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

03 Apr '25

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

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

02 Apr '25

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

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

02 Apr '25

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

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

02 Apr '25

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

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

02 Apr '25

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

02 Apr '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) *SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP) https://starsem2025.github.io/ First Call for Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>. Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is May 30, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview. Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference> Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): May 30, 2025 ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025 Conference date: TBA (co-located with EMNLP 2025) Following ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement. Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>

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

01 Apr '25

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

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

01 Apr '25

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

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

01 Apr '25

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

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

01 Apr '25

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

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2nd CFP: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX)
by Ines Rehbein 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

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

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

01 Apr '25

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

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

01 Apr '25

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

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

01 Apr '25

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

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

31 Mar '25

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

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

31 Mar '25

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

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

31 Mar '25

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

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

31 Mar '25

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

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

30 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker: *Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind) *Title: *Towards Inclusive Multimodal AI *Date: *Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary: *Visual assistants are becoming ubiquitous, yet their effectiveness varies drastically across languages and cultures. This talk presents an overview of the critical issue of multicultural disparity in image–text models. We'll explore this gap through three lenses: evaluation, training, and generation. First, I'll introduce benchmarks like MaRVL designed to quantify multilingual and multicultural competence. Next, we'll delve into techniques for mitigating these disparities in model training. Finally, we'll examine the emerging challenges and opportunities in multicultural visual generation. *Bio: *Emanuele Bugliarello is a research scientist at Google DeepMind based in Grenoble, France where he works on improving evaluation and capabilities of multimodal generative models. He completed his PhD in the NLP Section at the University of Copenhagen, while spending time at DeepMind, Google, Mila and Spotify. Previously, he studied computer and communication sciences at EPFL, Tongji University and Politecnico di Torino. * Upcoming webinars:* · André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 2025) · Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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[CfP] 1st CfP: GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies || June 12, 2025 || Leipzig, Germany
by DBpedia 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

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

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

28 Mar '25

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

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

27 Mar '25

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

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

27 Mar '25

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

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

27 Mar '25

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

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

27 Mar '25

The proposal submission deadline has been extended to April 14th, 2025. The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025. We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following details: 1. Overview of the proposed task 2. Motivation for the task 3. Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: planned, in progress, or ready) 4. Task Description 5. Pilot Run Details (if available) 6. Tentative Timeline 7. Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation) Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long. Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9 Selection Process The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task. Task Organization Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers. Shared Task Proposal Submission All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). April 14th, 2025: Shared task proposals due *April 28th, 2025**: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance* Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals: Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation scripts July 20, 2025: Registration deadline and release of test data July 25, 2025: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes) July 30, 2025: Final results released August 15, 2025: System description paper submissions due August 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance September 5, 2025: Camera-ready versions due November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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

27 Mar '25

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

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

27 Mar '25

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

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

27 Mar '25

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

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

26 Mar '25

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

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

26 Mar '25

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

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

26 Mar '25

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

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

26 Mar '25

-- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 ACL 2025 - Call for System Demonstrations The ACL 2025 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: - Natural language processing systems or system components - Application systems using language technology components - Software tools for natural language processing research - Software for demonstration or evaluation - Software supporting learning or education - Tools for data visualization and annotation - Tools for model inspection - Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2025 conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at ACL 2025 in Vienna, with an accompanying poster. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program Check the full Call at: https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/ Link to submission system: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

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

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

26 Mar '25

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

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Open advanced research group meeting - today 12pm UK time
by Brezina, Vaclav 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

Dear all, If you are interested in a open discussion about different aspects of corpus linguistics, please join us today at 12pm UK time. The topic is "Repetition and replication". Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka We will also discuss topics that will appear in the research group meetings in the future. Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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

26 Mar '25

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

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

26 Mar '25

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

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

25 Mar '25

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

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

25 Mar '25

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

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

25 Mar '25

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

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

25 Mar '25

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

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

25 Mar '25

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

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

25 Mar '25

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

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

25 Mar '25

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

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

24 Mar '25

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

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

24 Mar '25

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

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

24 Mar '25

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

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

23 Mar '25

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

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

22 Mar '25

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025. We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following details: 1. Overview of the proposed task 2. Motivation for the task 3. Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: planned, in progress, or ready) 4. Task Description 5. Pilot Run Details (if available) 6. Tentative Timeline 7. Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation) Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long. Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9 Selection Process The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task. Task Organization Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers. Shared Task Proposal Submission All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). April 6th, 2025: Shared task proposals due April 20th, 2025: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals: Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation scripts July 20, 2025: Registration deadline and release of test data July 25, 2025: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes) July 30, 2025: Final results released August 15, 2025: System description paper submissions due August 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance September 5, 2025: Camera-ready versions due November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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

22 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

21 Mar '25

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

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

20 Mar '25

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

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

20 Mar '25

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

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

20 Mar '25

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

20 Mar '25

Call for Abstracts Now Open – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now open! The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing. Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland University) For detailed guidelines, templates, and additional information, visit our website: <https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/> https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl<https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/>/ Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview by June 15, 2025 at: https://openreview.net/group?id=UU.nl/Utrecht_University/2025/CPL We look forward to your contributions! Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz

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Leverhulme Doctoral Training Network in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA)
by Constantin Orasan 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Dear all, We are delighted to share that we are actively recruiting for our 2025/2026 PhD cohort for the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Network for AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA). There are fully funded scholarships available for 2025/26 and we invite proposals for innovative and original projects with a focus on improving digital accessibility through different forms of linguistic and cross-modal mediation, and drawing on responsible and ethical uses of AI, under 6 themes: 1. AI for Audiovisual Accessibility Exploring AI-enabled solutions for converting audiovisual content into accessible formats, such as audio description for people with sight loss and other audiences. 2. AI for Speech-to-Text Accessibility Advancing automatic speech recognition and related technologies to improve real-time and post-production accessibility of speech content for different use cases. 3. AI for Text Simplification and Comprehension Investigating how AI can enhance text accessibility by simplifying complex language, improving readability, and adapting content for diverse users, including neurodiverse users. 4. AI for Cross-Language Accessibility Developing AI-powered tools for multilingual accessibility through translation, interlingual subtitles and interpreting to support global content reach and inclusivity. 5. AI-Enhanced Assistive Communication Technologies Creating AI-enabled assistive tools, such as voice assistants and chatbots to improve user experiences for diverse users across digital platforms. 6. AI for Personalising Accessible Communication Developing novel methods for tailoring digital accessibility solutions to individual user preferences and needs while ensuring ethical AI practices. For more information on these themes and details on how to apply, please follow this link https://www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-funding/studentships/leverhulme-doctoral-…. The deadline for applications is 7 April 2025. --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> | School of Literature and Languages<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-literature-languages> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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second CFP: The First Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
by Neele Falk 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

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

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

20 Mar '25

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

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

20 Mar '25

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

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

19 Mar '25

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

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

19 Mar '25

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

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

19 Mar '25

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

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

19 Mar '25

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

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

19 Mar '25

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

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

19 Mar '25

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

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

19 Mar '25

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

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

18 Mar '25

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

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

18 Mar '25

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

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

18 Mar '25

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

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

18 Mar '25

PhD scholarship (4-years) in Natural Language Processing: Text Generation with applications to the Generation of Accessible Content - Start date 1/10/2025 Deadline for applications: 30/4/2025 The TALN (Natural Language Processing) Research Group in Barcelona (Spain) is looking for a PhD student in the area of text generation with applications to text simplification and text style adaptation to accessible language among others adopting current and future developments in Deep Learning paradigms (e.g. Large Language Models) as backbones. The student will join a dynamic, creative, and collaborative research team under the guidance of Prof. Horacio Saggion, head of the TALN research group. The student will be encouraged to collaborate with researchers involved in the Horizon Europe projects iDEM and IDEAL in the areas of Democracy and Inclusion. The candidate will benefit from a scholarship (PIPF1) for four years, plus social benefits (national health insurance) and 4 weeks annual leave. Current salaries for this position are as follows: First year compensation €18180,49 gross salary Second year compensation €18180,49 gross salary Third year compensation €19479,14 gross salary Fourth year compensation €24348,78 gross salary The selected candidate for the scholarship must be admitted to the PhD program of the Department of Engineering at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Under the scholarship, the selected candidate will teach 45 hours per year in subjects related to the Engineering degrees offered by the School of Engineering which the candidate is confident with. The selected candidate will benefit from participation in dissemination events such as conferences, workshops, tutorials or summer schools depending on the availability of funding and on the capability of the student to produce publishable research output. The candidate should have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or related fields) and a Master degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Computational Linguistics. She/he should have demonstrated experience in research (experimentation, software coding, paper writing,presentation of research, etc.) with current methods in NLP such as Large Language Models and machine learning in tasks such as summarization, simplification, text generation, etc. She/he should have excellent knowledge of English. Knowledge of Spanish, Catalan, Italian or other languages is a plus. The PhD program has the following deadlines for application: https://www.upf.edu/web/doctorats/calendari-de-preinscripcio The candidates are encouraged to contact Prof. Horacio Saggion well before applying for the PhD program (horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu) before 30/4/2025. The TALN group Web page is: https://www.upf.edu/web/taln The Department Web page: https://www.upf.edu/web/etic The candidate is encouraged to visit the Web page of the PhD program to learn more about requirements to apply for a PhD: https://www.upf.edu/en/web/doctorats/tecnologies-de-la-informacio-i-les-com… -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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Iberlef2025: PRESTA Task Call for Participation
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

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

18 Mar '25

This is the first call for participation on the 18th MT Marathon that will take place in Helsinki on August 25-29, 2025. The eighteenth edition of the MT Marathon will be organized by the Language Technology Research group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, with sponsorship of EAMT. Each Machine Translation Marathon is a week-long gathering of machine translation researchers, developers, students and users featuring: - MT Lectures and Labs covering the basics and tutorials. - Keynote Talks from experienced researchers and practitioners. - Presentations of research and open source tools related to MT. - Hacking Projects to advance tools or research in one week or start new collaborations. Details can be found on the event page: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/mt-marathon-2025/ ** Registration ** The registration is free of charge for EAMT members. To register, use the following link: https://forms.gle/uvrZuWpeSbcmJozK7. The registration form will remain open until the start of the event; however, please register as soon as possible if you plan to attend to help us with the planning. ** Programme ** The event will include a poster session, labs, and lessons from experts in the field, including: - Ayodele Awokoya, McPherson University, University of Ibadan, Masakhane, - Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam, - Marta Costa-Jussa, Meta AI, - Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh, - Amit Moryossef, University of Zürich, - Sara Papi, FBK Trento, - Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, - Marco Turchi, Zoom, The programme is still under construction. For up to date information about invited speakers and the topics that will be covered by talks and labs, have a look at the event page here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/mt-marathon-2025/ The event will also include a poster session where participants will be invited to present their own work in machine translation. ** Call for project proposals ** As always, project topics will get finalized on the first day of the Marathon, but it was found useful in the past to announce and refine project proposals earlier. If you have an idea what you'd like to implement in a small team of fellow participants, or if you just want to peek at what is going to be proposed, have a look or edit the live document linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4Iy_iOVvYHKAwnSV2ZGIPru7t-jeMauCQd6i9G… .

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

18 Mar '25

Second call for paper: *BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics* (an IWCS 2025 workshop) (with our apologies for cross-posting) Venue: IWCS 2025 (https://iwcs2025.github.io/), Düsseldorf, Germany Date: *September 24th, 2025* (main conference: 22nd-23rd) Workshop website: https://brigap-workshop.github.io/ BriGap-2 is a venue for linguists and NLP scientists to meet: what fruitful interactions can we have? How do we build upon each other’s work? * Description * In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has shifted its focus towards engineering questions. This state of affairs is in no small part due to the recent technical advances that have transformed NLP as a field. In the current large language model (LLM) era, much of what was deemed near impossible to achieve a few years prior is now taken for granted and it stands to reason that mapping how far ahead new computational models have advanced the field has become a central topic for the NLP community. Hence, the current ongoing discourse in NLP focuses more on what can be achieved through language rather than studying language for its own sake. It seems thus that computational and formal linguistics are now separate domains, and that the former is no longer rooted in the latter. To what extent are these traditions truly divorced, and what fruitful bridges can be (re)built? To answer these questions, the second iteration of the workshop on Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (BriGap-2) intends to provide a space for formal linguists, computational linguists, and NLP scientists to exchange their perspectives on how their different domains of research can build upon one another. * Workshop topics * - investigation of the linguistic properties of machine learning models, - linguistic representations, vector space semantics, and their relations with theoretical concepts such as compositionality, - use of information-theoretical and computational methods for linguistic inquiry, - formal distributional semantics and neural-symbolic integration for NLP, - formal grammars, symbolic structures and their applications for computational linguistics and NLP, - trends in the history of computational linguistics and NLP, - … * Invited speakers * - Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen - Kees VAN DEEMTER, Universiteit Utrecht * Submission details * The workshop accepts both archival (original and unpublished research) and non-archival (work-in-progress, dissemination of research published or accepted elsewhere, etc.) submissions in either short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) format. Camera-ready versions of papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Each submission should mention whether it targets archival or non-archival status. Archival papers accepted at BriGap-2 will be indexed in the ACL Anthology. Please use the ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files The submissions need to be done in PDF format via OpenReview, using the following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/BriGap-2 * Important dates * - Submission deadline:* Friday, June 6th 2025* - Notification of acceptance: Friday, August 1st 2025 - Workshop: *September 24th, 2025* (main conference: 22nd-23rd) * Contact * For questions, please send an email to brigapworkshop(a)gmail.com or contact one of the workshop chairs: - Timothée Bernard, Université Paris Cité, timothee.bernard(a)u-paris.fr - Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi - Grégoire Winterstein, Université du Québec à Montréal, winterstein.gregoire(a)uqam.ca

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HealTAC 2025 - keynotes announced and call for contributions (reminder)
by Bea Alex 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

---------------------------- HealTAC 2025 June 16-18th, 2025, Glasgow (UK) https://healtac2025.github.io/ ---------------------------- 1) Call for contributions – deadline 28 March 2) Keynotes, panels and workshop 3) Registration fees 4) Key dates ---------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Call for contributions - reminder ---------------------------------------- The 8th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2025) invites contributions that address any aspect of healthcare text analytics. We invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts that describe either methodological or application work that has not been previously presented in a conference. Submissions (up to 2 pages) should be prepared based on a template that is available at the conference web site. We also invite PhD and fellowship project submissions that describe ongoing PhD research (any stage) or a planned fellowship application. The conference will provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts. Deadline for all submissions is March 28th, 2025. As in previous years, there will be a post-conference call to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in Frontiers in Digital Health. ---------------------------- Programme ---------------------------- We are delighted to announce keynotes by Dr Jason Fries from Stanford University and Dr Alison O'Neil from Canon Medical Research, and panels on "Opportunities and challenges in LLMs for health research: social inequalities, bias detection, and mitigation " and "Challenges in AI deployment within NHS" (industry forum). A pre-conference workshop on June 16th will focus on "NLP in mental healthcare and research" (https://healtac2025.github.io/workshop/). ---------------------------- Registration fees ---------------------------- Due to generous support from Health Data Research UK, CogStack, Frontiers, University of Glasgow, Research Data Scotland and Healtex, we will keep the registration fee low as before: an early registration fee for students is expected to be £100 and for others £200, and will include the full 3-day programme, lunches and the conference dinner. ---------------------------- Key dates ---------------------------- Deadline for all contributions: March 28th 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 18th 2025 Early-bird registration: by May 16th 2025 Pre-conference workshop: June 16th 2025 Conference: June 17-18th 2025 Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2025 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2025. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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CFP DepLing 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29, deadline April 15
by Sylvain Kahane 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

DepLing 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29 deadline April 15 We are pleased to announce the 8th International Workshop on Dependency Grammar (DepLing 2025) , which will bring together researchers interested in dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. Dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have now become the standard representation of syntactic resources and NLP technologies. Depling has become the central event for people discussing the linguistic significance of these structures, their theoretical and formal foundations, their processing, and their use in NLP tools. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to DepLing 2025: https://depling.org/depling2025/ Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ ----------------------------- SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST ----------------------------- Topics include but are not limited to: The use of dependency structures in theoretical linguistics; a.o.: The use of syntactic trees to model syntactic relations; The use of semantic, valency-based or predicate-argument graph structures; The use of dependency-like structures to model semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure; The use of dependency-like structures beyond the sentence (e.g., to model discourse phenomena); The elaboration of formal lexicons for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations; The use of dependency in the field of linguistic universals, and typology. Historical and epistemological foundations of dependency grammar; a.o.: The definition of the very notion of dependency; The development and the use of dependency-based diagrams; Dependency grammar and its relation to other formalisms; The use of dependency-like concepts in the history of grammar and linguistics. The use of the dependency structures in corpus linguistics; a.o.: Corpus annotation and development of dependency-based treebanks and other linguistic resources of written and spoken texts; Recent advances in dependency-based parsing, and text generation; Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on intrinsic evaluation metrics. The relation between dependency-based grammar and other fields of science, such as, e.g., the psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar. ----------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER ----------------------------- Daniel Zeman, Inst. of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2025 * Camera-ready papers: 16 June 2025 * Early bird registration: June 2025 * Conference dates: 26 to 29 August 2025 ----------------------------- DepLing 2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- * Sylvain Kahane, Paris Nanterre University * Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Prague

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QUECHUA to SPANISH SPEECH TRANSLATION at ACL 2025
by John Ortega 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

We need your help to preserve indigenous languages! Due to the overwhelming success of previous workshops like LoResMT, AmericasNLP, and IWSLT, we have decided to continue to push the needle for Quechua to Spanish translations another year. We ask that you kindly participate in the 2025 edition of the QUE-SPA speech translation shared task being held at ACL 2025. This low-resource task will help increase language preservation for low-resource languages. We invite advanced research and approaches of all types so bring your rule-based, statistical, neural, and more! IMPORTANT LINKS Dialectal and Low-resource webpage: https://iwslt.org/2025/low-resource Data webpage: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign IWSLT conference webpage: https://iwslt.org/2025 HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign The QUE-SPA data set can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data Task submissions can be uploaded to GitHub or emailed directly, please email the organizers below for more details. IMPORTANT DATES Apr 21, 2025 System description paper submission deadline May 15, 2025 Notification of acceptance June 1, 2025 Camera ready deadline July 31-Aug 1, 2025 IWSLT conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu William Chen (Carnegie Mellon University) wc4(a)andrew.cmu.edu Rodolfo Zevallos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) rodolfojoel.zevallos(a)upf.edu

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QUECHUA to SPANISH SPEECH TRANSLATION at ACL 2025
by John Ortega 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

We need your help to preserve indigenous languages! Due to the overwhelming success of previous workshops like LoResMT, AmericasNLP, and IWSLT, we have decided to continue to push the needle for Quechua to Spanish translations another year. We ask that you kindly participate in the 2025 edition of the QUE-SPA speech translation shared task being held at ACL 2025. This low-resource task will help increase language preservation for low-resource languages. We invite advanced research and approaches of all types so bring your rule-based, statistical, neural, and more! IMPORTANT LINKS - Dialectal and Low-resource webpage: https://iwslt.org/2025/low-resource - Data webpage: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data - Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign - IWSLT conference webpage: <https://iwslt.org/2023/>https://iwslt.org/2025 HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign The QUE-SPA data set can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data Task submissions can be uploaded to GitHub or emailed directly, please email the organizers below for more details. IMPORTANT DATES - Apr 21, 2025 System description paper submission deadline - May 15, 2025 Notification of acceptance - June 1, 2025 Camera ready deadline - July 31-Aug 1, 2025 IWSLT conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu William Chen (Carnegie Mellon University) wc4(a)andrew.cmu.edu Rodolfo Zevallos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) rodolfojoel.zevallos(a)upf.edu

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1st Call for Papers: Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025)
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025) Call for Papers Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop Overview Constructionist approaches to language posit that all linguistic knowledge needed for language comprehension and production can be captured as a network of form-meaning mappings, called constructions. Construction Grammars (CxGs) do not distinguish between words and grammar rules, but allow for mappings between forms and meanings of arbitrary complexity and degree of abstraction. CxGs are thereby able to uniformly capture the compositional and non-compositional aspects of language use, making the theory particularly attractive to researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). CxG theories, for example, can serve as a valuable ‘lens’ to assess and investigate the abilities of today’s large language models, which lack explicit, theoretically grounded linguistic insights. At the same time, techniques from the field of NLP are often employed for the further development and scaling of CxG theories and applications. This workshop aims to bring together researchers across theory and practice from the two complementary perspectives of Construction Grammar and NLP to explore how CxG approaches can both inform and benefit from NLP methods, with an emphasis on LLMs. Therefore, we invite original research papers from a broad spectrum of topics, including but not limited to: Contributions to Construction Grammar theory Construction Grammar Formalisms Computational Construction Grammar Implementations Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Opinion pieces on the interplay between Construction Grammar and NLP Constructions and Language Models (Mechanistic interpretability, probing (e.g., BERTology), and evaluation of LLMs) Resources: Constructicons and corpora annotated for Construction Grammar Construction Grammar learning and adaptation Applications at the intersection of Construction Grammar and NLP Invited Speakers Adele Goldberg, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Laura Michaelis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder Venue The 2nd CxGs+NLP workshop will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), organized by the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop will be held on 24 September 2025. We are expecting the workshop to be in-person only, but are awaiting details on the possibility of a hybrid presentation option. Important Dates Jun 06: submission deadline Aug 01: notification of acceptance, registration opens Aug 22: camera-ready papers due Sep 22-23: IWCS main conference Sep 24: workshop Submission information Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. 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. Additionally, non-archival publications will be considered for acceptance into the workshop as in-person poster presentations only. CxGs+NLP 2 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… Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting and let us know if the work is accepted for publication elsewhere. Submission site TBA. Instructions for Double-Blind Review As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. Workshop Chairs Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Lab) Harish Tayyar Madabushi (The University of Bath) Workshop Organizing Committee Melissa Torgbi (The University of Bath) Leonie Weissweiler (University of Texas at Austin) Austin Blodgett (U.S. Army Research Lab) Katrien Beuls (University of Namur,Belgium) Paul Van Eecke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel,Belgium) Contact: Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop

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March 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S02> The Xi'an Multi-Language Learner Corpus<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T03> ________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S02> was developed by LDC and NIST. It contains the evaluation test set for the 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE), approximately 867 hours of conversational telephone speech (CTS) and broadcast narrowband speech (BNBS) collected by LDC in 20 languages over 6 clusters of related languages: Arabic (Egyptian, Iraqi, Levantine, Maghrebi, Modern Standard Arabic); Spanish (Caribbean, European, Latin American, Brazilian Portuguese); English (British, Indian, General American English); Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Min Nan, Wu); Slavic (Polish, Russian); and French (West African, Haitian Creole). The CTS data includes calls between individuals in the same social networks lasting 8-15 minutes and telephone speech from the IARPA Babel series collected in 2012-2013 from speakers using a range of phone types in diverse settings with varying noise conditions. The BNBS data was collected by LDC from streaming and satellite radio programming, focusing on programs that included narrowband speech (e.g., call-ins to a talk show). The goal of NIST's LRE evaluations is to establish the baseline of current performance capability for CTS language recognition and to lay the groundwork for further research efforts. LRE15 expanded the range of test segment durations and added a test condition that allowed systems to make use of unrestricted training data when developing models 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * The Xi'an Multi-Language Learner Corpus<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T03> was developed by Xi'an International Studies University (XISU)<https://en.xisu.edu.cn/> and is comprised of 526 argumentative essays in 15 languages by Chinese L1 university students studying second languages, along with student metadata and writing prompts. It was developed to support second language learner research and to provide a database for cross-linguistic comparison of second languages. Data was collected in 2023 and 2024 from students at XISU and Yunnan Minzu University (YMU) who were linguistic majors or studying one of the foreign languages available at XISU and YMU. Off-topic essays and incomplete texts were excluded. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Job: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Natural Language Processing, TU Wien, Austria
by Allan Hanbury 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

We’re Hiring! Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Natural Language Processing TU Wien Informatics invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing. This position is affiliated with both the Data Science Research Unit and the Complexity Science Hub. Application deadline: May 22, 2025 Location: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria Start date: January 2026 Join us in shaping the future of NLP in a vibrant research community! Find out more: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2859 Apply now: https://jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248962 More information: TU Wien Informatics: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/ TU Wien Data Science: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/orgs/e194-04 Complexity Science Hub: https://csh.ac.at/ -- Allan Hanbury Professor of Data Intelligence Head of the Data Science Research Unit, Institute of Information Systems Engineering Faculty Representative for Financial Affairs and Internationalization, Faculty of Informatics TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) Favoritenstrasse 9-11/194-04 1040 Vienna, Austria +43 1 58801 188310

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Faculty Positions in Computer Science and Data & AI at DCC and IDIA, FCFM - University of Chile
by Felipe Bravo 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

🚀 *Join Us in Advancing AI & Data Science at the University of Chile!* 🌎💡 The *Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (FCFM)* at the *University of Chile* is seeking two outstanding academics to join the *Department of Computer Science (DCC)* and the *Institute for Data and Artificial Intelligence (IDIA)*! If you are passionate about *cutting-edge research* in *AI, data science, and computer science*, this is your chance to work in one of Latin America's leading research hubs. 🌍✨ 📌 *Key Highlights:* 🔹 *Two full-time faculty positions* (Assistant Professor level) 🔹 Focus on *AI, data science, and interdisciplinary research* 🔹 Engage in *teaching, research, and industry collaboration* 🔹 Competitive salary with opportunities for additional funding 🔹 Join a vibrant AI & data science ecosystem with leading research centers 🎯 *We are looking for experts in:* ✅ Data Engineering & Data Mining ✅ Machine Learning & Deep Learning ✅ Natural Language Processing & Multimodal Data ✅ Autonomous Agents & AI-Driven Software Engineering ✅ Responsible AI & Ethics in AI 📅 *Application Deadline: June 7, 2025* 📍 *Location: Santiago, Chile* 🇨🇱 🔗 *Apply now:* http://www.uchile.cl/concursoAcademico/ 🔍 *More details:* https://comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/966-faculty-positions-in-computer… 🏛 *Learn more about us:* 🔹 *IDIA:* idia.uchile.cl 🔹 *DCC:* dcc.uchile.cl 🔹 *FCFM:* ingenieria.uchile.cl

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2nd CFP: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

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

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Comparing AI / LLMs and corpora
by Mark Davies 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Those who are interested in how well the predictions of AI / LLMs compare to actual corpus data may be interested in: *https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/ <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/>* The data includes seven in-depth comparisons of LLMs and corpora (about 90 pages of discussion and examples) for the following topics: *word frequency <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/words.pdf>, phrase frequency <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/phrases.pdf>, collocates <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/collocates.pdf>, comparing words <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/compare-words.pdf>* (via collocates), *genre-based variation <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/genres.pdf>, historical variation <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/historical.pdf>*, and *dialectal variation* <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/dialects.pdf>. Best, Mark Davies <https://www.mark-davies.org/> English-Corpora.org

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CIRCE Online Seminar 31/03/2025 - Prof. Rob Drummond "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 17 Mar '25

17 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/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Rob Drummond_ (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) *Title*: Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language *Date*: Monday, March 31, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online Attendees: 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: - Alice Henderson, /Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace/ (Monday, April 28, 2025) - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu>.

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Job Opening for Data Scientist (with a focus on natural language processing)
by Menno Van Zaanen 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Job Opening for Data Scientist (with a focus on natural language processing) Application link: https://bit.ly/4iUSSAN Application deadline: 20 April 2025 As a Data Scientist at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead projects focusing on Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely together with a team of researchers as part of SADiLaR’s extended network, both on your own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at national and international conferences will be encouraged and supported. This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the Department of Science and Innovation. Read more at https://www.sadilar.org. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: * Research: Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Project work: Initiating and contributing to Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects. * Teaching: Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Mentorship: Mentorship of researchers in the field of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. Minimum requirements * A PhD (NQF level 10) in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human Language Technology, Digital Humanities, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields. The PhD should have a focus on computational aspects of linguistics. * A minimum of (five) 5 years’ experience in the use of Python (other programming languages used within the computational linguistics or Digital Humanities domain can also be considered). * Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. * A minimum of (three) 3 years’ experience as a supervisor/co- supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals. * A minimum of (three) 3 years’ experience with using and/or developing computational tools. * A minimum of (three) 3 years experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. * A minimum of (one) 1 year experience related to teaching or training within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. ADDED ADVANTAGE * Membership with Academic subject communities. Functional / Technical Competencies (Knowledge and Skills) * Advanced computer literacy. * Ability to lead research projects. * Experience in the presentation of research-based results at national and international conferences. * Experience with writing research reports. * Evidence of acquiring research funding. KEY BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES: * Ability to work independently or as part of a team. * Ability to effectively liaise and communicate with public, students, colleagues, and other stakeholders at various levels and from diverse backgrounds. * Demonstration of language proficiency in order to function optimally in the various multilingual environments of SADiLaR. * Strong interest in the advancement of under-resourced South African languages. REMUNERATION The annual total remuneration package will be commensurate with the level of appointment as advertised and in line with the NWU policy guidelines. ENQUIRIES REGARDING JOB CONTENT MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Prof. Menno van Zaanen, E-mail: Menno.VanZaanen(a)nwu.ac.za ENQUIRIES REGARDING RECRUITMENT PROCESS MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Mr. Byron Louw, Tel No. 018 285 2304 CLOSING DATE: 20 April 2025 PLANNED COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES: As soon as possible Kindly take note: applications must be submitted online through the official nwu vacancy website. Incomplete applications and those submitted through any other platform will not be considered. Application link: https://bit.ly/4iUSSAN -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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RANLP 2025: Third Call for Papers and Extended submission deadline
by Petya Osenova 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '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 Natural Language Processing (NLP) topics, the conference features keynote talks by leading experts in NLP. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP (3-5 September 2025) and two days of tutorials (6-7 September 2025). Post-conference specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics will be held on 11-13 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 and University of Alicante, Spain) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced on the conference website in due course. INVITED SPEAKERS The list of keynote speakers at RANLP 2025 and tutorial lecturers as well as summer school lecturers and teaching assistants includes (more names will be announced in the coming weeks): KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) * Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) TUTORIAL LECTURERS: * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TEACHING ASSISTANTS (in alphabetical order): * Maram Alharbi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (University of Lancaster, UK) * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Hansi Hettiarachchi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Andrei Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage (University of Lancaster, UK) * Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * 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. The first workshops have already been selected (see below) and further proposals are expected by 31 March 2025. * The first Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025), organised by Piotr Przybyła, Matthew Shardlow, Clara Colombatto and Nanna Inie * The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models (EthicalLLMs 2025), organised by Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe and Hansi Hettiarachchi. * Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities organised by Isuri Nanomi Arachchige, Francesca Frontini, Ruslan Mitkov and Paul Rayson * From rules to language models: comparative evaluation of NLP methods organised by Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Ruslan Mitkov and Raúl García Cerdá * Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages organised by Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo and Tharindu Ranasinghe The following SHARED TASKS have been accepted and Call for Participation has been distributed: * PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages, organised by Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ * Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organised by Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/ * Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark, organised by Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ * Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT), organised by Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El Amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ * Identification of the severity of the depression in forum posts, organised by Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/ SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS 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 publishes Regular papers 8 pages (with 30 min oral presentation), Short papers 6 pages (with 20 min oral presentation), and Poster/Demo papers 4 pages (with presentation in a poster or demo session). Additional pages are allowed for references only. RANLP-2025 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available as from 1 April 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of workshop proposals: 15 March 2025 31 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 2 April 2025 Conference abstracts submission: 11 May 2025 (strongly recommended, to facilitate review planning) Conference papers submission: 25 May 2025 Conference papers acceptance notification: 4 July 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 6 July 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 8 September 2025 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025 RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) VENUE RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). The conference organisers 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 and University of Alicante, Spain (Chair Programme Committee) Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)

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Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025 at the University of Birmingham
by Akira Murakami 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce that our Corpus Linguistics Summer School will be held in person at the University of Birmingham Edgbaston campus from 7 to 11 July 2025. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-served basis upon completion of the registration process (including payment) through the university’s online shop linked from the above website. *Registration fee:* £230 (£180 for students) *Speakers:* This year, our participants will have the pleasure to hear contributions by Joyce Lim <https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/joyce-lim> (Aston University), as well as members of our local staff of corpus linguistics, including Alex Christiansen <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/christiansen-alex>, Matteo Fuoli <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/fuoli-matteo>, Jason Grafmiller <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/staf…> , Jack Grieve <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/grieve-jack.aspx>, Nicholas Groom <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/groom-nicholas.aspx> , Yaling Hsiao <https://yalinghsiao.github.io/>, Sofia Malamatidou <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/malamatidou-sofia>, Akira Murakami <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/murakami-akira.aspx>, Michael Oakes, Adam Schembri <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/schembri-adam.aspx>, Paul Thompson <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/thompson-paul.aspx>, Katharine Weetman <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/clinical-sciences/weetman-Katha…>, and Bodo Winter <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/winter-bodo>, among others. The annual Sinclair Lecture will also take place during the summer school. The details will be announced closer to the date. *Programme:* Our Corpus Linguistics Summer School aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both the theory and practice of corpus-based linguistic research. Over five days, participants will engage in two types of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will focus on developing practical skills for extracting and analysing different types of corpus data, and applying this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research from our team. *Topics of sessions will include (this is a non-exhaustive list and subject to change):* - Analysing healthcare data using corpus linguistics - Analysing learner language - Analysing text with Python and SpaCy - Corpus triangulation - Fake news - Introduction to R and tidyverse - Introduction to Sketch Engine - Readability of environmental texts - Sign language corpora - Social media corpus design - Topic models - UAM CorpusTool - Understanding child language and literacy development For more information and registration, please visit the website below: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… *Corpus Linguistics 2025* The week before the summer school, the 13th international Corpus Linguistics conference <https://www.cl2025.co.uk/> (CL2025) will take place in Birmingham. If you are coming to Birmingham for the summer school, we encourage you to consider attending CL2025 as well! Best regards, Akira -- Akira Murakami Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics and Communication Deputy Director, Centre for Corpus Research University of Birmingham clsummerschool(a)contacts.bham.ac.uk

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CFP - Atelier 4AS@TALN2025 - Représentations Sémantiques
by Maxime Amblard 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

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

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[AACL 2025] First Call for workshop Proposals
by ACL Announcements 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

First Call for workshops The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IJCNLP-AACL in 2025 in Mumbai (India). We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. The two pages for the main proposal must include the following: A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. An estimate of the number of attendees. Workshop format: in-person preferred; hybrid format may be allowed under special circumstances. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify whether they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The proposals should be submitted no later than April 15th, 2025, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, ‘Anywhere on Earth). At least one of the organisers of the accepted workshops must be present in person in Mumbai, India. Check the full Call at: https://www.afnlp.org/conferences/ijcnlp2025/#submissions Link to submission system: https://softconf.com/aacl2025/workshops/ For queries related to workshop submission, and the review process in general, email: AACL-IJCNLP25-Workshop_Chairs(a)googlegroups.com Workshop Chairs Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada Lizhen Qu, Monash University, Australia

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Upcoming DFIR Stream 0xE Webinar — “Identifying Fraudulent CAPTCHA Solvers Using Network Propagation Analysis”
by Andrew Zayine 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

Dear All, We are excited to invite you to an upcoming DFIR Stream 0xE webinar: Title: “Identifying Fraudulent CAPTCHA Solvers Using Network Propagation Analysis” Presenters: -Martynas Buožis — Information Security Architect, Amadeus Data Processing GmbH -Umberto Fontana — PhD Candidate, Telecom SudParis & Amadeus IT Group Abstract: Malicious actors often use CAPTCHA Farms to bypass bot protection, enabling fraud such as inventory denial and SMS pumping. These farms cleverly mirror IP addresses and client fingerprints, making traditional detection methods ineffective. Meanwhile, their CAPTCHA-solving times are indistinguishable from legitimate users. In this talk, our speakers will present a novel technique for uncovering the use of CAPTCHA Farms by analyzing network propagation times. By comparing observed delays with the geographic distances implied by IP addresses, this approach aims to statistically identify suspicious patterns. - Date & Time: Tuesday, March 25, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (GMT+00:00) - Location: Online (Pre-registration required) - Event Registration Link: https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xe - Online Registration Ends: March 23 at 04:00 PM (GMT+00:00) Don’t miss this chance to learn about cutting-edge research on detecting fraudulent CAPTCHA solvers and to provide valuable feedback! ======Housekeeping Notes====== - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers #CyberSecurity #DFIR #CAPTCHA #OnlineFraud Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat

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CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026
by ACL Announcements 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026* The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2026 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April/May) 2026. The 2026 conference will be the 18th meeting of the EACL. At the same time, we also invite expressions of interest to host the 2027 EACL conference. *At this stage, we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders.* These will be evaluated, and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. The EACL Board will appoint the general chair for the conference, the programme committee co- chairs, and all other chairs (tutorial co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, etc.), except for the local arrangements chair. Draft bid proposals (due *April 14th, 2025*) should include information on all of the following items: 1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably March/April) 2026 2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention center. Bear in mind that EACL is growing. While Gothenburg (EACL 2014) had 520 registered participants, Valencia (EACL 2017) had 680 registered participants and EACL 2024 had over 800 participants. So please suggest a location that could host 1000 people for plenary sessions, plus at least 4 conference rooms hosting parallel sessions (200-250 people each), a large poster or exhibit room; 11 rooms on the workshops/tutorials days among which at least two host 200 people and the others 60 persons; and rooms for demos, small meetings and registration. 3. *Local arrangements team:* local chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether a professional conference organizer (PCO) will be involved in the organization. Also, indicate whether any national/regional associations for Computational Linguistics would be on board of the local organization *The final bids will also include detailed information on the following items:* 1. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are 2. Printing of conference booklet 3. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and conference dinner 4. Accommodation options at the venue, including low-cost student accommodation 5. Travel alternatives to the venue from Europe and beyond 6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event and reception 7. Potential for local sponsorships 8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings 9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below). Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (unordered): - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities - Adequacy of expenses projections and expected surplus - Appropriateness of proposed dates - Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing conferences held in EMEA - Co-location with national/regional conferences - Experience of the local arrangements team - Local CL community support - Local government and industry support - Appropriateness of expected registration fees - Accessibility of proposed site Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years: - EACL 23 report https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf The EACL conference handbook: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Board: eacl-info(a)aclweb.org The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal. *Important Dates:* 14th April 2025: Deadline for draft bids April 2025: Feedback to bidders, announcement of shortlist of bidders May 2025: Deadline for final bids June 2025: Final bid chosen (to be publicly announced in July at ACL2025) April/May 2026: EACL Conference Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi – Secretary of EACL –

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ClinIQLink 2025 – CodaBench Testing Framework Now Live!
by Brandon 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the ClinIQLink 2025 CodaBench Testing Framework is now live and ready for model submissions: CodaBench Competition Page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5117/ This is an important milestone in the shared task, allowing participants to test their models under real evaluation conditions ahead of the April 15, 2025 submission deadline. With almost 40 participants and growing, we encourage early engagement to refine methodologies and optimize performance. Why Participate? ClinIQLink 2025, part of the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025, evaluates models on their ability to retrieve accurate medical knowledge and analyze hallucinations in generative responses. This challenge provides an opportunity to benchmark systems, advance research in medical AI, and contribute to a deeper understanding of knowledge retrieval in generative models. Getting Started with CodaBench Participants should begin testing their models as soon as possible. Submission guidelines and instructions are available on the challenge page: * CodaBench ClinIQLink Docker Setup (GitHub): https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup * Submission Guidelines: Models under 10GB can be submitted directly to CodaBench, while models between 10GB and 750GB must be uploaded via Globus following the instructions provided on the challenge homepage. * Globus Connect Personal (Required for Uploading Large Models): https://www.globus.org/globus-connect-personal Key Upcoming Deadlines * April 15, 2025 – System Submission Deadline * April 25, 2025 – Results Feedback Provided * May 15, 2025 – Final Paper Submission Deadline * July 31, 2025 – BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 Useful Links * Official Challenge Page: https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/ * Sample Dataset: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_Sample-dataset * Google Form for Large Model Submission (10GB - 750GB): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerRZnVHm-Trk9eYp6ebrJHQKTPvSBrI6n… For any questions or further details, please feel free to reach out. Contact: Brandon Colelough – brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov> We look forward to your participation and contributions to this 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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Call for Participation - RANLP 2025 Shared Tasks
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

We invite researchers to participate in RANLP 2025 shared tasks. RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of natural language processing and related communities are invited to participate. The following tasks have been accepted for RANLP 2025. 1. PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages Organisers - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ 1. Multilingual Coreference Resolution Organisers - Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/ 1. Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT) Organisers - Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ 1. Identification of the severity of the depression in forum post Organisers - Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/ 1. Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark Organisers - Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ For inquiries regarding the individual shared tasks, please contact the corresponding task organisers. Shared Task Proceedings At least one member from each team needs to register and attend the RANLP 2025 shared task (which will take place on 11, 12 or 13 September 2025) and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings. More information about the RANLP main conference and its co-located events are available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Shared Task Chairs Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Dr Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia RANLP 2024 Chairs Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lancaster University

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Fwd: [CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: International Conference on Computational Creativity < iccc25.computationalcreativity(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 09:11 Subject: [CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity To: <hroliv(a)dei.uc.pt> Submissions due: April 21, 2025‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ *The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25)* June 23–27, 2025 — Campinas, Brazil Hi Hugo, Below, you will find the official Call for Short Papers for the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25), which will be held in Campinas, Brazil, from June 23 to 27, 2025. We hope that you may be able to contribute to the conference by submitting your research. We would also like to remind you that the Call for Venues for hosting the International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2027 (ICCC'27) is open. The Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) invites all its members and colleagues interested in the field to submit a proposal. You can find more information [here]. <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dINmNvd1ZDhKWHmANLs/EKm8yp…> Please feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested. We hope to see you at ICCC'25 in Campinas, Brazil, in June 2025! *Call for papers: short papers* http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/short-papers/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIPRQNvB3X6sRsu60eu/iWdBrr…> Computational Creativity (CC) is a discipline with its roots in scientific disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy that each explores the potential for computers to be creative – either in partnership with humans or as autonomous creators in their own right. The International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on systems that act as creative partners for human creators, on frameworks that offer greater clarity or computational felicity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on. **** Themes and Topics **** The ICCC call for short papers invites research on the same topics as the main call. See Full Papers <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIR6SqDKXqWQNU21dxw/aBnttR…> for more information. In summary, new papers reflecting all computational approaches and perspectives on creativity are welcome, including e.g., symbolic approaches, neural and statistical approaches, hybrid approaches, big-data approaches, rule-based approaches, curated approaches, and so on. The onus is on authors to argue and/or explicitly demonstrate the relevance of their work to the topic of computational creativity. *A note on generative AI models:* while the study of generative AI models is both welcomed and encouraged, such models and their application must be properly situated in the CC literature and evaluated according to acceptable practices in the field. Papers that fail to do this are unlikely to be reviewed favorably. *Difference between long and short papers:* Short papers are intended to share new directions and ideas, spark debate, and enrich the conference and program, without the same evaluation and rigor requirements of long papers. They are not merely long papers with fewer pages. 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Call for Papers: FEL XXIX 2025 - Basque Country, Spain - 22-25 October - Deadline 15 May 2025
by Steven Krauwer 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

The 29th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages - FEL XXIX 2025 The Foundation for Endangered Languages and the UNESCO Chair on World Language Heritage are organising the 2025 edition of the FEL conference, “The Missing SDG: Endangered Languages and Sustainable Development”. Date: 22-25 October, 2025 Place: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Faculty of Arts at the UPV/EHU (Basque Country, Spain) Call for Papers OPEN until 15 May. More information on the website: https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/mho-unesco-katedra/fel-xxix-2025 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/ILS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl

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PhD or postdoc position in NLP/computational linguistics at the University of Vienna
by Sebastian Schuster 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

I am looking to fill a PhD (3 years) or postdoc (2 years) position in natural language processing/computational linguistics at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna, as part of my new research group there. About the position This position offers great flexibility in developing your own research 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: - evaluation of large language models and large language model agents - robust long context understanding - computational pragmatics - computational psycholinguistics The annual salary for the PhD position is approximately EUR 39,000/year and for the postdoc position, approximately EUR 69,000/year. Profile of successful candidates - Master degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or related fields - Strong background in mathematics, statistics and/or machine learning - Strong motivation to publish in top refereed conferences/journals - Strong interest in recent developments in large language models, deep learning, and natural language processing - Good knowledge of a deep learning programming framework - Very good command of written and spoken English For the postdoc position, additionally: - A strong publication record, including publications at EMNLP, *ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or COLM - A PhD in computer science, computational linguistics, or related fields How to apply Application deadline: April 4, 2025 (Late applications maybe considered but for full consideration, please apply by this date.) Start date: Autumn 2025 (start date flexible) Please submit your application by email to s.schuster(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:s.schuster@ucl.ac.uk> and use the subject "[PhD position]" or "[Postdoc position]", depending on which position you are applying to. Include a single PDF file with the following information: - a statement of research interests that motivates why you are applying for this position and outlines your research interests (1-3 pages) - a full CV, including a list of publications (if applicable) - university transcripts - the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of two people who can provide letters of reference for you The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates. If you have any questions about these positions, please contact me at s.schuster(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:s.schuster@ucl.ac.uk>. ---- Sebastian Schuster https://sebschu.com

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BEA 2025 Shared Task: Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors
by Ekaterina Kochmar 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

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

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: The Second Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II) - deadline EXTENDED
by Pia Sommerauer 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Our 2nd workshop on ANALOGY-ANGLE will take place at ACL 2025 (July 31st/August 1st 2025) in Vienna. https://analogy-angle.github.io/ IMPORTANT: deadline has been extended 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 paper submission deadline: April 21st * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: May 16th * Notification of acceptance: May 26th * Camera-ready paper due: June 7, 2025 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 30, 2025 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025 * Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025 All deadline times are 23:59 anywhere on Earth. 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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Calls for bids to host EACL 2026
by Nina Tahmasebi 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026* The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2026 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April/May) 2026. The 2026 conference will be the 18th meeting of the EACL. *At this stage, we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders.* These will be evaluated, and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. The EACL Board will appoint the general chair for the conference, the programme committee co- chairs, and all other chairs (tutorial co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, etc.), except for the local arrangements chair. Draft bid proposals (due *April 14th, 2025*) should include information on all of the following items: 1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably March/April) 2026 2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention center. Bear in mind that EACL is growing. While Gothenburg (EACL 2014) had 520 registered participants, Valencia (EACL 2017) had 680 registered participants and EACL 2024 had over 800 participants. So please suggest a location that could host 1000 people for plenary sessions, plus at least 4 conference rooms hosting parallel sessions (200-250 people each), a large poster or exhibit room; 11 rooms on the workshops/tutorials days among which at least two host 200 people and the others 60 persons; and rooms for demos, small meetings and registration. 3. *Local arrangements team:* local chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether a professional conference organizer (PCO) will be involved in the organization. Also, indicate whether any national/regional associations for Computational Linguistics would be on board of the local organization *The final bids will also include detailed information on the following items:* 1. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are 2. Printing of conference booklet 3. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and conference dinner 4. Accommodation options at the venue, including low-cost student accommodation 5. Travel alternatives to the venue from Europe and beyond 6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event and reception 7. Potential for local sponsorships 8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings 9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below). Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (unordered): - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities - Adequacy of expenses projections and expected surplus - Appropriateness of proposed dates - Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing conferences held in EMEA - Co-location with national/regional conferences - Experience of the local arrangements team - Local CL community support - Local government and industry support - Appropriateness of expected registration fees - Accessibility of proposed site Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years: - EACL 23 report <http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_EACL_2017> https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf<https://ems-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2…> The EACL conference handbook: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf<https://ems-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2…> Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Board: eacl-info(a)aclweb.org<mailto:eacl-info@aclweb.org> The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal. *Important Dates:* 14th April 2025: Deadline for draft bids April 2025: Feedback to bidders, announcement of shortlist of bidders May 2025: Deadline for final bids June 2025: Final bid chosen (to be publicly announced in July at ACL2025) April/May 2026: EACL Conference Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi – Secretary of EACL – Nina N. Tahmasebi, Associate Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Intelligence + Effort = Achievement" S. Mendaglio

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GUM Corpus V11 - new documents and annotations
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

(Apologies for cross-postings) � *** The GUM Corpus - Release 11.0.0 *** *** Georgetown University Multilayer corpus *** � Corpling@GU <https://gucorpling.org/corpling/> is happy to announce the first release of series 11 of the Georgetown University Multilayer corpus (GUM V11.0.0): � https://gucorpling.org/gum/ � New in this version: � * GUM and the out-of-domain test set GENTLE have now merged! * New documents – the corpus now contains 268,208 tokens * Five different summaries per document * Graded salience scores (0-5) for each entity in every document � GUM is an open source corpus of richly annotated English texts from 24 genres: � * Main genres: (available in train/dev/test) * academic writing * biographies * courtroom transcripts * essays * fiction * how-to guides * interviews * letters * news * online forum discussions * podcasts * political speeches * spontaneous face to face conversations * textbooks * travel guides * vlogs � * Out-of-domain test genres: (test2, aka GENTLE partition): * dictionary entries * live esports commentary * legal documents * medical notes * poetry * mathematical proofs * course syllabuses * threat letters � The corpus is created by students as part of the Computational Linguistics curriculum at Georgetown University and is available under Creative Commons licenses. � This is the first version of GUM series 11, containing roughly 281 documents annotated for: � * Multiple POS tags (100% manual gold PTB, extended PTB, converted CLAWS5 and UPOS) and UD morphological features * Manually corrected lemmatization and morphological segmentation * Sentence segmentation and rough speech act (manual) * Document structure using TEI tags (paragraphs, headings, figures, captions etc., all manual) * Constituent and dependency syntax (manually corrected Universal Dependencies, and PTB parses from gold tags with function labels and enhanced dependencies) * Construction Grammar annotations following UCxn * Information status (given-active/inactive, accessible-inferable/common ground/aggregate, and new) * Entity type, graded salience (0-5) and coreference annotation (including non-named entities, singletons, appositions, cataphora and several types of bridging), as well as Centering Theory annotations * Entity linking (Wikification) of all named entities with Wikipedia articles, including their non-named and pronominal mentions * Discourse parses in enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory (eRST) and discourse dependencies, including multiple concurrent and non-projective relations * Discourse signal annotations classified into 9 major and 45 minor types indicating how the presence of a relation is marked (based on the Signaling Corpus scheme) * Shallow discourse relations following the PDTB v3 scheme * Five abstractive summaries for each document following strict, comparable guidelines across genres � Note on Reddit data: token text is not contained in the release but can be downloaded with an included script. � For more information and to search or download the corpus online, see the corpus website <https://gucorpling.org/gum/> . � Best wishes, The GUM team � PS – if you like GUM, also check out our automatically annotated AMALGUM <https://github.com/gucorpling/amalgum/> corpus! � � �

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19th International Symposium on Social Communication in Santiago de Cuba, January 2026
by Leo Cosme 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Dear colleague, Please, read the announcement of the 19th International Symposium on Social Communication organized by the Center for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" of Santiago de Cuba and that will take place in this city from January 19 to 23, 2026. It will be a pleasure to welcome you to Santiago de Cuba. Yours sincerely, Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares President of the Organizing Committee Applied Linguistics Center "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Social Sciences and Humanities Agency Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment Calle 9 Nr. 253 entre 10 y 12. Reparto Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba, C.P. 90400 Telephones: 53-22646390; 53-52857559 E-mail: linguisticaaplicada1971(a)gmail.com Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication: http://www.cla.cu/simposio/indexEN.php Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics: http://www.cla.cu/clanuevo/en/ Web site of our Basic School Dictionary: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html X: @CLA_ComSoc ***** [To spread, please, thank you. Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.] 19th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JANUARY 19-23, 2026 The Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" of the Social Sciences and Humanities Agency from Santiago de Cuba’s branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the 19th International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 19 through the 23, 2026. This interdisci- plinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: . University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Basque Country University, Basque Country . University of Verona, Verona, Italy . Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile . Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain . Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain . Institute for Linguistic Research, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica . Latino Education and Advocacy Days Organization (LEAD), California St. University, USA Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Corpus Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Terminology - Translation and Interpretation - Linguistics Rights - Linguistics Policy 2. Computational Linguistics as branch of Artificial Intelligence: - Software related to linguistics research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Information extraction and its applications - Speech recognition and synthesis - Related issues 3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 4. Mass Media: - Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, print, electronic media and social network articles 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication 6. Communication and Education: - Studies related to teaching of the mother tongue and other related subjects Activities that will take place within the event are: - Presymposium seminars - Keynote speeches - Discussion of papers in commissions - Books presentation - Cultural activities PRESYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January 19th, 2026. The courses will be: "Introduction to audiovisual translation and accessibility: modalities, technical, linguistic and cultural aspects" Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain IXA Group Basque Country University, Basque Country Participants should say in advance what presymposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 50.00 EUROS will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. KEYNOTE SPEECHES In this Symposium several plenary conferences will be given, which will be offered by prestigious specialists. Already confirmed their attendance: Prof. Dr. Marlen Domínguez Hernández Cuban Academy of Language Havana University Havana,Cuba Prof. Dr. Antoni Nomdedeu Rull Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain Prof. Dr. Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso Valparaiso, Chile The deadline of submission of papers is July 1st, 2025. The papers should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium’s Scientific Committee will be sent before July 31st, 2025. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium’s documentation -as we did since 1997-, accepted papers must be sent before August 15, 2025 if the Scientific Committee had done some observations. Requirements for papers: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium’s address: linguisticaaplicada1971(a)gmail.com as attached file. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event’s official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. 5. The pages of the text should be unnumered. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and no leaving space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 1.5 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 200.00 USD/EUROS Companions 100.00 USD/EUROS Payment of the fee must be sent before December 15, 2025 via bank transfer to the bank account to be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker’s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. ACCOMMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Papers submission deadline: July 1st, 2025 - Notification on paper’s approval by Scientific Committee: by July 31st, 2025 - Delivery of papers by e-mail: August 15, 2025 (in case of the observations done by the Scientific Committee) - Payment of registration fee: Until December 15, 2025 - Presymposium seminars: January 19, 2026 - 19th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20 through 23, 2026 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Leonel Ruiz Miyares Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Nancy Cristina Alamo Suárez Centre for Applied Linguistics Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Alex Muñoz Alvarado Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Humberto Ocanna Dayar Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Javier Tamayo Lozada Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Rolando Urrutia Cleger Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba María Rosa Álvarez Silva Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Fidelia Pozo Pozo Centre for Applied Linguistics "Vitelio Ruiz Hernández-Eloína Miyares Bermúdez" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Irina Bidot Martínez University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Anton Nijholt Twente University Enschede, The Netherlands Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Basque Country University Basque Country Iñaki Alegría Loinaz Basque Country University Basque Country Xabier Artola Zubillaga Basque Country University Basque Country Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Basque Country University Basque Country Sven Tarp University of Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark Lucia Marconi Institute for Computational Linguistics Chapter Genoa, Italy Paola Cutugno Institute for Computational Linguistics Chapter Genoa, Italy Rosa María Rodríguez Abella Università degli Studi di Verona Verona, Italia Luisa Chierichetti Università degli Studi di Bergamo Bergamo, Italia Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso Valparaiso, Chile Jorge Antonio Leoni de León Institute for Linguistic Research, University of Costa Rica San Jose, Costa Rica Antoni Nomdedeu Rull University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Luis Alfonso Ureña Lopez President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN) Jaen University, Jaen, Spain Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. LEAD, California State University, USA ***** REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms.: University: City: Country: WhatsApp: E-Mail: Paper title: Date:

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CLARIN Annual Conference 2025-Third Call for Abstracts
by Kontino, T. (Thalassia) 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Third Call for Abstracts CLARIN Annual Conference 2025 CLARIN2025 is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there is a need, its actual use by researchers and teachers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. We are pleased to welcome authors of accepted papers, members of national consortia and representatives of CLARIN centres, representatives from partner organisations, and many others who are interested in becoming part of the CLARIN community. IMPORTANT DATES * 4 April 2025: Submission deadline * 16 June 2025: Notification of acceptance * 1 September 2025: Final version of the abstract * 30 September - 2 October 2025: CLARIN Annual Conference CONFERENCE TOPICS We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond * Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services * Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases * Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI * Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure * Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing * Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms * Access, including authentication and authorisation * Search functions, including Federated Content Search * Web applications, web services and workflows * Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services * Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation * Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination: * User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) * CLARIN portals and outreach to users * Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures * Knowledge centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives: * SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and CESSDA<https://www.cessda.eu/> and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster<https://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-ssh-open-cluster>, etc. * Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as <https://www.clarin.eu/glossary#EUDAT> EOSC<https://eosc.eu/about-eosc>, Europeana<https://www.europeana.eu/>, Language Data Space<https://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/>, etc. * Projects such as ATRIUM<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-atrium>, EOSC Focus<https://www.clarin.eu/content/factsheet-clarin-eosc-focus>, ERIC Forum<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-eric-forum-2>, EOSC Future<https://eoscfuture.eu/>, FAIRCORE4EOSC<https://faircore4eosc.eu/>, OSCARS<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-oscars>, OSTrails<https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-ostrails> * National and regional initiatives. Education and Training: * Using CLARIN language resources and services in teaching and training activities targeting audiences from different sectors (academia, GLAM, industry) and lessons learnt * The impact of the DH Course Registry (e.g. development of the DH curricula, student exchange programmes) * Guidelines and best practices for using CLARIN in the university curricula * Developing new courses reusing existing materials from the CLARIN Learning Hub (e.g. UPSKILLS) SUBMISSIONS The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t0y7zfm7fc2ubo01gawo4/ABS07ggkXbYm9yAZPfHAfp…>, Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f> template). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN’s activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. Authors are not required to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. For more information and to access the submission system, please visit: https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-extended-abstracts-clarin-annual-confere…

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Call for Papers: Miniconference on the temporal dimension of data--“The times they are a-changin’” in Digital Humanities--hosted by the 2025 International Digital Humanities Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
by mg2957＠nau.edu 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

CFP: “The times they are a-changin’” in Digital Humanities – a mini-conference on the temporal dimension of data Date: July 15th (DH2025 Pre-Conference Program) Digital Humanities Conference “Accessibility and Citizenship” 2025, 14 - 18 July 2025, Lisbon, Portugal Digital Humanities (DH) methods have advanced significantly in recent decades. However, several blind spots still persist across the field, the insufficient attention to temporal dynamics in data being one of them. Temporal change plays an integral role in a number of disciplines within DH, affecting data, methodology, analyses, and the field itself (Glawion et al., 2025). Digital art history, especially provenance research, is challenged by changing or missing object information, such as varying titles (Kim, 2015) or attributions (Hofbauer, 2021), complicating access and tracing their (ownership) history over time and space. In geographical studies on mobility, this movement in space and time is mediated by practices of sense-making changing slowly over time (Creswell, 2010). Discourse analysis examines time frames around key public events that set specific communicative strategies in motion (Islentyeva, 2022), corpus-based studies employ quantitative linguistic analyses to generate meaningful time periods for studying linguistic change (e.g., Gries & Hilpert, 2008), and studies of register, text varieties associated with the situation of use (Biber & Conrad, 2019), are beginning to examine emergence and evolution of registers as cultural constructs (Gracheva et al., forthcoming). Digital Literary Studies raise questions about cultural evolution (Sobchuk, 2023), genre history (Wagner-Egelhaaf, 2014) and editorial histories of literary works (Bottigheimer, 1987) on the level of texts, the evolution of authorial style over the course of an author’s life (Piper, 2018) and different types of time-series data such as eye movements and EEG data in empirical studies of reader-response (Dimigen et al., 2011; Weitin et al., 2024). We particularly invite proposals that relate to the theme of temporal change, including but not limited to the following questions: How should we address temporal change methodologically in DH? What role should visualizations play? Are time periods implemented to categorize data from the start (top-down), or are they the result of data-driven classification (bottom-up)? And how can we ensure that project data remains FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) across disciplines long after the project concludes? Target audience: The mini-conference welcomes researchers from all career stages from diverse disciplines and backgrounds who are engaged with the temporal dimensions of data. We encourage submissions from those involved in DH, data analysis, historical studies, linguistic and literary research, art history, geo-spatial studies and related fields. Submission types: The mini-conference invites submissions of finalized projects or work-in-progress reports on theoretical or methodological reflections, empirical studies, and/or practical applications on the topic of time in DH (15 min. + 15 min. discussions). Submissions can focus on but are not limited to the domains of “images & objects”, “text & language” and “place & space”. Submission format and deadline: Submissions should include a presentation title, the presenter’s affiliation, and an abstract of max. 250 words (bibliography excluded). Please send your submission as a single PDF file to anastasia.glawion(a)fau.de. The submission deadline is April 10, 2025; acceptance notifications will be sent out by April 30, 2025. For questions, please contact anastasia.glawion(a)fau.de . Bibliography Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2019). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press. Bottigheimer, R. B. (1987). Silenced women in the Grimm’s tales: The 'fit' between fairy tales and society in their historical context. In R. B. Bottigheimer (Ed.), Fairy tales and society: Illusion, allusion, and paradigm (pp. 115–133). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201505 Cresswell, T. (2010). Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(1), 17–31. https://doi.org/10.1068/d11407 Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., Hohlfeld, A., Jacobs, A. M., & Kliegl, R. (2011). Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: Analyses and review. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(4), 552–572. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023885 Glawion, A., Kremer, D., Lang, S., Mahlberg, M., & Wagner, A. (2025). Applied digital humanities: Calling for a more engaged digital humanities. In Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd), Bielefeld, Book of Abstracts (pp. 298–301). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14942990 Gracheva, M., Keller, D., & Egbert, J. (forthcoming). Evolution of registers as cultural constructs: The case of blogs. Gries, S. Th., & Hilpert, M. (2008). The identification of stages in diachronic data: Variability-based neighbor clustering. Corpora, 3(1), 59–81. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1749503208000075 Hofbauer, M. (2021). Cranach: Parerga und Paralipomena: Neues zu Lucas Cranach und seinen Söhnen. arthistoricum.net. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.722 Islentyeva, A. (2022). British media representations of EU migrants before and after the EU referendum. CADAAD Journal, 14(2), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.21827/cadaad.14.2.41617 Kim, S. (2015). Bildtitel: Eine Kunstgeschichte des Bildtitels. Kovač. Piper, A. (2018). Enumerations: Data and literary study. University of Chicago Press. Sobchuk, O. (2023). Evolution of modern literature and film. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of cultural evolution (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.45 Wagner-Egelhaaf, M. (2014). Literaturgeschichte als operative Fiktion. In M. Buschmeier (Ed.), Literaturgeschichte: Theorien - Modelle - Praktiken. Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (Vol. 138, pp. 86–101). http://d-nb.info/1032799404/04 Weitin, T., Fabian, T., Glawion, A., Brottrager, J., & Pilz, Z. (2024). Is bad fiction processed differently by the human brain? An electrophysiological study on reading experience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, Article 1333965. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1333965

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SwissText 2025: Final CfP and Submission Deadline Extension
by Tuggener Don (tuge) 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, partners, and friends This is the final Call for Papers for the SwissText 2025 Conference. !!! Note that we extend the submission deadline to 22.03.2025 (23:59 AOE) !!! If you plan to make a submission, it helps us with the planning if you already submit an abstract and/or a draft now. You can still revise the submission until the submission deadline. We invite you to submit a contribution to the 10th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) which takes place on May 14-15, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). SwissText<https://swisstext.org/> is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). This edition of SwissText will be special, since we celebrate its 10th anniversary! For the occasion, we introduce the Impact Track which replaces and extends the scope of the Applied Track, and we introduce the Corpus Track that offers the opportunity to present Swiss-related NLP datasets. The conference now features the following tracks and submissions (more details in the below sections): * Impact Track (formerly Applied Track): Describe impactful applied and practical NLP projects. Short abstract (approx 0.5-1 page). * Scientific Research: Describe original research. * Regular Track: Full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) * Junior Track: Short paper (up to 4 pages) * Corpus Track (new): Present your Swiss-related NLP dataset. Short paper (up to 4 pages). TRACKS Impact Track (formerly Applied Track) Contribute to the conference by submitting a presentation with a strong focus on practical application and impact. Have you developed an interesting NLP solution that solves a challenging problem in your organization? Did you write an impactful blog article on an NLP-related topic? Have you released a cool new NLP Python library? Is there an important idea presented in a paper you have read or written that you think needs more exposure to a broader audience? The impact track is open to various NLP-related contributions. The selection criteria here is how exciting and relevant the presentation will be for the broad audience. Presentations can be (non-exhaustive list): * Applications * Applied research results * Showcases * Paper discussions (only already published papers; original work can be submitted to the scientific track) * System demonstrations Submission Format: * A PDF document that contains * a short abstract (approx. 0.5-1 page of main content) describing your contribution; * a screenshot or system diagram (optional) * CV of the team (text format, no tables — max. 500 characters) * Description of the intended audience (e.g. developers, decision makers, project managers, researchers; max. 300 characters) * Language: English * Please submit online via <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> Scientific Track Contribute to the conference by submitting original papers that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works that describe new concepts, innovative research, systems, or standards in the areas of NLP. (If you have a live demonstration, please submit to the Impact Track instead) Submission Format: * Full Paper of maximum of 8 pages, or Short Paper with maximum of 4 pages (both versions have additional pages for references and appendix) * Use the ACL style<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> * Language: English * Anonymization: The review process will be double blind; we ask authors to anonymize their submission reasonably. For instance, instead of “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” write “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” * All data is entered online via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> Scientific Junior Track We offer PhD/Master students a unique opportunity to submit ongoing or finished work relevant to the NLP field and receive extensive professional feedback. Several senior researchers in the NLP field in Switzerland have expressed their support for this initiative and will be members of the programme committee. They will provide extensive reviews to the students to help them improve their paper writing skills. Submission Format: * Please use the ACL style<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> * Language: English * Short Paper with maximum of 4 pages, with additional pages for references and appendix. * Content: ongoing or finished work, relevant to the NLP field. * The first author must be a student registered at a Swiss academic institution. * Anonymization: The review process will be double blind; we ask authors to anonymize their submission reasonably. For instance, instead of “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” write “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” * Submission will be made through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> Corpus Track This special track focuses on the creation, curation, and release of datasets that address challenges and opportunities in NLP in the context of Switzerland. The aim is to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to share innovative dataset contributions that support linguistic, cultural, and technical advancements in the Swiss NLP ecosystem. Submissions can describe already published or original work. It might be possible to host your data at Swiss NLP if you are unable to do so yourself. Please get in touch at info(a)swissnlp.org<mailto:info@swissnlp.org> if you are interested in this option. The submission is a “Corpus Description Paper”, which should contain the following: * What and how much data was collected? * How was the data collected and annotated? * Corpus statistics * Quality assessments such as annotator agreements * Where is the corpus available? (please take into account long-term availability) * Under which license(s) is the corpus distributed? * For which use cases can the corpus be used? * Optional: baseline systems and results Submission Format: * Please use the ACL style<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> * Language: English * Corpus description paper with maximum of 8 pages, with additional pages for references and appendix. * Please use the appendix to describe technical details of the corpus creation, in particular how data was collected, full annotation guidelines, etc. * Content: new/existing NLP datasets within the context of Switzerland. * Submission will be made through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swisstext2025> GENERAL INFORMATION Presentation Modes For all tracks, there are the following presentation modes: * Talk: a classical presentation of approx. 15min + 5min discussion * Poster: you can hang up an A1 poster during the poster session * Demo: you get a booth where you can show your solution as live-demo during the exhibition time (approx 2 hours) During submission you can choose your preferred presentation mode and the SwissText Program Committee will decide which format your submission best fits in. Proceedings We plan to publish the proceedings of the Scientific, Corpus and Junior track in the ACL Anthology. To appear in the proceedings, each contribution has to be presented by at least one author at the conference. Important Dates * Submission deadline: March 22, 2025 (23:59 AOE) * Author notification: April 5, 2025 * Camera-ready version due: April 19, 2025 * Conference: May 14-15, 2025 Venue The conference will take place in Winterthur at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Organization * General Chair: Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak (ZHAW) * Program Chairs: Dr. Don Tuggener (ZHAW), Manuela Hürlimann (ZHAW) Contact Please direct all questions regarding the submission process to info(a)swisstext.org<mailto:info@swisstext.org>.

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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Bari, Italy
by Ondřej Matuška 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

*<Lexicom/>* a workshop in digital lexicography and lexical computing *Registration open* *Bari, Italy*15 – 19 September 2025 Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments in *corpus-driven lexicography* and to practice your *corpus building and corpus query skills* with some of the top experts in the field. For the programme, lecturers, invited speakers, fees and registration, visit this website *lexicom.courses <https://lexicom.courses/upcoming-lexicom/>* I hope to meet you in Bari in September! Ondřej *Ondřej Matuška* sketchengine.eu <http://www.sketchengine.eu/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/SketchEngine/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejmatuska> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/SketchEngine>

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Appel : 1st Call for papers: MLP-LLM 2025 Workshop @ CORIA-TALN 2025
by Aman Sinha 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

**** French version below **** * Workshop on Medical Language Processing in the era of Large Language Models (MLP-LLM 2025) * Colocated with CORIA-TALN 2025 -- 30 June 2025 , Marseille * Call for Papers * [ https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ | https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ ] The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing across various domains, including healthcare. However, the complexities of medical language—marked by specialized terminologies, the use of abbreviations and code ontologies such as ICD, UMLS or SNOMED, implicit contextual dependencies (based on the context, the medication information may be different: temporality, action, certainty, etc.) —pose unique challenges and opportunities. Medical NLP is at critical stakes, given the importance of finding the right diagnosis and treatment for each patient. Moreover, the field of health includes not only the human aspect represented by the practitioner-patient relationship, but also the contact with the biological world (animals, plants, viruses, microbes). This workshop, MLP-LLM, aims to bring together researchers from NLP, medicine, bioNLP and linguistics to explore advancements, limitations, and ethical considerations of using LLMs in medical contexts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Fine-tuning and adapting LLMs for medical applications and for different languages. * Addressing biases in medical language understanding along with LLM hallucinations. * Proposing evaluation methods to assess the quality of medical NLP tools. * Ensuring transparency, interpretability, and uncertainty awareness in medical AI systems. * Developing domain-specific benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in healthcare. * Developing applications for LLMs in clinical decision support, medical transcription and communication between practitioners and patients. Keynote speaker : Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille We welcome articles that are: * new contributions, * state-of-the-art articles, * work in progress, * short/translated version of a paper accepted at a major conference. Important Dates : * Submission Due: 30 April 2025 * Author Notification: 15 May 2025 * Camera ready: 21 May 2025 * Workshop: 30 June 2025 Submissions are accepted both in English or French. Contact : Workshop Organizers ( [ mailto:mlpllm2025@gmail.com | mlpllm2025(a)gmail.com) ] Ioana Buhnila ( [ mailto:ioana.buhnila@univ-lorraine.fr | ioana.buhnila(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) Aman Sinha ( [ mailto:aman.sinha@univ-lorraine.fr | aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) --------------------------------------------------------- **** V ersion anglaise ci-dessus **** * L'atelier Traitement du langage médical à l'époque des LLMs (MLP-LLM 2025) * Coloc avec CORIA-TALN 2025 -- 30 juin 2025, Marseille * Appel à communications * [ https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ | https://atilf-umr7118.github.io/MLPLLM2025/ ] L’avènement des grands modèles de langue (LLMs) a révolutionné le traitement automatique des langues dans divers domaines, y compris la santé. Cependant, la complexité du langage médical - marquée par des terminologies spécialisées, l’utilisation des abréviations et des ontologies médicales de type CIM, UMLS or SNOMED, des dépendances contextuelles implicites (dans un contexte donné, le contenu médical peut changer en fonction de la temporalité, l’événement ou le degré de certitude) - pose des défis et des opportunités uniques. Le TAL médical peut aider les praticiens hospitaliers dans le diagnostic et le traitement des patients. De plus, le domaine de la santé comprend non seulement l’aspect humain représenté par la relation praticien-patient, mais également le contact avec le monde biologique (animaux, plantes, virus, microbes). Cet atelier, MLP-LLM, vise à rassembler des chercheurs en TAL, bioinformatique, médecine et linguistique afin d’explorer les avancées, les limites et les considérations éthiques de l’utilisation des LLMs dans des contextes médicaux. Les sujets d’intérêt incluent, mais ne sont pas limités à: * Affiner et adapter les LLMs pour les applications médicales et pour différentes langues. * Proposer des méthodes d’évaluation adaptées au domaine médical. * Traiter les biais dans la compréhension du langage médical et les hallucinations des LLMs. * Garantir la transparence, l’interprétabilité, le niveau de certitude et la responsabilité dans les systèmes d’IA médicale. * Développer des benchmarks spécifiques au domaine pour évaluer les LLMs dans le domaine de la santé. * Développer des applications des LLMs dans l’aide à la décision clinique, la transcription médicale et la communication entre les praticiens et les patients. Keynote speaker : Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille Les types d'article acceptés sont: * contribution nouvelle, * état de l'art, * travaux en cours, * version courte/traduite d'un article accepté dans une grande conférence. Calendrier de l'appel : * Soumission des articles: 30 Avril 2025 * Notification aux auteurs: 15 Mai 2025 * Version finale: 21 Mai 2025 * Atelier : 30 Juin 2025 Les soumissions sont acceptées en anglais ou en français. Comités et contact ----------------- Organizers : Ioana Buhnila, ATILF, CNRS - Université de Lorraine (co-responsable) Aman Sinha, IECL- ATILF - ICANS Strasbourg (co-responsable) Hanbyul Song, ATILF, CNRS - Université de Lorraine Laura Zanella, POSOS Salomé Klein, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg Joé Laroche, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg Delphine Charuau, Trinity College Dublin Sam Bigeard, INRIA, Université de Lorraine Comité scientifique : Aurélie Névéol, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille Remi Cardon, CENTAL, IL&C, Université Catholique de Louvain Cyril Grouin, LISN, CNRS - Université Paris-Saclay Amalia Todirascu, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg Lina F. Soualmia, Université Rouen Normandie Patrick Watrin, CENTAL, UCLouvain Adrien Coulet, Inria Paris - Université de Lorraine Benoit Favre, Université d’Aix-Marseille Emmanuel Morin, Université de Nantes Richard Dufour, Université de Nantes Mathieu Constant, Université de Lorraine Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki Claire Nedellec, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Lisa Raithel, DFKI Ioana Buhnila, ATILF, CNRS - Université de Lorraine Aman Sinha, IECL- ATILF - ICANS Contact : Workshop Organizers ( [ mailto:mlpllm2025@gmail.com | mlpllm2025(a)gmail.com) ] Ioana Buhnila ( [ mailto:ioana.buhnila@univ-lorraine.fr | ioana.buhnila(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] ) Aman Sinha ( [ mailto:aman.sinha@univ-lorraine.fr | aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr ] )

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CfParticipation: ESSLLI 2025, July 28 - August 8, 2025, Bochum (Germany)
by ESSLLI Publicity 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

We invite you to participate in the 36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), taking place from 28 July - 8 August, 2025 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. https://2025.esslli.eu/ * Overview The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is a yearly recurring event, organized under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), and has been running since 1989. The ESSLLI Summer School provides an interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops are offered in logic, linguistics and computer science, also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. ESSLLI attracts around 400 participants from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, as well as from North America and Latin America. ESSLLI has become the main meeting place for young researchers and students in logic, linguistics and computer science to discuss current research and to share knowledge. The event is unique in its interdisciplinary set-up, with no equivalents in Europe. * Programme The ESSLLI Summer School offers an exciting two-week programme, consisting of the following: - Foundational, introductory and advanced courses in three areas: Language and Computation, Logic and Computation, and Logic and Language - Workshops in logic, linguistics and computer science - Student session - Evening lectures - Social activities The full program can be found on the website. * Registration: Registration for attendees is now open. The early-registration deadline is Saturday, 31st May. https://2025.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html * Accommodation Various options for accommodation at special negotiated rates are listed on the website and available first-come, first-served. We have also set up a dedicated Discord server which can be used for coordinating shared apartments, etc.

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by Kayode V Amusan 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

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[Call for Papers] Developing Models for Linguistic Research: Training Data Usage in Low-Resource Scenarios
by Cristina Garcia Holgado 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

[Call for Papers] Developing Models for Linguistic Research: Training Data Usage in Low-Resource Scenarios 💬 Appel à communications en français : voir fichier joint 💬 Call for papers in english: [ https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Developing_models_for_linguist… | https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Developing_models_for_linguist… ] Workshop at LLcD 2025 This workshop focuses in approaches and limitations to adapting computational models (such as LLMs) for linguistic research in low-resource scenarios. These include under-resourced, minority, and endangered languages, ancient languages, learner corpora, and language disorder corpora. It seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, with the goal of developing best practices, identifying tool limitations, and establishing evaluation guidelines for low-resource linguistic research. 🏙️ Venue and Dates : 1–3 September 2025, Lille, France 📄 Submission Format : Abstract (500 words) 📅 Submission Deadline : 30 March 2025 ➡ Submission Information : [ https://lnkd.in/gKX47Esu | https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7 ] 🌐 Workshop Languages : English and French We invite contributions from researchers working on corpus construction, transcription, annotation, and analysis, as well as computational linguists and NLP specialists. ❓ For inquiries , please contact Natasha Romanova and Aleksandra Miletić (contact details available in the call).

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1st CFP – Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors @ BEA 2025
by Ekaterina Kochmar 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

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

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2nd Call for Participation: SustainEval 2025 - Understanding Sustainability Reports
by Jakob Prange 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

2nd Call for Participation: SustainEval 2025 - Understanding Sustainability Reports We invite system and paper submissions for SustainEval 2025, a GermEval Shared Task co-located with KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany, in September 2025. With this shared task, we aim to fuel research on automatic analysis and detection of greenwashing by challenging participants to build systems that categorize excerpts from German-language sustainability reports for (A) content class and (B) statement verifiability rating. We have just published the development data, so you can go ahead and start building your systems! Data repo: https://github.com/SustainEval/sustaineval2025_data Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 "anywhere on Earth."Development Data Release (270 Instances):12th March 2025Training Data Release (1000 Instances):14th April 2025Registration Deadline / Start Evaluation Phase:10th June 2025System/Results Submission Deadline:27th June 2025System Description Paper Submission Deadline:11th July 2025System papers will be reviewed within 10 days after the submission deadlineCamera-ready Deadline:15th Aug 2025Workshop & Final Presentation: 10th Sept 2025 For more information please refer to the shared task homepage: https://sustaineval.github.io/ If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at sustaineval(a)gmail.com. Best regards and happy holidays, The Shared Task Organizers Jakob Prange, Universität Augsburg (contact for task-specific questions): jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de Charlott Jakob, TU Berlin (contact for organisational questions): c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de Annemarie Friedrich, Universität Augsburg -- Dr. Jakob Prange (er/he) Akademischer Rat auf Zeit / Research Associate Chair for Natural Language Understanding & Digital Humanities (Prof. Friedrich) Faculty for Applied Informatics, University of Augsburg https://jakpra.github.io/

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KONVENS 2025: Submission now open
by Christian Wartena 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

Dear all, We are pleased to inform you that submission for KONVENS 2025 is now open. Papers can be submitted here: https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2025 Further Information can be found on the conference website: https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ 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. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: May 3, 2025 Paper Notification: June 27, 2025 Camera Ready: August 15, 2025 Main Conference: September 10 - 12, 2025 Best whishes Christian Wartena Ulrich Heid Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein]

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Call for Participation: 2nd LLMs4Subjects Shared Task
by D'Souza, Jennifer 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

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

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[CFP] EcoDL 2025: The 1st Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice
by D'Souza, Jennifer 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

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

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2 Postes MCF Section 71, Université de Lille
by Amel Fraisse 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

Chères et chers collègues, L'Université de Lille met au concours deux postes de Maître·sse de conférences en 71e section. Poste "Information, Savoir et Société" (réf. 71 MCF 251968) Poste "Information et Transition Numérique" (réf. 71 MCF 251970) Les deux recrutements relèvent du département Sciences de l’Information et du Document (SID) et du laboratoire GERIICO (ULR 4073). Les fiches complètes des postes sont disponibles ici : https://www.univ-lille.fr/enseignantsetenseignants-chercheurs N’hésitez pas à diffuser ces informations dans vos réseaux. Bien cordialement, <> Amel Fraisse Maitresse de Conférences Directrice Département Sciences de l’information et du Document Université de Lille - ICID - Laboratoire GERiiCO amel.fraisse(a)univ-lille.fr <mailto:prenom.nom@univ-lille.fr> / https://pro.univ-lille.fr/amel-fraisse/ <http://www.univ-lille.fr/> Domaine Universitaire de Pont de Bois - Villeneuve d'Ascq Bât. 2 - bureau B2.467 T. +33 (0)3 20 41 69 38

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Re: 3-year postdoc position in NLP at the University of Oslo
by Lilja Øvrelid 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

(Apologies, this time with the correct link). A position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing is available within MediaFutures:Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation at the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The closing date is April 4th. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276909/postdoctoral-research… Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, Lilja From: Lilja Øvrelid via Corpora <corpora(a)list.elra.info> Reply to: Lilja Øvrelid <liljao(a)ifi.uio.no> Date: Tuesday, 11 March 2025 at 09:31 To: "corpora(a)list.elra.info" <corpora(a)list.elra.info> Cc: "nodali(a)helsinki.fi" <nodali(a)helsinki.fi> Subject: [Corpora-List] 3-year postdoc position in NLP at the University of Oslo A position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing is available within MediaFutures:Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation at the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The closing date is April 4th. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/237075/postdoctoral-research… Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, Lilja

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3-year postdoc position in NLP at the University of Oslo
by Lilja Øvrelid 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

A position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing is available within MediaFutures:Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation at the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The closing date is April 4th. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/237075/postdoctoral-research… Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, Lilja

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Call for Papers: Learner Corpus Research in the AI Era: Perspectives from Asia
by Prof CK Jung 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *Special Issue of The Journal of Asia TEFL *(e-ISSN 2466-1511, ISSN 1738-3102, Indexed in SCOPUS, ESCI) *Learner Corpus Research in the AI Era: Perspectives from Asia* The emergence of generative AI has fundamentally transformed the landscape of corpus linguistics, particularly in the domain of learner corpus research. These powerful technologies are not merely new analytical tools but represent a paradigm shift in how we conceptualise, collect, and interpret learner language data. As large language models become increasingly embedded in language learning environments, researchers must critically examine both the opportunities and challenges they present. In Asian contexts, where technological adoption in education proceeds at remarkable pace, there is an urgent need to investigate how these developments are reshaping our understanding of learner language. This special issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research that explores these transformations from theoretical, methodological and practical perspectives. *1. RESEARCH FOCUS* This special issue invites original contributions that examine how generative AI is reconfiguring learner corpus research. We are particularly interested in empirical studies that demonstrate innovative approaches to corpus compilation, annotation and analysis in the AI era. Successful submissions will offer insights into how corpus linguistics methodologies are adapting to accommodate AI-mediated language learning environments. The integration of AI technologies raises fundamental questions about the nature of learner language itself. How do we distinguish between authentic learner production and AI-assisted output? What new analytical frameworks are required to interpret learner corpora in contexts where AI tools are ubiquitous? How might AI-enhanced analysis reveal patterns in learner language previously undetectable through conventional methods? *Potential topics include:* - Novel approaches to learner corpus compilation and annotation leveraging AI technologies - Methodological innovations in error analysis and pattern identification using AI - Comparative investigations of AI-generated versus authentic learner language - Applications of AI-driven corpus analysis in developing targeted pedagogical interventions - Validity and reliability concerns in corpus research within AI-integrated learning environments - Corpus-informed evaluations of AI feedback systems in language learning contexts *2. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS* We welcome empirical studies, methodological papers, and critical analyses that substantively advance our understanding of learner corpus research in the AI era. Submissions should demonstrate technical rigour while addressing practical implications for language teaching and assessment in Asian contexts. Papers should engage critically with existing corpus linguistics methodologies while proposing adaptations necessary for the AI era. *3. IMPORTANT DATES* - *Abstract Submission Deadline: April 7, 2025* - Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2025 - Full Paper Submission Deadline: November 28, 2025 - Reviews by Reviewers: December 2025 - First Revisions by Authors: January 2026 - Reviews by the Editor: March 2026 - Second Revisions by Authors: April 2026 - Editing for Publishing: April 28 – May 23, 2026 - Expected Publication Date: May 26, 2026 *4. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Abstracts should present a clear articulation of research questions, methodological framework, and the significance of the study to learner corpus research in the AI era. Effective abstracts will demonstrate precision in language and conceptual clarity while highlighting the innovative aspects of the research. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and must be submitted by April 7, 2025 through the following link: *Abstract submission (Deadline: April 7, 2025)*: https://forms.gle/njjoaBCuv4mGnzUz9 *5. FULL PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Authors of accepted abstracts should prepare their manuscripts following The Journal of Asia TEFL guidelines. Full papers must be submitted through the journal's online submission system and will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Successful papers will present compelling evidence and incisive analysis of how AI technologies are transforming corpus linguistics methodologies and applications. Papers should demonstrate meticulous attention to data collection procedures, analytical frameworks, and the implications of findings for both theory and practice in learner corpus research. For inquiries regarding this special issue, please contact the guest editor, CK Jung, at ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr. We look forward to receiving your contributions to this timely exploration of how generative AI is reshaping the field of learner corpus research. *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, South Korea Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, South Korea Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, South Korea Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, UK Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, UK

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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. 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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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