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2nd CFP, 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations (ContEx25), Bielefeld, 17-18 June
by cimiano＠cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

2nd Call for Papers: 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/directory?a=33811429 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: March 31st Notification of Acceptance: April 30th 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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Linked Data for Corpora of Images of Text
by Hugh Paterson III 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Greetings, I am wondering if anyone here has encountered a linked data vocabulary for shadows in an image? For example, we have digital scans of 3D text objects. When scanned in orientation "A" the shadows fall in a certain direction, when scanned in orientation "B" they fall in another direction. We are using this difference to enhance text detection algorithms. We need to notate in the metadata of the images which orientation they have relative to their shadows. Has anyone worked with a linked data vocabulary like this? The basic concept of how a shadow falls within an image is fundamental to photography and art in general. I haven't found a vocabulary in use within those domains either. We would be happy to reuse vocabulary terms from such domains. Kind Regards, Hugh Paterson III Krateros Project Manager Institute for Advanced Study https://www.ias.edu/krateros hpaterson(a)ias.edu

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Final call: NLP + social science postdoc at IT University of Copenhagen
by Anna Rogers 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

The Data Science section at the IT University of Copenhagen has an open position for a postdoc, funded for 2 years, on the topic of *scaling up qualitative interviews with Large Language Models* (LLMs). The project is a collaboration with the Center for Social Data Science <https://sodas.ku.dk/> at the university of Copenhagen. This is a NLP position, but some relevant background in social sciences or psychology is a plus. *Application deadline is March 17 2025*. Applications can be submitted via ITU job portal: Application link: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… IT University of Copenhagen is the leading Danish university dedicated to various aspects of IT technology, and Copenhagen is one of the happiest and most livable cities in the world. The candidates will be part of NLPNorth research group <https://nlpnorth.github.io/> (with 5 full-time faculty working in various areas of NLP), as well as Pioneer Center for AI <https://www.aicentre.dk/>. The postdoc will be hosted by Assoc. Prof. Anna Rogers <https://annargrs.github.io/>, to whom inquiries about the project can be directed (arog(a)itu.dk). The domain expert on this project is Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen (sociology, hc(a)sodas.ku.dk). -- Anna Rogers Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen http://annargrs.github.io/

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Call for Participation: Shared task on Clickbait Detection and Spoiling in Spanish - TA1C
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

*** 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 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: * April 1st, 2025: training and development sets. * 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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Full Professorship (tenured W3) in AI and ML, Bonn, Germany
by Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

The *University of Bonn*, one of the few selected Universities of Excellence in Germany, is now inviting applications for a tenured and excellently equipped* Full Professorship (W3) in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning* as a strategic flagship part of our *Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.* Applicants are expected to have demonstrated internationally outstanding research in one or more relevant subfields of Artificial Intelligence with a strong focus on Machine Learning, ideally related to one or more of the major research areas of the Lamarr Institute: - Resource-Aware ML: Optimize algorithms for available resources and new architectures - Trustworthy AI: Make AI ethical, reliable, understandable, and certifiable - Hybrid ML: Combine data and knowledge in ML algorithms - Human-Centered Systems: Exploit human interaction contexts when learning from data - Embodied AI: Build ML algorithms that work in physical and autonomous systems Apply by March 15th, 2025: https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/university/working-at-the-university/job-opportu… The professorship will be appointed as Tenured Full Professor (W3) within the Institute of Computer Science. Dual-career appointments are possible for suitable candidates. German language skills are not required. We expect from the candidate the capability of positioning the Lamarr Institute towards society and industry and willingness to *contribute to the institute’s strategic responsibilities.* The acquisition of third-party research funds and contribution to joint grant activities in computer science are requested. We welcome applications regardless of nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation and identity. Formal requirements are defined by § 36 of the Higher Education Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hochschulgesetz Nordrhein-Westfalen).

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Postdoc position at Saarland University
by Alexander Koller 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Application deadline: 24 March 2025 https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/ Hi all, I am looking to fill a postdoc position in computational linguistics at the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University. This position offers great flexibility in developing your own research and teaching agenda, and collaborations with other research groups are encouraged. It is also flexible with respect to topic, as long as it connects thematically with topics of interest to the research group. These currently include accurate reasoning and planning with LLMs (including tool use); dialogue systems (in particular user adaptation and joint problem solving); and neurosymbolic models for NLP. You should have expertise in neural and/or linguistically principled methods in computational linguistics and be willing to take an active role in shaping the research and teaching environment of the department. The position includes a teaching load of up to four hours per week in the BSc Computational Linguistics (in German) and/or the MSc Language Science and Technology (in English). Both programs attract excellent and highly motivated students; it is not unusual for our students to publish papers at peer-reviewed conferences before graduation. The MSc students in particular are a very international crowd, with two thirds joining us from abroad. You will typically teach two seminars per semester on topics of your choice, which will allow you to motivate students to do BSc and MSc theses under your supervision. This is a position on the German TV-L E13 scale (100%). The starting salary of a 100% TV-L E13 position is approximately 57,000 Euros per year and increases with experience. The initial appointment will be for two years; the position can be extended up to the limits of the German law for academic contracts (WissZeitVG). The position is available right now; we could negotiate a start date that works for you. Requirements I am looking for candidates who have finished, or are about to complete, an excellent PhD degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related discipline. You should have demonstrated your research expertise through high-quality publications. You must be proficient in English (spoken and written); the ability to teach in German is a plus. About the group Saarland University is one of the leading centers for computational linguistics in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language science. It hosts the SFB 1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”. Alexander Koller is the speaker of the new Research Training Group “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action”, which is on track to grow into one of the largest centers for research on neurosymbolic models in the world. His group actively collaborates with colleagues at the university’s computer science department, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries; SIC faculty have won roughly 40 ERC grants. Saarland University is located in Saarbrücken, a city of roughly 180k people in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg. Saarbrücken combines a lively culture scene with a relaxed atmosphere, and is quite an affordable place to live in. Our department maintains an international and diverse work environment. The primary working language is English; learning German while you are here will make it easier to connect with the local culture, but is not necessary for your work. How to apply Please see https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/ for further details and how to apply.

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - 2nd Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Beyza Yaman 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 - Second 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)* - *Notification of Acceptance: 29, 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)* - *Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 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 - Call for System Demonstrations
by ACL Announcements 09 Mar '25

09 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/ [1] Link to submission system: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo [2] Links: ------ [1] https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/ [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo

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2nd Call-for-Participation: ImageCLEF 2025 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF Lab
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] ImageCLEF 2025 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF http://www.imageclef.org/2025/ *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ImageCLEF 2025 is an evaluation campaign that is being organized as part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs. The campaign offers several research tasks that welcome participation from teams around the world. The results of the campaign appear in the working notes proceedings, published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented in the CLEF conference. Selected contributions among the participants, will be invited for publication in the following year in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with the annual lab overviews. Target communities involve (but are not limited to): information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social media, sensor data, etc.), machine learning, deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, image and video processing, computer vision, with special attention to the challenges of 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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: 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 Cristian Stanciu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania On behalf of the organizers, Cristian Stanciu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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2nd Call For Papers: 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 07 Mar '25

07 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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CoNLL 2025: 3rd and final Call for Papers
by anveshrao1＠gmail.com 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

CoNLL 2025: 3rd and final Call for Papers Vienna, Austria, July 31 - August 1, 2025 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/ NEW! We’re happy to announce that the invited speakers will be Raquel Fernández and Jean-Rémi King! SIGNLL invites submissions to the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025). CoNLL seeks to explore the interaction between theoretical issues in linguistics and cognition, on the one hand, and computational modeling, on the other. Questions that CoNLL addresses are e.g.: How do computational models inform us about how language and cognition work? Which phenomena do they capture, and which do they not capture? Conversely, how do linguistics and cognitive science contribute to understanding, and possibly improving, AI models? We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including but not only: - Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics - Interaction and Dialogue - Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution - Multimodality and Grounding - Typology and Multilinguality - Speech and Phonology - Syntax and Morphology - Semantics and Pragmatics - Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP - Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research Invited Speakers - Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam - Jean-Rémi King, CNRS / Meta AI Submissions Submission will be via OpenReview. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival. Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. The aim of this submission mode is to allow for recently published CoNLL-related research to be disseminated in the CoNLL community. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2023, 2024, and 2025 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). Submissions that are accepted will be presented at the conference either as talks or as poster presentations. While they will be included in the schedule information, they will not appear in the proceedings. The submission form is now open here: https://forms.gle/M8i23bMZLUTsqQxk7 Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2025. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. The appendix should be submitted as a separate PDF file (reviewers are not required to consider the materials in the appendix so it should not include any essential content to the understanding of the paper). Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix. The submission page for archival papers can be found here: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/CoNLL Multiple submission policy: CoNLL 2025 follows the ACL 2025 policy, which follows the ARR policy: CoNLL “precludes multiple submissions […] will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the […] review period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival conferences and workshops […] In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.” Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2025 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. As for submission of pre-prints to arXiv and other platforms, we again follow the same policy as ARR: “[archival] submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time.” Also please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles —we advise you to create a profile well in advance: - New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. - New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. Venue / visa CoNLL 2025 will be held in Vienna, Austria. Please note that it is an in-person conference. We expect all accepted papers to be presented physically and presenting authors must register through ACL (workshop). If you need a visa, we encourage you to submit your visa application at submission time. Timeline ARR Commitment deadline CoNLL only accepts direct submissions this year! (All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12h, AoE) - Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): March 14 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 23 2025 - Camera-ready papers due: June 17 2025 - Conference: July 31 - August 1, 2025 Contact Questions? E-mail conll.chairs(a)gmail.com Organization committee Program Chairs Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg Area Chairs Christian Bentz, University of Passau Zhenguang G. Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Tanise Ceron, Bocconi University Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, McGill University Iria De Dios, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Max van Duijn, Leiden University Kilian Evang, HHU Düsseldorf Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart Aina Garí Soler, INRIA Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta AI Research Xixian Liao, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Brielen Madureira, University of Potsdam Yohei Oseki, University of Tokyo Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam Emily Prud’hommeaux, Boston College Tanja Samardžić, University of Zurich Carina Silberer, University of Stuttgart Ece Takmaz, Utrecht University Tessa Verhoef, Leiden University Yang Xu, University of Toronto Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen Publicity Chairs Snigdha Chaturvedi, UNC-Chapel Hill Anvesh Rao Vijjini, UNC-Chapel Hill Publication Chairs Emily Cheng, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Selina Meyer, Technische Universität Nürnberg

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CFP: Special Issue on Neurosymbolic Generative Models
by Kordjamshidi, Parisa 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Neurosymbolic Generative Models Explore the future of AI by contributing to the Special Issue on Neurosymbolic Generative Models! We invite cutting-edge research that integrates symbolic reasoning with deep generative models (DGMs), such as large language models, to improve performance, interpretability, and robustness in AI applications. Topics include: - Neurosymbolic learning and reasoning in DGMs - Enhancing interpretability, robustness, and fairness in DGMs - Applications in science, healthcare, finance, and more Fast Track Opportunity for extended versions of recently published conference papers. Submission Deadlines: - Regular & Fast Track: March 31st 2025 Submit your paper today and join a transformative discussion shaping the future of AI! Visit https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com/content/call-papers-special-issue-neur… for more details or contact the guest editors at: nesy-genai(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:nesy-genai@googlegroups.com> Please note that the Open Access cost of the Journal does NOT apply to this special issue, which is free of any cost. Submission Guide You must use the NeSy Journal Submission system to submit a paper to the Neurosymbolic Generative Models special issue. Here is an overview of the paper submission process: You will need to create an account on https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com/user/register. Ensure this is done in advance as the account approval may take a few days. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email. This confirms that your account has been created, however, there is an additional step required to get your account approved. You need to request account approval by sending an e-mail to eic(a)neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com <mailto:eic@neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com> from the registered email address. If your account is not approved within a day, please inform Pascal Hitzler phitzler(a)googlemail.com <mailto:phitzler@googlemail.com>. Once your account is approved, you will receive a link to set your password. Set your password and confirm that your contact details are correct. Once you are logged in, navigate to the submission page: https://neurosymbolic-ai-journal.com/node/add/submit-paper. In the submission form Enter details about your details and information about your paper Under “Submission Type” select “Article in Special Issue” Upload your paper as a PDF document. Please note that the file cannot exceed 48 MB in size. Write a brief cover letter indicating that you are submitting your paper to the “Neurosymbolic Generative Models” special issue. If you are submitting an extended paper, please also summarise your additional contributions. Click Preview to double-check your submission. If everything is okay, click the “Submit” button. You should immediately receive an email, confirming your paper submission. If you encounter any issues with the submission process (e.g., registration delays), please do not hesitate to contact the mailing list: nesy-genai(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:nesy-genai@googlegroups.com>. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------ Kordjamshidi, Parisa Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University http://www.cse.msu.edu/~kordjams/ Heterogeneous Learning & Reasoning Lab: https://hlr.github.io/ Woman, Life, Freedom

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ACL 2025 - Call for Demos
by Horacio Saggion 07 Mar '25

07 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 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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RANLP-2025 - Second Call for Workshop Proposals: Extended Deadline!
by Petya Osenova 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Second Call for Workshop Proposals: Extended Deadline! ================================================ RANLP-2025: 15th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Summer School Deep Learning and Large Language Models 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) Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ ================================================ Following the workshops held in conjunction with the Conferences "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" RANLP-2005, RANLP-2007, RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011, RANLP-2013, RANLP-2015, RANLP-2017, RANLP-2019, RANLP-2021 and RANLP-2023, we are pleased to announce a call for workshop proposals for RANLP-2025. RANLP-2025 invites workshop proposals on any topic of interest to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, ranging from fundamental research issues to more applied industrial or commercial aspects. We encourage workshops related to (or discussing the employment of) the latest NLP methods including Large Language Models/Generative AI. Workshops can vary in length from a half day to full 1-2 days and can also feature demo sessions. The format of each workshop (face-to-face or hybrid) can be determined by its organisers the condition being that onsite sessions are held in Varna for the whole workshop duration so that other RANLP participants can take part in the event. Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to RANLP-2025 (full registration including the summer school, tutorials, all workshops, main conference, reception, conference dinner). VENUE The workshops will take place in Hotel "Cherno More", Varna, the main RANLP-2025 conference venue. If more than 5 workshops are selected, the RANLP-2025 organisers will provide conference halls in some of the neighbouring hotels or universities in downtown Varna. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals due: 15 March 2025 31 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 2 April 2025 Workshop website due: 5 April 2025 15 April 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 6 July 2025 (shortly after main conference notification) 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 Workshops: 11-13 September 2025 REQUIREMENTS Proposals should be no longer than five pages and should contain the following: 1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that it will focus on; 2. Brief description of the target audience, including estimates of the numbers of submissions and attendees (a tentative list of potential contributors would be useful); 3. List of related workshops/events held in the last three years or to be held in 2025; 4. Tentative workshop programme committee; 5. Names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organising committee; 6. Description of the experience of the proposed organisers in the workshop topics and in organising workshops or related events. The workshop Organising Committee is responsible for the following: * Setting up and maintaining the workshop website; * Disseminating call for papers/participation; * Organising paper submission, review process, authors notification, and collecting audio/visual presentation requirements; * Verifying the camera-ready copies, providing electronic conference proceedings which are to be generated with the conference management system START; * In case of hybrid workshops, organising an onsite workshop component and chairing the live sessions in Varna. Workshop invited speakers: If the workshop organisers intend to host an invited talk, it is recommended that they invite somebody from the main conference keynote speakers or participants. If the workshop organisers decide to invite another speaker, it is very likely that the workshop organisers will have to secure financial support for this speaker. The RANLP-2025 Organising Committee is responsible for the following: * Providing a link to the workshop web page; * Publishing the workshop proceedings with ISBN numbers, and registering DOI numbers for all accepted papers; * Providing the workshop venue; * Organising registration, audio/visual support, coffee breaks, registration facilities, Internet access. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Workshop proposals in PDF format should be e-mailed to Tharindu Ranasinghe <t.ranasinghe[at]lancaster[dot]ac[dot]uk>, Kiril Simov <kivs[at]bultreebank[dot]org>, Petya Osenova <petya[at]bultreebank[dot]org> and cc'ed to <workshops2025(a)ranlp.org<mailto:workshops2025@ranlp.org>> EVALUATION Submitted proposals will be reviewed with respect to the following criteria: * Relevance, importance, and timeliness of the topics; * Completeness, clarity, and quality of the workshop proposal; * Experience of the organisers in the proposed topics; * Viability of the workshop. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme Commitee) Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (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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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - 2nd Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Kossi Amouzouvi 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 - Second 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)* - *Notification of Acceptance: 29, 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: 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 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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Call for Track Proposals - FIRE 2025 - Annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation - December in Varanasi
by Thomas Mandl 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

*Call for Tracks* *FIRE 2025: 17th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi 17th - 20th December Website: fire.irsi.org.in <http://fire.irsi.org.in/> *Call for Tracks* We invite proposals for offering evaluation tracks at FIRE 2025. FIRE 2025 is the 17th edition of the annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (fire.irsi.org.in). Since its inception in 2008, FIRE had a strong focus on shared tasks similar to those offered at Evaluation forums like TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. The shared tasks focus on solving specific problems in the area information access and, more importantly help in generating evaluation datasets for the research community. It is not required for the tasks to focus on a specific language, and they can broadly cover any problem in the fields related (but not limited) to IR, NLP, multi-modal information access, and ML. However, the organizers especially encourage proposals for tracks related to South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages. In the past, FIRE has hosted tracks from Arabic, Persian, German, Russian, and Urdu languages besides several Indian languages. We aim to continue these efforts and include more language groups from these regions. For knowing more about tracks in past FIRE meetings, you can visit fire.irsi.org.in <http://fire.irsi.org.in> Informal inquiries can also be sent to the track chairs. Please include the following details in your proposal: 1. Track name 2. Track description 3. Use case/s 4. Target Audience and number of expected submissions 5. Data(*) (Fair Details) 6. Evaluation plan 7. Timeline: Please try to align with the FIRE conference dates as given below 8. Organizer/s Details 9. Prior experience in organizing shared task/workshop at relevant venues *Tentative Timeline* *23rd March, 2025* Track proposals due *10th April, 2025* Track acceptance notification *15th May, 2025* Open track websites and release of training data *15th June, 2025* Test data release *30th June, 2025* Run submission deadline *15th July, 2025* Track results declaration *30th August, 2025* Working notes due *30th September, 2025* Camera-ready copies of working notes and overview paper due *17th December, 2025* FIRE Conference Please send these details in a pdf format to clia(a)isical.ac.in with a copy to fire2025(a)itbhu.ac.in , kripa.ghosh(a)gmail.com and mandl(a)uni-hildesheim.de (*) We require that after FIRE, the data should be made publicly available through Information Retrieval Society of India. In case, data can not be distributed publicly (e.g., Twitter data), a unique identifier that can be used to recreate the original corpus can be provided (e.g., tweet ids in case of Twitter data). This disbursal will be governed by a copyright form, which the users have to sign before getting the data. A sample form is available at ( fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data <http://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data> ).

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CFP-Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2025) -reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2025) at LDK 2025 – 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge The broader objective of LT-EDI-2025 will be - To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for EDI. - To promote research in inclusive LT. - To adopt and adapt appropriate LT models to suit EDI. - To provide opportunities for researchers from the LT community around the world to collaborate with other researchers to identify and propose possible solutions for the challenges of EDI. Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create LT of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people. *Call for Papers:* Our main theme in this workshop is equality, diversity, and inclusion in LT. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit datasets, mitigating these issues, as well as papers reporting on these issues. We also encourage qualitative studies related to these issues and papers discussing how to mitigate these issues. LT-EDI-2025 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any languages that contribute to research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical applications or improving resources. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* - 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 them 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 over LGBTQ+ minorities. *Submission Link: * *https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Workshop/LT-EDI* <https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Workshop/LT-EDI> - Workshop paper due: 15 May 2025 - Notification of acceptance: 12 June 2025 - Camera-ready papers due: 26 June 2025 - Workshop dates: 9 September 2025 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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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): Second Call for Papers
by Announce 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

*** Second Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) December 12-13, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) The annual IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG) provides a premier international forum for presentation of original research results in knowledge discovery and graph learning, discussion of opportunities and challenges, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning • Knowledge engineering with big data. • Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. • Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. • Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. • Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. • Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. • Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. • Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. • Ontologies and reasoning. • Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. • Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. • Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. • Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. • Big knowledge systems and applications. • Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. • Large language models and applications • Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. • Datasets and benchmarks for graphs • Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems • Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. • Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building • Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. • Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model • Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning • Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database • Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. • Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. • Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “Survey:”, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled “A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”, should be changed as “Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as “Survey:”, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “SS##:”, where “##” is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled “Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as “SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (abstract and full paper): July 15, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2025 • Camera-ready deadline and copyright forms: October 15, 2025 • Early Registration Deadline: Oct. 29, 2025 • Conference: December 12-13, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference and Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chair • Dan Guo, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs • Cesare Alippi, Università della Svizzera italiana • Shirui Pan, Griffith University Local Organising Vice Chair • Irene Kinlanioti, National Technical University of Athens Finance Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee Chair • Xindong Wu, Hefei University Of Technology

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PastReader@IberLEF 2025
by Arturo Montejo-Ráez 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AT IberLEF 2025 PastReader 2025 IberLEF Task on Transcription of Historical Content First edition - Transcribing texts from the past Shared task website: https://sites.google.com/view/pastreader2025/home Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025 in the XLI edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2025 https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/inicio/) September 23, 2025. Zaragoza, Spain Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that registration is now open for Task 'PastReader 2025: IberLEF Task on Transcription of Historical Content (First Edition) – Transcribing Texts from the Past. The PastReader task was held as part of IberLEF 2025, the shared evaluation campaign for Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, collocated with SEPLN 2025 Conference. This is a novel task focusing on the correction of text extracted from digitized historical documents. Participants in this task must be able to generate clean and corrected versions of texts extracted via OCR from the Spanish historical press. The corrected text should be faithful to the original, and take into account common errors derived from the digitization and OCR process. For this edition, the collection is based on the Hemeroteca Digital of the National Library of Spain (BNE). - A dataset of digitized historical press from the BNE will be used. - The collection contains millions of digitized pages of Spanish newspapers and magazines. - The texts are in PDF format with OCR. - The corpus includes publications from the 17th to the 20th century. - The publications cover a wide variety of topics: politics, satire, humor, science, religion, illustration, entertainment, sports, art, and literature. - The goal is to advance the automation of the transcription process. TASK Two tasks have been created related to the basic workflow in a transcription process: extraction of text from scanned documents (OCR) and curation of the extracted text to fix found errors: - Task 1: Error correction. In this task, participants will be provided with the output of an OCR system and will be asked to generate clean and corrected versions of the extracted texts. - Task 2: End-to-end extraction. Due to the advance in multimodal systems, this task aims to explore end-to-end approaches, using scanned pages as input and expecting to produce curated texts as output. DATA For this shared tasks, three subsets of data have been prepared: - Training set: 8,959 pages (Scanned PDF, OCR output, and corrected text). - Development set: 500 pages (Scanned PDF, OCR output, and corrected text). - Test set: Subtask 1: 2,736 pages (OCR output only released to participants). Subtask 2: 2,736 pages (Scanned PDF only released to participants). The quality of the OCR results varies due to several factors, such as the date of digitization, available technology, the state of preservation of the originals, and the complexity of the text structure. Efforts have been made to improve these texts, including collaborative corrections through the ComunidadBNE platform. The manually corrected output serves as a valuable resource for testing and training technology. Participating in this task is a great opportunity to advance historical text processing. You'll work with a large dataset from the National Library of Spain (BNE), improving OCR correction skills and contributing to research. Your contribution will aid in digitizing historical documents for future access. To participate, go to: https://forms.gle/iBwuUzjZdc2JyFDKA IMPORTANT DATES Feb 3rd: Registration open Mar 17th: Release of training corpora Mar 31st: Registration closed Apr 7th: Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign 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 July 3rd: Final camera-ready submission deadline (to IberLEF organizers) Sep, TBD: Publication of proceedings Sep, TBD: IberLEF Workshop at SEPLN 2025 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Arturo Montejo Ráez (Universidad de Jaén). - Elena Sánchez Nogales (Biblioteca Nacional de España). - Gloria Expósito Álvarez (Biblioteca Nacional de España). - L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén). - María Teresa Martín Valdivia (Universidad de Jaén). - Jaime Collado Montañez (Universidad de Jaén). - Isabel Cabrera De Castro (Universidad de Jaén). - María Victoria Cantero Romero (Universidad de Jaén). - Ana García Serrano (UNED). - Rocio Ortuño Casanova (UNED). - Yanco Amor Torterolo Orta (UNED). Best regards, The PastReader 2025 organizing committee [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Arturo Montejo Ráez Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associated Professor (Tenured) amontejo(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Departamento de Informática, A3-114 Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 - Jaén (Spain) +34 953 212 882 <https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/sinformatica/sites/servicio_sinformatica/fil…> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-2714 Researcher ID: D-3387-2009 SINAI Research Group <https://sinai.ujaen.es> [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> *Antes de imprimir este mensaje, piense si es necesario. 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Call for Papers: LxGr2025
by Costas Gabrielatos 06 Mar '25

06 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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[New article]: Hate speech and social media
by Lima-Lopes, Rodrigo Esteves de 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

Dear Friends, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to share my latest article on Hate Speech in Social Media. The analysis is based on appraisal and collocation networks. Lima-Lopes, Rodrigo Esteves de. 2025. “Lexical Patterns of Religious Conservatism: A Study of Social Media Reactions to an Art Exhibition in Brazil.” *Digital Studies/Le champ numérique* 15(1): 1–36. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.15132. *Abstract* *This study examines the dynamics of hate speech on social media, focusing on comments opposing the announcement of the Queermuseu – Cartografias da Diferença na Arte Brasileira (Cartographies of Diversity in Brazilian Art) exhibition in southern Brazil. Employing appraisal system, Systemic-Functional Linguistics, and network analysis, the research investigates the linguistic and semantic patterns underlying the interactions. Lexical and interaction networks were qualitatively interpreted in order to understand the interaction amongst users and the reaction towards such an exhibition. Results reveal that conservative discourse significantly drives comments towards negative evaluation, framing the exhibition as a threat to religious and traditional family values. This research contributes to understanding the role of digital platforms in amplifying intolerance and the mechanisms of polarized discourse in Brazilian Portuguese.* All the best, Rodrigo *---* *Prof. Dr. LD. Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes* *(Ele/He/Er/Il)* *Universidade Estadual de Campinas* Livre Docente em Linguagem e Tecnologia || Prof. Hab. in Language and Technology || Professor Associado || Tenured Associate Professor || Depto. de Linguística Aplicada || Dept. of Applied Linguistics || CV (Português) <http://lattes.cnpq.br/1654734521861377> *||* ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-1553> *||* Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=q1V4jksAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR> *|| * rll307(a)unicamp.br ||

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PhD scholarship announcement
by Patrizia Paggio 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

PhD scholarship in Culture-Aware Evaluation of Large Language Models in Low-Resourced Languages at Centre for Language Technology, The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen The Centre for Language Technology (cst.ku.dk<https://cst.ku.dk/english/>) at The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for a 3-year PhD scholarship starting on 1 September 2025 or soon after. The selected candidate will be co-supervised by both the Centre for Language Technology and the Department of Computer Science and will be physically located in both places during their employment. The PhD scholarship is funded by the AI initiative ‘Sikker platform til udvikling af transparente danske sprogmodeller’ (‘secure platform for the development of Danish language model’), which is part of the AI Strategy embarked in 2024 by the Ministry of Digital Affairs (www.digmin.dk<https://www.digmin.dk/Media/638687214351712933/Strategisk%20indsats%20for%2…>). The candidate will be affiliated to the project group ‘Danish Foundation Models’, (www.foundationmodels.dk<https://www.foundationmodels.dk/>) which is a collaboration between several major universities in Denmark addressing the aforementioned initiative, including Aarhus University, Southern Danish University, the Alexandra Institute and the University of Copenhagen. For more information, please see https://jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=163674 Patrizia Paggio Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology paggio(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:paggio@hum.ku.dk> Professor University of Malta Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology patrizia.paggio(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt> Selected recent publications and upcoming projects: Paggio, P., Manex Agirrezabal, M., Navarretta, C. and Vitasovic, L. (2024) Multimodal behaviour in an online environment: The GEHM Zoom corpus collection. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italia. https://archive.org/details/GEHM_meeting_corpus MultiplEYE DK - Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection - Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-stoettet/cf24-2005/

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Call for Applications: Summer School in “Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Integrating traditional and innovative tools”
by Jessica Jane Nocella 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

We are happy to announce the 7th edition of the Summer School in Digital Humanities and Digital Communication, which will be hosted by the Department of Studies on Language and Culture of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with the Fondazione Marco Biagi and with the patronage of AIA. As part of the Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences, the Summer School aims to provide PhD students and young researchers with methodological tools for the study of digital communication and data analysis. This year’s focus is on challenges and opportunities of integrating traditional methods with innovative tools, with topics ranging from digital resources for research in the humanities to the use of new information technologies for data analysis. The programme combines lectures by invited speakers and workshops where young researchers can present their work and get feedback from the invited speakers. Abstract submission deadline: March 28th Notification of acceptance: April 11th Date: June 3rd-6th, 2025 Location: Modena, Italy Registration fee: € 100,00 Further information can be found here: https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/2025-edition/

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Call for Abstracts: Autorschaft und individueller Sprachgebrauch
by Tatjana Scheffler 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

KOLLOQUIUM “AUTORSCHAFT UND INDIVIDUELLER SPRACHGEBRAUCH” - Call for Abstracts Vom 14. bis 15. November 2025 findet an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum ein linguistisches Kolloquium mit dem Titel "Autorschaft und individueller Sprachgebrauch" statt. Die Veranstaltung wird von der Germanistik an der RUB in Kooperation mit dem Bereich Autorenerkennung des Bundeskriminalamts (BKA) Wiesbaden ausgerichtet. In Abhängigkeit von Kontext und Motivation (linguistisch, philologisch, forensisch, technisch) dient die Bestimmung der Autorschaft unterschiedlichen Zielen. Im forensischen Bereich soll die linguistische Auswertung der Strafverfolgung helfen, das hinter dem Text stehende Individuum zu identifizieren, da sich für den Verfasser durch den Text rechtliche Konsequenzen ergeben. Ein zentrales Anwendungsfeld der forensischen Linguistik ist daher die Autorschaftsbestimmung. Immer dann, wenn danach gefragt wird, wer einen Text geschrieben haben könnte, richtet sich das Interesse auf die individualisierende Seite des Sprachgebrauchs: Das Individuelle, und mit ihm sprachliche Variation, ihre Ausgestaltung und ihre Funktionalität, treten dann gegenüber dem Systemisch-Allgemeinen von Sprache in den Vordergrund. Der individuelle Sprachgebrauch wird zum Mittel, über das eine Zuschreibung an einen Autor erfolgt. Die Veranstaltung will eine Diskussion zwischen verschiedenen Zugängen zum Thema anregen und ein Forum zum Austausch bieten. Der Fokus sollte auf Forschung zum Deutschen liegen. Die Einbindung in den forensischen Kontext ist ausdrücklich erwünscht, aber andere Zugänge sind ebenso willkommen. Wir laden Kolleginnen und Kollegen ein, die sich auf der Grundlage deutschsprachigen Materials mit forensischer Autorschaftsanalyse befassen, wie auch Forschende, die sich (jenseits einer forensischen Zielsetzung) für die Zusammenhänge von Individuum, Sprache und Autorschaft interessieren und dazu arbeiten. Von den Beiträgen erhoffen wir uns Impulse zu folgenden Bereichen: • In welchen Kontexten und für welche Forschungsfragen werden Texte in Hinblick auf ihre Autorschaft analysiert? Welche sprachlichen Aspekte werden dabei als relevant angesehen? • Was macht das Individuelle am Sprachgebrauch aus und in welcher Form lässt es sich ermitteln? • Welche linguistischen Variablen fließen in die Analyse mit ein und wie realisieren sie sich im Geschriebenen? Wie ergänzen weitere, außersprachliche Faktoren die Analyse? • Welche Instrumentarien und Analyseverfahren werden für Autorenprofile und/oder Textvergleiche genutzt, mit welchen Ergebnissen? Wie geht man mit komplexeren Merkmalen um (z. B. Argumentationen, Stilzügen, Sprachhandlungen)? • Welche Formen der Autorschaft sind (forensisch-linguistisch) relevant? Was definiert Autorschaft z. B. im kollaborativen Schreiben und wie geht man (forensisch-linguistisch) mit multipler Autorschaft um? • Was behindert, was fördert die Identifizierung eines individuellen Sprachgebrauchs? Wo kommt linguistische Analyse an ihre Grenzen? Was ist darüber hinaus bei Verfassern im kriminellen Kontext zu bedenken? Weitere mögliche Themenvorschläge: • Variablen/Parameter des Autorenprofils • Bewertung und Interpretation von Merkmalen • inter- und intra-individuelle Variation, Stil und Textsorte • Gruppensprache, Gruppenidentität und Autor • Textproduktionsbedingungen und ihre Auswirkung auf individualtypische Merkmale • Verstellungformen, Verstellungsstrategien • Kombinationen qualitativer und quantitativer Ansätze, korpusbasierte Analysen • Anwendungsbeispiele (aus der Praxis) • interdisziplinäre Fragestellungen und Analyseansätze Es sind alle Beiträge willkommen, die sich mit diesen und ähnlichen Fragen aus theoretischer, empirischer oder praktischer Perspektive befassen. Die Vorträge sollen eine Dauer von 20 Minuten nicht überschreiten, es folgt jeweils eine 10-minütige Diskussionsrunde. Wir bitten um Abstracts im Umfang von ca. 350 Wörtern (exkl. Literatur) mit maximal fünf Literaturangaben im pdf-Format an die Emailadresse autorschaft2025(a)rub.de . Ein Zeitslot für Posterpräsentationen ist ebenfalls vorgesehen. Vortragssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch. Eingeladene Sprecher:innen: Lars Bülow (LMU München) Dana Roemling (University of Birmingham) Markus Shiegg (Universität Freiburg) Call for Abstracts: 30.05.2025 Ende der Einreichfrist für Abstracts 31.07.2025 Benachrichtigung der Vortragenden/Posterpräsentierenden Anmeldung: Anmeldungen für Teilnehmende sind ab 1.9.2025 möglich. Nähere Informationen folgen. Veranstaltungsort: Landesspracheninstitut (LSI) in der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Max-Kade-Halle Laerholzstraße 84 44801 Bochum Organisationskomitee: Maria Berger (RUB) Eilika Fobbe (BKA) Nora Giljohann (RUB) Steffen Hessler (RUB) Kerstin Kucharczik (RUB) Karin Pittner (RUB) Tatjana Scheffler (RUB) Website: https://staff.germanistik.rub.de/kolloquium-autorschaftsanalyse/ --- Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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CALL FOR NTCIR-19 TASK PROPOSALS (Task Proposals Due: March 31st, 2025)
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, (Apologize if you received multiple emails from different mailing lists) We are delighted to announce the 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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Call for Papers: TiiS Special Issue on Systematizing Knowledge in Interactive Intelligent Technologies
by Karimi, Sarvnaz (Data61, Marsfield) 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

ACM Digital Library<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x332a2ax073378> [journal banner]<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x33ae5dx073378> CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Systematizing Knowledge in Interactive Intelligent Technologies Guest Editors Baki Kocaballi<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x343604x073378>, University of Technology Sydney Sarvnaz Karimi<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x343605x073378>, CSIRO Yashar Deldjoo<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x343606x073378>, Polytechnic University of Bari Shlomo Berkovsky<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x343607x073378>, Macquarie University [journal cover image]This Special Issue of ACM TiiS on Systematizing Knowledge in Interactive Intelligent Technologies invites original surveys that review and analyze research topics covered by the journal. By systematically reviewing and synthesizing the latest research, these surveys will allow researchers and practitioners to understand the field, identify emerging trends, and recognize opportunities for cross-disciplinary integration. Surveys that assess specific aspects of interactive systems, and address the design and effectiveness of different approaches are encouraged. Click here for the full Call for Papers and submission instructions.<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x343608x073378> Important Dates April 1, 2025: Mandatory expression of Interest to guest editors July 1, 2025: Original manuscript submission August 15, 2025: First round notification sent out October 15, 2025: Revised manuscript submission 2026: Final decisions and special issue publication For questions and further information, please write to: tiis-guest-editors-sysknow(a)acm.org<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x343609x073378>. Sign up for TiiS TOC alerts.<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x34360ax073378> https://tiis.acm.org<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x342cf3x073378> Become an ACM Certified Reviewer.<https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31852_0x3435cbx073378> ________________________________ You are subscribed with: shlomo.berkovsky(a)mq.edu.au<mailto:shlomo.berkovsky@mq.edu.au> Unsubscribe<https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?re=shlomo.berkovsky@mq.edu.au&rl=CFP> The call-for-papers(a)hq.acm.org<mailto:call-for-papers@hq.acm.org> email address is not monitored. Please do not reply to it directly. Association for Computing Machinery 1601 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10019 [http://www.acm.org/binaries/content/gallery/acm/logos/acm-logo.jpg] Connect with us: [to view image click on]<https://twitter.com/acmdl> [to view image click on]<https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/acmdl/> [to view image click on]<https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/gallery/images-mail/wechat-qr-code.png>

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CfP 5th SDP at ACL 2025 deadline extended to March 15th
by Tirthankar Ghosal 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, We have extended the deadline for submission to *March 15th *for the 5th Scholarly Document Processing Workshop (Hybrid) in ACL 2025 at Vienna, Austria. https://x.com/sdpworkshop/status/1897364088050864472 https://sdproc.org/2025/ Kind regards, Tirthankar -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Tirthankar Ghosal* Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Adjunct Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Call for Participation: Scientific Visual Question Answering Shared Task (SciVQA)
by Georg Rehm 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

SciVQA: Scientific Visual Question Answering Shared Task Hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop July 31 or August 1st, 2025 (tbc) Vienna, Austria (co-located with ACL 2025) SciVQA Shared Task: https://sdproc.org/2025/scivqa.html SDP 2025 Workshop: https://sdproc.org/2025/index.html 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 the SciVQA challenge, participants will develop multimodal QA systems using a dataset of scientific figures from ACL Anthology and arXiv papers. Each figure image is annotated with seven QA pairs and includes metadata such as caption, figure ID, figure type (e.g., compound, line graph, bar chart, scatter plot, etc.), QA pair type. This shared task specifically focuses on closed-ended visual (i.e., addressing visual attributes of a figure such as colour, shape, size, height, etc.) and non-visual (not addressing figure visual attributes) questions. Evaluation Systems will be evaluated using metrics such as BLEU, METEOR, and ROUGE. Automated evaluations of submitted systems will be done through the Codabench platform (link will be provided soon on the webpage). 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 or August 1, 2025 (TBA) Participants are also 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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Call for Participation: Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims on Climate Change (ClimateCheck)
by Georg Rehm 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

ClimateCheck: Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims on Climate Change Hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop July 31 or August 1st, 2025 (tbc) Vienna, Austria (co-located with ACL 2025) ClimateCheck Shared Task: https://sdproc.org/2025/climatecheck.html SDP 2025 Workshop: https://sdproc.org/2025/index.html 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 400K abstracts of publications from the climate sciences domains. 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). The task will be hosted on Codabench (link will be provided soon on the webpage). 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 K most relevant abstracts. Evaluation: MAP and B-Pref accounting for retrieving relevant abstracts and not penalising unjudged documents. Subtask II: Claim Verification Task: given the claim-abstract pairs received from the previous subtask, classify their relation as ‘support’, ‘refutes’, or ‘not enough information’. Evaluation: F1 score based on judged documents from gold data; unjudged documents will not be included in computing the score. 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 or August 1, 2025 (TBA) 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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Annual Workshop in Experimental Methods in Language (acquisition) Research (EMLaR) XXI
by laiacolina＠gmail.com 05 Mar '25

05 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 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 • Bayesian 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 (Advanced*) • Ethics and Privacy • Eye-tracking • Online experiments for language scientists • Open (your) Science Using the Statistical Package JASP • PRAAT • Probabilistic Pragmatics • 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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Call for Participation: Shared Task on Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications (FoRC 2025)
by Georg Rehm 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

FoRC 2025: Shared Task on Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications Hosted as part of the NSLP 2025 Workshop 1 or 2 June 2024 (tbc) Portoroz, Slovenia (co-located with ESWC 2025) FoRC Shared Task: https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/docs/forc_shared_task.html NSLP 2025 Workshop: https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/ A core application of Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) is classifying scientific articles for their respective field of research (FoR). The 2025 iteration of the FoRC shared task builds on the data developed for Subtask II of FoRC in 2024 <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/forc_shared_task.html>, adding to it a weakly supervised dataset of over 40K ACL publications. Participants are asked to design classification systems based on FoRC4CL, a corpus of 1500 English scholarly articles in Computational Linguistics (CL), collected from the ACL Anthology (CC BY 4.0) and manually annotated according to a novel hierarchical taxonomy, Taxonomy4CL, which consists of 170 core CL (sub-)topics. In addition, over 40K weakly supervised publications are provided to supplement the corpus and potentially increase model capabilities. Metadata fields include ACL Anthology ID, title, abstract, author(s), URL to the full text, publisher, publication year and month, proceedings title, DOI, venue, and the full text of the respective article. Task Overview Given an article from the ACL Anthology and a taxonomy of NLP/CL sub-topics (Taxonomy4CL), predict the entities from the taxonomy that correspond to the main contributions of the article. As a highly unbalanced, multi-label, hierarchical classification problem, this task will be evaluated by computing micro, macro and weighted precison, recall, and F1-score. Codabench page for participation: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5779 Important dates Training and testing data release: February 18, 2025 System submissions deadline: March 25, 2025 Paper submissions: March 27, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2025 Camera-ready submission: April 17, 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 NSLP 2025 workshop. Organisers Maria Francis (DFKI, Berlin, Germany & University of Trento, Italy) Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI, Berlin, Germany) Ekaterina Borisova (DFKI, Berlin, Germany) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)

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SemEval-2026: Call for Task Proposals
by Semeval Organizers 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

SemEval-2026: Call for Task Proposals URL: https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/cft # Call for Task Proposals We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of SemEval-2026. SemEval (the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantics systems, organized under the umbrella of SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SemEval tasks explore the nature of meaning in natural languages: how to characterize meaning and how to compute it. This is achieved in practical terms, using shared datasets and standardized evaluation metrics to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and possible solutions. SemEval tasks encompass a broad range of semantic topics from the lexical level to the discourse level, including word sense identification, semantic parsing, coreference resolution, and sentiment analysis, among others. For SemEval-2026, we welcome tasks that can test an automatic system for semantic analysis of text (e.g., intrinsic semantic evaluation, or an application-oriented evaluation). We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, cross-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of computational semantics. See the websites of previous editions of SemEval to get an idea about the range of tasks explored, e.g. SemEval-2020 (http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/) and SemEval-2021/2025 ( https://semeval.github.io). We strongly encourage proposals based on pilot studies that have already generated initial data, evaluation measures and baselines. In this way, we can avoid unforeseen challenges down the road that may delay the task. We suggest providing a reasonable baseline (e.g., providing a BERT baseline for a classification task) apart from majority vote / random guess. In case you are not sure whether a task is suitable for SemEval, please feel free to get in touch with the SemEval organizers at semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com to discuss your idea. ## Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by experts, and reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Everything else being equal, more innovative new tasks will be given preference over task reruns. Task proposals will be evaluated on: - Novelty: Is the task on a compelling new problem that has not been explored much in the community? Is the task a rerun, but covering substantially new ground (new subtasks, new types of data, new languages, etc. - one addition is not sufficient)? - Interest: Is the proposed task likely to attract a sufficient number of participants? - Data: Are the plans for collecting data convincing? Will the resulting data be of high quality? Will annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for use and re-use of the data after the evaluation been secured? Have all international privacy concerns been addressed? Will the data annotation be ready on time? - Evaluation: Is the methodology for evaluation sound? Is the necessary infrastructure available or can it be built in time for the shared task? Will research inspired by this task be able to evaluate in the same manner and on the same data after the initial task? Is the task significantly challenging (e.g. room for improvement over the baselines)? - Impact: What is the expected impact of the data in this task on future research beyond the SemEval Workshop? - Ethical – The data must be compliant with privacy policies. e.g. a) avoid personally identifiable information (PII). Tasks aimed at identifying specific people will not be accepted, b) avoid medical decision making (compliance with HIPAA, do not try to replace medical professionals, especially if it has anything to do with mental health) c) these are representative and not exhaustive ## Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 3 pages (plus additional pages for references). Please see website for further information. ## Important dates - Task proposals due 31 March 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Task selection notification 19 May 2025 ## Preliminary timetable - Sample data ready 15 July 2025 - Training data ready 1 September 2025 - Evaluation data ready 1 December 2025 (internal deadline; not for public release) - Evaluation start 10 January 2026 - Evaluation end by 31 January 2026 (latest date; task organizers may choose an earlier date) - Paper submission due February 2026 - Notification to authors March 2026 - Camera ready due April 2026 - SemEval workshop Summer 2026 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Tasks that fail to keep up with crucial deadlines (such as the dates for having the task and CodaLab website up and dates for uploading sample, training, and evaluation data) may be cancelled at the discretion of SemEval organizers. While consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances, our goal is to provide sufficient time for the participants to develop strong and well-thought-out systems. Cancelled tasks will be encouraged to submit proposals for the subsequent year’s SemEval. To reduce the risk of tasks failing to meet the deadlines, we are unlikely to accept multiple tasks with overlap in the task organizers. ## Chairs - Sara Rosenthal, IBM Research AI - Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República, Uruguay - Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, USA - Debanjan Ghosh, Educational Testing Service,

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IndiREAD Workshop – 1st Call for Papers
by Iza Skrjanec 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 1st Call for Papers Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025 IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project "Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC [1] and the MultiplEYE COST [2] action "Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research". While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in identifying key factors that influence reading patterns--including text properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word predictability, and dependency length--recent studies have emphasized the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g., Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016; Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills, linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This informs our understanding of how text characteristics and individual reader attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading. IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in investigating individual differences in reading using both experimental and computational approaches. This workshop will focus on methods such as eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task, with particular interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with individual differences. We also encourage submissions of computational models for eye movements or reading behavior that shed light on the mechanisms behind these differences. The goal is to foster collaboration between experimental and computational researchers to better understand individual variability among readers. We especially welcome submissions of reading time experiments and modelling of languages beyond English. The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions:  * How do individual differences impact the way people read? * How do reading patterns vary across different languages, particularly in bilinguals? * How do reading patterns change across the lifespan? * Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing variability in reading patterns? * How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and sentence processing across languages? * How can computational models account for individual differences in reading? * How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and comprehension among different individuals? * What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying latent groups and relating individual differences to reading performance? Workshop dates: November 26-27, 2025 Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in Saarbrücken, Germany. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well as contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number of submissions we receive. Submission deadline: July 23, 2025. We invite 1000-word abstracts from interested presenters. Information about submission and formatting will be available on our website soon. Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread [3] Contact email: indiread(a)lst.uni-saarland.de Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action, which will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial, and priority will be given to junior researchers. Best, Iza Škrjanec IndiREAD Organizing Committee Links: ------ [1] https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in… [2] https://multipleye.eu/ [3] https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread

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CFP: The 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2025)
by vladana.perlic＠telecom-paris.fr 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

CALL FOR PAPERS The 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2025) Conference: 15th - 21st December 2025 Modena, Italy Conference website: https://conferences-website.github.io/prima2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 July (AoE, UTC-12) Paper Submission Deadline: 22 July (AoE, UTC-12) Paper Notification: 29 September 2025 (AoE, UTC-12) Camera Ready Submission: 13 October 2025 (AoE, UTC-12) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite you to submit your best work on agents and multi-agent systems to PRIMA 2025, the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, to be held in Modena (Italy) in December 2025. Papers will be submitted through CMT at the link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PRIMA2025/Submission/Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope and Background Software systems are rapidly becoming more intelligent in the functionality they offer to users. They are also becoming more decentralized, with components that act autonomously and must communicate among themselves or with human users to achieve their goals. Examples of such systems include those in healthcare, disaster management, e-business, and smart grids. A multi-agent perspective is crucial to the proper conceptualization, deployment, and governance of these systems. Rooted in solid computational and software engineering foundations, this perspective offers abstractions such as intelligent agents, protocols, norms, organizations, trust and incentives, among others. As a large, but still growing research field of artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems today remain a unique enabler of interdisciplinary research. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Areas of Interest The conference areas of interest include, but are not limited to: ● Logic and Reasoning ○ Logics of Agency ○ Logics of Multi-Agent Systems ○ Logics of Belief and Knowledge ○ Norms, Obligations, Deontic Logic ○ Argumentation ○ Logics and Game Theory ○ Uncertainty in Agent Systems ● Agent and Multi-Agent Learning ○ Reinforcement Learning ○ Evolutionary approaches ○ Machine Learning Problems in Multi-Agent Systems ○ Agents Embodied with Large Language Models ● Engineering Multi-Agent Systems ○ Agent-Oriented Software Engineering ○ Interaction Protocols ○ Formal Specification and Verification ○ Agent Programming Languages ○ Middleware and Platforms ○ Testing, Debugging, and Evolution ○ Deployed System Case Studies ● Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation ○ Simulation Languages and Platforms ○ Artificial Societies ○ Virtual Environments ○ Emergent Behavior ○ Modeling System Dynamics ○ Application Case Studies ● Collaboration & Coordination ○ Multi-Agent Planning ○ Distributed Problem Solving and Optimization ○ Teamwork ○ Coalition Formation ○ Negotiation ○ Trust and Reputation ○ Commitments ○ Institutions and Organizations ○ Normative Systems ● Algorithmic Game Theory ○ Auctions and Mechanism Design ○ Bargaining and Negotiation ○ Behavioral Game Theory ○ Cooperative Games: Theory, Analysis, Computation ○ Game Theory for Practical Applications ○ Noncooperative Games: Theory, Analysis, Computation ● Computational Social Choice ○ Voting ○ Fair Division and Resource Allocation ○ Matching under Preferences ○ Coalition Formation Games ○ Aggregation of Beliefs, Opinions, Judgments ○ Ethics and Computational Social Choice ○ Participatory Budgeting ○ Facility Location ○ Communication Issues in Social Choice, Distortion ○ Behavioral Social Choice ● Human-Agent Interaction ○ Adaptive Personal Assistants ○ Embodied Conversational Agents ○ Virtual Characters ○ Multimodal User Interfaces ○ Mobile Agents ○ Human-Robot Interaction ○ Affective Computing ● Decentralized Paradigms ○ Cloud Computing ○ Service-Oriented Computing ○ Data spaces ○ Big data ○ Cybersecurity ○ Robotics and Multirobot Systems ○ Ubiquitous Computing ○ Social Computing ○ Internet of Things ○ Edge Computing ○ Blockchain ● Ethics and Social Issues ○ Explainable Artificial Intelligence ○ Ethics of AI Systems ○ Multi-Agent Systems for Social Good ● Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems ○ Healthcare, Pandemics Management ○ Autonomous Systems ○ Transport and Logistics ○ Emergency and Disaster Management ○ Energy and Utilities Management ○ Sustainability and Resource Management ○ Games and Entertainment ○ e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning ○ Smart Cities ○ Financial markets ○ Legal applications ○ Crowdsourcing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information for Authors PRIMA 2025 invites submissions of original, unpublished work strongly relevant to multi-agent systems. Apart from theoretical work, we encourage the submission of reports on the development of applications or prototypes of deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities. In addition to this, we also encourage the submission of position papers that are of relevance to the multi-agent community. All submitted papers must be in a form suitable for double-blind review. Specifically, in order to make blind reviewing possible, authors must omit their names and affiliations from the paper. Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous work of the authors, it should not include unpublished works. When referring to one's own work, use the third person rather than the first person. For example, say "Previously, Foo and Bar [2] have shown that…", rather than "In our previous work [2], we have shown that…". Such identifying information can be added back to the final camera-ready version of accepted papers. All papers will be reviewed by at least 2-3 experts in the area following a detailed review form that will assess the paper based on the significance and novelty of the idea, the technical description of the proposal, clarity and organization, the evaluation methodology, and any ethical considerations. All accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI). All papers must be submitted using the Springer LNCS/LNAI format. Type of submissions: ● Full papers, 16 pages plus references ● Short papers, 4 pages plus references ● Position papers, 2 pages plus references

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Data in Historical Linguistics seminar: Tracing the characteristics of early medieval notarial scripta with the help of a Latin database.
by Mathilde Bru 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

The fifth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 17th March 2025 at 5pm GMT. Cecilia Valentini (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy) will present on ‘Tracing the characteristics of early medieval notarial scripta with the help of a Latin database.’ Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 14th March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3GDH4hYkvduAzrKmMsCbDtSDmyTEKp9l… 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/valentini/ 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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2 Open Research Positions, Bielefeld University, Semantic Computing Group, Application Deadline: 20th of March
by cimiano＠cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

The Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University performs research at the intersection of natural language processing and knowledge representation. We have two openings for research positions in the LLM4KMU project. The project is carried out in cooperation with several companies in the area of Bielefeld (Semalytix, CLAAS, PrimeLine, MatPlus etc.) and has the goal of understanding how LLM-based models can be adapted effectively to real use cases. The research involves investigating the adaptation, transfer, etc. of models across tasks. It also involves researching how models can be made more robust and how hallucinations can be reduced. The two available positions will have a different focus: Position Wiss25002: The position holder will work in particular in the area of text generation and develop and evaluate new methods for smaller companies. Conceivable examples include methods for interacting with unstructured data or methods for improving and maintaining corporate language. In addition, the position holder will be responsible for leading and implementing the development of a benchmarking platform for LLMs. on non-academic tasks. See [1] for details. Position Wiss25008: The position holder will conduct research in the field of information extraction and develop methods for extracting information from published clinical studies. On this basis, a portal for searching and summarizing the results of clinical studies will be developed. See [2] for details. Position requirements: - master’s degree in computational linguistics, computer science, data science or a related field, - demonstrated ability to work scientifically (e.g. through Master thesis or publications) - strong analytical, conceptual and communicative skills - ability to work in a larger team The following aspects are a plus but not necessary: - experience in natural language processing or natural language generation learning, LLMs, - experience in software development in a non-academic environment - experience in the development of web applications (only for Position Wiss25008). The positions are available for 3 years starting from June 2025. The positions offer the opportunity to pursue a PhD. Postdoctoral candidates can apply as well. Knowledge of German is not required but is an advantage. The application deadline is the 20th of March, 2025. Please send your applications to cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni <mailto:cimiano@cit-ec.uni>-bielefeld with a CV, short motivation letter and publication record, if applicable. Please indicate in your application whether you are applying for Position Wiss25002 or Position Wiss25008, or both. [1] https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4054/research-position-text-gener… [2] https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4059/research-position-informatio… 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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2nd Call for Participation: SHARED TASK in analysis of Persuasion Techniques — in parliamentary debates and social media, for Slavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

*Call for Participation* ** Shared Task: Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniquesin Parliamentary Debates and Social Media, for Slavic Languages * Co-located with Slav-NLP 2025 <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>Workshop, at ACL 2025 http://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 in 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. 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, while 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: 20 April 2025 * Release of Testdata to registered participants: *22 April*2025 * Submission of system responses: 26 April 2023 * Results announced to participants: *29*April 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): 11 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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CIRCE Online Seminar 31/03/2025 - Prof. Rob Drummond "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '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/>.** * Speaker:Rob Drummond (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Title:Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) languageDate: Monday, March 31, 2025 - 16:30 CET Venue: OnlineAttendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors Summary:I spend a lot of my time trying to persuade people to have a more accepting attitude towards language variation and language change. In fact, we should be doing a lot more than accepting it – we should be enjoying it and celebrating the fact that we all use language in different ways. We should take time to appreciate the fundamental connection between the way we speak, and who we are. In this talk, I will present my top ten reflections and insights that aim to improve everyone’s relationship with their own, and other people’s, use of English. Bio:Rob Drummond is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he researches, teaches and writes about the relationship between spoken language and identity. He recently led the community-focused Manchester Voices project, exploring the accents, dialects and identities of people in Greater Manchester, and he co-leads The Accentism Project, which strives to challenge and raise awareness of language-based prejudice. Rob does a lot of public-facing academic work and is the author of You’re All Talk: Why we are what we speak (Scribe Publications, 2023), a book for a general audience that sheds light on the fascinating relationship between ourselves and our language. Upcoming webinars:· Sender Dovchin (Monday, April 14, 2025)· Alice Henderson (Monday, April 28, 2025)· Ana Tankosic (Thursday, June 5, 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 <mailto:contact@circe-project.eu>. * -- facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> twitter <https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> instagram <https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Claudia Soria CNR, ISTITUTO DI LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE "ANTONIO ZAMPOLLI" claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it Tel. 0503153166 Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 – Pisa www.ilc.cnr.it *www.cnr.it* <http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586

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GITT-2025 at MT Summit - SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED TO MARCH 16th
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 03 Mar '25

03 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 16th 2025. NEW Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 16 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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The Second Call for NLP for Positive Impact Workshop @ ACL2025
by Daryna Dementieva 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Dear all, We are extending the deadline for our NLP4PI workshop for a month! If you want to have a publication at ACL2025, our workshop can be an option😉 New dates: *Direct Submissions Due: March 30th, 2025* Submit via: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/NLP4PosImpact Notification of Acceptance: May 15th, 2025 Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 30th, 2025 Workshop Date: July 31st or August 1st 2025 (co-located with ACL 2025) All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth) We are waiting for your amazing submissions🤗 Workshop Summary The increasing adoption of language-oriented AI systems offers unprecedented opportunities for positive societal impact. NLP technologies have matured to the point where they can meaningfully contribute to addressing global challenges like poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19, and climate change, aligning with the UN sustainability goals. This workshop aims to advance innovative NLP research that benefits society, emphasizing responsible methods and impactful applications. We welcome submissions in areas including, but not limited to: - Grounding NLP in Real-World Impact: Beyond improving model performance, how can NLP systems be directly tied to social outcomes? This could include case studies of real-world deployments or strategies for better deployment and maintenance practices. - Underexplored Applications: While NLP for healthcare and mental well-being is well-established, we encourage research tackling overlooked areas such as poverty, hunger, energy, and climate change. - Interdisciplinary Collaborations: We highly value work that integrates insights from other fields, such as social science, political science, economics, philanthropy, and HCI, and we encourage submissions of case studies or examples that highlight such collaborations. Special Theme: NLP for Climate Change This year, we spotlight NLP’s role in addressing climate change—an area that remains underexplored in the NLP community. We invite research on climate-focused applications, such as fact-checking, question-answering, and initiatives to make NLP models more environmentally sustainable. Attendees will have the chance to share results and ideas with NGO representatives working on climate issues. Submission Types We encourage diverse contributions, including: - Identifying social needs and affected demographics. - Proposing new tasks or directions through position papers. - Conducting literature reviews or philosophical discussions on NLP’s societal impact. - Designing user studies, surveys, or ethical frameworks. - Exploring interdisciplinary methods and collaboration strategies. Submissions must address the ethical and societal implications of the work, with a clear focus on defining and achieving positive impact. We look forward to fostering discussions that inspire actionable, responsible advancements in NLP for the greater good. *More details: * https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact/call-for-papers-2025 Organizers Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University) Prof. Laura Biester (Middlebury College) Angana Borah (University of Michigan) Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich) Prof Oana Ignat (Santa Clara University) Dr. Neema Kotonya (Dataminr) Ziyi Liu (University of Southern California) Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University) Prof Steven Wilson (University of Michigan-Flint) Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California) Steering Committee Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan) Dr. Joel Tetreault (Dataminr) Contact Email: nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com All positive regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Workshop Organizers

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LDK 2025, Deadline extension 24/03/2025
by Andon Tchechmedjiev 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

**Apologies for cross-posting** The paper submission deadline for LDK 2025 has been extended until the 24th of March 2025! CFP Below ============== Call for Papers @ Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) Dates: 9-12 September 2025 Location: Naples, Italy Website: http://2025.ldk-conf.org Twitter/X: https://x.com/LDKconference Submission Deadline: 06/03/2025 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference ============== We invite submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) to be held in Naples, Italy in September 2025. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and the use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, and the fourth LDK in Vienna, Austria in 2023. Paper Submission We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of: Long papers: 9–12 pages; Short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published in an open-access conference proceedings volume and indexed in ACL anthology and DBLP, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference All papers must represent original work. When submitted, the submission must not have been previously published*, and the material in it must not have been/be submitted for review at another journal or conference while under review at LDK 2025. *This excludes papers on preprint archives, such as arXiv, which we do not consider to have been previously published. The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site). Topics Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields: Language Data Language data construction and acquisition Language data annotation FAIR data practices for language data Language data portals and metadata about language data Organisational and infrastructural management of language data Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data Visualisation of language data Standards and interoperability of language data Legal aspects of publishing language data Under-resourced languages e-Lexicography Semantic processing Knowledge Graphs Linguistic Linked Data and the multilingual Semantic Web Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning) Data, information and knowledge integration across languages (Cross-lingual) ontology alignment Entity linking and relatedness Linked data profiling Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis Neuro Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge Question answering and semantic search Text analytics on big data NLP for language documentation and preservation Speech recognition and synthesis Spoken language processing Semantic content management Computer-aided language learning Natural language interfaces to big data Knowledge-based NLP Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD Language Models and Foundation Models (Language and Multimodal Models). Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language, Data, Knowledge Graphs Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity. Organising Committee Conference Chairs: Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria Program Chairs: Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Andon Tchechmedjiev, Institut Mines Telecom | EuroMov Digital Health in Motion Proceedings Chair: Max Ionov, University of Zaragoza, Spain Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Katerina Gkirtzou, ILSP/Athena Research Center, Greece Slavko Zitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Local Organisers: Maria Pia Buono - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Johanna Monti - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Important Dates: Paper submission deadline EXTENDED: 24th March, 2025 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 8th May, 2025 Pre/Post Conference events: 9 to 12 September, 2025 Main conference: 10-11 September, 2025 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 3rd CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

*** Third Call for Papers – DEADLINES UPDATED *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/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: July 31st - 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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up to 8 PhD student positions in neuroexplicit models of Language, Vision and Action (Saarland Univ. Germany)
by Vera Demberg 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for *up to 8 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. The RTG is scheduled to grow to a total of *24 PhD students* by 2025. An excellent and international group of twelve PhD students and one postdoc have already joined the RTG. Through the inclusion of ~20 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. 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 Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics 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 Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, 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, will join us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by *24th March 2024* to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org and include the reference number W2616. We aim to conduct job interviews in April-May 2025. For more details on the position, including what materials to submit with your application, please see our website: <https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/#phd-2023>https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/

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Reminder/CfR: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Workshop, April 2-4, Berlin)
by Michael Zichert 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, registration is now open for our upcoming workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)"! The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. The event will open at around 1:30 PM on April 2 and end at around 5 PM on April 4. Further information is available at https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss Register here: https://events.tu-berlin.de/en/events/0194f579-606f-75e9-9be9-c2167c356171/… Early registration is greatly appreciated as it will help us with further planning. The deadline for registration is March 28, 2025 but we will also try to accommodate “walk-ins”. Please don’t hesitate to reach out in case you need more information. Kind regards, The organizers

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Webminar by Christian Herff (Maastricht University)
by HiTZ zentroa 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '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:* Christian Herff (Maastricht University) *Title:* Speech neuroprostheses based on intracranial EEG *Date: * Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Speech is our most natural way of communication and the loss of the ability to speak is therefore devastating to patients. A speech neuroprostheses that directly reconstructs speech processes from neural activity could provide a new means of communications to these severely affected patients. In this presentation, I will present some approaches to reconstruct different representations of speech from intracranial recordings and highlight how they can be used to build a speech neuroprosthesis. The decoding of speech processes is particularly challenging, as not only the neural, but also the target signal has complex, nonlinear dynamics. I will stress the use of interpretable machine learning models for this task to ensure that meaningful activity is decoded and scientific insights might be generated as a side product. *Bio:* Dr. Christian Herff is an assistant professor in the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience at Maastricht University where he leads the invasive BCI research line. His research interest lays in the application of machine learning technology to neurophysiological data for Brain-Computer Interfaces and neuroscience research. With a particular focus on the decoding of speech processes from intracranial data, he tries to improve the lives of severely paralyzed patients while simultaneously improving our understanding of complex higher order cognition. He emphasizes the ability to achieve interpretable results based on computational models. In particular, visualization of complex dynamic models, such as deep neural networks, is of interest to him. * Upcoming webinars:* · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 2025) · 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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CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab -- 3rd Call for Participation
by Firoj Alam 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '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

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Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, Cornell University
by heather froehlich 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Corpora-List, Please see below for a great postdoc position at Cornell on behalf of my colleague. *Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, Cornell University* Cornell University’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture (CIVIC) initiative seek a *Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, *to be based in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. We especially welcome applications from scholars engaging data-driven or computational methods in the humanities. The postdoctoral associate will collaborate closely with faculty and librarians as part of Cornell’s Digital Humanities CIVIC research fellows group <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ZbsyCWWA5rT68LlqES6fRToRKqK?domain=…> . Learn more about the position and apply at this link <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Q1l5CXYBgvf4ZPpKQHVhJTWBp2Z?domain=…> by March 21, 2025. The appointment period will begin on July 1, 2025. The pay range for this position is $61,008 - $87,000. Actual salary offers in the College of Arts and Sciences will be based on education, experience, discipline, and relevant skills. *Questions can be directed to Lindsay Thomas (lthomas(a)cornell.edu <lthomas(a)cornell.edu>), Associate Professor of Literatures in English. * *Iliana Burgos* (she/her) Emerging Data Practices Librarian Digital Scholarship Services <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/MH0MCYVDjwfDXWGl7I9iLTx8K0M?domain=…> Olin Library | Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro *this email address is for mailing list subscriptions only and is not monitored regularly.*

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Development set released: BioNLP @ACL 2025 Shared Task on Grounded Electronic Health Record Question Answering, ArchEHR-QA ("Archer")
by Soni, Sarvesh (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E] 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

We are excited to share that the ArchEHR-QA development set is now available via PhysioNet: * https://doi.org/10.13026/zzax-sy62 Shared Task Website: * https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Introduction to ArchEHR-QA 2025 Responding to patients’ medical inbox messages through patient portals is increasingly a contributor to clinician burden. To this end, automatically generating answers to questions from patients considering their medical records is important. The overarching goal of the ArchEHR-QA 2025 shared task is to develop automated responses to patients' questions by generating answers that are grounded in key clinical evidence from their electronic health records (EHRs). ArchEHR-QA Dataset The proposed dataset comprises hand-curated, realistic patient questions (reflective of patient portal messages), relevant focus areas identified within these questions (as determined by a clinician), corresponding clinician-rewritten versions (crafted to aid in formulating responses), and note excerpts providing essential clinical context. For more information and examples, please visit the shared task website at https://archehr-qa.github.io/. Important Dates (Tentative) * Release of the public and hidden test datasets: March 25 (Tuesday), 2025 * Submission of system responses: April 25 (Friday), 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): May 2 (Friday), 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 10 (Saturday), 2025 * BioNLP Workshop Date: July 31 (Thursday) OR August 1 (Friday), 2025 We are also looking for people to join the program committee, where the responsibilities will include reviewing papers. If you are interested, please send an email to sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov>. Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/archehr-qa Email: sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov> Looking forward to your participation, Sarvesh Soni, National Library of Medicine, US Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, US

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RAG Workshop on ICCS Meeting, Singapore 2025
by Magda Król 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues, I would like to inform you that the submission deadline for the Advances in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Specialized Domains Workshop, taking place in Singapore, has been extended. The new final deadline is March 7, 2025. This workshop is part of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2025), which will be held from July 7 to July 9, 2025, in Singapore. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical and rapidly evolving theme in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). By integrating traditional and modern information retrieval (IR) techniques with the generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs), RAG systems address key limitations related to knowledge updates and domain specificity. This approach is particularly valuable in high-stakes fields such as law, biology, physics, and medicine, where accuracy and reliability are paramount. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on RAG systems to discuss novel approaches, share insights, and explore emerging challenges in efficiency, scalability, domain adaptation, retrieval optimization, and evaluation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovations in RAG architectures and retrieval models * Techniques for improving efficiency, scalability, and storage * Domain-specific applications in legal, biomedical, and scientific fields * Fusion methods and retrieval optimization strategies * Evaluation benchmarks and robustness techniques * Ethical considerations, cross-lingual applications, and challenges in low-resource settings We encourage you to share this information with students and other potentially interested individuals. More details about the workshop, including submission guidelines, can be found on the official conference website: 🔗 ICCS 2025 – RAG Workshop [https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2025/] We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in fruitful discussions at the workshop. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Best regards, Best regards, Magda Król

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #15
by Costas Gabrielatos 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 7 March 2025, 3:15-4:30 pm (GMT). Topic: LLMs Speaker: Yannis Korkontzelos<https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/persons/yannis-korkontzelos> (Edge Hill University, UK) Title: Detecting Text generated by Large Language Models: A Novel Statistical Technique to address Paraphrasing The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Thursday 6 March. 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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IndiREAD Workshop – 1st Call for Papers
by Iza Škrjanec 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

*IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 1st Call for Papers* Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025 IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project "Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC <https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in…> and the MultiplEYE COST <https://multipleye.eu/> action "Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research". While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in identifying key factors that influence reading patterns—including text properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word predictability, and dependency length—recent studies have emphasized the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g., Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016; Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills, linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This informs our understanding of how text characteristics and individual reader attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading. IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in *investigating individual differences in reading using both experimental and computational approaches*. This workshop will focus on methods such as eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task, with particular interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with individual differences. We also encourage submissions of computational models for eye movements or reading behavior that shed light on the mechanisms behind these differences. The goal is to foster collaboration between experimental and computational researchers to better understand individual variability among readers. We especially welcome submissions of reading time experiments and modelling of languages beyond English. The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions: 1. How do individual differences impact the way people read? 2. How do reading patterns vary across different languages, particularly in bilinguals? 3. How do reading patterns change across the lifespan? 4. Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing variability in reading patterns? 5. How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and sentence processing across languages? 6. How can computational models account for individual differences in reading? 7. How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and comprehension among different individuals? 8. What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying latent groups and relating individual differences to reading performance? *Workshop dates*: November 26-27, 2025 Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in *Saarbrücken, Germany*. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well as contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number of submissions we receive. *Submission deadline*: July 23, 2025. We invite 1000-word abstracts from interested presenters. Information about submission and formatting will be available on our website soon. Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread Contact email: indiread(a)lst.uni-saarland.de Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action, which will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial, and priority will be given to junior researchers. Best, Iza Škrjanec IndiREAD Organizing Committee

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1st CFP - Mind the AI-GAP 2025 at HHAI 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

1st CALL FOR PAPERS First “Mind the AI-GAP 2025: Co-Designing Socio-Technical Systems” International Workshop at HHAI 2025 9/10 June 2025, Pisa, Italy https://aigap2025.isti.cnr.it/ **Important Dates** (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 7 April, 2025 Notification of acceptance: 2 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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1st CALL FOR PAPERS: ICNLSP 2025, 8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, August 25-26, 2025, Odense, Denmark
by Mourad Abbas 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '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 25-26, 2025. *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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Final Cfp: 6th AfricaNLP Workshop @ ACL 2025
by Constantine Lignos 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Final Call for Participation for the 6th AfricaNLP WorkshopCall For Papers The 6th AfricaNLP workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2025/home) will be co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. We invite your submissions with a deadline of March 7, 2025 (AoE). Submission Details We welcome submissions in the following formats: - Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages): Non-archival submissions. - Papers (4-8 pages): Authors can decide whether their submission is archival or non-archival. We encourage longer papers (more than 4 pages) to opt for archival submission. - ARR Submissions: We accept papers previously submitted to ARR. Papers must have been submitted to the ARR December 2024 cycle or an earlier cycle and have received reviews and a metareview. All submissions must not have been previously published in an archival venue. Formatting: Submissions must be anonymous and must follow the ACL template (LaTeX and Word formats available). The Overleaf template is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… Submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/AfricaNLP <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/AfricaNLP#tab-…> Important Dates - Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025 (AoE) - Acceptance Notification: April 17, 2025 (AoE) - Camera-ready Deadline: May 9, 2025 (AoE) - Workshop Date: July 31 or August 1, 2025 About AfricaNLP 2025 The AfricaNLP workshop has become a core event for the African NLP community and has drawn global attendance and interest for researchers working on African languages, African corpora, and tasks with importance in the African context. In the current landscape, large language models (LLMs) have seen widespread use and significant innovation, yet African languages remain underrepresented. To address this disparity, the theme for the 2025 workshop is "Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs." The workshop aspires to bring together a diverse group of researchers to explore solutions, collaborations, and innovation around enhancing LLMs’ capabilities in African languages and ensuring cultural awareness in their applications. This workshop has several aims: - Engage diverse stakeholders: invite a variety of speakers from industry, research networks and academia to get their perspectives on the state of multilingual and multicultural-aware LLMs in African languages. - Address challenges and opportunities: Provide a platform to discuss both the potential benefits and risks of deploying LLMs in African contexts. - Foster collaboration: Encourage interaction between academic, industry, and independent researchers to advance NLP for the African continent. - Bridge communities: Strengthen connections between the African linguistics and NLP communities, highlighting the importance of linguistic expertise for African languages. - Showcase African NLP: Provide a platform for the African NLP community to share their work with a global audience. - Promote inclusivity and mentorship: Support junior researchers and first-time authors through mentorship and engagement. Topics include, but are not limited to: - analyses of African languages by means of computational linguistics - empirical studies reporting results from applying or adapting NLP developed for high-resource languages to African languages - new model architectures tailored for African languages - new corpora for African languages - using NLP techniques on African datasets - text generation for African languages - methods addressing out-of-domain generalization for NLP tasks with training data in very limited domains - transfer learning between African languages or from higher-resourced to lower-resourced languages - challenges or solutions for resource gathering for African NLP tasks - crowd-sourcing and open-sourcing software for African NLP - multidisciplinary and participatory research in African NLP - tutorials for African NLP for education or development purposes - new resources for African NLP - development of NLP systems for African languages for production - socio-linguistic research for African languages and their decolonization - ethical considerations for African NLP This workshop follows the previously successful editions in 2020-24. It will be hybrid and co-located with ACL 2025. Keynote Speakers We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers: - Sebastian Ruder (Meta) - Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (UBC, MBZUAI) - Jesujoba Alabi (Saarland University) - Hellina Hailu Nigatu (UC Berkeley, MBZUAI) - Joyce Nabende (Makerere University) Contact For any questions, please contact the workshop organizers at africanlp-acl2025(a)googlegroups.com. We look forward to your submissions and participation. Best regards, AfricaNLP 2025 Organizers https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2025/home

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Second call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

*Release of trial corpora* *!!* ****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.

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12 pm UK time Open Research Group meeting
by Brezina, Vaclav 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Dear all, Please see the invitation below to our fortnightly meetings of Lancaster’s Open Research Group (in person and online). Between #naturalism and #conventionalism: 1. How does language differ from a stone? 2. How does what a linguist does differ from what a geologist does? Open research group meeting. 🕛 Today 12pm – 12.50pm Everybody is welcome forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka 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@01DB8836.EDE7BB00]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB8836.EDE7BB00]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Call for Participation in Our Upcoming Shared Task: Software Mention Detection (SOMD 2025)
by sharmila.upadhyaya＠gesis.org 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Dear all, We are excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming shared task, Software Mention Detection (SOMD) 2025 co-located with the SDP workshop, ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. This event is designed to encourage innovation and collaboration in the Information Extraction field, focusing on software mentioned in scholarly articles. Task Overview: Software plays an essential role in scientific research and is considered one of the crucial entity types in scholarly documents. However, the software is usually not cited formally in academic documents, resulting in various informal software mentions. Automatic identification and disambiguation of software mentions, related attributes, and the purpose of software mentions contributes to the better understanding, accessibility, and reproducibility of research but is a challenging task. This competition invites participants to develop a system that detects software mentions and their attributes as named entities from scholarly texts and classifies the relationships between these entity pairs. The dataset includes sentences from full-text scholarly documents annotated with Named Entities and Relations. Participation Details: To participate, please register using this link [https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5840/]. All necessary materials, including detailed task guidelines and data, will be provided upon registration. Competition Timeline Overview • Competition Registration starts on February 24, 2025 • First phase: Training and Test Dataset release: February 28, 2025 • The first phase ends on: March 18, 2025 • Second phase data release: March 18, 2025 • The competition ends on: April 3, 2025 • Paper submission deadline: April 17, 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2025 • Camera-ready Paper Deadline for Workshop: May 16, 2025. • Workshop Date: July 21-August 1, 2025 Successful entries will be featured in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP). For more detailed information about the task, including participation guidelines and data access, please visit our competition in codabench or our website and contact us directly. Looking forward to your participation. Warm Regards, Sharmila Upadhyaya FAIR Data Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (KTS) Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, D-50667 Cologne, Germany Email: sharmila.upadhyaya(a)gesis.org Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-725

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Call for participation in "Machine Translation Metrics for Indigenous languages" task, AmericasNLP 2025
by ali.marashian＠colorado.edu 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

The AmericasNLP 2025 Shared Task on machine translation metrics for Indigenous languages is a competition intended to motivate the advancement of automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation, with a focus on translation into Indigenous languages. Participants will build metrics to evaluate the quality of translations from Spanish into Guarani, Bribri, and Nahuatl. Many Indigenous languages of the Americas have linguistic characteristics that are uncommon in the languages typically studied in natural language processing (NLP). For example, Indigenous languages can often be polysynthetic, and they frequently lack orthographic standardization, both of which pose challenges for, e.g., the widely used BLEU and ChrF scores. The goal of the AmericasNLP 2025 shared task on machine translation metrics for Indigenous languages is to encourage researchers to tackle the challenge of creating automatic evaluation metrics for MT systems with a focus on Indigenous languages. Shared task description: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2025_st_3.html Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmV9gyab03pGGzzDJ9DohOf9AkDaZf_94… AmericasNLP will be held Albuquerque, New Mexico (NAACL 2025). The workshop date is May 4, 2025. Thanks, Ali, on behalf of the AmericasNLP team

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

*** Fourth 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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Call for Participation – IWSLT 2025 Model Compression Track
by Matteo Negri 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Apologies for cross-posting We are pleased to announce the Model Compression track <https://iwslt.org/2025/model-compression> at IWSLT 2025 <https://iwslt.org/2025/> (22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, in conjunction with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/>). Motivation Text and speech foundation models have revolutionized many natural language processing tasks, including speech-to-text translation. However, their large size and high computational demands present significant challenges for real-world deployment, particularly in resource-constrained environments such as mobile devices, embedded systems, and edge computing. Reducing the size of large, general-purpose models while preserving—or even enhancing—their performance in specific tasks or language settings is essential for making them more efficient, accessible, and sustainable. The Task in a Nutshell The Model Compression track evaluates participants’ ability to apply model compression techniques to a large multilingual speech-to-text model, the need for accessibility and deployment feasibility with the requirement for good performance in speech-to-text translation. Participants are invited to apply pruning, quantization, distillation, or other compression techniques to optimize Qwen2-Audio <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-Audio-7B> (8.2B parameters, 16GB storage) for English-German and English-Chinese speech translation. Submissions and Evaluation Submissions under either of the two allowed data conditions (constrained or unconstrained, depending on the datasets used to support the model compression process) will be categorized into five compression bins, ranging from less than 200MB to 4GB of storage demand, and evaluated based on model size and COMET <https://huggingface.co/Unbabel/wmt22-comet-da> translation scores. Multiple submissions are allowed, with human evaluation conducted for the top-performing models. Guidelines, details, and contact information For submission guidelines and further details, please visit the IWSLT 2025 Model Compression track web page <https://iwslt.org/2025/model-compression> or contact us at iwslt_offline_task_submission(a)fbk.eu. Conference Information IWSLT 2025 will be co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/>, taking place from 31 July to 1 August 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Important Dates - Test set release: April 1, 2025 - Submission of system outputs: April 15, 2025 - System description paper submission deadline: April 21, 2025 - Camera-ready deadline: June 1, 2025 - IWSLT conference in Vienna: July 31 – August 1, 2025 Best regards, Matteo Negri (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) On behalf of the IWSLT 2025 Model Compression track organizers: Marco Gaido (FBK), Marco Turchi (Zoom), Sebastian Stüker (Zoom), Jan Niehues (KIT) -- -- 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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Corpus webinar 27 February 11am-12pm UK time
by Brezina, Vaclav 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Dear all, On Thursday 27th Feb 11am-12pm UK time, we are running another one of our webinars, introducing Lancaster University's online programmes (MA, PG Certificate, short courses for credit) in Corpus Linguistics. This time, we will be also demonstrating the use of specialised software tools for the analysis of corpora (#LancsBox X and Lancaster Stats Tools online). Join us on Thursday by filling in this form (a link to a Teams meeting will be sent to you automatically) 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 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB8766.513C93A0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB8766.513C93A0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CfP: Journal of Digital Islamicate Research
by Mai Zaki 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Dear all, Pls read the CfP below and share with your academic networks. *Call for Papers – Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR)* *Issue: July 2025 | Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025* The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* (JDIR) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit original contributions for its upcoming issue, scheduled for publication in July 2025. As a peer-reviewed journal, JDIR is dedicated to advancing the intersection of Digital Humanities (DH) and Islamicate Studies, fostering innovative computational, analytical, and theoretical approaches to the study of Middle Eastern and Islamicate cultures—both past and present. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse studies that integrate Cultural Analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), visualization techniques, and other digital methodologies to examine the rich textual, visual, and material culture of the Islamicate world. We are especially interested in expanding our focus to include literary, artistic, and cultural production within the Islamicate world, encouraging contributions that explore how digital tools transform the study of Islamicate literature, aesthetic practices, media, and performance cultures across different historical periods and geographic regions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational and Quantitative Analyses of Islamicate Texts (Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Urdu, and other Middle Eastern languages) - Digital Methods in the Study of Islamicate Literature and Poetics - Visualization and Big Data Approaches to Islamicate Cultural Heritage - Applications of AI, NLP, and Machine Learning in Middle Eastern Digital Humanities - Corpus Linguistics and Stylometric Studies of Islamicate Writing Traditions - Islamicate Digital Archives, Repositories, and Text Encoding Initiatives - Non-Muslim Literary and Cultural Traditions in Islamicate Contexts (e.g., Geniza research, Judeo-Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, Persianate Jewish texts) - Digital Approaches to Islamic Manuscripts, Calligraphy, and Epigraphy - Mapping and GIS Analysis of Islamicate History and Cultural Networks - Computational Studies of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture - Digital Media and Islamicate Popular Culture: Film, Music, and Performance in Digital Contexts - Islamicate Digital-Born and Digitally-Reformatted Materials in the Contemporary World - Ethical Considerations in Digital Humanities and Islamicate Knowledge Production The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* accepts manuscripts in *English and Arabic*. Submissions should be made via the *Editorial Manager* on the journal website <https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?contents=editorialco…> . For inquiries or further information, please contact: jdir(a)brill.com We look forward to your contributions in shaping this exciting issue! Mai Zaki Co-editor in Chief Journal of Digital Islamicate Research

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CFP: NSLP 2025 – 2nd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs
by Georg Rehm 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025) 01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc) Portoroz, Slovenia (NSLP 2025 is co-located with ESWC 2025) https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/ Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and exploitation of scientific language and research knowledge graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2025 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2025 <https://2025.eswc-conferences.org/> to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia on 01 or 02 June 2025 (to be confirmed). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs (RKGs/SKGs) and other forms of structured scientific knowledge representation Information Extraction for RKGs/SKGs Question Answering over RKGs/SKGs Other types of usage of RKGs/SKGs for downstream applications Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) NSLP (monolingual, cross-lingual, multilingual) Language Resources and Language Technologies for NSLP Domain-specific Adaptation of NSLP Methods Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications Classification of Scholarly Publications (document collections, individual documents, parts of documents) Summarisation of Scholarly Publications Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information Bibliometrics and Scientometrics Micropublications and Nanopublications Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 06 March 2025 Notification of acceptance: 03 April 2025 Camera-ready submission: 17 April 2025 Workshop: 01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc) Submissions The NSLP 2025 workshop invites submissions of regular long papers, position papers, and short papers presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages without references and appendix) and short papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. In both categories, position papers can be submitted as well. Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix; all papers must be self-contained. Reviewing will be performed double-blind. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors. Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The proceedings of this workshop will be published as an Open Access volume in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), fully sponsored by the NFDI4DS project. At least one author per contribution must register for the conference for presentation as ESWC 2025 (including all workshops) is an in-person event. We will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop. All submissions are done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=nslp2025 Keynote Speaker Michele Pasin, Digital Science, UK Shared Tasks NSLP 2025 offers three shared tasks: Shared Task 1: MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents The MESD shared task aims to improve metadata extraction from scholarly publications to enhance their FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability). Given training data of 500 labelled scientific documents along with their extracted text, participants are asked to develop models that output metadata of nine predefined labels. A label-free test set of 100 samples will be released for final evaluation, where systems will be ranked based on F1 score using Levenshtein Similarity (≥90%). Shared Task 2: ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge Graph The ReadMe2KG shared task focuses on fine-grained Named Entity Recognition (NER) in GitHub README files to enhance the NFDI4DS knowledge graph. Participants will develop classifiers to identify 10 entity types, including “Dataset,” “Software,” and “Publication,” from a dataset of approximately 160 README files. The task aims to improve the integration of research-related metadata from GitHub repositories into the research data lifecycle. Shared Task 3: FoRC: Field of Research Classification The FoRC shared task aims to classify scientific documents into (sub-)topics according to a predefined schema. The second iteration of the task (see NSLP 2024 for the first) will focus on classifying computational linguistics publications taken from the ACL Anthology using the FoRC4CL data and taxonomy. Weakly supervised data will be added to FoRC4CL to create a bigger training corpus for classifying publications into 170 (sub-)topics of the field of computational linguistics. The NSLP 2025 website <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/> provides more information on the shared tasks. Organisers of NSLP 2025 Georg Rehm, DFKI & HU Berlin, Germany Sonja Schimmler, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Stefan Dietze, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf, Germany Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece Contact Georg Rehm <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de <mailto:georg.rehm@dfki.de>>

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ClinIQLink 2025 – Public Sample Dataset Now Available
by Brandon 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the ClinIQLink 2025 public sample dataset has been released and is now available at: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_Sample-dataset This sample dataset provides a representative subset of our full dataset, allowing participants to: * Familiarize themselves with the question format * Test their models before the full evaluation * Benchmark performance and refine their approaches About ClinIQLink 2025 ClinIQLink 2025 is an evaluation task as part of the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025, assessing the ability of generative AI models to produce factually accurate medical information, particularly in knowledge retrieval for hallucination detection. See more on our challenge page<https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/> Upcoming Key Dates * March 01, 2025 – Release of the Testing Dataset & Evaluation Framework on CodaBench * April 15, 2025 – System submission deadline * May 15, 2025 – Paper submission deadline * July 31, 2025 – BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 Useful Links * Official Challenge Page: https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/ * ClinIQLink on CodaBench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5117/ * Sample Dataset: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_Sample-dataset If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Brandon Colelough at brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>. We look forward to your participation in this exciting initiative. Kind regards, Brandon Colelough (He / Him) [News, Events, and Updates]NIH Fellow | Fulbright Scholar | ADF Signals Officer | Electrical Engineer National Institutes of Health – National Library of Medicine (LHC) M: +61 481 269 667<tel:+61481269667> (AUS) | M: +1 (202) 367-7230<tel:+12023677230> (US) E: brandcol(a)umd.edu<mailto:brandcol@umd.edu> | E: brandon.colelough(a)gmail.com<mailto:brandon.colelough@gmail.com> L: www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-colelough<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linked…>

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CFP: The First Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
by Neele Falk 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

*** 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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First CfP for papers R2CASS2025@ICWSM 2025: International workshop on "Social Science Meets Web Data: Reproducible and Reusable Computational Approaches"
by taimoor.nlp＠gmail.com 22 Feb '25

22 Feb '25

R2CASS 2025: International workshop on "Social Science Meets Web Data: Reproducible and Reusable Computational Approaches" Co-located with ICWSM 2025: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media Copenhagen, Denmark | June 23, 2025 Workshop website: https://r2cass2025.wordpress.com/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/R2CASS2025 ------------------------------- 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

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2nd CFP: 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) @ACL 2025
by Georg Rehm 22 Feb '25

22 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate in the 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) to be held at ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. SDP 2025 will consist of a research track and five shared tasks. The call for research papers is described below, and more details can be found on our website, https://sdproc.org/2025/ <https://sdproc.org/2025/>. Papers must follow the ACL format and conform to the ACL 2025 Submission Guidelines. Paper submission has to be done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc> Website: https://sdproc.org/2025/ <https://sdproc.org/2025/> Submission site: <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc>> X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sdpworkshop <https://twitter.com/sdpworkshop> Shared tasks: https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html <https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html> Paper submission deadline: March 1 (Saturday), 2025 Call for Research Papers Scholarly literature is the chief means by which scientists and academics document and communicate their results and is therefore critical to the advancement of knowledge and improvement of human well-being. At the same time, this literature poses challenges to NLP uncommon in other genres, such as specialized language and high background knowledge requirements, long documents and strong structural conventions, multimodal presentation, citation relationships among documents, an emphasis on rational argumentation, and the frequent availability of detailed metadata and experimental data. These challenges necessitate the development of NLP methods and resources optimized for this domain. The Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop provides a venue for discussing these challenges, bringing together stakeholders from different communities including computational linguistics, machine learning, text mining, information retrieval, digital libraries, scientometrics and others, to develop methods, tasks, and resources in support of these goals. This workshop builds on the success of prior workshops: SDP workshops held at EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, COLING 2022, and ACL 2024, and the 1st and 2nd SciNLP workshops held at AKBC 2020 and 2021. In addition to having broad appeal within the NLP community, we hope the SDP workshop will attract researchers from other relevant fields including meta-science, scientometrics, data mining, information retrieval, and digital libraries, bringing together these disparate communities within ACL. Topics of Interest We invite submissions from all communities demonstrating usage of and challenges associated with natural language processing, information retrieval, and data mining of scholarly and scientific documents. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): Large Language Models (LLMs) for science Representation learning and language modeling Information extraction and NER Document understanding Summarization and generation Question-answering Discourse modeling/argumentation mining Network analysis Bibliometrics, scientometrics, and altmetrics Reproducibility and research integrity, including new challenges posed by generative AI Peer review tools, principles and technology Metadata and indexing Inclusion of datasets and computational resources Research infrastructures and digital libraries Increasing the representation in scholarly work of disadvantaged populations LLM-based interfaces to consume/produce scholarly documents Impact of scholarly communication on popular discourse Submission Information Authors are invited to submit full and short papers with unpublished, original work. Submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (proceedings from previous years can be found here: https://aclanthology.org/venues/sdp/ <https://aclanthology.org/venues/sdp/>), which will be published in the ACL Anthology. The submissions must be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All submissions must be written in English and follow the ACL 2025 formatting requirements: Long paper submissions: up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Short paper submissions: up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Submission Website: Paper submission has to be done through openreview: <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc>> Final versions of accepted papers will be allowed 1 additional page of content so that reviewer comments can be taken into account. Important Dates (Main Research Track) First call for workshop papers: December 19, 2024 Second call for workshop papers: February 21, 2025 Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: May 16, 2025 Workshop dates: July 31 – August 1, 2025 Note: Shared task submission deadlines and other important dates to be announced. SDP 2024 Keynote Speakers We are excited to have several keynote speakers at SDP 2025. Tom Hope <https://tomhoper.github.io/>, Assistant Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI. James A. Evans <https://sociology.uchicago.edu/directory/James-A-Evans>, Professor and Director of the Knowledge Lab at University of Chicago and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. TBA SDP 2025 Shared Tasks SDP 2025 will host six exciting shared tasks. More information about all shared tasks is provided on the workshop website:https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html <https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html> Detecting automatically generated scientific papers (DAGPap 25) A big problem with the ubiquity of Generative AI is that it has now become very easy to generate fake scientific papers. This can erode public trust in science and attack the foundations of science: are we standing on the shoulders of robots? The Detecting Automatically Generated Papers (DAGPAP) competition aims to encourage the development of robust, reliable AI-generated scientific text detection systems, utilizing a diverse dataset and varied machine learning models in a number of scientific domains. Organizers: Savvas Chamezopoulos, Dan Li, Anita de Waard (Elsevier). Contextualizing Scientific Figures and Tables (Context 25) Interpreting scientific claims in the context of empirical findings is a valuable practice, yet extremely time-consuming for researchers. Such interpretation requires identifying key results (often captured in tables and figures) that provide supporting evidence from research papers, and contextualizing these results with associated methodological details (e.g., measures, sample, etc.). During the previous version of this shared task in 2024, we released datasets to support the development of methods for automatic identification of key result figures or tables as well as additional grounding context to make claim interpretation more efficient. However, the released datasets contained tables and images already extracted from the scientific papers to allow participants to bypass PDF pre-processing issues. In Context 2025, given recent advances in multimodal LLMs, we plan to extend the difficulty of this task by requiring participants to identify key results from paper PDFs directly, and add a new sub-task on multi-hop reasoning over scientific evidence. Organizers: Joel Chan, Matthew Akamatsu, Aakanksha Naik Scientific Visual Question Answering (SciVQA) 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 the SciVQA challenge, the participants will develop multimodal systems capable of efficiently processing both visual (i.e., addressing attributes such as colour, shape, size, etc.) and non-visual QA pairs based on images of scientific figures and their captions. Organizers: Ekaterina Borisova, Georg Rehm Scientific Fact-checking of Social Media Posts on Climate Change (ClimateCheck) The ClimateCheck shared task focuses on fact-checking claims from social media about climate change against peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Participants will retrieve relevant publications from a corpus of 400,000 climate research articles and classify each abstract as supporting, refuting, or not having enough information about the claim. Training data will include human-annotated claim-publication pairs, and the evaluation will combine nDCG@K and Bpref for retrieval and F1 score for classification. The task aims to develop models that link social media claims to scientific evidence, promoting informed and evidence-based discussions on climate change. Organizers: Raia Abu Ahmad, Georg Rehm Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications (SOMD 25) Software plays an essential role in computational research methods and is considered one of the crucial entities in scholarly documents. However, software mentions are not always cited in academic documents, resulting in various informal mentions of software across a paper. Automatic identification of such software mention contributes to the better understanding, accessibility, and reproducibility of the research work. In addition to the mention of software, to understand the research context, it is necessary to understand the purpose of a software mention and its attributes, making software mention detection a comprehensive task. We are extending our first iteration of the shared task SOMD 2024 <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html> with new challenges. In addition to information extraction techniques, our extended focus would be on Joint Named Entity and Relation Classification techniques. Organizers: Sharmila Upadhyaya, Frank Krueger, Stefan Dietze SciHal2025: Hallucination Detection for Scientific Content Generative AI-enhanced academic research assistants are transforming how research is conducted. By allowing users to pose research-related questions in natural language, these systems can generate structured and concise summaries supported by relevant references. However, hallucinations — unsupported claims introduced by large language models — remain a significant obstacle to fully trusting these automatically generated scientific answers. Organizing Committee Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Philipp Mayr, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Aakanksha Naik, Allen Institute for AI, USA Amanpreet Singh, Allen Institute for AI, USA Anita de Waard, Elsevier, Netherlands Dayne Freitag, SRI International, USA Georg Rehm, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany Sonja Schimmler, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Dan Li, Elsevier, Netherlands

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2nd CFP: 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) @ACL 2025
by Tirthankar Ghosal 22 Feb '25

22 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate in the 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) to be held at ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. SDP 2025 will consist of a research track and five shared tasks. The call for research papers is described below, and more details can be found on our website, https://sdproc.org/2025/. Papers must follow the *ACL format* and conform to the *ACL 2025 Submission Guidelines*. Paper submission has to be done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc - Website: https://sdproc.org/2025/ - Submission site: < https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc> - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sdpworkshop - Shared tasks: https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html - *Paper submission deadline: March 1 (Saturday), 2025* Call for Research Papers Scholarly literature is the chief means by which scientists and academics document and communicate their results and is therefore critical to the advancement of knowledge and improvement of human well-being. At the same time, this literature poses challenges to NLP uncommon in other genres, such as specialized language and high background knowledge requirements, long documents and strong structural conventions, multimodal presentation, citation relationships among documents, an emphasis on rational argumentation, and the frequent availability of detailed metadata and experimental data. These challenges necessitate the development of NLP methods and resources optimized for this domain. The Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop provides a venue for discussing these challenges, bringing together stakeholders from different communities including computational linguistics, machine learning, text mining, information retrieval, digital libraries, scientometrics and others, to develop methods, tasks, and resources in support of these goals. This workshop builds on the success of prior workshops: SDP workshops held at EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, COLING 2022, and ACL 2024, and the 1st and 2nd SciNLP workshops held at AKBC 2020 and 2021. In addition to having broad appeal within the NLP community, we hope the SDP workshop will attract researchers from other relevant fields including meta-science, scientometrics, data mining, information retrieval, and digital libraries, bringing together these disparate communities within ACL. Topics of Interest We invite submissions from all communities demonstrating usage of and challenges associated with natural language processing, information retrieval, and data mining of scholarly and scientific documents. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - Large Language Models (LLMs) for science - Representation learning and language modeling - Information extraction and NER - Document understanding - Summarization and generation - Question-answering - Discourse modeling/argumentation mining - Network analysis - Bibliometrics, scientometrics, and altmetrics - Reproducibility and research integrity, including new challenges posed by generative AI - Peer review tools, principles and technology - Metadata and indexing - Inclusion of datasets and computational resources - Research infrastructures and digital libraries - Increasing the representation in scholarly work of disadvantaged populations - LLM-based interfaces to consume/produce scholarly documents - Impact of scholarly communication on popular discourse Submission Information Authors are invited to submit full and short papers with unpublished, original work. Submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (proceedings from previous years can be found here: https://aclanthology.org/venues/sdp/), which will be published in the ACL Anthology. The submissions must be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All submissions must be written in English and follow the ACL 2025 formatting requirements: *Long paper submissions:* up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. *Short paper submissions:* up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. *Submission Website:* Paper submission has to be done through openreview: <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc> Final versions of accepted papers will be allowed 1 additional page of content so that reviewer comments can be taken into account. Important Dates (Main Research Track) - First call for workshop papers: December 19, 2024 - Second call for workshop papers: February 21, 2025 - *Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2025* - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 - Camera-ready paper due: May 16, 2025 - Workshop dates: July 31 – August 1, 2025 Note: Shared task submission deadlines and other important dates to be announced. SDP 2024 Keynote Speakers We are excited to have several keynote speakers at SDP 2025. 1. *Tom Hope* <https://tomhoper.github.io/>, Assistant Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI. 2. *James A. Evans* <https://sociology.uchicago.edu/directory/James-A-Evans>, Professor and Director of the Knowledge Lab at University of Chicago and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. 3. *TBA* SDP 2025 Shared Tasks SDP 2025 will host six exciting shared tasks. More information about all shared tasks is provided on the workshop website: https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html *Detecting automatically generated scientific papers (DAGPap 25)* A big problem with the ubiquity of Generative AI is that it has now become very easy to generate fake scientific papers. This can erode public trust in science and attack the foundations of science: are we standing on the shoulders of robots? The Detecting Automatically Generated Papers (DAGPAP) competition aims to encourage the development of robust, reliable AI-generated scientific text detection systems, utilizing a diverse dataset and varied machine learning models in a number of scientific domains. Organizers: Savvas Chamezopoulos, Dan Li, Anita de Waard (Elsevier). *Contextualizing Scientific Figures and Tables (Context 25)* Interpreting scientific claims in the context of empirical findings is a valuable practice, yet extremely time-consuming for researchers. Such interpretation requires identifying key results (often captured in tables and figures) that provide supporting evidence from research papers, and contextualizing these results with associated methodological details (e.g., measures, sample, etc.). During the previous version of this shared task in 2024, we released datasets to support the development of methods for automatic identification of key result figures or tables as well as additional grounding context to make claim interpretation more efficient. However, the released datasets contained tables and images already extracted from the scientific papers to allow participants to bypass PDF pre-processing issues. In Context 2025, given recent advances in multimodal LLMs, we plan to extend the difficulty of this task by requiring participants to identify key results from paper PDFs directly, and add a new sub-task on multi-hop reasoning over scientific evidence. Organizers: Joel Chan, Matthew Akamatsu, Aakanksha Naik *Scientific Visual Question Answering (SciVQA)* 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 the SciVQA challenge, the participants will develop multimodal systems capable of efficiently processing both visual (i.e., addressing attributes such as colour, shape, size, etc.) and non-visual QA pairs based on images of scientific figures and their captions. Organizers: Ekaterina Borisova, Georg Rehm *Scientific Fact-checking of Social Media Posts on Climate Change (ClimateCheck)* The ClimateCheck shared task focuses on fact-checking claims from social media about climate change against peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Participants will retrieve relevant publications from a corpus of 400,000 climate research articles and classify each abstract as supporting, refuting, or not having enough information about the claim. Training data will include human-annotated claim-publication pairs, and the evaluation will combine nDCG@K and Bpref for retrieval and F1 score for classification. The task aims to develop models that link social media claims to scientific evidence, promoting informed and evidence-based discussions on climate change. Organizers: Raia Abu Ahmad, Georg Rehm *Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications (SOMD 25)* Software plays an essential role in computational research methods and is considered one of the crucial entities in scholarly documents. However, software mentions are not always cited in academic documents, resulting in various informal mentions of software across a paper. Automatic identification of such software mention contributes to the better understanding, accessibility, and reproducibility of the research work. In addition to the mention of software, to understand the research context, it is necessary to understand the purpose of a software mention and its attributes, making software mention detection a comprehensive task. We are extending our first iteration of the shared task SOMD 2024 <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html> with new challenges. In addition to information extraction techniques, our extended focus would be on Joint Named Entity and Relation Classification techniques. Organizers: Sharmila Upadhyaya, Frank Krueger, Stefan Dietze *SciHal2025: Hallucination Detection for Scientific Content* Generative AI-enhanced academic research assistants are transforming how research is conducted. By allowing users to pose research-related questions in natural language, these systems can generate structured and concise summaries supported by relevant references. However, hallucinations — unsupported claims introduced by large language models — remain a significant obstacle to fully trusting these automatically generated scientific answers. Organizing Committee - Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Philipp Mayr, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany - Aakanksha Naik, Allen Institute for AI, USA - Amanpreet Singh, Allen Institute for AI, USA - Anita de Waard, Elsevier, Netherlands - Dayne Freitag, SRI International, USA - Georg Rehm, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany - Sonja Schimmler, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany - Dan Li, Elsevier, Netherlands

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Second CFP: The 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2025), held jointly with FieldMatters workshop on NLP Application for Field Linguistics
by Kat Vylomova 22 Feb '25

22 Feb '25

To be held at ACL 2025, running jointly with FieldMatters (July 31 or August 1 in Vienna, Austria) Workshop description The aim of the 7th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. Our workshop will serve as a platform to enable fruitful discussions. In 2025, we would additionally focus on the utility of LLMs for typological research. SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they relate to the areas of the workshop: - Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. In addition to established techniques such as “selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encoding heterogeneous external knowledge in machine learning algorithms? - Development of unified taxonomy and resources. Building universal databases and models to facilitate understanding and processing of diverse languages. - Automatic inference of typological features. The pros and cons of existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural models) and discussion on emerging ones. - Typology and interpretability. The use of typological knowledge for interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models, multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of texts. - Improvement and completion of typological databases. Combining linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals. - Linguistic diversity and universals. Challenges of cross-lingual annotation. Which linguistic phenomena or categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? - Using LLMs for typological studies. Can LLMs be utilised to formulate or prove typological hypotheses? Are they capable of making useful cross-linguistic generalisations? - Extra topics also include: generation of constructed languages, universals in diachronic languages changes, information-theoretic approaches to typology, automated approaches to etymology. Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE) Direct submission deadline: March 1, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 Camera-ready paper deadline: May 16, 2025 Workshop dates: July 31st or August 1st 2025 Submissions We invite both extended abstract submissions (non-archival) and general paper submissions (archival). The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should not exceed two (2) pages. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, at the same time ensuring that interesting and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages papers. Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person. Submissions must follow the ACL 2025 stylesheet https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files; both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. These should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SIGTYP. Organizing Committee Michael Hahn, Priya Rani, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Aleksey Sorokin, Ryan Cotterell and Kat Vylomova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com

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AI for Research Data Management, Workshop AIRDeM @ ESWC 2025
by khuram shehzad 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Dear Researchers, Are you exploring AI-driven solutions for Research Data Management (RDM)? Join us at AIRDeM 2025 <https://ai4rdm.github.io/AIRDeM/>, a workshop at ESWC 2025 <https://2025.eswc-conferences.org/> (June 1-5, Portoroz, Slovenia), to discuss AI applications enhancing RDM and FAIR principles for research data. Topics include but not limited to: - Automated Metadata Generation - FAIR Metrics & AI - Knowledge Graphs for RDM - AI for Data Summarization & Querying - Automated Data Cleaning & Harmonization - AI-Driven Data Interoperability - Explainable AI in RDM - Domain-Specific AI for RDM - Collaborative AI for RDM Challenges - Neuro-Symbolic AI for Data Management We invite full papers, short papers, demos, and position papers, as well as submissions for our collaborative "Bring Your Challenge" session—where real-world RDM problems meet innovative AI solutions! - Submission Deadline: March 20, 2025 - Submit your work here: [Submission page] <https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77706/submissions/new?behalf=false&f…> Let’s shape the future of RDM together! Best, Hajira & AIRDeM Organizing Team

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1st Call for Papers: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

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

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3rd CFP-GITT-2025 at MT Summit 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 20 Feb '25

20 Feb '25

3rd CALL FOR PAPERS 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 Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 10 March, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 4 April, 2025 Camera Ready Copy due: 11 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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Interdisciplinary postdoc position at IT University of Copenhagen
by Anna Rogers 20 Feb '25

20 Feb '25

The Data Science section at the IT University of Copenhagen has an open position for a postdoc, on the topic of *scaling up qualitative interviews with Large Language Models* (LLMs). The project is a collaboration with the Center for Social Data Science <https://sodas.ku.dk/> at the university of Copenhagen. This is a NLP position, but some relevant background in social sciences or psychology is a plus. *Application deadline is March 17 2025*. Applications can be submitted via ITU job portal: Application link: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… IT University of Copenhagen is the leading Danish university dedicated to various aspects of IT technology, and Copenhagen is one of the happiest and most livable cities in the world. The candidates will be part of NLPNorth research group <https://nlpnorth.github.io/> (with 5 full-time faculty working in various areas of NLP), as well as Pioneer Center for AI <https://www.aicentre.dk/>. The postdoc will be hosted by Assoc. Prof. Anna Rogers <https://annargrs.github.io/>, to whom inquiries about the project can be directed (arog(a)itu.dk). The domain expert on this project is Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen (sociology, hc(a)sodas.ku.dk). -- Anna Rogers Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen http://annargrs.github.io/

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Linguistic Accessibility of Legal Texts: Challenges, Methods, and Applications
by Špela Arhar Holdt 20 Feb '25

20 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, The scientific journal Slovenščina 2.0 (diamond open-access; indexed in Scopus, ERIH PLUS, COBISS.si, dLib.si, DOAJ, Sherpa Romeo, Linguistic Bibliography, and CNKI) warmly invites you to submit abstracts for a special issue dedicated to linguistic accessibility in legal and administrative language. Contributions may address various aspects of linguistic accessibility, including linguistic characteristics of legal and administrative texts, user studies, specialized language resources, technologies, and tools, as well as related social and ethical issues. Empirical and interdisciplinary studies are particularly appreciated. Abstracts (450–550 words) may be submitted in English and Slovenian and should be sent by *March 31, 2025*, to senja.pollak(a)ijs.si and spela.arharholdt(a)ff.uni-lj.si. More information: https://journals.uni-lj.si/slovenscina2/announcement. We look forward to your contributions! Špela Arhar Holdt

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CfP: Deadline Extension for Challenges Proposals at ISWC 2025 (March 4)
by Genet Asefa Gesese 20 Feb '25

20 Feb '25

CfP: Deadline Extension for Challenges Proposals at ISWC 2025 (March 4) 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 A great way to advance the state of the art in a given domain is to create competition. We invite you to propose an ISWC 2025 Challenge, in which you define an open competition on a problem of your choice within the Semantic Web domain. Topics: For ISWC 2025, Challenge proposals are invited for any challenge involving Semantic Web tasks, including but not limited to: - Ontology and knowledge graph alignment - Ontology and knowledge graph quality assurance (QA) - Knowledge graph construction and refinement - Graph embeddings and graph neural networks - Query and reasoning scalability - Open information extraction - Neurosymbolic reasoning - Semantic Web and data mining - Semantic Web, machine learning, and neuro-symbolic AI - Link prediction - Question answering - Stream processing and reasoning - Semantic table understanding - Agents (especially using neuro-symbolic methods) and agentic workflows - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Proposal Stage: ISWC 2025 will run multiple challenges with the aim of evaluating and comparing software solutions for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs in a systematic way. To propose a challenge, you are required to: - Specify a task to be addressed. - Provide an evaluation dataset. - Define evaluation measures to compare the performance of participating systems. Important Date: Challenge proposal submission due March 4th, 2025 Website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/challenges Semantic Web Challenge Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-challenge(a)easychair.org Mayank Kejriwal University of Southern California, United States Pablo Mendes Upwork, United States 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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Short-term research position in Computational Social Science
by Ines Rehbein 20 Feb '25

20 Feb '25

The Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Group at the University of Mannheim invites applications for a short-term position for ONE RESEARCHER (all genders welcome) IN COMPUTATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE / DATA SCIENCE / COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS / STATISTICAL NLP The position is affiliated to the interdisciplinary research project Uncovering ideological frames in political discourses (UNCOVER) headed by Ines Rehbein [1] and Simone Ponzetto [2]. We are looking for a highly motivated candidate to conduct research in the area of NLP for political science. The candidate should have a strong interest and background in one or several of the following areas * computational political science * NLP / data science / text-as-data * computational linguistics / semantic text processing with a strong drive for interdisciplinary research and high proficiency in German. Candidates should have a Masters degree in Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science, Data Science, Political Science or related areas. The position will be located at the Data and Web Science Group (DWS) of the University of Mannheim, one of leading centers for Data Science in Germany (more information can be found at http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de). Duration: The position will be available for 6 to 9 months and can be arranged as a full or part-time position. Salary range: according to German public scale TV-L 13. Applications can be made per e-mail (rehbein(a)uni-mannheim.de) and should include a short research statement, CV, copy of university degrees and transcripts. All documents should be e-mailed as a single PDF. All applications sent before March, 10, 2025 will receive full consideration. The position remains open until filled. Please feel free to contact Ines Rehbein (rehbein(a)uni-mannheim.de) for informal enquiries. The University of Mannheim is committed to increase the percentage of female scientists and encourages female applicants to apply. Among candidates of equal aptitude and qualifications, a person with disabilities will be given preference. Please note that threats to confidentiality and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating by unencrypted e-mail. The information on the collection of personal data from the data subject pursuant to Article 13 DS-GVO can be found on our homepage: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/universitaet/stellenanzeigen/datenschutz-bei-be…. [1] https://www.uni-mannheim.de/dws/people/researchers/postdoctoral-research-fe… [2] https://www.uni-mannheim.de/dws/people/professors/prof-dr-simone-paolo-ponz… -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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10th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference
by Brett Hashimoto 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues, The 10th annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference will be held on Friday, October 24, 2025 at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah. The keynote address will be delivered by Abbe Gluck, the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels. We are open to submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * applications of corpus linguistics to constitutional, statutory, contract, patent, trademark, probate, administrative, and criminal law in any state or nation; * philosophical, normative, and pragmatic commentary on the use of corpus linguistics in the law; * triangulation between corpus linguistics and other empirical methods in legal interpretation; * corpus-based analysis of legal discourse or topics; * best practices in corpus design and corpus linguistic methods in legal settings. The proposal deadline is May 15, 2025. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 750 words and complete contact information for presenters. Please send proposals to byulawcorpus(a)law.byu.edu<mailto:byulawcorpus@law.byu.edu>. We hope you'll consider submitting a proposal! Sincerely, LCL 2025 Conference Organizing Committee (Tom Lee, Jesse Egbert, Brett Hashimoto, James Heilpern, James Phillips)

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[Cfp] 2nd Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025
by Beyza Yaman 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Second 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. Beyza Yaman ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin

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Funded doctoral researcher positions in digital linguistics and NLP at Uni Turku, Finland
by Veronika Laippala 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Dear all, University of Turku, Finland, invites applications for **fully funded doctoral researcher positions in digital linguistics and NLP, in the TurkuNLP research group**. The positions are part of the Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Future (HAIF) doctoral training programme, co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (grant agreement No 101177564). Please find more information on the program and application procedure below! Best, Veronika Laippala HAIF is a doctoral programme for 25 doctoral researchers hosted by the University of Turku. HAIF unites research groups from the fields of computing, materials science, social sciences, law, humanities, and health sciences. HAIF doctoral researchers will conduct novel research under the guidance of scientifically distinguished and experienced supervisors. By connecting 11 research groups from 5 faculties, HAIF aims to create a cohesive, synergistic, and interdisciplinary research community. The global network of associated partners, representing various industries and third-sector organisations, in addition to universities and research institutes, are committed to supporting the HAIF doctoral training. This training features 4–6-month secondments during the years 2027–2029 and a variety of other educational activities. HAIF’s objective is to provide training that promotes the safe, secure, legally, and ethically sustainable use of AI, with an emphasis on humans as developers, users, and decision-subjects affected by the technology. In addition to individual and societal perspectives, HAIF’s research themes delve into the technological properties that shape interactions between humans and AI systems (e.g., transparency, interpretability, reliability, and accountability). HAIF doctoral researchers will be selected through a transparent, merit-based process with equity and inclusivity as cross-cutting priorities. The call for applications for the HAIF doctoral researcher positions is open until Friday, 28 February, at 15:00 (Helsinki/Europe). An eligible applicant is an early-stage researcher (no doctoral degree) who holds a Master’s degree in a relevant discipline. Based on the EU mobility rule, the applicant must not have resided in Finland for more than 12 months in the last 36 months. Read more about HAIF and find the guide for applicants on the website: https://haif.utu.fi/ Here is the direct link to the online application system: https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/25-doctoral-researcher-positions-in-msca-…

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Call for application to KnitTogether'25 Research Summit
by Neele Falk 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

*THE 1ST EUROPEAN CL RESEARCH SUMMIT FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS* We invite junior researchers in computational linguistics and NLP to join us for an exciting week in the Swiss mountains! This call invites participants to apply for the summit by completing a non-binding registration form. Upon acceptance, participants will receive a final binding registration form. *Registration Form* Please register via the following registration form: https://forms.gle/kZpFnbGETwAXgxbWA <https://forms.gle/kZpFnbGETwAXgxbWA> *About KnitTogether:* Great research arises from amazing collaborations. However, establishing collaborations is challenging, and it depends on the context of the institution, the supervision, existing networks, and one’s personality. With *KnitTogether25*, we invite NLP researchers, particularly junior ones who work on *Bias in NLP and Its Societal Impacts,* to spend an exciting week in the Swiss mountains. In a growing community dealing with a topic that is gaining increasing societal influence and relevance, we want to join forces and exchange ideas. What can we learn from each other? In particular, but not limited to, we would like to explore: a) Which groups are under-/overrepresented or represented to their disadvantage? b) How can we incorporate such factors into modeling? c) How can we analyze them? We would like to hear the different perspectives of the participants: How do you relate your work to the topic? Using innovative and playful methods, we want to learn more about the work of our peers and thus get to know each other better /scientifically/. During a week full of hikes and other fun activities, the goal is to get to know each other without hurdles, draft ideas, and discuss research. We want to create a safe space where everyone can openly discuss their work and ideas without academic pressure. Program * Workshops * Peer-to-peer tutorials * Keynotes * Mentoring sessions * Brainstorming sessions * Social activities *Important Dates* * *February 28, 2025 (AoE)*: registration deadline * *May 5-10, 2025:* Retreat Date Workshop Location * Wildhaus, Switzerland *Workshop Fees* * *Registration fee:* ~ 60 Euros (includes accommodation and food, excludes travel costs). * Application for *additional travel subsidies* is possible. Website * https://knittogether.github.io/kt25/ <https://knittogether.github.io/kt25/> *Organizers* * Esra Dönmez (University of Stuttgart) * Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart) * Florian Schneider (University of Hamburg) * Andreas Waldis (TU Darmstadt, University of Lucerne) *Contact* For any questions, please contact the organizers at /knittogethernlp(a)gmail.com/ <mailto:knittogethernlp@gmail.com> Best Regards, KnitTogether25 Organizers *---------------------------------------------* *Sponsors* We would like to thank*IRIS*(Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems),*HSLU*(University of Lucerne) and*GSCL*(German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology) for sponsoring this event.

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PROFE 2025 @ IberLEF 2025 - Call for Participation
by ALVARO RODRIGO YUSTE 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '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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CIRCE Online Seminar 24/02/2025 - Dr. Francesca Gallina "Textbooks, ideologies and language education. An overview from different countries' teaching materials"
by Claudia Soria 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

🎓 CIRCE Seminar: Textbooks, ideologies and language education. An overview from different countries' teaching materials Dr. Francesca Gallina, University of Pisa, Italy Date: February 24, 2025 Time: 16:30 – 17:30 (CET) Venue: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors The CIRCE project <https://www.circe-project.eu> is pleased to announce the online seminar ‘Textbooks, ideologies and language education. An overview from different countries' teaching materials’ organized in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena, H2IOSC project and CNR ILC. Abstract: Textbooks play a pivotal role in language education, even in the era of internet and AI. For both learners and teachers, textbooks are something they use daily in the processes of learning and teaching, in the classroom or at home. According to Curdt-Christiansen and Weninger (2015) textbooks are sociocultural materials, they have the power to represent and position ideas, values and beliefs, namely they can legitimate an ideology, reflect a particular ideology and in this perspective, they can shape identity of learners. To explore textbooks as sociocultural products, we will analyze a sample of textbooks from different countries and focus on the following aspects: plurilingualism, theoretical approach, language activities, metalinguistic analysis and variation. Examples from textbooks will be presented and discussed. About the speaker: Francesca Gallina is Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pisa. She completed her PhD in Linguistics and didactic of Italian as L2 in 2009 with a dissertation on the development of the lexical competence of learners of Italian as a second language at the University for Foreigners of Siena. Her main research interest areas are: educational linguistics, L2 vocabulary acquisition, language contact and multilingualism, impact of language policies on the development of L2 teaching and learning processes. Her last publications are “Italiano di contatto e didattica plurilingue” (Cesati, 2021), “Osservare e valutare la competenza lessicale in italiano L2” (2022). The seminar will be hosted on the H2IOSC Training Environment to allow everyone interested to access a registration of the event. The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. Further details and the link to register here: https://www.circe-project.eu/circe-online-seminar-series/ -- facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> twitter <https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> instagram <https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Claudia Soria CNR, ISTITUTO DI LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE "ANTONIO ZAMPOLLI" claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it Tel. 0503153166 Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 – Pisa www.ilc.cnr.it *www.cnr.it* <http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586

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Funded post-doc: Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Language, Discourse and Society
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

We are offering a postdoctoral fellowship with the Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo , Brazil, funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Grant #2022/05848-7. Successful applicants will contribute research to at least one of the following topics: 1.Development and refinement of methodologies and innovative resources for MD Analysis; 2. MD description of register variation across different languages and domains; 3. MD identification of discourse surrounding socially relevant issues in the contemporary world. A full-time commitment of 40 hours per week is required. Applicants must have obtained a doctoral degree less than seven years ago. The fellowship duration is between 12 and 24 months. Interested applicants should complete the online form at: https://form.jotform.com/230804143618956 by May 31. 2025. The fellowship provides a monthly stipend of 12,000 BRL ( https://fapesp.br/valores/bolsasnopais). Project proposals and corpus data may be in either English or Portuguese. Questions, please email tnnycorpuslg(a)gmail.com

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First Call for Participation: PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025
by Sabur B 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

*[Apologies for cross-posting]* Dear Researchers, We are pleased to invite you to participate in the *PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025*, an exciting challenge aimed at advancing the computational understanding of *hope* across multiple languages. Hope is a crucial human emotion that influences decision-making, resilience, and social interactions. This shared task focuses on detecting and categorizing hope-related expressions in *English, German, Spanish, and Urdu social media texts*. Unlike traditional binary sentiment classification, *PolyHope-M* introduces a *nuanced multiclass classification approach* to distinguish between: - *Generalized Hope:* A broad sense of optimism not tied to specific outcomes. - *Realistic Hope:* Expectations grounded in achievable goals. - *Unrealistic Hope:* Desires for outcomes that are unlikely or impossible. - *Not Hope:* Texts that do not express hope. *Task Description* Participants will develop NLP models for classifying hope-related expressions through two main subtasks: 1. *Binary Hope Speech Detection* (Subtask 1 - separate for each language): Classifying texts as *Hope* or *Not Hope*. 2. *Multiclass Hope Speech Detection* (Subtask 2 - separate for each language): Distinguishing between different types of hope expressions. *Important Dates* - *Training data release:* February 20, 2025 - *Evaluation data release & evaluation start:* February 25, 2025 - *Evaluation end:* March 25, 2025 - *Publication of official results:* March 26, 2025 - *Paper submission deadline:* April 26, 2025 - *Author notifications:* May 10, 2025 - *Camera-ready submission:* June 10, 2025 - *Shared task presentation at RANLP 2025:* September 11-12, 2025 *Organizing Committee* - *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi*, Independent Researcher, Mexico - *Sabur Butt*, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Maaz Amjad*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA - *Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez*, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque*, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - *Helena Gómez-Adorno*, IIMAS, UNAM, Mexico - *Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi*, University of Galway, Ireland - *Grigori Sidorov*, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - *Thomas Mandl*, University of Hildesheim, Germany - *Hector G Ceballos*, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Ruba Priyadharshini*, Gandhigram Rural Institute, India - *Saranya Rajiakodi*, Central University of Tamilnadu, India *Contact Information* For any inquiries, please contact the organizing team: - *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi:* fbalouchzahi2021(a)cic.ipn.mx - *Sabur Butt:* saburb(a)tec.mx - *Helena Gómez-Adorno:* helena.gomez(a)iimas.unam.mx For more details and participation guidelines, visit: *PolyHope-M Competition Page*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ *RANLP Website*: https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ We look forward to your participation in *PolyHope-M at RANLP 2025* and your contributions toward enhancing hope speech detection across multiple languages! Best regards, Sabur Butt *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/> The content of this data transmission must not be considered an offer, proposal, understanding or agreement unless it is confirmed in a document signed by a legal representative of ITESM. The content of this data transmission is confidential and is intended to be delivered only to the addressees. Therefore, it shall not be distributed and/or disclosed through any means without the authorization of the original sender. If you are not the addressee, you are forbidden from using it, either totally or partially, for any purpose.

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1st Call for Participation - PolyHope Shared Task at IberLEF 2025
by Sabur B 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

*[Apologies for cross-posting]* Dear Researchers, We are excited to invite you to participate in the *PolyHope Shared Task at IberLEF 2025*, a unique challenge focused on analyzing the expression of hope in social media texts. Hope is a fundamental human emotion influencing decision-making, yet its nuanced nature—especially when masked by sarcasm—presents significant challenges for Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. This year, the task expands its scope to Spanish texts, emphasizing hope as an expectation alongside its existing English counterpart. *Task Description* The goal of PolyHope is to classify social media texts based on their expression of hope, with two subtasks available: 1. *Binary Hope Speech Detection (Subtask 1.a: English, Subtask 1.b: Spanish)* - *Hope:* Texts conveying hope, expectation, or desire. - *Not Hope:* Texts that do not express any hopeful sentiment. 2. *Multiclass Hope Speech Detection (Subtask 2.a: English, Subtask 2.b: Spanish)* - *Generalized Hope:* Broad optimism without specific targets. - *Realistic Hope:* Hope grounded in plausible outcomes. - *Unrealistic Hope:* Expressions of hope for unlikely outcomes. - *Not Hope:* Texts without hopeful sentiment. - *Sarcasm:* Texts that mimic hope but are sarcastic in nature. This task aims to promote research in *inclusive language technologies*, enhance the *psychological and linguistic understanding* of hope, and develop *multilingual NLP models* capable of detecting nuanced sentiment and sarcasm. *Important Dates* - *Release of training data:* February 13, 2025 - *Release of test corpora & evaluation campaign start:* March 13, 2025 - *End of evaluation campaign (submission deadline):* March 28, 2025 - *Publication of official results:* March 30, 2025 - *Paper submission:* April 25, 2025 - *Review notification:* May 20, 2025 - *Camera-ready submission:* June 3, 2025 - *IberLEF Workshop:* September 2025 - *Publication of proceedings:* September 2025 *Organizing Committee* - *Sabur Butt*, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi*, Independent Researcher, Mexico - *Maaz Amjad*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA - *Salud María Jiménez-Zafra*, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain - *Hector G Ceballos*, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Grigori Sidorov*, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico *Contact Information* For inquiries, feel free to reach out to the organizing team: - *General Inquiries:* polyhopeatiberlef(a)gmail.com - *Sabur Butt:* saburb(a)tec.mx - *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi:* fbalouchzahi2021(a)cic.ipn.mx - *Salud María Jiménez-Zafra:* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es For more details and participation guidelines, visit: PolyHope Competition Page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5509/ <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5509/> IberLEF Website: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025/home?authuser=0 We look forward to your participation in advancing research on hope speech detection! Best regards, Sabur Butt *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/> The content of this data transmission must not be considered an offer, proposal, understanding or agreement unless it is confirmed in a document signed by a legal representative of ITESM. The content of this data transmission is confidential and is intended to be delivered only to the addressees. Therefore, it shall not be distributed and/or disclosed through any means without the authorization of the original sender. If you are not the addressee, you are forbidden from using it, either totally or partially, for any purpose.

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[CfP] LAST EXTENSION: Canadian AI 2025 – Final Deadline Feb 20 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
by pmvul089＠uottawa.ca 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this extended deadline CFP] ---------- LAST EXTENSION: Canadian AI 2025 - Final Deadline Extension ---------- ---------- May 26-29, 2025, in Calgary, Alberta ---------- ---------- FINAL Deadline Extension: Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE) ---------- Dear Colleagues, We want to thank all those who have submitted papers so far to our conference. In response to ongoing requests, we are granting one FINAL extension. The new and final submission deadline is **Thursday, Feb 20, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. AoE**. We invite submissions in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied, to the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, taking place in Calgary on May 26-29. We also welcome position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily introducing a new system. Conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open-access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, and Google Scholar. ---------- Submission Details ---------- Canadian AI is accepting submissions of both long and short papers: Long papers: Maximum 12 pages (including references) Short papers: Maximum 6 pages (including references) Formats: LaTeX and Word submissions are accepted **NEW: Each submission may include an Appendix (PDF) as supplementary material.** More information and submission templates are available under Submission Details here: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2025/call-papers **The portal for submission can be found here:** https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2025/ All submissions must be original, anonymized for double-blind review, and not under review elsewhere (preprints are acceptable if the title differs). ---------- Topics of Interest Include ---------- - Agent Systems - AI Applications - Automated Reasoning - Case‐based Reasoning - Cognitive Models - Constraint Satisfaction - Data Mining - Deep Learning and Neural Models - E‐Commerce - Ethics in AI, AI for social good - Evolutionary Computation - Explainable AI - Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI - Games - Information Retrieval and Search - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation - Large Language Models - Machine Learning - Multimedia Processing - Natural Language Processing - Planning - Robotics - Uncertainty - User Modeling - Web Mining and Applications Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review. Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form matches the corresponding author listed on the paper. ---------- Important Dates ---------- - FINAL Submission Deadline: **Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE)** - Author Notification: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - Camera-Ready Copy Due: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - Conference Dates: May 26-29, 2025 ---------- Awards ---------- Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference. To qualify for the student award, the first author must be a registered student at submission. ---------- Program Chairs ---------- Paula Branco School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa pbranco(a)uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/4218?lang=en Amine Trabelsi Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke Amine.Trabelsi(a)USherbrooke.ca https://www.usherbrooke.ca/informatique/trabelsi We look forward to your participation in Canadian AI 2025!

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February 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

In this newsletter: LDC at LT4ALL 2025 LDC membership discounts expire March 3 Spring 2025 data scholarship recipients New publications: AIDA Scenario 3 Practice Topic Source Data and Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T02> MATERIAL Georgian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S01> ________________________________ LDC at LT4All 2025 LDC is pleased to be a sponsor of The 2nd International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4All 2025)<https://www.lt4all2025.eu/overview/>, February 24-26, 2025, organized by ELRA and SIGUL, the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages, and in partnership with UNESCO as part of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032). The conference theme, "Advancing Humanism through Language Technologies," focuses on community empowerment within the larger discussion on the many ways technology impacts language communities. The conference will also commemorate the Silver Jubilee of International Mother Language Day (February 21). LDC membership discounts expire March 3 Time is running out to save on 2025 membership fees. Renew your LDC membership, rejoin the Consortium, or become a new member by March 3 to receive a discount of up to 10%. For more information on membership benefits and options, visit Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc>. Spring 2025 data scholarship recipients Congratulations to the recipients of LDC's Spring 2025 data scholarships: Sair Buckle: Charles Sturt University (Australia): PhD student, AI and Cyber Futures Institute. Sair is awarded a copy of Avocado Research Email Corpus LDC2015T03 for her work in behavioral science. Le Phuoc Thinh Tien, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam); Bachelor's student, Faculty of Information Technology. Le is awarded a copy of Penn Discourse Treebank Version 3.0 LDC2019T05 for his research in natural logical reasoning. The next round of applications will be accepted in September 2025. For information about the program, visit the Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: AIDA Scenario 3 Practice Topic Source Data and Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T02> was developed by LDC and is comprised of English, Russian, and Spanish web documents (text, video, image) and annotations. Each phase of the AIDA program centered on a specific scenario, or broad topic area, with related subtopics designated as either practice subtopics or evaluation subtopics. The Phase 3 scenario focused on the COVID-19 global pandemic. This corpus contains source documents and annotations for the Scenario 3 practice topics. The corpus contains 1417 root documents; 279 documents were annotated. Annotations include: * Event, relation, and entity annotation (64 documents) * Claim frame annotation: claims (true or not) relating to the COVID-19 pandemic (203 documents) * Practice topic query claim frames: example claim frames intended to be used by systems as queries to extract similar claims from additional documents (30 documents) The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations, and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating, and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Georgian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S01> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 79 hours of Georgian 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 half of the speech files, and approximately 3% of the speech data was 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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CfP 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora)
by Fábián-Trost, Annamária 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Dear List, the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 (CfP below). Keynotes Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and social media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics: * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC * Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences * Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science * Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science * Contrastive CM studies across different languages The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of: * Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations * Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Submission and review Authors of accepted papers are invited to present their work at the conference (30-minute timeslots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress or early-stage research during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers for one or more special issue journal or a volume publication. Instructions for authors All contributions will be collected via ConfTool. Templates Submission templates for MS Word and LaTeX are provided on the conference’s homepage: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/. Important Dates * Platform opening for short paper and abstract submission: 17th February 2025 (platform open) * Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST More information on the CMC2025 conference: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc2025(a)uni-bayreuth.de. More information on the “International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora)”: https://cmc-corpora.org/series/# Local organizing committee: * Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science) * Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau) Scientific chairs: * Dr. Steven Coats (University Oulu) * Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth) * Prof. Dr. Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris University) * Prof. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/U. of Passau) * Prof. Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp) * Dr. Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University) Scientific committee (so far confirmed): * Paul Baker (Lancaster University) * Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) * Noah Bubenhofer (University of Zürich) * Mario Cal Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) * Louis Cotgrove (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Steven Coats (University of Oulu) * Orphée DeClercq (Ghent University) * Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg) * Francisco Javier Fernández Polo (University of Santiago de Compostela) * Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation – Bavarian Academy of Science) * Jenny Frey (European Academy of Bozen) * Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano) * Claire Hardaker (Lancaster University) * Stefan Hartmann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) * Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) * Besim Kabashi (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg) * Erik-Tjong Kim-Sang (Netherlands eScience Center) * Alexander Koenig (CLARIN ERIC) * Marc Kupietz (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) * Els Lefever (Ghent University) * Julien Longhi (Cergy-Pontoise Université) * Harald Lüngen (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Konstanze Marx-Wischnowski (University of Greifswald) * Maja Miličević-Petrović (University of Bologna) * Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University) * Jan Oliver Rüdiger (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) * Steven Schoonjans (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt) * Mirco Schönfeld (University of Bayreuth) * Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) * Egon Stemle (Eurac Research) * Caroline Tagg (The Open University) * Stefanie Ullmann (University of Cambridge) * Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/Universität Passau) * Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp) * Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University) * Stefanie Walter (Technical University Munich) * Katrin Weller (GESIS Cologne) All the best, Annamaria Fabian (Bayreuth) and Igor Trost (Klagenfurt/Passau) Dr. Annamaria Fabian Principal Investigator (Post-Doc) of the project "Disability diversity and the communicative realization of inclusion on Social Media" Department German Linguistics University of Bayreuth https://www.gl.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/A-Fabian/index.php Member of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (Bavarian Academy of Science) Head of the Research Group "Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Societies" Newly published: Annamaria Fabian, Igor Trost, Kevin Altmann & Mara Schwind (2024): The analysis of ‘inclusion’ and ‘accessibility’ in Computer-Mediated-Communication for an inclusive transformation in digital societies. pp. 16-20 (double-side print). In: Céline Poudat, Mathilde Guernut. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC 2024), CORLI; Université Côte d’Azur, 2024. halshs-04673776v1 available here: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/CMC2024_2_.pdf

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Shared Task on Critical Questions Generation: Call for Participation
by Blanca Calvo 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

We are pleased to announce the first shared task on Critical Questions Generation, hosted at The 12th Workshop on Argument Mining, co-located in ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. All details can be found in: https://hitz-zentroa.github.io/shared-task-critical-questions-generation/ **Introduction** In recent years, a growing concern within the educational community has been whether the widespread use of LLM-based chats could foster superficial learning habits and weaken students' critical thinking skills. To counter this trend, in this task, we propose using LLMs to guide users towards asking critical questions. That is, questions that can uncover fallacious or poorly constructed arguments. In short: **we want to foster critical thinking by developing a system that generates insightful critical questions when given argumentative texts**. In the same line, Natural Language Processing applications to deal with misinformation are a popular line of research. However, most applications face challenges regarding three issues: LLMs often lack the required up-to-date knowledge for these tasks, there is not always an agreement on what is the truth, and LLMs themselves can produce hallucinations or rely on unfaithful data, generating misinformation of their own making. **Yet, instead of requiring the LLMs to output factual knowledge, could we use them to point at the missing or potentially uninformed claims?** **What is the task of Critical Questions Generation?** The task of Critical Questions Generation consists of generating useful critical questions when given an argumentative text. For this purpose, a dataset of real debate interventions with associated critical questions will be released. Critical Questions are the set of inquiries that should be asked in order to judge if an argument is acceptable or fallacious. Therefore, these questions are designed to unmask the assumptions held by the premises of the argument and attack its inference. In the dataset, the argumentative texts are interventions of real debates, which have been annotated with Argumentation Schemes and later associated with a set of critical questions. For every intervention, the speaker, the set of Argumentation Schemes, and the critical questions are provided. These questions have been annotated according to their usefulness for challenging the arguments in each text. The labels are either Useful, Unhelpful, or Invalid. The goal of the task is to generate critical questions that are Useful. The participant will be asked to develop a system that gets one of the interventions as input, and outputs exactly 3 critical questions. The 3 critical questions should all be useful for challenging the arguments in the intervention. Each of these 3 critical questions will be evaluated separately and then the punctuation will be aggregated. You can either create a system that generates only Useful CQs, or you can decide to generate many CQs and choose the top 3. For more information on Critical Questions Generation, please read Critical Questions Generation: Motivation and Challenges <https://aclanthology.org/2024.conll-1.9/> **Important Dates** - Sample data available: 17th February - Validation data ready: 21st February - Evaluation start: 28th March - Evaluation end: 4th April - Paper submission due: 25th April - Notification to authors: 2nd May - Camera ready due: 9th May - Workshop: 31st July (co-located with ACL 2025) **Organizers of the shared task** - Blanca Calvo Figueras <https://github.com/BlancaCalvo>, HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain - Rodrigo Agerri <https://ragerri.github.io/>, HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain - Elena Cabrio <https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Elena.Cabrio/>, University of Côte d’Azur and member of the Inria-I3S research team Wimmics - Serena Villata <https://webusers.i3s.unice.fr/~villata/Home.html>, University of Côte d’Azur and member of the Inria-I3S research team Wimmics **Do you have other questions?** Please become a member of the Google Group "critical-questions-generation-shared-task" <https://groups.google.com/g/critical-questions-generation-shared-task> to keep yourself updated. For specific questions, contact blanca.calvo(a)ehu.eus Website: https://hitz-zentroa.github.io/shared-task-critical-questions-generation/

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Third Call for Papers, Participation and Demo - IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *ACL – 22nd IWSLT 2025 – **Third** 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 and demo 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, Model compression 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. *Demo Session* We invite researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to participate in an engaging demo session highlighting innovative systems, tools, and component technologies that advance the field of speech translation. The session will include live and interactive system demonstrations to foster discussion and knowledge exchange among participants across the field. For more information, please see our Call for Demos <https://iwslt.org/2025/call-for-demos>. *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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Lectureship in NLP at University of Surrey
by Diptesh Kanojia 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Surrey is seeking to recruit lecturers in Computer Science (NICE Research group) and at the Institute for People-Centred AI. Please find information about both positions below and listings for other senior roles as well. Lecturer in Natural Language Processing [https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525] The School is home to two established research centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Computer Science Research Centre and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP). This post is aligned to the Nature Inspired Computer and Engineering group within Computer Science. The Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering group solves real-world problems in healthcare and sustainability, complex networks, robotics, natural language processing (NLP), and other areas, as well as foundational research in Machine Learning. For example, our colleagues specialising in NLP research have expertise in language modelling, machine translation, semantic web, and multimodal challenges aligned with NLP. This role encourages applicants from the areas of natural language processing including language modelling, language generation (machine translation/summarisation), explainability and reasoning in NLP, and/or aligned multimodal challenges for NLP (vision-language, audio-language, and so on) and we are particularly interested in candidates who enhance our current strengths and bring complementary areas of AI expertise. Department: Computer Science Location: Guildford Salary: £46,735 to £55,755 per annum Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Wednesday 12 March 2025 Interviews are planned to take place on 7th April, 2025 For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Steve Schneider, s.schneider(a)surrey.ac.uk Lecturer in People-Centred AI [https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725] The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering together with the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI is seeking to recruit a full-time Lecturer in People-Centred Artificial Intelligence to expand our team of dynamic and highly skilled AI researchers. The School is home to two established research centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and the Computer Science Research Centre. This post is aligned to CVSSP. CVSSP is an internationally recognised leader in artificial intelligence for audio-visual machine perception pioneering foundational research in the field over the past 40 years. With a diverse community of more than 150 researchers, we are one of the largest audio and vision research groups in the UK. Research in the Centre has led to award-winning spin-out companies in the biometric, communication, healthcare, and creative industries. CVSSP has a long-standing international track record in AI research, ranking 1st in the UK for computer vision and 3rd in the UK for computer vision, AI and robotics based on publication in leading academic forums (CSRankings.org). CVSSP and Computer Science are at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI) established in 2021 as a pan-University initiative which brings together leading AI research with cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to shape future AI to benefit people and society. This role encourages applicants from the areas of creative technologies, media provenance, audio-visual AI, foundation models, generative AI, and complementary areas of people-centred AI expertise. Department: Centre of Vision, Speech & Signal Processing Location: Guildford Salary: £46,735 to £55,755 per annum Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Wednesday 12 March 2025 Planned Interview Date: Monday 31 March 2025 For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Adrian Hilton, a.hilton(a)surrey.ac.uk -- Full list of vacancies at the School of CS and EE: *Role Title* *Role Link* Professor in Satellite Communications *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009225 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009225>* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525>* Lecturer in Cyber Security *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009425 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009425>* Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009325 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009325>* Lecturer in Robotics *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009625 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009625>* Lecturer in People-Centred AI *https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725 <https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725>* Surrey has an established international reputation in AI research, 1st in the UK for computer vision and top 10 for AI, computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing (CSRankings.org) and were 7th in the UK for REF2021 outputs in Computer Science research. Computer Science and CVSSP are at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), established in 2021 as a pan-University initiative which brings together leading AI research with cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to shape future AI to benefit people and society. PAI leads a portfolio of £100m in grant awards including major research activities in creative industries and healthcare, and two doctoral training programmes with funding for over 100 PhD researchers: the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion, and the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Network in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility. The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore, we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities. Regards, *Dr Diptesh Kanojia <https://dipteshkanojia.github.io/> **(he/him)* Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing <https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/dr-diptesh-kanojia> Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI <https://www.surrey.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence> | School of CS & EE <https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-computer-science-and-electronic-engineering> Office: 13BA02, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK *"Nearly everyone can stand adversity, but if you want to test their character, give them power."*

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CfP: RAG Workshop, ICCS, Singapore
by Magda Król 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

Dear All, 28th February is the deadline for RAG Workshop proposals. The Workshop takes place during 25th ICCS meeting in Singapore, 7-9 July 2025. Details: https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2025/workshops/#ragw Description: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical and rapidly evolving theme in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). RAG systems address a significant limitation of Large Language Models (LLMs): their inability to incorporate real-time updates and private knowledge efficiently, as their knowledge is static and embedded within the model’s weights, making updates costly and time-intensive. By integrating traditional and modern information retrieval (IR) techniques with the generative capabilities of LLMs, RAG systems offer a dynamic solution that allows models to access and utilize the most up-to-date and domain-specific information. This combination makes RAG a promising approach for building systems that are not only powerful but also accurate, efficient, and adaptable to specialized contexts. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on RAG systems, particularly those focused on complex and high-stakes domains such as law, biology, physics, and medicine, where accuracy and reliability are paramount. Our goal is to foster discussions, share novel approaches, and identify emerging challenges in the development and application of RAG systems. Topics of Interest We invite high-quality submissions addressing various aspects of RAG systems, including but not limited to: 1. Core Improvements and Architectures – Innovations in information retrieval models. – New architectures and frameworks for RAG systems. – Enhanced techniques for vector representation and storage. 2. Efficiency and Scalability – Methods to improve processing speed and reduce memory consumption in RAG pipelines. – Quantization techniques for efficient vector storage and retrieval. – Scalable solutions for large-scale domain-specific datasets. 3. Domain-Specific Applications – Development of RAG systems tailored for specialized fields such as legal, biomedical, and scientific domains. – Strategies for adapting LLMs to retrieval tasks in niche contexts. 4. Fusion and Retrieval Optimization – Models for combining results from diverse retrieval systems. – Novel fusion techniques to enhance relevance and accuracy. 5. Evaluation and Robustness – Creation of new evaluation datasets and benchmarks. – Metrics and methodologies for assessing RAG performance. – Techniques for controlling hallucinations in generated outputs. 6. Broader Applications and Challenges – Ethical considerations and biases in RAG systems. – Cross-lingual or multilingual RAG applications. – Use of RAG systems in low-resource or under-represented domains. Who Should Attend? This workshop is designed for researchers, industry professionals, and students interested in the intersection of retrieval systems and generative models. Whether your focus is on improving foundational technologies, developing novel applications, or tackling real-world challenges in specialized domains, we invite you to join us in advancing the field of RAG. We look forward to your contributions and to stimulating discussions that will shape the future of Retrieval-Augmented Generation! Best regards Magda Król

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First call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2025: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

* Registration 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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[CfP] 6th Workshop on Patent Text Mining (PatentSemTech2025) @ SIGIR
by rkr＠informatik.uni-kiel.de 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

The PatentSemTech2025 workshop, co-located with SIGIR 2025 (https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/) in Padua, Italy, aims to bring together deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and patent mining, analysis, and retrieval. As a forum for researchers and practitioners from the patent domain, we are interested in all kinds of insights from the intellectual property (IP) domain. Workshop website: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/ Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 23, 2025 Notification: May 21, 2025 SIGIR PatentSemTech2025 workshop: July 17, 2025 Topics of Interest ================== We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics related to patents. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): + Information retrieval, text mining, machine learning, large language models (LLMs), ... applied to patents, in particular for: - Representation learning - Multi-modal retrieval and analysis - Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) - Application of LLMs - Large language model pre-training and fine-tuning - Explainability and interpretation - Query expansion / rewriting - Clustering and classification - Recommendation - IPC/CPC prediction - Trend detection - Entity extraction - Linking semantic information - Integrating external knowledge sources - Patent landscaping - Hot spot / White spot analysis - Technology trend analysis - Visual user interface concepts - Metadata and citation analysis - Evaluation, benchmarks, and metrics Call for Contributions ====================== We solicit two types of submissions from both, industry and academia: full papers and short papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and evaluated based on innovativeness, novelty, interestingness, impact and fit to the workshop's topics. + For full papers we solicit contributions that present novel and mature research work. + For short papers we solicit contributions that present research ideas, demos, case studies, and system descriptions. Submission Guidelines ===================== Submissions must be in English as PDF and making use of the CEUR two-column conference format. The LaTeX files for the new CEURART style are available as Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… and as downloadable ZIP file https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Please use the "twocolumn" option. Submissions should have at most 8 (full) or 4 (short) pages (plus unlimited references). Submissions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patentsemtech2025. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work in person at the workshop. Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit extended, full papers to Elsevier’s World Patent Information (WPI) journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information/ Organizers ========== Ralf Krestel (ZBW & CAU Kiel, Germany), Hidir Aras (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany), Linda Andersson (Artificial Researcher, Austria), Florina Piroi (Data Science Studio, RSA FG, Austria), Allan Hanbury (TU Wien, Austria), Dean Alderucci (CMU, USA) All questions about submissions should be emailed to: rkr(a)informatik.uni-kiel.de and hidir.aras(a)fiz-karlsruhe.de.

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1st Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '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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Fwd: [ICCC'25] Extended Deadline – Call for Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

Dear Colleague, Below you will find the official Call for Full papers of the next International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’25), which will take place in Campinas, Brazil. Please feel free to distribute it to mailing lists you manage and to everybody who may be interested. Thank you and we hope to see you in Campinas for ICCC’25! If you wish to receive more information about ICCC’25 subscribe here <https://e8065363.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAFV4ySdxCWdPh1rmKRZT0UTO1FMw7X4gcwb…> . Follow us on: facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pg/computationalcreativity/ twitter – https://twitter.com/iccc_conf instagram – https://www.instagram.com/iccc_conf/ ------------------------------------------------ The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25) June 23-27, 2025 — Campinas, Brazil Call for papers: full regular papers http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/full-papers/ Please distribute (Apologies for cross-posting) ------------------------------------------------ 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. 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 *** Original research contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity research and practice, including, but not limited to: — Applications of Computational Creativity — Human-Machine Co-Creativity — Computational Creativity Evaluation — Social Models — Computational Paradigms — Interdisciplinary Perspectives — Data and Creativity — Societal Impact — Psychological Factors — Provocations 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. *** Paper Types *** We welcome the submission of five different types of papers: — Technical papers — System or Resource description papers — Study papers — Cultural application papers — Position papers *** Important Dates *** Abstracts due: February 14, 2025 –> February 21, 2025 Submissions due: February 21, 2025 –> February 21, 2025 Acceptance notification: April 11, 2025 Camera-ready copies due: May 2, 2025 Conference: June 23-27, 2025 All deadlines given are 23:59 anywhere on Earth time. *** Submission instructions *** This year the submission process has two stages: initial submission of a title and abstract, and subsequent submission of the full paper a week later. - Recommended length for the abstract is 100–200 words. - The full paper page limit is 8 pages + up to 2 pages of references. - Papers will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion, which necessitates that authors take appropriate steps to remain anonymous. - You are responsible for making your papers anonymous to allow for double-blind review. Remove all references to your home institution(s), refer to your past work in the third person, etc. - To be considered, papers must be submitted as a PDF document formatted according to ICCC style (which is similar to AAAI and IJCAI formats). You can download the updated ICCC’25 LaTeX template [here <https://computationalcreativity.net/ICCC-author-kit-2022.zip>] and Word template [here <https://computationalcreativity.net/ICCC-author-kit-Word.zip>]. - Abstracts are to be submitted one week before the full paper deadline. Submit your abstract via the EasyChair system [here <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc202501>]. You are required to fill out author(s) information, a title, abstract and keywords. - Submit your full paper by updating the EasyChair Abstract with your manuscript file. Abstract submissions that do not contain a manuscript will be automatically rejected at the beginning of the review time. - Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc202501 - Double submissions policy: Work submitted to ICCC should not be under review in another scientific conference or journal at the time of submission. *** More Information *** More information on themes, topics, paper types and the submission process can be found at: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/full-papers/

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New publication: Lexical Multidimensional Analysis
by Susan Hunston 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

Dear list members, I'm delighted to announce that a new publication in the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics is now available. It is FREE online until 27th February 2025. Title: Lexical Multidimensional Analysis Authors: Tony Berber Sardinha and Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan Lexical Multidimensional Analysis is an extension of Biber's Multidimensional Analysis that identifies dimensions based on patterns of lexical co-occurrence and variation. LMDA has been applied to domains including education policy, national representations, applied linguistics, music, the infodemic, religion, sustainability, and literary style. The Element introduces LMDA, offering insights into how lexis marks discourse formations and ideological alignments. Two case studies demonstrate the application of LMDA: discourses on climate change, and discourse on migrant education. Susan Hunston (she/her) Professor of English Language +44 121 414 5675 University of Birmingham Department of Linguistics and Communication www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Call for paper: BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (an IWCS 2025 workshop)
by Timothée Bernard 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

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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Looking for a venue for your ARR paper? CFP: NLP4DH@NAACL
by Mika Hämäläinen 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

The 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH) will be co-located with NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, USA! https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2025 We particularly encourage submissions from authors with papers already reviewed in ACL Rolling Review (ARR) who would like to present their work at NLP4DH. NLP4DH provides a vibrant community for researchers applying NLP to digital humanities, offering an ideal venue for sharing and discussing your work. Direct, non-ARR, submissions are more than welcome as well. Main Track Topics (including, but not limited to): * Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods * Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g., digitization, data preservation) * Research on cultural heritage collections using NLP * NLP for error detection, correction, normalization, and denoising * Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels * Analysis and detection of text genres Special Track: Understanding LLMs through Humanities Humanities research plays a key role in interpreting and explaining the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs). We invite papers exploring the intersection of LLMs and humanities research, including: * Using humanities theories to analyze or evaluate LLMs * Using insights from humanities to improve LLMs * Examining LLMs through linguistic typology and variation * Philosophical and literary inquiries into LLM-generated text Submission Information * ARR Commitment Deadline (long and short papers): February 23, 2025 * Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2025 * Camera-Ready Deadline: March 23, 2025 * Conference Dates: May 3–4, 2025

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IWCS International Conference on Computational Semantics: 1st CfP
by Kilian Evang 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '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

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IWCS International Conference on Computational Semantics: 1st CfP
by Kilian Evang 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '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

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[Cfp] 2nd Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025
by Kossi Amouzouvi 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

Second 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. 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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GermEval 2025 Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection: 2nd Call for Participation
by Michael Wiegand 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

apologies for cross-posting We are pleased to announce the *GermEval Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection („Flausch-Erkennung“)* This is the second 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: May 17, 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 8 or 12, 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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Funded PhD studentship in the ethical implications of Natural Language Processing
by z＠zeerak.org 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear all, I am happy to announce that I’m looking for a fully funded PhD student to join me at the University of Edinburgh to work on topics around the ethics of NLP and ethical NLP methods. You can find more information below, but please don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions! Zee PhD Studentship Opportunity Examining the ethical implications of natural language processing The Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Centre for Technomoral Futures and the School of Informatics are delighted to invite applications for this PhD studentship, funded by Baillie Gifford, to begin in the academic year 2025/2026. This studentship, which is open to UK, EU and international applicants, will support rigorous interdisciplinary PhD research into the ethical challenges posed by the growing use of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. Application Deadline: 15 March 2025 Supervisors: * Dr Zee Talat<https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/our-academic-staff-database/zeerak-talat>, School of Informatics * Secondary supervisor, to be confirmed The Project: The aim of this project is to perform research in natural language processing (NLP) towards identifying and exploring methods for the ethical development of NLP tools. Given the increased uptake in the use and proliferation of NLP technologies, questions surrounding the ethical and responsible development of such tools are of greater urgency. To this end, this project will seek to examine the current ecosystems and practices for the development of language technologies, proactively develop technologies for examining NLP tools and their social ramifications, or design NLP technologies that encourage ethical practices. Through these areas, the project seeks to identify the ethical challenges faced by NLP and approaches to address them. For example, the project could: * Investigate how NLP and machine learning contributes to inequities in society * Show how end-users of NLP technologies can benefit from personalisation and privacy preservation methods * Investigate why current methods for addressing social biases in NLP and machine learning models fall short, and identify remedies for such shortcomings * Examine NLP and machine learning literature for the values that underpin research in the field The project will consider how NLP and machine learning are currently falling short in engaging with ethical development practices (such as those suggested in the indicative list above) and examine how such practices can be improved for the benefit of end-users and society more broadly. The project will make explicit the shortcomings of current methods in machine learning and research in the field of fairness and ethics of NLP and machine learning, and propose social, infrastructural, or technical mechanisms that can limit the harmful ramifications of applying current methods in NLP and machine learning in social contexts. It will contribute to the discourse on ethics and fairness in NLP and machine learning by considering in detail the promises made by AI-related fields, and how and why they are not met. See more information here: https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/study-with-us/our-degrees/postgraduate-researc…

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Job opening: Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication
by Gisle Andersen 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

Apologies for cross-postings The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen, Norway, invites applicants for a position as Associate Professor (førsteamanuensis) in Intercultural Communication at the Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication. The position requires a PhD in intercultural communication, business communication or linguistics with a track record of research within communication in the workplace. The department's research and education profiles reflect NHH's objectives and are focused on modern professional communication in a broad sense within NHH's subject areas. The department has an active research environment in professional and intercultural communication, and its research profile encompasses terminology, corpora and language resources, specialised translation, intercultural communication and discourse analysis. The person appointed will contribute to strengthening research, teaching and dissemination in intercultural communication with an aspiration to be in the forefront of the field. We are seeking candidates who demonstrate high research potential and have a solid publication record relevant to the department's research profile. It is expected that the candidate has research experience in intercultural business communication. Applicants are requested to outline relevant research ideas/projects in their application. Please see the full advertisement on JobbNorge: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/274936/associate-professor-i… Kind regards Gisle Andersen

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Interspeech 2025 - Call for Show and Tell
by Grzegorz Chrupała 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

Submission deadline: 2 April 2025 Acceptance/rejection notification: 26 April 2025 Final paper and video deadline: 21 May 2025 Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference focused on the science and technology of spoken language processing. In addition to the regular paper and special session submissions, Interspeech organizes Show and Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive research or engineering demonstrations to conference attendees. The demonstrations should showcase fundamental research and innovations in areas such as speech communication, production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies. The theme of Interspeech 2025 is ‘Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology’, allowing demonstration of innovative approaches to making speech technologies more accessible and equitable. Contributions must be relevant to Interspeech areas of interest and may also relate to the Interspeech theme. Show and Tell demonstrations should have an interactive component, which goes beyond demonstrating simple simulated graphs or presenting slides or a video on a computer. Any suggestions, as well as any questions, can be submitted to the Show and Tell Chairs: Aki Kunikoshi and Tanvina Patel at showandtell(a)interspeech2025.org Submission Guidelines Submissions must consist of: • a paper, no more than two pages in length (including references), in Interspeech 2025 paper kit format. • a video, describing visually to the reviewers what participants can expect to see during and how they will benefit from attending the demonstration. Show and Tell contributions may present mathematical and algorithmic results, but the primary focus should be on demonstrating a technological innovation or implementation. These contributions may relate to an already published paper or a submitted paper at Interspeech 2025. The paper submissions will be blind, and author details should not be included. Submissions will be assessed on criteria such as the quality of the short paper, the innovation of the research or system presented, and the overall clarity and impact of the demonstration. Additionally, it is required that the demonstration has not been presented as is at a recent Interspeech conference, ensuring the novelty of the contributions. For accepted submissions, participants must provide a camera-ready version of the paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, a final version of the video must be submitted by the camera ready deadline, which will be made publicly available. The demonstrations will be conducted in person at the conference and at least one presenter will need to register at Interspeech 2025 to present the demonstration at the Show and Tell session. For detailed guidelines about the submission, please see the "Show & Tell Guidelines" under "For Authors".

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Job Opening (Univ. Vienna, postdoc-level): Scientific Coordinator at the Research Network Data Science
by Benjamin Roth 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

The research network Data Science at the University of Vienna is looking for a highly motivated Scientific Coordinator. We are offering an excellent working environment in an interdisciplinary team. This full-time position is limited to 39 months. Application deadline: 7 March 2025. Main Responsibilities and Duties: * Strengthening collaboration between the research network and external partners, including NGOs, governments, and companies * Developing strategies to bridge society and data science research at Uni Vienna * Participation in data science research * International publishing and presentation activities * Supervision of students; Teaching as regulated in the wage agreement Further information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific-Coordinator-Data-Science-Post-Doc/… -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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Job opening: Research position on Watermarking for Large Language Models at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
by Tim Gollub 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

The Webis Group at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (weimar.webis.de) is offering a three-year research position in a joint BMBF project with the Fraunhofer IDMT and Artifact GmbH. Salary is based on the collective agreement for the public sector in Germany, TV-L 13, 100%. The engagement can start immediately, but we are also flexible if the start date of a suitable candidate is later this year. There is the possibility of further employment in our research group. The offered position deals with innovations and current developments in the field of Text Watermarking and Large Language Models and is very attractive for PhD students or experienced postdocs interested in innovative and fundamental research in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. The offered position is considered as qualification position, i.e., for non-postdocs we actively support to do a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.). Prospective candidates should have finished either a master or a PhD in computer science, mathematics, statistics or a related field with excellent or very good grades. Solid knowledge of mathematics and statistics is required for this position - as well as very good programming skills. We are an experienced research group where team spirit and active collaboration are top priorities. We are looking for open-minded graduates, PhD students, or postdocs who want to develop both as researchers and as a person. The working language of our group is English; fluency in German is not required. We are interested in increasing the proportion of women in computer science research and particularly welcome applications from suitably qualified women. We do not discriminate on the basis of religion, color, gender, age, or disability and are committed to a family-friendly recruitment policy. Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their application by March 2nd to tim.gollub(a)uni-weimar.de. The application (preferably as a single PDF file) should contain the following documents: a cover letter describing yourself and your interests, a detailed CV, high school diploma (Abitur), academic transcripts stating courses taken and grades earned, and a list of publications (if any). Benno Stein Online version: https://webis.de/for-students.html#vacancies -- Prof. Dr. Benno Stein Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Intelligent Information Systems Group webis.de | weimar.webis.de

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First call for papers: The fourth Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop
by Simon Mille 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, The fourth iteration of the Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM) Workshop <https://gem-benchmark.com/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 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. Overview Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is challenging. Running LLMs over medium or large scale corpus can be prohibitively expensive; they are consistently shown to be highly sensitive to prompt phrasing, and it is hard to formulate metrics which differentiate and rank different LLMs in a meaningful way. Consequently, the validity of the results obtained over popular benchmarks such as HELM or MMLU, lead to brittle conclusions. We believe that meaningful, efficient, and robust evaluation is one of the cornerstones of the scientific method, and that achieving it should be a community-wide goal. In this workshop we seek innovative research relating to the evaluation of LLMs and language generation systems in general. We welcome submissions related, but not limited to, the following topics: - Automatic evaluation of generation systems. - Creating evaluation corpora and challenge sets. - Critiques of benchmarking efforts and responsibly measuring progress in LLMs. - Effective and/or efficient NLG methods that can be applied to a wide range of languages and/or scenarios. - Application and evaluation of LLMs interacting with external data and tools. - Evaluation of sociotechnical systems employing large language models. - Standardizing human evaluation and making it more robust. - In-depth analyses of outputs of existing systems, for example through error analyses, by applying new metrics, or by testing the system on new test sets. Following the success of last iterations, GEM2 will also hold an Industrial Track, which aims to provide actionable insights to industry professionals and to foster collaborations between academia and industry. This track will address the unique challenges faced by non-academic colleagues, highlighting the differences in evaluation practices between academic and industrial research, and explore the challenges in evaluating generative models with real-world data. The Industrial Track invites submissions covering the following topics, including (but not limited to): - Breaking Barriers: Bridging the Gap between Academic and Industrial Research. - From Data Diversity to Model Robustness: Challenges in Evaluating Generative Models with Real-World Data. - Beyond Metrics: Evaluating Generative Models for Real-World Business Impact. How to submit? Submissions can take either of the following forms: - Archival Papers describing original and unpublished work can be submitted in a between 4 and 8 page format. - Non-Archival Abstracts To discuss work already presented or under review at a peer-reviewed venue, we allow the submission of 2-page abstracts. Papers should be submitted directly through OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/GEM&referrer=%…>, selecting the appropriate track, and conform to ACL 2025 style guidelines <https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference_papers/#paper-submission-deta…>. We additionally welcome presentations by authors of papers in the Findings of the ACL. The selection process is managed centrally by the workshop chairs for the conference and we thus cannot respond to individual inquiries about Findings papers. However, we will try our best to accommodate authors’ requests. 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. ContactFor any questions, please check the workshop page <https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop> or email the organisers: 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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Second Call: RANLP 2025
by Petya Osenova 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

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 NLP topics, the RANLP 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 11-13 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 (University of Lancaster, UK) 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 at the conference website in due time. INVITED SPEAKERS: The list of keynote speakers at RANLP 2025 as well as tutorial lecturers and summer school lecturers and tutors includes: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) * Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) TUTORIAL LECTURERS: * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TUTORS: * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Maram Alharbi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (University of Lancaster, UK) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Hansi Hettiarachchi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage (University of Lancaster, UK) * Henry Oldroyd (University of Lancaster, UK) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster, UK) WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS: The RANLP 2025 workshops and shared tasks will be held on 11-13 September 2025. Calls for Proposals of Workshops has been already published. The following SHARED TASKS are accepted: * 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 * Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organised by Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi * 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 * 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 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS The submissions will be maintained 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-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 Call for Shared Tasks proposals: September 2024 Shared Tasks selection notification: 4 November 2024 Shared Tasks sample data and task website ready: 15 November 2024 Shared Tasks training data ready: 15 December 2024 Call for workshop proposals: 24 December 2024 Deadline for submission of workshop proposals: 15 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 Conference abstracts submission: April 2025 Conference papers submission: 11 May 2025 (please check dates on RANLP 2025 website) Conference papers acceptance notification: 28 June 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 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 plan to 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 (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, Lancaster University, UK (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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[IberLEF 2025] Accepted tasks have been published!
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear all, We are pleased to inform you that the IberLEF 2025 accepted tasks have been published on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025/tasks. 15 shared tasks have been accepted, out of a total of 18 proposals. They are NLP tasks on language comprehension, harmful and inclusive content, content curation and generation, and sentiment and figurative analysis. We encourage you to take part in these interesting challenges. Below you can find the title of each task, the link to access the website and the organizers of the challenge. LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION ADoBo 2025: Automatic Detection of Borrowings <https://adobo-task.github.io/> Organised by Elena Álvarez Mellado, Julio Gonzalo, Constantine Lignos, Jordi Porta Zamorano CLEARS: Challenge for Plain Language and Easy-to-Read Adaptation for Spanish texts <https://sites.google.com/gcloud.ua.es/clears> Organised by Beatriz Botella Gil, Alba Bonet Jover, Paloma Moreda Pozo, Isabel Espinosa Zaragoza, Raúl García Cerdá, Itziar González-Dios, Margot Madina, Mª Teresa Martín Valdivia, L.Alfonso Ureña López, Lucas Molino Piñar PROFE: Language Proficiency Evaluation <https://sites.google.com/view/profe2025> Organised by Alvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Alberto Pérez, Rodrigo Agerri HARMFUL AND INCLUSIVE CONTENT DIMEMEX: Detection of Inappropriate Memes from Mexico <https://sites.google.com/view/dimemex-2025> Organised by Horacio Jarquín-Vásquez, Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, Delia Irazú Hernández-Farías, Hugo Jair Escalante, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez HOMO-LAT25: Human-centric polarity detection in Online Messages Oriented to the Latin American-speaking LGBTQ+ population <https://sites.google.com/view/homo-lat25/home> Organised by Gemma Bel Enguix, Helena Gómez Adorno, Sergio Luís Ojeda-Trueba, María Esther Reyes Alonso, Jessica Barco, Edgar Lee MentalRiskES 2025 Early detection of mental disorders risk in Spanish Third edition - Detecting Addiction <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025> Organised by Arturo Montejo Ráez, Alba María Mármol Romero, Pablo Álvarez Ojeda, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, L. Alfonso Ureña López, María Teresa Martín Valdivia, María Dolores Molina González, Adrián Moreno Muñoz MiSongGyny: Misogyny in Song Lyrics <https://sites.google.com/view/misongyny> Organised by Tania Alcántara, Miguel Soto, Cesar Macias, Omar Garcia Vázquez, Alberto Espinosa, Hiram Calvo, José Eduardo Valdez Rodriguez PolyHope at IberLEF 2025: Optimism, Expectation or Sarcasm? <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5509/> Organised by Sabur Butt, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Maaz Amjad, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Hector G. Ceballos, Grigori Sidorov CONTENT CURATION AND GENERATION MIMIC: Multi-Modal AI Content Detection <https://sites.google.com/view/mimic-2025/home> Organised by Areg Mikael Sarvazyan, José Ángel González, Angelo Basile, Ian Borrego, Francisco Rangel PastReader: Transcribing Texts from the Past <https://sites.google.com/view/pastreader2025> Organised by Arturo Montejo Ráez, Elena Sánchez Nogales, Gloria Expósito Álvarez, L. Alfonso Ureña López, María Teresa Martín Valdivia, Jaime Collado Montañez, Isabel Cabrera De Castro, María Victoria Cantero Romero, Ana García Serrano, Rocio Ortuño Casanova, Yanco Amor Torterolo Orta PRESTA: Preguntas y Respuestas sobre Tablas en Español (Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish) <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/> Organised by Jorge Osés Grijalba, Luis Alfonso Ureña-López, Jose Camacho-Collados, Eugenio Martínez Cámara TA1C: Te Ahorré Un Click - Clickbait Detection and Spoiling in Spanish <https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/grupos/pln/ta1c/> Organised by Gabriel Mordecki, Guillermo Moncecchi, Luis Chiruzzo, Santiago Góngora, Ignacio Sastre, Aiala Rosá, Juan José Prada SENTIMENT AND FIGURATIVE ANALYSIS ASQP-PT: Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction in Portuguese <https://sites.google.com/inf.ufpel.edu.br/asqp-pt-2025/> Organised by Emerson Philippe Lopes, Ulisses B. Corrêa, Larissa A. de Freitas, Ricardo Matsumura Araújo, Alexandre Thurow Bender, Gabriel Gomes Rest-Mex 2025: Researching on Evaluating Sentiment and Textual instances selection for Mexican magical towns <https://sites.google.com/cimat.mx/rest-mex-2025/> Organised by Miguel Á. Álvarez-Carmona, Ramón Aranda, Ángel Díaz-Pacheco, Ansel Y. Rodrı́guez-González, Lázaro Bustio-Martínez, Vitali Herrera-Semenets SatiSPeech: Multimodal Audio-Text Satire Classification in Spanish <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21501> Organised by Ronghao Pan, José Antonio García-Díaz, Tomás Bernal-Beltrán, Francisco García-Sánchez, Rafael Valencia-García Best regards, IberLEF general chairs José Ángel González Barba, Symanto Research (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025/ Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Call for Participation: DIMEMEX@IberLEF 2025
by dirazuhf 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DIMEMEX@IberLEF2025: Detection of Inappropriate Memes from Mexico URL: https://sites.google.com/view/dimemex-2025 *** Task description *** Social networks play a crucial role in people's lives by transforming the dynamics of communication and information sharing. Analyzing the content from these platforms has become a hot research topic for the computational linguistics community. However, despite the notable advances made in recent years, there are still open challenges that merit additional research for better treatment or deeper understanding. One such challenge is the detection of abusive content, which includes aspects like hate speech, aggression, offensive language, and other related phenomena. Given the multimodal nature of social media platforms, we aim to promote the research and development of multimodal computational models for detecting abusive content in Mexican Spanish, particularly hate, offensive, and vulgar memes. Memes are well known for providing predominantly a humorous or ironic meaning based on the conjunction of text and images. So, the absence of either text or image may alter its interpretation. DIMEMEX comprises three subtasks, each of which can be approached with textual, visual, or multimodal information: a) Three-way classification: hate speech, inappropriate content, or neither. b) Fine-grained classification: to discriminate instances containing hate speech into different categories such as classism, sexism, racism, and others. c) Three-way classification with LLMs: Same as a), but participants are restricted to exclusively leveraging LLMs to detect the specified categories. Stay tuned! - register to the associated mailing list: https://sites.google.com/view/dimemex-2025/registration *** Important dates *** March 4th - Release of training corpora April 15th - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign. April 29th - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs). May 6th - Publication of official results. May 20th - Deadline for paper submission. Jun 3rd - Acceptance notification. Jun 17th - Camera-ready submission deadline. September - TBD Publication of proceedings. September - TBD IberLEF@SEPLN 2025 Workshop. *** Task organizers *** Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, INAOE, Mexico Horacio Jesús Jarquín, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Marco Casavantes, INAOE, Mexico Contact: dirazuhf(a)inaoep.mx ********* AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualquiera copia de este. Mediante la recepción del presente correo usted reconoce y acepta que en caso de incumplimiento de su parte y/o de sus representantes a los términos antes mencionados, este Centro Público de Investigación tendrá el derecho de reclamar los daños y perjuicios que dicha vulneración le cause; asimismo se hace de su conocimiento que el Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está obligado a salvaguardar los datos personales que le sean proporcionados por terceros, en los términos de la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados. AVISO DE PRIVACIDAD, En cumplimiento con la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados, al recibir datos de carácter personal a través de este medio, se entiende el consentimiento expreso del titular de los datos personales para utilizarlos en actividades propias del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE). Para mayor información, lo invitamos a consultar el Aviso de Privacidad en nuestro portal: https://www.inaoep.mx

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Open Access Publication: Social Group Representation
by Susan Hunston 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Dear list members, I'm delighted to inform you about the latest publication in the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series. The title is: Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus. The author is Irene Elmerot. The Element covers thirty year of newspapers and magazines in Czechia, and details how different social actors are described across that time span. It will be of interest to anyone researching the representation of social actors in the media and anyone interested in diachronic corpus studies. The Element is available Open Access and can be read online here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/social-group-representation-in-a-di…<https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/social-group-representation-in-a-di…> Best wishes Susan Hunston Susan Hunston (she/her) Professor of English Language +44 121 414 5675 University of Birmingham Department of Linguistics and Communication www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Call for Participation: "MiMIC: Multi-Modal AI Content Moderation shared task".
by Mara Chinea 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Event Notification Type: Call for Participation We kindly invite you to participate at the MiMIC: Multi-Modal AI Content Moderation shared task organized under the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum (IberLEF) 2025<https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025> which will be held in Zaragoza (Spain) on September 2025. This shared task focuses on the problem of detecting whether a text-image pair is partially or completely generated by generative models like GPT, Stable Diffusion, and others. We hope to understand whether multi-modal framing can improve the performance of generated content detectors. MiMIC consists of two subtasks focused on the same detection task, both for English and Spanish. Both subtasks involve multiclass classification of (text, image) pairs into four categories: fully-generated, fully-human, image-generated, and text-generated. * Subtask 1: Multimodal Machine Generated Content Detection in English. * Subtask 2: Multimodal Machine Generated Content Detection in Spanish. This shared task is open to everyone! We do not constrain the target community allowing participation from students to companies. Important Links * Task Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mimic-2025/home?authuser=0 Key Dates (All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE) * Training Phase Begins (Training Data Released): March 1, 2025 * Test Phase Begins (Test Data Released): May 1, 2025 * Submission Deadline for Participants' Runs (hard deadline): May 23, 2025 * Results Notification & Ranking Release: May 27, 2025 * Submission Deadline for Participants' Working Notes (hard deadline): June 13, 2025 * Camera-Ready Submission Deadline (hard deadline): June 27, 2025 Task organizers * José Ángel González (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Areg Sarvazyan (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Angelo Basile (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Ian Borrego (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Mara Chinea (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) * Francisco Rangel (Symanto<https://www.symanto.com/>) Please reach out to the organizers at organizers.mimic(a)gmail.com<mailto:organizers.mimic@gmail.com>, or join the Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/mimic-shared-task) to connect with the other participants and organizers. We look forward to your participation and can’t wait to see the innovative solutions you come up with! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Let’s work together to tackle this important challenge! Mara Chinea-Rios, PhD Research Scientist [cid:ecb6ae3e-1286-4d89-8738-8f9794a2d339] Symanto Research GmbH & Co. KG Pretzfelder Str. 15 | 90425 Nürnberg | Germany t: +49 911 37 84 66-39 m: +49 151 42 22 25-XX www.symanto.com<http://www.symanto.com> Connect with us: [cid:00e8c1b7-e3a5-4871-b1f9-0da56e1d8828] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/symanto> [cid:image002.png@01D357BE.9486EEB0] <https://www.facebook.com/SymantoAI/> [cid:image003.png@01D357BE.9486EEB0] <https://twitter.com/SymantoAI> [cid:bec45db2-18e7-4803-b9d3-62a12d759518] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRubg2VDTS1nV-jexcye2Vw> Please see our Privacy Policy<https://www.symanto.com/privacy-policy/> Handelsregister Nürnberg, HRA 15706 USt-ID Nr.: DE274281064 Persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin: Symanto Research GmbH & Co. KG Sitz in Nürnberg Handelsregister Nürnberg, HRB 26961 Einzelvertretungsberechtigter Geschäftsführer: Khaleeq Aziz

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CLIN35: Call for Abstracts
by vincent.vandeghinste＠ivdnt.org 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

We invite submissions for CLIN35, the 35th edition of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) conference, which will take place in Leuven on September 12th, 2025. Website: https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/ Abstracts describing theoretical or applied research in any area of computational linguistics and natural language processing are welcome. We especially encourage submissions related to the Dutch language, but contributions on other languages and multilingual approaches are equally welcome. Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed 500 words. Submissions should include: Name and affiliation of each author Contact details Presentation title and short abstract (max. 500 words) Keywords Your presentation format preference (We will do our best to accommodate your preference but may need to make changes to provide a well-balanced program) Abstracts must be submitted via the form on the website by Friday, 13th June 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Friday, 27th June 2025. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference as oral or poster presentations. Authors with accepted abstracts will also have the opportunity to submit a full paper after the conference for publication in the CLIN Journal. Please share this call with your interested colleagues and network! For any questions you can reach us at this email address (clin35(a)kuleuven.be). We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to CLIN35! CLIN35 local organizers

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Call for Papers: LxGr2025
by Costas Gabrielatos 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '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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[EMNLP 2025] Call for Main Conference Papers
by ACL Announcements 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

EMNLP 2025: Call for Main Conference Papers Overview EMNLP 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2025 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program--in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Paper Submission Information Note that we are following a new ARR cycle schedule (5 cycles/year)! Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 [1] May cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025 May cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EMNLP via the commitment link [2]. Mandatory Reviewing Workload As our pace of research continues to increase, we need to strengthen the commitment to reviewing for each paper submission. During the ARR submission process, authors will be required to specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in this reviewing cycle. Please see the new ARR policy regarding reviewing workload here [3]. As this is an ARR-wide policy for all *CL conferences, questions or clarifications should be addressed to ARR directly. Additional Policies Based on feedback regarding increased reviewing load and (relatedly) decreased review quality, we are planning to implement additional policies to incentivize a lower volume of higher submissions and a higher quality of reviews for the EMNLP'25 ARR cycle. We will be looking into policies similar to those adopted by conferences like SIGKDD'25, CVPR'25 and AAAI'25. We will be announcing these policies on a separate blog post but for now would like to get some input from the community. If you would like to help us shape these policies and have additional suggestions, please use this form [4]. Submission Topics EMNLP 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Safety and Alignment in LLMs * AI/LLM Agents * Human-AI Interaction/Cooperation * Retrieval-Augmented Language Models * Mathematical, Symbolic, and Logical Reasoning in NLP * Computational Social Science, Cultural Analytics, and NLP for Social Good * Code Models * Interpretability, Model Editing, Transparency, and Explainability * LLM Efficiency * Generalizability and Transfer * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse, Pragmatics, and Reasoning * Low-resource Methods for NLP * Ethics, Bias, and Fairness * Natural Language Generation * Information Extraction and Retrieval * Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * Neurosymbolic approaches to NLP * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding * Summarization * Hierarchical Structure Prediction, Syntax, and Parsing * NLP Applications * _Special Theme_: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP _ _ _EMNLP 2025 Theme Track_: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP The core interests of the ACL community are rooted in human-language technologies but also have broad reach into other fields. A couple of recent examples are the burgeoning areas of Code models and Vision models. Earlier cases are exemplified through SIGs connected with the fields of education, medicine, and humanities. Movements such as NLP for Social Good and Computational Social Science show a desire for broad impact, which requires expertise beyond the borders of our own community to achieve. This year's theme of Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP aims to highlight this need for broader connections with other fields to understand and intensify NLP's impact. The goal is to increase our awareness of how advances in NLP can impact other fields, and design better strategies to measure that impact both within and across disciplines. Over the past two decades, the field has advanced at an exponential rate. The term language models is now a household word, industry is booming, and the publication rate is dizzying, but what does that mean about fundamental scientific impact and broader impact on real societal problems? How can we measure that in a rigorous way? Scores on benchmarks are increasing, however, to what extent do our benchmarks reflect the true impact of our technology advances? If we make a distinction between impact within our own field versus impact from our field into other fields, would we see the same magnitude of growth? The conventional measures of success don't facilitate making critical distinctions, like incremental improvement versus transformative change, or within-field uptake versus broad impact across fields. So this year we invite engagement with the theme first through theme-specific submission tracks for papers addressing the fundamental technology advances and papers addressing the evaluation methodology issues. However, we also invite Fireside Chat session proposals designed to bring together NLP researchers with leaders from other fields for agenda setting and new collaboration formation. Finally, we invite multi-disciplinary panel proposals that provide opportunities to engage the broader community in reflection related to the theme. Summary of Theme Track activities Call for submissions for Panels and Boundary-Spanning chats will go out later. In both cases, the submission will describe the topic area and questions that will be addressed as well as an argument for why this topic is strategic now, especially in connection with the conference theme. The submission should also describe who will participate in the panel or as leadership of the Boundary-spanning Chat (including a short bio describing the specific expertise) and how the session will be organized, including who will act as facilitator of the session. Panels should additionally discuss which questions will be addressed by the panelists. Boundary-spanning chat proposals will describe the proposed outcome of the session (e.g., a workshop proposal for 2026, a special issue of a journal, a new shared task, etc.). * Special Theme Best paper award * Panel discussion (special submission category) * Boundary-Spanning Chat sessions (special submission category) Two Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to EMNLP EMNLP 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review [5] (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review [6] platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process: * Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors; * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., EMNLP 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. EMNLP 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2025 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference, or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. Important Dates for EMNLP 2025 * ARR submission deadline (long & short papers): May 19, 2025 * Commitment deadline: July 31, 2025 * Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): August 20, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due (long & short): September 19, 2025 * Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD): November 5-9, 2025 _Note:_ All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Following the ACL and ARR policies [7], there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., EMNLP 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected EMNLP 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to EMNLP 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than EMNLP 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to EMNLP 2025. Paper Submission Details Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements [8], including: * Long Papers [9] (8 pages) and Short Papers [10] (4 pages) * Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review [11] * Authorship [12] * Citation and Comparison [13] * Multiple Submission Policy [14], Resubmission Policy [15], and Withdrawal Policy [16] * ACL's Publication Ethics Policy [17], and ARR's Ethics Policy [18] including the responsible NLP research checklist [19] * Limitations [20] * Writing Assistance [21] * Paper Submission and Templates [22] * Optional Supplementary Materials [23] Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers' comments. Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters. Contact Information General Chair: * Dirk Hovy [24], Bocconi University Program Chairs: * Christos Christodoulopoulos [25], Amazon * Tanmoy Chakraborty [26], Indian Institute of Technology Delhi * Carolyn Rose [27], Carnegie Mellon University * Violet Peng [28], University of California, Los Angeles Links: ------ [1] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/ARR [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP [3] https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-requirement/ [4] https://forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqf [5] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [6] https://openreview.net/ [7] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy [8] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information [9] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers [10] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#short-papers [11] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#instructions-for-two-way-anonymized-review [12] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#authorship [13] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#citation-and-comparison [14] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy [15] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#resubmission-policy [16] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#withdrawal-policy [17] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics [18] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy [19] https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch [20] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#limitations [21] https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/ACL-2023-policy/ [22] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-and-templates [23] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#optional-supplementary-materials-appendice… [24] http://dirkhovy.com/ [25] http://christos-c.com/ [26] https://tanmoychak.com/ [27] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose [28] https://violetpeng.github.io/

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CoNLL 2025: 2nd Call for Papers
by anveshrao1＠gmail.com 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

CoNLL 2025: 2nd Call for Papers Vienna, Austria, July 31 - August 1, 2025 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/ NEW! This year, CoNLL will only accept direct submissions… NEW! … both archival and non-archival! (see below) SIGNLL invites submissions to the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including but not only: - Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics - Interaction and Dialogue - Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution - Multimodality and Grounding - Typology and Multilinguality - Speech and Phonology - Syntax and Morphology - Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics - Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP - Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research Submissions Submission will be via OpenReview. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival. Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2023, 2024, and 2025 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). We are working on the submission site, we’ll announce it on the CoNLL website and social media, as well as in the 3rd CfP. Submissions that are accepted will be presented at the conference either as talks or as poster presentations. Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2025. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. The appendix should be submitted as a separate PDF file (reviewers are not required to consider the materials in the appendix so it should not include any essential content to the understanding of the paper). Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix. The submission page for archival papers can be found here: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/CoNLL Multiple submission policy: CoNLL 2025 follows the ACL 2025 policy, which follows the ARR policy: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy: CoNLL “precludes multiple submissions […] will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the […] review period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival conferences and workshops […] In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.” Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2025 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. As for submission of pre-prints to arXiv and other platforms, we follow the same policy as ARR: “[archival] submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time.” Also please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles —we advise you to create a profile well in advance: - New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. - New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. Venue / visa CoNLL 2025 will be held in Vienna, Austria. Please note that it is an in-person conference. We expect all accepted papers to be presented physically and presenting authors must register through ACL (workshop). If you need a visa, we encourage you to submit your visa application at submission time. Timeline (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) (CoNLL only accepts direct submissions this year!) - Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): March 14 2025 - Notification of acceptance: May 23 2025 - Camera-ready papers due: June 17 2025 - Conference: July 31 - August 1, 2025 Contact Questions? E-mail conll.chairs(a)gmail.com Organization committee Program Chairs Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg Area Chairs Christian Bentz, University of Passau Zhenguang G. Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Tanise Ceron, Bocconi University Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, McGill University Iria De Dios, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Max van Duijn, Leiden University Kilian Evang, HHU Düsseldorf Aina Garí Soler, INRIA Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta AI Research Xixian Liao, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Brielen Madureira, University of Potsdam Yohei Oseki, University of Tokyo Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam Emily Prud’hommeaux, Boston College Tanja Samardžić, University of Zurich Carina Silberer, University of Stuttgart Ece Takmaz, Utrecht University Tessa Verhoef, Leiden University Yang Xu, University of Toronto Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen Publicity Chairs Snigdha Chaturvedi, UNC-Chapel Hill Anvesh Rao Vijjini, UNC-Chapel Hill Publication Chairs Emily Cheng, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Selina Meyer, Technische Universität Nürnberg

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

07 Feb '25

*** First Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) December 12-13, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) The annual IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG) provides a premier international forum for presentation of original research results in knowledge discovery and graph learning, discussion of opportunities and challenges, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning • Knowledge engineering with big data. • Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. • Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. • Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. • Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. • Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. • Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. • Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. • Ontologies and reasoning. • Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. • Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. • Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. • Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. • Big knowledge systems and applications. • Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. • Large language models and applications • Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. • Datasets and benchmarks for graphs • Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems • Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. • Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building • Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. • Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model • Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning • Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database • Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. • Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. • Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “Survey:”, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled “A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”, should be changed as “Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as “Survey:”, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “SS##:”, where “##” is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled “Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as “SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (abstract and full paper): July 15, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2025 • Camera-ready deadline and copyright forms: October 15, 2025 • Early Registration Deadline: Oct. 29, 2025 • Conference: December 12-13, 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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1st CFP: 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

First Call for Papers: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025) Location: Vienna, Austria and online Date: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025 (co-located with ACL 2025) Website: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current Submission Deadline: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12 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. 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 We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ 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 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giora Alexandron (Weizmann Institute of Science); David Alfter (University of Gothenburg); Bashar Alhafni (New York University); Nischal Ashok Kumar (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Gringo Angelo Bayona (Trinity College Dublin); Lee Becker (Pearson); Beata Beigman Klebanov (ETS); Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge); Kay Berkling (Dhbw); Shayekh Bin Islam (Independent Researcher); Kristy Boyer (University of Florida); Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI); Dominique Brunato (Institute of Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” / ILC-CNR); Okan Bulut (University of Alberta); Jill Burstein (Duolingo); Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania); Jie Cao (University of Oklahoma); Dan Carpenter (North Carolina State University); Dumitru-Clementin Cercel (“Romania National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest”); Guanliang Chen (Monash University); Mei-Hua Chen (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University); Mark Core (University of Southern California); Steven Coyne (Tohoku University/RIKEN); Syaamantak Das (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Chris Davis (Amazon; University of Cambridge); Francisco de Arriba Pérez (Universidade de Vigo); Kordula De Kuthy (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)); Orphee De Clercq (LT3, Ghent University); Jasper Degraeuwe (Ghent University (Belgium)); Rahul Divekar (Bentley University); George Dueñas (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional); Yo Ehara (Tokyo Gakugei University); Hamza El Alaoui (Carnegie Mellon University); Effat Farhana (Auburn University); Nigel Fernandez (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Flor (Educational Testing Service); Jennifer-Carmen Frey (Eurac Research); Thomas Gaillat (Université Rennes 2); Ananya Ganesh (University of Colorado); Lingyu Gao (Educational Testing Service); Silvia García-Méndez (University of Vigo); Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); Hannah Gonzalez (Microsoft and University of Pennsylvania); Cyril Goutte (National Research Council Canada); Abigail Gurin Schleifer (The Weizmann Institute of Science); Na-Rae Han (University of Pittsburgh); Ching Nam Hang (Yam Pak Charitable Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Saint Francis University, Hong Kong); Jiangang Hao (Educational Testing Service); Omer Hemdan Abbdel-Aziz (Cairo University); Nicolas Hernandez (Nantes University - LS2N); Chieh-Yang Huang (MetaMetrics Inc.); Chung-Chi Huang (Frostburg State University); Joseph Marvin Imperial (University of Bath); Radu Tudor Ionescu (University of Bucharest); Qinjin Jia (Meta); Elma Kerz (Exaia Technologies); Fazel Keshtkar (ST. John’s University); Levi King (Google, Indiana University); Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi University); Joni Kruijsbergen (Language and Translation Technology Team, Ghent University); Alexander Kwako (Cambium Assessment); Kristopher Kyle (Linguistics, University of Oregon); Yunshi Lan (East China Normal University); Ji-Ung Lee (Universität des Saarlandes); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of Pittsburgh); Zhexiong Liu (University of Pittsburgh); Jakub Macina (ETH Zurich); Lieve Macken (Ghent University); Nitin Madnani (Duolingo); Khyati Mahajan (ServiceNow); James Martin (University of Colorado Boulder); Arianna Masciolini (University of Gothenburg); Sandeep Mathias (Presidency University, Bangalore); Kaushal Kumar Maurya (MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi UAE); Detmar Meurers (Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien & Universität Tübingen); Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez (Gothenburg University); Farah Nadeem (Lahore University of Management Sciences); Sungjin Nam (ACT, Inc); Aneet Narendranath (Michigan Technological University); Huy Nguyen (Amazon); Gebregziabihier Nigusie (Mizan-Tepi University); S Jaya Nirmala (National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli); Sergiu Nisioi (University of Bucharest); Amin Omidvar (York University); Daniel Oyeniran (University of Alabama); Ulrike Pado (HFT Stuttgart); Long Qin (Alibaba); Mengyang Qiu (Trent University); Arjun Ramesh Rao (Netflix); Hanumant Redkar (Goa University); Aiala Rosá (Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, Udelar); Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York); Maja Stahl (Leibniz University Hannover); Katherine Stasaski (Salesforce AI Research); Helmer Strik (Radboud University Nijmegen); Hakyung Sung (University of Oregon); Abhijit Suresh (University of Colorado Boulder); Alexandra Uitdenbogerd (RMIT); Sowmya Vajjala (National Research Council, Canada); Justin Vasselli (Nara Institute of Science and Technology); Giulia Venturi (Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (CNR-ILC)); Amit Arjun Verma (Guvi Geek Network); Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin); Elena Volodina (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Alistair Willis (The Open University, UK); Yiqiao Xu (MetLife Inc.); An-Zi Yen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University); Torsten Zesch (FernUniversität in Hagen); Jing Zhang (Amazon); Mike Zhang (Aalborg University); Yang Zhong (University of Pittsburgh); Qingyu Zhou (Bytedance); Bowei Zou (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR); Liang Zou (New York University, Amazon). >

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Revue TAL - Varia 67-1 Call for papers
by Maxime Amblard 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

******************************************** Call for papers ******************************************** TAL : Varia Volume 67 number 1 https://tal-67-1.sciencesconf.org/ ******************************************** Editors: Maxime Amblard, Marie Candito, Benoit Favre et Aurélie Névéol Since 2023 Non-thematic issues of the Automatic Language Processing journal become "on the fly". Thus, each article in issue 67-1 will be evaluated as soon as it is submitted and will be published, subject to its acceptance, within an indicative period of six months after its submission. The call for volume 67-1 is thus open until December 31, 2025. THEMES The journal Automatic Language Processing has an open call for papers. Submissions may concern theoretical and experimental contributions on all aspects of written, spoken, and signed language processing and computational linguistics, both theoretical and experimental, for example: • Computational models of language • Linguistic resources • Statistical learning and modeling • Intermodality and multimodality • Language multiplicity and diversity • Semantics and comprehension • Information access and text mining • Language production and processing/generation/synthesis • Evaluation • Explicability and reproducibility • NLP in interaction with other disciplines, digital humanities This list is indicative. On all topics, it is essential that the aspects related to natural language processing are emphasized. We also welcome position papers and survey papers. Articles can be written in French or English. Important Dates • Submission deadline: on the fly until December 31, 2024 • Notification to the authors after first review: two months after submission • Notification to the authors after second review: two months after the first review • Publication : two months after the second review THE JOURNAL TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1959 with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). TAL has an electronic mode of publication.

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CFP: 2nd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025)
by Georg Rehm 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

Call for Papers *2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025)* 01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc) Portoroz, Slovenia (NSLP 2025 is co-located with ESWC 2025) https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/ Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and exploitation of scientific language and research knowledge graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2025 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2025 to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia on 01 or 02 June 2025 (to be confirmed). *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to* • Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs (RKGs/SKGs) and other forms of structured scientific knowledge representation • Information Extraction for RKGs/SKGs • Question Answering over RKGs/SKGs • Other types of usage of RKGs/SKGs for downstream applications • Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) • NSLP (monolingual, cross-lingual, multilingual) • Language Resources and Language Technologies for NSLP • Domain-specific Adaptation of NSLP Methods • Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications • Classification of Scholarly Publications (document collections, individual documents, parts of documents) • Summarisation of Scholarly Publications • Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines • Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information • Bibliometrics and Scientometrics • Micropublications and Nanopublications *Important Dates* • Paper submission deadline: 06 March 2025 • Notification of acceptance: 03 April 2025 • Camera-ready submission: 17 April 2025 • Workshop: 01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc) *Submissions* The NSLP 2025 workshop invites submissions of regular long papers, position papers, and short papers presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. • The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages without references and appendix) and short papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. In both categories, position papers can be submitted as well. • Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix; all papers must be self-contained. • Reviewing will be performed double-blind. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors. • Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). • The proceedings of this workshop will be published as an Open Access volume in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), fully sponsored by the NFDI4DS project. • At least one author per contribution must register for the conference for presentation as ESWC 2025 (including all workshops) is an in-person event. • We will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop. • All submissions are done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=nslp2025 *Keynote Speaker* Michele Pasin, Digital Science, UK *Shared Tasks * NSLP 2025 offers three shared tasks: 1. MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents 2. ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge 3. FoRC: Field of Research Classification *Shared Task 1: MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents* The MESD shared task aims to improve metadata extraction from scholarly publications to enhance their FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability). Given training data of 500 labelled scientific documents along with their extracted text, participants are asked to develop models that output metadata of nine predefined labels. A label-free test set of 100 samples will be released for final evaluation, where systems will be ranked based on F1 score using Levenshtein Similarity (≥90%). Organiser: Zeyd Boukhers (Fraunhofer FIT) Important dates: • Release of training datasets: January 27, 2025 • Release of testing datasets: February 15, 2025 • Deadline for system submissions: February 22, 2025 • Announcement of results: February 27, 2025 • Paper submission deadline: March 6, 2025 • Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2025 • Camera-ready submission: April 17, 2025 *Shared Task 2: ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge Graph* The ReadMe2KG shared task focuses on fine-grained Named Entity Recognition (NER) in GitHub README files to enhance the NFDI4DS knowledge graph. Participants will develop classifiers to identify 10 entity types, including “Dataset,” “Software,” and “Publication,” from a dataset of approximately 160 README files. The task aims to improve the integration of research-related metadata from GitHub repositories into the research data lifecycle. Organisers: Genet Asefa Gesese (FIZ Karlsruhe), Zongxiong Chen (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Shufan Jiang (FIZ Karlsruhe), Mary Ann Tan (FIZ Karlsruhe), Sonja Schimmler (Fraunhofer FOKUS) Important dates: • Release of training datasets: January 25, 2025 • Release of testing datasets: February 15, 2025 • Deadline for system submissions: February 22, 2025 • Announcement of results: February 27, 2025 • Paper submission deadline: March 6, 2025 • Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2025 • Camera-ready submission: April 17, 2025 *Shared Task 3: FoRC: Field of Research Classification* The FoRC shared task aims to classify scientific documents into (sub-)topics according to a predefined schema. The second iteration of the task (see NSLP 2024 for the first) will focus on classifying computational linguistics publications taken from the ACL Anthology using the FoRC4CL data and taxonomy. Weakly supervised data will be added to FoRC4CL to create a bigger training corpus for classifying publications into 170 (sub-)topics of the field of computational linguistics. Organisers: Maria Francis (DFKI; University of Trento), Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI), Ekaterina Borisova (DFKI), Georg Rehm (DFKI) Important dates: • Release of training and testing data: February 18, 2025 • Deadline for system submissions: March 25, 2025 • Paper submission deadline: March 27, 2025 • Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2025 • Camera-ready submission: April 17, 2025 The NSLP 2025 website provides more information on the shared tasks: https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/ *Organisers of NSLP 2025* • Georg Rehm, DFKI & HU Berlin, Germany • Sonja Schimmler, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany • Stefan Dietze, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf, Germany • Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece *Contact* Georg Rehm <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de>

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Call for Participation - SMAFIRA Shared Task - Assessing the similarity of the research goal for biomedicine
by Mariana Neves 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

SMAFIRA Shared Task Website: https://smafira-bf3r.github.io/smafira-st/ Dear all, We'd like to invite you to participate in the SMAFIRA Shared Task that will take place in the BioNLP Workshop ( https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop) at ACL'25. The task aims at collecting annotations about the similarity of the research goals between two biomedical articles (title and abstract only). The collected annotations will later be used for training and evaluating our SMAFIRA tool (https://smafira.bf3r.de/), a tool for searching alternative methods to animal experiments. *Important dates* (subject to changes) - Release of the test data (batch1): Feb/2025 *(already available!)* - Release of the test data (batch2): Mar/2025 - Submission of annotations (batch1): April 30th, 2025 - Submission of participant paper: May 5th, 2025 - Final submissions of participant paper: May 20th, 2025 - Submission of annotations (batch2): July/2025 *Tasks and test data* The tasks address two communities: biomedical experts for the *manual* annotation; and the NLP community for the *automatic* annotation. The test data consists of a list of reference articles, i.e., Pubmed ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) identifiers and their respective list of top 20 similar articles. A valid submission should contain annotations for all articles in the top 20 list. The annotation consists of *one* of the following degrees of similarity: *similar*, *uncertain *or *not similar*. *Evaluation* The evaluation will consist of inter-annotator agreement between the various submissions, as well as ranking the participants in terms of their contributions, i.e., number of annotations. *Publication* Contributions to the task can be published as a participant paper to the BioNLP Workshop at ACL'25 and/or as a co-authorship in a joint overview paper in a journal (after the end of the shared task, later this year). Please visit our website (https://smafira-bf3r.github.io/smafira-st/) for mode details! Best regards, Mariana Neves German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) -- Dr. Mariana Neves Web site: https://mariananeves.github.io/

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UCCTS 2025 - Extended Deadline
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

After several requests, the deadline for submitting papers for the UCCTS conference was extended to February 17! If you considered a submission, you have some additional date to finalise your abstracts (800-1000ws): www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025

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Konvens 2025: Call for papers
by Christian Wartena 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

We warmly welcome the submission of papers for KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 10-13). 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. See https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ for more information! 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). For information on past conferences, see: https://konvens.org/ Confirmed keynotes: * Michael Hahn (Saarland University) * Sina Zarrieß (Universität Bielefeld) * Timo Freiesleben (Universität Tübingen) Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline May 3, 2025 Paper Notification June 27, 2025 Camera Ready August 15, 2025 Main Conference September 10 - 13, 2025 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 electronically via OpenReview: Details will be published in time on the KONVENS 2025 website (https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/author/ ) . 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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PhD Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence (NLP and e-Health) at Queen’s University Belfast, UK
by information retrieval 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues, I am looking for PhD students in e-Health and Sign Language Translation at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University in Belfast, UK. The details of the projects are below: 1. *Breaking Barriers: AI-Powered Sign Language Translation for Enhanced Healthcare Access for the Deaf* . The Project is co-supervised by Prof. Asif Ekbal, Professor, IIT Jodhpur, India, and Dr. Anna Jurek-Loughrey, Senior Lecturer, EEECS, Queen’s University. 2. *Empowering Mothers: AI-Enhanced Personalized Management of Gestational Diabetes* . The project is co-supervised by Prof. Pietro Liò, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK. *Both projects offer an exciting opportunity for students to spend time at the prestigious University of Cambridge in the UK and IIT Jodhpur in India.* *Requirements:* The successful candidate is expected to have a solid background in NLP, Machine Learning, Statistics, computer science, or related disciplines. The minimum academic requirement for admission to a research degree programme is normally an Upper Second Class Honours degree from a UK or ROI HE provider or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University. *Application Process:* For enquiries, please send an email to Dr. Mohammed Hasanuzzaman at m.hasanuzzaman(a)qub.ac.uk with your CV and transcript, as well as a brief description of your research interests. Unfortunately, due to a high volume of inquiries, I may not be able to respond to all emails. *About Queen's:* The Queen's University Belfast, founded almost two centuries ago, is one of the oldest universities in the United Kingdom. As a member of the prestigious Russell Group, Queen’s is one of the UK’s 24 leading research-intensive universities (ranked 13th in the UK for research intensity). For more details: Queen’s University rankings. *International students are welcome to apply, but additional funding (Scholarships) or personal finances will be required to cover the difference between home (UK) and overseas fees.* Best regards, Mohammed

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CfP: FoIKS 2026: 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 23-26 March, 2026. Hannover, Germany
by mahmood＠thi.uni-hannover.de 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

======================================= ** FoIKS 2026: First call for papers ** ======================================= The 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS'26) invites contributions from theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. FoIKS 2026 (https://foiks2026.github.io/) will be held on 23rd-26th March 2026 in Hannover, Germany. =========== ** Scope ** =========== The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, and formal languages. Database Design and Management: Formal models, (in)dependencies and models of transactions, concurrency control. Logics in Databases and AI: Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, argumentation, probability logic, fuzzy logic. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Logical reasoning, Non-monotonic reasoning (reasoning under inconsistency), Reasoning under vagueness or uncertainty. Foundations of neuro-symbolic reasoning: Embedding methods for structured information, such as knowledge graphs, mathematical expressions, grammars, logical theories. Intelligent Agents: Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, formal models of interactions, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems, epistemic reasoning. Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, information extraction. Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management. Integrity and Constraint Management: Verification, validation, consistent query answering, and information cleaning. Knowledge graphs and semi-structured Data: Data modelling, data processing, data compression, and data exchange. ========================== ** Submission Guidelines ** ========================== Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (for guidelines and templates, see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. There are the following page limits according to paper type: Long papers: 16 plus additional pages for references. Short papers: 10 plus additional pages for references. Missing proofs or details can be added as an additional appendix of up to 15 pages article style and read at the discretion of the program committee. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026. All questions about submissions should be emailed to foiks2026(a)easychair.org. ================= ** Publication ** ================= The proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2026 special issue. ===================== ** Important dates ** ===================== Submission of abstracts: September 18, 2025 Submission of paper: September 25, 2025 Notification: December 20, 2025 Final version due: January 20, 2026 Conference: March 23-26, 2026 ====================== ** Invited Speakers ** ====================== TBD ================== ** Organization ** ================== * PC Chairs * Anni-Yasmin Turhan (University of Paderborn, Germany) Jonni Virtema (University of Sheffield, UK) * Local Chair * Arne Meier (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)

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CFP: Canadian AI 2025 - Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Feb 17, 2025
by pmvul089＠uottawa.ca 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this extended deadline CFP] ---------- Call for Papers: Canadian AI 2025 ---------- ---------- May 26-29, 2025, in Calgary, Alberta ---------- ---------- Deadline Extension: Monday, Feb 17, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE) ---------- Dear Colleagues, We want to thank all those who have submitted papers so far to our conference. We are also happy to announce that the submission deadline is being extended in response to all requests received. The new **extended** submission deadline is **Monday, Feb 17, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. AoE**. We are inviting applications in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied, to the **38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence** taking place in Calgary on May 26-29. We also welcome the submission of position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily introducing a new system. Conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open-access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, and Google Scholar. ---------- Submission details ---------- Canadian AI is accepting submissions of both long and short papers. Long papers must be no longer than 12 pages, and short papers must be no longer than 6 pages, including references. Submissions in both LaTeX and Word are accepted. **Please note: For each paper submitted, an Appendix file (in PDF format) can be uploaded by the authors as supplementary information.** More information and submission templates are available under Submission Details here: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2025/call-papers **The portal for submission is now open and can be found here:** https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2025/ Papers submitted to the conference must not have already been published, or accepted for publication, or be under review by a journal or another conference (preprint is acceptable if the title is different). Submissions will go through a double-blind review process by Program Committee members to assess originality, significance, technical merit, and clarity of presentation. As such, submissions must be anonymized, and papers that fail to do so will be desk rejected without a review. ---------- Topics of interest include: ---------- - Agent Systems - AI Applications - Automated Reasoning - Case‐based Reasoning - Cognitive Models - Constraint Satisfaction - Data Mining - Deep Learning and Neural Models - E‐Commerce - Ethics in AI, AI for social good - Evolutionary Computation - Explainable AI - Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI - Games - Information Retrieval and Search - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation - Large Language Models - Machine Learning - Multimedia Processing - Natural Language Processing - Planning - Robotics - Uncertainty - User Modeling - Web Mining and Applications Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review. Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form matches the corresponding author listed on the paper. ---------- Awards ---------- A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference, respectively, to the authors of each best paper, as judged by the Best Paper Award Selection Committee. For the Best Student Paper Award, the first author must be a registered student at the time of submitting the paper. ---------- Important dates ---------- - Submission deadline: Monday, Feb 17, 2025 **Extended** (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) - Author notification: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - Camera-ready copy due: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) - Conference dates: May 26-29 2025 ---------- Program Chairs ---------- Paula Branco School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa pbranco(a)uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/4218?lang=en Amine Trabelsi Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke Amine.Trabelsi(a)USherbrooke.ca https://www.usherbrooke.ca/informatique/trabelsi We look forward to your participation in Canadian AI 2025!

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[CfP] 2nd WikiNLP Workshop@ACL25
by Indira Sen 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear Corpora list members, We welcome submissions for the *2th edition of the workshop on **Advancing Natural Language Processing for Wikipedia* *(WikiNLP), co-located with ACL'25, in Vienna, Austria on 13th September 2024.* The goal of this workshop is celebrating Wikimedia's contributions to the NLP community while exploring ways to sustain this relationship. Wikipedia, a multilingual, freely reusable, high-quality dataset, is invaluable to NLP research, yet challenges persist: language modeling remains skewed toward high-resource languages, generative text models pose risks to Wikipedia’s sustainability, and few researchers contribute tools that support Wikimedia's ecosystem. With three tracks spanning provocations, datasets, and non-archival submissions, we invite studies on: - Wikimedia data’s impact in NLP - NLP tools, features, and datasets that help maintain and expand Wikimedia projects - Policy design for governing NLP tool usage on Wikipedia - Practices in NLP research that could be beneficial or harmful to the Wikimedia community - ... and more! *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: 23 April 2025 - Accept/reject notification: 30 May 2025 - Camera-ready paper deadline: 23 June 2025 - Workshop: 31 July or 1 August 2025 (TBD) All deadlines are midnight anywhere on earth (AOE). More details: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025) Best, WikiNLP'25 organizers (Akhil Arora, Isaac Johnson, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Tiziano Piccardi, Indira Sen)

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Fwd: Call for Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

Dear Colleague, Below you will find the official Call for Full papers of the next International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’25), which will take place in Campinas, Brazil. Please feel free to distribute it to mailing lists you manage and to everybody who may be interested. Thank you and we hope to see you in Campinas for ICCC’25! If you wish to receive more information about ICCC’25 subscribe here <https://e8065363.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAFV4ySdxCWdPh1rmKRZT0UTO1FMw7X4gcwb…> . Follow us on: facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pg/computationalcreativity/ twitter – https://twitter.com/iccc_conf instagram – https://www.instagram.com/iccc_conf/ ------------------------------------------------ The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25) June 23-27, 2025 — Campinas, Brazil Call for papers: full regular papers http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/full-papers/ Please distribute (Apologies for cross-posting) ------------------------------------------------ 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. 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 *** Original research contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity research and practice, including, but not limited to: — Applications of Computational Creativity — Human-Machine Co-Creativity — Computational Creativity Evaluation — Social Models — Computational Paradigms — Interdisciplinary Perspectives — Data and Creativity — Societal Impact — Psychological Factors — Provocations 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. *** Paper Types *** We welcome the submission of five different types of papers: — Technical papers — System or Resource description papers — Study papers — Cultural application papers — Position papers *** Important Dates *** Abstracts due: February 14, 2025 Submissions due: February 21, 2025 Acceptance notification: April 11, 2025 Camera-ready copies due: May 2, 2025 Conference: June 23-27, 2025 All deadlines given are 23:59 anywhere on Earth time. *** Submission instructions *** This year the submission process has two stages: initial submission of a title and abstract, and subsequent submission of the full paper a week later. - Recommended length for the abstract is 100–200 words. - The full paper page limit is 8 pages + up to 2 pages of references. - Papers will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion, which necessitates that authors take appropriate steps to remain anonymous. - You are responsible for making your papers anonymous to allow for double-blind review. Remove all references to your home institution(s), refer to your past work in the third person, etc. - To be considered, papers must be submitted as a PDF document formatted according to ICCC style (which is similar to AAAI and IJCAI formats). You can download the updated ICCC’25 LaTeX template [here <https://computationalcreativity.net/ICCC-author-kit-2022.zip>] and Word template [here <https://computationalcreativity.net/ICCC-author-kit-Word.zip>]. - Abstracts are to be submitted one week before the full paper deadline. Submit your abstract via the EasyChair system [here <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc202501>]. You are required to fill out author(s) information, a title, abstract and keywords. - Submit your full paper by updating the EasyChair Abstract with your manuscript file. Abstract submissions that do not contain a manuscript will be automatically rejected at the beginning of the review time. - Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc202501 - Double submissions policy: Work submitted to ICCC should not be under review in another scientific conference or journal at the time of submission. *** More Information *** More information on themes, topics, paper types and the submission process can be found at: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/full-papers/

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Call for papers: IEEE ICICS2025
by Ahmad Mustafa 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

IEEE ICICS2025: The 16th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, Jordan, July 1st - 3rd, 2025 Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit your papers to IEEE ICICS2025, Irbid, Jordan, July 1st - 3rd, 2025 Conference website: http://www.just.edu.jo/icics Full paper submission deadline: Feb 20th , 2025. The 16th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (IEEE ICICS 2025) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in ICICS 2025 include, but are not limited to: 1. Communication Systems, electronics, and Signal Processing 2. Networking, and Internet of Things (IoT) 3. Data Science and Big Data 4. Natural Language Processing and Applications 5. Software & web Engineering, and Information Systems 6. Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics 7. Cloud and Fog/Mobile Edge Computing 8. AI and Machine Learning 9. E-Learning Technologies Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers following the guideline posted on the conference website http://www.just.edu.jo/icics <http://www.just.edu.jo/icics> . Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed (check review process in the conference website), and prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the conference (possible for a virtual). The accepted and registered papers will appear in the conference proceedings. *The Conference Program includes free trips to Jarash and Umm Qais* Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2025 Important Dates: * Full paper submission: Feb 20th , 2025. * Notification of Decision: March 27th , 2025. * Camera-Ready and Registration: April 13th , 2025 Please send any inquiry to: icics(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:icics@just.edu.jo>

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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ The LIFT 2 research group is happy to announce the forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics. The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc - 2025/02/12 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Miloš Stanojević* (University College London; 15:30-16:30 UTC+0) Title: *Linguistic Universals in Grammars and Language Models *Abstract: *The shared universal properties of human languages have been at the heart of many linguistic debates for decades. A big part of these debates are two core questions: (1) learnability — can all linguistic universals be learned from data alone without any inbuilt prior knowledge, and (2) explanation — why do we see these universals and not some other? In the first part of the talk, I will show recent results on how LLMs fare in picking up a syntactic universal in the idealized scenario where LLM is trained on large amounts of data that comes from a large number of languages. As usual, the number of parameters and amount of data helps but does not fully solve the learnability problem. Even if LLMs could learn a syntactic universal, their performance alone would not help in explaining why the observed syntactic universal exists at the first place. In the second part of the talk, I will show how CCG syntactic theory can provide not only an explanation of why some universals exist but also a prediction of what word orders we will not find in human languages.* - 2025/03/19 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Gail Weiss* (EPFL) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2025/04/16 16:30-17:30 UTC+2: *Sacha Beniamine* (University of Surrey; 15:30-16:30 UTC+1) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2025/05/14 16:30-17:30 UTC+2 (to be confirmed): *Raffaella Bernardi* (University of Trento) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA]

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Fully funded PhD on "Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI" at University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)
by Malvina Nissim 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

*** apologies for cross-posting *** *JOINT PhD POSITION: University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)* *Application deadline: 28/02/2025* *Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI**.* Recent advancements in AI offer solutions to address vaccine misinformation and rebuild public trust in vaccination efforts. Vaccine hesitancy, described by the WHO as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite available services,” is influenced by complacency, convenience, and confidence. This project focuses on the confidence dimension, targeting misinformation and reinforcing trust in vaccines through accurate, accessible information. The project will leverage AI to tackle three core challenges: (1) detecting vaccine-related misinformation, (2) verifying misinformation using trusted knowledge sources via Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and (3) crafting persuasive, evidence-based counter-narratives to combat hesitancy. *What we offer: *Enrol at two universities for a truly global PhD. You will be jointly supervised by staff at both universities, spend time (18 months) at each campus and upon successful completion of the program, will graduate from both universities with a PhD. Macquarie University will fund a living allowance scholarship per position at an annual rate of AUD 38,500 (tax exempt), paid pro-rata, while the student is in Australia and a Macquarie tuition fee scholarship will be granted for the period of joint enrolment up to 36 months. Macquarie will also provide an airfare allowance for flights between The Netherlands and Australia up to a maximum of $4,000 AUD. During time on campus in Groningen the PhD candidate will be employed according to the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (here <https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/collective-labour-agreement-of…> ). A salary of € 2.872 gross per month in the first year, up to a maximum of € 3.670 gross per month in the final year, based on a full-time position (NOTE: the precise amount can vary according to which year(s) of the PhD the candidate spends in Groningen *Eligibility**:* Admission and scholarship criteria of both universities must be met. For University of Groningen: *GSH Admission requirements.* <https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/phd-programme/phd-admissi…> For Macquarie University: PhD entry and English language requirements <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/explore-research-de…>, and graduate research scholarship eligibility criteria <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply/schola…> . *Mode of study**: *Full time *Year of entry**: *2025 *Duration:* 3 years Students will enrol at both institutions from the outset on *01 October 2025*.* The location the student commences the program in can be determined in consultation with their supervisors.* *Additional criteria**: *Applicants must not already (i) hold a doctoral degree; or (ii) be matriculated for a doctoral degree at the University of Groningen, Macquarie University, or another institution. *Expression of Interest (EOI)*: Students are to submit their EOIs to the MQ supervisor, Dr. Usman Naseem(usman.naseem(a)mq.edu.au) and the University of Groningen’s supervisor, Dr Tommaso Caselli (t.caselli(a)rug.nl) and cc gr.globalprograms(a)mq.edu.au including the following documents: - CV including information about publications. - Transcripts of most relevant/recent degrees. - Information about thesis components (thesis mark, word count, weight/length in comparison to the degree overall). - 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. The Global Office at University of Groningen will work with the Graduate Research Academy at Macquarie to arrange official notification of scholarship awards, invite scholarship awardees to formally apply for admission to both universities by mid-March 2025, and conclude contractual arrangements which must be in place prior to the start of the degree. Students who are nominated for the award will be asked to formally apply for candidature through the MQ application portal: https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply

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Call for contributions to the AIiH 2025 special session - AI for long-term conditions
by Shangming Zhou 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are organising a Special Session:* Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Improve Outcomes for Patients with for Long-Term Health Conditions* (https://aiih.cc/lthc/) in the *International Conference on AI in Healthcare (AIiH)*, 8-10 September 2025, Jesus College, University of Cambridge. We would like to accept both *full length papers* (12 pages plus references) and *short abstracts* (up to 5 pages including references) for special sessions. Submission guideline can be found here, including paper templates in both Word and LaTeX: https://aiih.cc/paper-submission/ The accepted full papers and abstracts will be published in the *Springer LNCS* volumes. *Full Paper* submission deadline: *Friday 11 April 2025* *Abstract* submission deadline: *Monday 30 June 2024* We are looking forward to meeting you. Best wishes Shang-Ming Zhou *Professor in e-Health | Faculty of Health | University of Plymouth | PL4 8AA | UK.* Tel: +44 (0)1752 586513 | Email : shangming.zhou@plymouth.ac.uk;smzhou@ieee.org https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/shang-ming-zhou https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-health-technology

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Konvens 2025 Second Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Christian Wartena 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

We cordially invite proposals for workshops and tutorials as part of KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 9-12). KONVENS is an annual conference series on computational linguistics that started in 1992 and that is organized under the auspices of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society, the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence and SwissText. Past conferences are listed here: https://konvens.org. See https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ for more information! Workshop Proposals Workshop proposals should contain: * a title and a brief description (at most 4 pages in ACL format) of the workshop topic * the desired workshop length (half-day or full-day) * the names and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed to serve Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings. The time schedule for workshops is: Workshop Proposal Deadline February 14, 2025 Workshop Proposal Notification February 21, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Deadline July 2, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Notification August 4, 2025 Mandatory Camera Ready Deadline August 15, 2025 Proceedings Camera Ready Deadline August 22, 2025 Tutorials Tutorials are intended to either provide a comprehensive introduction to core techniques/areas of interest or address advanced topics relevant for the KONVENS community. We invite half-day tutorials on established or emerging research topics in these areas but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or applications. Tutorials may be explicitly introductory, targeting experienced researchers or attracting a wide audience by addressing basic as well as advanced topics. Tutorial proposals should contain: * a title and abstract of the tutorial * the language in which the tutorial will be held (English/German) * a brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the KONVENS community * a brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in half a day * the names and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere Tutorial proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Proceedings Peer-reviewed workshop papers can be published in the KONVENS 2025 Proceedings. A camera-ready version of all accepted papers should be available at latest on August 22, 2025. 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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Launch of the Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (GCND)
by Melissa Farasyn 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

We are excited to announce the release of the first parsed corpus of spoken Dutch dialects, the Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND). This resource offers extensive data for linguistic research and is now accessible online. Corpus Highlights: * Speakers: 1,206 individuals, with the eldest born in 1871. * Geographical Coverage: 639 distinct locations. * Audio Data: Over 430 hours of recordings across 650 sessions. * Transcriptions: Over 600 time-aligned, highly detailed transcriptions. * Total Tokens: Approximately 4.77 million. * GrETEL Treebank: 50,111 verified sentences and 452,459 verified tokens. These figures represent the corpus as of its initial release. Ongoing efforts, supported by additional funding (GCND+), aim to expand the corpus with more transcriptions, including northern dialects from the Meertens Institute collection, and to enhance grammatical annotations. The latest updates are available through the corpus application. Access Information: The GCND is available online * GCND corpus application (requires CLARIN login): https://gcnd.ivdnt.org<https://gcnd.ivdnt.org/> * GCND project website: https://www.gcnd.ugent.be/ Acknowledgments: This project was made possible through the funding of the Research Foundation Flanders and the dedicated efforts of numerous student assistants, volunteers and our project partners. The GCND team (at Ghent University): Anne Breitbarth (anne.breitbarth(a)ugent.be<mailto:anne.breitbarth@ugent.be>) Anne-Sophie Ghyselen (annesophie.ghyselen(a)ugent.be<mailto:annesophie.ghyselen@ugent.be>) Melissa Farasyn (melissa.farasyn(a)ugent.be<mailto:melissa.farasyn@ugent.be>) Lien Hellebaut (lien.hellebaut(a)ugent.be<mailto:lien.hellebaut@ugent.be>)

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CFPapers: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA) workshop
by Lasha Abzianidze 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '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. Please visit https://naloma.github.io for more details about the call. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva -- Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor at Utrecht University Institute for Language Sciences

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Call for papers: Analogy-ANGLE II
by Pia Sommerauer 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Second Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II) Our 2nd workshop on ANALOGY-ANGLE will take place at ACL 2025 (July 31st/August 1st 2025) in Vienna. https://analogy-angle.github.io/ Analogy-Angle II is a multidisciplinary workshop to advance research on analogical abstraction by bridging the fields of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology. This workshop seeks to foster collaboration among researchers by providing a platform for sharing novel insights, benchmarks, methodologies, and analogy applications across disciplines. Analogy-Angle II welcomes diverse contributions, including original research, reviews, and previously accepted papers from leading conferences. Analogy-Angle I was co-located with IJCAI 2024. IMPORTANT DATES: * Direct submission deadline: March 1, 2025 * Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready paper deadline: May 16, 2025 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 30, 2025 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025 * Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025 TOPICS OF INTEREST * Cognitive modeling * Analogy and abstraction * Analogy and Conceptual Metaphor * Analogy, figurative language, sarcasm, and irony * Cognitive frameworks of analogy *Cognitive/psychological studies on analogy involving human participants * Algorithms and methods * Studies of the analogical abilities of large language models and visual diffusion models * Algorithmic approaches to analogy * Augmentation and verification of large language and vision models through analogy * Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for analogical abstraction * Extracting analogies from knowledge bases * Tasks and benchmarks * Matching narratives and situational descriptions through narratives * Novel tasks and benchmarks for evaluating analogies in text and vision * Analogy in longer formats, e.g., narratives and videos * Analogy and visual abstraction tasks * Analogical discovery and computational creativity * Applications * Analogies for personalization, explanation, and collaboration * Novel applications of analogical abstraction * Studies of the impact of analogy in specific applications and domains, including education, innovation, and law We invite full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and dissemination papers (already published papers). Please refer to our website for more information and submit your contribution via Open Review (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/Analogy-ANGLE#…). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Filip Ilievski, Giulia Rambelli, Marianna Bolognesi, Ute Schmid, Pia Sommerauer

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PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter
by Aline Villavicencio 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear all, We have a fully funded PhD studentship to work on the project Compositional and Holistic UNits of Knowledge in Sentences at the University of Exeter, for a September start, as part of the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award. With Rodrigo Wilkens and Marco Idiart. Start Date: September 2025 Application Deadline: 10 February 2025 More details in https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-research/funding/phdfunding/epsrc-dla-stu… and https://www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recruitmentsites/documents/Compositional_a… Please contact me if you're interested! All the best, Aline ---------------------------------------------------- Prof. 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

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Fully funded PhD on "Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI" at University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)
by Tommaso Caselli 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

*** apologies for cross-posting *** *JOINT PhD POSITION: University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)* *Application deadline: 28/02/2025* *Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI**.* Recent advancements in AI offer solutions to address vaccine misinformation and rebuild public trust in vaccination efforts. Vaccine hesitancy, described by the WHO as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite available services,” is influenced by complacency, convenience, and confidence. This project focuses on the confidence dimension, targeting misinformation and reinforcing trust in vaccines through accurate, accessible information. The project will leverage AI to tackle three core challenges: (1) detecting vaccine-related misinformation, (2) verifying misinformation using trusted knowledge sources via Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and (3) crafting persuasive, evidence-based counter-narratives to combat hesitancy. *What we offer: *Enrol at two universities for a truly global PhD. You will be jointly supervised by staff at both universities, spend time (18 months) at each campus and upon successful completion of the program, will graduate from both universities with a PhD. Macquarie University will fund a living allowance scholarship per position at an annual rate of AUD 38,500 (tax exempt), paid pro-rata, while the student is in Australia and a Macquarie tuition fee scholarship will be granted for the period of joint enrolment up to 36 months. Macquarie will also provide an airfare allowance for flights between The Netherlands and Australia up to a maximum of $4,000 AUD. During time on campus in Groningen the PhD candidate will be employed according to the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (here <https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/collective-labour-agreement-of…> ). A salary of € 2.872 gross per month in the first year, up to a maximum of € 3.670 gross per month in the final year, based on a full-time position (NOTE: the precise amount can vary according to which year(s) of the PhD the candidate spends in Groningen *Eligibility**:* Admission and scholarship criteria of both universities must be met. For University of Groningen: *GSH Admission requirements.* <https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/phd-programme/phd-admissi…> For Macquarie University: PhD entry and English language requirements <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/explore-research-de…>, and graduate research scholarship eligibility criteria <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply/schola…> . *Mode of study**: *Full time *Year of entry**: *2025 *Duration:* 3 years Students will enrol at both institutions from the outset on *01 October 2025*.* The location the student commences the program in can be determined in consultation with their supervisors.* *Additional criteria**: *Applicants must not already (i) hold a doctoral degree; or (ii) be matriculated for a doctoral degree at the University of Groningen, Macquarie University, or another institution. *Expression of Interest (EOI)*: Students are to submit their EOIs to the MQ supervisor, Dr. Usman Naseem(usman.naseem(a)mq.edu.au) and the University of Groningen’s supervisor, Dr Tommaso Caselli (t.caselli(a)rug.nl) and cc gr.globalprograms(a)mq.edu.au including the following documents: - CV including information about publications. - Transcripts of most relevant/recent degrees. - Information about thesis components (thesis mark, word count, weight/length in comparison to the degree overall). - 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. The Global Office at University of Groningen will work with the Graduate Research Academy at Macquarie to arrange official notification of scholarship awards, invite scholarship awardees to formally apply for admission to both universities by mid-March 2025, and conclude contractual arrangements which must be in place prior to the start of the degree. Students who are nominated for the award will be asked to formally apply for candidature through the MQ application portal: https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply -- Tommaso Caselli, Ph.D. Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands ---------------------------- https://xs4all.academia.edu/TommasoCaselli https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tommaso_Caselli Twitter: @tommaso_caselli

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First CFP: AmericasNLP 2025 @ NAACL 2025
by John Ortega 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hello. Please excuse any cross-posting issues. We are happy to announce the following workshop at NAACL this year! -- Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas -- AmericasNLP 2025 will be co-located with NAACL2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA! -- Call for Papers -- The goal of AmericasNLP is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of: Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication). Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: creation of datasets for NLP applications; incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems; linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP; transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning; weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning; machine translation of low-resource languages; applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages of the Americas; morphology and phonology of low-resource languages; NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas; ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by Indigenous communities; language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context of NLP models and research. Submissions will be accepted until March 7th, 2025 via softconf: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/americasnlp Note: Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do not count towards the page limit. -- Shared Tasks -- To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2025 features three shared tasks: machine translation of truly low-resource languages; creation of educational resources for indigenous languages; and our new shared task of developing metrics for MT in indigenous languages. The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in Albuquerque. More information can be found at https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2025_st.html. -- Important Dates -- Submission deadline: March 7th, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 31th, 2025 Camera ready papers due: April 11th, 2025 Workshop: May 4th, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE). -- Organizing Committee -- Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs, pywirrarika(a)gmail.com Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh, a.oncevay(a)ed.ac.uk Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi(a)colorado.edu Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research, rijhwani(a)google.com Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, pughrob(a)iu.edu Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College, rolando.a.coto.solano(a)dartmouth.edu John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, katharina.kann(a)colorado.edu -- Contact -- Contact: americas.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/

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Call for papers: CODI-CRAC 2025, 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse and 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference
by Chloé Braud 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '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. 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.Tentative schedule * 2025-07: CODI papers due * 2025-?: Direct submission (papers rejected at a main conference) * 2025-09: Notification of acceptance * 2025-09: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2025-11: CODI-CRAC workshop All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").Invited Speakers * Tanya Goyal, Cornell University. * Nancy F. Chen, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, 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 * Vincent Ng * Maciej Ogrodniczuk * Michal Novák * Massimo Poesio * Sameer Pradhan To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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SAGE-MLU Workshop: Structure & Generalization in Multimodal Language Understanding
by Lucia Donatelli 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

The first workshop on Structure and Generalization in Multimodal Language Understanding (SAGE-MLU) will be held at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam on March 10 and 11, 2025. The SAGE-MLU workshop brings together speakers and participants to explore the questions of whether and how current language models can use abstract conceptual and linguistic structure to generalize in human-like ways. The program is split over two days and features four keynote speakers, interactive discussion panels, and a hackathon. For additional information on the program, please see the workshop website <https://sites.google.com/view/sage-mlu-2025/home?authuser=0>. We welcome researchers and students from various fields, such as (computational) linguistics, conversation analysis, computer science, AI, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. We especially encourage Master's & PhD students to attend the workshop, as the workshop is also geared towards promoting research collaborations. To register, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvpSUI64BaOYnFCyV7diBmn0iEfs47NSH…> .

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CfP: Symposium on the language of foreign language teaching materials and reference works
by Elen Le Foll 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium: *The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works* Date: Friday 7 November 2025 Location: Osnabrück University (Germany) Organisers: Elen Le Foll & Anna Fankhauser Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2025 BACKGROUND Foreign language teaching and reference works play a crucial role in institutionalised foreign language teaching and are known to constitute an important source of learners’ foreign language (e.g. Huang, 2019). However, multiple studies suggest that the language of these textbooks often differs considerably from the kind of language typically used in communicative situations outside the foreign language classroom (e.g., Barbieri & Eckhardt, 2007; Gilmore, 2004; Römer, 2005; Rössler, 2010; Winter & Le Foll, 2022). The language of textbooks may even be considered a distinct language variety (Le Foll, 2024a; 2024b). Reference works traditionally used in foreign language teaching have also been shown to under- or misrepresent various lexico-grammatical features, as seen in comparisons with recent corpus-based reference works (e.g., Fankhauser, 2024; Siepmann & Bürgel, 2023). FOCUS This symposium is intended to provide an opportunity to present and discuss new descriptive, comparative, and evaluative studies on the language of foreign language teaching materials. We look forward to empirical examinations of textbooks, language learning apps, and other (digital) teaching materials, as well as of reference works designed for foreign language teaching, e.g., learner dictionaries and (learner) pedagogical grammars. The symposium will also allow us to discuss key concepts such as authenticity, pedagogical norms, and the relationship between teaching materials and syllabi in foreign language teaching. FORMAT We welcome contributions in English, German, French or Spanish in the form of presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) and posters (especially for research-in-progress contributions). The symposium will take place at Osnabrück University and will be on-site only. Submissions from early career researchers are expressly welcome. Following the symposium, participants will be invited to contribute to an edited volume or special issue. SUBMISSION To be included in the programme, please send an abstract of your planned contribution (300-500 words plus bibliography) to elefoll(a)uni-koeln.de or anna.fankhauser(a)uni-osnabrueck.de by 1 March 2025. Remember to indicate whether you would like to give an oral presentation or present a poster. We will get back to you by 1 May 2025. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at the aforementioned e-mail addresses. -- *Dr. Elen Le Foll* /Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer/ Department of Romance Studies <https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • Data Center for the Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • University of Cologne <https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home> Applied Linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • Language Teaching & Learning ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> • HAL Science <https://cv.hal.science/elenlefoll>

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CTiELS 2 - submission deadline EXTENSION
by Leszek Szymański 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues,the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra organizes the "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 2" conference. This year's edition will be held in a hybrid mode on April 3-4, 2025.On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to inform you that the abstract submission deadline has been extended, and the new deadline is February 10, 2025.The 2025 edition of the conference is organized under the honorary patronage of the Polish Linguistic Society.More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you!Leszek Szymański

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3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
by Yevgeni Berzak 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dates: June 5–7, 2025 Location: University of Stuttgart, Germany Web: https://tmalsburg.github.io/ComprehensionWorkshop ## Workshop theme: Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for education and instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. **In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking combined with machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments**. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, eye-tracking-based reading research, and machine learning. The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging ideas for the next generation of reading assessments aided by eye-tracking and machine learning technologies, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary research collaborations. ## Important dates: - Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2025 - Acceptance notifications: March 14, 2025 - Registration period: March 14 – April 14 - Workshop dates: June 5–7, 2025 ## Workshop format: The first two days will feature a structured program, including talks, poster sessions, and group discussions. On the third day, the focus shifts to a more relaxed format, providing participants with the opportunity to connect in an informal setting while enjoying a scenic hike or unwinding during a leisurely picnic. ## Relevant topics for submission: - Machine learning approaches to reading assessment - Eye movements as indicators of reading comprehension - Methodology and design of reading assessments, including large scale reading assessments (LSAs) - Reading assessments for different populations (e.g. children, adults, elderly, populations with cognitive impairments) - Reading development - Cognitive processes underlying reading comprehension ## Invited speaker: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kaakinen Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology University of Turku, Finland ## Submissions: - We invite submissions of short abstracts of up to 350 words. - To submit your abstract, please fill in the abstract submission form at: https://forms.gle/AntXQ3K5dwxZLjVH6 - Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers primarily with an eye to relevance. - We expect to accept 25–35 submissions. ## Venue: The workshop will take place at the International Meeting Center of the University of Stuttgart, a modern and welcoming venue designed to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas. The facility features a lecture hall for up to 80 participants, as well as two smaller seminar rooms ideal for focused discussions and breakout sessions. Attendees will also enjoy the charming amenities of the venue, including a cozy fireside lounge—perfect for informal networking—and a spacious garden that provides a serene atmosphere for relaxation between sessions. The garden is equipped with facilities for barbecues, making it an great setting for social events and fostering meaningful connections in a laid-back environment. Venue description with photos: https://www.beschaeftigte.uni-stuttgart.de/uni-services/infrastruktur/ibz/ ## Funding The workshop is sponsored by the University of Stuttgart and the MultiplEYE COST Action. The workshop will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial and priority will be given to junior researchers. ## Workshop organizers Titus von der Malsburg Inst. of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany titus.von-der-malsburg(a)ling.uni-stuttgart.de Lena Jäger Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Zurich, Switzerland jaeger(a)cl.uzh.ch Yevgeni Berzak Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion, Israel berzak(a)technion.ac.il

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Sexism identification in tweets, memes and videos: CFP EXIST 2025
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation: Task: EXIST 2025: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sexism identification in social networks. EXIST aims to foster the automatic detection of sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviours (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022, EXIST 2023, EXIST 2024). The fifth edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab in CLEF 2025, on September 9-12, 2025, at UNED, Madrid, Spain. In the 2024 EXIST campaign the datasets contained multimedia content in the format of memes, stepping forward research on more robust techniques to identify sexism in social networks. Following this line, this year the challenge will focus on TikTok videos, so that the dataset includes the three more important multimedia elements used to spread sexism: text, images and videos. Consequently, it is essential to develop automated multimodal tools capable of detecting sexism in text, images, and videos, to raise alarms or automatically remove such content from social networks because platforms’ algorithms often amplify content that perpetuates gender stereotypes and internalized misogyny. This lab will contribute to the creation of applications that identify sexist content in social media across all three formats. Similar to the approach in the 2023 and 2024 edition, this edition will also embrace the Learning With Disagreement (LeWiDi) paradigm for both the development of the dataset and the evaluation of the systems. The LeWiDi paradigm doesn’t rely on a single “correct” label for each example. Instead, the model is trained to handle and learn from conflicting or diverse annotations. This enables the system to consider various annotators’ perspectives, biases, or interpretations, resulting in a fairer learning process. Participants will be asked to classify tweets, memes and videos (in English and Spanish) according to the following tasks: TASK 1: Sexism detection in Tweets: SUBTASK 1.1 - Sexism Identification in Tweets: The first subtask is a binary classification. The systems have to decide whether or not a given tweet contains sexist expressions or behaviours (i.e., it is sexist itself, describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classify it according to two categories: YES and NO. SUBTASK 1.2 - Source Intention in Tweets: For the tweets that have been classified as sexist, the second task aims to classify each tweet according to the intention of the person who wrote it. We propose a ternary classification task: (i) DIRECT sexist message, (ii) REPORTED sexist message and (iii) JUDGEMENTAL message. SUBTASK 1.3 - Sexism Categorization in Tweets: Once a message has been classified as sexist, the third subtask aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to a categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 2: Sexism detection in Memes: TASK 2.1 - Sexism Identification in Memes: This is a binary classification subtask consisting on determining wheter a meme describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classifying it into two categories: YES and NO. Task 2.2: Source Intention in Memes: As in subtask 1.2, this subtask aims to categorize the meme according to the intention of the author. Due to the characteristics of the memes, the REPORTED label is virtually null, so in this task systems should only classify memes into the DIRECT or JUDGEMENTAL categories. Task 2.3: Sexism Categorization in Memes: This task aims to classify sexist memes according to the categorization provided for subtask 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 3: Sexism detection in Videos: SUBTASK 3.1 - Sexism Identification in Videos: This is a binary classification task as in Subtasks 1.1 and 2.1. SUBTASK 3.2: Source Intention in Videos: This subtask replicates subtask 2.2 for memes, but it takes as source videos. SUBTASK 3.3: This subtask aims to classify sexist videos according to the categorization provided for Task 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks and in both languages, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g. subtask 1) and in one language (e.g. English). During the training phase, the task organizers will provide the participants with the manually-annotated EXIST 2025 dataset. For the evaluation of the systems, the unlabeled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2025 Labs Registration site (https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/). You will receive information about how to join the Discord Group for the EXIST 2025 shared task. Important Dates: * 18 November 2024: Registration opens. * 3 February 2025: Training and development sets available. * 7 April 2025: Test set available. * 25 April 2025: Registration closes. * 18 May 2025: Runs submission due to organizers. * 8 June 2025: Results notification to participants. * 15 June 2025: Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 29 June 2025: Notification of acceptance (peer reviews). * 7 July 2025: Camera-ready participant papers due to organizers. * 9-12 September 2025: EXIST 2025 at CLEF Conference. ** Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Enrique Amigó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Roser Morante, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Iván Arcos, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ AVISO LEGAL. 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EXTENDED call for papers: 2nd Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology
by Nannan Liu 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, We have extended the deadline for the call for papers for our Workshop to 15 February. We look forward to seeing you in Forlì or online! Date and venue: 8–10 May 2025, Forlì, Italy, and online Keynote speakers: * Prof Bart Defrancq, Associate Professor, Ghent University, and President of CIUTI * Prof Ella Wehrmeyer, Associate Professor and Chair of Language Practice, North-West University Abstract submission *extended* deadline: 15 February 2025 Website: https://eventi.unibo.it/internationalworkshop-cis-forli2025 Best wishes, Nannan Liu and Mariachiara Russo Dr Nannan Liu Marie Curie Fellow Project FAITH<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108651> Department of Interpreting and Translation University of Bologna

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[CFP] ACL 2025 Industry Track - 2nd Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

***** 2nd Call for Papers: ACL 2025 Industry Track ACL 2025 Industry Track in Vienna, Austria Conference: 27 July to 1 August 2025 Paper submission deadline: 21 March 2025 BACKGROUND Language technologies and their applications are an integral and critical part of our daily lives. Many of these technologies have their roots in academic and industrial research laboratories where researchers invented a plethora of algorithms, benchmarked them against shared datasets and perfected their performance to provide plausible solutions to real-world applications. While a controlled laboratory setting is vital for a deeper scientific understanding of the problems underlying language technologies and the impact of algorithmic design choices on their performance, transitioning the technology to real-world industrial strength applications raises a different, yet challenging, set of technical issues. We acknowledge the challenges when adapting language technologies for building novel and robust real-world applications as the journey from theoretical research to practical deployment can be difficult. Challenges can include technical aspects of system deployment and optimizing for efficiency, making informed design choices or methodological considerations of incorporating human feedback and oversight. To provide a forum to address these multifaceted issues, we are seeking submissions that not only delve into research but also demonstrate the application of systems in real-world scenarios, irrespective of whether they involve proprietary data. TOPICS We invite submissions describing innovations and implementations in all areas of speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies and systems that are relevant to real-word applications. The primary focus of this track is on papers that advance the understanding of, and demonstrate the effective handling of, practical issues related to the deployment of language processing or language generation technologies, including those of large language models, in non-trivial real-world systems. By "non-trivial real-world system" we mean an application deployed for real-world use, i.e., outside controlled environments such as laboratories, classrooms or experimental crowd-sourced setups, and that uses NLP and/or speech technology, even if not state of the art in terms of research. There is no requirement that the system be made by a for-profit company, but the users of the system are most likely outside the NLP research community. This track provides an opportunity to highlight the key insights and new research challenges that arise from real world implementations. Relevant areas include system design, efficiency, maintainability and scalability of real-world applications, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Benchmarks and methods for improving the latency and efficiency of systems - Continuous maintenance and improvement of deployed systems - Efficient methods for training and inference - Enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment - Handling unexpected user behaviour - Human-in-the-Loop approaches to application development - Implementation at speed, scale and low-cost - Negative results related to real-world applications - System combination Novel applications and use cases, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Best practices and lessons learned - Case studies, from design to deployment - Description of an application or system - Design of application-relevant datasets - Development of methods under system constraints (model or data size) - Novel, previously unsolved NLP problems and novel NLP applications Methods for deployed systems, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Ethics, bias, fairness, harmlessness and trustworthiness in deployed systems - Interpretability - Interactive systems - Offline and online system evaluation methodologies - Online learning - Robustness In addition, opinion/vision papers related to real-world applications are also welcome. Submissions must clearly identify one of the following three areas they fall into: - _Deployed_: Must describe a system that solves a non-trivial real-world problem. The focus may include describing the problem related to actual use cases, its significance (against opportunity size, value proposition, and ideal end state), design/formulation of methods, tradeoff design decision for solutions, deployment challenges, and lessons learned. - _Emerging_: Must describe the development of a system that solves a non-trivial real-world problem (it need not be deployed or even close, but there needs to be evidence that this development is intended for real-world deployment). Papers that describe enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment of NLP techniques also fall in this category. - _Discovery_: Must include results obtained from NLP applications in real-world scenarios that result in actionable insights. These discoveries should reveal promising directions in their application areas, leading to further system or societal enhancements. For example, an actionable discovery from an analysis of call center transcripts may reveal that certain language choices negatively impact customer experience, leading to better training of service representatives and improved customer experience. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 21 March 2025 Notification of acceptance: 07 May 2025 Camera-ready version of papers due: 23 May 2025 Main conference: 28-30 July 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth). Following the ACL and ARR Policies for Review and Citation [1], updated in early 2024, there is no anonymity period requirement, e.g., one may upload the paper to arXiv at any time. However, please note that the ACL 2025 Industry Track does not use ARR! EVALUATION AND DECISION CRITERIA Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner and assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity. Submissions to the industry track should emphasize real-world implementations of NLP systems, the development of such systems, or provide insights based on real-world datasets with obvious industry impact. For papers that rely heavily on empirical evaluations, the experimental methods and results should be clear, well executed, and reproducible (though the data may be proprietary). SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original, full-length (6 pages) industry track papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or under consideration for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted digitally, in PDF format and formatted using the ACL 2025 formatting requirements. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be desk-rejected. Length and appendices: Industry Track papers cannot exceed 6 pages in length (excluding ethical considerations and references). After the bibliography, papers can have an optional appendix with, e.g., examples or sample inputs/outputs, pre-processing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, pseudocode, information about user studies, additional errors analysis or other details that are necessary for the replication of the work described in the paper. Note, however, that paper submissions must be fully self-contained, i.e., supplementary materials, as provided in the appendix, are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Note that it will not be possible to submit additional separate files as supplementary materials. Double-blind review: Industry Track submissions must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references that reveal the authors' identities must be avoided. For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …" or even "We previously showed (Anonymous, 1991) …", please use "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …". Authors should also be careful not to reveal their affiliation indirectly, for example through screenshots or trade names. Submissions should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: code should be submitted as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Please avoid links to storage services like Dropbox (which may track the reviewers downloading the resources). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be desk-rejected. Citation and comparison: Authors are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to their submission but may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited). In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to a submission, and authors are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis. For more information, see the ACL Policies for Review and Citation [2]. Writing assistance: The ACL 2025 Industry Track adheres to the ACL policy on using writing assistants available here [3]. Submission system: Papers have to be submitted through the ACL 2025 Industry Track online submission system. https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Industry_Track Final version: Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 7 pages; ethical considerations, acknowledgements and references do not count against this limit) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Previous presentations of the work (e.g., preprints on arXiv.org) should be indicated in a footnote that should be excluded from the review submission, but included in the final version of papers appearing in the ACL 2025 proceedings. The final version should remove anonymization in text, citation, and figures. For example, the final version may include the name of the authors' institutions, trade names, and screenshots of identifiable products. Please notice that once the paper has been submitted, no changes to the list of authors are allowed. Presentation requirement for accepted papers: Industry Track papers will be presented orally or as posters to be determined by the program committee. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference (either via online or onsite presence). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for ACL 2025 by the early registration deadline. The ACL 2025 Industry Track will run in parallel with the Research Track. PRESENTATION MODE: ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED ORALLY OR AS POSTERS AS DETERMINED BY THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. THE DECISIONS AS TO WHICH PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED ORALLY AND WHICH AS POSTER PRESENTATIONS WILL BE BASED ON THE NATURE RATHER THAN THE QUALITY OF THE WORK. THERE WILL BE NO DISTINCTION IN THE PROCEEDINGS BETWEEN PAPERS PRESENTED ORALLY AND AS POSTERS. AUTHORSHIP: THE AUTHOR LIST FOR SUBMISSIONS SHOULD INCLUDE ALL (AND ONLY) INDIVIDUALS WHO MADE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORK PRESENTED. EACH AUTHOR LISTED ON A SUBMISSION TO THE ACL 2025 INDUSTRY TRACK WILL BE NOTIFIED OF SUBMISSIONS AND THE FINAL DECISION. NO CHANGES TO THE ORDER OR COMPOSITION OF AUTHORSHIP MAY BE MADE TO SUBMISSIONS TO THE ACL 2025 INDUSTRY TRACK AFTER THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY ACL 2025 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the ACL 2025 review period. This policy covers all refereed and archival conferences and workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL workshops), as well as ARR. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that have been (or will be) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to ACL 2025 must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Submissions of identical or closely related work to multiple ACL 2025 tracks (e.g., to the research track and industry track) will be treated as duplicate submissions. Such submissions violate our multiple submission policy and will be rejected without review. The authors should also include the papers that their paper overlaps with or extends in the references section as follows: _Anonymous Authors_, "_Title of the paper_", _Under submission at ACL 2025 (TRACK NAME)_. ETHICS POLICY Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics [4]. The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and potential applications of our work has always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. Where a paper may raise ethical issues, we ask that you include in the paper an explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in the review process. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns with their work. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 6th page for an optional broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. The ACL review form will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers or ACs will be further reviewed by an ethics committee. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted. Conversely, the mere inclusion of an ethical considerations section does not guarantee acceptance. In addition to acceptance or rejection, papers may receive a conditional acceptance recommendation. Camera-ready versions of papers designated as conditional accept will be re-reviewed by the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately addressed. Please read the ethics FAQ [5] for more guidance on some problems to look out for and key concerns to consider relative to the code of ethics. Industry Track Co-Chairs: - Yunyao Li [6] (Adobe) - Georg Rehm [7] (DFKI GmbH) CONTACT INFORMATION Email: acl-2025-industry-track(a)googlegroups.com [8] General Chair: Roberto Navigli [9] (Sapienza University of Rome) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Is the Industry Track only for participants from industry? No, the Industry Track welcomes participants from the entire ACL community. Researchers working on real-world applications that match the Industry Track call for papers are invited to submit papers. Everyone is welcome to attend Industry Track sessions. What do you mean by real-world applications? We are looking for applications that are deployed (or expected to be deployed) for real-world use, i.e., outside controlled environments such as laboratories, classrooms or experimental crowd-sourced setups. Can students also submit papers to the Industry Track? Yes! If your work matches the Industry Track call for papers, consider submitting a paper to the Industry Track. I work in industry. Can I still submit my paper to the research track? Absolutely! There are no changes to the main conference submissions. The Industry Track offers a forum to submit papers describing aspects of real-world applications that may differ in focus from the research track reviewing criteria. Will the papers in the Industry Track be published in the proceedings? Yes, Industry Track papers will be published as a separate volume of the proceedings. For example, see the ACL 2025 proceedings. How do I decide whether to submit to the research track or the Industry Track? Papers describing key lessons learned and challenges pertaining to real-world deployment of NLP and speech technologies are best suited for Industry Track. Authors are advised to review the call for papers for both tracks and submit to the track that best matches your work. The list of topics and reviewing criteria may be helpful. You can also reach out to the track chairs if you need help deciding. Links: ------ [1] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policies_for_Review_and_Cita… [2] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Review_an… [3] https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/ACL-2023-policy/ [4] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics [5] https://2021.emnlp.org/call-for-papers/ethics-faq [6] https://yunyaoli.github.io/ [7] http://georg-re.hm/ [8] https://groups.google.com/g/acl-2025-industry-track [9] https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/

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ISWC 2025 Call for Submissions
by gasefa24＠gmail.com 02 Feb '25

02 Feb '25

ISWC 2025 Call for Submissions - Various Tracks =========================================== 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, i.e., research, resource, in-use, industry, poster & demos, doctoral consortium, workshops, dagstuhl-style workshops, challenges, and tutorials, 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 =========================================== Call for Posters and Demos Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Posters and Demos Track offers an opportunity to showcase late-breaking research results, ongoing research or resource projects, speculative or innovative ideas, and interactive demonstrations. This track is designed to encourage dynamic discussions between presenters and participants, fostering feedback that can shape future research directions. These discussions will offer participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Important Dates: Posters & demos submissions due - July 31st, 2025 Author notifications - August 28th, 2025 Camera-ready submissions due - September 11th, 2025 Posters and Demos Chairs: Contact email: iswc2025-pd(a)easychair.org Gong Cheng Nanjing University, China Shenghui Wang University of Twente, The Netherlands =========================================== Call for Challenges Proposals A great way to advance the state of the art in a given domain is to create competition. We invite you to propose an ISWC 2025 Challenge, in which you define an open competition on a problem of your choice within the Semantic Web domain. Important Dates: Challenge proposal submission due Feb 18th, 2025 Notification of challenge acceptance Mar 2nd, 2025 Semantic Web Challenge Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-challenge(a)easychair.org Mayank Kejriwal University of Southern California, United States Pablo Mendes Upwork, United States =========================================== Call for Workshops Workshops at ISWC play a critical role in fostering focused, intensive scientific exchange on specific topics aligned with the conference’s overarching themes. They provide a unique venue for exploring emerging ideas, discussing novel perspectives on established research, and engaging with related research communities. We encourage proposals for workshops that will inspire meaningful dialogue and collaboration among ISWC attendees, providing a platform to advance research and innovation in this dynamic field. Important dates: Submission deadline - February 18, 2025 Notification to proposers - March 11, 2025 Workshop website and CfP available online - April 8, 2025 Workshop program with list of accepted papers available online - July 29, 2025 Workshop days - November 2-3, 2025 Workshop Chairs: Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Dagstuhl Style Workshops Inspired by the Special Session at ISWC 2024 and the Dagstuhl Seminar model, these workshops are designed to encourage in-depth discussions on challenges or emerging topics within a half-day or full-day event format. The goal is to create a collaborative and open environment for brainstorming and exploring new directions, similar to the spirit of Dagstuhl Seminars. These workshops will prioritize dynamic discussions and the presentation of fresh ideas and ongoing research, rather than requiring participants to submit papers or give formal presentations. Important dates: Submission deadline - July 1, 2025 Notification to proposers - July 11, 2025 Workshop website online - July 25, 2025 Workshop days - November 2-3, 2025 Workshop Chairs Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Tutorials The International Semantic Web Conference 2025 is pleased to announce the Call for Tutorials. Continuing the tradition of excellence, the 2025 edition will feature a comprehensive tutorial program serving the diverse interests and expertise of our audience. These tutorials aim to provide attendees with insights into foundational and cutting-edge topics, practical applications, and the latest advancements in Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, and Linked Data technologies. Important dates: Submission deadline - May 20, 2025 Notification to proposers - June 10, 2025 Tutorial website online - July 8, 2025 Materials available on the website (if any) - August 8, 2025 Tutorial days - November 2-3, 2025 Tutorial chairs: Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Industry Track Papers The Industry Track at ISWC 2025 welcomes extended abstracts about the application of knowledge graphs and semantic technologies in various industrial sectors, aiming to showcase the state of their adoption and the latest trends. It provides an opportunity for industry adopters to highlight and share the key learnings and new research challenges posed by real-world implementations. Important dates: Submissions Due - 1st July 2025 Notifications Due - 29th July 2025 Camera-Ready Papers Due - 11th September 2025 Industry Track Chairs: Contact email: iswc2025-industry(a)easychair.org Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, US Irene Celino Cefriel, Italy =========================================== Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions The DC event is intended for students who have articulated a reasonably detailed research proposal, preferably supported by some preliminary results, but are not yet on the final stretch of their thesis, such that the feedback gathered at the DC will have a maximal impact. The aim is to support the students in refining their proposal and to suggest possible ways to improve their research plan and to achieve results with prospective greater impact. Submissions Due - 3 June 2025 Notifications - 8 July 2025 Camera-ready Submissions Due - 31 July 2025 Doctoral Consortium - 3 November 2025 Doctoral Consortium Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-doctoral-consortium(a)easychair.org Abraham Bernstein University of Zurich, Switzerland Natasha Noy Google Research, US =========================================== All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth) For more details check out the conference website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/

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EXTENDED call for papers (all areas of linguistics & language tech): 'Humans, Machines, Language', University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025
by Amal Haddad 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Following a number of requests, we have opted to briefly extend the deadline for this call. And please note the explicitly interdisciplinary scope of the conference. I'm purposefully sending this to a broad spread of mailing lists, as we aim to draw in a breadth of specialisms. Venue & date: University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025 Plenary speakers: Dr. Loredana Cerrato [1] Senior Consultant, Microsoft Sweden; and EM Lewis-Jong, Director for Mozilla Common Voice [2] Abstract submission *extended* deadline: Friday 7 February 2025 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferen… [3] 'Humans, Machines, Language' (HuMaLa - https://r.jyu.fi/humala [4]) is a cross-disciplinary network for a wide range of linguists, developers, and humanists with different interests in the impact of 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! Our inaugural conference theme is: 'Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing'. In addition to technical work (e.g., model description or datasets), we warmly encourage theoretical and empirical studies on the sociolinguistic, ethical, legal, cultural and social implications of language technology adoption. The full call with further background details is on our website (linked above). Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the social media announcement here: https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/post/3lfd5lysvam2o [5] We hope to see you at the conference! All the best, Amal Haddad (on behalf of the 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredana-sundberg-c… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXt… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-l… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r.jyu.fi/humala__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Tl0T96c… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/pos…

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Second call for papers: Queer in AI workshop at NAACL 2025
by Pranav A 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Dear mailing list members, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Queer in AI Workshop, which will be held as an official workshop at NAACL 2025 in New Mexico, USA (April 29-May 4, 2025). Over the years, Queer in AI has grown so much that it has spawned its own research subfield. This called for us to convert our workshop into an official workshop at NAACL 2025, which means your work can now be published in the ACL Anthology. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of linguistics, queerness, and natural language processing. We provide a safe and inclusive space for presenting work, networking, and discussing critical issues in the field. TRACKS AND SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions in three tracks: - Queer linguistics - Exploring language around gender and sexuality, including applications of queer theory to language research. - Queerness and NLP - Examining the intersection of NLP and queerness, from analyzing queer language patterns to investigating potential biases in NLP systems. - Queer activism and D&I - Addressing inclusivity challenges in NLP events and sharing strategies for queer advocacy in tech and academia. SUBMISSION OPTIONS: We provide two submission options: archival (if you want your papers published) and non-archival (if you just want to share or present your work). *Archival track*: Papers should be 4 pages (short) or 8 pages (long) in ACL format, with unlimited pages for references. All papers must use the official ACL style templates. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. *Non-archival track*: In this track, you can submit creative work in the form of art, poetry, music, microblogs, TikToks, or videos; or you can submit your work-in-progress papers or abstracts. For this submit a PDF containing a summary/abstract of your work and a link to the actual content. Submissions in any language are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES: Archival submission deadline: January 30, 2025 *February 20, 2025 (extended)* Non-archival submission / Findings / ARR commitment deadline: February 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025 Camera-ready due: March 10, 2025 Mentorship is available for first-time authors. For more information or assistance, please contact: queer-in-nlp(a)googlegroups.com Website: https://www.queerinai.com/naacl-2025 Best regards, Queer in AI Workshop Organizers

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Text2Story'25@ECIR: Deadline Extension & Last Call for Papers
by Hugo Sousa 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ DEADLINE EXTENSION & LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ++ **************************************************************************** Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'25) Held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25) April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt **************************************************************************** ++ Important Dates ++ - Submission Deadline: February 7th, 2025 January 24th, 2025 - Acceptance Notification: March 3rd, 2025 - Camera-ready copies: March 17th, 2025 - Workshop: April 10th, 2025 ++ Overview ++ For seven years, the Text2Story Workshop series has fostered a vibrant community dedicated to understanding narrative structure in text, resulting in significant contributions to the field and developing a shared understanding of the challenges in this domain. While traditional methods have yielded valuable insights, the advent of Transformers and LLMs have ignited a new wave of interest in narrative understanding. In the eighth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we propose to go deeper into the role of LLMs in narrative understanding exploring the issues involved in using LLMs to unravel narrative structures, while also examining the characteristics of narratives generated by LLMs. By fostering dialogue on these emerging areas, we aim to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task and continue the workshop's tradition of driving innovation in narrative understanding research. ++ List of Topics ++ Research works submitted to the workshop should advance the scientific understanding of all aspects of narrative extraction from texts. This includes, but is not limited to, topics such as narrative information extraction, formal representation of narratives, narrative analysis and generation, development of datasets and evaluation protocols, as well as ethics and bias in narratives, and narrative applications. We encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics and contributions focused on low and medium-resource languages. Narrative Information Extraction - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events - Causality Detection - Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction - LLMs for Narrative Extraction Narrative Representation - Annotation Protocols - Narrative Representation Models - Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation - LLM-learned Representation Narrative Analysis and Generation - Discourse and Argument Structure Analysis - Narrative analysis of LLM generated text - Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis - Story Evolution and Shift Detection - Automatic Timeline Generation - Generative Language Models for Narrative Generation Datasets and Evaluation Protocol - Evaluating LLM-Generated Narratives - Evaluation of Multimodal Narrative Models - Annotated datasets - Narrative Resources - Using LLMs for Data Creation and Augmentation Ethics and Bias in Narratives - Identifying and Mitigating Bias in Generated Narratives - Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation - Misinformation and Fact Checking - Bias in LLM-generated narratives Narrative Applications - Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections - Narrative Summarization - Narrative Q&A - Multimodal Narrative Summarization - Multimodal Narrative-focused Search - Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives - Social Media Narratives - Narrative Text Simplification - Narrative-based Text Anonymization - Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives - Storyline Visualization (including multimodal) and Narrative Structures ++ Objectives ++ Overall, the workshop has the following main objectives: (1) raise awareness within the Information Retrieval (IR) community regarding the challenges posed by narrative extraction and comprehension; (2) bridge the gap and foster connections between academic research, practitioners, and industrial applications; (3) discuss new methods, recent advances, and emerging challenges; (4) share experiences from research projects, case studies, and scientific outcomes structured around fundamental research questions related to narrative understanding; (5) identify dimensions that might be influenced by the automation of the narrative process; (6) highlight tested hypotheses that did not result in the expected outcomes ++ Submission Guidelines ++ We expect contributions from researchers on all aspects of narrative extraction, representation, analysis, and generation. This includes the extraction and formal representation of events, their temporal and causal relationships, and methods for temporal reasoning and ordering. Submissions focusing on narrative comprehension, such as the analysis of generated narratives, are also highly encouraged. Additionally, we welcome innovative approaches to presenting narrative information, including automatic timeline generation, multi-modal narrative summarization, and narrative visualization. Research addressing misinformation and the verification of extracted facts, evaluation methodologies, and the development of annotated datasets, annotation schemas, and evaluation metrics is particularly valued. Finally, we are especially interested in submissions that focus on low and medium-resource languages, as well as multilingual and cross-lingual narrative analysis. Building on these themes, several pressing questions emerge within the field, offering valuable guidance for authors in shaping their submissions.How can we better integrate multimodal content - combining text, images, videos, and audio - into cohesive narratives? What strategies can reliably extract or generate accurate narratives from large, multi-genre, and multi-lingual datasets? How can systems dynamically adapt to real-time shifts in narratives as the volume of generated content grows? What methodologies can effectively annotate data and evaluate novel approaches, for complex tasks such as visualization but also for characterization of multi-lingual narratives? How can we guarantee the explainability, interpretability, and coherence of narratives across diverse domains and languages? To what extent can novel approaches be generalized to new tasks, genres, and languages with minimal effort? What ethical safeguards are essential to ensure that narrative extraction systems are not misused for propaganda or manipulation? How can challenges posed by ambiguous or contradictory information within narratives be addressed through innovative methods? What role do cultural and contextual nuances play in narrative extraction, and how can these be effectively incorporated into automated systems to ensure greater inclusivity? How can collaboration between human annotators and automated systems be optimized to achieve more accurate, nuanced narrative understanding? How can systems generate concise, evidence-backed explanations to justify the dominant narrative while remaining grounded in the source text? -> Full papers (up to 8 pages + references): Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. -> Short papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue. -> Demos | Resource Papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community; Papers submitted to Text2Story 2025 should be original work and different from papers that have been previously published, accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are "dissemination papers". Pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer-review process by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights. ++ Invited Speakers ++ Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Title: Revisiting frames for event extraction in the Digital Humanities Abstract: Frame Semantics as a cognitive linguistic theory was first formalised by Charles Fillmore around 50 years ago. Since then, it has been adapted to different application scenarios as a framework to support event-based information extraction. But what is the role of frames in the era of generative AI? In this talk I will present some recent research works in which frame semantics has been tailored to support digital humanities research. In particular, we explored the use of frames to extract sensory information from historical archives and capture shifts in perception over time. Frame-based event extraction has also been investigated as a way to navigate news collections, build narratives from event chains and present the same event from different points of view. Bio: Sara Tonelli is the head of the Digital Humanities research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento (Italy) and holds a Phd in Language Sciences from Università Ca' Foscari, Venice. Between 2021 and 2024 she served as Liaison Representative of the ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM) and she is currently part of the board of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC). In the last years, she has served as area chair and senior area chair for major *ACL conferences in tracks related to cultural analytics, social media analysis, digital humanities and offensive language detection. She has also participated in different EU-funded projects around disinformation, computational social science and cultural heritage and was scientific coordinator of the KID ACTIONS European project (2021-2022), aimed at addressing cyberbullying among children and adolescents through interactive education and gamification. Her research interests focus on understanding how people communicate on social media and what dynamics are involved in online attacks, as well as what kind of biases can affect this analysis. She is also interested in using NLP to extract information from digital archives to address historical and cultural heritage research questions. ++ Organizing committee ++ Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe) Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) ++ Proceedings Chair ++ João Paulo Cordeiro (NOVA Lincs & University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC, Portugal) ++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++ Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal) Behrooz Mansouri (University of Maine, USA) ++ Program Committee ++ Abhai Singh (Amazon) Ali Salehi (University at Buffalo) Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI) Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz) Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle) António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon) Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto) Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP) Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon) David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Dennis Aumiller (Cohere) Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC) Sérgio Matos (University of Aveiro) Florian Boudin (Nantes University) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto) Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering) Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University) Junbo Huang (University of Hamburg) Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences) João Paulo Cordeiro (Nova lincs & University of Beira Interior) Jin Zhao (Brandeis University) Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino) Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon) Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho) Marc Finlayson (Florida International University) Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie) Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto) Ross Purves (University of Zurich) Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg) Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Yangyang Chen (Brandeis University) ++ Contacts ++ Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2025(a)easychair.org

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Webminar by Sebastian Ruder (Meta)
by HiTZ zentroa 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '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 check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Sebastian Ruder (Meta) *Title:* Multilingual LLM Evaluation in Practical Settings *Date: * Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in a variety of applications across the globe but do not provide equal utility across languages. In this talk, I will discuss multilingual evaluation of LLMs in two practical settings: conversational instruction-following and usage of quantized models. For the first part, I will focus on a specific aspect of multilingual conversational ability where errors result in a jarring user experience: generating text in the user’s desired language. I will describe a new benchmark and evaluation of a range of LLMs. We find that even the strongest models exhibit language confusion, i.e., they fail to consistently respond in the correct language. I will discuss what affects language confusion, how to mitigate it, and potential extensions. In the second part, I will discuss the first evaluation study of quantized multilingual LLMs across languages. We find that automatic metrics severely underestimate the negative impact of quantization and that human evaluation—which has been neglected by prior studies—is key to revealing harmful effects. Overall, I highlight limitations of multilingual LLMs and challenges of real-world multilingual evaluation. *Bio:* Sebastian Ruder is a research scientist at Meta based in Berlin, Germany where he works on improving evaluation and benchmarking of large language models (LLMs). He previously led the Multilinguality team at Cohere with the objective to improve the multilingual capabilities of Cohere's LLMs. Before that he was a research scientist at Google DeepMind. He completed his PhD in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics, while working as a research scientist at Dublin-based text analytics startup AYLIEN. Previously, he studied Computational Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and at Trinity College, Dublin. * Upcoming webinars:* · Christian Herff (Thursday, March 6, 2025) · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 2025) · André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 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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Deadline Extension: Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP – Submit by February 10!
by raphael＠uaca.com 30 Jan '25

30 Jan '25

Hi, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the Insights 2025 Workshop (May 3-4, 2025, co-located with NAACL 2025) has been extended to February 10, 2025 (AoE). If you are working on unexpected or negative results in NLP research, we encourage you to submit your work. This workshop provides a venue for highlighting methodological challenges, limitations of current approaches, and insights that can guide the community toward more rigorous research practices. * New Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025 (AoE) * Submission Portal: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/Insights2025 We invite: - Short papers (up to 4 pages + references & appendices) - 1-2 page non-archival abstracts for work published elsewhere For full details, please refer to https://insights-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp/ We appreciate your contributions and look forward to your submissions! Best regards, Insights 2025 Organizing Committee

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3rd and Final Call for Abstracts -- NARNiHS Research Incubator
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 30 Jan '25

30 Jan '25

3rd and FINAL Call for Abstracts! Never been to a NARNiHS Research Incubator?!? Take advantage of the newly extended abstract submission deadline to join us for this year's opportunity to brainstorm your cutting-edge work with us! *********************************** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 7th edition *********************************** ==> 01-03 May 2025 -- entirely online! ==> FINAL Submission Deadline ==> 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (with **free** registration). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in cutting edge research without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields in our global scholarly community to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. FINAL abstract submission deadline: 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The 7th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, or prototyping. The incubator's audience actively participates in workshopping these new ideas, brainstorming along with the presenter to forge scholarly paths and develop research solutions. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing and pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, and tools in historical sociolinguistics; seeking feedback from peers; and engaging in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in historical sociolinguistics, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for **25-minute presentations**. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Abstracts should be **no more than one page** (not including examples and references, see below). Abstracts will be accepted until 03 February 2025 -- late abstracts will not be considered. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that **the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined** in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the incubation environment, an hour-long discussion with the audience -- led by specialists -- will follow each thematic panel and will encompass specific feedback on three papers as well as emergent considerations of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models. To facilitate such incubation, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and the other presenters a few days prior to the start of the conference. Abstract Content Requirements: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts exceeding these limits will be rejected without review. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. General Conference Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform will be sent to authors in due time. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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Third and Final CFP: 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025) @NAACL2025
by Atul K. Ojha 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

[Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************************************** Final Call for Papers 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025) Organized, sponsored and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL Full-day workshop collocated with NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., May 3 or 4, 2025 Hybrid (on-site & on-line) Submission deadline: February 13, 2025 MWE 2025 website: <https://multiword.org/mwe2022/> https://multiword.org/mwe2025/ ******************************************************************************** Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g. annotation), NLP tasks (e.g. parsing), and end-user applications (e.g. natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Constant et al., 2017). For more than two decades, modelling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the topic of the MWE workshop organised by the MWE section <https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realised as MWEs. Following previous years, for this 21st edition of the workshop, we identified the following topics on which contributions are particularly encouraged: - MWE processing to enhance end-user applications. MWEs gained particular attention in end-user applications, including Machine Translation (MT) (Zaninello and Birch, 2020), simplification (Kochmar et al., 2020), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al., 2020), social media mining (Pelosi et al., 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al. 2020). We believe that it is crucial to extend and deepen these first attempts to integrate and evaluate MWE technology in these and further end-user applications. - MWE processing and identification in the general language, as well as in specialized languages and domains: Multiword terminology extraction from domain-specific corpora (Lossio-Ventura et al, 2014) is of particular importance to various applications, such as MT (Semmar and Laib, 2017), or for the identification and monitoring of neologisms and technical jargon (Chatzitheodorou and Kappatos, 2021). - MWE processing in low-resource languages: The PARSEME shared tasks (2017 <https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_05_MWE_2…>, 2018 <https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_04_LAW-M…>, 2020 <https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_02_MWE-L…>) among others, have fostered significant progress in MWE identification, providing datasets that include low-resource languages, evaluation measures, and tools that now allow fully integrating MWE identification into end-user applications. There are continuous efforts in this direction (Diaz Hernandez, 2024) and a few of them have also explored methods for the automatic interpretation of MWEs (Bhatia et al., 2018), and their processing in low-resource languages (Eder et al., 2021). Resource creation and sharing should be pursued in parallel with the development of multilingual benchmarks for MWE identification (Savary et al., 2023). - MWE identification and interpretation in LLMs: Most current MWE processing is limited to their identification and detection using pre-trained language models, but we still lack understanding about how MWEs are represented and dealt with therein (Garcia et al., 2021), how to better model the compositionality of MWEs from semantics (Phelps et al., 2024). Now that NLP has shifted towards end-to-end neural models like BERT, capable of solving complex tasks with little or no intermediary linguistic symbols, questions arise about the extent to which MWEs should be implicitly or explicitly modelled (Shwartz and Dagan, 2019). - New and enhanced representation of MWEs in language resources and computational models of compositionality as gold standards for formative intrinsic evaluation. Through this workshop, we will bring together and encourage researchers in various NLP subfields to submit their MWE-related research, We also intend to consolidate the converging results of previous joint workshops LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 <http://multiword.sourceforge.net/lawmwecxg2018/>, MWE-WN 2019 <http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwewn2019/> and MWE-LEX 2020 <http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020/>, the joint MWE-WOAH panel in 2021 <https://multiword.org/mwe2021/#program>, the MWE-SIGUL 2022 joint session <https://multiword.org/mwe2022/>, and the MWE-UD 2024 <https://multiword.org/mweud2024/>, extending our scope to MWEs in e-lexicons, and WordNets, MWE annotation, as well as grammatical constructions. Correspondingly, we call for papers on research related (but not limited) to MWEs and constructions in: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Submission formats: The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/MWE> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/MWE). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 13, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 8 2025 Camera-ready papers due: March 17, 2025 Workshop: May 3 or 4, 2025 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Voula Giouli, Grazina Korvel, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at <mweworkshop2023(a)googlegroups.com> mwe2025workshop(a)gmail.com.

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Call-for-Participation: ImageCLEF 2025 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF Lab
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] ImageCLEF 2025 Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF http://www.imageclef.org/2025/ *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** ImageCLEF 2025 is an evaluation campaign that is being organized as part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs. The campaign offers several research tasks that welcome participation from teams around the world. The results of the campaign appear in the working notes proceedings, published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented in the CLEF conference. Selected contributions among the participants, will be invited for publication in the following year in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with the annual lab overviews. Target communities involve (but are not limited to): information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social media, sensor data, etc.), machine learning, deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, image and video processing, computer vision, with special attention to the challenges of 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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: May 10, 2025 - Working notes submission: May 30, 2025 - CLEF 2023 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 Cristian Stanciu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania On behalf of the organizers, Cristian Stanciu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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Call For Papers: 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation
by stanciu.cristi12＠gmail.com 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '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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[1st CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Kossi Amouzouvi 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 - 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)* - *Notification of Acceptance: 29, 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: 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 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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Final call for Poster Submissions: Reading Concordances Training Day & Symposium @ FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg 19–21 March 2025
by Dykes, Nathan 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

The Reading Concordances in the 21st Century project (RC21) is inviting you to two events on concordance reading at FAU in Erlangen, Germany. Both events are **free**, but places are limited – please register early. Thu 20 & Fri 21 March 2025 – RC21 Symposium with poster session Join us for a two-day symposium with talks by guest speakers and the project team. The talks will cover methodology, theory, and applications of concordance reading. The symposium includes a poster session, where participants can present their own research. Poster submissions are open until 31 January 2025. The following speakers will be presenting: Laurence Anthony<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/laurence-anthony-ph-d-2/>, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Nathan Dykes<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/nathan-dykes/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Stephanie Evert<https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/prof-dr-stephanie-evert/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Susan Hunston<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/hunston-susan>, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Marc Kupietz<https://www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/personal/kupietz/>, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany Michaela Mahlberg<https://michaelamahlberg.com/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Alexander Piperski<https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/alexander-piperski/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Patricia Ronan<https://islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/ronan/>, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Charlotte Taylor<https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor>, University of Sussex, England Yukio Tono<https://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/english/tono_yukio.html>, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Valentin Werner<https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/personen/werner/>, University of Bamberg, Germany Viola Wiegand<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1844219>, University of Stirling, UK Wed 19 March 2025 – RC21 Training Day The Concordance Reading Training Day, which precedes the symposium, includes hands-on sessions on different aspects of concordance reading. Participants need to bring their own devices. Deadline for registration: 19 February 2025 Deadline for submission of poster abstracts: 31 January 2025 The events are part of the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century project jointly funded by the AHRC and the DFG. For more information and registration details: https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-concordances-in-the-21st-century-rc21/… The RC21 team is looking forward to welcoming you to FAU! Stephanie Evert, Michaela Mahlberg, Nathan Dykes, Sasha Piperski -- Nathan Dykes Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61 90152 Erlangen

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UCL Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics 2025 (online)
by Aarts, Bas 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

The Survey of English Usage at University College London will be running the 12th Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics online from 25-27 June 2025. This Summer School is an accessible and inspiring introductory course in English Corpus Linguistics for students of linguistics and students of the English language. The course will be taught online over three days in the morning (UK time). The course consists of theoretical and practical sessions. Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of concepts in linguistics, especially grammar. Places are limited. Be sure to book early to get the early bird rate. For students in full-time education the course fee includes a free copy of either the ICE-GB Corpus (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice-gb) or the DCPSE Corpus (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/dcpse), with the associated exploration software ICECUP. For more information about the course, provisional timetable and how to apply, see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/summer-school<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/summer-school/> Prof. Bas Aarts Department of English Language and Literature UCL Bluesky: @englishgrammar.bsky.social Substack: https://basaarts.substack.com Grammarianism Blog: http://bit.ly/1d1zKzN Continuous Professional Development and INSET courses for teachers: https://bit.ly/39qnKIH Note: I respect your work/life balance. If I send you an email outside of your normal working hours there is no expectation that you will read or respond to the message at that time.

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Lancaster free summer schools in CL - registration open
by Brezina, Vaclav 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

Dear all, As every year, the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University offers a free in-person training event: Lancaster Summer schools in corpus linguistics. This year, the summer schools run from 16 to 20 June 2025. * As part of our innovation programme, we offer a new Corpus linguistics for language testing and assessment <https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/language-testing-with-corpus-lin…> stream in addition to * Corpus linguistics for analysis of language, discourse and society<https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/language-discourse-society/> More info/application form are available here: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/ Please feel to share with postgraduate students and other researchers who might benefit from the training. Please apply early because places are limited. Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB723D.978AD030]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB723D.978AD030]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Third and final CFP: LoResMT 2025 at NAACL 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 29 Jan '25

29 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:* *February 13, 2025* (Anywhere on Earth) *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline:* *February 27, 2025* *Notification of acceptance:* March 8, 2025 *Camera-ready papers due:* March 17, 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 Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 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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SemEval-2026: Call for Task Proposals
by Semeval Organizers 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

SemEval-2026: Call for Task Proposals URL: https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/cft # Call for Task Proposals We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of SemEval-2026. SemEval (the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantics systems, organized under the umbrella of SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SemEval tasks explore the nature of meaning in natural languages: how to characterize meaning and how to compute it. This is achieved in practical terms, using shared datasets and standardized evaluation metrics to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and possible solutions. SemEval tasks encompass a broad range of semantic topics from the lexical level to the discourse level, including word sense identification, semantic parsing, coreference resolution, and sentiment analysis, among others. For SemEval-2026, we welcome tasks that can test an automatic system for semantic analysis of text (e.g., intrinsic semantic evaluation, or an application-oriented evaluation). We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, cross-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of computational semantics. See the websites of previous editions of SemEval to get an idea about the range of tasks explored, e.g. SemEval-2020 (http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/) and SemEval-2021/2025 (https://semeval.github.io). We strongly encourage proposals based on pilot studies that have already generated initial data, evaluation measures and baselines. In this way, we can avoid unforeseen challenges down the road that may delay the task. We suggest providing a reasonable baseline (e.g., providing a BERT baseline for a classification task) apart from majority vote / random guess. In case you are not sure whether a task is suitable for SemEval, please feel free to get in touch with the SemEval organizers at semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com to discuss your idea. ## Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by experts, and reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Everything else being equal, more innovative new tasks will be given preference over task reruns. Task proposals will be evaluated on: - Novelty: Is the task on a compelling new problem that has not been explored much in the community? Is the task a rerun, but covering substantially new ground (new subtasks, new types of data, new languages, etc. - one addition is not sufficient)? - Interest: Is the proposed task likely to attract a sufficient number of participants? - Data: Are the plans for collecting data convincing? Will the resulting data be of high quality? Will annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for use and re-use of the data after the evaluation been secured? Have all international privacy concerns been addressed? Will the data annotation be ready on time? - Evaluation: Is the methodology for evaluation sound? Is the necessary infrastructure available or can it be built in time for the shared task? Will research inspired by this task be able to evaluate in the same manner and on the same data after the initial task? Is the task significantly challenging (e.g. room for improvement over the baselines)? - Impact: What is the expected impact of the data in this task on future research beyond the SemEval Workshop? - Ethical – The data must be compliant with privacy policies. e.g. a) avoid personally identifiable information (PII). Tasks aimed at identifying specific people will not be accepted, b) avoid medical decision making (compliance with HIPAA, do not try to replace medical professionals, especially if it has anything to do with mental health) c) these are representative and not exhaustive ## Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 3 pages (plus additional pages for references). Please see website for further information. ## Important dates - Task proposals due 31 March 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Task selection notification 19 May 2025 ## Preliminary timetable - Sample data ready 15 July 2025 - Training data ready 1 September 2025 - Evaluation data ready 1 December 2025 (internal deadline; not for public release) - Evaluation start 10 January 2026 - Evaluation end by 31 January 2026 (latest date; task organizers may choose an earlier date) - Paper submission due February 2026 - Notification to authors March 2026 - Camera ready due April 2026 - SemEval workshop Summer 2026 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Tasks that fail to keep up with crucial deadlines (such as the dates for having the task and CodaLab website up and dates for uploading sample, training, and evaluation data) may be cancelled at the discretion of SemEval organizers. While consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances, our goal is to provide sufficient time for the participants to develop strong and well-thought-out systems. Cancelled tasks will be encouraged to submit proposals for the subsequent year’s SemEval. To reduce the risk of tasks failing to meet the deadlines, we are unlikely to accept multiple tasks with overlap in the task organizers. ## Chairs - Sara Rosenthal, IBM Research AI - Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República, Uruguay - Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, USA - Debanjan Ghosh, Educational Testing Service,

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Call for Papers: Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025
by cansu.akan＠phil.tu-chemnitz.de 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025, organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, 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. 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 27.01.25 Abstract submission opens 27.01.25 Conference registration opens 31.03.25 Abstract submission deadline 10.06.25 Notification of acceptance 15.06.25 Presenter registration deadline 15.10.25 Conference registration closes 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) Further information Contact us via e-mail: lcrgrad(a)tu-chemnitz.de

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Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar 2
by Mathilde Bru 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

The second talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 3rd February 2025 at 5pm GMT. Clayton Marr (The Ohio State University, USA) will be presenting on “Forward reconstructing Albanian diachronic phonology”. Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 31st January and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqMofqhcQvujcpTLfoTmrhPzPgAKizrdV… 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/marr/ 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 CFP-GITT-2025 at MT Summit 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 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 Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 10 March, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 4 April, 2025 Camera Ready Copy due: 11 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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Ukrainian NLP Workshop and Shared Task @ ACL 2025: Second CFP
by Mariana Romanyshyn 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

*The Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2025) <https://unlp.org.ua/>* *Call For Papers* UNLP 2025 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on July 31 or August 1, 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. *Shared Task* UNLP 2025 organizes a *Shared Task on* *Detecting Social Media Manipulation* <https://unlp.org.ua/shared-task/>. This Shared Task aims to challenge and assess AI capabilities to detect and classify manipulation, laying the groundwork for progress in cybersecurity and the identification of disinformation within the context of Ukraine. Organized jointly with Texty.org.ua <http://texty.org.ua/>, the task is based on 9,500 Telegram posts manually annotated for ten manipulation techniques by media experts. The shared task has two tracks: techniques classification and detection of manipulative text spans. The data is already available and the Kaggle competition has been launched! 👉 To participate in the shared task, fill in the form by March 23, 2025: https://forms.gle/1F8mAPQHhtXW7icg9 👉 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/DYNnWaZD4a *Important dates* April 14, 2025 — Workshop paper due (direct submission) May 5, 2025 — Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline May 12, 2025 — Notification of acceptance June 2, 2025 — Camera-ready papers due June 30, 2025 — Pre-recorded video due July 31 or August 1, 2025 — Workshop *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 paper submission link will be added soon. Check for updates at https:// unlp.org.ua/. 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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First call for papers for the First Large Language Model Memorization (L2M2) workshop @ACL 2025
by Verna 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

Call for Papers for the L2M2 workshop Large language models (LLMs) are known to memorize their training data. In recent years, this phenomenon has inspired multiple distinct research directions. Some researchers currently focus on analyzing and understanding LLM memorization, attempting to localize memorized knowledge within a model or understand which examples are most likely to be memorized. Other researchers aim to edit or remove information that an LLM has memorized. Still, others study the downstream implications of LLM memorization, including legal concerns associated with memorizing copyrighted articles, privacy risks associated with LLMs leaking private information, and concerns that LLMs cheat on benchmarks by memorizing test data. The First Workshop on Large Language Model Memorization (L2M2), <https://sites.google.com/view/memorization-workshop/home> co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> in Vienna, seeks to provide a central venue for researchers studying LLM memorization from these different angles. We invite paper submissions on all topics related to LLM memorization, including but not limited to: - Behavioral analyses that seek to understand what training data is memorized by models. - Methods for measuring the extent to which models memorize training data. - Interpretability work analyzing how models memorize training data. - The relationship between training data memorization and membership inference. - Analyses of how memorization of training data is related to generalization and model capabilities. - Methods or benchmarks for preventing models from outputting memorized data, such as machine unlearning, model editing, or output filtering techniques. - Model editing techniques for modifying knowledge that models have memorized. - Legal implications and risks of LLM memorization. - Privacy and security risks of LLM memorization. - Implications of memorization for benchmarking, such as data contamination concerns. Any models that process or generate text are in scope for this workshop, including text-only language models, vision language models, machine translation models, etc. Memorization in the context of L2M2 could refer to verbatim memorization of training data, approximate memorization of copyrighted content, memorization of factual knowledge, memorization of correct answers to questions, or other definitions. If you have any questions about whether your paper is suitable for our workshop, feel free to contact us at l2m2-workshop(a)googlegroups.com. Submission Guidelines We seek submissions of at least 4 and at most 8 pages, not including references. All submissions will be reviewed in a single track, regardless of length. Please format your papers using the standard ACL format <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling…>. We will accept direct submissions via OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/L2M2#tab-recen…>, as well as submissions made through ACL Rolling Review. We accept two types of submissions: 1. Archival: Original work that will be included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions must be anonymized and will go through a double-blind review process. 2. Non-archival: Such submissions will not be included in the proceedings. The workshop will accept two categories of non-archival work: - Work published elsewhere: The authors should indicate the original venue, and will be accepted if the organizers think the work will benefit from exposure to the audience of this workshop. Submissions do not need to be anonymized. - Work-in-progress: These may report on work in progress that have not yet been published at a different venue. The acceptance will be based on a double-blind review and thus submissions of this type need to be anonymized. Dual submissions We allow submissions that are also under review in other venues, but please note that many conferences do not allow it, so make sure that you do not violate their policy as well. Anonymity period We do not have an anonymity deadline. Preprints are allowed, both before the submission deadline as well as after. Important Dates - Latest submission date for ARR submissions: February 15, 2025 - Direct submission deadline: March 25, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) commitment deadline: April 17, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2025 - Camera-ready paper deadline: May 16, 2025 - Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 30, 2025 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025 - Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025 Note: all deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00. The organisers: Robin Jia Eric Wallace Yangsibo Huang Tiago Pimentel Pratyush Maini Verna Dankers Johnny Wei Pietro Lesci

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Call for Participation: MultimodalReasoning Task at CLEF 2025!
by mitko.bg.ss＠gmail.com 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

Call for participation: ImageCLEF 2025 Multimodal Reasong Lab We’re excited to announce the MultimodalReasoning shared task as part of CLEF 2025, focusing on the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Motivation: While VLMs excel at basic tasks like image captioning and simple visual question answering, they struggle with complex reasoning. This task challenges participants to explore and improve their models' ability to reason through multilingual, multimodal inputs. Task Description: Participants will address Multilingual Visual Question Answering (VQA) by identifying the correct answer from multiple options, given an image. Evaluation Metric: Accuracy will determine the model's performance. Why Participate? Advance the field of multimodal AI reasoning. Benchmark your systems on challenging multilingual data. Share your insights at CLEF 2025 in Madrid, Spain! Key Dates: Registration Opens: 20 Dec 2024 Registration Closes: 25 Apr 2025 Test Data Release: 24 Mar 2025 Submission Deadline: 10 May 2025 We invite you to register and join this exciting challenge! 📍 More Info & Registration Details: https://www.imageclef.org/2025/multimodalreasoning Let’s shape the future of reasoning in AI together! Best regards, Task Organizing Team, MultimodalReasoning

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First Call for Participation: BioNLP @ACL 2025 Shared Task on Grounded Electronic Health Record Question Answering (ArchEHR-QA 2025)
by Soni, Sarvesh (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E] 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

ArchEHR-QA 2025 (pronounced "Archer"): BioNLP @ACL 2025 Shared Task on Grounded Question Answering (QA) from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Responding to patients’ inbox messages through patient portals is one of the main contributors to increasing clinician burden. To this end, automatically generating answers to questions from patients considering their medical records is important. The objective of this shared task is to automatically answer patients’ questions given important clinical evidence from their electronic health records (EHRs). Task Overview We propose the task of automatically generating answers to patients’ health-related questions that are grounded in the evidence from patients’ clinical notes. The dataset will consist of hand-curated realistic patient questions (submitted through a patient portal) and their corresponding clinician-rewritten versions (crafted to assist in formulating their responses). The task is to construct coherent answers or responses to input questions that must use and be grounded in the provided clinical note excerpts. For more information and examples, please visit the shared task website at https://archehr-qa.github.io/. Important Dates (Tentative) * Release of the development dataset: February 25 (Tuesday), 2025 * Release of the public and hidden test datasets: March 25 (Tuesday), 2025 * Submission of system responses: April 25 (Friday), 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): May 2 (Friday), 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 10 (Saturday), 2025 * Camera-ready system papers due: May 20 (Tuesday), 2025 ↳ No extensions due to the ACL publication deadline * BioNLP Workshop Date: July 31 (Thursday) OR August 1 (Friday), 2025 We are also looking for people to join the program committee, where the responsibilities will include reviewing papers. If you are interested, please send an email to sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov>. Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/archehr-qa Email: sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov> Looking forward to your participation, Sarvesh Soni, National Library of Medicine, US Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, US

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Story markup languages
by Darren Cook 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

Is there any established xml or other markup language for novels and short stories? I'm particularly interested in marking up dialogue with the name of the character who is speaking, and then in tools that allow extracting the dialogue of each character (e.g. to analyse and contrast the vocabulary each uses). If so, following on from that, are there open-source ML models that try to identify the speaker to add this markup, and existing training data? Thanks, Darren

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2nd call for papers (all areas of linguistics & language tech): 'Humans, Machines, Language', University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025
by Amal Haddad 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

Venue & date: University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025 Plenary speakers: Dr. Loredana Cerrato [1] Senior Consultant, Microsoft Sweden; and EM Lewis-Jong, Director for Mozilla Common Voice [2] Abstract submission deadline: Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00 (noon) GMT Website: https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferen… [3] 'Humans, Machines, Language' (HuMaLa - https://r.jyu.fi/humala [4]) is a cross-disciplinary network for a wide range of linguists, developers, and humanists with different interests in the impact of 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! Our inaugural conference theme is: 'Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing'. In addition to technical work (e.g., model description or datasets), we warmly encourage theoretical and empirical studies on the sociolinguistic, ethical, legal, cultural and social implications of language technology adoption. The full call with further background details is on our website (linked above). Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the social media announcement here: https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/post/3lfd5lysvam2o [5] We hope to see you at the conference! All the best, Amal Haddad (on behalf of the 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredana-sundberg-c… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXt… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-l… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r.jyu.fi/humala__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!UHnJy4r… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/pos…

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Final CFP- CL4Health Workshop @ NAACL 2025 -Extended deadline - 4th February 2025
by Paul Thompson 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ NAACL 2025 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2025/ Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The second workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful inaugural CL4Health workshop (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue that focuses on language related to health of the public. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health-literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health SHARED TASK Perspective-aware Healthcare Answer Summarization (PerAnsSumm) will be co-located with the workshop. In community / consumer health question answering, several aspects, such as question understanding and answer generation, have been studied for over a decade. A new and important question posed by this task is the different perspectives provided in the answers to questions posted to online forums. The responses to the questions offer different answer perspectives, e.g., personal experiences, factual information, and suggestions. Traditionally, the CQA answer summarization task has focused on a single best-voted answer as a reference summary. A single answer does not capture all the perspectives. Moreover, a structured presentation of the information in the form of perspective-specific summaries may be more useful for the end-users. To address these gaps, this challenge introduces a novel perspective-specific answer summarization task within a CQA setup. The task will use the Perspective-aware healthcare Answer SuMmarizAtion (PUMA) dataset, a corpus of medical question-answer pairs created by the task organizers. The PUMA dataset consists of 3,167 CQA threads with approximately 10K answers filtered from the Yahoo! L6 corpus. Each answer in PUMA is annotated with five perspective spans: ‘cause’, ‘suggestion’, ‘experience’, ‘question’, and ‘information’. Further details are about the shared task are available at: https://peranssumm.github.io/ IMPORTANT DATES January 30, 2025 February 4, 2005 (Extended Deadline) -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 1, 2025 - Notification of acceptance March 10, 2025 - Camera-ready papers due April 8, 2025 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 3 OR 4, 2025 - Workshop SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Submission site: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/cl4health2025 Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, USA - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Deepak Gupta, National Library of Medicine, USA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Leonardo Campillos-Llanos, Spanish National Research Council, Spain - Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, USA - Manas Gaur, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA - Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille, France - Tudor Groza, Curtin University, Australia - Deepak Gupta, National Library of Medicine, USA - Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Zhiwei Liu, University of Manchester, UK - Aurélie Névéol, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France - Brian Ondov, Yale School of Medicine, USA - Anthony Rios, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Miguel Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal - Roland Roller, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Germany - Abeed Sarker, Emory School of Medicine, USA - Sarvesh Soni, National Library of Medicine, USA - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Grigorios Tsoumakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Final Call for Participation - PerAnsSumm Shared Task 2025 @ CLHealth NAACL 2025
by Siddhant Agarwal 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

🌟Your last chance to participate in the PerAnsSumm Shared Task, part of the CL4Health Workshop at NAACL 2025, one of the biggest and most prestigious NLP conferences! 🌟 Website: peranssumm.github.io 🩺 The Challenge: Healthcare CQA forums feature diverse user perspectives—personal stories, factual advice, and more. Traditional summarization methods often overlook this richness. Our task aims to create perspective-aware summaries that cater to real-world information needs. Hurry Up!! Evaluation phase has begun!! 💰 Cash Prizes: - 1st Place: $100 - 2nd Place: $50 🚀 Get Started Quickly: We’ve got you covered with a starter code to simplify your journey and help you focus on innovating. Tasks: - Task A: Identify and classify perspective-specific spans in answers. - Task B: Generate structured, perspective-specific summaries for question-answer threads. 📅 Key Dates: - Evaluation Phase! - Submission of Results: 1st February, 2025 - Release of final results: 5th February, 2025 🔗 Details & Registration: - More information: peranssumm.github.io - CodaBench Registration page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/4312/ Take this opportunity to showcase your skills, collaborate with a vibrant community, and make a meaningful impact in healthcare NLP! 🌍✨ Contact us via email at sagarw38(a)uic.edu Looking forward to your participation! Best, Organizers: Shweta Yadav Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) Md. Shad Akhtar Assistant Professor (CSE) Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD) Siddhant Agarwal PhD Student University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)

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Second CfP: Sixth Workshop on "Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing", Vienna, ACL
by Agnieszka Falenska 25 Jan '25

25 Jan '25

*Apologies for cross-posting* Sixth Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing <https://gebnlp-workshop.github.io/> ACL 2025- Vienna, Austria July 27–August 1st, 2025 Second Call for Papers Gender bias, among other demographic biases (e.g., race, nationality, religion), in machine-learned models is of increasing interest to the scientific community and industry. Models of natural language are highly affected by such biases, which are present in widely used products and can lead to poor user experiences. There is a growing body of research into improved representations of gender in NLP models. Key example approaches are to build and use balanced training and evaluation datasets (e.g. Webster et al., 2018), and to change the learning algorithms themselves (e.g. Bolukbasi et al., 2016). While these approaches show promising results, there is more to do to solve identified and future bias issues. In order to make progress as a field, we need to create widespread awareness of bias and a consensus on how to work against it, for instance by developing standard tasks and metrics. Our workshop provides a forum to achieve this goal. Topics of interest We invite submissions of technical work exploring the detection, measurement, and mediation of gender bias in NLP models and applications. Other important topics are the creation of datasets, identifying and assessing relevant biases or focusing on fairness in NLP systems. Finally, the workshop is also open to non-technical work addressing sociological perspectives, and we strongly encourage critical reflections on the sources and implications of bias throughout all types of work. Paper Submission Information Submissions will be accepted as short papers (4 pages) and as long papers (8 pages), plus additional pages for references, following the ACL 2025 guidelines. Supplementary material can be added, but should not be central to the argument of the paper. Blind submission is required. Each paper should include a statement which explicitly defines (a) what system behaviors are considered as bias in the work and (b) why those behaviors are harmful, in what ways, and to whom (cf. Blodgett et al. (2020)). More information on this requirement, which was successfully introduced at GeBNLP 2020, can be found on the workshop website. We also encourage authors to engage with definitions of bias and other relevant concepts such as prejudice, harm, discrimination from outside NLP, especially from social sciences and normative ethics, in this statement and in their work in general. Non-archival option The authors have the option of submitting research as non-archival, meaning that the paper will not be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work and format as archival submissions. Important dates Direct submission deadline <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/GeBNLP>: March 1, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/GeBNLP_ARR_Com…>: March 25, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 Camera-ready paper deadline: May 16, 2025 Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025 Please take care of the following policy regarding OpenReview: New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. Organizers Christine Basta, Alexandria University Marta R. Costa-jussà, FAIR, Meta, Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Karolina Stańczak, Mila and McGill University

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[Extended deadline] Second Call For Papers, Sixth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing at NAACL 2025
by Ivan Habernal 25 Jan '25

25 Jan '25

PrivateNLP 2025: Sixth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing at NAACL 2025 Second Call For Papers PrivateNLP is a full day workshop taking place on May 3 or 4, 2025 in conjunction with NAACL 2025. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/privatenlp2025/ Important Dates: * [Extended] Submission Deadline: February 7, 2025 * Fast-track Submission Deadline: February 20, 2025 * Acceptance Notification: March 7, 2025 * Camera-ready versions: March 17, 2025 * Workshop: May 3 or 4, 2025 Privacy-preserving data analysis has become essential in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) where access to vast amounts of data can provide gains over tuned algorithms. A large proportion of user-contributed data comes from natural language e.g., text transcriptions from voice assistants. The workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to designing, building, verifying, and testing privacy preserving systems in the context of Natural Language Processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Privacy in Large Language Models * Generating privacy preserving test sets * Inference and identification attacks * Generating Differentially private derived data * NLP, privacy and regulatory compliance * Private Generative Adversarial Networks * Privacy in Active Learning and Crowdsourcing * Privacy and Federated Learning in NLP * User perceptions on privatized personal data * Auditing provenance in language models * Continual learning under privacy constraints * NLP and summarization of privacy policies * Ethical ramifications of AI/NLP in support of usable privacy * Homomorphic encryption for language models Submission Instructions Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and short papers. Please follow the NAACL submission policies. Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. Final versions of full papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will still be given up to five (5) content pages in the proceedings. We also ask authors to include a limitation section and broader impact statement, following guidelines from the main conference. We will be using OpenReview for submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/PrivateNLP Please note OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles: * New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. * New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. No anonymity period will be required for papers submitted to the workshop, per the latest updates to the ACL anonymity policy. However, submissions must still remain fully anonymized. Fast-Track Submission If your paper has been reviewed by ACL, EMNLP, EACL, or ARR and the average rating is higher than 2.5 (either average soundness or excitement score), the paper is qualified to be submitted to the fast-track. In the appendix, please include the reviews and a short statement discussing what parts of the paper have been revised. Dual Submission Policy In addition to previously unpublished work, we invite papers on relevant topics which have been submitted to alternative venues (such as other NLP or ML conferences). Please follow the double-submission policy from ACL. Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue. Selection of cross-submissions will be determined solely by the organizing committee. Non-Archival Option There are no formatting or page restrictions for non-archival submissions. The accepted papers to the non-archival track will be displayed on the workshop website, but will NOT be included in the workshop proceedings or otherwise archived. Organizers Ivan Habernal - Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) Sepideh Ghanavati - University of Maine (USA) Shomir Wilson - Pennsylvania State University (USA) Timour Igamberdiev - University of Vienna (Austria) Vijayanta Jain - University of Maine (USA) Contact privatenlp25-orga(a)lists.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 2nd CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 25 Jan '25

25 Jan '25

*** Second Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: March 7, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: April 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: May 16, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - 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: TBA 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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ICLC-11: 3rd Call for Abstracts
by alexandr.rosen＠ff.cuni.cz 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '25

ICLC-11 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Third Call for Abstracts September 17–19. 2025 Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for abstract submission: 24 February 2025 The Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague is pleased to announce the 11th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the success of ICLC-10 in Mannheim 2023, ICLC-11 wants to bring together researchers from different linguistic subfields and neighbouring disciplines to continue the interdisciplinary dialogue on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. See https://iclc11.ff.cuni.cz/ for more information. —--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite abstracts on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: (1) Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages focused on any area and level of linguistic analysis: * lexicon * phonetics and phonology * morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, linguistic complexity * semantics, pragmatics, register and socio-cultural context (2) Methodological challenges and solutions in cross-linguistic research: * language corpora (multilingual, learner, and multimodal) and issues of linguistic annotation (e.g., Universal Dependencies) * comparability issues, tertia comparationis, language universals; experimental and naturalistic interaction data * AI and new digital tools in linguistic analysis * low-resourced languages (3) Contrastive linguistics in touch with related disciplines: * generative, model-theoretic, functional or cognitive (e.g., constructional) approches * historical, sociolinguistic and variationist perspectives; registers, multimodality, pragmatics, interculturality; language contact; language policy * cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to bilingualism and multilingualism; language acquisition, language teaching and learning * translation studies The abstracts should present empirical research, well-defined research questions or hypotheses, details of the research approach and methods, theoretical insights, and (preliminary or expected) results. For details see https://iclc11.ff.cuni.cz/calls-and-circulars/call-for-papers/. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM * Parallel Oral Sessions * Poster Sessions * Keynote Speakers: Sabine De Knop (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium) Volker Gast (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany) Dan Zeman (Charles University, Prague) * Panel Discussion IMPORTANT DATES 24.02.2025: Deadline for abstract submission 26.05.2025: Notification of acceptance 02.06.2025: Registration opens 16.06.2025: Deadline for revised abstract submission 30.06.2025: Last day for early bird registration 01.09.2025: Online registration closes 16.09.2025: Arrival, Registration, Get-together 17–19.09.2025: Conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Mirjam Fried (chair) 1) * Viktor Elšík 1) * Jana Kocková 2) * Michal Křen 1) * Olga Nádvorníková 1) * Alexandr Rosen 1) 1) Charles University, Faculty of Arts 2) Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavonic Studies PROGRAM COMMITTEE: tba CONTACT INFORMATION Website: https://iclc11.ff.cuni.cz/ Email: iclc11(a)ff.cuni.cz

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[Deadline extension] Call for papers: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR)
by Sylviane Granger 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '25

Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025 ***Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 31 January.*** To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona University (NAU), a conference on Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research will be organized in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on 7-8 July 2025 under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association. The conference will be an on-site event only. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give a keynote presentation at the conference: - Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) - Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen) - Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona) SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions which compare two or more registers or tasks in corpora of learner language, using the methods of corpus linguistics / LCR, and which analyse the possible effects of register/task on the linguistic features of learner language. The learner registers/tasks may, in addition, be compared against some reference corpus data such as native or expert language. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are welcome, with a focus on any aspects of language (phraseology, grammatical complexity, fluency, etc.). We are particularly interested in submissions that - use data representing different registers/tasks produced by the same L2 learners; - compare registers/tasks displaying different degrees of formality or involving different degrees of communicative control; - combine quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis; - discuss the methodological issues related to the comparison of registers/tasks in learner language; - include under-researched registers/tasks/languages. There will be three different categories of presentation: - full paper - work-in-progress report - poster ABSTRACTS Abstracts should be about 500 words (not including references) and specify how the paper will contribute to the theme of the conference, in particular by highlighting the registers/tasks that will be compared and the corpora that will be used. They should also provide a clear outline of the aim(s) of the paper, including clearly articulated research questions, sufficient details about the methodology and (preliminary) results. Abstracts should be uploaded to OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=VAR4LCR/2025/Conference) no later than 31 January 2025 at 23:59 UTC. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-vari… CONTACT: var4lcr(a)uclouvain.be

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '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 check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: Speaker: Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) Title: Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 15:00 CET Summary: Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. Bio: Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. Upcoming webinars: · Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) · Christian Herff (Thursday, March 6, 2025) · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 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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Text2Story'25@ECIR Deadline Extension
by Hugo Sousa 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ DEADLINE EXTENSION ++ **************************************************************************** Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'25) Held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25) April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt **************************************************************************** ++ Important Dates ++ - Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2025 January 24th, 2025 - Acceptance Notification: March 3rd, 2025 - Camera-ready copies: March 17th, 2025 - Workshop: April 10th, 2025 ++ Overview ++ For seven years, the Text2Story Workshop series has fostered a vibrant community dedicated to understanding narrative structure in text, resulting in significant contributions to the field and developing a shared understanding of the challenges in this domain. While traditional methods have yielded valuable insights, the advent of Transformers and LLMs have ignited a new wave of interest in narrative understanding. In the eighth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we propose to go deeper into the role of LLMs in narrative understanding exploring the issues involved in using LLMs to unravel narrative structures, while also examining the characteristics of narratives generated by LLMs. By fostering dialogue on these emerging areas, we aim to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task and continue the workshop's tradition of driving innovation in narrative understanding research. ++ List of Topics ++ Research works submitted to the workshop should advance the scientific understanding of all aspects of narrative extraction from texts. This includes, but is not limited to, topics such as narrative information extraction, formal representation of narratives, narrative analysis and generation, development of datasets and evaluation protocols, as well as ethics and bias in narratives, and narrative applications. We encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics and contributions focused on low and medium-resource languages. Narrative Information Extraction - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events - Causality Detection - Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction - LLMs for Narrative Extraction Narrative Representation - Annotation Protocols - Narrative Representation Models - Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation - LLM-learned Representation Narrative Analysis and Generation - Discourse and Argument Structure Analysis - Narrative analysis of LLM generated text - Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis - Story Evolution and Shift Detection - Automatic Timeline Generation - Generative Language Models for Narrative Generation Datasets and Evaluation Protocol - Evaluating LLM-Generated Narratives - Evaluation of Multimodal Narrative Models - Annotated datasets - Narrative Resources - Using LLMs for Data Creation and Augmentation Ethics and Bias in Narratives - Identifying and Mitigating Bias in Generated Narratives - Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation - Misinformation and Fact Checking - Bias in LLM-generated narratives Narrative Applications - Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections - Narrative Summarization - Narrative Q&A - Multimodal Narrative Summarization - Multimodal Narrative-focused Search - Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives - Social Media Narratives - Narrative Text Simplification - Narrative-based Text Anonymization - Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives - Storyline Visualization (including multimodal) and Narrative Structures ++ Objectives ++ Overall, the workshop has the following main objectives: (1) raise awareness within the Information Retrieval (IR) community regarding the challenges posed by narrative extraction and comprehension; (2) bridge the gap and foster connections between academic research, practitioners, and industrial applications; (3) discuss new methods, recent advances, and emerging challenges; (4) share experiences from research projects, case studies, and scientific outcomes structured around fundamental research questions related to narrative understanding; (5) identify dimensions that might be influenced by the automation of the narrative process; (6) highlight tested hypotheses that did not result in the expected outcomes ++ Submission Guidelines ++ We expect contributions from researchers on all aspects of narrative extraction, representation, analysis, and generation. This includes the extraction and formal representation of events, their temporal and causal relationships, and methods for temporal reasoning and ordering. Submissions focusing on narrative comprehension, such as the analysis of generated narratives, are also highly encouraged. Additionally, we welcome innovative approaches to presenting narrative information, including automatic timeline generation, multi-modal narrative summarization, and narrative visualization. Research addressing misinformation and the verification of extracted facts, evaluation methodologies, and the development of annotated datasets, annotation schemas, and evaluation metrics is particularly valued. Finally, we are especially interested in submissions that focus on low and medium-resource languages, as well as multilingual and cross-lingual narrative analysis. Building on these themes, several pressing questions emerge within the field, offering valuable guidance for authors in shaping their submissions.How can we better integrate multimodal content - combining text, images, videos, and audio - into cohesive narratives? What strategies can reliably extract or generate accurate narratives from large, multi-genre, and multi-lingual datasets? How can systems dynamically adapt to real-time shifts in narratives as the volume of generated content grows? What methodologies can effectively annotate data and evaluate novel approaches, for complex tasks such as visualization but also for characterization of multi-lingual narratives? How can we guarantee the explainability, interpretability, and coherence of narratives across diverse domains and languages? To what extent can novel approaches be generalized to new tasks, genres, and languages with minimal effort? What ethical safeguards are essential to ensure that narrative extraction systems are not misused for propaganda or manipulation? How can challenges posed by ambiguous or contradictory information within narratives be addressed through innovative methods? What role do cultural and contextual nuances play in narrative extraction, and how can these be effectively incorporated into automated systems to ensure greater inclusivity? How can collaboration between human annotators and automated systems be optimized to achieve more accurate, nuanced narrative understanding? How can systems generate concise, evidence-backed explanations to justify the dominant narrative while remaining grounded in the source text? -> Full papers (up to 8 pages + references): Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. -> Short papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue. -> Demos | Resource Papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community; Papers submitted to Text2Story 2025 should be original work and different from papers that have been previously published, accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are "dissemination papers". Pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer-review process by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights. ++ Invited Speakers ++ Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Title: Revisiting frames for event extraction in the Digital Humanities Abstract: Frame Semantics as a cognitive linguistic theory was first formalised by Charles Fillmore around 50 years ago. Since then, it has been adapted to different application scenarios as a framework to support event-based information extraction. But what is the role of frames in the era of generative AI? In this talk I will present some recent research works in which frame semantics has been tailored to support digital humanities research. In particular, we explored the use of frames to extract sensory information from historical archives and capture shifts in perception over time. Frame-based event extraction has also been investigated as a way to navigate news collections, build narratives from event chains and present the same event from different points of view. Bio: Sara Tonelli is the head of the Digital Humanities research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento (Italy) and holds a Phd in Language Sciences from Università Ca' Foscari, Venice. Between 2021 and 2024 she served as Liaison Representative of the ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM) and she is currently part of the board of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC). In the last years, she has served as area chair and senior area chair for major *ACL conferences in tracks related to cultural analytics, social media analysis, digital humanities and offensive language detection. She has also participated in different EU-funded projects around disinformation, computational social science and cultural heritage and was scientific coordinator of the KID ACTIONS European project (2021-2022), aimed at addressing cyberbullying among children and adolescents through interactive education and gamification. Her research interests focus on understanding how people communicate on social media and what dynamics are involved in online attacks, as well as what kind of biases can affect this analysis. She is also interested in using NLP to extract information from digital archives to address historical and cultural heritage research questions. ++ Organizing committee ++ Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe) Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) ++ Proceedings Chair ++ João Paulo Cordeiro (NOVA Lincs & University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC, Portugal) ++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++ Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal) Behrooz Mansouri (University of Maine, USA) ++ Program Committee ++ Abhai Singh (Amazon) Ali Salehi (University at Buffalo) Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI) Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz) Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle) António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon) Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto) Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP) Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon) David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Dennis Aumiller (Cohere) Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC) Sérgio Matos (University of Aveiro) Florian Boudin (Nantes University) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto) Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering) Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University) Junbo Huang (University of Hamburg) Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences) João Paulo Cordeiro (Nova lincs & University of Beira Interior) Jin Zhao (Brandeis University) Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino) Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon) Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho) Marc Finlayson (Florida International University) Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie) Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto) Ross Purves (University of Zurich) Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg) Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Yangyang Chen (Brandeis University) ++ Contacts ++ Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2025(a)easychair.org

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ML/NLP Engineer (KTP Associate)
by Raffaella Bernardi 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

I am posting this announcement on behalf of Ravi Shekhar, University of Essex ================================== We’re looking for an ML/NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) to join the new partnership between the University of Essex and supplier of data cleansing and analysis software for law enforcement, government agencies, and financial institutions, Chorus Intelligence Limited. This role is an exciting opportunity to develop AI / NLP functionality within the Chorus Intelligence Suite (CIS). Post duration: 24 months, Fixed-Term, Full-Time Salary: £40,500 - £50,000 per annum Location: Chorus Intelligence offices in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Details JobPack Please note: The successful applicant must meet the requirements of a full security check and gain UK Security Clearance and NPPV Level 3, which requires 5 years of residency in the UK. -- Ravi Ravi Shekhar Lecturer, University of Essex, http://shekharravi.github.io/ ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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Invitation to Participate in ClinIQLink 2025 - Medical Knowledge Evaluation for Generative Models
by Brandon 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

Shared Task Website: https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/ Dear Colleague, We are pleased to invite you to participate in ClinIQLink 2025, an evaluation task organized as part of the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025. This initiative focuses on assessing the ability of generative models to produce factually accurate medical information, particularly in the context of knowledge retrieval and hallucination detection. About the Task The ClinIQLink challenge evaluates models using a novel dataset of atomic, fact-based question-answer pairs aligned with the knowledge level of a General Practitioner (GP). Submissions will be assessed on: * Knowledge Retrieval: How accurately models retrieve medical information about core concepts like procedures, conditions, drugs, and diagnostics. * Hallucination Analysis (Post-hoc): Understanding hallucination origins in model responses, categorized into intrinsic (internal model issues), extrinsic (external information gaps), or hybrid causes. Models will be scored based on precision, with penalties for incorrect or unsupported answers. Although hallucination analysis won’t affect the leaderboard, findings will highlight areas for improvement. Participation Requirements To take part in this shared task, participants must: * Submit their models to CodaBench for evaluation. * Provide a short paper describing the methodology, including any novel approaches or improvements made. The dataset, created in collaboration with medical experts, will not be publicly released to ensure the evaluation's integrity. Evaluation Details Submissions will be evaluated using a semi-automated process with metrics for both closed-ended and open-ended questions: * Closed-ended Questions: True/False, multiple-choice, and lists, scored using precision, recall, and F1 metrics. * Open-ended Questions: Evaluated on exact matches or partial semantic similarity using semantic similarity scores (described on the shared task website) and, where necessary, analyzed by experts with utilizing semantic similarity scores, BLEU, ROUGE, METEOR, and other metrics to assist with the experts judgements. Important Dates * First Call for Participation: January 21, 2025 * Dataset and testing framework release on Codabench: February 20, 2025 * System submission Deadline: April 15, 2025 * Results Feedback: April 25, 2025 * Preliminary Paper Submission: May 5, 2025 * Final Paper Submission: May 15, 2025 * BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025: July 31, 2025 For a full timeline and additional details, visit our official website<https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/>. Why Participate? This task offers a unique opportunity to benchmark your models against state-of-the-art systems, advance the field of medical QA, and contribute to a deeper understanding of hallucination detection in generative AI. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Brandon Colelough at brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>. We look forward to your participation in this exciting initiative. Kind regards, Brandon Colelough (He / Him) [News, Events, and Updates]NIH Fellow | Fulbright Scholar | ADF Signals Officer | Electrical Engineer National Institutes of Health – National Library of Medicine (LHC) M: +61 481 269 667<tel:+61481269667> (AUS) | M: +1 (202) 367-7230<tel:+12023677230> (US) E: brandcol(a)umd.edu<mailto:brandcol@umd.edu> | E: brandon.colelough(a)gmail.com<mailto:brandon.colelough@gmail.com> L: www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-colelough<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linked…>

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Free corpus webinars - Lancaster
by Brezina, Vaclav 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

Dear all, We are offering a series of free webinars, which discuss different opportunities to study corpus linguistics at Lancaster University (UK): online short courses, online PG Certificate, online MA Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF Free online event organised by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK. The event will take place online via MS Teams. 30 January 2025, 2-3pm UK time 27 February 2025, 11am-12pm UK time 2 April 2025, 2-3pm UK time 11 June 2025, 10-11am UK time The webinar will provide an introduction to the corpus linguistics programmes available for study at Lancaster University. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the programmes, ask questions, and gain insights into the application process. More about Corpus Linguistics programmes (MA, PgCert, short courses): https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/masters-level/corpus-linguistics-di… 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@01DB6CD1.6436A8B0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB6CD1.6436A8B0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Second CFP: 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025) @NAACL2025
by Atul K. Ojha 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

[Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************************************** Second Call for Papers 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025) Organized, sponsored and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL Full-day workshop collocated with NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., May 3 or 4, 2025 Hybrid (on-site & on-line) Submission deadline: January 30, 2025 MWE 2025 website: <https://multiword.org/mwe2022/> https://multiword.org/mwe2025/ ******************************************************************************** Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g. annotation), NLP tasks (e.g. parsing), and end-user applications (e.g. natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Constant et al., 2017). For more than two decades, modelling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the topic of the MWE workshop organised by the MWE section <https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realised as MWEs. Following previous years, for this 21st edition of the workshop, we identified the following topics on which contributions are particularly encouraged: - MWE processing to enhance end-user applications. MWEs gained particular attention in end-user applications, including Machine Translation (MT) (Zaninello and Birch, 2020), simplification (Kochmar et al., 2020), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al., 2020), social media mining (Pelosi et al., 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al. 2020). We believe that it is crucial to extend and deepen these first attempts to integrate and evaluate MWE technology in these and further end-user applications. - MWE processing and identification in the general language, as well as in specialized languages and domains: Multiword terminology extraction from domain-specific corpora (Lossio-Ventura et al, 2014) is of particular importance to various applications, such as MT (Semmar and Laib, 2017), or for the identification and monitoring of neologisms and technical jargon (Chatzitheodorou and Kappatos, 2021). - MWE processing in low-resource languages: The PARSEME shared tasks (2017 <https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_05_MWE_2…>, 2018 <https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_04_LAW-M…>, 2020 <https://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_02_MWE-L…>) among others, have fostered significant progress in MWE identification, providing datasets that include low-resource languages, evaluation measures, and tools that now allow fully integrating MWE identification into end-user applications. There are continuous efforts in this direction (Diaz Hernandez, 2024) and a few of them have also explored methods for the automatic interpretation of MWEs (Bhatia et al., 2018), and their processing in low-resource languages (Eder et al., 2021). Resource creation and sharing should be pursued in parallel with the development of multilingual benchmarks for MWE identification (Savary et al., 2023). - MWE identification and interpretation in LLMs: Most current MWE processing is limited to their identification and detection using pre-trained language models, but we still lack understanding about how MWEs are represented and dealt with therein (Garcia et al., 2021), how to better model the compositionality of MWEs from semantics (Phelps et al., 2024). Now that NLP has shifted towards end-to-end neural models like BERT, capable of solving complex tasks with little or no intermediary linguistic symbols, questions arise about the extent to which MWEs should be implicitly or explicitly modelled (Shwartz and Dagan, 2019). - New and enhanced representation of MWEs in language resources and computational models of compositionality as gold standards for formative intrinsic evaluation. Through this workshop, we will bring together and encourage researchers in various NLP subfields to submit their MWE-related research, We also intend to consolidate the converging results of previous joint workshops LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 <http://multiword.sourceforge.net/lawmwecxg2018/>, MWE-WN 2019 <http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwewn2019/> and MWE-LEX 2020 <http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020/>, the joint MWE-WOAH panel in 2021 <https://multiword.org/mwe2021/#program>, the MWE-SIGUL 2022 joint session <https://multiword.org/mwe2022/>, and the MWE-UD 2024 <https://multiword.org/mweud2024/>, extending our scope to MWEs in e-lexicons, and WordNets, MWE annotation, as well as grammatical constructions. Correspondingly, we call for papers on research related (but not limited) to MWEs and constructions in: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Submission formats: The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/MWE> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/MWE). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025 Workshop: May 3 or 4, 2025 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Voula Giouli, Grazina Korvel, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at <mweworkshop2023(a)googlegroups.com> mwe2025workshop(a)gmail.com.

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Call for posters : Extension of deadline
by Thomas François 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

Call for posters PLIN Linguistic Day 2025 Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 18 April 2025 The PLIN Linguistic Day<https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/plin-day.html> is a biennial one-day thematic conference organised by the Linguistics Research Unit (PLIN) of the Language and Communication Institute (IL&C) at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Over the years, the conference has established itself as an international forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars and has brought together researchers from all over the world. The 2025 PLIN Linguistic Day will take place on 18 April 2025 and will be devoted to “Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy”. This day 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. Four experts will deliver keynote lectures on genre-related approaches: * Bethany Gray (Iowa State University) Introduction to genre and register studies * Charlene Polio (Michigan State University) Genre in writing pedagogy * Mable Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Genre analysis and persuasive business discourse * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) Automatic genre annotation for the web In addition to the keynote lectures, a poster session will be organised to make it possible for participants to present their most recent genre-related research or work in progress and to interact with the keynote speakers and other participants. We invite abstracts addressing topics related to the main theme, “Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy”, and to the following subfields: * Genre and SLA * Genre and language pedagogy * Genre and academic language * Genre and specialized language / language for specific purposes * Genre and NLP We welcome contributions about languages other than English and French. Abstracts (in English, between 300 and 500 words, excluding references) should be sent to the official address of the PLIN Day: plindayucl(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:plindayucl@uclouvain.be>. Please submit your abstract as an attached document. The document needs to be anonymised (the name/s of the author/s should feature in the email message). Important dates and deadlines Deadline for poster abstract submission: 3 February 2025 Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2025 Registration deadline: 25 March 2025 PLIN Linguistic Day: 18 April 2025 Organizing committee Serge Bibauw (Université catholique de Louvain) Sylvie De Cock (Université catholique de Louvain) Lingyun Gao (Université catholique de Louvain) Thomas François (Université catholique de Louvain) Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain) Zhaori Wang (Université catholique de Louvain & KU Leuven) Chargé de cours en linguistique appliquée Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres Université catholique de Louvain Institut Langage et Communication, PLIN, CENTAL et TeaMM Place Montesquieu, 3 - box L2.06.04 • B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve • Belgium Tél. : +32 (0)10 / 47 37 36

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Several PhD positions in computational linguistics and other language subjects, Uppsala Unviersity
by Sara Stymne 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

We offer several fully funded four-year PhD positions at the Language Faculty at Uppsala University. One position is in Computational Linguistics, with a specialization in Nordic Languages. This position requires knowledge of a Scandinavian language and will be carried out as part of the research project "Language change and non-fictional texts – a large-scale investigation of Late Modern Swedish (1800–1950)”, led by Sara Stymne and David Håkansson One PhD position in computational linguistics with a specialization in Scandinavian languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, UFV-PA 2024/4415<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:781989/> Several positions are focused on projects related to linguistic diversity and are open to students in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, as well as other language subjects. Five PhD positions on the theme of linguistic diversity at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, UFV-PA 2024/4412<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:781937/> One PhD position on the theme of linguistic diversity within any research environment at the faculty, UFV-PA 2025/18<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:785710/> There are also several positions in several other language subjects. https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=… Application for all positions closes on March 3. Best, Sara 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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[2nd CFP] Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese (JBCS)
by Aline Paes 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

2nd Call for Papers Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) JBCS <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/> invites the submission of papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of creating, adapting, using, and evaluating *Language Models for Portuguese*. The use of Language Models in the most diverse areas of computing has raised several issues that deserve the attention of researchers. In the specific case of the Portuguese language, we face major challenges. Whereas efforts are put forward for the construction of good Portuguese models, the most diverse applications are still created using multilingual models or even models built for other languages. It is extremely important that the Portuguese-speaking scientific community makes an effort to build adequate resources to ensure safe and quality systems. This Special Issue aims to gather original papers discussing Portuguese language models. In addition to automatic evaluation measures, submissions should also discuss the linguistic issues regarding these models' capabilities, limitations, and biases. Topics covered by this Special Issue extend to all research works involving the creation, adaptation, use and evaluation of Language Models for Portuguese processing, including the topics of interest below. Topics of interest: Comparative and critical analyses of language models Social, ethical, financial, and ecological issues related to language models Discussion on alternative solutions to language models Domain-specific language models Adequacy of not-so-large language models for specific tasks Multilingual x Portuguese-specific models Semantic issues in language models Cultural issues in language models Resources for training language models Evaluation of language models The papers must be written in English and the authors should follow the Author Guidelines of the JBCS described here <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions> using this JBCS LaTeX template <https://www.overleaf.com/project/63b08a6f82cc2ad5aa297ac8>. - Submission deadline: *March 1, 2025* - Review deadline (1st round): *April 30, 2025* - Submission of revised version deadline: *May 31, 2025* - Review deadline (2nd round): *June 30, 2025* - Submission of revised version deadline: *July 31, 2025* - Decision deadline (rejection, acceptance): *August 2025* - Camera-ready submission deadline: *September 2025* - Publication: *October, 2025* The papers must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages, excluding references and appendices. Authors should follow Author Guidelines of the JBCS described here <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions> using this JBCS LaTeX template <https://www.overleaf.com/project/63b08a6f82cc2ad5aa297ac8>. The submission for this Special Issue can be made through the JBCS website <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/open-calls>. Guest Editors: Renata Vieira - UEVORA Aline Paes - IC-UFF Graça Nunes - ICMC-USP Helena Caseli - DC-UFSCar An initiative of Brasileiras em PLN group (https://brasileiraspln.com/) in partnership with CE-PLN <https://www.sbc.org.br/>, the special group in NLP of the Brazilian Computing Society <https://www.sbc.org.br/>. contact email: jbcs-si-lmpt(a)googlegroups.com homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/jbcs-si-on-portugueselm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

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CfP: Humor and Artificial Intelligence at ISHS 2025
by Tristan Miller 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

Humor and Artificial Intelligence Track ======================================= 35th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2025) Krakow, Poland, July 7 to 11, 2025 https://ishs2025.pl/ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 14, 2025 Call for papers --------------- As in previous years, the Humor and AI Special Interest Group <https://humorstudies.org/Forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=9> of the International Society for Humor Studies will hold a panel at the 35th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2025). We invite presentations on AI-based technology for generating, processing, or analyzing humor. Application areas include, but are not limited to: * human–computer interaction * computer-mediated communication * intelligent writing assistants * conversational agents * machine and computer-assisted translation * digital humanities * natural language processing * computer vision Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted using the form at <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoMsDfZo70QgnRvGgsXFlyYT0K-4yqOho…>. (Select a submission type of "paper presenter" and specify "Humor and Artificial Intelligence" in the "If your presentation is part of a panel..." field.) Conveners --------- Kiki Hempelmann, East Texas A&M University <kiki(a)tamuc.edu> Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba <Tristan.Miller(a)umanitoba.ca> Julia M. Rayz, Purdue University <jtaylor1(a)purdue.edu> -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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CFP: 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2025)
by pmvul089＠uottawa.ca 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

** Apologies for cross-postings ** ---------- Call for Papers: Canadian AI 2025 ---------- ---------- May 26-29, 2025, in Calgary, Alberta ---------- We are now inviting researchers to submit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied, to the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence taking place in Calgary on May 26-29. We also welcome the submission of position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily presenting a new system. **Paper submissions are due by Monday, Feb 10, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone).** Conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open-access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, and Google Scholar. ---------- Submission details ---------- Canadian AI is accepting submissions of both long and short papers. Long papers must be no longer than 12 pages, and short papers must be no longer than 6 pages, including references. Submissions in both LaTeX and Word are accepted. More information and submission templates are available under Submission Details here: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2025/call-papers **The portal for submission is now open and can be found here:** https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2025/ Papers submitted to the conference must not have already been published, or accepted for publication, or be under review by a journal or another conference (preprint is acceptable if the title is different). Submissions will go through a double-blind review process by Program Committee members to assess originality, significance, technical merit, and clarity of presentation. As such, submissions must be anonymized, and papers that fail to do so will be desk rejected without a review. ---------- Topics of interest include: ---------- - Agent Systems - AI Applications - Automated Reasoning - Case‐based Reasoning - Cognitive Models - Constraint Satisfaction - Data Mining - Deep Learning and Neural Models - E‐Commerce - Ethics in AI, AI for social good - Evolutionary Computation - Explainable AI - Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI - Games - Information Retrieval and Search - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation - Large Language Models - Machine Learning - Multimedia Processing - Natural Language Processing - Planning - Robotics - Uncertainty - User Modeling - Web Mining and Applications Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review. Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form matches the corresponding author listed on the paper. ---------- Awards ---------- A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference, respectively, to the authors of each best paper, as judged by the Best Paper Award Selection Committee. For the Best Student Paper Award, the first author must be a registered student at the time of submitting the paper. ---------- Important dates ---------- - Submission deadline: Monday, Feb 10, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) - Author notification: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - Camera-ready copy due: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) - Conference dates: May 26-29 2025 ---------- Program Chairs ---------- Paula Branco School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa pbranco(a)uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/4218?lang=en Amine Trabelsi Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke Amine.Trabelsi(a)USherbrooke.ca https://www.usherbrooke.ca/informatique/trabelsi We look forward to your participation in Canadian AI 2025!

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Second Call for Papers Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025)
by Andon Tchechmedjiev 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

** Apologies for cross-postings ** ============== Call for Papers @ Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) Dates: 9-12 September 2025 Location: Naples, Italy Website: http://2025.ldk-conf.org Twitter/X: https://x.com/LDKconference Submission Deadline: 06/03/2025 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference ============== We invite submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) to be held in Naples, Italy in September 2025. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and the use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, and the fourth LDK in Vienna, Austria in 2023. Paper Submission We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of: Long papers: 9–12 pages; Short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published in an open-access conference proceedings volume and indexed in ACL anthology and DBLP, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference All papers must represent original work. When submitted, the submission must not have been previously published*, and the material in it must not have been/be submitted for review at another journal or conference while under review at LDK 2025. *This excludes papers on preprint archives, such as arXiv, which we do not consider to have been previously published. The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site). Topics Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields: Language Data Language data construction and acquisition Language data annotation FAIR data practices for language data Language data portals and metadata about language data Organisational and infrastructural management of language data Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data Visualisation of language data Standards and interoperability of language data Legal aspects of publishing language data Under-resourced languages e-Lexicography Semantic processing Knowledge Graphs Linguistic Linked Data and the multilingual Semantic Web Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning) Data, information and knowledge integration across languages (Cross-lingual) ontology alignment Entity linking and relatedness Linked data profiling Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis Neuro Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge Question answering and semantic search Text analytics on big data NLP for language documentation and preservation Speech recognition and synthesis Spoken language processing Semantic content management Computer-aided language learning Natural language interfaces to big data Knowledge-based NLP Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD Language Models and Foundation Models (Language and Multimodal Models). Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language, Data, Knowledge Graphs Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity. Organising Committee Conference Chairs: Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria Program Chairs: Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Andon Tchechmedjiev, Institut Mines Telecom, France Proceedings chair: Max Ionov, University of Zaragoza, Spain Publicity chair: Argentina Rescigno, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Katerina Gkirtzou, ILSP/Athena Research Center, Greece Slavko Zitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Local Organisers: Maria Pia Buono, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Johanna Monti, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 6th March, 2025 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 8th May, 2025 Pre/Post Conference events: 9 to 12 September, 2025 Main conference: 10-11 September, 2025 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)

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2nd CFP: Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities NLP4DH @ NAACL 2025
by Mika Hämäläinen 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

The 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities will co-locate with NAACL in Albuquerque, USA! The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. The event will take place on May 3–4, 2025. https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2025 Submission deadline: February 23, 2025 The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to: -Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods -Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitization, digitalization, datafication, and data preservation). -Research on cultural heritage collections such as national archives and libraries using NLP -NLP for error detection, correction, normalization and denoising data -Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels -Analysis and detection of text genres Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length. Short papers can report on work in progress or a more targeted contribution such as software or partial results. Long papers can be up to 8 pages in length. Long papers should report on previously unpublished, completed, original work. Lightning talks can be submitted as 750-word abstracts. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. Lightning talks will be published in lightning proceedings on Zenodo. Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue in the Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities<https://jdmdh.episciences.org/volume/view/id/593>. Important dates - Direct paper submission (long and short): February 23, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2025 - Camera ready deadline: March 23, 2025 - Conference: May 3-4, 2025

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UCCTS 2025 - Final Call for Papers
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

UCCTS 2025 - Final Call for Papers The eighth edition of the UCCTS conference (www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025) will be held on the 8-10th of September 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany. UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs). Conference topics include: * Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies, in particular with multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) and advanced statistical modeling * Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive linguistics and translation studies * LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data annotation, data analysis, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * New or remodelled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies * Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting) corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode of production, etc. * Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product) properties * Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication * Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching * Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology * Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting * Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation, audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.) The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts (in PDF) that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 10, 2025. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the Open review system and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow abstract submission instructions given below. Abstract text must be in single-spaced 12pt Arial font, with no indents and 1 inch borders on each side (2.54 cm). The title should be in 12pt Arial, bold and centred, in title case. Page numbers should be omitted. Figure and table captions should be in 10pt Arial font. Table and figure captions should appear below the table or figure. References must be in 9pt Arial font, in APA7 format.Publications The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in an online book of abstracts. We also plan to publish selected papers in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course. Keynote speakers We are pleased to announce that the following plenary lectures are planned for the UCCTS2025 conference in Hildesheim: * Elke Teich, Saarland University in Germany * Dylan Glynn, Université Paris 8, Vincennes - St Denis * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen Important dates * Conference abstract submission due: Feb 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2025 * Final abstract version due: May 5, 2025 * Registration open: May 12, 2025 * Early-bird registration: July 7, 2025 * Conference date: September 8-10, 2025 Questions and inquiries under uccts2025(at)uni-hildesheim.de -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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eLex 2025 Call for papers
by Iztok Kosem 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, eLex 2025, the ninth biennial conference on electronic lexicography in the 21st century, will be held in Bled, Slovenia, 18–20 November 2025. More information is available on the conference website: https://elex.link/elex2025/. Please note that we are currently inviting proposals for pre- or post-conference workshops. Call for papers Submission guidelines The focus of this conference is on Intelligent Lexicography, i.e., all the aspects of using LLMs and AI in lexicography, and vice versa. Beyond this year’s topic, papers discussing any of the following areas of lexicography are cordially welcome: Dictionary content in different digital media (e.g. mobile devices, tablets) Exploitation of language resources (e.g. via API): monolingual and multilingual corpora, learner corpora, lexical databases (e.g. Wordnet, Framenet, DANTE, Wikipedia) Linked lexical data, its integration and presentation Automatic creation of dictionary content Visualisation of lexical data New reference tools with a dictionary element (e.g. learning tools, writing assistants) Dictionary writing systems and other software available to the lexicographer Integration of NLP tools (e.g. grammatical annotation, speech synthesis) Corpus lexicography Usage practices of the users of electronic dictionaries Automated customisation of dictionaries to users’ needs and characteristics (e.g. proficiency level, mother tongue) Integration of electronic dictionaries into language learning and teaching (e.g. CALL, translator training) Crowdsourcing and its use in lexicography Language of the conference: English The abstracts (required for all categories), to be submitted by March 31st 2025, should be between 400–500 words in length (excluding references). The abstracts should be anonymous. The abstracts should be submitted via Easychair website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=elex2025. There will be three categories of presentation at the conference: Paper (25 minutes, including discussion) Software presentation (25 minutes, including discussion) Posters and demos Software presentations should not include only a demo of the software but also other aspects, such as the analysis of user needs, the rationale for certain features, specifics of projects/datasets, etc. The posters and demos are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. In order to give a presentation at the conference, you must have your abstract accepted. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a full paper for the proceedings (indexed by SCOPUS). We look forward to your contributions. Iztok Kosem Head of the organising committee

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COLING 2025 Tutorial: Bridging Linguistic Theory & AI - Unlocking Usage-Based Learning in Humans & Machines (Call for Participation)
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 19 Jan '25

19 Jan '25

**Happening tomorrow – Jan. 20** on-site tutorial at COLING 2025 that will discuss the latest work on bridging the worlds of linguistic theory with Large Language Models: “Bridging Linguistic Theory and AI: Usage-Based Learning in Humans and Machines.” If you are in Abu Dhabi, come join us! Time: 14:00 - 17:30 Location: Capital Suite 7 If you were not able to attend but are interested, we would like to note that **our slides will be available to download** on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/linguistic-theory-and-ai/ Detailed Tutorial Description: The takeaways of this tutorial, which will be held in-person, will be an overview of the shared and divergent aspects of human and machine usage and data-driven learning, outlined from the theoretical perspective of usage-based psycholinguistic theory, with an emphasis on how this can shed light on the capabilities and limitations of LLMs, including multimodal models. This will serve as the bedrock for guiding participants and the NLP community towards more informed evaluation of large, pre-trained models, as well as energising solutions drawing upon the multi-modal information and linguistic theory that enriches language and many dimensions of interaction. Background: Unlike our past NLP tools, such as syntactic parsers and automatic semantic role labelling, LLMs lack grounding in linguistic theory. Instead, their development is based on the encoder-decoder architecture, which was originally designed for sequence- to-sequence tasks, specifically translation. This dichotomy impedes methods for evaluating LLMs, as their performance on meta-linguistic tasks, such as semantic role labelling, which previously served as benchmarks for the individual components in an NLP pipeline, are poor predictors of their fluency on downstream applications. However, the fact that LLMs, designed primarily to meet information-theoretic needs, can capture any linguistic information at all is fascinating. Additionally, it offers a novel foundation for exploring what can be achieved through exposure to information alone. Therefore, it has been compelling to turn to usage-based theories of language, such as Construction Grammar, to establish experimentally validated structures of language that speakers of a given language consistently recognise and are able to generalise over. We can then compare such structures to the linguistic structure that we can probe for within LLMs. For More information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/linguistic-theory-and-ai/ We hope to see you tomorrow at COLING, On behalf of Claire Bonial, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky

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Researcher E13 (50%) position with PhD opportunity until 2029-12-31
by Ulrich Schäfer 18 Jan '25

18 Jan '25

Dear Corpora list members, please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in a PhD: Researcher E13 (50%) position with PhD opportunity: Foundation Models for the AI-driven Factory of the Future =========================================== Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Amberg-Weiden, a technical university and university of applied science located in eastern Bavaria, is offering a researcher position (Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, or similar) from 2025-03-01 until 2029-12-31. The focus is on investigating large language and vision models in industrial production environments in the Technology Transfer Center (TTZ) "AI-Driven Factory of the Future". In September 2023, our university was granted the right to confer PhD degrees in this research area. Please note that a good command of German is indispensable for this position because close collaboration with industrial partners in the region will be part of the job. Applications are only possible via the university's job portal https://jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/62675ed25235f82d581b1496d89f082fe818e9832 [https://jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/62675ed25235f82d581b1496d89f082fe818e9832] There you can also find the detailed job description. The position will be 50% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) OTH Amberg-Weiden is a young university in the middle of Europe that offers its students a future-oriented education in 54 courses. Over 4,200 students are taught by 119 professors in the two university towns of Amberg and Weiden: https://www.oth-aw.de [https://www.oth-aw.de] best, Ulrich -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Schäfer Dean, Director of Innovation and Competence Centre Artificial Intelligence (IKKI) Department of Electrical Engineering, Media and Computer Science (EMI) Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 23 D-92224 Amberg email: u.schaefer(a)oth-aw.de homepage: http://www.oth-aw.de/schaefer-ulrich/ [http://www.oth-aw.de/schaefer-ulrich/] Fon: +49 9621 482-3623

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Call for Participation: COLING 2025
by teresa.lynn＠mbzuai.ac.ae 17 Jan '25

17 Jan '25

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to participate the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) which will take place at ADNEC, in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19th-24th 2025. This year’s conference is hosted by Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and supported by the Abu Dhabi Convention and Exhibition Bureau (ADCEB), part of the Department of Tourism and Culture – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi). This is the first time COLING is being held in the Middle East. The COLING 2025 Program consists of papers in the following areas: - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Document Classification and Topic Modeling - Ethics, Bias, and Fairness - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Modeling - Language Resources and Evaluation - Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP - Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP - Machine Translation and Translation Aids - Multilingualism and Language Diversity - Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition - NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.) - Natural Language Generation - Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis - Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation - Question Answering - Lexical Semantics - Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc) - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining - Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding - Summarization and Simplification - Syntactic analysis (Tagging, Chunking, Parsing) - Vision and Robotics -- General chairs -- Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University Leo Wanner, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University -- Program co-chairs -- Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University -- Local co-chairs (@Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) -- Preslav Nakov Alham Fikri Aji Yova Kementchedjhieva Ekaterina Kochmar Teresa Lynn Monojit Choudhury Nizar Habash (also NYUAD) Ahmed Dabbagh For questions related to submissions: coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com For questions related to local organisation coling2025-local-chairs(a)googlegroups.com For questions related to sponsorship: coling2025.sponsorship(a)mbzuai.ac.ae

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2nd Call for Abstracts – NARNiHS Research Incubator – Extended submission deadline!
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

2nd Call for Abstracts – Extended Deadline! Never been to a NARNiHS Research Incubator?!? Take advantage of the newly extended abstract submission deadline to join us for this year's opportunity to brainstorm your cutting-edge work with us! *********************************** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 7th edition *********************************** ==> 01-03 May 2025 – entirely online! ==> NEW! Extended Submission Deadline ==> 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (with **free** registration). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in cutting edge research without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields in our global scholarly community to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. NEW! Extended abstract submission deadline: 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The 7th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, or prototyping. The incubator’s audience actively participates in workshopping these new ideas, brainstorming along with the presenter to forge scholarly paths and develop research solutions. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing and pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, and tools in historical sociolinguistics; seeking feedback from peers; and engaging in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in historical sociolinguistics, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for **25-minute presentations**. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Abstracts should be **no more than one page** (not including examples and references, see below). Abstracts will be accepted until 03 February 2025 -- late abstracts will not be considered. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that **the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined** in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the incubation environment, an hour-long discussion with the audience -- led by specialists -- will follow each thematic panel and will encompass specific feedback on three papers as well as emergent considerations of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models. To facilitate such incubation, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and the other presenters a few days prior to the start of the conference. Abstract Content Requirements: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts exceeding these limits will be rejected without review. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. General Conference Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform will be sent to authors in due time. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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