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Re: Call for Participation AthNLP 2025 | Application deadline 30 May 2025 | Summer School 4-10 September 2025 | Athens, Greece | NCSR Demokritos Campus
by Georgios Moschovis 20 May '25

20 May '25

Only *10 days left* to apply for AthNLP 2025, taking place at the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens, Greece between 4-10 September 2025. Don't miss the chance to be part of the most exciting events in Europe for NLPers, one of the most dynamic research communities nowadays, learn about exciting technologies as LLMs and take the opportunity to present your work in the poster sessions! > Are you passionate NLP and Machine Learning? > > Join us this September in Athens for a week full of lectures, hands-on > sessions, and networking opportunities with top researchers in the > field. AUEB Natural Language Processing Group invites everyone > interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to > attend the 3rd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School - > AthNLP 2025! More information can be found at: > https://athnlp.github.io/2025/ > > *Important Dates* > > * Application Deadline: *May 30, 2025* > * Decision: June 10, 2025 > * Registration: June 17, 2025 > * Summer School: September 4-10, 2025 > > Stay tuned – more details about the programme coming soon! > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [athnlp2024participants] Call for Participation AthNLP 2025 > | Application deadline 30 May 2025 | Summer School 4-10 September 2025 > | Athens, Greece | NCSR Demokritos Campus > Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 12:19:08 +0000 > From: Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School 2024 > <athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr> > Reply-To: Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School 2024 > <athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr> > To: Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School 2024 > <athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr> > > > > * > AthNLP 2025 - Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School > <https://athnlp.github.io/2025/index.html>* > We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and > Machine Learning to participate in the *3rd Athens Natural Language > Processing Summer School* taking place in *Athens, Greece* *at NCSR > Demokritos Campus* between *4-10 September 2025.* > > *Application Deadline: 30 May 2025* > *Submit your application here: https://athnlp.github.io/2025/cfp.html* > The full programme and list of speakers will be announced soon. > > _Important Dates_ > Application Deadline: *30 May 2025* > Decision announcement: *10 June 2025* > Registration until: *17 June 2025* > Summer School: *4-10 September 2025* > > Following successful editions in 2019 and 2024, *AthNLP 2025* returns > to the campus of *NCSR Demokritos* in Athens. The summer school is > organised by *NCSR Demokritos*, the *Athens University of Economics > and Business*, *RC ATHENA*, and *Heriot-Watt University*, in close > collaboration with *LxMLS* (Lisbon, 19–25 July 2025). > > The school focuses on *_machine learning methods for NLP_*, offering: > > Morning lectures on theory > > Afternoon hands-on lab sessions > > Evening research talks, poster sessions, and demos > *Participants will also have the opportunity to present their work in > *poster sessions* throughout the week. > > > *_Target Audience:_* > - Students and researchers in NLP and Computational Linguistics > > Computer scientists with interest in NLP and ML > > Industry professionals seeking deeper understanding of these fields > > ** No prior experience in NLP or ML is required—just basic math and > Python. > > *_Features of AthNLP_*_:_ > * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and > afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee. > * Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural > language processing. > * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in > poster sessions during coffee breaks. > * In the demo day, students will be able to interact with technical > companies and research institutions working in machine learning. > > > _Fees_ > *300 EUR for students > 400 EUR for University professors or researchers at public Institutes > 500 EUR for everyone else* > > Any questions should be directed to: athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr > > We are looking forward to your participation! > > /The Organising Committee of AthNLP 202//5/ > > -- > Pelagia Drosaki > > Communication team > Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications > NCSR Demokritos Ag. Paraskevi, Greece > +30 210 650 3197 > www.iit.demokritos.gr <http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/> >

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Second call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African
by Menno Van Zaanen 19 May '25

19 May '25

Second call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Co-located with DHASA 2025 https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025 DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025 Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre. The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/ The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non- African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa website (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the DHASA conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Workshop: 10 November 2025 DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Second Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking
by Chloé Braud 19 May '25

19 May '25

🚀 Second Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking. 🛎️ sample data has been released! In conjunction with CODI-CRAC & EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9. This year, we are organizing the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on discourse processing across formalisms, for a variety of languages and genres, with three subtasks: * Task 1: Discourse segmentation * Task 2: Connective identification * Task 3: Relation classification We will provide training, development and test datasets from (almost) all available languages in RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies, using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for discourse units. For datasets which have treebanks, we will evaluate segmentation in two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax. An automatically parsed version is provided for all corpora without a gold parse. This year, the shared task will feature: * The inclusion of more frameworks, with datasets from: RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies * The inclusion of new corpora and new languages, some of them kept a surprise! * A unified set of labels for the discourse relations, to make easier the evaluation across datasets * A new constraint: only one multilingual model should be submitted per task, and it should be small! This will make our replication work easier, but more importantly, it will simplify using such a model and test the robustness of your solution. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the sample data for the DISRPT 2025 Shared Task! You can now access the data, format documentation, and tools on our GitHub 🔗 https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2025 The sample covers five discourse frameworks — RST / eRST, PDTB, SDRT, and Discourse Dependencies — across 12 languages: English, Basque, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Frasi, Chinese, Russian, Turkish, and Thai. We invite researchers and teams interested in participating to register now. Registered participants will be added to our mailing list and receive all future updates. 📅 The full training data will be released on June 16, 2025 — stay tuned! To join the mailing list and stay informed, please email us at: 📧 disrpt_chairs(a)googlegroups.com Let us know you're interested — we’d love to have you on board! **Important dates** * May 16 2025 – Sample data release [NOW] * June 16 2025 – Training data release * July 14 2025 – Test data release * August 1 2025 – System + paper submissions due * September 12 2025 – Notification of acceptance * September 19 2025 – Camera ready papers * November 8-9 2025 – CODI at EMNLP All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (AoE, "Anywhere on Earth"). **Information:** Contact the organizers: disrpt_chairs(a)googlegroups.com Official website: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ Google group for participants, please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Organization:** Peter Bourgonje (Universität Potsdam, Germany) Chloé Braud (CNRS - IRIT, University of Toulouse, France) Chuyuan Li (University of British Columbia, Canada) Janet Yang Liu (LMU Munich, Germany) Philippe Muller (CNRS - University of Toulouse, France) Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Last Call for Papers
by Announce 19 May '25

19 May '25

*** Last Call for Papers *** The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025) September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) (*** Journal Special Issue with Springer's SN Computer Science ***) (*** Submission Deadline Extended to June 2, 2025 ***) Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being, inclusion and sustainable development” OVERVIEW Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being and to preserving the Planet. I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity, towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: e-Business • Innovative e-business models • Inter-organizational systems • Business process integration • Business process re-engineering • e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals • Digital goods and products • User behaviour modeling • Mobile business • Enterprise application integration • e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting • Supply, demand, and value chains • e-Commerce content management • Dynamic pricing models • Trust and security • Mobile Commerce • Business Intelligence • Business Ontologies and Models • E-Business Models e-Services • e-Service composition • Inter-organizational services • e-Collaboration and e-Services • Service-oriented computing • Web services • Semantic web services • Service workflows • Virtual organizations and coalitions • Virtual enterprises and virtual markets • Web 2.0 applications • Agent-oriented e-Services • P2P co-operation models • Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services • Application service management • Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum • Next-gen AI services • Enterprise Ontologies • Accessibility • Usability e-Society • e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C) • Digital cities and regions • e-Democracy and e-Governance • e-Inclusion to information society • e-Health and e-Education • Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises • One-stop government service integration • Mobile public services • Multimedia and multilingualism • Digital culture and digital divide • Privacy and security • Legal societal and cultural issues • Public-private partnerships • International dimension of e-Gov • E-society and AI • Digital Transformation • Social Computing • Green Computing • Sustainable Technologies • Humanitarian & Emergency Management • Digital Inclusion • Digital Literacy SUBMISSION Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 . Length of papers The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Journal Special Issue Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper (with at least 30% additional material) for fast-track review and publication in Springer's SN Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: June 2, 2025 (AoE) (*** extended and final! ***) • Author Notification: July 7, 2025 • Camera-Ready: July 14, 2025 • Author Registration: July 14, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chairs • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus • Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku • Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa • Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

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Save the date: LREC 2026, 11-16 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
by info＠elda.org 16 May '25

16 May '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] ELRA and the LREC 2026 Organisers are happy to announce that the 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will be held in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11-16 May 2026. The 3-day main conference will take place on 13-15 May 2026, and it will be accompanied by 3 days of workshops and tutorials to be held in the days immediately before (11-12 May 2026) and after (16 May 2026). The hybrid conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech and multimodality, with special attention to evaluation and the development of resources that support work in these areas. Following the tradition of LREC, the 15th edition will feature grand challenges and provide ample opportunity for participants to exchange information and ideas through both oral presentations and extensive poster sessions, complemented by an exciting social program. The LREC 2026 Organisers

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[CfP] Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025 - (Extended Deadline: May 20)
by Kossi Amouzouvi 16 May '25

16 May '25

Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Follow us on *Twitter/X* <https://x.com/SemanticsConf>, *LinkedIn* <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7496190/?highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Agr…>, and *Bluesky*. <https://bsky.app/profile/semantics-conf.bsky.social> *The submission deadlines for the Research & Innovation Papers have been extended as follows:* - *Abstract Submission Deadline: May 20, 2025* - *Paper Submission Deadline: May 27, 2025 * - *Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2025 * - *Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 18, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon.* Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submission Guidelines The Research and Innovation Track at SEMANTiCS 2025 invites both *long* and *short paper submissions*. - *Long papers* should be *12-15 pages* in length (excluding references). These submissions are expected to present comprehensive, mature research findings, including in-depth theoretical or practical insights. - *Short papers* should be a *maximum of 6 pages* (excluding references). These submissions can include preliminary findings, innovative ideas, or position papers that aim to spark discussion and exploration. References are not included in the page count, so authors may add additional pages for relevant citations if needed. This flexibility allows authors to fully reference foundational and related work to strengthen the context and impact of their research. - Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are available at *https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions*. <https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions> - Authors need to use the *Word template* <https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-06/ECRC-Autho…> or *LaTeX* <https://vtex-soft.github.io/texsupport.IOS-Book-Article/> template provided by IOS Press. Overleaf users can copy the project *from here* <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gkkspcvjgwxv#563836> (follow instructions in the abstract). - Abstract submission is mandatory for all papers. To aid the review and bidding process, we highly encourage authors to submit structured abstracts. - All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS *full policy* <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy> for more details. - Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by signing their reviews. - Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. - At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate. - All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code, materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like *Anonymous GitHub* <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or figshare/Zenodo as described *here* <https://github.com/dgraziotin/disclose-data-dbr-first-then-opendata?tab=rea…>. - The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. - All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (*https://orkg.org* <https://orkg.org>) during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the EasyChair submission form. Review and Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID). The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Appropriateness - Originality, novelty, and innovativeness - Impact of results - Technical quality of the methods - Soundness of the evaluation - Proper comparison to related work - Clarity and quality of writing - Reproducibility of results and resources *We look forward to receiving your contributions!* Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee. ========================= Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden -- DISCLAIMER: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. 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Free online FOM@PLAY Erasmus+ Summer School 2025 3-4 June 2025
by PASCUAL FRANCISCO PEREZ PAREDES 16 May '25

16 May '25

Join the FOM@PLAY Erasmus+ Summer School 2025 – Exploring Freedom of Movement through Language and Experience: 3 – 4 June 2025 This free event offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on the meaning of migration and freedom of movement in the European Union today, through the lens of the real experiences of EU citizens living and working across borders. This summer school is a central event of the FOM@PLAY Erasmus+ project<http://www.um.es/fomatplay>, which investigates mobility through the rights, aspirations, and futures of European citizens. A key outcome of this project is a multilingual corpus—in Spanish, French, and Italian—that gathers personal accounts of mobility across Europe. These narratives serve as a rich foundation for exploring how corpus linguistics can illuminate societal challenges, particularly in relation to migration, identity, and EU citizenship. The event brings together students, citizens, and researchers to reflect on the role of language and discourse in shaping understandings of mobility, belonging, and fundamental rights within the EU. Program Highlights: * Testimonies from EU citizens who have experienced cross-border mobility, including the challenges posed by Brexit. * Dialogue spaces, interactive workshops, and creative sessions designed to spark critical thinking and collaborative exploration. * A focus on how language and personal narratives reveal tensions, hopes, and possibilities within the EU’s freedom of movement framework. Early registration is recommended as places are limited: 🔗 Register for online participation: https://casiopea.um.es/cursospe/fom@playerasmus+i1.f Click “Matrícula” Participants will receive an official certificate of attendance. This activity is organized with the support of the Office of Continuing Education at the University of Murcia. If you’re a university lecturer, we’d appreciate you sharing this invitation with students who may find it relevant to their studies or personal interests. More details can be found here: 🔗 https://www.um.es/fomatplay/?page_id=2001 Warm regards, The FOM@PLAY Team University of Murcia Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf

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2nd Call for Papers - NLP4Sustain 2025 - Submissions open
by Jakob Prange 16 May '25

16 May '25

Call for Papers: NLP for Sustainability (NLP4Sustain) Workshop 2025 With this workshop, we want to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing research, progress, and challenges in the context of NLP and sustainability. We invite submissions about NLP-based analysis of sustainability-related texts, sustainable NLP models and evaluation practices in general. Authors and other participants will engage with each other in a poster session and there will be an interdisciplinary invited talk with an ensuing discussion. We invite technical, survey, and position papers, as long (8 page) or short (4 page) papers (plus references and appendices) written in English and formatted according to the ACL stylesheet. Relevant Topics • analyses and classifications of sustainability-related texts (such as company reports, advertisements, legal texts, …)• generation of explanations, critiques, summaries, … of sustainability-related texts• multimodal models related to sustainability, such as language-vision or climate-impact models• question answering in the sustainability/climate context• sustainable (e.g. small, efficient) NLP models for other applications/domains• sentiment analysis in the sustainability/climate context• media and social media analysis with NLP methods in the sustainability/climate context Important Dates * Tue, 10.06.2025: Paper submission deadline * Fri, 25.07.2025: Acceptance notification * Fri, 15.08.2025: Camera-ready due * Wed, 10.09.2025: Workshop @KONVENS in Hildesheim, Germany (at least one author must be present) Cross-submission and previous reviews If you have reviews from a previous submission cycle (e.g. ARR), you can submit them together with your paper. In this case we may not assign new reviewers but make an acceptance decision based on the reviews you submitted. We recommend including explanations of how you addressed the reviewers' comments. We also invite presentations (without publication) of papers accepted and published elsewhere. This must be indicated at the time of submission (non-archival) and must be allowed by the other venue. If you want to present a paper that will be published elsewhere, you must submit the reviews from that other venue. If you want to submit a paper that was rejected elsewhere for publication at NLP4Sustain, you can optionally submit the reviews from the other venue. The submission page is now open: https://openreview.net/group?id=KONVENS/2025/Workshop/NLP4Sustain For further details, visit our website: https://nlp4sustain.github.io/ If you have any questions, please contact: jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de and/or c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de -- Dr. Jakob Prange (er/he) Akademischer Rat auf Zeit / Research Associate Chair for Natural Language Understanding & Digital Humanities (Prof. Friedrich) Faculty for Applied Informatics, University of Augsburg https://jakpra.github.io/

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RANLP Student Research Workshop 2025
by Ivelina Nikolova 16 May '25

16 May '25

First Call for Papers --------------------- RANLPStud 2025 [1] Student Research Workshop associated with the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2025 [2]) 8-10 September 2025 Varna, Bulgaria Further to the previous successful and highly competitive Student Research Workshops associated with the conference 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP, in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023), we are pleased to announce the ninth edition of the workshop which will be held during the main RANLP 2025 conference days on 8-10 September 2025. The conference and the workshop will take place again at the Black Sea city of Varna, Bulgaria. The International Conference RANLP 2025 [3] would like to invite students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing or completed work at the Student Research Workshop. We invite two types of student submissions: * Full Papers - unpublished original research of the student. * Short Papers - either a work in progress or a research proposal. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work in progress or completed projects to an international research audience and receive feedback from senior researchers. SUBMISSIONS We invite two types of student submissions: * Full Papers must describe original unpublished work of the student in any topic area of the workshop. Full papers are limited to 8 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references. * Short Papers may describe either work in progress or a research proposal. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and criticizes existing literature. Short papers must include clear directions for future research. Submissions of this type are limited to 6 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references. All papers must be submitted in .pdf format through the START system. The papers should follow the format of the main conference, described at the RANLP website [3], All papers must have only student authors. Submissions with non-student authors will not be considered for review. After eventual acceptance of the paper, the authors could add their supervisor(s) in the Acknowledgments Section. The submissions must specify the student's level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD) and the type of submission (Full or Short). Double submission Authors may submit the same paper at several conferences. In this case, they must notify the organizers by filling in the corresponding information in the submission form, as well as notifying the contact organizer by email. TOPICS OF INTEREST The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from an international research community. The research to be presented can come from any topic within Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics, including but not limited to the following: * phonetics, phonology, * morphology; * syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, lexicon; * complexity; * mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning models; * language resources and corpora; * crowdsourcing for creation of linguistic resources; * electronic dictionaries, terminologies and ontologies; * sublanguages and controlled languages; * linked data; * POS tagging; * parsing; * semantic role labelling; * word-sense disambiguation; * multiword expressions and computational phraseology; * textual entailment; * anaphora resolution; * temporal processing; * language generation; * speech recognition; * text-to-speech synthesis; * multilingual NLP; * machine translation, translation memory systems and computer-aided translation tools, text simplification and readability estimation; * knowledge acquisition; * information retrieval; * text categorisation; * information extraction; * text summarisation; * terminology extraction; * question answering; * opinion mining and sentiment analysis; * fact checking and fake news; * stance recognition; * hate speech and aggression detection; * author profiling; * dialogue systems; * chatbots and conversational agents; * irony and sarcasm detection; * negation and speculation detection; * computer-aided language learning; * multimodal systems; * language and vision; * NLP for biomedical texts; * NLP for educational applications; * NLP for healthcare; * NLP for financial purposes; * NLP for legal texts; * for the Semantic web; * theoretical and application-orientated papers related to NLP. All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions (oral or poster) during the main conference days: 8-10 September 2025. The articles will be issued in a special Student Session proceedings associated with RANLP and uploaded to the ACL Anthology. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 05 July 2025 Acceptance notification: 06 August 2025 Camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2025 Workshop: 8 - 10 September 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ORGANISING COMMITTEE Boris Velichkov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and SUMMIT Project, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria) Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Graphwise, Bulgaria) Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Contacts: 2025-stud(a)ranlp.org -------------- Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva, PhD Assistant professor at the Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies Dep., Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & Graphwise Links: ------ [1] https://sites.google.com/view/ranlp-stud-2025/ [2] https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025 [3] http://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025: Call for Research & Innovation Papers (Extended Deadline)
by Beyza Yaman 16 May '25

16 May '25

Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Important Dates: - Abstract Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025 May 20, 2025 - Paper Submission Deadline: May 23, 2025 May 27, 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: June, 27, 2025 June 30, 2025 - Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 15, 2025 July 18, 2025 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submission Guidelines The Research and Innovation Track at SEMANTiCS 2025 invites both long and short paper submissions. - Long papers should be 12-15 pages in length (excluding references). These submissions are expected to present comprehensive, mature research findings, including in-depth theoretical or practical insights. - Short papers should be a maximum of 6 pages (excluding references). These submissions can include preliminary findings, innovative ideas, or position papers that aim to spark discussion and exploration. References are not included in the page count, so authors may add additional pages for relevant citations if needed. This flexibility allows authors to fully reference foundational and related work to strengthen the context and impact of their research. - Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are available at https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions. - Authors need to use the Word template <https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-06/ECRC-Autho…> or LaTeX <https://vtex-soft.github.io/texsupport.IOS-Book-Article/> template provided by IOS Press. Overleaf users can copy the project from here <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gkkspcvjgwxv#563836> (follow instructions in the abstract). - Abstract submission is mandatory for all papers. To aid the review and bidding process, we highly encourage authors to submit structured abstracts. - All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy> for more details. - Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by signing their reviews. - Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be archived on Zenodo <https://zenodo.org/> as publicly available material. - At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate. - All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code, materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like Anonymous GitHub <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or figshare/Zenodo as described here <https://github.com/dgraziotin/disclose-data-dbr-first-then-opendata?tab=rea…> . - The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. - All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (https://orkg.org) during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the EasyChair submission form. Review and Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID). The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Appropriateness - Originality, novelty, and innovativeness - Impact of results - Technical quality of the methods - Soundness of the evaluation - Proper comparison to related work - Clarity and quality of writing - Reproducibility of results and resources We look forward to receiving your contributions! Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On behalf of the Organising Committee, Dr. Beyza Yaman, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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