September 2025 - Corpora

EVOLANG XVI (7-10 April 2026) call for workshop proposals
by Dimitar Kazakov 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

======================================================== EVOLANG XVI [Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 April 2026 | evolang2026.org] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE ======================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals ======================================================== Submission Deadline: 22 Sept 2025 (AoE) Notification of Acceptance: 3 Oct 2025 EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) will host up to six thematically focused, half-day workshops on 7 April 2026. The half-day format can accommodate, for example, 8 half-hour slots with 15 minutes for an introduction and 30 minutes for breaks. Other formats within the allotted time are also welcome. What to submit ============= Workshop proposals should be no more than 500 words excluding references. Please specify the following: * The theme of the workshop and how it fits EvoLang; * How many talks and how they will be reviewed; * A list of invited speakers, should they be known; * Whether and how the organisers plan to publish the proceedings/results of the workshop; * If applicable, a detailed motivation to limit the number of participants. How to Submit =========== Send proposals as a PDF attachment to evolang2026+workshops(a)gmail.com by 22 Sept 2025 (AoE). Notification of acceptance will be given by 3 Oct 2025. The detailed scheduling of the workshops and the quality of workshop contributions will be left to the workshop organisers, who are independently responsible for inviting and reviewing submissions and/or speakers for their workshop, and notifying participants in due time to register for the conference. About the Conference ================= The EvoLang conference series provides the major meeting for researchers worldwide in the origins and evolution of language. For more information, please see: http://evolang.org See also the call for conference papers on the Evolang 2026 web site ( evolang2026.org). Dr Dimitar Kazakov evolang2026(a)gmail.com ______________________________ Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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free Corpus MOOC - running right now
by Brezina, Vaclav 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Dear all, There is still time to register for the 8-week online course on corpus linguistics and emerging technologies. Simply select the 'Audit option' to join for free. The course has just begun, and it offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on analysing large amounts of language data. You will learn how to build and analyse your own corpus using the specialised software #LancsBox, and you will explore practical applications of corpus methods in areas such as social issues, language learning and language testing. You can also ask any questions about corpus linguistics research, and a team of dedicated tutors will be on hand to support you throughout the course. The best part is that there's no obligation-you can engage with as much or as little of the course as you wish. For registration go to: https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu… Best regards, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01DC27B2.DE8CE5B0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CFP: The Twenty-Fifth International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'25)
by giulia.dagostino＠usi.ch 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

CMNA’25: The Twenty-Fifth International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument The main website for this edition of the workshop is here: https://cmna-workshop.github.io/cmna25/ A PDF copy of this call can be found here: https://cmna-workshop.github.io/cmna25/assets/cfp/cfp1.pdf The forthcoming 25th annual edition of the Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'25) will be held independently & online as we celebrate twenty-five years of this workshop series and look forward to a further twenty-five more. We are pleased to invite submissions for this landmark twenty-fifth edition of the Computational Models of Natural Argument workshop. The CMNA workshop series focuses on the issue of modelling “natural” argumentation, where naturalness may range across a variety of forms, perhaps involving the use of visual rather than linguistic means to illustrate a point, for example using graphics or multimedia, or applying more sophisticated rhetorical devices, interacting at various layers of abstraction, or exploiting “extra-rational” characteristics of the audience, taking into account emotions and affective factors. For this edition, CMNA will be run online as virtual workshop entirely online in the hope that more of our friends and colleagues from around the world can participate. To celebrate this landmark year, we solicit contributions on the special theme of “Reflections & Horizons: The past 25 years of Computational Models of Natural Argument and visions of things to come”. This theme should be interpreted broadly, to reflect the wide range of argumentative practices and models that have been studied and shared at CMNA. We also encourage reflection on the development of argumentation theory, within the remit of CMNA, during the last 25 years. Finally we also encourage forward looking contributions that share a vision of how argumentation research might develop over the next quarter century. Nothwithstanding the special theme, we also solicit contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest: • The characteristics of “natural” arguments (e.g. ontological aspects, cognitive issues, legal aspects). • The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style. • The generation of natural argument. • Corpus argumentation results and techniques. • Argumentation mining. • Models of natural legal argument. • Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in argumentation. • The roles of licentiousness and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features. • Natural argumentation in multi-agent systems. • Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation. • Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments. • Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision-support and advice-giving). • Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation. • The computational use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory. • Computer supported collaborative argumentation, for pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate. • Tools for interacting with structures of argument. • Applications of argumentation based systems. Submission ===================================================== We welcome submissions of full papers (limited to 10 pages in length), short papers (limited to 5 pages in length), or demos, position statements, and late Breaking results (each limited to a 2 a page abstract). It is highly recommended, but not mandatory, to format papers using the CEUR single column style (further information available from the submission section of the CMNA website). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be grouped into thematic sessions that incorporate extensive time for questions and discussion. For all submission types, please upload your contribution using the Conference Management Toolkit (CMT): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FCMNA2025 Key Dates ===================================================== - Regular Paper submission (long & short papers): 17th October 2025 - Regular & Short Paper notification to authors: 7th November 2025 - Demo, position statement, & late breaking results submission (2 page abstract): 14th November 2025 - Demo, position statement, & late breaking results Notification to authors: 28th November 2025 - Final (Camera Ready) version of papers: 28th November 2025 - CMNA Workshop: 12th December 2025 Organizers ===================================================== - Giulia D’Agostino -- giulia.dagostino(a)usi.ch (Università della Svizzera italiana) - Floriana Grasso -- floriana(a)liverpool.ac.uk (University of Liverpool) - Nancy Green -- nlgreen(a)uncg.edu (University of North Carolina Greensboro) - Roos Scheffers -- r.j.scheffers(a)uu.nl (Utrecht University) - Jodi Schneider -- jschneider(a)pobox.com (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) - Simon Wells -- s.wells(a)napier.ac.uk (Edinburgh Napier University)

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call for participation in our survey on collecting data in the era of LLMs
by Neele Falk 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

--------Call for participation in a research survey on collecting data in the era of LLMs------------------------------- Dear Collegues, We (researchers originally from University of Stuttgart, Kopenhagen and Gent) are conducting a survey on the challenges of collecting data in the era of large language models (LLMs). In particular, we are interested in issues such as crowdworkers relying on LLMs to generate free-text responses that are expected to be written by themselves. Our goal is to better understand the contexts in which researchers encounter these problems and to find possible solutions. The survey is completely anonymous and should take about 5–10 minutes to complete. You can access it here: https://ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6KUJzBhQSgemzpY We would be very grateful for your input—your perspective will help support this research. Thank you for your time and support! Best regards Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sofie Labat, Tarun Tater and Neele Falk

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September 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: Mixer 7 English Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> AIDA Scenario 1 Evaluation Topic Source Data, Annotation and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T13> LORELEI Hindi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T12> ________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: Mixer 7 English Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> was developed by LDC and contains 12,321 hours of audio recordings of interviews, transcript readings, and conversational telephone speech involving 222 distinct English speakers. This material was collected by LDC in 2010-2011 as part of the Mixer project, and the recordings were used in the 2012 NIST SRE test set. Recruited speakers were connected through a robot operator to carry on casual conversations on a pre-set topic lasting up to 10 minutes. Participants also visited LDC's Human Subjects Collection Lab equipped with a 14-microphone array where they participated in interviews and transcript readings, and conducted telephone calls under varying conditions. Selected speaker metadata was also collected. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. This corpus is a Members-Only release and is not available for non-member licensing. Contact ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> for information about membership. * AIDA Scenario 1 Evaluation Topic Source Data, Annotation and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T13> was developed by LDC and is comprised of English, Russian, and Ukrainian web documents (text, video, image), annotations, and assessments used in the AIDA Phase 1 pilot and final evaluations. The Phase 1 scenario focused on political relations between Russia and Ukraine in the 2010s. The material in this corpus covers the following events: Suspicious Deaths and Murders in Ukraine (January-April 2015); Odessa Tragedy (May 2, 2014); and Siege of Sloviansk and Battle of Kramatorsk (April-July 2014). The corpus contains 10,522 documents, annotations for 386 of those documents, and assessment results covering 77,965 responses in 1,525 of those documents. Annotations were performed in three steps: (1) within-document labels for scenario-related entities, relations, and events; (2) coreference annotation across documents by linking information elements to a knowledge base; and (3) indications of any relationship between labeled events/relations and hypotheses about the scenario. In the assessment phase, LDC annotators reviewed and judged system response files to provide evaluation organizers with a means for scoring submissions. Assessment tasks included zero-hop assessment, class-based assessment, graph assessment, and hypothesis assessment. The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations, and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating, and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Hindi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T12> contains over 26 million words of Hindi monolingual text, 363,00 words of which were translated into English, 1.07 million words of found Hindi-English parallel text, and 118,000 Hindi words translated from English data. Approximately 103,000 words were annotated for simple named entities and over 25,000 words were annotated for full entity (including nominals and pronouns), entity linking, and situation frames (identifying entities, needs and issues). Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Call for Program Committee (Self-) Nominations (ECIR26)
by Yifei Yuan 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

=================================================================== Call for Program Committee (Self-) Nominations European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2026 Deadline: September 28, 2025 Application form: https://forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859vi8LL8 =================================================================== Are you a Ph.D. student or at the early stage of your career looking to gain experience in reviewing scientific papers? Do you know someone who can be an excellent reviewer? The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) invites you to nominate yourself or others to join the Program Committee (PC) for the short paper track. To apply, please fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859vi8LL8, which includes questions about your past experience and current research progress. Applications will be reviewed by the conference PC chairs and accepted people will be notifed. As a PC member, you will have the opportunity to read and evaluate submissions and contribute to the selection of high-quality research papers for presentation at the conference. You will also have the chance to interact with leading researchers in the field of information retrieval and build your network of contacts. The deadline for applications is September 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to your applications. ECIR Short Paper PC Chairs Mohammad, Sean, and Chrstine

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Call for Papers: JOHD Special Collection on Language Data Reuse
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite contributions to a Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) dedicated to language data reuse. The special collection is titled “Language datasets reuse: opportunities, challenges, and best practices”. This Special Collection will highlight how existing deposited mono- and multilingual language datasets (in any modality) have been reused in research across the humanities. Contributions may also describe cases where dataset reuse led to the creation of a new dataset. We welcome papers that present both successful and less successful experiences of language data reuse, with reflection on encountered issues and lessons learned. Position papers on how data creators can maximize the future reuse potential of language datasets are also encouraged. We invite the following type of submission: * Discussion papers (3,000–5,000 words): Longer narratives illustrating the reuse of one or more existing deposited language datasets (preferably created by researchers other than the authors) or showcasing reuse-focused dataset design approaches. Papers should follow the discussion paper template for this Special Collection<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LnlJPZX-lNQxtvAiI_9T3Bkio3V1bFKD/edit?u…>. Key information: * Submission deadline: 30 January 2026 * Submission link: https://account.openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/index.php/up-j-johd/submissi… * Publication fees: Waivers are available upon request. For papers describing reuse of datasets hosted in a CLARIN centre, publication fees may be covered by CLARIN. Guest Editorial Team * Darja Fišer (Executive Director of CLARIN; University of Ljubljana; Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia) * Francesca Frontini (ILC-CNR, Pisa; CLARIN-IT;, Italy) Coordinating Editor * Paola Marongiu (ILC-CNR, Pisa) We look forward to your contributions and to advancing the conversation on the reuse of language data in the humanities. With best regards, The Special Collection Editorial Team --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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Fully-funded PhD positions in NLP at University of Turku, Finland
by Shaoxiong Ji 13 Sep '25

13 Sep '25

The TurkuNLP research group at the University of Turku, Finland is seeking two fully-funded PhD Researchers to join our team! These PhD positions are part of HAIF (Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Future), a prestigious doctoral training project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. Our research is at the forefront of NLP, covering key areas such as: - Large language models - Large corpora - Multilingual methods - Health applications of NLP Check out the website https://haif.utu.fi/ for details Reach out to shaoxiong.ji(a)utu.fi if you’re interested in multilingual LLMs and health applications. Application deadline: 30 September, at 15:00 (Helsinki/Europe).

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Deadline Extended – Last Call for Participation: 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP
by Santiago Herrera 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Dear all, This is the last call, with an extended deadline, to invite everyone interested to attend the 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP. Dates: 20-24 January, 2026 (Tuesday-Saturday) Location: Yerevan State University (YSU), Yerevan, Armenia Coordinating Project: UniDive (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unid… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…>Cost: Participants selected on the basis of their applications will be reimbursed, details below. We are happy to announce the 2nd edition of UniDive Training School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome. See below for the application details. TRAINING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Courses Linguistic Typology for NLP researchers: Methods and Resources in the 21st century <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…> - by Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Luigi Talamo (Saarland University, Germany) Large Language Models for Low-Resourced Languages: Hands-On Approaches to Cultural and Genre Diversity in NLP <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…> - by Maria Carp (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL Luxembourg and University of Luxembourg) Diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where and how <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…> - by Louis Estève <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.lis…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France), Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Université Catholique Louvain, Belgium), Nurit Melnik (The Open University, Israel), Agata Savary <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://perso.l…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) and Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University, Germany, SET University, Ukraine) Poster sessions Brainstorming hackathon on open issues submitted by the trainees CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Each applicant should submit a project related to language diversity and the topics of the training school (e.g., research in fields such as linguistic variation, diversity, typology, and computational linguistics, including specific topics like diversity quantification across textual genres, corpora and languages). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: The title Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country of the affiliation) A list of 3-4 key-words Description of the project related to the topics of the training school Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project Short statement of the project phase (planned, started, ongoing) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview portal <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://openreview.net/group?id%3DUniDive/2025…> IMPORTANT DATES Trainee's application deadline: 19 September, 2025 (AoE) Acceptance notification: 24 October, 2025 Invitations for visas (if needed): 27 October, 2025 Official confirmations of travel grants: early November Training school: January 20-24, 2026 TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund about 40 trainees to come to Yerevan (additionally to local trainees). In case of a larger number of candidates, the selection criteria will include: Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here and here Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee Status of the languages, dialects, or varieties on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects, or genres are promoted) If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. The authors of the selected projects will present them in a poster session during the Training School. PROGRAM CHAIRS Victoria Bobicev Anna Danielyan Santiago Herrera Esther Ploeger Wessel Poelman Ranka Stanković Abigail Walsh For any question, please contact the organisers at adanielyan82(a)gmail.com <mailto:adanielyan82@gmail.com> and s.herrera(a)parisnanterre.fr <mailto:s.herrera@parisnanterre.fr> Looking forward to seeing you in Yerevan, Program Chairs

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/track/saner-2026 SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/ IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/ VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/ MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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