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TextDetox CLEF 2025: First Call for Participants
by Daryna Dementieva 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

*TextDetox CLEF 2025* Toxicity in online communication is a growing concern, and NLP has the power to make a difference! Our Text Detoxification Shared Task invites researchers and practitioners to develop innovative methods for transforming harmful language into neutral or constructive text while preserving meaning. This multilingual challenge spans 15 languages, pushing the boundaries of responsible AI and ethical NLP. Whether you're an expert in text style transfer, toxicity detection, or multilingual NLP, this is your chance to contribute to a safer, more inclusive digital space! https://pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25-web/text-detoxification.html https://huggingface.co/textdetox TL;DR Task formulation: transfer a text style from toxic to neutral (i.e. what a f**k is this about? -> what is this about?) 15 very diverse languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Hinglish, Arabic, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Amharic, Hebrew, Tatar Tasks and phases: The second edition of TextDetox focuses on advancing multilingual and cross-lingual text detoxification. The challenge is to develop a model that, using training data from nine diverse languages – English, Spanish, German, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Ukrainian, Russian, and Amharic – can generalize effectively to *new languages* -- *Italian, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, and Tatar *-- while maintaining consistent performance across all. The shared task will be split in two phases – dev and test with more data to challenge your models! The final leaderboard will be built on more advanced evaluation – we will release the details later. In the end, you will have an opportunity to write and then present a paper at CLEF 2024 (https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php) which will take place in sunny Madrid, Spain! Important Dates Now: join our google group for all updates: https://groups.google.com/g/textdetox-clef2025 Register officially to CLEF competition: https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/registration.html April 25, 2025: Registration closes. May 1st, 2025: Test phase starts May 10, 2025: End of evaluation cycle. May 30, 2025: Participants paper submission. June 27, 2025: Notification of acceptance. July 7, 2025: Camera-ready due. September 9-12, 2025: CLEF Conference in Madrid, Spain! On behalf of TextDetox Shared Task Organizers, Daryna Dementieva https://dardem.github.io/

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Low-Resource Indic Language Translation @WMT2025
by Santanu Pal 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the "*Shared Task: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation*" again this year as part of WMT 2025. Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition, we are excited to continue this important initiative. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages. The WMT 2025 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as *Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, Mising, and Kokborok*. For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt(a)gmail.com. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link: *Task Link*: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/indic-mt-task.html. We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can provide updates regarding release dates of data and other relevant information periodically To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here: *Link*: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EWz5obFNaUnzXLEW6MTf46e4V5MesjKWihL4NymEqg… With Best Regards, Santanu

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First CfP: The 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)
by Ines Rehbein 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

First CfP: The 5th Workshop on *C*omputational Linguistics for the *P*olitical and *S*ocial *S*ciences (CPSS-2025) https://cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025 CPSS-2025 will be held in September 2025, co-located with KONVENS <https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/> in Hildesheim, Germany. The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of using CL/NLP techniques for the political and social sciences, including: * Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) * Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources * Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods * Political and social bias in language models * Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices * NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making * Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research * and many more... CPSS-2025 will be held in person. Special Theme The special theme of CPSS-2025 is * Validation and best practices for using NLP in political and social science research*. In addition to CPSS's general topics, we specifically invite submissions on this year's special theme, focussing on validation and best practices for applying NLP techniques for research in the political and social sciences. We are especially interested in papers addressing issues related to: * Data quality in human and synthetic data * Data leakage and contamination, especially in LLMs * New ways to collect data such as dataset donation * Validation of results beyond the train-dev-test paradigm of NLP and data science. * Any other topics related to the special theme. Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth.” Workshop papers due June 13, 2025 Notification of acceptance Aug 1, 2025 Camera-ready papers due Aug 10, 2025 Workshop date Sep 2025 Submissions We solicit two types of submissions: * *archival papers* describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published on the ACL anthology. For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS guidelines. * *non-archival papers* (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing ongoing work, PhD projects, or already published research. For more details, please refer to the CPSS-2025 website: https://cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025 CPSS 2025 organising committee Dennis Assenmacher (GESIS), Christopher Klamm (U-Mannheim), Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS/U-Düsseldorf), Simone Ponzetto (U-Mannheim), Ines Rehbein (U-Mannheim), Indira Sen (U-Mannheim) -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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2nd CfP: The 12th Workshop on Argument Mining @ ACL 2025 -
by Gabriella Lapesa 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th Workshop on Argument Mining @ ACL 2025 https://argmining-org.github.io/2025/ The 12th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on July 31st in Vienna, Austria, together with ACL 2025. The Workshop on Argument Mining provides a regular forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a argumentation mining) for academic and industry researchers. By continuing a series of eleven successful previous workshops, this edition will welcome the submission of long and short papers, as well as extended abstracts and PhD proposals. It will also feature a number of shared tasks and a keynote talk. IMPORTANT DATES *** Direct paper submission deadline (OpenReview): April 17, 2025 [due to constraints related the publication of the proceedings, we will not be able to extend the deadline!] Paper commitment from ARR: May 21, 2025 Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: June 4, 2025 Workshop: July 31, 2025 *** NEWS: INVITED TALK Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge *** NEWS: PANEL Topic: "Broadening the Scope of Argument Mining". Panelists: check the website! *** NEWS: SHARED TASKS 1, Critical Questions Generation https://hitz-zentroa.github.io/shared-task-critical-questions-generation/ 2. Multimodal Argumentative Fallacy Detection and Classification on Political Debates https://nlp-unibo.github.io/mm-argfallacy/2025/ TOPICS OF INTEREST - Identification, Assessment, and Analysis of Arguments - Identification of argument components (e.g., premises and conclusions) - Structure analysis of arguments within and across documents - Relation Identification between arguments and counterarguments (e.g., support and attack) - Creation and evaluation of argument annotation schemes, relationships to linguistic and discourse annotations, (semi-) automatic argument annotation methods and tools, and creation of argumentation corpora - Assessment of arguments for various properties (e.g., stance, clarity) - Generation of Arguments, Multi-modal and Multi-lingual Argument Mining - Automatic generation of arguments and their components - Consideration of discourse goals in argument generation - Argument mining and generation from multi-modal/multi-lingual data - Mining and Analysis of different Genres and Domains of Arguments - Argument mining in specific genres and domains (e.g., education, law, scientific writing) - Analysis of unique styles within genres (e.g., short informal text, highly structured writing) - Modelling, assessing, and critically reflecting on the argumentative reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models - Knowledge Integration, Information Retrieval, and Real-world Applications - Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models - Combination of information retrieval methods with argument mining - Real-world applications, including argument web search, opinion analysis and summarization, and misinformation detection - Interdisciplinary interfaces of Argument Mining - Mining political discourse, by experts and laypeople - Argument mining support for deliberation - Persuasion and convincingess from a psychological perspective - Subjectivity, disagreements and perspectivism in argumentation - Ethical Considerations and Future Reflections - Reflection on the ethical aspects and societal impact of argument-mining methods - Reflection on the future of argument mining in light of the fast advancement of large language models (LLMs) SUBMISSIONS The organizing committee welcomes submitting long papers, short papers, extended abstracts and PhD proposals. Accepted papers will be presented via oral or poster presentations. Long and short papers will be included in the ACL proceedings as workshop papers. Extended abstracts and PhD proposals will be non-archival. - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be at most eight pages, including title, text, figures, and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution, a negative result, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must be at most four pages, including title, text, figures, and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for the appendix, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Extended abstracts must be at most two pages including references describing ongoing projects, interesting pieces of data or results, or already published work. - PhD proposals must describe PhD projects being or to be developed within the broad field of natural language argumentation processing. PhD proposals must be at most four pages including the main research directions or challenges being investigated, the specific contributions made (on the research direction), and the directions for the remaining work. A dedicated poster session will be hosted, allowing students to get feedback and discuss their work with a broad and multidisciplinary community. Multiple Submissions ArgMining 2025 will not consider any paper under review in a journal or another conference or workshop at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. ArgMining 2025 will also accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline (May 21). However, ArgMining 2025 will not accept direct submissions that are actively under review in ARR, or that overlap significantly (>25%) with such submissions. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL 2025 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format. Submission Link and Deadline For Direct Submissions Authors have to fill in the submission form in the OpenReview system and upload a PDF of their paper before April 17, 2025, 11:59 pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth). https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/ArgMining For the ARR commitment process, we will provide details in our second call for papers. Double Blind Review ArgMining 2025 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review for long and short paper submissions. Papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as GitHub) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use the third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. ANONYMITY PERIOD (taken from the ACL call for papers in verbatim for the most part) We follow the ACL Policies for Review and Citation. Submissions must be anonymized, but there is no anonymity period or limitation on posting or discussing non-anonymous preprints while the work is under peer review. BEST PAPER AWARD In order to recognize significant advancements in argument mining science and technology, ArgMining 2025 will include the Best Paper award. All papers at the workshop are eligible for the best paper award, and a selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the award recipients. ArgMining 2025 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Elena Chistova, Laboratory for Analysis and Controllable Text Generation Technologies, RAS Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University Shohreh Haddadan, Machine learning department, Moffitt Cancer Center Gabriella Lapesa, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Cologne, and Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Ramon Ruiz-Dolz, Centre for Argument Technology (ARG-tech), University of Dundee

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Call for Papers: LxGr2025
by Costas Gabrielatos 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: 4 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. * Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. * Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. * Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you 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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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - Last Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Kossi Amouzouvi 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 - Last Call for Workshops and Tutorials 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 03-05, 2025 Important Dates for Workshops: - *Proposals WS Deadline:* March 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) March 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance: * March 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) April 5, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers): - *Proposals Tutorial Deadline:* June 11, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance:* June 18, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) *Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>* *SEMANTiCS Workshops and Tutorials* SEMANTiCS 2025 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2025 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives and/or challenges in these areas. Workshops and tutorials may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon request as well. *Scope and Goals* Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2025 allow your organization or project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility. The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the SEMANTiCS website, and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and tutorials can be incubators for industrial and scientific communities that form and share a particular research and development agenda, and they will provide a forum for presenting contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. *Proceedings* Workshop papers will be published in the SEMANTiCS side event proceedings through CEUR. Side events proceedings will include posters & demos and contributions from workshops. *Setup and Requirements* SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full-day long. Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after the main SEMANTiCS 2025 EU conference (03th of September 2025). Further details will be communicated in due time. Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets (only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will only be charged a reduced fee to cover the basic costs. Workshop and tutorial proposals must include the following information: - outline of the *themes and goals of the event*, including a title and a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2025 website. - a statement addressing why the event is important, *why the event is timely*, and how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2025 and the field of Semantic Web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a high-quality introduction to the topic. - *related workshops and conferences*, i.e., specifying if this is a continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop. Please provide information about past versions (in any) and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available). - a statement addressing the *quality assurance criteria* that will be used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and the presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation by event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be responsible for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be responsible also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers) and proceedings production. - *structure of the event* and plans for generating and stimulating discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event. - expected *number of event participants* and (in case of previously held events) number of registered attendees and website for previous editions of the event - a *description* of the intended audience and the expected learning *outcomes.* - desired *prerequisite* knowledge of the audience. - proposed *duration of the event* (i.e., half or full day), different sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance with the SEMANTiCS program). - any *equipment*, room capacity, or other logistic constraints. - full *contact information* of all organizers of the event and main contact person; a brief description of each *organizer's background*, including relevant past experience in organizing events. Proposals for workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via Easychair: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025> (max 4 pages) *Important Dates* Important Dates for Workshops: - *Proposals WS Deadline:* March 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) March 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance:* March 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) April 5, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - *Workshop website is online:* April 15th, 2025 *Suggested* dates for Workshop organizers (with Call for Papers) - *Submission WS papers Deadline:* June 14, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance:* July 05, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers): - *Proposals Tutorial Deadline:* June 11, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance:* June 18, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) *Review and Evaluation Criteria* Workshop and tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2025 Workshop Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2025 organizing committee, according to the following criteria: - The potential to advance the state of Semantic Web research and practice - The quality assurance criteria proposed by the organizers to select high-quality papers for workshops and presenters for tutorials - The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event - Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics - The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2025 events *Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):* - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Interplay between Large Language Models, generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval Augmented Generation) - Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs - Semantics in Data Science - Semantics in Blockchain environments - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems - Provenance and Data Change Tracking - Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data - User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) - Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: - Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and Preventive Healthcare - Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches - AI for Environmental Challenges - Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs - AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions - Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0 - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage - LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act - Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems. We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop proposals on *emerging themes* and *open challenges* for the topics listed above are encouraged. In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair. We are looking forward to your contribution! *Workshop & Tutorial Chairs:* - Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (email: daniel.garijo(a)upm.es) - David Chaves-Fraga, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain (email: david.chaves(a)usc.es) Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee. ========================= Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden -- DISCLAIMER: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and you are herewith notified that the contents are legally privileged and that you do not have permission to disclose the contents to anyone, make copies thereof, retain or distribute or act upon it by any means, electronically, digitally or in print. The views expressed in this communication may be of a personal nature and not be representative of AIMS-NEI and/or any of its Centres or Initiatives.

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PhD Studentship at University of Exeter (UK) and the Université Paris Saclay (France): Multimodal and Multilingual models for Multiword Language Processing
by Aline Villavicencio 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

Dear all, We have a fully funded PhD studentship to work on the project Multimodal and Multilingual models for Multiword Language Processing as a joint PhD between the University of Exeter (UK) and the Université Paris Saclay (France). Supervisors: Aline Villavicencio, Agata Savary, Michèle Gouiffes and Rodrigo Wilkens. Deadline for expressions of interest: March 28, 2025 Applications are done via this page https://adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?site=PSaclay&matricule_prop=61934&… Once these have been supported the deadline for applications is March 31, 2025 Please contact if you're interested via this email: mmmweproject(a)gmail.com All the best, Aline ---------------------------------------------------- Aline Villavicencio <https://sites.google.com/view/alinev> (she/her) Professor in Natural Language Processing Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence <https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/idsai/>, University of Exeter (UK) and University of Sheffield (UK) ---------------- Multimodal and Multilingual models for Multiword Language Processing Idiomatic and multiword expressions (MWE) along with domain specific (multiword) terminology and metaphors pose concrete challenges for models in various tasks (e.g., generation, reasoning, sentiment analysis, machine translation) because their meanings are often not directly linked to the meanings of the individual words that form them (Sag et al. 2002). These expressions are often conventional ways of expressing and compressing the knowledge of a particular domain or language community, and may be more familiar than their paraphrases or synonyms to native speakers, and are a mark of fluency for non-native speakers. Comparisons between human and language model preference, including large language models (LLMs), reveal that these models still lag behind human level understanding of idiomatic expressions (He et al. 2025). Moreover, when different modalities are involved, their complementarity may facilitate disambiguation. However, it is important to ensure accurate understanding across modalities (e.g. treating an expression as idiomatic in both text and images). This project aims to assess how well models handle idiomatic expressions by integrating multimodal inputs, specifically visual and textual data, and seeking to address model shortcomings by taking into account visual and visual-temporal modalities rather than relying on a single modality. With this project, we aim to address idiom and figurative understanding by evaluating models on their ability to represent their meanings and precisely employ them as part of their generative abilities. This project is also aligned with the UniDive Cost Action by advancing the generation of data in multiple languages and evaluating models on idiom understanding tasks across various languages. It is also linked to the SemEval 2025 AdMIRe Shared Task. This project involves a joint supervision between the University of Exeter and Université Paris Saclay. Deadline for expressions of interest: March 28, 2025 Applications are done via this page https://adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?site=PSaclay&matricule_prop=61934&… Once these have been supported the deadline for applications is March 31, 2025

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PLIN Linguistic Day 2025 - 18 April: registration + full programme
by Thomas François 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

Registration is now open for the PLIN Linguistic Day 2025 18 April 2025 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/plin-linguistic-da… The PLIN Linguistic Day 2025, which will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) on 18 April 2025, aims to provide an overview of various recent approaches based on the concept of genre (also addressed from the perspective of "register studies" in the English linguistic tradition) and to offer researchers, academics and (PhD) students an excellent opportunity to share and discuss recent/cutting-edge genre-related research. The PLIN Linguistic Day is organized around four keynote lectures and poster presentations. Programme https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/program-and-posters 9:00 Welcome 9:30 Bethany Gray (Iowa State University): Genre and register studies: Introduction, key characteristics, and their applications to academic and specialized language varieties 11:00 Charlene Polio (Michigan State University): Promoting genre awareness with diverse student groups 12:00 Short poster presentations 12:30 Lunch and poster session 14:00 Mable Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University): Genre based approaches to the teaching and learning of persuasive business discourse 15:30 Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds): On automatic genre classification: Why linguists have job security 16:30 Closing Ten posters will showcase a wide diversity of current genre- and register-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/program-and-posters Register here: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/registration-3 Registration deadline: 6 April 2025 We look forward to welcoming you on 18 April! The organizing committee

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[CfP] Third LLM4Eval@SIGIR 2025
by Guglielmo Faggioli 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

The Third Workshop on LLM4Eval progresses the discussion from the previous series. These earlier events investigated the potential and challenges of using LLMs for search relevance evaluation, automated judgments, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) assessment. As modern IR systems integrate search, recommendations, conversational interfaces, and personalization, new evaluation challenges arise beyond basic relevance assessment. These applications create personalized rankings, explanations, and adapt to user preferences over time, requiring new evaluation methods. Overview Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted evaluation methodologies in Information Retrieval (IR), reshaping the way relevance, quality, and user satisfaction are assessed. Initially demonstrating the potential for query-document relevance judgments, LLMs are now being applied to more complex tasks, including relevance label generation, assessment of retrieval-augmented generation systems, and evaluation of the quality of text-generation systems. As IR systems evolve toward more sophisticated and personalized user experiences, integrating search, recommendations, and conversational interfaces, new evaluation methodologies become necessary. Building upon the success of our previous workshops, this third iteration of the LLM4Eval workshop at SIGIR 2025 seeks submissions exploring new opportunities, limitations, and hybrid approaches involving LLM-based evaluations. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: April 23, 2025 (AoE) - Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2025 (AoE) - Workshop date: July 17, 2025 Topics of interest We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - LLMs for query-document relevance assessment - Evaluating conversational IR and recommendation systems with LLMs - Hybrid evaluation frameworks combining LLM and human annotations - Identifying failure modes and limitations of LLM annotations - Prompt engineering strategies for improving LLM annotation quality - Standardizing protocols for reliable LLM-based evaluations - Bias, fairness, and ethical considerations in LLM evaluations - LLM annotation robustness, reliability, and reproducibility - User-centric evaluations, personalization, and subjective assessments with LLMs - Case studies and lessons from industry applications of LLM-based evaluations Submission guidelines - Papers must follow SIGIR format and should not exceed 9 pages, excluding references. - We accept full papers (published or unpublished), position papers, and demo papers. - All papers will be peer-reviewed (double-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop themes and potential to generate discussion. - Previously published studies can be submitted in their original format and will be reviewed solely for their relevance to this workshop. - All submissions must be in English (PDF format). - Submission through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llm4evalsigir25. Publication options Authors can choose between archival and non-archival options for their submissions: - Archival: Papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. - Non-archival: Papers may be uploaded to arXiv.org, allowing submission elsewhere as they will be considered non-archival. The workshop’s website will maintain a link to the arXiv versions of the papers.

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Request for assistance
by Frank David Zamora Reina 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Hello, I am writing to request assistance. Does anyone have the English version of the following book? *Prinzipien des lexikalischen Bedeutungswandels am Beispiel der romanischen Sprachen.* I would greatly appreciate your help. Best regards, Frank Zamora

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