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[CLEF 2026] Call for Lab Proposals - Deadline 14th of July
by Julia Maria Struß 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

***Apologies for cross-posting *** ------------------------------------------- CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Jena, Germany, September 21-24, 2026 https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/ <http://clef2022.clef-initiative.eu> ------------------------------------------- Call for Lab Proposals Background The CLEF Initiative <http://www.clef-initiative.eu/>is a self-organised body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for: 1. Independent evaluation of information access systems 2. Investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access 3. Creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking 4. Exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data 5. Discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge Scope of CLEF Labs We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs: 1. "Campaign-style" Evaluation Labs for specific information access problems (during the twelve months period preceding the conference), similar in nature to the traditional CLEF campaign "tracks". Topics covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information access-related domain or task. 2. Labs that follow a more classical "workshop" pattern, exploring evaluation methodology, metrics, processes, etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine translation, and human-computer interaction. We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2026 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research frontiers are moving. Lab organisers are expected to organise separate sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and engagement with all participants - not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals. Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2026 Lab Organizing Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage. Proposal Submission Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab. Proposals should be 3 to 4 pageslong and should provide the following information: 1. Title of the proposed lab. 2. A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to CLEF and the significance for the field. 3. A brief and clear statement on usage scenarios and domain to which the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation setup and metrics. 4. Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This should include details of any previous involvement in organising or participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns. 5. The planned format of the lab, i.e., campaign-style (“track”) or workshop. 6. Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a new activity? 1. For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to be learned or insights to be made. 2. For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity. 7. Details of the expected target audience, i.e., who do you expect to participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them. 8. Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough participation. The dataset which will be adopted by the Lab needs to be described and motivated in the perspective of the goals of the Labs; also indications on how the dataset will be shared are useful. It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain multiple closely related tasks, needing a strong motivation for more than 3 tasks, to avoid useless fragmentation. 9. Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one day, two days. This should include high-level details of planned structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length. 10. Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be responsible for activities within the task; how will data be acquired or created, what tools or methods will be used, e.g., how will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried out; any other information which is relevant to the conduct of your lab. 11. If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links of people you propose to be involved. Lab proposals must be submitted via EasyChair. The link will be distributed, once EasyChair is set up. Review Process Each proposal submitted by 14 July 2025will be reviewed by the CLEF 2026 Lab Organising Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 4 Aug 2025. The final length of the lab session at the conference will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab. Advertising Labs at CLEF 2025 and ECIR 2026 Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2025 (September 9-12, 2025, Madrid, Spain) and ECIR 2026 (March 29 - April 2, 2026, Delft, Netherlands). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events. Advertising at CLEF 2025 will consist of displaying a poster describing the new lab and advertising/announcing it during the closing session. Advertising at ECIR 2026 will consist of submitting a lab description (abstract submission deadline TBA by ECIR) to be included in ECIR 2026 proceedings and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2026. Lab Proposals from Newcomers If you have not organised a lab before, do not panic! The CLEF 2026 Lab Organising Committee Lab is willing to mentor you by offering help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal. If you are a newcomer interested in receiving guidance, please send an e-mail with the following tag in the subject “[Mentorship CLEF 2026 Lab Proposals]” to Sean.MacAvaney at glasgow.ac.uk and julia.struss at fh-potsdam.de We also encourage newcomers to refer toFriedberg et al. (2015) <https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004…>for initial guidance on preparing their proposal: Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 23;11(4):e1004150. Important Dates * 14 July 2025:Hard deadline to submit proposal to Easychair * 4 August 2025:Notification of lab acceptance * 9-12 September 2025:Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain * October 2025 (TBA by ECIR):Submission of short lab description for ECIR 2026 * April 2026:Advertising labs at ECIR 2026, Delft, Netherlands * April-May:Lab evaluation cycle * May-June:Review process of participant papers * June 2026:Review of the condensed labs overviews * July 2026:CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organisers * 21-24 September, 2026:Labs at CLEF 2026 CLEF 2026 Lab Chairs * Julia Maria Struß, Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences * Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow -- ___________________________ Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften Kiepenheuerallee 5 14469 Potsdam Telefon: +49 331 580 4532 Zoom:https://fh-potsdam.zoom-x.de/my/juliamstruss

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LxGr2025: Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) LxGr2025 will be held online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. Symposium programme and registration (free): https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): First Call for Papers
by Announce 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

*** First Call for Papers *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/ Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/ Special Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track), as well as the Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .

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[CFP] SymGenAI4Sci Workshop @ SEMANTiCS 2025 – Symbolic and Generative AI for Science (Vienna & Online)
by D'Souza, Jennifer 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the SymGenAI4Sci Workshop on Symbolic and Generative AI for Science, taking place as part of SEMANtiCS 2025 in Vienna, Austria, from September 3–5, 2025 (hybrid format). Workshop Theme SymGenAI4Sci brings together researchers working at the intersection of generative AI and symbolic methods to advance scientific reasoning, experimentation, and knowledge structuring. The goal is to explore hybrid approaches that combine the flexibility of generative models with the precision and explainability of symbolic AI in scientific applications. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Generative AI tailored to scientific domains (e.g., text, tables, workflows) - Integration of symbolic reasoning with deep learning - Ontologies, schema induction, and structured knowledge generation - Human-in-the-loop and agentic AI for scientific research - Evaluation frameworks for scientific reliability and factuality - Applications in scientific discovery, data curation, or experimentation Important Dates Submission deadline: July 20, 2025 Workshop date: September 3–5, 2025 Location: Vienna, Austria & Online More information and submission guidelines: https://sga4s.semantic.foundation/ We warmly invite researchers from NLP, AI, knowledge representation, and the sciences to submit their work and join the conversation on developing more grounded, explainable, and scientifically useful AI systems. Best regards, The SymGenAI4Sci 2025 Organizing Committee https://sga4s.semantic.foundation

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CfP 7th Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP 2025)
by Spanakis, Jerry (DACS) 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

7th Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP 2025) 8 November 2025, Suzhou, China (collocated with EMNLP 2025) Website: http://nllpw.org/workshop Twitter: @nllpworkshop Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nllpworkshop.bsky.social Contact: nllp.chairs(a)gmail.com<mailto:nllp.chairs@gmail.com> = Important Dates = Submission deadline ― 26 August 2025 Submission of EMNLP papers with reviews and ARR commitment ― 2 September 2025 Notification for direct submissions, ARR and EMNLP papers ― 30 September 2025 Camera ready due ― 7 October 2025 Workshop ― 8 November 2025 All deadlines are 11.59pm UTC -12h Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP For the full text: https://nllpw.org/workshop/call/ = Goal = Following the success of the first six editions of the NLLP workshop (EMNLP 2021 - 2024, KDD 2020, NAACL 2019), the workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on NLP, LLMs and other AI fields with legal practitioners and researchers.We welcome submissions describing original work on legal data, as well as data with legal relevance.= Topics =Applications of NLP methods to tasks in the legal domain including, but not limited to: • Case outcome analysis and prediction • Summarization and analysis of long-form and complex legal documents • Information extraction • Contract drafting • Chatbots and assistants for legal or negotiation support • Legal analysis and commentary • Legal argumentation analysis • Legal reasoning • Information retrieval and question-answering (incl. retrieval-augmented generation) • Detection and mitigation of legal misinformation • Copyright and intellectual property law applications, incl. infringement detection, licensing compliance, generative content auditing • Agentic applications for conducting tasks in the legal domain Methods for applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to the legal domain including, but not limited to: • Adaptation of LLMs to the legal domain • Prompt engineering and prompt chaining • Composite methods using symbolic or rule-based reasoning • Groundedness and attributability of generations • Privacy and bias risks in legal LLM applications • Copyright compliance, dataset provenance and transparency and fair use analysis in LLM training and usage Methodological innovations for legal tasks including, but not limited to: • Classification • Summarization and generation • Information extraction incl. entity recognition, disambiguation, event extraction, query understanding, anonymization, data extraction, knowledge base population • Question answering incl. retrieval-augmented generation • Information retrieval incl. sparse, dense or hybrid approaches • Multi-modal document parsing incl. using structured, semi-structured and metadata (e.g. tables, charts, images) • Clustering, clause similarity and topic modeling • Link and citation prediction • Causal inference and counterfactual reasoning for legal decision-making • Conversational agents incl. conversational question answering, contract analysis and review, negotiation support agents or multi-agent coordination • Planning and reasoning Tasks, Resources and Evaluation for NLP in the Legal domain: • Description of new tasks for NLP in the legal domain e.g. legal argument reasoning, legal QA attribution • Task overviews and survey papers that identify current research gaps • Dataset development for LLM benchmarking for legal applications • Publicly available datasets curated and annotated by legal experts • Methods for automatic evaluation of LLM performance on legal domains NLP for Online Platforms, Social Media and Regulations: • Detection and moderation of illegal content (e.g. harassment, defamation) • NLP for platform compliance under regulatory regimes (e.g. Data Services Act, AI Act, etc.) • Legal transparency tooling for platform decisions (e.g. Statement of Reasons analysis) • Misinformation and disinformation detection with legal implications • Online dispute resolution, appeals and access to justice via social platforms • Legal evidence mining from user-generated content and public discourse • Legal implications of chatbots and agents operating in or for social media platforms • NLP aided analysis of Terms of Services and platform policies Systems, Demos and Industry Applications • System descriptions of real-world legal NLP systems • Industry applications in legal tech or compliance • NLP systems for legal professionals such as E-Discovery, contract review, risk assessment. • Open or proprietary NLP tools for citizens, lawyers, courts, or regulators Interdisciplinary position papers on topics including, but not limited to: • Legal or socio-legal analyses relating to the role NLP in the legal domain • Ethical, legal and regulatory aspects of data collection and LLM use in the legal domain • Critical reflections about the benefits and challenges with using NLP technologies in the legal domain • The role of NLP in Access to Justice and Digital Legal Empowerment • The role of NLP in platform governance and content moderation including legal, regulatory and ethical aspects of automated moderation, accountability under emerging platform regulations (e.g., DSA, DMA, AI Act) and impacts on freedom of expression and access to justice • Legal and ethical challenges of NLP in the context of copyright and IP = Submissions =We accept papers reporting original (unpublished) research of two types: • Long papers (max 8 pages of content) • Short papers (max 4 pages of content) Appendices, references, optional limitations section, optional ethics section and acknowledgements do not count against the maximum page limit and should be formatted according to the guidelines below. To submit a paper, please access the submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP Conference proceedings will be published on the ACL Anthology. = Ethics Section = The NLLP workshop adheres to the same standards regarding ethics as the EMNLP 2025 conference (link). Authors will be allowed extra space after the 8th page (4th for short papers) for an optional broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted.= Non-archival Option =The authors have the option of submitting previously unpublished research as non-archival, meaning that only the abstract will be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work as archival submissions. These will be reviewed following the same procedure as archival submissions. This option accommodates publication of the work or a superset at a later date in a conference or journal which does not allow previously archived work and to encourage presentation and feedback on mature, yet unpublished work. Non-archival submissions should adhere to the same formatting and length constraints as archival submissions. = Dual Submission and Preprint Policy = Papers that are under consideration at other workshops, conferences or journals during the review period must explicitly indicate so at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the NLLP 2025 workshop must notify the organizers by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be published or withdrawn. There is no anonymity period or limitation on posting or discussing non-anonymous preprints while the work is under peer review. However, if the preliminary version of a paper was posted on arXiv, the paper should *not* have a self-reference to it in the submission. = ACL Rolling Review Submissions = Our workshop also welcomes submissions from ACL Rolling Review (ARR). Authors of any papers that are submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews for consideration for the workshop until 2 September 2025. This should include submissions to ARR for the May deadline. The decision of publication will be announced by 7 October 2025. The commitment should be done via the workshop submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP_ARR_Commitment = EMNLP 2025 Submissions = Authors of any papers that have been reviewed for EMNLP 2025 and were rejected have the opportunity to send their paper and reviews to be considered for publication in the NLLP workshop proceedings as long as the topics are relevant to those described in this call for papers. The deadline for submitting papers and reviews is 2 September 2025. The decision of publication will be announced by 7 October 2025. The submission should be done via the workshop submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/Workshop/NLLP_ARR_Commitment = Double-Blind Reviewing = The review process is double-blind and should follow the ARR guidelines on ensuring two-way anonymized review available here. Papers that violate these requirements will be desk rejected. = Submission Style & Format Guidelines = Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available here (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to “*ACL” conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. = Presentation= Presentation format for each paper and schedule will be announced between acceptance notification and the camera-ready deadline.At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the NLLP 2025 workshop by the registration deadline in order for the submission to be published in the proceedings. =Organizing Commitee= Nikolaos Aletras - University of Sheffield Leslie Barrett ― Bloomberg Ilias Chalkidis - University of Copenhagen Catalina Goanta - Utrecht University Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro - Bloomberg Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis - Maastricht University

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Call for Nominations: BCS Search Industry Awards 2025
by Udo Kruschwitz 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

BCS Search Industry Awards 2025 We are delighted to announce this year's Search Industry Awards, celebrating the best search innovations of 2025. Presented by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…>, these awards recognize people, projects, and organisations around the world that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products and services. If you know of any people, projects, or products that deserve recognition, let us know by submitting a nomination. Alternatively, if you're involved with something special yourself, you can submit an application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…> today. Categories This year we are offering four awards: Best Search Project recognises the most impactful implementation of search technology or methodology in solving a specific problem or need. Previous winners include: Datafari Enterprise Search <https://www.datafari.com/en/index.html>, an open-source end-to-end solution covering the needs of enterprise search scenarios Wikiframe Visual Graph <https://wikiframe.library.unlv.edu/>, a search capability for Special Collections data stored on Wikidata CiteSeerX <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/>, one of the largest open-source academic search engines with over 10 million documents Search Professional of the Year is made to an individual who has made a significant contribution through their work and professionalism. Previous winners include: Jayaprakash Sundararaj <https://www.linkedin.com/in/osjayaprakash/>, Lead Engineer at Google Amey Porobo Dharwadker <https://ameydhar.com/>, Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta Adam Tocock <https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/mini-apps/staff/profile/?id=2478>, Library Assistant at NHS Most promising Start-up (or new Enterprise) recognises the innovative and disruptive potential of a business model, technology, or solution. Previous winners include: deepset.ai <http://deepset.ai/>, a leader in framework and platform technology that accelerates AI application development with large language models (LLMs); and the creator of the Haystack open-source framework batteryincluded.ai <http://batteryincluded.ai/>, First BI Product Discovery Framework incl. 3 pillars for highest relevance within global product listings Giotto AI <https://www.giotto.ai/>, an all-in-one platform to automatize, digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a Clinical Evaluation Report Best Presentation at Search Solutions Previous winners include: Taketomo Isazawa, Microsoft Research: “Beyond RAG: Integrating Knowledge with LLMs" Charlie Hull, OSC: “Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid”. Filip Radlinski, Google: “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation” The last award is open only to presenters at Search Solutions, and will be judged on the day of the event. For all others, apply today <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…>! Judging Panel Winners will be selected by our panel of judges (details to be announced shortly). Awards Ceremony The awards ceremony will take place during Search Solutions 2025 <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…>. Apply We’ve designed the application process <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…> to be simple to complete. If you are unsure which category to apply for, or have questions about the application process, contact us via the address below. For further details, see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…> Nominations will remain open until 31st October 2025. Contact If you have any questions on the above, please contact the Awards Chair at udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de <mailto:udo.kruschwitz@ur.de> with a copy to the IRSG Events Organiser at tgr2uk+irsg(a)gmail.com <mailto:tgr2uk+irsg@gmail.com> About IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS <https://www.bcs.org/>. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.

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Call for Submissions: Social Media Access Days
by Tatjana Scheffler 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

**Social Media Access Days** Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access Conference topics Online platforms, especially social media platforms, are both research objects and sources of data for a variety of research approaches in the humanities and social sciences, computer science, and the natural and life sciences. The historical evolution of social media makes them a part of our digital cultural heritage. However, the processes used by institutions to archive and document social media data are still only rudimentary, not least because of their economic, social and aesthetic characteristics and the unique attributes of media technology. Researchers, research institutions and cultural heritage institutions therefore face a wide range of problems in terms of their archiving, indexing and use. Researchers who wish to work with social media data also encounter numerous new challenges, especially when fundamental changes such as the elimination of application programming interfaces (APIs) impact access to specific data from online platforms. The archiving, indexing and use of dynamic data from social media are therefore fraught with problems which researchers, research institutions, libraries and archives have to tackle in a consistent manner. Ideally, solutions to these problems should be developed cooperatively, since this requires extensive effort which would be beyond the scope of a single data community or discipline. The aim of the conference is therefore to enable libraries, archives, infrastructural facilities, research institutions and researchers to network and exchange experiences with archiving and the sustainable use of data and digital objects from social media. We explicitly welcome case studies and presentations on solutions and their practical implementation as well as reports on research findings. We are particularly interested in contributions on the following key topics: - Sustainable infrastructure for collecting and providing access to social media content - Interaction between researchers and archiving institutions - Ethical issues and best practices - Legal issues and solutions - Challenges posed by restrictive data access from social media platforms - Experiences with data access in the context of the Digital Services Act - Status and preservation of social media from an archival and cultural-historical perspective, e.g. posts, interactions, platform elements - Consolidation of collections, corpora, holdings - Metadata, data documentation and indexing social media data - Use of AI & LLMs for data documentation and indexing purposes - Initiatives focusing on archiving and access - Concepts for the provision and use of derivatives (aggregated or derivative formats) from social media - Experiences with the reusability of available data Date The conference will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main. The main conference language is German. However, contributions can also be submitted in English. We aim to schedule all English-language presentations together in one day, if possible. Submissions We look forward to receiving your submissions for presentations and your proposals for tutorials, workshops or interactive formats. Presentations / posters: Please submit your proposals in the form of abstracts containing a maximum of 500 words (plus bibliographies and max. 1 illustration). Contributions can be based on research findings or personal experience and may be presented in German or English. The programme committee will decide which contributions to accept as oral presentations and which as posters. Further formats: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, themed sessions and other interactive formats should not exceed two pages and should contain the following information: proposed format and realisation, language, target group (potential number of participants), motivation and goals. In addition, please tell us whether you require special technical equipment or facilities. We will then determine how these can be provided on site. Please send your submissions as a PDF document to: twarchiv(a)dnb.de Timeline Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31 October 2025 Response by: 30 November 2025 Conference: 17.-19.03.2026 Participation The conference will take place in person at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main. There are currently no plans to stream the event online. The participation fee is approx. 50 Euros. Speakers who do not have their own travel funds may apply for up to 300 euros to cover travel and accommodation expenses (per presentation for max. one person). Organisation German National Library Frankfurt am Main Dr Britta Woldering twarchiv(a)dnb.de Program Committee Stefan Dietze (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS) Philippe Genêt (German National Library) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum) Claus-Michael Schlesinger (UB der HU Berlin) Katrin Weller (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Britta Woldering (German National Library) Cooperation partners BERD@NFDI German National Library GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences NFDI4DataScience Text+ Conference website: https://www.dnb.de/EN/smad --- Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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[Deadline Extension] 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals at COLM 2025
by Pedro Ortiz Suarez 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the first call for papers of the *1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals at COLM 2025* Important information: 🗓️ CfP Deadline Extended to: July 3, Workshop: October 10 📍 Montréal, Canada 🌐 https://wmdqs.org Scope Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) not only need large quantities of data, but also need data of sufficient quality. Ensuring data quality is even more important in a multilingual setting, where the amount of acceptable training data in many languages is limited. Indeed, for many languages even the fundamental step of language identification remains a challenge, leading to unreliable language labels and thus noisy datasets for underserved languages. In response to these challenges, we will be holding the first Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals (WMDQS) in tandem with COLM. We invite the submission of long and short research papers related to data quality in multilingual data. Even though most previous work on data quality has been targeted at LLM development, we believe that research in this area can also benefit other research communities in areas such as web search, web archiving, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, political sciences and beyond. We therefore encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines. WMDQS will also include a shared task on language identification for web text. We invite participants to submit novel systems which address current problems with language identification for web text. We will provide a training set of annotated documents sourced from Common Crawl to aid development. Topics We welcome submissions of (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, (3) online systems on the topics listed below, and (4) extended abstracts. We especially welcome work-in-progress projects and all novel ideas covering research in multilinguality, underserved/low-resource languages, under-represented linguistic communities and all types of work covering data quality signals. Suggested areas include: - Data pipelines for data annotation and data filtering - Undesirable content detection in a multilingual setting - Multilingual or language independent content ranking - Human annotation platforms and systems - Multilingual tokenization mechanisms - Small language models and embeddings - Linguistic studies in underserved languages - Corpus creation and curation methods, especially for underserved languages - Machine translation - Digital humanities - Historical and constructed languages Shared task The lack of training data—especially high-quality data—is the root cause of poor language model performance for many languages. One obstacle to improving the quantity and quality of available text data is language identification (LangID or LID). Lang ID remains far from solved for many languages. Several of the commonly used LangID models were introduced in 2017 (e.g. fastText and CLD3). The aim of this shared task is to encourage innovation in open-source language identification and improve accuracy on a broad range of languages. All accepted authors will be invited to contribute a larger paper, which will be submitted to a high-impact NLP venue. Important dates for the Workshop: Workshop paper submission deadline (extended): July 3, 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 24, 2025 Workshop: October 10, 2025 Important dates for the Shared Task: 1st Deadline to contribute annotations: July 7, 2025 1st Annotations released (train split): July 14, 2025 Abstract Deadline: July 21, 2025 Decision Notification: July 24, 2025 Camera Ready Deadline: September 21, 2025 (All deadlines are 23:59 AoE.) Organizers: For any questions, please drop a mail to wmdqs-pcs(a)googlegroups.com Program Chairs: Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Common Crawl Foundation) Sarah Luger (MLCommons) Laurie Burchell (Common Crawl Foundation) Kenton Murray (Johns Hopkins University) Catherine Arnett (EleutherAI) Organizing Committee: Thom Vaughan (Common Crawl Foundation) Sara Hincapié (Factored) Rafael Mosquera (MLCommons)

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[CFP] MAHED 2025: the First Shared Task on Multimodal Detection of Hope and Hate Emotions in Arabic Content
by Wajdi Zaghouani 22 Jun '25

22 Jun '25

We are pleased to announce MAHED 2025, the first multimodal shared task dedicated to Hope and Hate Detection in Arabic content. This novel multimodal challenge will be co-located with EMNLP 2025 at the ArabicNLP 2025 Conference. MAHED 2025 addresses critical real-world challenges in Arabic natural language processing by focusing on the detection of hate speech, hope speech, and emotions in both Arabic text and memes. This shared task aims to advance research in ethical AI while addressing the linguistic diversity and dialectal variations inherent in Arabic content. The shared task comprises three subtasks: Task 1: Text-based Hope & Hate Speech Classification Participants will develop models to classify Arabic text as containing hope speech, hate speech, or neutral content. Task 2: Multitask Learning for Emotion, Offensive Content, and Hate Detection This task involves simultaneous detection of emotions, offensive language, and hate speech in Arabic text. Task 3: Multimodal Hateful Meme Detection Participants will work with Arabic memes to detect hateful content using both textual and visual modalities. Registration Links: * Task 1: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9136/ * Task 2: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9166/ * Task 3: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9192/ Important Dates: * June 10, 2025: Training data and evaluation scripts released * July 20, 2025: Final registration deadline and test set release * July 25, 2025: Test submission deadline * November 5-9, 2025: ArabicNLP 2025 Workshop at EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China Resources and Registration: Website: https://marsadlab.github.io/mahed2025/ Dataset and Code: https://github.com/marsadlab/MAHED2025Dataset

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): Last Call for Papers
by Announce 22 Jun '25

22 Jun '25

*** Last Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) November 13-14, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) (*** Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025 AoE (extended and firm!) ***) The annual IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG) provides a premier international forum for presentation of original research results in knowledge discovery and graph learning, discussion of opportunities and challenges, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning • Knowledge engineering with big data. • Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. • Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. • Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. • Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. • Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. • Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. • Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. • Ontologies and reasoning. • Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. • Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. • Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. • Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. • Big knowledge systems and applications. • Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. • Large language models and applications • Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. • Datasets and benchmarks for graphs • Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems • Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. • Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building • Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. • Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model • Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning • Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database • Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. • Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. • Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “Survey:”, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled “A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”, should be changed as “Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as “Survey:”, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “SS##:”, where “##” is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled “Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as “SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (abstract and full paper): July 4, 2025 (AoE) (extended and firm!) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 5, 2025 • Camera-ready, copyright forms and author registration: September 20, 2025 • Early (non-author) registration: October 10, 2025 • Conference dates: November 13-14, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference and Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chair • Dan Guo, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs • Cesare Alippi, Università della Svizzera italiana • Shirui Pan, Griffith University Local Organising Vice Chair • Irene Kinlanioti, National Technical University of Athens Finance Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee Chair • Xindong Wu, Hefei University Of Technology

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