This coming Monday 12 May ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is
delighted to welcome Nathan Dykes (FAU Erlangen) for a short input talk
(20 minutes) entitled "Beyond the gold standard: Transparency in
qualitative corpus analysis" followed by a 60-minute discussion on the
application of Open Sciences practices in qualitative research.
ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is an informal place to network with
linguists and other humanities scholars to learn more about
reproducibility, Open Science, and good scientific practice. We meet on
selected Mondays 16-17:30 pm CEST. Our programme this semester also
includes a session on "Reproducibility when working with large language
models: A hallucination?" with Nils Reiter and on "Language and its role
for replicability" with Xenia Schmalz, Anna Yi Leung and Johannes
Breuer. We aim to be as inclusive as possible: from B.A. students to
full professors, everyone is welcome and there are no silly questions!
Details can be found here:
https://ub.uni-koeln.de/kurse-beratung/specials/reproducibilitea-in-the-hum….
You can join us in person at the University Library in Cologne where we
serve tea and biscuits or online via Zoom. Please join our mailing list
to get the Zoom links:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas.
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*Dr. Elen Le Foll*
/Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer/
Department of Romance Studies
<https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • Data Center for the
Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • University of Cologne
<https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home>
Applied Linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • Language Teaching & Learning
ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> • HAL Science
<https://cv.hal.science/elenlefoll>
*Recent publications:*
Wagne, Ahmadou, Elen Le Foll, Florentine Frantz & Jana Lasser. 2025.
Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment
conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan.
Information, Communication & Society. 1–27.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273.
Le Foll, Elen & Muhammad Shakir. 2025. The Multi-Feature Tagger of
English (MFTE): Rationale, Description and Evaluation. Research in
Corpus Linguistics 13(2). 63–93. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.13.02.03.
Le Foll, Elen. 2024. Textbook English: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
(Studies in Corpus Linguistics 116). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.116.
IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 2nd Call for Papers
Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025
IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project
"Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC [1] and the MultiplEYE
COST [2] action "Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for
human and machine language processing research".
While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in
identifying key factors that influence reading patterns--including text
properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word
predictability, and dependency length--recent studies have emphasized
the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g.,
Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016;
Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading
patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills,
linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This informs
our understanding of how text characteristics and individual reader
attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading.
IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in investigating
individual differences in reading using both experimental and
computational approaches. This workshop will focus on methods such as
eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task, with particular
interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with individual
differences. We also encourage submissions of computational models for
eye movements or reading behavior that shed light on the mechanisms
behind these differences. The goal is to foster collaboration between
experimental and computational researchers to better understand
individual variability among readers. We especially welcome submissions
of reading time experiments and modelling of languages beyond English.
The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the
following questions:
* How do individual differences impact the way people read?
* How do reading patterns vary across different languages,
particularly in bilinguals?
* How do reading patterns change across the lifespan?
* Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing
variability in reading patterns?
* How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and
sentence processing across languages?
* How can computational models account for individual differences in
reading?
* How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and
comprehension among different individuals?
* What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying
latent groups and relating individual differences to reading
performance?
Workshop dates: November 26-27, 2025
Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in Saarbrücken,
Germany. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well as
contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the
presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number of
submissions we receive.
Submission deadline: July 23, 2025.
Submissions: The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text
(excl. captions), 10000 characters for references, and a maximum of 2
tables or figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with
2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced.
Please indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract,
which will be used for session planning.
Abstracts must be written in English and should include a clear title
but no information revealing the author(s).
We welcome submissions for work that is being considered by other
conferences, workshops, or journals. Templates for formatting in LaTeX
and Word are provided on the conference website.
Submission platform: https://openreview.net/group?id=IndiREAD/2025
Volunteer reviewers: We also invite all interested parties with relevant
research experience to volunteer to help review abstracts for the
workshop. All reviewers should hold a PhD. Please indicate your interest
using the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/0fGmHW7q11
Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread [3]
Contact email: indiread(a)lst.uni-saarland.de
Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action,
which will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a
limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for
travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial, and
priority will be given to junior researchers.
Best,
Iza Škrjanec
IndiREAD Organizing Committee
Links:
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[1]
https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in…
[2] https://multipleye.eu/
[3] https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Deadline for Slavic NLP workshop is postponed to May 10 AOE.
Note the new possibility to _commit papers via ARR_ —
Details on uploading papers+reviews from ARR to START will appear soon
on the Workshop Home page <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>.
**Call for Papers:* *
*
Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages
At ACL-2025, Vienna, Austria
31 July 2025
bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>
Submission Deadline: 10 May
**
WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION
The 10th edition of the Slav-NLP Workshop — at ACL 2025. Sponsored by
SIGSLAV: ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP.
Slavic languages play a crucial role due to their diverse cultural
heritage and wide use — over 400M speakers worldwide. Current political
and economic developments in Central/ Eastern Europe thrust the Slavic
languages into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological
advancements, and evolving consumer markets.
Research on applied **and ***theoretical*NLP in the context of Slavic
languages is still lagging. Linguistic phenomena that are common to the
Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for
these languages challenging. Slav-NLP Workshops gather researchers from
academia and industry, aiming to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and
foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops welcome the
exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and
promoting the available resources. The structural similarity, as well as
the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory
spanning this large language group, creates a special environment where
researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally.
We are happy *again *to organize Slav-NLP in Central Europe.
This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic
languages. NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include:
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language modeling,
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morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis,
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lexical semantics,
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named-entity recognition,
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text normalization and processing non-standard language,
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co-reference resolution,
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information extraction,
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question answering,
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text summarization,
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machine translation,
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development of linguistic resources,
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development and assessment of large language models,
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text classification,
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text generation,
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disinformation detection,
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fact verification,
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sentiment analysis.
The Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 9 previous
(B)SNLP Workshops.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: *10 May*2025
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Pre-reviewed ARR commitment: 20 May2025
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Notification of acceptance: *1 June*2025
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Camera-ready papers due: 15 June 2025
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Workshop: 31 July 2025
**
SHARED TASK
This year the Slav-NLP Workshop features — Shared Task on Detection and
Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of texts: (a)
parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media
postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation.
Read about the Shared Task on the Workshop’s Web page.
SUBMISSION
At the Workshop’s Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi
<http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html>
*
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Workshop Contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi
*
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Roman Yangarber
Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
Digital Humanities
INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative
<https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> —
Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies
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e-Learning & language learning
Language Learning Lab
Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214
revitaAI.github.io <https://revitaai.github.io>
helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab
<https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab>
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The 2nd Large Language Models for Ontology Learning Challenge
Co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025)
November 2-6, 2025
Nara, Japan
<https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol2025/home>https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol2025
Challenge Overview
The 2nd LLMs4OL Challenge@ISWC 2025 invites researchers and practitioners to explore the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating Ontology Learning (OL). As the Semantic Web evolves, automating the extraction and structuring of knowledge becomes paramount. This challenge focuses on leveraging LLMs to enhance OL processes, contributing to more intelligent and interoperable web systems. Building upon the success of the 1st LLMs4OL Challenge at ISWC 2024, this second edition aims to further the community's understanding and development of LLM-driven OL methodologies.
Challenge Tasks
Participants can engage in one or more of the following tasks:
* Task A - Text2Onto: Extract ontological terminologies and types from a raw text.
* Task B - Term Typing: Discover the generalized type for a lexical term.
* Task C - Taxonomy Discovery: Discover the taxonomic hierarchy between type pairs.
* Task D - Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction: Identify non-taxonomic, semantic relations between types.
Each task is designed to address specific aspects of OL, encouraging innovative approaches and solutions.
Important Dates
* Test dataset release: June 1st, 2025
* Begin accepting system submissions: June 2nd, 2025
* End accepting system submissions: June 22nd, 2025
* Participants' Papers Submissions Due: July 5th, 2025
* Notification of Acceptance: July 19th, 2025
* Camera-ready due: July 30th, 2025
* ISWC 2025, Nara, Japan: November 2-6, 2025
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*** FoIKS 2026: Second call for papers ***
*================================*
*|* Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP *|*
*
The 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and
Knowledge Systems (FoIKS'26) invites contributions from theoretical and
applied research on information and knowledge systems.
FoIKS 2026 (https://foiks2026.github.io/ <https://foiks2026.github.io/>)
will be held on 23rd-26th March 2026 in Hannover, Germany.
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** Scope **
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The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
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Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems:
Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, and formal languages.
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Database Design and Management:
Formal models, (in)dependencies and models of transactions, concurrency
control.
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Logics in Databases and AI:
Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description
logics, spatial and temporal logics, argumentation, probability logic,
fuzzy logic.
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning:
Logical reasoning, Non-monotonic reasoning (reasoning under inconsistency),
Reasoning under vagueness or uncertainty.
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Foundations of neuro-symbolic reasoning:
Embedding methods for structured information, such as knowledge graphs,
mathematical expressions, grammars, logical theories.
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Intelligent Agents:
Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, formal models of interactions,
Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems, epistemic reasoning.
*
Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval:
Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association
rules, information extraction.
*
Security in Information and Knowledge Systems:
Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control,
inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk
management.
*
Integrity and Constraint Management:
Verification, validation, consistent query answering, and information
cleaning.
*
Knowledge graphs and semi-structured Data:
Data modelling, data processing, data compression, and data exchange.
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** Submission Guidelines **
======================
Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (for guidelines and templates,
see:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceeding…
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>).
Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be
rejected without review. There are the following page limits according
to paper type:
*
Long papers: 16, plus additional pages for references.
*
Short papers: 10, plus additional pages for references.
Missing proofs or details can be added as an additional appendix of up
to 15 pages article style and read at the discretion of the program
committee. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted
to another journal or conference. Initial submissions must be in PDF
format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be
submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in
alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either
initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific
quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion.
Submission is via the EasyChair
linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026>.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
foiks2026(a)easychair.org.
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** Publication **
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The proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the symposium, authors
of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions
of their papers for a FoIKS 2026 special issue.
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** Important dates **
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*
Submission of abstracts:September 18, 2025
*
Submission of paper: September 25, 2025
*
Notification:December 13, 2025
*
Final version due:January 08, 2026
*
Conference: March 23-26, 2026
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** Invited Speakers **
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We are excited to announce the invited speakers for FoIKS 2026::
*
Giuseppe De Giacomo(University of Oxford)
*
Floris Geerts(University of Antwerp)
*
Wolfgang Nejdl(Leibniz Universität Hannover)
*
Ana Ozaki(University of Oslo)
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** Organization **
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* *PC Chairs* *
*
Anni-Yasmin Turhan(University of Paderborn, Germany)
*
Jonni Virtema(University of Sheffield, UK)
* *Local Chair* *
*
Arne Meier(Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
*
*
We are pleased to invite applications for a fully funded PhD
position (monthly gross salary: €3,400 + €600 mobility allowance +
family allowance) at the Jožef Stefan Institute
<https://www.ijs.si/ijsw/V001/JSI>, Slovenia’s leading scientific
research institution, located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The position
includes enrollment in a PhD programme at Jožef Stefan International
Postgraduate School <https://mps.si/en/>in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and
secondments at the NGO Danes je nov dan
<https://danesjenovdan.si>(Slovenia) and Università della Svizzera
italiana <https://www.usi.ch/en>(Switzerland). This position is part
of the Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network “Data2Action”.
The successful candidate will conduct research under the supervision
of Dr. Nikola Ljubešić, focusing on developing AI tools to enhance
political participation by improving transparency and accessibility
of parliamentary information from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia
or any of the ParlaMint <https://www.clarin.eu/parlamint>countries,
collaborating with NGOs like Danes je nov dan
<https://danesjenovdan.si>, and engaging stakeholders to ensure
trustworthy and explainable AI systems.
Eligibility: The candidates must not have resided or carried out
their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Slovenia for more than
12 months in the 36 months immediately before the recruitment date.
Application deadline: May 18, 2025
Expected start date: September 1, 2025
For more details, please visit:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332073
<https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332073>*
TL;DR:
Help to shape a research agenda for IR for climate change impacts:
* 2-4 pages
* Deadline: May 7, 2025 (AOE)
* Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home
* Submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/SIGIR/2025/Workshop/MANILA#tab-your…
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Final call for submissions - MANILA25: SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact
Climate change is a far-reaching, global phenomenon that will impact many aspects of our society. The evidence base for observed climate impacts is expanding, and the wider climate literature (white and grey) is growing exponentially. How can effective access be provided to the growing body of peer-reviewed literature on climate change impacts? This year we are particularly interested in tracking climate adaptation literature (white and grey) and welcome contributions on this topic.
Purpose
The emphasis of MANILA25 will be on discussion, not a mini-conference but a dynamic sharing of ideas. The workshop will be organized along three areas of interest: (i) Addressing information needs concerning climate change impacts; (ii) Updates to the IR for Climate Change agenda that resulted from the MANILA24 workshop (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01162), and (iii) Tracking climate adaptation. During the workshop, we will work towards updating the MANILA24 agenda and creating an actionable technical research agendas around tracking climate adaptation.
What we’re looking for
To help shape a research agenda for information retrieval for climate impact, we welcome technical contributions and position papers as extended abstracts (2-4 pages) on a wide range of topics related to information retrieval for climate change impacts, including but not limited to very large-scale systematic reviews, climate language models, geolocated literature with climate information, evidence synthesis. Be sure to emphasize how your ideas connect to IR for climate change impacts and the ambition to create an agenda on the topic.
Important dates
- May 7, 2025: Extended abstracts due (AOE)
- May 21, 2025: Notifications
- July 17, 2025: Workshop at SIGIR 2025
- November 30, 2025: Submission of the Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Agenda for publication in SIGIR Forum
How to submit
Contributions can be submitted at https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/SIGIR/2025/Workshop/MANILA#tab-your…. Please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/2025/manila25-workshop-… for details.
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Maarten de Rijke
Distinguished University Professor, University of Amsterdam
Scientific Director, Innovation Center for AI (ICAI)
http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.derijke
Second Call for papers for ConsILR-2025,
the 20th edition of the International Conference on Linguistic Resources
and Tools for Natural Language Processing
(https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025
<https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025/index.html>)
Dates: 8-10 October 2025
Venue: Casa Academiei Române (House of the Romanian Academy), 13, Calea 13
Septembrie, Bucharest, Romania and ONLINE
We invite papers presenting original and unpublished research, as well as
descriptions of accomplished or in-progress work, in all areas of natural
language processing. We welcome contributions covering a range of topics,
including but not limited to:
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques and Applications
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Large Language Models (LLMs) and Applications
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Digital Humanities in Language Technology
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(Mono- or multimodal) Language Resources and Tools for text, speech,
images and videos
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Computational Models and Algorithms in Language Processing
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Applied Linguistics and NLP Integration
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Morphosyntactic Structures in Language Processing
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Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis in NLP
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Multi-word Expressions and Idiomatic Language in NLP
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Cultural and Contextual Factors in Language Technology
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Romanian Language Processing and Contrastive Linguistics
Authors are encouraged to submit, in addition to the papers per se,
open-source linguistic resources, such as corpora (or corpus examples),
demo code, video and sound files.
Confirmed invited speakers:
Agata Savary <https://perso.limsi.fr/savary/>
Amalia Todirașcu <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/amalia-todirascu>
Marius Ursache <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusursache/>
Paula Gradu <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-gradu-7505591b0>
Organisers:
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“Mihai Drăgănescu” Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
of the Romanian
Academy
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Institute of Computer Science of the Romanian Academy – Iași Branch
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Faculty of Computer Science of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of
Iași
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“Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Philology of the Romanian Academy –
Iași Branch
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Romanian Association of Computational Linguistics
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Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania
Important Dates:
August 23, 2025 – abstracts submission (max 300 words)
August 31, 2025 – paper submission
September 21, 2025 – authors’ notification
September 31, 2025 – final form submission
October 8 - 10, 2025 – ConsILR Conference
The abstracts (max. 300 words) and papers (an even number of pages, between
6 and 12, including references) must be written in British English.
Details about the paper format are available on the conference website.
The Proceedings of the Conference will be sent for indexing to Clarivate
Analytics.
Further information can be found on the conference web site:
https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025
<https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025/index.html>
KlarText Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
Co-located with KONVENS 2025 | Hildesheim, Germany | 10 September 2025
Website: https://klar-text.github.io/
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We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the KlarText Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art methods, share resources, and identify future research directions in German text simplification and readability assessment. We particularly aim to raise awareness of the diverse simplification goals and language forms in German and to attract researchers who are tackling the challenges of German text simplification.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- German Text Simplification
- Readability Assessment
- Resources & Approaches for Leichte Sprache
- The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Resources & Benchmarks
- Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment
- Applications & Real-World Impact
- Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: June 30, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2025
- Camera-ready version due: August 15, 2025
- Workshop date: September 10, 2025
Submissions are managed via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2025/Workshop/KlarText).
Organizing Committee
- Salar Mohtaj, DFKI
- Stefan Hillmann, Technische Universität Berlin
- Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin
- Georg Groh, Technische Universität München
- Hadi Asghari, Technische Universität Berlin
- Miriam Anschütz, Technische Universität München
Contact
For questions or inquiries, please contact:
Salar Mohtaj – salar.mohtaj(a)dfki.de
Final 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>
Important Dates:
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*Abstract Submission Deadline: May 16, 2025*
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*Paper Submission Deadline: May 23, 2025*
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*Notification of Acceptance: June 27, 2025*
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*Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 15, 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.
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Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi
ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden
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