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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 06 Aug '25

06 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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