April 2025 - Corpora

3-year PhD position in Computational Models of Semantic Memory and its Acquisition (Inria and University of Lille, France)
by Pascal Denis 13 May '25

13 May '25

Hello, Could you please distribute the following job offer? Thanks. Best, Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-year PhD position in Computational Models of Semantic Memory and its Acquisition (Inria and University of Lille, France) We invite applications for a 3-year PhD position at the University of Lille in the context of the recently funded research project "COMANCHE" (Computational Models of Lexical Meaning and Change). The position is funded by Inria, the French national research institute in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. COMANCHE proposes to transfer and adapt neural word embeddings algorithms to model the acquisition and evolution of word meaning, by comparing them with linguistic theories on language acquisition and language evolution. At the intersection between Natural Language Processing, psycholinguistics and historical linguistics, this project intends to validate or revise some of these theories, while also developing computational models that are less data hungry and computationally intensive as they exploit new inductive biases inspired by these disciplines. The first strand of the project, on which the successful candidate will work, focuses on the development of computational models of semantic memory and its acquisition. Two main research directions will be pursued. On the one hand, we will compare the structural properties associated to different semantic spaces derived from word embedding algorithms to those found in human semantic memory as reflected in behavioral data (such as typicality norms) as well as brain imaging data. The latter data will then used as additional supervision to inject more hierarchical structure into the learned semantic spaces. One the other hand, we intend to experiment with training regimes for word embedding algorithms that are closer to those of humans when they acquire language, controlling the quantity as well as the linguistic complexity of the inputs fed to the learning algorithms through the use of longitudinal and child directed speech corpora (e.g., CHILDES, Colaje). In both cases, both English and French data will be considered. The successful candidate holds a Master's degree in computational linguistics or computer science or cognitive science and has prior experience in word embedding models. Furthermore, the candidate will provide strong programming skills, expertise in machine learning approaches and is eager to work across languages. The position is affiliated with the MAGNET team at Inria, Lille [1] as well as with the SCALAB group at University of Lille [2] in an effort to strenghten collaborations between these two groups, and ultimately foster cross-fertilizations between Natural Language Processing and Psycholinguistics. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as we shall start processing the applications as and when they are received. Applications, written in English or French, should include a brief cover letter with research interests and vision, a CV (including your contact address, work experience, publications), and contact information for at least 2 referees. Applications (and questions) should be sent to Angèle Brunellière (angele.brunelliere(a)univ-lille.fr) and Pascal Denis (pascal.denis(a)inria.fr). The starting date of the position is 1 October 2022 or soon thereafter, for a total of 3 full years. Best regards, Angèle Brunellière and Pascal Denis [1] https://team.inria.fr/magnet/ [2] https://scalab.univ-lille.fr/ -- Pascal ---- Pour une évaluation indépendante, transparente et rigoureuse ! Je soutiens la Commission d'Évaluation de l'Inria. ---- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pascal Denis Equipe MAGNET, INRIA Lille Nord Europe Bâtiment B, Avenue Heloïse Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Tel: ++33 3 59 35 87 24 Url: http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/~pdenis/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Final CFP: MLP-LLM 2025 Workshop @ CORIA-TALN 2025
by Aman Sinha 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

**** French version below **** * Workshop on Medical Language Processing in the era of Large Language Models (MLP-LLM 2025) * Colocated with CORIA-TALN 2025 -- 30 June 2025 , Marseille Deadline : 30th April 2025 (UTC-12/Anywhere on Earth) * Call for Papers * [ https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ | https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ ] The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing across various domains, including healthcare. However, the complexities of medical language—marked by specialized terminologies, the use of abbreviations and code ontologies such as ICD, UMLS or SNOMED, implicit contextual dependencies (based on the context, the medication information may be different: temporality, action, certainty, etc.) —pose unique challenges and opportunities. Medical NLP is at critical stakes, given the importance of finding the right diagnosis and treatment for each patient. Moreover, the field of health includes not only the human aspect represented by the practitioner-patient relationship, but also the contact with the biological world (animals, plants, viruses, microbes). This workshop, MLP-LLM, aims to bring together researchers from NLP, medicine, bioNLP and linguistics to explore advancements, limitations, and ethical considerations of using LLMs in medical contexts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Fine-tuning and adapting LLMs for medical applications and for different languages. * Addressing biases in medical language understanding along with LLM hallucinations. * Proposing evaluation methods to assess the quality of medical NLP tools. * Ensuring transparency, interpretability, and uncertainty awareness in medical AI systems. * Developing domain-specific benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in healthcare. * Developing applications for LLMs in clinical decision support, medical transcription and communication between practitioners and patients. Keynote speaker : Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille We welcome articles that are: * new contributions, * state-of-the-art articles, * work in progress, * short/translated version of a paper accepted at a major conference. Important Dates : * Submission Due: 30 April 2025 * Author Notification: 12 May 2025 * Camera ready: 16 May 2025 * Workshop: 30 June 2025 Submissions are accepted both in English or French. Contact : Workshop Organizers ( [ mailto:mlpllm2025@gmail.com | mlpllm2025(a)gmail.com) ] Ioana Buhnila ( [ mailto:ioana.buhnila@univ-lorraine.fr | ioana.buhnila(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) Aman Sinha ( [ mailto:aman.sinha@univ-lorraine.fr | aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) ------------------------------ --------------------------- **** V ersion anglaise ci-dessus **** * L'atelier Traitement du langage médical à l'époque des LLMs (MLP-LLM 2025) * Coloc avec CORIA-TALN 2025 -- 30 juin 2025, Marseille * Appel à communications * [ https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ | https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ ] L’avènement des grands modèles de langue (LLMs) a révolutionné le traitement automatique des langues dans divers domaines, y compris la santé. Cependant, la complexité du langage médical - marquée par des terminologies spécialisées, l’utilisation des abréviations et des ontologies médicales de type CIM, UMLS or SNOMED, des dépendances contextuelles implicites (dans un contexte donné, le contenu médical peut changer en fonction de la temporalité, l’événement ou le degré de certitude) - pose des défis et des opportunités uniques. Le TAL médical peut aider les praticiens hospitaliers dans le diagnostic et le traitement des patients. De plus, le domaine de la santé comprend non seulement l’aspect humain représenté par la relation praticien-patient, mais également le contact avec le monde biologique (animaux, plantes, virus, microbes). Cet atelier, MLP-LLM, vise à rassembler des chercheurs en TAL, bioinformatique, médecine et linguistique afin d’explorer les avancées, les limites et les considérations éthiques de l’utilisation des LLMs dans des contextes médicaux. Les sujets d’intérêt incluent, mais ne sont pas limités à: * Affiner et adapter les LLMs pour les applications médicales et pour différentes langues. * Proposer des méthodes d’évaluation adaptées au domaine médical. * Traiter les biais dans la compréhension du langage médical et les hallucinations des LLMs. * Garantir la transparence, l’interprétabilité, le niveau de certitude et la responsabilité dans les systèmes d’IA médicale. * Développer des benchmarks spécifiques au domaine pour évaluer les LLMs dans le domaine de la santé. * Développer des applications des LLMs dans l’aide à la décision clinique, la transcription médicale et la communication entre les praticiens et les patients. Keynote speaker : Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille Les types d'article acceptés sont: * contribution nouvelle, * état de l'art, * travaux en cours, * version courte/traduite d'un article accepté dans une grande conférence. Calendrier de l'appel : * Soumission des articles: 30 Avril 2025 * Notification aux auteurs: 12 Mai 2025 * Version finale: 16 Mai 2025 * Atelier : 30 Juin 2025 Les soumissions sont acceptées en anglais ou en français. Contact : Workshop Organizers ( [ mailto:mlpllm2025@gmail.com | mlpllm2025(a)gmail.com) ] Ioana Buhnila ( [ mailto:ioana.buhnila@univ-lorraine.fr | ioana.buhnila(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) Aman Sinha ( [ mailto:aman.sinha@univ-lorraine.fr | aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) ᐧ ᐧ

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PAN @ CLEF 2025: Shared Tasks on Authorship Analysis, Computational Ethics, and Originality
by Matti Wiegmann 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

PAN @ CLEF 2025: Shared Tasks on Authorship Analysis, Computational Ethics, and Originality Call for Participation We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2025 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Madrid, Spain. 1. Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection. Subtask 1: Given a (potentially obfuscated) text, decide whether it was written by a human or an AI. Subtask 2: Given a document collaboratively authored by human and AI, classify the extent to which the model assisted. https://pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25-web/generated-content-analysis.html 2. Multilingual Text Detoxification. Given a toxic piece of text, re-write it in a non-toxic way while saving the main content as much as possible. https://pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25-web/text-detoxification.html 3. Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis. Given a document, determine at which positions the author changes. https://pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25-web/style-change-detection.html 4. Generative Plagiarism Detection. Given a pair of documents, your task is to identify all contiguous maximal-length passages of reused text between them. https://pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25-web/generated-plagiarism-detection Find out more at https://pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25-web Important Dates -------------------------- now Training Data Released May 23, 2025 Software submission May 30, 2025 Participant paper submission June 27, 2025 Peer review notification July 07, 2025 Camera-ready participant papers submission Sep 09-12, 2025 Conference Links -------------------------- PAN: https://pan.webis.de Contact: pan(a)webis.de We are looking forward to your submission! The PAN team

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CFP - First International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa 2025)
by Ligeti-Nagy Noémi 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

First International Workshop on Language and Language Models WoLaLa 2025 | Budapest (Hungary) | 20-21 November 2025 The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (HUN-REN) invites submissions to the 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models. This workshop is designed as a dedicated forum for scholars and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) to discuss and evaluate large language models from an SSH perspective, and to share best practices that can advance research and applications within these fields. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 30 June 2025: Submission deadline 15 September 2025: Notification of acceptance 20 November – 21 November 2025: Workshop in Budapest 15 January 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=wolala2025> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the topics listed above Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct; methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. Proceedings Selected papers will be published in Acta Linguistica Academica <https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2062/2062-overview.xml>. After acceptance notifications, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Conference Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Gábor Prószéky, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Tamás Váradi, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom LINKS 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=wolala2025 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3 Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu <mailto:info@wolala.nytud.hu> On behalf of the local organizers, Dr. Ligeti-Nagy Noémi / Noémi Ligeti-Nagy, PhD tudományos munkatárs / research fellow Nyelvtechnológiai Kutatócsoport / Language Technology Research Group HUN-REN Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont / HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics 1068 Budapest, Benczúr utca 33.

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BAWESS project Disciplinary Literacy Symposium
by David Beauchamp 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear Corpus Linguists, This symposium may be of interest to those of you involved in educational corpus linguistics and disciplinary literacy. It is part of the University of Bath's British Academic Written English Secondary School (BAWESS) project. Dear All, We are thrilled to announce that the registration for the University of Bath’s 2<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…>nd<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…> Disciplinary Literacy Symposium<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…>, on the 26th and 27th June 2025 at the University of Bath and the Royal High School Bath is now open. The Symposium brings together leading education specialists, linguists and academics in the field, who will present and discuss their latest work on topics, such as: * The literacy skills pupils need to succeed and how they differ across disciplines * The type of texts student write in different disciplines * The structure and language of long answers written in exams * How to teach writing explicitly in different disciplines * Cross-disciplinary and Teacher/Researcher Collaboration * Teacher Professional Development * Language and literacy expectations at a tertiary level The Symposium, hosted by the Disciplinary literacy & corpus-based pedagogy: The BAWESS project<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/disciplinary-li…> team, is aimed at teachers and language education researchers. The event promises excellent opportunities for discussion, knowledge exchange, professional development and networking. Join us to hear about current research and approaches from leading researchers and teachers working in the field: Lee McCallum, David Beauchamp, Hadrian Briggs, Natalie Cheers, Honglin Chen, Bev Derewianka, Yaegan Doran, Philip Durrant, Gail Forey, Sheena Gardner, Meg Gebhard, Helen Handford, Sally Humphrey, Reka Jablonkai, Pauline Jones, Cassi Liardet, Ana Llinares, Erika Matruglio, Christian Matthiessen, Tom Morton, Nashwa Nashaat-Sobhy, Hilary Nesi, Dana Therova, Paul Thompson, Leah Tompkins, Winfred Wenhui Xuan. We’ve tried to make this as affordable as possible. The symposium will cost £15 for the Thursday, £25 for the Friday (incl. lunch and refreshments), or £35 for both. We will also live stream the event at a cost of £15 registration. See the attachment. For more details and to register visit the Symposium website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…>. Registration closes 19 June 2025. Spaces are limited, so please book early top avoid disappointment. Please share this will teachers and colleagues you think would be interested in joining a discussion on disciplinary literacy. All the best, Gail [cid:cf1a7453-a359-4858-b3bf-c9ba12487201] [cidimage001.png(a)01D6FFDF.923A9130] Prof Gail Forey Associate Dean (Education) Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Education My pronouns are: she/her University of Bath<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.bath.ac.uk/__;!!K7l7YuZ3_aFnun0eduI!…> Building 1 West North, 3.23b, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom | Telephone: +44 (0)1225 386355 | Email:g.forey@bath.ac.uk<mailto:g.forey@bath.ac.uk> [cid:c6c6a68d-9107-4f29-8dd3-8f7ed4e7487f]  David Beauchamp Post-graduate Researcher The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC) Coventry University Queen's Award for Enterprise International Trade 2022 Ranked in the top 50% of UK universities for research power Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021 Joint top Modern University for Career Prospects Guardian University Guide 2022 Top 40 in the World for International Students (ratio) QS World University Rankings 2025 NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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Webminar by André F. T. Martins (Universidade de Lisboa)
by HiTZ zentroa 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker: *André F. T. Martins (Universidade de Lisboa) *Title: *xCOMET, Tower, EuroLLM: Open & Multilingual LLMs for Europe *Date: *Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary: *Today, LLMs are Swiss knives and MT one of their tools. Is this the end of MT research? In this talk, I argue that the connection between LLM and MT research is two-way. I present some of our recent work advancing multilingual LLMs, tools to estimate their quality, and how the two can be combined for test-time scaling. First, I present xCOMET, an open-source learned metric which integrates sentence-level evaluation and error span detection, exhibiting state-of-the-art performance across all types of meta-evaluation (sentence-level, system-level, and error span detection). Moreover, it does so while highlighting and categorizing error spans, thus enriching the quality assessment. Then, I present Tower, a suite of open multilingual LLMs for translation-related tasks. Tower models are created through continued pretraining on a carefully curated multilingual mixture of monolingual and parallel data. The combination of Tower with COMET reranking obtained the best results in 8 out of 11 language pairs in the WMT General Translation shared task, according to human evaluation. Finally, I describe EuroLLM, an ongoing EU-made project whose goal is to train an open multilingual LLM from scratch using the European HPC infrastructure (EuroHPC). The last release (EuroLLM-9B) supports 35 languages, including all 24 official EU languages, and it achieves strong results in various benchmarks, comparable or better than the best existing models of similar size. xCOMET: https://huggingface.co/collections/Unbabel/xcomet-659eca973b3be2ae4ac023bb Tower: https://huggingface.co/collections/Unbabel/tower-659eaedfe36e6dd29eb1805c EuroLLM: https://huggingface.co/blog/eurollm-team/eurollm-9b *Bio: *André F. T. Martins (PhD 2012, Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico; https://andre-martins.github.io/) is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, and the VP of AI Research at Unbabel. His research, funded by a ERC Starting Grant (DeepSPIN) and Consolidator Grant (DECOLLAGE), among other grants, include machine translation, quality estimation, structure and interpretability in deep learning systems for NLP. His work has received several paper awards at ACL conferences. He co-founded and co-organizes the Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS), and he is a Fellow of the ELLIS society and co-director of the ELLIS Program in Natural Language Processing. He is a member of the R&I advisory group of EuroHPC, the European infrastructure for supercomputing. * Upcoming webinars:* · Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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[CFP] EMNLP 2025 Call for Demos
by ACL Announcements 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

EMNLP 2025 Call for Demos The EMNLP 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 EMNLP 2025 conference proceedings. We require at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at EMLP 2025, 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. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: Friday, July 4, 2025 Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Camera ready submission: Friday, September 19, 2025 Main Conference: November 5-9, 2025 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth") Note that there is no rebuttal stage. Submission Guidelines: Submissions must include the following: * A Paper * A paper submitted to accompany a demonstration should outline the design of the system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to natural language processing. * Technical details of the system are required, including visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams). A paper can do this by addressing the following questions: * What problem does the proposed system address? * Why is the system important and what is its impact? * What is the novelty in the approach/technology on which this system is based? * Who is the target audience? * How does the system work? * How does it compare with existing systems? * How is the system licensed? * How was the system evaluated? Were user studies/human evaluation experiments conducted? Note that this year, submissions that do not report any form of evaluation may be desk rejected. Paper submission is electronic, using the OpenReview conference management system. The submission site can be found at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/System_Demonstrations [1] Submissions can contain up to 6 pages (longer submissions will be desk rejected), plus unlimited extra space for an optional ethics/broader impact statement and also unlimited space for references and informative appendices. Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Submissions must conform to the EMNLP 2025 official style guidelines and they must be in PDF format. Style files should meet the requirements of the EMNLP main conference. Submissions need to describe original, unpublished work, as publication in EMNLP will be archival. Any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines and page limits will be desk rejected. A Demonstration Video A short (at most 2.5 minutes) screencast video demonstrating the system together with your paper submission. This screencast will be used to evaluate the paper, but won't be published unless requested. For demos that can be presented on a screen, a screencast with audio narration is the most suitable format. If this is not feasible, a video showcasing user interaction with the system may be utilized. Production quality is not a priority, so we encourage to simply create a screencast of the software being demoed with minimal to no editing. We encourage publishing your video on YouTube or a similar site and including the link in your paper. If you prefer not to upload the video publicly, please submit it as supplementary material in MPEG4 format when you submit your paper through the official website. Live Demo Website or Installable Package A link to a live demo website; or a link to a downloadable installation package of the demo. Note that this is a strict requirement enforced this year, and submissions that do not provide links will be desk rejected. Exceptions will be made only in cases where sharing a link is clearly impossible, such as when special hardware is required. In such cases, authors must clearly state why a link cannot be provided. Multiple Submission Policy We follow the Multiple Submission Policy of the CFPs of the EMNLP 2025 main conference. The paper cannot be submitted elsewhere, while in review at EMNLP 2025. This policy covers all refereed and archival conferences and workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL workshops), as well as ARR. 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 the EMNLP 2025 System Demonstrations Track must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Reviewing Policy Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed. Ethics Policy Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACM Code of Ethics. The ethical impact of our research, the use of data, and potential applications of our work have always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns about their work. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 6th page for a broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. The EMNLP demonstration review form will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers will be further reviewed by an ethics committee. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted. Conversely, the mere inclusion of an ethical considerations section does not guarantee acceptance. In addition to acceptance or rejection, papers may receive a conditional acceptance recommendation. Camera-ready versions of papers designated as conditional accept will be re-reviewed by the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately addressed. Demonstration Co-chairs Ivan Habernal, RC Trust; Ruhr University Bochum Peter Schulam, Amazon AGI Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki Contact: emnlp25-demo-chairs(a)lists.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Links: ------ [1] https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/System_Demonstrations

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[CfP] UPDATED DEADLINE The 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP2025)
by LARP2025 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

[apologies for x-posting] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ======= LARP Language models And RePresentations September 8 - September 9, 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden ======= https://gu-clasp.github.io/LARP/index.html Invited speakers ---- Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania and Oracle Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology Important dates ---- - Submission deadline (archival): UPDATED! May 5, 2025 - Notification of acceptance (archival): June 20, 2025 - NEW!!! Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ACL ARR submissions: July 31, 2025 - Submission deadline (non-archival): August 1, 2025 - Notification of acceptance (non-archival): August 8, 2025 - Camera ready (archival): August 8, 2025 - Camera ready (ARR Commitments): August 15, 2025 - Registration deadline: TBA - Conference: September 8–9, 2025, University of Gothenburg, Sweden All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Language models And RePresentations (LARP) brings together researchers that explore how information is structured, encoded and used in computational language systems. We encourage submissions on both neural (sub-symbolic) and discrete (symbolic) representations from the fields of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence or their intersection. The conference is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/), University of Gothenburg. The conference will be held between September 8 and 9 in Gothenburg, Sweden (on-site and hybrid). Topics of interest ---- We hope to see innovative work that considers neural and symbolic learning and processing in terms of different modelling perspectives. Papers are invited on the following topics as they relate to natural language: - Neuro-symbolic integration: novel hybrid frameworks combining symbolic representations with neural network learning for enhanced reasoning and natural language processing - Explainable machine learning: techniques that allow for better interpretability, transparency, and explainability of neural, symbolic and neuro-symbolic architectures - Logical constraints in neural networks: methods that use logical structures (e.g., knowledge bases, ontologies) for post-hoc or inherent explainability - Automated reasoning systems providing human-interpretable rationales for decisions - Symbolic planning and control in neural workflows - Application-driven scenarios (robots, autonomous systems) showcasing benefits of symbolic approaches - Techniques that integrate symbolic representations into text or multimodal generation - Approaches that enforce domain knowledge, consistency, or adherence to constraints in text and/or multimodal generation - Fine-tuning and in-context learning strategies that incorporate logical or rule-based knowledge This list is illustrative but is not intended to be exhaustive. Submission Requirements ---- **Archival track** Archival track will feature the following types of submissions to appear in conference proceedings: we accept long papers (max 8 pages) and short papers (max 4 pages). Long and short papers must describe substantial, original, and unpublished research. Supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns do not count towards the page limit. Archival accepted papers will be published in the 2025 ACL Anthology as a CLASP Conference Proceedings. Papers should be electronically submitted via the OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. Submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Archival submissions must be anonymous. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have questions. **NEW!!! ARR Commitment** We accept papers that have been pre-reviewed via ACL Rolling Review<https://aclrollingreview.org/>. You are welcome to submit the link to your ARR submission. The linked submission must include both the reviews and the meta-review. Both the submission and its reviews will be evaluated by the programme committee for their relevance to the conference topic. To submit, please visit https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/ARR_Commitment. **Non-archival track** At the time of submission, authors may indicate that their paper should be considered for the non-archival track. The format for non-archival submissions is the same for both long and short papers as it is for the archival submissions. Non-archival papers will not undergo the peer review process. They will be evaluated by the programme committee for clarity and content relevance before the decision by the PC is made. Non-archival papers do not need to be anonymous. If accepted, they are to be published on the conference website and presented as posters. **Poster abstracts** We invite researchers to submit abstracts in the above areas of interest. Abstract submissions are non-archival. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on work in progress or to present previously published work to a new audience. The deadline for abstract submission is the same as for non-archival papers. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by August 8, 2025. Abstract submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages (supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns are not included) and be submitted via OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. The acceptance decision on abstracts will go through the same procedure as papers for the non-archival track. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters. Concurrent Submissions ---- Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences or publications must indicate this at submission time using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. We will not accept publications or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at LARP must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the Proceedings. Camera Ready Versions ---- Camera ready versions must be deanonymised. Archival submissions get 1 more page to address comments from reviewers: long papers can be maximum up to 9 pages, short papers can be maximum up to 5 pages. Organisers ---- LARP is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), University of Gothenburg. CLASP focuses its research on the application of probabilistic and information theoretic methods to the analysis of natural language. CLASP is concerned both with understanding the cognitive foundations of language and developing efficient language technology. We work at the interface of computational linguistics/natural language processing, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive science. For practical inquiries, send an email to larp2025(a)flov.gu.se<mailto:larp2025@flov.gu.se>.

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Call for Bursary Applications: GITT 2025 Workshop Registration
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

📣 Call for Bursary Applications: GITT 2025 Workshop Registration We are pleased to announce a call for bursary applications to support participation in the Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT 2025). - 📅 Application deadline: May 9th, 2025 - 🔗 Apply here: http://bit.ly/44ejl8z - GITT website: https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025/home We are offering bursaries covering the workshop registration fee for this edition of GITT. The call is open to anyone interested in attending the workshop. We particularly encourage students and junior researchers to apply. **📋 How to Apply ** Please fill out the application form with the following information: - Full Name - Affiliation - Career Stage (e.g. student, postdoc, faculty, independent researcher) - Paper Title (if applicable) — If you are a GITT 2025 author, please include your paper title - A short motivation statement (max 200 words) describing your interest in attending the workshop and your reason for applying. You are welcome to include details such as inclusivity and diversity needs, extra expenses for technical assistance, traveling from outside the EU, or limited university funding. Further information are available on the GITT website at https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025/bursaries?

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CFP: Language@internet - Special issue on CMC corpora
by Ludovic Tanguy 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

Language@internet http://www.languageatinternet.org/ <http://www.languageatinternet.org/> SPECIAL ISSUE ON Computer-Mediated Communication corpora CALL FOR PAPERS Guest Editors: Céline Poudat Côte d’Azur University, France Ludovic Tanguy University of Toulouse, France IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due: June 30th, 2025 Full papers due: November 1st, 2025 Anticipated publication: July 2026 ISSUE FOCUS This special issue of Language@Internet follows up on the 11th CMC corpora conference which was held in Nice, September 2024. The CMC corpora conference series are dedicated to the collection, annotation, processing, and analysis of corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media. As online communication data continues to proliferate and researchers face increasing difficulty in building and analyzing corpora, this special issue aims to provide a panorama of recent CMC corpora use and research. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and Social Media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (Facebook, Instagram), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms and virtual worlds. We welcome all papers related to corpus building and analysis, and all reflections on CMC data use and methods, including research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. Submissions might address the following types of research questions (this list is by no means exhaustive): * What are the current difficulties (technical, methodological or legal) in building corpora for studying CMC? * How can researchers take advantage of new media commonly used in CMC, such as audio and video? * How can such a corpus be built, from data and metadata collection to publication? * How is a CMC corpus analyzed, from annotation to exploration methods? * What types of results may be derived from CMC corpora? * Which theoretical frameworks can be used to analyze CMC data? Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language education… * How can the multiplicity of channels be used to leverage studies in CMC? * How can CMC corpora be used to study specific communities and topics (minorities, politics, subcultures)? * Do the new generative AI models and tools provide opportunities for analysing CMC data? GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 750 to 1000 words by June 30th, 2025 to the guest editors Céline Poudat (celine.poudat(a)univ-cotedazur.fr <mailto:Celine.Poudat@univ-cotedazur.fr>) and Ludovic Tanguy (ludovic.tanguy(a)univ-tlse2.fr <mailto:ludovic.tanguy@univ-tlse2.fr>). Proposals should include the central research question, the theoretical and/or empirical basis for the paper, and preliminary findings or insights. Those interested in submitting a proposal are also encouraged to contact the guest editors with their questions and ideas. Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by November 1st, 2025. The anticipated publication date for the issue is July 2026.

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