August 2025 - Corpora

Fully funded PhD/PostDoc position (University of Augsburg)
by Annemarie Friedrich 09 Aug '25

09 Aug '25

Dear CorporaList readers, I have an open position (PhD or PostDoc, fully funded) at the University of Augsburg, Germany (near Munich). We are looking for an enthusiastic computational linguist with strong programming skills in Python to join our interdisciplinary team. Our work is currently situated in the areas of linguistic annotation, computational modeling of discourse, digital humanities, and machine learning. Please help us by forwarding this e-mail to potentially interested students! The full job ad can be found here: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote/2025/08/04… More infos on our team: https://hlt-augsburg.github.io/ <https://hlt-augsburg.github.io/> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Prof. Dr. Annemarie Friedrich Natural Language Understanding with Applications to DH Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik, Universität Augsburg https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/fai/informatik/prof/coling/

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Call for Abstracts: Methods Fair of the 62nd Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language
by Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

Dear colleagues, the Methods Fair forms part of the 62nd Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, carrying the motto 'German in the European language area: current status and prospects'. This call invites submissions of resources, tools and methods relating to the German language, or contrasting German with other European languages. If accepted, the content will be presented as a poster and subsequently published as a short paper. The language of presentation and publication is German. The full call follows in German: Vom 10.-12. März 2026 findet die Jahrestagung 2026 des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim statt. Das Rahmenthema der Tagung lautet „Deutsch im europäischen Sprachraum: Stand und Perspektiven“: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/tagungen/2026/ Ein Bestandteil der Tagung wird auch 2026 eine Projekt- und Methodenmesse sein. Wir laden herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen ein, die sich mit methodischen Ansätzen befassen, welche die Forschung im Kontext des Tagungsthemas unterstützen, ermöglichen oder kritisch reflektieren. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ressourcen, Methoden und Werkzeuge, die vorzugsweise anhand kompakter Anwendungsstudien vorgestellt werden. Willkommen sind Beiträge, die sich auf die deutsche Sprache beziehen oder das Deutsche kontrastiv mit anderen europäischen Sprachen in Beziehung setzen. Dies umfasst unter anderem, aber nicht ausschließlich, folgende Themen: - Nutzung schriftlicher oder gesprochener Korpora des Deutschen; - Erhebung und Verwendung nicht korpus-zentrierter empirischer Sprachdaten, die Deutsch in der europäischen Sprachenlandschaft verorten; - Untersuchungen von Sprachpolitik, -diskursen oder -einstellungen, die sich mit der Rolle von Deutsch in europäischen Kontexten beschäftigen; - quantitative Analysen der deutschen Sprache in mehrsprachigen oder nicht mehrheitlich deutschsprachigen Kontexten, einschließlich Visualisierungen; - Auswirkungen von generativer KI und Large Language Models auf die Verwendung des Deutschen in sprachübergreifender Perspektive oder in multilingualen Kontexten; - innovative Werkzeuge und Methoden im Bereich des DaF-/DaZ-Unterrichts. Die Beiträge werden in Form eines Posters und ggf. einer Softwaredemonstration präsentiert. Auf der Tagung wird jeder Beitrag in einem einminütigen Schlaglicht dem Publikum vorgestellt, anschließend gibt es die Gelegenheit, die Inhalte im Rahmen einer ca. eineinhalbstündigen Postersession zu demonstrieren und Fragen zu beantworten. Ausgearbeitete Beiträge sollen im Anschluss an die Tagung bei IDSopen (https://idsopen.de/) digital nach dem Open-Access-Prinzip publiziert werden. Wir bitten um die Einreichung eines nicht anonymisierten Abstracts (max. 500 Wörter exkl. Literaturangaben; in einem editierbaren Format) sowie um die Zuordnung zu thematischen Schlagwörtern. Bitte senden Sie Ihren Vorschlag bis zum 15. Oktober 2025 an methodenmesse2026(a)ids-mannheim.de. Über die Annahme der Beiträge entscheidet das Organisationsteam bis zum 12. Dezember 2025. Organisationsteam: Peter Meyer, Andreas Witt sowie Laura Herzberg, Marc Kupietz, Heiko J. Marten, Samira Ochs, Janusz Taborek, Beata Trawiński, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu, Jörg Zinken -- Dr. Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Grammatik Tel: +49 621-1581-242

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*SEM 2025 - ARR commit deadline 22nd August
by Kemal Kurniawan 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

*SEM 2025 accepts commits of ARR papers with complete sets of ARR reviews. Commit your paper here by Aug 22: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment> *SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP) https://starsem2025.github.io/ Call for ARR Commit Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here: https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf> Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is June 13, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview. ARR commit link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment> Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025 Conference date: November 8-9, 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025) Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>

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CfP ACM TIST Special Issue on New Frontiers in Interactive Storytelling and Computational Models of Narrative
by Pasquale Lisena 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Call for Papers – ACM TIST Special Issue New Frontiers in Interactive Storytelling and Computational Models of Narrative We invite submissions for a forthcoming special issue of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) exploring how knowledge-driven methods (e.g., ontologies, knowledge graphs) can be integrated with LLMs and Generative AI to enhance computational storytelling and narrative intelligence. This issue targets interdisciplinary contributions across Semantic Web, NLP, HCI, cognitive technologies, and digital creativity—with applications in education, games, cultural heritage, and human-robot interaction. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Knowledge representation for narrative structure and emotion Culturally-aware and constraint-driven language models Semantic interfaces for story authoring Narrative planning in robotics and explainable AI Ethical considerations and social impact of automated storytelling Applications and evaluation of narrative systems Reviews comparing symbolic and neural approaches to narrative AI Submission deadline: December 1, 2025 Full Call for Papers (PDF): https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tist/cfps/ACM-TIST-CFP-St… Guest Editors: Belén Dìaz Agudo, Pasquale Lisena, Paul Mulholland, Maria Angela Pellegrino For questions: contact Maria Angela Pellegrino – mapellegrino(a)unisa.it

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2nd CFP: AI Werewolf Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2025)
by Yoshinobu Kano 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Second Call for Participations (Registration deadline extended to Aug 20!) Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2025) # Summary Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs could sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against other AI. We will hold 5-players and 13-players tracks. # Schedule Shared tasks August 20, 2025: Competition Registration Deadline ← New! deadline extended August 20, 2025: Preliminary Round (Self-play) Result Submission Deadline ← New! deadline extended Late August 2025: Final Round (Online Matches) ← New! deadline extended Workshop papers September 10, 2025: Paper Submission Deadline ← New! deadline extended September 24, 2025: Notification of Acceptance October 1, 2025: Camera-ready Submission Deadline ← New! deadline moved INLG 2025 Conference Period October 29 - November 2, 2025 (in Hanoi) October 30, 2025 (AM): AIWolfDial 2025 Workshop in Hanoi/online (Paper Presentations and Competition Results) Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2025 workshop at INLG 2025 (18th International Natural Language Generation Conference). Our workshop will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and online on October 30th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend the INLG 2025 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the workshop and present in the workshop day. Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments: https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ # Why AI Werewolf? Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2025 contest, which is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition to their win rates. Agents must communicate in English. # Registration A team should send required information via https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Registration and participation to the shared task is free. # System Evaluation Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates, reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria: A Natural utterance expressions B Contextually natural conversation C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of context are not always natural in the werewolf game. F Team play # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuya Harada, Shizuoka University, Japan Links (same as above): Registration https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Contest and workshop website https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ Paper submission site: https://softconf.com/p/AIWolfDial2025/ Contact; aiwolf(a)kanolab.net On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, -- Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D. Professor, Research Fellow Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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CfP: Special issue "AI Meets Humour" (European Journal of Humour Research)
by Tristan Miller 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Call for papers European Journal of Humour Research Special issue: "AI Meets Humour" Editors of the European Journal of Humour Research special issue "AI Meets Humour" invite contributions that examine any aspect of the relationship between artificial intelligence and humour from a humanistic or social-scientific perspective. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Cultural, social, or ethical implications of AI-generated humour - Humour as a test for artificial general intelligence - Semiotics of humour in human–AI interactions - The "funny robot" trope in film and literature - Bias and stereotyping in AI-generated humour - Cross-cultural challenges in computational humour recognition or production - Ethnographies of AI and humour in real-world settings - Evaluations of the use of AI in comedy writing or performance - AI as a theme or target of human-made humour - Philosophical or epistemological perspectives on humour and AI - Educational applications of humour-aware AI Transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary approaches are welcome. Papers jointly authored by researchers in computer science and the social sciences or humanities are particularly encouraged. The special issue will print full-length original research articles (6,000 to 10,000 words), as well as shorter commentary pieces (3,000 to 6,000 words) that critically examine and take a clear persuasive stand on the literature and research direction of a particular topic. Submission instructions Prospective authors should e-mail the following to the guest editors at aimeetshumour(a)groups.io: - title - 250-word abstract - 5 keywords - names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and biographies (up to 250 words) of all co-authors Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full article that must follow the EJHR style sheet available at <https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/about/submissions>. Submissions that pass an informal internal review by the guest editors will undergo external double-blind review, with authors of accepted papers invited to submit a final, revised version of their manuscript. Important dates - 1 October 2025: Abstract submission deadline - 1 November 2025: Acceptance notifications for abstracts - 1 March 2026: Paper submission deadline - 1 July 2026: Acceptance notifications for papers - 1 August 2026: Deadline for submission of revised papers - September/October 2026: Publication of special issue About the journal The European Journal of Humour Research (EJHR) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal with an international, multidisciplinary editorial board. EJHR covers the full range of work being done on all aspects of humour and intends to respond to the important changes that have affected the study of humour. Consequently, EJHR is committed to theoretical openness characterized by the intent to publish a wide range of critical approaches, alongside the encouragement and development of innovative work that contains a transdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary focus. For more information, see <https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/>. Guest editors - Anna T. Litovkina, J. Selye University, Slovakia - Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada - Andrea Puskás, J. Selye University, Slovakia - Márk Csóka, J. Selye University, Slovakia For any enquiries, please contact the guest editors at aimeetshumour(a)groups.io. -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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2 PhD Positions on Persona-Based Dialogue generation and NLG for Combating Online Harms. Application deadline: August 22nd
by Marco Guerini 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

------------------ Apologies for cross-posting. ------------------ The Language and Dialogue Technologies (LanD <https://land.fbk.eu/>) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of two fully-funded PhD position: 1) TITLE: Dynamic Personas - Modeling the Evolution of Opinions and Values in LLMs DESCRIPTION: Previous research has focused on equipping conversational agents with static, deep personas incorporating opinions, values, and beliefs to enrich dialogues. However, human interaction is dynamic; opinions can shift, and values may be expressed differently depending on context or interlocutor. Current persona-based models lack the ability to adapt or evolve during interaction. This PhD Thesis aims to address this gap by developing neural models capable of representing and evolving deep personas dynamically within a conversation. The research will investigate how to model the triggers and mechanisms of persona adaptation, such as responding to conversational context, user interaction history, or explicit feedback. The goal is to create agents whose expressed opinions and values can evolve coherently over time, leading to more natural, engaging, and long-term interactions. Evaluation will focus on the plausibility, coherence, and adaptability of the dynamic persona, with a focus on understanding how LLMs' personas impact user perception and interaction quality. Link to the call: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A5 2) TITLE: Knowledge-Driven Natural Language Generation for Combating Online Harms DESCRIPTION: The pervasive spread of online misinformation and hate speech poses critical threats to societal well-being and democratic discourse. While neural language models (NLMs) show promise in generating counter-arguments and debunking fake news, they often suffer from limitations such as hallucination, knowledge scarcity, and a lack of sophisticated argumentative reasoning. This PhD project aims to overcome these shortcomings by developing novel knowledge-driven neural language generation pipelines. We will focus on integrating diverse external knowledge sources, principles from argumentation theory, and domain-specific features to enable the generation of factually accurate, persuasive, and ethically sound counterspeech. The goal is to build advanced generative AI systems that can effectively and safely mitigate the impact of both misinformation and hate speech online. Link to the call: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A6 COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application IMPORTANT DATES: deadline for application is August 22nd, 2025, 04:00 PM (CEST) FURTHER INFORMATION: For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about the position, please contact me (guerini(a)fbk.eu) Best Regards, Marco Guerini -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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cfp: Dialogue and Discourse Vol. 16(2)
by Manfred Stede 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

- apologies for cross-posting - We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse. Submissions received by September 1st, 2025 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue. About the journal Dialogue and Discourse (D&D http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". The journal adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and other associated fields with an interest in formally, technically, empirically or experimentally rigorous approaches. Descriptive papers should make a substantial theoretical contribution to be considered. We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. D&D has published regular issues every year since 2010, and occasionally special issues on common topics. As of August 2025, D&D has published 119 papers, and the journal's h-index is 31. D&D is endorsed by ACL SIGdial, SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is indexed by DBPL Bibliography, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Linguistics and Language Behavious Abstracts, Linguistics Abstracts Online, Linguistic Bibliography Online, the MLA International Bibliography, Scopus. Submissions Submissions should be made via the online submission system at http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml Authors are required to indicate if a submission is an extended version of one or more previously published conference papers (to which we would expect substantial additions); simultaneous submission to another venue is prohibited. Submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review. Once accepted and finalized, papers will appear online immediately, as part of the current issue. Selected papers will furthermore be offered the opportunity to present a poster at the following SIGDIAL Conference (https://www.sigdial.org). Dialogue and Discourse Editors Issue Editors: Manfred Stede (Volume 16, Issue 2) Casey Kennington (Volume 16, Issue 1) Massimo Poesio (Volume 15, Issue 2) Pat Healey (Volume 15, Issue 1) Editor In Chief: David R. Traum, University of Southern California, United States Associate Editors: Rebecca Clift, University of Essex, United Kingdom Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago, United States Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, United States Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Cité, France Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University, Japan Casey Kennington, Boise State University, United States Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University London and University of Utrecht Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, United States

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IWSLT 2026 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 05 Aug '25

05 Aug '25

Dear all, The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20+ years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new applications scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, automatic evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for shared tasks. As a task organizer you can promote a particular challenge in speech translation, either newly identified or worthy of continued research. For those proposing new tasks, for inspiration, you can find the tasks run in the previous year on the IWSLT website. Tasks will be selected in November based on their relevance and readiness for the evaluation campaign, to enable data released by the end of the year. To ensure an appropriate number of total tracks, highly related proposals may be encouraged to merge after initial review. If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send it to: *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com <iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2025. *Decisions about which tasks will run in 2026 will be announced by *November 1st, 2025* . For further information on this initiative, please refer to the * <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>CFP <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> *( https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf). Best, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Antonios, Atul IWSLT Organisers

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Call for Participation: ALTA 2025 Shared Task
by Diego Molla-Aliod 01 Aug '25

01 Aug '25

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2025 The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students. Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology. This year's shared task is: Normalizing Adverse Drug Event mentions. The tentative key dates are: Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data 24 Sep 2025 - Release of test data 29 Sep 2025 - Deadline of submission of runs 03 Oct 2025 - Notification of results 27 Oct 2025 - Deadline of submission of system description 26-28 Nov 2024 - Presentation of results at ALTA 2025 Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (https://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2025) Good luck! Diego -- Dr. Diego Mollá-Aliod Senior Lecturer School of Computing | Room 358 (Level 3), 4 Research Park Drive Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 9531 | F: +61 2 9850 9551 https://macquarie.zoom.us/my/diego.molla https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/diego-molla-aliod I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which Macquarie University stands – the Wallumattagal clan of the Dharug nation – whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land since time immemorial. I pay my respects to Elders past and present.

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