April 2025 - Corpora

CIRCE Online Seminar | 28/04/2025 | Dr. Alice Henderson | "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

*🎓 *We are happy to remind you about the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series, organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Alice Henderson_ (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France) *Title*: Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace *Date*: Monday, April 28, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: The university workplace is representative of international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their colleagues’ and students’ accents – of Italian, of English, and in my case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions, we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed. This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how? In this talk I’ll summarize speech research findings about how listeners can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. I’ll look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. I’ll describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused in other professional contexts. If possible, I’ll also describe the next steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop participants as part of a longitudinal study. *Bio*: Alice Henderson is a Professor at Université Grenoble - Alpes, France where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to Science & Technology students. She taught English phonetics and phonology for 24 years and has been involved in training teachers in France, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the international bi-annual conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Her research interests include English pronunciation teaching and learning, the perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction (EMI). Much of her research has focused on speakers, but she is also intrigued by listeners’ roles, from an intercultural and sociolinguistic perspective. Upcoming webinars: - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) - Clara Molina, Unlearning Accentism: Action Research and Critical Pedagogies (Monday, June 30, 2025 The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu>.

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Second Call for Special Issue Proposals - Journal Natural Language Processing
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering) *** Second Call for Special Issue Proposals *** In recent years the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has enjoyed unprecedented developments since the emergence of Deep Learning and, lately, Large Language Models. At the same time, NLP is following the trend of many other areas in becoming highly specialised, with a number of application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in importance. These developments, often coinciding with a lack of related literature, necessitate and warrant the publication of specialised volumes focusing on a specific topic of interest to the NLP research community. The Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering), which features six 160-page issues per year and has had its impact factor increase yearly, invites proposals for special issues on a competitive basis covering any topics in applied NLP which have emerged as important recent developments and have attracted the attention of a number of researchers. The Journal Calls for Proposals for special issues have resulted in high-quality outputs and this year we look forward to another successful competition. Proposals on topics covering a variety of methods, tasks, resources and applications from Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Speech and Language Processing, Text Analytics and related areas are eligible. Special issues on timely NLP topics such as latest language models including Large Language Models/Generative AI, are welcome. Special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or section of the community. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews. In addition, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all interested parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited to workshop participants only. Prospective proposers are also encouraged to consult the successful Journal columns "Industry Watch" and "Emerging Trends" for additional inspiration. Interested parties have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended special issue to the Executive Editor (Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es). He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to the Journal. In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue that will be reviewed by the Editors of the Journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial Board. The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the particular topic of interest at the current time. It should include a relevant literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special issue against the background of other relevant or competing publications and volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that evidence for the estimate of expected submissions to the special issue be provided and justified. The proposals should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board. It is desirable that at least one (preferably two) of the members of the Guest Editorial Board is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Natural Language Processing. The proposal should also include a tentative time-scale for the production of the special issue (the time-scale committed to in the proposal should be adhered to, if the proposal is accepted), and information about the prospective Guest Editors such as relevant experience, publications etc. Time-scale - Deadline for submission of special issue proposals: 28 April 2025 (proposals to be emailed to Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es with a copy to NLP(a)cambridge.org) - Notification of acceptance/rejection: 19 May 2025 - Calls for papers related to the successful proposals (at least 2 calls are recommended): 7 June 2025 first call July-September 2025 second (and third call, if applicable) Once the special issue is approved and launched, Guest Editors are expected to adhere to the same reviewing and acceptance standards as regular issues of the Journal. In particular, each submission needs to be reviewed by three members of the Guest Editorial Board or other experts in the field. To ensure geographical diversity and balance, and to avoid over-reliance on the same reviewers, each submission must not be reviewed by three experts from the same country, and no single reviewer should evaluate more than two submissions. If the Executive Editor is not satisfied with the review process for a special issue paper, he may either reject the paper or send it for additional review. As a last resort, the Executive Editor has the discretion to reject the entire special issue if the reviewing practices are found to be flawed. All special issues are required to include a survey of the field (at least 15 pages) as its first article, which can be written either by the Guest Editors or experts in the field commissioned by the Guest Editors. This is in addition to a 1-2 page preface by the Guest Editors. Best Regards Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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Call for participation: Automatic Detection of Borrowings (ADoBo 2025)
by ELENA ALVAREZ MELLADO 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce the second edition of ADoBo, the shared task on automatic detection of borrowings (automatically retrieving words from one language that are incorporated into another language.) For ADoBo 2025 we propose a shared task on retrieving anglicisms from Spanish text, i.e. words borrowed specifically from English that have recently been imported into the Spanish language (words like "running", "smartwatch", "influencer" or "youtuber"). The task will run from April 2025 to June 2025 and is part of IberLEF 2025, which will take place in September 2025 in Zaragoza, Spain. WEBSITE https://adobo-task.github.io/ TIMELINE April 21: Dev set released. May 6: Test set released. May 19: Systems output submissions. May 26: Results posted and Test set with GS annotations released. June 2: Working notes paper submission. June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). June 23: Camera ready paper submission. September: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University. Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Oficina de Protección de datos<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2025- Italian Association of Computational Linguistics, Milan 18-20 Jnee
by Elisabetta Jezek 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of the *Lectures on Computational Linguistics*, a series of lectures dedicated to central topics in the field of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, will be held in *Milan* from *18 to 20 June*. The programme and all information are available on the Lectures website <https://www.ai-lc.it/lectures/lectures-2025/> The 2025 edition is organized by the *Italian Association of Computational Linguistics*/*Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale* (*AILC*) with the Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures at *Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore*, Milan, and the Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication at the *University of Milano-Bicocca*. The interdisciplinary nature of the school crosses several areas, particularly the Humanities, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The program includes tutorials, labs, evening lectures and two student presentation sessions. The 2025 edition is focused on *Linguistic Linked Open Data*, *Neuro-symbolic AI* and *their interplay*. Programme June 18th 2025: Linguistic Linked Open Data • 9:00– 9:30: Welcome and opening • 9:30 – 11:30: *Tutorial 1 – Fundamentals of Linguistic Linked Open Data, Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza* • 11:30 – 12:00: BREAK • 12:00 – 13:30: Student session • 13:30 – 15:00: LUNCH • 15:00 – 17:00: *Tutorial 2 – Advanced Topics of Linguistic Linked Open Data, Max Ionov, University of Cologne* • 17:00 – 17:30: BREAK • 17:30 – 18:30: *Evening lecture – LiLa Now: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead for a Large-Scale Linguistic Linked Data Project, Francesco Mambrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan* • 19:30: Welcome drink June 19th 2025: Neuro-symbolic AI • 9:00 – 11:00: *Tutorial 3 –Beyond Naive RAG: How Entities and Graphs Enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK • 11:30 – 13:30: *Lab. 1 (part 1) – Retrieval Augmented Generation, Large Language Models and Knowledge Bases, Marco Cremaschi, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 13:30 – 15:00: LUNCH • 15:00 – 17:00: *Lab. 1 (part 2) – Evaluating Large Language Models for Linguistic Linked Data Generation, Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 17:00 – 17:30: BREAK • 17:30 – 18:30: *Evening lecture – Memorization or Generalization? Exploring Transformer-based Large Language Models and, possibly, novel approaches, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Roma Tor Vergata* June 20th 2025: Resources and Evaluation • 9:00 – 11:00: *Tutorial 4 – From Corpora to Capabilities: Rethinking Language Resources in the LLM Era, Zheng Yuan, University of Sheffield* • 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK • 11:30 – 13:00: Student session • 13:00 – 14:00: LUNCH • 14:00 – 16:00: *Lab 2 – The LiLa Knowledge Base: Hands-on Session, Eleonora Litta and Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano* Registration The school is mainly aimed at Doctoral and Master's degree students, although a minimum qualification is not required for access. Participation is *free* but subject to *registration *and* association to AILC**, *and places are limited to 200. Register at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lcl-registration-procedure/. Membership fees to AILC at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/memberships/ Students wishing to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to send a *500-word abstract* to ailc. lectures(a)gmail.com by *May 10, 2025*. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by *May 20, 2025*. Scientific Committee Pierpaolo Basile, University of Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Tommaso Caselli, University of Groningen Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Elisabetta Jezek, University of Pavia Local Organizing Committee Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Matteo Pellegrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Giulia Rizzi, University of Milano-Bicocca Contacts: ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com -- [image: LOGO-UNIPV] PhD ELISABETTA JEZEK Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici PROFESSORE ASSOCIATO IN LINGUISTICA E GLOTTOLOGIA Presidente del corso di laurea magistrale internazionale in European Languages, Cultures and Societies in Contact Membro del Consiglio Direttivo dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale <https://firmamail.unipv.it/index.php/firme/genera> https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/resource/person/659960 Elisabetta Jezek's Personal Meeting Room https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7814331810 -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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Deadline extension: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Final Call for Papers: *The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)* *Location*: Vienna, Austria and online (co-located with ACL 2025) *Date*: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025 *Website*: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025 <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025> *Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12 *Submission Link*: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ Dear all, due to multiple requests, we will be extending the submission deadline for BEA 2025 by one week – the submissions are due by April 24, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) (https://sig-edu.org<https://sig-edu.org/>) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as *a 2-day workshop*, and it will feature a keynote by *Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly)*, oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop is also hosting *a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors*, and *a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward *(more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of generative AI in education and its impact; - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE (https://alliancelss.com<https://alliancelss.com/>) societies. SHARED TASK The workshop will also host a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors. See more details here: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission deadline: *Thursday, April 24, 2025* - Notification of acceptance: *Thursday, May 22, 2025* - Camera-ready papers due: *Monday, June 9, 2025* - Workshop: *Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025* SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI - Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University - Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum - Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen - Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec - Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners - Bashar Alhafni, New York University (NYU) & CAMeL Lab in NYUAD - Zheng Yuan, King’s College London - Jill Burstein, Duolingo Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com> PROGRAM COMMITTEE https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025#program-committee

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Job opening (Vienna, Austria): PhD Student, Researcher & Lecturer in Applied Data Science
by Ingo Frommholz 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

PhD Student, Researcher & Lecturer in Applied Data Science (all genders) Full-time (40 h/w) in Vienna, Austria Relevant for those interested in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, natural language processing, or a related discipline. Temporary, Full-time - Modul University Vienna, Austria More info and application link at https://modul-university-vienna-gmbh.jobs.personio.com/job/2053035?language… JOB POSITION AND DEPARTMENT´S OVERVIEW Modul University Vienna is seeking an outstanding scholar for a Researcher & Lecturer position for its School of Applied Data Science to join its research team and teach undergraduate courses in the broader areas of data science (www.modul.ac.at/study-programs). This position is at the Researcher & Lecturer level and foresees candidates to develop their PhD research and participate in university self-governance. The School of Applied Data Science seeks candidates whose doctoral research will be related to one or more of the main research areas of the school. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES Have a career ambition to conduct internationally recognized research, i.e. by publishing research articles and writing a doctoral thesis; Enthusiastically engage in teaching undergraduate courses; Assist in the general administration of the university; YOUR PROFILE A completed Master (by August 2025) in any of the fields of computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, natural language processing or a related discipline; Strong background in quantitative research methods; Excellent analytical skills and evidence of the potential to undertake cutting-edge research; Excellent written and spoken English (German is not a requirement as English is the working language). The minimum scores are: TOEFL: 100 Internet-based test (IBT) with no individual section score less than 20; or IELTS: overall band score between 7 and 7.5 with no sub-score below 6.0. The Admissions Committee may decide upon the recognition of other evidence of language skills. WHY JOIN US? Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research approach Individual professional development An international and multicultural working environment FURTHER INFORMATION This is a full‐time, limited contract position where applicants are prepared to work up to 40 hours per week (with overtime hours). The position remains open until filled; the review of applications will commence immediately after the announcement. Starting date: 1 September 2025. The position is available as of September 1st for four years. Successful candidates will use about 50% of their working hours (40h/week) for their PhD studies. The starting salary is EUR 30,000 gross (annual teaching load: two units, @45 min per unit, of weekly teaching) plus approx. 30% Arbeitgeberanteil (= contribution to the social security and pension fund paid by the employer according to Austrian Law), with additional remuneration for extra teaching or supervision of theses. From the 2nd year onwards, the salary increases to EUR 39,350 gross with an annual teaching load of six units. Tuition for the PhD program is covered by Modul University Vienna. For questions related to this position, please contact the Dean of the PhD program astrid.dickinger(a)modul.ac.at or the Head of the School of Applied Data Science ingo.frommholz(a)modul.ac.at. Please submit on our job portal your complete application including cover letter, curriculum vitae, a motivation letter, two recommendation letters, academic transcripts, a statement of your research interests referring to any of the research profiles of Sustainability, Governance, and Methods Professors, and a statement of your teaching interests referring to one of the above-mentioned teaching areas (in English; preferably as a single PDF file not exceeding 8 MB). ABOUT US Modul University Vienna is an international private university and offers cutting-edge education at BBA, BSc, MSc, MBA and PhD levels. Students and staff come from over 70 countries around the world, providing for a multicultural and diverse work environment. As an employer, Modul University Vienna offers: Opportunities to work from home Flexible working hours International and dynamic team Personal and professional development Independent working environment Public transport ticket Modul University Vienna is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to equality and diversity that does not discriminate on the basis of, among other factors, age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender expression, national origin, race, sexual orientation, or social class. We especially encourage women and people who belong minority groups to apply and welcome all applications that can contribute to a diverse working culture. -- Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor of Applied Data Science, Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @ifromm.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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April 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

In this newsletter: LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website Connect with LDC on Bluesky New publications: DEFT Spanish Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T04> MATERIAL Kazakh-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S03> ________________________________ LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website We are pleased to announce the launch of the newly upgraded LDC main website: https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/. Designed with a modern layout, the site now offers an improved experience across all devices. While the LDC Catalog, LDC user accounts, and LDC Submissions are not affected by this upgrade, they are now more accessible than ever from any page on the site. We invite you to explore the website and enjoy a smoother, more intuitive LDC web experience. Connect with LDC on Bluesky In addition to Facebook, X and LinkedIn, you can now connect with LDC on the microblogging platform, Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/ldcupenn.bsky.social>. Follow us today to learn the latest news, announcements and corpora releases from the Consortium. ________________________________ New publications: DEFT Spanish Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T04> was developed by LDC and consists of 158 Spanish discussion forum and newswire documents annotated for entities, relations, and events (ERE). Light ERE annotation labels entity mentions for the target set of entity, relation, and event types between and among those entities including coreference. Rich ERE annotation expands types and tagging in the entities, relations, and events annotation tasks and replaces strict event coreference with a more loosely defined event hopper annotation. The source data consists of Spanish newswire text and Latin American discussion forum data from DEFT Spanish Treebank LDC2018T01<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2018T01>. 128 documents were annotated following Light ERE annotation guidelines. 154 files were labeled with Rich ERE annotation, 124 of which were also labeled with Light ERE annotation. DARPA's Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT) program aimed to address remaining capability gaps in state-of-the-art natural language processing technologies related to inference, causal relationships and anomaly detection. LDC supported the DEFT program by collecting, creating and annotating a variety of data sources. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Kazakh-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S03> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 57 hours of Kazakh conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 17% of the speech files, all of which were translated into English. This release also includes English queries and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Reminder: EURALEX Talk - Mark Davies
by Iztok Kosem 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that the next instalment of EURALEX Talks will take place tomorrow, on Wednesday 16 April, at 16.00 (CET). In this video lecture, Mark Davies, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA, will talk about his recent large-scale investigation of how the predictions on linguistic variation from two Large Language Models match actual corpus data. He will also present and demo his current work on integrating LLMs into his interface for English-Corpora.org. Further details, including a Zoom link, are available at https://euralex.org/euralex-talks/. Iztok Kosem EURALEX President

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2nd CfP for IBERLEF-PRESTA
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IberLEF 2025 - PRESTA: Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish *Web*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ We are pleased to announce the first IberLEF task on Question Answering on Tabular Data: PRESTA. The PRESTA shared-task consists of Question Answering over Tabular Data making use of the DataBenchSPA benchmark. DataBenchSPA is a benchmark composed of real-world table datasets from different domains and with large size of rows and columns, as well as a wide variety of data types that allow to assess distinct sort of questions related to each data type. We propose a task to encourage participants to develop a system that answers the questions of the kind present in DataBenchSPA over day-to-day datasets, where the answer is either a number, a categorical value, a boolean value or lists of several types. DataBenchSPA can be used as a training and validation set, while we will release another test set explicitly compiled for the task competition. The system developed by the participants will be provided by a series of (dataset, question) pairs and will need to provide an answer which would then be compared with a gold standard. The answer might be achieved through a variety of methods. In our paper [1] we illustrate two different approaches: In-Context Learning and Code Generation. You may use any of these or come up with your own approach. There will be two subtasks: Subtask I : DataBenchSPA QA Participants will be provided with a dataset (of any size) and a question over it. The question should be answered using the data from the dataset only. Subtask II: DataBenchSPA Lite QA The task is essentially the same as the previous subtask, but involves using the sampled version of each dataset with a maximum of 20 rows per dataset. The question should be answered using the data from the sampled dataset only. For the test set, we will similarly provide a reduced version of each dataset for this subtask. This task is especially relevant when testing for models with a smaller window size. Important Dates Release of training data: 18 March 2025 Release of test data - competition starts: 30 April 2025 Submission of the results - competition ends: 12 May 2025 Submission of the description paper: 30 May 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López - University of Jaén Eugenio Martínez Cámara - University of Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Eugenio Martínez Cámara Vicepresidente de la SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/> | Vice President of the SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/en>. Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associate Professor. Investigador en Proc. del Lenguaje Natural | Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Proc. 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Fwd: [CfP] Sci-K @ISWC 2025 – 5th Intl. Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment
by Khalid Choukri 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

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