - David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa - Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy - Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon - Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal - George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece - Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France - Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden - Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany - Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden - João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA - Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany - Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan - Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan - Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France - Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon - Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany - Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland - Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil - Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan - Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal - Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/ <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> Any questions should be directed to: diss2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:diss2025@googlegroups.com> We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event! — The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee

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2nd Call for NTCIR-19 Task Proposals (Due: March 31st, 2025)
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, (Apologize if you received multiple emails from different mailing lists) We are delighted to share the 2nd call for task proposals for NTCIR-19. NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999, and the latest NTCIR-18 conference will be held on June 10-13, 2025. Research teams from all over the world participate in one or more NTCIR tasks to advance the state of the art and to learn from one another's experiences. It is time to call for task proposals for the next NTCIR (NTCIR-19), which will start in September 2025 and conclude in December 2026. Task proposals will be reviewed by the NTCIR Program Committee, and organizers of accepted tasks will have a chance to present their proposed tasks at the NTCIR-18 Conference held in NII, Tokyo, Japan, from June 10-13, 2025. * IMPORTANT DATES: *March 31, 2025: Task Proposal Submission Due (Anywhere on Earth)*May 15, 2025: Acceptance Notification of Task Proposals June 10-13, 2025: NTCIR-18 Conference (Organizers of accepted tasks have a chance to present their proposed tasks) * SUBMISSION LINK: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal>* * NTCIR-19 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: January 2026: Dataset release* January-June 2026: Dry run* March-July 2026: Formal run* August 1, 2026: Evaluation results return August 1, 2026: Task overview release (draft) September 1, 2026: Submission due of participant papers (draft) November 1, 2026: Camera-ready participant paper due December 2026: NTCIR-19 Conference at NII, Tokyo, Japan (* indicates that the schedule can be different for different tasks) * WHO SHOULD SUBMIT NTCIR-19 TASK PROPOSALS? We invite new task proposals within the expansive field of information access. Organizing an evaluation task entails pinpointing significant research challenges, strategically addressing them through collaboration with fellow researchers (including co-organizers and participants), developing the requisite evaluation framework to propel advancements in the state of the art, and generating a meaningful impact on both the research community and future developments. Prospective applicants are urged to underscore the real-world applicability of their proposed tasks by utilizing authentic data, focusing on practical tasks, and solving tangible problems. Additionally, they should confront challenges in evaluating information access technology, such as the extensive number of assessments needed for evaluation, ensuring privacy while using proprietary data, and conducting live tests with actual users. In the era of large language models (LLMs), these models are anticipated to significantly influence daily human activities. Nonetheless, the content produced by LLMs often exhibits issues, such as hallucinations. NTCIR-19 encourages tasks that focus on the evaluation of the quality of content generated by LLMs continued from NTCIR-18 as well as information access exploiting LLMs, including generative information retrieval (IR), IR using generative queries, conversational search using generated utterances, evaluation using LLM (relevance judgements or language annotation using LLM), and RAG. * PROPOSAL TYPES: We will accept two types of task proposals: - Proposal of a Core task: This is for fostering research on a particular information access problem by providing researchers with a common ground for evaluation. New test collections and evaluation methods may be developed through the collaboration between task organizers (proposers) and task participants. At NTCIR-18, the core tasks are AEOLLM, FairWeb-2, FinArg-2, Lifelog-6, MedNLP-CHAT, RadNLP, and Transfer-2. Details can be found at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html. - Proposal of a Pilot task: This is recommended for organizers who propose to focus on a novel information access problem, and there are uncertainties either in task design or organization. It may focus on a sub-problem of an information access problem and attract a smaller group of participating teams than core tasks. However, it may grow into a core challenging task in the next round of NTCIR. At NTCIR-18, the pilot tasks are HIDDEN-RAD, SUSHI, and U4. Details can be found at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html. Organizers are expected to run their tasks mainly with their own funding and to make the task as self-sustaining as possible. A part of the fund can be supported by NTCIR, which is called "seed funding." It is usually used for some limited purposes such as hiring relevance assessors. The seed funding allocated to each task varies depending on requirements and the number of accepted tasks. Typical cases would be around 1M JPY for a core task and around 0.5M JPY for a pilot task (note that the amount is subject to change). Please submit your task proposal as a PDF file via EasyChair by March 31, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth). https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal * TASK PROPOSAL FORMAT: The proposal should not exceed four pages in A4 single-column format. The first three pages should contain the main part and appendix, and the last page should contain only a description of the data to be used in the task. Please describe the data in as much detail as possible so that we can help your data release process after the proposal is accepted. In the past NTCIRs, it took much time to create memorandums for data release, which sometimes slowed down the task organization. Main part - Task name and short name - Task type (core or pilot) - Abstract - Motivation - Methodology - Expected results Appendix - Names and contact information of the organizers - Prospective participants - Data to be used and/or constructed - Budget planning - Schedule - Other notes Data (to be used in your task) - Details (Please describe the details of the data, which should include the source of the data, methods to collect the data, range of the data, etc.) - License (Please make sure that you have a license to distribute the data, and details of the license should be provided. If you do not have permission to release the data yet, please describe your plan to get the permission.) - Distribution (Please describe how you plan to distribute the data to participants. There are mainly three choices: distributed by the data provider, distributed by organizers, and distributed by NII.) - Legal / Ethical issues (If the data can cause legal or ethical problems, please describe how you propose to address them. e.g., some medical data may need approval from an ethical committee. e.g., some Web data may need filtering for excluding discriminative messages.) If you want NII to distribute your data to task participants on your behalf, please email ntc-admin(a)nii.ac.jp before your task proposal submission attaching the task proposal. * REVIEW CRITERIA: - Importance of the task to the information access community and the society - Timeliness of the task - Organizers’ commitment in ensuring a successful task - Financial sustainability (self-sustainable tasks are encouraged) - Soundness of the evaluation methodology - Detailed description about the data to be used - Language scope * NTCIR-19 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University, China) Chung-Chi Chen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan) * NTCIR-19 GENERAL CHAIRS: Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada) Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

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Job opening: Researcher for Computational Literary Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
by Kostik1＠gmx.net 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, applications are invited for a Research Assistant position on research infrastructure for computational literary studies in the Institute for Classical Philology at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany). Contract Type: Fixed-term until 31 October 2026 Applications: https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibung… Salary: €57,708 to €82,023 per annum, depending on qualification and experience We are seeking a Research Assistant to work in Computational Literary Studies, as part of the Daidalos project (funded by the German Research Foundation), which is hosted at Humboldt University Berlin. The Daidalos project (https://daidalos-projekt.de) is building a research infrastructure that enables low-threshold access to computational literary studies methods in classical philology. The aim is to enable anyone who wants to conduct digitally supported research on Latin or Ancient Greek texts to carry out this research on their own corpus using the software. You will be expected to coordinate the project, organize workshops throughout the country, work with the community and help with publications. For these tasks, you will familiarize yourself with Digital Humanities in general, and natural language processing in particular. This is an opportunity to work on an aspiring national research infrastructure for Classics in Germany. The project group is well-known and held in great esteem by the relevant community. The advertised position offers excellent opportunities for publications and conference trips. Candidates must have a master's degree, solid knowledge of Latin or Ancient Greek, and excellent German language proficiency. Experience with digital humanities, user experience design or scientific editorship is a plus. For information questions, please contact Dr. Andrea Beyer (daidalos-projekt(a)hu-berlin.de). Kind regards, Konstantin Schulz

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BioCreative IX Challenge and Workshop CFP: Large Language Models for Clinical and Biomedical NLP at IJCAI
by Islamaj, Rezarta (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

BioCreative IX Challenge and Workshop CFP Large Language Models for Clinical and Biomedical NLP at IJCAI Where, When: The BioCreative IX workshop<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative9> will run with IJCAI 2025<https://2025.ijcai.org/>, August 16-22, 2025, In Montreal, CA. BioCreative IX: The 9th BioCreative workshop seeks to attract researchers interested in developing and evaluating automatic methods of extracting medically relevant information from clinical data and aims to bring together the medical NLP community and the healthcare researchers and practitioners. The challenge tracks explore MedHopQA, a dataset for benchmarking LLM-based reasoning systems with disease-centered question answers, ToxHabits, a task exploring the information extraction related to substance use and abuse in Spanish clinical content, and Sentence segmentation of real clinical notes using MIMIC-II clinical notes. We also will feature paper submissions on relevant topics and poster/tool demonstrations. Important Dates March - April: Team Registration May 12, 2025: Testing predictions, Evaluation results May 19, 2025: Submission of participants papers deadline Jun 06, 2025: Notification of accepted papers deadline Aug 16- Aug 22 2025: IJCAI 2025 Workshop Proceedings and Special Issue: The BioCreative IX Proceedings will host all the submissions from participating teams, and they will be freely available by the time of the workshop. In addition, select papers will be invited for a journal BioCreative IX special issue for work that passes their peer-review process. More details and information to submit will be posted in June. Participation: Teams can participate in one or more of these tracks. Team registration will continue until April 30th, when final commitment is requested. To register a team go to the Registration Form<https://forms.gle/xbQp158cn5pgJ1oj9>. If you have restrictions accessing Google forms please send e-mail to BiocreativeChallenge(a)gmail.com. Call for Papers We welcome submissions on work that describes research on similar topics to the three challenges, as well as: * Development of benchmarking datasets for clinical NLP * Creating and evaluating synthetic data using LLMs and its impact for downstream tasks * Creative use of data augmentation for increasing tool accuracy and trustworthiness * Use of LLMs to streamline annotation tasks * NLP-systems capable of identifying entities in multilingual corpora * NLP-systems capable of semantic interoperability across different terminologies/ ontologies for efficient data curation * Integrating ontologies and knowledge bases for factual LLM production * Annotated corpora and other resources for health care and biomedical data modelling All submissions will be considered for poster presentations and tool demonstrations at the workshop. BioCreative IX Tracks: Track 1: MedHopQA Large language models (LLMs) are commonly evaluated on their capabilities to answer questions in various domains, and it has become clear that robust QA datasets are critical to ensure proper evaluation of LLMs prior to their deployment in real-world biomedical or healthcare related applications. This track aims to advance the development of LLM-based systems that are capable of answering questions that involve multi-step reasoning. We have created a resource consisting of 1,000 question-answer pairs - focusing on diseases, genes and chemicals, mostly pertaining to rare diseases - based on public information in Wikipedia. The participants are encouraged to use any training data they wish to design and develop their NLP system agents that understand asserted information on genes, diseases, chemicals etc. and are able to answer multi-step reasoning questions involving such information. This track builds on the previous success in biomedical QA benchmarking (e.g., PubMedQA and BioASQ, MedQA) but differs from them in the fact that for MedHopQA it is necessary to employ a multi-step reasoning process to find the correct answer. Track 3: ToxHabits There is a pressing need to extract information related to substance use and abuse more systematically, including not only smoking and alcohol abuse but also other harmful drugs and substances from clinical content. These toxic habits have a considerable health impact on a variety of medical conditions and also affect the action of prescribed medications. To make such information actionable, it is critical to not only detect instances of consumption, but also to characterize certain aspects related to it, such as duration or mode of administration. Some initial efforts have been made to automatically detect social determinants of health, including smoking status, for content in English, but very limited efforts have been made for content in other languages. Therefore, we propose the ToxHabits track to address the automatic extraction of substance use and abuse information from clinical cases in Spanish. This task will consist of three subtasks: (a) toxic habit mention recognition, (b) detection of relevant clinical modifiers related to substance abuse, as well as (c) toxic habit condition QA challenge. Track 2: Sentence segmentation of real-life clinical notes Sentence segmentation is a fundamental linguistic task and is widely used as a pre-processing step in many NLP tasks. Although the development of LLMs and the sparse attention mechanism in transformer networks have reduced the necessity of sentence level inputs in some NLP tasks, many models are designed and tested only for shorter sequences. The need for sentence segmentation is particularly pronounced in clinical notes, as most clinical NLP tasks depend on this information for annotation and model training. In this shared task, we challenge participants to detect sentence boundaries (spans) for MIMIC-III clinical notes, where fragmented and incomplete sentences, complex graphemic devices (e.g. abbreviations, and acronyms), and markups are common. To encourage generalizability to multi-domain texts, participants will receive annotated texts from newswire articles and biomedical literature, in addition to clinical notes, for model development and evaluation. Organizing Committee * Dr. Rezarta Islamaj, National Library of Medicine * Dr. Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center * Dr. Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Dr. Zhiyong Lu, National Library of Medicine ---------------------------------------------------------- Rezarta Islamaj National Library of Medicine Rezarta.Islamaj(a)nih.gov<mailto:Rezarta.Islamaj@nih.gov>

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