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

01 Aug '25

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

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CfP: 1st Workshop on Human-LLM Collaboration for Ethical and Responsible Science Production (SciProdLLM 2025)
by Tristan Miller 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

SciProdLLM 2025: 1st Workshop on Human-LLM Collaboration for Ethical and Responsible Science Production December 23/24, 2025, Mumbai, India Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025 https://sciprodllm.github.io/ CALL FOR PAPERS SciProdLLM 2025 is a forum for presenting and discussing research on integrating large language models (LLMs) into the typical research workflow: from ideation to experimentation to scientific writing, with a particular focus on human-centered approaches that ensure ethical and responsible use of LLMs. We also invite work that evaluates the quality of LLM-assisted research workflows and the resulting outputs. We welcome submissions on any aspect of human-LLM collaboration for science production, evaluation of LLMs for science production, and/or evaluation of LLM-assisted scientific papers. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Guiding idea generation through user feedback - Automated experimentation following the experimental workflow used by human scientists (e.g., the workflow from data preprocessing to comparison to baselines) - Human-curated datasets of scientific papers for fine-tuning LLMs for generating ideas and paper content (text, figures, tables, etc.) - Human-LLM co-authored peer reviews (e.g., LLM-assisted peer review platforms) - Benchmark datasets for evaluating LLMs on idea generation, experimentation, multimodal content generation, or scientific writing - Evaluation metrics for detecting problematic papers (e.g., those containing suspicious citations or tortured phrases) - Statistical analyses of collections of LLM-assisted papers (e.g., on topics, citations, or retractions) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS SciProdLLM 2025 welcomes long and short papers. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Both types of submissions must follow the same requirements and procedures as for IJCNLP-AACL 2025 main conference papers: <https://2025.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers> Note that papers submitted as non-archival will be allocated presentation time at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. There are three supported submission modes: - Direct submissions: Direct submissions will receive up to three double-blind reviews, and a final decision on acceptance from the workshop organizers. Direct submissions should be made through the SciProdLLM page on OpenReview: <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/SciPro…> - ARR submissions: Unpublished papers that have already been reviewed and meta-reviewed through ACL Rolling Review may be committed to SciProdLLM. These papers will not receive new reviews but may be meta-reviewed by the workshop organizers, who will make a final decision on acceptance. A commitment link will published in a future version of this call. - Previously published papers: We invite non-archival submissions of papers that have already been recently published elsewhere. This allows such papers to gain more visibility from the workshop audience. To submit a previously published paper for presentation, please email SciProdLLM(a)groups.io with the details of your paper (title, authors, abstract, publication venue) and attaching a PDF copy of the paper. (Submissions of previously published papers need not adhere to the IJCNLP-AACL 2025 main conference paper policies on anonymity.) IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 23:59 UTC−12 ("Anywhere on Earth"). - September 29, 2025: Submission deadline for direct submissions - October 27, 2025: ARR commitment deadline - November 3, 2025: Notification of acceptance - November 11, 2025: Camera-ready papers due - December 23 or 24, 2025: Workshop presentations (exact date TBA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK - Jennifer D’Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology, Germany - Steffen Eger, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany - Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg, Germany - Yufang Hou, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria - Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield, UK - Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada - Chenghua Lin, University of Manchester, UK CONTACT INFORMATION Email: SciProdLLM(a)groups.io WWW: https://sciprodllm.github.io/ -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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LREC 2026 2nd Call for Tutorial Proposals
by info＠elda.org 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] The 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction. The tutorials will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11, 12, or 16 May 2026. *IMPORTANT DATES* 17 October 2025: Proposal submission due 17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance 11-16 May 2026: LREC 2026 conference *Cutting-edge:* tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. The tutorials are expected to give a brief introduction to the topic, but participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the topic. The focus of the class will be on discussing the most recent developments in the field, and it will spend a considerable amount of time pointing out open research questions and important novel research directions. *Introductory to computational linguistics (CL)/ natural language processing (NLP) topics*: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established in the LREC communities. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field. *Introductory to adjacent areas:* tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established or emerging in areas adjacent to CL/NLP. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire a sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field and its relevance for the CL/NLP domains. In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be “self-invited” long talks – the content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only of the teachers of the tutorial. Proposals should be prepared according to the style files available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/mgtcgxgmrhvz#1b1392, available also from the LREC website (https://lrec2026.info/). Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), and they should be submitted as PDF documents. Tutorial proposals do not have to be anonymized. They should contain: * A title that helps potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about. * An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be on the LREC website). * A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community, and in general. * A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants. * A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be. * A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others. * A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial? * A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience. * A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need. * A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. Tutorials can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/tutorials *EVALUATION CRITERIA* The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. *DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION* We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials. This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, and (3) if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. *INSTRUCTOR RESPONSIBILITIES* Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific deadlines. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology. Finally, at least one tutorial presenter must attend the event in person to organise the tutorial. *CONTACT* Tutorial Chairs: lrec2026-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/ target=> ------ *LREC 2026 Second Calls for Papers & Proposals are available. * *Deadline: October 17, 2025 * * Main conference 2nd CfP: https://lrec2026.info/calls/se... <https://click.mailerlite.com/link/c/> * Workshops 2nd CfP: https://lrec2026.info/second-c... <https://click.mailerlite.com/link/c/> * Tutorials 2nd CfP: https://lrec2026.info/second-c... <https://click.mailerlite.com/link/c/> Authors' Kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ General contact:mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info>

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[CfP] CHOMPS Shared Task: SHROOM-CAP , the Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes in Crosslingual Analyses of Publications
by Aman Sinha 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

TL;DR [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | SHROOM-CAP ] is a Indic-centric shared task colocated with [ https://chomps2025.github.io/ | CHOMPS-2025 ] to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for scientific content generated with LLMs. We’ve annotated hallucinated content in 4 different high resource languages and surprisal 3* low resource indic languages from top -tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you’d like by accurately detecting presence of hallucinated content. Stay informed by joining our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group ] ! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the SHROOM-CAP shared task on cross-lingual hallucination detection for scientific publication (link to [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | website ] ). We invite participants to detect whether or not there is hallucination in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs in a cross-lingual scientific context. About This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2024 | SHROOM ] , with three key highlights: LLM-centered, cross-lingual annotations & hallucination and fluency prediction. LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public. With SHROOM-CAP , we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated scientific content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a cross-lingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 4+3* different high and low resource languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindi, and to-be-later-revealed indic languages). Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify hallucinations in generated scientific content. Additionally, participants will also be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in oral/poster format during the CHOMPS workshop (collocated with [ https://2025.aaclnet.org/ | IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India ] ). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author) Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). * Dev set available by: 31.07.2025 * Test set available by: 05.10.2025 * Evaluation phase ends: 15.10.2025 * System description papers due: 25.10.2025 (TBC) * Notification of acceptance: 05.11.2025 (TBC) * Camera-ready due: 11.11.2025 (TBC) * Proceedings due: 01.12.2025 (TBC) * CHOMPS workshop: 23/24th December 2025 (co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025) Evaluation Metrics: Participants will be ranked along two criterions: 1. factuality mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted 2. fluency mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted based on our annotations. Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in! How to Participate: * Register: Please register your team [ https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 | https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 ] and join our google group: [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap ] * Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 15.10.2025 * Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 25.10.2025 (TBC, further details will be announced at a later date). Want to be kept in the loop? Join our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group mailing list ] ! We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, SHROOM-CAP organizers

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LREC 2026: 2nd CfP for Workshops
by info＠elda.org 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - LREC 2026 Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association Palma, Mallorca, Spain 11-16 May 2026 The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain). We solicit proposals in all areas of language resources, language technology, and evaluation of the underlying technologies, broadly conceived to also include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. The workshops will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 11, 12 and 16 May 2026. IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * 17 October 2025: Proposal submission deadline * 17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance * 11-16 May 2026: LREC2026 conference SUBMISSION INFORMATION Submissions should follow this template: https://www.overleaf.com/project/68879da091da5870fcb655de <https://www.overleaf.com/project/68879da091da5870fcb655de> Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents using the START system (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/ <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/>). Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification of acceptance (see Important dates above). The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal + at most two additional pages for information about organisers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than FOUR pages long, excluding references. The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Workshops can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). * A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. * An estimate of the number of attendees. * A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. * A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The two pages for information about the workshop, the organisers and the program committee must include: * A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below). * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/ <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/> EVALUATION CRITERIA The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organising team and Program Committee, and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in language resources and language technology, including researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of workshops. Workshop proposals are evaluated on a range of aspects, including diversity, such as (1) how the topic of the workshop contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES At least one of the accepted organisers must attend the workshop in person. The organisers of the accepted proposals are responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the workshop program and the camera-ready workshop proceedings according to LREC requirements, organising the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of LREC’s anti-harassment policy and code of conduct (see https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/ <https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/>). It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings in the correct format on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well as to accept additional non-archival presentations CONTACT * Workshop Chairs: lrec2026-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:lrec2026-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com> * General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> * More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/>

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LREC 2026 Second Call for Papers - Palma de Mallorca, May 11-16, 2026
by info＠elda.org 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2026 Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association Palma, Mallorca, Spain 11-16 May 2026 The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of language resources involving both traditional and recently developed approaches. The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations, and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. Submissions describing all aspects of language resource development and use are invited, including, but not limited to, the following: Language Resource Development * Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation * Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) * Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages * Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability Language Resource Use * Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing * Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility * Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing Evaluation * Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies * Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance * Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems * Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics * Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools Language Resources and Large Language Models * Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal) * (Semi-)automatic generation of training data * Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning * Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models Policy and Organizational Considerations * International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies * Language coverage and diversity * Replicability and reproducibility * Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues Paper Theme Tracks The above topics are organised in 27 main tracks: * T01Applications Involving LRs and Evaluation for any area/domain of language and speech processing * T02Bias, Offensive and Non-inclusive Language; Guardrails, filters * T03Corpora, Treebanks and Annotation; Tools, Systems and Platforms * T04Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction * T05Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and Computational Social Science * T06Discourse and Pragmatics * T07Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval * T08Ethics, Research Reproducibility and Replicability, and Environmental Issues * T09Evaluation, Validation, Quality Assurance and Benchmarking Methodologies * T10Inference, Reasoning, Question Answering * T11Information Extraction and Text Mining * T12Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools * T13Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) * T14Language Modeling and LRs (including training, fine-tuning, representation learning, and generation of synthetic data) * T15Less-Resourced/Endangered/Less-studied Languages * T16Lexicon and Semantics * T17Machine Learning Methods and Techniques for Language and Speech Processing, including efficient/low-resource methods * T18Multilinguality, Machine Translation (including Speech-to-Speech) and Translation Aids * T19Multimodality, Cross-modality (including Sign Languages, Vision and Other Modalities), Multimodal Applications, Grounded Language Acquisition * T20Natural Language Generation and Summarization * T21Simplification, Plain Language and Assistive Technologies * T22Opinion & Argument Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation * T23Parsing, Tagging, Chunking, Grammar, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Morphology * T24Policy and Legal Issues (including Language Resource Infrastructures, Interoperabillity, Standards for LRs, Metadata) * T25Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories * T26Social Media Processing * T27Speech Resources and Processing (including Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody, Speech Recognition, Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding) Separate calls have been issued for Workshops, Tutorials. We will also organise an Industry Track to report on state of the art within industry and commercial achievements, for which there will be a separate Call. Paper Submission and Templates Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/main/ Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website in Authors' Kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> and the overleaf link is here: https://www.overleaf.com/project/6887c0280bfaab6e3e8bd0bc At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map <https://lremap.elra.info/>, which provides metadata for the resource. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. Author Responsibilities Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories; the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or Anonym Share <https://anonymfile.com/>). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at LREC 2026, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at LREC 2026 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the LREC 2026 Programme Committee must be notified immediately. Ethics Statement We encourage all authors submitting to LREC 2026 to include an explicit ethics statement on the broader impact of their work, or other ethical considerations after the conclusion but before the references. The ethics statement will not count toward the page limit. Presentation Requirement All papers accepted for the main conference track must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings, and at least one author must register for LREC 2026. Papers will be presented either orally or as posters. The specific presentation type of a paper will be decided based on its content, with no difference in quality implied. Papers that include a demonstration component will be presented as posters. The conference will be hybrid, including both on-site and virtual presentations. For hybrid purposes, all authors of papers accepted to the main conference, whether oral or poster, will be required to upload a presentation video and a set of slides, plus the poster PDF, for the authors of an accepted paper as Poster on the Conference Catalysts platform. This material will also be inserted in the LREC 2026 online proceedings. Important dates (All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026 * Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026 * LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026 More informationon LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/> Contact: lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:lrec2026-pcs@googlegroups.com>

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Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP for Inclusive Language Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain!
by Horacio Saggion 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

The *TALN research group *at Universitat Pompeu Fabra's Department of Engineering is excited to announce an opening for a *Postdoctoral Researcher* in Barcelona, Spain! This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the *Horizon Europe project IDEAL* (Inclusive Democratic Engagement and Language Technologies in Europe), focusing on crucial areas: - Multilingual *Text Simplification*: Developing solutions for citizens with language comprehension challenges. - Multilingual & Multicultural *Machine Translation*: Leveraging state-of-the-art deep neural models, including LLMs, to enhance communication across diverse languages and cultures. You'll be a key technical lead, responsible for research and development, including: - Adapting and fine-tuning existing multilingual LLMs for specific tasks - Developing and calibrating text-to-speech systems. - Acquiring and preparing datasets and "benchmarks" for translation and simplification. - Developing and calibrating automatic evaluation systems. - Integrating developed libraries into applications. - Collaborating with an expert NLP team at UPF and project partners across Europe. - Participating in meetings, writing reports, and publishing scientific papers. Who We're Looking For: *Required Education:* PhD or equivalent in Computer Science or related field. *Experience:* At least 4 years of research experience (Recognised Researcher R2). *Key Skills:* Proven experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) for text classification, generation, translation, and simplification. *Languages: *Excellent English is a must. Desirable knowledge of French, German, Greek, Arabic, or Persian. *Additional Assets:* Experience in research projects, scientific writing/publishing, and software development. *Benefits:* *Gross Salary:* Up to €41,370.76 annually. *Comprehensive Benefits:* Social security, employment benefits, paternity/maternity leave, and access to the public health system. *Leave: *4 weeks of annual leave. *Eligibility:* Must have the right to work in the EU. Apply Now! https://lnkd.in/dbGexJz7 Open Date: July 29, 2025 Application Deadline: August 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Questions? Send a message to: horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu If you're an experienced researcher passionate about inclusive language technologies and LLMs, we encourage you to apply and make a real impact! -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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15 September: Corpus Linguistics MOOC Returns – New Platform, Fresh Content,
by Brezina, Vaclav 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

Dear all, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University (CASS) is delighted to announce that our popular Corpus Linguistics MOOC is returning this September! Whether you're new to corpus linguistics or have joined us in the past, there's something for everyone. This year’s course features new materials reflecting the latest developments in the field – including the impact of AI and new technologies. 📅 Course starts: 15 September 🎓 Register FREE via edX: edx.org – Corpus Linguistics and New Technologies<https://edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-linguisti…> You’re welcome to join us yourself or recommend it to your students! What’s new? * 📍 Now hosted on a new platform with updated, engaging content * 🤖 Focus on technological advances in corpus linguistics * 💡 Available as a free course, or as a microcredential (USD 600) with certification 🎁 Bonus: All MOOC participants will receive a £500 discount on our MA/PGCert in Corpus Linguistics (Distance) at Lancaster University. Learn more: Lancaster MA in Corpus Linguistics<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-…> We hope to see you (and your students) in the course! Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:ae9f4bc7-9432-4d40-8187-40cbdb08f37b]@vaclavbrezina [cid:4f14ad86-46b2-4996-aad1-966b4ea4c6c9]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CODI-CRAC 2025: Deadline Extension
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

*apologies for cross-postings* � CODI CRAC – deadline extended to Aug. 6!!! � CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: joint call for papers 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse and 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference � November 5-9 2025 - EMNLP 25 - Suzhou, China � We are pleased to announce that we are organizing in 2025 the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop that will be held during EMNLP! More information on: <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2025/> https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2025/ � � Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: Aug. 6 2025 � We will host 2 shared tasks, the CRAC and the DISRPT shared tasks. More information on: - CRAC shared task: <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac25> https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac25 � - DISRPT shared task: � <https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/> https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ � � Aims and scope � The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems and Large Language Models to understand and produce words, sentences and in some cases longer texts. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form documents and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse pretraining tasks, coherence models, summarization for long texts and conversations, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension and formal parsing, as well as discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. � Discourse, roughly the interactions of context, form and meaning above the sentence level, is at the intersection of many areas in Computational Linguistics and NLP, since it is concerned with all levels of linguistic representation, allowing the modeling of textual coherence and inference leveraging long-distance links within documents.It thus brings together researchers working on different areas but facing similar issues with coherence and cohesion, document-level structure, long text and long context. � In 2025, we organize the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse level problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � This joint edition corresponds to the 6th CODI workshop and the 8th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state of the art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking and the fourth edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. � The workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. � Topics of interest � We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing - discourse pretraining tasks - long-text modeling and generation � Submissions � We solicit three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. � Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. � Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences � We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with reviews, with timeline TBA. � Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EMNLP 2025 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp � Submission websites: * CODI: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/codi2025/> https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/codi2025/ * DISRPT: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/disrpt2025/> https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/disrpt2025/ * CRAC: � <https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/crac2025/> https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/crac2025/ � Schedule � - July 30 2025 --> August 6 2025:CODI CRAC papers due - September 5 2025:Notification of acceptance - September 19 2025:Camera ready deadline - November 8-9 2025-:CODI-CRAC workshop � All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). � Invited Speakers � - Tanya Goyal, Cornell University. - Nancy F. Chen, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), A-STAR, Singapore � Organizers � - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia - Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin - Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg - Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas - Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences - Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht - Sameer Pradhan, University of Pennsylvania and cemantix - Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies - Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC To contact the organizers, please send an email to: <mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com> codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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second call for papers KNLP@ACM-SAC
by Patrizio Bellan 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC* Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing - NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction - NLP for Ontology Population and Learning - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications - Interplay between Language and Ontologies - NLP for Explainable Knowledge - Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM - (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge - Knowledge - Knowledge to improve NLP tasks - Knowledge for Information Retrieval - Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP - Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation - Knowledge for Persuasion - Knowledge-based Machine Translation - Knowledge for the Web - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based NL Explainability - LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs - (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs - Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation) - Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health, and medicine - News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2026 SRC page for details <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>). Initial Submission Policy - All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There is no separate submission track for poster papers. - Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters Minimum Length for Review Consideration - While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review. Camera-ready Page Limits - Regular Papers (accepted for publication): - Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): - Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. *Important Dates (check SAC website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)* September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026 <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Second Call for Contributions
by Announce 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

*** Second Call for Contributions *** 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 (for the main technical track) • 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, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Workshops and Tutorials Furthermore, AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for workshops and tutorials. These will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. The calls for workshop and tutorial proposals, along with the respective important dates, 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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Reminder: CfP for DGFS-AG Intensivierung/Intensification
by Brunner 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

We would like to remind you of our call for the DGFS workshop "Intensification". The deadline is this Friday,*1. August 2025*. <english version of the call below> Call for Abstracts für die AG "m e e e e e e g a g e i l e Muster von InTeNsIvIeRuNG!!11elf 😎🤩" im Rahmen der *DGFS 2026, 24.-27.02.2026 in Trier* https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… Deadline: *1. August 2025* Die AG widmet sich der formalen und funktionalen Vielfalt von Intensivierung, z.B. welche Strategien und Konstruktionen in sprachlichen Ausdrücken verwendet werden, in welchen Kontexten sie auftreten und welche semiotischen Elemente intensivierbar sind. Das Spektrum umfasst nicht nur lexikogrammatische, sondern auch darüberhinausgehende Phänomene auf allen kommunikativen Ebenen, z.B. typographische und lautliche Mittel oder Gestik und Mimik, als Formen der Intensivierung (Napoli/Ravetto 2017). Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt der Musterhaftigkeit und Kreativität von Intensivierungsstrategien. Während sich bestimmte Verfahren als konventionalisierte Muster beschreiben lassen, sind andere höchst variabel, für Innovationen anfällig und kombinierbar (Cotgrove 2025). Dies wirft theoretische und empirische Fragen nach dem Verhältnis von Konvention und Variation auf: In welchem Maße folgen Intensivierungen wiederkehrenden Form-Funktions-Mustern (Politt/Willich 2024)? Welche Formen der Variation (sozial, stilistisch, medial) lassen sich beobachten, und wie sind diese zu beschreiben? Wir freuen uns auf einen Austausch zu einem Phänomen, das an der Schnittstelle von Lexik, Phonetik/Phonologie, Grammatik, Pragmatik und Semantik liegt. Willkommen sind aktuelle Arbeiten, die sich mit empirischen Untersuchungen zu spezifischen Intensivierungsstrategien befassen sowie mit der Rolle von Intensivierung in unterschiedlichen Diskursen, Genres, Modalitäten oder Varietäten. Ebenfalls von Interesse sind Arbeiten, die sich mit der Frage auseinandersetzen, wie sich von der empirischen Analyse ausgehend theoretische Modelle sprachlicher Intensivierung entwickeln lassen – und umgekehrt, wie theoretische Konzepte die empirische Analyse leiten können. Abstracts in englischer oder deutscher Sprache von höchstens einer Seite Länge (DIN A4, 12pt, 1,5-zeilig) können bis zum 01.08.2025 als nicht anonymisierte PDF-Datei an cotgrove(a)ids-mannheim.de gesendet werden. *Organisationsteam*: Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim), Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim), Katja Politt (Universität Bielefeld, SFB 1646), Alexander Willich (HHU Düsseldorf) *Literaturverzeichnis* Cotgrove, L. (2025): 😡👉👎👈: Entstehende Arten von Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation junger Menschen. In: Deutsche Sprache 1/2025, 2–18. Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (2017): New insights on intensification and intensifiers. In: Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (Hg.): Exploring Intensification. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1–12. Politt, K./Willich, A. (2024): Jetzt hab ich voll die Panik: Prototype effects of NP-external intensifiers in German. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 12(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2024-0002 ---------------- Call for Abstracts for the workshop "s u u u u u p e r awesomepatterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" taking place at *DGFS 2026, 24.-27.02.2026 in Trier, Germany* https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… Deadline: *1. August 2025* The workshop focuses on the formal and functional diversity of intensification, e.g. which strategies and constructions are used in linguistic expressions, in which contexts do they occur, as well as which semiotic elements can be intensified. Intensification is far more diverse than just lexicogrammatical phenomena, with phenomena occurring on on all communicative levels, for example, typographical and phonetic strategies, gestures or facial expressions (Napoli/Ravetto 2017). Particularly of interest for the workshop is the apparent dialectic between recurring patterns and innovation within intensification strategies. While certain processes can be described as conventionalised patterns, others can be highly creative and combined with one another (Cotgrove 2025). This raises theoretical and empirical questions about the relationship between convention and variation: To what extent do intensifications follow recurring form-function patterns (Politt/Willich 2024)? What forms of variation (social, stylistic, medial) can be observed and how can these be described? We look forward to discussion on a phenomenon that lies at the crossroads of lexis, phonetics/phonology, grammar, pragmatics and semantics. We welcome recent work that deals with empirical studies on specific intensification strategies and the role of intensification in different discourses, genres, modalities or varieties. Papers that address how theoretical models of linguistic intensification can be developed on the basis of empirical analysis and conversely, how theoretical concepts can guide empirical analysis, are also welcomed. Abstracts should be in German or English and should not exceed a single A4 page (12pt, 1.5 line spacing). Please submit the abstract as a PDF (anonymisation not necessary) by *1st August 2025*to cotgrove(a)ids-mannheim.de. *Organisation*: Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim), Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim), Katja Politt (Universität Bielefeld, SFB 1646), Alexander Willich (HHU Düsseldorf) *References:* Cotgrove, L. (2025): Novel methods of intensification in young people’s digitally-mediated communication. In: Cotgrove, L./Herzberg, L./Lüngen, H. (eds.): Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora: Methods, analyses, and corpus construction. Berlin: De Gruyter, 137-162. Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (2017): New insights on intensification and intensifiers. In: Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (eds.): Exploring Intensification. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1–12. Politt, K./Willich, A. (2024): Jetzt hab ich voll die Panik: Prototype effects of NP-external intensifiers in German. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 12(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2024-0002 -- Dr. Annelen Brunner Abteilung Lexik Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) R 5, 6-13 68161 Mannheim Tel.: +49 621-1581-433 E-Mail:brunner@ids-mannheim.de

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Tenure-track faculty position in Language Technology - Saarland University and DFKI
by Alexander Koller 27 Jul '25

27 Jul '25

Hi all, we are currently looking for an excellent young colleague to fill a faculty position in Language Technology. This is a joint appointment between the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). It is a tenure-track position (W2 -> W3 on the German payscale). You will join one of the most active research sites in NLP and Informatics in Europe and, over time, grow into leading the Language Technology group at DFKI. Through DFKI, you will have access to an extensive global network of industry and other partners. This dual role offers a unique platform for high-impact research and meaningful societal engagement at a scale rarely achievable elsewhere. Please find the full job ad under the link below. The application deadline is September 12. https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf… Best, Alexander Koller.

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Final call and deadline extension: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts)
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 26 Jul '25

26 Jul '25

Call for Papers: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, held in conjunction with RANLP 2025 (https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/)! CASE is a leading venue for research, resources, and practical advances in automated event extraction and analysis, focusing on social and political event data. It has been organized consistently in top venues like ACL, EMNLP, EACL, etc. We invite submissions of research papers, resource papers, and position papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: • Event extraction at the sentence, document, or cross-document level, including event coreference. • Creation and annotation of datasets for event extraction. • Modeling event-event relations such as subevents, causal, temporal, and spatial links. • Evaluation of event datasets: reliability, validity, and coverage. • Event schemas and ontologies: population, definition, and enrichment. • Tools, pipelines, and infrastructure for event annotation and analysis. • Linguistic aspects of event representation: lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic. • Applications of event data in conflict prediction, early warning, and policy support. • Detection of new event types, including protests, public health crises, and cyber activism. • Bias, fairness, and misinformation in event extraction systems and datasets. • Legal, ethical, and privacy considerations in dataset creation and dissemination. • Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal event extraction. • Use of LLMs and generative AI for event extraction, analysis, and dataset generation. • Release of new benchmarks, datasets, or annotation resources. All accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Website: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2025/ (being updated! please get in touch with ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr for any questions) Link for submission: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/CASE2025/user/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 4 August 2025 (AoE) Notification: August 17, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: August 30, 2025 Workshop date: September 11-13, 2025 Shared task Multimodal detection of hate speech, humor, and stance in LGBTQ+ socio-political discourse To know more and participate, please visit: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2025-multimodal/blob/main/README.md All shared task papers will also be published in the ACL anthology. Organizers: Surendrabikram Thapa, Siddhant Bikram Shah, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Kritesh Rauniyar, Surabhi Adhikari, Kristy Johnson, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Usman Naseem Organizing committee: Ali Hürriyetoglu Hristo Tanev Surendrabikram Thapa Vanni Zavarella Erdem Yörük

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German lyrics corpus of the beginning of 20th century
by Alexander Osherenko 26 Jul '25

26 Jul '25

Hi all, I am looking for an annotated corpus of German lyrics from the early 20th century (1900–1950), including works by poets such as Günter Eich or Peter Huchel. I am aware of the German Lyrics Corpus ( https://github.com/tnhaider/DLK ), but it does not cover these specific authors. If anyone knows of relevant resources, I would greatly appreciate any recommendations. Best, Alexander -- Alexander Osherenko, Dr. rer. nat. Senior Researcher Profile: Socioware Development <http://www.socioware.de/osherenko_page.html> Profile: LinkedIn <http://de.linkedin.com/pub/alexander-osherenko/1/30a/a74> Profile: ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander_Osherenko> Channel: Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/user/MrOsherenko>

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Final Call for papers: Ethical LLMs 2025
by Dola Mullage, Damith (Postgraduate Researcher) 26 Jul '25

26 Jul '25

Ethical LLMs 2025: The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models<https://sites.google.com/view/ethical-llms-2025> @ RANLP2025<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> Final Call for papers: Scope Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a transformative leap in Artificial Intelligence (AI), delivering remarkable language-processing capabilities that are reshaping how we interact with technology in our daily lives. With their ability to perform tasks such as summarisation, translation, classification, and text generation, LLMs have demonstrated unparalleled versatility and power. Drawing from vast and diverse knowledge bases, these models hold the potential to revolutionise a wide range of fields, including education, media, law, psychology, and beyond. From assisting educators in creating personalised learning experiences to enabling legal professionals to draft documents or supporting mental health practitioners with preliminary assessments, the applications of LLMs are both expansive and profound. However, alongside their impressive strengths, LLMs also face significant limitations that raise critical ethical questions. Unlike humans, these models lack essential qualities such as emotional intelligence, contextual empathy, and nuanced ethical reasoning. While they can generate coherent and contextually relevant responses, they do not possess the ability to fully understand the emotional or moral implications of their outputs. This gap becomes particularly concerning when LLMs are deployed in sensitive domains where human values, cultural nuances, and ethical considerations are paramount. For example, biases embedded in training data can lead to unfair or discriminatory outcomes, while the absence of ethical reasoning may result in outputs that inadvertently harm individuals or communities. These limitations highlight the urgent need for robust research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to address the ethical dimensions of LLMs. Advancements in NLP research are crucial for developing methods to detect and mitigate biases, enhance transparency in model decision-making, and incorporate ethical frameworks that align with human values. By prioritising ethics in NLP research, we can better understand the societal implications of LLMs and ensure their development and deployment are guided by principles of fairness, accountability, and respect for human dignity. This workshop will dive into these pressing issues, fostering a collaborative effort to shape the future of LLMs as tools that not only excel in technical performance but also uphold the highest ethical standards. Key Dates Submissions Open - 1st June 2025 Paper Submission Deadline - 28th July 2025 Acceptance Notification - 10th August 2025 Camera-Ready Deadline - 20th August 2025 Submission Guidelines We follow the RANLP 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. EthicalLLMs 2025 invites the submission of long papers, up to eight pages in length, and short papers, up to six pages in length. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the RANLP 2025 style files available here: * Latex<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-LaTeX.zip> * Word<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-word.docx> Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/EthicalLLMs2025/ Topics of interest The workshop invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the ethical development and evaluation of LLMs, including but not limited to the following. 1. Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs Research focused on identifying, measuring, and reducing social, cultural, and algorithmic biases in large language models. 2. Ethical Frameworks for LLM Deployment Approaches to integrating ethical principles—such as fairness, accountability, and transparency—into the development and use of LLMs. 3. LLMs in Sensitive Domains: Risks and Safeguards Case studies or methodologies for deploying LLMs in high-stakes fields such as healthcare, law, and education, with an emphasis on ethical implications. 4. Explainability and Transparency in LLM Decision-Making Techniques and tools for improving the interpretability of LLM outputs and understanding model reasoning. 5. Cultural and Contextual Understanding in NLP Systems Strategies for enhancing LLMs’ sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and social nuances in global and multilingual contexts. 6. Human-in-the-Loop Approaches for Ethical Oversight Collaborative models that involve human expertise in guiding, correcting, or auditing LLM behaviour to ensure responsible use. 7. Mental Health and Emotional AI: Limits of LLM Empathy Discussions on the role of LLMs in mental health support, highlighting the boundary between assistive technology and the need for human empathy. Organisers Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK Contact If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Damith: d.dolamullage(a)lancaster.ac.uk

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Deadline Extended - Call for Papers for The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025)
by Kontino, T. (Thalassia) 25 Jul '25

25 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for our upcoming workshop: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025) (co-located with RANLP 2025) has been extended to 27 July 2025! This interdisciplinary workshop invites contributions at the intersection of computational methods and the humanities, including work on: * Text analysis and genre detection * Interpretability of LLM outputs * Historical and low-resource language processing * Dataset creation and curation * Emotion analysis, authorship attribution, and more We welcome standard (up to 8 pages) and short papers (4–6 pages). Submissions must follow the RANLP 2025 ACL-style template. * New Submission Deadline: 27 July 2025 * Notification of Acceptance: 2 August 2025 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 20 August 2025 * Workshop Date: 11-13 September 2025 (To be confirmed) Don’t miss the chance to be part of this exciting event that brings together researchers across linguistics, cultural heritage, NLP, history, and more. Submit your paper and join the conversation on the future of AI in the Digital Humanities! For more information, visit https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-papers-first-workshop-natural-language-p… Best regards, CLARIN ERIC

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 24 Jul '25

24 Jul '25

/[Apologies for multiple postings]/ We are happy to announce that 2 new speech databases are available in our catalogue. *Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0496/>*** ISLRN: 369-011-475-593-5 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/369-011-475-593-5> The Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) contains the total recordings of 184 Chinese Kids speakers (98 males and 86 females), from 6 to 10 years' old, recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1,426 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. *Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0497/>*** ISLRN:993-024-988-227-0 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/993-024-988-227-0> The Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) contains the total recordings of 161 Chinese Kids speakers (71 males and 90 females), from 10 to 12 years’ old recorded in quiet rooms using smartphone.1,859 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us* <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the *ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources* <http://catalog.elra.info> *Archives * <https://www.elra.info/catalogues/language-resources-announcements/>of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates /Please note that you receive this email because you are or have been a customer or a provider of ELRA Language Resources./ /ELRA Privacy Policy is available //here/ <https://www.elra.info/elra-privacy-policy/> /If you do not want to receive such e-mails in the future, //contact us/ <mailto:privacy@elda.org>

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash July
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 24 Jul '25

24 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, The July edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out! This summer, CLARIN is turning up the heat at major conferences and summer schools — from the Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference in Birmingham, to DH2025 in Lisbon, and the ESU summer school in Besançon, with ACL and Interspeech just around the corner. We’re proud to showcase our most popular and newly developed tools and resources, strengthening visibility, fostering meaningful connections, and collaborating with local CLARIN communities and researchers worldwide. It’s all in this month’s newsflash — take a look! https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-july-2025 Wishing you a relaxing summer break — we’ll be back in September with a CLARIN2025 special edition! CLARIN ERIC

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[CfP] CHOMPS Workshop colocated with IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Aman Sinha 23 Jul '25

23 Jul '25

First CFP: CHOMPS – Confabulation, Hallucinations, & Overgeneration in Multilingual & Precision-critical Settings (with our apologies for cross-posting) Venue: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 (https://2025.aaclnet.org/), Mumbai, India Date: 23/24th December 2025 (TBC) Workshop website: https://chomps2025.github.io/ * Description * Despite rapid advances, LLMs continue to "make things up": a phenomenon that manifests as hallucination, confabulation, and overgeneration. That is, produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible. These outputs pose real risks in settings where accuracy and accountability are non-negotiable, including healthcare, legal systems, and education. The aim of the CHOMPS workshop is to find ways to mitigate one of major the hurdles that currently prevent the adoption of Large Language Models in real-world scenarios: namely, their tendency to hallucinate, i.e., produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible. The workshop will explore hallucination mitigation in practical situations, where this mitigation is crucial: in particular, precision-critical applications (such as those in the medical, legal and biotech domains), as well as multilingual settings (given the lack of resources available to reproduce what can be done for English in other linguistic contexts). In practice, we intend to invite works of the following (not exclusive) list of topics: * Workshop topics * - Metrics, benchmarks and tools for hallucination detection - Factuality challenges in mission critical & domain-specific (e.g., medical, legal, biotech) and their consequences - Mitigation strategies during inference or model training - Studies of hallucinatory and confabulatory behaviors of LLMS in cross-lingual and multilingual scenarios - Confabulations in language & multimodal (vision, text, speech) models - Perspectives and case studies from other disciplines - … * Invited speakers * - Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen - Danish PRUTHI, IISc Bangalore - Abhilasha RAVICHANDER, University of Washington * Submission details * The workshop is designed with a widely inclusive submission policy so as to foster as vibrant a discussion as possible. Archival or non-archival submissions may consist of up to 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (short) of content. Dissemination submissions may consist of up to 1 pages of content. On acceptance, authors may add one additional page to accommodate changes suggested by the reviewers. Please use the ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files The submissions need to be done in PDF format via (a) via Direct submission (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS) (b) via ARR commitment (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS…) * Important dates * Paper submission deadline: September 29, 2025 Direct ARR commitment: October 27, 2025 Author notification: November 3, 2025 Camera-Ready due: November 11, 2025 Workshop date: December 23-24, 2025 (TBC) * Contact * For questions, please send an email to chomps-aacl2025(a)googlegroups.com or contact one of the workshop chairs: - Aman Sinha, Université de Lorraine, aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr - Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, raul.vazquez(a)helsinki.fi - Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi

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CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts)
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Call for Papers: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, held in conjunction with RANLP 2025 (https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/)! CASE is a leading venue for research, resources, and practical advances in automated event extraction and analysis, focusing on social and political event data. It has been organized consistently in top venues like ACL, EMNLP, EACL, etc. We invite submissions of research papers, resource papers, and position papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: • Event extraction at the sentence, document, or cross-document level, including event coreference. • Creation and annotation of datasets for event extraction. • Modeling event-event relations such as subevents, causal, temporal, and spatial links. • Evaluation of event datasets: reliability, validity, and coverage. • Event schemas and ontologies: population, definition, and enrichment. • Tools, pipelines, and infrastructure for event annotation and analysis. • Linguistic aspects of event representation: lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic. • Applications of event data in conflict prediction, early warning, and policy support. • Detection of new event types, including protests, public health crises, and cyber activism. • Bias, fairness, and misinformation in event extraction systems and datasets. • Legal, ethical, and privacy considerations in dataset creation and dissemination. • Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal event extraction. • Use of LLMs and generative AI for event extraction, analysis, and dataset generation. • Release of new benchmarks, datasets, or annotation resources. All accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Website: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2025/ (being updated! please get in touch with ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr for any questions) Link for submission: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/CASE2025/user/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 25 July 2025 Notification: August 17, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: August 30, 2025 Workshop date: September 11-13, 2025 Shared task Multimodal detection of hate speech, humor, and stance in LGBTQ+ socio-political discourse To know more and participate, please visit: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2025-multimodal/blob/main/README.md All shared task papers will also be published in the ACL anthology. Organizers: Surendrabikram Thapa, Siddhant Bikram Shah, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Kritesh Rauniyar, Surabhi Adhikari, Kristy Johnson, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Usman Naseem Organizing committee: Ali Hürriyetoglu Hristo Tanev Surendrabikram Thapa Vanni Zavarella Erdem Yörük

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Invitation to the chatbot Evaristo.ai
by Antonio Branco 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Hi, good morning This is to share with you that our research group made publicly available the beta version of *the chatbot for the Portuguese language based on open LLMs, Evaristo.ai <https://evaristo.ai/> * One of such LLMs is Gervásio 8B <https://huggingface.co/PORTULAN/gervasio-8b-portuguese-ptpt-decoder>, we developed for Portuguese and we are releasing also now, and which is the LLM that you find active by default when arriving at this chatbot. Though you may not be proficient in Portuguese, on-the-fly translators will likely help you to get its content and its basic functioning. *We invite you, and your colleagues and students, to visit it and try out this first test version. We welcome any help you can give us in testing it, any feedback and any suggestions you can share with us.* It has a unique set of features, among others: it is an open AI chatbot for the Portuguese language; it is multi-model and multi-heteronym, as well as being agentic, multi-tool and multi-modal; it does not track its users or pass on their content to third parties, safeguarding user privacy and ownership of their content. You'll find the presentation of its motivation in this press release <https://evaristo.ai/assets/pressRelease_EvaristoAI.pdf>(in English), that can be complemented by the more complete description in the section about <https://evaristo.ai/about> (in Portuguese) The current open LLMs available are typically between 10 and 100 times smaller than the top-of-the-range closed LLMs used in commercial chatbots, so the costs associated with training and operating them are much lower. The performance of open LLMs, however, is much more satisfactory than this linear disproportion would suggest. They therefore have an excellent ratio of performance quality versus cost, and are a viable option for fully autonomous generative AI services focused on concrete use cases. In this context, we see this chatbot as a milestone in the democratization of generative technology for the Portuguese language, through open LLMs, by encouraging more and more organizations to move forward with their own AI services, rooted in their own computers, and focused on their concrete use cases. Have a nice day, António

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[CfP] Last call for participation for the 1st first Shared Task on Language Identification for Web Data at WMDQS/COLM 2025
by Pedro Ortiz Suarez 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the last call for participation for 1st first Shared Task on Language Identification for Web Data at WMDQS/COLM 2025. Important information: 🗓️ Registration Deadline: July 23 (AoE) 📍 Montréal, Canada 🌐 https://wmdqs.org/shared-task/ Registration: To register, please submit a one-page document with a title, a list of authors, a list of provisional languages that you want to focus on, and a brief description of your approach. This document should be sent to wmdqs-pcs(a)googlegroups.com. You can change the list of languages or the system description during the shared task. This document's only purpose is to register your participation in the shared task. The shared task will run until the last week of September. Motivation: 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). LangID 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 participants will be invited to contribute a larger paper, which will be submitted to a high-impact NLP venue. Description: The main shared task is to submit LangID models that work well on a wide variety of languages on web data. We encourage participants to employ a range of approaches, including the development of new architectures and the curation of novel high-quality annotated datasets. We recommend using the GlotLID corpus as a starting point for training data. Access to the data will be managed through the Hugging Face repository. Please note that this data should not be redistributed. We will use the same language label format as those used by GlotLID: an ISO 639-3 language code plus an ISO 15924 script code, separated by an underscore. Although all systems will be evaluated on the full range of languages in our test set, we encourage submissions that focus on a particular language or set of languages, especially if those language(s) present particular challenges for language identification. The shared task will take place in rounds. The first round will only include data from already existing datasets, subsequent rounds will include data annotated by the community as it is collected and processed. More languages will also be added in subsequent rounds. 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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Questionnaire on Stereotypes Towards LGBTQIA+ People
by Alessandra Teresa Cignarella 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, My name is Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Language and Translation Technology Team (LT3) at Ghent University in Belgium. My research project is called RAINBOW [??] and I'm currently studying stereotypes about LGBTQIA+ people, particularly on social media, in online discourse, and in AI systems. We have developed a brief questionnaire to gather diverse perspectives from those who experience or recognize these stereotypes. Your participation will support the creation of a multilingual dataset (Italian, Dutch, and Farsi) aimed at improving the inclusivity and reducing the harm caused by AI technologies toward queer communities. Whether you identify as LGBTQIA+, are an ally, or are interested in this research area, your input is highly valued. Please find the questionnaire here: * ITALIAN: https://lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j * DUTCH: https://lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY * FARSI: https://lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at: alessandrateresa.cignarella(a)ugent.be<mailto:alessandrateresa.cignarella@ugent.be> I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this survey with your contacts who speak any of these three languages. Thank you very much for your support! Best regards, Alessandra* Alessandra Teresa Cignarella (she/her) MSCA postdoctoral fellow LT3, Language and Translation Technology Team Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication Ghent University [cid:8c809589-1d29-40cc-89a8-eea510c2a88f]

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UCCTS - Call for Participation
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

UCCTS 2025 - Call for Participation The eighth edition of the UCCTS conference (www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025) will be held on the 8-10th of September 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany. UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs). Keynote speakers * Elke Teich, Saarland University in Germany * Dylan Glynn, Université Paris 8, Vincennes - St Denis * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of CopenhagenProgramme details: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute-1/institut-fuer-uebersetzungswi… Information on registration: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute-1/institut-fuer-uebersetzungswi… The UCCTS conference in Hildesheim precedes the annual conference series on computational linguistics KONVENS which will take place on 10-12the September in Hldesheim too. Questions and inquiries under uccts2025(at)uni-hildesheim.de

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2nd Call -- NARNiHS 2026 -- 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 20 Jul '25

20 Jul '25

*********************************** ***** 2nd Call for Abstracts ***** *********************************** *** NARNiHS 2026 *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** Eighth Annual Meeting *** 100% IN PERSON *** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting *** New Orleans, Louisiana USA *** 8-11 January 2026 This event offers an opportunity for historical sociolinguistics scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to **join us in New Orleans** for our Eighth Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135 . --------------- Call for Abstracts ---------------. Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ . Deadline: Friday, 15 August 2025, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Eighth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Thursday, January 8 -- Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 8th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field’s enduring questions. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the *connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics* should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection. *** Abstract Format Guidelines***. - Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. - Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page, providing a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review. - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Requirements ***. - Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ . - Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. - Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS annual meeting and the LSA annual meeting or another LSA sister society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA). - After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet. - Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. - Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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2nd Call for papers: The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models @ RANLP2025
by Dola Mullage, Damith (Postgraduate Researcher) 19 Jul '25

19 Jul '25

Ethical LLMs 2025: The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models<https://sites.google.com/view/ethical-llms-2025> @ RANLP2025<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> 2nd Call for papers: Scope Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a transformative leap in Artificial Intelligence (AI), delivering remarkable language-processing capabilities that are reshaping how we interact with technology in our daily lives. With their ability to perform tasks such as summarisation, translation, classification, and text generation, LLMs have demonstrated unparalleled versatility and power. Drawing from vast and diverse knowledge bases, these models hold the potential to revolutionise a wide range of fields, including education, media, law, psychology, and beyond. From assisting educators in creating personalised learning experiences to enabling legal professionals to draft documents or supporting mental health practitioners with preliminary assessments, the applications of LLMs are both expansive and profound. However, alongside their impressive strengths, LLMs also face significant limitations that raise critical ethical questions. Unlike humans, these models lack essential qualities such as emotional intelligence, contextual empathy, and nuanced ethical reasoning. While they can generate coherent and contextually relevant responses, they do not possess the ability to fully understand the emotional or moral implications of their outputs. This gap becomes particularly concerning when LLMs are deployed in sensitive domains where human values, cultural nuances, and ethical considerations are paramount. For example, biases embedded in training data can lead to unfair or discriminatory outcomes, while the absence of ethical reasoning may result in outputs that inadvertently harm individuals or communities. These limitations highlight the urgent need for robust research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to address the ethical dimensions of LLMs. Advancements in NLP research are crucial for developing methods to detect and mitigate biases, enhance transparency in model decision-making, and incorporate ethical frameworks that align with human values. By prioritising ethics in NLP research, we can better understand the societal implications of LLMs and ensure their development and deployment are guided by principles of fairness, accountability, and respect for human dignity. This workshop will dive into these pressing issues, fostering a collaborative effort to shape the future of LLMs as tools that not only excel in technical performance but also uphold the highest ethical standards. Key Dates Submissions Open - 1st June 2025 Paper Submission Deadline - 28th July 2025 Acceptance Notification - 10th August 2025 Camera-Ready Deadline - 20th August 2025 Submission Guidelines We follow the RANLP 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. EthicalLLMs 2025 invites the submission of long papers, up to eight pages in length, and short papers, up to six pages in length. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the RANLP 2025 style files available here: * Latex<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-LaTeX.zip> * Word<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-word.docx> Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/EthicalLLMs2025/ Topics of interest The workshop invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the ethical development and evaluation of LLMs, including but not limited to the following. 1. Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs Research focused on identifying, measuring, and reducing social, cultural, and algorithmic biases in large language models. 2. Ethical Frameworks for LLM Deployment Approaches to integrating ethical principles—such as fairness, accountability, and transparency—into the development and use of LLMs. 3. LLMs in Sensitive Domains: Risks and Safeguards Case studies or methodologies for deploying LLMs in high-stakes fields such as healthcare, law, and education, with an emphasis on ethical implications. 4. Explainability and Transparency in LLM Decision-Making Techniques and tools for improving the interpretability of LLM outputs and understanding model reasoning. 5. Cultural and Contextual Understanding in NLP Systems Strategies for enhancing LLMs’ sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and social nuances in global and multilingual contexts. 6. Human-in-the-Loop Approaches for Ethical Oversight Collaborative models that involve human expertise in guiding, correcting, or auditing LLM behaviour to ensure responsible use. 7. Mental Health and Emotional AI: Limits of LLM Empathy Discussions on the role of LLMs in mental health support, highlighting the boundary between assistive technology and the need for human empathy. Organisers Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK Contact If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Damith: d.dolamullage(a)lancaster.ac.uk

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CFP: AI Werewolf Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2025)
by Yoshinobu Kano 19 Jul '25

19 Jul '25

Call for Participations and Papers Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2025) # Summary Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attention. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against other AI. We will hold 5-players and 13-players tracks. # Schedule Shared tasks August 9, 2025: Competition Registration Deadline August 9, 2025: Preliminary Round (Self-play) Result Submission Deadline Mid August 2025: Final Round (Online Matches) Workshop papers August 26, 2025: Paper Submission Deadline September 24, 2025: Notification of Acceptance October 3, 2025: Camera-ready Submission Deadline INLG 2025 Conference Period October 29 - November 2, 2025 (in Hanoi) October 30, 2025: AIWolfDial 2025 Workshop in Hanoi/online (Paper Presentations and Competition Results) Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2025 workshop at INLG 2025 (18th International Natural Language Generation Conference). Our workshop will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and online on October 30th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend the INLG 2025 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the workshop and present in the workshop day. Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments: https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ We have a seperate call for papers of our workshop. # Why AI Werewolf? Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2025 contest, which is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition to their win rates. Agents must communicate in English. # Registration A team should send required information via https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Registration is free. # System Evaluation Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates, reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria: A Natural utterance expressions B Contextually natural conversation C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of context are not always natural in the werewolf game. F Team play # Call for Papers We call for short papers and long papers as same as the INLG main conference, both for shared task papers and papers in general. Please use the ACL format as specified in the INLG conference webpage. Submission site will open soon. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and published as part of our workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology. # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuya Harada, Shizuoka University, Japan Links (same as above): Registration https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Contest and workshop website https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ INLG 2025 https://2025.inlgmeeting.org/ Contact; aiwolf(a)kanolab.net On behalf of the AIWolf organizers -- Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D. Professor, Research Fellow Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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Job: NYU postdoc position: LLMs and cognitive science
by Tal Linzen 18 Jul '25

18 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, I'm recruiting at least one post-doc for a project at New York University aimed at creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do <https://tallinzen.net/media/papers/huang_et_al_2024_jml.pdf>. We are planning to explore architectural modifications, training data interventions, and steering through interpretability. One motivation for this project is the empirical finding <https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00548/115371/Why-Doe…> that the better LLMs become in terms of perplexity and task performance, the worse they are as cognitive models of how people read and learn language; we think that to reverse this trend we need to find ways to constrain them (in terms of e.g. working memory, parse parallelism, and factual and linguistic knowledge), and improve them in other ways to make up for these constraints, e.g. through increasing data efficiency <https://tallinzen.net/media/papers/wilcox_et_al_2025_jml.pdf>. We're planning to benchmark the models against behavioral and neural data from humans: eyetracking, fMRI and intracranial recordings. Some of the data already exists, and some will be collected by collaborators at other universities specifically for this project. But we also expect to do a lot of fundamental modeling and interpretability work. You do not need to have existing experience in cognitive science, but you should have a strong track record in computational research; and you should be interested in using AI for science, in learning about cognitive science and collaborating with linguistics and cognitive scientists, and in doing open-ended fundamental research on LLMs. There are no teaching requirements. The position will be renewed every year, but we expect the funding for this project to last four years. You will be affiliated with NYU's Center for Data Science, and, if relevant, also with the department of linguistics. NYU has large NLP and computational cognitive science communities, with lots of opportunities for collaborations. The start date is flexible, though of course you should have a PhD by the time you start. Your application is most likely to be considered if you apply before *August 10th.* Please fill out this lightweight form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5IwTU43CWVjQYsWbvPkDFH7dFKglqRfP…> to express interest, and you can also email me directly if they have any questions. I'll be at ACL 2025 and am happy to chat about the position. If you're interested in working together but don't exactly fit the description, don't hesitate to reach out! -- Tal Linzen <https://tallinzen.net/> Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science New York University

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Reminder: Emanuele Pianta Award for the Best Master’s Thesis @ CLiC-it 2025 - Cagliari
by Manuela Sanguinetti 18 Jul '25

18 Jul '25

Dear Corpora members, this is a reminder of the call for the *"Emanuele Pianta" Award 2025*, which recognizes outstanding Master's theses in Computational Linguistics submitted at Italian universities. To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field and with the endorsement of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC), we are conferring the Emanuele Pianta Award for the best Master’s Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of €500.00 plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it 2025, where the author will have the chance to present the thesis. Master’s theses submitted to and defended at any University in Italy within the yearly time frame specified in the call (see below) are eligible for the prize. The thesis should address a topic in computational linguistics or its applications, and may be written in Italian or English. The sub-areas involved are those listed in the yearly call for papers of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it). The candidates’ works will be evaluated by a jury composed of three members: one of the co-chairs of the previous CLiC-it conference, one co-chair of the current CLiC-it conference (who agrees to serve for two years, so as to ensure continuity), and a member of the board of AILC. The jury will decide in consensus to which candidate the prize will be awarded. The jury can also decide not to award a prize or to award the prize to a maximum of two candidates. In the latter case, the money prize will be shared. Procedure Master theses *defended between August 1st 2024 and July 31st 2025* are eligible for the 2025 prize. The supervisor of the thesis submits the thesis by *August 1st, 2025* (11:59 pm CEST) with a motivation letter (1 page) that explains why the thesis deserves the prize. Both the thesis and the motivation letter should be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025. The prize will be awarded by a member of the jury during CLiC-it 2025. The thesis must be available on-line, and will be presented during CLiC-it 2025 by the author. The full text of the call can also be found here: https://clic2025.unica.it/emanuele-pianta-award-for-the-best-masters-thesis/

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NLP for Counterspeech Against Hate and Misinformation - Call for participation
by Abercrombie, Gavin 18 Jul '25

18 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the tutorial, “NLP for Counterspeech Against Hate and Misinformation” which will take place on Sunday, July 27, from 14:00 to 17:30 at ACL 2025 in Vienna. Overview: This tutorial explores the use of counterspeech by individuals, activists, and organizations to combat abuse and misinformation, and how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) can be used to automate it. It examines key challenges such as evaluating the effectiveness of counterspeech, integrating civil society expertise in dataset creation, and addressing fairness and bias in language models. The tutorial brings together insights from computer science, social sciences, and public policy through case studies, and highlights the emerging research challenge of addressing hate and misinformation together using NLP techniques. For the full program and detailed agenda, please visit the tutorial website. https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4csham/ Invited speakers Cathy Buerger (Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project) Simone Fontana (Editorial Manager at Facta News) Tutorial Organizers Daniel Russo Helena Bonaldi Marco Guerini Gavin Abercrombie, Yi-Ling Chung We look forward to your participation and hope to see you there! ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. With campuses and students across the entire globe we span the world, delivering innovation and educational excellence in business, engineering, design and the physical, social and life sciences. This email is generated from the Heriot-Watt University Group, which includes: 1. Heriot-Watt University, a Scottish charity registered under number SC000278 2. Heriot- Watt Services Limited (Oriam), Scotland's national performance centre for sport. Heriot-Watt Services Limited is a private limited company registered is Scotland with registered number SC271030 and registered office at Research & Enterprise Services Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS. The contents (including any attachments) are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of its contents is strictly prohibited, and you should please notify the sender immediately and then delete it (including any attachments) from your system.

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ACL 2025 Conference - Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group
by ACL Announcements 18 Jul '25

18 Jul '25

Dear ACL 2025 Attendees: ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference! The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website [1]. Session titles and times are listed below: Mon, Jul 28 SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma Tue, Jul 29 Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang Wed, Jul 30 Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini Mothering the Future -- In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia. Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef Dear ACL 2025 Attendees: ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference! The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website [1]. Session titles and times are listed below: Mon, Jul 28 SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma Tue, Jul 29 Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang Wed, Jul 30 Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini Mothering the Future -- In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia. Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef Links: ------ [1] https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/

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CFP Deadline August 1: AIAS '25 - Symposium for AI Accelerated Science
by Sol Rosenberg 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

**** CFP for AIAS '25 **** * *AI for Accelerated Research Symposium* *October 27–28, 2025 — San Francisco, CA* With the deadline for submissions coming up August 1, we wanted to invite submissions of original research, position papers, and visionary ideas that explore how AI is reshaping the research lifecycle and accelerating scientific discovery. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: machine reading and knowledge extraction, intelligent data collection, automated hypothesis generation, and AI- driven exploration across scientific domains. This premier annual event brings together leading thinkers from academia, industry, and government to examine the transformative impact of AI on science and to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration at the frontier of innovation. We welcome contributions addressing both foundational advances and real-world applications in the following areas: - *Scientific Knowledge Extraction form Literature and Representation: *Extraction of Ontologies, automated reasoning systems, and AI-enhanced platforms for organizing, linking, and accelerating research findings across domains. - *Data collection and synthesis using AI:* Applications of generative architectures for molecule generation, experiment simulation, or synthetic data generation. - *Physics-Informed AI and Scientific Machine Learning: *AI models that embed physical laws or constraints to enhance interpretability, generalization, and scientific fidelity. - *Neuro-Symbolic AI: *Hybrid models combining neural networks with symbolic reasoning to advance scientific in- ference, automation, and logic-based discovery. - *Large Language Models (LLMs) and Conversational AI for Science: *Use of LLMs and agent-based systems to support literature mining, hypothesis generation, scientific coding, and collaborative research workflows. - *AI for Multidisciplinary Research:* Bridging disciplinary boundaries with LLMs. Enabling clearer communication and collabo- ration across research fields. Applied AI techniques reshaping discovery pipelines in founda- tional sciences and engineering systems. *Keynote Speakers:* • Jennifer Doudna (Berkeley) • Anima Anandkumar (Caltech) • David Baker (University of Washington) Interactive Sessions: Plenary lectures, panel discussions, breakout groups, and hands-on demos. Prize AI Accelerated Research Award Ceremony: Honoring breakthrough contributions from emerging scientists. *Interactive Sessions:* Plenary lectures, panel discussions, breakout groups, and hands-on demos. *AI Accelerated Research Award Ceremony:* Honoring breakthrough contributions from emerging scientists. *Important Dates* • Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 2025 • Symposium Dates: October 26–28, 2025 *Submission Details* We welcome: • Full research papers (6–8 pages) • Short papers (2–4 pages) • Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) • Vision or position papers (up to 4 pages) Submissions must follow the AIAS formatting guidelines and be submitted via the symposium website. see more at https://aias2025.org/ CFP details and submissions: https://aias2025.org/call-for-papers/ Organizing Committee: - Jennifer Chayes, Dean of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley - Yan Li, Executive Director of Scientific Programs, Chen InstitutePietro Perona - Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech - Mengdi Wang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton - Parisa Kordjamshidi, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University - Hamid Karimian, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University See more at https://aias2025.org/ CFP details and submissions: https://aias2025.org/call-for-papers/ ᐧ

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CORRECTED DATES: Call for Papers: Slav-NLP: 10th Workshop on NLP forSlavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

**Call for Papers:* * * Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages At ACL-2025, Vienna, Austria 31 July 2025 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Submission Deadline: 3 May ** WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION The 10th edition of the Slav-NLP Workshop — at ACL 2025. Sponsored by SIGSLAV: ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP. Slavic languages play a crucial role due to their diverse cultural heritage and wide use — over 400M speakers worldwide. Current political and economic developments in Central/ Eastern Europe thrust the Slavic languages into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological advancements, and evolving consumer markets. Research on applied **and ***theoretical*NLP in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging. Linguistic phenomena that are common to the Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages challenging. Slav-NLP Workshops gather researchers from academia and industry, aiming to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops welcome the exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and promoting the available resources. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this large language group, creates a special environment where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally. We are happy *again *to organize Slav-NLP in Central Europe. This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include: * language modeling, * morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis, * lexical semantics, * named-entity recognition, * text normalization and processing non-standard language, * co-reference resolution, * information extraction, * question answering, * text summarization, * machine translation, * development of linguistic resources, * development and assessment of large language models, * text classification, * text generation, * disinformation detection, * fact verification, * sentiment analysis. The Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 9 previous (B)SNLP Workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: *3 May*2025 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment20 May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: *1 June*2025 * Camera-ready papers due: 15 June 2025 * Workshop: 31 July 2025 ** SHARED TASK This year the Slav-NLP Workshop features — Shared Task on Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Read about the Shared Task on the Workshop’s Web page. SUBMISSION At the Workshop’s Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html> * * Workshop Contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi * -- Roman Yangarber Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learning Language Learning Lab Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 helsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Gaze4NLP - The First International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing
by Cengiz Acarturk 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

**First Call for Papers** Gaze4NLP - The First International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing September 11-13, 2025, Varna, Bulgaria (co-located with RANLP 2025) The First Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP), co-located with RANLP 2025 in Varna, Bulgaria, invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature describing research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identifying challenges to resolve in the intersection of the two domains: eye tracking and NLP. Gaze4NLP aims to bring together researchers conducting research on eyes on eyes on text and NLP; and establishing bridges between them for identifying future venues of research. Workshop webpage: https://gaze4nlp.github.io/Gaze4NLP2025/about.html Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: 6 July 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 Workshops: 11-13 September 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) Topics for the workshop will include, but are not limited to: - Investigating the pillars for bridging the gap between the research on eyes on text and NLP. Study how to expand research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identify challenges, issues to resolve. - Exploring new areas so that both fields benefit from each other better than the past, identifying novel domains of exploration for further research. - Discussing how to develop cognitively inspired models that align human reading data with LLMs. Submissions We solicit regular workshop papers, which will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. All categories of papers may be long (maximum 8 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references) or short (maximum 4 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references). Accepted papers will be presented in the form of either oral or poster presentations. Please note that camera-ready papers are allowed an additional page. The workshop proceedings will be part of the ACL anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an opportunity with an extended version to be published as part of an edited book. Submission link: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/Gaze4NLP2025/ Organization Committee: Dr. Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland Dr. Jamal Nasir, University of Galway, Ireland Dr. Burcu Can, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK Dr. Cagri Coltekin, University of Tubingen, Germany -- Dr. Cengiz Acarturk, Prof.UJ Centre for Cognitive Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow On behalf of the Organization Committee

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Senior lecturer position at the University of Gothenburg / Chalmers University of Technology
by Richard Johansson 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

We are hiring a Senior Lecturer (comparable to an associate professor) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a joint department at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. This is a broad call open to anyone with a background in data science and AI, but we are particularly interested in candidates with an NLP background. This is a senior faculty position but we will also consider strong junior candidates. You can find more details on the application page: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… If you are thinking of applying and would like to discuss about the position, please contact me (richard.johansson(a)cse.gu.se) or Gerardo Schneider, head of the division (gerardo(a)chalmers.se). The deadline for applying is August 15. Best regards, Richard Johansson

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ACL 2025 Conference - Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events
by Horacio Saggion 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

Dear ACL 2025 Attendees: ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference! The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website <https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/>. Session titles and times are listed below: Mon, Jul 28 SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma Tue, Jul 29 Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang Wed, Jul 30 Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini Mothering the Future — In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia. Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef Dear ACL 2025 Attendees: ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference! The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website <https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/>. Session titles and times are listed below: Mon, Jul 28 SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma Tue, Jul 29 Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang Wed, Jul 30 Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini Mothering the Future — In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia. Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef

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Public webinar: Using mixed methods to analyze stance: A variationist approach
by Robert Fuchs 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

Bonn Talks on Recent Trends in Applied Linguistics *Using mixed methods to analyze stance: A variationist approach * Dr. Katharina Pabst, Radboud University Nijmegen Friday, July 18, 2.15 pm - 3.45 pm CEST Sign up here: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/7zWSRP69R8SZWZptF6wfMA In this talk, I will introduce a framework for coding speaker stance (i.e., the way individuals position themselves towards an interaction) that I developed with colleagues from the University of Toronto. Our framework, which combines insights from variationist sociolinguistics and pragmatics, is based on pragmatic tests that offer a replicable way of capturing an interactional phenomenon such as stance quantitatively. Drawing on two case studies of complementizer (that) – i.e., the variation between overt that and zero in sentences such as I think (that) linguistic variation is fun – I discuss challenges and opportunities of using this framework, as well as its implications for the study of language and social meaning. Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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Job: PhD in NLP in Zurich, Application Deadline on August 10, 2025
by reto.gubelmann＠uzh.ch 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a fully funded PhD position in NLP. The position is for three years, starting on October 1, 2025, or per agreement. Details on the position and the application procedure can be found in the job ad here: https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/phd-position-empowering-ai-to-explore-the…. The position is part of Project AI-R that aims to bring together cutting-edge methods in NLP with recent developments in the philosophy of language and logic. To apply, please follow the guidelines in the ad. All best, Reto

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Free webinar: 22 July 2-3pm UK time
by Brezina, Vaclav 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

Dear all, We would like to invite you to a free webinar Corpus Linguistics: Skills for the Future from our Lancaster webinar series. In this webinar, we will focus on two domains that have used corpus methods to develop and improve their practice. Prof Elena Semino will talk about the use of corpus methods in healthcare communication and Dr Dana Gablasova will look at the role played by corpus methods in development and evaluation of GenAI tools for language learning and teaching. ⏲️ Time: 22 July 2025, 2-3pm UK time 🔗 Link for free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image001.jpg@01DBF65D.4028AAC0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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New book - Automatic Question Generation
by Flor, Michael 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, I am happy to announce the availability of the new book, Automatic Question Generation https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-92072-1 Published by Springer, in the series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Many thanks to Graeme Hirst, the series editor! The book describes a variety of approaches, including generating questions from syntactic analyses, semantic resources, neural architectures, ontologies and knowledge graphs, and large language models. Also covers evaluation and some fundamentals of questions. Hopefully, the book might be useful for NLP/AI researchers, students, educators, test-developers, and anyone interested in this topic. Michael Flor Senior Research Scientist ETS Research Institute Educational Testing Service Princeton, NJ, USA mflor(a)ets.org ________________________________ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain privileged or confidential information. It is solely for use by the individual for whom it is intended, even if addressed incorrectly. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender; do not disclose, copy, distribute, or take any action in reliance on the contents of this information; and delete it from your system. Any other use of this e-mail is prohibited. Thank you for your compliance. ________________________________

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July 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

In this newsletter: Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program New publications: AnnoDIFP Session Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S06> Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English Second Release<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T09> LoReHLT Uzbek Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T08> ________________________________ Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2025. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: AnnoDIFP (Annotated Data for the Investigation of Facets of Personality) Session Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S06> was developed by LDC, the Florida Institute of Technology <https://www.fit.edu/> (FIT), and the University of New Haven<https://www.newhaven.edu/index.php> (UNH) to support algorithm development for predicting personality traits. It contains 438.34 hours of English audio and transcripts from in-person interviews of 366 participants paired with scores from two self-reported personality assessments, HEXACO Personality Inventory (Revised) (HEXACO-PI-R) and Short Dark Triad (SD3). In-person interviews were recorded at LDC, FIT, and UNH. In each session, the participant and interviewer were in separate sound-isolated rooms with communication between them supplied by audio/video hardware. Sessions consisted of the following tasks: rapport building, a YouTube task, a map task, and a business task. Further details on collection methodology and session tasks are contained in the documentation accompanying this release. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English Second Release<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T09> was developed at the University of Pennsylvania and consists of running texts and text samples of British English prose from the earliest Middle English documents (1100 CE) up to the period of the First World War (1914 CE). This second release corrects errors and inconsistencies in Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (LDC2020T16<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T16>), further streamlines annotation, simplifies the directory structure, and includes updated documentation. This data set contains three corpora covering traditionally recognized periods of English: * The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition * The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English * The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English, second edition The texts are in two forms: part-of-speech tagged text and syntactically annotated text. Annotations were manually reviewed for accuracy and consistency. Included in this release are updated annotation guidelines, philological information for each corpus, and the CorpusSearch 2 program, which allows users to search the data for words, word sequences, and syntactic structure. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LoReHLT Uzbek Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T08> was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 47 million words of Uzbek monolingual text, 563,000 words of found Uzbek-English parallel text, 100,000 Uzbek words translated from English data, and 6.4 hours of Uzbek broadcast news and amateur web audio recordings. Approximately 151, 000 words were annotated for named entities and over 28,000 words were annotated for full entity including nominals and pronouns. Noun-phrase chunking was applied to more than 13,000 words. Over 20,890 words were labeled with simple semantic annotation. Topic annotation was applied to the audio recordings. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, broadcast news, web audio recordings, and weblogs. LoReHLT was a companion project of the DARPA LORELEI program. 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. 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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LREC 2026 - First Call for Tutorials
by Sara Goggi 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

*LREC 2026 - FIRST CALL FOR TUTORIALS* *Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association * *Palma, Mallorca, Spain* *11-16 May 2026* The 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction. The tutorials will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11, 12, or 16 May 2026. *IMPORTANT DATES* * 17 October 2025: Proposal submission due * 17November 2025: Notification of acceptance * 11-16 May 2026: LREC 2026 conference** *SUBMISSION DETAILS* We invite proposals for three types of tutorials: *Cutting-edge:*tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. The tutorials are expected to give a brief introduction to the topic, but participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the topic. The focus of the class will be on discussing the most recent developments in the field, and it will spend a considerable amount of time pointing out open research questions and important novel research directions. *Introductory to computational linguistics (CL)/ natural language processing (NLP) topics:*tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established in the LREC communities. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field. *Introductory to adjacent areas:*tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established or emerging in areas adjacent to CL/NLP. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire a sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field and its relevance for the CL/NLP domains. In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be “self-invited” long talks – the content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only of the teachers of the tutorial. Proposals should be prepared according to the style files that will be available from the LREC website (https://lrec2026.info/). Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), and they should be submitted as PDF documents. Tutorial proposals do not have to be anonymized. They should contain: * A title that helps potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about. * An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be on the LREC website). * A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community, and in general. * A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants. * A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be. * A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others. * A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial? * A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience. * A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need. * A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. Tutorials can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). *EVALUATION CRITERIA* The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. *DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION* We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials. This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, and (3) if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. *INSTRUCTOR RESPONSIBILITIES* Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific deadlines. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology. Finally, at least one tutorial presenter must attend the event in person to organise the tutorial. *CONTACT* * Tutorial Chairs: lrec2026-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:lrec2026-tutorial-chairs@googlegroups.com> * General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> * More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/>

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LREC 2026 - First Call for Workshops
by Sara Goggi 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

*LREC 2026 - FIRST CALL FOR WORKSHOPS* *Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association * *Palma, Mallorca, Spain* *11-16 May 2026* The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain). We solicit proposals in all areas of language resources, language technology, and evaluation of the underlying technologies, broadly conceived to also include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. The workshops will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 11, 12 and 16 May 2026. *IMPORTANT DATES* (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * 17 October 2025: Proposal submission deadline * 17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance * 11-16 May 2026: LREC2026 conference *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents using the START system (URL will soon be available on the conference website). Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification of acceptance (see Important dates above). The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal + at most two additional pages for information about organisers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than FOUR pages long, excluding references. The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Workshops can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). * A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. * An estimate of the number of attendees. * A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. * A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The two pages for information about the workshop, the organisers and the program committee must include: * A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below). * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. *EVALUATION CRITERIA* The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organising team and Program Committee, and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. *DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION* We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in language resources and language technology, including researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of workshops. Workshop proposals are evaluated on a range of aspects, including diversity, such as (1) how the topic of the workshop contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. *WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES* At least one of the accepted organisers must attend the workshop in person. The organisers of the accepted proposals are responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the workshop program and the camera-ready workshop proceedings according to LREC requirements, organising the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of LREC’s anti-harassment policy and code of conduct (see https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/ ). It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings in the correct format on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well as to accept additional non-archival presentations *CONTACT* * Workshop Chairs: lrec2026-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com * General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> * More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/

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CfP — Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models @ IWSDS 2026
by Giuseppe Riccardi 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

Dear all, We’re excited to announce IWSDS 2026, The 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. It will take place on Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2026 in Trento, the gateway to the Dolomites following the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. The theme of this year is "Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models" IWSDS 2026 aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical foundations, systems and methods, and applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. The Call for Papers is now open for long papers (up to 8 pages + references), as well as short papers, position papers, demos (up to 4 pages + references) Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published in the ACL Anthology. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: October 12, 2025 Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026 📌 Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ 🐦 Twitter: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting 🌿 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social We look forward to welcoming you to Trento in 2026! On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Giuseppe Riccardi IWSDS'26 General Chair University of Trento <https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/> <https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=OYqE3uAAAAAJ&hl=en> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahedmousavi/> <https://twitter.com/mahedmousavi>

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[Workshop CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

[Final CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria) - 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the FINAL call for papers for the R2LM Workshop - From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation at RANLP 2025. https://r2lm2025.github.io/R2LM/ Workshop Description Deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling impressive performance across many tasks. However, they continue to face key challenges in handling complex linguistic phenomena such as multiword expressions, long-context reasoning, and robustness to adversarial inputs. In parallel, concerns remain about the scalability, interpretability, and domain adaptability of these models, particularly in applications requiring high precision, such as grammar checking, legal analysis, or medical NLP. These limitations have sparked renewed interest in rule-based and knowledge-based approaches, which often offer better explainability and remain competitive, especially in low-resource or high-stakes scenarios. Our workshop aims to gather contributions that deal with the following topics: • Role of rule-based and knowledge-based NLP methods in modern applications • Comparative analysis of rule-based, machine-learning, deep-learning and large language models for different NLP tasks • Emerging trends in NLP research beyond deep learning and Large Language Models • Limitations and performance bottlenecks in scalability and accuracy of deep learning models Submission Details • Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Format: ACL-style (LaTeX or MS Word) • Submission portal and template info available on the RANLP 2025 website Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 10 August 2025 Workshop date: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Organising Committee: Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, University of Alicante, Spain Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, University of Alicante, Spain Rafael Muñoz Guillena, University of Alicante, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Raúl García Cerdá, University of Alicante, Spain

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First Call for paper - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC
by Patrizio Bellan 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC* Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing - NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction - NLP for Ontology Population and Learning - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications - Interplay between Language and Ontologies - NLP for Explainable Knowledge - Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM - (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge - Knowledge - Knowledge to improve NLP tasks - Knowledge for Information Retrieval - Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP - Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation - Knowledge for Persuasion - Knowledge-based Machine Translation - Knowledge for the Web - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based NL Explainability - LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs - (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs - Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation) - Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health, and medicine - News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2026 SRC page for details <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>). Initial Submission Policy - All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There is no separate submission track for poster papers. - Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters Minimum Length for Review Consideration - While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review. Camera-ready Page Limits - Regular Papers (accepted for publication): - Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): - Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. *Important Dates (check SAC website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)* September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026 <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Deadline extension: DHASA Conference 2025
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jul '25

12 Jul '25

Deadline extension: DHASA Conference 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the deadlne NEW DEADLINE: 28 July 2025 Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * The role of AI in digital humanities, the role of Digital Humanities in shaping AI, and the broader role of the humanities in both AI and DH projects; * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalised voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalised communities in the creation and use of digital tools, resources, and AI; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonising knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities and AI research; * The role of digital humanities and AI in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of African and global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organisations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Development of digital and AI tools for supporting digital humanities; * Novel utilisation of digital and AI tools for performing digital humanities research; * The role of digital humanities in the classroom: reimagining literacy and AI fluency; * Digital humanities data and project management; * The role of librarians in the digital humanities project; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2025 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers with a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (leading to a total of up to 9 content pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. Long papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 30-minute time slots (which includes 10 minutes for questions). * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (leading to a total of up to 6 content pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 15-minute time slots (which includes 5 minutes for questions). * Executive summaries: Authors can submit an executive summary for work in progress, limited to 1 page. Executive summaries accepted for the conference will be presented as posters during a dedicated poster presentation slot. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the JDHASA journal, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the executive summaries for the poster presentations will be published in a book of executive summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected. Follow this link to go to the submission platform: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates Submission deadline: 28 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Conference: 10 November 2025 - 14 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organising Committee Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Deadline extension: Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jul '25

12 Jul '25

Deadline extension: Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Co-located with DHASA 2025 https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the deadlne NEW DEADLINE: 28 July 2025 RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025 DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025 Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre. The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/ The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non- African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa website (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link is available on the website). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the DHASA conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 28 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Workshop: 10 November 2025 DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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[CLEF 2026] Call for Lab Proposals - Deadline extended
by Julia Maria Struß 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '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://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu> ------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Due to many requests and the late opening of EasyChair, the submissiondeadline for the full lab proposals has been extended to 17 July 2025 AoE. However, you need to submit a proposal registration(submitting a draft/abstract to Easychair) by the original deadline (14 July 2025 AoE). 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 at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2026 choosing the “CLEF 2026 Lab Proposals”track. Review Process Each proposal submitted by 17 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, AoE: Proposal registration (submitting a draft/abstract to Easychair) * 14 July 2025 17 July 2025, AoE (extended):Hard deadline to submit final 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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The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by Announce 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

*** Second Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the 31st International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops and *full-day*, *half-day* or *quarter-day* tutorial formats and activities, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. • Tutorials: Sessions that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, tools, labs or hands-on experiences for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop and Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop and Tutorial Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Workshop or Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events) • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop or tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop and tutorial formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop or tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or “(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop or tutorial. • Description of workshop or tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop or tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop or Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop or tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. For tutorials, we are also interested in quarter-day proposals (roughly 1.5 hours). Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops" or “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025 • Decision notification: September 19, 2025 • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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[CfP] DBpedia Day 2025 || SEMANTiCS conference || Sept 3
by DBpedia 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

==== DBpedia Day - Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2025 Vienna, Austria September 3, 2025 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 (AoE) Submission Form: https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89 ==== How can Large Language Models (LLMs) benefit from structured knowledge like DBpedia? And how can we improve DBpedia to better serve the next generation of AI systems? This session invites talks on the intersection of LLMs and Knowledge Graphs, with a special emphasis on DBpedia. Our goal is to understand how to make Linked Data more useful, accessible, and trustworthy for LLM-based applications—and how to evolve DBpedia in this new AI-dominated landscape. = Topics of Interest = * Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with DBpedia * Prompt engineering for KG-aware LLMs * Query translation: From natural language to SPARQL using LLMs * Using LLMs to summarize or explain DBpedia data * LLMs as interfaces for Linked Data consumption * Automatic ontology alignment and entity linking with LLMs * Improving LLM factual accuracy with DBpedia as a trusted source * Challenges in grounding LLM output in structured knowledge * Scaling and performance considerations for hybrid KG–LLM systems * Bias, hallucination, and verification in LLMs using DBpedia * Use cases: e.g., chatbots, semantic search, Q&A systems powered by DBpedia + LLMs We welcome researchers, developers, and industry practitioners working on concrete tools, early-stage ideas, or critical perspectives. = Submission Guidelines = Please submit your proposal by July 15, 2025 (AoE) via: https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89 Your proposal should include: * Title * Abstract (max. 300 words) * Short biography of the speaker(s) We are open to a wide range of talk formats: demos, position papers, success stories, lessons learned, or short idea pitches. Questions? Reach out to us at dbpedia(a)infai.org or check our event page https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-day-2025/. Join us to shape how LLMs and DBpedia can empower each other! Best regards, Julia, Milan & Sebastian DBpedia Team

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Call for Papers: HCI + NLP Workshop @EMNLP 2025
by Amanda Cercas Curry 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] *Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)* We are excited to announce that the 4th iteration of HCI+NLP will be *co-located with @EMNLP in Suzhou, China* and online! The rapid advancement of NLP research has led to a variety of applications spanning a wide range of domains. With the recent popularity and growing capabilities of large language models, language technologies have been integrated into various daily applications, such as conversational search, text analysis, and writing assistance. While this widespread adoption ignites excitement, it raises pressing concerns and challenges for NLP research, including those related to real-world evaluation, bias and fairness, and model interpretability and explainability, and it is more important than ever that NLP research adopt and develop methods to incorporate people into research in meaningful ways. Perspectives from human-computer interaction (HCI) can help NLP research practitioners to advance the field in ways that are aligned with people’s needs, raising novel questions and research directions for both NLP and HCI. *Special Theme* For this iteration of the workshop, we are delighted to include a special theme: *Human involvement in post-training*. Recent advances in frontier NLP labs emphasize the importance of Reinforcement Learning with AI Feedback (RLAIF) and synthetic data, reducing human presence in the post-training process. However, as humans are the end users of or are impacted by interactive systems, we see this as an opportunity to ask about the role humans should play in the development of human-centric language technologies. We welcome any submissions engaging with this question, including *efficient learning of human preferences*, *novel forms of human feedback*, user interfaces that enable the *seamless and innovative collection of feedback*, *problems and tasks where human preferences are especially crucial*, *alternative paradigms *for human input and involvement, *different approaches’ underlying assumptions and resulting impacts*, and more. *Submissions* We welcome *research papers (up to 8 pages)*, submitted *archivally or non-archivally*. We also welcome *extended abstracts* (up to 4 pages, non-archival) presenting relevant ongoing or recently published work. We invite submissions that include (but are not limited to): provocations, critical approaches, or position papers; surveys or meta-analyses highlighting opportunities for new research; and empirical studies, system demonstrations, or other research on practical issues when deploying language technology. We also welcome *fast-track submissions* of papers rejected by other venues that are accompanied by previous reviews. For the full call for papers, including formatting guidelines and the submission site, see the workshop website. *************************************************** *Submission Deadlines*: Regular submission: August 8 Fast-track submission: September 1 *************************************************** *For more information, visit our website: * https://sites.google.com/view/hciandnlp -- *CENTAI INSTITUTE* www.centai.eu <http://www.centai.eu>

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[CfP] Final CfP for LowResNLP: Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria)
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the final call for papers of the *Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP) at RANLP 2025* The most important information at a glance: 🗓️ Deadline: July 15, Workshop: Sep 11, 12 or 13 📍 Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://lrlnlp.github.io/website/ Despite rapid progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), the benefits of recent advances - especially large language models (LLMs) - remain unevenly distributed. While high-resource languages like English, French, and Chinese have seen significant performance gains, low-resource languages continue to face substantial challenges across core NLP tasks such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and part-of-speech tagging. These disparities arise from a combination of factors: the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited linguistic resources, and a lack of community involvement in data collection and model development. As a result, many languages, particularly African, Indigenous, and minority languages, remain underrepresented in both academic research and deployed NLP systems. LowResNLP is a workshop dedicated to addressing these challenges by fostering research, collaboration, and discussion around methods, resources, and evaluation practices specifically designed for low-resource languages. LowResNLP seeks to actively contribute to the field by inviting submissions that specifically address the unique challenges and opportunities involved in working with low-resource languages. The workshop welcomes a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Language models and large language models for low-resource languages * Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages * Evaluation benchmarks for language models in low-resource languages * Language models and resources for low-resource languages in Spain * Machine/pivot translation for low-resource languages * Fairness in resources/models for low-resource languages * Prompting learning strategies for large language models * Transfer learning and Crosslingual approaches for low-resource NLP * Massively multilingual approaches to Low-Resource NLP Important Dates: Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 July 2025 (AoE) Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 Workshops: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Submission formats: We invite the submission of both full papers and short papers. Full papers should not exceed 8 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). Short papers should not exceed 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). All submissions should be prepared using the current ACL templates (see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/). Papers should be submitted through SoftConf: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LowResNLP2025 Organizers: For any questions, please drop a mail to lowresnlp-2025-organizers(a)googlegroups.com Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares (University of Alicante, Spain; University of Havana, Cuba) Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) Besik Mikaberidze (Georgian Technical University, Georgia) Simon Ostermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Daniil Gurgurov (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Philipp Müller (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Kurt Micallef (University of Malta, Malta) Claudia Borg (University of Malta, Malta) Michal Gregor (KINIT, Slovakia) Marián Šimko (KINIT, Slovakia) Programme Committee: Nora Aranberri (University of Basque Country) Sudhansu Bala Das (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of - Galway, Ireland) Ana‑Maria Bucur (University of Bucharest) Annie Lee En-Shiun (Ontario Tech University and University of Toronto) Sofía García González (imaxin software, University of the Basque Country) Albert Gatt (Utretch University) Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) Basab Nath (Assam University) Patrizia Paggio (University of Malta) Dhrubajyoti Pathak (National Forensic Sciences University) Fabian Schmidt (University of Würzburg) Marijn Schraagen (Utretch University) A. Seza Doğruöz (University of Ghent) Marc Tanti (University of Malta) Sunita Warjri (University of South Bohemia)

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Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification
by Stodden, Regina 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

📢 Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification We invite you to participate in the TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification, aimed at generating simplifications of texts that conform to a specified target readability level, balancing reduced linguistic complexity with meaning preservation and fluency. The shared task is focused on simplifying English paragraphs to specific CEFR levels (A1, A2, B1). Input texts are at B2 level or above. Participants must produce simplified versions that match the target readability level while preserving meaning. 🗓️ Key dates: * Trial data release: July 16th * Test data release: August 15th * Submission deadline: August 26th * Results: September 2nd 🗃️ No training data provided – you're free to use any publicly available resources 📊 Evaluation: CEFR compliance, meaning preservation, reference similarity 📝 System description papers invited to TSAR 2025 @ EMNLP (Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9) ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/shared-task/ 🔗 Registration at: https://forms.gle/p9rg7FjxaNFWcPVS7 📢 The submission for regular papers to the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR) is also still possible. ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/cfp/ 🗓️ Submission deadline: August 26th -- Regina Stodden (she/her) Postdoctoral Researcher Bielefeld University - Semantic Computing Group

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Job: ERRATUM Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
by Maria Boritchev 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

[Apologies for cross postings][New and corrected links] ******************************************************** Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position ) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing /!\ NEW LINKS /!\ Version française : [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/associate-professor-in-machine… ] English Version: [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/associate-professor-in-ma… ] In the team: [ https://s2a.telecom-paris.fr/resources/2025-07-01-poste-npl/ | https://s2a.telecom-paris.fr/resources/2025-07-01-poste-npl/ ] Telecom Paris has a new permanent (tenure) faculty position (Associate Professor/ “Maître/Maîtresse de conférences”) in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing. Applicants from the following sub-research areas are particularly welcome: - Generative models, Conversational AI - Bias and Explainability in AI - Frugal Machine Learning Important Dates September 5, 2025 : closing date for applications Main missions - Participate in the design and implementation of teaching programs in the field of machine learning for language processing - Conduct research in your scientific field - Participate in the development of partnerships, collaborations and contractual relationships in your scientific field - Participate in teaching activities at Telecom Paris and its partner academic institutions (as part of joint Master programs), especially in natural language processing, speech processing, machine learning, and Data Science, including life-long training programs (e.g. the local “Mastères Spécialisés”). Candidate profile As a minimum requirement, the successful candidate will have: - A Ph.D. degree - A track record of research and publication in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing, generative speech and signal processing, human-agent interactions, social robotics - Experience in teaching - An international postdoctoral experience is welcome but not mandatory - Excellent command of English NOTE: The candidate does *not* need to speak French to apply, just to be willing to learn the language (teaching will be mostly given in English). Other expected skills include: - Capacity to work in a team and develop good relationships with colleagues and peers - Excellent writing and pedagogical skills More about the position Place of work: Saclay (Paris outskirts) Context: - S²A (machine learning, statistics and signal processing) group [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - LTCI (laboratoire de traitement et communication de l’information) [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - Télécom Paris [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home ] Ecosystem: Télécom Paris is a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris, [ https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ | https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ ] ), a world-class scientific and technological institution. Located at the Plateau de Saclay close to Paris-Saclay University, this Institution is a partnership between Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris, Télecom SudParis, with HEC as a key partner. Regularly ranked as one of the best engineering schools in France, Télécom Paris is recognized for its excellent training, its very good employability rate with high salaries, its high-level research, and its very close proximity to companies. The THE (Times Higher Education, [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… ] ) ranks Télécom Paris 2nd best French engineering school, 5th better French university, and 6th « best small university ». The newly created institution IP Paris was ranked in the top 50 best universities in the QS world university ranking. In the context of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the activities in Data Science and AI of the team benefit from the center Hi!Paris ( [ https://www.hi-paris.fr/ | https://www.hi-paris.fr/ ] ), offering seminars, workshops, and fundings through calls for project. How to apply? Applications must be submitted via one of the following websites: French Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… ] English Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… ] Applicants should submit: - Cover letter, - Curriculum vitae, - Statements of research and teaching interests (4 pages maximum each) - Three publications - Contact information for two references Contacts - please contact us directly before applying: Maria Boritchev Matthieu Labeau Stéphan Clémençon (Head of the S²A group) Florence Tupin (Head of the IDS department)

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Call for Short Papers (Posters): SemDial 2025 – The 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bialogue)
by Hendrik Buschmeier 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

# Call for Short Papers (Posters): SemDial 2025 – The 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bialogue) Website: https://semdial2025.github.io/ ## Information We invite submissions for ‘Bialogue 2025’, the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series at Bielefeld University, Germany. This conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. ## Topics This year, the conference will center around the theme “Meaningful Interaction”. We particularly encourage work that explores this theme, but submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including but not limited to: * Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue * Common ground and mutual belief * Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * Turn-taking and interaction control * Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * Dialogue and discourse structure * Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue * Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * Multimodal dialogue * Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * Dialogue management, design, and evaluation * Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological approaches to dialogue * Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research ## Submission Details Submissions should meet the following requirements: * Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. * Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. * Papers should follow the ACL 2025 formatting guidelines and use the ACL submission templates. * Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files. ### Short Papers (Posters) At most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request. Submission: Please submit your short paper (poster) via Open Review: https://openreview.net/group?id=SemDial.org/2025/Bialogue ## Important Dates All deadlines are 23:59 UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) Short Paper/Poster Deadline July 18, 2025 Notification (short) July 25, 2025 Camera Ready (short/posters) August 9, 2025 Registration Deadline August 15, 2025 SemDial 2025 Conference September 3–5, 2025 -- Hendrik Buschmeier Digital Linguistics Lab Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University https://purl.org/net/hbuschme

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INLG 2025: Third Call for Papers (New paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025)
by Saad Mahamood 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

Dear Corpora list members, I am sharing this CFP on the behalf of the Program Chairs of INLG 2025. Apologies in advance for any cross-posting. Saad. ------- I am excited to share that we will have some great Keynote Speakers this year, including Verena Rieser (Google DeepMind), Minlie Huang (黄民烈; Tsinghua University), Hadas Kotek (Apple), Mike White (Ohio State University) and Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt). The event will be held from October 29 - November 2 in Hanoi, Vietnam, just before EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China. Please note, we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to July 18, 2025. Third Call for Papers: 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2025 We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including Large Language Models (LLMs). Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from October 29 - November 2 in Hanoi, Vietnam. INLG 2025 will be taking place before EMNLP 2025 (5-9 November) in Suzhou, China. Important dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) START system regular paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025 (NEW) ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: August 7, 2025 START system demo paper submission deadline: July 24, 2025 Notification: August 21, 2025 Camera ready: September 15, 2025 Conference: October 29 - November 2, 2025 Topics INLG 2025 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems Generalizability of NLG systems Bias and fairness in NLG systems Thinking models for NLG Affect/emotion generation Analysis and detection of automatically generated text Cognitive modeling of language production Computational efficiency of NLG models Content and text planning Corpora and resources for NLG Ethical considerations of NLG Grounded language generation Lexicalisation Multimedia and multimodality in generation Natural language understanding techniques for NLG NLG and accessibility NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots NLG for human-robot interaction NLG for low-resourced languages NLG for real-world applications Paraphrasing, summarization and translation Personalisation and variation in text Referring expression generation Storytelling and narrative generation Surface realization System architectures Submissions & Format Three kinds of papers can be submitted: Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2025. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2025 website: https://inlg2025.github.io/ To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2025, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/p/inlg2025/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is July 18, 2025 (NEW), 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2025 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is August 7, 2025, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2025 is May 19, 2025. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2025 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2025 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2025/) by July 24, 2025, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2025 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2025 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. Awards INLG 2025 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. Best Evaluation Award: This award honors the authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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Postdoc position: Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation (Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
by Nathan Schneider 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

The NERT lab <http://nert.georgetown.edu/> at Georgetown University in Washington, DC has an open postdoctoral position for a project at the intersection of linguistics, computation, and law. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, beginning this *Friday, July 11*. A start date early in Fall 2025 is preferred. Questions about the position should be directed to nathan.schneider(a)georgetown.edu. https://apply.interfolio.com/170055 *Post Doctoral Associate - Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation* The Georgetown Initiative on Technology and Society is seeking a Postdoctoral Fritz Research Fellow to conduct research in Washington, DC in the emerging area of empirical approaches to legal interpretation (see https://solid-symposium.github.io/2025/ for examples of interdisciplinary research in this space). We seek candidates with a Ph.D. in Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or a related field who bring expertise in linguistic and/or computational methodologies that can apply to the study of legal interpretation. The postdoc will lead collaborative research initiatives with deliverables such as datasets, software, scholarly publications and public-facing contributions. The position will be housed in the research group of Prof. Nathan Schneider under the Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics, with additional mentorship by Prof. Kevin Tobia (GU Law Center); the fellow will be an active member of the intellectual life of the lab, the Tech and Society community, and the broader university. Synergistic professional development opportunities may include co-mentorship of research students in the lab and co-development of grant proposals. Along with mentored research, this fellow will join a cohort of Fritz Family Fellows ranging from undergraduate students through postdoctoral fellows. Each fellow will be working on a different project co-designed and mentored by faculty from at least two different parts of the campus. Ultimately, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work. -- Nathan Schneider Associate Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Georgetown University http://nathan.cl

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Final CfP: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025)
by Piotr Przybyła 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

We are pleased to invite submissions for the first Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025). The workshop will be held with the RANLP 2025 conference in Varna, Bulgaria, on 11-13 September 2025. Overview The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) pervades scientific practices in multiple disciplines beyond the NLP/AI communities. Alongside benefits for productivity and discovery, widespread use often entails misuse due to misalignment of values, lack of knowledge, or, more rarely, malice. LLM misuse has the potential to cause real harm in a variety of settings. Through this workshop, we aim to gather researchers interested in identifying and mitigating inappropriate and harmful uses of LLMs. These include misunderstood usage (e.g., misrepresentation of LLMs in the scientific literature); misguided usage (e.g., deployment of LLMs without adequate training or privacy safeguards); and malicious usage (e.g., generation of misinformation and plagiarism). Sample topics are listed below, but we welcome submissions on any domain related to the scope of the workshop. Important Dates Submission deadline *[NEW]*: *15 July 2025*, at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth Notification of acceptance: 01 August 2025 Camera-ready papers due: 30 August 2025 Workshop dates: September 11, 12, or 13, 2025 Submission Guidelines Submissions will be accepted as short papers (4 pages) and as long papers (8 pages), plus additional pages for references. All submissions undergo a double-blind review, so they should not include any identifying information. Submissions should conform to the RANLP guidelines; for further information and templates, please see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/ We welcome submissions from diverse disciplines, including NLP and AI, psychology, HCI, and philosophy. We particularly encourage reports on negative results that provide interesting perspectives on relevant topics. In-person presenters will be prioritised when selecting submissions to be presented at the workshop, but the workshop will take place in a hybrid format. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Papers should be submitted on the RANLP conference system at https://softconf.com/ranlp25/OMMM2025/ Keynote Speaker We are excited to have Dr. Stefania Druga as the keynote speaker for the inaugural OMMM workshop. Dr. Druga is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where she designs novel multimodal AI applications. Topics of Interest We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to inappropriate and harmful uses of LLMs, including but not limited to: - Misunderstood use (and how to improve understanding): - Misrepresentation of LLMs (e.g., anthropomorphic language) - Attribution of consciousness - Interpretability - Overreliance on LLMs - Misguided use (and how to find alternatives): - Underperformance and inappropriate applications - Structural limitations and ethical considerations - Deployment without proper training or safeguards - Malicious use (and how to mitigate it): - Adversarial attacks, jailbreaking - Detection and watermarking of machine-generated content - Generation of misinformation or plagiarism - Bias mitigation and trust design For more information, please refer to the workshop website: https://ommm-workshop.github.io/2025/. For any questions, please contact the organisers at ommm-workshop(a)googlegroups.com. The organisers, Piotr Przybyła, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University Clara Colombatto, University of Waterloo Nanna Inie, IT University of Copenhagen

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Deadline extension - Workshop SIR@IWCS2025
by Amandine Decker 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

*apologies for cross-postings* === Workshop SIR === First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research SIR@IWCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025 ================================= https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisci… https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 ================================= In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences, offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling language-based phenomena. The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS), as its ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, etc. This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, Art, …). A major theme of SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches). === Topics to Explore === • CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications • Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities • NLP transforming humanities issues • Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning • Links between formal semantics and neural models • Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in the Humanities • Ethics and bias in semantic modelling • Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities === Dates === • Deadline : July 21st (anywhere on earth) (previously July 14th) • Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth) • Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth) • Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth) === Submission Information === Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 21 July 2025 (anywhere on earth). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person. Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. === Submission === https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 === Style Files === The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page. === Organizers === Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University === Contact === maxime.amblard(a)univ-lorraine.fr and ellen.breitholtz(a)ling.gu.se

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ACL'25 Tutorial on "Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers"
by ACL Announcements 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

Dear ACL members and ACL'25 attendees, At ACL 2025 in Vienna, we will host a Tutorial on "Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers" (https://2025.aclweb.org/program/tutorials/). So if you ever wanted to learn (more) about ethical challenges or to understand them better, this is your chance. In order to tailor the tutorial to the attendees' needs, we set up a small survey, which should only take about 5-10 minutes to fill out. It gives you a chance to tell us about what your needs are to understand Ethical Challenges in NLP better. And we can take your needs into account. Please participate both in the survey and in the tutorial -- the more the merrier! You can find it here: https://www.soscisurvey.de/tutorial484456/ Best regards Margot Mieskes (on behalf of the Tutorial Organizers)

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Second Call for Papers: Identity-Aware AI 2025
by Soda Marem Lo 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware AI Workshop at ECAI 2025 <https://ecai2025.org/workshops/>, Bologna, Italy, October 25-30. https://identity-aware-ai.github.io/ Workshop theme: What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and technical challenges does this imply? Overview What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it) is about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on the assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if enough data (and compute power) is present, the resulting generalizations will be robust enough and represent the majority. This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the notion of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop aims to raise the question of “what makes each of us unique?” to the AI community. We seek to gather researchers from diverse fields to understand how the identities of all stakeholders — e.g., the individuals projecting their views in texts, the individuals perceiving the texts, the individuals mentioned and those not mentioned in the texts — should be considered in future research in AI. Workshop Goals - The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of identities and how identity is treated in AI. - The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on the following topics: - Approaches to model subjective phenomena: Personalization and perspectivist methods that leverage disaggregated labeled data, encoding annotator metadata on their beliefs, moral values, sociodemographic features, or personal narratives. ML methods to address the challenges of “learning from disagreements” both from the development of new models and the collection of data to train such models. - Methods for detecting and controlling bias in models and data: Techniques to audit fairness, enforce fairness constraints, and learn fair representation from data, in order to enhance the fairness of models while maintaining their predictive reliability. Ethical challenges for LLMs in identity-aware dialog and tasks: diversity, stereotypes, harms. - The role of sociodemographics in LLMs: Such as which characteristics (and disagreements) they embody and how to measure their capacity for representing and reasoning about diverse types of identities. - Challenges for applying AI methods to model socio-political phenomena: Including polarization, impact of media consumption on public opinion formation, agenda setting, deliberation support, and how integrating identity into AI methods can influence the accuracy for these tasks. - NLP work at the intersection with social psychology: The methodological foundation for quantitative investigation of identity-related topics. The reflection on best practices to reliably measure complex constructs such as morals and values. Detection and analysis of personal narratives across cultures. - Accountability of AI in the eye of the general public: The role of LLMs, and the responsibilities of AI and NLP developers for ethical use of identities. - NLP work at the intersection of survey science: The use of LLMs to model and simulate individuals and subpopulations; the role of LLMs in personalizing information elicitation; and methodological approaches to address data contamination and response validation when LLMs are used by either researchers or respondents. Submission Types We welcome the following types of submissions: - Long papers: Up to 8 pages (excluding references) - Short papers: Up to 4 pages (excluding references) - Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media submissions: No page limit - For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats including: - Art, poetry, music - Blog posts - Jupyter notebooks - Teaching materials - TikToks and videos - Findings papers - Late-breaking papers - Extended abstracts - For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing: - A summary or abstract of your work - A link to your work (if hosted externally) - Any additional context or documentation Submission Guidelines - All submissions will be double-blind reviewed - Submissions should follow ECAI formatting guidelines <https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track> with the latex template here <https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip> - Submit your paper through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=identityawareai2025> - Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings through CEUR Workshop Format The workshop will be a half-day event featuring: - Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field - Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks) - Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and design a vision for collecting new datasets - Special student project session We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. Important Dates - Submissions: 22 August - Notifications: 26 September - Camera-ready: 3 October - Workshop: 25 October Diversity & Inclusion We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers. Organizers - Pranav A (University of Hamburg) - Valerio Basile (University of Turin) - Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart) - David Jurgens (University of Michigan) - Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf) - Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg) - Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin) Contact For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com Join us at Identity-aware AI 2025 to contribute to this important conversation!

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Job: Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
by Maria Boritchev 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

[Apologies for cross postings] ******************************************************** Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing Version française : [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… ] English Version: [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… ] Telecom Paris has a new permanent (tenure) faculty position (Associate Professor/ “Maître/Maîtresse de conférences”) in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing. Applicants from the following sub-research areas are particularly welcome: - Generative models, Conversational AI - Bias and Explainability in AI - Frugal Machine Learning Important Dates September 5, 2025 : closing date for applications Main missions - Participate in the design and implementation of teaching programs in the field of machine learning for language processing - Conduct research in your scientific field - Participate in the development of partnerships, collaborations and contractual relationships in your scientific field - Participate in teaching activities at Telecom Paris and its partner academic institutions (as part of joint Master programs), especially in natural language processing, speech processing, machine learning, and Data Science, including life-long training programs (e.g. the local “Mastères Spécialisés”). Candidate profile As a minimum requirement, the successful candidate will have: - A Ph.D. degree - A track record of research and publication in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing, generative speech and signal processing, human-agent interactions, social robotics - Experience in teaching - An international postdoctoral experience is welcome but not mandatory - Excellent command of English NOTE: The candidate does *not* need to speak French to apply, just to be willing to learn the language (teaching will be mostly given in English). Other expected skills include: - Capacity to work in a team and develop good relationships with colleagues and peers - Excellent writing and pedagogical skills More about the position Place of work: Saclay (Paris outskirts) Context: - S²A (machine learning, statistics and signal processing) group [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - LTCI (laboratoire de traitement et communication de l’information) [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - Télécom Paris [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home ] Ecosystem: Télécom Paris is a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris, [ https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ | https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ ] ), a world-class scientific and technological institution. Located at the Plateau de Saclay close to Paris-Saclay University, this Institution is a partnership between Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris, Télecom SudParis, with HEC as a key partner. Regularly ranked as one of the best engineering schools in France, Télécom Paris is recognized for its excellent training, its very good employability rate with high salaries, its high-level research, and its very close proximity to companies. The THE (Times Higher Education, [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… ] ) ranks Télécom Paris 2nd best French engineering school, 5th better French university, and 6th « best small university ». The newly created institution IP Paris was ranked in the top 50 best universities in the QS world university ranking. In the context of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the activities in Data Science and AI of the team benefit from the center Hi!Paris ( [ https://www.hi-paris.fr/ | https://www.hi-paris.fr/ ] ), offering seminars, workshops, and fundings through calls for project. How to apply? Applications must be submitted via one of the following websites: French Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… ] English Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… ] Applicants should submit: - Cover letter, - Curriculum vitae, - Statements of research and teaching interests (4 pages maximum each) - Three publications - Contact information for two references Contacts - please contact us directly before applying: Maria Boritchev Matthieu Labeau Stéphan Clémençon (Head of the S²A group) Florence Tupin (Head of the IDS department)

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[Final CFP] MAHED 2025: the First Shared Task on Multimodal Detection of Hope and Hate Emotions in Arabic Content
by Wajdi Zaghouani 07 Jul '25

07 Jul '25

We’re excited to launch MAHED 2025, the first multimodal shared task on Hope and Hate Detection in Arabic content, part of ArabicNLP 2025 @ EMNLP 2025. This challenge promotes ethical AI in Arabic by addressing hate speech, hope speech, and emotion detection in both text and memes. Website: https://marsadlab.github.io/mahed2025/ Three Tasks: 1. Hope & Hate Speech Classification Classify Arabic text as hope, hate, or neutral. Register: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9136/ 2. Multitask Emotion & Offensive Detection Detect emotions, offensive language, and hate in text. Register: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9166/ 3. Multimodal Hateful Meme Detection Identify hate in Arabic memes (text + image). Register: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9192/ Key Dates: * June 10: Data & scripts released * July 20: Final registration & test set * July 25: Submission deadline * Nov 5–9: Workshop @ EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China

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17 month postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Copenhagen
by Desmond Elliott 07 Jul '25

07 Jul '25

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising a 17 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. The position involves interdisciplinary research on the development and evaluation of large language models for low-resourced langauges, primarily focusing on Danish and other Nordic languages. The research will focus on post-training methods for these low-resourced languages, for example, by investigating the role of synthetic data, among other data augmentation techniques, and the role of in-context learning in modelling low-resource languages. Applicants are also expected to contribute to work on data pre-processing, tokenization, model training. The candidate will be affiliated to the project group Danish Foundation Models, (https://www.foundationmodels.dk/) which is a collaboration between several major universities in Denmark addressing the aforementioned initiative, including Aarhus University, Southern Danish University, the Alexandra Institute, and the University of Copenhagen. The candidate will be co-supervised from both the Centre for Language Technology and the Department of Computer Science and will be physically located in both places during their employment. The successful candidate will join the Language and Multimodal Processing group, which is part of a section with a strong, international, and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics, and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about the group is available here: https://lampgroup.github.io/, and further information about the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/. The application deadline is August 15, 2025, with interviews on September 4, 2025, and a start date of 15 October, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Further information about the position can be found here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164490. Inquiries about the position can be made at de(a)di.ku.dk. Interested candidates can also reach out to schedule an informal discussion during the ACL 2025 conference in Vienna.

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New Publication in Corpus Linguistics
by Susan Hunston 07 Jul '25

07 Jul '25

Dear list members, I'm delighted to announce an exciting new publication in the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series. The title is "Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics: a multimodal study of news representations of Islam", and the authors are Paul Baker, Hanna Schmük and Yufang Qian. The Element offers a test of Vertex AI for automatically tagging images, using analyses of the written text, the images, and the interaction between them. It offers a critical evaluation of the software used in this context, and also acts as a practical guide for researchers in this area. The Element is available as an Open Access publication here: Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics<https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/automatic-image-tagging-for-corpus-…> Susan Hunston

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PhD scholarship in (Computational) History / Cultural Anthropology / Ecology / Geography
by Haider, Thomas 07 Jul '25

07 Jul '25

The Hansen Foundation is offering a doctoral scholarship in (Computational) History / Cultural Anthropology / Ecology / Geography at the University of Passau as soon as possible. With your relevant work, we are looking for correlations and possibly interactions between cultural factors on the one hand and landscape factors on the other in the region of the entire Šumava (Bavarian Forest). The area under investigation is not only attractive because of its nature and proximity to Passau, but is also particularly interesting for the research question, as the Šumava is a region that was and is characterized by (historical and current) political borders, but geologically represents a uniform mountain landscape. The scholarship is embedded in the project “Regional Collectives at the End of the Weimar Republic” of the Passau Chairs of German Linguistics and Computational Humanities. For the first time, we are systematically processing the materials of the Atlas of German Folklore (1930-1935) for Bavaria - the largest humanities research project ever undertaken in Germany. The atlas used questionnaires to document people's everyday culture at the end of the Weimar Republic. For Bavaria alone, there are a total of 450,000 data records for 1,820 places, which are available to you for your doctoral project. You will enrol as a doctoral student at the University of Passau and be supervised by Professor Dr Malte Rehbein (Computational Humanities), who will serve as your primary advisor. At the same time, you will receive non-personalised support from the Hansen Foundation and its subordinate Research Centre for the Study of Collectives at the University of Regensburg. The project is embedded in a broader research context that includes collaboration with another scholarship holder, the research initiatives of the Chairs of Computational Humanities and Linguistics, the Computational Historical Ecology research programme, and the Passau Methodikum. It is designed to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and encourage a shift in perspective. Depending on your academic background, you will bring a focus from ecological, historical, cultural studies, or historical-geographical perspectives. A central aspect of the project is the joint consideration of research subjects as machine-readable data. The dissertation will also contribute to the development of a “Big Data source criticism,” which adapts and extends traditional historical methodology to large-scale datasets. Requirements include a successfully completed university degree with a focus in history, folklore/empirical cultural anthropology, geography, ecology, digital humanities, or a related field. You should have a strong interest in topics such as environmental, everyday, or social history, cultural or geoanthropology, or historical ecology. As our work is data-driven, you will need relevant skills in the analysis of research data — for example, through quantitative methods, databases, geographic information systems (GIS), or text and data mining. You will be closely integrated into the Passau-based research groups throughout your project and will have the opportunity to acquire and develop any necessary skills there. A good reading proficiency in German is required. The financial support provided by the foundation amounts to €1,400 per month (tax-free). The foundation permits up to ten hours of secondary employment per week. If the necessary qualifications and funding are in place, this may take the form of work on another research project within the Chair of Computational Humanities. The scholarship is limited to two years. We will actively support the search for follow-up funding to complete the doctorate in good time. Residency in Passau is desirable and beneficial, but not a strict requirement. Curious? Interested? Then please submit an academic CV including transcripts, along with a motivation letter outlining your interest in the project and in pursuing further academic qualifications (in a single PDF). If your application sparks our curiosity and interest, we will invite you to an interview. Please send your application directly to malte.rehbein(a)uni-passau.de by 25 July 2025. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Malte Rehbein directly. Link: https://che.hypotheses.org/883 ---- Dr. phil. Thomas Nikolaus Haider Computational Humanities and Multilingual Computational Linguistics University of Passau

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Call for Papers: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts)
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 06 Jul '25

06 Jul '25

Call for Papers: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, held in conjunction with RANLP 2025 (https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/)! CASE is a leading venue for research, resources, and practical advances in automated event extraction and analysis, focusing on social and political event data. It has been organized consistently in top venues like ACL, EMNLP, EACL, etc. We invite submissions of research papers, resource papers, and position papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: • Event extraction at the sentence, document, or cross-document level, including event coreference. • Creation and annotation of datasets for event extraction. • Modeling event-event relations such as subevents, causal, temporal, and spatial links. • Evaluation of event datasets: reliability, validity, and coverage. • Event schemas and ontologies: population, definition, and enrichment. • Tools, pipelines, and infrastructure for event annotation and analysis. • Linguistic aspects of event representation: lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic. • Applications of event data in conflict prediction, early warning, and policy support. • Detection of new event types, including protests, public health crises, and cyber activism. • Bias, fairness, and misinformation in event extraction systems and datasets. • Legal, ethical, and privacy considerations in dataset creation and dissemination. • Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal event extraction. • Use of LLMs and generative AI for event extraction, analysis, and dataset generation. • Release of new benchmarks, datasets, or annotation resources. All accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Website: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2025/ (being updated! please get in touch with ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr for any questions) Link for submission: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/CASE2025/user/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 25 July 2025 Notification: August 17, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: August 30, 2025 Workshop date: September 11-13, 2025 Shared task Multimodal detection of hate speech, humor, and stance in LGBTQ+ socio-political discourse To know more and participate, please visit: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2025-multimodal/blob/main/README.md All shared task papers will also be published in the ACL anthology. Organizers: Surendrabikram Thapa, Siddhant Bikram Shah, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Kritesh Rauniyar, Surabhi Adhikari, Kristy Johnson, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Usman Naseem Organizing committee: Ali Hürriyetoglu Hristo Tanev Surendrabikram Thapa Vanni Zavarella Erdem Yörük

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Public talk - Clarify your references in Minecraft (Prof Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London, University of Utrecht)
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

We are pleased to welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminar. The talk is supported by IDSAI at the University of Exeter. Scheduled: Friday 18 July 2025 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT+1 Location: Harrison 203, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, and Microsoft Teams https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmE5YjYyN2MtNDJjOS00… (Meeting ID: 378 068 893 795 Passcode: dc94qv6p) Title: Clarify your references in Minecraft Speaker's short bio: Massimo Poesio is a Professor in Computational Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London and a Professor of Natural Language Understanding at the University of Utrecht. His research interests include disagreements in language interpretation; anaphora resolution; the creation of semantically annotated corpora, in particular using games-with-a-purpose such as LingoTowns; the study of conceptual knowledge using a combination of methods from human language technology and neuroscience; semantic interpretation of verbal and non-verbal communication in interaction; and using NLP to combat deception, misinformation and offensive language online. Useful links: www.massimopoesio.org https://www.arciduca.org https://sites.google.com/view/dealingwithmeaningvariation/ http://lingotowns.com https://dali.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/project https://universalanaphora.github.io/UniversalAnaphora/ We will update future talks on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminars and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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LAW-XIX 2025 - Call for Participation
by Ines Rehbein 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

*LAW-XIX 2025 - Call for Participation* The 19th edition of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025) will be held on the 31th of July 2025 in Vienna, Austria, co-located with ACL 2025. *Workshop description* The Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) is the annual workshop of the ACL and ELRA Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN), and it provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including the creation and evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. As in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. * Keynote speakers* Rotem Dror, University of Haifa Junyi Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin For more details, see: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025/invited.html *Workshop program:* https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025/program.html * Registration details:* https://2025.aclweb.org/registration The LAW-XIX organisers Ines Rehbein & Logan Siyao Peng -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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2 PhD and 1 Postdoc position at AI4DH European centre of Excellence
by Antoine Doucet 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Doctoral and post-doctoral positions - AI4DH - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Ljubljana has *3 open positions (2 PhD and 1 Postdoc)* in artificial intelligence for digital humanities (AI4DH) in the context of the *European centre of excellence in AI4DH*, recently founded and supported by Horizon Europe. At the heart of the vibrant European capital city of Ljubljana, close to both the Alps and the Mediterranean, you will be part of an AI research group working, dedicated to AI research that can be applied to DH. You will benefit from *competitive salaries* and *top-notch infrastructure*, based in the faculty of computer and information science, yet in an *interdisciplinary context*. Full details are available here: - *Posdoctoral position, for 2 years* with possible extension: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356445 - *Doctoral positions, for up to 4 years*: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356450 *Important dates: * - NEW *information session* on Thursday 10 July 10am CEST (see registration details on Euraxess) - Application *deadline: 24 July,* CEST (Ljubljana time)

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Third call for participation: DISRPT 2025 Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking
by Chloé Braud 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

🚀 Call for Participation: DISRPT 2025 Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking. 🛎️ training data has been released and the submission is now open! https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/disrpt2025/ In conjunction with CODI-CRAC & EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9. This year, we are organizing the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on discourse processing across formalisms, for a variety of languages and genres, with three subtasks: * Task 1: Discourse segmentation * Task 2: Connective identification * Task 3: Relation classification We will provide training, development and test datasets from (almost) all available languages in RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies, using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for discourse units. We will evaluate segmentation and connective detection in two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax. An automatically parsed version is provided for all corpora without a gold parse. This year, the shared task will feature: * The inclusion of more frameworks, with datasets from: RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies * The inclusion of new corpora and new languages, some of them kept a surprise! * A unified set of labels for the discourse relations, to make easier the evaluation across datasets * A new constraint: only one multilingual model should be submitted per task, and it should be small (4B parameters max)! This will make our replication work easier, but more importantly, it will simplify using such a model and test the robustness of your solution. We’re excited to announce the release of the training data for the DISRPT 2025 Shared Task! You can now access the data, format documentation, and tools on our GitHub 🔗 https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2025 The data covers five discourse frameworks — RST / eRST, PDTB, SDRT, and Discourse Dependencies — across 14 languages: Basque, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish Thai. We invite researchers and teams interested in participating to register now. Registered participants will be added to our mailing list and receive all future updates. 📅 The full testing data will be released on July 14, 2025 — stay tuned! To join the mailing list and stay informed, please email us at: 📧 disrpt_chairs(a)googlegroups.com Let us know you're interested — we’d love to have you on board! **Important dates** * May 16 2025 – Sample data release * June 17 2025 – Training data release [NOW] * July 14 2025 – Test data release * August 1 2025 – System + paper submissions due * September 12 2025 – Notification of acceptance * September 19 2025 – Camera ready papers * November 8-9 2025 – CODI at EMNLP All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (AoE, "Anywhere on Earth"). **Information:** Contact the organizers: disrpt_chairs(a)googlegroups.com Official website: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ Google group for participants, please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Organization:** Chloé Braud (CNRS - IRIT, University of Toulouse, France) Chuyuan Li (University of British Columbia, Canada) Janet Yang Liu (LMU Munich, Germany) Philippe Muller (CNRS - University of Toulouse, France) Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)

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CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: third joint call for papers
by Chloé Braud 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: joint call for papers November 5-9 2025 - EMNLP 25 - Suzhou, China We are pleased to announce that we are organizing in 2025 the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop that will be held during EMNLP! More information on: https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2025/ Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: July 30 2025 We will host 2 shared tasks, the CRAC and the DISRPT shared tasks. More information on: - CRAC shared task: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac25 - DISRPT shared task: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ Aims and scope The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems and Large Language Models to understand and produce words, sentences and in some cases longer texts. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form documents and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse pretraining tasks, coherence models, summarization for long texts and conversations, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension and formal parsing, as well as discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. Discourse, roughly the interactions of context, form and meaning above the sentence level, is at the intersection of many areas in Computational Linguistics and NLP, since it is concerned with all levels of linguistic representation, allowing the modeling of textual coherence and inference leveraging long-distance links within documents.It thus brings together researchers working on different areas but facing similar issues with coherence and cohesion, document-level structure, long text and long context. In 2025, we organize the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse level problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. This joint edition corresponds to the 6th CODI workshop and the 8th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state of the art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking and the fourth edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. The workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. Topics of interest We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing - discourse pretraining tasks - long-text modeling and generation Submissions We solicit three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with reviews, with timeline TBA. Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EMNLP 2025 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Submission websites: * CODI: https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/codi2025/ * DISRPT: https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/disrpt2025/ * CRAC: https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/crac2025/ Schedule - July 30 2025: CODI CRAC papers due - September 5 2025:Notification of acceptance - September 19 2025:Camera ready deadline - November 8-9 2025-:CODI-CRAC workshop All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Invited Speakers - Tanya Goyal, Cornell University. - Nancy F. Chen, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), A-STAR, Singapore Organizers - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, University of British Columbia - Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin - Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg - Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas - Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences - Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht - Sameer Pradhan, University of Pennsylvania and cemantix - Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies - Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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Job: Language Data Scientist -- 3 year postdoctoral position
by Sacha Beniamine 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

We are seeking qualified applicants for a position as Language Data Scientist on the ERC Synergy grant ‘NILOMORPH: The evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic’, led by Matthew Baerman. The successful candidate will perform a key role in managing, processing and analyzing language data generated across the multiple teams that make up the project. The position is based at the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey, in Guildford, UK, and provides the opportunity to work in the vibrant and highly collegial research environment for which the SMG is renowned. The NILOMORPH project aims to reconstruct the morphological evolution of the West Nilotic languages, spoken primarily in South Sudan and neighboring countries. These languages have developed some of the most remarkable morphological systems on the planet, where simultaneous manipulation of multiple phonological features (vowel length, vowel height, tone, phonation type) results in enormous paradigms marked solely by the modulation of vowel properties. NILOMORPH combines fieldwork, experimental methods, and historical linguistics to account for the phonological, morphological and psycholinguistic pathways that led to this unique outcome. The project is spread across multiple teams, based in the UK, France, Germany and the USA, and will make use of a diverse range of language data taken from multiple sources: ongoing fieldwork, previous studies, text corpora and newly-generated reconstructions, as well as well as the results of computational simulations and artificial language learning experiments. The successful candidate will develop and execute a set of data management and analysis tools will enable the diverse international team of researchers to create, access and manipulate the language data that is central to the NILOMORPH project. As a core member of the Surrey-based team, the successful candidate will provide expert guidance on methods and tools for data analysis, including data design, data management protocols and statistical analysis. They will collaborate closely in the writing and dissemination of papers and presentations, and be expected to take initiative in the formulation of the research agenda. They will also participate in the broader activities both of the NILOMORPH group and of the Surrey Morphology Group (SMG). The candidate will have opportunities at SMG to develop their research leadership profile while interacting with world-class researchers. Suitable candidates with a background in linguistics (or linguistics-adjacent fields) are strongly encouraged to apply. Please refer to the full job description available at the application website for essential and desirable criteria. The following documents will be required: CV Contact details for 2 academic/industry referees. Three relevant works of research (DOI/URL links if possible). Research statement of one page, describing research interests and experience, and how you think this makes you suitable for the advertised post. A completed application form The website for applications is https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=031325. Interviews are planned for 02 September 2025 and will be held online. Please contact Matthew Baerman m.baerman(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:m.baerman@surrey.ac.uk> with any questions. -- Dr. Sacha Beniamine (he/him) It's pronounced [saʃa benjamin] (stress is irrelevant) Leverhulme Early Career Fellow  Surrey Morphology Group, School of Literature and Languages s.beniamine(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:s.beniamine@surrey.ac.uk> | smg.surrey.ac.uk<http://smg.surrey.ac.uk/> [University of Surrey] <http://www.surrey.ac.uk/?utm_source=emailsignature&utm_medium=internal&utm_…> Senate House, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Call for Late Breaking papers: First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models
by Nikhil Krishnaswamy 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

The First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models (*ORIGen*) will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 10, 2025! *ORIGen invites submission of Late Breaking papers, with a fast review cycle. Late Breaking submissions are due July 10, 2025!* With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as “collaborators” with humans. In such scenarios, underreliance or avoidance of AI assistance may obviate the potential speed, efficiency, or scalability advantages of a human-LLM team, but simultaneously, there is a risk that subject matter non-experts may overrely on LLMs and trust their outputs uncritically, with consequences ranging from the inconvenient to the catastrophic. Therefore, establishing optimal levels of reliance within an interactive framework is a critical open challenge as language models and related AI technology rapidly advances. * What factors influence overreliance on LLMs? * How can the consequences of overreliance be predicted and guarded against? * What verifiable methods can be used to apportion accountability for the outcomes of human-LLM interactions? * What methods can be used to imbue such interactions with appropriate levels of “friction” to ensure that humans think through the decisions they make with LLMs in the loop? The ORIGen workshop provides a new venue to address these questions and more through a multidisciplinary lens. We seek to bring together broad perspectives from AI, NLP, HCI, cognitive science, psychology, and education to highlight the importance of mediating human-LLM interactions to mitigate overreliance and promote accountability in collaborative human-AI decision-making. Please see the posted announcement <https://origen-workshop.github.io/announcements/late-breaking-submission-tr…> [1] and our call for papers <https://origen-workshop.github.io/submissions/> [2] for more! [1] https://origen-workshop.github.io/announcements/late-breaking-submission-tr… [2] https://origen-workshop.github.io/submissions/ Nikhil Krishnaswamy Assistant Professor of Computer Science *Colorado State University*

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LxGr2025: Last Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '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. Registration closes on Wednesday 9 July. If you have any problems registering, or have 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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SyntaxFest 2025: Call for Participation
by Dobrovoljc, Kaja 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We warmly invite you to take part in SyntaxFest 2025, a biennial international event dedicated to empirical approaches to syntax, including statistical language analysis, linguistic annotation, and natural language processing. The event will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 26 to 29 August 2025, at a central venue in Ljubljana's historic center. This year, the program will consist of: - Five co-located workshops: IWPT, TLT, DepLing, UDW, and QUASY - Two pre-conference workshops by the UniDive COST Action "Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology" - Six keynote talks by leading researchers in linguistics and NLP: - Isabel Papadimitriou (Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University) - Miryam de Lhoneux (KU Leuven) - Daniel Zeman (Charles University Prague) - Artur Stepanov (University of Nova Gorica) - Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) - Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University) - Over 70 peer-reviewed papers on diverse topics in empirical syntactic analysis For more details and registration, please visit: https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/ Early registration deadline (extended): 15 July 2025 We look forward to seeing you this August! The SyntaxFest 2025 Organizing Committee

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[Workshop CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '25

[2nd CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria) - 11-13 September 2025 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second call for papers for the R2LM Workshop - From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation at RANLP 2025. https://r2lm2025.github.io/R2LM/ Workshop Description Deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling impressive performance across many tasks. However, they continue to face key challenges in handling complex linguistic phenomena such as multiword expressions, long-context reasoning, and robustness to adversarial inputs. In parallel, concerns remain about the scalability, interpretability, and domain adaptability of these models, particularly in applications requiring high precision, such as grammar checking, legal analysis, or medical NLP. These limitations have sparked renewed interest in rule-based and knowledge-based approaches, which often offer better explainability and remain competitive, especially in low-resource or high-stakes scenarios. Our workshop aims to gather contributions that deal with the following topics: • Role of rule-based and knowledge-based NLP methods in modern applications • Comparative analysis of rule-based, machine-learning, deep-learning and large language models for different NLP tasks • Emerging trends in NLP research beyond deep learning and Large Language Models • Limitations and performance bottlenecks in scalability and accuracy of deep learning models Submission Details • Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Format: ACL-style (LaTeX or MS Word) • Submission portal and template info available on the RANLP 2025 website Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025 (NEW!!!!!) Notification of Acceptance: 10 August 2025 Workshop date: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Organising Committee: Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, University of Alicante, Spain Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, University of Alicante, Spain Rafael Muñoz Guillena, University of Alicante, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Raúl García Cerdá, University of Alicante, Spain

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Public talk: Indices of syntactic complexity and language learner development (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA)
by Robert Fuchs 02 Jul '25

02 Jul '25

Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Large- and fine-grained indices of syntactic complexity and language learner development (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA) July 4, 2.15 pm – 5.45 pm CEST Register here: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/JhKP5tfdT-eQAP4TxAepWQ *Abstract:*This talk and its subsequent workshop will introduce approaches to measuring syntactic properties in the English language, with a specific focus on large- and fine-grained syntactic measures. Approaches to measure syntax automatically through part-of-speech (POS) taggers and dependency parsers will be covered. The follow-up workshop will focus on how POS taggers and dependency parses can be used to assess language learner data at the large- and fine-grained levels in a large corpus focusing on English as a Second Language (EFL) learners. Data analysis techniques and hands-on data exploration will provide practical applications using learner corpora. Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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recordings of Lancaster summer school lectures now available
by Brezina, Vaclav 02 Jul '25

02 Jul '25

Dear all, If you weren't able to attend this year's Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics or if you'd like to go back to some of the key content, you can now access the recordings of the lectures online. Watch the lectures here: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-lancaster-lectures-on-corpus-linguistics Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image001.jpg@01DBEB60.87361D60]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CIRCE Online Seminar | 07/07/2025 | Prof. Sender Dovchin | "Accentism as a Form of Linguistic Racism: Unpacking Power, Prejudice, and Emotionality"
by Claudia Soria 02 Jul '25

02 Jul '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Prof. Sender Dovchin* /Curtin University, Australia/ */Accentism as a Form of Linguistic Racism: Unpacking Power, Prejudice, and Emotionality/* 📅 *July 7, 2025* 🕓 *2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Researchers, secondary school teachers, language instructors *Summary: *Accentism is one of the key features of linguistic racism. It is a form of linguistic discrimination against individuals not only based on their accents but also on their race. Accentism functions as a potent social marker that invokes judgements about a speaker’s race, intelligence, credibility and belonging. Accentism should always be understood at the intersectionality of racism because one’s accent is never judged by separation from the language users’ race. In this presentation, I examine multilayered consequences of accentism, with the aim of advancing scholarly understanding of how accent-based discrimination functions as a pervasive form of linguistic racism. English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) people in Australia frequently report being misunderstood due to their accents. These experiences are not isolated or incidental – they are shaped by entrenched powerful ideologies about the standardized and dominant language system. Prejudice caused by accentism against the racialized language users could pose serious emotional harms, leading to linguistic inferiority complexes such as social withdrawal, a sense of non-belonging, low self-esteem, fear, and anxiety. The accumulation of these inferiority complexes further instigates severe depressive symptoms of mental health, such as suicidal ideations, eating disorders, substance abuse and depression. Accentism is a critical issue in social justice and calls for systemic interventions to disrupt accent-based discrimination. I conclude this presentation by discussing the pedagogical implications for language educators. I emphasize the importance of taking an integrated approach to address accentism and its emotional and psychological harms together in order to transform language education. *Bio: *Professor Sender Dovchin is currently a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia. She is also an Australian Research Council Fellow and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow. Previously, she worked at the University of Aizu, Japan and National University of Mongolia. Professor Dovchin was also an Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics - national top journal. Professor Dovchin is a world-leading applied linguist who has been twice recognised by The Australian Research Magazine—in 2021 and 2024—as the top linguist in the nation and among the top 250 researchers across all fields in Australia. She is also ranked in the top 2% of the most cited scholars globally, according to the Stanford University citation database. As a proud Mongolian background woman, she actively incorporates Southern theories, including Indigenous perspectives, into her work. She has led multiple high-impact research projects, all focused on empowering children and young people from Indigenous, refugee, and migrant backgrounds in Australia and beyond. She has authored multiple research monographs and edited volumes with prestigious international publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and among others. In addition, she has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles—most as sole or lead author—in top-tier Q1 journals, widely regarded as benchmarks of scholarly excellence in the discipline. Upcoming webinars: - Eldin Milak (Monday, September 1, 2025) - Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025) - Onur Ozkaynak (Monday, October 13, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu.

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Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University
by Steven Schockaert 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

Location: Cardiff, UK Deadline for applications: 21st July Start date: available immediately End date: 30th April 2027 Keywords: LLMs, neuro-symbolic AI, graph neural networks Details about the post Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing LLM-based and neuro-symbolic reasoning strategies to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS820/research-associate

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025: Last Call for Posters & Demos (Deadline: July 4)
by Kossi Amouzouvi 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Follow us on *Twitter/X* <https://x.com/SemanticsConf>, *LinkedIn* <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7496190/?highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Agr…>, and *Bluesky*. <https://bsky.app/profile/semantics-conf.bsky.social> Call for Posters & Demos The Posters & Demos Track provides a platform for researchers to showcase their latest findings, ongoing projects, and cutting-edge work in progress. These include submissions on innovative applications, latest results, unpublished ideas, prototypes of semantic technologies and their use in various domains as well as applications, use cases, or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new datasets made publicly available. The Posters & Demos Track offers an informal setting that promotes engagement and dialogue between presenters and attendees. These discussions can provide valuable feedback for presenters' future work while allowing participants to gain insight into emerging research trends and network with other researchers. *Important dates:* - *Paper Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2025 * - *Camera-Ready of Paper Deadline: July 28, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submission via Easychair on* *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access by * CEUR-WS.org*. Topics of Interest We welcome contributions in the context of semantic-based research and systems, which address – but are not limited to – the topics of the Research Track <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>. Additionally, we encourage submissions of visionary ideas, position statements, negative results, and unconventional ideas. Demos should showcase innovative implementations and technologies both, from academia and industry. We also very much encourage submissions from industry, but they should be focused on presenting a novel solution to a specific problem and not be in the nature of an advertisement or commercial product description. Author Guidelines and Submission Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper that describes the work, its contribution to the field or innovative aspects. - Poster and demo submissions are at most 5 pages long, including references. - No double-blind submissions required. - Submissions must be either in PDF or HTML. - Submissions must be formatted in the style of CEUR-ART ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available. - For demos, we ask authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. The absence of a pointer affects the overall rating of the contribution. - Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. - At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. Posters and Demos Track Chairs Ivan Heibi Diego Collarana 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 position in CL/NLP at the University of Tübingen
by cagri coltekin 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

The DFG-funded project in the newly established Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1718) “Common ground”, hosted by the University of Tübingen, is inviting applications for a PhD position in Computational Linguistics (75%, TV-L 13 scale, approximately €3.400 per month before taxes and obligatory insurances). The position is associated with project C2 “Signaling and Interpreting Defectivity in Common Ground: Face-to-Face, Voice-Only, and Text-Only Communication” The position begins on 01 October 2025 and ends on 30 June 2029. The aim of this interdisciplinary, cross-linguistic project is to investigate the commonalities or the differences between the cues (verbal, prosodic, gestural, textual) that are employed to signal or interpret irony across different modalities in different communication environments. For the advertised PhD researcher position, this work involves written and multi-modal corpora development and analysis, and working with computational models of irony and analysis. Specifically, the PhD candidate is expected to contribute corpora preparation (collection and organizing the annotation), use machine learning approaches for irony detection, and testing for experimental and corpora data correlation. Requirements: - A master’s degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or related fields. - Solid background in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing - Experience with corpus collection and annotation - Familiarity with experimental design and statistical analysis methods - Fluency in English Not required, but desirable: - Familiarity with speech processing, or willingness to work with them - Experience with multi-modal machine learning methods - Familiarity with formal linguistics, particularly formal semantics and pragmatics To apply, please send the following application documents to Çağrı Çöltekin <cagri.coeltekin(a)uni-tuebingen.de> via email. - A short (two pages, max.) cover letter with your research interests and your motivation for applying to this position - Your academic CV, including email addresses of two referees - An academic transcript - A sample of academic writing (master’s thesis, or another publication or term paper, if the thesis is not complete at the time of application) The deadline for submitting applications is 24 July 2025 at 23:59 (Berlin time). Interviews will be conducted via Zoom on 30 and/or 31 July 2025. Candidates shortlisted for interview will be notified as soon as possible after the submission deadline. Best, Cagri

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IndiREAD Workshop – 3rd Call for Papers
by Iza Skrjanec 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 3rd Call for Papers Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025 IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project "Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC [1] and the MultiplEYE COST [2] action "Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research". While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in identifying key factors that influence reading patterns--including text properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word predictability, and dependency length--recent studies have emphasized the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g., Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016; Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills, linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This informs our understanding of how text characteristics and individual reader attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading. IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in investigating individual differences in reading using both experimental and computational approaches. This workshop will focus on methods such as eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task, with particular interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with individual differences. We also encourage submissions of computational models for eye movements or reading behavior that shed light on the mechanisms behind these differences. The goal is to foster collaboration between experimental and computational researchers to better understand individual variability among readers. We especially welcome submissions of reading time experiments and modelling of languages beyond English. The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions:  * How do individual differences impact the way people read? * How do reading patterns vary across different languages, particularly in bilinguals? * How do reading patterns change across the lifespan? * Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing variability in reading patterns? * How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and sentence processing across languages? * How can computational models account for individual differences in reading? * How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and comprehension among different individuals? * What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying latent groups and relating individual differences to reading performance? Workshop dates: November 26-27, 2025 Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in Saarbrücken, Germany. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well as contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number of submissions we receive. Submission deadline: July 23, 2025. Submissions: The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text (excl. captions), 10000 characters for references, and a maximum of 2 tables or figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with 2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced. Please indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract, which will be used for session planning. Abstracts must be written in English and should include a clear title but no information revealing the author(s). We welcome submissions for work that is being considered by other conferences, workshops, or journals. Templates for formatting in LaTeX and Word are provided on the conference website. Submission platform: https://openreview.net/group?id=IndiREAD/2025 Volunteer reviewers: We also invite all interested parties with relevant research experience to volunteer to help review abstracts for the workshop. All reviewers should hold a PhD. Please indicate your interest using the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/0fGmHW7q11 Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread [3] Contact email: indiread(a)lst.uni-saarland.de Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action, which will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial, and priority will be given to junior researchers. Best, Iza Škrjanec IndiREAD Organizing Committee Links: ------ [1] https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in… [2] https://multipleye.eu/ [3] https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread

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Researcher position on generative approaches to event extraction at the University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] A postdoc-level position as Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The position is for 30 months (2.5 years) and part of a research project focusing on generative approaches to event extraction in the socio-political domain. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/283057/researcher-in-natural… The closing date is August 11th, 2025. Best regards, -erik -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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Submission deadline Extended (4th July 2025) || KlarText Workshop @ KONVENS 2025 || German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
by Salar Mohtaj 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

KlarText Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment Co-located with KONVENS 2025 | Hildesheim, Germany | 10 September 2025 Website: https://klar-text.github.io/ ============================================================ The submission deadline for the KlarText workshop has been extended to July 4th. The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to explore cutting-edge methods in German text simplification and readability assessment. We aim to raise awareness of the diverse simplification goals and language forms in German and to attract researchers tackling the unique challenges in this field. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - German Text Simplification - Readability Assessment - Resources & Approaches for Leichte Sprache - The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) - Resources & Benchmarks - Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment - Applications & Real-World Impact - Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives Important Dates - Submission deadline (extended): July 04, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2025 - Camera-ready version due: August 15, 2025 - Workshop date: September 10, 2025 Submissions are managed via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2025/Workshop/KlarText). Organizing Committee - Salar Mohtaj, DFKI - Stefan Hillmann, Technische Universität Berlin - Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin - Georg Groh, Technische Universität München - Hadi Asghari, Technische Universität Berlin - Miriam Anschütz, Technische Universität München Contact For questions or inquiries, please contact: Salar Mohtaj – salar.mohtaj(a)dfki.de

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 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 (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 Modela • 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) (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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Reminder: CfP Historical Languages and AI (Berlin, Germany)
by Daidalos-Projekt (Konstantin Schulz) 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

Call for Papers: Historical Languages and AI See the online version at https://daidalos-projekt.de/conference/cfp/ . March 5-6, 2026 The intersection of historical languages and artificial intelligence (AI) presents a rich and dynamic field of study, with the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the past and the ways in which we engage with historical texts. As digital technologies continue to advance, the need for interdisciplinary collaboration becomes increasingly apparent. The upcoming 2-day international conference on “Historical Languages and AI” aims to foster this collaboration by bringing together experts from computational literary studies, digital history, linguistics, and other domains that work with historical languages such as Latin. The conference seeks to address the growing demand for innovative methods and tools that can enhance the analysis, preservation, and interpretation of historical languages. By leveraging AI technologies, researchers can unlock new insights into historical texts, improve the accuracy of translations, and develop more effective teaching methods for historical languages. The conference will provide a platform for scholars to share their latest findings, discuss emerging trends, and explore the practical applications of AI in historical language research. It explicitly includes historical stages of modern languages, such as Old English or Early New High German. The conference is hosted by the Daidalos research project (Humboldt University Berlin, 2023-2026; https://daidalos-projekt.de ). The project is building a research infrastructure for methods of natural language processing (NLP). The target group is literary scholars in classical philology and related disciplines. The research infrastructure consists, on the one hand, of an interactive website on which interested parties can apply NLP methods to text corpora. On the other hand, the Daidalos project sees itself as a contact point for interested researchers. In this function, the project regularly invites researchers to workshops (https://daidalos-projekt.de/workshops), advises them within the framework of research tandems (https://daidalos-projekt.de/tandems), and provides materials for further training (https://daidalos-projekt.de/jupyterlite). Conference Dates: March 5-6, 2026 Venue: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Unfortunately, we cannot offer travel bursaries. Attending the conference itself is free of charge. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to historical languages and AI, including but not limited to: Machine Learning Large Language Models / Large Action Models Usage for data modeling or corpus construction Challenges in low-resource scenarios Neural machine translation for historical texts Innovative approaches to historical language analysis Linguistic analysis for literary studies Part-of-speech tagging Topic modeling Sentiment analysis Named entity recognition Word embeddings Multilingual Information Retrieval, incl. cross-lingual embeddings Evaluation of AI-driven methods and datasets Frameworks for mapping research questions to relevant AI models and methods Assessment of AI tools in historical language studies Technical Infrastructure for Research & Teaching Integrating technologies like Jupyter Notebooks into larger software platforms Retrieval-augmented generation for domain-specific chatbots Teaching & Learning Digital Literacies, incl. open educational resources for teaching natural language processing Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2025 Camera-Ready Submission: January 31, 2026 Conference Dates: March 5-6, 2026 Submission types Included in the open-access proceedings: *Long papers*: up to 4000 words (ca. 8 pages, excl. bibliography and appendix). Long papers report on original and unpublished results. Long papers are presented as oral presentations (30 min talk + 15 min discussion). We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. Published only in the book of abstracts in our Zenodo Community: *Short papers*: up to 2000 words (ca. 4 pages, excl. bibliography and appendix). Short papers report on focused contributions, and may present work in progress. Short papers are presented as short oral presentations (20 min talk + 10 min discussion). We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. *Pitch Your Research Idea*: Submit an abstract of up to 200 words (excl. bibliography and appendix) to give a 5-minute presentation during a pitch session. The presentations are followed by a Scientific Speed Dating Session and enable researchers to get in touch faster.Long papers Workshops (90 min): Submit a proposal for your intended workshop of up to 750 words. Workshops should be organized as hands-on research or learning opportunity. The workshops will take place on the second day of the conference (March 6, 2026). Workshop proposals should describe: the aims and setup of the workshop, the academic background for the work, an outline of the workshop, including the types of activities, the expected key outcomes, a short bio of each organizer or presenter, including their name, affiliation, email address, a plan for promoting the workshop to attract participants, specific requirements, including but not limited to special equipment (e.g., audio/video), software, physical space arrangements, any technical knowledge, skills, or experience participants should have before attending the workshop. Submission Guidelines and Participation All submissions must be in English or German. Papers should be formatted according to the conference template: Template of the Association for Computational Linguistics (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). It supports both Microsoft Word and LaTeX. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the organizers. Papers should be submitted as PDF documents via E-Mail: daidalos-projekt(a)hu-berlin.de At least one author of each accepted submission must register to the conference and present the paper. Proceedings of the conference will be published as a Propylaeum eBook in the Digital Classics Books series (for long papers; https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/series/dcb) and on Zenodo (for all other submissions; https://zenodo.org/communities/daidalos). Contact Information For any inquiries, please contact the conference organizers at daidalos-projekt(a)hu-berlin.de . We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to the International Conference on Historical Languages and AI! The Conference *Organizing Committee* of the Daidalos project: Andrea Beyer, Konstantin Schulz, Anke Lüdeling, Florian Kotschka, Florian Deichsler, Malte Dreyer

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CFP: AIAS - Symposium for AI Accelerated Science
by Sol Rosenberg 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

Apologies for Cross Posting The Chen Institute Symposium for AI Accelerated Science is an annual event dedicated to exploring groundbreaking advancements in AI that are reshaping scientific discovery across disciplines. Each year, leading researchers, industry innovators, and influential thought leaders gather to discuss how cutting-edge AI methodologies—such as foundational models, long-term memory mechanisms, synthetic data generation, and research process automation—are revolutionizing the scientific landscape. We invite submissions that explore how core advancements in artificial intelligence are accelerating progress in science. This call focuses on transformative AI innovations that enable new modes of inquiry, hypothesis generation, and experimentation across scientific disciplines. We especially welcome work in the following areas: Foundational Models: Research on large-scale, pre-trained models that serve as general-purpose engines for scientific reasoning, prediction, and simulation Long-Term Memory Mechanisms: Innovations in memory architectures that enable persistent knowledge representation, context retention, and lifelong learning in AI systems Synthetic Data Generation: Novel techniques for creating high-fidelity synthetic datasets that augment or replace empirical data in research pipelines Research Process Automation: AI tools and frameworks that automate experimental design, data analysis, literature synthesis, or other components of the scientific workflow We encourage submissions from researchers working at the intersection of AI and the physical or life sciences, including but not limited to biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, and engineering. Selected papers will be presented at the conference, where authors will join a dynamic community shaping the future of AI-accelerated science. See more at https://aias2025.org/ CFP details and submissions: https://aias2025.org/call-for-papers/ Organizing Committee: - Jennifer Chayes, Deanof the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley - Yan Li, Executive Director of Scientific Programs, Chen InstitutePietro Perona - Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech - Mengdi Wang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton - Parisa Kordjamshidi, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University - Hamid Karimian, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University See more at https://aias2025.org/ CFP details and submissions: https://aias2025.org/call-for-papers/ ᐧ

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WoLaLa 2025: Final call for papers
by Enikő Héja 28 Jun '25

28 Jun '25

Final Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa) Budapest, Hungary | November 20-21 The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (HUN-REN) and the Programme Committee are pleased to issue the Second Call for Papers for the 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models. As the submission deadline approaches, we encourage researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities to contribute extended abstracts and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from our distinguished keynote speakers. Keynote speakers: Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy Contributions should address one or more of the following areas (but submissions on other closely related topics are also welcome): General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 30 June 2025 06 July 2025: Submission deadline (extended) 15 September 2025: Notification of acceptance 20 November – 21 November 2025: Workshop in Budapest 15 January 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=wolala2025> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. Publication Selected papers will be published in Acta Linguistica Academica <https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2062/2062-overview.xml>. After acceptance notifications, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Gábor Prószéky, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany András Kornai, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Frieda Steurs, Dutch Language Institute, Belgium Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Tamás Váradi, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Venue & registration The workshop will take place at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre in Budapest, Hungary, on 20–21 November 2025. Details on registration fees, travel grants, and accommodation options will be posted on the workshop website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/>. Early registration will open in September 2025. LINKS 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=wolala2025 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3 Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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RANLPStud'2025 - Second Call for Papers
by Ivelina Nikolova 28 Jun '25

28 Jun '25

RANLPStud 2025 [1] Student Research Workshop associated with the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2025 [2]) 8-10 September 2025 Varna, Bulgaria Further to the previous successful and highly competitive Student Research Workshops associated with the conference 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP, in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023), we are pleased to announce the ninth edition of the workshop which will be held during the main RANLP 2025 conference days on 8-10 September 2025. The conference and the workshop will take place again at the Black Sea city of Varna, Bulgaria. The International Conference RANLP 2025 [3] would like to invite students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing or completed work at the Student Research Workshop. We invite two types of student submissions: * Full Papers - unpublished original research of the student. * Short Papers - either a work in progress or a research proposal. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work in progress or completed projects to an international research audience and receive feedback from senior researchers. SUBMISSIONS We invite two types of student submissions: * Full Papers must describe original unpublished work of the student in any topic area of the workshop. Full papers are limited to 8 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references. * Short Papers may describe either work in progress or a research proposal. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and criticizes existing literature. Short papers must include clear directions for future research. Submissions of this type are limited to 6 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references. All papers must be submitted in .pdf format through the START system. The papers should follow the format of the main conference, described at the RANLP website [3], All papers must have only student authors. Submissions with non-student authors will not be considered for review. After eventual acceptance of the paper, the authors could add their supervisor(s) in the Acknowledgments Section. The submissions must specify the student's level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD) and the type of submission (Full or Short). Double submission Authors may submit the same paper at several conferences. In this case, they must notify the organizers by filling in the corresponding information in the submission form, as well as notifying the contact organizer by email. TOPICS OF INTEREST The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from an international research community. The research to be presented can come from any topic within Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics, including but not limited to the following: * phonetics, phonology, * morphology; * syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, lexicon; * complexity; * mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning models; * language resources and corpora; * crowdsourcing for creation of linguistic resources; * electronic dictionaries, terminologies and ontologies; * sublanguages and controlled languages; * linked data; * POS tagging; * parsing; * semantic role labelling; * word-sense disambiguation; * multiword expressions and computational phraseology; * textual entailment; * anaphora resolution; * temporal processing; * language generation; * speech recognition; * text-to-speech synthesis; * multilingual NLP; * machine translation, translation memory systems and computer-aided translation tools, text simplification and readability estimation; * knowledge acquisition; * information retrieval; * text categorisation; * information extraction; * text summarisation; * terminology extraction; * question answering; * opinion mining and sentiment analysis; * fact checking and fake news; * stance recognition; * hate speech and aggression detection; * author profiling; * dialogue systems; * chatbots and conversational agents; * irony and sarcasm detection; * negation and speculation detection; * computer-aided language learning; * multimodal systems; * language and vision; * NLP for biomedical texts; * NLP for educational applications; * NLP for healthcare; * NLP for financial purposes; * NLP for legal texts; * for the Semantic web; * theoretical and application-orientated papers related to NLP. All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions (oral or poster) during the main conference days: 8-10 September 2025. The articles will be issued in a special Student Session proceedings associated with RANLP and uploaded to the ACL Anthology. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 05 July 2025 Acceptance notification: 06 August 2025 Camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2025 Workshop: 8 - 10 September 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ORGANISING COMMITTEE Boris Velichkov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and SUMMIT Project, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria) Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Graphwise, Bulgaria) Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Contacts: 2025-stud(a)ranlp.org Links: ------ [1] https://sites.google.com/view/ranlp-stud-2025/ [2] https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025 [3] http://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/

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[CfP] Second CfP for LowResNLP: Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria)
by Simon Ostermann 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second call for papers of the *Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP) at RANLP 2025* The most important information at a glance: 🗓️ Deadline: July 15 (NEW), Workshop: Sep 11-13 📍 Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://lrlnlp.github.io/website/ Despite rapid progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), the benefits of recent advances - especially large language models (LLMs) - remain unevenly distributed. While high-resource languages like English, French, and Chinese have seen significant performance gains, low-resource languages continue to face substantial challenges across core NLP tasks such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and part-of-speech tagging. These disparities arise from a combination of factors: the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited linguistic resources, and a lack of community involvement in data collection and model development. As a result, many languages, particularly African, Indigenous, and minority languages, remain underrepresented in both academic research and deployed NLP systems. LowResNLP is a workshop dedicated to addressing these challenges by fostering research, collaboration, and discussion around methods, resources, and evaluation practices specifically designed for low-resource languages. LowResNLP seeks to actively contribute to the field by inviting submissions that specifically address the unique challenges and opportunities involved in working with low-resource languages. The workshop welcomes a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Language models and large language models for low-resource languages * Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages * Evaluation benchmarks for language models in low-resource languages * Language models and resources for low-resource languages in Spain * Machine/pivot translation for low-resource languages * Fairness in resources/models for low-resource languages * Prompting learning strategies for large language models * Transfer learning and Crosslingual approaches for low-resource NLP * Massively multilingual approaches to Low-Resource NLP Important Dates: NEW Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 July 2025 (AoE) Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 Workshops: 11-13 September 2025 Submission formats: We invite the submission of both full papers and short papers. Full papers should not exceed 8 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). Short papers should not exceed 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). All submissions should be prepared using the current ACL templates (see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/). Papers should be submitted through SoftConf: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LowResNLP2025 Organizers: For any questions, please drop a mail to lowresnlp-2025-organizers(a)googlegroups.com Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares (University of Alicante, Spain; University of Havana, Cuba) Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) Besik Mikaberidze (Georgian Technical University, Georgia) Simon Ostermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Daniil Gurgurov (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Philipp Müller (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Kurt Micallef (University of Malta, Malta) Claudia Borg (University of Malta, Malta) Michal Gregor (KINIT, Slovakia) Marián Šimko (KINIT, Slovakia) Programme Committee: Nora Aranberri (University of Basque Country) Sudhansu Bala Das (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of - Galway, Ireland) Ana‑Maria Bucur (University of Bucharest) Annie Lee En-Shiun (Ontario Tech University and University of Toronto) Sofía García González (imaxin software, University of the Basque Country) Albert Gatt (Utretch University) Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) Basab Nath (Assam University) Patrizia Paggio (University of Malta) Dhrubajyoti Pathak (National Forensic Sciences University) Fabian Schmidt (University of Würzburg) Marijn Schraagen (Utretch University) A. Seza Doğruöz (University of Ghent) Marc Tanti (University of Malta) Sunita Warjri (University of South Bohemia)

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[CFP] LLMs4All Workshop @ IEEE BigData 2025 – Multilinguality, Big Data & LLMs (Deadline: Nov 1, 2025)
by [CECS] Natural Language Processing Research 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the First Call for Papers for the upcoming workshop: LLMs4All: LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality for All - First Call for Papers - To be held at IEEE BigData 2025, Macau, China | December 8–11, 2025 - Our page for more details: https://vinnlp.com/llms4all Workshop Scope: LLMs4All workshop addresses the intersection of LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality, with a focus on equitable access and global inclusivity. It explores how large-scale data pipelines and advanced LLM techniques can work together to overcome linguistic disparities, improve model performance for underrepresented languages, and ensure that language technologies are built for all. We invite contributions across NLP, machine learning, data science, linguistics, and AI ethics, with particular emphasis on low-resource languages in light of this year’s host location, Macau. We also welcome research addressing the broader multilingual landscape, covering both technical innovations and socially responsible AI practices. We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics: * LLMs for Low-Resource Languages * LLMs for Specific Domains * Scalable Data Collection and Curation * Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Learning * Efficient and Inclusive Model Training * Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) * Multimodal Language Models * Real-World Applications * Big Data Infrastructure and Pipelines * Ethical and Fair NLP * Benchmarking and Evaluation * Regional Case Studies and Collaborations Submission Guidelines * Paper Length: Up to 10 pages (including references) * Format: IEEE 2-column conference format * Formatting Templates: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html * Submission Link: Link<https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/bigdata25/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S09…> All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE BigData 2025 Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Important Dates * First Call For Paper: 27 June 2025 * Second Call For Paper: 28 September 2025 * Final Call For Paper: 17 October 2025 * Submission Deadline: 1 November 2025 * Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2025 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 23 November 2025 * Workshop Dates: 8-11 December 2025 We encourage you to submit your work and join us in advancing inclusive, multilingual, and scalable language technologies. If you'd like to share this Call For Paper with colleagues or other relevant mailing lists, feel free to forward this email. For any inquiries, please contact: cecs.vinnlp(a)vinuni.edu.vn<mailto:cecs.vinnlp@vinuni.edu.vn> Warm regards, The LLMs4All Organizing Committee

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[Jobs] Potential PhD position with CopeNLU group
by Isabelle Augenstein 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

📢 Potential PhD position with CopeNLU group 📢 🎓 The Danish Advanced Research Academy (DARA) is calling for PhD fellowship applications on topics including AI for a start in Spring 2026. 🗒️ As the fellowship application process requires a letter of support from the prospective main supervisor, I am collecting and screening expressions of interest -- submit yours by 20 July to be considered: https://forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB 🔍 The PhD programme requires applicants to hold a Master’s degree or be in the process of completing one -- check this and other eligibility conditions here: https://daracademy.dk/fellowship/fellowships-summer-2025 Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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[CfP] DBpedia Day 2025 || SEMANTiCS conference || Sept 3
by DBpedia 26 Jun '25

26 Jun '25

==== DBpedia Day - Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2025 Vienna, Austria September 3, 2025 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submission Form: https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89 ==== How can Large Language Models (LLMs) benefit from structured knowledge like DBpedia? And how can we improve DBpedia to better serve the next generation of AI systems? This session invites talks on the intersection of LLMs and Knowledge Graphs, with a special emphasis on DBpedia. Our goal is to understand how to make Linked Data more useful, accessible, and trustworthy for LLM-based applications—and how to evolve DBpedia in this new AI-dominated landscape. = Topics of Interest = * Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with DBpedia * Prompt engineering for KG-aware LLMs * Query translation: From natural language to SPARQL using LLMs * Using LLMs to summarize or explain DBpedia data * LLMs as interfaces for Linked Data consumption * Automatic ontology alignment and entity linking with LLMs * Improving LLM factual accuracy with DBpedia as a trusted source * Challenges in grounding LLM output in structured knowledge * Scaling and performance considerations for hybrid KG–LLM systems * Bias, hallucination, and verification in LLMs using DBpedia * Use cases: e.g., chatbots, semantic search, Q&A systems powered by DBpedia + LLMs We welcome researchers, developers, and industry practitioners working on concrete tools, early-stage ideas, or critical perspectives. = Submission Guidelines = Please submit your proposal by July 15, 2025 (AoE) via: https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89 Your proposal should include: * Title * Abstract (max. 300 words) * Short biography of the speaker(s) We are open to a wide range of talk formats: demos, position papers, success stories, lessons learned, or short idea pitches. Questions? Reach out to us at dbpedia(a)infai.org or check our event page https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-day-2025/. Join us to shape how LLMs and DBpedia can empower each other! Best regards, Julia, Milan & Sebastian DBpedia Team

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Submission deadline Extended (30th of June 2025): Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025)
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

We have had several requests to extend the submission deadline and we have decided to extend the deadline to the 30th of June 2025. Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/CxGs_NLP Please see details below: We’re thrilled to see such strong interest in the second iteration of the CxG + NLP workshop, which will be held as part of IWCS. With three exciting keynote speakers confirmed (Prof Adele Goldberg, Prof Thomas Hoffmann, Prof Laura A. Michaelis), we’re looking forward to what promises to be a very engaging event. The first workshop took place shortly after the release of ChatGPT. Now, two years on, the field has evolved dramatically with the rise of generative AI and the development of new large language models (LLMs). These developments make it all the more important to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the evolving landscape of CxG and NLP. In addition, in the time since the first workshop, there has been significant growth in the community’s interest at this intersection, and we believe it is the ideal moment to have a second iteration where we take stock of these recent developments. We warmly invite your submissions to the workshop, and would like to remind you of the key dates: 30th of June 2025 (Extended) – Submission deadline August 1 – Notification of acceptance, registration opens August 22 – Camera-ready papers due September 22–23 – IWCS main conference September 24 – Workshop September 25 – Community-building event For more details, please visit the workshop website or get in touch with us: https://sites.google.com/view/2ndcxgsnlpworkshop/home

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Online talk: Does AI language processing align with human processing? (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA)
by Robert Fuchs 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Does AI language processing align with human processing? (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA) June 26, 12.15 pm - 1.45 pm CEST Hybrid talk - Sign up under: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/SlGzaF2LTrux4HE06KmdvA Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of the architecture that underpins modern AI language models including n-gram language models, word embedding models, and modern transformer models. These models will be examined for alignment with theories of human language processing. The talk will also focus on how AI models recreate classical language processing pipelines associated with computational linguistics and language processing. Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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Online talk - Exploring the learner lexicon through NLP Approaches (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA)
by Robert Fuchs 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Exploring the learner lexicon through NLP Approaches (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA) June 27, 2.15 pm – 3.45 pm CEST Hybrid talk - Sign up under: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/nuoiB3N7Q7qx-ZNKwOm5Hw Abstract:This talk and its subsequent workshop will explore lexical properties in the English language and methods to automatically calculate lexical features. The follow-up workshop will focus on introducing natural language processing tools for lexical studies and how they can be used to assess language learner data in a large corpus collected in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Data analysis techniques and hands-on data exploration will provide practical applications using learner corpora. Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position - Agentic Large Language Models for Education, UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
by Niemann, Elisabeth 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

The UKP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, is looking for a *** fully funded researcher (PhD or Postdoc)*** for an interdisciplinary project on Agentic LLMs. The project’s goal is to support writing and grading complex documents in education and beyond. You will work at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and agentic AI reasoning and planning embedded in a real-life product-level user-facing platform. 🔗 More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_phd_agent… 📩 Apply here: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment 📅 Application deadline: July 11th, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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2nd CFP - Workshop SIR@IWCS2025
by Amandine Decker 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

*apologies for cross-postings* === Workshop SIR === First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025 ================================= https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisci… https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 ================================= In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences, offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling language-based phenomena. The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS), as its ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, etc. This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, Art, …). A major theme of SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches). === Topics to Explore === • CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications • Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities • NLP transforming humanities issues • Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning • Links between formal semantics and neural models • Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in the Humanities • Ethics and bias in semantic modelling • Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities === Dates === • Deadline : July 14th (anywhere on earth) • Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth) • Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth) • Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth) === Submission Information === Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 14 July 2025 (anywhere on earth). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person. Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. === Submission === https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 === Style Files === The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page. === Organizers === Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University === Contact === maxime.amblard(a)univ-lorraine.fr and ellen.breitholtz(a)ling.gu.se

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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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Call for Abstracts – NARNiHS 2026 – 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 21 Jun '25

21 Jun '25

*** NARNiHS 2026 *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** Eighth Annual Meeting *** 100% IN PERSON *** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting *** New Orleans, Louisiana USA *** 8-11 January 2026 This event offers an opportunity for historical sociolinguistics scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to **join us in New Orleans** for our Eighth Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135 . --------------- Call for Abstracts ---------------. Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ . Deadline: Friday, 15 August 2025, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Eighth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Thursday, January 8 -- Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 8th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field’s enduring questions. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the *connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics* should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection. *** Abstract Format Guidelines***. - Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. - Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page, providing a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review. - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Requirements ***. - Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ . - Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. - Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS annual meeting and the LSA annual meeting or another LSA sister society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA). - After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet. - Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. - Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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Deadline extension: The 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Cross-Temporal Research at COLM 2025
by wei.zhao＠abdn.ac.uk 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

We invite you to submit your ongoing, published or pre-reviewed works to our workshop on Large Language Models for Cross-Temporal Research (XTempLLMs) at COLM 2025. Our workshop website is available at https://xtempllms.github.io/2025/ *The deadline for submission has been extended to June 30, 2025 AOE* Workshop Description: Large language models (LLMs) have been used for a variety of time-sensitive applications such as temporal reasoning, forecasting and planning. In addition, there has been a growing number of interdisciplinary works that use LLMs for cross-temporal research in several domains, including social science, psychology, cognitive science, environmental science and clinical studies. However, LLMs are hindered in their understanding of time due to many different reasons, including temporal biases and knowledge conflicts in pretraining and RAG data but also a fundamental limitation in LLM tokenization that fragments a date into several meaningless subtokens. Such inadequate understanding of time would lead to inaccurate reasoning, forecasting and planning, and time-sensitive findings that are potentially misleading. Our workshop looks for (i) cross-temporal work in the NLP community and (ii) interdisciplinary work that relies on LLMs for cross-temporal studies. Cross-temporal work in the NLP community: * Novel benchmarks for evaluating the temporal abilities of LLMs across diverse date and time formats, culturally grounded time systems, and generalization to future contexts; * Novel methods (e.g., neuro-symbolic approaches) for developing temporally robust, unbiased, and reliable LLMs; * Data analysis such as the distribution of pretraining data over time and conflicting knowledge in pretraining and RAG data; * Interpretability regarding how temporal information is processed from tokenization to embedding across different layers, and finally to model output; * Temporal applications such as reasoning, forecasting and planning; * Consideration of cross-lingual and cross-cultural perspectives for linguistic and cultural inclusion over time. Interdisciplinary work that relies on LLMs for cross-temporal studies: * Time-sensitive discoveries, such as social biases over time and personality testing over time; * Assessment of time-sensitive discoveries to identify misleading findings if any; * Interdisciplinary evaluation benchmarks for LLMs’ temporal abilities, e.g., psychological time perception and episodic memory evaluation. Submission Modes: * Standard submissions: We invite the submission of papers that will receive up to three double-blind reviews from the XTempLLMs committee, and a final decision of acceptance from the workshop chairs. * Pre-reviewed submissions: We invite unpublished papers that have already been reviewed either through ACL ARR, or recent AACL/EACL/ACL/EMNLP/COLING venues. These papers will not receive new reviews but will be judged together with their reviews via a meta-review from the workshop chairs. * Published papers: We invite papers that have been published recently elsewhere to present at XTempLLMs. Please send the details of your paper (Paper title, authors, publication venue, abstract, and a link to download the paper) directly to xtempllms(a)gmail.com. This allows such papers to gain more visibility from the workshop audience. All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”): * June 30, 2025: Submission deadline (standard and published papers) * July 18, 2025: Submission deadline for papers with ARR reviews * July 24, 2025: Notification of acceptance * October 10, 2025: Workshop day Invited Speakers: * Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University, United Kingdom * Ali Emami, Brock University, Canada * Alexis Huet, Huawei Technologies, France * Bahare Fatemi, Google Research, Canada * Vivek Gupta, Arizona State University, United States Organizing Committee: * Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom * Maxime Peyrard, Université Grenoble Alpes & CNRS, France * Katja Markert, Heidelberg University, Germany

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LREC 2026 First Call for Papers
by info＠elda.org 19 Jun '25

19 Jun '25

[Apologies for cross-postings] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2026 Organised by the ELRA Language Resources Association Palma, Mallorca, Spain 11-16 May 2026 The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of language resources involving both traditional and recently developed approaches. The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations, and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. Submissions describing all aspects of language resource development and use are invited, including, but not limited to, the following: Language Resource Development Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability Language Resource Use Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing Evaluation Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools Language Resources and Large Language Models Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal) (Semi-)automatic generation of training data Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models Policy and Organizational Considerations International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies Language coverage and diversity Replicability and reproducibility Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues Separate calls will be issued for Workshops, Tutorials and Industry Track. Submission Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references) and follow the LREC stylesheet, which will soon be available on the conference website. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map [https://lremap.elra.info/], which provides metadata for the resource. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. Important dates (All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025 Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026 Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026 Workshop and tutorial proposals submission: 17 October 2025 LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026 More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ Contact: info(a)lrec2026.info

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Deadline extension: First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models
by Nikhil Krishnaswamy 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

The First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models (*ORIGen*) will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 10, 2025! *The deadline for submission has been extended to June 27, 2025, Anywhere on Earth.* With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as “collaborators” with humans. In such scenarios, underreliance or avoidance of AI assistance may obviate the potential speed, efficiency, or scalability advantages of a human-LLM team, but simultaneously, there is a risk that subject matter non-experts may overrely on LLMs and trust their outputs uncritically, with consequences ranging from the inconvenient to the catastrophic. Therefore, establishing optimal levels of reliance within an interactive framework is a critical open challenge as language models and related AI technology rapidly advances. * What factors influence overreliance on LLMs? * How can the consequences of overreliance be predicted and guarded against? * What verifiable methods can be used to apportion accountability for the outcomes of human-LLM interactions? * What methods can be used to imbue such interactions with appropriate levels of “friction” to ensure that humans think through the decisions they make with LLMs in the loop? The ORIGen workshop provides a new venue to address these questions and more through a multidisciplinary lens. We seek to bring together broad perspectives from AI, NLP, HCI, cognitive science, psychology, and education to highlight the importance of mediating human-LLM interactions to mitigate overreliance and promote accountability in collaborative human-AI decision-making. Submissions are due *June 27, 2025*. Please see our call for papers [1] for more! [1] https://origen-workshop.github.io/submissions/ Organizers: - Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Colorado State University - James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University - Dilek Hakkani-Tür, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign - Vasanth Sarathy, Tufts University - Tejas Srinivasan, University of Southern California - Mariah Bradford, Colorado State University - Timothy Obiso, Brandeis University - Mert Inan, Northeastern University

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Job Offers: Senior and Junior AI & Language Technologies Specialists – EUSKORPORA (San Sebastián, Spain)
by info 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, EUSKORPORA, a newly created Linguistic Data Center for Basque digital technologies based in San Sebastián (Donostia), Spain, is seeking candidates for two key roles in its Technology area: 1) Senior AI and Language Technologies Specialist 2) Junior AI and Language Technologies Specialist Both positions are part of the Center's mission to position the Basque language in the global digital space through open-source development and cutting-edge research. === SENIOR AI AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES SPECIALIST === EUSKORPORA, the Linguistic Data Center for Basque Digital Technologies, a new association based in Donostia/San Sebastián, is seeking a senior expert in AI technologies applied to natural language processing, with experience, to lead key tasks related to language technologies applied to the Basque language. The selected person will be part of an interdisciplinary team and will participate in projects involving the collection, analysis, and annotation of linguistic data, as well as the development of open-source foundational language models (ASR, TTS, MT, NLP) oriented to Basque, in a research and development context closely connected to industry. Responsibilities: - Supervise and optimize processes for linguistic corpus collection, annotation, and management - Lead the design and development of foundational language models applied to Basque (speech recognition, synthesis, translation, text processing, etc.) - Contribute to the technological architecture of the Center - Coordinate internal and external teams and mentor junior staff - Identify innovation opportunities and contribute to proposals, reports, and dissemination - Establish strategic relationships with ecosystem stakeholders Requirements: - Advanced degree (Master or PhD) in Computational Linguistics, NLP, AI, Computer Engineering, Data Science or related fields - Minimum 5 years of experience in language or speech technologies - Proven experience with ASR, TTS, MT, or NLP models - Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with frameworks such as Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, spaCy, Kaldi, ESPnet, Fairseq - Knowledge of MLOps, Git, and data science best practices - Familiarity with open repositories and licensing Languages: - Basque: desirable, intermediate level (B2 or higher) - Spanish: fluent - English: high level (especially technical) We offer: - Participation in strategic national and international projects - Competitive salary according to experience - Interdisciplinary environment and opportunities for professional growth === JUNIOR AI AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES SPECIALIST === EUSKORPORA, the Linguistic Data Center for Basque Digital Technologies, a new association based in Donostia/San Sebastián, is seeking young professionals at the beginning of their careers to support key tasks related to the creation of linguistic resources and language technologies for the Basque language. Selected individuals will join an interdisciplinary team and participate in projects involving the collection, annotation, and analysis of linguistic data, as well as the development of open-source foundational language models (ASR, TTS, MT, NLP) oriented to Basque, in a research and development context closely connected to industry. Responsibilities: - Support the collection, cleaning and annotation of linguistic corpora (text and audio) - Assist in the training and evaluation of language and speech models - Collaborate in the documentation and maintenance of language resources - Contribute to the integration of open-source NLP tools and libraries - Assist in reports and dissemination activities - Work in coordination with technical, linguistic and project management profiles Requirements: - Degree or Master in Computational Linguistics, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or similar - Basic knowledge of NLP, language models, or speech technologies - Python programming (basic/intermediate level) - Familiarity with linguistic annotation or text processing tools - Experience with Git and frameworks like Hugging Face or spaCy is a plus Languages: - Basque: high level (B2 or higher) - Spanish: fluent - English: high level (B2 or higher) We offer: - Dynamic and innovative environment based in San Sebastián - Continuous training in cutting-edge technologies - Real opportunities for growth within the team - Competitive salary according to training and experience For further information or to apply, please contact: info(a)euskorpora.eus Best regards, EUSKORPORA [Euskorpora]<https://www.euskorpora.eus/> Euskorpora info(a)euskorpora.eus<mailto:sarregi@euskorpora.eus> +(34) 611 02 81 72 Mezu elektroniko honetan jasotzen den informazioa hartzaileen erabilera pertsonal eta konfidentzialerako da. Okerreko mezu hau jaso baduzu, mesedez, jakinarazi eta ezabatu. [https://www.euskorpora.eus/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/eco.png] Ez inprimatu mezu hau behar-beharrezkoa ez bada.

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Second CfP [New Dates]: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025)
by Piotr Przybyła 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

We are pleased to invite submissions for the first Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025). The workshop will be held with the RANLP 2025 conference in Varna, Bulgaria, on 11-13 September 2025. Overview The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) pervades scientific practices in multiple disciplines beyond the NLP/AI communities. Alongside benefits for productivity and discovery, widespread use often entails misuse due to misalignment of values, lack of knowledge, or, more rarely, malice. LLM misuse has the potential to cause real harm in a variety of settings. Through this workshop, we aim to gather researchers interested in identifying and mitigating inappropriate and harmful uses of LLMs. These include misunderstood usage (e.g., misrepresentation of LLMs in the scientific literature); misguided usage (e.g., deployment of LLMs without adequate training or privacy safeguards); and malicious usage (e.g., generation of misinformation and plagiarism). Sample topics are listed below, but we welcome submissions on any domain related to the scope of the workshop. Important Dates Submission deadline *[NEW]*: *15 July 2025*, at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth Notification of acceptance: 01 August 2025 Camera-ready papers due: 30 August 2025 Workshop dates: September 11, 12, or 13, 2025 Submission Guidelines Submissions will be accepted as short papers (4 pages) and as long papers (8 pages), plus additional pages for references. All submissions undergo a double-blind review, so they should not include any identifying information. Submissions should conform to the RANLP guidelines; for further information and templates, please see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/ We welcome submissions from diverse disciplines, including NLP and AI, psychology, HCI, and philosophy. We particularly encourage reports on negative results that provide interesting perspectives on relevant topics. In-person presenters will be prioritised when selecting submissions to be presented at the workshop, but the workshop will take place in a hybrid format. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Papers should be submitted on the RANLP conference system at https://softconf.com/ranlp25/OMMM2025/ Keynote Speaker We are excited to have Dr. Stefania Druga as the keynote speaker for the inaugural OMMM workshop. Dr. Druga is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where she designs novel multimodal AI applications. Topics of Interest We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to inappropriate and harmful uses of LLMs, including but not limited to: - Misunderstood use (and how to improve understanding): - Misrepresentation of LLMs (e.g., anthropomorphic language) - Attribution of consciousness - Interpretability - Overreliance on LLMs - Misguided use (and how to find alternatives): - Underperformance and inappropriate applications - Structural limitations and ethical considerations - Deployment without proper training or safeguards - Malicious use (and how to mitigate it): - Adversarial attacks, jailbreaking - Detection and watermarking of machine-generated content - Generation of misinformation or plagiarism - Bias mitigation and trust design For more information, please refer to the workshop website: https://ommm-workshop.github.io/2025/. For any questions, please contact the organisers at ommm-workshop(a)googlegroups.com. The organisers, Piotr Przybyła, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University Clara Colombatto, University of Waterloo Nanna Inie, IT University of Copenhagen

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CfP: Terminology Translation Task @WMT25
by Kirill Semenov 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] Terminology Translation Task at WMT2025 - Call for Participation We are excited to announce the third Shared Task on Terminology Translation<https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/terminology.html>, which would be run within the 10th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT2025) in Suzhou, China. TL;DR: - We test the sentence-level and document-level translation of the texts in finance and IT domains, given the explicit terminology. - The language pairs are: English -> {Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese}, Chinese -> English. - We evaluate the overall quality of translation, terminology success rate and consistency. Additionally, we compare the performance of systems given no terms provided, proper terminology and random terms. - The task starts on 20th June 2025 AOE, the submission deadline is 20th July 2025 AOE. - Please pre-register via Google Forms here: https://forms.gle/ZSn2pNJkQJAzHFnA6 . OVERVIEW The advances in neural MT and LLM-assisted translation of the last decade show nearly human quality in general domain translation at least for the high-resource languages. However, when it comes to specialized domains like science, finance, or legal texts, where the correct and consistent use of special terms is crucial, the task is far from being solved. The Terminology Shared Task aims to assess the extent to which machine translation models can utilize additional information regarding the translation of terminologies. Compared to two previous editions, 2021 and 2023, the new test data have more various test cases, are more consistent in domains for each translation direction, and are broader in language coverage. TASK DESCRIPTION Track №1: Sentence/Paragraph-Level Translation You will be provided with sequence of input sentences long, and small terminology dictionaries that will correspond only to the terms present in the given sentence. Language Pairs: * en-de (English → German) * en-ru (English → Russian) * en-es (English → Spanish) Domain: information technology Track №2: Document-Level Translation The setup is similar to Track №1, with two exceptions: the length of the input texts now equals the document, and the dictionaries correspond to the whole set of input texts (i.e. they are corpus-level). This makes the task close to the real-life setup (where the dictionaries exist independently from the texts), while it may complicate the implementation (since for the solutions that require storing the whole dictionary it will take more memory). Additionally, for the whole document setup, the problem of the consistent usage of terms is becoming more important. Language Pairs: en-zh-Hant (English → Traditional Chinese) zh-Hant-en (Traditional Chinese → English) Domain: finance EVALUATION Terminology Modes: You are expected to compare your system’s performance under three modes: 1. No terminology: the system is only provided with input sentences/documents. 2. Proper terminology: the system is provided with input texts (same as 1.) and dictionaries of the format {source_term: target_term}. 3. Random terminology: the system is provided with input texts and translation dictionaries of the same format as in 2. The difference is that the dictionary items are not special terms but words randomly drawn from input texts. This mode is of special interest since we want to measure to what extent the proper term translations help to improve the system performance (2.), as opposed to an arbitrary broader input that does not contain the domain-specific terminology. Metrics: 1. Overall Translation Quality: we will evaluate the general aspects of machine translation outputs such as fluency, adequacy and grammaticality. We will do that with the general MT automatic metrics such as BLEU or COMET. In addition to that, we will pay special attention to the grammaticality of the translated terms. 2. Terminology Success Rate: This metric assesses the ability of the system to accurately translate technical terms given the specialized vocabulary. This will be carried out by comparing the occurrences of the correct term translations (i.e. the ones present in the dictionary) to the output terms. The goal is to have a higher success rate that will show adherence to dictionary translations. 3. Terminology Consistency: for domains such as science or legal texts, the consistent use of an introduced term throughout the text is crucial. In other words, we want a system to not only pick up a correct term in a target language but to use it consistently once it is chosen. This will be evaluated by comparing all translations of a given source term in a text and measuring the percentage of deviations from the most consistent translation. This metric is more important for the Document-Level track, but it will be used for both tracks. IMPORTANT DATES All dates are end of Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Data snippets released: 7th May 2025 Dev data released: 22nd May 2025 Test data release, task starts: 20th June 2025 (postponed) Submission deadline: 20th July 2025 (postponed) Paper submission to WMT25: in-line with WMT25 Camera-ready submission to WMT25: in-line with WMT25 Conference in Suzhou, China: 05-09 November 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 0. Please notify us about your participation prior to submission. This is optional, but will be very helpful for us for better understanding of our workload after submission. Please do it through this Google Form: https://forms.gle/ZSn2pNJkQJAzHFnA6 1. Check your submission files with the validation script. It will be published at test date publication. 2. Write a description of your system (optional). 3. Submit your system via Google Forms. The Google form with all necessary submission details will be published at the test set date. All details on submission as well as FAQ can be found at the webpage of the shared task. ORGANIZERS * Kirill Semenov (University of Zurich), main contact: FirstNаmе [dоt] LаstNаmе {аt} uzh /dоt/ ch * Nathaniel Berger (Heidelberg University) * Pinzhen Chen (University of Edinburgh & Aveni.ai) * Xu Huang (Nanjing University) * Arturo Oncevay (JP Morgan) * Dawei Zhu (Amazon) * Vilém Zouhar (ETH Zurich) WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/terminology.html In case of query, please send an email to Kirill Semenov (see email above).

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Call for papers: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025) @ RANLP_2025
by Nanomi Arachchige, Isuri (Postgraduate Researcher) 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

Call for papers: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH_2025) @ RANLP_2025 Date: 11th- to 13th September 2025 (TBC) Venue : Varna, Bulgaria Website: https://www.clarin.eu/event/2025/clarin-workshop-ranlp-2025 Submissions Portal: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LM4DH2025/ Digital Humanities has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of research, serving as an intersection of computer science with many other fields such as linguistics, social sciences, history, psychology, etc. With the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and text summarisation have been significantly enhanced, offering powerful tools to analyse and interpret complex historical and cultural data. These developments offer transformative capabilities for analysing and interpreting complex historical and cultural datasets, including oral histories, archival documents, and literary texts. These advancements provide powerful tools for analysing and interpreting intricate historical, cultural, and social data, enabling researchers to identify patterns, extract meaningful relationships, and generate interpretations at unprecedented scale and precision. This workshop aims to provide a common platform for researchers, practitioners, and students from diverse disciplines to collaboratively explore and apply AI-driven techniques in the Digital Humanities. Through interdisciplinary discussion, the event aims to generate creative approaches, exchange best practices, and create a community committed to furthering AI-based research on human culture and history. The focus of the workshop is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or LLM-based application. We expect contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics: * Text analysis and processing related to the humanities using computational methods * Usage of the interpretability of large language models' output for DH-related tasks * Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitisation, datafication, and data preservation * Automatic error detection, correction, and normalisation of textual data * Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels * Analysis and detection of text genres * Emotion analysis for the humanities and literature * Modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage * Low-resource and historical language processing * Search for scientific and/or scholarly literature * Profiling and authorship attribution Submission & Publication All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions must follow the RANLP 2025 submission guidelines<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/>, using ACL-style templates (LaTeX or MS Word). Paper must be submitted using SoftConf at https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LM4DH2025/ All papers will be double-blind peer reviewed. Authors of the accepted papers will present their work in either the oral or poster session. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published in ACL Anthology. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 20th July 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 2nd August 2025 * Camera-ready paper: 20th August 2025 * Workshop date: 11th September 2025 Organising Committee * Isuri Anuradha, Lancaster University, UK * Francesca Frontini, CNR-ILC, Italy & CLARIN ERIC * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Deshan Sumanathilake, Swansea University, UK This workshop has been organised with the generous support and coordination of CLARIN-EU. Gmail: dhranlp2(a)gmail.com<mailto:%20dhranlp2@gmail.com>

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FIRE 2025- Call for Participation in Tracks - 12 Tracks -17th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation -Dec. Varanasi
by Thomas Mandl 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

*Call for Participation in Tracks * *FIRE 2025: 17th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi 17th - 20th December Website: fire.irsi.org.in <http://fire.irsi.org.in/> *Call for Participation in Tracks* FIRE 2025 offers the following exciting tracks this year: * Cross-Lingual Mathematical Information Retrieval (CLMIR) <https://clmir2025.github.io/> * Code-Mixed Information Retrieval from Social Media Data (CMIR) <https://cmir-iitbhu.github.io/cmir/index.html> * Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Memes in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Bodo (HASOC-meme) <https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/> * Information Retrieval in Software Engineering (IRSE) <https://sites.google.com/view/irse-2025/home> * Misinformation Detection and Prompt Recovery (PROMID) <https://promid.github.io/index.html> * Multilingual Story Illustration: Bridging Cultures through AI Artistry (MUSIA) <https://cse-iitbhu.github.io/MUSIA/index.html> * Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages (DravidianCodeMix) <https://dravidian-codemix.github.io/2025/dataset.html> * Opinion Extraction and Question Answering from CryptoCurrency-Related Tweets and Reddit posts (CryptOQA) <https://sites.google.com/view/cryptoqa-2025/> * Research Highlight Generation from Scientific Papers (SciHigh) <https://sites.google.com/jadavpuruniversity.in/scihigh2025/home> * Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR) <https://sites.google.com/view/sqclir-2025> * Varanasi Tourism in Question Answer System (VATIKA) <https://sites.google.com/view/vatika-2025/> * Word-Level Identification of Languages in Dravidian Languages (WILD) <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7902/> Research groups are invited to participate in the experiments. Please register directly with the organizers. FIRE 2025 is the 17th edition of the annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (fire.irsi.org.in). Since its inception in 2008, FIRE had a strong focus on shared tasks similar to those offered at Evaluation forums like TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. The shared tasks focus on solving specific problems in the area information access and, more importantly help in generating evaluation datasets for the research community. Visit fire.irsi.org.in <http://fire.irsi.org.in>

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CfP DHOW: Workshop Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop - @ ACMMM 2025
by Thomas Mandl 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

The 2st Workshop on DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop The workshop will be conducted in a *hybrid* format to ensure maximum participation, accommodating attendees both *online* and in person. Submission deadline: *July 11 2025 AOE* *Workshop site*: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/ *Co-located with ACMMM 2025* https://acmmm2025.org/ <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> Dublin, Ireland, 27-31 October 2024 *Important Dates* Submission deadline: extended to *July 11, 2025* Notification of acceptance: August 01, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: August 11, 2025 Workshop date: October 27/28, 2025 *Workshop Description* With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also gets spread. There are different harmful content available on different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the user’s aspect, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study the harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2025. We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share latest developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful contents spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of safer internet. In addition to attracting high quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a community. *Submissions Topics* •Studying different types of harmful content •Computational fact-checking & Misinformation Detection •Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content •Harassment, Bullying, and Hate Speech Detection •Explainable AI for Harmful Content Analysis •Multimodal and Multilingual Harmful Content Detection such as fake news, spam, and troll detection. •Deepfake and Synthetic Media •Ethical & Societal Implications of AI in Content Moderation •Both Qualitative and Quantitative study on harmful content •Psychological effects of harmful content like mental health •Approaches for data collection or data annotation using multimodal large models on harmful content •User study on the effects of harmful content on human beings *Submissions* - Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call <https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call> - Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW <https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW> ***Workshop organizers* •Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany) •Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) •Gautam Kishore Shahi(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) •Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom ) •Durgesh Nandini (University of Bayreuth, Germany) DHOW 2025

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Call for papers : Ethical LLMs @ RANLP2025
by Dola Mullage, Damith (Postgraduate Researcher) 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

Ethical LLMs 2025: The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models<https://sites.google.com/view/ethical-llms-2025> @ RANLP2025<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> Call for papers: Scope Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a transformative leap in Artificial Intelligence (AI), delivering remarkable language-processing capabilities that are reshaping how we interact with technology in our daily lives. With their ability to perform tasks such as summarisation, translation, classification, and text generation, LLMs have demonstrated unparalleled versatility and power. Drawing from vast and diverse knowledge bases, these models hold the potential to revolutionise a wide range of fields, including education, media, law, psychology, and beyond. From assisting educators in creating personalised learning experiences to enabling legal professionals to draft documents or supporting mental health practitioners with preliminary assessments, the applications of LLMs are both expansive and profound. However, alongside their impressive strengths, LLMs also face significant limitations that raise critical ethical questions. Unlike humans, these models lack essential qualities such as emotional intelligence, contextual empathy, and nuanced ethical reasoning. While they can generate coherent and contextually relevant responses, they do not possess the ability to fully understand the emotional or moral implications of their outputs. This gap becomes particularly concerning when LLMs are deployed in sensitive domains where human values, cultural nuances, and ethical considerations are paramount. For example, biases embedded in training data can lead to unfair or discriminatory outcomes, while the absence of ethical reasoning may result in outputs that inadvertently harm individuals or communities. These limitations highlight the urgent need for robust research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to address the ethical dimensions of LLMs. Advancements in NLP research are crucial for developing methods to detect and mitigate biases, enhance transparency in model decision-making, and incorporate ethical frameworks that align with human values. By prioritising ethics in NLP research, we can better understand the societal implications of LLMs and ensure their development and deployment are guided by principles of fairness, accountability, and respect for human dignity. This workshop will dive into these pressing issues, fostering a collaborative effort to shape the future of LLMs as tools that not only excel in technical performance but also uphold the highest ethical standards. Submission Guidelines We follow the RANLP 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. EthicalLLMs 2025 invites the submission of long papers, up to eight pages in length, and short papers, up to six pages in length. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the RANLP 2025 style files available here: * Latex<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-LaTeX.zip> * Word<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-word.docx> Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/EthicalLLMs2025/ Topics of interest The workshop invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the ethical development and evaluation of LLMs, including but not limited to the following. 1. Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs Research focused on identifying, measuring, and reducing social, cultural, and algorithmic biases in large language models. 2. Ethical Frameworks for LLM Deployment Approaches to integrating ethical principles—such as fairness, accountability, and transparency—into the development and use of LLMs. 3. LLMs in Sensitive Domains: Risks and Safeguards Case studies or methodologies for deploying LLMs in high-stakes fields such as healthcare, law, and education, with an emphasis on ethical implications. 4. Explainability and Transparency in LLM Decision-Making Techniques and tools for improving the interpretability of LLM outputs and understanding model reasoning. 5. Cultural and Contextual Understanding in NLP Systems Strategies for enhancing LLMs’ sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and social nuances in global and multilingual contexts. 6. Human-in-the-Loop Approaches for Ethical Oversight Collaborative models that involve human expertise in guiding, correcting, or auditing LLM behaviour to ensure responsible use. 7. Mental Health and Emotional AI: Limits of LLM Empathy Discussions on the role of LLMs in mental health support, highlighting the boundary between assistive technology and the need for human empathy. Organisers Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK Contact If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Damith: d.dolamullage(a)lancaster.ac.uk

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Survey on Queries in Syntactically Annotated Corpora
by Niklas Deworetzki 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

Dear all, We are currently doing a project aiming to make querying in syntactically annotated corpora easier and more accessible. For this purpose, we want to know what researchers are actually searching for. If you have a minute of your time, please feel free to fill out this form. https://forms.office.com/e/a8DgETSabB Feel free to reach out to ekavol(a)chalmers.se or nikdew(a)chalmers.se if you have any further questions. Best regards Niklas Deworetzki & Katja Voloshina PhD Students Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology | University of Gothenburg SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden www.gu.se<http://www.gu.se/> www.chalmers.se<http://www.chalmers.se/> [cid:a8138665-78e4-4530-80d5-cf9cbf2bd3c2]

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CLEF 2025 – Registration Open
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

CLEF 2025 – Registration Open Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum We are pleased to announce CLEF 2025, taking place 9–12 September 2025 in Madrid, Spain at UNED. This peer‑reviewed conference and associated labs foster research in multilingual, multimodal, and cross‑language information access https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/. Register now – Early‑bird registration is open! Standard registration opened earlier this year, and early-bird rates are currently available . Why attend? * Present and discuss original research at main conference. * Engage in innovative labs and challenges, including LifeCLEF, ImageCLEF, EXIST, eRisk, CheckThat!, and more https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/labs.html. * Benefit from rich networking with academic and industry experts in IR, NLP, multimedia retrieval, and evaluation sciences. For detailed conference and lab registration, registration deadlines, and pricing, please visit the official site: https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/registrationConfer… Important Dates * Early‑bird registration ongoing * Registration closes: 31 August 2025 * Conference & labs: 9–12 September 2025 — Madrid, Spain We look forward to welcoming participants from across the global community — see you this September in Madrid at CLEF 2025! Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz On behalf of the CLEF 2025 Organising Committee AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Oficina de Protección de datos<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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Second call for papers: Special issue on Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages@Language Resources and Evaluation Journal
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS: Language Resources and Evaluation Journal- Special Issue on Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages* https://link.springer.com/collections/gbdgacbgbg *Guest Editors:* - Atul Kr. Ojha (Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics, DSI, University of Galway, Ireland) - Chao-Hong Liu (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Potamu Research Ltd.) - Ekaterina Vylomova (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Flammie Pirinen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø) - Jonathan Washington (Swarthmore College, USA) - Nathaniel Oco (De La Salle University, Philippines) - Xiaobing Zhao (Minzu University of China) Machine translation (MT) technologies have been improved significantly in the last decade using neural MT (NMT) approaches. However, most of these methods rely on the availability of large parallel data for training the MT systems, resources which are not available for the majority of language pairs. Hence, current technologies often fall short in their ability to be applied to low-resource languages. Developing MT technologies using relatively small corpora still presents a major challenge for the MT community. In addition, many methods for developing MT systems still rely on several natural language processing (NLP) tools to pre-process texts in source languages and post-process MT outputs in target languages. The performance of these tools often has a great impact on the quality of the resulting translation. The availability of MT technologies and NLP tools can facilitate equal access to information for the speakers of a language and determine on which side of the digital divide they will end up. The lack of these technologies for many of the world's languages provides opportunities both for the field to grow and for making tools available for speakers of low-resource languages. In the past few years, several workshops and evaluations have been organized to promote research on low-resource languages. NIST has been conducting Low Resource Human Language Technology evaluations (LoReHLT) annually from 2016 to 2019. In LoReHLT evaluations, there is no training data in the evaluation language. Participants receive training data in related languages but need to bootstrap systems in the surprise evaluation language at the start of the evaluation. Methods for this include pivoting approaches and taking advantage of linguistic universals. The evaluations are supported by DARPA's Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program, which seeks to advance technologies that are less dependent on large data resources and that can be quickly pivoted to new languages within a very short amount of time so that information from any language can be extracted in a timely manner to provide situation awareness to emergent incidents. There are also the Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT), Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL), Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI), the Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing (DeepLo). AfricaNLP, TurkLang, Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), and International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) workshop, which provide a venue for sharing research and working on research and development in this field. This topical collection solicits original research papers on MT systems/methods and related NLP tools for low-resource languages in general. LoReHLT, LORELEI, LoResMT, SIGUL, EURALI, DeepLo, WMT, and IWSLT participants are very welcome to submit their work to the special issue. Summary papers on MT research for specific low-resource languages, as well as extended versions (>40% difference) of published papers from relevant conferences/workshops, are also welcome. Topics of the special issue include, but are not limited to: * Research and review papers on MT systems/methods for low-resource languages * Research and review papers on pre-processing and/or post-processing NLP tools for MT * Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for low-resource languages * Word/morpheme segmenters for low-resource languages * Use of morphological analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT * Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT * Review of available corpora of low-resource languages for MT * Pivot MT for low-resource languages * Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages * Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages * Re-usability of existing MT systems and/or NLP tools for low-resource languages * Machine translation for language preservation * Techniques that work across many languages and modalities * Techniques that are less dependent on large data resources * Use of language-universal resources * Bootstrap-trained resources for the short development cycle * Entity, relation- and event-extraction * Sentiment detection in MT * MT Summarisation * Processing diverse languages, genres (news, social media, etc.) and modalities (text, speech, video, etc.) * Speech Translation for low-resource languages * Multimodal MT for low-resource languages * MT models using LLMs for low-resource languages * Generative AI models for low-resource languages * Evaluation metrics and datasets for low-resource languages For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://link.springer.com/collections/gbdgacbgbg *IMPORTANT DATES* *August 26, 2025: Paper submission deadlineDecember 05, 2025: Revised papers dueMarch 2026: Publication* * SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Authors should follow the "Instructions for Authors <https://link.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines> ( https://link.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines or Overleaf <https://link.springer.com/journal/10579/updates/17234296>)" on the LRE journal website <https://link.springer.com/journal/10579>. Thanks,

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June 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: Chinese Sentence Pattern Structure Treebank<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T06> IWSLT 2022-2023 Shared Task Training, Development and Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S05> KAIROS Schema Learning Complex Event Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T07> ________________________________ 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: Chinese Sentence Pattern Structure Treebank<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T06> was developed at Beijing Normal University<https://english.bnu.edu.cn/> and Peking University<https://english.pku.edu.cn/>. It contains 5,016 sentences and 119,627 tokens syntactically annotated following the concept of sentence constituent analysis which emphasizes sentence pattern structure. The source data consists of 27 chapters extracted from modern Mandarin and ancient Chinese works. There are three annotation layers: lexical sense and structural mode for dynamic words; syntactic structure for clauses; and inter-clause relation within complex sentence and sentence clusters. These structures can be visualized using the Jbw-viewer tool<https://github.com/bnucip/jbwviewer> which is included in the release. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * IWSLT 2022 - 2023 Shared Task Training, Development and Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S05> was developed by LDC and contains 210 hours of Tunisian<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S05> Arabic conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, speaker metadata, and documentation. This material constitutes the training, development, and test data used in the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) Dialectal Speech Translation task (2022)<https://iwslt.org/2022/dialect> and the Dialectal and Low-resource track (2023)<https://iwslt.org/2023/low-resource>. The telephone speech was collected by LDC in 2016-2017 from native speakers of Tunisian Arabic in Tunis. Speakers were recruited to make telephone calls to people in their social networks from a variety of noise conditions and handsets. Transcripts are orthographic following Buckwalter<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2004L02> transliteration and cover 175 hours of the collected speech. IPA transcripts were added to a subset of the data. All transcribed segments were translated into English. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * KAIROS Schema Learning Complex Event Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T07> was developed by LDC to support the DARPA KAIROS program. It contains English and Spanish text, audio, video, and image data labeled for 93 real-world complex events with event, relation, and argument annotations linking to document provenance. Source data was collected from the web; 3431 root web pages were collected and processed, yielding 1919 text data files, 24019 image files, 1472 video files, and 16 audio files. The DARPA KAIROS (Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas) program aimed to build technology capable of understanding and reasoning about complex real-world events in order to provide actionable insights to end users. KAIROS systems utilized formal event representations in the form of schema libraries that specified the steps, preconditions, and constraints for an open set of complex events; schemas were then used in combination with event extraction to characterize and make predictions about real-world events in a large, multilingual, multimedia corpus. 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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CLIN35 -- Deadline extension
by Vincent Vandeghinste 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

Dear CLIN enthusiasts We are extending the submission deadline for CLIN abstracts by one week. The new, final deadline is June 20th. Below you can find the original call for abstracts with a modified date. Website: https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/ We invite submissions for CLIN35, the 35th edition of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) conference, which will take place in Leuven on September 12th, 2025. Abstracts describing theoretical or applied research in any area of computational linguistics and natural language processing are welcome. We especially encourage submissions related to the Dutch language, but contributions on other languages and multilingual approaches are equally welcome. Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed 500 words. Submissions should include: * Name and affiliation of each author * Contact details * Presentation title and short abstract (max. 500 words) * Keywords * Your presentation format preference (We will do our best to accommodate your preference but may need to make changes to provide a well-balanced program) Abstracts must be submitted via the form on the website<https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/call-for-abstracts> by Friday, 20th of June 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Friday, 4th of July 2025. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference as oral or poster presentations. Authors with accepted abstracts will also have the opportunity to submit a full paper after the conference for publication in the CLIN Journal<https://www.clinjournal.org/clinj/>. Please share this call with your interested colleagues and network! For any questions you can reach us at this email address (clin35(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:clin35@kuleuven.be>). We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to CLIN35! CLIN35 local organizers ________________________________ Denk je aan het milieu? Print alleen als het nodig is. Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Het bericht is alleen bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien het bericht niet voor u is bestemd, verzoeken wij u dit aan ons te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. This message shall not constitute any obligations. This message is intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please inform us and delete the message. ________________________________

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EVALITA 2026 - Second Call for Tasks (NEW DEADLINES and TIMELINE)
by Marco Antonio Stranisci 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

****************************************************** ********* EVALITA 2026: Call for tasks ********* ******* NEW DEADLINES and TIMELINE ****** ****************************************************** EVALITA 2026 is an initiative of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale, AILC https://www.ai-lc.it/). As in the previous editions (https://www.evalita.it/), EVALITA 2026 will be organized along a few selected tasks, which provide participants with opportunities to discuss and explore both emerging and traditional areas of Natural Language Processing and Speech. The participation is encouraged for teams working both in academic institutions and industrial organizations. TASK PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Task proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and should include: - task title and acronym; - names and affiliation of the organizers (minimum 2 organizers); - brief task description, including motivations and state of the art; - explanation of the international relevance of the task; - description and examples of the data, including information about their availability, development stage, and issues concerning privacy and data sensitivity. The examples are mandatory because they are intended to give potential participants an idea of what the task data will look like, how it’ll be formatted, etc. - expected number of participants and attendees; - names and contact information of the organizers. We also accept the re-annotation/expansion of datasets from previous years and previous challenges with new annotation levels, and texts from publicly available corpora. However, test annotations must be new and unpublished, as participants must not have access to the test data annotations until the end of EVALITA campaign. For new tasks, organizers must specify in the proposal why it would attract a reasonable number of participants, and why it is needed. For re-runs, organizers must describe the element of novelty from previous challenges. In submitting your proposal, please bear in mind that we strongly encourage: - tasks that pose non-trivial challenges and stimulate the creation of innovative systems (i.e., that integrate linguistic insights or external knowledge sources), rather than being easily addressed by off-the-shelf LLM prompting techniques; - tasks focused on multimodality, e.g., considering both textual and visual or any other modality; - tasks characterized by different levels of complexity, e.g., with a straightforward main subtask and one or more sophisticated additional subtasks; - to consider providing competitive baselines (e.g., small-scale LLMs in zero-shot setups), which participants are expected to improve upon, in order to encourage the design of advanced solutions; - application-oriented tasks, that is, tasks that have a clearly defined end-user application showcasing; - multilingual tasks, i.e. with data both in Italian and in other languages; - industrial tasks, i.e. tasks with real data provided by companies. The organizers of the accepted tasks should take care of planning, according to the scheduled deadlines (see below): - the development and distribution of datasets needed for the contest, i.e. data for training and development, and data for testing; the scorer to be used to evaluate the submitted systems should be included in the release of development data; - the development of task guidelines, where all the instructions for the participation are made clear, together with a detailed description of data and evaluation metrics applied for the evaluation of the participant's results; - the collection of participants' results; - the evaluation of participants' results according to standard metrics and baseline(s); - the solicitation of participation and submissions; - the reviewing process of the papers describing the participants' approach and results (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2026 chairs); - the production of a paper describing the task (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2026 chairs). *** Email your proposal in PDF format to evalitacampaign(a)gmail.com with "EVALITA 2026 TASK Proposal" as the subject line by the submission deadline: July 28th 2025. *** Please feel free to contact the EVALITA 2026 chairs at evalitacampaign(a)gmail.com in case of any questions or suggestions. Deadlines of the task proposal: - July 21th 2025 July 28th 2025: submission of task proposals - July 31th 2025 August 7th 2025: notification of task proposal acceptance Timelines of EVALITA 2026: - 22nd September 2025: development data available to participants - 3 - 17th November 2025: evaluation windows - 28th November 2025: assessments returned to participants - 15th December 2025: final reports (from participants) due to task organizers - 22nd December 2025: final reports (from task organizers) due to EVALITA chairs - 19th January 2025: review deadline - 2nd February 2026: camera-ready version deadline - 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari EVALITA 2026 CHAIRS Francesco Cutugno (Università di Napoli) Alessio Miaschi (Istituto di Lingustica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” - CNR) Alessio Palmero Aprosio (Università di Trento) Giulia Rambelli (Università di Bologna) Lucia Siciliani (Università di Bari) Marco Antonio Stranisci (Università di Torino) FURTHER INFORMATION Website: https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/call-for-tasks/ Mail: evalitacampaign(a)gmail.com Marco, UNITO <https://www.unito.it/persone/mstranis> and aequa-tech <https://aequa-tech.com/>

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Lancaster free live streamed sessions on CL methodology
by Brezina, Vaclav 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Dear all, We are pleased to invite you to join a series of free, livestreamed public lectures during the week of 16 June 2025, as part of the International Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/>. Hosted by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, a global leader in corpus approaches to language. Lancaster Linguistics is currently ranked 3rd in the world (QS World University Rankings 2025). Please see the links below for live streamed sessions and join us for this exciting opportunity! All times are given as UK times. Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image001.jpg@01DBDC37.90D87B20]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…> Monday 16 June 1-2pm UK time Frequency and concordancing: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzYxODdkNjItODNmMS00… Tue 17 June 10.30-11.30am UK time Building your own corpus: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjJiYTliOGMtZmM3YS00… 1.30-2.30pm UK time Introduction to corpus statistics: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDZkYjk3N2YtNTVlNi00… 3-4pm UK time Validity, AI and language testing: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YWVjMDU5ZjEtYWZlOS00… Wed 18 June 10.30-11.30 am UK time Statistics & data visualisation: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTVjZTUwNjEtZTg0OC00… Thurs 19 June 10.30-11.30am UK time Analysing & visualising collocations: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDkyNTJlNDktMzU3MC00… 12.35 - 12.50pm UK time Official launch of #LancsBox X v. 5.5 - an innovative software tool: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmIxMzU2OTUtYjU4Ni00…

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Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position in the field of NLP/ML, UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
by Niemann, Elisabeth 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

The UKP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, is looking for *** two fully funded 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱/𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀 *** for an exciting project in machine-generated text detection. This is a unique opportunity to join the UKP Lab on the intersection of AI Safety, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. If you're excited about shaping the future of Large Language Models, AI Agents, human-AI interaction, building novel prototypes, and publishing at top-tier venues of NLP, ML and AI, we’d love to hear from you. 🔗 More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_phd_ukp.e… 📩 Apply here: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment 📅 Application deadline: June 29th, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Third call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Third call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Co-located with DHASA 2025 https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025 DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025 Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre. The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/ The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non- African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa website (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the DHASA conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Workshop: 10 November 2025 DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * The role of AI in digital humanities, the role of Digital Humanities in shaping AI, and the broader role of the humanities in both AI and DH projects; * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalised voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalised communities in the creation and use of digital tools, resources, and AI; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonising knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities and AI research; * The role of digital humanities and AI in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of African and global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organisations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Development of digital and AI tools for supporting digital humanities; * Novel utilisation of digital and AI tools for performing digital humanities research; * The role of digital humanities in the classroom: reimagining literacy and AI fluency * Digital humanities data and project management; * The role of librarians in the digital humanities project; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2025 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers with a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (leading to a total of up to 9 content pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. Long papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 30-minute time slots (which includes 10 minutes for questions). * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (leading to a total of up to 6 content pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 15-minute time slots (which includes 5 minutes for questions). * Executive summaries: Authors can submit an executive summary for work in progress, limited to 1 page. Executive summaries accepted for the conference will be presented as posters during a dedicated poster presentation slot. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the JDHASA journal, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the executive summaries for the poster presentations will be published in a book of executive summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected. Follow this link to go to the submission platform: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Conference: 10 November 2025 - 14 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organising Committee Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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[CFP] Call for Papers for the WiNLP 2025 workshop in conjunction with EMNLP 2025
by ACL Announcements 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

WINLP 2025 WORKSHOP The Widening NLP (WiNLP) workshop aims to foster an inclusive environment that highlights the contributions of researchers from underrepresented groups in NLP. Anyone who self-identifies as being from an underrepresented background--based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, or otherwise--is encouraged to submit. In 2025, WiNLP will continue placing emphasis on access, disability, and diversity across scientific backgrounds, disciplines, training, and underrepresented languages. Our annual Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP's workshop period with an exact date to be announced soon. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large. Information on Submission guidelines at: https://www.winlp.org/call-for-submissions-2025/ PRE-SUBMISSION MENTORSHIP PROGRAM WiNLP offers an optional pre-submission mentorship program to help authors improve the quality of their writing and presentation before final submission. The program focuses on enhancing the clarity and structure of the paper, not critiquing the research content. * Submission: Authors must submit a draft of their paper via the designated Google Form (https://forms.gle/J33K2ea6VruN82ke9) by June 20, 2025. The draft should adhere to the same formatting and length guidelines as final submissions. * Mentor Assignment: Organizers will check the draft for compliance with formatting requirements before assigning a mentor. The mentor will not be involved in reviewing the final submission. * Feedback: Mentors will provide feedback by July 18, 2025, offering suggestions to improve writing and presentation. Authors are encouraged to incorporate this feedback before the final submission deadline. * Non-Anonymous: The mentorship process is not anonymized. * Final Submission: Authors who participate in the mentorship program should submit their final paper as a new submission via OpenReview by August 1st, 2025 to be considered for WiNLP workshop. Participation in the mentorship program is not a prerequisite for submitting a paper to WiNLP. TRAVEL SUPPORT WiNLP offers a limited number of travel grants to support one author per accepted submission. Grants may cover expenses such as registration, travel, lodging, or visa costs. Funded authors may choose to attend virtually if preferred. * Travel grant application deadline: September 26, 2025 * Notification: October 6, 2025 * Eligibility: One author per accepted submission is eligible. The funded author must be identified in the travel grant application form. Additional funding for virtual attendance by other authors may be considered if surplus funds are available, but in-person attendance for additional authors is not guaranteed. Travel expenses are handled via reimbursement (primarily through USD check or PayPal). Authors unable to front travel costs should contact the organizers early to discuss alternatives. Authors are encouraged to explore local funding options (e.g., institutional support) to maximize the reach of WiNLP's limited funds. We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further funding. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 "Anywhere on Earth" * Pre-submission mentoring deadline: June 20, 2025 * Pre-submission feedback returned: July 18, 2025 * Paper submission deadline: August 1, 2025 * Acceptance notifications: September 15, 2025 * Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2025 * Travel grant applications due: September 26, 2025 * Travel grant notifications: October 6, 2025 CONTACT INFORMATION Website: https://www.winlp.org/call-for-submissions-2025/ Twitter: @winlpworkshop [1] Facebook: Widening NLP [2] LinkedIn: Widening NLP [3] E-mail: winlp-chairs(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://twitter.com/WiNLPWorkshop [2] https://www.facebook.com/WideningNLP [3] https://www.linkedin.com/company/winlp

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[Workshop CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

[CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria) - 11-13 September 2025 https://r2lm2025.github.io/R2LM/ Workshop Description Deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling impressive performance across many tasks. However, they continue to face key challenges in handling complex linguistic phenomena such as multiword expressions, long-context reasoning, and robustness to adversarial inputs. In parallel, concerns remain about the scalability, interpretability, and domain adaptability of these models, particularly in applications requiring high precision, such as grammar checking, legal analysis, or medical NLP. These limitations have sparked renewed interest in rule-based and knowledge-based approaches, which often offer better explainability and remain competitive, especially in low-resource or high-stakes scenarios. Our workshop aims to gather contributions that deal with the following topics: • Role of rule-based and knowledge-based NLP methods in modern applications • Comparative analysis of rule-based, machine-learning, deep-learning and large language models for different NLP tasks • Emerging trends in NLP research beyond deep learning and Large Language Models • Limitations and performance bottlenecks in scalability and accuracy of deep learning models Submission Details • Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Format: ACL-style (LaTeX or MS Word) • Submission portal and template info available on the RANLP 2025 website Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 31 July 2025 Workshop date: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Organising Committee: Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, University of Alicante, Spain Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, University of Alicante, Spain Rafael Muñoz Guillena, University of Alicante, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Raúl García Cerdá, University of Alicante, Spain

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PhD position in Marseille
by alexis.nasr＠univ-amu.fr 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

The Marseille Computer Science and Systems Laboratory (https://www.lis-lab.fr/) is seeking a candidate for a three-year thesis grant as part of the ANR Cre@lame project, in collaboration with the University of Turku in Finland. The subject concerns the modeling of the literary writing and revision process carried out by authors. The starting point is an already written text, which is to be revised in the manner of an author. The problem is seen as a problem of predicting edit operations, taking the original text as input and producing edit operations. These can concern the lexicon, syntax or textual organization. The thesis's problem is structured around three directions. The first is the nature of the object produced by the prediction process, which could take the form of a sequence of edit operations or a more complex form, such as a graph. The prediction model itself will depend largely on the nature of the predicted object. The second concerns data. Revision data, which associates revision operations with a text, is not very common in general, and those concerning literary revision are even less so. We will rely on all available data available and, possibly, produce them using language models, in order to train the revision models. The final direction concerns evaluation. Given an original text and a revised version, how can we judge the quality of the latter? And how can we assess that the changes made to the original text are consistent with the objectives of the revision process. We are looking for candidates with a strong background in machine learning, mainly in deep learning, as well as knowledge in Natural Language Processing. Application deadline: June 22 Contacts: Patrice Bellot (patrice.bellot(a)univ-amu.fr), Christophe Leblay (chrleb(a)utu.fi) and Alexis Nasr (alexis.nasr(a)univ-amu.fr)

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Second (Last) Call for Participation: Model Compression Shared Task @ WMT 2025
by Marco Gaido 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, The evaluation period for the brand new Model Compression track <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html> at WMT 2025 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/index.html> is approaching! LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS: - Test data release brought forward to June 19, 2025! Participants now have two full weeks to prepare their submissions. - Submission upload space available upon request (see the task’s page for details) OVERVIEW This shared task aims to evaluate the potential of model compression techniques in reducing the size of large, general-purpose language models, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between practical deployability and high translation quality in specific machine translation (MT) scenarios. The broader objectives of the task include: - fostering research into efficient, accessible, and sustainable deployment of LLMs for MT; - establishing a common evaluation framework to monitor progress in model compression across a wide range of languages; and - enabling meaningful comparisons with state-of-the-art MT systems through standardized evaluation protocols that assess not only translation quality but also efficiency. Although the focus is on model compression, the task is closely aligned with the General MT shared task <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/translation-task.html>, sharing language directions, test data, and protocols for automatic MT quality evaluation. Additionally, the task follows the same timeline as the flagship WMT task. We warmly invite participation from academic teams and industry players interested in applying existing compression methods to MT or exploring innovative, cutting-edge approaches. THE TASK IN A NUTSHELL - Goal: Reduce the size of a general-purpose LLM while maintaining a balance between model compactness and MT performance. - Languages: The first round will focus on the same language pairs as the General MT track. - Conditions: - Constrained: Participants work within a predefined model and language setting for directly comparable results. - Unconstrained: Participants are free to compress any model across language directions of their choice. - Evaluation Criteria: - Translation quality: Automatically measured using the LLM-as-a-judge framework from the General MT task - Model size: Defined by the memory usage - Inference speed: Measured by total processing time over the test set IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) - Test data released: 26th June 2025 19th June 2025 - Translation submission deadline: 3rd July 2025 - System description abstract paper: 10th July 2025 - System description submission: 14th August 2025 WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html ORGANIZERS: - Marco Gaido, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Matteo Negri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Roman Grundkiewicz - Microsoft Translator - TG Gowda - Microsoft Translator CONTACTS: - Marco Gaido - mgaido(a)fbk.eu - Matteo Negri - negri(a)fbk.eu -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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CIRCE Online Seminar | 26/05/2025 | Dr. Giuliana Regnoli | "Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination"
by Claudia Soria 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Dr. Giuliana Regnoli* /University of Salerno, Italy & University of Regensburg, Germany/ */Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/* 📅 *May 26, 2025* 🕓 *4:40 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary: *Accent discrimination remains one of the most pervasive forms of linguistic bias, influencing social perceptions, identity construction, and attitudes towards language variation. This talk examines how accents shape linguistic hierarchies and social interactions, drawing on three research projects that employ distinct methodologies. First, we will explore how folk linguistic methods, such as map-drawing tasks, reveal nuanced spatial dimensions of language attitudes, challenging homogenising conceptualisations of World Englishes. This will be illustrated through a study on how a first-generation Indian diasporic community in Germany perceives and evaluates accent variation in Indian English. We will then turn to traditional language attitude research methods, focusing on questionnaire data to investigate overt stigmatisations and highlighting the importance of scale validation in direct attitude measurement. This discussion will be grounded in a pilot study on Italian university students’ direct attitudes towards English in Italy and their perceptions of Italian English. Finally, we will examine language attitudes in primary education in Cameroon, emphasising the importance of understanding children’s language perceptions within broader ideological frameworks. This analysis draws on data from parental and children’s questionnaires, as well as semi-structured interviews with children. By shedding light on early linguistic gatekeeping and its role in decolonising language education, this study also explores when and how these beliefs become embedded in society. Taken together, these projects demonstrate how different methodological approaches can be employed to investigate attitudes towards accents and linguistic variation, ultimately providing insights into how we can better understand and tackle accent discrimination. *Bio*: Dr. Giuliana Regnoli is assistant professor of English linguistics at the University of Salerno and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Regensburg. Her research interests include variationist sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language attitudes, perceptual dialectology, and World Englishes. She is currently working on children's English in Cameroon and Italian university students' attitudes toward English(es) world-wide. Upcoming webinars: - Clara Molina (Monday, June 30, 2025) - Sender Dovchin (Monday, July 7, 2025) - Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu.

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Call for Participation: BAREC Shared Task 2025
by Bashar Alhafni 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

*BAREC Shared Task 2025 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>* *Arabic Readability Assessment* *The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arabicnlp2025.sigarab.…>* @ *EMNLP 2025 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__2025.emnlp.org_&d=DwMF…>* We are excited to announce the BAREC Shared Task <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…> 2025 on fine-grained readability classification across 19 levels using the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a dataset of over 1 million words. Participants will build models for both sentence- and document-level classification. *Task 1: Sentence-level Readability Assessment* Given an Arabic sentence, predict its readability level on a scale from 1 (i.e., first grade) to 19 (i.e., university level), indicating the degree of reading difficulty. *Task 2: Document-level Readability Assessment* Given a document consisting of multiple sentences, predict its readability level on a scale from 1 to 19, where the hardest (i.e., highest readability) sentence in the document determines the overall document readability level. For each task, there will be three tracks, allowing different data sources for training: Strict, Constrained, and Open. *Important Dates:* All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth): - *June 10, 2025:* Release of training, dev and open test data, and evaluation scripts. - *July 20, 2025:* Registration deadline and release of test data. - *July 25, 2025:* End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes). - *July 30, 2025: *Final results released. - *August 15, 2025:* System description paper submissions due. - *August 25, 2025: *Notification of acceptance. - *September 5, 2025:* Camera-ready versions due. *Awards:* - *Top-performing Systems:* - We will recognize the top-performing system in each of the two tasks + track combinations (2 tasks × 3 tracks), with a *$100 *prize per winning team. - *Best System Description Papers:* - We will award one or two prizes for Best System Description Papers. These will recognize clarity, reproducibility, and insight, regardless of leaderboard ranking: - Best Paper: *$250* - Runner-up or Honorable Mention: *$150* *Organizers:* - *Khalid N. Elmadani <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__khalid-2Delmadani.gith…>*: New York University Abu Dhabi - *Bashar Alhafni <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.basharalhafni.com_…>*: New York University Abu Dhabi and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence - *Hanada Taha-Thomure <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hanadataha.com_&d=DwMF…>*: Zayed University - *Nizar Habash <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nizarhabash.com_&d…>*: New York University Abu Dhabi *Shared Task Website: *https://barec.camel-lab.com/sharedtask2025 *Contact:* For any questions related to this task, check out the *FAQs <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>*. Feel free to post your questions on our *Slack workspace <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__join.slack.com_t_barec…>*. You are also welcome to contact the organizers directly at this email address: barec25.organizers(a)camel-lab.com.

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Update on CfP: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Dear Corpora members, following our previous Calls for Papers, we would like to inform you of a small update to the submission policies: *The maximum length of supplementary material has been extended to 3 pages.* For any additional updates regarding the conference, please visit the website: https://clic2025.unica.it/ The full text of the updated CfP can be found below. Best regards, The CLiC-it chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2025 – Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 24 – 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC — http://www.ai-lc.it/). ➢ CONFERENCE TOPICS CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): Computational Historical Linguistics Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Ethics and NLP Generation Handwritten Text Recognition Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond Large Language Models Linguistic Diversity Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics Machine Learning for NLP Machine Translation Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP NLP Applications NLP for the Humanities Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation Pragmatics and Creativity Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech and Multimodality Summarization Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing ➢ RESEARCH COMMUNICATION CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2025 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. The research communication papers will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to the number of submissions received. ➢ PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages of content and up to three (3) pages of references. *UPDATE* Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed *three (3) pages* in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper and that reviewers are not required to evaluate material presented in the Appendix. In case additional space is needed (e.g. to include prompts, examples, etc.), external links can be used. Please also note that sections on limitations and ethical considerations are not mandatory; if included, they will count toward the page limit. Upon acceptance, final versions of the papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: soundness of approach relevance to computational linguistics novelty and clarity of relation with related work quality of presentation quality of evaluation (if applicable) verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.… Word template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025 For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected. ➢ AWARDS To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of “best paper” will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master’s or PhD student is the first author and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. ➢ IMPORTANT DATES 09/06/2025 16/06/2025 [EXTENDED]– Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications 21/07/2025 – Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome 04/08/2025 – Camera ready version of accepted papers 24-26/09/2025 – CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari ➢ PEOPLE Conference Chairs: Cristina Bosco (University of Torino) Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) Marco Polignano (University of Bari) Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari) Senior Program Committee: Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission – Ispra) Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna) Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen) Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) Rossella Varvara (University of Turin – University of Pavia) Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano) Local Organizing Committee: Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari) Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari) Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari) Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari) Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari) Web chairs: Maurizio Atzori Andrea Loddo ➢ FURTHER INFORMATION Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com

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Atomic Layer Processing (WALP 2025) Workshop 22–23 July 2025, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
by D'Souza, Jennifer 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Key Deadlines: Abstract submission for posters: June 15 Registration: June 30 Registrations are still open for WALP 2025! Places are filling up quickly—register now to secure your on-site accommodation. Dear Colleagues, WALP 2025 will bring together leading academic and industrial experts from all around the world working at the forefront of atomic layer processing (ALP), aiming to stimulate discussions on recent advances and emerging directions in ALP, particularly those driven by industrial and societal needs. The workshop will cover experimental, computational, and AI/ML-driven research in the development of ALP techniques, materials and their applications in semiconductor CMOS, energy storage (batteries, supercapacitors), and energy conversion (fuel cells, photovoltaics) technologies. WALP 2025 will host industry talks on ALP method development and scale-up for commercial energy and nanoelectronics applications. WALP 2025 features a distinguished lineup of speakers from academia and industry, including * Mikko Ritala (University of Helsinki, Finland) * Louis Piper (WMG, University of Warwick, UK) * Fred Roozeboom (University of Twente, the Netherlands) * Anjana Devi (TU Dresden, Germany) * Jeff Elam (Argonne National Lab, US) * Seán Barry (University of Carleton, Canada) * Riikka Puurunen (University of Aalto, Finland) * Ralf Tonner-Zech (University of Leipzig, Germany) * Richard Potter (university of Liverpool, UK) * Jennifer D'Souza (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) * Industry talks by Merck Electronics KGaA, BioLogic Ltd., Schrödinger, Inc. Oxford Instruments Plasma Technologies, Entalpic, Hitachi Energy, Forge Nano, and ATLANT 3D. WALP 2025 offers an excellent opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and explore collaborative research prospects in an inspiring academic and industrial setting. Delegates have the option to submit abstracts for poster presentations, with select submissions considered for short contributed talks. The registration is still open, and the registration fees for academics are £250 (excluding accommodation) and £350 (including on-site accommodation for the nights of July 21st and 22nd). Registration fees cover all meals and refreshments during the conference and poster session. There is a limited number of bursaries available for students. Please visit the WALP 2025 webpage for detailed information, registration and abstract submission: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/chemevents/walp2025/ We gratefully acknowledge the valuable financial support to WALP 2025 by Merck (EMD) Electronics, Schrödinger, BioLogic, and Royal Society of Chemistry. We look forward to welcoming you to WALP 2025. Best wishes, Bora Karasulu Also on behalf of Dr. Adrie Mackus and Prof. Erwin Kessels WALP 2025 is jointly organised by Warwick Chemistry and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, Netherlands).

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025: Call for Posters & Demos (Extended Deadline: July 4)
by Kossi Amouzouvi 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Follow us on *Twitter/X* <https://x.com/SemanticsConf>, *LinkedIn* <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7496190/?highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Agr…>, and *Bluesky*. <https://bsky.app/profile/semantics-conf.bsky.social> Call for Posters & Demos The Posters & Demos Track provides a platform for researchers to showcase their latest findings, ongoing projects, and cutting-edge work in progress. These include submissions on innovative applications, latest results, unpublished ideas, prototypes of semantic technologies and their use in various domains as well as applications, use cases, or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new datasets made publicly available. The Posters & Demos Track offers an informal setting that promotes engagement and dialogue between presenters and attendees. These discussions can provide valuable feedback for presenters' future work while allowing participants to gain insight into emerging research trends and network with other researchers. *The submission deadlines for the Posters & Demos Track have been extended as follows:* - *Paper Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2025 * - *Camera-Ready of Paper Deadline: July 28, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submission via Easychair on* *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access by * CEUR-WS.org*. Topics of Interest We welcome contributions in the context of semantic-based research and systems, which address – but are not limited to – the topics of the Research Track <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>. Additionally, we encourage submissions of visionary ideas, position statements, negative results, and unconventional ideas. Demos should showcase innovative implementations and technologies both, from academia and industry. We also very much encourage submissions from industry, but they should be focused on presenting a novel solution to a specific problem and not be in the nature of an advertisement or commercial product description. Author Guidelines and Submission Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper that describes the work, its contribution to the field or innovative aspects. - Poster and demo submissions are at most 5 pages long, including references. - No double-blind submissions required. - Submissions must be either in PDF or HTML. - Submissions must be formatted in the style of CEUR-ART ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available. - For demos, we ask authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. The absence of a pointer affects the overall rating of the contribution. - Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. - At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. Posters and Demos Track Chairs Ivan Heibi Diego Collarana 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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[CfP] 2nd Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task @ WMT25
by laurie＠commoncrawl.org 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of the Open Language Data Initiative shared task at WMT25, co-located with EMNLP 2025. **TASK DESCRIPTION** The primary goal of this shared task is to expand OLDI’s open datasets to more languages. We are soliciting contributions to the following: - The MT evaluation dataset FLORES+., - The MT Seed dataset., - Other high-quality, massively-parallel and open-source datasets., Contributions may consist of either the addition of entirely new languages, varieties or dialects to the above datasets, or substantial improvements to existing datasets. To describe and publicise their contributions, task participants will be asked to submit a 4-6 page paper to be presented at the WMT 2025 conference. **IMPORTANT DATES** All dates follow WMT/EMNLP. - Paper and data submission deadline: 14 August, - Notification of acceptance: 13 September, **MORE INFORMATION** - Shared task website: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/open-data.html, - OLDI website: https://oldi.org/

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[CfP] 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals at COLM 2025
by Pedro Ortiz Suarez 10 Jun '25

10 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: June 23, 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: June 23, 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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2nd Call for Papers || KlarText Workshop @ KONVENS 2025 || German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
by Salar Mohtaj 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

KlarText Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment Co-located with KONVENS 2025 | Hildesheim, Germany | 10 September 2025 Website: https://klar-text.github.io/ ============================================================ Please be reminded that the KlarText workshop paper submission deadline is in three weeks. The event aims to unite researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art methods in German text simplification and readability assessment. Our focus is to raise awareness about the diverse simplification goals and language forms in German, while attracting researchers who are addressing the challenges associated with this field. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - German Text Simplification - Readability Assessment - Resources & Approaches for Leichte Sprache - The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) - Resources & Benchmarks - Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment - Applications & Real-World Impact - Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives Important Dates - Submission deadline: June 30, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2025 - Camera-ready version due: August 15, 2025 - Workshop date: September 10, 2025 Submissions are managed via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2025/Workshop/KlarText). Organizing Committee - Salar Mohtaj, DFKI - Stefan Hillmann, Technische Universität Berlin - Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin - Georg Groh, Technische Universität München - Hadi Asghari, Technische Universität Berlin - Miriam Anschütz, Technische Universität München Contact For questions or inquiries, please contact: Salar Mohtaj – salar.mohtaj(a)dfki.de

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The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by Announce 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

*** First Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the 31st International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops and tutorial formats and activities, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. • Tutorials: Sessions that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, or tools for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop and Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop and Tutorial Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Workshop or Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events) • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop or tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop and tutorial formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop or tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or “(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop or tutorial. • Description of workshop or tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop or tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post- workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop or Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop or tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops" or “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025 • Decision notification: September 19, 2025 • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: Nov 21, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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PhD position University of Vienna
by Benjamin Roth 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

The Data Mining and Machine Learning research group at the University of Vienna is seeking graduates or advanced MSc students in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, or related fields who are interested in pursuing a PhD in Explainability for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. The successful candidate will join the group as a pre-doctoral researcher. The position is funded for three years and will be supervised by Prof. Benjamin Roth. Application deadline: 24 June 2025 Research topics may include: Personalized explanations of large language models Explanations for complex AI agents Training data-based explanations Usability aspects of explanations Evaluation methods for explainable AI More information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral/1212525201/ -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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Abstract Deadline Extended (June 29) – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Call for Abstracts – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is open! The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing. Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland University) For detailed guidelines, templates, and additional information, visit our website: <https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/> https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl<https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/>/ Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview by June 29, 2025 at: https://openreview.net/group?id=UU.nl/Utrecht_University/2025/CPL We look forward to your contributions! Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz

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LxGr2025: Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 10 Jun '25

10 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 any problems registering, or have 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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2nd CfP: The 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)
by Ines Rehbein 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

2nd CfP: The 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (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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MSc AI for Translation and Interpreting
by Constantin Orasan 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

New distance-learning route: Applications for MSc AI for Translation and Interpreting Studies now open (academic year 2025-26 entry) The Centre for Translation Studies (CTS) at the University of Surrey is pleased to announce the launching of AI in Translation and Interpreting Studies MSc. This MSc programme has an in-person route, but most crucially, a new distance-learning route, for both full-time and part-time modes of study. Classes are delivered synchronously (for all routes and modes of study). This unique and innovative course draws on the research and pedagogy CTS is well known for, namely the responsible integration of professional practice with AI tools in multilingual mediation, translation and interpreting technologies, translation as intercultural mediation, corpus-based translation, audiovisual translation and automatic translation. As such, the course is ideally suited for students who wish to work at the at the interface of (traditional) Languages degrees, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Machine Translation. This year we encourage applications from students interested in how Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models benefit translators and interpreters. The new configuration offers a balance of hands-on training and critical skills when using language technologies across the academic year. As an MSc student, you will take three compulsory taught modules in semester 1 and select three optional modules in semester 2 (90 credits). You will then complete your degree with a long dissertation (90 credits), allowing you to tackle a project in greater depth. For full programme details, a special fee offer for the online/distance-learning route and the overall structure, please visit AI for Translation and Interpreting Studies MSc masters course | University of Surrey<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/ai-translation-and-interpreting-studi…> Our MSc course comes in the wake of further diversification of our postgraduate programmes. It constitutes a change informed by constant dialogue with our students which resulted in a revamp of our portfolio. See our staff-student partnership project "Translation in the Era of General Artificial Intelligence"<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/human-and-machine-harmony-centre-translation-…> This change further aligns with recent developments in translation and translation technology projects which are done with the help of AI or AI-powered tools. If you feel that an MSc is not for you, you can check our other postgraduate courses on topics related to translation and interpreting at: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/study/postgraduate-cour… Watch our video "More than an MA": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2oVf3X2LEg --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> | School of Literature and Languages<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-literature-languages> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Call for participation: First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models
by Nikhil Krishnaswamy 08 Jun '25

08 Jun '25

Dear Corpora list organizers, Please find below our submission for circulation: ====== The First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models (*ORIGen*) will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 10, 2025! With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as “collaborators” with humans. In such scenarios, underreliance or avoidance of AI assistance may obviate the potential speed, efficiency, or scalability advantages of a human-LLM team, but simultaneously, there is a risk that subject matter non-experts may overrely on LLMs and trust their outputs uncritically, with consequences ranging from the inconvenient to the catastrophic. Therefore, establishing optimal levels of reliance within an interactive framework is a critical open challenge as language models and related AI technology rapidly advances. * What factors influence overreliance on LLMs? * How can the consequences of overreliance be predicted and guarded against? * What verifiable methods can be used to apportion accountability for the outcomes of human-LLM interactions? * What methods can be used to imbue such interactions with appropriate levels of “friction” to ensure that humans think through the decisions they make with LLMs in the loop? The ORIGen workshop provides a new venue to address these questions and more through a multidisciplinary lens. We seek to bring together broad perspectives from AI, NLP, HCI, cognitive science, psychology, and education to highlight the importance of mediating human-LLM interactions to mitigate overreliance and promote accountability in collaborative human-AI decision-making. Submissions are due June 20, 2025. Please see our call for papers [1] for more! [1] https://origen-workshop.github.io/submissions/ ====== Best regards, Nikhil Krishnaswamy Assistant Professor of Computer Science *Colorado State University*

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[CfP] First CfP for LowResNLP: Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria)
by Simon Ostermann 07 Jun '25

07 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the first call for papers of the *Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP) at RANLP 2025* The most important information at a glance: 🗓️ Deadline: July 6, Workshop: Sep 11-13 📍 Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://lrlnlp.github.io/website/ Despite rapid progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), the benefits of recent advances - especially large language models (LLMs) - remain unevenly distributed. While high-resource languages like English, French, and Chinese have seen significant performance gains, low-resource languages continue to face substantial challenges across core NLP tasks such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and part-of-speech tagging. These disparities arise from a combination of factors: the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited linguistic resources, and a lack of community involvement in data collection and model development. As a result, many languages, particularly African, Indigenous, and minority languages, remain underrepresented in both academic research and deployed NLP systems. LowResNLP is a workshop dedicated to addressing these challenges by fostering research, collaboration, and discussion around methods, resources, and evaluation practices specifically designed for low-resource languages. LowResNLP seeks to actively contribute to the field by inviting submissions that specifically address the unique challenges and opportunities involved in working with low-resource languages. The workshop welcomes a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Language models and large language models for low-resource languages * Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages * Evaluation benchmarks for language models in low-resource languages * Language models and resources for low-resource languages in Spain * Machine/pivot translation for low-resource languages * Fairness in resources/models for low-resource languages * Prompting learning strategies for large language models * Transfer learning and Crosslingual approaches for low-resource NLP * Massively multilingual approaches to Low-Resource NLP Important Dates: Workshop paper submission deadline: 6 July 2025 (AoE) Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 Workshops: 11-13 September 2025 Submission formats: We invite the submission of both full papers and short papers. Full papers should not exceed 8 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). Short papers should not exceed 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). All submissions should be prepared using the current ACL templates (see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/). Papers should be submitted through SoftConf: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LowResNLP2025 Organizers: For any questions, please drop a mail to lowresnlp-2025-organizers(a)googlegroups.com Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares (University of Alicante, Spain; University of Havana, Cuba) Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) Besik Mikaberidze (Georgian Technical University, Georgia) Simon Ostermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Daniil Gurgurov (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Philipp Müller (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Kurt Micallef (University of Malta, Malta) Claudia Borg (University of Malta, Malta) Michal Gregor (KINIT, Slovakia) Marián Šimko (KINIT, Slovakia)

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Second call for participation: MT Marathon in Helsinki in August 2025
by Tiedemann, Jörg 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

This is the second call for participation on the 18th MT Marathon that will take place in Helsinki on August 25-29, 2025. The eighteenth edition of the MT Marathon will be organized by the Language Technology Research group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, with sponsorship of EAMT<https://eamt.org/> and HPLT<https://hplt-project.org/>. Each Machine Translation Marathon is a week-long gathering of machine translation researchers, developers, students, and users featuring: - MT Lectures and Labs covering the basics and tutorials. - Keynote Talks from experienced researchers and practitioners. - Presentations of research and open-source tools related to MT. - Hacking Projects to advance tools or research in one week or start new collaborations. Details can be found on the event page: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/mt-marathon-2025/ ** Registration ** The registration is free of charge for EAMT members. To register, use the following link: https://forms.gle/uvrZuWpeSbcmJozK7. The registration form will remain open until the start of the event or the space we can accommodate is filled. ** Call for Abstract Submissions ** The MT Marathon will again host an open session with poster presentations related to MT/NLP research and open-source tools. We invite students, developers and researchers to submit short abstracts (1 page) featuring previously published results, open-source tool demos, and work in progress. Abstracts are lightly reviewed for topical scope, and all relevant submissions will be accepted for presentation. Deadline: June 15 ** Call for project proposals ** As always, project topics will get finalized on the first day of the Marathon, but it was found useful in the past to announce and refine project proposals earlier. If you have an idea what you'd like to implement in a small team of fellow participants, or if you just want to peek at what is going to be proposed, have a look or edit the live document linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4Iy_iOVvYHKAwnSV2ZGIPru7t-jeMauCQd6i9G… . ** Programme ** The event will include a poster session, labs, and lessons from experts in the field, including: * Ayodele Awokoya, McPherson University, University of Ibadan, Masakhane * Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam * Marta R. Costa-jussà, Meta AI * Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh * Sara Papi, FBK Trento * Amit Moryossef, ETH, Bar-Ilan University, sign.mt * Juan Antonio Pérez, University of Alacant * Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Prompsit * Marco Turchi, Zoom * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki The programme is still under construction. For up to date information about invited speakers and the topics that will be covered by talks and labs, have a look at the event page here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/mt-marathon-2025/

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Final Call for Papers - NLP4Sustain 2025 - Submission deadline June 10
by Jakob Prange 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Final Call for Papers: NLP for Sustainability (NLP4Sustain) Workshop 2025 This is the final call for papers, the submission deadline is Tuesday, June 10, anywhere on Earth. Summary of important submission information: * Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=KONVENS/2025/Workshop/NLP4Sustain * Anonymity: Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations or self-references that reveal the authors’ identity. Program: The workshop program will consist of accepted paper presentations, as well as * a Keynote by Dr. Mariana M. de Brito on Information extraction on climate impacts and adaptation using NLP, and * a Shared Task: The results of the SustainEval 2025 GermEval shared task will also be presented at the workshop. The evaluation phase starts on June 10 and ends on June 27: https://sustaineval.github.io For further details, visit our website: https://nlp4sustain.github.io/ If you have any questions, please contact: jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de and/or c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de -- Dr. Jakob Prange (er/he) Akademischer Rat auf Zeit / Research Associate Chair for Natural Language Understanding & Digital Humanities (Prof. Friedrich) Faculty for Applied Informatics, University of Augsburg https://jakpra.github.io/

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AthNLP 2025 summer school
by A. Vlachos 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Extended Call for Participation New Deadline: Monday 15 June 2025 AthNLP 2025 - Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School<https://athnlp.github.io/2025/index.html> We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to participate in the 3rd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School taking place in Athens, Greece at NCSR Demokritos Campus between 4-10 September 2025. Application Deadline: 15 June 2025 Apply here: <https://athnlp.github.io/2025/cfp.html> https://athnlp.github.io/2025/cfp.html [AthNLP2025 banner]<https://athnlp.github.io/2025/cfp.html> Preliminary schedule<https://athnlp.github.io/2025/schedule.html> Sponsor info<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r_JBhUFdH9svHbmNFAg5iSggJj91pPVT/view> Important Dates Application Deadline: 15 June 2025 Decision announcement: 20 June 2025 Registration until: 27 June 2025 Summer School: 4-10 September 2025 Following successful editions in 2019 and 2024, AthNLP 2025 returns to the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens. The summer school is organised by NCSR Demokritos, the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC ATHENA, and Heriot-Watt University, in close collaboration with LxMLS (Lisbon, 19–25 July 2025). The school focuses on machine learning methods for NLP, offering: Morning lectures on theory Afternoon hands-on lab sessions Evening research talks, poster sessions, and demos *Participants will also have the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions throughout the week. Target Audience: - Students and researchers in NLP and Computational Linguistics Computer scientists with interest in NLP and ML Industry professionals seeking deeper understanding of these fields ** No prior experience in NLP or ML is required—just basic math and Python. Features of AthNLP: * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee. * Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing. * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks. * In the demo day, students will be able to interact with technical companies and research institutions working in machine learning. Confirmed Speakers * Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science * Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill * Eunsol Choi, New York University * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain * Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam * Yulan He, King's College London, UK * Ryan McDonald * Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI * Vlad Niculae, University of Amsterdam * Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Additional speakers will be announced soon. Fees 300 EUR for students 400 EUR for University professors or researchers at public Institutes 500 EUR for everyone else Any questions should be directed to: athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr We are looking forward to your participation! The Organising Committee of AthNLP 2025

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Call for Participation: TREC 2025 Biomedical Generative Retrieval (BioGen) Track
by ddemner＠gmail.com 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Dear colleagues and friends, We would like to invite you to participate in the TREC 2025 BioGen Track, which focuses on evaluating the reliability and transparency of large language models (LLMs) in the biomedical domain. Tasks Building on the TREC 2024 pilot task, this year’s track introduces two key challenges: Reference Attribution – Identify source documents that support LLM-generated responses to biomedical questions. Answer Grounding – Cite references for each assertion in an answer to a biomedical question to ensure factual accuracy. These tasks aim to reduce hallucinations and promote the generation of evidence-based answers in biomedical applications. Track Website https://trec-biogen.github.io/docs/ Timeline Dataset Release: June 2, 2025 Baseline and Starter Kit Release: June 2, 2025 Results Submission Deadline: August 15, 2025 Evaluation Results Release: Late September, 2025 Notebook Paper Due: Late October, 2025 TREC 2025 Conference: November 17-21 Registrations Please follow the TREC 2025 registration guidelines from their Call for Participation. Communication Join our Google Group for important updates! If you have any questions, ask in our Google Group or email us. Organizers Deepak Gupta - National Library of Medicine, NIH Dina Demner-Fushman - National Library of Medicine, NIH Bill Hersh - Oregon Health & Science University Steven Bedrick - Oregon Health & Science University Kirk Roberts - University of Texas, Houston Thank you

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Call for Proposals: Common Voice Public API Developer Fund
by Francis Tyers 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

[apologies for cross-posting] Dear all, I have been forwarded the following call to share with you about some grants for working with Common Voice: https://common-voice.github.io/common-voice-docs/calls/call_public-api-deve… Highlights: - Grants in the region of $5000-20000 - Language / community specific interface creation - Integrations with other projects Any questions, please contact them on commonvoice(a)mozilla.com. Best regards, Francis M. Tyers

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Free Lancaster webinar - tomorrow
by Brezina, Vaclav 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Dear all, As part of our webinar series introducing MA and PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University, we offer a talk focused on applications of the corpus methodology "Corpus-based discourse analysis and the digital humanities" 2 April 2-3pm UK time. Register: https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina

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2nd Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa)
by Héja Enikő 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

2nd Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa) Budapest, Hungary | November 20-21 The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (HUN-REN) and the Programme Committee are pleased to issue the Second Call for Papers for the 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models. As the submission deadline approaches, we encourage researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities to contribute extended abstracts and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from our distinguished keynote speakers. Keynote speakers: Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy Contributions should address one or more of the following areas (but submissions on other closely related topics are also welcome): General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 30 June 2025: Submission deadline 15 September 2025: Notification of acceptance 20 November – 21 November 2025: Workshop in Budapest 15 January 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=wolala2025> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. Publication Selected papers will be published in Acta Linguistica Academica <https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2062/2062-overview.xml>. After acceptance notifications, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Gábor Prószéky, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany András Kornai, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Frieda Steurs, Dutch Language Institute, Belgium Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Tamás Váradi, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Venue & registration The workshop will take place at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre in Budapest, Hungary, on 20–21 November 2025. Details on registration fees, travel grants, and accommodation options will be posted on the workshop website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/>. Early registration will open in September 2025. LINKS 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=wolala2025 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3 Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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ReLDI konferencija: Language science and technology, Belgrade 25-26 September 2025
by Tanja Samardzic 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

ReLDI Centre Belgrade invites paper submissions to its first conference! Paper submission deadline: *30 June 2025* Conference dates *25-26 September 2025 *Conference web site: https://reldi.rs/en/conference/ Venue: Palace of Science in Belgrade The goal of the conference is to provide a broadly accessible overview of current scientific insights, technological achievements and upcoming trends in the filed of scientific and computational language modelling. We aim at scientifically sound papers with a contribution that is clear although not necessarily highly ambitious. We expect *full papers* of a *minimum length of 4 pages* (no maximum length) describing original, unpublished and completed work. The minimum length includes text, tables, graphs, but not references. Submission types: * Natural language processing (NLP), systematic model evaluation or performance improvement on one or more of the following data sets: o ReLDI <https://reldi.rs/en/data-sets/> o CLASSLA <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/> o JeRTeh <https://jerteh.rs/index.php/en/> / TESLA <https://tesla.rgf.bg.ac.rs/index.php/en/> o Other publicly available data of similar scope and quality * Language structure from the point of view of general linguistics: empirical testing of hypotheses * Theoretical study of natural language relevant to NLP * Theoretical machine learning relevant to NLP * Language services and computational technology * Surveys on any of these topics Best regards, Tanja Samardzic, Programme chair

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CfP DGfS 2025 Computational Linguistics Poster Session
by Annette Hautli-Janisz 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DGfS 2025 Computational Linguistics Poster Session We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 48th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Trier. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics, ranging from models of language across all linguistic areas to corpus lingusitics, multimodal approaches and studies on LLM capability assessment. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is organized by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the DGfS (dgfs.de/cl). Conference webpage: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… DATES - Abstract submission due: September 15, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2025 - Short abstract (for conference website/brochure) due: October 15, 2025 - Conference dates: February 24-27, 2026 SUBMISSION Anonymous one-page abstract (A4) in PDF format (12pt). Submissions can be in German or English. Please submit your abstract via Openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=DGfS.de/2026/Conference_Poster_Session

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CfP: DGFS-AG Intensivierung/Intensification
by Brunner 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

<english version below> Call for Abstracts für die AG "m e e e e e e g a g e i l e Muster von InTeNsIvIeRuNG!!11elf 😎🤩" im Rahmen der *DGFS 2026, 24.-27.02.2026 in Trier* https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… Deadline: *1. August 2025* Die AG widmet sich der formalen und funktionalen Vielfalt von Intensivierung, z.B. welche Strategien und Konstruktionen in sprachlichen Ausdrücken verwendet werden, in welchen Kontexten sie auftreten und welche semiotischen Elemente intensivierbar sind. Das Spektrum umfasst nicht nur lexikogrammatische, sondern auch darüberhinausgehende Phänomene auf allen kommunikativen Ebenen, z.B. typographische und lautliche Mittel oder Gestik und Mimik, als Formen der Intensivierung (Napoli/Ravetto 2017). Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt der Musterhaftigkeit und Kreativität von Intensivierungsstrategien. Während sich bestimmte Verfahren als konventionalisierte Muster beschreiben lassen, sind andere höchst variabel, für Innovationen anfällig und kombinierbar (Cotgrove 2025). Dies wirft theoretische und empirische Fragen nach dem Verhältnis von Konvention und Variation auf: In welchem Maße folgen Intensivierungen wiederkehrenden Form-Funktions-Mustern (Politt/Willich 2024)? Welche Formen der Variation (sozial, stilistisch, medial) lassen sich beobachten, und wie sind diese zu beschreiben? Wir freuen uns auf einen Austausch zu einem Phänomen, das an der Schnittstelle von Lexik, Phonetik/Phonologie, Grammatik, Pragmatik und Semantik liegt. Willkommen sind aktuelle Arbeiten, die sich mit empirischen Untersuchungen zu spezifischen Intensivierungsstrategien befassen sowie mit der Rolle von Intensivierung in unterschiedlichen Diskursen, Genres, Modalitäten oder Varietäten. Ebenfalls von Interesse sind Arbeiten, die sich mit der Frage auseinandersetzen, wie sich von der empirischen Analyse ausgehend theoretische Modelle sprachlicher Intensivierung entwickeln lassen – und umgekehrt, wie theoretische Konzepte die empirische Analyse leiten können. Abstracts in englischer oder deutscher Sprache von höchstens einer Seite Länge (DIN A4, 12pt, 1,5-zeilig) können bis zum 01.08.2025 als nicht anonymisierte PDF-Datei an cotgrove(a)ids-mannheim.de gesendet werden. *Organisationsteam*: Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim), Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim), Katja Politt (Universität Bielefeld, SFB 1646), Alexander Willich (HHU Düsseldorf) *Literaturverzeichnis* Cotgrove, L. (2025): 😡👉👎👈: Entstehende Arten von Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation junger Menschen. In: Deutsche Sprache 1/2025, 2–18. Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (2017): New insights on intensification and intensifiers. In: Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (Hg.): Exploring Intensification. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1–12. Politt, K./Willich, A. (2024): Jetzt hab ich voll die Panik: Prototype effects of NP-external intensifiers in German. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 12(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2024-0002 ---------------- Call for Abstracts for the workshop "s u u u u u p e r awesomepatterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" taking place at *DGFS 2026, 24.-27.02.2026 in Trier, Germany* https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… Deadline: *1. August 2025* The workshop focuses on the formal and functional diversity of intensification, e.g. which strategies and constructions are used in linguistic expressions, in which contexts do they occur, as well as which semiotic elements can be intensified. Intensification is far more diverse than just lexicogrammatical phenomena, with phenomena occurring on on all communicative levels, for example, typographical and phonetic strategies, gestures or facial expressions (Napoli/Ravetto 2017). Particularly of interest for the workshop is the apparent dialectic between recurring patterns and innovation within intensification strategies. While certain processes can be described as conventionalised patterns, others can be highly creative and combined with one another (Cotgrove 2025). This raises theoretical and empirical questions about the relationship between convention and variation: To what extent do intensifications follow recurring form-function patterns (Politt/Willich 2024)? What forms of variation (social, stylistic, medial) can be observed and how can these be described? We look forward to discussion on a phenomenon that lies at the crossroads of lexis, phonetics/phonology, grammar, pragmatics and semantics. We welcome recent work that deals with empirical studies on specific intensification strategies and the role of intensification in different discourses, genres, modalities or varieties. Papers that address how theoretical models of linguistic intensification can be developed on the basis of empirical analysis and conversely, how theoretical concepts can guide empirical analysis, are also welcomed. Abstracts should be in German or English and should not exceed a single A4 page (12pt, 1.5 line spacing). Please submit the abstract as a PDF (anonymisation not necessary) by *1st August 2025*to cotgrove(a)ids-mannheim.de. *Organisation*: Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim), Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim), Katja Politt (Universität Bielefeld, SFB 1646), Alexander Willich (HHU Düsseldorf) *References:* Cotgrove, L. (2025): Novel methods of intensification in young people’s digitally-mediated communication. In: Cotgrove, L./Herzberg, L./Lüngen, H. (eds.): Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora: Methods, analyses, and corpus construction. Berlin: De Gruyter, 137-162. Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (2017): New insights on intensification and intensifiers. In: Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (eds.): Exploring Intensification. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1–12. Politt, K./Willich, A. (2024): Jetzt hab ich voll die Panik: Prototype effects of NP-external intensifiers in German. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 12(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2024-0002 -- Dr. Annelen Brunner Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Lexik Postfach 10 16 21 68016 Mannheim

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Postdoc Position: Chemical and Protein Language Models , Saarland University, Germany
by Dietrich Klakow 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Postdoc Position: Chemical and Protein Language Models Saarland University, Germany =========================================== The research group is focusing on getting a deeper understanding of how language models work and how they can be applied to biomedical domains. Our recent achievements include a best paper award at COLING 2022 and a best theme paper award at ACL 2023. The ideal candidate for the position would have: 1. Excellent knowledge of LLMs, machine learning and deep learning 2. Excellent programming skills 3. PhD in in a relevant field (e.g. CS) 4. Successful experiences working both independently and as part of a small team Salary: The Postdoc position will be 100% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) which is about 4967€ per month before tax and social security contributions. The appointment will be for two years with a possible extension. About the department: The department of Language Science and Technology is one of the leading departments in the speech and language area in Europe. The flagship project at the moment is the CRC on Information Density. It also runs a significant number of European and nationally funded projects. In total, it has seven faculty and around 50 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The department is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus. With 900 researchers, two Max Planck institutes and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, it is one of the leading locations for Informatics in Germany and Europe. We also have close collaborations with the department of bioinformatics and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research. How to apply: Please send us a letter of motivation, your CV, your transcripts, a list of publications, and the names and contact information of at least two references, as a single PDF or a link to a PDF if the file size is more than 5 MB. Please apply latest by June 18th, 2025. Contact: Applications and any further inquiries regarding our research should be directed to dietrich.klakow(a)lsv.uni-saarland.de

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1 fully-funded PhD on Language Technologies for Cultural Heritage at U. di Bologna (application deadline: July 1st)
by Alberto Barrón-Cedeño 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

[apologies for cross-postings] the Department of Interpreting and Translation of University of Università di Bologna [1] is offering one fully-paid three-year PhD grant in the program “Translation, Interpreting, and Intercultural Studies”, starting in November 2025. Besides the monthly stipend, the PhD programme guarantees additional economic support for a 6 to 12 months internship abroad. Project description. LLMs (e.g., Llama, deepseek, Gemini, chatGPT) have turned into pervasive services faster than hardly any previous technology around the world. Still, the quality of their output is highly imbalanced between English and other languages. Despite their successful handling of many complex linguistic tasks, LLMs have a hard time dealing with regional concepts and realia for which not enough data exist online. The PhD should focus on... (a) measuring the level (or lack) of local cultural knowledge by LLMs in multiple languages, (b) measuring the influence of English in LLM-produced texts, both from a linguistic and a cultural point of view, in applications such as machine translation, dialogue and text generation, and (c) designing and implementing strategies to produce and publish high-quality multicultural data and incorporate them in LLMs to boost their local awareness. We focus especially on (Italian) gastronomy. We welcome candidates with relevant backgrounds in natural language processing, digital humanities, and/or translation/linguistics, among others. We encourage students with programming and machine learning skills. For expressions of interest and informal discussion, please contact Prof. Alberto Barrón-Cedeño [2]. For the official application process, please visit: - https://www.unibo.it/en/study/phd-professional-masters-specialisation-schoo… (in English) - https://www.unibo.it/it/studiare/dottorati-master-specializzazioni-e-altra-… (in Italian) (the “official” title of the project is “On the treatment of local cultural concepts by large language models and the societal impact of pervasive Artificial Intelligence”) The student will depart from ongoing work within projects !Translate [3], GastroWiki [4] and GIARA. (S)he will also interact with an ongoing PhD research on NLP applied to gastronomy [5,6], and will join a growing research group with four professors (covering disciplines across computer science and linguistics) and four 2nd- and 3rd-year PhD students. Timeline, all in 2025: - 1st of July: application deadline (notice that the application includes a project proposal, prepared by the applicant). - 1st week of July: short-listing of the best applicants and invitation to oral interviews - Mid July: oral interviews with the commission (in presence or online) - End of July: publication of the final decision - 1st of November: the PhD starts. [1] https://dit.unibo.it [2] https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/a.barron/en ; https://aclanthology.org/people/a/alberto-barron-cedeno/ [3] https://site.unibo.it/no-translate/en [4] https://site.unibo.it/gastrowiki/ [5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457325001360 [6] https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3878/46_main_long.pdf Best regards, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño -- Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (PhD) Associate Professor (NLP) DIT Università di Bologna https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/a.barron/

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Extended Deadline: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Dear Corpora members, we announce that the deadline for submissions to CLiC-it 2025 has been extended to the 16th of June 2025. The final Call for Papers can be found below. Looking forward to seeing you in Cagliari, the CLiC-it chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2025 – Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 24 – 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC — http://www.ai-lc.it/). ➢ CONFERENCE TOPICS CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): Computational Historical Linguistics Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Ethics and NLP Generation Handwritten Text Recognition Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond Large Language Models Linguistic Diversity Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics Machine Learning for NLP Machine Translation Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP NLP Applications NLP for the Humanities Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation Pragmatics and Creativity Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech and Multimodality Summarization Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing ➢ RESEARCH COMMUNICATION CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2025 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. The research communication papers will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to the number of submissions received. ➢ PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages of content and up to three (3) pages of references. Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed one (1) page in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper. Upon acceptance, final versions of the papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: soundness of approach relevance to computational linguistics novelty and clarity of relation with related work quality of presentation quality of evaluation (if applicable) verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. *All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings.* Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.… Word template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025 For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected. ➢ AWARDS To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of “best paper” will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master’s or PhD student is the first author and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. ➢ IMPORTANT DATES 16/06/2025 [EXTENDED]– Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications 21/07/2025 – Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome 04/08/2025 – Camera ready version of accepted papers 24-26/09/2025 – CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari ➢ PEOPLE Conference Chairs: Cristina Bosco (University of Torino) Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) Marco Polignano (University of Bari) Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari) Senior Program Committee: Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission – Ispra) Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna) Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen) Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) Rossella Varvara (University of Turin – University of Pavia) Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano) Local Organizing Committee: Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari) Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari) Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari) Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari) Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari) Web chairs: Maurizio Atzori Andrea Loddo ➢ FURTHER INFORMATION Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com

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[CFP] 1st Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning at COLM 2025
by ACL Announcements 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

1st Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning at COLM2025 Website: https://xllm-reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io/ Submission Deadline: June 23, 2025 We are thrilled to announce the First Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning at COLM 2025. Enabling large language models (LLMs) to reason (e.g., arithmetic reasoning, symbolic reasoning, commonsense reasoning, etc.) and plan (e.g., path-finding, tool use, web navigation, computer use, etc.) has been a popular topic in the past few years. Despite the exciting achievement, there have also been growing concerns about the safety and trustworthiness of these LLM applications, due to our large "unknowns" on how LLMs achieve these capabilities and where they could fail. On the other hand, LLM explainability (broadly including any research explaining or interpreting LLMs) has also attracted increasing attention, but existing research has mostly focused on simplified tasks and hardly yields insights that can be directly applied to realistic reasoning and planning tasks. This discrepancy has consequently raised doubts about the practical meaning of LLM explainability research. In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers from various perspectives to discuss the potential and practical applications of model explainability to advancing LLM reasoning and planning. Specifically, the workshop welcomes submissions on the following topics (non-exclusively): Local explanations (e.g., feature attribution, textual explanations, including CoT type) of LLMs in reasoning and/or planning tasks; Global explanations (e.g., mechanistic interpretability) of LLMs in reasoning and/or planning tasks; Applications of explainability to enhance LLM's effectiveness in reasoning and/or planning tasks; Applications of explainability to enhance LLM's safety and trustworthiness in reasoning and/or planning tasks; User interface development driven by LLM explanations; Human-LLM collaboration and teaming driven by explanations; and Explainability-driven, automatic, or human-in-the-loop LLM evaluation. We warmly invite researchers from both academia and industry with interests in LLM explainability, reasoning, and planning for participation. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 23, 2025, 23:59 AoE Acceptance notification: July 24, 2025 WEBSITE: https://xllm-reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io/ Google Group (join for latest updates via email): https://groups.google.com/g/xllm-reasoning-planning-workshop ORGANIZERS: Daking Rai, George Mason University Ziyu Yao, George Mason University Hanjie Chen, Rice University Mengan Du, New Jersey Institute of Technology Shi Feng, George Washington University Q.Vera Liao, Microsoft Research/University of Michigan Andreas Madsen, Guide Labs Abulhair Saparov, Purdue University Yilun Zhou, Salesforce Research CONTACT: xllmreasoningplanningworkshop(a)gmail.com

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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval
by Ingo Frommholz 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

** Early-bird rate deadline extended! ** Join us in Wolverhampton for a week of IR, AI, NLP, HCI and lots of discussion with experts in a friendly environment! ELLIS ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, will take place July 7-11 in Wolverhampton, UK. https://2025.essir.eu/ The registration is open and ear-bird deadline was extended – https://2025.essir.eu/attending/registration Travel support is available – https://2025.essir.eu/attending/travel-support About the School The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines like AI and NLP; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world. ELLIS ESSIR will offer a rich programme of high-profile and world leading lecturers in Information Retrieval, NLP and AI. Taught topics include: Introduction to Information Retrieval and Evaluation Generative AI and Information Retrieval Scholarly Document Processing and Retrieval UX and HCI with Information Retrieval Neural Re-ranking RAG and agentic IR Explainability in AI The Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2025) symposium will be held along ESSIR. Please visit https://2025.essir.eu/ for further information, travel support and registration. For additional enquiries, please contact essir-2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:essir-2025@googlegroups.com>. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Wolverhampton! -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor of Applied Data Science, Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @ifromm.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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NLP and vision online seminars (NLPV) at the University of Exeter - upcoming talks in June
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to join the NLP and vision seminars (NLPV). This is a talk series supported by the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) at the University of Exeter. We update talks and their recordings on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars The recent two talks are listed below: Talk 1 12 June 2025, 3-4pm: Prof Yulan He at King's College London Zoom link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94376040685?pwd=UvLl8gKZnVoa4PNpv40jTh… (Meeting ID: 943 7604 0685 Password: 582538) Title: LLMs Need a Bayesian Meta-Reasoning Framework for More Robust and Generalisable Reasoning Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many reasoning tasks, they still struggle with robustness, cross-task generalisation, and efficient scaling. Current training approaches, such as next-token prediction, reinforcement learning, and prompt optimisation, offer performance improvements but often lack adaptability across diverse tasks. In this talk, I will advocate for a transformative shift in how LLMs approach reasoning by introducing a Bayesian meta-reasoning framework that equips them with self-awareness, monitoring, evaluation, regulation, and meta-reflection. This framework aims to enhance LLMs' ability to refine reasoning strategies and generalise more effectively. I will discuss key challenges in current approaches and outline future directions for developing more adaptable and generalisable LLMs. Speaker's short bio: Yulan He is a Professor in Natural Language Processing at the Department of Informatics in King’s College London. She is currently holding a prestigious 5-year UKRI Turing AI Fellowship. Her recent research focused on addressing the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs), aiming to enhance their reasoning capabilities, robustness, and explainability. She has published nearly 300 papers on topics such as self-evolution of LLMs, mechanistic interpretability, and LLM for educational assessment. She received several prizes and awards for her research, including an SWSA Ten-Year Award, a CIKM Test-of-Time Award, and was recognised as an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS. Talk 2 26 June 2025, 3-4pm: Dr Tanja Samardžić at the University of Zurich Zoom link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97673721568?pwd=6IAO875zCe1GjYsFN2vig8… (Meeting ID: 976 7372 1568 Password: 548777) Title: Understanding text tokenisation across diverse languages Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are commonly said to be trained on raw text, but, in fact, they are trained on tokenised text, segmented into small, subword units (tokens). For example, a popular tokenizer splits the word 'plausible' into 'pl aus ible'. Somewhat surprisingly, general data compression algorithms such as BPE turned out more efficient than linguistic subword analyses when used as tokenizers in the context of training LLMs. These algorithms seem to find recurrent patterns that are well exploited by neural networks despite being linguistically incorrect. In this talk, I will show that, despite the perceived linguistic inadequacy, structural features of languages can be extracted from text data by tracking the text compression steps in subword tokenisation. I will present several studies showing that exploiting these features more directly allows us improve cross-lingual transfer and multilingual fairness of pre-trained LLMs. Speaker's short bio: Dr Tanja Samardžić is a researcher in multilingual text processing with a background in language theory and machine learning. She teaches Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the University of Geneva (as a senior deputy lecturer) and collaborate on research projects of the NLP Group at IDSIA. She is one of the co-founders of ReLDI Centre Belgrade. She holds a PhD in Computational linguistics from the University of Geneva, where she studied in the group Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics (CLCL). After the PhD, She was the Head of the Text Group and a lab director (alternating) of the Language and Space Lab at the University of Zurich (2013-2024), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (2024) and a Visiting Researcher at the IT University Copenhagen (2022). She is committed to promoting and facilitating the use of computational approaches in the study of language. Currently, she serves as a ACL Rolling Review Senior Area Chair, a UniDive COST Action Managing Committee Member and an External Governing Board Member of the SMASH Postdoctoral Program. Joining our *Google group* for future seminars and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g… Best regards, Hang Dong (on behalf of Aline Villaviencio, Rodrigo Wilkens, Yanda Meng) Lecturer in Computer Science University of Exeter

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1 PhD position in Linguistics as part of the ARMADA project – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (University of Verona, Italy)
by Valeria Franceschi 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

The ARMADA project aims to address critical issues related to the reliability and quality of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Bard. ARMADA seeks to develop solutions that make these AI systems more trustworthy, coherent, and verifiable. The project will train 15 early-stage researchers across nine research groups, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches that combine Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and social sciences. The position in linguistics will work on the analysis of bias in training materials for chatbots/LLM via linguistic corpora analysis. The doctoral student will be enrolled in the doctoral program of Foreign Literatures and Languages at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona. For further information and requirements, read the complete call at: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342476 ---------------------------------------- Valeria Franceschi, Ph.D Associate Professor English Language, Translation and Linguistics (ANGL-01/C) University of Verona Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Palazzo di Lingue, Piano 3, studio 3.07 Lungadige Porta Vittoria 41 37129 Verona (VR) Phone: 0458028729

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Job : Ph.D. student : Standardization and automated correction of learners' written productions
by Thomas François 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

L'UCLouvain recherche un chercheur ou une chercheuse pour un doctorat en traitement automatique du langage - bourse de doctorat à temps plein (100%) pour une durée de deux ans, renouvelable une fois sous conditions - pour le Centre de traitement automatique du langage (Cental), de l'Institut langage et communication (ILC) à l’UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) - entrée en fonction: 1er septembre 2025 (négociable) Cette proposition de bourse de doctorat s’articule sur les travaux récents réalisés par le Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL) sur des données de productions écrites d’apprenants du français langue étrangère. Reposant sur une collaboration féconde avec FEI (France Éducation International), ces recherches ont déjà abouti dans une solution de correction automatisée des épreuves écrites du TCF, FIDELIA (https://www.france-education-international.fr/actualites/lettre-fei/2024-06…). Dans ce projet, nous visons à dépasser la simple caractérisation de la compétence écrite des apprenants de FLE, en détectant automatiquement les erreurs qu’ils commettent afin de les corriger (= normalisation). Ce projet vise à combler l’absence de travaux en matière de normalisation et de correction neuronale des erreurs d’apprenants en français et s’inscrit dans la logique du centre K de l’UCLouvain (CLARIN). La détection des erreurs d’apprenants et leur normalisation ouvrent de nombreuses perspectives : correction automatisée, génération de feedback, amélioration des recherches sur corpus grâce à la forme normée, etc. Pour ce faire, ce projet visera trois objectifs principaux : 1. Constituer un corpus parallèle (version originale et normalisée) pour 6569 textes d’apprenants rédigés dans le cadre d’un examen officiel de français, le TCF. Ce corpus, rassemblé en collaboration avec France Éducation Internationale, constitue une ressource unique pour le français (Wilkens et al., 2022). Il s’agira de le normaliser manuellement (i.e. identifier et corriger les erreurs), mais aussi de les classer selon une typologie inspirée de Granger (2003). 2. Profiter des dernières avancées en matière d’apprentissage profond pour exploiter ce corpus annoté et concevoir un système automatisé capable de (1) normaliser les productions d’apprenants en français et (2) de les catégoriser en fonction de notre typologie. Nous comparerons cette solution aux performances des modèles génératifs de type ChatGPT, qui ne nécessitent pas de données d’entraînement (zero-shot learning). 3. Exploiter les méta-données du corpus (niveau CECR et langue maternelle) pour décrire (1) les types d’erreurs typiques de chaque niveau CECR ; (2) les erreurs typiques de locuteurs ayant une langue maternelle donnée et (3) l’interaction entre ces deux variables, à savoir comment les erreurs se distribuent par niveau en fonction de la langue maternelle. Au sein de projet, le rôle du doctorant ou de la doctorante engagé consistera à mener l’essentiel de la recherche, à savoir réaliser les trois étapes décrites ci-dessus. Le chercheur ou la chercheuse devra également assurer la diffusion des résultats obtenus via des publications scientifiques et rédiger une thèse de doctorat. Il ou elle sera amené à collaborer étroitement avec les autres membres de l’équipe en vue d’assurer la bonne réalisation de ces tâches. Environnement de travail Le CENTAL est rattaché à l’Institut Langage & Communication (https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc), qui fait partie de l’UCLouvain. Cette université est située à Louvain-la-Neuve (https://uclouvain.be/fr/sites/louvain-la-neuve), une ville piétonne, agréable à vivre et très dynamique. Le projet de recherche sera réalisé sous la direction du Pr. Thomas François (https://cental.uclouvain.be/team/tfrancois/), expert en lisibilité et en simplification automatique de la langue et du Dr. Patrick Watrin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwatrin/?originalSubdomain=be), expert dans les larges modèles de langue appliqués à la recherche d’information et le traitement numérique des corpus. Qualifications et aptitudes requises Le candidat répondra aux qualifications suivantes : * Être porteur d’un master en Linguistique computationelle, en Traitement automatique du langage (TAL) ou en Informatique (option en Intelligence artificielle). * Faire montre d’un excellent parcours académique * Disposer de bonnes compétences informatiques : * langages de programmation : Python, R (ou similaire) * la connaissance de scikit-learn, pandas, tensorflow/keras et/ou pytorch * systèmes : Linux de préférence * Bonne connaissance des principaux outils et algorithmes du TAL. La connaissance des réseaux de neurones profonds est un plus. * Excellente maîtrise du français (niveau C1 minimum) et bonne connaissance de l’anglais (niveau B2 minimum) * Autonomie, curiosité, sens du travail en équipe, capacité d’écoute et d’analyse des besoins, réactivité. Conditions d’engagement : Cette bourse de doctorat est soumise aux conditions suivantes : * Le candidat ou la candidate, suite à la procédure de recrutement, devra encore être approuvée par le Conseil de Recherche de l’UCLouvain. * À la date d’engagement, le doctorant doit être titulaire depuis au maximum 3 ans* d’un grade académique de master 120 crédits ou d’un grade reconnu comme équivalent. * Le candidat ou la candidate devra se domicilier en Belgique pendant la durée du contrat de bourse. * Le montant net de la bourse est d’environ 2 500 euros par mois. * Pour voir sa bourse être renouvelée pour une période de deux ans supplémentaires, le candidat ou la candidate devra soumettre une demande de financement auprès du FNRS et être classé à minima au rang « A » ainsi qu’avoir réussi son épreuve de confirmation. * Le délai maximum fixé ci-dessus est augmenté d’une année par accouchement et/ou par adoption. Dossier de candidature : Date limite de remise du dossier : 1er juillet Si vous êtes intéressé par ce poste, merci d'envoyer votre dossier de candidature à Thomas François (thomas.francois(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:thomas.francois@uclouvain.be>) et Patrick Watrin (p<mailto:patrick.watrin@uclouvain.be>atrick.watrin(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:patrick.watrin@uclouvain.be>) par mail. Celui-ci devra inclure : 1. un curriculum vitae détaillé en français ou anglais reprenant les différentes qualifications et aptitudes requises, les détails de votre parcours académique (grades, listes de cours), ainsi que les éventuelles publications et autres expériences académiques et scientifiques ; 2. une lettre de motivation en français, décrivant votre intérêt pour le poste, comment votre profil répond à la description du poste et aux objectifs du projet, etc. (maximum 2 pages) ; 3. une lettre de référence en français ou en anglais de la part d’un ou d’une de vos professeur(e)s. 4. Un « academic statement » : une déclaration académique concise dans laquelle vous exposez vos attentes vis-à-vis de vos études de troisième cycle (doctorat), ainsi que vos objectifs de carrière.  Les candidats retenus seront invités à participer à un entretien via vidéo-conférence selon des modalités qui leur seront ensuite transmises par mail. Plus d'informations : Les questions concernant le poste ou la procédure de candidature doivent être envoyées par e-mail à Thomas François (thomas.francois(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:thomas.francois@uclouvain.be>) et à Patrick Watrin (patrick.watrin(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:patrick.watrin@uclouvain.be>) avant le 20 juin. Thomas François Chargé de cours en linguistique appliquée Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres Université catholique de Louvain Institut Langage et Communication, PLIN, CENTAL et TeaMM Place Montesquieu, 3 - box L2.06.04 • B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve • Belgium Tél. : +32 (0)10 / 47 37 36

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LeWiDi - Second call for participation
by Casola, Silvia 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

LeWiDi: Shared task on Learning With Disagreement - Second call for participation We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement and variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at the EMNLP conference in Suzhou, China. The LeWiDi series is positioned within the growing body of research that questions the practice of label harmonization and the reliance on a single ground truth in AI and NLP. This year's shared task challenges participants to leverage both instance-level disagreement and annotator-level information in classification. The proposed tasks include ones that address disagreement in both generation and labeling—with a dataset for Natural Language Inference (NLI) and another for paraphrase detection—as well as subjective tasks, including irony and sarcasm detection. Competition webpage: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7192/ ==== Subtasks and datasets ==== Participants will be able to submit to subtasks exploring different types of disagreement through dedicated datasets: 1. The Conversational Sarcasm corpus (CSC) – a dataset of context+response pairs rated for sarcasm, with ratings from 1 to 6. 2. The MultiPico dataset (MP) – a crowdsourced multilingual irony detection dataset. Annotators were tasked to detect whether a reply was ironic in the context of a brief post-reply exchange on social media. Annotators ids and metadata (gender, age, nationality, etc) are available. Languages include Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese. 3. The Paraphrase dataset (Par) – a dataset of question pairs for which the annotators had to tell whether the two questions are paraphrases of each other, using values on a Likert scale. 4. TheVariErrNLI dataset (VariErrNLI) – a dataset originally designed for automatic error detection, distinguishing between annotation errors and legitimate human label variations in Natural Language Inference. Participants will be able to submit to one or multiple datasets. ==== Tasks and Evaluation ==== In this edition, only soft evaluation metrics will be used. We will however experiment with two forms of tasks and evaluation: * TASK A (SOFT LABEL PREDICTION): Systems will be asked to output a probability distribution of the values. EVALUATION: the distance between this predicted soft label and that resulting from human annotations will be computed. * TASK B (PERSPECTIVIST PREDICTION): Systems will be asked to predict each annotator's label on items. EVALUATION: a measure of correctness of the predictions Participants will be able to submit to one or both tasks. ==== Important Dates ==== Training data ready: May 15th 2025 Evaluation Starts: June 15th 2025 Evaluation Ends: July 10th 2025 Paper submission due: August 1st, 2025 Notification to authors: August 25th, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: September 12, 2025 NLPerspectives workshop: November 8, 2025 We are looking forward to your submission! The LeWidi team

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Deadline extension: BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (an IWCS 2025 workshop)
by Timothée Bernard 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

New deadline: *13 June 2025*, anywhere on Earth Venue: IWCS 2025 (https://iwcs2025.github.io/), Düsseldorf, Germany Date: *September 24th, 2025* (main conference: 22nd-23rd) Workshop website: https://brigap-workshop.github.io/ BriGap-2 is a venue for linguists and NLP scientists to meet: what fruitful interactions can we have? How do we build upon each other’s work? * Description * In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has shifted its focus towards engineering questions. This state of affairs is in no small part due to the recent technical advances that have transformed NLP as a field. In the current large language model (LLM) era, much of what was deemed near impossible to achieve a few years prior is now taken for granted and it stands to reason that mapping how far ahead new computational models have advanced the field has become a central topic for the NLP community. Hence, the current ongoing discourse in NLP focuses more on what can be achieved through language rather than studying language for its own sake. It seems thus that computational and formal linguistics are now separate domains, and that the former is no longer rooted in the latter. To what extent are these traditions truly divorced, and what fruitful bridges can be (re)built? To answer these questions, the second iteration of the workshop on Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (BriGap-2) intends to provide a space for formal linguists, computational linguists, and NLP scientists to exchange their perspectives on how their different domains of research can build upon one another. * Workshop topics * - investigation of the linguistic properties of machine learning models, - linguistic representations, vector space semantics, and their relations with theoretical concepts such as compositionality, - use of information-theoretical and computational methods for linguistic inquiry, - formal distributional semantics and neural-symbolic integration for NLP, - formal grammars, symbolic structures and their applications for computational linguistics and NLP, - trends in the history of computational linguistics and NLP, - … * Invited speakers * - Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen - Kees VAN DEEMTER, Universiteit Utrecht * Submission details * The workshop accepts both archival (original and unpublished research) and non-archival (work-in-progress, dissemination of research published or accepted elsewhere, etc.) submissions in either short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) format. Camera-ready versions of papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Each submission should mention whether it targets archival or non-archival status. Archival papers accepted at BriGap-2 will be indexed in the ACL Anthology. Please use the ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files The submissions need to be done in PDF format via OpenReview, using the following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/BriGap-2 * Important dates * - Submission deadline:* Friday, June 13th 2025* - Notification of acceptance: Friday, August 1st 2025 - Workshop: *September 24th, 2025* (main conference: 22nd-23rd) * Contact * For questions, please send an email to brigapworkshop(a)gmail.com or contact one of the workshop chairs: - Timothée Bernard, Université Paris Cité, timothee.bernard(a)u-paris.fr - Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi - Grégoire Winterstein, Université du Québec à Montréal, winterstein.gregoire(a)uqam.ca

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025) September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) (*** Journal Special Issue with Springer's SN Computer Science ***) (*** Final Submission Deadline Extended to June 9, 2025 ***) Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being, inclusion and sustainable development” OVERVIEW Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being and to preserving the Planet. I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity, towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: e-Business • Innovative e-business models • Inter-organizational systems • Business process integration • Business process re-engineering • e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals • Digital goods and products • User behaviour modeling • Mobile business • Enterprise application integration • e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting • Supply, demand, and value chains • e-Commerce content management • Dynamic pricing models • Trust and security • Mobile Commerce • Business Intelligence • Business Ontologies and Models • E-Business Models e-Services • e-Service composition • Inter-organizational services • e-Collaboration and e-Services • Service-oriented computing • Web services • Semantic web services • Service workflows • Virtual organizations and coalitions • Virtual enterprises and virtual markets • Web 2.0 applications • Agent-oriented e-Services • P2P co-operation models • Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services • Application service management • Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum • Next-gen AI services • Enterprise Ontologies • Accessibility • Usability e-Society • e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C) • Digital cities and regions • e-Democracy and e-Governance • e-Inclusion to information society • e-Health and e-Education • Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises • One-stop government service integration • Mobile public services • Multimedia and multilingualism • Digital culture and digital divide • Privacy and security • Legal societal and cultural issues • Public-private partnerships • International dimension of e-Gov • E-society and AI • Digital Transformation • Social Computing • Green Computing • Sustainable Technologies • Humanitarian & Emergency Management • Digital Inclusion • Digital Literacy SUBMISSION Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 . Length of papers The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Journal Special Issue Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper (with at least 30% additional material) for fast-track review and publication in Springer's SN Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: June 9, 2025 (AoE) (*** final extension! ***) • Author Notification: July 7, 2025 • Camera-Ready: July 14, 2025 • Author Registration: July 14, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chairs • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus • Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku • Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa • Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

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Deadline extension! IWCS International Conference on Computational Semantics: Final CfP
by Kilian Evang 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 22-24 September 2025 https://iwcs2025.github.io/ DEADLINE EXTENDED New deadline: 13 June 2025, anywhere on Earth FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS IWCS is a biennial conference on computational semantics. This year's edition is organized by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The conference is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation and learning of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference and workshops will take place 22-24 September 2025. The invited speakers of IWCS 2025 are: Oana-Maria Camburu (University College London) Alexander Koller (Saarland University) Denis Paperno (Utrecht University) We invite paper submissions in all areas of computational semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Submissions are invited on these closely related areas: design of meaning representations syntax-semantics interface representing and resolving semantic ambiguity shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics distributional semantics alternative approaches to compositional semantics inference methods for computational semantics recognising textual entailment learning by reading methodologies and practices for semantic annotation machine learning of semantic structures probabilistic computational semantics neural semantic parsing computing meaning with large language models computational aspects of lexical semantics semantics and ontologies semantic web and natural language processing semantic aspects of language generation generating from meaning representations semantic relations in discourse and dialogue semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning semantics-pragmatics interface applications of computational semantics SUBMISSION INFORMATION Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Both types should be submitted no later than 06 June 2025 (anywhere on earth). Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages. Acknowledgments, references, a limitations section (optional), an ethics statement (optional), and a technical appendix (optional, not subject to reviewing) do not count towards the page limit. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version and will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person. Papers will be accepted either for oral presentation or for a poster presentation. Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Style-files IWCS 2025 papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by IWCS 2021 (borrowed from ACL 2021). Please use these specific style-files or the Overleaf template. Style files: https://iwcs2021.github.io/download/iwcs2021-templates.zip Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceed… Submitting Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Conference Please contact the program chairs if you have problems using OpenReview. No anonymity period IWCS 2025 does not have an anonymity period. However, we ask you to be reasonable and not publicly advertise your preprint during (or right before) review. Double submission policy Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at IWCS 2025 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. IMPORTANT DATES All dates are anywhere on Earth. Paper submission: 13 June 2025 Notification of acceptance: 01 August 2025 Camera-ready due: 22 August 2025 IWCS conference: 22-24 September 2025 CONTACT Local Organizers Chen Long Rafael Ehren Kilian Evang Laura Kallmeyer Rainer Osswald Christian Wurm Deniz Ekin Yavaş iwcs2025-organizers(a)uni-duesseldorf.de Program Chairs Kilian Evang (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Sylvain Pogodalla (INRIA Nancy) iwcs2025-program-chairs(a)uni-duesseldorf.de -- Dr. Kilian Evang · Institut für Linguistik · Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 · 40225 Düsseldorf · https://kilian.evang.name

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R package for dispersion analysis
by Sönning, Lukas 01 Jun '25

01 Jun '25

Announcement: The recently launched {tlda} package facilitates corpus-based dispersion analysis using R. It offers functions to calculate seven parts-based measures, including their frequency-adjusted variants. The package is available on CRAN<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tlda/index.html>. For a brief intro, see the ReadMe<https://github.com/lsoenning/tlda> file on Github. More details can be found in two vignettes, which give a general overview<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tlda/vignettes/dispersion-analysis.…> and discuss the implementation of frequency adjustment<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tlda/vignettes/frequency-adjustment…>. ............................................................................... Dr. Lukas Sönning Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte An der Universität 9 D-96045 Bamberg Tel. +49 (0)951/863-2267 lukas.soenning(a)uni-bamberg.de<mailto:lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de> https://lsoenning.github.io/

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🚀 Join Our Research Collaboration Team
by CortexTor Labs 01 Jun '25

01 Jun '25

Work alongside us on innovative projects at the forefront of artificial intelligence. As a research collaborator, you’ll explore a range of impactful topics and contribute to high-quality publications, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI. Topics include: 1) Visual Storytelling 2) Talking Face Generation 3) Prompt-Based Media Generation and Editing 4) Multimodal Logical and Mathematical Reasoning 5) Multimodal Causal Reasoning 6) Human-AI Interaction We currently have over 15 interns who will be joining you to support research activities. This collaboration track is open to anyone passionate about research, publication, exploration, or working in a team—whether you're a student, professional, or independent learner. If you're curious and committed, we’d love to collaborate with you. Please note that this research collaboration track is unpaid. Its purpose is to foster teamwork, collective learning, and collaborative problem-solving on complex tasks. If you are interested in this opportunity, then please go through the link: https://cortextor.com/jobs Please feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested in collaborating. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at hr(a)cortextor.com. Thank you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Regards, HR Team, CortexTor Labs, India +91 9997181665 hr(a)cortextor.com https://cortextor.com/

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LxGr2025: Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 31 May '25

31 May '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 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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Webinar by: Mirella Lapata (The University of Edinburgh)
by HiTZ zentroa 30 May '25

30 May '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). This is the final webinar for this academic year. We will return with another series of webinars next fall, so be sure to stay tuned! Next webinar: Speaker: Mirella Lapata (The University of Edinburgh) Title: Prompting is *not* all you need! Or why Multi-LLM Collaboration Matters Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 15:00 CET Summary: Recent years have witnessed the rise of increasingly larger and more sophisticated language models (LMs) capable of performing every task imaginable, sometimes at (super)human level. In this talk, I will argue that in many realistic scenarios solely relying on a single general-purpose LLM is suboptimal. A single LLM is likely to under-represent real-world data distributions, heterogeneous skills, and task-specific requirements. Instead, I will discuss Multi-LLM collaboration as an alternative for compositional generative modeling. This approach leads to more effective problem-solving while being more inclusive and explainable. I will focus on narrative story generation tasks and demonstrate how these can be tackled by orchestrating a society of agents --- each pursuing individual goals while collectively working toward the overall task objective. Additionally, I will explore how these agent societies leverage reasoning to improve performance. Bio: Mirella Lapata is professor of natural language processing in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on getting computers to understand, reason with, and generate natural language. She is the first recipient (2009) of the British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS/IRSG) Karen Sparck Jones award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the ACL, and Academia Europaea. Mirella has also received best paper awards in leading NLP conferences and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Transactions of the ACL, and Computational Linguistics. She was president of SIGDAT (the group that organizes EMNLP) in 2018. She has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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CompℹLa2025 workshop
by David Sánchez 29 May '25

29 May '25

Dear collague, We would like to submit the following conference announcement to the Corpora mailing list: This is the 2025 edition of the Complexity in Language CompℹLa workshop, a satellite of the Conference on Complex Systems to be held in Siena (Italy). Our event will take place on September 4 and will be devoted to complex sytems approaches to language, ranging from statistical properties of language to the application of mathematical methods and data analysis to language variation and change. The scope of the meeting also emcompasses syntax and cognitive linguistics. Feel free to learn more by visiting https://compila2025.ifisc.uib-csic.es/ We emphasize that the program has slots for contributed talks, so everyone is invited to apply! Let me know if you need any additional information. Best regards, David Sanchez (on behalf of the organizers)

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Two fully-funded PhD positions at the CCL group at USI in Lugano, Switzerland
by Lonneke van der Plas 29 May '25

29 May '25

We have two fully-funded, four-year PhD positions available on a broad range of topics available in the Computation, Cognition, and Language group led by Prof. Lonneke van der Plas at USI Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. The ideal starting date is Sept/Oct 2025 (applications before June 15), but open until filled. Specifically, we are looking for applications in the following areas: * NLP for cognitive modelling, for example research on the computational modelling of creative thinking, reasoning and argumentation * Diachronic study of language using computational models * NLP for mental health * Multilingual NLP (including low-resource languages) * Foundations of Large Language Models More information here: https://sites.google.com/site/lonnekenlp/phd-positions-available

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CfP: Future Directions in Information Access FDIA 2025 at ESSIR 2025 in Wolverhampton, UK
by Ingo Frommholz 28 May '25

28 May '25

FDIA 2025: PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access Key Benefits: · Present your research to the academic community at FDIA 2025 (https://2025.essir.eu/fdia) · Receive valuable feedback from peers and established scholars · Connect with fellow researchers in Information Access and Retrieval · For the first time, accepted works can be presented at ECIR 2026 as an FDIA Track Poster! Submission Format: · 2-page abstract (excluding references) · Use one-column CEUR style format (CEURART.zip) · Submit as PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2025 Important Dates: · June 16, 2025: Submission deadline · June 30, 2025: Notification of acceptance · July 3, 2025: Camera-ready deadline · July 9, 2025: FDIA Symposium in Wolverhampton (during ESSIR 2025, July 7-11) Are you an early-career researcher seeking a supportive environment to present your work and gain constructive feedback? This year's FDIA in Wolverhampton provides an ideal stepping stone in your academic journey. The 13th edition of our PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2025) will be held in conjunction with the 16th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2025, https://2025.essir.eu/home, 07-11 July 2025). We cordially invite Masters and doctoral (PhD) students as well as early-stage researchers to participate in this forum, which offers a valuable opportunity to present your emerging research and receive feedback from peers and established scholars in the field. For the first time, accepted submissions will also be given the opportunity to present their work as a poster at the following European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)! By participating in the FDIA Symposium, you will gain experience presenting your research, receive constructive feedback, connect with fellow researchers, deepen your understanding of Information Retrieval concepts, and engage with thought-provoking presentations from experienced scholars. The symposium focuses on "Future Directions" by welcoming submissions that explore early-stage research, including pilot studies and initial findings, conceptual frameworks, current challenges, and doctoral work in progress. We use the term "Information Access" to encompass the broader spectrum of information retrieval, storage, and management, including interaction and usage aspects, reflecting the evolving nature of information systems in practice. We welcome submissions that present new research directions and emerging work in Information Access and Retrieval. Papers that stimulate discussion and offer fresh perspectives are particularly encouraged. The symposium provides a supportive environment for researchers to share preliminary findings, theoretical models, and innovative approaches that contribute to advancing the field. Areas of research include, but are not limited to: · Information Retrieval Theory · Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, User Modelling, Interactive IR · Collaborative Information Seeking and Searching · IR for Good · IR Evaluation · Learning to Rank · Retrieval-augmented Generation · Neural and Generative IR · Multimedia and Multimodal IR · Recommender Systems · Web IR · Clustering and Categorisation · Enterprise Search · Conversational Agents, knowledge graphs · IR Applications (e.g. Digital Humanities, News IR, Legal IR, IR and Bibliometrics, Academic Search and Recommendation, etc.) · NeuraSearch (use of fMRI, EEG, fNTIR, Eye Tracking, etc. in IR) Papers should be two pages in length, excluding references for presentation and poster (e.g., an outline of the PhD or Master’s project, a discussion of topics and ideas). Submissions should be converted to PDF and submitted via Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2025 We plan to publish the proceedings at CEUR-WS.org. Please use the one-column CEUR style (CEURART.zip). We strongly encourage students to submit as a solo author, but papers with several authors are welcome as well. A selection of papers will be invited to give a short oral and/or poster presentation. IMPORTANT DATES · June 16th, 2025: Submission Deadline · June 30th, 2025: Notification Deadline · July 3rd, 2025: Camera Ready Deadline · July 9th, 2025: FDIA in Wolverhampton (During ESSIR 07-11th of July, 2025) CONTACT: Please email fdia2025(a)easychair.org. MORE INFO: https://2025.essir.eu/fdia PC Chairs Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, UK Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK Niall McGuire, University of Strathclyde, UK -- Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor of Applied Data Science, Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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VAR4LCR conference 2025 - registration until 22 June
by Sylvie De Cock 28 May '25

28 May '25

Second call for participation We would like to remind you that registration for the Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research conference (VAR4LCR) is possible until 22 June 2025. The conference will take place on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve and will feature Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University), Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen) and Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona) as keynote speakers. A provisional programme as well as additional information (including a registration link) can be found on the conference website: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-…. Best wishes, The VAR4LCR Team

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3rd Call for Papers: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 28 May '25

28 May '25

-------------------------------------------------------------------- APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING -------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2025 - Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 24 - 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy https://clic2025.unica.it/ Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/). Conference topics ----------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Research Communications ---------------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2025 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. The research communication papers will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to the number of submissions received. Paper Submission ----------------------- Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple-submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages of content, and up to three (3) pages of references. Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed one (1) page in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper. Upon acceptance, final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published online and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.… Word template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025 For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected. Awards --------- To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master's or PhD student is the first author and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. Important Dates --------------- - 09/06/2025: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 21/07/2025: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 04/08/2025: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 24-26/09/2025: CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari Conference Chairs ------ - Cristina Bosco (University of Torino) - Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) - Marco Polignano (University of Bari) - Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari) Senior Program Committee: ------ Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission - Ispra) Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna) Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen) Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) Rossella Varvara (University of Turin - University of Pavia) Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano) Local Organizing Committee: ------ - Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari) Web chairs: ------ Maurizio Atzori Andrea Loddo Further information ------------------- Conference website: https://clic2025.unica.it/ Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com

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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 - call for proposals
by Udo Kruschwitz 27 May '25

27 May '25

SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval. We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the information retrieval (IR) community and to share insights between research and practice. SS 2025 will be held at the BCS London office on Wednesday 26th November with tutorials on Tuesday 25th. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit speaker proposals for talks around the following categories: * Innovative approaches used in IR production systems and products * Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness * Implications of generative AI and large language models * Interdisciplinary collaborations, bridging areas such as information science, data science, user experience, and artificial intelligence * IR practice within different professional communities, spanning eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, and beyond * Case studies showcasing best practices, design principles, evaluation techniques, and practical implementations in the field of information retrieval We encourage presentations from startups and open-source projects. The presentation format of the event will be a combination of presentations, panels and discussions. Proposals should be no more than 1 page and include: * Title * Abstract * Main contribution & take-aways for attendees * A short bio of the presenter and/or a brief organisation outline Proposals should be emailed to udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de cc’ing tgr2uk(a)gmail.com. There will be a separate call for tutorial presentations. IMPORTANT DATES * Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) * Talk proposal due: 11 July * Notifications: 25 July ORGANISERS * Ingo Frommholz * Udo Kruschwitz * Tony Russell-Rose * Haiming Liu (tutorials chair) PAST EVENTS For a summary of last year’s event, see: https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2024/november/search-solutions-2024-inf… For further details of previous events with links to slides and videos please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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Deadline CfP 12th CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities
by Fábián-Trost, Annamária 27 May '25

27 May '25

Dear List, only 1 day to go, until the deadline for CfP for the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) expires. The conference will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 (CfP, extended deadline paper/abstract submission: 28th of May 2025, 23:59 CEST) Please feel free to submit! The conference (https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ ) brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and social media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. Our keynotes are Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) and Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg). We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics (deadline paper/abstract submission: 28th of May 2025, 23:59 CEST) * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC * Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences * Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science * Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science * Contrastive CM studies across different languages The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of: * Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations * Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Submission and review Authors of accepted papers are invited to present their work at the conference (30-minute timeslots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress or early-stage research during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers for one or more special issue journal or a volume publication. Instructions for authors All contributions will be collected through an online platform (ConfTool): https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html Templates for the submission: Template for MSWord: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/template_word.docx Template for LaTeX: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/template_latex.zip Local organizing committee: * Dr. Annamaria Fabian (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science) * Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau) For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc2025(a)uni-bayreuth.de<mailto:cmc2025@uni-bayreuth.de> and see https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ More information on the “International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora)”: https://cmc-corpora.org/series/#<https://cmc-corpora.org/series/> All the best, Annamaria Fabian

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Open Positions: NLP PostDocs / PhDs at UTN and University of Mannheim
by Steffen Eger 27 May '25

27 May '25

The Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) Lab at University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) (https://nl2g.github.io/), headed by Prof. Steffen Eger, and the group of Prof. Simone Ponzetto (http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de) have two fully funded PostDoc or PhD positions (up to 3 years) in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Application Deadlines: 25.06.2025, 11:59pm CET Topics: The topics of the position involve detection and analysis of social biases (e.g., relating to gender and migration status) over time (1950s-2020s) and across different languages (German, Italian, Czech, English). To do so, innovative large language model (LLM) based techniques will be leveraged. The students will perform data analysis, data preprocessing and fine-grained human and LLM-based annotation and further explore embedding based approaches to cross-lingual cross-temporal bias detection. The positions are within the DFG funded project “HistoBias”, which involves three PIs: Prof. Daniela Grunow (University of Frankfurt), Prof. Simone Ponzetto (Univ. of Mannheim), Prof. Steffen Eger (UTN). Application format: one single PDF including: * A personal statement that explains why you are well-suited for this research topic (limited to one page) * A complete, chronological, tabular curriculum vitae (CV) in English * Certificates of your university degrees (M.Sc. degree and B.Sc. degree) or other equivalent qualification * Transcript of records, diploma supplements, or overview of courses from your university degrees (M.Sc. degree and B.Sc. degree) * Master and/or dissertation thesis To apply, send an email to jobs(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de<mailto:jobs@informatik.uni-mannheim.de> with reference number CSAI-NLP/SB-25-05 containing one PDF document with the information above. Additionally, apply here via the portal: https://jobs.utn.de/jobposting/676b07a933aad609d552175535a63c8fe645e5340 A selected number of candidates will be invited for an interview and a small coding/discussion project. Please direct all inquiries regarding scientific content to steffen.eger(a)utn.de<mailto:steffen.eger@utn.de> and ponzetto(a)uni-mannheim.de<mailto:ponzetto@uni-mannheim.de>. Further information information with requirements are available from: <https://nl2g.github.io/positions> * https://nl2g.github.io/positions --------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Steffen Eger Heisenberg Professor Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) https://nl2g.github.io/ <https://nl2g.github.io/>https://www.utn.de/en/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/<https://www.utn.de/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/> https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-engineering/nllg-lab/ <https://nl2g.github.io/> Ulmenstraße 52i 90443 Nürnberg

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CFP: GlobalNLP 2025 @ RANLP – NLP for All Languages in the Era of LLMs
by Shamsuddeen Muhammad 27 May '25

27 May '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for GlobalNLP 2025, a workshop titled: “Beyond English: Natural Language Processing for All Languages in an Era of Large Language Models” 📍 11–13 September 2025 | Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://globalnlp2025.github.io/ 📅 In conjunction with RANLP 2025 It's time we give every language the attention it deserves—because language diversity is at the heart of global inclusivity in NLP. Brief Technical Description Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen remarkable progress with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, significantly advancing capabilities in text generation, machine translation, and knowledge retrieval, particularly for high-resource languages such as English, Chinese, German, Spanish, and French. However, a vast majority of the world's languages, ranging from low-resource (e.g., Indigenous, African, Indian languages), under-resourced (e.g., Irish), to medium-resource (e.g., Baltic, South Asian, and Slavic languages), still face barriers due to data scarcity, linguistic complexity, and limited computational resources. This workshop is committed to advancing NLP for all languages, from high- to low-resource, by fostering an inclusive, multidisciplinary environment that addresses the technical and linguistic needs of every language community. We welcome both technical and non-technical papers, including experimental, theoretical, and methodological contributions, as well as interdisciplinary and participatory approaches. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Data-Efficient NLP: Transfer learning, few-/zero-shot techniques to overcome data limitations • Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Models: For morphologically rich, agglutinative, and typologically diverse languages • Semantic-Based Approaches: Ontology-driven information extraction, semantic similarity, entity linking • Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs: For machine translation, retrieval, and reasoning in underrepresented languages • Practical Applications: In education, healthcare, climate action, governance, and multilingual content creation • Corpus Creation & Linguistic Tools: For building datasets, model development, and evaluation • Reusability of Linguistic Resources: For POS tagging, parsing, MT, and more • Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage: Computational approaches for historical texts, preservation, and interdisciplinary studies Important Dates 📄 Paper submission deadline: 6 July 2025 📬 Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2025 📝 Camera-ready deadline: 30 August 2025 📦 Proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 🗓 Workshop dates: 11–13 September 2025 📍 All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Submission Details Authors must submit original research papers via the official RANLP 2025 submission portal. All submissions should follow the RANLP formatting guidelines. Both long and short papers are welcome. Full details are available at: 🔗 https://globalnlp2025.github.io Organizing Committee Sudhansu Bala Das (University of Galway, Ireland) Pruthwik Mishra (SVNIT Surat, India) Alok Singh (University of Oxford, UK) Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (Imperial College London) Asif Ekbal (IIT Jodhpur, India) Program Committee (alphabetical order) Alexander Gelbukh (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico) Bidyut Kumar Patra (IIT BHU, India) Clarence Teo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Gaurish Thakkar (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Helena Moniz (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Juri Opitz (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Luan Thanh Nguyen (Vietnam National University HCMC, Vietnam) Marie-Aude Lefer (UCLouvain, Belgium) Mohammed Hasanuzzaman (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Moritz Schaeffer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) Muslim Jameel Sayed (Atlantic Technological University, Ireland) Pádraic Moran (University of Galway, Ireland) Paolo Rosso (Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain) Paul Buitelaar (University of Galway, Ireland) Soumik Mandal (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA) Surangika Ranathunga (Massey University, New Zealand) Uthayasanker Thayasivam (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) Idris Abdulmumin (DSFSI, University of Pretoria) Ibrahim Said Ahmad (Northeastern University) We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you in Varna for a rich and impactful exchange on the future of global, inclusive NLP. 📧 For inquiries, please contact: globalnlp2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:globalnlp2025@gmail.com> Warm regards, The GlobalNLP 2025 Organizing Committee

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CfP (Extended Deadline): The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
by Joaquim Silva 26 May '25

26 May '25

*CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extension* *Important dates* *- Abstract submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (AoE) (NEW)* - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 *Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25) Track of EPIA’25* PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts. [1] *Track Description* The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline. [2] *Topics of Interest* Theories, Algorithms and Models - Language and Cognitive Modeling - Tagging, Chunking and Parsing - Morphology and Word Segmentation - Natural Language Generation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics and Text Inference - Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition - Entailment and Paraphrases - Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation - Natural language understanding - Language modeling - Mathematical Properties of Language - NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications - Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization - Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining - Computational Social Science - Multi-Word Units - Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining - Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining - Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction - Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems - Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting - Web Content Annotation - Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications - Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis [3] *Important dates* - Abstract submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (New) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 [4] *Paper submission* Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025 submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another venue during the EPIA 2025 review period. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set out in the Springer Nature code of conduct. [5] *Track Fees:* Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference. [6] *Organizing Committee:* Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Irene Rodrigues, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Alípio Jorge, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto [7] *Contacts:* Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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CfP (Extended Deadline): The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
by Joaquim Silva 26 May '25

26 May '25

*CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extension* *Important dates* *- Abstract submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (AoE) (NEW)* - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 *Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25) Track of EPIA’25* PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts. [1] *Track Description* The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline. [2] *Topics of Interest* Theories, Algorithms and Models - Language and Cognitive Modeling - Tagging, Chunking and Parsing - Morphology and Word Segmentation - Natural Language Generation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics and Text Inference - Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition - Entailment and Paraphrases - Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation - Natural language understanding - Language modeling - Mathematical Properties of Language - NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications - Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization - Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining - Computational Social Science - Multi-Word Units - Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining - Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining - Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction - Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems - Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting - Web Content Annotation - Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications - Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis [3] *Important dates* - Abstract submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE) - Paper submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (AoE) (NEW) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 [4] *Paper submission* Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025 submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another venue during the EPIA 2025 review period. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set out in the Springer Nature code of conduct. [5] *Track Fees:* Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference. [6] *Organizing Committee:* Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Irene Rodrigues, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Alípio Jorge, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto [7] *Contacts:* Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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VinNLP - NLP Bridges Talk Series
by El-Haj, Mo 26 May '25

26 May '25

Dear colleagues, I’m happy to introduce NLP Bridges, a talk series launched by the VinNLP Group at VinUniversity, Hanoi, to connect global NLP experts with researchers, students, and communities working on low-resource languages. All talks are free, online, and recorded, with the aim of supporting inclusive and accessible NLP research. To learn more or register for upcoming talks, please visit: https://vinnlp.com/nlp_bridges.html Best regards, Mo ————— Dr Mo El-Haj Director of the VinNLP Research Group https://vinnlp.com/ Associate Professor (Reader) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam https://vinuni.edu.vn/people/mo-el-haj/ NLP Visiting Research Scholar SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/dsi/about-us/members/mahmoud-el-haj Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal Editorial Board https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering

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Autumn School 2025 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging in Dagstuhl - Registration extended
by Thomas Mandl 25 May '25

25 May '25

Registration is extended until end of May: *ASIRF 2025 - Autumn School 2025 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging in Dagstuhl *https://fg-retrieval.gi.de/veranstaltung/asirf2025 Great learning opportunity for grad/PhD students and everyone interested in IR, NLP or related fields! ASIRF provides a holistic perspective and shows how Information Retrieval and Information Foraging interact. In addition to conceptual and methodological knowledge from both fields, ASIRF is highly interdisciplinary. The autumn school will provide different tutorials, from foundations of Information Retrieval and Information Foraging to recent research topics such as using large language models for information retrieval tasks or applications of IR techniques in application domains. The autumn school will take place at the best computer science venue ever Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI) between 24 and 29 August 2025. The program includes the following lectures and tutorials: - Foundations of Interactive IR (Norbert Fuhr, U Duisburg-Essen) - Deep Learning for IR (Avishek Anand, TU Delft) - Conversational Search (Ralf Schenkel, U Trier) - Fairness and Bias (Andrea Horbach, U Kiel) - Multimodal retrieval and data analysis (Henning Müller, HES-SO) - User Experiments and Interactive IR (Thomas Mandl, U Hildesheim) - Complex Casual Leisure Information Needs (Vivien Petras, HU Berlin) - User Simulations for IR (Philipp Schaer, TH Köln) For more information on the schedule, program, or registration: https://fg-retrieval.gi.de/veranstaltung/asirf2025 See you in Dagstuhl! ASIRF 2025 organizers Philipp Schaer, Ralf Schenkel, and Thomas Mandl

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HASOC-meme - Shared task @ FIRE 2025 - Hateful Memes in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Bodo - Registration open
by Thomas Mandl 25 May '25

25 May '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] ************************************************************************************ [CFP] HASOC-meme: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Memes in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Bodo at FIRE 2025 ************************************************************************************ https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html <https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html> We are excited to announce the 7th edition of HASOC, featuring a range of engaging shared tasks. We warmly invite you to participate in this edition. HASOC 2025 will introduce classification tasks on memes, focusing on the identification of abuse, sentiment, sarcasm, vulgarity, and target. The task will primarily include three binary classification tasks, one multi-class classification task, and one multi-label classification task on memes in Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati, and Bodo languages. Track Description: This task involves analyzing multimodal data (image and text) to detect abuse, identify targeted communities, assess vulgarity and sarcasm, and assign sentiment labels. So, the task will be in five parts. Sentiment detection: • Positive - The meme conveys a supportive, humorous, or appreciative tone. • Neutral - The meme is neither overtly positive nor negative in tone. • Negative - The meme expresses hostility, mockery, or criticism. Sarcasm Detection: • Sarcastic - The meme presents statements or visuals that imply the opposite of their literal meaning, often to mock or ridicule. • Non-Sarcastic: The meme directly conveys its message without sarcasm or irony. Vulgarity Detection: • Vulgar - The meme contains explicit or offensive words, gestures, or depictions. • Not Vulgar - The meme does not include any such content. Abuse Detection: • Abusive - The meme includes offensive, harmful, or derogatory language, imagery, or implications targeting an individual or a group. • Non-abusive - The meme does not contain any offensive, harmful, or derogatory content. Target Community Identification: • Gender - Any reference to male, female, non-binary, or transgender identities. • Religion - Mentions or imagery related to any religious belief, deity, or practice. • Individual - Specifically mentions or portrays a particular person. • Political - Targets political ideologies, parties, politicians, or policies. • National Origin - Targets people based on their country or ethnicity. • Social Sub-groups - Groups based on socio-economic status, occupation, cultural identity, or other affiliations. • Others - Any target that does not fall into the above categories. • None - If the meme does not target any specific community, no target label is assigned. Important dates * Registration starts: 15th May, 2025 * Hindi, Marathi and Bodo Training Data Release: 17th May, 2025 * Bangla Training data release: 24th May, 2025 * Release of the test set: 15th June, 2025 * Run submission deadline: 30th June, 2025 * Announcement of results: 15 July, 2025 * Working notes due: 30th August, 2025 * Camera-ready copies of notes and overview paper: 30th September, 2025 Task organizers * Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl :- University of Hildesheim, Germany * Prof. Dr. Utpal Garain :-Indian Statistical Institute, India * Prof. Dr. Debasis Ganguly :- University of Glasgow, United Kingdom * Prof. Dr. Sandip Modha :- University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy & LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India * Prof. Dr. Animesh Mukherjee :- Indian Institute of Technology, Khargapur, India * Dr. Koyel Ghosh :- University of Hildesheim, Germany * Dr. Mithun Das :- Indian Institute of Technology, Khargapur, India * Shubhankar Barman :- BITS pilani, India * Mwnthai Narzary :- Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar, India * Saptarshi Saha :- Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Website: https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html <https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html> In case of query, please send email via hasoc(a)googlegroups.com

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CFP: The 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Cross-Temporal Research at COLM 2025
by wei.zhao＠abdn.ac.uk 25 May '25

25 May '25

We invite you to submit your ongoing, published or pre-reviewed works to our workshop on Large Language Models for Cross-Temporal Research (XTempLLMs) at COLM 2025. Our workshop website is available at https://xtempllms.github.io/2025/ Workshop Description: Large language models (LLMs) have been used for a variety of time-sensitive applications such as temporal reasoning, forecasting and planning. In addition, there has been a growing number of interdisciplinary works that use LLMs for cross-temporal research in several domains, including social science, psychology, cognitive science, environmental science and clinical studies. However, LLMs are hindered in their understanding of time due to many different reasons, including temporal biases and knowledge conflicts in pretraining and RAG data but also a fundamental limitation in LLM tokenization that fragments a date into several meaningless subtokens. Such inadequate understanding of time would lead to inaccurate reasoning, forecasting and planning, and time-sensitive findings that are potentially misleading. Our workshop looks for (i) cross-temporal work in the NLP community and (ii) interdisciplinary work that relies on LLMs for cross-temporal studies. Cross-temporal work in the NLP community: * Novel benchmarks for evaluating the temporal abilities of LLMs across diverse date and time formats, culturally grounded time systems, and generalization to future contexts; * Novel methods (e.g., neuro-symbolic approaches) for developing temporally robust, unbiased, and reliable LLMs; * Data analysis such as the distribution of pretraining data over time and conflicting knowledge in pretraining and RAG data; * Interpretability regarding how temporal information is processed from tokenization to embedding across different layers, and finally to model output; * Temporal applications such as reasoning, forecasting and planning; * Consideration of cross-lingual and cross-cultural perspectives for linguistic and cultural inclusion over time. Interdisciplinary work that relies on LLMs for cross-temporal studies: * Time-sensitive discoveries, such as social biases over time and personality testing over time; * Assessment of time-sensitive discoveries to identify misleading findings if any; * Interdisciplinary evaluation benchmarks for LLMs’ temporal abilities, e.g., psychological time perception and episodic memory evaluation. Submission Modes: * Standard submissions: We invite the submission of papers that will receive up to three double-blind reviews from the XTempLLMs committee, and a final decision of acceptance from the workshop chairs. * Pre-reviewed submissions: We invite unpublished papers that have already been reviewed either through ACL ARR, or recent AACL/EACL/ACL/EMNLP/COLING venues. These papers will not receive new reviews but will be judged together with their reviews via a meta-review from the workshop chairs. * Published papers: We invite papers that have been published recently elsewhere to present at XTempLLMs. Please send the details of your paper (Paper title, authors, publication venue, abstract, and a link to download the paper) directly to xtempllms(a)gmail.com. This allows such papers to gain more visibility from the workshop audience. All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”): * June 26, 2025: Submission deadline (standard and published papers) * July 18, 2025: Submission deadline for papers with ARR reviews * July 24, 2025: Notification of acceptance * October 10, 2025: Workshop day Invited Speakers: * Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University, United Kingdom * Ali Emami, Brock University, Canada * Alexis Huet, Huawei Technologies, France Organizing Committee: * Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom * Maxime Peyrard, Université Grenoble Alpes & CNRS, France * Katja Markert, Heidelberg University, Germany

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Human-Computer Question Answering Competition: June 14 (in-person, DC) & June 21 (online)
by Jordan Boyd-Graber Ying 24 May '25

24 May '25

We’d like to invite you to take part in a machine learning / natural language competition with modest (~$500) prizes. We’re evaluating language models not just on their accuracy at answering questions but also on how well the models communicate their uncertainty not just quantitatively but also qualitatively. The models will be evaluated on accuracy, but this is not the primary metric. The primary metric will be how much the models help users do a better job of answering questions. In other words, a model that has 75% accuracy but is convincingly wrong on the remaining 25% of questions will fare worse than a model that has 66% accuracy but can correctly identify the remaining questions and say “I don’t know”, since the downstream humans will trust the latter model more. The human–computer games will be filmed and posted to YouTube so you can see how players reacted to your models. The system submission process is designed to be beginner-friendly and intuitive. There’s a version that is prompt-based, but also a huggingface upload for complete models. So if you’ve just wrapped up teaching an introductory NLP / AI course, we’d appreciate it if you pass this along! Full information here: https://sites.google.com/view/qanta/2025-competition Please contact qanta(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions! Best, Jordan -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Jordan Boyd-Graber Professor University of Maryland: CS, iSchool, UMIACS, LSC Voice: 920.524.9464 jbg(a)umiacs.umd.edu http://boydgraber.org ----------------------------------------------------------

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Open call for volume proposals - Phraseology and Multiword Expressions
by Lonneke van der Plas 23 May '25

23 May '25

Phraseology and Multiword Expressions (PMWE) (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe) is a book series at Language Science Press, a born-digital scholar-led open access publisher in linguistics. The series publishes high-quality books about conventionalized, idiosyncratic combinations of words. Within the field of phraseology such word combinations are sometimes called phrasemes, while the computational linguistics community uses the term multiword expressions for them. Various subtypes of such word combinations are of interest, such as multiword compounds, multiword terms, multiword named entities, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, idioms, collocations, formulaic speech, proverbs, etc. The series is open to different approaches to create a forum for an interdisciplinary and cross-framework exchange of research results, including but not limited to the following subdisciplines: - Computational linguistics and natural language processing - Computer science - Corpus linguistics - Lexicography - Psycholinguistics - Theoretical linguistics We welcome volume proposals addressing all topics related to theoretical, computational, and empirical approaches to phraseology including: - Linguistic properties and typologies of multiword expressions, especially in multilingual frameworks - Digital lexical resources including multiword expressions - Description and processing of multiword expressions in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g., CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD) - Identification and annotation of multiword expressions in corpora and treebanks - Multiword expressions in machine translation and other end-user applications - Multiword expressions and lexical innovation - Diachronic studies and semantic change in multiword expressions - Representation and evaluation of multiword expressions in language models (e.g., LLMs) and text generation systems All contributions should be in English. To submit a volume proposal, please follow the guidelines at the series home page: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe Volumes published so far: Voula Giouli, Verginica Barbu Mititelu (eds.) Multiword expressions in lexical resources: Linguistic, lexicographic, and computational perspectives. 2024. Victoria Beatrix Fendel (ed.) Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?. 2024. Aleksandar Trklja, Łukasz Grabowski (eds.) Formulaic language: Theories and methods. 2021 Sabine Schulte im Walde, Eva Smolka (eds.) The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective. 2020. Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk (eds.) Representation and parsing of multiword expressions: Current trends. 2019. Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze (eds.) Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop. 2018. Manfred Sailer, Stella Markantonatou (eds.) Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective. 2018. (see https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe for links to the volumes)

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2025 ACL Conference Registration
by ACL Announcements 23 May '25

23 May '25

Dear Colleagues, The ACL 2025 Conference is pleased to announce that registration is now officially open. We encourage you to register early to take advantage of reduced rates. Please note the following important deadlines for registration: * Early Registration: Concludes on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, AOE. * Late Registration: Will close for both In-Person and Virtual attendees on Friday, July 25, 2025, at 11:59 PM CET. * Onsite Registration: Will be available for both In-Person and Virtual attendees from Saturday, July 26, 2025, through August 1, 2025, at 11:59 PM CET. Detailed information regarding the registration process can be found on the official conference website: https://acl.swoogo.com/acl2025 We look forward to welcoming you to ACL 2025 in beautiful Vienna! Sincerely, The ACL Organization Team

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CfP 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities
by Fábián-Trost, Annamária 23 May '25

23 May '25

Dear List, the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 (CfP, extended deadline paper/abstract submission: 28th of May 2025, 23:59 CEST) The conference (https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ ) brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and social media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. Our keynotes are Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) and Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg). We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics (deadline paper/abstract submission: 28th of May 2025, 23:59 CEST) * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC * Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences * Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science * Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science * Contrastive CM studies across different languages The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of: * Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations * Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Submission and review Authors of accepted papers are invited to present their work at the conference (30-minute timeslots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress or early-stage research during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers for one or more special issue journal or a volume publication. Instructions for authors All contributions will be collected through an online platform (ConfTool): https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html Templates for the submission: Template for MSWord: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/template_word.docx Template for LaTeX: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/template_latex.zip Local organizing committee: * Dr. Annamaria Fabian (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science) * Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau) For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc2025(a)uni-bayreuth.de<mailto:cmc2025@uni-bayreuth.de> and see https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ More information on the “International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora)”: https://cmc-corpora.org/series/#<https://cmc-corpora.org/series/> All the best, Annamaria Fabian

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Second Call for Participation Sim4IA@SIGIR 2025 - Micro Shared Task Data Available - Keynote announced
by Philipp Schaer 23 May '25

23 May '25

This is the second call for participation for the *2nd SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA)*. The workshop will be held with SIGIR 2025 in Padua, Italy. It will provide a unique platform for researchers and practitioners to explore and discuss advancements in simulations for information access systems. ## tl;dr ---------- - 17 July 2025, co-located with SIGIR 2025 in Padua, Italy - Micro shared task data and framework available - Tech and infrastructure talks/presentations welcome - Keynote by Christine Bauer confirmed - We are on the ACM Slack: https://acmsigir.slack.com/archives/C08STM45N90 - Website: https://sim4ia.org/sigir2025/ ## Micro Shared Task Data and Framework Available ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To drive a more focused discussion at the workshop, we designed a micro shared task that demonstrates how a shared task in user simulations might look. On 16 May 2025, we released the first training data set as well as a prebundled and dockerized version of SimIIR to give everyone a head start on the shared task. Our shared task concept is based on the fundamental design principle of validating user simulations instead of measuring system effectiveness. We envision users interacting with a particular IA system, such as a traditional search engine (Task A) or a conversational system (Task B). We challenge participants to design and implement user simulators that can mimic the interactions of real users with these systems with a high degree of fidelity. The workshop features a stripped-down version of this concept, a micro shared task. We will discuss the submissions and ideas for the next steps or evaluation measures at the workshop. Non-binding expression of interest to take part in the micro shared tasks: https://forms.gle/ftV8cwjywHWsBhCw9 More information on the shared task, data sets, and framework: https://sim4ia.org/sigir2025/#micro-shared-task ## Keynote by Christine Bauer ----------------------------------------- We are happy to announce that Christine Bauer has confirmed to give a keynote on “From toy models to tactics: What user simulation is good for”. Christine Bauer is a Professor of Interactive Intelligent Systems at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI) at the University of Salzburg. She is involved in the EXDIGIT initiative, emphasizing interdisciplinary technologies in digital sciences. Her research lies at the intersection of human-centered computing, data science, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on context-aware recommender systems, particularly in the music and media domains. Her core interests include fairness and multi-method evaluation. Her multidisciplinary background drives her research activities. More information on the keynote: https://sim4ia.org/sigir2025/#keynote ## Invitation of Tech/Infrastructure Talks ----------------------------------------------------- We reserved a special time slot at the workshop for talks on recent technologies and/or infrastructures for (user) simulations, and invite you to submit your ideas for such talks at the workshop. Send a short email with your idea in the form of a title and roughly half a page of abstract to sigir2025(a)sim4ia.org Check out the tentative program, shared task data and description, the keynote announcement, and much more at https://sim4ia.org/sigir2025/ See you in Padua! Sim4IA Organizers Philipp Schaer, Christin Kreutz, Krisztian Balog, Timo Breuer, and Andreas Kruff

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CfP Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI - Hybrid UK/online, deadline May 31
by Rachele.De-Felice [She/her] 22 May '25

22 May '25

Dear all You are warmly invited to submit an abstract to the Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI conference, which will take place in Milton Keynes, UK and online on November 13-14, 2025. This conference will explore how power is being shifted towards, away from, and between learners and educators by AI technologies, and the new dynamic and potential changes this is bringing about in applied linguistics, languages and cultures studies. Potential topics for the papers may include, but are not limited to: * AI and its impact on the training and evolving roles of languages and applied linguistics educators and their relationships with learners * AI and its potential to support inclusive and personalised learning in languages and applied linguistics; * AI integration into learning, teaching and assessment of languages, cultures and applied linguistics with a focus on ethical issues and sustainability challenges; * Core concepts and theoretical frameworks guiding the integration of AI in applied linguistics; * Core concepts and theoretical frameworks guiding the integration of AI in the learning and teaching of languages and cultures; * Questions around the use of AI in carrying out research in languages, cultures and applied linguistics, and its impact on research processes and outputs. Instructions for submission We welcome submissions in the following formats: * 20-minute presentations (online or in person) * 40-minute facilitated discussions with up to 3 facilitators (online or in person) Proposals should be submitted via email, by May 31st, 2025: ai-languages-conference(a)open.ac.uk <mailto:ai-languages-conference@open.ac.uk> The following information will be requested during the submission process: * Names, titles, contact info, institutional or organisational affiliation and short bio (max 100 words) for each presenter and facilitator * Conference topic (selected from the list above) * Session format (selected from the list above) * Title of the abstract * Abstract (max. 300 words) Kind regards Rachele Dr Rachele De Felice (she/her) | Lecturer in Applied Linguistics School of Languages and Applied Linguistics The Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies The Open University https://profiles.open.ac.uk/rachele-de-felice

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