April 2025 - Corpora

Call for Papers: LxGr2025 – Extended Deadline
by Costas Gabrielatos 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 20 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. • Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. • Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. • Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

1 0

4 PhD positions in NLP / ML / AI Security / Cybersecurity in Copenhagen
by Johannes Bjerva 12 Apr '25

12 Apr '25

📢 PhD Positions in AI Security – Aalborg University (Copenhagen) We are excited to announce four fully funded PhD positions at the AI:DEFENCE Lab at Aalborg University. Our lab explores new synergies between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Cybersecurity, with the goal of developing safe, robust, and trustworthy AI systems. Research topics include: * Security and safety in LLMs * Adversarial robustness and alignment * Federated learning and privacy-preserving AI * Autonomous cyber defense using multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning We welcome applicants with strong backgrounds in NLP, machine learning, or cybersecurity. The lab is based in Copenhagen, and the positions start August 2025. 🗓 Deadline: 28 April 2025 🔗 More info and application: https://www.stillinger.aau.dk/vis-stilling/vacancyId/1219578 Feel free to share widely or reach out with any questions! Johannes Bjerva Professor | Natural Language Processing | Department of Computer Science Head of Section for AAU CS-CPH Aalborg University Copenhagen Office 2.2.089, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark

1 0

Linguistics, Cambridge: Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing (0.4, cover role, flexible working)
by Dora Alexopoulou 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Dear all, please follow the link below for information on an job opportunity for a Computational Linguist. https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50879/ Best, Dora Dora Alexopoulou https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/ta259

1 0

[Second CfP] The 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP 2025)
by larp2025＠flov.gu.se 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

SECOND 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): April 28, 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. 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.

1 0

First Call for Papers: Eighth Universal Dependencies Workshop
by Gosse Bouma 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

The eighth workshop on Universal Dependencies Part of SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29 Call for Papers Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 150 languages (https://universaldependencies.org <https://universaldependencies.org/>). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural language processing and enable comparative linguistic studies. The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of the previous workshops have been co-located with Coling, EMNLP, and SyntaxFest. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to: * Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines * Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions * Language typology and linguistic universals * Treebank annotation, conversion and validation * Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing * The use of the UD data for evaluating or understanding language models * Linguistic studies based on the UD data Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective. SyntaxFest 2025 https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/index.html SyntaxFest is a biennial event that brings together a series of events focusing on topics such as empirical syntax, linguistic annotation, statistical language analysis, and natural language processing. Apart from the 8th UDW, it hosts TLT, DepLing, IWPT, and Quasy. Each workshop publishes its own proceedings, but all events follow a shared submission process, timeline, and programme. The UniDive 1st Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing takes place on Aug, 26. Important Dates Paper submission DeadlineApril 15, 2025 Notification of acceptanceJune 2, 2025 Camera-ready version dueJune 16, 2025 Conference datesAugust 26-29, 2025 Submission Information Submission site and paper requirements will be provided in the next CfP Workshop Chairs Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) Cagri Coltekin (University of Tübingen) -- Gosse Bouma, Communication and Information Science, Groningen University, P.o. box 716, 9700 AS Groningen G.Bouma(a)rug.nl tel. +31-50-3635937

2 2

BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors: Test phase begins
by Ekaterina Kochmar 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Conversational agents offer promising opportunities for education as they can fulfill various roles (e.g., intelligent tutors and service-oriented assistants) and pursue different objectives (e.g., improving student skills and increasing instructional efficiency), among which serving as an AI tutor is one of the most prevalent tasks. Recent advances in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) provide our field with promising ways of building AI-based conversational tutors, which can generate human-sounding dialogues on the fly. The key question posed in previous research, however, remains: How can we test whether state-of-the-art generative models are good AI teachers, capable of replying to a student in an educational dialogue? In this shared task, we focus on educational dialogues between a student and a tutor in the mathematical domain grounded in student mistakes or confusion, where the AI tutor aims to remediate such mistakes or confusions, with the goal of evaluating the quality of tutor responses along the key dimensions of tutor’s ability to (1) identify student’s mistake, (2) point to its location, (3) provide the student with relevant pedagogical guidance, that is also (4) actionable. Dialogues used in this shared task include the dialogue contexts from MathDial (Macina et al., 2023) and Bridge (Wang et al., 2024) datasets, including the last utterance from the student containing a mistake, and a set of responses to the last student’s utterance from a range of LLM-based tutors and, where available, human tutors, aimed at mistake remediation and annotated for their quality. Data Release We are pleased to announce that the test data is now released and can be accessed at https://github.com/kaushal0494/UnifyingAITutorEvaluation/blob/main/BEA_Shar…. Test Platform The competition is hosted on the CodaBench (https://www.codabench.org<https://www.codabench.org/>) platform, with a separate page for each track. Track 1 – Mistake Identification: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7195/ Track 2 – Mistake Location: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7200/ Track 3 – Providing Guidance: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7202/ Track 4 – Actionability: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7203/ Track 5 – Tutor Identification: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7206/ Registered teams are welcome to participate in any number of tracks. Participation In order to participate in the test phase, you will need to create an account on CodaBench<https://www.codabench.org/>, if you don't already have one. After that, please register for the specific track(s) you wish to submit your systems' predictions to. By participating in this shared task, you are agreeing to the Terms outlined on the shared task track webpages (see tab "Terms"). The total number of submissions per each team is capped at 5 for each track (with the maximum of 2 submissions per day). The platform will ask you to provide your team name and a title for each submission – the latter may be useful to distinguish between your different submissions. All submissions will then be reflected on the CodaBench platform together with all the accompanying information (team name, affiliation, and submission name). Please note that we will publish the official final leaderboard on the shared task website (https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025), where only the first 5 submissions per team will be included to adhere with the terms of this shared task. To be added to the shared task mailing list for further updates, please register here: https://forms.gle/fKJcdvL2kCrPcu8X6 Important dates All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - March 12, 2025: Development data release - April 10, 2025: Test data release - April 24, 2025: System submissions from teams due - April 30, 2025: Evaluation of the results by the organizers - May 21, 2025: System papers due - May 28, 2025: Paper reviews returned - June 9, 2025: Final camera-ready submissions - July 31 and August 1, 2025: BEA 2025 workshop at ACL Contact: bea.sharedtask.2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.sharedtask.2025@gmail.com> Shared task website: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025

1 0

18 month postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Copenhagen
by Desmond Elliott 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising an 18 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. The position involves interdisciplinary research on the development and application of large language models in public service, and sometimes sensitive legal settings, within the context of low-reserouce languages, such as Danish and order Nordic languages. Applicants should have a genuine interest in collaborating across inter-disciplinary boundaries with researchers in the areas of ethics, governance, and AI. The post is funded by the Poul Due Jensen Foundation – project: Responsible AI for Value Creation, with partners spanning several major universities in Denmark, and a collection of Danish public- and private organizations. The exact research topics are open to discussion between the successful candidate and the project co-ordinators. The successful candidate will join the Language and Multimodal Processing group, which is part of a section with a strong, international, and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics, and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about the group is available here: https://lampgroup.github.io/, and further information about the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/. The application deadline is May 1, 2025, with interviews on the June 4, 2025, and a start date of 1 August, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Further information about the position can be found here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI… Inquiries about the position can be made at de(a)di.ku.dk.

1 0

Applications for Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and Affinity Group meetings at ACL 2025
by ACL Announcements 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Dear Applicants, The Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) chairs are delighted to invite applications for Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and Affinity Group meetings at ACL 2025. Please see our call at https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/bof_affinity_events/ for more details and up-to-date information. If you are interested in organizing a BoF session and/or an Affinity Group meeting to explore a specific theme in NLP and beyond, we encourage you to submit your proposals. We are here to support you in facilitating these sessions. Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025, 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth) Notification Date: June 3, 2025, 11:59 pm (Anywhere on Earth) If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at acl2025diversity(a)googlegroups.com. Sincerely, ACL 2025 D&I Committee

1 0

First Call for Participation EUROLAN-2025 Summer School on NLP in the Age of Complex Networks and Agentic AI
by Nancy Ide 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

First Call for Participation EUROLAN-2025 Summer School on NLP in the Age of Complex Networks and Agentic AI 15 – 21 September 2025, Timișoara (Romania) & online https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/eurolan/2025/ The 17th in the series of EUROLAN biannual Schools on Natural Language Processing EUROLAN-2025 will bring together researchers and experts in machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), reasoning systems, and computational linguistics applied to natural language processing (NLP), with a special focus on the interaction between NLP, complex networks, and agentic AI. Following the tradition of previous EUROLAN schools (see past editions <https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/eurolan/2025/?page_id=14023>), each day will feature: Morning sessions with tutorials, offering in-depth insights into key concepts. Afternoon hands-on exercises, where participants will apply lecture content to real-world problems and develop small-scale applications as a basis for future work. Brainstorming sessions and round tables, encouraging direct interaction with experts and fostering collaborative discussions. Tutorials and practical sessions will deal with the following topics: Graph-Based Representations of Text and Knowledge Social Network Analysis for Linguistic Modeling Influence Propagation and Discourse Dynamics in Online Platforms, Multimodal NLP Integrating Text, Image, and Speech Processing NLP and Autonomous AI Invited Lecturers Mădălina Chitez - West University of Timișoara Liviu Dinu - University of Bucharest Nancy Ide - Vassar College and Brandeis University Rada Mihalcea - University of Michigan Dan Tufiș - Romanian Academy Mihai Dascălu - POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest Mark Finlayson - Florida International University others TBA

1 0

ASIRF 2025- Autumn School Information Retrieval and Information Foraging - August in Dagstuhl - Call for Participation
by Thomas Mandl 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Registration has opened for ASIRF 2025, the Autumn School 2025 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging. For more information on the schedule, program, or registration: https://fg-retrieval.gi.de/veranstaltung/asirf2025 ASIRF provides a holistic perspective and shows how Information Retrieval and Information Foraging interact. In addition to conceptual and methodological knowledge from both fields, ASIRF is highly interdisciplinary. The autumn school will provide different tutorials, from foundations of Information Retrieval and Information Foraging to recent research topics such as using large language models for information retrieval tasks or applications of IR techniques in application domains. The intended audience of ASIRF are doctoral or MA students and young researchers working in Information Retrieval, Information Foraging, or using concepts or methods from these fields in their research domains. Students and lecturers will live together for a week at Schloss Dagstuhl, which guarantees the school's traditionally highly communicative and interactive atmosphere. The registration is free this year. A small number of partial travel grants are also available. The autumn school will take place at the best computer science venue ever Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI) between 24 and 29 August 2025. The program includes the following lectures and tutorials: - Foundations of Interactive IR (Norbert Fuhr, U Duisburg-Essen) - Deep Learning for IR (Avishek Anand, TU Delft) - Conversational Search (Ralf Schenkel, U Trier) - Fairness and Bias (Andrea Horbach, U Kiel) - Multimodal retrieval and data analysis (Henning Müller, HES-SO) - User Experiments and Interactive IR (Thomas Mandl, U Hildesheim) - Complex Casual Leisure Information Needs (Vivien Petras, HU Berlin) - User Simulations for IR (Philipp Schaer, TH Köln) See you in Dagstuhl! ASIRF 2025 organizers Philipp Schaer, Ralf Schenkel, and Thomas Mandl

1 0