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[CfP] GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies || Deadline Extension
by DBpedia 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

==== 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies Leipzig, Germany June 12, 2025 https://cost.eu/actions/CA23147/ ==== Dear all, Due to several requests we decided to extend the deadlines for the 1st CfP: GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies. The new dates are as follows: Submission Deadline: May 4, 2025 (originally April 27) Notification of Acceptance: May 11, 2025 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12). The 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to Knowledge Graphs, their applications, and associated technologies. We encourage submissions at the intersection of Knowledge Graphs with fields such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automation. Submissions should be original and must not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25> = Author Guidelines and Submission = * Full research papers: 4-6 pages + max 2 pages references * Short research papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * In Use and Experience papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * Position and Vision papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * System/demo papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references Submissions must be in English, original, and not under review elsewhere. Papers should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…> For details please go to: https://www.dbpedia.org/events/goblin25-workshop/ <https://www.dbpedia.org/events/goblin25-workshop/> Looking forward to your submissions! With kind regards, Blerina Spahiu & Milan Dojchinovski -- Workshop Chairs --

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CFP: Language Resources and Evaluation Journal - Special Issue on Advancing Arabic Language Models: Resources, Evaluation, and Applications in the Era of Large Language Models
by hend.alkhalifa＠gmail.com 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

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CFP - Workshop SIR@IWCS2025
by Maxime Amblard 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

*apologies for cross-postings* === Workshop SIR === Atelier sur les Avancées en AMR et en Analyse Sémantiques 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 (IF WE WANT BRITISH SPELLING, WE MIGHT NOT?) 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 theHumanities • Ethics and bias in semantic modeling • 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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CFP - Workshop SIR@IWCS2025
by Maxime Amblard 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

*apologies for cross-postings* === Workshop SIR === Atelier sur les Avancées en AMR et en Analyse Sémantiques 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

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RANLP 2025: Final Call for Papers
by Petya Osenova 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

*Extended submission deadline: 25 May 2025* RANLP 2025 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel “Cherno More” Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Summer School on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and shared tasks: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) We are pleased to announce that the 15th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. In addition to the conference programme of competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on the recent advances of a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) topics, the conference features keynote talks by leading experts in NLP. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP (3-5 September 2025) and two days of tutorials (6-7 September 2025). Post-conference specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics will be held on 11, 12 and 13 September 2025. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers. As from RANLP 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The SCOPUS SJR of RANLP proceedings is 0,299 (2023). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University, UK and University of Alicante, Spain) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced on the conference website in due course. INVITED SPEAKERS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS at the RANLP 2025 conference (in alphabetical order): * Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) * Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Further keynote speakers will be announced soon. TUTORIAL LECTURERS (in alphabetical order): * Ekaterina Artemova (Toloka.AI, Germany) * Burcu Can Buglalilar (University of Sterling, UK) * Tharindu Ranasinghe and Damith Premasiri (Lancaster University, UK) * Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TEACHING ASISTANTS (in alphabetical order): * Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University, UK) * Ekaterina Artemova (Toloka.AI, Germany) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (Lancaster University, UK) * Burcu Can Buglalilar (University of Sterling, UK) * Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University, UK) * Alexander Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Andrei Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage (Lancaster University, UK) * Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) The 3rd RANLP SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING and LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS for NLP will take place on 3-5 September 2025. The programme integrates 3 days of intensive lecturing in the morning and practical sessions in the afternoon. The following topics will be covered: NLP/DL Foundation, LLM Foundation and LLM Applications. More details will be published at https://ranlp2025-summer-school.github.io/ RANLP TUTORIALS 6-7 September 2025 RANLP-25 plans 4 half-day tutorials, each with duration of 185 minutes, distributed as follows: 45 min presentation + 20 min break + 45 min presentation + 30 min coffee break + 45 min presentation. The tutorial titles are: * Ekaterina Artemova: LLM-generated text detection * Burcu Can Buglalilar: From Large to Small: Building Affordable Language Models with Limited Resources * Tharindu Ranasinghe and Damith Premasiri: Legal NLP in the LLM era * Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein: Studying Generalization in the Age of Contamination Further information will be published at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/tutorials POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS, 11-13 September 2025: The following eight WORKSHOPS have been accepted and Calls for Papers have been distributed: * The first Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025), organised by Piotr Przybyła, Matthew Shardlow, Clara Colombatto and Nanna Inie * The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models (EthicalLLMs 2025), organised by Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe and Hansi Hettiarachchi * The first Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025), organised by Isuri Nanomi Arachchige, Francesca Frontini, Ruslan Mitkov and Paul Rayson * From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Evaluation of NLP Methods (R2LM 2025), organised by Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Ruslan Mitkov and Raúl García Cerdá * Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP 2025), organised by Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Besik Mikaberidze, Simon Ostermann, Daniil Gurgurov, Philipp Müller, Kurt Micallef, Claudia Borg, Michal Gregor and Marián Šimko * The 8th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2025), organised by Ali Hürriyetoglu, Hristo Tanev, Surendrabikram Thapa, Vanni Zavarella and Erdem Yörük * The First International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP 2025), organised by Cengiz Acartürk, Jamal Nasir, Çağrı Çöltekin and Burcu Can Buğlalılar * Beyond English: Natural Language Processing for all Languages in an Era of Large Language Models (GlobalNLP 2025), organised by Sudhansu Bala Das, Pruthwik Mishra, Alok Singh, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Asif Ekbal The following five SHARED TASKS have been accepted and Calls for Participation have been disseminated: * PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages, organised by Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ * Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organised by Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/ * Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark, organised by Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ * Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT), organised by Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El Amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ * Identification of the Severity of the Depression in Forum Posts, organised by Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/ SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS TO RANLP-2025 The submissions will be handled by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/. The reviewing process will be anonymous. Double submission is acceptable, but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. All RANLP papers have DOI numbers assigned. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. RANLP publishes Regular papers 8 pages (with 30 min oral presentation), Short papers 6 pages (with 20 min oral presentation), and Poster/Demo papers 4 pages (with presentation in a poster or demo session). Additional pages are allowed for references only. RANLP-2025 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available as from 1 April 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Conference abstracts submission: 11 May 2025 (strongly recommended, to facilitate review planning) Conference papers submission: 25 May 2025 Conference papers acceptance notification: 4 July 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 6 July 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 8 September 2025 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025 RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) VENUE RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). The conference organisers will arrange a visit to Provadia-Solnitsata, the oldest salt-production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC, https://provadia-solnitsata.com/en/ ) which is located 50 km from Varna. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK and University of Alicante, Spain (Chair Programme Committee) Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)

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Call for participation – VAR4LCR conference 2025
by sylvie.decock＠uclouvain.be 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research conference (VAR4LCR), which will take place on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve. The conference will mark the closing of the Hoover Seedfund project on "Learner Corpus Research and Register Variation", a collaborative initiative between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at UCLouvain and the Department of English at Northern Arizona University. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen) Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona) KEY DATES Early bird registration deadline: 22 May 2025 Registration deadline: 22 June 2025 Information about fees and a registration link can be found on the conference website: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/registration-0-0 For more details and list of accepted papers and posters, please visit the conference website at https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-…. For additional questions, do not hesitate to contact us at var4lcr(a)uclouvain.be. Best wishes, The VAR4LCR Team

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SLATE'2025 Extended Deadline - May 4th
by Alberto Simões 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] The deadline for the submission to SLATE 2025 has been extended to May, 4th. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SLATE 2025 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies https://slate-conf.org/2025/home 26th to 27th June, 2025 University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal ------------------------------------------------------------------ Languages are an integral part of human and technological interactions. Initially, we used them to communicate with one another. Later, to communicate with computers. And more recently, with the advent of networks, we found a way to make computers communicate between themselves. All these different forms of communication use languages, different languages, but that still share many similarities. In SLATE we are interested in discussing these languages. Keynote Speakers * Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS / Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Large Language Models for the Galician-Portuguese Diasystem. * Pedro Rangel Henriques, Algoritmi / Universidade do Minho. An ontology for the Language Domain. * Paulo Quaresma, VISTA Lab / Algoritmi / Universidade de Évora. Agentic AI: state of the art, challenges and limitations. SLATE 2025 Chairs: Jorge Baptista and José Barateiro (University of Algarve, Portugal) Being languages such a broad subject, SLATE is organized in *three main tracks*: *HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages* HHL provides a forum for discussing research projects and ideas related to natural language processing and its industrial applications. *HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages* HCL is a forum where researchers, developers, educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic or industrial work on language design, processing, assessment and applications. *CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages* The CCL Track aims to facilitate discussions on data representation languages, its applications, and related technologies. Topics from each track include: *HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages* Computational morphology, syntax and semantics; Machine translation and tools for computer assisted translation; Computational terminology and lexicography; Speech synthesis and understanding; Information retrieval and extraction; Automatic question answering; Corpus linguistics; Language Resources and Evaluation; Public tools and resources for NLP; Statistical Methods applied to NLP; Language teaching support tools; Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining; Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification; Dialogue and Interactive Systems; Ethics and NLP; Language Modeling/Large Language Models; Machine Learning for CL/NLP; Offensive/Hate speech detection and analysis; Applications (BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes, Social Media and Journalism, etc.); Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing. *HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Language* Languages and grammars design, specification and quality; Programming languages implementation; Visual Languages and Program visualization; Domain-Specific Languages design and implementation; Programming, refactoring and debugging environments; Dynamic and static analysis; Program slicing; Program comprehension; Compilation and interpretation techniques; Code generation and optimization; Novel language constructs and their implementation; Debugging and profiling tools; Dynamic languages; Software quality and security; Software reverse engineering; Software Forensics; Plagiarism Detection. *CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages* IoT data protocols; Semantic Web and data standards; Ontologies and knowledge representation; Big Data and NoSQL Databases; Data interchange and storage formats; HTML5 and web formatting; Industry-specific interoperability standards; APIs and service integration; Data and graph visualization languages; Cloud computing models - PaaS, SaaS, IaaS; Edge and Pervasive computing; Multi-agent systems; E-learning standards and interoperability; Cybersecurity protocols and solutions; Cyber-physical systems; Network connectivity and infrastructure. *Contributions* Full papers - 8 to 14 pages, presented in 20+5 minutes, complete work, including a validation or discussion. Short papers - 6 to 8 pages, presented in 10+5 minutes, ongoing work, well anchored in the literature, but not yet fully validated. Submitted papers will be reviewed through a rigorous double-blind process, involving at least three expert reviewers. Each submission will be assessed based on its originality, relevance to the symposium tracks, methodological rigor, clarity of presentation, and potential impact on research and practice. Authors are encouraged to carefully anonymize their submissions to ensure the integrity of the review process. SLATE 2025 is committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity and welcomes submissions from underrepresented groups in academia and industry. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on digital support. They will also integrate the OASIcs series. Papers should be written using the OASIcs LaTeX template, using the English language. Please refer to our website for details about the document preparation. Papers should be uploaded to Microsoft CMT system. *Organization Committee* Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve, Portugal) José Barateiro (University of Algarve, Portugal) Simão Melo de Sousa (University of Algarve, Portugal) Alberto Simões (2Ai, School of Technology, IPCA, Portugal) *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: May 4th, 2025 [extended] - Authors' Notification:May 25th , 2025 - Camera Ready Submission: June 1st, 2025 - Author's Registration Deadline: June 15th, 2025 - Conference: 26th and 27th June, 2025 *Submission Details* Important Information for Authors - Submissions are managed through the Microsoft CMT system. - Accepted papers will be published in the OASIcs series. Note that accepted papers' authors will need to supply an author agreement, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY 3.0). A link to the Author Agreement documentation will be shared during the final paper upload phase. During the submission you will be asked to choose from one of the three tracks: HCL, HHL, CCL. Nevertheless, organizers are specially interested in papers touching more than one of the three main tracks. Submissions that explore intersections between HHL, HCL, and CCL, such as NLP-driven programming environments or semantic web applications, are highly encouraged. Both standard and short papers should be written in English, using the OASIcs template. For standard papers the page range is 8 to 14 pages. For short papers the page range is 6 to 8 pages. *Registration* Registration link and other details to be provided at a later date. - Authors' registration At least one author per paper must register. Each additional paper will incur an extra fee of 80.00 EUR. - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 150,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 160,00 EUR - Standard registration (co-authors and other participants) - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 80,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 100,00 EUR - Students' registration (non co-authors)* - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 30,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 40,00 EUR (*) Does not include the Symposium dinner. *Venue* SLATE 2025 will be held in person at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, on the Gambelas Campus. Faro, the capital of Portugal's Algarve region, is a vibrant coastal city that combines rich cultural heritage with modern amenities. Known for its historic old town, stunning beaches, and nearby Ria Formosa Natural Park, Faro is a must-visit destination for tourists. The city is well-connected to the rest of Portugal, Europe, and beyond through its international airport, located just 7 km from the city center. Travelers can also reach Faro via a convenient train network linking Lisbon (3 hours) and Porto (5 hours), or by road using the A22 Motorway and EN125 National Road. Once in Faro, getting around is easy, with taxis, ride-hailing services, and buses offering quick access to key locations, including the University of Algarve’s Gambelas Campus. We look forward to welcome you in Faro, Portugal!

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ARR Commitment for IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

Dear all, Do you have a fully reviewed ARR paper related to speech translation that you'd like to commit to IWSLT 2025 (https://iwslt.org/2025/)? IWSLT has enabled paper commitment for fully reviewed papers from ARR for 2025. If you'd like to commit your paper, please fill out this form by May 17th, 2025: https://forms.gle/1QtVrHXyCGoEq3qa9 Many thanks, IWSLT Organisers

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow AI/ML at the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

*** Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt *** We have a postdoctoral opening in AI/ML with a focus on Natural Language Processing at the UKP Lab led by Iryna Gurevych, Technical University of Darmstadt. The initial contract is for 2 years with an option for an extension. Ideal candidates have a PhD in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, computer science or a related discipline, are highly motivated and demonstrate a convincing track-record in research. They must be fluent in English. Application deadline: May 25th, 2025. After that, the position will remain open until filled. We will consider applications as soon as they are submitted. DUTIES 1. Developing your own research program embedded into the research agenda of the UKP Lab, including publications in top AI/ML/NLP venues. Specifically, we are looking to strengthen the following areas: - Foundations of Large Language Models - AI Safety - LLM security and privacy - Human-AI Collaboration - AI for Science It is possible to propose a topic bottom-up [1]. 2. Academic service, e.g., co-advising Master and PhD students, co-teaching NLP courses. ECOSYSTEM UKP lab is part of ELLIS (ELLIS NLP with Iryna Gurevych as its co-director and the ELLIS unit in Darmstadt, the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA), and the Hessian.AI (https://hessian.ai<https://hessian.ai/>), where the faculty from the main Hessian universities collaborate on advancing machine learning, including NLP. ELLIS, ELIZA and Hessian.AI provide a rich environment for networking with academic and industrial research labs. TEAM UKP Lab is a leading European research lab in AI/ML with a focus on NLP covering a wide range of modern research topics. The team of about 40 full-time researchers is highly international and interdisciplinary. Iryna Gurevych is Adjunct Professor with the NLP Department at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, UAE and is Affiliated Professor at INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria. This provides outstanding opportunities for international collaborations with top researchers from different disciplines including AI, ML and NLP. BENEFITS UKP Lab is committed to cutting-edge research, publishing in top-tier venues, cooperative work style and close interaction of all team members. The selected candidates enjoy diverse opportunities for professional growth, leading both to successful faculty careers and exciting industrial research opportunities. LOCATION The position assumes that you can move to Darmstadt or a nearby German location. Darmstadt is very close to the Frankfurt airport and provides an excellent living environment for incoming staff members. APPLICATION Please submit your application via the following form: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment [1] https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/research_ukp/ukp_research_public…

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DiSS 2025 - Last Call for Papers
by Fernando Batista 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

============================================================= DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> ============================================================= Dear All, We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is "Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View". The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and is proudly sponsored by ISCA. We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2025 (extended) - Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025 - Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025 - DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template <https://www.interspeech2025.org/author-resources> (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025>. Please use this link <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025> to submit your paper. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers. COMMITTEES Organizers - Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden - Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Publicity Chair - Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Local Organisation - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Scientific Committee - Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain - Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon - Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France - Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA - David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain - David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa - Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy - Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon - Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal - George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece - Harshal Shah, General Motors, USA - Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France - Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden - Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany - Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden - João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA - Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany - Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan - Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan - Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France - Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon - Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany - Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland - Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil - Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan - Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Štefan Beňuš, University in Nitra, Slovakia - Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal - Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/ <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> Any questions should be directed to: diss2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:diss2025@googlegroups.com> We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event! — The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025: Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations (Deadline Approaching: May 14)
by Kossi Amouzouvi 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations The Industry & Use Case track at SEMANTiCS welcomes submissions that present use cases and industry adoption of semantic technology. Solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or information in areas like Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Publishing, Thesaurus and/or Ontology management, and any related fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world applications beyond the prototypical status and demonstrate the power of semantic systems! *Important dates* - *Submission Deadline:* May 14, 2025 (11:59 pm) - *Notification of Acceptance:* June 13, 2025 (11:59 pm) - *Presentation Ready:* August 18, 2025 (11:59 pm) 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>. Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page description of the use case you want to present, in particular: initial situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account. Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only be used in the selection process. *Topics of Interest* SEMANTiCS 2025 especially invites contributions that target the following main topics in the context of semantic-based research and systems as well as applicative domains. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models (LLM) combined with Knowledge Graphs - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) - Reasoning, rules and policies - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Semantics in Data Science - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Authentication of knowledge graphs - IoT and Stream Processing, Linked Data Event Streams - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems - Provenance and Data Change Tracking - Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) *Author Guidelines and Submission* - This call for presentations reaches out to professionals in the areas related to the topics of SEMANTiCS for proposals to present industry implementations, best practices and use case prototypes, to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. Additionally, we explicitly encourage the submission of software applications, apps or services that demonstrate the usefulness and benefits of semantic technologies and semantic data management. - To contribute a submission for a presentation at SEMANTiCS 2025 please prepare the following: Fill out the online application at Easychair and give us relevant information about your expertise and your professional background. - Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page description of the use case you want to present, iIn particular: initial situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account. - Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only be used in the selection process. - All accepted submissions will be granted a presentation slot at the main conference. Please stick to this time pattern when preparing your talk. This is the only way we can guarantee a smooth and satisfying programme and allow all conference participants to attend as many slots as possible without missing important information. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more details: https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy When your submission is accepted and you are preparing your talk, please take care to address the following aspects: - *Initial Situation *What kind of challenge did you face in the beginning of the project? What problems needed to be solved? - *Approach and IT-Solution *Which approach and methodology has been chosen to tackle the problem(s)? How is your solution composed with respect to technological aspects / human aspects / organisational aspects? How do the semantic components support the process from data to knowledge? - *Success Criteria for / Benefit of the Semantic Solution *Which factors (conscious and unconscious) have been crucial to the success of your project? Which obstacles did you face? How can you measure the benefit of your solution? How does the organisation benefit from your solution? - *Prospects and Recommendations *What are the next steps planned in your project? Can you give recommendations with respect to development / deployment of semantic solutions within organisational / corporate settings? - *Demo (if applicable) *Prepare a short demonstration of your tool / service. *Review and Evaluation Criteria* Every submission will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. Submissions to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Your presentation is relevant to industry and industrial purposes. It illustrates how semantic technologies / solutions contribute to or improve existing businesses and / or generate new ones. - The presented solution has already been deployed and / or has been tested in a practical environment – at least prototypically. - Your presentation is well-structured and does bring across its message. - The topic is well described and covers enough explanations, examples, use cases, graphics, etc. - Novelty: The topic covered is new to your industry – not necessarily new to business in general In case your presentation will be accepted, we will provide you with detailed information on organisational matters according to the selection of submissions and conference participation. We are looking forward to your contribution! Marco Brattinga Artem Revenko *Industry & Use Case Track Chairs* -- 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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Help us improve MOOCs for non-native English speakers
by Magali Paquot 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

[version en français ci-dessous] Dear all, As part of the MOOCResearch2.0 project<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/moocresearch2-0-0> at UCLouvain (Belgium), we are conducting a survey on the motivations, attitudes, and challenges of non-native English speakers when taking Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in English. If you’re a non-native English speaker who has taken a MOOC in English, we’d love to hear from you! The survey is quick (15 minutes) and anonymous 👉 https://surveys.uclouvain.be/index.php/228944?lang=en Your feedback will help us better understand the needs of non-native English speakers and contribute to the development of guidelines for more accessible and inclusive MOOCs. We would also greatly appreciate it if you could help us spread the word by sharing the survey with your networks—including students, professionals, lifelong learners, or anyone you know who might have taken a MOOC in English. The broader and more diverse the input, the more meaningful our results will be. Thank you for your support! Best regards, The MOOCResearch2.0 Team UCLouvain ################## Bonjour, Dans le cadre du projet MOOCResearch2.0<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/moocresearch2-0-0> à l'UCLouvain (Belgique), nous menons une enquête portant sur les motivations, attitudes et défis rencontrés par les apprenants non-anglophones lorsqu’ils suivent des MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) en anglais. Si vous êtes non-anglophone et que vous avez déjà suivi un MOOC en anglais, nous serions ravis d'avoir votre avis ! L'enquête est rapide (15 minutes) et anonyme. 👉 https://surveys.uclouvain.be/index.php/319832?lang=fr Vos réponses nous aideront à mieux comprendre les besoins des personnes non anglophones et à élaborer des recommandations pour rendre les MOOCs plus accessibles et inclusifs. Nous vous serions également très reconnaissants si vous pouviez nous aider à diffuser ce questionnaire dans vos réseaux — auprès d’étudiant·es, de professionnel·les, d’adultes adeptes de l’apprentissage continu, ou de toute personne ayant suivi un MOOC en anglais. Plus les profils des répondant·es seront variés, plus nos résultats seront riches et pertinents. Bien à vous, L'équipe MOOCResearch2.0 UCLouvain

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Ext deadline: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
by Abzianidze, L. (Lasha) 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] TL;DR; The submission deadline has been extended to 6 May The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: * Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks * Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) * Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R * Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems * Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R * Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R * Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets *(Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks * Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks * Generalization of NLU&R systems * Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu), 4-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany). The submission deadline has been extended to 6 May 2025. Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University

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Reminder: CIRCE Online Seminar | 28/04/2025 | Dr. Alice Henderson | "Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace "
by Claudia Soria 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

*🎓 *We are happy to remind you about 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/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Alice Henderson_ (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France) *Title*: Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace *Date*: Monday, April 28, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online via Teams *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: The university workplace is representative of international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their colleagues’ and students’ accents – of Italian, of English, and in my case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions, we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed. This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how? In this talk I’ll summarize speech research findings about how listeners can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. I’ll look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. I’ll describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused in other professional contexts. If possible, I’ll also describe the next steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop participants as part of a longitudinal study. *Bio*: Alice Henderson is a Professor at Université Grenoble - Alpes, France where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to Science & Technology students. She taught English phonetics and phonology for 24 years and has been involved in training teachers in France, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the international bi-annual conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Her research interests include English pronunciation teaching and learning, the perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction (EMI). Much of her research has focused on speakers, but she is also intrigued by listeners’ roles, from an intercultural and sociolinguistic perspective. Upcoming webinars: - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) - Clara Molina, Unlearning Accentism: Action Research and Critical Pedagogies (Monday, June 30, 2025 To receive the link for the conference on 28/4, send an email to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu> (Subject: Alice Henderson, link request) Warm regards, Claudia Soria on behalf of the CIRCE Team

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📢 CfP | Special Issue on Human-Centered, Augmented MT (Linguistica Antverpiensia)
by Vicent Briva-Iglesias 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting) We are excited to remind you that there are just *7 days left to submit your abstract *for the Special Issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (2026) (Q1 Journal), dedicated to: *Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation (HCAMT)* ( https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/announcement/view/26) Guest-edited by myself and Sharon O'Brien (Dublin City University) This special issue calls for research that challenges conventional paradigms of machine translation by focusing on human empowerment, user experience, and augmented collaboration between humans and language technologies. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore: ✅ New methodologies for measuring human-MT interaction & MT user experience (MTUX) ✅ Studies on how MT can augment rather than replace human capabilities ✅ Issues of diversity, inclusion, and ethics in HCAMT ✅ How MT and AI can empower translators, interpreters, and multilingual communication in real-world contexts *Submission Details:* - Abstracts (500–1000 words) due by: 1 May 2025 - Submit to: vicent.brivaiglesias(a)dcu.ie and sharon.obrien(a)dcu.ie - If accepted, full papers (approx. 8,000 words) will be due: 1 December 2025 If you’re working with machine translation, user-centered design, accessibility, ethics, or Human-Computer Interaction, this is your moment to contribute to a leading venue and shape the future of human-centered translation technologies. Please circulate this CfP widely among your networks and encourage colleagues to submit. We look forward to receiving your proposals! Warm regards, *Vicent Briva-Iglesias, PhD* MT and HCI Researcher SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (D-REAL) School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) Dublin City University -- __ Séanadh Ríomhphoist/_ Email Disclaimer__ ** Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://www.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml> <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml>* _ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://www.dcu.ie/iss/email-disclaimer.shtml> _ *_

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GermEval @KONVENS 2025 - SustainEval - Training Data Release
by Jakob, Charlott Frederike 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

3rd Call for Participation: SustainEval Shared Task 2025 - Understanding Sustainability Reports 🔹Training data is published 🔹Registration is open 🔹Validation phase started We invite system and paper submissions for SustainEval 2025, a GermEval Shared Task co-located with KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany, in September 2025. With this shared task, we aim to fuel research on automatic analysis and detection of greenwashing by challenging participants to build systems that categorise excerpts from German-language sustainability reports for (A) content class and (B) statement verifiability rating. Important Links: * Website: https://sustaineval.github.io/ * Codabench Task A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7630/ * Codabench Task B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7633/ * Data Repo: https://github.com/SustainEval/sustaineval2025_data Important Dates: * Development Data Release: 12th March 2025 * Training Data Release: 14th April 2025 * Registration Deadline / Start Evaluation Phase: 10th June 2025 * Results Submission Deadline: 27th June 2025 * Paper Submission Deadline: 11th July 2025 * Camera-ready Deadline: 15th Aug 2025 * Workshop & Final Presentation: 10th Sept 2025 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at sustaineval(a)gmail.com<mailto:sustaineval@gmail.com>. Best regards, The Shared Task Organizers Jakob Prange, Universität Augsburg (contact for task-specific questions): jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de<mailto:jakob.prange@uni-a.de> Charlott Jakob, TU Berlin (contact for organisational questions): c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de<mailto:c.jakob@tu-berlin.de> Annemarie Friedrich, Universität Augsburg —————————————————— Charlott Jakob (she/her) Academic Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science Faculty IV Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Technische Universität Berlin Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin, Germany

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Call for participation: ADoBo 2025 dev set released
by ELENA ALVAREZ MELLADO 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

The dev set for ADoBo 2025 shared task on automatic detection of borrowings in Spanish has been released and is now live on Codabench. https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/ To gain access to the data, make submissions and check the leaderboard please join the competition at Codabench. The development phase will end on May 5th. Updates on the task will be announced on ADoBo website and Google group. https://adobo-task.github.io/ https://groups.google.com/g/adobo-task TIMELINE April 21: Dev set released.<https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/> May 6: Test set released. May 19: Systems output submissions. May 26: Results posted and Test set with GS annotations released. June 2: Working notes paper submission. June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). June 23: Camera ready paper submission. September: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University. Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). 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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CFP - Extension de date de soumission - Atelier 4AS@TALN2025 - Représentations Sémantiques
by Maxime Amblard 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

[english version below] **************************** Atelier 4 AS Atelier sur les Avancées en AMR et en Analyse Sémantiques 4AS@TALN2025 - Marseille - 30 juin 2025 **************************** https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/fr/atelier-4-as/ **************************** -> Nouvelle date de soumission 27 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) Beaucoup de chercheurs et chercheuses ont rêvé de créer une intelligence artificielle générale et pour cela ont imaginé d’exploiter la sémantique du langage (parsing et génération). Aujourd’hui nous nous rapprochons de cette possibilité quand nous voyons la capacité des modèles à appréhender des problèmes complexes. Mais, aucun de ces systèmes n’exploite véritablement l’analyse sémantique qui reste un terrain de recherche fertile du point de vue des formalismes, des architectures/modèles et des publications. Bien qu’imparfait, un formalisme tentant de faire le lien entre ces différentes problématiques, les AMR, a concentré beaucoup d'efforts. Cet atelier vise à réunir les différentes équipes qui s’intéressent à la sémantique du langage avec trois objectifs. • Faire le point sur les différentes approches d’exploitation de la sémantique du langage, ses différents formalismes (DRS, AMR, Yarn, …) et leurs usages (modèles d’IA plus frugale, répondre à des problèmes où la sémantique a des avantages clairs par rapport des LLMs, ...). Un focus sera fait sur l’AMR, ses forces, faiblesses, ses successeurs potentiels et évolutions à venir. • Identifier et positionner les différentes ressources utiles à l'analyse sémantique. Si le développement d'un Propbank en français n'apparaît pas comme une stratégie gagnante, porter le développement d'un alignement des mots du français vers Propbank, dans la ligné de VerbNet et Semlink serait intéressant. La question des corpus annotés est aussi largement ouverte. • Echanger les différents points de vue sur l’intérêt de poursuivre cette recherche face aux capacités des très grands modèles de langue (LLM), la meilleure façon de structurer cette recherche (projets collaboratifs par exemple) et de communiquer auprès d’un vaste public. -------------------- Thèmes -------------------- L'atelier sollicite des communications qui abordent un ou plusieurs des thèmes suivants : • Interface syntaxe-sémantique ; • Les ressources pour la sémantique • Expansion ou couplage de ressources sémantiques avec des LLM ; • Conception et annotation des représentations sémantiques ; • Comparaison des framework de représentations sémantiques ; • Génération automatique de textes à partir de représentations de sens ; • Forces et faiblesses des représentations sémantiques existantes ; • Utilisation des représentations sémantique dans des applications réelles ; • Application des représentations sémantiques et multilinguismes ; • Multimodalité dans les représentations du sens ; • La relation entre les représentations symboliques du sens et les représentations sémantiques distribuées ; • Propriétés formelles des représentations de sens ; -------------------- Soumission -------------------- La longueur attendue des soumissions est de 4 pages, augmentée d'une page pour les versions camera ready. Les soumissions doivent être rédigées selon la feuille de style ci-dessous et être soumises sous forme de fichiers PDF via le système EasyChair. Les traductions de soumissions précédemment acceptées dans des conférences de plus grande envergure sont acceptées. Système de soumission est une track 4AS sur le site easychair de la conférence principale : https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=coriataln2025 Les feuilles de style sont communes à TALN, CORIA, RECITAL et RJCRI, voir sur le site web -------------------- Dates -------------------- • Date limite de soumission : 22 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) -> Nouvelle date de soumission 27 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Notification : 7 Mai 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Camera Ready version : 14 Mai 2025 (anywhere on earth) En intégrant les contraintes de calendrier, aucune extension ne sera possible. -------------------- Organisateurices -------------------- • Maxime Amblard (Loria, Université de Lorraine) • Maria Boritchev (Telecom Paris Tech) • Bruno Guillaume (Inria) • Johannes Heinecke (Orange) • Frédéric Herledan (Orange) *********************************************************************************************************************************** Workshop 4 AS Workshop on Advances in AMR and Semantic Analysis 4AS@TALN2025 - Marseille - June, 30th 2025 **************************** https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/fr/atelier-4-as/ **************************** -> New deadline: April 27th 2025 (anywhere on earth) Many researchers have dreamed of creating general artificial intelligence, and to do so have imagined exploiting the semantics of language (parsing and generation). Today, we’re getting closer to this possibility when we see the ability of models to grasp complex problems. But none of these systems really exploits semantic analysis, which remains a fertile field of research in terms of formalisms, architectures/models and publications. Although imperfect, a formalism that attempts to bridge these different issues, AMR, has been the focus of much effort. This workshop aims to bring together the various teams working on language semantics, with three objectives. • Take stock of the different approaches to exploiting language semantics, its various formalisms (DRS, AMR, Yarn, …) and their uses (more frugal AI models, answering problems where semantics has clear advantages over LLMs, …). The focus will be on AMR, its strengths, weaknesses, potential successors and future developments. • Identify and position the various resources useful for semantic analysis. While the development of Propbank in French does not appear to be a winning strategy, the development of a word alignment from French to Propbank, along the lines of VerbNet and Semlink, would be interesting. The question of annotated corpora is also wide open. • Exchange different points of view on the interest of pursuing this research in the face of the capabilities of very large language models (LLMs), the best way of structuring this research (collaborative projects, for example) and communicating to a wide audience. -------------------- Themes -------------------- The workshop invites papers that address one or more of the following themes: • Syntax-Semantics Interface; • Resources for semantics; • Expanding or coupling semantic resources with LLMs ; • Designing and annotating semantic representations; • Comparison of semantic representation frameworks; • Automatic text generation from meaning representations; • Strengths and weaknesses of existing semantic representations; • Use of semantic representations in real-life applications; • Application of semantic representations and multilingualism ; • Multimodality in meaning representations; • The relationship between symbolic representations of meaning and distributed semantic representations; • Formal properties of meaning representations; -------------------- Submission -------------------- The expected length of submissions is 4 pages, plus one page for camera ready versions. Submissions must follow the style sheet below and be submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair system. Translations of previously accepted submissions to larger conferences are accepted. The submission system is a 4AS track on the easychair site of the main conference: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=coriataln2025 Style sheets are common to TALN, CORIA, RECITAL and RJCRI. An Overleaf model is available here: Feuilles de style CORIA-TALN 2025, see on the website. -------------------- Date -------------------- • Submission dead-line: April 22th, 2025 -> New deadline: April 27th 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Notification: May 7th, 2025 • Camera Ready version: May 14th, 2025 Given the time constraints, no extension will be possible. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- • Maxime Amblard (Loria, Université de Lorraine) • Maria Boritchev (Telecom Paris Tech) • Bruno Guillaume (Inria) • Johannes Heinecke (Orange) • Frédéric Herledan (Orange) ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Université de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard http://espoir-ul.fr Si vous lisez ce message en dehors de vos heures de travail, merci de ne le traiter qu’en cas d’urgence avérée.

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[2nd CFP] EcoDL 2025: Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice
by D'Souza, Jennifer 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

EcoDL 2025: The 1st Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice in conjunction with TPDL 2025 EcoDL 2025 aims to explore the integration of AI, digital libraries, and FAIR data principles in ecological research to improve knowledge synthesis and predictive modeling. Ecology's complexity and data heterogeneity present challenges in generalization, requiring advanced computational tools for structured knowledge representation, search, and decision support. We invite researchers from ecology, AI, and digital information systems to discuss AI-driven data synthesis, semantic search, causal inference, and machine learning applications in biodiversity and conservation. Through interdisciplinary contributions, EcoDL 2025 seeks to foster innovation in ecological informatics, supporting open science and advancing digital methods for ecological research and environmental sustainability. ************************************************************** Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/ecodl2025/ Paper Submission Deadline: 16th May 2025 (AoE) *************************************************************** Topics of interest ------------ The EcoDL 2025 workshop welcomes submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics: · Knowledge graphs and structured ecological data representation o Biodiversity knowledge graphs o Linked open data for integrating scattered ecological knowledge sources o Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts o Semantic annotation and classification of ecological data o AI-driven taxonomy generation for ecological datasets · Advanced search and retrieval for ecological and environmental data o Neural search for literature and reports: Improving retrieval of species, habitats, and ecosystem information o Improving retrieval of study question, research hypothesis and applied method o LLMs for information extraction: Capturing species interactions, climate impacts, and conservation policies o Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for ecological research: Hybrid AI systems for answering complex scientific questions o Multimodal search for biodiversity and environmental studies: Combining text, image, and geospatial data retrieval o Automated knowledge discovery from climate and biodiversity repositories · FAIR data principles in ecological research o Data interoperability o Open science infrastructure for ecological and environmental data o Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts o FAIR data and software o Data lifecycle management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse) o NanopublicationsMapping-based Knowledge Graph Construction · AI for assisting ecological research o AI-based literature review o AI-driven synthesis of ecological knowledge: taking complexity and context-dependence into account o Monitoring biases in study system, study regions and methods in ecological research o Tracking Misinformation in Climate Science Using NLP: Identifying and mitigating the spread of false environmental claims · Digital libraries and ecological informatics o Methods for digitizing and analyzing historical ecological archives o Indigenous knowledge and digital archives for sustainability o AI-powered environmental storytelling and digital heritage o Human-nature interactions in digital libraries o Digitization and NLP for analyzing historical climate data · Methods for integrating heterogeneous ecological datasets o Integrating remote sensing data with ecological repositories o Multimodal search for biodiversity studies · Applications of AI in ecosystem restoration, conservation planning and decision-making o AI-powered decision support systems for restoration and conservation o Lay summaries based on ecological evidence o Impact assessment of conservation policies via digital libraries · Reflections on knowledge synthesis in ecology and on the contributions of AI o Evaluating the role of AI in ecological research o Challenges and limitations of AI-driven ecological modeling o The impact of automated systems on scientific knowledge creation o Ethical considerations in AI-assisted ecological analysis o Future directions for AI in knowledge synthesis for ecology Submission guidelines ---------------- The EcoDL workshop solicits submissions in any of the following three formats: § Long Papers: Up to 15 LNCS style pages, including references. § Short Papers: Up to 10 LNCS style pages, including references. § Abstracts: Up to 2 LNCS style pages, including references. All accepted long and short workshop papers will be published in the proceedings of the Springer series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the following link<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Abstract submissions will be invited as poster presentations, to foster discussion and networking at the workshop, but will not be compiled in the proceedings. Important dates ----------- Paper Submission: 16th May 2025 (AOE) Acceptance Notification: 20th June 2025 (AOE) Camera-ready Version: 10th July 2025 (AOE) Workshop: 23rd September 2025 in Tampere, Finland The EcoDL 2025 Workshop is collocated with the The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) https://tpdl2025.github.io/, 23rd to 26th September 2025. EcoDL 2025 Organising Committee ---------------- Jennifer D'Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Tina Heger, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany Marie Kaiser, Bielefeld University, Germany The list of workshops and tutorials at TPDL this year can be found at https://tpdl2025.github.io/Program/workshops_tutorials.html

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Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking
by Chloé Braud 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking Call for expression of interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking 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 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. For datasets which have treebanks, we will evaluate segmentation 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! This will make our replication work easier, but more importantly, it will simplify using such a model and test the robustness of your solution! At this time we are calling for expressions of interest to participate. Registered participants will be added to our mailing list and receive updates as soon as data is made available. Please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Important dates:** * May 15 2025 – sample data release * June 16 2025 – training data release * 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 **Information:** Contact the organizers:disrpt_chairs@googlegroups.com Official website: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ Google group for participants, please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Organization:** Peter Bourgonje (Universität Potsdam, Germany) 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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[PhD offer] POLITO + EURECOM - Enhancing Educational Storytelling with,Human-Centered AI in the LLM Era - deadline is 28/04/2025
by Raphaël Troncy 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, A fully funded three-years PhD position is open at POLITO and EURECOM. Do not hesitate to share with interested candidates around you. ===================================== Web: https://www.polito.it/sites/default/files/2025-03/borsa_scudo_25762_Eurecom… Title: Enhancing Educational Storytelling with,Human-Centered AI in the LLM Era Summary: The PhD aims to develop novel methods and techniques for allowing endusers to create interactive educational narratives from structured resources such as knowledge graphs. The research envisions combining generative models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and end-user personalization strategies, moving beyond simple binary-choice formats and thus enabling more engaging, custom-tailored, and culturally adaptive storytelling. Location: - 18 months at Politecnico di Torino (Department of Control and Computer Engineering) - 18 months at EURECOM (Data Science Department) Supervisors : Luigi de Russis, Raphael Troncy, Pasquale Lisena Application deadline: April 28, 2025 Starting date: Fall 2025 To apply: send your CV + Motivation letter + Transcripts of your MSc + your master thesis + 2 references to <raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr> and <luigi.derussis(a)polito.it> by Monday 28 April 2025! -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy(a)gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

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*SEM2025 - Second Call for Papers
by Kemal Kurniawan 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) *SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP) https://starsem2025.github.io/ Second Call for Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>. Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. 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 describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is May 30, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview. Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference> Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): May 30, 2025 ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025 Conference date: TBA (co-located with EMNLP 2025) Following ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement. Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>

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3rd CfP for IBERLEF-PRESTA
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

THIRD CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IberLEF 2025 - PRESTA: Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish *Web*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ We are pleased to announce the first IberLEF task on Question Answering on Tabular Data: PRESTA. The PRESTA shared-task consists of Question Answering over Tabular Data making use of the DataBenchSPA benchmark. DataBenchSPA is a benchmark composed of real-world table datasets from different domains and with large size of rows and columns, as well as a wide variety of data types that allow to assess distinct sort of questions related to each data type. We propose a task to encourage participants to develop a system that answers the questions of the kind present in DataBenchSPA over day-to-day datasets, where the answer is either a number, a categorical value, a boolean value or lists of several types. DataBenchSPA can be used as a training and validation set, while we will release another test set explicitly compiled for the task competition. The system developed by the participants will be provided by a series of (dataset, question) pairs and will need to provide an answer which would then be compared with a gold standard. The answer might be achieved through a variety of methods. In our paper [1] we illustrate two different approaches: In-Context Learning and Code Generation. You may use any of these or come up with your own approach. There will be two subtasks: Subtask I : DataBenchSPA QA Participants will be provided with a dataset (of any size) and a question over it. The question should be answered using the data from the dataset only. Subtask II: DataBenchSPA Lite QA The task is essentially the same as the previous subtask, but involves using the sampled version of each dataset with a maximum of 20 rows per dataset. The question should be answered using the data from the sampled dataset only. For the test set, we will similarly provide a reduced version of each dataset for this subtask. This task is especially relevant when testing for models with a smaller window size. Important Dates Release of training data: 18 March 2025 Release of test data - competition starts: 30 April 2025 Submission of the results - competition ends: 12 May 2025 Submission of the description paper: 30 May 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López - University of Jaén Eugenio Martínez Cámara - University of Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Eugenio Martínez Cámara Vicepresidente de la SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/> | Vice President of the SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/en>. Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associate Professor. Investigador en Proc. del Lenguaje Natural | Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Proc. 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PhD Position on Automatic translation with large multimodal models at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Application deadline: *30th of May*
by Matteo Negri 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

-- Apologies for cross-posting. -- Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research on automatic translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a part of your life in a pleasant city in the heart of the Italian Alps? WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! The Machine Translation <https://mt.fbk.eu/> (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded PhD position: TITLE: Automatic translation with large multimodal models DESCRIPTION: The rise of large, multimodal foundation models has driven remarkable progress in natural language processing. In text and speech translation, their growing adoption comes with quality improvements while also opening critical research directions for successful deployment and widespread access. Among the current hot research topics, three are particularly relevant to this PhD position: resource efficiency, model alignment, and model accessibility. (i) Resource efficiency aims to reduce computational demands through model compression techniques that shrink large general-purpose models, optimizing them for specific hardware (e.g., mobile devices), translation tasks, domains, or language settings. (ii) Model alignment ensures outputs are trustworthy, fair, and human-centered by integrating cultural, sociodemographic, and human factors into model design and evaluation. This includes bias-aware solutions that promote diversity and inclusivity, as well as improved evaluation methods that better capture real-world user needs. (iii) Model accessibility enhances inclusivity for individuals with visual, hearing, or cognitive impairments by integrating multimodal solutions such as sign language, speech-to-text simplification, and description-augmented subtitling, expanding the capabilities of large models. This PhD position is open to candidates with a strong interest in advancing the state of the art in any of these areas. CONTACTS: negri(a)fbk.eu, bentivo(a)fbk.eu COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is May 12th, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) Prospective candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for preliminary interviews. Depending on the short time remaining before the application deadline, precedence for interviews will be given to short-listed candidates that will send us a complete CV via email ( negri(a)fbk.eu, bentivo(a)fbk.eu) by May 5, 2025. Candidate profile The ideal candidate must have recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a closely related area. In addition, the applicant should: - Have an interest in Machine and Speech Translation - Have experience in deep learning and machine learning, in general - Have good programming skills in Python and experience in PyTorch - Enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets - Have good knowledge of written and spoken English - Enjoy working in a closely collaborating team Working Environment The doctoral student will be employed at the MT Unit <https://mt.fbk.eu/> at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/>, Trento, Italy. The group (about 10 people including staff and students) has a long tradition in research on machine and speech translation and is currently involved in several projects. Former students are nowadays employed in leading IT companies in the world. Benefits Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help with housing, full health insurance, the possibility of Italian courses, and sporting facilities. Further Information Should you need further information about the position, please contact Matteo Negri (negri(a)fbk.eu) and Luisa Bentivogli (bentivo(a)fbk.eu). Best Regards, Matteo Negri -- -- 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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2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- April 25-27 -- program now available
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

************************************************** *** Join us this coming weekend for the *** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator! ************************************************** ==> 25-27 April 2025 <== Consult the program for the richest Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3075 Fourteen (14 !!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics and an expert roundtable! The event is fully online and free for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS members' listserv a few days before the event. We look forward to seeing you there! The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee

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CORRECTED DATES: Call for Papers: Slav-NLP: 10th Workshop on NLP forSlavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '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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Final call for papers and extended deadline: 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025)
by Zinsmeister, Heike 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

The 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to TLT 2025: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ ----------------------------- INVITED TALK ----------------------------- Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. SyntaxFest joint submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025 ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * April 22, 2025: Extended paper submission deadline * June 2, 2025: Notification of acceptance * June 16, 2025: Camera-ready papers due * August 26-29, 2025: SyntaxFest conference (about two workshop days for TLT; attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole SyntaxFest.) All deadlines are 11.59 pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12h). ----------------------------- TLT2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- * Sarah Jablotschkin, University of Hamburg * Sandra Kübler, Indiana University * Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg Contact: tlt2025.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de<mailto:tlt2025.gw@uni-hamburg.de> Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html

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Submit by May 5: ClinIQLink Medical QA Challenge (BioNLP/ACL Track – Hallucination Detection) - Evaluating Hallucinations in Medical QA Systems
by Colelough, Brandon (NIH/NLM) [F] 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

--------------------- Challenge Links: Challenge Homepage: https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/ Challenge Sample Dataset: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_Sample-dataset CodaBench ClinIQLink Docker Setup (GitHub): https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup --------------------- Challenge Links: ClinIQLink @ BIONLP @ ACL 2025 - Important updates! We are pleased to share a set of important updates regarding the ClinIQLink Challenge, focused on evaluating factuality in clinical question answering: 1. Extended Submission Deadline The system submission deadline has been extended to 05 May 2025 at 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth). This allows additional time for teams to finalize and submit their models. 2. Rolling Evaluation Process Submissions are being evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage early submission to receive results in a timely manner. 3. Baseline Benchmark Release We will release performance benchmarks this Friday from a selection of open-source large language models evaluated on the ClinIQLink dataset. These results will serve as reference points for participating teams. 4. Updated Submission Instructions Submission guidelines have been clarified to support reproducibility and containerized evaluation. The revised instructions are available at: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup/blob/main/… 5. Large Model Submissions Still Accepted Teams submitting large models (e.g., models between 10GB and 750GB) may request access. For full challenge details, please visit the challenge homepage: https://cliniqlink.org/ If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, Brandon Colelough brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>

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Call for Papers: Slav-NLP 2025: 10th Workshop on NLP for Slaviclanguages
by Roman Yangarber 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

**Call for Papers:* * * Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages Co-located with ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria 31 July / 1 August 2025 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Submission Deadline: 27 April 2025 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-speaking societies — and their languages — into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological advancements and expanding consumer markets. Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. 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. We aim to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. 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 — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility. We are happy to organize Slav-NLP again 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: 27 April 2025 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment20 May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 27 May 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: 3 June 2025 * Workshop: 31 July or 1 August 2025 SHARED TASK This year's Slav-NLP 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. Information about the Shared Task is available 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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Final Call for Papers: LxGr2025
by Costas Gabrielatos 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: 20 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. * Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. * Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. * Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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[CfP] Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025 - Extended Deadline
by Kossi Amouzouvi 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Important Dates: - *Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025 May 16, 2025* - *Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025 May 23, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025 June 27, 2025* - *Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025 July 15, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon.* Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submission Guidelines The Research and Innovation Track at SEMANTiCS 2025 invites both *long* and *short paper submissions*. - *Long papers* should be *12-15 pages* in length (excluding references). These submissions are expected to present comprehensive, mature research findings, including in-depth theoretical or practical insights. - *Short papers* should be a *maximum of 6 pages* (excluding references). These submissions can include preliminary findings, innovative ideas, or position papers that aim to spark discussion and exploration. References are not included in the page count, so authors may add additional pages for relevant citations if needed. This flexibility allows authors to fully reference foundational and related work to strengthen the context and impact of their research. - Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are available at *https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions*. <https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions> - Authors need to use the *Word template* <https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-06/ECRC-Autho…> or *LaTeX* <https://vtex-soft.github.io/texsupport.IOS-Book-Article/> template provided by IOS Press. Overleaf users can copy the project *from here* <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gkkspcvjgwxv#563836> (follow instructions in the abstract). - Abstract submission is mandatory for all papers. To aid the review and bidding process, we highly encourage authors to submit structured abstracts. - All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS *full policy* <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy> for more details. - Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by signing their reviews. - Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. - At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate. - All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code, materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like *Anonymous GitHub* <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or figshare/Zenodo as described *here* <https://github.com/dgraziotin/disclose-data-dbr-first-then-opendata?tab=rea…>. - The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. - All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (*https://orkg.org* <https://orkg.org>) during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the EasyChair submission form. Review and Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID). The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Appropriateness - Originality, novelty, and innovativeness - Impact of results - Technical quality of the methods - Soundness of the evaluation - Proper comparison to related work - Clarity and quality of writing - Reproducibility of results and resources *We look forward to receiving your contributions!* Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) 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. 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Full-time research position at University College Dublin
by Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, I am recruiting for a one-year fully funded research assistant position involving NLP/ quantitative methods in text analysis. I would be grateful if you could share this ad with anyone interested. I am available for any questions potential applicants might have. Thanks a lot! Kind regards, Stephanie *One-year fulltime research assistant position at University College Dublin* *Start Date* 1st September 2025 *Duration* 12 months *Deadline* 22nd May, noon IST *Full ad* https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_ucdp/apply?id=018505 University College Dublin is currently recruiting a researcher to implement natural language processing (NLP) tools on interviews and speeches in Arabic. The research assistant will support the development of tools to identify and analyse so-called cognitive maps (Axelrod 1976). Dornschneider and Henderson (2016, 2024) and Dornschneider (2019) have developed tools for the computational analysis of cognitive maps. What is needed is a set of tools to infer cognitive maps from natural language. This Irish Research Council funded project investigates the role of women in Muslim resistance movements. The cognitive mapping analysis has several main objectives: 1- to show typical behavioral decisions (e.g. to join a resistance a movement) described by the interviewees; 2- to identify common reasoning processes related to these decisions; and 3- to trace the role of religious beliefs in these reasoning processes. The research assistant will work with the Principal Investigator, Dr. Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink, to deliver the research objectives of the project. Tasks will include but are not limited to web scraping, POS tagging, and OCR, as well as the checks necessary to review the accuracy of the automated processes. Knowledge of Arabic is not necessary, but a plus. Applicants should submit a CV, a cover letter, as well as a piece of well-documented NLP-related sample code in R or Python. Principal duties · Work under the supervision of the Principal Investigator to implement the objectives of the IRC project · Apply quantitative text analysis to Arabic text/interviews · Help generate and analyse cognitive maps · Web scraping · OCR · Quality checking · Report to the team and PI on a regular basis Mandatory requirements · Some undergraduate or graduate-level training in quantitative text analysis/NLP · Preferably a political science, data science, and/ or computer science background · Experience with programming in R and/ or Python · Ability to work independently and take the initiative to implement the outlined tasks · Candidates must demonstrate an awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. *References* Axelrod, R. (ed.). 1976. Structure of decision: The cognitive maps of political elites. Princeton: Princeton university press. Dornschneider-Elkink, S. and Henderson, N., 2024. Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(4), 756-785. Dornschneider, S., 2019. High‐Stakes Decision‐Making Within Complex Social Environments: A Computational Model of Belief Systems in the Arab Spring. Cognitive Science, 43(7), p.e12762. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12762 Dornschneider, S. and Henderson, N., 2016. A computational model of cognitive maps: Analyzing violent and nonviolent activity in Egypt and Germany. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(2), pp.368-399. -- Dr Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink Associate Professor, School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) University College Dublin Newman Building, F316, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland http://www.dornschneider.net/

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2nd Call for participation: Robust WSI Shared Task @ CoNLL-2025
by Ondřej Herman 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in the Robust Word Sense Induction shared task, which is organized as a part of CoNLL-2025 in Vienna (31.7 - 1. 8. 2025). TASK OVERVIEW The task focuses on unsupervised word sense induction without relying on predefined sense inventories. Participants will receive sentences containing target words and cluster them according to word sense usage. What makes this task unique is the novel evaluation approach using multi-annotated data and robust metrics that account for natural sense ambiguity and provide a fairer evaluation compared to traditional approaches. The benchmark datasets will be available in English, Czech, German, Spanish, Estonian and Chinese. The submissions are currently open. Please note that the deadlines have been slightly postponed. IMPORTANT DATES - Updated 25. 4. 2025 - Test phase ends 2. 5. 2025 - Submission of system description papers 31. 7. 2025 or 1. 8. 2025 - The CoNLL-2025 workshop at ACL 2025 in Vienna For more information and participation instructions, please visit https://projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/. This shared task is organized by Ondřej Herman, Miloš Jakubíček, Pavel Rychlý and Vojtěch Kovář at Lexical Computing and Masaryk University. If you have any questions, please contact us at conll2025(a)sketchengine.eu. Best regards, The Shared Task Organizers

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First call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

First 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. 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PhD Position at SpeechTek research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler: application deadline May 12 2025
by Daniele Falavigna 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

The Speech Technology group (SpeechTek) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully funded PhD position. *Title: Advancing speech recognition and understanding* *Description: *Recent advancements in speech recognition and language technologies have significantly improved their performance across various applications: speech recognition, spoken language understanding, speaker diarization, speech analytics. However,these systems still face challenges when applied “in the wild, e.g. in typical domestic or office-like settings, due to background noise and overlapping speech. These factors hinder the effectiveness of current speech technologies, highlighting a need for further research and development. The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies. The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies. If you have recently completed a Master's degree or an equivalent qualification and if you are interested in carrying out research in an extremely interesting field of artificial intelligence that addresses the problem of recognition and understanding of spoken language, collaborating with an Italian research group with a long tradition in the field, you are certainly interested in applying to the above-mentioned call. *Scholarship: * The annual gross amount of the doctoral scholarship is €18.345,00. Students who have been awarded a PhD scholarship are entitled to get a 50% scholarship increase when staying abroad for reasons related to their doctoral research and studies. Each student is provided with a budget which can be used for educational and research purposes. Fondazione Bruno Kessler will provide any help for accomodation and administrative procedures. APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 12th, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) *CONTACTS*: brutti(a)fbk.eu <guerini(a)fbk.eu> *COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT*: Call for application | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science <https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giuseppe Daniele Falavigna Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via Sommarive 18 - 38123 Povo - Trento, Italy mail:falavi@fbk.eu - tel:+39(0)461314562 - fax:+39(0)461314591 HomePage: https://speechtek.fbk.eu/people/profile/falavi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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[CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

---------- Forwarded message --------- De: International Conference on Computational Creativity < iccc25.computationalcreativity(a)8468461.brevosend.com> Date: quinta, 17/04/2025, 10:51 Subject: [CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity To: <hgoliv(a)gmail.com> Submissions due: April 21, 2025‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ *The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25)* June 23–27, 2025 — Campinas, Brazil Hi Hugo, Below, you will find a reminder for the official Call for Short Papers for the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25), which will be held in Campinas, Brazil, from June 23 to 27, 2025. We hope that you may be able to contribute to the conference by submitting your research. Please feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested. We hope to see you at ICCC'25 in Campinas, Brazil, in June 2025! *Call for papers: short papers* http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/short-papers/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dINmOPp80mYnKVrZxIO/AcAUaH…> Computational Creativity (CC) is a discipline with its roots in scientific disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy that each explores the potential for computers to be creative – either in partnership with humans or as autonomous creators in their own right. The International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on systems that act as creative partners for human creators, on frameworks that offer greater clarity or computational felicity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on. **** Themes and Topics **** The ICCC call for short papers invites research on the same topics as the main call. See Full Papers <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIPRQs7HV5yLG6zVabQ/IAc4nt…> for more information. In summary, new papers reflecting all computational approaches and perspectives on creativity are welcome, including e.g., symbolic approaches, neural and statistical approaches, hybrid approaches, big-data approaches, rule-based approaches, curated approaches, and so on. The onus is on authors to argue and/or explicitly demonstrate the relevance of their work to the topic of computational creativity. *A note on generative AI models:* while the study of generative AI models is both welcomed and encouraged, such models and their application must be properly situated in the CC literature and evaluated according to acceptable practices in the field. Papers that fail to do this are unlikely to be reviewed favorably. *Difference between long and short papers:* Short papers are intended to share new directions and ideas, spark debate, and enrich the conference and program, without the same evaluation and rigor requirements of long papers. They are not merely long papers with fewer pages. To this end, different review criteria will be applied to long and short papers. **** Paper Types **** Short papers offer concise treatments of work and ideas that are better suited to this concentrated format. 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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval
by Ingo Frommholz 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

ELLIS ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, will take place July 7-11 in Wolverhampton, UK. https://2025.essir.eu/ 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. ESSIR 2025 will take place in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11, 2025. We 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. For additional enquiries, please contact essir-2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:essir-2025@googlegroups.com>. Registration will open soon. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Wolverhampton! -- 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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CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: 2nd call for papers
by Chloé Braud 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '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/ 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 generationSubmissions 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 website will be announced later.Schedule - July 30 2025:CODI 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, SingaporeOrganizers - 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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1 PhD position in discourse studies at the University of Lisbon
by Amália Mendes 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

The Centre of Linguistics at the University of Lisbon (School of Arts and Humanities) is opening 1 PhD position in Discourse Studies. Research focus: questions in monologic discourse, at the crossroad between pragmatics, textual coherence, argumentation, and corpus linguistics We welcome applicants with a Master’s degree (MA) in Linguistics, languages, or related areas. Deadline: 29 April 2025 Email for application: clul(a)letras.ulisboa.pt<mailto:clul@letras.ulisboa.pt> For more details: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/334941 For any questions about the position, feel free to contact us at clul(a)letras.ulisboa.pt<mailto:clul@letras.ulisboa.pt>

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Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track at TU Wien (Deadline May 22, 2025)
by Pia Pachinger 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages@Language Resources and Evaluation Journal
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '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* May 26, 2025: Expression of interest (EOI) via this form: https://forms.gle/QqeqxZgGfsxP6rZ77 August 26, 2025: Paper submission deadline December 05, 2025: Revised papers due March 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)" on the LRE journal website <https://link.springer.com/journal/10579>. Thanks, Atul

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First call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

First 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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CIRCE Online Seminar | 28/04/2025 | Dr. Alice Henderson | "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

*🎓 *We are happy to remind you about 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/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Alice Henderson_ (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France) *Title*: Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace *Date*: Monday, April 28, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: The university workplace is representative of international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their colleagues’ and students’ accents – of Italian, of English, and in my case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions, we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed. This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how? In this talk I’ll summarize speech research findings about how listeners can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. I’ll look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. I’ll describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused in other professional contexts. If possible, I’ll also describe the next steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop participants as part of a longitudinal study. *Bio*: Alice Henderson is a Professor at Université Grenoble - Alpes, France where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to Science & Technology students. She taught English phonetics and phonology for 24 years and has been involved in training teachers in France, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the international bi-annual conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Her research interests include English pronunciation teaching and learning, the perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction (EMI). Much of her research has focused on speakers, but she is also intrigued by listeners’ roles, from an intercultural and sociolinguistic perspective. Upcoming webinars: - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) - Clara Molina, Unlearning Accentism: Action Research and Critical Pedagogies (Monday, June 30, 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 <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu>.

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Second Call for Special Issue Proposals - Journal Natural Language Processing
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering) *** Second Call for Special Issue Proposals *** In recent years the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has enjoyed unprecedented developments since the emergence of Deep Learning and, lately, Large Language Models. At the same time, NLP is following the trend of many other areas in becoming highly specialised, with a number of application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in importance. These developments, often coinciding with a lack of related literature, necessitate and warrant the publication of specialised volumes focusing on a specific topic of interest to the NLP research community. The Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering), which features six 160-page issues per year and has had its impact factor increase yearly, invites proposals for special issues on a competitive basis covering any topics in applied NLP which have emerged as important recent developments and have attracted the attention of a number of researchers. The Journal Calls for Proposals for special issues have resulted in high-quality outputs and this year we look forward to another successful competition. Proposals on topics covering a variety of methods, tasks, resources and applications from Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Speech and Language Processing, Text Analytics and related areas are eligible. Special issues on timely NLP topics such as latest language models including Large Language Models/Generative AI, are welcome. Special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or section of the community. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews. In addition, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all interested parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited to workshop participants only. Prospective proposers are also encouraged to consult the successful Journal columns "Industry Watch" and "Emerging Trends" for additional inspiration. Interested parties have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended special issue to the Executive Editor (Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es). He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to the Journal. In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue that will be reviewed by the Editors of the Journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial Board. The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the particular topic of interest at the current time. It should include a relevant literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special issue against the background of other relevant or competing publications and volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that evidence for the estimate of expected submissions to the special issue be provided and justified. The proposals should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board. It is desirable that at least one (preferably two) of the members of the Guest Editorial Board is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Natural Language Processing. The proposal should also include a tentative time-scale for the production of the special issue (the time-scale committed to in the proposal should be adhered to, if the proposal is accepted), and information about the prospective Guest Editors such as relevant experience, publications etc. Time-scale - Deadline for submission of special issue proposals: 28 April 2025 (proposals to be emailed to Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es with a copy to NLP(a)cambridge.org) - Notification of acceptance/rejection: 19 May 2025 - Calls for papers related to the successful proposals (at least 2 calls are recommended): 7 June 2025 first call July-September 2025 second (and third call, if applicable) Once the special issue is approved and launched, Guest Editors are expected to adhere to the same reviewing and acceptance standards as regular issues of the Journal. In particular, each submission needs to be reviewed by three members of the Guest Editorial Board or other experts in the field. To ensure geographical diversity and balance, and to avoid over-reliance on the same reviewers, each submission must not be reviewed by three experts from the same country, and no single reviewer should evaluate more than two submissions. If the Executive Editor is not satisfied with the review process for a special issue paper, he may either reject the paper or send it for additional review. As a last resort, the Executive Editor has the discretion to reject the entire special issue if the reviewing practices are found to be flawed. All special issues are required to include a survey of the field (at least 15 pages) as its first article, which can be written either by the Guest Editors or experts in the field commissioned by the Guest Editors. This is in addition to a 1-2 page preface by the Guest Editors. Best Regards Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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Call for participation: Automatic Detection of Borrowings (ADoBo 2025)
by ELENA ALVAREZ MELLADO 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce the second edition of ADoBo, the shared task on automatic detection of borrowings (automatically retrieving words from one language that are incorporated into another language.) For ADoBo 2025 we propose a shared task on retrieving anglicisms from Spanish text, i.e. words borrowed specifically from English that have recently been imported into the Spanish language (words like "running", "smartwatch", "influencer" or "youtuber"). The task will run from April 2025 to June 2025 and is part of IberLEF 2025, which will take place in September 2025 in Zaragoza, Spain. WEBSITE https://adobo-task.github.io/ TIMELINE April 21: Dev set released. May 6: Test set released. May 19: Systems output submissions. May 26: Results posted and Test set with GS annotations released. June 2: Working notes paper submission. June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). June 23: Camera ready paper submission. September: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University. Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). 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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Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2025- Italian Association of Computational Linguistics, Milan 18-20 Jnee
by Elisabetta Jezek 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of the *Lectures on Computational Linguistics*, a series of lectures dedicated to central topics in the field of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, will be held in *Milan* from *18 to 20 June*. The programme and all information are available on the Lectures website <https://www.ai-lc.it/lectures/lectures-2025/> The 2025 edition is organized by the *Italian Association of Computational Linguistics*/*Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale* (*AILC*) with the Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures at *Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore*, Milan, and the Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication at the *University of Milano-Bicocca*. The interdisciplinary nature of the school crosses several areas, particularly the Humanities, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The program includes tutorials, labs, evening lectures and two student presentation sessions. The 2025 edition is focused on *Linguistic Linked Open Data*, *Neuro-symbolic AI* and *their interplay*. Programme June 18th 2025: Linguistic Linked Open Data • 9:00– 9:30: Welcome and opening • 9:30 – 11:30: *Tutorial 1 – Fundamentals of Linguistic Linked Open Data, Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza* • 11:30 – 12:00: BREAK • 12:00 – 13:30: Student session • 13:30 – 15:00: LUNCH • 15:00 – 17:00: *Tutorial 2 – Advanced Topics of Linguistic Linked Open Data, Max Ionov, University of Cologne* • 17:00 – 17:30: BREAK • 17:30 – 18:30: *Evening lecture – LiLa Now: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead for a Large-Scale Linguistic Linked Data Project, Francesco Mambrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan* • 19:30: Welcome drink June 19th 2025: Neuro-symbolic AI • 9:00 – 11:00: *Tutorial 3 –Beyond Naive RAG: How Entities and Graphs Enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK • 11:30 – 13:30: *Lab. 1 (part 1) – Retrieval Augmented Generation, Large Language Models and Knowledge Bases, Marco Cremaschi, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 13:30 – 15:00: LUNCH • 15:00 – 17:00: *Lab. 1 (part 2) – Evaluating Large Language Models for Linguistic Linked Data Generation, Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 17:00 – 17:30: BREAK • 17:30 – 18:30: *Evening lecture – Memorization or Generalization? Exploring Transformer-based Large Language Models and, possibly, novel approaches, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Roma Tor Vergata* June 20th 2025: Resources and Evaluation • 9:00 – 11:00: *Tutorial 4 – From Corpora to Capabilities: Rethinking Language Resources in the LLM Era, Zheng Yuan, University of Sheffield* • 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK • 11:30 – 13:00: Student session • 13:00 – 14:00: LUNCH • 14:00 – 16:00: *Lab 2 – The LiLa Knowledge Base: Hands-on Session, Eleonora Litta and Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano* Registration The school is mainly aimed at Doctoral and Master's degree students, although a minimum qualification is not required for access. Participation is *free* but subject to *registration *and* association to AILC**, *and places are limited to 200. Register at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lcl-registration-procedure/. Membership fees to AILC at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/memberships/ Students wishing to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to send a *500-word abstract* to ailc. lectures(a)gmail.com by *May 10, 2025*. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by *May 20, 2025*. Scientific Committee Pierpaolo Basile, University of Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Tommaso Caselli, University of Groningen Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Elisabetta Jezek, University of Pavia Local Organizing Committee Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Matteo Pellegrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Giulia Rizzi, University of Milano-Bicocca Contacts: ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com -- [image: LOGO-UNIPV] PhD ELISABETTA JEZEK Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici PROFESSORE ASSOCIATO IN LINGUISTICA E GLOTTOLOGIA Presidente del corso di laurea magistrale internazionale in European Languages, Cultures and Societies in Contact Membro del Consiglio Direttivo dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale <https://firmamail.unipv.it/index.php/firme/genera> https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/resource/person/659960 Elisabetta Jezek's Personal Meeting Room https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7814331810 -- 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. 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Deadline extension: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Final Call for Papers: *The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)* *Location*: Vienna, Austria and online (co-located with ACL 2025) *Date*: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025 *Website*: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025 <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025> *Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12 *Submission Link*: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ Dear all, due to multiple requests, we will be extending the submission deadline for BEA 2025 by one week – the submissions are due by April 24, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) (https://sig-edu.org<https://sig-edu.org/>) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as *a 2-day workshop*, and it will feature a keynote by *Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly)*, oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop is also hosting *a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors*, and *a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward *(more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of generative AI in education and its impact; - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE (https://alliancelss.com<https://alliancelss.com/>) societies. SHARED TASK The workshop will also host a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors. See more details here: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission deadline: *Thursday, April 24, 2025* - Notification of acceptance: *Thursday, May 22, 2025* - Camera-ready papers due: *Monday, June 9, 2025* - Workshop: *Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025* SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; 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. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI - Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University - Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum - Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen - Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec - Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners - Bashar Alhafni, New York University (NYU) & CAMeL Lab in NYUAD - Zheng Yuan, King’s College London - Jill Burstein, Duolingo Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com> PROGRAM COMMITTEE https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025#program-committee

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Job opening (Vienna, Austria): PhD Student, Researcher & Lecturer in Applied Data Science
by Ingo Frommholz 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

PhD Student, Researcher & Lecturer in Applied Data Science (all genders) Full-time (40 h/w) in Vienna, Austria Relevant for those interested in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, natural language processing, or a related discipline. Temporary, Full-time - Modul University Vienna, Austria More info and application link at https://modul-university-vienna-gmbh.jobs.personio.com/job/2053035?language… JOB POSITION AND DEPARTMENT´S OVERVIEW Modul University Vienna is seeking an outstanding scholar for a Researcher & Lecturer position for its School of Applied Data Science to join its research team and teach undergraduate courses in the broader areas of data science (www.modul.ac.at/study-programs). This position is at the Researcher & Lecturer level and foresees candidates to develop their PhD research and participate in university self-governance. The School of Applied Data Science seeks candidates whose doctoral research will be related to one or more of the main research areas of the school. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES Have a career ambition to conduct internationally recognized research, i.e. by publishing research articles and writing a doctoral thesis; Enthusiastically engage in teaching undergraduate courses; Assist in the general administration of the university; YOUR PROFILE A completed Master (by August 2025) in any of the fields of computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, natural language processing or a related discipline; Strong background in quantitative research methods; Excellent analytical skills and evidence of the potential to undertake cutting-edge research; Excellent written and spoken English (German is not a requirement as English is the working language). The minimum scores are: TOEFL: 100 Internet-based test (IBT) with no individual section score less than 20; or IELTS: overall band score between 7 and 7.5 with no sub-score below 6.0. The Admissions Committee may decide upon the recognition of other evidence of language skills. WHY JOIN US? Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research approach Individual professional development An international and multicultural working environment FURTHER INFORMATION This is a full‐time, limited contract position where applicants are prepared to work up to 40 hours per week (with overtime hours). The position remains open until filled; the review of applications will commence immediately after the announcement. Starting date: 1 September 2025. The position is available as of September 1st for four years. Successful candidates will use about 50% of their working hours (40h/week) for their PhD studies. The starting salary is EUR 30,000 gross (annual teaching load: two units, @45 min per unit, of weekly teaching) plus approx. 30% Arbeitgeberanteil (= contribution to the social security and pension fund paid by the employer according to Austrian Law), with additional remuneration for extra teaching or supervision of theses. From the 2nd year onwards, the salary increases to EUR 39,350 gross with an annual teaching load of six units. Tuition for the PhD program is covered by Modul University Vienna. For questions related to this position, please contact the Dean of the PhD program astrid.dickinger(a)modul.ac.at or the Head of the School of Applied Data Science ingo.frommholz(a)modul.ac.at. Please submit on our job portal your complete application including cover letter, curriculum vitae, a motivation letter, two recommendation letters, academic transcripts, a statement of your research interests referring to any of the research profiles of Sustainability, Governance, and Methods Professors, and a statement of your teaching interests referring to one of the above-mentioned teaching areas (in English; preferably as a single PDF file not exceeding 8 MB). ABOUT US Modul University Vienna is an international private university and offers cutting-edge education at BBA, BSc, MSc, MBA and PhD levels. Students and staff come from over 70 countries around the world, providing for a multicultural and diverse work environment. As an employer, Modul University Vienna offers: Opportunities to work from home Flexible working hours International and dynamic team Personal and professional development Independent working environment Public transport ticket Modul University Vienna is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to equality and diversity that does not discriminate on the basis of, among other factors, age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender expression, national origin, race, sexual orientation, or social class. We especially encourage women and people who belong minority groups to apply and welcome all applications that can contribute to a diverse working culture. -- 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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April 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

In this newsletter: LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website Connect with LDC on Bluesky New publications: DEFT Spanish Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T04> MATERIAL Kazakh-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S03> ________________________________ LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website We are pleased to announce the launch of the newly upgraded LDC main website: https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/. Designed with a modern layout, the site now offers an improved experience across all devices. While the LDC Catalog, LDC user accounts, and LDC Submissions are not affected by this upgrade, they are now more accessible than ever from any page on the site. We invite you to explore the website and enjoy a smoother, more intuitive LDC web experience. Connect with LDC on Bluesky In addition to Facebook, X and LinkedIn, you can now connect with LDC on the microblogging platform, Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/ldcupenn.bsky.social>. Follow us today to learn the latest news, announcements and corpora releases from the Consortium. ________________________________ New publications: DEFT Spanish Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T04> was developed by LDC and consists of 158 Spanish discussion forum and newswire documents annotated for entities, relations, and events (ERE). Light ERE annotation labels entity mentions for the target set of entity, relation, and event types between and among those entities including coreference. Rich ERE annotation expands types and tagging in the entities, relations, and events annotation tasks and replaces strict event coreference with a more loosely defined event hopper annotation. The source data consists of Spanish newswire text and Latin American discussion forum data from DEFT Spanish Treebank LDC2018T01<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2018T01>. 128 documents were annotated following Light ERE annotation guidelines. 154 files were labeled with Rich ERE annotation, 124 of which were also labeled with Light ERE annotation. DARPA's Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT) program aimed to address remaining capability gaps in state-of-the-art natural language processing technologies related to inference, causal relationships and anomaly detection. LDC supported the DEFT program by collecting, creating and annotating a variety of data sources. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Kazakh-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S03> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 57 hours of Kazakh conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 17% of the speech files, all of which were translated into English. This release also includes English queries and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 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. 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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Reminder: EURALEX Talk - Mark Davies
by Iztok Kosem 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that the next instalment of EURALEX Talks will take place tomorrow, on Wednesday 16 April, at 16.00 (CET). In this video lecture, Mark Davies, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA, will talk about his recent large-scale investigation of how the predictions on linguistic variation from two Large Language Models match actual corpus data. He will also present and demo his current work on integrating LLMs into his interface for English-Corpora.org. Further details, including a Zoom link, are available at https://euralex.org/euralex-talks/. Iztok Kosem EURALEX President

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2nd CfP for IBERLEF-PRESTA
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IberLEF 2025 - PRESTA: Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish *Web*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ We are pleased to announce the first IberLEF task on Question Answering on Tabular Data: PRESTA. The PRESTA shared-task consists of Question Answering over Tabular Data making use of the DataBenchSPA benchmark. DataBenchSPA is a benchmark composed of real-world table datasets from different domains and with large size of rows and columns, as well as a wide variety of data types that allow to assess distinct sort of questions related to each data type. We propose a task to encourage participants to develop a system that answers the questions of the kind present in DataBenchSPA over day-to-day datasets, where the answer is either a number, a categorical value, a boolean value or lists of several types. DataBenchSPA can be used as a training and validation set, while we will release another test set explicitly compiled for the task competition. The system developed by the participants will be provided by a series of (dataset, question) pairs and will need to provide an answer which would then be compared with a gold standard. The answer might be achieved through a variety of methods. In our paper [1] we illustrate two different approaches: In-Context Learning and Code Generation. You may use any of these or come up with your own approach. There will be two subtasks: Subtask I : DataBenchSPA QA Participants will be provided with a dataset (of any size) and a question over it. The question should be answered using the data from the dataset only. Subtask II: DataBenchSPA Lite QA The task is essentially the same as the previous subtask, but involves using the sampled version of each dataset with a maximum of 20 rows per dataset. The question should be answered using the data from the sampled dataset only. For the test set, we will similarly provide a reduced version of each dataset for this subtask. This task is especially relevant when testing for models with a smaller window size. Important Dates Release of training data: 18 March 2025 Release of test data - competition starts: 30 April 2025 Submission of the results - competition ends: 12 May 2025 Submission of the description paper: 30 May 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. 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Fwd: [CfP] Sci-K @ISWC 2025 – 5th Intl. Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment
by Khalid Choukri 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

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IWCS International Conference on Computational Semantics: 2nd CfP
by Kilian Evang 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 22-24 September 2025 https://iwcs2025.github.io/ 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: 06 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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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Fifth Call for Papers
by Announce 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

*** Fifth Call for Papers *** 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 ***) 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: May 19, 2025 (AoE) • Author Notification: June 23, 2025 • Camera-ready: June 30, 2025 • Author Registration: June 30, 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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PhD students at Saarland University - RTG Neuroexplicit Models
by Alexander Koller 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Hi all, this is a really cool opportunity, and the last chance to apply. I look forward to receiving your applications! Best, Alexander. The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for Multiple PhD Students - Fall 2025 Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”). We also develop novel machine learning techniques for neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”). Our overarching aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models through interdisciplinary collaboration. We are now filling the last few remaining positions to grow to a total of 24 PhD students by the end of 2025. You will join a very international crowd of sixteen PhD students and one postdoc who are already being funded by the RTG. Through the inclusion of ~15 associated PhD students and postdocs funded from other sources, it will be one of the largest research centers on neuroexplicit or neurosymbolic models in the world. The RTG brings together researchers at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). All of these institutions are collocated on the same campus in Saarbrücken, Germany. The positions will be funded for four years at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. They are intended to start in September 2025, but could start a little earlier or later depending on the student’s availability. You should have or be about to complete an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated expertise in one of the research areas of the RTG, e.g. through an excellent Master’s thesis or relevant publications. The RTG is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, one of the leading centers for research in computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing in Europe. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries. The CISPA Helmholtz Center, located on the same campus, is home to an additional 350 researchers and on track to grow to 800 by 2026. Researchers at SIC and CISPA are part of the ELLIS network and have been awarded more than 40 ERC grants. Each PhD student in the RTG will be jointly supervised by two PhD advisors from the list of Principal Investigators below. Each student will freely define their own research topic; we encourage the choice of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of research fields. Students may be affiliated with Saarland University or with one of the participating institutes. Vera Demberg, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Philipp Slusallek, DFKI and Saarland University - Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics - Visual Computing, Machine Learning Isabel Valera, Saarland University - Machine Learning Jilles Vreeken, CISPA - Machine Learning, Causality Joachim Weickert, Saarland University - Mathematical Data Analysis Verena Wolf, DFKI and Saarland University - Modeling and Simulation, Reinforcement Learning Ellie Pavlick, Brown University and Google AI, is joining us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by May 7th 2025 to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org and include the reference number W2639. We aim to conduct job interviews in June 2025. For more details on the position, including what materials to submit with your application, please see our website: https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/

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CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026
by ACL Announcements 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026* The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2026 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April/May) 2026. The 2026 conference will be the 18th meeting of the EACL. At the same time, we also invite expressions of interest to host the 2027 EACL conference. *At this stage, we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders.* These will be evaluated, and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. The EACL Board will appoint the general chair for the conference, the programme committee co- chairs, and all other chairs (tutorial co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, etc.), except for the local arrangements chair. *It seems we have had a malfunction with our mailing list. Please resend your bid if you haven't received a confirmation from us!* Draft bid proposals (due *April 16th, 2025*) should include information on all of the following items: 1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably March/April) 2026 2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention center. Bear in mind that EACL is growing. While Gothenburg (EACL 2014) had 520 registered participants, Valencia (EACL 2017) had 680 registered participants and EACL 2024 had over 800 participants. So please suggest a location that could host 1000 people for plenary sessions, plus at least 4 conference rooms hosting parallel sessions (200-250 people each), a large poster or exhibit room; 11 rooms on the workshops/tutorials days among which at least two host 200 people and the others 60 persons; and rooms for demos, small meetings and registration. 3. *Local arrangements team:* local chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether a professional conference organizer (PCO) will be involved in the organization. Also, indicate whether any national/regional associations for Computational Linguistics would be on board of the local organization *The final bids will also include detailed information on the following items:* 1. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are 2. Printing of conference booklet 3. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and conference dinner 4. Accommodation options at the venue, including low-cost student accommodation 5. Travel alternatives to the venue from Europe and beyond 6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event and reception 7. Potential for local sponsorships 8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings 9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below). Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (unordered): - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities - Adequacy of expenses projections and expected surplus - Appropriateness of proposed dates - Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing conferences held in EMEA - Co-location with national/regional conferences - Experience with the local arrangements team - Local CL community support - Local government and industry support - Appropriateness of expected registration fees - Accessibility of the proposed site Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years: - EACL 23 report [1]https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf [2] The EACL conference handbook: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf [3] Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Board: nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal. *Important Dates:* 16th April 2025: Deadline for draft bids April 2025: Feedback to bidders, announcement of shortlist of bidders May 2025: Deadline for final bids June 2025: Final bid chosen (to be publicly announced in July at ACL2025) April/May 2026: EACL Conference Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi - Secretary of EACL - Links: ------ [1] http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_EACL_2017 [2] https://ems-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2… [3] https://ems-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2…

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[RANLP 2025 Shared Task - Ahasis] Phase 1 Started: Training Data Now Available! 🔔
by chafik.salmane＠um6p.ma 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

🔔 Training Set Now Available! The training dataset for Ahasis is now live! 👉 If you're registered, access it directly via CodaBench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5871 👉 Not registered yet? Visit our official website to register, then head to CodaBench to get started! 😊 Sentiment Across Multi-Dialectal Arabic: A Benchmark for Sentiment Analysis in the Hospitality Domain We invite researchers, practitioners, and NLP enthusiasts to participate in the Sentiment Across Multi-Dialectal Arabic shared task, a challenge aimed at advancing sentiment analysis for Arabic dialects in the hospitality sector. 🧠 About the Task Arabic is one of the world’s most spoken languages, characterised by rich dialectal variation across different regions. These dialects significantly differ in syntax, vocabulary, and sentiment expression, making sentiment analysis a challenging NLP task. This task focuses on multi-dialectal sentiment detection in hotel reviews, where participants will classify sentiment as positive, neutral, or negative across multiple Arabic dialects, including Saudi, Moroccan, and Egyptian Arabic. This shared task provides a high-quality multi-dialect parallel dataset, enabling participants to explore: 1. Dialect-Specific Sentiment Detection – Understanding how sentiment varies across dialects. 2. Cross-Linguistic Sentiment Analysis – Investigating sentiment preservation across dialects. 3. Benchmarking on Multi-Dialect Data – Evaluating models on a standardised Arabic dialect dataset. 📦 Dataset Overview - Hotel reviews across multiple Arabic dialects. - Balanced sentiment distribution (positive, neutral, negative). - Multi-Dialect Parallel Dataset – Each review is available in multiple dialects, allowing for cross-linguistic comparison. 📏 Evaluation Metrics - Primary Metric: F1-Score. - Additional Analysis: Comparison of sentiment accuracy across dialects. 🧪 Baseline System - Pre-trained BERT-based model (AraBERT) fine-tuned on MSA and Arabic dialect data. - Participants are encouraged to improve upon the baseline model with their own techniques and use LLMs. 🌟 Why Participate? - Contribute to Arabic NLP Research – Help advance sentiment analysis for Arabic dialects. - Gain Access to a High-Quality Dataset – A unique multi-dialect benchmark for future research. - Collaborate with the NLP Community – Engage with leading researchers and practitioners. - Showcase Your Work – High-performing models may be featured in a post-task publication. 🗓️ Timeline - Training data ready – April 15, 2024 - Test Evaluation starts – May 1, 2025 - Test Evaluation end – May 5, 2025 - Paper submission due – May 16, 2025 - Notification to authors – May 31, 2025 - Shared task presentation co-located with RANLP 2025 – September 11 and September 12, 2025 ✅ How to Participate? 1. Register for the task via https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ 2. Download the dataset and baseline system. 3. Develop and test your sentiment analysis model. 4. Submit your results for evaluation. 👥 Organising Team - Maram Alharbi, Lancaster University, UK - Salmane Chafik, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco - Professor Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK - Dr. Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Dr. Tharindo Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK - Dr. Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK 📬 For inquiries, please contact us at ahasis.task(a)gmail.com 🎉 Don’t forget to enjoy the challenge, explore the beauty of Arabic dialects, and push the boundaries of what your models can do! 🚀

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #16
by Costas Gabrielatos 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 2 May 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (BST<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Lexical Priming Theory Speaker: Michael Pace-Sigge<https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/person/michael.pace-sigge/> (University of Eastern Finland) Title: Large-Language-Model Tools and the Theory of Lexical Priming: Where technology and human cognition meet and diverge The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 30 April. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to: gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@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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Job Opportunity : AI Research Engineer for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Brussels, Belgium (DDL: 24/04)
by DE LONGUEVILLE Bertrand 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Who said EU Jobs in Brussels are only for Policy wonks? We’re looking for a talented AI Research Engineer here! The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), is looking for a Research Engineer to reinforce its GENESIS project, which is an enabler for research on AI and with AI, and an incubator for innovative Generative AI systems. GENESIS is an exciting project for anyone willing to be part of the “AI Revolution” and deliver tangible impact on science AND policies. The job is based in Brussels, Belgium. (vacancy notice here : https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancy/1752) An ideal candidate will have a minimum of several years of professional experience after Master degree, with a good mix skills: technical (practical experience in AI Systems design and implementation), organisational (project coordination, IT governance) and research (peer-reviewed papers and/or PhD are a plus). Contract duration: 36 months initial contract with possible renewals up to maximum 6 years. The basic monthly salary for Function Group IV (depending on years of experience): 3 555,98 - 6 593,66€. In addition to the basic salary, the candidate may be eligible for various allowances (including expatriation and household allowances). For further information, see: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020XC1211(01)&from=EN<https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020XC1211(0…> As Contract Agent, the selected candidate benefits from EU statutory staff conditions for enrolment of children to childcare facilities (“crêches”, after-school) and European Schools (primary, secondary). Also, JRC allows telework from the area around Brussels and nearby cities for 2 or 3 days per week, and even telework from more remote locations in the EU up to 10 days per year, which allows for a better work-life balance. While the job is located at EU's epicentre, the selected candidate will be in close contact with our researchers based on other JRC sites, notably in Ispra (Italy) and Seville (Spain). To apply: 1. Create a profile on one of these two application portals: a. JRC specialised call for researchers https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cast OR b. EPSO Permanent CAST https://eu-careers.europa.eu/en/Cast-Permanent (less adequate for researcher profiles, but should be considered if you are familiar/have succeeded in such competitions) 2. Once you have created your profile via one of the above portals, create your application via: https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancy/1752 !! Deadline: 24/04/2025 !! 📣 Please Share widely with your network, thank you! Bertrand DE LONGUEVILLE, PhD Head of the Text Mining and Analysis Competence Centre [cid:image001.png@01DBA551.2ECBBE00] European Commission DG JRC – Joint Research Centre Directorate T – Digital Transformation & Data Unit T.5 – Text and Data Mining CDMA 04/171 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium +32 2 29 52555 bertrand.de-longueville(a)ec.europa.eu<mailto:name.surname@ec.europa.eu>

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Post in Computational Linguistics at the University of Manchester
by colin.bannard＠manchester.ac.uk 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities is advertising for a cluster of permanent positions at the Lecturer and Senior Lecturer level in "AI Trust and Security” broadly defined. People appointed will be placed into a department in whichever of the four schools across the Faculty of Humanities best suits their expertise. As noted in the formal advertisement linked to below, one highlighted area of expertise is "the analysis of large language models", and we would very much welcome applications from computational linguists working in this this or any other relevant area. https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=31004&Source=Jobtrain…

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2nd Call for Papers: DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
by Fernando Batista 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

============================================================= DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> ============================================================= We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is “Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View“. The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and is proudly sponsored by ISCA. We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 26, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025 - Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025 - DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template <https://www.interspeech2025.org/author-resources> (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025>. Please use this link <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025> to submit your paper. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers. COMMITTEES Organizers - Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden - Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Publicity Chair - Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Local Organisation - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Scientific Committee - Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain - Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon - Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France - Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA - David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain - David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa - Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy - Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon - Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal - George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece - Harshal Shah, General Motors, USA - Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France - Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden - Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany - Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden - João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA - Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany - Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan - Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan - Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France - Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon - Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany - Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland - Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil - Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan - Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Štefan Beňuš, University in Nitra, Slovakia - Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal - Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/ <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> Any questions should be directed to: diss2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:diss2025@googlegroups.com> We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event! — The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee

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2nd Call for Papers: DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
by Fernando Batista 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

============================================================= DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt<https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> ============================================================= We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is “Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View“. The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and is proudly sponsored by ISCA. We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 26, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025 - Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025 - DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template<https://www.interspeech2025.org/author-resources> (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025>. Please use this link<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025> to submit your paper. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers. COMMITTEES Organizers - Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden - Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Publicity Chair - Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Local Organisation - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Scientific Committee - Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain - Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon - Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France - Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA - David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain - David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa - Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy - Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon - Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal - George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece - Harshal Shah, General Motors, USA - Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France - Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden - Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany - Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden - João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA - Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany - Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan - Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan - Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France - Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon - Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany - Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland - Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil - Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan - Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Štefan Beňuš, University in Nitra, Slovakia - Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal - Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/ Any questions should be directed to: diss2025(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:diss2025@googlegroups.com> We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event! — The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee

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Call for Papers: LxGr2025 – Extended Deadline
by Costas Gabrielatos 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 20 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. • Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. • Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. • Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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4 PhD positions in NLP / ML / AI Security / Cybersecurity in Copenhagen
by Johannes Bjerva 12 Apr '25

12 Apr '25

📢 PhD Positions in AI Security – Aalborg University (Copenhagen) We are excited to announce four fully funded PhD positions at the AI:DEFENCE Lab at Aalborg University. Our lab explores new synergies between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Cybersecurity, with the goal of developing safe, robust, and trustworthy AI systems. Research topics include: * Security and safety in LLMs * Adversarial robustness and alignment * Federated learning and privacy-preserving AI * Autonomous cyber defense using multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning We welcome applicants with strong backgrounds in NLP, machine learning, or cybersecurity. The lab is based in Copenhagen, and the positions start August 2025. 🗓 Deadline: 28 April 2025 🔗 More info and application: https://www.stillinger.aau.dk/vis-stilling/vacancyId/1219578 Feel free to share widely or reach out with any questions! Johannes Bjerva Professor | Natural Language Processing | Department of Computer Science Head of Section for AAU CS-CPH Aalborg University Copenhagen Office 2.2.089, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark

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Linguistics, Cambridge: Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing (0.4, cover role, flexible working)
by Dora Alexopoulou 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Dear all, please follow the link below for information on an job opportunity for a Computational Linguist. https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50879/ Best, Dora Dora Alexopoulou https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/ta259

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[Second CfP] The 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP 2025)
by larp2025＠flov.gu.se 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ======= LARP Language models And RePresentations September 8 - September 9, 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden ======= https://gu-clasp.github.io/LARP/index.html Invited speakers ---- Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania and Oracle Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology Important dates ---- - Submission deadline (archival): April 28, 2025 - Notification of acceptance (archival): June 20, 2025 - NEW!!! Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ACL ARR submissions: July 31, 2025 - Submission deadline (non-archival): August 1, 2025 - Notification of acceptance (non-archival): August 8, 2025 - Camera ready (archival): August 8, 2025 - Camera ready (ARR Commitments): August 15, 2025 - Registration deadline: TBA - Conference: September 8–9, 2025, University of Gothenburg, Sweden All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Language models And RePresentations (LARP) brings together researchers that explore how information is structured, encoded and used in computational language systems. We encourage submissions on both neural (sub-symbolic) and discrete (symbolic) representations from the fields of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence or their intersection. The conference is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/), University of Gothenburg. The conference will be held between September 8 and 9 in Gothenburg, Sweden (on-site and hybrid). Topics of interest ---- We hope to see innovative work that considers neural and symbolic learning and processing in terms of different modelling perspectives. Papers are invited on the following topics as they relate to natural language: - Neuro-symbolic integration: novel hybrid frameworks combining symbolic representations with neural network learning for enhanced reasoning and natural language processing - Explainable machine learning: techniques that allow for better interpretability, transparency, and explainability of neural, symbolic and neuro-symbolic architectures - Logical constraints in neural networks: methods that use logical structures (e.g., knowledge bases, ontologies) for post-hoc or inherent explainability - Automated reasoning systems providing human-interpretable rationales for decisions - Symbolic planning and control in neural workflows - Application-driven scenarios (robots, autonomous systems) showcasing benefits of symbolic approaches - Techniques that integrate symbolic representations into text or multimodal generation - Approaches that enforce domain knowledge, consistency, or adherence to constraints in text and/or multimodal generation - Fine-tuning and in-context learning strategies that incorporate logical or rule-based knowledge This list is illustrative but is not intended to be exhaustive. Submission Requirements ---- **Archival track** Archival track will feature the following types of submissions to appear in conference proceedings: we accept long papers (max 8 pages) and short papers (max 4 pages). Long and short papers must describe substantial, original, and unpublished research. Supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns do not count towards the page limit. Archival accepted papers will be published in the 2025 ACL Anthology as a CLASP Conference Proceedings. Papers should be electronically submitted via the OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. Submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Archival submissions must be anonymous. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have questions. **NEW!!! ARR Commitment** We accept papers that have been pre-reviewed via ACL Rolling Review. You are welcome to submit the link to your ARR submission. The linked submission must include both the reviews and the meta-review. Both the submission and its reviews will be evaluated by the programme committee for their relevance to the conference topic. To submit, please visit https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/ARR_Commitment. **Non-archival track** At the time of submission, authors may indicate that their paper should be considered for the non-archival track. The format for non-archival submissions is the same for both long and short papers as it is for the archival submissions. Non-archival papers will not undergo the peer review process. They will be evaluated by the programme committee for clarity and content relevance before the decision by the PC is made. Non-archival papers do not need to be anonymous. If accepted, they are to be published on the conference website and presented as posters. **Poster abstracts** We invite researchers to submit abstracts in the above areas of interest. Abstract submissions are non-archival. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on work in progress or to present previously published work to a new audience. The deadline for abstract submission is the same as for non-archival papers. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by August 8, 2025. Abstract submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages (supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns are not included) and be submitted via OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. The acceptance decision on abstracts will go through the same procedure as papers for the non-archival track. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters. Concurrent Submissions ---- Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences or publications must indicate this at submission time using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. We will not accept publications or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at LARP 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. Camera Ready Versions ---- Camera ready versions must be deanonymised. Archival submissions get 1 more page to address comments from reviewers: long papers can be maximum up to 9 pages, short papers can be maximum up to 5 pages. Organisers ---- LARP is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), University of Gothenburg. CLASP focuses its research on the application of probabilistic and information theoretic methods to the analysis of natural language. CLASP is concerned both with understanding the cognitive foundations of language and developing efficient language technology. We work at the interface of computational linguistics/natural language processing, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive science. For practical inquiries, send an email to larp2025(a)flov.gu.se.

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First Call for Papers: Eighth Universal Dependencies Workshop
by Gosse Bouma 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

The eighth workshop on Universal Dependencies Part of SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29 Call for Papers Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 150 languages (https://universaldependencies.org <https://universaldependencies.org/>). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural language processing and enable comparative linguistic studies. The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of the previous workshops have been co-located with Coling, EMNLP, and SyntaxFest. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to: * Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines * Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions * Language typology and linguistic universals * Treebank annotation, conversion and validation * Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing * The use of the UD data for evaluating or understanding language models * Linguistic studies based on the UD data Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective. SyntaxFest 2025 https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/index.html SyntaxFest is a biennial event that brings together a series of events focusing on topics such as empirical syntax, linguistic annotation, statistical language analysis, and natural language processing. Apart from the 8th UDW, it hosts TLT, DepLing, IWPT, and Quasy. Each workshop publishes its own proceedings, but all events follow a shared submission process, timeline, and programme. The UniDive 1st Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing takes place on Aug, 26. Important Dates Paper submission DeadlineApril 15, 2025 Notification of acceptanceJune 2, 2025 Camera-ready version dueJune 16, 2025 Conference datesAugust 26-29, 2025 Submission Information Submission site and paper requirements will be provided in the next CfP Workshop Chairs Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) Cagri Coltekin (University of Tübingen) -- Gosse Bouma, Communication and Information Science, Groningen University, P.o. box 716, 9700 AS Groningen G.Bouma(a)rug.nl tel. +31-50-3635937

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BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors: Test phase begins
by Ekaterina Kochmar 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Conversational agents offer promising opportunities for education as they can fulfill various roles (e.g., intelligent tutors and service-oriented assistants) and pursue different objectives (e.g., improving student skills and increasing instructional efficiency), among which serving as an AI tutor is one of the most prevalent tasks. Recent advances in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) provide our field with promising ways of building AI-based conversational tutors, which can generate human-sounding dialogues on the fly. The key question posed in previous research, however, remains: How can we test whether state-of-the-art generative models are good AI teachers, capable of replying to a student in an educational dialogue? In this shared task, we focus on educational dialogues between a student and a tutor in the mathematical domain grounded in student mistakes or confusion, where the AI tutor aims to remediate such mistakes or confusions, with the goal of evaluating the quality of tutor responses along the key dimensions of tutor’s ability to (1) identify student’s mistake, (2) point to its location, (3) provide the student with relevant pedagogical guidance, that is also (4) actionable. Dialogues used in this shared task include the dialogue contexts from MathDial (Macina et al., 2023) and Bridge (Wang et al., 2024) datasets, including the last utterance from the student containing a mistake, and a set of responses to the last student’s utterance from a range of LLM-based tutors and, where available, human tutors, aimed at mistake remediation and annotated for their quality. Data Release We are pleased to announce that the test data is now released and can be accessed at https://github.com/kaushal0494/UnifyingAITutorEvaluation/blob/main/BEA_Shar…. Test Platform The competition is hosted on the CodaBench (https://www.codabench.org<https://www.codabench.org/>) platform, with a separate page for each track. Track 1 – Mistake Identification: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7195/ Track 2 – Mistake Location: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7200/ Track 3 – Providing Guidance: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7202/ Track 4 – Actionability: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7203/ Track 5 – Tutor Identification: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7206/ Registered teams are welcome to participate in any number of tracks. Participation In order to participate in the test phase, you will need to create an account on CodaBench<https://www.codabench.org/>, if you don't already have one. After that, please register for the specific track(s) you wish to submit your systems' predictions to. By participating in this shared task, you are agreeing to the Terms outlined on the shared task track webpages (see tab "Terms"). The total number of submissions per each team is capped at 5 for each track (with the maximum of 2 submissions per day). The platform will ask you to provide your team name and a title for each submission – the latter may be useful to distinguish between your different submissions. All submissions will then be reflected on the CodaBench platform together with all the accompanying information (team name, affiliation, and submission name). Please note that we will publish the official final leaderboard on the shared task website (https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025), where only the first 5 submissions per team will be included to adhere with the terms of this shared task. To be added to the shared task mailing list for further updates, please register here: https://forms.gle/fKJcdvL2kCrPcu8X6 Important dates All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - March 12, 2025: Development data release - April 10, 2025: Test data release - April 24, 2025: System submissions from teams due - April 30, 2025: Evaluation of the results by the organizers - May 21, 2025: System papers due - May 28, 2025: Paper reviews returned - June 9, 2025: Final camera-ready submissions - July 31 and August 1, 2025: BEA 2025 workshop at ACL Contact: bea.sharedtask.2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.sharedtask.2025@gmail.com> Shared task website: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025

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18 month postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Copenhagen
by Desmond Elliott 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising an 18 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. The position involves interdisciplinary research on the development and application of large language models in public service, and sometimes sensitive legal settings, within the context of low-reserouce languages, such as Danish and order Nordic languages. Applicants should have a genuine interest in collaborating across inter-disciplinary boundaries with researchers in the areas of ethics, governance, and AI. The post is funded by the Poul Due Jensen Foundation – project: Responsible AI for Value Creation, with partners spanning several major universities in Denmark, and a collection of Danish public- and private organizations. The exact research topics are open to discussion between the successful candidate and the project co-ordinators. 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 May 1, 2025, with interviews on the June 4, 2025, and a start date of 1 August, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Further information about the position can be found here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI… Inquiries about the position can be made at de(a)di.ku.dk.

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Applications for Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and Affinity Group meetings at ACL 2025
by ACL Announcements 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Dear Applicants, The Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) chairs are delighted to invite applications for Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and Affinity Group meetings at ACL 2025. Please see our call at https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/bof_affinity_events/ for more details and up-to-date information. If you are interested in organizing a BoF session and/or an Affinity Group meeting to explore a specific theme in NLP and beyond, we encourage you to submit your proposals. We are here to support you in facilitating these sessions. Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025, 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth) Notification Date: June 3, 2025, 11:59 pm (Anywhere on Earth) If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at acl2025diversity(a)googlegroups.com. Sincerely, ACL 2025 D&I Committee

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First Call for Participation EUROLAN-2025 Summer School on NLP in the Age of Complex Networks and Agentic AI
by Nancy Ide 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

First Call for Participation EUROLAN-2025 Summer School on NLP in the Age of Complex Networks and Agentic AI 15 – 21 September 2025, Timișoara (Romania) & online https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/eurolan/2025/ The 17th in the series of EUROLAN biannual Schools on Natural Language Processing EUROLAN-2025 will bring together researchers and experts in machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), reasoning systems, and computational linguistics applied to natural language processing (NLP), with a special focus on the interaction between NLP, complex networks, and agentic AI. Following the tradition of previous EUROLAN schools (see past editions <https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/eurolan/2025/?page_id=14023>), each day will feature: Morning sessions with tutorials, offering in-depth insights into key concepts. Afternoon hands-on exercises, where participants will apply lecture content to real-world problems and develop small-scale applications as a basis for future work. Brainstorming sessions and round tables, encouraging direct interaction with experts and fostering collaborative discussions. Tutorials and practical sessions will deal with the following topics: Graph-Based Representations of Text and Knowledge Social Network Analysis for Linguistic Modeling Influence Propagation and Discourse Dynamics in Online Platforms, Multimodal NLP Integrating Text, Image, and Speech Processing NLP and Autonomous AI Invited Lecturers Mădălina Chitez - West University of Timișoara Liviu Dinu - University of Bucharest Nancy Ide - Vassar College and Brandeis University Rada Mihalcea - University of Michigan Dan Tufiș - Romanian Academy Mihai Dascălu - POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest Mark Finlayson - Florida International University others TBA

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ASIRF 2025- Autumn School Information Retrieval and Information Foraging - August in Dagstuhl - Call for Participation
by Thomas Mandl 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Registration has opened for ASIRF 2025, the Autumn School 2025 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging. For more information on the schedule, program, or registration: https://fg-retrieval.gi.de/veranstaltung/asirf2025 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 intended audience of ASIRF are doctoral or MA students and young researchers working in Information Retrieval, Information Foraging, or using concepts or methods from these fields in their research domains. Students and lecturers will live together for a week at Schloss Dagstuhl, which guarantees the school's traditionally highly communicative and interactive atmosphere. The registration is free this year. A small number of partial travel grants are also available. 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) See you in Dagstuhl! ASIRF 2025 organizers Philipp Schaer, Ralf Schenkel, and Thomas Mandl

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[ACL 2025] Applications for Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and Affinity Group meetings at ACL 2025
by Horacio Saggion 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Dear Applicants, The Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) chairs are delighted to invite applications for Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and Affinity Group meetings at ACL 2025. Please see our call at https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/bof_affinity_events/ for more details and up-to-date information. If you are interested in organizing a BoF session and/or an Affinity Group meeting to explore a specific theme in NLP and beyond, we encourage you to submit your proposals. We are here to support you in facilitating these sessions. Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025, 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth) Notification Date: June 3, 2025, 11:59 pm (Anywhere on Earth) If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at acl2025diversity(a)googlegroups.com. Sincerely, ACL 2025 D&I Committee -- 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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Opera Latina Adnotata (v0.2.0)
by Giuseppe G. A. Celano 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Dear all, I am glad to announce the release of Opera Latina Adnotata (v0.2.0), a multilayer Latin corpus consisting of 736 texts and 17M+ tokens searchable by: 1. word form 2. lemma 3. morphology (POS and morphological features) 4. syntax (dependency syntax following the AGDT annotation scheme) 5. CTS URN for work, author, and edition 6. CTS structure (e.g., "book," "section," etc.) 7. author name 8. work title 9. (experimental) IPA transcription of word forms (the "Classical Latin" one) The data is hosted on Zenodo [1] and can be queried online through ANNIS [2]. More information can be found in the associated repository [3]. Best regards, Giuseppe Celano ----- [1] https://zenodo.org/records/15183688 [2] https://annis.varro.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/ola020#_q=bGVtbWE9InByYWVzYWd… [3] https://github.com/OperaLatinaAdnotata/OLA -- Universität Leipzig Institute of Computer Science Augustusplatz 10 04109 Leipzig Deutschland celano(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - 1st Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations
by Kossi Amouzouvi 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations The Industry & Use Case track at SEMANTiCS welcomes submissions that present use cases and industry adoption of semantic technology. Solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or information in areas like Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Publishing, Thesaurus and/or Ontology management, and any related fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world applications beyond the prototypical status and demonstrate the power of semantic systems! *Important dates* - *Submission Deadline:* May 14, 2025 (11:59 pm) - *Notification of Acceptance:* June 13, 2025 (11:59 pm) - *Presentation Ready:* August 18, 2025 (11:59 pm) 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>. Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page description of the use case you want to present, in particular: initial situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account. Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only be used in the selection process. *Topics of Interest* SEMANTiCS 2025 especially invites contributions that target the following main topics in the context of semantic-based research and systems as well as applicative domains. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models (LLM) combined with Knowledge Graphs - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) - Reasoning, rules and policies - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Semantics in Data Science - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Authentication of knowledge graphs - IoT and Stream Processing, Linked Data Event Streams - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems - Provenance and Data Change Tracking - Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) *Author Guidelines and Submission* - This call for presentations reaches out to professionals in the areas related to the topics of SEMANTiCS for proposals to present industry implementations, best practices and use case prototypes, to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. Additionally, we explicitly encourage the submission of software applications, apps or services that demonstrate the usefulness and benefits of semantic technologies and semantic data management. - To contribute a submission for a presentation at SEMANTiCS 2025 please prepare the following: Fill out the online application at Easychair and give us relevant information about your expertise and your professional background. - Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page description of the use case you want to present, iIn particular: initial situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account. - Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only be used in the selection process. - All accepted submissions will be granted a presentation slot at the main conference. Please stick to this time pattern when preparing your talk. This is the only way we can guarantee a smooth and satisfying programme and allow all conference participants to attend as many slots as possible without missing important information. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more details: https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy When your submission is accepted and you are preparing your talk, please take care to address the following aspects: - *Initial Situation *What kind of challenge did you face in the beginning of the project? What problems needed to be solved? - *Approach and IT-Solution *Which approach and methodology has been chosen to tackle the problem(s)? How is your solution composed with respect to technological aspects / human aspects / organisational aspects? How do the semantic components support the process from data to knowledge? - *Success Criteria for / Benefit of the Semantic Solution *Which factors (conscious and unconscious) have been crucial to the success of your project? Which obstacles did you face? How can you measure the benefit of your solution? How does the organisation benefit from your solution? - *Prospects and Recommendations *What are the next steps planned in your project? Can you give recommendations with respect to development / deployment of semantic solutions within organisational / corporate settings? - *Demo (if applicable) *Prepare a short demonstration of your tool / service. *Review and Evaluation Criteria* Every submission will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. Submissions to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Your presentation is relevant to industry and industrial purposes. It illustrates how semantic technologies / solutions contribute to or improve existing businesses and / or generate new ones. - The presented solution has already been deployed and / or has been tested in a practical environment – at least prototypically. - Your presentation is well-structured and does bring across its message. - The topic is well described and covers enough explanations, examples, use cases, graphics, etc. - Novelty: The topic covered is new to your industry – not necessarily new to business in general In case your presentation will be accepted, we will provide you with detailed information on organisational matters according to the selection of submissions and conference participation. We are looking forward to your contribution! Marco Brattinga Artem Revenko *Industry & Use Case Track Chairs* -- 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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CfA: International Conference on Inferentialism, Law, and Language AI, 10-13 September 2025, Zurich, Switzerland
by reto.gubelmann＠uzh.ch 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

Please direct any inquiries to: conference-ile(a)unisg.ch CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Exploring Reasons, Rationality, and Rationalism International Conference on Inferentialism   10 – 13 September 2025   University of Zurich & University of St. Gallen   The University of Zurich’s Digital Society Initiative (DSI), Department of Philosophy, and Department of Computational Linguistics, together with the Institute of Law & Economics of the University of St. Gallen are pleased to announce their first international conference on Inferentialism, to be held from 10 to 13 September 2025 at the University of Zurich.   This four-day event will feature contributions from leading scholars in the field as well as selected presentations from emerging young researchers. We invite submissions of extended abstracts on any topic related to rationalism and inferentialism as developed in “Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons” as well as applications of inferentialism in AI and the field of law.   Confirmed Keynote Speakers   • Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)  • Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University, Montreal)  • Damiano Canale (Bocconi University, Milan) The publication of “Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons” (Brandom/Hlobil 2024) last year has marked a milestone for both the technical and the philosophical development of inferentialist logic. This conference offers a first take on the book’s reception and its potential operationalization in such diverse research fields as Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Legal Studies, and Natural Language Processing. We invite submissions of extended abstracts that fit one of the following topics: Day 1: Are Reason Relations Universal? The first day of the conference is dedicated to the question whether reason relations, conceived as the set of all good, radically open reason relations capable of encoding material inferences in natural language use, can make up one single consistent set. Given expressivist commitments to logic as a means of explication, wouldn’t this imply the existence of a “master base vocabulary”, comprising all other possible base vocabularies as its subsets? Day 2: Inferentialism in the Legal Sphere The legal discipline is characterized by complex and partly opaque argumentation structures. Inferentialism can help to reveal the reasons why courts and scholars may accept certain conclusions on legal issues and reject others. Our workshop aims to further develop ideas on how lawyers and legal scholars can improve their practice by better understanding the structure of reasoning in complex legal settings. Day 3: Neuro-Symbolic Language AI inspired by Inferentialism Inferentialism, conceived, as a philosophical theory of the relationship between meaning and logical inference, has started to inspire innovative approaches in the area of language AI. Proposals encompass a broad range of methods, ranging from combinations of neural and symbolic methods that are informed by inferentialist semantics, to attempts at building neural architectures from scratch that are inspired by inferentialist ideas of rationalizing structures. The goal of our workshop is to bring together experts working in a broad range of language AI. Submission Guidelines   • Submissions should take the form of extended abstracts (maximum 500 words).  • Abstracts must be submitted in English and prepared for anonymous review.  • In addition to the abstract, authors must include their name, institutional affiliation, and contact information in the body of the email accompanying the submission.  • Accepted abstracts will be allocated a 25-minute presentation slot, followed by discussion.  • Please submit your abstract in PDF format to the following email address: conference-ile(a)unisg.ch Important Dates   • Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025 • Notification of Results: 30 June Scientific and Organizing Committee   • Reto Gubelmann (University of Zurich)  • Peter Hongler (University of St. Gallen)  • Ghassen Karray (University of Zurich)  • Marco Toscano (University of Zurich)    For further inquiries, please contact the organizing committee at: conference-ile(a)unisg.ch

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Call for trainers: UniDive training school on diversity in NLP, Yerevan, January 2026
by Dan Zeman 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

* UniDive COST Action <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>is a scientific network dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. We are looking for trainers for our winter training school in Yerevan <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unid…>, Armenia, organized at the Yerevan State University on January 20-24, 2026.The training school is dedicated tolinguistic diversityand related topics. We are interested in various aspects of diversity relevant to NLP like lexical, syntactic, semantic, typological, cultural, genre diversity, etc. We invite course proposals covering (but not necessarily restricted to) the following: * Introduction to typology for newcomers (especially from NLP) * Diversity quantification in NLP * Diversity and Large Language Models (LLMs) * LLMs for low-resourced languages * Enhancing diversity in models and datasets * Using “universalist” resources (such as Universal Dependencies or PARSEME corpora) for typological research * LLMs and language creativity vs. wooden language Proposals of courses (4 pages max.) should be sent by Monday June 2, 2025 at the latest to Dan Zeman <zeman(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz <mailto:zeman@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>>, Verginica Mititelu <vergi(a)racai.ro <mailto:vergi@racai.ro>> and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe <marie-catherine.demarneffe(a)uclouvain.be <mailto:marie-catherine.demarneffe@uclouvain.be>>, with the subject “UniDive training school proposal”. The proposals should include: * Title of the course * Abstract, including the topics to be covered * Level (introductory, intermediate or advanced course) * Draft schedule, with a brief description of each session (max. 5 sessions of up to 2h each – the training school goes over 5 days, but courses do not have to be given every day, see the schedule of our previous training school <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unid…>) * Necessary infrastructure * Prerequisites for the trainees (bibliography to be covered, software to be installed, accounts to be created, etc.) * Bibliography (highlighting the recommended readings for the trainees) * Instructors, their affiliation, contact details and experience Important dates (anywhere on Earth): * Monday June 2, 2025: Submission of course proposals from potential trainers * Thursday June 12, 2025: Notification * Wednesday November 26, 2025: Publishing the prerequisites for the courses * Tuesday-Saturday January 20-24, 2026: Training school We cannot offer a salary for the courses themselves but long-distance travel costs of the trainers will be covered, as well as a daily allowance of 185 EUR (to cover hotel, meals and local transportation – see COST Annotated Rules <https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2025/02/COST-094-21-V2.0-Annotated-Rules-for-CO…>, Annex A1-3.1 TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT RULES). Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Agata Savary, Dan Zeman (on behalf of the UniDive Core Group) *

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Konvens 2025. 2nd Call for Papers
by Christian Wartena 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

Dear all, We warmly welcome the submission of papers for KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 10-13). KONVENS (Conference on Natural Language Processing) is an annual scientific conference on all topics in the fields of computational linguistics and language technology, organised by four scientific organisations in the German-speaking countries and regions (GSCL, DGfS-CL, ASAI, and SwissNLP). In addition to its technical program, KONVENS will facilitate dynamic interactions among academic researchers and industry peers, offering workshops, tutorials, shared tasks, and networking events. Confirmed keynotes: * Michael Hahn (Saarland University) * Sina Zarrieß (Universität Bielefeld) * Timo Freiesleben (Universität Tübingen) Paper Submission Information We invite submissions of original and unpublished work on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing from fundamental inquiries to the practical implementation of natural language resources, components, and systems. We particularly encourage submissions of NLP approaches dedicated to the German language, including survey papers that provide insights into the current state of the art in German language and speech processing. We welcome contributions from both academic and industry professionals. Papers can be submitted either to the main conference track or to the special track on application of Large Language Models focussing on the utilisation of LLMs and language-model approaches for the analysis and exploitation of textual resources in Linguistics, Computer Science, Information Science, the Humanities and the Social Sciences. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (8 pages plus references), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers (4 pages plus references), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. * Abstracts (1 page, non-archival). Abstracts can be presented at the poster session but will not be included in the conference proceedings. We especially invite submission on ongoing projects, student projects, past or ongoing bachelor and master theses, ongoing or recently completed PhD theses, and opinion pieces in this category to foster interaction and discussion in our community. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. However, a preference for a poster or oral presentation can be given. All presentations will take place in person (no online/hybrid format). The main conference language is English. Contributions written in both German or English will be accepted, however, English is recommended. The review process for long and short papers will be double-blind. Submissions of long and short papers must be anonymized accordingly. The submission of non-archival abstracts must not be anonymous (review of abstracts is single-blind). The conference proceedings will be published via the ACL Anthology (archival submissions only). Papers must be presented at the conference by at least one of the authors in order to be published as part of the proceedings. Papers must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Papers must be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2025 Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: May 3, 2025 Paper Notification: June 27, 2025 Camera Ready: August 15, 2025 Main Conference: September 10 - 12, 2025 Best wishes Christian Wartena Ulrich Heid Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein]

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AIRiAL 2025 Call for Proposals
by AIRiALconference, TC 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

***Apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely.*** AIRiAL 2025 Conference Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics Theme Social AI: The Future of Emotionally Intelligent Machines The theme explores how Social & Emotional AI—AI technologies capable of recognizing, interpreting, and responding to human emotions—can revolutionize language learning and assessment, communication technologies, and cross-cultural interactions. Location Teachers College, Columbia University Dates September 25-27, 2025 *CALL FOR PROPOSALS <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/airialconference/airial-2025>* Submission Platform is *Now Open* Submit your abstract at this link: https://www.conftool.pro/airial2025 The submission deadline is May 2, 2025 (11:59pm EDT) Looking forward to your submissions, -- Erik Voss on behalf of the AIRiAL planning committee Follow us on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/airial-conference>

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Call for Submissions to SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact (MANILA25)
by Maarten de Rijke 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

TL;DR: Help to shape research agenda for IR for climate change impacts: * 2-4 pages * About one month until deadline: May 7, 2025 (AOE) * Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home * Submission: https://openreview.net/forum?id=BClxIu1p-C1x - - - - - - - - Call for Submissions — MANILA25: SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Climate change is a far-reaching, global phenomenon that will impact many aspects of our society. The evidence base for observed climate impacts is expanding, and the wider climate literature (white and grey) is growing exponentially. How can effective access be provided to the growing body of peer-reviewed literature on climate change impacts? This year we are particularly interested in tracking climate adaptation literature (white and grey) and welcome contributions on this topic. Purpose The emphasis of MANILA25 will be on discussion, not a mini-conference but a dynamic sharing of ideas. The workshop will be organized along three areas of interest: (i) Addressing information needs concerning climate change impacts; (ii) Updates to the IR for Climate Change agenda that resulted from the MANILA24 workshop (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01162), and (iii) Tracking climate adaptation. During the workshop, we will work towards updating the MANILA24 agenda and creating an actionable technical research agendas around tracking climate adaptation. Call for contributions To help shape a research agenda for information retrieval for climate impact, we welcome technical contributions and position papers as extended abstracts (2-4 pages) on a wide range of topics related to information retrieval for climate change impacts, including but not limited to very large-scale systematic reviews, climate language models, geolocated literature with climate information, evidence synthesis. Be sure to emphasize how your ideas connect to IR for climate change impacts and the ambition to create an agenda on the topic. Important dates - May 7, 2025: Extended abstracts due (AOE) - May 21, 2025: Notifications - July 17, 2025: Workshop at SIGIR 2025 - November 30, 2025: Submission of the Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Agenda for publication in SIGIR Forum How to submit Extended abstracts submitted to the workshop should be in English, in PDF, and formatted using the standard ACM sigconf format (using \documentclass[sigconf, natbib=true, anonymous=false]{acmart}). The review process is single-blind. The workshop uses EasyChair to handle submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=manila25. No official proceedings will be published. Organization Bart van den Hurk (IPCC), Maarten de Rijke (U. Amsterdam), Flora Salim (UNSW, Sydney) Workshop site https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home Contact m.derijke(a)uva.nl<mailto:m.derijke@uva.nl> -- Maarten de Rijke Distinguished University Professor, University of Amsterdam Scientific Director, Innovation Center for AI (ICAI) http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.derijke

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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval in Wolverhapton, UK
by Ingo Frommholz 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval July 7–11, 2025 Wolverhampton, UK https://2025.essir.eu/ Join us for the 16th edition of ESSIR—your opportunity to learn about the latest trends, challenges, and methods in Information Retrieval (IR) and AI, and get in touch with leading experts in the field! Highlights: • High-quality teaching sessions on fundamental and advanced IR topics • Interactive format including practical exercises and a hackathon • Friendly and engaging discussions • FDIA 2025 (Future Directions in Information Access Symposium): A supportive environment for students to showcase their research and receive career advice Selected Topics Include (more to be confirmed): 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 Organisers: Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK Emine Yilmaz, UCL, London, UK Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria Come to Wolverhampton and engage with leading researchers, fellow students, and industry professionals from around the globe! For more details visit our website: https://2025.essir.eu/ Contact: essir-2025(a)googlegroups.com We look forward to welcoming you to ESSIR 2025! 🌟 -- 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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[CFP] The Second Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations
by richardbrutti＠gmail.com 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR II) Co-located with IWCS 2025 (https://iwcs2025.github.io/) 22-24 September, Düsseldorf, Germany (workshop on 24 September) Workshop website: https://mmsr-workshop.github.io/ Description: The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but also the encoding of situated meaning. When communications become multimodal, each modality in operation provides an orthogonal angle through which to probe the computational model of the other modalities, including the behaviors and communicative capabilities afforded by each. Multimodal interactions thus require a unified framework and control language through which systems interpret inputs and behaviors and generate informative outputs. This is vital for intelligent and often embodied systems to understand the situation and context that they inhabit, whether in the real world or in a mixed-reality environment shared with humans. Furthermore, multimodal large language models appear to offer the possibility for more dynamic and contextually rich interactions across various modalities, including facial expressions, gestures, actions, and language. We invite discussion on how representations and pipelines can potentially integrate such state-of-the-art language models. We solicit papers on multimodal semantic representation, including but not limited to the following topics: - Semantic frameworks for individual linguistic co-modalities (e.g. gaze, facial expression); - Formal representation of situated conversation and embodiment, including knowledge graphs, designed to represent epistemic state; - Design, annotation, and corpora of multimodal interaction and meaning representation; - Challenges (including cross-lingual and cross-cultural) in multimodal representation and/or processing; - Criteria or frameworks for evaluation of multimodal semantics; - Challenges in aligning co-modalities in formal representation and/or NLP tasks; - Design and implementation of neurosymbolic or fusion models for multimodal processing (with a representational component); - Methods for probing knowledge of multimodal (language and vision) models; - Virtual and situated agents that embody multimodal representations of common ground. Submission Information: Two types of submissions are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages, excluding references. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages, excluding references. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. We strongly encourage students to submit to the workshop. Papers should be formatted using the IWCS style files, available at: https://iwcs2025.github.io/call_for_papers Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/MMSR Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions. Richard Brutti, Lucia Donatelli, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Kenneth Lai, & James Pustejovsky (MMSR II organizers)

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Last call for papers: Argument Mining Workshop at ACL 2025 (Deadline: April 17th)
by Gabriella Lapesa 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

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

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CfP: 2nd Call for Research, In-use, and Resource Track Papers at ISWC 2025 (Abstract: May 6)
by Genet Asefa Gesese 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) Nara, Japan November 2-6, 2025 Follow us: Twitter/X: @iswc_conf #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iswc/ Mastodon Social: https://mastodon.social/@iswc_conf Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/iswc-conf.bsky.social ISWC 2025 features multiple tracks - including Research, Resources, and In-Use, among others, Hence, authors are kindly asked to check out the calls of each track to choose the one that best fits their contribution. ========================= Call for Research Track Papers The research track of ISWC 2025 solicits novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical, and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. We welcome work describing original and replicable research showing evidence of significant contribution to the Semantic Web. More details: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/research Research Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-research(a)easychair.org Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria ======================== Call for Resource Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources that support, enable, or utilize semantic web research. We welcome descriptions of resources that leverage knowledge representation based on Semantic Web standards or other graph data models to improve the acquisition, processing, and sharing of data on the web. More details: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/resource Resource Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-resource(a)easychair.org Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, US Angelo Salatino, KMi,The Open University, UK ======================= Call for In-use Track Papers The In-Use track seeks submissions describing applied research as well as software tools, systems, or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph research communities. More details: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/in-use In-Use Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-in-use(a)easychair.org Maribel Acosta Technical University of Munich, Germany Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy =========================================== Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 Website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/ Would you like to know about the host city, Nara? Check out this blog: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/blogs/host -- *Dr.-Ing. **Genet Asefa Gesese* Head of Machine Learning Department (Abteilungsleitung Maschinelles Lernen) FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany ( *https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-ing-genet-asefa-gesese <https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-in…>* ) AND Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) *( https://ise.aifb.kit.edu/21_89.php <https://ise.aifb.kit.edu/21_89.php> )*

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First Call for Participation: LLMs with Limited Resources WMT2025 Shared Task
by Daryna Dementieva 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

LLMs with Limited Resources for Slavic Languages @ WMT2025 @ EMNLP2025 Website: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/limited-resources-slavic-llm.html Join our Google Group! https://groups.google.com/g/slavic-llms-mt2025 HuggingFace Collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/tum-nlp/llms-for-slavic-languages-67f399… This shared task explores how LLMs perform on MT and QA jointly, aiming to investigate task synergy under limited data and compute resources. Ukrainian (uk) is a mid-resource language (~40M L1 speakers), while Upper Sorbian (hsb) and Lower Sorbian (dsb) are minority West Slavic languages (30k and 7k L1 speakers, respectively) spoken in Germany. Data Overview Ukrainian - MT directions: en→uk, cs→uk - QA: Derived from high-school graduation exams (ZNO) - Training sets examples: - MT: WMT24++ <https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/wmt24pp>, SMOL <https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/smol> - QA: UNLP2024 <https://huggingface.co/datasets/osyvokon/zno>, ZNO-EVAL <https://github.com/NLPForUA/ZNO>, Cohere INCLUDE <https://huggingface.co/datasets/CohereForAI/include-base-44> Upper Sorbian & Lower Sorbian (two separate tracks) - MT directions: de→hsb, de→dsb - QA: Multiple-choice questions based on actual CEFR-based language certification exams (A1–C1 levels) - We will prepare the following resources: - Parallel & monolingual corpora via Witaj-Sprachzentrum and Leipzig Corpora Collection; - Previous WMT low-resource tracks (2020–2022); - QA task adapted from language certifications of different levels. Submission Guidelines - Models must produce both MT & QA outputs for the chosen language(s); - Submissions are language-specific; submit to one or multiple language tracks; - Participants can only use one of the following base models that are restricted to 3B parameters maximum: - Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct> - Qwen2.5-1.5B <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct> - Qwen2.5-0.5B <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct> - Quantized or Unsloth variants from HuggingFace collections Key Dates (AoE) - Registration opens now!: Join our Google group https://groups.google.com/g/slavic-llms-mt2025 - Training/dev data release: Late April - Test data release: Late June - Submission deadline: Early July - System description deadline: Late July - Final workshop: 5-9th November @ EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China! Organisers TUM Heilbronn: Daryna Dementieva Marion di Marco Lukas Edman Alexander Fraser Kathy Hämmerl Shu Okabe Witaj-Sprachzentrum: Beate Brězan, Anita Hendrichowa Marko Měškank Tomaš Šołta Acknowledgements We thank the UNLP 2024 Shared Task team (Roman Kyslyi, Mariana Romanyshyn, Oleksiy Syvokon) for kindly sharing Ukrainian QA resources. Best regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of TUM Heilbronn Workshop Organizers

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Assistant professor in Computational lingustics
by Sara Stymne 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Join the Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University! We are hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Computational Linguistics Application deadline: April 29, 2025 Find out more and apply: https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:809532/ ****************************** Description The department is seeking an associate senior lecturer in computational linguistics. Computational linguistics, or language technology, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with computational models of natural language. Traditionally, research has been driven both by the theoretical goal of understanding human language and by practical applications such as machine translation, information retrieval, and human-computer dialogue. The area has in recent years increasingly been influenced by the emergence of large language models and generative AI. The computational linguistics group at Uppsala University conducts research within a broad field with two focus areas: digital philology and multilingual language technology. Education is primarily offered at the second-cycle level, within the international master’s program in language technology, and at the third-cycle level within the PhD program in computational linguistics. Subject area Computational linguistics Duties The aim of the position is to give the teacher the opportunity to develop independence as a researcher and enhance their academic as well as their pedagogical qualifications in order to meet the criteria for employment as senior lecturer. The duties comprise research within the relevant area of specialization (50% of full-time) as well as teaching and administration (no more than 50% of full-time). Teaching includes supervision, course responsibility, course administration, and course development. Teaching primarily consists of courses in language technology, including master’s thesis supervision, within the international master’s program in language technology, which is taught in English. Teaching may include courses with the following specializations: general language technology, language technology applications such as information retrieval and machine translation, machine learning in language technology, as well as programming and mathematics. It may also include supervision of PhD students. As an associate senior lecturer, the candidate is expected to actively apply for external research funding, to stay aware of developments within their field of specialization, and to take part in the faculty’s and department’s development of research and teaching. Eligibility requirements Applicants are eligible for employment as associate senior lecturer if they hold a doctoral degree or have the equivalent academic competence, have demonstrated pedagogical competence, and have the personal characteristics required in order to carry out the duties that the position involves well. Precedence will be given to applicants who completed their PhD projects or reached the equivalent competence no more than five years before the deadline for applications. In order to meet the requirement of pedagogical competence, the applicant should have completed at least five weeks of relevant training in tertiary-level teaching or acquired the equivalent competence in other ways. In special circumstances, the training can be carried out during the first two years of employment. Ability to teach in English is required. The candidate is furthermore expected to be able to use Swedish as a working language within two years. The candidate should have the personal characteristics required to carry out the duties of the position well. Such characteristics include flexibility, the capacity to work well with others, and a sense of responsibility. It is a requirement that the applicant’s academic, pedagogical, and professional competence is relevant to the subject area and duties that the position involves. När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Survey about data annotation and data acquisition platforms
by Roman Klinger 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, Cornelia Sindermann (computational psychologist, University of Stuttgart) and I (natural language processing person, University of Bamberg) are in the phase of preparing a project proposal, for which we could use your help. Our goal is to develop a novel annotation and data acquisition platform that is flexible enough to be used across research fields. In preparation for that, we would like to collect some information on the use of data acquisition platforms (survey tools, annotation tools) that are used in our various research communities. You could help us with that by filling the form at https://tinyurl.com/annotation2025fis (redirects to a qualtrics survey). If you have questions about this, please do not hesitate to contact us at roman.klinger(a)uni-bamberg.de and cornelia.sindermann(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de! Thank you in advance and best regards, Roman

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[2nd CFP] The LLMs4Subjects Shared Task -- LLM-based Subject Tagging for a Technical Library's Digital Catalog
by D'Souza, Jennifer 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

The 2nd LLMs4Subjects Shared Task: LLM-based Subject Tagging for the TIB Technical Library's Digital Catalog Theme: The Development of Energy- and Compute-Efficient LLM Systems Organized as part of the German Evaluation (GermEval 2025) Shared Task Series 10. - 12. September, 2025 Hildesheim, Germany (co-located with KONVENS 2025 - Conference on Natural Language Processing) 2nd LLMs4Subjects Shared Task: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects-germeval/ KONVENS 2025: https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/about/ Task Overview LLMs4Subjects challenges the research community to develop cutting-edge LLM-based solutions for subject tagging of technical records from Leibniz University's Technical Library (TIBKAT). Participants are tasked with leveraging large language models (LLMs) to tag technical records using the GND taxonomy. The task involves bilingual language modeling, as systems must process technical documents in both German and English. Successful solutions may be integrated into the operational workflows of TIB, the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. With the rapid advancements in LLMs, the focus is shifting toward making these models more energy- and compute-efficient while maintaining high performance. Recent innovations, such as the DeepSeek series, have demonstrated how techniques like mixture-of-experts (MoE) and model distillation can significantly reduce computational costs without sacrificing effectiveness. The 2nd LLMs4Subjects shared task highlights the importance of efficiency in LLMs, encouraging participants to explore strategies that enhance model performance while optimizing for energy consumption and inference speed. We welcome approaches (but not limited to) that leverage model compression, quantization, efficient fine-tuning, and adaptive computation techniques to push the boundaries of sustainable AI development. Subtasks The 2nd LLMs4Subjects shared task organizes the following two subtasks: Subtask 1 - Multi-Domain Classification of Library Records Subtask 2 - Large-scale Multilabel Subject Indexing of Library Records Important Dates * Release of training data: March 8, 2025 * Release of testing data: May 23, 2025 * Deadline for system submissions: June 2, 2025 * Evaluation end: June 27, 2025 * Paper submission deadline: July 7, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2025 * Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2025 * Workshop/KONVENS: September 10 - 12, 2025 (TBA)

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Fully-funded PhD position in language acquisition / computational linguistics
by Matusevych, Yevgen 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

A PhD position at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands: - Fully-funded 4-year position - Research focus: using computational models (including small probabilistic models and neural network language models) to study the acquisition of modal verbs - Programming skills and background in linguistics / language acquisition required - Supervisors: Annemarie van Dooren, Yevgen Matusevych, Arianna Bisazza - Application deadline: 24 April 2025 - More details and application: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… -- Yevgen Matusevych Assistant Professor Computational Linguistics, University of Groningen https://yevgen.web.rug.nl

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2nd CFP: ClimateCheck – Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims on Climate Change
by Georg Rehm 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

ClimateCheck: Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims on Climate Change Hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop at ACL 2025 31 July 2025 Vienna, Austria ClimateCheck Shared Task: https://sdproc.org/2025/climatecheck.html Competition on Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/6639/ Shared Task Overview Social media facilitates discussions on critical issues such as climate change, but it also contributes to the rapid dissemination of misinformation, which complicates efforts to maintain an informed public and create evidence-based policies. In this shared task, we emphasise the need to link public discourse to peer-reviewed scholarly articles by gathering claims from social media about climate change (both real-life and automatically generated ones) as well as a corpus of about 400,000 abstracts of publications from climate science research. The participants will be asked to retrieve relevant abstracts for each claim (subtask I) and classify the relation between the claim and abstract as ‘supports’, ‘refutes’, or ‘not enough information’ (subtask II). Participants are allowed to take part either in subtask I only, or in both subtasks. Subtask I: Abstracts Retrieval Task: given a claim from social media about climate change and a corpus of abstracts, retrieve the top 10 most relevant abstracts. Evaluation: Recall@K (K=2, 5, 10) and B-Pref based on annotated gold data; additional unjudged documents will be reviewed by annotators. Subtask II: Claim Verification Task: given the claim-abstract pairs received from the previous subtask, classify their relation as ‘supports’, ‘refutes’, or ‘not enough information’. Evaluation: Precision, Recall, and F1 weighted scores based on annotated documents. Important dates Release of training data: April 1, 2025 Release of testing data: April 15, 2025 Deadline for system submissions: May 16, 2025 Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: June 20, 2025 Workshop: July 31, 2025 We encourage and invite participation from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. Participants are also encouraged to submit a paper describing their systems to the SDP 2025 workshop. Organisers Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI, Berlin, Germany) Aida Usmanova (Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)

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2nd Call for Participation: Scientific Visual Question Answering Shared Task (SciVQA)
by Georg Rehm 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

SciVQA: Scientific Visual Question Answering Shared Task Hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop at ACL 2025 31 July 2025 Vienna, Austria SciVQA Shared Task: https://sdproc.org/2025/scivqa.html Competition on Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5904 Shared Task Overview Scholarly articles convey valuable information not only through unstructured text but also via (semi-)structured figures such as charts and diagrams. Automatically interpreting the semantics of knowledge encoded in these figures can be beneficial for downstream tasks such as question answering (QA). In SciVQA, challenge participants will develop multimodal QA systems using a dataset of 3000 images of scientific figures from ACL Anthology and arXiv papers. Each figure is annotated with seven QA pairs (21000 in total) and includes metadata such as caption, ID, type (e.g., compound, line graph, bar chart, scatter plot), and QA pair type. This shared task specifically focuses on closed-ended visual (i.e., addressing visual attributes such as colour, shape, size, height, etc.) and non-visual (not addressing figure visual attributes) questions. Evaluation Systems will be evaluated using BERTscore, ROUGE-L, and ROUGE-1 metrics. Automated evaluations of submitted systems will be performed through Codabench. Important Dates Release of training data: April 1, 2025 Release of testing data: April 15, 2025 Deadline for system submissions: May 16, 2025 Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: June 20, 2025 Workshop: July 31, 2025 Participants are invited to submit papers on their systems. Successful submissions will be published in the proceedings of the SDP 2025 workshop. Organizers Ekaterina Borisova (DFKI, Berlin, Germany) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: ICNLSP 2025, 8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, August 25-27, 2025, Odense, Denmark
by Mourad Abbas 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

The *8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2025)* <https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> welcomes contributions on both the *theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing*. The conference will feature regular sessions, along with keynote talks delivered by distinguished international researchers. We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to *ICNLSP 2025* <https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> and contribute to advancing research in the field. *The conference will be hybrid.* Topics (ICNLSP 2025) invites contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: -Natural Language Processing (NLP): Cognition and NLP Machine translation Text categorization Summarization Sentiment analysis and opinion mining Computational social web Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora Large language models (LLMs) NLP tools for software requirements and engineering Text annotation tools Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems Information extraction Data mining and information retrieval Lexical semantics and knowledge representation Visualization for nlp -Speech Processing: Signal processing and acoustic modeling Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.) Speech analysis Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.) Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis Speech translation Speech synthesis Speaker verification and identification Language identification Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility Speech perception and production Brain studies on speech Phonetics, phonology, and prosody Speech and hearing disorders Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing *Important dates* All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). *Submission deadline:* May 25, 2025 11:59 PM (GMT). *Notification of acceptance:* July 20, 2025. *Camera-ready paper due:* August 3, 2025. *Conference dates:* August 25-27, 2025. Keynote speakers- Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich, Germany. - Prof. Peter Schneider-Kamp, SDU, Denmark. *Publication* 1- *All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/>.* *2- **Selected** papers will be published (after extension) in:* Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in *Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/> and *zbMATH* <https://zbmath.org/>. *Best paper award* To recognize outstanding scientific contributions, *ICNLSP 2025* will present two awards: - *Best Full Paper Award* - *Best Short Paper Award* These awards will be judged by the *Scientific Committee*, based on recommendations from the *Program Committee*. The selection process will consider the *originality, significance, and quality* of the research, as well as the clarity of presentation. We look forward to honoring exceptional contributions to the field of *Natural Language and Speech Processing*! For more information check the conference website : *icnlsp.org/2025welcome* <http://icnlsp.org/2025welcome>

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GermEval 2025 Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection: 3rd Call for Participation
by Michael Wiegand 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

apologies for cross-posting We are pleased to announce the *GermEval Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection („Flausch-Erkennung“)* This is the third call to participate in the shared task on candy speech detection („Flausch-Erkennung“). We invite everyone from academia and industry to participate in the shared task. The workshop discussing the results of this shared task is planned to be held in conjunction with the Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) in September 2025. *Introduction* Numerous methods have been developed for detecting and censoring negative speech (e.g., hate speech or offensive or harmful language) on social media platforms. However, there is much less focus on identifying and promoting positive supportive discourse in online communities. Our shared task aims to address this gap and encourage researchers to focus on such positive expressions. The task is to identify expressions of candy speech (Flausch) in online posts (YouTube comments). We define candy speech as expression of positive attitudes on social media toward individuals or their output (videos, comments, etc.). The purpose of candy speech is to encourage, cheer up, support and empower others. It can be viewed as the counterpart to hate speech, as it also aims to influence the self-image of the target person or group, but in a positive way. *Data* We will provide the participants with annotated training (and development) and unlabeled test datasets containing complete written, German language comment threads under YouTube videos posted by different content creators. The content creators and communities vary in topic, style, age group, etc. The training and test datasets do not overlap in terms of YouTube videos. Furthermore, the test dataset mostly contains (comments on) videos from content creators that are different from those in the training dataset. The communities commenting on these videos can therefore be expected to differ. *Task Details* Candy speech detection is the task of identifying the presence of candy speech (at the span level) in a given YouTube comment and classifying each expression in one of the predefined categories. This shared task focuses on German speaking YouTube communities. Participants will be provided with a dataset of YouTube comments manually annotated for different types of candy speech expressions. We offer the following two subtasks. Participants in this year's shared task may choose to participate in either subtask: Subtask 1: Coarse-Grained Classification The goal of this subtask is to identify whether the given comment contains candy speech ("Flausch") or not. The dataset is manually annotated for the presence of candy speech. Subtask 2: Fine-Grained Classification The goal of this subtask is to identify the span of each candy speech expression in a given text and classify it in one of the predefined categories. The dataset is manually annotated for 10 different types of candy speech expressions, such as “positive feedback”, “compliment”, “group membership” etc. More details on the subtasks (including examples) can be found at the website of the shared task (see link below). *Important dates* Trial data available: February 15, 2025 Training data available: March 3, 2025 Test data available: June 10, 2025 Evaluation start: June 16, 2025 Evaluation end: June 27, 2025 Paper submission due: July 11, 2025 Camera ready due: August 15, 2025 GermEval workshop: September 10, 2025 (co-located with KONVENS) *Website* https://yuliacl.github.io/GermEval2025-Flausch-Erkennung/ *GermEval* GermEval is a series of shared task evaluation campaigns that focus on Natural Language Processing for the German language. GermEval has been conducted regularly since 2014 in co-location with KONVENS/GSCL conferences: https://germeval.github.io/tasks/ *contact email* Please send any enquiry to the following email address: germeval-2025-candy-speech(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de Best regards, Yulia Clausen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Michael Wiegand, Universität Wien, Austria

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[IJCAI-2025] 2nd Workshop on Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen)
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, (Apologize if you received multiple emails from different mailing lists) We are pleased to announce that the 2nd Workshop on Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen) will be held in conjunction with* IJCAI-25* from August 16–22, 2025, in Montreal, Canada. This workshop will include both paper presentations and *a shared task - **generating business ideas from patent documents*. The goal of the AgentScen workshop is to explore the potential of agent AI in scenario planning.* The submission deadline is May 9, 2025. Workshop details can be found at: * https://sites.google.com/view/agentscen Scenario planning can be applied to key healthcare and biomedical domains, such as pandemic preparedness, hospital resource management, advancements in medical technology, health insurance sustainability, and the future of telemedicine. In the finance and business sectors, it can assist executives, financial analysts, and decision-makers in navigating uncertainties related to market volatility, interest rate fluctuations, investment risks, corporate financial planning, regulatory changes, and technological disruptions. By constructing and analyzing alternative scenarios, organizations can better anticipate challenges and seize emerging opportunities. We are also introducing* a shared task focused on generating business ideas from patent documents.* Participants will be provided with a set of patents and asked to generate explanations for potential future products based on the patented technologies. The aim is to foster AI-driven innovation by leveraging patents as rich sources of technical insight. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, AgentScen Organizers Chung-Chi Chen - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan Tatsuya Ishigaki - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan Sophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester, UK Hiroya Takamura - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan Wataru Hirota - Stockmark, Japan (Shared Task) Tomoko Ohkuma - Asahi Kasei Corporation, Japan (Shared Task) Tomoki Taniguchi - Asahi Kasei Corporation, Japan (Shared Task)

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2nd CFP - AAAS-2025
by Kurimo Mikko 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] == Second Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts == 1st Workshop on Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS-2025) We would like to invite you to submit papers to AAAS workshop co-located with NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT<https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu> in Hestia Hotel Europa in Tallinn, Estonia on March 5th, 2025. Workshop website: https://teflon.aalto.fi/aaas-2025/ == Important Dates == Submission DL: 16 December 2024 (both papers and abstracts) Notification of acceptance: 24 January 2025 Camera-ready DL: 3 February 2025 Workshop: 5 March 2025 (full day) All deadlines are 11:55PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). == Overview == Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS) explores the assessment of pronunciation and speaking skills of children, language learners, people with speech sound disorders and methods to provide automatic rating and feedback using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large language models (LLMs). Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) is a rapidly growing field that answers to the need of developing AI tools for self-practising second and foreign language skills. This is not limited to pronunciation assessment, but the AI tools can also provide more complex feedback about fluency, vocabulary and grammar of the recorded speech. ASA is also very relevant for detection and quantification of speech disorders and for developing speech exercises that can be performed independent of time and place. The important applications of non-standard speech also include interfaces for children and elderly speakers as an alternative to using text input and output. The topic is timely, because the latest large speech models allow us now to develop ASR and classification methods for low-resourced data, such as atypical speech, where annotated training datasets are rarely available and expensive and difficult to produce and share. The goal of this workshop is to present the latest results in ASA and discuss the future work and collaboration between the researchers in Nordic and Baltic countries. == Topics of Interest == In particular, we would like to invite students, researchers, and other experts and stakeholders to contribute papers and/or join the discussion on the following (and related) topics: Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) for L2 (second or foreign language) pronunciation ASA for spoken L2 proficiency ASA for speech sound disorders (SSD) Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for L2 learners ASR for children and young L2 learners ASA and ASR for Nordic and other low-resource languages and tasks Spoken L2 learning and speech therapy using games Automatic generation of verbal feedback for spoken L2 learners using LLMs == Submission Details == We accept both short and long papers, as well as demo papers. The submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Paper length: Short and demo papers up to 4 pages. Long papers up to 8 pages. References are not included in the page count, and the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be added to the page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress and will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published in the ACL anthology. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The links to the templates can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osWGzuRnYRQGRS70Lx_pdQKrIT-NefKS/view https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-nodalida-baltic-h… The submission will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaas2025 We also invite submissions of maximum 2-page long extended non-anonymous abstracts with any number of pages for references describing work in progress, negative results and opinion pieces. The abstracts, which should follow the same formatting templates as the peer-reviewed papers, will be considered for presentation by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. The abstracts can be based on results related to our theme and already published elsewhere. The abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but only in the workshop program. Please also consider volunteering to review 2-3 papers. == Invited Speakers == We have the pleasure to announce two invited speakers: 1. Nina R. Benway: What is so hard about AI Speech Therapy? Evidence from Efficacy Trials. Nina R Benway, PhD CCC-SLP, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson. Nina completed her doctoral training in speech-language pathology (concentration: neuroscience) with Dr. Jonathan Preston at Syracuse University, focusing on clinical trials in children with chronic rhotic speech sound disorders. The three studies of her dissertation resulted in the curation of an open-access 175,000-utterance speech corpus, the engineering of audio classification algorithms predicting speech-language pathologist perception of rhotic speech errors, and the clinical trial validation of an artificial intelligence tool that fully automates a speech sound treatment session. Nina’s doctoral training builds upon her undergraduate training in linguistics (acoustic phonetics) at Cornell University, graduate clinical training at The College of Saint Rose, and six years of clinical practice. Through these experiences Nina has refined a multidisciplinary skill set in speech science, speech signal processing, natural language processing, corpus phonetics, machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI), user interface development, cognitive frameworks of learning, and neurocomputational frameworks of speech production. 2. Ari Huhta: Automatic assessment of second/foreign language speaking: Review of developments for examination and teaching/learning purposes. Ari Huhta is a Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include diagnostic foreign/second language (L2) assessment, computerised assessment, self-assessment, as well as the development of reading, writing and vocabulary knowledge in L2. He was involved in developing the large-scale multilingual DIALANG online assessment and feedback system in the early 2000s and since then he has specialised in assessments that support language learning. Although his research has focused on learning and assessing reading and writing, he has been involved in designing several rating scales for speaking and in evaluating rating quality and studying rater behavior. Recently, he has participated in research projects that are developing ASR and automated assessment of L2 speaking, as well as using LLMs to evaluate Finnish L2 learners’ proficiency level. == Organizers == Mikko Kurimo (chair), Aalto University, mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi Giampiero Salvi, NTNU Sofia Strömbergsson, Karolinska Institutet Sari Ylinen, Tampere University Minna Lehtonen, University of Turku Tamas Grosz, Aalto University Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Aalto University Yaroslav Getman, Aalto University Nhan Phan, Aalto University This workshop is supported by “Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages (TEFLON)” https://teflon.aalto.fi/ NordForsk project nr. 103893. == Contact Information == For questions and comments, please email mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi

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Invitation to a Postdoctoral Fellowship Application at La Rochelle University
by Georgeta Bordea 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

The Images and Contents team [1] of the L3i lab at La Rochelle University, invites researchers who have or will have a PhD degree at the call deadline in September 2025 and fulfill the eligibility criteria to prepare a joint application for an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship [2,3]. Potential topics can include current areas of NLP research such as: - Multimodal Large Language Models - Text processing of news archives - Using NLP for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature - Extraction, summarisation, and analysis of financial text - Information extraction for knowledge graph population - Using additional knowledge sources for information extraction from text - Reasoning with knowledge graphs and language Potential candidates should have published at top NLP or ML conferences (EMNLP,ACL,NAACL,EACL,NeurIPS,ICML,ICLR). Female candidates and candidates from other underrepresented groups in Computer Science are especially encouraged to apply. If you want to learn more, please send an email to Georgeta Bordea (name.surname [at] univ-lr.fr [http://univ-lr.fr/]) with your CV attached and the subject line "MSCA NLP". [1] https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/Images-et-contenus [2] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fe… [3] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral…

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Fully funded PhD position on "Event-Event Relation Extraction" at La Rochelle University
by Georgeta Bordea 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

The Images and Contents team [1] of the L3i lab [2] at La Rochelle University invites applications for a fully-funded PhD POSITION. Application deadline: 21/04/2025 Detection, Representation and Visualisation of Event-Event Relations Understanding how events relate to each other is at the heart of narrative comprehension, whether in literature, news discourse, historical analysis, or AI-driven storytelling. The ability to detect, represent, and visualize explicit and implicit event-event relations is crucial for making sense of complex narratives, identifying causal structures, and uncovering hidden patterns in temporal or logical sequences. This research will explore machine learning approaches, structured knowledge graphs, and multimodal visual representations to model event-event relations effectively. The project will leverage AI to tackle four core challenges: (1) accurate detection of implicit and explicit event-event relations across diverse textual sources, (2) structured representation of these relationships using knowledge graphs and semantic models, (3) linking of event sequences with relevant background knowledge, and (4) intuitive visualization of event interactions to enhance interpretability and facilitate narrative analysis. What we offer: A yearly scholarship of €40,000 is provided for the entire duration of enrollment, up to a maximum of 36 months. Funded within the framework of a Junior Professorship (CPJ) on Federating Digital Humanities, this PhD offers strong interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities with Digital Humanities and Computer Science researchers. Eligibility: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Data Science or a related field. Strong interest or prior experience in NLP, knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, or interactive data visualization. Mode of study: Full time Year of entry: 2025 Duration: 3 years Additional criteria: Applicants must not already (i) hold a doctoral degree; or (ii) be matriculated for a doctoral degree at La Rochelle University, or another institution. Expression of Interest (EOI): Students are to submit their EOIs to Georgeta Bordea (name.surname(a)univ-lr.fr) including the following documents: * CV including information about publications. * Transcripts of most relevant/recent degrees. * To apply, applicants must submit an EOI detailing their suitability for the project by addressing the required skills and key responsibilities in under 800 words. [1] https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/Images-et-contenus [https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/Images-et-contenus] [2] https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ [https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/]

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ ACL 2025: Final CfP and deadline extension
by Mariana Romanyshyn 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

*The Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2025) <https://unlp.org.ua/>* *Important dates* *April 20, 2025* — Workshop paper due (extended from April 14) May 19, 2025 — Notification of acceptance June 2, 2025 — Camera-ready papers due June 30, 2025 — Pre-recorded video due July 31, 2025 — Workshop *Submission link:* https://softconf.com/acl2025/unlp2025 *Call For Papers* UNLP 2025 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on July 31, 2025, in conjunction with ACL 2025. The workshop will bring together leading professionals from academia and industry who develop language resources, tools, and NLP solutions for the Ukrainian language or do cross-lingual research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. The workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-lingual models applicable to Ukrainian, - Ukrainian dialects, sociolects, and code-switching, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Note: *The workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of the indigenous people of Ukraine. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. *Submissions* UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the broader public are strongly encouraged. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished, and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. The workshop will provide Grammarly Premium to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please fill in this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemG2fVh_KJo6JZF9pC4TNQ9gdMawd-TC_…> . *Workshop Organizers* *Main Organizers* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Olena Nahorna, Grammarly, Germany Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine *Shared Task Organizers* Nataliia Romanyshyn, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Syvokon, Microsoft, Ukraine Roman Kyslyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Volodymyr Sydorskyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Find our program committee at https://unlp.org.ua/committees/. *Follow us* Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. X: https://x.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop. Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua.

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Call for Participation: 4th Cardiff NLP Workshop, 14-15 July 2025
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

============================================================== Call for Participation 4th Cardiff NLP Workshop, 14-15 July 2025 ============================================================== Dear corpora-list members, We are organising the 4th Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop, an in-person workshop that will take place from July 1st to July 2nd 2024 in the Abacws building in Cardiff (Wales, UK). The workshop is especially designed for PhD students and early career researchers. *The registration* *is free for everyone* and we are also offering some affordable accommodation options in the university residence rooms near the venue. Please fill in the expression of interest form <https://forms.gle/R6Rv3L3ukGoUfTfL6> by April 8th if you are interested in joining the workshop. Workshop Activities: - Invited speakers from academia and industry - Tutorials - Poster session and networking - Panel NLP research and large language models in academia and industry Important Dates: - Application Period: 19 February - 8 April 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: Late April 2025 - Workshop: 14-15 July 2024 in Cardiff For more details, please check the workshop website: https://www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org/. The Cardiff NLP Organising team.

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CIRCE Online Seminar 31/03/2025 - Dr. Alice Henderson "Learning to Listen: Coping with Spoken Variation in the Workplace"
by Claudia Soria 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '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. Alice Henderson* /Université de Grenoble Alpes, France/ */Learning to Listen: Coping with Spoken Variation in the Workplace/* 📅 *April 28, 2025* 🕓 *4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: The university workplace is representative of international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their colleagues’ and students’ accents – of Italian, of English, and in my case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions, we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed. This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how? In this talk I’ll summarize speech research findings about how listeners can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. I’ll look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. I’ll describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused in other professional contexts. If possible, I’ll also describe the next steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop participants as part of a longitudinal study. *Bio*: Alice Henderson is a Professor at Université Grenoble - Alpes, France where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to Science & Technology students. She taught English phonetics and phonology for 24 years and has been involved in training teachers in France, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the international bi-annual conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Her research interests include English pronunciation teaching and learning, the perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction (EMI). Much of her research has focused on speakers, but she is also intrigued by listeners’ roles, from an intercultural and sociolinguistic perspective. Upcoming webinars: - Ana Tankosic (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli (Monday, May 26, 2025) - Clara Molina (Monday, June 30, 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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2nd CFP: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Second Call for Papers: *The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)* *Location*: Vienna, Austria and online (co-located with ACL 2025) *Date*: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025 *Website*: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025 <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025> *Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12 *Submission Link*: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) (https://sig-edu.org<https://sig-edu.org/>) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as *a 2-day workshop*, and it will feature a keynote by *Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly)*, oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop is also hosting *a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors*, and *a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward *(more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of generative AI in education and its impact; - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE (https://alliancelss.com<https://alliancelss.com/>) societies. SHARED TASK The workshop will also host a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors. See more details here: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission deadline: *Thursday, April 17, 2025* - Notification of acceptance: *Thursday, May 22, 2025* - Camera-ready papers due: *Monday, June 9, 2025* - Workshop: *Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025* SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; 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. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI - Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University - Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum - Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen - Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec - Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners - Bashar Alhafni, New York University (NYU) & CAMeL Lab in NYUAD - Zheng Yuan, King’s College London - Jill Burstein, Duolingo Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com> PROGRAM COMMITTEE https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025#program-committee

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): Third Call for Papers
by Announce 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

*** Third 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 ***) (*** please note the change of conference and important dates! ***) 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): June 20, 2025 (AoE) • 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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Fourth call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of detecting a type of Addiction. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification) 2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025. MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 14th Registration open Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Mar 19th Release of training corpora Mar 31st Registration closed *Apr 6th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed)* Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 12th Deadline for paper submission May 30th Acceptance notification Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025. The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee. ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Multi-Domain AI Text Detection Shared Task: M-DAIGT 2025 - Call for Participation
by Saad Ezzini 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT) shared task, hosted at RANLP 2025. This task brings together researchers to explore methods for detecting AI-generated text across multiple domains, with a focus on news articles and academic writing. We invite participation in two subtasks: 1. News Article Detection (NAD): Classify news articles and snippets as human-written or AI-generated. 2. Academic Writing Detection (AWD): Identify AI-generated content within student coursework and academic research across various disciplines. * Participants will receive balanced datasets containing human-written and AI-generated texts from multiple language models. Evaluation will be conducted on the CodaLab platform. Evaluation Metrics: * Primary: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-score * Secondary: Robustness across text lengths, domains, and generation sources Important Dates: * Training Data Release: March 31, 2025 * Evaluation Data Release: April 30, 2025 * Evaluation Period: May 215, 2025 * Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025 * Workshop Dates: September 1112, 2025 More Information and Registration: * Website: https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ * GitHub Repository: https://github.com/ezzini/M-DAIGT * Registration: Click here to register for solo or team participation<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSextZDY7qjGRJSLCBNISPcBNQZwusRWKvy…> * Join us on Slack: Slack Workspace<https://mdaigtsharedt-xye5995.slack.com/?redir=%2Fssb%2Fredirect> We look forward to your participation and encourage you to share this with colleagues who may be interested. For any queries, feel free to reach out to the organizers. Yours sincerely, The M-DAIGT Organizers ********************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: The information in this email and its attachments (if any) is intended for the addressee only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the email and its attachments from your system and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, disclose, copy, or use this email or any of its contents for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. KFUPM is not responsible for changes made to this message after it was sent. Statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of KFUPM. KFUPM is not liable for any effect or virus damage caused by this message. إن المعلومات الواردة في هذا البريد الإلكتروني ومرفقاته إن وجدت، قد تكون خاصة أو سرية؛ فإذا لم تكن المقصود بهذه الرسالة؛ فيُرجى منك حذفها ومرفقاتها من نظامك وإخطار المرسل بخطأ وصولها إليك فورا. كما لا يجوز نسخ أي جزء منها أو مرفقاتها ، أو الإفصاح عن محتوياتها لأي شخص أو استعمالها لأي غرض آخر. إن جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن لا تتحمل مسؤولية التغييرات التي يتم إجراؤها على هذه الرسالة بعد إرسالها. وإن البيانات أو الآراء المعبر عنها في هذا البريد، هي بيانات تخص مُرسلها، ولا تعكس بالضرورة رأي وبيانات الجامعة. كما لا تتحمل الجامعة مسؤولية أي تأثير ينتج عن هذه الرسالة أوعن أي فيروس قد تحمله.

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RANLP 2025 : Join the Shared Task: Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in Hospitality
by chafik.Salmane＠um6p.ma 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Sentiment Across Multi-Dialectal Arabic: A Benchmark for Sentiment Analysis in the Hospitality Domain We invite researchers, practitioners, and NLP enthusiasts to participate in the Sentiment Across Multi-Dialectal Arabic shared task, a challenge aimed at advancing sentiment analysis for Arabic dialects in the hospitality sector. About the Task Arabic is one of the world’s most spoken languages, characterised by rich dialectal variation across different regions. These dialects significantly differ in syntax, vocabulary, and sentiment expression, making sentiment analysis a challenging NLP task. This task focuses on multi-dialectal sentiment detection in hotel reviews, where participants will classify sentiment as positive, neutral, or negative across multiple Arabic dialects, including Saudi, Moroccan, and Egyptian Arabic. This shared task provides a high-quality multi-dialect parallel dataset, enabling participants to explore: 1. Dialect-Specific Sentiment Detection – Understanding how sentiment varies across dialects. 2. Cross-Linguistic Sentiment Analysis – Investigating sentiment preservation across dialects. 3. Benchmarking on Multi-Dialect Data – Evaluating models on a standardised Arabic dialect dataset. Dataset Overview - Hotel reviews across multiple Arabic dialects. - Balanced sentiment distribution (positive, neutral, negative). - Multi-Dialect Parallel Dataset – Each review is available in multiple dialects, allowing for cross-linguistic comparison. Evaluation Metrics - Primary Metric: F1-Score. - Additional Analysis: Comparison of sentiment accuracy across dialects. Baseline System - Pre-trained BERT-based model (AraBERT) fine-tuned on MSA and Arabic dialect data. - Participants are encouraged to improve upon the baseline model with their own techniques and use LLMs. Why Participate? - Contribute to Arabic NLP Research – Help advance sentiment analysis for Arabic dialects. - Gain Access to a High-Quality Dataset – A unique multi-dialect benchmark for future research. - Collaborate with the NLP Community – Engage with leading researchers and practitioners. - Showcase Your Work – High-performing models may be featured in a post-task publication. Timeline - Training data ready – April 15, 2024 - Test Evaluation starts – April 27, 2025 - Test Evaluation end – May 10, 2025 - Paper submission due – May 16, 2025 - Notification to authors – May 31, 2025 - Shared task presentation co-located with RANLP 2025 – September 11 and September 12, 2025 How to Participate 1. Register for the task via https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ 2. Download the dataset and baseline system. 3. Develop and test your sentiment analysis model. 4. Submit your results for evaluation. Organising Team - Maram Alharbi, Lancaster University, UK - Salmane Chafik, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco - Professor Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK - Dr. Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia - Dr. Tharindo Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK - Dr. Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK For inquiries, please contact us at ahasis.task(a)gmail.com

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PhD positions at the University of Amsterdam
by Ekaterina Shutova 05 Apr '25

05 Apr '25

PhD positions at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Salary: EUR 2.901 - EUR 3.707 gross per month Closing date: 21 April 2025 We have two open PhD positions in natural language processing (NLP), starting in September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The focus of the project is on the development of methodologies for multilingual NLP and alignment of large language models. We welcome applications from candidates with an NLP / AI background and an interest in language and society. For further information and to apply: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/two-phd-positions-in-natural-language… For any questions, please send an email to e.shutova(a)uva.nl

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Mind the AI-GAP 2025 at HHAI 2025 – Submission Deadline extended to April 11, 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

First “Mind the AI-GAP 2025: Co-Designing Socio-Technical Systems” International Workshop at HHAI 2025 9 June 2025, Pisa, Italy https://aigap2025.isti.cnr.it/ **Important Dates** (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) (NEW) Submission deadline: 11 April, 2025 (NEW) Notification of acceptance: 5 May, 2025 Camera Ready due: 12 May, 2025 **Aim and scope** The Mind the AI-GAP 2025 workshop aims to critically address unwanted bias and discrimination in AI technologies by proactively integrating fairness and inclusivity within the design process, fostering social and structural change. The workshop explores how Participatory AI can shape solutions that better reflect community values, needs, and preferences and aims to bring together diverse stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, NGOs, civil society, and designers. Through a combination of talks, roundtables, and hands-on activities, participants will collectively discuss participatory approaches and develop actionable outputs, such as guidelines or a white paper, to advance Participatory AI as a tool for equitable, transparent, and impactful systems. **Topics** We welcome technical and non-technical submissions with experimental, theoretical, or methodological contributions. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions focusing on participatory approaches to AI development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Methods and frameworks for participatory AI design Case studies of co-design processes in AI development Approaches to stakeholder engagement and community value integration Analyses of power dynamics in participatory AI design Strategies for balancing individual and collective needs in AI design Methods and evaluation frameworks for participatory AI processes Tools and techniques for enhancing AI transparency for diverse stakeholders Experiences and lessons learned from co-design and stakeholder engagement Ethical considerations in participatory AI development Citizen science and democratizing AI design and deployment Real-world impacts and challenges of participatory AI design in practice The workshop is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the venue. **Submission** We welcome the following types of submissions: - Full original research paper that presents original, impactful work (from 5 up to 9 pages); - Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (from 5 up to 9 pages); Both types of papers will be published in the conference proceedings. - Extended abstracts describing ongoing research, personal experiences with the topic, proof of concept, etc.. Authors can opt for having their paper included in the proceedings (5 pages required) or for non-archival presentations (from 2 up to 5 pages); - Research communication of already published papers that serve to promote the dissemination of contributions aligned with the scope of the workshop (up to 2 pages). They will not be published in the conference proceedings. All paper lengths exclude references, which are unlimited. All submissions should adhere to the CEUR-WS guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word available at https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) with single column format. Submissions are to be uploaded on Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aigap2025. Accepted submissions shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication in a dedicated free, open-access volume in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Since CEUR partners with Scopus, these proposals will also be indexed in it. Contributions will be presented either as oral presentations (lightning talks) or posters. All presentations are expected to be in person, except in exceptional cases (e.g., a speaker encounters a last-minute issue and cannot attend the conference). **Workshop organizers** Costanza Alfieri, Università dell’Aquila Eleonora Cappuccio, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Donatella Donati, Università dell’Aquila Miriam Felici, Independent Researcher Marta Marchiori Manerba, Università di Pisa Benedetta Muscato, Scuola Normale Superiore Clara Punzi, Scuola Normale Superiore Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler For more information: Website: https://aigap2025.isti.cnr.it/ Contact: mind-the-ai-gap(a)googlegroups.com

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Call for Participation in SHARED TASK: Analysis of Persuasion Techniques — in parliamentary debates and propaganda-oriented social media
by Roman Yangarber 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

*Call for Participation in Shared Task* ** Analysis of Persuasion Techniquesin Parliamentary Debates and Disinformation- and Propaganda-oriented Social Media * Co-located with Slavic NLP 2025 <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>Workshop, at ACL in Vienna, Austria bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> * * TASK DESCRIPTION: * * The task focuses on detection and classification of Persuasion Techniques using data from 5 Slavic languages — Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian, Slovene and Russian — in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary debates on hotly-contested topics, and (b) social media posts, related to the spread of disinformation and propaganda. The task has two subtasks: 1. Subtask 1: Detection — Given a text and a list of fragment offsets, determine for each fragment whether it contains one or more persuasion techniques, from a given taxonomy of persuasion techniques, 2. Subtask 2: Classification —Given a text and a list of fragment offsets, determine for each fragment which persuasion techniques are employed therein. We use a rich taxonomy with 25 persuasion techniques: Name-calling or labelling, Guilt by association, Casting doubt, Appeal to hypocrisy, Questioning the reputation, Flag waiving, Appeal to authority, Appeal to popularity, Appeal to fear and prejudice, Appeal to values, Strawman, Whataboutism, Red herring, Appeal to pity, Causal oversimplification, False dilemma or no choice, Consequential oversimplification, False equivalence, Slogans, Conversation killer, Appeal to time, Loaded language, Obfuscation-Intentional vagueness-confusion, Exaggeration or minimization, Repetition. Subtask 1 is a binary classification task. Subtask 2 is a multi-class multi-label classification task. The text fragments correspond to paragraphs. For information about training and test data, guidelines, and participation, please see theShared Task Home Page. <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> IMPORTANT: Participants may join both subtasks or only one. It is not mandatory to submit responses for all languages. Up to 5 system responses per language per team may be submitted. Important Dates * Registration deadline: 26 April 2025 * Release of Testdata to registered participants: *29 April*2025 * Submission of system responses: 5 May 2023 * Results announced to participants: 8 May 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): 18 May 2025 * ** *Questions and contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi<mailto:bsnlp@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 revitaAI.github.io <https://revitaai.github.io> helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab>

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Shape the Future of AI-Powered Wearables – Join the Meta CRAG-MM Challenge! 🚀
by Kai Sun 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

Hello Colleagues, Imagine you're shopping for dinner at your favourite grocery store wearing AI glasses. You scan the shelves looking for the right ingredients. You ask, “Which of these pasta is gluten-free?”—and in seconds, your AI assistant provides an accurate answer, cross-referencing product labels and trusted sources. No guesswork. No misinformation. Just reliable, real-time knowledge at your fingertips. This is the potential of AI-powered wearable devices. But today’s Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) still struggle with providing accuracy, context, and real-time information. That’s where you come in. The Meta CRAG-MM Challenge for KDD Cup 2025 is pushing the boundaries of multi-modal, multi-turn Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for wearable AI. Join the challenge to build AI that sees, understands, and retrieves knowledge—without hallucinating. Why This Challenge Matters Despite advances in AI, VLLMs still generate hallucinated answers—especially when handling long-tail knowledge, multi-step reasoning, or real-world images. The Meta CRAG-MM Benchmark introduces a rigorous test for multi-modal retrieval and reasoning, helping to ensure AI models can accurately process images, retrieve external information, and handle smooth, multi-turn conversations. What Makes CRAG-MM Unique? 🔍 Real-world wearable AI focus – Uses real-world images from Ray-Ban Meta glasses across 14 diverse domains 🤖 Multi-modal + Multi-turn challenge – Evaluate AI across single-turn and multi-turn question-answering 🧠 Complex question types – Tests reasoning, aggregation, and retrieval beyond simple fact lookup 💰 $33,000 in prizes – Compete for the grand prize and recognition at KDD Cup 2025. Challenge Timeline 📅 Warm up phase begins March 24, 2025 – Open to all teams 📅 Phase 1 begins Apr 5, 2025 – Open to all teams 📅 Phase 2 begins May 11, 2025 – Top-performing teams advance 🏆 Winners announced August 5, 2025 at KDD Cup 2025 in Toronto Get Started Today! 👉 Register now: <https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-crag-mm-challenge-2025> https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-crag-mm-challenge-2025 💬 Join the community: Connect with others on our <https://discourse.aicrowd.com/c/2929> Community Forum<https://discourse.aicrowd.com/c/2929> & <https://discord.gg/YWDQQa8byx> Discord<https://discord.gg/YWDQQa8byx> 📜 Read the rules: <https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-crag-mm-challenge-2025/challenge_ru…> https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-crag-mm-challenge-2025/challenge_ru… All The Best, Team AIcrowd NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER/WIN. Open to individuals who are 18 + age of majority and meet the full eligibility requirements in the full Rules. Open 3/17/2025 23:55 UTC through 6/1/2025 23:55 UTC. Void where prohibited. Subject to full Rules at <https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-crag-mm-challenge-2025/challenge_ru…> https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-crag-mm-challenge-2025/challenge_ru…. See Rules for prize details and values. Sponsor: Meta Platforms, Inc. 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025 (for US entrants) or Meta Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (for all other entrants).

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Second Call for Participation: Shared task on Clickbait Detection and Spoiling in Spanish - TA1C
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

*** Second Call for Participation for TA1C at IberLEF 2025 *** TA1C (Te Ahorré Un Click) Clickbait Detection and Spoiling in Spanish at IberLEF 2025 https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21819 UPDATE: The training data has been released! Clickbait is a widespread phenomenon in online news: it is a way of creating headlines and teasers aimed at capturing readers’ attention in order to increase traffic, relegating the function of informing to a secondary role. There is no clear consensus at the moment about how to define clickbait exactly, with some contradictory definitions that usually are based on the deceptive effect created by the news failing to deliver what they promise, or content based related phenomena such as sensationalism or yellow journalism. For this task we will take the following definition, based on Loewenstein's information gap theory: “Clickbait is a method for generating teasers, especially online, that deliberately omits part of the information with the goal of generating curiosity by creating an information gap, thereby attracting the readers' attention and making them click”. Although clickbait started in low-reputation web-exclusive media that focused on political propaganda or soft-news, such as The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Upworthy, it has gained prominence across all types of news and media. However, it is usually perceived as annoying and it can lead to misinformation. Spoiling the clickbait involves satisfying the curiosity by answering the information gap created. This way, the reader could have all of the information and can decide to read the complete article based on interest and not curiosity, just as if the headline was written in a traditional way. In this shared task we will provide a dataset of media tweets written in different varieties of Spanish and from different sources, with their corresponding associated media articles. Participants will be asked to solve the following tasks: * Clickbait Detection: Determine if the content of a tweet that links to a media article is clickbait, given the previous definition of clickbait. This is a binary classification task. * Clickbait Spoiling: Given a clickbait teaser (tweet and title) and the corresponding news article, generate or extract from the article a short text that, as concisely as possible (280 characters max), fills the information gap, satisfying the generated curiosity, or otherwise indicate that the articles has no response for it. The generated text must be in Spanish. How to participate: If you want to participate in this task, please join our Codalab competition <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21819>: Important Dates: * May 27th, 2025: test set and open for submissions. * June 3rd, 2025: publication of results. * June 12th, 2025: paper submission. * June 20th, 2025: notification of acceptance. * June 27th, 2025: camera-ready paper submission. * September, 2025: IberLEF 2025 Workshop.

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Second CFP-Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2025)
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2025) To be held at the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) We’re happy to invite paper submissions for the LT-EDI 2025 workshop—an important platform for exploring how Language Technology (LT) can drive equality, diversity, and inclusion across languages, cultures, and communities. Call for Papers: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Related to speech and language resource creation for EDI. - Data set development to include EDI. - Gender inclusivity in LT. - LGBTQ+ inclusivity in LT. - Racial inclusivity in LT. - Persons with disability' inclusivity in LT. - Speech and language recognition for minority groups. - Unconscious bias and how to avoid it in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and other applications of LT. - Tackling rumors and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. - Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. - Counter-narrative applied to LGBTQ+ minorities. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 May 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 12 June 2025 Camera-ready Paper Due: 26 June 2025 Workshop Date (Tentative): 9 September 2025 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2025/home?authuser=0 🌐 Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Workshop/LT-EDI with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar… <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar…>

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Call for Papers - NLP4Sustain Workshop 2025
by Jakob, Charlott Frederike 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Call for Papers: NLP for Sustainability (NLP4Sustain) Workshop 2025 With this workshop, we want to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing research, progress, and challenges in the context of NLP and sustainability. We invite submissions about NLP-based analysis of sustainability-related texts, sustainable NLP models and evaluation practices in general. Authors and other participants will engage with each other in a poster session and there will be an interdisciplinary invited talk with an ensuing discussion. We invite technical, survey, and position papers, as long (8 page) or short (4 page) papers (plus references and appendices) written in English and formatted according to the ACL stylesheet. Relevant Topics • analyses and classifications of sustainability-related texts (such as company reports, advertisements, legal texts, …) • generation of explanations, critiques, summaries, … of sustainability-related texts • multimodal models related to sustainability, such as language-vision or climate-impact models • question answering in the sustainability/climate context • sustainable (e.g. small, efficient) NLP models for other applications/domains • sentiment analysis in the sustainability/climate context • media and social media analysis with NLP methods in the sustainability/climate context Important Dates * Tue, 10.06.2025: Paper submission deadline * Fri, 25.07.2025: Acceptance notification * Fri, 15.08.2025: Camera-ready due * Wed, 10.09.2025: Workshop @KONVENS in Hildesheim, Germany (at least one author must be present) For details, visit the website: https://nlp4sustain.github.io/ If you have any questions, please contact: jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de<mailto:jakob.prange@uni-a.de> and/or c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de<mailto:c.jakob@tu-berlin.de> —————————————————— Charlott Jakob (she/her) Academic Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science Faculty IV Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Technische Universität Berlin Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin, Germany

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Post-doc position in computational linguistics at Univ. Lorraine (France)
by Mathieu Constant 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

The Research unit ATILF (Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language) offers a postdoctoral position in computational linguistics. Topic: multiword expressions in large language models Location: ATILF, Nancy, France (Univ. Lorraine and CNRS) Starting date: September 2025 Duration: 12 months (possibility to extend the duration for one more year) Supervisors: Mathieu Constant (Univ. Lorraine, France) and Patrick Watrin (UC Louvain, Belgium) Salary: depends on experience and salary grids (from 3000 to 4200 euros before tax) Application deadline: April 22, 2025 Subject. The term « multiword expression » (MWE) refers to a combination of multiple lexical items that displays irregular composition possibly on different linguistic levels (morphology, syntax, semantics, …). They include a large variety of phenomena such as idioms (run around in circles), support verb constructions (take a walk), nominal compounds (dry run), complex function units (in spite of). They have been the subject of extensive research work in the NLP community over the last 50 years. The goal of this post-doc position is to investigate to what extent large language models encode multiword expressions and their various levels of idiomaticity and fixedness. In particular, the hired post-doc will develop methods to extract linguistic features about multiword expressions in context from large language models. The methods will be experimented on French and will be used to provide aids for French L2 learners when reading MWE occurrences in authentic texts. Context. The position is part of the STAR-FLE project (STrategic Adaptations for better Reading and Text Comprehension in FFL, https://www.starfle.fr/en, 2024-2027) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The project aims to propose innovative digital solutions in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that may improve text comprehension for French L2 learners and assist teachers in managing multiple levels of learners. In particular, it will propose context-based aids for understanding lexical issues as well as MWEs found in authentic texts. The hired researcher will be fully integrated in the project team. Requirements. Applicants should hold a PhD thesis n natural language processing, in computational linguistics, in computer science, or in applied mathematics, . The hired post-doc researcher should have the following skills: * expertise in deep learning for NLP and notably large language models * excellent programming skills * Good linguistic skills * good knowledge of French would be a plus * team spirit Application. The applicants should submit a coverage letter, a CV including their publications, a list of references for recommandation, on the following official web site: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-022/Default.aspx?lang=EN. The applications should be sent not later than April 22, 2025. For more information, contact Mathieu Constant (Mathieu.Constant(a)univ-lorraine.fr)

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Call for Papers – The Ninth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI’25)
by Svitlana Vakulenko 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

*************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers – The Ninth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI’25) **************************************************************************************************** Collocated with IJCAI 2025 (Montreal, Canada) on August 16-18, 2025 https://scai.info Important dates • Submission deadline: May 9, 2025 (AoE) • Author notification: June 6, 2025 Description SCAI is an established venue that provides a discussion platform on Conversational AI for intelligent information access, bringing together researchers and practitioners across natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning and human-computer interaction fields. The goal of Search-oriented Conversational AI is to design systems that allow for more convenient information access by means of a conversational user interface. Further development of Conversational Search systems requires closer integration and better information exchange between the diverse communities that are engaged in the areas of Dialogue Systems, Information Retrieval and Conversational User Interfaces. SCAI aims to bring together researchers interested in informing the design of a new generation of systems for conversational information access. SCAI 2025 offers an opportunity to present ongoing or recently completed research work in an interdisciplinary meeting specifically focused on search-based conversational AI. The workshop program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and a poster session. We encourage submission for presentation of original as well as already published papers that are relevant to the following topics: * Design: theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of information-seeking dialogues, properties of a mixed-initiative interaction, modeling conversational contexts, relation to concurrent research in dialogue systems and conversational user interfaces * Implementation: prototypes of conversational search systems, demonstrations and proof-of-concept implementations, as well as lessons learned from deployed systems. * Evaluation: evaluation of conversational search systems including user studies, question answering and summarization metrics, Wizard-of-Oz experiments, user simulation for dialogues, measuring learning outcomes of an information-seeking dialogue, dialogue analysis, faithfulness and provenance of the dialogue responses. * Applications: information-seeking dialogues for personalised education, healthcare, entertainment and knowledge-intensive work. Submission Instructions: * Papers should be up to 8 pages (long) or up to 4 pages (short), excluding references and supplementary materials. * Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. * The authors are encouraged (but not required to) use the IJCAI template for their submissions: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit. * Our venue is non-archival and the authors retain the right to submit the same work to another venue for official publication, or submit previously published work. * The accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on reviewers’ recommendation. * Submit your work using the on-line form: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/ijcai25-w21/main-track?role=author

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Call for Papers: LxGr2025 – Extended Deadline
by Costas Gabrielatos 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 20 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. • Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. • Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. • Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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[Cfp] 3nd Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025
by Kossi Amouzouvi 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Third Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Important Dates: - *Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025* - *Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025* - *Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon.* Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link. For *Submission Guidelines* and * Review and Evaluation Criteria* please head to the online call for papers: *https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep* <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>. We would highly appreciate it if you could disseminate this call within your network. *We look forward to receiving your contributions!* Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) 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. 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*SEM2025 - First Call for Papers
by Kemal Kurniawan 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) *SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP) https://starsem2025.github.io/ First Call for Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>. Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. 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 describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is May 30, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview. Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference> Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): May 30, 2025 ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025 Conference date: TBA (co-located with EMNLP 2025) Following ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement. Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>

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Invitation to participate in ImageCLEF 2025: Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF Lab
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] ImageCLEF 2025 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF http://www.imageclef.org/2025/ We warmly invite you to take part in this year’s ImageCLEF evaluation campaign! With seven exciting and challenging tasks—each featuring multiple sub-tasks and unique research opportunities—there’s something for everyone. You and your team can begin development immediately, as all the training data is already available. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your skills and secure a spot on our leaderboard! *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ImageCLEF 2025 is an evaluation campaign conducted as part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs. It features multiple research tasks, inviting teams from around the world to participate. The campaign results are published in the working notes proceedings of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and presented at the CLEF conference. Additionally, selected contributions from participants may be invited for publication in the following year’s Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), alongside the annual lab overviews. ImageCLEF’s target communities include, but are not limited to, researchers in information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social media, sensor data, etc.), machine learning, deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, image and video processing, and computer vision. The campaign places particular emphasis on challenges related to multi-modality, multi-linguality, and interactive search. *** 2025 TASKS *** ImageCLEFmedical Automatic Image Captioning ImageCLEFmedical Synthetic Medical Images Created via GANs ImageCLEFmedical Visual Question Answering ImageCLEFmedical Multimodal And Generative TelemedICine (MAGIC) Image Retrieval/Generation for Arguments ImageCLEFtoPicto ImageCLEF Multimodal Reasoning #ImageCLEFmedical Automatic Image Captioning (9th edition) - Training data released! https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/caption Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical images such as radiology output is a time-consuming task that involves highly trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis pipelines.The Automatic Image Captioning task is split into 2 subtasks: Concept Detection Task, based on identifying the presence and location of relevant concepts in a large corpus of medical images and the Caption Prediction Task, where participating systems are tasked with composing coherent captions for the entirety of an image Organizers: Hendrik Damm, Johannes Rückert, Christoph M. Friedrich, Louise Bloch, Raphael Brüngel, Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Benjamin Bracke (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany), Asma Ben Abacha (Microsoft, USA), Alba García Seco de Herrera (University of Essex, UK), Henning Müller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland), Henning Schäfer, Tabea M. G. Pakull (Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Germany), Cynthia S. Schmidt, Obioma Pelka (Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Germany) #ImageCLEFmedical Synthetic Medical Images Created via GANs (3rd edition) - Train & Test data released! https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/gan The task aims to further investigate the hypothesis that generative models generate synthetic medical images that retain "fingerprints" from the real images used during their training. These fingerprints raise important security and privacy concerns, particularly in the context of personal medical image data being used to create artificial images for various real-life applications. In the first subtask, participants will analyze synthetic biomedical images to determine whether specific real images were used in the training process of generative models. In the second subtask, participants will link each synthetic biomedical image to the specific subset of real data used during its generation. The goal is to identify the particular dataset of real images that contributed to the training of the generative model responsible for creating each synthetic image. Organizers: Alexandra Andrei, Liviu-Daniel Ștefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin, Mihai Dogariu, Bogdan Ionescu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania), Ahmedkhan Radzhabov, Yuri Prokopchuk (National Academy of Science of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus), Vassili Kovalev (Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus), Henning Müller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland) #ImageCLEFmedical Visual Question Answering (3rd edition) - Train & Test data released! https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/vqa This year, the challenge looks at the integration of Visual Question Answering (VQA) with synthetic gastrointestinal (GI) data, aiming to enhance diagnostic accuracy and learning algorithms. The challenge includes developing algorithms that can interpret and answer questions based on synthetic GI images, creating advanced synthetic images that mimic accurate diagnostic visuals in detail and variability, and evaluating the effectiveness of VQA techniques with both synthetic and real GI data. The 1st subtask asks participants to build algorithms that can accurately interpret and respond to questions pertaining to gastrointestinal (GI) images. This involves understanding the context and details within the images and providing precise answers that would assist in medical diagnostics, while the 2nd subtask focuses on the generation of synthetic GI images that are highly detailed and variable enough to closely resemble real medical images. Organizers: Steven A. Hicks, Sushant Gautam, Michael A. Riegler, Vajira Thambawita, Pål Halvorsen (SimulaMet, Norway) #ImageCLEFmedical Multimodal And Generative TelemedICine (MEDIQA-MAGIC) (3rd edition) - Train data is released! https://www.imageclef.org/2025/medical/mediqa The task extends on the previous year’s dataset and challenge based on multimodal dermatology response generation. Participants will be given a clinical narrative context along with accompanying images. The task is divided into two relevant sub-parts: (i) segmentation of dermatological problem regions, and (ii) providing answers to closed-ended questions (participants will be given a dermatological query, its accompanying images, as well as a closed-question with accompanying choices – the task is to select the correct answer to each question) Organizers: Asma Ben Abacha, Wen-wai Yim, Noel Codella (Microsoft), Roberto Andres Novoa (Stanford University), Josep Malvehy (Hospital Clinic of Barcelona) #Image Retrieval/Generation for Arguments (4th edition) - In collaboration with Touché! https://www.imageclef.org/2025/argument-images Given a set of arguments, the task is to return for each argument several images that help convey the argument. A suitable image could depict the argument or show a generalization or specialization. Participants can optionally add a short caption that explains the meaning of the image. Images can be either retrieved from the focused crawl or generated using an image generator. Organizers: Maximilian Heinrich, Johannes Kiesel, Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Moritz Wolter (Leipzig University), Martin Potthast (University of Kassel, hessian.AI, scads.AI) #ImageCLEFtoPicto (3rd edition) - Train & Test data released! https://www.imageclef.org/2025/topicto The goal of ToPicto is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, and translators to develop new translation methods to translate either speech or text into a corresponding sequence of pictograms. The task refers to the relationship between text and related pictograms and is composed of 2 subtasks: the Text-to-Picto task, which focuses on the automatic generation of a corresponding sequence of pictogram terms and the Speech-to-Picto task, which focuses on directly translating speech to pictogram terms. Organizers: Diandra Fabre, Cécile Macaire, Benjamin Lecouteux, Didier Schwab (Université Grenoble Alpes, LIG, France) #ImageCLEF Multimodal Reasoning (new) - Train data released! https://www.imageclef.org/2025/multimodalreasoning MultimodalReason is a new task focusing on Multilingual Visual Question Answering (VQA). The formulation of the task is the following: Given an image of a question with 3-5 possible answers, participants must identify the single correct answer.The task is split into many subtasks, each handling a different language (English, Bulgarian, Arabic, Serbian, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Urdu, Kazakh, Spanish, with a few more on the way). The task's goal is to assess modern LLMs' reasoning capabilities on complex inputs, presented in different languages, across various subjects. Organizers: Dimitar Dimitrov, Ivan Koychev (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria), Rocktim Jyoti Das, Zhuohan Xie, Preslav Nakov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE) *** IMPORTANT DATES *** (may vary depending on the task) - Run submission deadline: May 10, 2025 - Working notes submission: May 30, 2025 - CLEF 2025 conference: September 9-12, 2025, Madrid, Spain *** REGISTRATION *** Follow the instructions here https://www.imageclef.org/2025 *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Henning Müller, HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland Dan-Cristian Stanciu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania On behalf of the organizers, Dan-Cristian Stanciu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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Fully-funded PhD position in language acquisition / computational linguistics
by Yevgen Matusevych 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

A PhD position at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands: - Fully-funded 4-year position - Research focus: using computational models (including small probabilistic models and neural network language models) to study the acquisition of modal verbs - Programming skills and background in linguistics / language acquisition required - Supervisors: Annemarie van Dooren, Yevgen Matusevych, Arianna Bisazza - Application deadline: 24 April 2025 - More details and application: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… -- Yevgen Matusevych Assistant Professor Computational Linguistics, University of Groningen https://yevgen.web.rug.nl

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL - Reminder
by Agostina Calabrese 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: April 18, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: May 20, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: June 13, 2025 * Workshop: August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2025/woah2025/ The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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1st CFP: EvalLAC 2025 workshop @ AIED 2025
by Shiva Taslimipoor 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

***** Second Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content AIED 2025 workshop | Palermo (Italy) & Hybrid | 22-26 July 2025 https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/eval-lac-2025 <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.goo…> ***** We are happy to announce the second edition of the Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content will be held in Palermo (Italy) & online during the AIED 2025 conference. About the workshop Evaluation of learning and assessment content has always been a crucial task in the educational domain, but traditional approaches based on human feedback are not always usable in modern educational settings. Indeed, the advent of machine learning models, in particular Large Language Models (LLMs), enabled to quickly and automatically generate large quantities of data, making human evaluation unfeasible. Similarly, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have numbers of attending students so large that it is unsustainable to manually provide feedback to all of them. Thus, the need for accurate and automated techniques for evaluating educational content – e.g., questions, hints, and feedback – became pressing. Building on the success of the First Workshop on the Automatic Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content, which was held at AIED 2024, this workshop aims to attract professionals from both academia and industry, and to to offer an opportunity to discuss common challenges, share best practices, and promising new research directions. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: - Question evaluation (e.g., in terms of the pedagogical criteria listed above: alignment to the learning objectives, factual accuracy, language level, cognitive validity, etc.). - Estimation of question statistics (e.g., difficulty, discrimination, response time, etc.). - Evaluation of distractors in Multiple Choice Questions. - Evaluation of reading passages in reading comprehension questions. - Evaluation of lectures and course material. - Evaluation of learning paths (e.g., in terms of prerequisites and topics taught before a specific exam). - Evaluation of educational recommendation systems (e.g., personalised curricula). - Evaluation of hints and scaffolding questions, as well as their adaptation to different students. - Evaluation of automatically generated feedback provided to students. - Evaluation of techniques for automated scoring. - Evaluation of pedagogical alignment of LLMs. - Evaluation of the ethical implications of using open-weight and commercial LLMs in education. - Evaluation of bias in educational content and LLM outputs. Human-in-the-loop approaches are welcome, provided that there is also an automated component in the evaluation and there is a focus on the scalability of the proposed approach. Papers on generation are also very welcome, as long as there is an extensive focus on the evaluation step. Important dates Submission deadline: May 25, 2025 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2025 Camera ready: June 22, 2025 Workshop: July 22 or July 26, 2025 Submission guidelines There are two tracks, with different submission deadlines. Full and short papers: We are accepting short papers (5 pages, excluding references) and long papers (10 pages, excluding references), formatted according to the workshop style (using either the LaTeX template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…> or the DOCX template <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEUR-Template-1col.docx> ). Extended abstracts: We also accept extended abstracts (max 2 pages), to showcase work in progress and preliminary results. Papers should be formatted according to the workshop style (using either the LaTeX template or the DOCX template). Submissions should contain mostly novel work, but there can be some overlap between the submission and work submitted elsewhere (e.g., summaries, focus on the evaluation phase of a broader work). Each of the submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Program Committee, and the proceedings volume will be submitted for publication to CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Due to CEUR-WS.org policies, only full and short papers will be submitted for publication, not the extended abstracts. Organisers Luca Benedetto (1), Andrew Caines (1), George Dueñas (2), Diana Galvan-Sosa (1), Gabrielle Gaudeau (1), Anastassia Loukina (3), Shiva Taslimipoor (1), Torsten Zesch (4) (1) ALTA Institute, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge (2) National Pedagogical University, Colombia (3) Grammarly, Inc. (4) FernUniversität in Hagen

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Free Lancaster webinar - tomorrow
by Brezina, Vaclav 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '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 CFP: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX)
by Ines Rehbein 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Call for Papers: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX) We invite submissions for LAW-XIX, co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, in July/Aug 2025. The LAW-XIX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/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. Special Theme The special theme of LAW-XIX is "*Subjectivity and variation in linguistic annotations*". In addition to LAW's general topics, we specifically invite submissions on: * Subjectivity and human label variation in linguistic annotations * Learning from annotation disagreements * Detecting annotation noise in human label variation * Accounting for subjectivity in label aggregation * Ways to aggregate multiple annotators' labels beyond majority vote * Any other topics related to the special theme. Regarding subjectivity, we are particularly interested in work addressing the*annotation of multidimensional constructs from the political and social sciences* and encourage submissions on the following topics: * Theory-driven operationalization of complex political or socio-psychological constructs, * such as populism, moral values, or stereotypes Creation of linguistically annotated datasets that capture such constructs * Relation between theories and textual annotations * Challenges for the measurement of multidimensional constructs from text * Challenges for validating (a) theories, (b) annotations * Implications and risks for manual annotation and automatic prediction of socio-psychological constructs from text. Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth.” Workshop papers due (ARR Commitment) Mar 25, 2025 Workshop papers due (Direct Submission) April 04, 2025 Notification of acceptance May 16, 2025 Camera-ready papers due May 30, 2025 Workshop date July/Aug, 2025 Submissions Please submit your paper here: https://softconf.com/acl2025/law2025 For more information on the workshop and submission formats, please refer to the workshop homepage: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs at law2025workshop(a)gmail.com. Workshop Organizers Siyao (Logan) Peng (Program Co-Chair) Ines Rehbein (Program Co-Chair) Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President) -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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2nd Call for Papers: Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025
by Cansu Akan 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, In response to multiple requests, we are pleased to announce an extension for abstract submissions to the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025, organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association. The revised submission deadline is April 25, 2025. LCRGrad25 will be hosted by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology, and will take place virtually on 22-23-24 October 2025. The main aim of the conference, as in the previous editions, is to offer a space for MA and PhD students as well as researchers who have earned their doctoral degree in the last two years prior to the conference to discuss their (ongoing) projects. Researchers who already hold a doctoral degree are welcome and strongly encouraged to attend as panelists, mentors or non-presenting delegates, helping to ensure a fruitful academic dialogue and to foster the careers of graduate students and recent graduates within the field of Learner Corpus Research. The central theme of this year’s conference is “The Pattern Beneath”. This theme celebrates the unique role of learner corpus research in uncovering the underlying structures and patterns of learner language through LCR. It emphasizes the field’s potential to provide insights into second language acquisition, linguistic development, and the intricacies of language use in educational contexts. We invite submissions across a range of formats to foster diverse discussions and engagement: • Papers (20-minute presentation): Original, completed research with substantial findings. • Work-in-Progress Paper (15-minute presentation): Presentation of ongoing research for feedback, collaborative discussions and ideas for improvement. • Workshops or Software Demonstrations (45-60 minutes): Hands-on, interactive sessions or demonstrations of corpus tools or technologies. • Roundtable Discussions (45 minutes): Topic proposals for collaborative and in-depth discussions among participants are welcome. • Panel Proposals (90 minutes): A panel with 3–4 speakers ideally made up of supervisors/senior researchers and graduate students on one of the sub-themes of LCRGrad25. • Posters: Completed research or works-in-progress in a visually engaging format. Digital posters are to be submitted with a short video (max. 3 minutes) prior to the start of the conference. The videos will be made available throughout the conference for asynchronous comments and questions. The call for papers and abstract submission guidelines can be found on the conference website: https://lcrgrad2025.tu-chemnitz.de KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen: Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics and TESL at Northern Arizona University Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg: Professor of Digital Humanities, Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Dr. Dana Gablasova: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University IMPORTANT DATES 25.04.2025 Abstract submission deadline 10.06.25 Notification of acceptance 15.06.25 Presenter registration deadline Additional highlights of LCRGrad25: - Registration is free of charge for all participants. - Sessions will be hosted on Zoom, ensuring accessibility for participants world-wide. - To accommodate participants from various time zones, the conference will adopt a flexible and inclusive schedule. - Ask-Me-Anything Panels and Research Consultation Clinics with leading experts. - Interactive sessions connecting Early Career Researchers and Senior Academics. - Awards and recognitions for best paper and best poster. - Soft skills workshops: Hands-on sessions to enhance skills like publishing, career planning, data visualization, and networking. We look forward to your participation in this exciting virtual gathering. Best, Cansu Akan English and Digital Linguistics Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz)

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Call for Nominations for the 2025 Test-of-Time (ToT) Paper Awards
by ACL Announcements 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Call for Nominations for the 2025 Test-of-Time (ToT) Paper Awards The ACL is pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2025 Test-of-Time (ToT) paper awards. In 2025, the ToT paper awards will honor up to four influential papers from ACL events from 25 and 10 years ago, namely, up to two papers from 2000 ACL events and up to two papers from 2015 ACL events. ACL ToT papers should describe research that has had a long-lasting influence on the field. That is, they should have had a significant impact on a subarea of CL, across subareas of CL, or outside of the CL research community. They may have proposed new research directions and new technologies, or released results and resources that have greatly benefited the community. All nominations will be evaluated by the Test-of-Time paper award nomination committee to decide the winners. The winners will be honored at ACL 2025. Please enter your nomination via the following form: https://forms.gle/5CspmZ8zRhQQKnma9 [1] The deadline for nominations is April 8th. - Multiple nominations by the same nominator are allowed - Self-nominations are allowed - ACL workshops from the appropriate years are included in the eligible venues. For any further information, please contact us. Best wishes, Yuki Arase (ACL conference officer) Yue Zhang (ToT paper award nomination committee co-chair) Joyce Chai (ToT paper award nomination committee co-chair) Michael Strube (ToT paper award nomination committee co-chair) Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-nominations-2025-test-time-tot-p… [1] https://forms.gle/5CspmZ8zRhQQKnma9

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PhD positions at the University of Amsterdam
by Ekaterina Shutova 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

PhD positions at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Salary: EUR 2.901 - EUR 3.707 gross per month Closing date: 21 April 2025 We have two open PhD positions in natural language processing (NLP), starting in September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The focus of the project is on the development of methodologies for multilingual NLP and alignment of large language models. We welcome applications from candidates with an NLP / AI background and an interest in language and society. For further information and to apply: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/two-phd-positions-in-natural-language… For any questions, please send an email to e.shutova(a)uva.nl

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MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

*Registration closes today* *!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of detecting a type of Addiction. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification) 2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025. MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 14th Registration open Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Mar 19th Release of training corpora *Mar 31st Registration closed* Apr 7th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 12th Deadline for paper submission May 30th Acceptance notification Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025. The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee. ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Multi-Domain AI Text Detection Shared Task: M-DAIGT 2025 - Call for Participation
by Saad Ezzini 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

*Dear Colleagues,* We are pleased to announce the *Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT*) shared task, hosted at *RANLP 2025*. This task brings together researchers to explore methods for detecting AI-generated text across multiple domains, with a focus on news articles and academic writing. *We invite participation in two subtasks:* 1. *News Article Detection (NAD):* Classify news articles and snippets as human-written or AI-generated. 2. *Academic Writing Detection (AWD):* Identify AI-generated content within student coursework and academic research across various disciplines. - Participants will receive balanced datasets containing human-written and AI-generated texts from multiple language models. Evaluation will be conducted on the CodaLab platform. *Evaluation Metrics:* - *Primary:* Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-score - *Secondary:* Robustness across text lengths, domains, and generation sources *Important Dates:* - Training Data Release: *March 31, 2025* - Evaluation Data Release: *April 30, 2025* - Evaluation Period: *May 2–15, 2025* - Paper Submission Deadline: *May 25, 2025* - Workshop Dates: *September 11–12, 2025* *More Information and Registration:* - *Website:* https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ - *GitHub Repository:* https://github.com/ezzini/M-DAIGT - *Registration: *Click here to register for solo or team participation <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSextZDY7qjGRJSLCBNISPcBNQZwusRWKvy…> - *Join us on Slack: *Slack Workspace <https://mdaigtsharedt-xye5995.slack.com/?redir=%2Fssb%2Fredirect> We look forward to your participation and encourage you to share this with colleagues who may be interested. For any queries, feel free to reach out to the organizers. *Yours sincerely,The M-DAIGT Organizers*

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Call for Participation: LxMLS 2025 - 15th Lisbon Machine Learning School
by Fernando Batista 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

============================================================== Call for Participation LxMLS 2025 - 15th Lisbon Machine Learning School ============================================================== We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the 15th Lisbon Machine Learning School - LxMLS 2025. Important Dates --------------- * Application Deadline: April 28th * Notification of Admission: May 13th * Early registration: June 27th * Late registration: July 12th * Summer School: July 19th-25th Topics and Intended Audience --------------- The school will cover a range of Machine Learning (ML) topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data. Our target audience is: * Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics; * Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning; * Industry practitioners who desire a more in depth understanding of these subjects. Features of LxMLS: * No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is required, but the attendants are assumed to have some basic background on mathematics and programming; * Days are divided into morning lectures and afternoon lab sessions and practical talks (see schedule); * The Labs guide will be provided one month in advance. Last year's guide is available on the website. * The first day is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises * Both basic (e.g linear classifiers) and advanced topics (e.g. deep learning and transformers) will be covered * Welcome reception, Banquet, 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 List of Confirmed Speakers --------------- ADÈLE H. RIBEIRO Philipps-Universität Marburg | Germany ANDRÉ MARTINS University of Lisbon & Unbabel | Portugal BEIDI CHEN Carnegie Mellon University | USA BHIKSHA RAJ Carnegie Mellon University | USA DESMOND ELLIOTT University Of Copenhagen | Denmark KYUNGHYUN CHO New York University | USA LUCAS DIXON Google DeepMind MÁRIO FIGUEIREDO University of Lisbon | Portugal MAXIME PEYRARD Computer Science Laboratory of Grenoble | France NOAH SMITH University of Washington & Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | USA SARA HOOKER Cohere for AI | Canada SLAV PETROV Google Inc. | USA SWETA AGRAWAL Google Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: http://lxmls.it.pt/2025/ <http://lxmls.it.pt/2025/> Apply here: http://tiny.cc/apply-lxmls2025 <http://tiny.cc/apply-lxmls2025> Any questions should be directed to: lxmls-2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:lxmls-2025@googlegroups.com> We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organizers of LxMLS’2025.

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Deadline Extended: Call for Workshop Proposals - IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by ACL Announcements 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

Deadline Extended: Second Call for Workshop Proposals - IJCNLP-AACL 2025 The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IJCNLP-AACL in 2025 in Mumbai (India). We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. The thttps://mail.aclweb.org:2096/cpsess7732164573/3rdparty/roundcube/?_task=mail&_action=compose&_id=87201360267e9d1c02ac72#wo pages for the main proposal must include the following: - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - 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. - Workshop format: in-person preferred; hybrid format may be allowed under special circumstances. - 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 whether they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. In order to allow more participants to join and contribute, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to April 30th, 2025, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, ‘Anywhere on Earth). At least one of the organisers of the accepted workshops must be present in person in Mumbai, India. Check the full Call at: https://www.afnlp.org/conferences/ijcnlp2025/#submissions Link to submission system: https://softconf.com/aacl2025/workshops/ For queries related to workshop submission, and the review process in general, email: AACL-IJCNLP25-Workshop_Chairs(a)googlegroups.com Workshop Chairs Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada Lizhen Qu, Monash University, Australia

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[RANLP 2025 Shared Task] Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain
by ahasis.task＠gmail.com 30 Mar '25

30 Mar '25

Call for Participation Sentiment Across Multi-Dialectal Arabic: A Benchmark for Sentiment Analysis in the Hospitality Domain We invite researchers, practitioners, and NLP enthusiasts to participate in the Sentiment Across Multi-Dialectal Arabic shared task, a challenge aimed at advancing sentiment analysis for Arabic dialects in the hospitality sector. About the Task: Arabic is one of the world’s most spoken languages, characterised by rich dialectal variation across different regions. These dialects significantly differ in syntax, vocabulary, and sentiment expression, making sentiment analysis a challenging NLP task. This task focuses on multi-dialectal sentiment detection in hotel reviews, where participants will classify sentiment as positive, neutral, or negative across multiple Arabic dialects, including Saudi, Moroccan, and Egyptian Arabic. This shared task provides a high-quality multi-dialect parallel dataset, enabling participants to explore: 1. Dialect-Specific Sentiment Detection – Understanding how sentiment varies across dialects. 2. Cross-Linguistic Sentiment Analysis – Investigating sentiment preservation across dialects. 3. Benchmarking on Multi-Dialect Data – Evaluating models on a standardised Arabic dialect dataset. Dataset Overview: - Hotel reviews across multiple Arabic dialects. - Balanced sentiment distribution (positive, neutral, negative). - Multi-Dialect Parallel Dataset – Each review is available in multiple dialects, allowing for cross-linguistic comparison. Evaluation Metrics: - Primary Metric: F1-Score. - Additional Analysis: Comparison of sentiment accuracy across dialects. Baseline System: - Pre-trained BERT-based model (AraBERT) fine-tuned on MSA and Arabic dialect data. - Participants are encouraged to improve upon the baseline model with their own techniques and use LLMs. Why Participate? - Contribute to Arabic NLP Research – Help advance sentiment analysis for Arabic dialects. - Gain Access to a High-Quality Dataset – A unique multi-dialect benchmark for future research. - Collaborate with the NLP Community – Engage with leading researchers and practitioners. - Showcase Your Work – High-performing models may be featured in a post-task publication. Timeline - Training data ready – April 15, 2024 - Test Evaluation starts – April 27, 2025 - Test Evaluation end – May 10, 2025 - Paper submission due – May 16, 2025 - Notification to authors – May 31, 2025 - Shared task presentation co-located with RANLP 2025 – September 11 and September 12, 2025 How to Participate? - Register for the task via https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ - Download the dataset and baseline system. - Develop and test your sentiment analysis model. - Submit your results for evaluation. Organising Team 1. Maram Alharbi, Lancaster University, UK 2. Salmane Chafik, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco 3. Professor Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK 4. Dr. Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia 5. Dr. Tharindo Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK 6. Dr. Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK For inquiries, please contact us at ahasis.task(a)gmail.com

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Open RA/PhD Funded Positions in Multimodal Conversational AI ( U. Trento, Italy)
by Giuseppe Riccardi 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

At the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) we are looking for highly motivated and talented graduate students to join our research team and work on Conversational Artificial Intelligence. This umbrella term includes the following research areas: - Natural Language Processing - Dialogue Modeling and Systems - Machine Learning - Affective Computing We are investigating and designing next-generation ML models for multimodal input /output processing in physical and hybrid environments and interactions. For thirty years, the SIS Lab has trained intelligent machines and evaluated AI-based systems in many industry sectors, from fintech to health, following ethical principles and directives from data collection, annotation, machine learning modeling, and user engagement. The lab research team is interdisciplinary and attracts researchers from computational linguistics, psychology, applied math, biomedical and electrical engineering, and computer science. Research projects and publications can be found on the SIS lab website. The department's official language (research and teaching) is English. AVAILABLE POSITIONS -Six months funded research fellowships: approximately 1.885 Euro/month gross. -Three-year funded Phd fellowships: approximately 1.885 Euro/month gross amount. For more information about the cost of living in Trento, please visit the website <https://iecs.unitn.it/prospective-student/living-in-trento> . DEADLINES Positions open until filled. REQUIREMENTS MANDATORY ( for both positions ) - Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, or similar/related disciplines. - Excellent academic records - Excellent programming skills - Excellent command of oral and written English - Good knowledge of most of the following: experimental design methodology and statistics, natural language processing, machine learning methods - Excellent teamwork skills NICE-TO-HAVE -Experience with Vision-Language Models and their applications. -Expertise with LLM architectures, frameworks and applications. -Experience with VR and/or XR architectures, frameworks and applications. HOW TO APPLY Interested applicants should mention the position they are applying and send their CV to: Email: sisl-jobs(a)disi.unitn.it For more info: The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab <http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/>The PhD School <https://iecs.unitn.it/>The Department Information Engineering and Computer Science Department @ University of Trento <https://www.disi.unitn.it/> --- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab Department of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department University of Trento Room D5, via Sommarive 5 38123 Povo di Trento, Italy

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations (ContEx25)
by cimiano＠cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

DEADLINE EXTENSION: 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations (ContEx25) http://contex2025.net/ As AI systems are used more and more in high-stakes domains, it also becomes ever-more important to make AI systems transparent to ensure meaningful human control and empower human users to contest or override AI-based decisions. Without sufficient transparency, increasingly complex and autonomous AI systems may leave users feeling overwhelmed and out of control, which is legally and ethically unacceptable, especially in the context of high-stakes decisions. For the users to feel empowered rather than out of control, explanations need to be relevant, providing sufficient information on which basis an output can be contested or challenged. It has been increasingly noted by the XAI community that no one explanation can fit all needs. Further, recent approaches have advocated for a more participative approach to XAI in which users are not only involved but can directly shape and guide the explanations given by a certain AI System. The 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations is an international and interdisciplinary conference focusing on the question how explanations can be contextualized to increase their relevance and empower users. Key research questions that we want to explore during the conference include: How do contextual variables influence the effectiveness of explanations? What are the relevant context factors to be taken into account in adapting an explanation to specific domains, users, or situations? How can context be represented algorithmically to support contextual adaptation of XAI explanations? What new architectures or approaches in XAI support the dynamic adaptation of explanations with respect to changing user needs? How can user modelling support a more personalized explanation process? In which ways can the dynamics of context be modelled? How can the suitability of contextually adapted explanations be studied / validated / evaluated? Which explanation processes are particularly suitable for which context? Which context-specific outcomes are influenced by explanations? How can XAI empower users across diverse contexts to make informed decisions and effectively interact with AI systems? What constitutes a useful taxonomy for categorizing contexts in which explanations are provided? What are the various contexts in which explanations are provided and utilized? The 3rd TRR318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations invites contributions from a wide range of disciplines (computational but also human/social science) seeking to contribute to advancing research on how explanations can be contextually adapted. We invite interested participants to submit a two page abstract (+ references) using the LNCS Springer template via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=contex25 The abstracts will be peer-reviewed and appear as Proceedings published by Bielefeld University Press. The conference is hosted and supported by the TRR 318 “Constructing Explainability”: http://trr318.de <http://trr318.de/> Organizing Committee: Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University) Benjamin Paaßen (Bielefeld University) Anna-Lisa Vollmer (BIelefeld University) Invited Speakers: Angelo Cangelosi (University of Manchester) Virginia Dignum (Umeå University) Kacper Sokol (ETH Zurich) Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions (EXTENDED): April 16th Notification of Acceptance (EXTENDED): May 7th Conference: 17th and 18th of June, Bielefeld Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano AG Semantic Computing Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) Co-Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII) Universität Bielefeld Tel: +49 521 106 12249 Fax: +49 521 106 6560 Mail: cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de Personal Zoom Room: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/my/pcimiano Office CITEC-2.307 Universitätsstr. 21-25 33615 Bielefeld, NRW Germany

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[Deadline in 2 weeks] CfP: 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’25) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'25 Chicago, USA, June 30 - July 3, 2025 https://www.mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/ https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mad2025 *** Call for papers *** ************************ * Paper submission due: April 10, 2025 * Acceptance notification: April 29, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: May 5, 2025 * Workshop @ACM ICMR 2025: June 30, 2025 Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on mainstream media like newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup of distribution and the amount of information available, however, also led to an increased amount of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda. Conversely, the fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and NGOs (among others) take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of citizens' opinions being distorted, became even more crucial and demanding, especially for what concerns sensitive topics such as politics, health and religion. Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, AI-based tools for content generation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech, textual and video content have emerged under the collective name of "deepfakes", and more recently with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), undermining the perceived credibility of media content. It is, therefore, even more crucial to counter these advances by devising new robust and trustworthy AI tools able to detect the presence of inaccurate, synthetic and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and fact-checkers. Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the combination of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest advances of deep learning approaches and architectures. These raise new challenges and questions that need to be addressed to reduce the effects of disinformation campaigns. The workshop, in its fourth edition, welcomes contributions related to different aspects of AI-powered disinformation detection, analysis and mitigation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, images) - Multimodal verification methods - Synthetic and manipulated media detection - Multimedia forensics - Disinformation spread and effects in social media - Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains - Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world complexities - Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia content - Explaining disinformation detection results to non-expert users - Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation - Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation - Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification - Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools - Large Language Models for analyzing and mitigating disinformation campaigns - Large Multimodal Models for media verification - Multimedia verification systems and applications - System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques - Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks *** Submission guidelines *** When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2025 instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are available here: https://mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/submissions/. *** Organizing committee *** Dan-Cristian Stanciu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania) Roberto Caldelli (CNIT and Mercatorum University, Italy) Milica Gerhardt (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany) Bogdan Ionescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania) Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia) Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ΙΤΙ, Greece) Adrian Popescu (CEA LIST, France) Vera Schmitt (Technical University Berlin, Germany) The workshop is supported under the following projects: (i) UEFISCDI DeteRel SOL12/2024 Detection of relationships between entities in unstructured and structured data sets (https://deterel.aimultimedialab.ro/), (ii) AI4Debunk (https://ai4debunk.eu/), (iii) vera.ai “VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence” (https://www.veraai.eu/), and (iv) News-Polygraph (https://news-polygraph.com/). On behalf of the organizers, Cristian Stanciu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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Webminar by Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind)
by HiTZ zentroa 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '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). You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker: *Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind) *Title: *Towards Inclusive Multimodal AI *Date: *Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary: *Visual assistants are becoming ubiquitous, yet their effectiveness varies drastically across languages and cultures. This talk presents an overview of the critical issue of multicultural disparity in image–text models. We'll explore this gap through three lenses: evaluation, training, and generation. First, I'll introduce benchmarks like MaRVL designed to quantify multilingual and multicultural competence. Next, we'll delve into techniques for mitigating these disparities in model training. Finally, we'll examine the emerging challenges and opportunities in multicultural visual generation. *Bio: *Emanuele Bugliarello is a research scientist at Google DeepMind based in Grenoble, France where he works on improving evaluation and capabilities of multimodal generative models. He completed his PhD in the NLP Section at the University of Copenhagen, while spending time at DeepMind, Google, Mila and Spotify. Previously, he studied computer and communication sciences at EPFL, Tongji University and Politecnico di Torino. * Upcoming webinars:* · André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 2025) · Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea 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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[CfP] 1st CfP: GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies || June 12, 2025 || Leipzig, Germany
by DBpedia 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

==== *1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies* Leipzig, Germany June 12, 2025 https://cost.eu/actions/CA23147/ ==== The 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to Knowledge Graphs, their applications, and associated technologies. We encourage submissions at the intersection of Knowledge Graphs with fields such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automation. Submissions should be original and must not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. = Topics of Interest = Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Modeling, designing, and integrating KGs, including ontology engineering and enrichment * Development, publication, maintaining, and versioning of knowledge graphs, including schema evolution and data updates * Techniques for extracting, linking, and improving knowledge graphs, ensuring data quality and consistency * Methods for reasoning and discovering insights, patterns, and relationships within large-scale KGs * Strategies for safeguarding knowledge graphs, addressing access control, bias detection, and data protection * Leveraging KGs in deep learning, large language models, and natural language processing, KGs for LLMs and LLMs for KGs * Enhancing search, recommendations, and question-answering systems using knowledge graph-based techniques * Success stories and lessons learned in real-world implementations of KGs in healthcare, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing, and beyond * Applications of KGs in various contexts, such as content analysis, misinformation detection, and social media insights * Evaluation of knowledge graph development tasks based on LLMs/GenAI * Knowledge Graph-based retrieval augmented generation (RAG) = Important Dates = * Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time, UTC-12) * Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2025 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time, UTC-12) Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25 = Author Guidelines and Submission = * *Full research papers*: 4-6 pages + max 2 pages references * *Short research papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * *In Use and Experience papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * *Position and Vision papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * *System/demo papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references Submissions must be in English, original, and not under review elsewhere. Papers should follow the *Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science* style: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… = Review and Evaluation Criteria = Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers may disclose their identities. Papers will be evaluated based on: * Appropriateness * Originality, novelty, and innovativeness * Impact of results * Technical quality of methods * Soundness of evaluation * Proper comparison to related work * Clarity and quality of writing * Reproducibility of results and resources = Financial Support for Authors = The GOBLIN COST Action has allocated a budget to support travel expenses for authors of accepted papers. One author per accepted paper may apply for financial support, subject to budget availability and COST reimbursement rules: https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2025/02/COST-094-21-V2.0-Annotated-Rules-for-CO… = Proceedings = Accepted papers will be published on Zenodo and shared on the workshop and GOBLIN COST Action websites. = Workshop Chairs = * Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy * Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany For inquiries: goblin25(a)easychair.org = Programme Committee = * Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania * Krzysztof Węcel, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland * Verginica Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for AI, Romania * Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain * Weiler Andreas, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland * …to be updated = Local Organisers = * Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany * Julia Holze, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany = Acknowledgment = This workshop is organized as part of the GOBLIN COST Action: CA23147 – Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology): https://www.cost.eu

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Registration open for Corpus Linguistics 2025
by Robbie Love 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Dear colleagues I am pleased to confirm that registration is now open for the international Corpus Linguistics conference 2025 (CL2025). CL2025 is co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University, and the University of Birmingham and will take place from Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 at Aston University. Information about fees and registration instructions can be found on the conference website: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/registration Registration is also open for the pre-conference workshop day, to be held on Sunday 29th June at the University of Birmingham. We are pleased to confirm a programme of six workshops - details available here: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/workshops KEY DATES * Registration opens: 28th March 2025 * Early bird registration deadline: 9th May 2025 * Final registration deadline: 13th June 2025 * Conference dates: 30th June - 3rd July 2025 PLENARY SPEAKERS * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) * Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) * Elizabeth Hanks (Northern Arizona University, USA) * Pascual Pérez-Paredes (University of Murcia, Spain) * Anna Marchi (University of Bologna, Italy) & Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK) For further information, please visit the conference website at www.cl2025.co.uk<http://www.cl2025.co.uk> or write to the CL2025 organising committee at corpuslinguistics2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:corpuslinguistics2025@gmail.com>. Best wishes Robbie Love On behalf of the CL2025 Organising Committee: Matt Gee (Birmingham City University), Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University), Joyce Lim (Aston University), Robbie Love (Aston University), Mark McGlashan (University of Liverpool), Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham), Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham) Dr Robbie Love (he/him) BA (Hons), ma, phd, cdls, fhea Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Programme Development Lead Department of Communication and Culture, School of Law and Social Sciences Aston University, Birmingham, UK [Aston University] Newsletter Editor, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)<https://www.baal.org.uk/> Convenor, BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group<https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/> Organising Committee, Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025<https://www.cl2025.co.uk/> Research profile: research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love<https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love> Website: robbielove.org/<https://robbielove.org/> See me in Les Misérables<https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/bmos-presents-les-miserables-let-the-peopl…> at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, 10th-14th June!

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ArabicNLP 2025 - First Call For Papers
by Salam Khalifa 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Hello all, *** Apologies for cross-posting *** *The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) * *Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November, 2025. (Hybrid Mode).* *Conference URL*: https://arabicnlp2025.sigarab.org/ We invite long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work. Theme: Bridging Modalities: Advancing Arabic NLP Submissions may include work in progress or completed research, with a clear focus on Arabic NLP, covering standard Arabic, dialectal, or classical. This year, we focus on advancing the three key modalities: text, speech, and vision. We encourage research that explores modeling, novel applications, and new resources. Papers on related languages, such as Semitic languages or those using Arabic script, are welcome if they offer insights relevant to Arabic NLP. Work using Arabic resources for other languages is also encouraged. We welcome descriptions of commercial systems, position papers, and surveys on the above topics, with detailed information on technical contributions and added value to the community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Enabling Technologies: - Text: Language models, diacritization, morphological analysis, lemmatization, tokenization, POS tagging, syntactic and semantic parsing, named entity recognition, disambiguation, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Speech & Vision: Speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialect identification, optical character recognition, image/video understanding, image/video generation, etc. Applications: Assistive technologies, human-computer interaction, social media analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic applications.Resources: Multimodal corpora (text, speech, vision), annotation tools, lexical and dictionaries, etc. Conference Paper Submission URL: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022> TBA Important Dates for Conference Papers - June 22, 2025: Abstract submission for conference papers due date - June 29, 2025: Conference paper due date - August 03, 2025: Reviews submission deadline - August 24, 2025: Rebuttal period ends - August 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance - September 21, 2025: Camera-ready papers due - November, 2025: ArabicNLP conference All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org The ArabicNLP 2025 Organizing Committee Best, -- Salam Khalifa

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Call for Special Issue Proposals - Journal Natural Language Processing
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering) *** Call for Special Issue Proposals *** In recent years the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has enjoyed unprecedented developments since the emergence of Deep Learning and, lately, Large Language Models. At the same time, NLP is following the trend of many other areas in becoming highly specialised, with a number of application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in importance. These developments, often coinciding with a lack of related literature, necessitate and warrant the publication of specialised volumes focusing on a specific topic of interest to the NLP research community. The Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering), which features six 160-page issues per year and has had its impact factor increase yearly, invites proposals for special issues on a competitive basis covering any topics in applied NLP which have emerged as important recent developments and have attracted the attention of a number of researchers. The Journal Calls for Proposals for special issues have resulted in high-quality outputs and this year we look forward to another successful competition. Proposals on topics covering a variety of methods, tasks, resources and applications from Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Speech and Language Processing, Text Analytics and related areas are eligible. Special issues on timely NLP topics such as latest language models including Large Language Models/Generative AI, are welcome. Special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or section of the community. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews. In addition, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all interested parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited to workshop participants only. Prospective proposers are also encouraged to consult the successful Journal columns "Industry Watch" and "Emerging Trends" for additional inspiration. Interested parties have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended special issue to the Executive Editor (Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es). He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to the Journal. In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue that will be reviewed by the Editors of the Journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial Board. The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the particular topic of interest at the current time. It should include a relevant literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special issue against the background of other relevant or competing publications and volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that evidence for the estimate of expected submissions to the special issue be provided and justified. The proposals should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board. It is desirable that at least one (preferably two) of the members of the Guest Editorial Board is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Natural Language Processing. The proposal should also include a tentative time-scale for the production of the special issue (the time-scale committed to in the proposal should be adhered to, if the proposal is accepted), and information about the prospective Guest Editors such as relevant experience, publications etc. Time-scale - Deadline for submission of special issue proposals: 28 April 2025 (proposals to be emailed to Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es with a copy to NLP(a)cambridge.org) - Notification of acceptance/rejection: 19 May 2025 - Calls for papers related to the successful proposals (at least 2 calls are recommended): 7 June 2025 first call July-September 2025 second (and third call, if applicable) Once the special issue is approved and launched, Guest Editors are expected to adhere to the same reviewing and acceptance standards as regular issues of the Journal. In particular, each submission needs to be reviewed by three members of the Guest Editorial Board or other experts in the field. To ensure geographical diversity and balance, and to avoid over-reliance on the same reviewers, each submission must not be reviewed by three experts from the same country, and no single reviewer should evaluate more than two submissions. If the Executive Editor is not satisfied with the review process for a special issue paper, he may either reject the paper or send it for additional review. As a last resort, the Executive Editor has the discretion to reject the entire special issue if the reviewing practices are found to be flawed. All special issues are required to include a survey of the field (at least 15 pages) as its first article, which can be written either by the Guest Editors or experts in the field commissioned by the Guest Editors. This is in addition to a 1-2 page preface by the Guest Editors. Best Regards Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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Workshop "Studying the Language of Young Learners" - submission deadline extended
by Valentin Werner 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, Due to multiple requests, we're happy to extend the submission deadline of the following event to 20 April: Studying the Language of Young Learners Workshop at the University of Bamberg, Germany, 17 to 18 September 2025, organized by Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg), Robert Fuchs (University of Bonn) & Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) as part of the projectYoung German Learner English <https://www.ygle.de/>(funded by the German Research Foundation). In research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and in the domain of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) specifically, there has been a tendency to rely on material from advanced learners, often university students, given their comparatively easy accessibility for researchers (Gilquin, 2015; Plonsky, 2017). In consequence, young(er) second language (L2) learners, typically found within institutional (secondary school) contexts, are severely underrepresented (Tracy-Ventura et al., 2021). However, this underrepresented group is of great theoreticalsignificance (Myles, 2015, 2021), as these learners exemplify foundational learning stages. They are also of appliedinterest in language education, as vastly more monetary and personnel resources are devoted to teaching languages in schools than at universities. As a consequence, improvements in teacher education and teaching practices drawing on insights from SLA and LCR could yield substantial benefits to society. In the broader context of calls for more diversity in LCR and SLA (e.g. Paquot, 2024), this workshop is intended as a meeting ground for researchers who engage with young learner (inter-)language to share insights from their current projects. We invite single- or multiple-authored papers on relevant empirical research and encourage contributions that, for instance, * analyze and interpret patterns found in young learner (inter-)language; * illustrate (young) learner trajectories; * compare and contrast data from L1 and L2 learners; * work with innovative tasks for data elicitation; * triangulate approaches (e.g. corpus-based and experimental or questionnaire-based ones). The workshop will feature two keynotes by * Shin’ichiro Ishikawa <http://language.sakura.ne.jp/s/eng.html>(University of Kobe, Japan), leader of the ICNALE <https://language.sakura.ne.jp/icnale/>project * Olga Lopopolo <https://www.eurac.edu/en/people/olga-lopopolo>(Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy), co-compiler of the LEONIDE <https://www.porta.eurac.edu/lci/leonide/>corpus Moreover, all participants will be invited to interact in a collaborative breakout sessionon future challenges and trends in research on young learners. We encourage submissions by emerging (non-tenured) researchers and will award a best paper prizeamong those eligible.This workshop is co-located with the summer school Methods and Developments in Learner Corpus Research. The working languageof the event is English, and we are open to contributions on all target languages. The workshop is primarily an in-person event, but we may accept a limited number of online contributions. The focus of papers should lie primarily on empirical results and their interpretation. Specific methodological issues, which may be at stake in research on young learner language, will be addressed in a second workshop, planned for 2026. Please submit your abstracts (in the range of 400–500 words + potentially a data table or figure for illustration + references; please use APA style) before *20 April 2025* at https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SLYL/ <https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SLYL/>. You will receive feedback on acceptance in May 2025. References Gilquin, G. (2015). From design to collection of learner corpora. In S. Granger, G. Gilquin & F. Meunier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research(pp. 9–34). Cambridge University Press. Myles, F. (2015). SLA theory and Learner Corpus Research. In S. Granger, G. Gilquin & F. Meunier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research(pp. 309–331). Cambridge University Press. Myles, F. (2021). Commentary: An SLA perspective on Learner Corpus Research. In B. Le Bruyn & M. Paquot (Eds.), Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition(pp. 258–273). Cambridge University Press. Paquot, M. (2024). Learner corpus research: A critical appraisal and roadmap for contributing (more) to SLA research agendas. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 20(3), 567–590. Plonsky, L. (2017). Quantitative research methods in instructed SLA. In S. Loewen & M. Sato (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition(pp. 505–521). Routledge. Tracy-Ventura, N., Paquot, M. & Myles, F. (2021). The future of corpora in SLA. In N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora(pp. 409–424). Routledge. -- Prof. Dr. Valentin Werner Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschl. Sprachgeschichte D-96045 Bamberg +49 951 863 2277 www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling

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EURALEX Talks - Mark Davies
by Iztok Kosem 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, The next instalment of EURALEX Talks will take place on Tuesday 16 April at 16.00 (CET). In this video lecture, Mark Davies, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA, will talk about his recent large-scale investigation of how the predictions on linguistic variation from two Large Language Models match actual corpus data. He will also present and demo his current work on integrating LLMs into his interface for English-Corpora.org. Further details are available at https://euralex.org/euralex-talks/. A Zoom link to access the talk will be provided closer to the date. Iztok Kosem EURALEX President

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Complete self-learning package for English-Corpora.org: KorPLUS available as OER
by Schlüter, Julia 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, We're excited to launch and share the free and interactive "KorPLUS" OER self-learning package, tailored to the needs of advanced students and teachers of English as well as anyone interested in the English language. It is based on the widely-used www.English-Corpora.org<http://www.English-Corpora.org> interface and endorsed by the platform's host, Mark Davies (https://www.English-Corpora.org/thirdPartyMaterials.asp). https://www.uni-bamberg.de/KorPLUS/ Make your students corpus-literate (https://youtu.be/72ZQiluCbgA), recommend the resource to (future) teachers (https://youtu.be/Hkw3l9SF-R4), or enhance your own corpus skills with hands-on corpus searches dealing with everyday language problems (choice of words, prepositions, collocations, syntactic constructions, formal/informal language, British/American/other Englishes, etc.). - Use the flexible, AI-supported material in parts or as a whole, as a standalone online course or integrated into blended-learning settings. - Click along with demo videos, do interactive exercises at different levels, and receive suggestions for stimulating classroom discussions. - Complete the corpus basics in only 2 to 3 hours and the entire package in 10 to 20 hours. - Earn a certificate after the successful completion of the course. - Apply the takeaways to typical language challenges in advanced writing and transfer your skills easily to corpus-based linguistic research. Julia Schlüter and Katharina Deckert (University of Bamberg, Germany), in collaboration with Jürgen Handke (Virtual Linguistics Campus Team, University of Marburg, Germany) Funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (https://stiftung-hochschullehre.de/). P.S.: Corpora in the hands of experts are - for the time being - more reliable than AI tools in cases of doubtful acceptability (e.g. in text correction/proofreading); see the playlist "Corpora vs. AI Tools", https://youtu.be/32tb7Xs7fFw?si=mhiaSyH9oG-1TjxM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Julia Schlüter Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschl. Sprachgeschichte Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg An der Universität 9, Raum U9/01.03 96045 Bamberg Tel. ++49-(0)951-863-2168 (Sekr. -2225) https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/personen/schlueter<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni-ba…> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture and Technology" 2025 - Applications are open
by Elisabeth Burr 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Dear all, We are very happy to let you know that applications to the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture and Technology" 2025 <https://esudh.github.io/> to be held at the university Marie and Louis Pasteur in Besançon (France) from July 21 to August 2 are open from 24 of March up to May 18 via Conftool <https://www.conftool.org/esudh2025/>. The Summer University will last for 11 full days with an intensive programme consisting of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session, and a panel discussion. Each workshop <https://esudh.github.io/WorkshopsandLectures/#workshops> consists of a total of 18 sessions or 36 teaching hours. Building on the spirit of previous editions in Leipzig and Cluj, the ESU in Besançon aims at being a space for interdisciplinary collaboration and opportunities for scholars and students in Humanities and therefore strengthening the community of practice already established in past years. The ESU is sponsored by DARIAH with 12 scholarships <https://esudh.github.io/application/#dariah-scholarships> of 450 Euros each to partially cover the costs of registration and staying in Besançon as well as by CLARIN for the organization of a workshop and of a conference. Besançon, a lively city of around 120 000 inhabitants and more than 25 000 students from all over the world, has a long tradition of teaching French to non-native speakers. Following the two weeks of the ESU, in the month of August, we will offer the possibility to attend for two to four weeks classes of French within the framework of our “French for DH <https://esudh.github.io/esubesancon/#french-for-dh>” programme. For all relevant information please consult ourwebsite <https://esudh.github.io/> which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. To get some insight into what you can expect from the European Summer University please consult the archive section on our website. Looking forward to meeting you in Besançon, The organizers

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Deadline Extension: Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

The proposal submission deadline has been extended to April 14th, 2025. The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025. We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following details: 1. Overview of the proposed task 2. Motivation for the task 3. Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: planned, in progress, or ready) 4. Task Description 5. Pilot Run Details (if available) 6. Tentative Timeline 7. Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation) Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long. Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9 Selection Process The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task. Task Organization Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers. Shared Task Proposal Submission All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). April 14th, 2025: Shared task proposals due *April 28th, 2025**: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance* Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals: Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-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 November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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Final Call: Annual Workshop in Experimental Methods in Language (acquisition) Research (EMLaR) XXI
by laiacolina＠gmail.com 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

*** REGISTER NOW: Hybrid conference on Experimental Methods in Language (acquisition) Research (EMLaR), April 15-17, 2025 - Utrecht University (The Netherlands) *** The Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) of Utrecht University is pleased to announce the 21st edition of EMLaR. This three-day conference will take place from April 15th – 17th 2025 (Tuesday to Thursday) in a hybrid format. The physical location is Utrecht University, in the city center of Utrecht, The Netherlands. EMLaR aims at training PhD students and advanced MA students in experimental methods of language (acquisition) research. Experts in various domains of linguistic research will give lectures and hands-on tutorials, and speakers will give method-oriented talks during plenary sessions. We also provide the opportunity to present your (ongoing) research at the poster session. **Program** Keynote speaker: • Sonja Kotz (Maastricht University) Invited speakers: • Bram van Dijk (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) • Michael Franke (University of Tübingen) • Mieke Slim (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) • Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht University) • Rowena Garcia (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, University of the Philippines) Tutorials: • Automatic Speech Recognition • (non-)Bayesian Informative Hypothesis Evaluation Using JASP and R • Coloring Book – a tool for testing language comprehension with young children • Computational Methods • Event-related Brain Potentials (Introduction) • Event-related Brain Potentials and EEG (Advanced*) • Ethics and Privacy • Eye-tracking • Online experiments for language scientists • Open (your) Science Using the Statistical Package JASP • PRAAT • Probabilistic Models of Pragmatic Reasoning • Research with infants: Tips and tricks • Statistics with R (Introduction) • Statistics with R (Advanced*) • Visual World Paradigm For registration and more details, please visit our website: https://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl/. If you have any questions, please send an email to EMLAR2025(a)uu.nl. We hope to see you there! Kind regards, EMLaR 2025 organization

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Extension of Submission Deadline for NTCIR-19 Task Proposals (New Deadline: April 7th)
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, Apologies for sending multiple messages in a short period of time. After the 2nd Call for NTCIR-19 Task Proposals was sent out two days ago, we received several messages inquiring about the possibility of extending the submission deadline. In order to allow more participants to join and contribute, we have decided to extend the submission deadline by one week — *the new deadline is April 7 (AoE).* We look forward to receiving your proposals. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Best regards, NTCIR-19 Program Co-Chairs Qingyao Ai, Chung-Chi Chen, Shoko Wakamiya * IMPORTANT DATES: *April 7, 2025 (Extended): Task Proposal Submission Due (Anywhere on Earth)*May 15, 2025: Acceptance Notification of Task Proposals June 10-13, 2025: NTCIR-18 Conference (Organizers of accepted tasks have a chance to present their proposed tasks) * SUBMISSION LINK: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal>* * NTCIR-19 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: January 2026: Dataset release* January-June 2026: Dry run* March-July 2026: Formal run* August 1, 2026: Evaluation results return August 1, 2026: Task overview release (draft) September 1, 2026: Submission due of participant papers (draft) November 1, 2026: Camera-ready participant paper due December 2026: NTCIR-19 Conference at NII, Tokyo, Japan (* indicates that the schedule can be different for different tasks) * WHO SHOULD SUBMIT NTCIR-19 TASK PROPOSALS? We invite new task proposals within the expansive field of information access. Organizing an evaluation task entails pinpointing significant research challenges, strategically addressing them through collaboration with fellow researchers (including co-organizers and participants), developing the requisite evaluation framework to propel advancements in the state of the art, and generating a meaningful impact on both the research community and future developments. Prospective applicants are urged to underscore the real-world applicability of their proposed tasks by utilizing authentic data, focusing on practical tasks, and solving tangible problems. Additionally, they should confront challenges in evaluating information access technology, such as the extensive number of assessments needed for evaluation, ensuring privacy while using proprietary data, and conducting live tests with actual users. In the era of large language models (LLMs), these models are anticipated to significantly influence daily human activities. Nonetheless, the content produced by LLMs often exhibits issues, such as hallucinations. NTCIR-19 encourages tasks that focus on the evaluation of the quality of content generated by LLMs continued from NTCIR-18 as well as information access exploiting LLMs, including generative information retrieval (IR), IR using generative queries, conversational search using generated utterances, evaluation using LLM (relevance judgements or language annotation using LLM), and RAG. * PROPOSAL TYPES: We will accept two types of task proposals: - Proposal of a Core task: This is for fostering research on a particular information access problem by providing researchers with a common ground for evaluation. New test collections and evaluation methods may be developed through the collaboration between task organizers (proposers) and task participants. At NTCIR-18, the core tasks are AEOLLM, FairWeb-2, FinArg-2, Lifelog-6, MedNLP-CHAT, RadNLP, and Transfer-2. Details can be found at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html. - Proposal of a Pilot task: This is recommended for organizers who propose to focus on a novel information access problem, and there are uncertainties either in task design or organization. It may focus on a sub-problem of an information access problem and attract a smaller group of participating teams than core tasks. However, it may grow into a core challenging task in the next round of NTCIR. At NTCIR-18, the pilot tasks are HIDDEN-RAD, SUSHI, and U4. Details can be found at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html. Organizers are expected to run their tasks mainly with their own funding and to make the task as self-sustaining as possible. A part of the fund can be supported by NTCIR, which is called "seed funding." It is usually used for some limited purposes such as hiring relevance assessors. The seed funding allocated to each task varies depending on requirements and the number of accepted tasks. Typical cases would be around 1M JPY for a core task and around 0.5M JPY for a pilot task (note that the amount is subject to change). Please submit your task proposal as a PDF file via EasyChair by March 31, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth). https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal * TASK PROPOSAL FORMAT: The proposal should not exceed four pages in A4 single-column format. The first three pages should contain the main part and appendix, and the last page should contain only a description of the data to be used in the task. Please describe the data in as much detail as possible so that we can help your data release process after the proposal is accepted. In the past NTCIRs, it took much time to create memorandums for data release, which sometimes slowed down the task organization. Main part - Task name and short name - Task type (core or pilot) - Abstract - Motivation - Methodology - Expected results Appendix - Names and contact information of the organizers - Prospective participants - Data to be used and/or constructed - Budget planning - Schedule - Other notes Data (to be used in your task) - Details (Please describe the details of the data, which should include the source of the data, methods to collect the data, range of the data, etc.) - License (Please make sure that you have a license to distribute the data, and details of the license should be provided. If you do not have permission to release the data yet, please describe your plan to get the permission.) - Distribution (Please describe how you plan to distribute the data to participants. There are mainly three choices: distributed by the data provider, distributed by organizers, and distributed by NII.) - Legal / Ethical issues (If the data can cause legal or ethical problems, please describe how you propose to address them. e.g., some medical data may need approval from an ethical committee. e.g., some Web data may need filtering for excluding discriminative messages.) If you want NII to distribute your data to task participants on your behalf, please email ntc-admin(a)nii.ac.jp before your task proposal submission attaching the task proposal. * REVIEW CRITERIA: - Importance of the task to the information access community and the society - Timeliness of the task - Organizers’ commitment in ensuring a successful task - Financial sustainability (self-sustainable tasks are encouraged) - Soundness of the evaluation methodology - Detailed description about the data to be used - Language scope * NTCIR-19 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University, China) Chung-Chi Chen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan) * NTCIR-19 GENERAL CHAIRS: Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada) Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - 2nd Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Beyza Yaman 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

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

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[CFP] ACL 2025 - Second Call for System Demonstrations
by ACL Announcements 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

ACL 2025 - Call for System Demonstrations The ACL 2025 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: Natural language processing systems or system components Application systems using language technology components Software tools for natural language processing research Software for demonstration or evaluation Software supporting learning or education Tools for data visualization and annotation Tools for model inspection Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2025 conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at ACL 2025 in Vienna, with an accompanying poster. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program Check the full Call at: https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/ Link to submission system: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo

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2nd CFP: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
by Abzianidze, L. (Lasha) 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: * Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks * Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) * Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R * Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems * Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R * Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R * Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets *(Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks * Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks * Generalization of NLU&R systems * Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu), 4-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany). The submission deadline is 25 April 2025. Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University

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[CfP] IEEE FedCSIS 2025: "Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)"
by Jens Dörpinghaus 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

Dear all, I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a thematic track at FedCSIS 2025 (IEEE #61123) called "AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)". FedCSIS 2025 will be held in Kraków, Poland, 14-17 September 2025. See https://2025.fedcsis.org/thematic/ai-huso for details. This thematic session is dedicated to the computational study of Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for example, education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology, cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and behavioural-science perspectives. While digital methods, intelligence systems, and AI have been emerging topics in these fields for several decades, this thematic session is not only limited to discoveries in these domains, but also dedicated to the reflections of these methods and results within the field of computer science. Thus, we are in particular interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination with a clear focus on computational and AI methods for intelligence systems. Since there is a clear methodological overlap between these three domains and often similar algorithms and AI approaches are considered, we see this thematic session as place for interdisciplinary learning, discussing a joint toolbox as a support for scholars from these field with human and context-aware agents. The aim of this thematic session is thus to bridge the gap between scientific domains, foster interdisciplinary exchange and discuss how research questions from other domains challenge current computer science. In particular, we are interested in communications between researchers from different fields of computer science, social sciences, economics, humanities, and practitioners from different fields. Topics ====== The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research. - AI and computational approaches for linking data from different digital resources, including online social networks, web and data mining, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies. - AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry. - Text encoding, computational linguistics, annotation guidelines, OCR for humanities, economics, and social sciences. - Network analysis, including social and historical network analysis. - Ethical and philosophical considerations of AI in society, education and humanties research In general, the applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not limited to: - Labour market research and qualification, including behavioral-science perspectives. - Education: Digital methods and systems, e-learning, adult education, etc. - Contributions to the application of technology to culture, history, and societal issues: For example, computational text analysis, analytical and visualization, databases, etc. - In particular, we welcome submissions which focus on a critical reflection of digital methods in the humanities, economics and social sciences within computer science. - Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and data protection. Contact: ai-huso(a)fedcsis.org Submission rules ================ - Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files. - The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here. - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area. - Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online. - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. - Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here. - Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS Sessions. Extended versions of selected papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume entitled "Advances in Computational Social Sciences: AI, Computational Methods and Applications for the Study of Society" from Springer.

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ACL 2025 - Second Call for System Demonstrations
by Horacio Saggion 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

-- 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 ACL 2025 - Call for System Demonstrations The ACL 2025 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: - Natural language processing systems or system components - Application systems using language technology components - Software tools for natural language processing research - Software for demonstration or evaluation - Software supporting learning or education - Tools for data visualization and annotation - Tools for model inspection - Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2025 conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at ACL 2025 in Vienna, with an accompanying poster. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program Check the full Call at: https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/ Link to submission system: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo -- 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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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are happy to announce that 1 new phonetic database and 1 new speech corpus are available in our catalogue. *Comprehensive Arabic Phonetic Database <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0493/>* ISLRN: 511-751-240-544-8 <https://islrn.org/resources/511-751-240-544-8/> The Comprehensive Arabic Phonetic Database is a robust and detailed linguistic resource offering both phonemic and phonetic transcriptions, precisely reflecting how Modern Standard Arabic words are realized in actual speech. It is a highly comprehensive and accurate Arabic phonetic/phonemic database, covering over 329,000 entries, including over 61,000 general vocabulary entries, 101,000 Arab personal names, 143,000 foreign personal names in Arabic and 21,000 worldwide place names both Arab and non-Arab. Each entry consists of canonical forms both vocalized and unvocalized (as in natural language) accompanied by phonetic transcriptions in IPA and X-SAMPA and the user-friendly CARS phonemic transcription system. Additionally, unique features include explicit indication of vowel neutralization, accurate word stress, gender and number codes (singular or plural), and POS (part-of-speech) codes. The database is provided in a flat TSV text file. See also the *DiaLEX <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=dialex>* and *ArabLEX <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=arablex>* collections for Arabic from the same provider… *EthioSpeech <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0494/>* ISLRN:886-456-351-764-8 <https://islrn.org/resources/886-456-351-764-8/> EthioSpeech Corpora is comprised of over 391 hours of recorded read speech in six different Ethiopian languages by ca. 200 speakers per language: Amharic (68 hours), Tigrigna (62 hours), Oromo (70 hours), Somali (56 hours), Afar (68 hours), and Sidama (68 hours). The dominating domain is media (mainly newspapers), but for some of the languages texts from different domains were used, including spiritual contents. The recording is made using mobile devices using the LIG-Aikuma speech recording tool that is installed on the devices. The gender and age balance of readers is nearly equal for Amharic, Tigrigna and Oromo, whereas mainly male gender for the other 3 languages. The age distribution is between 18 and 40. 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

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Call for Papers: Identity-Aware AI 2025
by Soda Marem Lo 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware AI Workshop at ECAI 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 25-30. https://ecai2025.org/workshops/ 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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Open advanced research group meeting - today 12pm UK time
by Brezina, Vaclav 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

Dear all, If you are interested in a open discussion about different aspects of corpus linguistics, please join us today at 12pm UK time. The topic is "Repetition and replication". Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka We will also discuss topics that will appear in the research group meetings in the future. 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:image001.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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eLex 2025 - Call for papers - reminder and extended deadline
by Iztok Kosem 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that eLex 2025, the ninth biennial conference on electronic lexicography in the 21st century, will be held in Bled, Slovenia, 18–20 November 2025. We have decided to extend the deadline for abstracts until 7 April 2025. The abstracts should be submitted via Easychair website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=elex2025. Confirmed keynote speakers: Carole Tiberius / Jesse de Does (Dutch Language Institute) Marko Robnik-Šikonja (University of Ljubljana) Michal Měchura (Lexical Computing and Dublin City University) Two workshops have also been confirmed, »Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology« and »CLASSLA-express 2.0 workshop«. More information on keynote talks, workshops, call for papers etc. can be found on the conference website (https://elex.link/elex2025/). Iztok Kosem Head of the organising committee

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New Publication: Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube
by cotgrove＠ids-mannheim.de 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

New Publication! Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube Louis Cotgrove This book explores the vibrant linguistic world of young speakers through their YouTube comments. Combining linguistics, youth language and digitally mediated communication, this study is anchored in the groundbreaking NottDeuYTSch corpus, a collection of over 33 million words taken from YouTube comments spanning a decade (2008-2018). The book examines lexical, morphological, syntactic, and orthographic phenomena through three detailed corpus linguistic case studies. From the development of iconic slang terms to non-standard syntax and the creative use of graphical characters, Abogeil! reveals how young people innovate and reshape language in digital spaces. Essential for linguists, educators and anyone interested in digital youth culture, this work highlights the intersection of language, technology and identity in the 21st century. Open access: https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13056 Order it (for your libraries or personal collection): https://buchshop.ids-mannheim.de/publikationen/amades/042e63b29f0a79101.php What people are saying about Abogeil! "The cover has a big play button on it but when I press it nothing happens" Dr. S. Wolfer (no relation) "What does Abogeil signify? Can you tell me so I don't need to read the book?" F. de Saussure (no relation) "I always want to know what my children are writing online. Now with Abogeil! I understand their messages from seven years ago!" L. Cotgrove (no relation)

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CfP: The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
by Pablo Gamallo 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *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* - Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE) - 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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2nd CFP: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
by Lasha Abzianidze 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks - Generalization of NLU&R systems - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu), 28 July-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany). The submission deadline is 25 April 2025. Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva -- Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor at Utrecht University Institute for Language Sciences

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Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship, The University of Manchester- NLP-Medical LLMs
by Sophia Ananiadou 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

An exciting job opportunity at the University of Manchester for an outstanding researcher in NLP/LLMs. The fellowship is for 5 years and associated with the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence https://www.bhf-cre.manchester.ac.uk/ and the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering. Areas of interest for this post: Development of a Foundation Clinical LLM for the Cardiovascular Domain. Trustworthy, explainable multimodal LLMs for Medicine. Further details about the fellowship and how to apply here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=31702 Deadline of applications: 7th April 2025. ---------- Professor Sophia Ananiadou Department of Computer Science Director, National Centre for Text Mining Deputy Director, Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence ELLIS Fellow sophia.ananiadou(a)manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester

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HealTAC 2025 - extended deadline for contributions (April 4th)
by Bea Alex 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

---------------------------- HealTAC 2025 June 16-18th, 2025, Glasgow (UK) https://healtac2025.github.io/ ---------------------------- 1) Call for contributions – deadline extended to 4 April 2) Keynotes, panels and workshop 3) Registration fees 4) Key dates ---------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Call for contributions - reminder ---------------------------------------- The 8th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2025) invites contributions that address any aspect of healthcare text analytics. We invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts that describe either methodological or application work that has not been previously presented in a conference. Submissions (up to 2 pages) should be prepared based on a template that is available at the conference web site. We also invite PhD and fellowship project submissions that describe ongoing PhD research (any stage) or a planned fellowship application. The conference will provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts. Deadline for all submissions is now April 4th, 2025. As in previous years, there will be a post-conference call to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in Frontiers in Digital Health. ---------------------------- Programme ---------------------------- We are delighted to announce keynotes by Dr Jason Fries from Stanford University and Dr Alison O'Neil from Canon Medical Research, and panels on "Opportunities and challenges in LLMs for health research: social inequalities, bias detection, and mitigation " and "Challenges in AI deployment within NHS" (industry forum). A pre-conference workshop on June 16th will focus on "NLP in mental healthcare and research" (https://healtac2025.github.io/workshop/). ---------------------------- Registration fees ---------------------------- Due to generous support from Health Data Research UK, CogStack, Frontiers, University of Glasgow, Research Data Scotland and Healtex, we will keep the registration fee low as before: an early registration fee for students is £100 and for others £200, and includes the full 3-day programme, lunches and the conference dinner. ---------------------------- Key dates ---------------------------- Deadline for all contributions: April 4th 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 18th 2025 Early-bird registration: by May 16th 2025 Pre-conference workshop: June 16th 2025 Conference: June 17-18th 2025 Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2025 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2025. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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2nd call for papers: 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025)
by heike.zinsmeister＠uni-hamburg.de 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

The 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to TLT 2025: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ ----------------------------- INVITED TALK ----------------------------- Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. SyntaxFest joint submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025 ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * April 15, 2025: Paper submission deadline * June 2, 2025: Notification of acceptance * June 16, 2025: Camera-ready papers due * August 26-29, 2025: SyntaxFest conference (about two workshop days for TLT; attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole SyntaxFest.) All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). ----------------------------- TLT2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- * Sarah Jablotschkin, University of Hamburg * Sandra Kübler, Indiana University * Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg Contact: tlt2025.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html

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Call for Papers: DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
by Fernando Batista 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

============================================================= DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> ============================================================= We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is “Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View“. The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and is proudly sponsored by ISCA. We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025 - Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025 - DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template <https://www.interspeech2025.org/author-resources> (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025>. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers. COMMITTEES Organizers - Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden - Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Publicity Chair - Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Local Organisation - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Scientific Committee - Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain - Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon - Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France - Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA - David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain - David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa - Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy - Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon - Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal - George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece - Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France - Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden - Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany - Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden - João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA - Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany - Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan - Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan - Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France - Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon - Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany - Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland - Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil - Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan - Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal - Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/ <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> Any questions should be directed to: diss2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:diss2025@googlegroups.com> We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event! — The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee

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2nd Call for NTCIR-19 Task Proposals (Due: March 31st, 2025)
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, (Apologize if you received multiple emails from different mailing lists) We are delighted to share the 2nd call for task proposals for NTCIR-19. NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999, and the latest NTCIR-18 conference will be held on June 10-13, 2025. Research teams from all over the world participate in one or more NTCIR tasks to advance the state of the art and to learn from one another's experiences. It is time to call for task proposals for the next NTCIR (NTCIR-19), which will start in September 2025 and conclude in December 2026. Task proposals will be reviewed by the NTCIR Program Committee, and organizers of accepted tasks will have a chance to present their proposed tasks at the NTCIR-18 Conference held in NII, Tokyo, Japan, from June 10-13, 2025. * IMPORTANT DATES: *March 31, 2025: Task Proposal Submission Due (Anywhere on Earth)*May 15, 2025: Acceptance Notification of Task Proposals June 10-13, 2025: NTCIR-18 Conference (Organizers of accepted tasks have a chance to present their proposed tasks) * SUBMISSION LINK: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal>* * NTCIR-19 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: January 2026: Dataset release* January-June 2026: Dry run* March-July 2026: Formal run* August 1, 2026: Evaluation results return August 1, 2026: Task overview release (draft) September 1, 2026: Submission due of participant papers (draft) November 1, 2026: Camera-ready participant paper due December 2026: NTCIR-19 Conference at NII, Tokyo, Japan (* indicates that the schedule can be different for different tasks) * WHO SHOULD SUBMIT NTCIR-19 TASK PROPOSALS? We invite new task proposals within the expansive field of information access. Organizing an evaluation task entails pinpointing significant research challenges, strategically addressing them through collaboration with fellow researchers (including co-organizers and participants), developing the requisite evaluation framework to propel advancements in the state of the art, and generating a meaningful impact on both the research community and future developments. Prospective applicants are urged to underscore the real-world applicability of their proposed tasks by utilizing authentic data, focusing on practical tasks, and solving tangible problems. Additionally, they should confront challenges in evaluating information access technology, such as the extensive number of assessments needed for evaluation, ensuring privacy while using proprietary data, and conducting live tests with actual users. In the era of large language models (LLMs), these models are anticipated to significantly influence daily human activities. Nonetheless, the content produced by LLMs often exhibits issues, such as hallucinations. NTCIR-19 encourages tasks that focus on the evaluation of the quality of content generated by LLMs continued from NTCIR-18 as well as information access exploiting LLMs, including generative information retrieval (IR), IR using generative queries, conversational search using generated utterances, evaluation using LLM (relevance judgements or language annotation using LLM), and RAG. * PROPOSAL TYPES: We will accept two types of task proposals: - Proposal of a Core task: This is for fostering research on a particular information access problem by providing researchers with a common ground for evaluation. New test collections and evaluation methods may be developed through the collaboration between task organizers (proposers) and task participants. At NTCIR-18, the core tasks are AEOLLM, FairWeb-2, FinArg-2, Lifelog-6, MedNLP-CHAT, RadNLP, and Transfer-2. Details can be found at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html. - Proposal of a Pilot task: This is recommended for organizers who propose to focus on a novel information access problem, and there are uncertainties either in task design or organization. It may focus on a sub-problem of an information access problem and attract a smaller group of participating teams than core tasks. However, it may grow into a core challenging task in the next round of NTCIR. At NTCIR-18, the pilot tasks are HIDDEN-RAD, SUSHI, and U4. Details can be found at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html. Organizers are expected to run their tasks mainly with their own funding and to make the task as self-sustaining as possible. A part of the fund can be supported by NTCIR, which is called "seed funding." It is usually used for some limited purposes such as hiring relevance assessors. The seed funding allocated to each task varies depending on requirements and the number of accepted tasks. Typical cases would be around 1M JPY for a core task and around 0.5M JPY for a pilot task (note that the amount is subject to change). Please submit your task proposal as a PDF file via EasyChair by March 31, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth). https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal * TASK PROPOSAL FORMAT: The proposal should not exceed four pages in A4 single-column format. The first three pages should contain the main part and appendix, and the last page should contain only a description of the data to be used in the task. Please describe the data in as much detail as possible so that we can help your data release process after the proposal is accepted. In the past NTCIRs, it took much time to create memorandums for data release, which sometimes slowed down the task organization. Main part - Task name and short name - Task type (core or pilot) - Abstract - Motivation - Methodology - Expected results Appendix - Names and contact information of the organizers - Prospective participants - Data to be used and/or constructed - Budget planning - Schedule - Other notes Data (to be used in your task) - Details (Please describe the details of the data, which should include the source of the data, methods to collect the data, range of the data, etc.) - License (Please make sure that you have a license to distribute the data, and details of the license should be provided. If you do not have permission to release the data yet, please describe your plan to get the permission.) - Distribution (Please describe how you plan to distribute the data to participants. There are mainly three choices: distributed by the data provider, distributed by organizers, and distributed by NII.) - Legal / Ethical issues (If the data can cause legal or ethical problems, please describe how you propose to address them. e.g., some medical data may need approval from an ethical committee. e.g., some Web data may need filtering for excluding discriminative messages.) If you want NII to distribute your data to task participants on your behalf, please email ntc-admin(a)nii.ac.jp before your task proposal submission attaching the task proposal. * REVIEW CRITERIA: - Importance of the task to the information access community and the society - Timeliness of the task - Organizers’ commitment in ensuring a successful task - Financial sustainability (self-sustainable tasks are encouraged) - Soundness of the evaluation methodology - Detailed description about the data to be used - Language scope * NTCIR-19 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University, China) Chung-Chi Chen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan) * NTCIR-19 GENERAL CHAIRS: Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada) Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

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Job opening: Researcher for Computational Literary Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
by Kostik1＠gmx.net 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, applications are invited for a Research Assistant position on research infrastructure for computational literary studies in the Institute for Classical Philology at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany). Contract Type: Fixed-term until 31 October 2026 Applications: https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibung… Salary: €57,708 to €82,023 per annum, depending on qualification and experience We are seeking a Research Assistant to work in Computational Literary Studies, as part of the Daidalos project (funded by the German Research Foundation), which is hosted at Humboldt University Berlin. The Daidalos project (https://daidalos-projekt.de) is building a research infrastructure that enables low-threshold access to computational literary studies methods in classical philology. The aim is to enable anyone who wants to conduct digitally supported research on Latin or Ancient Greek texts to carry out this research on their own corpus using the software. You will be expected to coordinate the project, organize workshops throughout the country, work with the community and help with publications. For these tasks, you will familiarize yourself with Digital Humanities in general, and natural language processing in particular. This is an opportunity to work on an aspiring national research infrastructure for Classics in Germany. The project group is well-known and held in great esteem by the relevant community. The advertised position offers excellent opportunities for publications and conference trips. Candidates must have a master's degree, solid knowledge of Latin or Ancient Greek, and excellent German language proficiency. Experience with digital humanities, user experience design or scientific editorship is a plus. For information questions, please contact Dr. Andrea Beyer (daidalos-projekt(a)hu-berlin.de). Kind regards, Konstantin Schulz

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BioCreative IX Challenge and Workshop CFP: Large Language Models for Clinical and Biomedical NLP at IJCAI
by Islamaj, Rezarta (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

BioCreative IX Challenge and Workshop CFP Large Language Models for Clinical and Biomedical NLP at IJCAI Where, When: The BioCreative IX workshop<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative9> will run with IJCAI 2025<https://2025.ijcai.org/>, August 16-22, 2025, In Montreal, CA. BioCreative IX: The 9th BioCreative workshop seeks to attract researchers interested in developing and evaluating automatic methods of extracting medically relevant information from clinical data and aims to bring together the medical NLP community and the healthcare researchers and practitioners. The challenge tracks explore MedHopQA, a dataset for benchmarking LLM-based reasoning systems with disease-centered question answers, ToxHabits, a task exploring the information extraction related to substance use and abuse in Spanish clinical content, and Sentence segmentation of real clinical notes using MIMIC-II clinical notes. We also will feature paper submissions on relevant topics and poster/tool demonstrations. Important Dates March - April: Team Registration May 12, 2025: Testing predictions, Evaluation results May 19, 2025: Submission of participants papers deadline Jun 06, 2025: Notification of accepted papers deadline Aug 16- Aug 22 2025: IJCAI 2025 Workshop Proceedings and Special Issue: The BioCreative IX Proceedings will host all the submissions from participating teams, and they will be freely available by the time of the workshop. In addition, select papers will be invited for a journal BioCreative IX special issue for work that passes their peer-review process. More details and information to submit will be posted in June. Participation: Teams can participate in one or more of these tracks. Team registration will continue until April 30th, when final commitment is requested. To register a team go to the Registration Form<https://forms.gle/xbQp158cn5pgJ1oj9>. If you have restrictions accessing Google forms please send e-mail to BiocreativeChallenge(a)gmail.com. Call for Papers We welcome submissions on work that describes research on similar topics to the three challenges, as well as: * Development of benchmarking datasets for clinical NLP * Creating and evaluating synthetic data using LLMs and its impact for downstream tasks * Creative use of data augmentation for increasing tool accuracy and trustworthiness * Use of LLMs to streamline annotation tasks * NLP-systems capable of identifying entities in multilingual corpora * NLP-systems capable of semantic interoperability across different terminologies/ ontologies for efficient data curation * Integrating ontologies and knowledge bases for factual LLM production * Annotated corpora and other resources for health care and biomedical data modelling All submissions will be considered for poster presentations and tool demonstrations at the workshop. BioCreative IX Tracks: Track 1: MedHopQA Large language models (LLMs) are commonly evaluated on their capabilities to answer questions in various domains, and it has become clear that robust QA datasets are critical to ensure proper evaluation of LLMs prior to their deployment in real-world biomedical or healthcare related applications. This track aims to advance the development of LLM-based systems that are capable of answering questions that involve multi-step reasoning. We have created a resource consisting of 1,000 question-answer pairs - focusing on diseases, genes and chemicals, mostly pertaining to rare diseases - based on public information in Wikipedia. The participants are encouraged to use any training data they wish to design and develop their NLP system agents that understand asserted information on genes, diseases, chemicals etc. and are able to answer multi-step reasoning questions involving such information. This track builds on the previous success in biomedical QA benchmarking (e.g., PubMedQA and BioASQ, MedQA) but differs from them in the fact that for MedHopQA it is necessary to employ a multi-step reasoning process to find the correct answer. Track 3: ToxHabits There is a pressing need to extract information related to substance use and abuse more systematically, including not only smoking and alcohol abuse but also other harmful drugs and substances from clinical content. These toxic habits have a considerable health impact on a variety of medical conditions and also affect the action of prescribed medications. To make such information actionable, it is critical to not only detect instances of consumption, but also to characterize certain aspects related to it, such as duration or mode of administration. Some initial efforts have been made to automatically detect social determinants of health, including smoking status, for content in English, but very limited efforts have been made for content in other languages. Therefore, we propose the ToxHabits track to address the automatic extraction of substance use and abuse information from clinical cases in Spanish. This task will consist of three subtasks: (a) toxic habit mention recognition, (b) detection of relevant clinical modifiers related to substance abuse, as well as (c) toxic habit condition QA challenge. Track 2: Sentence segmentation of real-life clinical notes Sentence segmentation is a fundamental linguistic task and is widely used as a pre-processing step in many NLP tasks. Although the development of LLMs and the sparse attention mechanism in transformer networks have reduced the necessity of sentence level inputs in some NLP tasks, many models are designed and tested only for shorter sequences. The need for sentence segmentation is particularly pronounced in clinical notes, as most clinical NLP tasks depend on this information for annotation and model training. In this shared task, we challenge participants to detect sentence boundaries (spans) for MIMIC-III clinical notes, where fragmented and incomplete sentences, complex graphemic devices (e.g. abbreviations, and acronyms), and markups are common. To encourage generalizability to multi-domain texts, participants will receive annotated texts from newswire articles and biomedical literature, in addition to clinical notes, for model development and evaluation. Organizing Committee * Dr. Rezarta Islamaj, National Library of Medicine * Dr. Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center * Dr. Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Dr. Zhiyong Lu, National Library of Medicine ---------------------------------------------------------- Rezarta Islamaj National Library of Medicine Rezarta.Islamaj(a)nih.gov<mailto:Rezarta.Islamaj@nih.gov>

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Call for papers: LLMSEC 2025
by Leon Derczynski 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

LLMSEC 2025 URL: https://sig.llmsecurity.net/workshop/ Direct submission deadline: April 15, 2025 LLMSEC is an academic event publishing & presenting work on adversarially-induced failure modes of large language models, the conditions that lead to them, and their mitigations. Date: Aug 1, 2025 Location: Vienna, Austria Co-located with ACL 2025 as a workshop Scope Large Language Models accept a variety of inputs and produce a variety of outputs. It is possible to find inputs that lead to LLM outputs that model creators, owners, or users do not want. Defining and enumerating this space is an open task. We describe LLM security as the field of investigating how models that process text can, by an adversary, be made to behave in unintended and harmful ways. %The field covers both weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Research at LLMSEC includes the entire life cycle of LLMs, from training data through fine-tuning and alignment over to inference-time. It also covers deployment context of LLMs, including risk assessment, release decisions, and use of LLMs in agent-based systems. Event scope is LLM attacks, LLM defence, and the contextualisation of LLM security. LLM attacks are anything that causes LLMs to behave in an unexpected/unintended manner usable by an adversary. In the LLM life cycle, this includes techniques like data poisoning and other model supply chain attacks, as well as the adversarial inputs that yield insecure outputs. Topics include: Adversarial attacks on LLMs Automated and adaptive LLM attacks Data poisoning Data extraction from trained models Defining LLM vulnerabilities Detection of adversarial LLM inputs Ethical aspects of LLM security Legal impacts and debates related to model security LLM Denial-of-service LLM security measurement LLM supply chain attacks Model input/output guardrails Model inversion Model policy Multi-modal and cross-model models (e.g. vision&text-to-text, text-to-speech, speech-to-text) Organising model exploits Organising model failure modes Practical tools for exploiting LLMs Privacy breaches mediated by LLM Privilege escalation and lateral movement mediated by LLMs Prompt injection Proofs-of-concept of LLM exploits Red teaming of LLMs Retrieval Augmented Generation security Secure LLM use and deployment Keynotes 1. Johannes Bjerva, Aalborg University (Denmark). Prof. Bjerva’s research is characterised by an interdisciplinary perspective on NLP, with a focus on the potential for impact in society. His main contributions to my field are to incorporate linguistic information into NLP, including large language models (LLMs), and to improve the state of resource-poor languages. Recent research focuses on embedding inversion and attacks on multi-modal models. 2. Erick Galinkin, NVIDIA Corporation (USA). Erick Galinkin is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA working on the security assessment and protection of large language models. Previously, he led the AI research team at Rapid7 and has extensive experience working in the cybersecurity space. He is an alumnus of Johns Hopkins University and holds degrees in applied mathematics and computer science. Outside of his work, Erick is a lifelong student, currently at Drexel University and is renowned for his ability to be around equestrians. 3. TBA Submission formats Submissions must be anonymised & de-identified following ACL policy, and in the ACL template. Long & Short papers We invite both short and long papers; short papers with a 4 page limit, long papers with an 8 page limit, with references, ethics statements, & other compulsory sections not subjected to this limit. Qualitative work As a relatively new field, still engaged in sense-making of the context of this research, we particularly welcome rigorous qualitative work, and work that provides novel information about LLMSEC practice and context. War stories Following cybersecurity tradition, LLMSEC also welcomes “war stories”, that is, accounts of security investigations or operations that are informative to broader audiences. These are intended to connect researchers and practitioners; LLM security is highly interdisciplinary and we have a lot to share with each other. War story submissions need not provide novel quantitative empirical results, but should be illuminating and helpful to the workshop audience. They may be up to four pages, with references, appendices, and compulsory sections excluded from the limit Submission link Submit via softconf: https://softconf.com/acl2025/llmsec2025/ Important Dates Direct submission deadline: April 15, 2025 Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2025 Camera-ready paper deadline: June 16, 2025 Pre-recorded video due: July 5, 2025 Workshop dates: July 31st / August 1st 2025 TZ: Anywhere on earth Organisation Leon Derczynski. Principal Scientist in LLM Security at NVIDIA Corporation, Associate Professor in NLP at ITU University of Copenhagen, President of ACL SIGSEC. https://www.linkedin.com/in/leon-derczynski/ Jekaterina Novikova. Science Lead at the AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance (ARVA), Expert Advisor of ACL SIGSEC. https://jeknov.github.io/ Muhao Chen. Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Uuniversity of California, Davis, Secretary of ACL SIGSEC. Prof Chen has considerable organisational and service experience, including SAC and AC at NAACL, ACL, EMNLP, and AAAI, and co-chairing workshops at NAACL 2022 and AKBC 2022. https://muhaochen.github.io/

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Call-for-Participation: TalentCLEF Shared Task (CLEF) - Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
by Luis Gasco 23 Mar '25

23 Mar '25

(* apologies for cross-posting *) Call for Participation TalentCLEF Shared Task (CLEF 2025) Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ TalentCLEF is an initiative to advance Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Human Capital Management (HCM). It aims to create a public benchmark for model evaluation and promote collaboration to develop fair, multilingual, and flexible systems that improve Human Resources (HR) practices across different industries. Key information: - Web: https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ - Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14002665 - Registration: https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ Motivation In today’s rapidly changing socio-technological landscape, industries and workplaces are transforming quickly. Technological advancements, such as task automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI), are reshaping the labor market by creating new roles that demand specialized skills, often difficult to source. The rise of remote hiring, fueled by technological innovation, has expanded the labor market to a global and multilingual scale. Simultaneously, social progress is narrowing ethnic and gender disparities within companies, fostering more inclusive workplaces. Integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP) into Human Capital Management (HCM) enhances key areas such as sourcing and hiring, onboarding and training, strategic workforce planning, and career development. Despite these benefits, challenges persist in managing multilingual information, ensuring fair AI models, and developing systems flexible enough to work across industries. The TalentCLEF organizers expect that participation in the shared task will contribute to establishing a public benchmark for multilingual job title matching and skill prediction, enabling the evaluation and comparison of different approaches. This initiative will also provide a foundation for measuring gender bias in job-related NLP tasks and lay the groundwork for future benchmarks in other areas of Human Capital Management, fostering fairness, transparency, and adaptability in AI-driven workforce analysis. The inaugural TalentCLEF shared-task aims to tackle these challenges through two key tasks: - Task A - Multilingual Job Title Matching: Participants will develop systems to identify and rank job titles most similar to a given one. For each job title in a test set, systems must generate a ranked list of similar titles from a predefined knowledge base. Evaluation will be conducted in English, Spanish, German, and Chinese, covering both monolingual and cross-lingual (between English and the other languages) matching. - Task B - Job Title-Based Skill Prediction: This task focuses on retrieving relevant skills associated with a given job title. Participants will develop systems that predict and extract key skills based on job titles. The evaluation will be conducted in English. Schedule - 20th January 2025 - Training data available for Tasks A and B - 17th February 2025 – Start of Task A with the release of the development data - 17th March 2025 – Start of Task B with the release of the development data - 21st April 2025 – Test set release - 21st April - 5th May 2025 – Evaluation period of Task A and B - 7th May 2025 – Publication of Official Results - 30th May 2025 – Submission of CLEF 2025 Participant Working Notes (CEUR-WS) - 27th June 2025 - Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers Publications and CLEF 2025 workshop Teams participating in TalentCLEF will be invited to submit a system description paper for the CLEF 2025 Working Notes proceedings, published on CEUR-WS. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to present a brief overview of their approach at the CLEF 2025 workshop, which will take place in Madrid, Spain, from September 9th to 12th, 2025. Main Organizers - Luis Gascó, Avature, Spain - Hermenegildo Fabregat, Avature, Spain - Laura García-Sardiña, Avature, Spain - Daniel Deniz Cerpa, Avature, Spain - Paula Estrella, Avature, Spain - Álvaro Rodrigo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain - Rabih Zbib, Avature, Spain Scientific Committee - Eneko Agirre - Full Professor of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU - ACL Fellow - David Camacho - Full Professor of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) - Debora Nozza - Assistant Professor of Bocconi University - Jens-Joris Decorte - Lead AI Scientist at TechWolf - David Graus - Lead Data Scientist at Randstad Group - Mesutt Kayaa - Postdoctoral Researcher at Jobindex A/S and IT University Copenhagen - Jan Luts - Senior Data Scientist at NTT Data & ESCO - Elena Montiel-Ponsoda - Professor at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) - AI4Labour project - Javier Huertas Tato - Assistant Professor of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) - Patricia Martín Chozas - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ontology Engineering Group (UPM) - AI4Labour project

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2nd Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 22 Mar '25

22 Mar '25

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025. We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following details: 1. Overview of the proposed task 2. Motivation for the task 3. Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: planned, in progress, or ready) 4. Task Description 5. Pilot Run Details (if available) 6. Tentative Timeline 7. Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation) Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long. Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9 Selection Process The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task. Task Organization Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers. Shared Task Proposal Submission All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). April 6th, 2025: Shared task proposals due April 20th, 2025: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals: Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-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 November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab -- 3rd Call for Participation
by Wajdi Zaghouani 22 Mar '25

22 Mar '25

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We invite you to participate in the 2025 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025. This year, we feature four tasks ---one follow-up and three new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Subjectivity in news articles. to spot text that should be processed with specific strategies; benefiting the fact-checking pipeline. Available in Arabic, English, Bulgarian, German, Italian, and Multilingual. Task 2 Claim Normalization. to simplify the primary claim made in the social media post into a concise form. This task is offered in 20 languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, German, Greek, French, Hindi, Korean, Marathi, Indonesian, Dutch, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai. Task 3 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims. to verify claims with numerical quantities and temporal expressions. Available in Arabic, English and Spanish. Task 4 Scientific Web Discourse Processing (SciWeb). to (a) classify different forms of science-related online discourse and (b) retrieve the scientific paper that serves as the source for the claim from a given pool of candidate scientific papers. Available in English. Register and participate: https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2025-checkthat-lab Important Dates --------------------- - November 2024: Lab registration opens - December 2024: Release of the training materials - 25 April 2025: Lab registration closes - 30 April 2025: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 10 May 2025 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 30 May 2025: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 30 May – 27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers - 9 June 2025: Submission of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] - 16 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] - 23 June 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] due - 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] - 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Participant Papers and Extended Lab Overviews [CEUR-WS] due - 21-25 July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organizers - 9-12 September 2025: CLEF 2025 Conference in Madrid, Spain Best regards, The CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: 4 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. * Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. * Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. * Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - Last Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Kossi Amouzouvi 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

20 Mar '25

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

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Reminder: 3-year postdoc position in NLP at the University of Oslo
by Lilja Øvrelid 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Reminder that the closing date for this position is April 4th. A position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing is available within MediaFutures:Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation at the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The closing date is April 4th. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276909/postdoctoral-research… Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, Lilja

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PROFE 2025 @ IberLEF 2025 - Second Call for Participation (Development data available)
by ALVARO RODRIGO YUSTE 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

<Apologies for cross-postings> ------------------------------------------------ Call for Participation PROFE 2025: Language Proficiency Evaluation IberLEF 2025 Shared Task https://nlp.uned.es/question-answering/profe2025 PROFE 2025 reuses the exams for Spanish proficiency evaluation developed by Instituto Cervantes over many years to evaluate human students. Therefore, automatic systems will be evaluated under the same conditions as humans were. Systems will receive a set of exercises with their corresponding instructions without specific training material. In this way we expect Transfer Learning approaches or the use of Generative Large Language Models. Subtasks PROFE 2025 has three subtasks, one per exercise type. Teams can participate in any combination of them. Each subtask contains several exercises of the same type. The subtasks are: 1. Multiple choice subtask: each exercise includes a text and a set of multiple-choice questions about the text where only one answer is correct. Given a multiple-choice question, systems must select the correct answer among the candidates. 2. Matching subtask: each exercise contains two sets of texts. Systems must find the text in the second set that best matches the first set. There is only one possible matching per text, but the first set can contain extra unnecessary texts. 3. Filling the gap subtask: each exercise contains a text with several gaps corresponding to textual fragments that have been removed and presented disorderly as options. Systems must determine the correct position for each fragment. There is only one correct text per gap, but there could be more candidates than gaps. The different exercises open research on how to approach them, adapting different prompts when using generative models. Dataset We will use the IC-UNED-RC-ES dataset created from real examinations at Instituto Cervantes. These exams were created by human experts to assess language proficiency in Spanish. We have already collected the exams and converted them to a digital format, which is ready to be used in the task. The dataset contains exams at different levels (from A1 to C2). The complete dataset contains 282 exams with 855 exercises. The total number of evaluation points are 6146 (among 16570 options) distributed by exercise type as: multiple-choice: 3544 responses matching: 2309 responses fill-the-gap: 293 responses In PROFE 2025 we plan to use around 50% of the exams, so the other 50% remains hidden for PROFE second edition. We intend not to distribute the gold standard to prevent overfitting in post-campaign experiments and data contamination in LLMs. Evaluation measures and baseline We will use traditional accuracy (proportion of correct answers) as the main evaluation measure. Systems will receive evaluation scores from two different perspectives: * At the question level, where correct answers are counted individually without grouping them. * At the exam level, where scores for each exam are considered. Each exam contains several exercises of different types. An exam is considered to be passed if an accuracy score (accounted as the proportion of correct answers) above 0.5 is reached. Then, the proportion of passed exams is given as a global score. This perspective will only apply to those teams participating in the three subtasks. More in detail, the exact evaluation per subtask is as follows: * Multiple choice subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of questions correctly answered * Matching subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of correct texts matched. * Fill in the gap subtask: We will measure accuracy as the proportion of correctly filled gaps. We will use accuracy as the evaluation measure because there is only one correct option among candidates and because it is the measure applied to humans doing the same exams. Thus, we can compare the performance of automatic systems and humans under the same conditions A preliminary baseline using ChatGPT obtains the following results for each exercise type (provided that different prompting can produce slightly different results): * Multiple choice accuracy: 0.64 * Filling the gap accuracy: 0.43 * Matching accuracy: 0.51 Schedule February 6, 2025 Registration opens March 10, 2025 Training data released April 28, 2025 Test set release May 9, 2025 Deadline for submitting runs May 14, 2025 Release of evaluation results June 3, 2025 Paper submission deadline Organizers Alvaro Rodrigo<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alvaro-rodrigo-yuste.h…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Anselmo Peñas<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/anselmo-penas-padilla.…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Alberto Pérez<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alberto-perez-garcia-p…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Sergio Moreno<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/en/informatica/sergio-moreno-alvar…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Javier Fruns, Instituto Cervantes Inés Soria, Instituto Cervantes Rodrigo Agerri<https://ragerri.github.io/>, HiTz (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU) AVISO LEGAL. 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Call for Abstracts Open – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Call for Abstracts Now Open – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now 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 15, 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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Leverhulme Doctoral Training Network in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA)
by Constantin Orasan 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Dear all, We are delighted to share that we are actively recruiting for our 2025/2026 PhD cohort for the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Network for AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA). There are fully funded scholarships available for 2025/26 and we invite proposals for innovative and original projects with a focus on improving digital accessibility through different forms of linguistic and cross-modal mediation, and drawing on responsible and ethical uses of AI, under 6 themes: 1. AI for Audiovisual Accessibility Exploring AI-enabled solutions for converting audiovisual content into accessible formats, such as audio description for people with sight loss and other audiences. 2. AI for Speech-to-Text Accessibility Advancing automatic speech recognition and related technologies to improve real-time and post-production accessibility of speech content for different use cases. 3. AI for Text Simplification and Comprehension Investigating how AI can enhance text accessibility by simplifying complex language, improving readability, and adapting content for diverse users, including neurodiverse users. 4. AI for Cross-Language Accessibility Developing AI-powered tools for multilingual accessibility through translation, interlingual subtitles and interpreting to support global content reach and inclusivity. 5. AI-Enhanced Assistive Communication Technologies Creating AI-enabled assistive tools, such as voice assistants and chatbots to improve user experiences for diverse users across digital platforms. 6. AI for Personalising Accessible Communication Developing novel methods for tailoring digital accessibility solutions to individual user preferences and needs while ensuring ethical AI practices. For more information on these themes and details on how to apply, please follow this link https://www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-funding/studentships/leverhulme-doctoral-…. The deadline for applications is 7 April 2025. --- 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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second CFP: The First Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
by Neele Falk 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

***SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: The First Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) *** NLPSI will be co-located with the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’25) and will take place in person on Monday 23 June 2025. ** Background and Scope ** Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled not only the modeling of syntax and semantics but also the analysis of higher-level aspects of human communication—such as pragmatics, social dynamics, and emotional expression. Building on these advances, we can now address foundational questions that remain relatively unexplored in NLP: What are the core psychological processes that shape human behavior and communication? What factors influence how individuals perceive, process, and produce language, and how do these processes impact communication? Psychology can offer valuable insights into these questions, as it has been studying human behavior, perception and communication for years. At the same time, NLP enables us to go beyond controlled, small-scale experiments and conduct large-scale studies to better explore certain theories and research questions in psychology. NLPSI workshop seeks to bridge the two disciplines with a primary focus on NLP research that is grounded in psychological theories. This is an interdisciplinary workshop, and we invite researchers from NLP, Social Psychology, Communication Sciences, Affective Computing, and related fields to submit their work. We welcome submissions on topics including, but not restricted to, the following: - Psychological constructs (e.g., beliefs, motives, feelings, affect, personality). - Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction. - Language and social identities, including ethnicity and group affiliation. - Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict resolution - Role of emotions in interpersonal communication, including phenomena like emotion contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation. - LLMs in experimental, interactional studies. - Cross-cultural variations in communication and behavior. ** Submission Types ** - Long papers (5 to 8 pages) that present original research, from preliminary findings to established contributions, including theory, experiments, or applications. - Short papers (up to 4 pages) that introduce emerging ideas, work in progress, or early-stage research with clear significance. - Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages)that present ongoing work, position papers, previously published work, or research projects. Abstracts can be submitted either for inclusion in the proceedings (archival) or as non-archival contributions. ** Format ** All papers must follow the AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts (available templates: AAAI 2025 Author Kit on Overleaf or AAAI 2025 Author Kit.zip [Word | LaTeX]). The review process will be double-blind. Please anonymize your papers by removing identifying information such as author names, affiliations, and funding details. ** Important Dates ** Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2025 Camera ready: May 26, 2025 NLPSI Workshop day: June 23rd, 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth). ** Organizers ** Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Bamberg Sofie Labat, Ghent University Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Véronique Hoste, Ghent University ** Website and Contact ** For further information and updates, visit the NLPSI website: nlpsi-workshop.github.io If you have any questions, please contact nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de

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SEPLN2025 - Ampliación de fecha límite- Submission Deadline Extension
by jipatsaa＠si.ehu.es 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

[Spanish version below] SEPLN 2025: XLI International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing Zaragoza, Spain September 23-26, 2025 https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/home/ Extension of deadline for submission of articles: April 6th , 2025 Note for submission: The SEPLN 2025 Congress will accept three types of papers: (1) scientific contributions, (2) research project summaries, and (3) descriptive papers on system demonstrations. You have to press the button "SEPLN 2024 Final Sumisión" of openReview. PROJECTS AND DEMOS: There is a single submission procedure in OpenReview for regular papers, projects, and demos, although the publication requirements are different. Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** Call for papers for issue 75 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2023 JCR index (JIF: 1.2, JCI: 0.39, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2023 SJR: 0.677, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2023 CiteScore: 5.4) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 2.07 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics ● NLP for low-resource languages ● Efficient and sustainable NLP methods ● Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP ● Trustworthy and explainability in NLP ● Security and privacy in NLP ● Text and Multimodal Generation ● Language Modeling ● Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision ● Knowledge and common sense ● Computational lexicography and terminology ● Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics ● Morphological and Syntactic analysis ● Corpus linguistics ● Development of linguistic resources and tools ● Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse ● Machine translation ● Speech synthesis and recognition ● Audio indexing and retrieval ● Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants ● Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval ● Question answering systems ● Automatic textual content analysis ● Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining ● Plagiarism detection ● Negation and speculation processing ● Text summarization ● Text simplification ● Image retrieval ● NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education…) Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by April 6th, 2025, and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers ● Regular papers with original contributions. ● Research projects and demos Information for Authors The proposals of regular papers with original contributions can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. The papers must include the following sections: ● The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). ● An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). ● A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). ● The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines. The summaries of ongoing research projects must include the following information: ● Project title. ● Author name, affiliation and contact information. The review of this kind of paper is not blind review. ● Funding institutions. ● Research Groups participating in the project. ● Language: English. We will not accept research project summaries in Spanish or other languages. ● An abstract of a maximum of 150 words and a list of keywords. ● Minimum length: 5 A4-size pages. ● Maximum length: 6 A4-size pages (including references). System demonstration papers must be related to NLP applications, and they must describe the technical details and the NLP components used or developed. The paper must be written in English, the minimum length of the paper must be 5 A4-size pages and the maximum length is 6 A4-size pages of content with the references included. The research project summaries and the system demonstration papers will be published on the CEUR Workshop Proceedings platform, which is widely known by the computer science research community. Accordingly, the paper format must be in accordance with the CEUR template. We have adapted the CEUR Latex Template to SEPLN 2025 and you can download it here (LaTeX, Word). Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates ● Submission deadline: April 6th, 2025 ● Notification of acceptance: May 30th, 2025 ● Camera ready: June 6th, 2025 ● Publication: September 2025 ● Congress: September 23-26, 2025 For all general enquiries, please contact: sepln2025(a)ita.es. All information related to the congress can be found at: https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/home/ Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPLN 2025: XLI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural Zaragoza, España Septiembre 23-26, 2025 https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/inicio/ Ampliación de plazo para envío de artículos: 6 de abril de 2025 Notas para envío: El Congreso SEPLN 2025 aceptará tres tipos de artículos: (1) contribuciones científicas, (2) resúmenes de proyectos de investigación y (3) artículos descriptivos de demostraciones de sistemas. Debes presionar el botón "SEPLN 2024 Final Sumisión" para el envío. ACLARACIÓN IMPORTANTE PARA PROYECTOS Y DEMOS: Existe un procedimiento de envío único en Openreview para artículos regulares, proyectos y demos, aunque los requisitos de publicación son diferentes. ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 75. http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2023 (JIF: 1.2, JCI: 0.39, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (2023 SJR: 0.677, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (2023 CiteScore: 5.4) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 2,07 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas ● PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados ● Diversidad y PNL para lenguas de bajos recursos ● Métodos de PNL eficientes y sostenibles ● LLM: Diseño, Creación, Evaluación ● Ética, Sesgo y Equidad en la PNL ● PNL veraz y explicable ● Seguridad y Privacidad en PNL ● Generación Texto y Multimodal ● Modelos de Lenguaje ● Multimodalidad y fundamento del lenguaje para la visión ● Conocimiento y sentido común ● Teorías lingüísticas, modelado cognitivo y psicolingüística ● Análisis Morfológico y Sintáctico ● Lingüística de corpus ● Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas ● Semántica, pragmática y discurso ● Traducción automática ● Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla ● Indexación y recuperación de Audio ● Sistemas de diálogo y sistemas interactivos/Asistentes conversacionales ● Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe ● Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas ● Análisis automático de contenido textual ● Análisis de opiniones, emociones y minería de la argumentación ● Detección de plagio ● Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación ● Resumen automático de texto ● Simplificación de texto ● Recuperación de imágenes ● PLN especifico al dominio (Medico, Jurídico-administrativo, Educación, etc.) Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite ampliada del 6 de abril de 2025. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema OpenReview. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos ● Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. ● Proyectos de investigación y demostraciones. Instrucciones para los Autores Las propuestas de artículos sobre contribuciones originales pueden estar escritas en español o en inglés, y deben tener un máximo de 10 páginas de contenido de tamaño A4, más páginas ilimitadas para referencias. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: ● El título del artículo (en inglés y español). ● Un resumen en inglés y español (máximo de 150 palabras). ● Un listado de palabras clave o temas relacionados (en inglés y español). ● Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. Recomendamos utilizar las plantillas LaTeX y Word que pueden descargarse de la web de la SEPLN (las directrices para los autores han sido actualizadas): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Los resúmenes de los proyectos de investigación en curso deben incluir la siguiente información: ● Título del proyecto. ● Nombre del autor, afiliación e información de contacto. La revisión de este tipo de trabajos no es una revisión ciega. ● Instituciones financiadoras. ● Grupos de investigación participantes en el proyecto. ● Idioma: inglés. No se aceptarán resúmenes de proyectos de investigación en español u otros idiomas. ● Un resumen de un máximo de 150 palabras y una lista de palabras clave. ● Extensión mínima: 5 páginas tamaño A4. ● Extensión máxima: 6 páginas tamaño A4 (incluidas las referencias). Los trabajos de demostración de sistemas deben estar relacionados con aplicaciones de PNL y deben describir los detalles técnicos y los componentes de PNL utilizados o desarrollados. Las ponencias deberán estar escritas en inglés, tener una extensión mínima de 5 páginas tamaño A4 y una extensión máxima de 6 páginas tamaño A4 de contenido con las referencias incluidas. Los resúmenes de los proyectos de investigación y los trabajos de demostración de los sistemas se publicarán en la plataforma CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ampliamente conocida por la comunidad investigadora en informática. En consecuencia, el formato de las ponencias debe ajustarse a la plantilla CEUR. Hemos adaptado la plantilla CEUR Latex a SEPLN 2025 y puede descargarla aquí (LaTeX, Word). Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes ● Envío de trabajos: 6 de abril 2025 ● Notificación de aceptación/rechazo: 30 de mayo 2025 ● Versión final: 6 de junio de 2025 ● Publicación: Septiembre de 2025 ● Congreso: Septiembre 23-26, 2025 Para cualquier consulta general, diríjase a: sepln2025(a)ita.es. Toda la información relacionada con el congreso puede encontrarse en: https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/home/ Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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SEPLN 24rd EDITION OF THE BEST DOCTORAL AWARD
by jipatsaa＠si.ehu.es 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

EDICIÓN XXIV PREMIO SEPLN A LA MEJOR TESIS DOCTORAL EN PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL [Plazo de presentación: 4 de mayo de 2025] La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural convoca la Edición XXIV del Premio SEPLN a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, que se regirá por las siguientes bases: La finalidad de este premio es la promoción y divulgación de la investigación en el campo del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. La tesis será premiada con una computadora portátil compacta (tablet) y 300€ para la asistencia al congreso. Se dará entrega del premio en el 41 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (< span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">SEPLN 2025), tras una breve presentación del trabajo premiado por parte del autor. Para poder concursar, el autor de la tesis doctoral debe ser socio de la SEPLN en el momento de presentar el trabajo. Ninguna persona concursante podrá participar como autora en más de un trabajo. Se podrán presentar a concurso tesis doctorales leídas durante el año 2024, escritas en una lengua del Estado español o en lengua inglesa. Además de la tesis completa, es imprescindible enviar: Un breve resumen de 4 páginas donde claramente se indique el tema y la relevancia de la investigación, los objetivos, métodos, resultados alcanzados y contribuciones. Una breve descripción de la trayectoria científica del autor de la tesis, en la que se describa la participación en actividades científicas como organización de de tareas competitivas, congresos, generación de recursos open access como conjuntos de datos, modelos de lenguaje, etc, y participación en proyectos, contratos, y/o patentes. La calidad de la presentación, la corrección técnica y metodológica, la relevancia, originalidad, la generación, evaluación y publicación de recursos, así como la trayectoria investigadora durante el periodo predoctoral serán los criterios empleados para la adjudicación del premio por parte del jurado. Los trabajos se enviarán a través de la web de la revista de la Sociedad (http://journal.sepln.org) en formato PDF antes del 4 de mayo de 2025. La resolución del premio se comunicará durante el 41 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2025). Documento con las instrucciones (aquí) Para más información dirigirse a aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus 24rd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING [Submission deadline: May 4th, 2025] The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 24rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing, which will be governed by the following bases: The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing. The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and 300€ grant to help cover the cost of attending the conference. The award will be presented at the 41th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2025), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author. In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as an author in more than one work. Doctoral theses read during the year 2024, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition. In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send: a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions. a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents. The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury. The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 4th 2025. The final decision will be communicated during the 41th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2025). Submission instructions (here)

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2nd CfP R2CASS2025 at ICWSM 2025
by taimoor.nlp＠gmail.com 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, We invite research contributions to our workshop, focusing on reproducible and reusable computational models for social data analysis. The event will also feature an interactive replicability session to enhance hands-on learning and collaboration. Please feel free to share with those interested in your network. Keynote: Professor Carole Goble, University of Manchester (leading eScience Research Lab) Call for papers: R2CASS2025 – International workshop “Social Science Meets Web Data: Reproducible and Reusable Computational Approaches” at ICWSM 2025 Paper submission deadline: March 31st, 2025 Website: https://r2cass2025.wordpress.com/ Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=r2ca The first international workshop “Social Science Meets web Data: Reproducible and Reusable Computational Approaches” (R2CASS2025) will be held in conjunction with “International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media” (ICWSM 2025) in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 23rd, 2025. The workshop will be held in-person and at least one author of the accepted papers will be required to register and present it in the workshop. The papers presented will be published in the workshop proceedings of the conference. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based models have a growing influence in social science research for analyzing behavioral patterns on social media and other digital platforms. Computational reproducibility has been a concern with these models as they deal with living data that is likely to change, contain personal information and therefore, ethical restrictions on their use. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and exchange ideas towards potential interdisciplinary collaborations from computer science, social science, meta-science and other related disciplines. It provides a platform to present and critically analyze computational reproducibility guidelines and checklists for social sciences. The participants will focus on the open challenges and propose methodologies in computational reproducibility for social science towards improving research transparency, reproducibility, and reusability. Workshop participants are also encouraged to volunteer for and participate in the interactive replicability session attempting to replicate existing methods on sample data. (for participation in the interactive replicability session, please contact the workshop organizers at https://r2cass2025.wordpress.com/contact-2/) The workshop calls for theoretical and practical research contributions that employ qualitative, quantitative and analytical approaches including full papers, short papers, resource papers, position papers and posters on the topics (but not limited to): • Data and software management in machine learning and natural language processing-driven studies • Computational methods on sentiment analysis, bias analysis, toxicity, and sexism detection • Text categorization and topic analysis • Digital behavior analysis on social media and other digital platforms • Computational reproducibility checklists and workflows in social science • FAIR principles in ML research for social science • Open Science applications and reproducibility challenges • Metadata standards for ML/NLP research • Tools for replicating complex social science models using web-based data • Integration of open-source ML/NLP tools for web data analysis Submission guidelines As per AAAI-ICWSM guidelines, all papers must be submitted as high-resolution PDF files formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US Letter (8.5” x 11”) paper. Full papers are recommended to be 8 pages long and must be at most 11 pages long, including only the main text and the references. The mandatory Ethics Checklist (and brief additional Ethics Statement, if desired, see below), optional appendices, etc. do not count toward the page limit and should be placed after the references. Appendices, if they exist, should be placed after the Ethics Checklist. Revision papers and final camera-ready full papers can be up to 12 pages. Dataset papers must be no longer than 10 pages, Poster papers must be no longer than 4 pages, and Demo descriptions must be no longer than 2 pages. No source files (Word or LaTeX) are required at the time of submission for review; only the PDF file is permitted. Finally, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase, and no copyright form is required until a paper is accepted for publication. For more on paper formatting guidelines, please visit ICWSM guidelines. Co-organizers Fakhri Momeni, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany M. Taimoor Khan, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Arnim Bleier, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Tony Ross-Hellauer, Know-Center, Austria Regards Taimoor

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Third call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

*Release of training corpora and registration still open* *!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of detecting a type of Addiction. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification) 2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025. MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 14th Registration open Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) *Mar 19th Release of training corpora* Mar 31st Registration closed Apr 7th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 12th Deadline for paper submission May 30th Acceptance notification Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025. The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee. ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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1st Call for Papers: SLM4Health workshop @ AIME 2025
by Douglas Teodoro 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

SLM4Health: Improving Healthcare with Small Language Models (Workshop held in conjunction with AIME 2025 conference, June 26, 2025, 9am-5 pm, in Pavia (Italy) https://slm4health2025.netlify.app/ SLM4Health focuses on exploring the role and potential of Small Language Models (SLMs) in healthcare-related natural language processing (NLP) tasks. As SLMs gain traction in clinical settings due to their adaptability, efficiency, and lower resource demands, they offer a promising alternative to larger models, especially in resource-constrained environments. However, challenges such as performance trade-offs and ethical concerns—bias, privacy, and interpretability—need to be addressed. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss SLM applications in clinical tasks, compare them with large language models, and explore methods to overcome these challenges, ultimately aiming to improve patient care and clinician support through more tailored NLP tools. We invite researchers to present their latest research results on the following topics: Applications of SLMs for information extraction, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, relation extraction from medical documents; Adaptation of SLMs to effectively handle diverse languages, especially those with limited resources; Sustainability of SLMs compared to LLMs; Ethical aspects, including safety, privacy concerns and bias mitigation, explainability; Possibilities and challenges of SLMs in tasks of medical language processing; Comparisons of SMLs and LLMs on specific use cases in healthcare; Evaluation metrics, datasets, and benchmarks. To enable reproducibility and some level of comparison among approaches, we encourage researchers to use the MIMIC-III or MIMIC-IV dataset. Submission deadline: April 15, 2025 __________________________________ Prof. Douglas Teodoro, PhD Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics Faculty of Medicine | University of Geneva Campus Biotech G6-N3 | Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève tel: 022 379 02 25 | douglas.teodoro(a)unige.ch <mailto:douglas.teodoro@unige.ch> www.unige.ch/medecine <http://www.unige.ch/medecine>

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Invitation to #SMM4H-HeaRD Shared Task 1: Detection of adverse drug events in multilingual and multi-platform social media posts
by Pierre Zweigenbaum 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

We are happy to announce the next round of [#SMM4H-HeaRD](https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2025/), which will be co-located with [AAAI ICWSM](https://www.icwsm.org/2025/index.html) 2025, the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media in June 23-26, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark. Our team is organizing **Shared Task 1: Detection of adverse drug events in multilingual and multi-platform social media posts**. We provide data in German, French, Russian, and English, from platforms such as X and patient forums. We invite you to participate and attempt to beat our multilingual baseline! As the deadline is approaching, please [register](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOdaY58DZQ_2aw_rISJut3G… as soon as possible. Here is the schedule: - Training and validation data available: February 14, 2025 - System predictions for validation data due: March 31, 2025 (23:59 CodaLab server time); this is a simple test to check that teams have a syntactically valid system - Test data available: April 7, 2025 - System predictions for test data due: April 11, 2025 (23:59 CodaLab server time) - Submission deadline for system description papers: May 2, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2025 - Camera-ready papers due: June 6, 2025 - Workshop: June 23, 2025 Please share this call with interested colleagues. Organizers of Task 1: Lisa Raithel, Philippe Thomas, Roland Roller, Elena Tutubalina, Takeshi Onishi, Dongfang Xu, Pierre Zweigenbaum BIFOLD, TU Berlin (XplaiNLP), DFKI SLT, AIRI, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LISN, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay

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BEA 2025 Shared Task: Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors
by Ekaterina Kochmar 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

Conversational agents offer promising opportunities for education as they can fulfill various roles (e.g., intelligent tutors and service-oriented assistants) and pursue different objectives (e.g., improving student skills and increasing instructional efficiency), among which serving as an AI tutor is one of the most prevalent tasks. Recent advances in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) provide our field with promising ways of building AI-based conversational tutors, which can generate human-sounding dialogues on the fly. The key question posed in previous research, however, remains: *How can we test whether state-of-the-art generative models are good AI teachers, capable of replying to a student in an educational dialogue?* In this shared task, we will focus on educational dialogues between a student and a tutor in the mathematical domain grounded in student mistakes or confusion, where the AI tutor aims to remediate such mistakes or confusions, with the goal of evaluating the quality of tutor responses along the key dimensions of tutor’s ability to (1) identify student’s mistake, (2) point to its location, (3) provide the student with relevant pedagogical guidance, that is also (4) actionable. Dialogues used in this shared task include the dialogue contexts from MathDial (Macina et al., 2023) and Bridge (Wang et al., 2024) datasets, including the last utterance from the student containing a mistake, and a set of responses to the last student’s utterance from a range of LLM-based tutors and, where available, human tutors, aimed at mistake remediation and annotated for their quality. **Tracks** This shared task will include five tracks. Participating teams are welcome to take part in any number of tracks. - Track 1 - Mistake Identification: Participants are invited to develop systems to detect whether tutors' responses recognize mistakes in students' solutions. - Track 2 - Mistake Location: Participants are invited to develop systems to assess whether tutors' responses accurately point to genuine mistakes and their locations in the students' responses. - Track 3 - Pedagogical Guidance: Participants are invited to develop systems to evaluate whether tutors' responses offer correct and relevant guidance, such as an explanation, elaboration, hint, examples, and so on. - Track 4 - Actionability: Participants are invited to develop systems to assess whether tutors' feedback is actionable, i.e., it makes it clear what the student should do next. - Track 5 - Guess the tutor identity: Participants are invited to develop systems to identify which tutors the anonymized responses in the test set originated from. **Participant registration** All participants should register using the following link: https://forms.gle/fKJcdvL2kCrPcu8X6 **Important dates** All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - March 12, 2025: Development data release - April 9, 2025: Test data release - April 23, 2025: System submissions from teams due - April 30, 2025: Evaluation of the results by the organizers - May 21, 2025: System papers due - May 28, 2025: Paper reviews returned - June 9, 2025: Final camera-ready submissions - July 31 and August 1, 2025: BEA 2025 workshop at ACL **Shared task website**: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 **Organizers** - Ekaterina Kochmar (MBZUAI) - Kaushal Kumar Maurya (MBZUAI) - Kseniia Petukhova (MBZUAI) - KV Aditya Srivatsa (MBZUAI) - Justin Vasselli (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) - Anaïs Tack (KU Leuven) **Contact**: bea.sharedtask.2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.sharedtask.2025@gmail.com>

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Third call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

*Release of training corpora and registration still open* *!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of detecting a type of Addiction. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification) 2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025. MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 14th Registration open Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) *Mar 19th Release of training corpora* Mar 31st Registration closed Apr 7th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 12th Deadline for paper submission May 30th Acceptance notification Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025. The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee. ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Fully funded PhD position in NLP & Interactive Information Retrieval at HHU Düsseldorf
by Stefan Dietze 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

* PhD position (salary group TV-L 13, working time 100 %, initially limited to 3 years) * ******************************************************************* We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join the Data & Knowledge Engineering group (https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering) at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in collaboration with GESIS, Cologne (http://www.gesis.org) in the context of the DFG-funded research project "EmergentIR: Improving Informational Web Search for Emerging Topics". The project investigates web search behavior and algorithms in the context of emerging topics, i.e. for novel and less-well understood search queries. An example is the search for COVID-19 related terms and topics during the early days of the pandemic, where available online resources and information were evolving quickly and reliable high quality information was sparse. * Your responsibilities * ************************ - Research in fields such as information retrieval, information extraction/NLP and/or human-computer interaction to investigate and support web search on emerging topics, e.g. to predict search intents, detect emerging topics or support ranking and retrieval of information. - Work and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to develop and evaluate computational methods in the context of web search. - Publish and present research results at major scientific events * Your profile * **************** - Master’s degree in computer science or a related field. - Background in the following areas: information retrieval, natural language processing, or machine learning/deep learning. - Experience in programming (e.g. Python) and with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow - Fluency in English. German language skills are desirable but not required. * Contact & application process * ******************************** Please send your complete application documents (CV, certificates & transcripts) as a single PDF file to Stefan Dietze (stefan.dietze(a)hhu.de) by 15 April. For any informal enquiries about the position, please don't hesitate to get in touch via the same email address. -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze Scientific Director Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts Chair of Data & Knowledge Engineering Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Web: https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering Phone: +49 (0)221-47694-421 Web: http://stefandietze.net

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Email subject: GITT-2025 at MT Summit 2025 - SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED TO MARCH 31st
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Third International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at MT Summit 2025 23 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social Paper SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED We extend the GITT submission deadline to March 31st 2025. This is the final submission deadline. NEW Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Final submission deadline: 31 March, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 7 April, 2025 Camera Ready Copy due: 21 April, 2025 Workshop: 23 June, 2025 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. ARCHIVAL - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. NON-ARCHIVAL - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2024 and 2025. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the MT Summit 2025 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mtsummit2025) **Workshop organizers** Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Chiara Manna, University of Tilburg Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg

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Data in Historical Linguistics seminar: Quantitative methods on small corpora for historical sociolinguistics: a case study of Old French fabliaux
by Mathilde Bru 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

The sixth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 31st March 2025 at 5pm BST. Zinaida Geylikman (Université Paris Cité) will present on ‘Quantitative methods on small corpora for historical sociolinguistics: a case study of Old French fabliaux.’ Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 28th March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciGltVD7ft6dgyMu45DrYbEB0WyJ67RyU… Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. The abstract for this talk can be found here: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/geylikman/ The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru (King’s College London) and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field. Join our mailing list<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/>!

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2nd call for papers: GEM-Squared workshop @ ACL (data released)
by Simon Mille 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, As announced a few weeks ago, the fourth iteration of the GEM workshop will be held as part of ACL <https://2025.aclweb.org/>, July 27–August 1st, 2025. This year we’re planning a major upgrade to the GEM workshop, which we dub GEM2, through the introduction of a large dataset of 1B model predictions together with prompts and gold standard references, encouraging researchers from all backgrounds to submit work on meaningful, efficient and robust evaluation of LLMs. In this second CfP, we are happy to announce that (i) the large datasets of model predictions have been released (DOVE <https://slab-nlp.github.io/DOVE/> and DataDecide <https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/DataDecide-eval-instances>), and (ii) GEM2 will host the ReproNLP <https://repronlp.github.io/> shared task results. Important Dates - April 11: Direct paper submission deadline (ARR). - May 5: Pre-reviewed (ARR) commitment deadline. - May 19: Notification of acceptance. - June 6: Camera-ready paper deadline. - July 7: Pre-recorded videos due. - July 31 - August 1: Workshop at ACL in Vienna. Please check the GEM website <https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop> for submission links, templates, and more details. For any questions, please email gem-benchmark-chairs(a)googlegroups.com. best, simon *ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT* *School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus / Scoil na Ríomhaireachta, Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*

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PhD scholarship UPF (Barcelona) - Text Generation with applications to the Generation of Accessible Content
by Horacio Saggion 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

PhD scholarship (4-years) in Natural Language Processing: Text Generation with applications to the Generation of Accessible Content - Start date 1/10/2025 Deadline for applications: 30/4/2025 The TALN (Natural Language Processing) Research Group in Barcelona (Spain) is looking for a PhD student in the area of text generation with applications to text simplification and text style adaptation to accessible language among others adopting current and future developments in Deep Learning paradigms (e.g. Large Language Models) as backbones. The student will join a dynamic, creative, and collaborative research team under the guidance of Prof. Horacio Saggion, head of the TALN research group. The student will be encouraged to collaborate with researchers involved in the Horizon Europe projects iDEM and IDEAL in the areas of Democracy and Inclusion. The candidate will benefit from a scholarship (PIPF1) for four years, plus social benefits (national health insurance) and 4 weeks annual leave. Current salaries for this position are as follows: First year compensation €18180,49 gross salary Second year compensation €18180,49 gross salary Third year compensation €19479,14 gross salary Fourth year compensation €24348,78 gross salary The selected candidate for the scholarship must be admitted to the PhD program of the Department of Engineering at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Under the scholarship, the selected candidate will teach 45 hours per year in subjects related to the Engineering degrees offered by the School of Engineering which the candidate is confident with. The selected candidate will benefit from participation in dissemination events such as conferences, workshops, tutorials or summer schools depending on the availability of funding and on the capability of the student to produce publishable research output. The candidate should have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or related fields) and a Master degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Computational Linguistics. She/he should have demonstrated experience in research (experimentation, software coding, paper writing,presentation of research, etc.) with current methods in NLP such as Large Language Models and machine learning in tasks such as summarization, simplification, text generation, etc. She/he should have excellent knowledge of English. Knowledge of Spanish, Catalan, Italian or other languages is a plus. The PhD program has the following deadlines for application: https://www.upf.edu/web/doctorats/calendari-de-preinscripcio The candidates are encouraged to contact Prof. Horacio Saggion well before applying for the PhD program (horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu) before 30/4/2025. The TALN group Web page is: https://www.upf.edu/web/taln The Department Web page: https://www.upf.edu/web/etic The candidate is encouraged to visit the Web page of the PhD program to learn more about requirements to apply for a PhD: https://www.upf.edu/en/web/doctorats/tecnologies-de-la-informacio-i-les-com… -- 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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Iberlef2025: PRESTA Task Call for Participation
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Spanish version below] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IberLEF 2025 - PRESTA: Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish We are pleased to announce the first IberLEF task on Question Answering on Tabular Data: PRESTA. The PRESTA shared-task consists of Question Answering over Tabular Data making use of the DataBenchSPA benchmark. DataBenchSPA is a benchmark composed of real-world table datasets from different domains and with large size of rows and columns, as well as a wide variety of data types that allow to assess distinct sort of questions related to each data type. We propose a task to encourage participants to develop a system that answers the questions of the kind present in DataBenchSPA over day-to-day datasets, where the answer is either a number, a categorical value, a boolean value or lists of several types. DataBenchSPA can be used as a training and validation set, while we will release another test set explicitly compiled for the task competition. The system developed by the participants will be provided by a series of (dataset, question) pairs and will need to provide an answer which would then be compared with a gold standard. The answer might be achieved through a variety of methods. In our paper [1] we illustrate two different approaches: In-Context Learning and Code Generation. You may use any of these or come up with your own approach. There will be two subtasks: Subtask I : DataBenchSPA QA Participants will be provided with a dataset (of any size) and a question over it. The question should be answered using the data from the dataset only. Subtask II: DataBenchSPA Lite QA The task is essentially the same as the previous subtask, but involves using the sampled version of each dataset with a maximum of 20 rows per dataset. The question should be answered using the data from the sampled dataset only. For the test set, we will similarly provide a reduced version of each dataset for this subtask. This task is especially relevant when testing for models with a smaller window size. Important Dates Release of training data: 18 March 2025 Release of test data - competition starts: 30 April 2025 Submission of the results - competition ends: 12 May 2025 Submission of the description paper: 30 May 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López - University of Jaén Eugenio Martínez Cámara - University of Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ Google Group: CREAR POR JORGE [Spanish version] CONVOCATORIA DE PARTICIPACIÓN EN - IberLEF 2025 - PRESTA: PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS SOBRE TABLAS EN ESPAÑOL Anunciamos por primera vez en IberLEF una tarea competitiva sobre recuperación de respuestas sobre sobre datos tabulares, en particular la tarea PRESTA: Preguntas y Respuestas sobre Tablas en Español. La tarea PRESTA consiste en responder preguntas sobre datos tabulares utilizando como fuente de información el conjunto de datos DataBenchSPA. DataBenchSPA está compuesto por conjuntos de datos de tablas del mundo real de diferentes dominios y con un gran tamaño de filas y columnas, así como una amplia variedad de tipos de datos que permiten evaluar distintos tipos de preguntas relacionadas con cada tipo de datos. Animamos a los participantes a desarrollar un sistema que responda preguntas del tipo presentes en DataBenchSPA sobre conjuntos de datos del día a día, donde la respuesta puede ser un número, un valor categórico, un valor booleano o listas de varios tipos. DataBenchSPA se puede utilizar como conjunto de entrenamiento y validación, mientras que lanzaremos otro conjunto de prueba compilado explícitamente para la competencia de tareas. El sistema desarrollado por los participantes estará compuesto por una serie de pares (conjunto de datos, preguntas) y deberá proporcionar una respuesta que luego se comparará con un respuesta de referencia. La respuesta podría lograrse mediante una variedad de métodos. En nuestro artículo [1] ilustramos dos enfoques diferentes: aprendizaje en contexto y generación de código. Puede utilizar cualquiera de estos o crear su propio enfoque. Subtareas: Subtarea I: DataBenchSPA completo Los participantes recibirán un conjunto de datos (de cualquier tamaño) y una pregunta sobre él. La pregunta debe responderse utilizando únicamente los datos del conjunto de datos. Subtarea II: DataBenchSPA Reducido La tarea es esencialmente la misma que la subtarea anterior, pero implica utilizar la versión muestreada de cada conjunto de datos con un máximo de 20 filas por conjunto de datos. La pregunta debe responderse utilizando únicamente los datos del conjunto de datos muestreado. Para el conjunto de prueba, proporcionaremos de manera similar una versión reducida de cada conjunto de datos para esta subtarea. Esta tarea es especialmente relevante cuando se prueban modelos con un tamaño de contexto más pequeño. Fechas Importantes Publicación de datos de entrenamiento: 18 de marzo de 2025 Publicación de datos de prueba - inicio de la competición: 30 de abril de 2025 Envío de resultados - finalización de la competición: 12 de mayo de 2025 Presentación del artículo de descripción del sistema: 30 de mayo de 2025 Organizadores de tareas Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López - Universidad de Jaén Eugenio Martínez Cámara - University of Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University CodaBench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ Grupo de Google: CREAR POR JORGE -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. 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Call for participation: MT Marathon 2025 in Helsinki
by Tiedemann, Jörg 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

This is the first 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. 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; however, please register as soon as possible if you plan to attend to help us with the planning. ** 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 Costa-Jussa, Meta AI, - Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh, - Amit Moryossef, University of Zürich, - Sara Papi, FBK Trento, - Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, - Marco Turchi, Zoom, 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/ The event will also include a poster session where participants will be invited to present their own work in machine translation. ** 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… .

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Second call for paper: BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (an IWCS 2025 workshop)
by Timothée Bernard 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Second call for paper: *BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics* (an IWCS 2025 workshop) (with our apologies for cross-posting) 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 6th 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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