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Call for participation: WACL4 at COLING’2025 - Registration and Programme
by Amal Haddad 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) [1] WACL4 AT COLING’2025 WITH FOCUS ON ARABIC DIALECTS The field of Arabic language research using corpora and corpus methods has experienced significant growth and development in recent years. What once were isolated efforts have now transformed into a vibrant and expansive area of study, advancing rapidly across multiple dimensions in both corpus and computational linguistics. Building upon the success of previous editions--WACL-1 in 2011, WACL-2 in 2013 in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics Conference at Lancaster University, and WACL-3 in 2019 at the Corpus Linguistics 2019 conference at Cardiff University--we are excited to announce the fourth edition of the Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4). The primary objectives of WACL-4 are to highlight the latest developments in the creation, annotation, and application of Arabic corpora, including the introduction of new corpora and advancements in annotation techniques, while fostering collaboration among researchers from diverse institutions and regions to stimulate joint research projects and interdisciplinary initiatives. This edition will place a special emphasis on the study of Arabic dialects, including non-standard and regional varieties, to broaden the understanding of Arabic in its various manifestations and support research on under-resourced linguistic varieties. Additionally, WACL-4 aims to encourage the development and refinement of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems and tools tailored for Arabic, integrating corpora into NLP workflows, creating new computational tools, and evaluating existing systems to improve their efficacy in processing Arabic text. The workshop will be held online on January 20th, 2025 in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). We are pleased to share the programme of WACL4 2025 with you. Please visit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSNC1r4dx023cb_FuQWhWa8d3Si4fvvp/view?usp=… To register for the workshop, please visit https://coling2025.org/registration/ We are looking forward to welcoming you at WACL4 at COLING'2025 Kind regards, WACL4 Organising Committee -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4

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Reminder: Call for participation in Web Survey on Data Bottlenecks in Supervised NLP
by Romberg, Julia 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

++ 1st reminder to participate in our web survey on data annotation bottlenecks and active learning; apologies for cross-posting ++ Dear list members, We invite you to participate in our web survey exploring how recent advancements in NLP, such as LLMs, have changed the need for labeled data in Supervised Machine Learning. Survey details: * Topic: Web survey on Data Annotation and Active Learning * Target group: Researchers and practitioners alike in the fields of NLP, Supervised Machine Learning, and Active Learning in particular (knowledge of Active Learning is not required) * Duration: 5-15 minutes * Deadline for participation: January 12, 2025 * Survey link: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/umfragen/limesurvey/index.php/538271 Why should I invest my time in this survey? * Make an impact: Participate in a community-effort and help to gain a better understanding of the current state and open issues on methods that are used to overcome a lack of labeled data. * Gain insights: Receive a report with key findings to incorporate these insights into research and development of new methods and technologies. Thank you for considering participating in our survey! If you have any questions or require additional information, please don't hesitate to contact us directly at activelearningsurvey2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:activeLearningSurvey2024@gmail.com>. If you know colleagues or peers who might be interested, we'd be grateful if you could forward this survey to them as well. Best regards, Julia Romberg (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany) Christopher Schröder (Institut für Angewandte Informatik e. V., Germany) Julius Gonsior (TUD Dresden University of Technology) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [gesis-logo-new-50-50] Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Julia Romberg Computational Social Science, Team Data Science Methods +49(221)47694-742

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PhD studentship on analysis of multimodal videos/transcripts of children's interactions
by Colin Bannard 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Dear colleagues Please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in a PhD studentship focused on discovering drivers of child language development from videos/multimodal transcripts of early child-parent/educator interactions: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/identifying-drivers-of-language-devel… The student will be based at the University of Manchester in the UK, but will spend at least 12 months at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Best, Colin

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Call for Participation: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM 2025 will be a physical workshop co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi on 20th January 2025. We are pleased to share the programme of LoResLM 2025 with you. Please visit https://loreslm.github.io/program for the full programme. To register for the workshop, please visit https://coling2025.org/registration/ We are looking forward to welcoming you at LoResLM 2025 in Abu Dhabi. The workshop is supported in part by CLARIN-UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities programme. >> Keynote Speaker Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University. Title - "Multilinguality and Cultural Awareness in Language Models" >> Organising Committee Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France Samuel Cahyawijaya - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Raj Dabre - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA Bonaventure F. P. Dossou - McGill University, Canada Daan van Esch - Google Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Daisy Lal - Lancaster University, UK Colin Leong - University of Dayton, USA Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Farhad Nooralahzadeh - University of Zurich, Switzerland Rrubaa Panchendrarajan - Queen Mary University of London, UK Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA Omid Rohanian - University of Oxford, UK Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK Claytone Sikasote - University of Cape Town, South Africa Marjana Prifti Skenduli - University of New York Tirana, Albania Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Edlira Vakaj - Birmingham City University, UK John Vidler - Lancaster University, UK Phil Weber - Aston University, UK Bryan Wilie - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Artūrs Znotiņš - University of Latvia, Latvia URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/loreslm/

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PhD offers at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
by Nils Holzenberger 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Hello, We are hiring 2 PhD students to work on combining language models with structured data, starting from September 2025, at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Large Language Models are amazing, and with our research project, we aim to make them even more amazing! Our project will connect large language models to structured knowledge such as knowledge bases or databases. With this, 1. language models will stop hallucinating 2. language models can be audited and updated reliably 3. language models will become smaller and thus more eco-friendly and deployable We work in the DIG team at Telecom Paris, one of the finest engineering schools in France, and part of Institute Polytechnique de Paris — ranked 38th in the world by the QS ranking. The institute is 45 min away from Paris by public transport, and located in the green of the Plateau de Saclay. Excited about joining us? Tick these boxes: 1. Have a good background in natural language processing, machine learning, and knowledge representation 2. Have a master's degree (or equivalent) 3. Be of European nationality (imposed by our sponsor, the French Ministry of Armed Forces) Check out our Web site to apply: https://suchanek.name/work/research/kb-lm/index.html Fabian Suchanek & Nils Holzenberger

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EURALEX Talks
by Iztok Kosem 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Dear all, The end of 2024 has been very active at EURALEX, for example you can now find EURALEX 2024 proceedings on the website (they have already been indexed by SCOPUS), and the videorecordings from the 2024 Congress (presentations and pre-conference workshops) have been made available at the Videolectures website (https://videolectures.net/events/euralex2024_cavtat). We are now pleased to announce the launch of our new webinar series. EURALEX Talks is a series of online webinars featuring invited experts in the field of lexicography. These sessions are free and open to everyone. They explore a wide variety of topics related to language and lexicography. Each talk lasts approximately 40 minutes, followed by questions and discussion. Join us on Tuesday 28 January 2025 at 16.00 (CET) for our first talk, which will be given by Pamela Faber. Zoom link: https://uni-lj-si.zoom.us/j/8569694820. The Language of Love Fraud: Frames of Deception The language of love fraud is a unique example of an online linguistic deception. Using a fabricated identity, the fraudster creates the illusion of a romantic relationship between himself and the victim, solely through language. This deception is often successful because of the fraudster’s lexical choices (soulmate, cherish, adore, sacred vow, etc.) which override his flawed syntax and activate a frame of romantic love in her mind. Biodata Pamela Faber is Professor Emeritus in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada (Spain). She is the founder of the LexiCon research group, with whom she has carried out various nationally-funded research projects on Frame-Based Terminology, the approach to terminology that she created and developed. One of the results of these projects is EcoLexicon (ecolexicon.ugr.es), a terminological knowledge base on environmental science. She has more than 150 articles, book chapters, and books, which have inspired researchers throughout the world to explore specialized knowledge from a frame-based perspective. Looking forward to seeing you online. Please forward the announcement to other mailing lists and colleagues who might be interested. Best wishes Iztok Kosem EURALEX President

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Second Call for Participation- IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* ACL – 22nd* IWSLT 2025 – **S**econd** Call for Participation* *31 July-1 August 2025 - Vienna, Austria* http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/> of ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/>, ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/> and ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>. With a track record of 21 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be run as a hybrid ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>/ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> event, co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> from 31 July to 1 August 2025. *Important Dates* *January 1, 2025*: Release of shared task training and dev data *March 15, 2025*: Scientific paper submission deadline *Apr 1-15, 2025*: Evaluation period *April 21, 2025*: System description paper submission deadline *May 15, 2025*: Notification of acceptance *June 1, 2025*: Camera-ready deadline (all paper) *July 31-Aug 1*, *2025*: IWSLT conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2025 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2025/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - High-resource ST: Offline track, Simultaneous track, Subtitling track - Low-resource ST: Low-resource and Indic (multilingual) tracks - Instruction-following Speech Processing track: Technical domain ST, ASR, Summarization, and QA Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organisers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT submission site (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review. Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., Findings for the *ACL, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT, and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. Contact Please email iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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First CFP: LoResMT 2025 at NAACL 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ NAACL 2025 (May 3–4, 2025)* *Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.* *SUBMISSION* * <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT>https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT>* *TIMELINE* *Paper submission due:* January 30, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline:* February 20, 2025 *Notification of acceptance:* March 1, 2025 *Camera-ready papers due:* March 10, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) *Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline):* April 8, 2025 *Workshop dates at NAACL 2025:* May 3–4, 2025 *SCOPE* Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, we introduce LoResMT 2025 workshop at NAACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. *TOPICS* We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages - Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - 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 for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the NAACL submission guideline for further information <https://2025.naacl.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-details>. Accepted papers will be published at ACL Anthology in the NAACL 2025 and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at NAACL 2025. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT>. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2025.naacl.org/). *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China *PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Ali Hatami, University of Galway Alina Karakanta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), University of Trento Anna Currey, AWS AI Labs Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Dana Moukheiber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta Gaurav Negi, University of Galway Jinliang Lu, Institute of automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences John Philip McCrae, University of Galway Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University Majid Latifi, UPC University Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Milind Agarwal, George Mason University Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University and Lexical Computing Pengwei Li, Meta Rashid Ahmad, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Santanu Pal, Wipro Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Wen Lai, LMU Munich Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University Yasmin Moslem, Bering Lab Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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IWCS 2025: Second Call for Workshop Proposals
by Kilian Evang 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Second Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline: Jan 31 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany 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 IWCS 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. === WORKSHOP PROPOSALS === We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IWCS 2025. Accepted workshops will have the option to publish their proceedings in the ACL Anthology. We solicit proposals 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. Workshops are invited on these closely related areas, including the following: * 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 * recognizing 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 === FINANCES === Workshops must cover their own costs for invited speakers as well as organizers' traveling costs. === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Proposals for workshops should contain: * A title and brief (max two pages) description of the workshop topic and content; * The names, affiliation and email addresses of the organisers; * An estimate of the expected audience size; * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted and how many attendees the workshop attracted; * Whether you plan a half-day or full-day workshop; * Whether or not the workshop proceedings should be published in the ACL Anthology. Proposals should be submitted on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/SIGSEM/IWCS/2025/Workshop_Propos… The person submitting the proposal will need an OpenReview account. Please note OpenReview's moderation policy, where newly created accounts with an institutional email address are approved automatically, but other email addresses can take up to two weeks to approve. === IMPORTANT DATES === 31 January 2025 Workshop proposal submissions due 07 February 2025 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance 24 September 2025 Workshop date === CONTACT === For questions, contact: iwcs2025-program-chairs(a)uni-duesseldorf.de Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Sylvain Pogodalla (the IWCS 2025 program chairs) -- Dr. Kilian Evang · Institut für Linguistik · Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 · 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany · https://kilian.evang.name

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CFP: 'Humans, Machines, Language', University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025
by Amal Haddad 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Humans, Machines, Language Annual conference University of Granada, Spain 24-25 June 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferen… We welcome everyone interested in the impact of new and emerging language technologies that integrate with human senses. Whether you are a tech developer who wants to learn more about linguistics, or a linguist who wants to know more about tech, we want to hear from you! HuMaLa leads on from the COST Action 'Language In The Human-Machine Era' (https://lithme.eu [1]); you can find out more about our core themes of interest from the LITHME forecast report (https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1 [2]) and animations (https://lithme.eu/animations [3]). HuMaLa's inaugural conference will be held at the University of Granada, Spain, on 24-25 June 2025. The conference theme is: 'Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing' This echoes the priorities of the EU's recently introduced AI Act: "human oversight, safety, privacy, transparency, non-discrimination and social and environmental wellbeing" (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96212/ [4]). We hope to explore these timely topics from a range of humanistic perspectives, with a focus on human-machine language technologies. We welcome researchers and developers from computer science, linguistics, sociology, education, and more. To understand the more general scope of the conference, again, see the LITHME forecast report [2] and animations [3]. In addition to technical work (e.g., model description or dataset), we also welcome theoretical and empirical studies on the ethical, legal, cultural and social implications of language technology adoption across these domains. Presentation format: Talk (20 mins) or Poster, non-archival Presentations can address any of the topics that fall within the interests of HuMaLa. Selection for places will be made by the conference scientific committee. We encourage early career applicants to read a guide on abstract writing, for example: https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/student-futures/how-to-write-an-abs… [5]. Senior colleagues are used to all this, and are therefore at a somewhat unfair advantage. We hope the above guide (and others like it) will help early career applicants to craft their abstract more precisely. Abstract submission deadline: Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00 (noon) GMT Website: https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferen… We are looking forward to seeing you in Granada. Links: ------ [1] https://lithme.eu/ [2] https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1 [3] https://lithme.eu/animations [4] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96212/ [5] https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/student-futures/how-to-write-an-abs…

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