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Story markup languages
by Darren Cook 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

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

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

27 Jan '25

Venue & date: University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025 Plenary speakers: Dr. Loredana Cerrato [1] Senior Consultant, Microsoft Sweden; and EM Lewis-Jong, Director for Mozilla Common Voice [2] Abstract submission deadline: Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00 (noon) GMT Website: https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferen… [3] 'Humans, Machines, Language' (HuMaLa - https://r.jyu.fi/humala [4]) is a cross-disciplinary network for a wide range of linguists, developers, and humanists with different interests in the impact of language technologies that integrate with human senses. Whether you are a tech developer who wants to learn more about linguistics, or a linguist who wants to know more about tech, we want to hear from you! Our inaugural conference theme is: 'Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing'. In addition to technical work (e.g., model description or datasets), we warmly encourage theoretical and empirical studies on the sociolinguistic, ethical, legal, cultural and social implications of language technology adoption. The full call with further background details is on our website (linked above). Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the social media announcement here: https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/post/3lfd5lysvam2o [5] We hope to see you at the conference! All the best, Amal Haddad (on behalf of the committee) -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredana-sundberg-c… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXt… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-l… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r.jyu.fi/humala__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!UHnJy4r… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/pos…

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

26 Jan '25

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

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

26 Jan '25

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

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

25 Jan '25

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

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

25 Jan '25

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

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

25 Jan '25

*** Second Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: March 7, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: April 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: May 16, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: TBA The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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ICLC-11: 3rd Call for Abstracts
by alexandr.rosen＠ff.cuni.cz 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '25

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

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

24 Jan '25

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

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

24 Jan '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: Speaker: Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) Title: Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 15:00 CET Summary: Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. Bio: Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. Upcoming webinars: · Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) · Christian Herff (Thursday, March 6, 2025) · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Text2Story'25@ECIR Deadline Extension
by Hugo Sousa 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

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

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

23 Jan '25

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

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

22 Jan '25

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

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

22 Jan '25

Dear all, We are offering a series of free webinars, which discuss different opportunities to study corpus linguistics at Lancaster University (UK): online short courses, online PG Certificate, online MA Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF Free online event organised by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK. The event will take place online via MS Teams. 30 January 2025, 2-3pm UK time 27 February 2025, 11am-12pm UK time 2 April 2025, 2-3pm UK time 11 June 2025, 10-11am UK time The webinar will provide an introduction to the corpus linguistics programmes available for study at Lancaster University. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the programmes, ask questions, and gain insights into the application process. More about Corpus Linguistics programmes (MA, PgCert, short courses): https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/masters-level/corpus-linguistics-di… Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB6CD1.6436A8B0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB6CD1.6436A8B0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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

22 Jan '25

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

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

22 Jan '25

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

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

22 Jan '25

We offer several fully funded four-year PhD positions at the Language Faculty at Uppsala University. One position is in Computational Linguistics, with a specialization in Nordic Languages. This position requires knowledge of a Scandinavian language and will be carried out as part of the research project "Language change and non-fictional texts – a large-scale investigation of Late Modern Swedish (1800–1950)”, led by Sara Stymne and David Håkansson One PhD position in computational linguistics with a specialization in Scandinavian languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, UFV-PA 2024/4415<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:781989/> Several positions are focused on projects related to linguistic diversity and are open to students in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, as well as other language subjects. Five PhD positions on the theme of linguistic diversity at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, UFV-PA 2024/4412<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:781937/> One PhD position on the theme of linguistic diversity within any research environment at the faculty, UFV-PA 2025/18<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:785710/> There are also several positions in several other language subjects. https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=… Application for all positions closes on March 3. Best, Sara När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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[2nd CFP] Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese (JBCS)
by Aline Paes 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

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

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

21 Jan '25

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

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

20 Jan '25

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

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

20 Jan '25

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

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

20 Jan '25

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

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

20 Jan '25

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

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

20 Jan '25

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

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

19 Jan '25

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

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

18 Jan '25

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

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

17 Jan '25

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

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

16 Jan '25

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

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Argument Mining Workshop @ ACL 2025: First Call for Papers
by Lapesa, Gabriella 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th Workshop on Argument Mining @ ACL 2025 July 31, 2025 https://argmining-org.github.io/2025/ The 12th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on July 31, 2025, in Viena, 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 Paper commitment from ARR: May 21, 2025 Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: June 4, 2025 Workshop: July 31, 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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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #14
by Costas Gabrielatos 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 24 January 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT). Topic: Corpus Methodology, Multi-Dimensional Analysis Elen Le Foll <https://elenlefoll.eu/> (University of Cologne, Germany): Modelling Textbook English using a Modified Multi-Feature/Dimensional Analysis (MDA) Framework The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 22 January. 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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[CFP] ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop
by ACL Announcements 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

CALL FOR PAPERS Student Research Workshop co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Main Conference: July 27 to August 1, 2025 _Paper Submission Deadline: May 18th, 2025_ Submission link for the workshop is now available here [1] ABOUT THE STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP The ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community. The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, including highschool, undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research. We are recruiting mentors to give feedback and guidance on student papers! (It will begin in May, 2025, More Information here [2].) Please fill out the form [3] if you are interested! Also, we are seeking reviewers. If you are interested, please fill out this form [4]. Follow us on X/Twitter [5] for the latest updates! GENERAL RULES FOR SUBMISSION We invite papers in two different categories: * Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work. * Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author MUST BE a current student (high school, graduate, or undergraduate). Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main ACL 2025 conference [6]. Submissions (in both categories) may be archival or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the ACL 2025 SRW Proceedings. Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future except for another SRW. WHY SUBMIT TO ACL SRW? There are many good reasons to submit to the ACL SRW, such as: * Mentorship program: ACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and to improve their work through a pre-submission mentorship program. * Improving your publication record: publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a MSc/MA student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an ACL SRW workshop can be really helpful for improving students' publication record. * Explorative Studies: We encourage the submission of studies with positive and negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method succeeds and fails. All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented either as oral presentations or during poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors. PRE-SUBMISSION MENTORSHIP PROGRAM The SRW offers students the opportunity to receive feedback prior to submitting their work for review. The goal of the pre-submission mentorship program is to improve the quality of writing and presentation of the student's work, not to critique the work itself. Participation is optional but encouraged. The pre-submission mentorship is not anonymous. Students wishing to participate in the pre-submission mentorship must submit their paper draft by March 27, 2025. Note that even though the mentoring is not done anonymously, the paper needs to be anonymized. We will check for the formality of the paper including formatting before we match it with mentors. The participants will be assigned a mentor who will review and will provide feedback within four weeks. This mentor will not be the same person who will review the final submission. The feedback will be in the form of guidelines and suggestions to improve the overall writing, which should ideally be incorporated before the actual submission deadline. You CAN submit a paper at the SRW submission deadline even if you did not participate in the pre-submission mentoring. If you did submit a draft for pre-submission mentoring, you will need to make a new submission for the final version of the paper. The submission website will have separate tracks for pre-submission mentorship and the final paper submission. IMPORTANT DATES * Pre-submission mentoring deadline: March 27, 2025 * Pre-submission feedback: May 1, 2025 * Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2025 * Review deadline: June 6, 2025 * Acceptance notifications: June 21, 2025 * Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2025 * ACL 2023 conference dates: July 28-30, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS We accept both archival submissions (which will be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (which will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings). All submissions (archival and non-archival) must follow the anonymity period and the restrictions of the main conference. Long papers consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages). Short papers consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material like the appendix. Upon acceptance, papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages). Authors are encouraged to use the additional page to address reviewers' comments. Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available as an Overleaf template [7] and also downloadable [8] directly (Latex and Word). We strongly encourage participants to use the Latex template. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files. The review process will be double-blind, and thus all submissions must be anonymized. The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to the following: * Computational Social Science and Social Media * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Ethics and NLP * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics, and Beyond * Large Language Models * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation and Multilinguality * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical * Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual - Inference, and Other Areas * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech and Multimodality * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing * Thesis Proposals GRANTS We expect to have grants to offset some portion of students' travel, conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted on the SRW website. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at: acl2025-srw(a)googlegroups.com STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Zhu Liu [9], Tsinghua University (China) * Mingyang Wang [10], LMU Munich (Germany) * Jin Zhao [11], Brandeis University (USA) Links: ------ [1] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/SRW&referrer=%5BHomepag… [2] https://acl2025-srw.github.io/mentoring [3] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScX5CVH3o5_cSvuJvNZJADX1_Mw6PeOu5M… [4] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHqPd2XH23iTxnvkNA5nNamKVbtQSDF-Z… [5] https://x.com/acl_srw [6] https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ [7] https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr [8] https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates [9] https://juniperliuzhu.netlify.app/ [10] https://mingyang-wang26.github.io/ [11] https://jinzhao3611.github.io/

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Second CFP-DravidianLangTech-2025 at NAACL 2025
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (DravidianLangTech-2025) at NAACL 2025* *Call for Papers :* DravidianLangTech-2025 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any Dravidian languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, Badaga, Beary, Betta Kurumba, Bharia, Bishavan, Brahui, Chenchu, Duruwa, Eravallan, Gondi, Holiya, Irula, Jeseri, Kadar, Kaikadi, Kalanadi, Kanikkaran, Khiwar, Kodava, Kolami, Konda, Koraga, Kota, Koya, Kurambhag Paharia, Kui, Kumbaran, Kunduvadi, Kurichiya, Kurukh, Kurumba, Kuvi, Madiya, Mala Malasar, Malankuravan, Malapandaram, Malasar, Malto, Manda, Muduga, Mullu Kurumba, Muria, Muthuvan, Naiki, Ollari, Paliyan, Paniya, Pardhan, Pathiya, Pattapu, Pengo, Ravula, Sholaga, Thachanadan, Toda, Wayanad Chetti, and Yerukala) that contributes to research in language processing, speech technologies or resources for the same. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field. This comprehensive call for papers invites submissions on critical topics related to hate speech, offensive language, misinformation, and content safety in social media and online environments, especially as they pertain to Dravidian languages. Researchers are encouraged to explore innovative methods for detecting and mitigating various forms of harmful content, such as political hate speech, offensive language, and AI-generated misinformation, with a focus on cross-lingual and multimodal approaches that integrate text, images, and video. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* · Detection of Political Hate Speech in social media · Multimodal Hate Speech Detection Across Text, Image, and Video Content · AI-Generated Content Detection and Mitigation in Online Media · Corpus Development for Hate Speech Detection in Multilingual Contexts · Identifying Offensive Language in Political Discourse on Social Platforms · Cross-Modal Techniques for Multimodal Hate Speech Detection · Fake News and Rumor Detection in Dravidian Language Media · Emotion Analysis and Sentiment Detection in Hate Speech · Cyberbullying and Hostility Detection for Safer Online Environments · Disinformation and Misinformation Detection in Political Speech · Racial and Religious Abuse Detection Using Multimodal Approaches · Automated Detection of AI-Generated Harmful Content · Social Contagion of Hate Speech in Online Political Discussions · Accent and Emotion Recognition in Dravidian Language Speech · Social Bias Detection in AI-Generated Text · Sexism and Misogynistic Attitudes in Multimodal Online Content · Detection of Violent Incidents in social media Using Multimodal Data · Phonology and Morphology in Dravidian Language Processing · Document and Image Analysis for Hate Speech Detection in social media *Important dates* - *Workshop paper Submission deadline: January 30, 2025 * - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: February 20, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025 - Camera-ready paper due: March 10, 2025 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): April 8, 2025 - Workshop dates: May 3-4, 2025 Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/DravidianLan… Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-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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Final CfP: 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
by Anna Kazantseva 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

LaTeCH-CLfL 2025: The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held on May 3rd or 4th, 2025 in conjunction with NAACL 2025 <https://2025.naacl.org/> in Albuquerque, NM. https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2025/ Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organisers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 is the ninth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) ran ten times in 2007-2016. The five Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place in 2012-2016. The first eight joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held in 2017-2024. Topics and content In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation). Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature; • automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data; • complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces; • creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources; • creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters; • discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature; • emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature; • generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; • identification and analysis of literary genres; • interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI); • linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains; • low-resource and historical language processing; • modelling dialogue literary style for generation; • modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage; • profiling and authorship attribution; • search for scientific and/or scholarly literature; • work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language. Information for authors We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers. • Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. • A short paper / demo presenting work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. • A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word) available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 submission website on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it). Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used. Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/LaTeCH-CLfL2025/ Important dates (tentative) Workshop paper due: January 30, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025 Workshop date: May 3rd or 4th, 2025 More on the organizers Diego Alves, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University Yuri Bizzoni, Center for Humanities Computing / School for Communication and Culture, Århus University Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council Canada Janis Pagel, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa Contact latech-clfl(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:latech-clfl@googlegroups.com>

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Call for Participation: Slav-NLP Shared Task: Analysis of Persuasion Techniques — in Parliamentary Debates and Social Media, for Slavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '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, whereas 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 max. 5 system responses per language are allowed. 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

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January 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

In this newsletter: Renew your LDC membership today New publications: Iraqi Arabic - English Lexical Database<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025L01> LORELEI Hungarian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T01> ________________________________ Renew your LDC membership today The importance of curated resources for language-related education, research, and technology development drives LDC's mission to create them, to accept data contributions from researchers across the globe, and to broadly share such resources through the LDC Catalog. LDC members enjoy no-cost access to new corpora released annually, as well as the ability to license legacy data sets from among our 960+ holdings at reduced fees. Ensure that your data needs continue to be met by renewing your LDC membership or by joining the Consortium today. Now through March 3, 2025, 2024 members receive a 10% discount on 2025 membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5% discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for more details on membership options and benefits. ________________________________ New publications: Iraqi Arabic - English Lexical Database<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025L01> was developed by LDC. It has six interrelated tables presenting over 67,000 Iraqi Arabic words as orthographic forms in Arabic script and pronunciation forms in IPA format, along with more than 120,000 English tokens. This release is the result of a collaboration with Georgetown University Press <https://press.georgetown.edu/> to enhance and update three dialectal Arabic dictionaries -- Iraqi, Moroccan, and Syrian -- originally published in the 1960s. The Georgetown Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic<https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Georgetown-Dictionary-of-Iraqi-Arabic> was published in 2013. That work was based on, and expanded, two dictionaries, A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic: English-Arabic (Clarity, Stowasser, and Wolfe, eds., 2003) and A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic: Arabic-English (Woodhead and Beene, eds., 2003). The several enhancements developed by LDC in the updated and enhanced dictionary and the lexical database included facilitating comparisons across Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic by providing Arabic script spellings and IPA pronunciations to Iraqi words and phrases; promoting ease of use by language learners and researchers by developing reasonable orthographic conventions for applying the Arabic alphabet to the dialect; and facilitating a user's understanding of morphological and lexical relations by adding information on the linguistic structures of Iraqi Arabic. The documentation accompanying this release includes instructions for combining into one database the tables in this corpus with the tables in Moroccan Arabic - English Lexical Database LDC2023L01.<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023L01> 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Hungarian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T01> is comprised of over 686 million words of Hungarian monolingual text, 165,000 words of which were translated into English, 2.3 million words of found Hungarian-English parallel text, and 87,000 Hungarian words translated from English data. Approximately 72,500 words were annotated for named entities and over 25,000 words were annotated for full entity (including nominals and pronouns), entity linking and situation frames (identifying entities, needs and issues); over 17,000 words have simple semantic annotation; and close to 10,000 words were annotated for noun phrase chunking. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 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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EUROCALL 2025: CfP
by Passarotti Marco Carlo (marco.passarotti) 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

The call for papers for EUROCALL 2025 is out. See: https://eurocall2025.com/call-for-papers/ EUROCALL is the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning. The conference will be held in Milan at Università Cattolica on 27-30 August 2025. IMPORTANT DATES 01 December 2024: first call for papers mid December 2024: submission opens 03 February 2025: submission of abstracts closes 21 February 2025: deadline to sign up as reviewer of abstracts on OpenConf w/c 24th February/ 3rd March 2025: reviews assigned 31 March 2025: deadline for completion of all reviews 14 April 2025: notification to authors 15 April - 15 June 2025: early bird registration 16 June 2025 - 16 July 2025: ordinary conference registration 27-30 August 2025: EUROCALL 2025 Best, Marco Prof. Marco C. Passarotti Computational Linguistics Index Thomisticus Treebank https://itreebank.marginalia.it/ ERC Grantee, P.I. LiLa https://lila-erc.eu/ (Grant Agreement No. 769994) CIRCSE Research Centre https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html [cropped-europe-flag.png] [cropped-erc_high_res.png] [cropped-lila-logo-9.png] Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli, 1 20123 Milan, Italy marco.passarotti(a)unicatt.it tel. +39-02-72342380 [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille_firma_mail_2023.jpg] <https://www.unicatt.it/uc/5xmille>

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Postdoc in TrustLLM project at Linköping University
by Marcel Bollmann 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

The NLP group at Linköping University<https://liu-nlp.ai/>, Sweden, is looking for a Postdoc in Natural Language Processing within the EU-funded TrustLLM project on developing open, trustworthy, and factual large language models. The position is full-time (100%) for a fixed term of two years, with the potential of an extension to a total of three years, and comes without teaching obligation. Starting date is by agreement, but ideally as soon as possible. Research areas include language adaptation and modularisation of LLMs, tokenization for multilingual LLMs, as well as evaluation of relevant qualities (e.g. trustworthiness, factuality) in multilingual LLMs. For more information about this position and how to apply, see: https://liu-nlp.ai/postdoc-trustllm-2025/ The application deadline is 2025-02-05. Please do not hesitate to contact me for details and discussion! Best regards, Marcel -- Marcel Bollmann, Dr. phil. Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden www: https://marcel.bollmann.me/

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[CFP] ACL 2025 Call for Papers (second)
by ACL Announcements 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

ACL 2025 Call for Papers Main Conference ACL 2025 Website: https://2025.aclweb.org/ Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025 Conference Dates: July 27 to August 1, 2025 Location: Vienna, Austria Special Theme: “Generalization of NLP Models” Contact: Roberto Navigli (General Chair) Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Ekaterina Shutova (Program Chairs) Overview ACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. ACL 2025 has a goal of a diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Papers submitted to ACL 2025, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Paper Submission Information Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 February cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025 February cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to ACL 2025 via the conference commitment site (TBA). Submission Topics ACL 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Generation Human-centered NLP Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Modeling Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Machine Learning for NLP Machine Translation Multilinguality and Language Diversity Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond NLP Applications Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding Summarization Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models ACL 2025 Theme Track: Generalization of NLP Models Following the success of the ACL 2020-2024 Theme tracks, we are happy to announce that ACL 2025 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting and stimulating discussion about the current state of development of the field of NLP. Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly, reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically important for models used in real-world applications, as they should emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various dimensions—compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness? What factors affect the generalization of NLP models? What are the most effective methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models? While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in this regard? The theme track submissions can be either long or short. We anticipate having a special session for this theme at the conference and a Thematic Paper Award in addition to other categories of awards. Two-Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to ACL 2025 ACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process: Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and area chairs; Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., ACL 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. ACL 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2024 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. Mandatory Reviewing Workload As the pace of research in the field continues to increase, we need to strengthen the commitment to reviewing for each paper submission. During the ARR submission process, authors will be required to specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in this reviewing cycle. Please see the new ARR policy regarding reviewing workload here. As this is an ARR-wide policy for all *CL conferences, questions or clarifications should be addressed to ARR directly. Important Dates: Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR): February 15, 2025 ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of the February cycle: April 15, 2025 Commitment deadline for ACL 2025: April 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2025 Withdrawal deadline: May 30, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2025 Tutorials: July 27, 2025 Conference: July 28 - 30, 2025 Workshops: July 31 - August 1, 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Paper Submission Details Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements at https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp, including: Long Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages): Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review: Authorship Citation and Comparison Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, and Withdrawal Policy Ethics Policy including the responsible NLP research checklist Limitations Paper Submission and Templates Optional Supplementary Materials Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments. Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., ACL 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected ACL 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to ACL 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than ACL 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to ACL 2025. Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters.

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Call for participation: MultiLexNorm 2: Multilingual Lexical Normalization
by Rob van der Goot 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

Dear all, Today, the data freeze of the MultiLexNorm 2 shared task is in effect. As defined in the previous iteration of the task, lexical normalization is: The task of transforming an utterance into its standard form, word by word, including both one-to-many (1-n) and many-to-one (n-1) replacements. This time, the focus is on non-Indo-European languages. We have manged to obtain (new) datasets for: Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean. More information can be found on: https://noisy-text.github.io/2025/multi-lexnorm.html# Deadlines: Data available: Nov 15, 2024 Data freeze: Jan 14, 2025 Test data: Jan 25, 2025 Final Evaluation: Feb 07, 2025 Paper deadline: Feb 25, 2025 Paper reviewed: Mar 01, 2025 Camera ready: Mar 10, 2025 Workshop: May 03, 2025 (TBD) Best, The organizers

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Call for Participation: CHiPSAL-COLING-2025
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

*Call for Participation* *First workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2025)Co-located with the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)* *Virtual* *January 19, 2025 8.30 AM - 3.00 PM (GMT +4)* *Accepted papers - *https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/accepted-papers *W**orkshop program** -* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/workshop-program *Workshop Website - https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/ <https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/>* Please join us! We are excited to engage with the research community in advancing NLP for South Asian languages and fostering meaningful collaborations. *Why CHiPSAL?* South Asia, with over 1.97 billion people, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions globally, home to 700+ languages and 25+ major scripts. This region is rich in cultural and linguistic heritage but faces significant challenges in natural language processing (NLP). These include encoding and orthographic issues, resource constraints, linguistic complexities, dialectal diversity, and more. *CHiPSAL* addresses these challenges and advances NLP research for South Asian languages while fostering collaborations across linguistic, technical, and cultural domains. *Organizing Chairs:* Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal Sana Shams, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA *Program Committee Members (alphabetical order):*A M Abirami, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India. Abhai Pratap Singh, Amazon, USA. Akaash Vishal Hazarika, Splunk, USA. Aloka Fernando, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Aman Shakya,Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Anitha Dhakshina Moorthy, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India. Ann Sinthusha Anton Vijeevaraj, University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany. Ashwini Vaidya, IIT Delhi, India. Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Nepal. Balaram Prasain, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Bareera Sadia, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Brinda Gurusamy, Cisco, USA. Buddhika Karunarathne, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Eugene Y A Charles, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Farah Adeeba, University of Engineering and Technology, KSK, Pakistan. Farhan Jafri, Jamia Millia Islamia, India. Gihan Dias, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. H N D Thilini, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Hariram Veeramani, UCLA, USA. Hassan Sajjad, Dalhousie University, Canada. Jayeeta Putatunda, Fitch Ratings, USA. Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Krishna Chalise, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Kritesh Rauniyar, IIMS College, Nepal. Lekhnath Pathak, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, CMU, USA. Mahak Shah, Columbia University, USA. Manjunath Chandrashekaraiah, Astera Labs, USA. Menan Velayuthan, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Munief Tahir, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Parameswari Krishnamurthy,IIIT Hyderabad, India. Paritosh Katre, PayPal, USA. Prakash Poudyal, Kathmandu University, Nepal. Preetish Kakkar, Adobe, USA. Qurat-ul-Ain Akram, University of Engineering and Technology, KSK, Pakistan. Randil Pushpananda, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Sahar Rauf, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Sana Shams, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore Pakistan. Shuvam Shiwakoti, Virginia Tech, USA. Siddhant Bikram Shah, Northeastern University, USA. Sinnathamby Mahesan, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Suganya Ramamoorthy, Vellore Institute of Technology University, India. Surabhi Adhikari, Columbia University, USA. Surangika Ranathunga, Massey University, New Zealand. Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA. Tafseer Ahmed, Alexa Translations, Canada. Toqeer Ehsan, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates. Usman Naseem, Macquarie University, Australia. Uthayasanker Thayasivam, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Vijayrajsinh Gohil, New York University, USA. *Volunteers (alphabetical order):* Ahrane Mahaganapathy, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Menan Velayuthan, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Suthakar Sivashanth, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Thank you -- *Dr Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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

13 Jan '25

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

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

13 Jan '25

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

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

13 Jan '25

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

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

13 Jan '25

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

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

13 Jan '25

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

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EURALEX Talks
by Iztok Kosem 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

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

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

13 Jan '25

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

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

13 Jan '25

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

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

10 Jan '25

Second Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline: Jan 31 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany 22-24 September 2025 https://iwcs2025.github.io/ IWCS is a biennial conference on computational semantics. This year's edition is organized by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The conference is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. The aim of IWCS is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation, and learning of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference and workshops will take place 22-24 September 2025. === WORKSHOP PROPOSALS === We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IWCS 2025. Accepted workshops will have the option to publish their proceedings in the ACL Anthology. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Workshops are invited on these closely related areas, including the following: * design of meaning representations * syntax-semantics interface * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics * distributional semantics * alternative approaches to compositional semantics * inference methods for computational semantics * recognizing textual entailment * learning by reading * methodologies and practices for semantic annotation * machine learning of semantic structures * probabilistic computational semantics * neural semantic parsing * computing meaning with large language models * computational aspects of lexical semantics * semantics and ontologies * semantic web and natural language processing * semantic aspects of language generation * generating from meaning representations * semantic relations in discourse and dialogue * semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts * multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning * semantics-pragmatics interface * applications of computational semantics === FINANCES === Workshops must cover their own costs for invited speakers as well as organizers' traveling costs. === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Proposals for workshops should contain: * A title and brief (max two pages) description of the workshop topic and content; * The names, affiliation and email addresses of the organisers; * An estimate of the expected audience size; * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted and how many attendees the workshop attracted; * Whether you plan a half-day or full-day workshop; * Whether or not the workshop proceedings should be published in the ACL Anthology. Proposals should be submitted on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/SIGSEM/IWCS/2025/Workshop_Propos… The person submitting the proposal will need an OpenReview account. Please note OpenReview's moderation policy, where newly created accounts with an institutional email address are approved automatically, but other email addresses can take up to two weeks to approve. === IMPORTANT DATES === 31 January 2025 Workshop proposal submissions due 07 February 2025 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance 24 September 2025 Workshop date === CONTACT === For questions, contact: iwcs2025-program-chairs(a)uni-duesseldorf.de Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Sylvain Pogodalla (the IWCS 2025 program chairs) -- Dr. Kilian Evang · Institut für Linguistik · Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 · 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany · https://kilian.evang.name

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

09 Jan '25

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

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GermEval 2025 Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection: Call for Participation
by michael.wiegand＠univie.ac.at 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

apologies for cross-posting We are pleased to announce the *GermEval Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection („Flausch-Erkennung“)* This is the first call to participate in the shared task on candy speech detection („Flausch-Erkennung“). We invite everyone from academia and industry to participate in the shared task. The workshop discussing the results of this shared task is planned to be held in conjunction with the Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) in September 2025. *Introduction* Numerous methods have been developed for detecting and censoring negative speech (e.g., hate speech or offensive or harmful language) on social media platforms. However, there is much less focus on identifying and promoting positive supportive discourse in online communities. Our shared task aims to address this gap and encourage researchers to focus on such positive expressions. The task is to identify expressions of candy speech (Flausch) in online posts (YouTube comments). We define candy speech as an expression of positive attitudes in social media toward individuals or their output (videos, comments, etc.). The purpose of candy speech is to encourage, cheer up, support and empower others. It can be viewed as the counterpart to hate speech, as it also aims to influence the self-image of the target person or group, but in a positive way. *Data* We will provide the participants with annotated training (and development) and unlabeled test datasets containing complete written, German language comment threads under YouTube videos posted by different content creators. The content creators and communities vary in topic, style, age group, etc. The test data and training data do not overlap wrt. to the original content creator of the video – the communities commenting on the videos can therefore be expected to differ. *Task Details* Candy speech detection is the task of identifying the presence of candy speech (at the span level) in a given YouTube comment thread and classifying each expression in one of the predefined categories. This shared task focuses on German speaking YouTube communities. Participants will be provided with a dataset of YouTube comments manually annotated for different types of candy speech expressions. We offer the following two subtasks. Participants in this year's shared task may choose to participate in either subtask: Subtask 1: Coarse-Grained Classification The goal of this subtask is to identify whether the given comment contains candy speech ("Flausch") or not. The dataset is manually annotated for the presence of candy speech. Subtask 2: Fine-Grained Classification The goal of this subtask is to identify the span of each candy speech expression in a given text and classify it in one of the predefined categories. The dataset is manually annotated for 10 different types of candy speech expressions, such as “positive feedback”, “compliment”, “group membership” etc. More details on the subtasks (including examples) can be found at the website of the shared task (see link below). *Important dates* Trial data available: February 15, 2025 Training data available: March 3, 2025 Test data available: May 17, 2025 Evaluation start: June 16, 2025 Evaluation end: June 27, 2025 Paper submission due: July 11, 2025 Camera ready due: August 15, 2025 GermEval workshop: September 8 or 12, 2025 (co-located with KONVENS) *Website* https://yuliacl.github.io/GermEval2025-Flausch-Erkennung/ *GermEval* GermEval is a series of shared task evaluation campaigns that focus on Natural Language Processing for the German language. GermEval has been conducted regularly since 2014 in co-location with KONVENS/GSCL conferences: https://germeval.github.io/tasks/ *contact email* Please send any enquiry to the following email address: germeval-2025-candy-speech(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de Best regards, Yulia Clausen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Michael Wiegand, Universität Wien, Austria

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3rd CFP: Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ NAACL 2025
by Paul Thompson 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

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

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PhD Position in NLP at the University of Marburg
by daniel.braun＠uni-marburg.de 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Dear all, The newly established research group on Natural Language Processing at the University of Marburg is seeking applications for a position as Doctoral Researcher in one of the research areas of the group, which include: Methods and Applications of Natural Language Processing, Perspectivism and Disagreement in NLP, AI for Social Good, Legal Tech and NLP Evaluation. The position is offered for a period of 3 years. The starting date is as soon as possible. The position is fulltime with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13). Application deadline is the 19th of January. For more information and to apply please visit: https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/b26cbcb09d3e6c83dbdbab7def 555c7ec1843b040 Regards Daniel

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PostDoc in NLP: Multilingual Coreference Resolution
by michael.strube＠h-its.org 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Dear all, HITS is looking for a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing (m/f/x) to perform research in multilingual coreference resolution. Application deadline: January 15th, 2025. Starting date (negotiable): March 1st, 2025. Please see for details https://www.h-its.org/hits-job/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-language-… If you have further questions please don't hesitate to contact Michael Strube at michael.strube(a)h-its.org. With best regards, Michael Strube -- Michael Strube NLP Group HITS gGmbH Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35 69118 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.h-its.org/nlp

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[Job] Research Assistant: Knowledge-Graphs for Advanced Search Engines
by khalid.alkhatib＠rug.nl 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

We are seeking applications for a fully-funded one-year Research Assistant position in Computational Linguistics, focusing on developing Argumentation Knowledge Graphs for advanced search engines. The project aims to create structured, multi-perspective knowledge graphs to enhance search engines with reliable, balanced, and credible content, addressing challenges like information overload and misinformation. Conducted in collaboration with OpenWebSearch.EU, the project provides access to high-quality open data and enables integration into search interfaces, delivering trustworthy, diverse perspectives to support well-informed decision-making. https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0…

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Deadline extended - TheWebConf 2025 workshop on Protecting Women Online
by Debora Nozza 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM TSWWW 2025 Towards a Safer Web for Women - First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online co-located with The Web Conference 2025 Sydney, Australia 28 April - 2 May 2025 https://tsww25.github.io/ ******************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINES (all deadlines are AoE) ******************************************************************** 21st January 2025 22nd December 2024: Workshop paper submission deadline 27th January 2025: Notification of acceptance ******************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ The workshop is dedicated to addressing the pressing issue of online violence against women by fostering dialogue and innovation. The workshop will explore global challenges and solutions for gender-based violence and the impact of online harms on women, among others. We aim to encourage the development of technological and interdisciplinary frameworks and innovations to ensure women's online safety. The workshop aims to review progress in approaches combating online violence against women, identify persistent barriers, and propose solutions to emerging challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Detection and prevention of gender-based online violence (e.g., harassment, stalking, cyberbullying) * Sentiment and emotion analysis in abusive or harmful online interactions towards women * Gender bias identification and mitigation in AI * Human-centered approaches for online safety applications * Approaches to preventing, understanding, identifying and mitigating online harms faced by women with multiple marginalised identities (e.g., misogynoir, LGBTQ+ women, or women from religious or cultural minorities) * Analysis of tracking devices, surveillance tools, and hidden cameras misused against women * Detection and mitigation of non-consensual deepfake generation and dissemination * Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing online harm * Legal and ethical frameworks for protecting women online * Psychological, social, and legal impacts of online technology when used for gender-based abuse PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ We welcome both new and recent research, including non-archival submissions to showcase work published elsewhere, if it is especially relevant to the workshop's theme. Accepted formats include: * Long papers: Maximum 8 pages (excluding references) * Short papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Position, idea, and emerging problem papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Non-archival submissions: Up to 2 pages (excluding references) All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsww25 For full details, visit our Call for Papers page. Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants. Accepted papers (except for non-archival submissions) will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ____________________ Workshop chairs: * Ángel Pavón Pérez, The Open University * Miriam Fernandez, The Open University * Tracie Farrell, The Open University * Debora Nozza, Bocconi University * Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne

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Second call: Reading Concordances Training Day & Symposium @ FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg 19–21 March 2025
by Dykes, Nathan 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

The team of the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century project (RC21) is inviting you to two events on concordance reading that will take place at FAU in Erlangen, Germany. Both events are **free**, but places are limited, so please register early. Thu 20 & Fri 21 March 2025 – RC21 Symposium with poster session Join us for a two-day symposium with talks by guest speakers and the project team. The talks will cover methodology, theory, and applications of concordance reading. The symposium also includes a poster session, where participants can present their own research. Submission for the poster session is open until 31 January 2025. The following speakers will be presenting at the symposium: Laurence Anthony<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/laurence-anthony-ph-d-2/>, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Nathan Dykes<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/nathan-dykes/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Stephanie Evert<https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/prof-dr-stephanie-evert/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Ulrich Heid<https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/iwist/mitglieder/heid/>, Hildesheim University, Germany Susan Hunston<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/hunston-susan>, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Marc Kupietz<https://www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/personal/kupietz/>, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany Michaela Mahlberg<https://michaelamahlberg.com/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Alexander Piperski<https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/alexander-piperski/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Patricia Ronan<https://islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/ronan/>, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Charlotte Taylor<https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor>, University of Sussex, England Yukio Tono<https://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/english/tono_yukio.html>, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Valentin Werner<https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/personen/werner/>, University of Bamberg, Germany Viola Wiegand<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1844219>, University of Stirling, UK Wed 19 March 2025 – RC21 Training Day The Concordance Reading Training Day, which precedes the symposium, will include hands-on sessions on different aspects of concordance reading. Participants need to bring their own devices for the event. Deadline for registration: 19 February 2025 Deadline for submission of poster abstracts: 31 January 2025 The events are part of the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century project jointly funded by the AHRC and the DFG. For more information and registration details: https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-concordances-in-the-21st-century-rc21/… The RC21 team is looking forward to welcoming you to FAU! Stephanie Evert, Michaela Mahlberg, Nathan Dykes, Sasha Piperski

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Call for Participation: CoLiE at ICDAR'25
by Hugo Sousa 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Apologies for cross-posting Call for Participation: ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE) We are pleased to announce the ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE), which aims to push the boundaries of temporal text analysis by challenging participants to develop state-of-the-art methods for dating literary texts. The competition focuses on leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) techniques to predict the time periods in which texts were written. Overview The CoLiE competition offers two main tasks to address temporal classification and the understanding of historical texts: Task 1: Literary Epochs Classification Competition Page: Task 1 <https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task1> This task focuses on classifying texts based on literary epochs and their subdivisions: Sub-task 1.1: Classification of texts into six major literary epochs: Classicism (1660-1798) Romanticism (1798-1837) Victorian Literature (1837-1901) Modernism (1900-1945) Postmodernism (1945-2000) Contemporary (from 2000) Sub-task 1.2: Classification of texts into epoch subdivisions: Early: First quarter of the epoch Middle: Middle half of the epoch Late: Final quarter of the epoch Note: Epoch lengths vary, with Classicism, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism divided into three periods, while Contemporary has only two periods. Task 2: ChronoText Classification Competition Page: Task 2 <https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task2> This task addresses temporal granularity: Sub-task 2.1: Identifying the century of origin for a given text. Sub-task 2.2: Pinpointing the specific decade within that century when the text was composed. Participation We invite researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from the IR and NLP communities to participate in this exciting competition. Important Dates December 17, 2024: Competition website live. Training and validation sets with labels available. April 1, 2025: Test dataset available. April 8, 2025: Competition deadline. May 1, 2025: Submission of competition reports. May 16, 2025: Camera-ready paper submission. June 30, 2025: Winners announced. September 17-21, 2025: Results presented at the ICDAR conference. How to Participate Visit our website: https://colie.pro/ Familiarize yourself with the tasks, rules, datasets, and evaluation metrics. Submit your results through the Kaggle platform. Contact For inquiries, contact the organizers at: colie2025.competition(a)gmail.com <mailto:colie2025.competition@gmail.com> Organizers Marina Litvak, SCE (marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il <mailto:marinal@ac.sce.ac.il>) Irina Rabaev, SCE (irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il <mailto:irinar@ac.sce.ac.il>) Ricardo Campos, University of Beira Interior, INESC TEC (ricardo.campos(a)ubi.pt <mailto:ricardo.campos@ubi.pt>) Alípio Jorge, University of Porto, INESC TEC (amjorge(a)fc.up.pt <mailto:amjorge@fc.up.pt>) Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck (adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at <mailto:adam.jatowt@uibk.ac.at>) Roza Bass, SCE (rozzaba(a)ac.sce.ac.il <mailto:rozzaba@ac.sce.ac.il>) Hugo Sousa, University of Porto, INESC TEC (hugo.sousa(a)fc.up.pt <mailto:hugo.sousa@fc.up.pt>)

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[2nd CfP] "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies"
by Leszek Szymański 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Dear Colleagues,this is the 2nd call for papers!We invite submissions to the "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 2" international linguistics conference that will be held on April 3-4, 2025, at the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Zielona Góra, Poland, in a hybrid mode. More information can be found on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/.The conference is organized under the honorary patronage of the Polish Linguistic Society, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025!Thank you!Leszek Szymański

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starting 15 January: Open Advanced methods in corpus linguistics research group
by Brezina, Vaclav 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Dear all, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University offers an Open Advanced Methods in Corpus Linguistics research group, which meets fortnightly online/in person. We start on Wed 15 January 12-12.50pm UK time. This is an informal meeting space for exchange of ideas on corpus linguistics, methodology and science. This term we will be discussing: Fundamental principles of (social) science. Everybody is welcome. Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka Reading: McEnery & Brezina (2022). Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics. CUP. Topics: Wed 15/01/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 - Research and common sense. Chapter 1 Wed 29/01/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 What is science? Chapter 2 Wed 12/02/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 How to do science? Chapter 3 Wed 26/02/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South B89 What is social science and the digital humanities? Chapter 4 Wed 12/03/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South B89 Forms and functions Chapter 5 Wed 26/03/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 Repetition and replication Chapters 6-7 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@01DB60FE.4D884EE0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB60FE.4D884EE0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CFP | SLATE 2025 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
by Alberto Simões 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Apologies for multiple postings. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SLATE 2025 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies https://slate-conf.org/2025 26th to 27th June, 2025 University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal ------------------------------------------------------------------ Languages are an integral part of human and technological interactions. Initially, we used them to communicate with one another. Later, to communicate with computers. And more recently, with the advent of networks, we found a way to make computers communicate between themselves. All these different forms of communication use languages, different languages, but that still share many similarities. In SLATE we are interested in discussing these languages. Keynote Speakers Renowned keynote speakers from academia and industry will be featured. SLATE 2025 Chairs: Jorge Baptista and José Barateiro (University of Algarve, Portugal) Being languages such a broad subject, SLATE is organized in *three main tracks*: *HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages* HHL provides a forum for discussing research projects and ideas related to natural language processing and its industrial applications. *HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages* HCL is a forum where researchers, developers, educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic or industrial work on language design, processing, assessment and applications. *CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages* The CCL Track aims to facilitate discussions on data representation languages, its applications, and related technologies. Topics from each track include: *HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages* Computational morphology, syntax and semantics; Machine translation and tools for computer assisted translation; Computational terminology and lexicography; Speech synthesis and understanding; Information retrieval and extraction; Automatic question answering; Corpus linguistics; Language Resources and Evaluation; Public tools and resources for NLP; Statistical Methods applied to NLP; Language teaching support tools; Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining; Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification; Dialogue and Interactive Systems; Ethics and NLP; Language Modeling/Large Language Models; Machine Learning for CL/NLP; Offensive/Hate speech detection and analysis; Applications (BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes, Social Media and Journalism, etc.); Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing. *HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Language* Languages and grammars design, specification and quality; Programming languages implementation; Visual Languages and Program visualization; Domain-Specific Languages design and implementation; Programming, refactoring and debugging environments; Dynamic and static analysis; Program slicing; Program comprehension; Compilation and interpretation techniques; Code generation and optimization; Novel language constructs and their implementation; Debugging and profiling tools; Dynamic languages; Software quality and security; Software reverse engineering; Software Forensics; Plagiarism Detection. *CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages* IoT data protocols; Semantic Web and data standards; Ontologies and knowledge representation; Big Data and NoSQL Databases; Data interchange and storage formats; HTML5 and web formatting; Industry-specific interoperability standards; APIs and service integration; Data and graph visualization languages; Cloud computing models - PaaS, SaaS, IaaS; Edge and Pervasive computing; Multi-agent systems; E-learning standards and interoperability; Cybersecurity protocols and solutions; Cyber-physical systems; Network connectivity and infrastructure. *Contributions* Full papers - 8 to 14 pages, presented in 20+5 minutes, complete work, including a validation or discussion. Short papers - 6 to 8 pages, presented in 10+5 minutes, ongoing work, well anchored in the literature, but not yet fully validated. Submitted papers will be reviewed through a rigorous double-blind process, involving at least three expert reviewers. Each submission will be assessed based on its originality, relevance to the symposium tracks, methodological rigor, clarity of presentation, and potential impact on research and practice. Authors are encouraged to carefully anonymize their submissions to ensure the integrity of the review process. SLATE 2025 is committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity and welcomes submissions from underrepresented groups in academia and industry. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on digital support. They will also integrate the OASIcs series. https://www.dagstuhl.de/publishing/series/details/oasics Papers should be written using the OASIcs LaTeX template, using the English language. Please refer to our website for details about the document preparation. Papers should be uploaded to Microsoft CMT system. *Scientific Committee* To be disclosed soon *Organization Committee* Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve, Portugal) José Barateiro (University of Algarve, Portugal) Simão Melo de Sousa (University of Algarve, Portugal) Alberto Simões (2Ai, School of Technology, IPCA, Portugal) *Important Dates* - Paper Submission:Apr 27th, 2025 - Authors' Notification:May 25th , 2025 - Camera Ready Submission:June 1st, 2025 - Author's Registration Deadline:June 15th, 2025 - Conference: 26th and 27th June, 2025 *Submission Details* Important Information for Authors - Submissions are managed through the Microsoft CMT system. https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FSLATEconf2025 - Accepted papers will be published in the OASIcs series. https://www.dagstuhl.de/publishing/series/details/oasics Note that accepted papers' authors will need to supply an author agreement, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY 3.0). A link to the Author Agreement documentation will be shared during the final paperl upload phase. During the submission you will be asked to choose from one of the three tracks: HCL, HHL, CCL. Nevertheless, organizers are specially interested in papers touching more than one of the three main tracks. Submissions that explore intersections between HHL, HCL, and CCL, such as NLP-driven programming environments or semantic web applications, are highly encouraged. Both standard and short papers should be written in English, using the OASIcs template. https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/OASIcs#author For standard papers the page range is 8 to 14 pages. For short papers the page range is 6 to 8 pages. *Registration* Registration link and other details to be provided at a later date. - Authors' registration At least one author per paper must register. Each additional paper will incur an extra fee of 80.00 EUR. - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 150,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 160,00 EUR - Standard registration (co-authors and other participants) - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 80,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 100,00 EUR - Students' registration (non co-authors)* - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 30,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 40,00 EUR (*) Does not include the Symposium dinner. *Venue* SLATE 2025 will be held in person at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, on the Gambelas Campus. Faro, the capital of Portugal's Algarve region, is a vibrant coastal city that combines rich cultural heritage with modern amenities. Known for its historic old town, stunning beaches, and nearby Ria Formosa Natural Park, Faro is a must-visit destination for tourists. The city is well-connected to the rest of Portugal, Europe, and beyond through its international airport, located just 7 km from the city center. Travelers can also reach Faro via a convenient train network linking Lisbon (3 hours) and Porto (5 hours), or by road using the A22 Motorway and EN125 National Road. Once in Faro, getting around is easy, with taxis, ride-hailing services, and buses offering quick access to key locations, including the University of Algarve’s Gambelas Campus. Details on accommodation to be provided soon. We look forward to welcome you in Faro, Portugal!

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Final Call for Papers (extended deadline): ROMCIR 2025 @ ECIR: The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval
by Udo Kruschwitz 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

*Extended Deadline* _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ROMCIR 2025: The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval Co-located with ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval Lucca, Italy | April 10, 2025 Workshop website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) *Extended Deadlines for Abstract and Paper Submission* * Abstract submission: January 12, 2025 * Paper submission: January 19, 2025 * Decision notification: February 16, 2025 * Workshop day: April 10, 2025 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONTRIBUTIONS The Workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate discussion: * Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP. * Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume. All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the Program Committee. Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be: * Regular papers: between 10 and 14 pages long * Short papers: Between 5 and 9 pages long We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published: * An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… * An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip * The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2025: The 5th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval), April 10, 2025, Lucca, Italy * The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English (e.g., Example of a Title of a Paper Correctly Capitalized) * Please, choose the one-column template * According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR: * In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04 * If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04 For further information: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html _________________________________________________________________________________________________ KEYNOTE SPEAKER * Stefano Mizzaro (https://users.dimi.uniud.it/~stefano.mizzaro/), University of Udine, Italy ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZERS * Udo Kruschwitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/), University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany * Marinella Petrocchi (https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/), IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy * Marco Viviani (https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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LLM & Annotation: Community Survey
by Paulina Żelewska 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Exploring the Future of AI in Linguistic Annotation As part of a research initiative for the course "Conceptual Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" at Adam Mickiewicz University, this survey investigates the scientific community's perspectives on the potential consequences of using large language models (LLMs) in annotating complex linguistic phenomena. The findings will inform the development of research tools for future studies. Your insights are invaluable in understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with LLM-driven annotation, particularly in areas requiring deep contextual and linguistic comprehension, such as bias identification and discourse analysis. The survey is brief, taking approximately 5–10 minutes. Participation is entirely voluntary and anonymous. By completing the survey, you consent to the use of your responses solely for aggregated statistical analyses and the preparation of a research report. 📋 Survey Link: https://forms.office.com/e/1wj9ytKDsE 📆 Deadline: 12.02.2025 Why Your Participation Matters This study addresses nuanced linguistic issues often overlooked in classic NLP tasks. By contributing, you help bridge the gap between theoretical exploration and the practical application of AI in advanced linguistic contexts. If you have any questions or would like to discuss the project further, please contact pauzel1(a)st.amu.edu.pl. Thank you for your time and valuable input! Kind regards, Paulina Żelewska (Research Supervisor: Dr. Paweł Łupkowski)

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3-year postdoctoral position in separating linguistic and factual knowledge in LLMs - University of Oslo, Norway
by Andrey Kutuzov 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) A postdoctoral position in NLP (large language models in particular) is available at the University of Oslo, Norway. This position is funded jointly by the Integreat research center (https://www.integreat.no/), the DSTrain program (https://www.uio.no/dscience/english/dstrain/), and the EU Horizon Europe. We offer 3 year contracts. The deadline for the applications is April 6, 2025; the applicants should come up with a short project description and get in touch with the contact person beforehand to discuss this description. Please apply here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/273057/dstrain-msca-postdoct… The contact person is me, and the project should roughly fall within the topic of "Separation of Linguistic and Factual Knowledge in Large Language Models". See the description as the "LTG2" topic here: https://www.uio.no/dscience/english/dstrain/research-areas2025/informatics/… The selected applicants will start their postdoctoral projects no later than October 1, 2025. The Postdoctoral Research Fellows will be employed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The appointments will be full-time positions lasting for three years, with 10% of the time dedicated to mandatory duties, typically teaching. It is not possible to be appointed for more than one Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Oslo. -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Job Opportunity : AI Research Engineer for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy (DDL: 13/01)
by DE LONGUEVILLE Bertrand 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

New year, new challenges! 😊 Please do not hesitate to forward to potentially interested colleagues and/or relevant mailing lists within your organisation. Thank you and Happy New Year! 📣 📣 The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre is looking for an AI Research Engineer ! 📣 📣 The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), is looking for a Research Engineer to reinforce its GENESIS project, which is an enabler for research on AI and with AI, and an incubator for innovative Generative AI systems. GENESIS is an exciting project for anyone willing to be part of the “AI Revolution” and deliver tangible impact. The job is based in Ispra, Italy. An ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience after Master degree, with a good mix skills: technical (in the field of AI and Software Engineering), organisational (e.g. project coordination) and academic (peer-reviewed papers and/or PhD are an asset). Contract duration: 36 months initial contract with possible renewals up to maximum 6 years. The basic monthly salary for Function Group IV (depending on years of experience): 3 555,98 - 6 593,66€. In addition to the basic salary, the candidate may be eligible for various allowances (including expatriation and household allowances). For further information, see: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020XC1211(01)&from=EN<https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020XC1211(0…> The JRC has short-term accommodation facilities for newcomers. The JRC has childcare facilities for children under 4 years old. Children above 4 years can attend the European School of Varese (European School of Varese – Eurscva.eu<https://www.eurscva.eu/en/home/>), for which transport is organised from the surrounding areas. Also, JRC allows telework from the area around Ispra/Milan for 2 or 3 days per week, and even telework from more remote locations in the EU up to 10 days per year, which allows for a better work-life balance. To apply: 1. Create a profile on one of these two application portals: a. JRC specialised call for researchers https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cast OR b. EPSO Permanent CAST https://eu-careers.europa.eu/en/Cast-Permanent (less adequate for researcher profiles, but should be considered if you are familiar/have succeeded in such competitions) 2. Once you have created your profile via one of the above portals, create your application via: https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancy/1471 !! Deadline: 13/01/2025 !! 📣 📣 Please Share widely with your network, thank you! 📣 📣 Bertrand DE LONGUEVILLE, PhD Head of the Text Mining and Analysis Competence Centre [cid:image001.png@01DB602E.6A1A4430] European Commission DG JRC – Joint Research Centre Directorate T – Digital Transformation & Data Unit T.5 – Text and Data Mining CDMA 04/171 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium +32 2 29 52555 bertrand.de-longueville(a)ec.europa.eu<mailto:name.surname@ec.europa.eu>

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Third Call for Papers
by Announce 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

*** Third 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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Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Programme now out!
by Mathilde Bru 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

We are pleased to announce that the programme for the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series is now out: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025-programme/. The first talk will take place remotely via Microsoft Teams on Monday 27th January 2025 at 5pm GMT. Registration forms for all the talks can be found on our website. 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.

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Call for Papers: Thematic Section on Language Equity Through NLP
by Dr. Partha Pakray 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Dear Colleagues, Happy New Year! We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for a thematic section in the *Computación y Sistemas (CyS)* journal, titled: *"Language Equity Through NLP: Addressing Low-Resource Challenges"*. This special thematic section in the *Computación y Sistemas (CyS)* aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers, and other stakeholders who are committed to advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) for low-resource languages. The special issue will explore a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Data collection and preprocessing techniques for low-resource languages. - Feature extraction and modeling strategies to overcome resource constraints. - Evaluation frameworks designed for low-resource NLP applications. - Cross-lingual transfer learning and zero-shot techniques. - Ethical considerations in NLP for low-resource communities. - Quantum NLP for low-resource communities. *Submission Guidelines and Deadlines:* - *Proposal Submission Deadline:* April 30, 2025 - *First Review/Desk Rejection:* May 30, 2025 - *Second Review:* June 30, 2025 - *Final Acceptance:* July 30, 2025 - *Final Online Publication:* September 2025 Submissions should be made through the CyS journal portal: Submission Link <https://www.cys.cic.ipn.mx/ojs/index.php/> under "*Thematic Section for Low Resource Languages*." *Guest Editors:* - Dr. Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India ( partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in) - Dr. Sudip Kumar Naskar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India ( sudip.naskar(a)gmail.com) - Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India ( sivaji.cse.ju(a)gmail.com) The *Computación y Sistemas* journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science (Emerging Sources), and Journal Citation Reports (JCR, IF=0.6). We invite you to contribute to this thematic issue and help advance the field of NLP for low-resource languages. For inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to your valuable submissions. Best regards, Thanks & Regards, *Dr. Partha Pakray* Associate Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering National Institute of Technology Silchar Silchar, Assam, India +918259065018 (M) *pakray <parthapakray(a)gmail.com>**partha <parthapakray(a)gmail.com>**(a)gmail.com <parthapakray(a)gmail.com>* partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in http://cs.nits.ac.in/partha *www.parthapakray.com <http://www.parthapakray.com/>*

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #14
by Costas Gabrielatos 05 Jan '25

05 Jan '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 24 January 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT). Topic: Corpus Methodology, Multi-Dimensional Analysis Elen Le Foll <https://elenlefoll.eu/> (University of Cologne, Germany): Modelling Textbook English using a Modified Multi-Feature/Dimensional Analysis (MDA) Framework The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 22 January. 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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Computer science department chairperson position, Florida A&M University, USA
by Brian Helder 05 Jan '25

05 Jan '25

Florida A&M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, Florida, USA is looking for Chairperson for the Department of Computer and Information Sciences Deadline for application submission: January 15, 2025. How to apply? Go to Florida A&M University (FAMU) Human resources webpage or click on the link at https://www.famu.edu/administration/division-of-finance-and-administration/… In the middle of that Human resources page, there is link to “External Applicants”. Click on that link. Then click on the link to “View All Jobs”. Then look for “Professor- Computer Information Science Chair (19930)” with “Job ID: 4486”. Click on that. Description of the job: Position Vacancy Announcement Florida A&M University is seeking an energetic, innovative, collaborative, and visionary leader to serve as Chairperson for the Department of Computer and Information Sciences housed in the College of Science and Technology (CST). The Department of Computer and Information Sciences offers B.S degrees in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Computer and Information Systems. In addition, the department has Masters's programs in Computer Science and Cybersecurity. The Chairperson of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences will play a critical role in the College’s and University’s mission of advancing knowledge, resolving complex issues, and empowering our citizens and communities. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Science and Technology, the Chairperson will lead the Department, supervise its resources, and promote and support excellence in teaching, research and service. The Chairperson will serve as an advocate for students and faculty by articulating a set of priorities that will facilitate an increase in student success and support for faculty teaching and research endeavors. The Chairperson will guide the department though accreditation and the development of new programs and initiatives to address the needs of our local, state and national communities. The new Chairperson will lead an effort for the effective recruiting of talented faculty and students; he or she will vigorously catalyze and further develop the Department’s collaborations and relationships across the University and with Government and industry. Responsibilities Maintaining an acceptable level of teaching scholarly activity; Managing the department budget and seeking external funds; Enhancing student success with mentoring, recruitment, retention, development, and graduation and ensuring quality undergraduate and graduate programs; Supporting faculty excellence through mentoring, supervision, recruitment, development, evaluation, and workload assignment; Engaging faculty in strategic planning and program assessment and the ability to work collaboratively with faculty and academic leaders to identify the academic priorities of the department, the college, and university as aligned with the college and university strategic plans and develop strategies and tactics for achieving them; Providing vision and leadership to the Department; Advocacy for the department and the college; Guide curriculum development; Advance and implement department, college and university initiatives; A collaborative leader with a proven track record of bringing diverse groups together to exceed goals and objective and promote accomplishments in issues associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion; Service as a faculty member in computer science or a closely related discipline in a comprehensive or research university, or equivalent industry experience; Develop a climate conducive to recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty; Promote and develop grantsmanship, fundraising, and scholarly activity; Understanding and appreciation of collective bargaining procedures and shared governance; A proven record of effective administrative experience in higher education that includes planning, faculty development, budgeting, assessment, accreditation, resource development, and online education; and Oversee ABET accreditation experience and submission. Minimum Qualifications Earned doctorate from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer, and Information Systems, or closely a related discipline; Minimum of 5 years of distinguished teaching, research, and scholarly work (or comparable professional achievements) appropriate to qualify the candidate for appointment as a tenured faculty member at the rank of associate professor or full professor; Record of excellence in management, decision-making, problem-solving, consensus building, and collaborating with others in building synergistic partnerships; Evidence of support for student achievement and student success; Record of commitment to maintaining standards of excellence, academic freedom, and supporting faculty scholarship and student learning and research; History of demonstrated excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate a compelling message to diverse audiences.

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Job: Faculty Search at UC Santa Cruz
by Jeffrey Flanigan 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Dear all, We are hiring for an Assistant or Associate Professor position in UC Santa Cruz Computer Science and Engineering Department for Generative AI and NLP. The position is based in the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, so if you are interested in research, teaching, and living in Silicon Valley California, please consider applying! The initial review has passed but we are still accepting applications. Applicants should apply asap as we will begin reviewing soon. See the ad here: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01825 and below. Feel free to reach out to me (search chair, jmflanig(a)ucsc.edu) or my colleague Ian Lane (ialane(a)ucsc.edu) if you have questions! Thanks! Jeff *************************************************** ad: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01825 *Position overview* *Position title:* CSE Assistant or Associate Professor, Generative Artificial Intelligence *Salary range:* A reasonable estimate for the academic-year (nine-month basis) salary range is $125,000 - $140,000 for Assistant Professors and $145,000 - $175,000 for Associate Professors. Starting salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. *Percent time:* Full-time, 100% *Anticipated start:* July 1, 2025, with the academic year beginning in September 2025. Degree requirements must be met by June 30, 2025 for employment effective July 1, 2025 and beyond. *Application Window* *Open date:* October 21, 2024 *Most recent review date:* Friday, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled. *Final date:* Monday, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled. *Position description* The Department of Computer Science and Engineering <https://engineering.ucsc.edu/departments/computer-science-and-engineering/> at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for positions at the rank of assistant or associate professor. We seek outstanding applicants with research and teaching expertise in all areas of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), with an emphasis in Natural Language Processing (NLP). We are especially interested in candidates who have made scientific contributions across both GenAI and NLP including but not limited to language modeling, model explainability, multimodal understanding and synthesis, GenAI for social good, human-robot interaction or related areas. The position is based at our Silicon Valley campus in Santa Clara, California. UC Santa Cruz is one of 10 campuses in the University of California system and is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an association of the top research universities in the US. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is part of the Baskin School of Engineering. Baskin Engineering is home to six departments contributing to the richness of its research in materials, devices and instruments; engineering mathematics; computing; and health engineering. The CSE department has nationally and internationally known researchers in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, theoretical computer science, programming languages, security, distributed systems, storage systems, computer architectures, VLSI, and networking. With a rich history of embracing groundbreaking interdisciplinary work and building deep research ties with industry, the UCSC residential campus is nestled in a redwood forest above the city of Santa Cruz, while the nearby Santa Clara campus affords unique and exciting opportunities for collaboration with industry researchers, as well as with faculty and students at other San Francisco Bay Area universities. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the M.S. program in NLP located at the Silicon Valley campus; develop a research program; advise graduate students in their research area; obtain external funding; develop and teach courses within the undergraduate and graduate curriculum; perform university, public and professional service; and interact broadly with the large number of researchers in Silicon Valley industrial research and advanced development labs. The job entails traveling from the SVC campus to the main UCSC campus, as such, the selected candidate must be able to travel to multiple work locations and travel within a defined regional or service area. UC Santa Cruz values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and is committed to hiring faculty who will work to promote these values. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the forefront of our path to excellence in Baskin Engineering. The successful candidates must be able to work with students, faculty, and staff from various social and cultural backgrounds, genders, and sexual orientations. A minority-serving institution (MSI) with a high proportion of first-in-family students, UC Santa Cruz is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), a member of the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Research Universities (HRSU), a member of the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI), and a member of several leading identity and ethnic affinity professional societies, including the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). To be considered, candidates must demonstrate an understanding of the barriers facing women, people of color, and other groups historically underrepresented in engineering, as well as describe their experience and future plans to promote equity and inclusion in teaching, mentoring, and research, and in broadening participation in engineering. Application packages will be considered with a view toward potential as much as achievement. DEI statements will be read and scored as part of a holistic assessment throughout the review process. Efforts supporting equity and inclusion at UC Santa Cruz will be recognized as important during the merit review and promotion process. The selected candidates will receive a start-up package that includes funding in support of furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The chosen candidate will be expected to sign a statement representing that they are not the subject of any ongoing investigation or disciplinary proceeding at their current academic institution or place of employment, nor have they in the past ten years been formally disciplined at any academic institution/place of employment. In the event the candidate cannot make this representation, they will be expected to disclose in writing to the hiring Dean the circumstances surrounding any formal discipline that they have received, as well as any current or ongoing investigation or disciplinary process of which they are the subject. (Note that discipline includes a negotiated settlement agreement to resolve a matter related to substantiated misconduct.) *Department of Computer Science and Engineering:* https://engineering.ucsc.edu/departments/computer-science-and-engineering/ *Qualifications* *Basic qualifications* (required at the time the application is submitted) - Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) in computer science or a relevant field. It is expected that the degree requirements will be completed by June 30, 2025. - A demonstrated record of research. *For applicants who do not possess the applicable terminal degree when they submit their applications, they must document in their application materials (e.g., c.v., cover letter, etc.) that their projected date for completing their degree will be on or before June 30, 2025.* *Application Requirements* *Document requirements* Applications are accepted via the UCSC Academic Recruit online system; all documents and materials must be submitted as PDFs. - Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. - Cover Letter - Letter of application that briefly summarizes your qualifications and interest in the position - Statement of Teaching Interests and Experience - Statement of Research Plans - Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activities to date, and your specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion if hired at UC Santa Cruz. Candidates are urged to review guidelines on statements (see https://apo.ucsc.edu/diversity.html) before preparing their application. - Selected Publication (1 of 2 required) - Selected Publication (2 of 2 required) - Selected Publication (1 optional) (Optional) *Reference requirements* - 3-5 letters of reference required Applications must include confidential letters of recommendation* (a minimum of 3 are required and a maximum of 5 will be accepted). Please note that your references, or dossier service, will submit their confidential letters directly to the UC Recruit System. Additionally, the department will solicit external letters from experts in the field for those candidates who move to the final interview stage. *All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSC’s confidentiality statement at http://apo.ucsc.edu/confstm.htm. *Apply link:* https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01825 *Help contact:* dditmars(a)ucsc.edu *About UC Santa Cruz* The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. UC Santa Cruz is committed to excellence through diversity and strives to establish a climate that welcomes, celebrates, and promotes respect for the contributions of all students and employees. Inquiries regarding the University’s equal employment opportunity policies may be directed to the Equity and Equal Protection Office <https://equity.ucsc.edu/> at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 or by email at equity(a)ucsc.edu. As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer. - “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer. - *UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy <https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000385/SVSH>* - *UC Anti-Discrimination Policy for Employees, Students and Third Parties <https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination>* - *APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment <https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf>* Notice of Availability: In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), UCSC publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report <https://compliance.ucsc.edu/campus-safety-compliance/annual-reports/>. This report is published by October 1st of each year and includes current institutional policies and procedures concerning campus safety and security; fire safety and evacuation policies; sexual misconduct and relationship violence reporting and response protocols; and crime and fire statistics for the three previous calendar years. A paper copy of the ASFSR is available upon request by contacting the UCSC Police Department at 114 Carriage House Rd., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, or by calling 831-459-2231 Ext. 1. Under Federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally able to work in the United States as established by providing documents as specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Certain UCSC positions funded by federal contracts or sub-contracts require the selected candidate to pass an E-Verify check <https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify>. The university sponsors employment-based visas for nonresidents who are offered academic appointments at UC Santa Cruz, as outlined in campus policy CAPM 102.530 <https://academicpersonnel.ucsc.edu/campus-academic-personnel-manual/capm-10…> . UCSC is a smoke & tobacco-free campus. If you need accommodation due to a disability, please contact Disability Management Services at roberts(a)ucsc.edu (831) 459-4602. UCSC is committed to addressing the spousal and partner employment needs of our candidates and employees. As part of this commitment, our institution is a member of the Northern California Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (NorCal HERC). Visit the NorCal HERC website <https://www.hercjobs.org/regions/higher-ed-careers-northern-california/> to search for open positions within a commutable distance of our institution. The University of California offers a competitive benefits package and a number of programs to support employee work/life balance. As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements. VISIT UC Santa Cruz <https://www.ucsc.edu/> *Job location* Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, California -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Baskin School of Engineering University of California Santa Cruz https://jflanigan.github.io/

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Last Days - SemEval 2025 Task 8: Question Answering on Tabular Data
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Last Days - SemEval 2025 Task 8: Question Answering on Tabular Data The TabularQA task of SemEval 2025 (task 8) is entering in ist final stretch, there are only *seven days left* for the development stage of the task ends. So, if you are interested in exploring the emergent capability of LLMs of answering questions from tabular data, we encourage you to use these *seven days* to prepare your set-up and participate in the shared task. We remind that we propose the following two subtasks: *Subtask I : DataBench 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: DataBench 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 (see explanation on DataBench Lite). 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 Official Competition start 10 January 2025 Competition end 31 January 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López and Eugenio Martínez Cámara - University of Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University Competition website: https://jorses.github.io/semeval/ Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3360/ Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/semeval-25-t8-tabularqaImportant Dates Official Competition start 10 January 2025 Competition end 31 January 2025 *Task Organizers* Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López - Universidad de Jaén Eugenio Martínez Cámara - Universidad de Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University *Competition website*: https://jorses.github.io/semeval/ *Codabench*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3360/ *Google Group*: https://groups.google.com/g/semeval-25-t8-tabularqa *News*: https://x.com/semeval_tableQA Kind regards, The organisers. -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Eugenio Martínez Cámara Vicepresidente de la SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/> | Vice President of the SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/en>. Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associate Professor. Investigador en Proc. del Lenguaje Natural | Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Proc. Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> Research Group. emcamara(a)ujaen.es Código ORCID:0000-0002-5279-8355 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-8355> Universidad de Jaén Dpto. de Informática | Computer Science Department. Edificio A3, despacho 145 | +34 953212883 <https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/sinformatica/sites/servicio_sinformatica/fil…> [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Este mensaje y los ficheros anexos son confidenciales dirigiéndose exclusivamente al destinatario mencionado en el encabezamiento. Los mismos contienen información reservada que no puede ser difundida. Si usted ha recibido este correo por error, tenga la amabilidad de eliminarlo de su sistema y avisar al remitente mediante reenvío a su dirección electrónica; no deberá copiar el mensaje ni divulgar su contenido a ninguna persona. Los datos personales facilitados por usted o por terceros serán tratados por UNIVERSIDAD DE JAÉN, con la finalidad de gestionar y mantener los contactos y relaciones que se produzcan como consecuencia de la relación que mantiene con UJA. Normalmente, la base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. El plazo de conservación de sus datos vendrá determinado por la relación que mantiene con nosotros. Para más información al respecto, o para ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, cancelación/supresión, oposición, limitación o portabilidad, dirija una comunicación por escrito a UNIVERSIDAD DE JAÉN, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n. 23071 – Jaén, o a nuestro delegado de protección de datos [ dpo(a)ujaen.es]. En caso de considerar vulnerado su derecho a la protección de datos personales, podrá interponer una reclamación ante el Consejo Andaluz de Transparencia y Protección de Datos (www.ctpdandalucia.es). Asimismo, es su responsabilidad comprobar que este mensaje o sus archivos adjuntos no contengan virus informáticos, y en caso que los tuvieran eliminarlos.

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PhD student position at RIT – American Sign Language research
by Cecilia Alm 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

We invite applications for a PhD student position in the Cognitive Science program at Rochester Institute of Technology. The PhD student will be involved in grant-funded research on American Sign Language, including prosody and non-manual markers. The position expects fluency in American Sign Language. A background in linguistics, cognitive science, and/or computing is preferred. Deaf/hard-of-hearing candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Questions can be directed to Cecilia Alm (coagla(a)rit.edu<mailto:coagla@rit.edu>) and Allison Fitch (ahfgsh(a)rit.edu<mailto:ahfgsh@rit.edu>). To apply, please visit: https://www.rit.edu/study/cognitive-science-phd

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Job: Faculty Search at UC Santa Cruz
by Jeff Flanigan 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Dear all, We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor position in UC Santa Cruz Computer Science and Engineering Department for Generative AI and NLP. The position is based in the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, so if you are interested in research, teaching, and living in Silicon Valley California, please consider applying! The initial review has passed but we are still accepting applications. Applicants should apply asap as we will begin reviewing soon. See the ad here: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01825 and below. Feel free to reach out to me (search chair, jmflanig(a)ucsc.edu) or my colleague Ian Lane (ialane(a)ucsc.edu) if you have questions! Thanks! Jeff *************************************************** ad: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01825 *Position overview* *Position title:* CSE Assistant or Associate Professor, Generative Artificial Intelligence *Salary range:* A reasonable estimate for the academic-year (nine-month basis) salary range is $125,000 - $140,000 for Assistant Professors and $145,000 - $175,000 for Associate Professors. Starting salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. *Percent time:* Full-time, 100% *Anticipated start:* July 1, 2025, with the academic year beginning in September 2025. Degree requirements must be met by June 30, 2025 for employment effective July 1, 2025 and beyond. *Application Window* *Open date:* October 21, 2024 *Most recent review date:* Friday, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled. *Final date:* Monday, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled. *Position description* The Department of Computer Science and Engineering <https://engineering.ucsc.edu/departments/computer-science-and-engineering/> at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for positions at the rank of assistant or associate professor. We seek outstanding applicants with research and teaching expertise in all areas of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), with an emphasis in Natural Language Processing (NLP). We are especially interested in candidates who have made scientific contributions across both GenAI and NLP including but not limited to language modeling, model explainability, multimodal understanding and synthesis, GenAI for social good, human-robot interaction or related areas. The position is based at our Silicon Valley campus in Santa Clara, California. UC Santa Cruz is one of 10 campuses in the University of California system and is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an association of the top research universities in the US. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is part of the Baskin School of Engineering. Baskin Engineering is home to six departments contributing to the richness of its research in materials, devices and instruments; engineering mathematics; computing; and health engineering. The CSE department has nationally and internationally known researchers in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, theoretical computer science, programming languages, security, distributed systems, storage systems, computer architectures, VLSI, and networking. With a rich history of embracing groundbreaking interdisciplinary work and building deep research ties with industry, the UCSC residential campus is nestled in a redwood forest above the city of Santa Cruz, while the nearby Santa Clara campus affords unique and exciting opportunities for collaboration with industry researchers, as well as with faculty and students at other San Francisco Bay Area universities. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the M.S. program in NLP located at the Silicon Valley campus; develop a research program; advise graduate students in their research area; obtain external funding; develop and teach courses within the undergraduate and graduate curriculum; perform university, public and professional service; and interact broadly with the large number of researchers in Silicon Valley industrial research and advanced development labs. The job entails traveling from the SVC campus to the main UCSC campus, as such, the selected candidate must be able to travel to multiple work locations and travel within a defined regional or service area. UC Santa Cruz values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and is committed to hiring faculty who will work to promote these values. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the forefront of our path to excellence in Baskin Engineering. The successful candidates must be able to work with students, faculty, and staff from various social and cultural backgrounds, genders, and sexual orientations. A minority-serving institution (MSI) with a high proportion of first-in-family students, UC Santa Cruz is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), a member of the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Research Universities (HRSU), a member of the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI), and a member of several leading identity and ethnic affinity professional societies, including the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). To be considered, candidates must demonstrate an understanding of the barriers facing women, people of color, and other groups historically underrepresented in engineering, as well as describe their experience and future plans to promote equity and inclusion in teaching, mentoring, and research, and in broadening participation in engineering. Application packages will be considered with a view toward potential as much as achievement. DEI statements will be read and scored as part of a holistic assessment throughout the review process. Efforts supporting equity and inclusion at UC Santa Cruz will be recognized as important during the merit review and promotion process. The selected candidates will receive a start-up package that includes funding in support of furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The chosen candidate will be expected to sign a statement representing that they are not the subject of any ongoing investigation or disciplinary proceeding at their current academic institution or place of employment, nor have they in the past ten years been formally disciplined at any academic institution/place of employment. In the event the candidate cannot make this representation, they will be expected to disclose in writing to the hiring Dean the circumstances surrounding any formal discipline that they have received, as well as any current or ongoing investigation or disciplinary process of which they are the subject. (Note that discipline includes a negotiated settlement agreement to resolve a matter related to substantiated misconduct.) *Department of Computer Science and Engineering:* https://engineering.ucsc.edu/departments/computer-science-and-engineering/ *Qualifications* *Basic qualifications* (required at the time the application is submitted) - Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) in computer science or a relevant field. It is expected that the degree requirements will be completed by June 30, 2025. - A demonstrated record of research. *For applicants who do not possess the applicable terminal degree when they submit their applications, they must document in their application materials (e.g., c.v., cover letter, etc.) that their projected date for completing their degree will be on or before June 30, 2025.* *Application Requirements* *Document requirements* Applications are accepted via the UCSC Academic Recruit online system; all documents and materials must be submitted as PDFs. - Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. - Cover Letter - Letter of application that briefly summarizes your qualifications and interest in the position - Statement of Teaching Interests and Experience - Statement of Research Plans - Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activities to date, and your specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion if hired at UC Santa Cruz. Candidates are urged to review guidelines on statements (see https://apo.ucsc.edu/diversity.html) before preparing their application. - Selected Publication (1 of 2 required) - Selected Publication (2 of 2 required) - Selected Publication (1 optional) (Optional) *Reference requirements* - 3-5 letters of reference required Applications must include confidential letters of recommendation* (a minimum of 3 are required and a maximum of 5 will be accepted). Please note that your references, or dossier service, will submit their confidential letters directly to the UC Recruit System. Additionally, the department will solicit external letters from experts in the field for those candidates who move to the final interview stage. *All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSC’s confidentiality statement at http://apo.ucsc.edu/confstm.htm. *Apply link:* https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01825 *Help contact:* dditmars(a)ucsc.edu *About UC Santa Cruz* The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. UC Santa Cruz is committed to excellence through diversity and strives to establish a climate that welcomes, celebrates, and promotes respect for the contributions of all students and employees. Inquiries regarding the University’s equal employment opportunity policies may be directed to the Equity and Equal Protection Office <https://equity.ucsc.edu/> at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 or by email at equity(a)ucsc.edu. As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer. - “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer. - *UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy <https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000385/SVSH>* - *UC Anti-Discrimination Policy for Employees, Students and Third Parties <https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination>* - *APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment <https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf>* Notice of Availability: In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), UCSC publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report <https://compliance.ucsc.edu/campus-safety-compliance/annual-reports/>. This report is published by October 1st of each year and includes current institutional policies and procedures concerning campus safety and security; fire safety and evacuation policies; sexual misconduct and relationship violence reporting and response protocols; and crime and fire statistics for the three previous calendar years. A paper copy of the ASFSR is available upon request by contacting the UCSC Police Department at 114 Carriage House Rd., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, or by calling 831-459-2231 Ext. 1. Under Federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally able to work in the United States as established by providing documents as specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Certain UCSC positions funded by federal contracts or sub-contracts require the selected candidate to pass an E-Verify check <https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify>. The university sponsors employment-based visas for nonresidents who are offered academic appointments at UC Santa Cruz, as outlined in campus policy CAPM 102.530 <https://academicpersonnel.ucsc.edu/campus-academic-personnel-manual/capm-10…> . UCSC is a smoke & tobacco-free campus. If you need accommodation due to a disability, please contact Disability Management Services at roberts(a)ucsc.edu (831) 459-4602. UCSC is committed to addressing the spousal and partner employment needs of our candidates and employees. As part of this commitment, our institution is a member of the Northern California Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (NorCal HERC). Visit the NorCal HERC website <https://www.hercjobs.org/regions/higher-ed-careers-northern-california/> to search for open positions within a commutable distance of our institution. The University of California offers a competitive benefits package and a number of programs to support employee work/life balance. As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements. VISIT UC Santa Cruz <https://www.ucsc.edu/> *Job location* Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, California -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Baskin School of Engineering University of California Santa Cruz https://jflanigan.github.io/

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First Call for NLP for Positive Impact Workshop @ ACL 2025
by Daryna Dementieva 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Dear community! With one step into a new year, we are delighted to invite you for submission to the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact co-located at ACL 2025! Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact>Call for paper: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact/call-for-papers-2025 Submission methods: ACL Rolling Review (ARR) both commitment and direct submissions. We also accept non-archival submissions. Important dates: *ARR-cycle Submission Due*: February 15th, 2025 *ARR Reviewed Submissions Commitment Due*: April 20th, 2025 *Direct Submissions Due*: March 2nd, 2025 via https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/NLP4PosImpact *Notification of Acceptance* (both channels): April 30th, 2025 *Camera-Ready Papers Due*: May 16th, 2025 *Workshop Date*: July 31st or August 1st 2025 (co-located with ACL 2025) All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth) 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. Papers Format Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information, including: Long Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers>(8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages). 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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1st Call for participation: Robust WSI Shared Task @ CoNLL-2025
by Ondřej Herman 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in the Robust Word Sense Induction shared task, which is organized as a part of CoNLL-2025 in Vienna (31.7 - 1. 8. 2025). TASK OVERVIEW The task focuses on unsupervised word sense induction without relying on predefined sense inventories. Participants will receive sentences containing target words and cluster them according to word sense usage. What makes this task unique is the novel evaluation approach using multi-annotated data and robust metrics that account for natural sense ambiguity and provide a fairer evaluation compared to traditional approaches. The benchmark datasets will be available in English, Czech, German, Spanish, Estonian and Chinese. IMPORTANT DATES 30. 1. 2025 - Trial data available 15. 2. 2025 - Test data available, evaluation starts 15. 4. 2025 - Test phase ends 22. 4. 2025 - Submission of system description papers 31. 7. 2025 or 1. 8. 2025 - The CoNLL-2025 workshop at ACL 2025 in Vienna For more information and participation instructions, please visit https://projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/. This shared task is organized by Ondřej Herman, Miloš Jakubíček, Pavel Rychlý and Vojtěch Kovář at Lexical Computing and Masaryk University. If you have any questions, please contact us at conll2025(a)sketchengine.eu. Best regards, The Shared Task Organizers

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Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025
by Robbie Love 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Dear colleagues Happy New Year! This is a reminder that the submission deadline for the international Corpus Linguistics conference 2025 (CL2025) is Friday 17th January. The Call for Papers can be found on the CL2025 conference website: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-papers 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<https://www.aston.ac.uk/>, preceded by a workshop day on Sunday 29th June (please note the minor amendment to the originally announced conference dates). CL2025 welcomes submissions for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops that engage in some way with the tools, methods, and techniques of corpus linguistics. KEY DATES * Submission deadline: 17th January 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2025 * Early bird registration deadline: 2nd May 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/>

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New Issue of the Journal of Digital Islamicate Research
by Mai Zaki 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Dear list members, Happy New Year! We are thrilled to kick off 2025 with exciting news: the publication of Volume 2 of the *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* ( *JDIR*), a peer-reviewed journal published by *Brill*. As the only journal dedicated to research in the field of digital humanities related to the languages and cultures of the Arab and Islamic world, *JDIR* offers a unique platform for groundbreaking scholarship in this interdisciplinary domain. I am honored to serve as co-editor-in-chief alongside my esteemed colleague, Eid Mohamed. We invite you to explore the latest volume, which you can access here (open access): https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/2/1-2/jdir.2.issue-1-2.xml We welcome research paper submissions throughout the year via the Editorial Manager on our website <https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?contents=editorialco…>. If you are working on related topics, we encourage you to consider *JDIR* for your next publication. Wishing you all a year filled with inclusive practices in academia and impactful contributions to the field. Warm regards, Mai Zaki Co-Editor-in-Chief, *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research*

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CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab -- Call for Participation
by Firoj Alam 30 Dec '24

30 Dec '24

(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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Call for workshop proposals: RANLP-2025: 15th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
by Dola Mullage, Damith (Postgraduate Researcher) 28 Dec '24

28 Dec '24

Call for Workshop Proposals ================================================ RANLP-2025: 15th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Summer School DLinNLP 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 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 Workshop website due: 5 April 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025, immediately after RANLP notification Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2025 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 program 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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Call for papers : Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2025
by Dola Mullage, Damith (Postgraduate Researcher) 28 Dec '24

28 Dec '24

RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Varna, Bulgaria http://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) The biennial RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) conference is one of the most competitive and influential NLP conferences. The event grew out of the International Summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics" which were organised for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by Programme Committee experts. Since 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 Proceedings has its own Scopus SJR, in 2023 it is 0,299. The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) for Natural Language Processing (NLP) as well as tutorials on current topics of particular interest and cutting edge technologies. RANLP-2025 will be followed by specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics. A Student Research Workshop will be held in parallel with the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers. TOPICS We invite papers reporting recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and particularly encourage submissions related to (and the employment of) the latest NLP methods including Large Language Models/Generative AI. Contributions from a broad range of areas will be welcome including, but not limited to, the following topics: phonetics, phonology, morphology; syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, lexicon; complexity; mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning models; language resources and corpora; crowdsourcing for creation of linguistic resources; electronic dictionaries, terminologies and ontologies; sublanguages and controlled languages; linked data; POS tagging; parsing; semantic role labelling; word-sense disambiguation; multiword expressions and computational phraseology; textual entailment; anaphora resolution; temporal processing; language generation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; multilingual NLP; machine translation, translation memory systems and computer-aided translation tools, text simplification and readability estimation; knowledge acquisition; information retrieval; text categorisation; information extraction; text summarisation; terminology extraction; question answering; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; fact checking and fake news; stance recognition; hate speech and aggression detection; author profiling; dialogue systems; chatbots and conversational agents; irony and sarcasm detection; negation and speculation detection; computer-aided language learning; multimodal systems; language and vision; NLP for biomedical texts; NLP for educational applications; NLP for healthcare; NLP for financial purposes; NLP for legal texts; for the Semantic web; theoretical and application-orientated papers related to NLP. CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (University of Lancaster) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) The Programme Committee (PC) members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced at the conference website in due time. Keynote speakers, tutorial presenters, and summer school lecturers and tutors will be announced in the upcoming calls for papers. WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS: The RANLP 2025 workshops and shared tasks will be held on 11-13 September 2025. Calls for Proposals of Workshop and Shared Tasks have been already published. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/. The reviewing process will be anonymous. Double submission is acceptable, but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. All RANLP papers have DOI numbers assigned. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. RANLP-2025 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available as from 1 April 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Call for Shared Tasks proposals: September 2024 Shared Tasks selection notification: 4 November 2024 Shared Tasks sample data and task website ready: 15 November 2024 Shared Tasks training data ready: 15 December 2024 Call for workshop proposals: 24 December 2024 Deadline for submission of workshop proposals: 15 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 Conference abstracts submission: April 2025 Conference papers submission: early/mid May 2025 (please check exact dates on RANLP 2025 website) Conference papers acceptance notification: 28 June 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2025 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025 RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) VENUE RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). The conference organisers plan to organise an excursion to Provadia, the oldest salt-production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC, https://provadia-solnitsata.com/en/ ) which is located 50 km from Varna. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme 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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Second CFP JCNN Special Session Explainable Deep Neural Networks for Responsible AI (DeepXplain 2025)
by Francielle Vargas 26 Dec '24

26 Dec '24

*** Second Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the Explainable Deep Neural Networks for Responsible AI: Post-Hoc and Self-Explaining Approaches (DeepXplain 2025), a special session at IJCNN 2025 dedicated to innovative methodologies for improving the interpretability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), while addressing fairness and bias mitigation. Website: https://deepxplain.github.io/ Important Dates: - Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/ - Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 - Notification date: March 15, 2025 - Camera-ready submission: May 1, 2025 Contributions This special session aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, promote the ethical design of AI systems, and encourage the development of benchmarks and datasets for explainability research. Our goal is to advance both post-hoc and intrinsic interpretability approaches, bridging the gap between the high performance of deep neural networks and their transparency. By doing so, we seek to enhance human trust in these models and mitigate the risks of negative social impacts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical advancements in post-hoc explanation methods (e.g., LIME, SHAP, Grad-CAM) for DNNs. - Development of inherently interpretable architectures using self-explaining mechanisms, such as attention-based or saliency-based models, prototype networks, and SENNs (Self-Explaining Neural Networks). - Post-hoc and self-explaining methods for Large Language Models (LLMs). - Application-driven explainability insights, particularly in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. - Ethical evaluations of DNN-based AI models with a focus on reducing bias and social impact. - Methods, metrics, and methodologies for improving interpretability and fairness in DNNs. - Ethical discussions about the social impact of non-transparent AI models. - Datasets and benchmarking tools for explainability. - Explainable AI in critical applications: healthcare, governance, misinformation, hate speech, etc. Submission Information We welcome submissions of academic papers (both long and short) across the spectrum of theoretical and practical work, including research ideas, methods, tools, simulations, applications or demonstrations, practical evaluations, position papers, and surveys. Submissions must be written in English, adhere to the IJCNN-2025 formatting guidelines, and be submitted as a single PDF file. *Organizers* - Francielle Vargas <https://franciellevargas.github.io/>, University of São Paulo, Brazil - Roseli Romero <https://sites.icmc.usp.br/rafrance/>, University of São Paulo, Brazil - Jackson Trager <https://www.jacksonptrager.com/>, University of Southern California, USA

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Neurocognition, Language and Visual Processing (NLVP) talk series, Jan 2025 (Zoom and University of Exeter)
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 24 Dec '24

24 Dec '24

Dear all A correction of the previous seminar talk - the time should be **GMT**. Also please see the information for the upcoming seminar. ***Seminar 2: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025, 15:00 to 16:00, GMT (London time)*** Speaker: Prof Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) Title: What's Behind Text? The Long, Challenging Path Towards a Unified Language-Independent Representation of Meaning Abstract: In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the pursuit of a unified, language-independent representation of meaning remains both essential and complex. This talk revisits the rationale for advancing semantic understanding beyond the capabilities of LLMs and highlights the development of a large-scale multilingual inter-task resource like MOSAICo and the design of innovative methods that bridge word- and sentence-level meanings across languages. I will also explore how building a robust, multilingual framework for interpreting meaning with greater precision and depth enhances the quality and reliability of system outputs, including text generated by LLMs. Speaker's short bio: Roberto Navigli is Professor of Natural Language Processing at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he leads the Sapienza NLP Group. He has received two ERC grants on lexical and sentence-level multilingual semantics, highlighted among the 15 projects through which the ERC transformed science. He received several prizes, including two Artificial Intelligence Journal prominent paper awards and several outstanding/best paper awards from ACL. He is the co-founder of Babelscape, a successful deep-tech company which enables NLU in dozens of languages. He served as Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (2013-2020) and Program Co-Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021. He is a Fellow of ACL, ELLIS and EurAI and currently serves as General Chair of ACL 2025. Check past and upcoming seminars at the following url: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars. Best regards Hang Dong (https://computerscience.exeter.ac.uk/staff/hd524) on behalf of the NLVP group (https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/members)

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First CFP: 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025) @NAACL2025
by Atul K. Ojha 23 Dec '24

23 Dec '24

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

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PhD position: Language Modeling and Machine Learning
by Dietrich Klakow 23 Dec '24

23 Dec '24

PhD position: Language Modeling and Machine Learning =========================================== (Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Physics, Mathematics or similar) The research group is focusing on getting a deeper understanding of how language models work and how they can be applied. Our recent achievements include a best paper award at COLING 2022 and a best theme paper award at ACL 2023. Possible more specific topics could be: * Understanding and interpreting language models * Language models for Chemical Compounds and Proteins * Deep learning for highly non-linear Dynamical Systems The ideal candidate for the position would have: 1. Excellent knowledge of LLMs, machine learning and deep learning 2. Excellent programming skills 3. Masters degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Physics, Mathematics or similar 4. Successful experiences working both independently and as part of a small team Salary: The PhD position will be 75% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) which is about 3292€ per month before tax and social security contributions. The appointments will be for three years with a possible extension at 50% for a fourth year. About the department: The department of Language Science and Technology is one of the leading departments in the speech and language area in Europe. The flagship project at the moment is the CRC on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding. It also runs a significant number of European and nationally funded projects. In total, it has seven faculty and around 50 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The department is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus. With 900 researchers, two Max Planck institutes and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, it is one of the leading locations for Informatics in Germany and Europe. How to apply: Please send us a letter of motivation, your CV, your transcripts, if available a list of publications, and the names and contact information of at least two references, as a single PDF or a link to a PDF if the file size is more than 5 MB. Please apply latest by January 19th, 2025. Contact: Applications and any further inquiries regarding our research should be directed to dietrich.klakow(a)lsv.uni-saarland.de

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15th European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU-2025)
by Elisabeth Burr 22 Dec '24

22 Dec '24

We are excited to share that the *15th European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU-2025)* will take place from *July 22nd to August 1st, 2025, in Besançon, France*. The local host will be /Université de Franche-Comté/, which will soon be renamed /Université Marie et Louis Pasteur/. Please reserve these dates in your calendar. More details will be provided in January 2025. Best regards, Alexandra Cotoc and Alex Bia ESU Steering Committee chairs ______________________________ Prof. Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/

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1st Call for Participation: SustainEval 2025 - Understanding Sustainability Reports
by Jakob Prange 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

1st 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 sustainability reports for (A) content class and (B) statement verifiability rating. Background: While corporate sustainability reporting aims to increase transparency, there is also a high incentive for companies to present themselves as environmentally friendly as possible, e.g. by selectively reporting only actions benefitting the environment and society, or by using vague optimistic language. This increasing tendency, known as "greenwashing" not only makes it difficult to tell apart concrete, verifiable actions from high-level plans and plain publicity, but can even blur the boundaries of the content reported in a given text passage according to a certain reporting criterion (e.g. actual greenhouse gas emissions vs. general tasks of some branch of the company). Call for Workshop Papers: We also invite submission of original papers about analyzing sustainability texts with NLP and other aspects of sustainability and NLP. Papers should describe original, unpublished work and can be technical contributions of empirical or theoretical nature, literature surveys or opinion pieces. More details on paper format and submission will be published soon in a separate call for papers. Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 "anywhere on Earth."Training & Development Data Release:14th March 2025Registration Deadline / Start Evaluation Phase:10th June 2025Workshop Paper Submission Deadline (tentative):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, submission formats, and trial data 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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SemEval 2025 Task 10: Leaderboard Open
by Preslav Nakov 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce that the Leaderboard for SemEval 2025 Task 10: Multilingual Characterization and Extraction of Narratives from Online News is officially open! Task Overview The task focuses on analyzing multilingual news articles in two critical domains—Ukraine-Russia War and Climate Change—and is subdivided into three subtasks: 1. Entity Framing - Goal: Assign fine-grained roles (e.g., protagonist, antagonist, or innocent) to mentions of named entities in a news article. - Task Type: Multi-label, multi-class text-span classification. 2. Narrative Classification - Goal: Assign appropriate sub-narrative labels to a news article using a two-level taxonomy of narratives. - Task Type: Multi-label, multi-class document classification. 3. Narrative Extraction - Goal: Generate a free-text explanation (up to 80 words) for the dominant narrative in an article, grounded in evidence from the text. - Task Type: Text-to-text generation. This task provides an opportunity to push the boundaries of multilingual NLP and tackle challenges related to narrative understanding and extraction. Important Dates - Development Set Available: November 11, 2024 - Leaderboard Open: November 11, 2024 - Test Set Release: January, 2025 - Submission Deadline: January, 2025 (keep monitoring the website for precise dates) How to Participate 1. Visit the official task website: https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/semeval2025task10/ 2. Register your team to get access to the data and begin evaluating your models. 3. Submit your predictions to the leaderboard to compare with other participants. This is a great opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in multilingual narrative analysis and to engage with the SemEval community. We look forward to your participation! Best regards, The SemEval 2025 Task 10 Organizers

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First Call for Papers - 23rd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025)
by Zinsmeister, Heike 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

We are excited to announce the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025), which 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/ ----------------------------- 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. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * First call for papers: December 2024 * Paper submission deadline: April 2025 * Notification of acceptance: June 2025 * Early bird registration: June 2025 * Conference dates: 26 to 29 August 2025 ----------------------------- 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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Exciting News: ISWC 2025 Heads to Nara, Japan – Save the Dates! 🎉
by Genet Asefa Gesese 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Dear Semantic Web Community, We are thrilled to announce that the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) will take place in the historic and beautiful city of Nara, Japan, from November 2–6, 2025! Nara, renowned for its cultural treasures, breathtaking scenery, and warm hospitality, will provide the perfect backdrop for our vibrant community to gather, collaborate, and drive Semantic Web research and innovation to new heights. This year’s ISWC will be an in-person conference and promises to be an event to remember. Please keep an eye out for our official call for submissions, coming soon. We invite all researchers, practitioners, and industry specialists to contribute their insights and share their groundbreaking work with the global Semantic Web community. Stay tuned for updates on keynote speakers, workshops, tutorials, and unique local experiences that will make ISWC 2025 an unforgettable conference. As we embrace the holiday season, we want to take a moment to wish you all joyous and happy holidays. 🌟 Happy Holidays! 🌟 Mark your calendars now for ISWC 2025, and follow us on X (@iswc_conf <https://x.com/iswc_conf>) for the latest updates. We can’t wait to welcome you to Nara for an inspiring and impactful conference experience! 🎉 日本の奈良でお会いしましょう！ 🎉 Warm regards, The ISWC 2025 Organizing Committee -- *Dr.-Ing. **Genet Asefa Gesese* Head of Machine Learning Department (Abteilungsleitung Maschinelles Lernen) FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure ( *https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-ing-genet-asefa-gesese <https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-in…>* ) AND Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) *( https://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Genet_Asefa_Gesese/en <https://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Genet_Asefa_Gesese/en> )*

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Call for papers: Queer in AI workshop at NAACL 2025
by Pranav A 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

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

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Call for Participation: ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE)
by Marina Litvak 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

We are pleased to announce the ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE) <https://colie.pro/>, which aims to push the boundaries of temporal text analysis by challenging participants to develop state-of-the-art methods for dating literary texts. The competition focuses on leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) techniques to predict the time periods in which texts were written.Overview The CoLiE competition offers two main tasks to address temporal classification and the understanding of historical texts: Task 1: Literary Epochs Classification <https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task1>This task focuses on classifying texts based on literary epochs and their subdivisions: - Sub-task 1.1: Classification of texts into six major literary epochs when the corresponding books were written: (1) Classicism (1660-1798), (2) Romanticism (1798-1837), (3) Victorian Literature (1837-1901), (4) Modernism (1900-1945), (5) Postmodernism (1945-2000), and (6) Contemporary (from 2000). - Sub-task 1.2: Classification of texts into particular epoch subdivisions: early (first quarter of the epoch), middle (middle half), and late (final quarter). These periods differ in length between epochs (due to the different lengths of the corresponding epochs). Also, the epochs of Classicism, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism epochs were divided into three periods, while the Contemporary epoch is divided into only two periods. Task 2: ChronoText Classification <https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task2>This task addresses temporal granularity by focusing on: - Sub-task 2.1: Identifying the century of origin for a given text. - Sub-task 2.2: Pinpointing the specific decade within that century when the text was composed. Participation We invite researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from IR and NLP communities to participate in this exciting competition. Important Dates: - December 17, 2024: The competition website is live and open to participants. Training and validation sets, together with their labels, are available. - April 1, 2025: Test dataset available. - April 8, 2025: Deadline for competition participants. - May 1, 2025: Submission of competition reports. - May 16, 2025: Camera-ready paper. - June 30, 2025: Communicate winners to chairs. - September 17-21, 2025: Presentation of results at the special session at the ICDAR conference. How to Participate: - Visit our website: <https://www.icdar2025.com/>https://colie.pro/ - Familiarize yourself with the tasks, competition rules, datasets, and evaluation metrics. - Submit your results through the Kaggle competition platform. Contact For any inquiries, please contact the competition organizers at colie2025.competition(a)gmail.com. We look forward to your participation and innovative contributions to the field of temporal text analysis! Organizers: Marina Litvak, SCE (marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il) Irina Rabaev, SCE (irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il) Ricardo Campos, University of Beira Interior, INESC TEC ( ricardo.campos(a)ubi.pt) Alípio Jorge, University of Porto, INESC TEC (amjorge(a)fc.up.pt) Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck (adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at) Roza Bass, SCE (rozzaba(a)ac.sce.ac.il) Hugo Sousa, University of Porto, INESC TEC (hugo.sousa(a)fc.up.pt)

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CFP: 2nd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025)
by Georg Rehm 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

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). The workshop features two shared tasks (see below) and a keynote speaker as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers. 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 Shared tasks NSLP 2025 offers two shared tasks: - MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents - ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge The NSLP 2025 website <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/> provides more information on the shared tasks. The relevant important dates for the two shared tasks will be announced in early January 2025. Confirmed keynote speaker - Michele Pasin, Digital Science, UK Organisers - 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> -- *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>* Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DFKI GmbH <https://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Masters scholarships in Language science
by Agnès CELLE 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Funding for MA degrees in the language sciences is available at Université Paris Cité, through the Paris Graduate School of Linguistics. The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers several comprehensive Master curricula integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics<http://www.labex-efl.com/> consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html Funding application opportunity: https://mobility.smarts-up.fr/ Deadline for grant applications : January 17th 2025 (Program start date: September 1st 2025) Note that funding is only available for non-French citizens and for students who do not hold a French university degree. Citizens of some countries (those requiring visas for study in France) must additionally and simultaneously apply to Campus France, as explained on the application portal. Agnès Celle Professeure de linguistique Directrice adjointe de CLILLAC-ARP UR 3967 Responsable du master de Linguistique anglaise UFR d'Etudes anglophones 8 place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris Olympe de Gouges 753 +33(0)1 57 27 58 67 [Mail_LogoUPC154x50]

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CFP: 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) @ ACL 2025
by Georg Rehm 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) @ ACL 2025 Call for Papers 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: January 24, 2025 Third call for workshop papers: February 24, 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 five 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 2) 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 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 -- <https://www.dfki.de/> Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DFKI GmbH <https://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Call for participation in Web Survey on Data Bottlenecks in Supervised NLP
by Romberg, Julia 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

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

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MSCA 16 Doctoral Candidate Positions - BICEPS project
by Nikola Milosevic 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to BICEPS Marie Curie Sklodowska doctoral program, where we have 16 PhD positions across the following institutions across Europe: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bayer metaSysX GmbH University of Groningen Aarhus University University of Athens University of Belgrade Anacalypsis Therapeutics Sulfateq B.V. H. Lundbeck A/S University of Oxford Suleyman Demirel University Semical Biosurgery Several positions are focusing on bioinformatics and there are few also dealing with text. (e.g. Bayer one). You can find positions here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search?f%5B0%5D=offer_type%3Ajob_offer&f… Beyond neuroInflammation: new Concepts to Elucidate the peripheral immune system's vital role in Parkinson's disease Decades of research into Parkinson's disease (PD) have fallen short in fully comprehending its mechanisms, leaving us without a cure. Current treatments merely alleviate symptoms temporarily, but are unable to impede the progression of the disease. Clearly, PD research has hit a wall, and new approaches are needed. Recent discoveries of the involvement of the peripheral immune system in PD have sparked a groundbreaking proposition by BICEPS: PD must be considered a systemic disease with an immune response involving both brain and periphery. Thus, to revolutionize PD research, we must shift away from the neuro-centric approach of past decades and extend our focus to studying the immune system outside the brain. Furthermore, recent advancements, such as systems biology and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data mining, diagnosis, and drug development, hold significant promise for advancing PD research. Therefore, BICEPS is uniting PD researchers, immunologists, and experts in AI and systems biology from leading European academic institutions, startup companies, and established pharmaceutical firms into a unique consortium. The primary objective is to train a new generation of PD researchers with interdisciplinary expertise in these fields. This ambitious goal will be realized through an intensive training program that encompasses cutting-edge methodologies, encourages innovation, nurtures transferable skills, and provides immersive, hands-on research experiences. Thereby, the BICEPS network aims to shape the future of PD research by adopting a fresh perspective and expediting the development of diagnostics and therapies for PD, with a particular focus on the immune system. Position in Bayer you can find here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/286014 AI-driven data analysis, target identification and treatment development in PD The project will be implemented at Bayer A.G. , under the supervision of Nikola Milošević. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, leading to motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia. Recent research has highlighted the complex interplay between the nervous and immune systems in PD pathogenesis, emphasizing the need for integrated approaches to study neuro-immune interactions. This project aims to research best practices for, and develop novel collaborative no-code analytical platform specifically designed to explore and analyze neuro-immune interfaces in the context of PD and other neurodegenerative diseases. The research will first focus on full integration and making easily accessible evidence from both user-provided data and publicly available biomedical databases and literature sources, adhering to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. This will be followed by the representation of data in a knowledge graph, enabling sophisticated reasoning and hypothesis generation. Finally, the project will establish explainable AI-powered analytics, reasoning, hypothesis generation, and ranking pipelines about targets, pathways, and potential treatments. The platform will incorporate various data types, including genetic, biochemical, and clinical information, to provide a comprehensive view of the neuro-immune landscape in PD. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and natural language processing, the system will be able to analyze and integrate results from multiple experimental studies, literature sources, and other relevant data repositories. This multidisciplinary approach combines techniques from computer science, bioinformatics, and neuroscience to create a powerful tool for PD research. Expected outcomes of this project include determining the precise best practices for multi-layered analysis of targets involved in neurodegenerative diseases and developing a system that can help scientists collaborate, review, analyze, and integrate results from diverse sources. Ultimately, this work could lead to the identification of novel therapeutic targets and potential treatments for PD by facilitating a deeper understanding of the complex neuro-immune interactions underlying the disease. The collaborative nature of the platform will foster interdisciplinary research and accelerate the pace of discovery in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Freundliche Grüße / Best regards, Dr. Nikola Milosevic Senior Computational Scientist | Bayer Science Fellow //////////////////////// Bayer AG Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals R&D Data Sciences and AI, Scientific Insights Solutions Building S105, 342 13342 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 46817948 Mobile: +49 174 2169881 E-mail: nikola.milosevic(a)bayer.com<mailto:nikola.milosevic@bayer.com> Web: http://www.bayer.com Datenschutzhinweise<https://www.bayer.de/de/datenschutzhinweise-fuer-ausgewaehlte-verarbeitungs…> // Data privacy information<https://www.bayer.com/en/data-privacy-information-for-specific-processing-a…> /// Board of Management: Bill Anderson, Chairman | Wolfgang Nickl, Stefan Oelrich, Heike Prinz, Rodrigo Santos, Julio Triana /// Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Norbert Winkeljohann /// Registered office: Leverkusen | Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 48248

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1st CFP-GITT-2025 at MT Summit 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

1st CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at MT Summit 2025 23 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social **Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth)** Submission deadline: 10 March, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 4 April, 2025 Camera Ready Copy due: 11 April, 2025 Workshop: 23 June, 2025 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. --ARCHIVAL-- - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) -- Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. --NON-ARCHIVAL-- - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2024 and 2025. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the MT Summit 2025 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair. **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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Biceps MSCA 16 Doctoral Candidate Positions
by Nikola Milosevic 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to BICEPS Marie Curie Sklodowska doctoral program, where we have 16 PhD positions across the following institutions across Europe: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bayer metaSysX GmbH University of Groningen Aarhus University University of Athens University of Belgrade Anacalypsis Therapeutics Sulfateq B.V. H. Lundbeck A/S University of Oxford Suleyman Demirel University Semical Biosurgery Several positions are focusing on bioinformatics and there are few also dealing with text. (e.g. Bayer one). You can find positions here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search?f%5B0%5D=offer_type%3Ajob_offer&f… *Beyond neuroInflammation: new Concepts to Elucidate the peripheral immune system's vital role in Parkinson's disease* Decades of research into Parkinson's disease (PD) have fallen short in fully comprehending its mechanisms, leaving us without a cure. Current treatments merely alleviate symptoms temporarily, but are unable to impede the progression of the disease. Clearly, PD research has hit a wall, and new approaches are needed. Recent discoveries of the involvement of the peripheral immune system in PD have sparked a groundbreaking proposition by BICEPS: PD must be considered a systemic disease with an immune response involving both brain and periphery. Thus, to revolutionize PD research, we must shift away from the neuro-centric approach of past decades and extend our focus to studying the immune system outside the brain. Furthermore, recent advancements, such as systems biology and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data mining, diagnosis, and drug development, hold significant promise for advancing PD research. Therefore, BICEPS is uniting PD researchers, immunologists, and experts in AI and systems biology from leading European academic institutions, startup companies, and established pharmaceutical firms into a unique consortium. The primary objective is to train a new generation of PD researchers with interdisciplinary expertise in these fields. This ambitious goal will be realized through an intensive training program that encompasses cutting-edge methodologies, encourages innovation, nurtures transferable skills, and provides immersive, hands-on research experiences. Thereby, the BICEPS network aims to shape the future of PD research by adopting a fresh perspective and expediting the development of diagnostics and therapies for PD, with a particular focus on the immune system. Best regards, Dr Nikola Milosevic

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 1st CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

*** First Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: March 7, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: April 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: May 16, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: TBA The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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PhD position in Cologne on the role of gender in prominence hierarchies
by Elen Le Foll 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, We are looking to fill a PhD position (4 years, 65% FTE) in the project “The role of gender in prominence hierarchies: A cross-linguistic and cross-register perspective”. This project is part of the CRC “Prominence in Language” at the University of Cologne. The project is co-led by Elen Le Foll and Stefan Hinterwimmer. We aim to investigate the extent to which both social and grammatical gender hierarchies are reflected in linguistic prominence hierarchies. We will conduct corpus and experimental studies to investigate the potential role of gender in a number of morphosyntactic alternations in (i) English (a language with no grammatical gender), (ii) French (a language with two grammatical genders that mostly match social/referential genders), and (iii) German (a language with more than two grammatical genders). We are looking for a doctoral researcher interested in using quantitative corpus-linguistic methods and multivariable statistical techniques to account for the multi-dimensionality of prominence in naturally occurring data. *Your tasks* * Collect and pre-process corpus data in German and French * Perform linguistic annotation on corpus data in German and French * Design and conduct corpus studies on morpho-syntactic alternations in German and French * Analyse the results using multivariable statistical methods * Collaborate with the project leaders on related studies * Present your work at international conferences * Publish your results in academic journals *Your profile* * You are familiar with corpus linguistics research * You have experience with R (and/or other programming languages) * You have experience with statistical modeling (preferably in R) * You are highly proficient in English * You are proficient in German and French * You enjoy working in a team * You can quickly adapt to new research topics * You are interested in learning new research methods Application deadline: *17 January 2025* Start date: *1 April 2025* * More information about the position <https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/sites/sfb_1252/user_upload/Ausschreibungen/PhD…>. * More information on the CRC. <https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de> Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards and happy holidays! Elen -- *Dr. Elen Le Foll* /Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer/ Applied Linguistics | Corpus Linguistics | Language Teaching & Learning Department of Romance Studies <https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> | Data Center for the Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/>University of Cologne <https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elen-Le-Foll>

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SCOLIA@ECIR2025 – 2nd CfP
by Ingo Frommholz 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === CALL FOR PAPERS === **************************************************************************** First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA’25) held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25), April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2025 **************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit your contribution to the First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2025), following the successful BIR workshop series, to be held as part of the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025, https://www.ecir2025.org) in Lucca, Tuscany. https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2025 The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Lucca (IT). === Important Dates === All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone - Submissions: 27th January 2025 - Notifications: 10th March 2025 - Camera Ready Contributions: 1st April 2025 - Workshop: 10th April 2025 === tl;dr === The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop. === Keywords === Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing === Workshop Topics === SCOLIA 2025 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics • Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g., • Chatting with papers via chatbots • Bibliometric-enhanced IR • Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review • Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission • Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature • Recommendation of citations based on the context • Discourse modelling and argument mining • Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation • Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs. • Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g., • Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM • Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references • Simulated users. • User Models and Collections, e.g., • Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search • Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction • Building test collections. • Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g., • Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers • Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour • Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers • Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper • Flagging predatory conferences and journals. We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. • CEURART (incl. LaTeX and Word templates): https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-styl… • Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2025 Page limits: • Full paper: 12 pages excluding references • Short paper: 6 pages excluding references Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation). === Workshop Chairs === Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton, UK Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France Suzan Verberne, Leiden University, the Netherlands Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany For any enquiries please email scolia2025(a)easychair.org. -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @ifromm.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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Call for Participation: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM 2025 will be a physical workshop co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi on 20th January 2025. We are pleased to share the programme of LoResLM 2025 with you. Please visit https://loreslm.github.io/program for the full programme. To register for the workshop, please visit https://coling2025.org/registration/ We are looking forward to welcoming you at LoResLM 2025 in Abu Dhabi. The workshop is supported in part by CLARIN-UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities programme. >> Keynote Speaker Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University. >> Organising Committee Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France Samuel Cahyawijaya - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Raj Dabre - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA Bonaventure F. P. Dossou - McGill University, Canada Daan van Esch - Google Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Daisy Lal - Lancaster University, UK Colin Leong - University of Dayton, USA Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Farhad Nooralahzadeh - University of Zurich, Switzerland Rrubaa Panchendrarajan - Queen Mary University of London, UK Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA Omid Rohanian - University of Oxford, UK Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK Claytone Sikasote - University of Cape Town, South Africa Marjana Prifti Skenduli - University of New York Tirana, Albania Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan John Vidler - Lancaster University, UK Phil Weber - Aston University, UK Bryan Wilie - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Artūrs Znotiņš - University of Latvia, Latvia URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe 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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First Call for Papers: NLP4Disability The Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2025
by Mourad Abbas 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

We are delighted to invite you to NLP4Disability <https://nlp4disability.github.io/>, the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2025, which will be held late June 2025 (*VIRTUAL*). *Topics* - Text-based disability identification through automated analysis and accessibility support - Accessible natural language interfaces designed for users with diverse needs - Alt-text generation creating automated image descriptions for visual impairments - Speech recognition enhancing ASR systems for hearing-impaired users - Speech synthesis tools supporting users with speech and vocal disabilities - Assistive NLP technologies developing language tools for communication access - Computational linguistics adapting language processing for disability support - Text processing modifying content for varied cognitive and learning needs - NLP bias addressing model fairness and representation in disability contexts - Memory assistance tools supporting age-related cognitive decline * Submission* · Papers must be submitted via the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=petra2025 · Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members. · The reviewing process is *double-blind*. · Authors should use the *ACM format* <https://www.petrae.org/guide.html>*.* · Submitted papers should be *3-10 pages*, including references. *Important dates* *Submission deadline: 10 February 2025 * *Notification of acceptance:* 15 March 2025 *Camera-ready paper due:* 30 April 2025 *Publication* All accepted papers will be published in ACM <https://www.acm.org/>. Mourad Abbas

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CfP: Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology
by HANSEN Damien 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Call for papers Second Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology, co-located with the MT Summit 2025 The workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) aims to attract a broad range of attendees, such as researchers, educators, translators and industry stakeholders, to discuss the applicability of language technology on translation efforts. Translation technology encompasses tools such as large language models (LLM), machine translation (MT) and computer-assisted translation (CAT) and their application in creative use cases such as marketing, literature and poetry, audiovisual translation and subtitling, and multilingual content creation on social media. We also encourage paper submissions on reception studies, and the development and user-testing of tools related to creative-text translation. Workshop date 23 or 24 June 2025 (to be decided by MT Summit organizers) Topics CTT welcomes contribution from a diverse audience, including translators, tool developers and users, researchers, students, and industry professionals working on or with creative-text translation. We invite submissions that explore the intersection of language technology and creative domains, addressing both practical applications and theoretical considerations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computer-assisted/machine translation in marketing * Computer-assisted/machine translation of literary works, including poetry and prose * Computer-assisted/machine translation in audiovisual translation * Computer-assisted/machine translation in subtitling * Computer-assisted/machine translation in multilingual content creation * Resources (models, datasets, tools) for multilingual or parallel creative-text translation * User studies on creative-text CAT/MT * Limitations of current language technology in creative domains * Generative AI for creative text generation and translation * Impact of language technology on the creative translation process * Reception studies of machine-translated creative texts * Cross-lingual creativity: Translation challenges and innovations * Case studies of MT and CAT in creative industries Submission guidelines We accept long papers (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references, appendices and sustainability statement). While we endeavor all papers to be presented as an oral presentation, depending on the number of submissions, we may select papers to be presented as posters instead. Accepted papers will only be published in the proceedings if (and only if) they were also presented in person at the workshop. * Submissions must be anonymized. The review will be double-blind. * Submissions should be formatted according to the official MT Summit style templates. * Papers should be submitted as PDF using the EasyChair platform. Details will be shared soon. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at CTT, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. Important dates * Paper submission: March 10th 2025 * Notification to authors: 31 March 2025 * Camera-ready: 7 April 2025 * (All deadlines are at 23.59 GMT) More information on: https://ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/

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CfP 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora)
by Fábián-Trost, Annamária 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

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

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1st CFP: The 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX)
by Ines Rehbein 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

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 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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Fully funded PhD positions in Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
by Dimitrios Kokkinakis 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-postings. We are inviting applications for one (or more) fully funded PhD positions in Language Technology. Location: Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 4 years Basis: 100% Deadline for applications: March 3rd, 2025 (24:00, CET). First day of employment: September 1st, 2025, or as soon as possible after this date, by agreement. For candidate requirements, application instructions, and further details, please visit this link: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Please forward this announcement to candidates who might be interested. Best regards, Dimitrios Kokkinakis

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Podcast Corpus - French and English
by michelecardo1＠gmail.com 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

Hello all, I am a PhD student at Université Paris Cité working on a project about question sequences in monologic discourse. I am trying to find a corpus of podcasts in French and English where there is one speaker. Does anyone have access to such a corpus or might be able to lead me in the right direction? I would be ever so grateful for any help or ideas of the best way to proceed. Sincerely, Michele Cardo

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December 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

In this newsletter: LDC 2025 membership discounts now available Approaching deadline for Spring 2025 data scholarship applications LDC closed for Winter Break December 25-January 1 New publications: MATERIAL Farsi-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S13> Abstract Meaning Representation 3.0 - Machine Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T11> ________________________________ LDC 2025 membership discounts now available Now through March 3, 2025, current 2024 members receive a 10% discount for renewing their membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5% discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for details on membership options and benefits. Approaching deadline for Spring 2025 data scholarship applications Attention students: don't miss out on the chance to receive no-cost access to LDC data for your research. Applications for Spring 2025 data scholarships are due January 15, 2025. For more information on requirements and program rules, see LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. LDC closed for Winter Break December 25-January 1 LDC will be closed from Wednesday December 25, 2024, through Wednesday, January 1, 2025, in accordance with the University of Pennsylvania Winter Break Policy. Our offices will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2025. Requests received by the Membership Office during Winter Break will be processed when the office reopens. ________________________________ New publications: MATERIAL Farsi-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S13> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 61 hours of Farsi conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 30% of the speech files, and approximately 3% of the speech files were translated into English. This release also includes English queries and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Abstract Meaning Representation 3.0 - Machine Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T11> was developed by the Center for Computational Linguistics at KU Leuven<https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/ccl> in the HORIZON2020<https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/…> project SignON<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017255>. It is an automatic translation of a subset of sentences from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) Annotation Release 3.0 (LDC2020T02)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T02> into Spanish, Irish Gaelic, and Dutch. AMR 3.0 training, development, and test splits were translated using Google Translate<https://translate.google.com>. "Unsplit" directories were not translated and are not included in this release. Translations were not manually verified, but formal issues (such as unexpected new lines) were corrected, and special tokens and encoding issues were fixed with the Python tool ftfy.fix_text<https://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>. AMR 3.0 is a semantic treebank of over 59,000 English natural language sentences drawn from material collected by LDC, specifically, discussion forum text from the DARPA BOLT and DARPA DEFT programs, transcripts and English translations of Mandarin Chinese broadcast news programming, Wall Street Journal text, translated Xinhua news texts, various newswire texts from NIST OpenMT evaluations, and weblog data from the DARPA GALE program. 2024 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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SMASH: Fourth Call for Postdoc Fellowships
by Matthew Purver 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

The SMASH programme has just opened its fourth and final call for applications, for 2-year postdoc fellowships on a range of topics that includes "Linguistic knowledge injection into deep learning" and "Cross-lingual transfer for less-resourced languages". Please see below for more info: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Smash <smash(a)ung.si> The fourth call for applications for SMASH postdoctoral Fellowships, co-funded by Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, is now open! It offers excellent research opportunities that revolve around machine learning and its applications to the fields of climate research, linguistics, precision medicine and fundamental physics. In this call, SMASH aims to hire about 6 fellows who will be hosted in five Slovenian institutions. They can also spend up to 1/3 of their 2-years appointments at one of our international academic partners (including top EU centres like Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amsterdam, and world-leading institutions like CERN and UC Berkeley) or at some of the most successful Slovenian companies. Each 2-year fellowship offers excellent working conditions, access to top infrastructure (including the HPC Vega), substantial research and travel funds and a salary that is significantly higher than local costs of living. The SMASH program values an inclusive culture and believes diversity is the key to success, so SMASH warmly welcomes applicants from underrepresented groups. Note also that SMASH offers a dedicated allowance to support applicants with special needs. In order to apply, fellows need to contact their desired supervisor who will assist them in preparing short research proposals and provide them with the necessary letters of support from the host institutions. *For more information see:https://smash.ung.si/open-call-4/ <https://smash.ung.si/open-call-4/> .* *The application deadline is April 1st 2025.* -- -- Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/ Computational Linguistics Lab - http://compling.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Cognitive Science Research Group - http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK *My working days for QMUL are **Tuesday-Thursday**; responses to mail on other days may be delayed.*

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Deadline 15th January: 5-6 months M2 internship, A computational socio-linguistic exploration of the Ethics of AI landscape, at Télécom Paris
by Maria Boritchev 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Hi everyone, Tiphaine Viard and Maria Boritchev are offering a master 2 internship at Télécom Paris. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the offer or the project, the details on the offer are below: Title: A computational socio-linguistic exploration of the Ethics of AI landscape Duration: 5-6 months, starting from April 1st (flexible) Location: Télécom Paris, 19 Pl. Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, France Advisors: [ https://mboritchev.github.io/page-perso-TP/ | Maria Boritchev ] , [ https://tiphainev.github.io/ | Tiphaine Viard ] Gratification: Approximately 600 euros per month (more or less 20 euros per month, the precise amount will depend on changes in the French labor code in 2025). Context: The recent years have seen a surge of initiatives with the goal of defining what “ethical” artificial intelligence would or should entail, resulting in the publication of various charters and manifestos discussing AI ethics; these documents originate from academia, AI industry companies, non-profits, regulatory institutions, and the civil society. The contents of such documents vary wildly, from short, vague position statements to verbatims of democratic debates or impact assessment studies. As such, they are a marker of the social world of artificial intelligence, outlining the tenets of different actors, the consensus and dissensus on important goals, and so on [1]. We have assembled a corpus of charters and manifestos of Ethics of AI, in English, written by different actors of the current AI landscape. This corpus is called MapAIE: [ https://mapaie.telecom-paris.fr/ | https://mapaie.telecom-paris.fr/ ] . We are conducting research on data from MapAIE both from a sociological and linguistic perspectives: * Sociologically, who are the groups of people who write about Ethics of AI? * Linguistically, what type of vocabulary or semantic constructions do people use to write about Ethics of AI? * Socio-linguistically, is there a difference in linguistic usage between different groups of people who write about Ethics of AI? To conduct these investigations, we would like to go further than traditional tools: we intend to develop graph-based natural language processing and computational sociology approaches making better use of modern NLP methods to explore our data. In particular, we could to exploit word sense induction approaches to automatically extract different linguistic usages. Objectives: The goal of this internship is to investigate MapAIE by using and developing graph-based natural language processing and computational sociology approaches. The internship will proceed in three steps: (1) Conduct a state of the art exploration on existing graph-based natural language processing and computational sociology techniques, starting from Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR, [ https://github.com/amrisi/amr-guidelines/blob/master/amr.md | https://github.com/amrisi/amr-guidelines/blob/master/amr.md ] ) and Cortext ( [ https://www.cortext.net/ | https://www.cortext.net/ ] ). (2) Re-implement existing techniques identified in (1), in particular [2], and analyse the obtained results sociologically and linguistically in view of the research questions of the project. (3) Propose new research questions and new graph-based data exploration approaches relevant to MapAIE. Bibliography: [1] Mapping AI ethics: a meso-scale analysis of its charters and manifestos, Mélanie Gornet, Simon Delarue, Maria Boritchev, and Tiphaine Viard, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency 2024. [2] Matan Eyal, Shoval Sadde, Hillel Taub-Tabib, and Yoav Goldberg. 2022. Large Scale Substitution-based Word Sense Induction. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [3] Roth, C., & Hellsten, I. (2023). Socio-semantic configuration of an online conversation space: The case of Twitter users discussing the# IPCC reports. Social Networks, 75, 186-196. [4] Becker, H. S. (1976). Art worlds and social types. American behavioral scientist, 19(6), 703-718. [5] Cefaï, D. (2016). Publics, problèmes publics, arènes publiques…. Que nous apprend le pragmatisme?. Questions de communication, (30), 25-64. Application: * deadline: January 15th, 2025 * To apply for this position, please send an email with your CV and a few words explaining your interest in this project to Maria Boritchev and Tiphaine Viard ( [ mailto:firstname.lastname@univ-nantes.fr | firstname.lastname(a)telecom-paris.fr ] ). We are looking for applications from students preparing a Master’s degree or equivalent with solid skills (and ideally experience) in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Computational Social Sciences. Knowledge of English is necessary.

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[Corpora-List][CFP] IJCNN Special Session on Explainable Deep Neural Networks for Responsible AI: Post-Hoc and Self-Explaining Approaches (DeepXplain 2025)
by Francielle Vargas 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to participate in "Explainable Deep Neural Networks for Responsible AI: Post-Hoc and Self-Explaining Approaches (DeepXplain 2025)," a special session at IJCNN 2025 dedicated to innovative methodologies for improving the interpretability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) while maintaining high predictive accuracy. Website: https://deepxplain.github.io/ Contributions This special session aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, promote the ethical design of AI systems, and encourage the development of benchmarks and datasets for explainability research. Our goal is to advance both post-hoc and intrinsic interpretability approaches, bridging the gap between the high performance of deep neural networks and their transparency. By doing so, we seek to enhance human trust in these models and mitigate the risks of negative social impacts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical advancements in post-hoc explanation methods (e.g., LIME, SHAP, Grad-CAM) for DNNs. - Development of inherently interpretable architectures using self-explaining mechanisms, such as attention-based or saliency-based models, prototype networks, and SENNs (Self-Explaining Neural Networks). - Post-hoc and self-explaining methods for Large Language Models (LLMs). - Application-driven explainability insights, particularly in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. - Ethical evaluations of DNN-based AI models with a focus on reducing bias and social impact. - Methods, metrics, and methodologies for improving interpretability and fairness in DNNs. - Ethical discussions about the social impact of non-transparent AI models. - Datasets and benchmarking tools for explainability. - Explainable AI in critical applications: healthcare, governance, misinformation, hate speech, etc. Submission Information We welcome submissions of academic papers (both long and short) across the spectrum of theoretical and practical work, including research ideas, methods, tools, simulations, applications or demonstrations, practical evaluations, position papers, and surveys. Submissions must be written in English, adhere to the IJCNN-2025 formatting guidelines, and be submitted as a single PDF file. Important Dates: - Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/ - Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 - Notification date: March 15, 2025 - Camera-ready submission: May 1, 2025 Organizers - Francielle Vargas <https://franciellevargas.github.io/>, University of São Paulo, Brazil - Roseli Romero <https://sites.icmc.usp.br/rafrance/>, University of São Paulo, Brazil - Jackson Trager <https://www.jacksonptrager.com/>, University of Southern California, USA - Edson Prestes <https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~prestes/site/Welcome.html>, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [], *Francielle Vargas* PhD in Computer Science University of São Paulo https://franciellevargas.github.io

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Elements in Semantics: new series
by Jonathan Ginzburg 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

We are happy to announce the first two titles in the series *Elements in Semantics,* published by Cambridge University Press, both by Kristina Liefke. Given how fundamental ontology is to semantics, it is particularly apposite that the first titles in the series address this topic. CUP makes these works freely available for download until January 4 and January 8, respectively: Kristina Liefke *Natural Language Ontology and Semantic Theory* https://tinyurl.com/3kv5wcdj Kristina Liefke *Reduction and Unification in Natural Language Ontology* https://tinyurl.com/bdk5ufat Forthcoming titles in the series to appear shortly include: Lasha Abzianidze, Lisa Bylinina, and Denis Paperno *Deep Learning and Semantics, * Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Robin Cooper, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Peter Sutton *Types and the structure of meaning: Issues in compositional and lexical semantics, * Katherine Davidson *s* *About Elements in Semantics* Interest in semantics has exploded in a number of fields in recent years. Yet there are still many unresolved issues about basic issues in the field, as well as new questions that have arisen as a result of interdisciplinary engagement. What are word meanings, and where do they come from? How can we explain the learnability of language and its structured nature? What are the computational properties of language, and how does the brain implement these? How does individual cognition relate to the social aspect of meaning? These, and many more, have been raised or sharpened as a result of engagement with game theory, robotics, and deep learning, to name a few. Given the importance of meaning in human cognition and society at large, results in semantics bear on issues as diverse as legal decision-making and the use of spoken dialogue systems to operate a robot on Mars. The innovative edge of Elements in Semantics consists in three aspects in particular. First, we provide a platform that emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of current work in semantics. Second, Elements will offer an integrated account of classical topics in semantics (e.g., negation, anaphora, conditionals) from a broader range of disciplines than traditional surveys. Third, Elements offers authors the ability to convey their research to audiences in innovative ways, using in-line audio and video as well as in-line simulations and data analysis via runnable code snippets in a variety of programming languages. Website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/elements-in-semantics Dan Lassiter, Jonathan Ginzburg (series editors)

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Deadline 18th: Postdoc in computational linguistics / data science in Change is Key!
by Nina Tahmasebi 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Want to work as a postdoc in a vibrant research group on cutting-edge methodology for computational modeling of meaning and meaning change? We are hiring one or more postdocs in the Change is Key! research program. The program is multi-national and multi-disciplinary covering both core NLP research as well as its application for humanities and social sciences. You will be working with LLMs for modeling meaning and semantic change and using this to detect cultural and societal changes. We publish regularly in top tier venues with generous research funds. The position is located in the heart of Gothenburg in Sweden, and we will provide help with finding researcher apartments if needed. We are a diverse research group that values our differences and thus we welcome any and all applicants with relevant research backgrounds interested in our topics. Find more about our work here: https://www.changeiskey.org/ Deadline for the call: December 18, 2024. Apply here: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Or email me back if you have any questions. Sincerely, -Nina. 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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UCCTS 2025 - Second Call for Papers
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

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

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Invitation for Research Collaboration in Multimodal and Explainable AI
by Dushyant Chauhan 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Hello everyone, I am Dushyant Singh Chauhan, a PhD graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, India, where I conducted my research under the guidance of Prof. Asif Ekbal (IIT Jodhpur) and Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay). Dr. Dushyant Singh Chauhan --> https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Gs8MoW4AAAAJ&hl=en Prof. Asif Ekbal --> https://ekbalasif.github.io/ Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya --> https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb/ Prof. Asif Ekbal and I are looking for research collaborators in the following areas: - [Multimodal Causal Reasoning] refers to how AI systems can infer cause-and-effect relationships across multiple data modalities to enhance decision-making and reasoning capabilities. - [Missing Modalities] refer to scenarios where certain data modalities are absent or incomplete, aiming to ensure robust performance and adaptability despite missing information. - [Topic Switching] refers to how AI systems manage abrupt shifts in topics or contexts, ensuring smooth and coherent transitions during conversation. - [Multimodal Question-Answering] refers to AI systems integrating multiple data modalities to provide accurate, context-aware answers. - [Video Summarization] refers to condensing long videos into shorter summaries while preserving key information and context for easier understanding. - [Interpretability and Explainability] refer to ensuring that AI systems are not only understandable in terms of their internal workings (interpretability) but also provide clear human understandable justifications for their decisions (explainability). - And similar research areas of your interest. If you are interested in collaborating on these topics with the ultimate goal of publishing impactful research, we would be delighted to hear from you. Additionally, we welcome discussions about your research interests and are open to exploring ideas in alignment with your expertise. To express your interest and reach out for collaboration, please fill out this form at https://forms.gle/fM7xsXgHTxjiuGLV6. Please note that this is not a paid collaboration but rather a shared academic effort aimed at advancing research in these exciting fields and contributing to high-quality publications. Looking forward to your response. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Regards, Dushyant Singh Chauhan Ph.D. Scholar, Department of CSE, AI-NLP-ML Lab, IIT Patna, India +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Labs CLEF 2025: Call for Participation
by Damiano Spina 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

RMIT Classification: Trusted CLEF 2025 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/ 9-12 September 2025, Madrid, Spain *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** CLEF 2025 is the 16th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. Building on the format first introduced in 2010, CLEF 2025 consists of an independent peer-reviewed conference on a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information retrieval systems. Together, the conference and the lab series will maintain and expand upon the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues. *** LABS REGISTRATION *** Registration for participation in labs is now open and available at https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/registration.html *** 2025 TASKS *** BioASQ: A Challenge in Large-scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering https://www.bioasq.org/workshop2025 The aim of the BioASQ Lab is to push the research frontier towards systems that use the diverse and voluminous information available online to respond directly to the information needs of biomedical scientists. CheckThat!: Lab on Subjectivity, Fact-Checking, Claim Extraction & Normalization, and Retrieval https://checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2025/ The eighth edition of the CheckThat! lab at CLEF presents a diverse set of challenges aimed at advancing technology to support and enhance the journalistic verification process. This edition revisits core tasks in the verification pipeline while also introducing auxiliary tasks such as subjectivity identification, claim normalization, and fact-checking numerical claims, with a particular emphasis on scientific web discourse. These tasks pose complex classification and retrieval problems at both the document level, including in multilingual contexts. ELOQUENT lab for evaluation of generative language model quality https://eloquent-lab.github.io/ The ELOQUENT lab for evaluation of generative language model quality and usefulness addresses high-level quality criteria through a set of open-ended shared tasks implemented to require minimal human assessment effort. eRisk: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet https://erisk.irlab.org/ eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet. EXIST: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks https://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ EXIST aims to capture and categorize sexism, from explicit misogyny to other subtle behaviors, in social networks. In 2024 the EXIST campaign included multimedia content in the format of memes, stepping forward research on more robust techniques to identify sexism in social networks. Following this line, in 2025 we will focus on TikTok videos in the challenge, thus including in the dataset the three most important sources of sexism spreading: text, images and videos. Consequently, it is essential to develop automated multimodal tools capable of detecting sexism in text, images, and videos, to raise alarms or automatically remove such content from social network because platforms’ algorithms often amplify content that perpetuates gender stereotypes and internalized misogyny. This lab will contribute to the creation of applications that identify sexist content in social media across all three formats. ImageCLEF: Multimodal Challenge in CLEF https://www.imageclef.org/ ImageCLEF 2025 focuses on evaluating technologies for annotating, indexing, classifying, retrieving and generating multimodal data, providing access to large datasets across a veriety of scenarios, including medical, social media, and internet-based applications. Building on the success of recent editions, it encourages interdisciplinary methods by engaging participants in diverse domains, providing large amounts of challenging multimodal data and providing am evaluation platform for a large number of use cases. JOKER: Humour in the Machine https://www.joker-project.com/clef-2024/ JOKER aims to foster interdisciplinary approaches to the (semi-)automatic analysis and processing of humour and wordplay. LifeCLEF: Challenges on Species Presence Prediction and Identification, and Individual Animal Identification https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF The LifeCLEF 2025 lab focuses on advancing AI-driven solutions for biodiversity monitoring through challenges on species and individuals recognition and prediction. LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance https://clef-longeval.github.io/ The goal of this task is to ignite the development of Information Retrieval systems that can handle temporal data evolution. The retrieval systems evaluated in this task are expected to be persistent in their retrieval efficiency over time, as Web documents and Web queries evolve. To evaluate such features of systems, we rely on collections of documents and queries, corresponding to real data acquired from actual Web search engines. PAN Lab on Stylometry and Digital Text Forensics https://pan.webis.de/ PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics and stylometry whose goal is to advance the state of the art and provide for an objective evaluation on newly developed benchmark datasets in those areas. QuantumCLEF https://qclef.dei.unipd.it/ The second edition of the QuantumCLEF lab is composed of three tasks and aims at: (i) Discovering and evaluating Quantum Annealing approaches compared to their traditional counterpart; (ii) Identifying new ways of formulating Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems algorithms and methods, so that they can be solved with Quantum Annealing; (iii) Establishing collaborations among researchers from different fields to harness their knowledge and skills to solve the considered challenges and promote the usage of Quantum Annealing. This lab allows participants to use real quantum computers provided by CINECA, one of the most important computing centers worldwide. SimpleText: Simplify Scientific Text https://simpletext-project.com/ The SimpleText track aims at improving accessibility to scientific information for everyone, developing corpora, evaluation measures, and new IR/NL models able to reduce scientific text complexity with strict faithfulness to the original text. TalentCLEF: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ TalentCLEF aims to drive technological advancement in Human Capital Management by establishing a public benchmark for NLP models that facilitates their application in real-world Human Resources (HR) scenarios, incorporating evaluation criteria incluiding multilingualism, fairness, and cross-industry adaptability. The lab also seeks to build a community for researchers and practitioners to generate, evaluate, and discuss ideas on the use of AI in Human Resources, pushing the state-of-the-art of NLP applications for Human Resources. Touché: Argumentation Systems https://touche.webis.de/ Touché is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on computational argumentation and causality. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** (may vary depending on the task) 18 November 2025: Registration opens 25 April 2025: Registration closes 10 May 2025: End of Evaluation Cycle [submission of runs] 30 May 2025: Submission of Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 30 May–27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Participant Papers and Extended Lab Overviews [CEUR-WS] due 9-12 September 2025, CLEF 2025 Conference, Madrid, Spain *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** General Chairs Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Alba García Seco de Herrera, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Lab Chairs Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Australia

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TOC: Journal of Language Modelling 12(2) (special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology )
by Adam Przepiórkowski 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 12(2) – a special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology – of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/32. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial: “Computational approaches to morphological typology” Micha Elsner, Sacha Beniamine 271–286 Articles: “Alignment everywhere all at once: Applying the late aggregation principle to a typological database of argument marking” David Inman, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Melvin Steiger 287–347 “Zero marking in inflection: A token-based approach” Laura Becker 349–413 “An analogical approach to the typology of inflectional complexity” Matías Guzmán Naranjo 415–475 “Corpus-based measures discriminate inflection and derivation cross-linguistically” Coleman Haley, Edoardo M. Ponti, Sharon Goldwater 477–529 The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief) ====================================================================== EDITORIAL BOARD: • Steven Abney (University of Michigan, USA) • Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester, USA) • Igor Boguslavsky (Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN) • Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS) • Olivier Bonami (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, France) • Robert D. Borsley (Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM; Honorary Professor, Bangor University, UNITED KINGDOM) • António Branco (University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL) • David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, USA) • Dan Cristea (University of Iași, ROMANIA) • Berthold Crysmann (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE) • Jan Daciuk (Gdańsk University of Technology, POLAND) • Łukasz Dębowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, POLAND) • Mary Dalrymple (Professor Emerita, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) • Anette Frank (Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY) • Claire Gardent (LORIA, CNRS and Université de Lorraine, FRANCE) • Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE; Laboratoire d’Excellence LabEx-EFLt, FRANCE) • Thomas Graf (Stony Brook University, UNITED STATES) • Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) • Adam Jardine (Rutgers Department of Linguistics, UNITED STATES) • Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (University of Tartu, ESTONIA) • Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY) • Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA) • Kimmo Koskenniemi (Professor Emeritus, University of Helsinki, FINLAND) • Jonas Kuhn (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) • Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, ITALY) • John J. Lowe (University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) • Ján Mačutek (Comenius University, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA) • Igor Meľčuk (Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal, CANADA) • Richard Moot (CNRS, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, FRANCE) • Glyn Morrill (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN) • Stefan Müller (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY) • Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM) • Petya Osenova (Sofia University, BULGARIA) • David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) • Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, POLAND) • Christopher Potts (Stanford University, USA) • Agata Savary (University of Paris-Saclay, FRANCE) • Sabine Schulte im Walde (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) • Stuart M. Shieber (Harvard University, USA) • Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM) • Stan Szpakowicz (Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa, CANADA) • Shravan Vasishth (Universität Potsdam, GERMANY) • Aline Villavicencio (Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Exeter, UNITED KINGDOM; University of Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM) • Veronika Vincze (University of Szeged, HUNGARY) • Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, ISRAEL) • Zdeněk Žabokrtský (Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC) ====================================================================== -- Adam Przepiórkowski Visiting Professor @ MIT (Linguistics) Full Professor @ Polish Academy of Sciences (Computer Science) Full Professor @ University of Warsaw (Cognitive Science) Editor-in-Chief @ Journal of Language Modelling <https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/> WWW: https://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/AdamPrzepiorkowski

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REMINDER: (Self-)nominations for the ACL 2025 review process
by Anette Frank 14 Dec '24

14 Dec '24

Dear NLP community members, Reminder from ACL 2025: We invite for *nominations* and *self-nominations* to join the ACL 2025 programme committee, as a*reviewer *or an *area chair*, depending on your interest, availability and experience. The ACL 2025 review process will be run through ARR in the February cycle. The tentative timeline for the review period is 1 March to 20 March 2025 and the rebuttal period is 26 March to 31 March 2025. Area chairs need to be available throughout the ARR February cycle. Please submit your (self-)nominations through this form by *20 December 2024 (slightly extended deadline):* https://forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8R4A Afterwards, you will be invited to join the ARR February reviewer or area chair (action editor) pool through the ARR OpenReview platform. Please share this message with your colleagues, postdocs and PhD students. Many thanks in advance for your time and contribution! on behalf of the ACL 2025 PC chairs -- Prof. Dr. Anette Frankhttp://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~frank Computational Linguistics Department email:frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de University of Heidelberg phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247 Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 secr: +49-(0)6221/54-3245 69120 Heidelberg, Germany fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

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Deadline extended and final CfP - TheWebConf 2025 workshop on Protecting Women Online
by Debora Nozza 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM TSWWW 2025 Towards a Safer Web for Women - First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online co-located with The Web Conference 2025 Sydney, Australia 28 April - 2 May 2025 https://tsww25.github.io/ ******************************************************************** NEXT DEADLINES (all deadlines are AoE) ******************************************************************** 22nd December 2024 18th December 2024: Workshop paper submission deadline 13th January 2025: Notification of acceptance ******************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ The workshop is dedicated to addressing the pressing issue of online violence against women by fostering dialogue and innovation. The workshop will explore global challenges and solutions for gender-based violence and the impact of online harms on women, among others. We aim to encourage the development of technological and interdisciplinary frameworks and innovations to ensure women's online safety. The workshop aims to review progress in approaches combating online violence against women, identify persistent barriers, and propose solutions to emerging challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Detection and prevention of gender-based online violence (e.g., harassment, stalking, cyberbullying) * Sentiment and emotion analysis in abusive or harmful online interactions towards women * Gender bias identification and mitigation in AI * Human-centered approaches for online safety applications * Approaches to preventing, understanding, identifying and mitigating online harms faced by women with multiple marginalised identities (e.g., misogynoir, LGBTQ+ women, or women from religious or cultural minorities) * Analysis of tracking devices, surveillance tools, and hidden cameras misused against women * Detection and mitigation of non-consensual deepfake generation and dissemination * Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing online harm * Legal and ethical frameworks for protecting women online * Psychological, social, and legal impacts of online technology when used for gender-based abuse PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ We welcome both new and recent research, including non-archival submissions to showcase work published elsewhere, if it is especially relevant to the workshop's theme. Accepted formats include: * Long papers: Maximum 8 pages (excluding references) * Short papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Position, idea, and emerging problem papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Non-archival submissions: Up to 2 pages (excluding references) All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsww25 For full details, visit our Call for Papers page. Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants. Accepted papers (except for non-archival submissions) will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ____________________ Workshop chairs: * Ángel Pavón Pérez, The Open University * Miriam Fernandez, The Open University * Tracie Farrell, The Open University * Debora Nozza, Bocconi University * Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne

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CfP for CMCL at NAACL 2025: 14th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Call for Papers The 14th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2025) CMCL 2025 will be co-located with the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025). Workshop Description CMCL 2025 is a one-day workshop held in conjunction with NAACL 2025. CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and, more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition/perception. The 2025 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013, ACL 2014, NAACL 2015, EACL 2017, LSA 2018, NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, ACL 2022, and ACL 2024. Scope and Topics The research interests/questions include, but are not limited to: * Analysis of computational models that process language data (e.g., neural language models, parsers) to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition. * Analysis of human language data to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition. * Comparing/aligning computational models (e.g., neural language models, parsers) with human language data to understand/reverse-engineer what and how humans compute during language comprehension/production/acquisition. * How insights from CogSci/linguistics and NLP fields can contribute to each other. * Sufficient conditions/pressures for the emergence of human-like communication/language. A more comprehensive description of the workshop scope is: * Models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics. * Models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word and phrase meaning and composition. * Models of incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms and their psychological plausibility. * Psychologically plausible models of discourse and dialogue. * Models of speaker-specific linguistic adaptation and/or generalization. * Models of first and second language acquisition and bilingual language processing. * Models of language disorders, such as aphasia, dyslexia, or dysgraphia. * Datasets or resources for modeling language processing or production in languages other than English. * Models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communities. * Analyzing computational models that process language data (e.g., neural language models, parsers) from the above perspectives. Invited Speakers We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers for the 2025 edition: * John T. Hale<https://cogsci.jhu.edu/directory/john-t-hale/> (Johns Hopkins University) * Tessa Verhoef<https://sites.google.com/view/tessa-verhoef/home> (Leiden University) Sponsoring Institutions This workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Important Dates * February 16, 2025: Paper submission/commitment deadline * March 10, 2025: Notification of acceptance * March 17, 2025: Camera-ready paper due * May 3 or May 4, 2025: Workshop dates (the exact date TBA) Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The timeline may change slightly. We are trying to set our CMCL deadline to be after the completion of the ARR December cycle (Feb. 16), in contrast to the timeline suggested in https://2025.naacl.org/calls/workshops/ That is, the authors in the ARR December cycle will have options to resubmit/commit it to the upcoming ARR rounds OR make a new direct submission to CMCL (see Submission types and Cross-submission policy Sections). Workshop submissions CMCL accepts direct submissions through the OpenReview site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/CMCL This year, we do not accept the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers. Submission types We invite three types of submissions: (1) Archival regular workshop submissions that present original research in either long (8 pages + references) or short (4 pages + references) paper format. (2) Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references). (3) Non-archival cross-submission of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere (including ACL “Findings of…” papers). Other submission details: * Authors must indicate if the paper is archival (1) or non-archival (2,3) when submitting the paper. That is, authors are not allowed to decide/change the archival/non-archival mode after receiving the reviews/notification. * Only regular workshop papers submitted via (1) will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will have a presentation opportunity in the workshop. * Submissions must be formatted using the ACL style template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) and submitted via a PDF file. * It is strongly recommended that the paper include a “Limitations” section (after the main parts and before the references), which is not counted in the part of the page limit. * Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments. * Non-archival papers (2,3) will be reviewed in a separate process than archival papers (1), although the timeline is the same; specifically, non-archival papers will be evaluated with more priority to broader factors, such as the fit of the topic with the workshop, the status of the paper (e.g., already accepted to elsewhere or not), and the entire diversity of the topic/community in the workshop, as well as the soundness of the paper. * We adhere to the new ACL anonymity policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy * This year, we do not host a shared task. * This year, we do not receive the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers to simplify the logistics. Instead, authors should submit their work via direct submission (without past reviews). Cross-submission policy For regular archival submission (1), CMCL will refuse papers that are under review or will be submitted to other conferences, including the ARR cycles. For non-archival submissions (2,3), we allow the submission of papers that have been or will be published elsewhere, but again, authors can not change the presentation mode to be archival after their submission. Workshop Organizers Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, tatsuki.kuribayashi(a)mbzuai.ac.ae<mailto:tatsuki.kuribayashi@mbzuai.ac.ae>) Giulia Rambelli (University of Bologna, giulia.rambelli4(a)unibo.it<mailto:giulia.rambelli4@unibo.it>) Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University, e.k.takmaz(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.k.takmaz@uu.nl>) Philipp Wicke (Ludwig Maximilian University LMU, pwicke(a)cis.lmu.de<mailto:pwicke@cis.lmu.de>) Jixing Li (City University of Hong Kong, jixingli(a)cityu.edu.hk<mailto:jixingli@cityu.edu.hk>) Byung-Doh Oh (New York University, oh.b(a)nyu.edu<mailto:oh.b@nyu.edu>) Website https://cmclorg.github.io/ Contact cmclorganizers2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclorganizers2025@gmail.com>

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Two senior researcher positions at GESIS/Cologne in NLP & Computational Social Science
by Dietze, Stefan 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Dear all, We are offering two exciting positions as postdoc / senior researcher within the department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (https://gesis.org/en/kts) at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. Both positions are concerned with computational methods (NLP) for mining and analysing web data in the social sciences, one with a methodological focus and the other with an more applied perspective. The positions are limited to 4 years, with option for tenure/permanency. Further information can be found at: - PostDoc in Computational Social Science: https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/45089/Se… - PostDoc in NLP & Knowledge Graphs: https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/45112/Se… For any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me. Best regards, Stefan -- 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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Postdoc Position: Multimodal Contexts & LLMs in Language Research
by Sharid Loáiciga 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

We’re hiring a postdoc to investigate how multimodal contexts shape human judgments of sentence well-formedness, with a focus on leveraging LLMs. Location: CLASP, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 2 years Interested or have questions? I’m happy to provide more details. Apply here: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89…

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[Call for Papers] Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS)
by Aline Paes 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

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

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PostDoc in NLP: Multilingual Coreference Resolution
by michael.strube＠h-its.org 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Dear all, HITS is looking for a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing (m/f/x) to perform research in multilingual coreference resolution. Application deadline: January 15th, 2025. Starting date (negotiable): March 1st, 2025. Please see for details https://www.h-its.org/hits-job/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-language-… If you have further questions please don't hesitate to contact Michael Strube at michael.strube(a)h-its.org. With best regards, Michael Strube -- Michael Strube NLP Group HITS gGmbH Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35 69118 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.h-its.org/nlp

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CfP deadline extension: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL 2025)
by Annika Simonsen - HI 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL) has been extended from December 16th to December 23rd, 2024. The workshop will be held on March 2, 2025, as part of the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn, Estonia. About the Workshop This half-day workshop focuses on the responsible evaluation and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to address the unique challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - Ethical benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in Nordic and Baltic languages - Methods for creating culturally sensitive and inclusive evaluation datasets - Responsible techniques for generating or collecting alignment data - Challenges and solutions in ethical LLM alignment for less-resourced languages - Case studies on responsible LLM evaluation or alignment projects - Ethical considerations in LLM evaluation and alignment - Comparative studies of LLM performance and fairness in Nordic and Baltic languages - Innovative approaches to leveraging limited language resources in evaluation or alignment of language models Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: January 13, 2025 Camera-Ready Deadline: February 3, 2025 Workshop Date: March 2, 2025 Workshop Format NB-REAL 2025 will be a half-day workshop held on March 2, 2025 (pre-conference). It will be a hybrid event with both on-site and online participation available. Submission Submissions can be long papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The templates are available at the official conference website, see https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers#h.v2k63awq0fpe. All submissions will undergo peer review by the program committee. To submit your paper please visit NB-REAL 2025 Workshop | OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Workshop/NB-REAL#t…> Organizers Hafsteinn Einarsson, Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Iceland (hafsteinne(a)hi.is) Annika Simonsen, PhD Student, University of Iceland (annika(a)hi.is) Dan Saattrup Nielsen, Senior AI Specialist, Alexandra Institute (dan.nielsen(a)alexandra.dk) For more information, please visit our website: https://nbreal.xyz/ We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at NB-REAL 2025!

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Workshop "Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science" (2-4 April 2025, TU Berlin)
by Arno Simons 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submissions to our workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)" is fast approaching! The deadline is December 31, 2024—just two weeks away. To contribute a talk, please send an abstract of your planned contribution of 300-600 words by e-mail to arno.simons(a)tu-berlin.de <mailto:arno.simons@tu-berlin.de>. We encourage every contributor to present on site and to participate in the whole workshop program. In exceptional cases, we will offer the possibility to present remotely. 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. We look for contributions that help resolve questions like these: How can LLMs help gain new perspectives on long-standing problems in HPSS such as determining the relevant contexts of knowledge claims, the dynamics of scientific controversies, problems of incommensurability, and generalizability of case studies? How can LLMs handle the specialized language of scientific texts, including technical jargon, citations, and mathematical formulas? How can LLMs bridge the gap between qualitative and computational methods and help overcome their limitations? How can LLMs be integrated into existing theoretical and methodological frameworks in HPSS, or how should these frameworks evolve to accommodate LLM-based analysis? How can we evaluate the validity of results generated by LLMs, given their opacity? How can LLMs account for the temporal development of scientific language and knowledge over time? For more details about the workshop and the CFP, please visit: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss We look forward to your contributions! Best regards, Arno Simons -- Arno Simons Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/arno-simons

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IWCS 2025: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Kilian Evang 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Call for Workshop Proposals 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany 22-24 September 2025 https://iwcs2025.github.io/ IWCS is a biennial conference on computational semantics. This year's edition is organized by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The conference is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. The aim of IWCS is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation, and learning of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference and workshops will take place 22-24 September 2025. === WORKSHOP PROPOSALS === We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IWCS 2025. Accepted workshops will have the option to publish their proceedings in the ACL Anthology. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Workshops are invited on these closely related areas, including the following: * design of meaning representations * syntax-semantics interface * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics * distributional semantics * alternative approaches to compositional semantics * inference methods for computational semantics * recognizing textual entailment * learning by reading * methodologies and practices for semantic annotation * machine learning of semantic structures * probabilistic computational semantics * neural semantic parsing * computing meaning with large language models * computational aspects of lexical semantics * semantics and ontologies * semantic web and natural language processing * semantic aspects of language generation * generating from meaning representations * semantic relations in discourse and dialogue * semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts * multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning * semantics-pragmatics interface * applications of computational semantics === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Proposals for workshops should contain: * A title and brief (max two pages) description of the workshop topic and content; * The names, affiliation and email addresses of the organisers; * An estimate of the expected audience size; * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted and how many attendees the workshop attracted; * Whether you plan a half-day or full-day workshop; * Whether or not the workshop proceedings should be published in the ACL Anthology. Proposals should be submitted on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/SIGSEM/IWCS/2025/Workshop_Propos… The person submitting the proposal will need an OpenReview account. Please note OpenReview's moderation policy, where newly created accounts with an institutional email address are approved automatically, but other email addresses can take up to two weeks to approve. === FINANCES === Workshops must cover their own costs for invited speakers as well as organizers' traveling costs. === IMPORTANT DATES === 31 January 2025 Workshop proposal submissions due 07 February 2025 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance 24 September 2025 Workshop date === CONTACT === For questions, contact: iwcs2025-program-chairs(a)uni-duesseldorf.de Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Sylvain Pogodalla (the IWCS 2025 program chairs) -- Dr. Kilian Evang · Institut für Linguistik · Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 · 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany · https://kilian.evang.name

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NLP4Ecology 2025 – Deadline Extension Announcement
by Valerio Basile 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Great news—we’ve extended the paper submission deadline for our workshop to *December 30th, 2024*. Below is the Call for Papers. Please feel free to share it widely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Papers *for the *NLP4Ecology 2025 Workshop*, titled "The 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing," The workshop will be co-located with *the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)*. We are inviting submissions that explore how NLP and computational linguistics can help address ecological challenges. The workshop focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to tackle the environmental crises by leveraging NLP tools to, e.g., analyze harmful narratives, detect misinformation, and examine public discourse related to ecological issues. Topics of interest include sentiment analysis, bias detection, framing analysis, and more. We aim to attract a highly interdisciplinary audience and welcome contributions at the intersection of *linguistics*, *ecology*, and *computer science*, particularly from fields such as *AI*, *computational linguistics* , *digital humanities*, *ecolinguistics*, *ethics*, *philosophy*, and *environmental humanities, *with the goal of fostering collaboration between the NLP community and scholars from diverse disciplines to explore how language technology can help address climate change and environmental crises. More details on the Call for Papers are on the workshop website <https://econlpws2025.di.unito.it/>. Key dates: *Paper Submission Deadline*: December 16, 2024 *December 30, 2024* *Camera-Ready Deadline*: February 3, 2025 *Workshop Date*: March 2, 2025 (Tallinn, Estonia)

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[IberLEF 2025] Second Call for Task Proposals
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

================================= IberLEF 2025 -- Second Call for Task Proposals ================================= IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, whose 2025 edition will be held as part of the 41th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The 2025 edition of the SEPLN conference will take place in Zaragoza, Spain. The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2024. Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2024 are. - Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 3, 2025). - Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2025. Task selection procedure Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 24, 2025. Proceedings IberLEF 2025 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JCI: 0.21), CiteScore (Scopus): 2,9 and SJR: 0,421) in its September 2025 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the acceptance of their works by June 20, 2025, and send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 3, 2025. Important dates - Task proposals due: December 22, 2024. - Notification of acceptance: January 24, 2025. - Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 20, 2025. - Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2025. - IberLEF Workshop: September 2025. IberLEF general chairs Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) José Ángel González Barba, Symanto Research (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com ================================= [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ ACL 2025: First CFP
by Mariana Romanyshyn 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

*The Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2025) <https://unlp.org.ua/>* *Call For Papers* UNLP 2025 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on July 31 or August 1, 2025, in conjunction with ACL 2025. The workshop will bring together leading professionals from academia and industry who develop language resources, tools, and NLP solutions for the Ukrainian language or do cross-lingual research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. The workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-lingual models applicable to Ukrainian, - Ukrainian dialects, sociolects, and code-switching, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Note: *The workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of the indigenous people of Ukraine. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. *Shared Task* UNLP 2025 organizes a Shared Task on Detecting Social Media Manipulation. This Shared Task aims to challenge and assess AI capabilities to detect and classify manipulation, laying the groundwork for progress in cybersecurity and the identification of disinformation within the context of Ukraine. Organized jointly with Texty.org.ua, the task will be based on 9,500 Telegram posts manually annotated for ten manipulation techniques by media experts. The shared task will have two tracks: techniques classification and detection of manipulative text spans. More details will follow soon. Check for updates at https://unlp.org.ua/. *Important dates* April 14, 2025 — Workshop paper due (direct submission) May 5, 2025 — Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline May 12, 2025 — Notification of acceptance June 2, 2025 — Camera-ready papers due June 30, 2025 — Pre-recorded video due July 31 or August 1, 2025 — Workshop *Submissions* UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the broader public are strongly encouraged. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished, and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. The paper submission link will be added soon. Check for updates at https://unlp.org.ua/. The workshop will provide Grammarly Premium to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please fill in this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemG2fVh_KJo6JZF9pC4TNQ9gdMawd-TC_…> . *Workshop Organizers* *Main Organizers* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Olena Nahorna, Grammarly, Germany Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine *Shared Task Organizers* Nataliia Romanyshyn, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Syvokon, Microsoft, Ukraine Roman Kyslyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Volodymyr Sydorskyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Find our program committee at https://unlp.org.ua/committees/. *Follow us* Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. X: https://x.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop. Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua.

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12th Workshop on Argument Mining @ACL2025: Call for Shared Task Proposals
by Gabriella Lapesa 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

12th Workshop on Argument Mining - Call for Shared Task Proposals (Deadline: January 7th) We cordially invite submissions of shared task proposals, as part of ArgMining 2025, the “12th Workshop on Argument Mining”. The workshop will be co-located with ACL 2025 (to be held in Vienna, Austria). The call for papers will be circulated separately, in the next days Argument mining (also known as “argumentation mining”) is a gradually maturing research area within computational linguistics. It involves the automatic identification of argumentative structures in free text, as well as argument quality assessment, argument persuasiveness, and the synthesis of argumentative texts. To advance research on specific aspects of argument mining, previous editions of the ArgMining workshop series have promoted shared tasks, including key point analysis for quantitative summarization of arguments (see Argmining 2021), the validity and novelty of arguments (see Argmining 2022), multimodal argument mining and pragmatic tagging of peer reviews (see Argmining 2023), and argument mining considering perspective and dialogical aspects (see Argmining 2024). Following the success of previous workshops, ArgMining 2025 plans to share one or more unsolved problems to be investigated by the community. Proposals for shared tasks should include: • a title and a brief description of the task • a description of the datasets that will be used in the task and their readiness, and a proposed plan for data collection and annotation • previous work on the datasets, including publications (if any) • a few lines regarding evaluation of the submitted systems • a brief introduction of the task organizers Shared task organizers will have the opportunity to publish a task overview paper in the workshop proceedings. Please submit your shared task proposal via email to argmining.org2025 [at] gmail.com. The submission deadline is January 7th, 2025, and task organizers will be notified of proposal acceptance on January 19th. While exact dates are not yet available, we assume the following tentative schedule: • End of February - Training data release • Mid of April - Test data release, evaluation start • End of April - Evaluation end • Mid of May - Results announcement • End of May - Paper submission due • Mid of June - Camera-ready version due • July 31st or August 1st 2025 - ArgMining 2025 workshop (ACL) The timeline will be finalized with the shared task organizers. Organizers: Elena Chistova, Philipp Cimiano, Gabriella Lapesa, Shoreh Haddadan, Ramon Ruiz-Doiz

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KONVENS 2025: Call for Tutorials and Workshop Proposals
by Christian Wartena 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

We cordially invite proposals for workshops and tutorials as part of KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 9-12). KONVENS is an annual conference series on computational linguistics that started in 1992 and that is organized under the auspices of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society, the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence and SwissText. Past conferences are listed here: https://konvens.org. See https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ for more information! Workshop Proposals Workshop proposals should contain: * a title and a brief description (at most 4 pages in ACL format) of the workshop topic * the desired workshop length (half-day or full-day) * the names and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed to serve Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings. The time schedule for workshops is: Workshop Proposal Deadline February 14, 2025 Workshop Proposal Notification February 21, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Deadline July 2, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Notification August 4, 2025 Mandatory Camera Ready Deadline August 15, 2025 Proceedings Camera Ready Deadline August 22, 2025 Tutorials Tutorials are intended to either provide a comprehensive introduction to core techniques/areas of interest or address advanced topics relevant for the KONVENS community. We invite half-day tutorials on established or emerging research topics in these areas but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or applications. Tutorials may be explicitly introductory, targeting experienced researchers or attracting a wide audience by addressing basic as well as advanced topics. Tutorial proposals should contain: * a title and abstract of the tutorial * the language in which the tutorial will be held (English/German) * a brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the KONVENS community * a brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in half a day * the names and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere Tutorial proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Proceedings Peer-reviewed workshop papers can be published in the KONVENS 2025 Proceedings. A camera-ready version of all accepted papers should be available at latest on August 22, 2025. Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein]

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2nd CFP: Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ NAACL 2025
by Paul Thompson 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

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

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PhD and PostDoc positions in human-centered NLP at University of Göttingen
by Beinborn, Lisa 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

Dear fellow NLPers, we are looking for a PhD candidate and a PostDoc to join our group at the University of Göttingen. We take a human-centered perspective on natural language processing research and focus on the following topics: - the cognitive plausibility, interpretability and generalization capabilities of language processing models - cross-lingual transfer and typological diversity in multilingual models - exploring how language processing differences between humans and computers can guide the development of more efficient models - language technology for education (e.g., readability and simplification, exercise generation, learner modeling) PhD Candidate (E13): https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html?&details=74728 PostDoc (E14, up to 5 years): https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html?&details=74732 If the timing of the position is not right for you but everything else is, please reach out! We will have more positions coming up in the next few months. If you like our topics but already have a job, consider coming to the third edition of our HumanCLAIM workshop<https://clap-lab.github.io/workshop> (March 26th/27th, Göttingen). We bring together language researchers from computer science, linguistics, and cognitive science to exchange our ideas about “The Human Perspective on Cross-Lingual AI Models”. Best regards, Lisa Beinborn ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Lisa Beinborn Human-Centered Data Science https://www.uni-goettingen.de/huds Institute for Computer Science University of Göttingen -------------------------------------------------

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SwissText 2025: 2ND CALL FOR SHARED TASK, WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
by Tuggener Don (tuge) 08 Dec '24

08 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite submissions of proposals for shared tasks, workshops, and tutorials to be held at the SwissText 2025 conference (https://www.swisstext.org/). SwissText will take place on 14th and 15th of May, 2025 at ZHAW in Winterthur. ABOUT SwissText SwissText 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). SPECIAL EDITION This edition of SwissText will be special, since we celebrate its 10th anniversary! This is a great opportunity to look back. Hence, in addition to novel ideas for shared tasks, we also invite previous organizers of shared tasks to re-submit their ideas: What has changed since the last run of the shared task? Is the task still relevant? Do LLMs solve everything now? This offers us to see what progress has been made over the years. To give you some ideas, here is a list of previous shared tasks: * NLP for Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring * Swissdox Hackathon * Detecting greenwashing signals through a comparison of ESG reports and public media * Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Shared Task * Low-Resource Speech-to-Text * The Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG text (SEPP-NLG) * German Text Summarization Challenge * .. and many more (see the SwissText website archive)! FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS Proposals for shared tasks should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic of the task * a description of the data sets that will be used in the shared task and their readiness * a sketch of how the submitted systems will be evaluated * a tentative timeline Proposals for workshops should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic * a description of the intended audience * workshop format (paper presentations, poster session, etc.) * a tentative timeline Proposals for tutorials should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic and the goal of the tutorial * an introduction of the workshop speakers and their background and expertise * a description of the intended audience and the required level of expertise (beginners, experts, etc.) * a tentative outline of the tutorial schedule Note that the organization and running of the shared tasks, workshops, and tutorial is in the hands of the respective organizers. The SwissText organizers will provide infrastructure (rooms, paper submission platform) and assist where they can, of course. Interested? We are looking forward to your proposals. Submit your proposals by email to info(a)swisstext.org<mailto:info@swisstext.org> no later than December 15, 2024. Notifications will be sent out in the beginning of 2025. ________________________________ ZHAW School of Engineering / CAI Dr. Don Tuggener Technikumstrasse 71 Postfach 8401 Winterthur Tel: +41 58 934 78 55 Web: https://www.zhaw.ch/de/ueber-uns/person/tuge/

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LLMs4Subjects Shared Task 5 at SemEval 2025 -- Last and final call for participation
by D'Souza, Jennifer 08 Dec '24

08 Dec '24

Libraries are at the heart of our society and education, so we believe in driving technological innovation in these age-old institutions as well as modern digital libraries when we can! If you're passionate about bringing AI and LLMs into library workflows, join computer science researchers and AI enthusiasts worldwide in the LLMs4Subjects shared task! **We are excited to announce the 3rd Call for Participation to the LLMs4Subjects Shared Task organized as part of SemEval 2025.** Calling all researchers interested to explore research objectives or new research questions around which to test LLMs. Questions such as: To what extent do LLMs pass semantic subject comprehension tests given a technical context? How effectively do they function in bilingual contexts, specifically German and English? What strategies can enhance their capability as bilingual semantic comprehension models? If these questions spark your interest, we invite you to participate in the LLMs4Subjects shared task at SemEval 2025. **TL;DR Overview – LLMs4Subjects SemEval 2025 Shared Task:** LLMs4Subjects marks the first shared task of its kind, challenging participants to develop innovative LLM-based solutions for subject tagging of technical records from Leibniz University’s Technical Library (TIBKAT). The task requires systems to process documents in both German and English using the GND taxonomy. Successful implementations may be integrated into TIB’s operational workflows, enhancing the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. For more details, visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects/ Why Participate? • Explore critical LLM research areas like prompting, fine-tuning, RAG techniques, agentic workflows, and more! 🔍 • The SemEval meeting is held is conjunction with premier NLP conferences like ACL, EMNLP, or COLING. Hence participants will have the opportunity to publish a paper, present and discuss your work at one of these venues! 🗣️ • Your solutions could be integrated into the workflows of the TIB Leibniz Information Centre! 🏛️ How to Participate: 1. please submit your interest to participate using our online form (https://forms.gle/YQzupcoySAyJi45c6), 2. sign up to the shared task Google Groups (https://groups.google.com/u/6/g/llms4subjects) for FAQs, news, and announcements, and, 3. last but not the least, download the datasets (https://github.com/jd-coderepos/llms4subjects/) to begin development. Participants have a month remaining to develop solutions, and we welcome hackathon-style proofs-of-concept to showcase promising directions. The official evaluation phase begins in January 2025. Don’t wait – get started today! And please, share this with your network if you think it might interest others.

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SIGIR 2025 - Call for Workshop Proposals
by Surya Kallumadi 08 Dec '24

08 Dec '24

Call for Workshop Proposals: https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-workshops.html The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The 48th ACM SIGIR conference will be held in person in Padua, Italy, from July 13th to 18th, 2025. SIGIR 2025 workshops will provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and emerging areas in IR, in a less formal and more focused way than the conference itself. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of IR are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. 2025 Format Workshops will be on-site and in person. All workshops will require at least one organizer to attend, as well as a (yet-to-be-determined) number of participants. More information at the SIGIR 2025 In-presence Policy <https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/> page. Important Dates for Workshop Proposals Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - Proposal submission: January 9, 2025 - Proposal acceptance notification: February 6, 2025 - Individual workshop paper submission: April 23, 2025 - Tentative workshop overview camera ready: April 24, 2025 - Tentative workshop paper acceptance notification: May 21, 2025 - Workshop day: July 17, 2025 Topics of Interest Workshop topics typically match those identified in the SIGIR 2025 general call for contributions <https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-full-papers.html> (see, e.g., full papers); proposals on other topics related to IR are welcome. We encourage prospective workshop organizers to submit proposals for highly interactive workshops (either full-day or half-day) focusing on either in-depth analysis or broad-ranging approaches to information retrieval. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers. We expect workshops to contain ample time for discussion and engagement for all participants – not just those presenting papers. Workshops fostering collaboration, discussion, group problem-solving, and community-building initiatives are particularly encouraged. Workshops focused solely on the presentation of papers in a “mini conference” format are discouraged. The organizers of approved workshops are expected to define the workshop’s focus, gather and review submissions, and decide on the final program content. Organizers (including co-organizers) are strongly encouraged to write an article for the ACM SIGIR Forum summarizing the event. At least one organizer is expected to attend the entire workshop. Submission Guidelines Workshop proposals, in no more than 4 pages, should include the following information: - Title - Motivation for the workshop, its appropriateness for SIGIR, its complementarity to the main SIGIR 2025 conference topics, and why it would be of interest to the IR community - Theme and purpose of the workshop - Format (half/full-day), planned activities, and a tentative schedule of events, including potential keynote or other speakers - Planned interaction and engagement: Describe how the workshop will be structured to encourage active discussions, idea exchange, and collaboration among participants. Detail how the organizers will create an interactive format, distinct from a "mini conference," such as breakout discussions, group exercises, and panels designed to deepen engagement with the topic. - Distinction from main conference topics: Outline how the workshop theme covers areas complementary to or not typically discussed in the main conference program, highlighting emerging, niche, or interdisciplinary topics that could provide fresh perspectives to participants. - Audience reach: Describe the potential to attract new attendees who may not traditionally participate in SIGIR, including practitioners, academics from related fields, or industry specialists with unique insights or applications in information retrieval. - For each organizer, an indication of their likelihood of attending onsite - Special requirements and their importance to the workshop’s success, along with a contingency plan if requirements are unmet (such as potential last-minute organizers to ensure the workshop runs onsite) - List of organizers with a short biographical sketch of each organizer, describing relevant qualifications and experience - Names of potential program committee (PC) members – if a PC is required (any workshop involving written papers should have a PC) - Selection process for participants and/or presenters - Expected target audience and how the workshop will be advertised to reach them - Related workshops (if applicable): if previously held at SIGIR or another conference, organizers should briefly describe past attendance, outcomes, and the need for another workshop Workshop proposals should be prepared in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official> templates are available from the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (use the “sigconf” proceedings template). For LaTeX, the following should be used: documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true]{acmart} Proposals will be reviewed based on quality, complementarity to SIGIR 2025 conference topics, likelihood of attracting enough participants, and venue hosting capacity. Submissions will be reviewed by a program committee selected for this purpose, with final decisions made at the SIGIR Program Committee meeting. Proposals should be submitted in PDF through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2025. by selecting the “SIGIR 2025 Workshops” track. Organizers of accepted workshops will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary for inclusion in the SIGIR 2025 conference proceedings. Important Dates for Workshop Proposals Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - Proposal submission: January 9, 2025 - Proposal acceptance notification: February 6, 2025 - Individual workshop paper submission: April 23, 2025 - Tentative workshop overview camera ready: April 24, 2025 - Tentative workshop paper acceptance notification: May 21, 2025 - Workshop day: July 17, 2025 Workshop Chairs - Surya Kallumadi, Coursera.org, USA - Zhaochun Ren, Leiden University, the Netherlands Contact For further information, please contact the SIGIR 2025 Workshop Co-chairs by email: sigir2025-workshop(a)dei.unipd.it.

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COLING 2025 Tutorial: Bridging Linguistic Theory & AI - Unlocking Usage-Based Learning in Humans & Machines (Call for Participation)
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 07 Dec '24

07 Dec '24

We’re delighted to invite you to the on-site tutorial at COLING 2025 that will discuss the latest work on bridging the worlds of linguistic theory with Large Language Models: “Bridging Linguistic Theory and AI: Usage-Based Learning in Humans and Machines.” For More information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/linguistic-theory-and-ai/ The takeaways of this tutorial, which will be held in-person, will be an overview of the shared and divergent aspects of human and machine usage and data-driven learning, outlined from the theoretical perspective of usage-based psycholinguistic theory, with an emphasis on how this can shed light on the capabilities and limitations of LLMs, including multimodal models. This will serve as the bedrock for guiding participants and the NLP community towards more informed evaluation of large, pre-trained models, as well as energising solutions drawing upon the multi-modal information and linguistic theory that enriches language and many dimensions of interaction. Background: Unlike our past NLP tools, such as syntactic parsers and automatic semantic role labelling, LLMs lack grounding in linguistic theory. Instead, their development is based on the encoder-decoder architecture, which was originally designed for sequence- to-sequence tasks, specifically translation. This dichotomy impedes methods for evaluating LLMs, as their performance on meta-linguistic tasks, such as semantic role labelling, which previously served as benchmarks for the individual components in an NLP pipeline, are poor predictors of their fluency on downstream applications. However, the fact that LLMs, designed primarily to meet information-theoretic needs, can capture any linguistic information at all is fascinating. Additionally, it offers a novel foundation for exploring what can be achieved through exposure to information alone. Therefore, it has been compelling to turn to usage-based theories of language, such as Construction Grammar, to establish experimentally validated structures of language that speakers of a given language consistently recognise and are able to generalise over. We can then compare such structures to the linguistic structure that we can probe for within LLMs. For More information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/linguistic-theory-and-ai/ We look forward to seeing you at COLING 2025 in January. On behalf of, Claire Bonial, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky

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Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models
by Hillmann, Stefan, Dr. 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

Dear all, Please find in the following the CoP for the workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models Date: 20 February 2025 Place: Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, Berlin, Germany Machine learning techniques have conquered many different tasks in speech and natural language processing, such as speech recognition, information extraction, text and speech generation, and human machine interaction using natural language or speech (chatbots). Modern techniques typically rely on large models for representing general knowledge of one or several languages (Large Language Models, LLMs), or for representing speech and general audio characteristics. These models have been trained with large amounts of speech and language data, typically including web content. When humans interact with such technologies, the effectiveness of the interaction will be influenced by how far humans make use of the same type of language the models have been trained on or, in other words, if the models are able to generalize to the language used by humans when interacting with the technology. This may lead to some gradual forms of adaptation in human speech and language production, and users who do not adapt may be excluded from efficient use of such technologies. On top of this, as commercial model development follows market needs, under-represented languages and dialects/sociolects may decrease in terms of priorities. Furthermore, for many lesser spoken languages the necessary data is not available, which will worsen a digital divide in speech and language technology usage. The workshop sets out to discuss this problem based on scientific contributions from the perspective of computer science and linguistics (including computational linguistics and NLP). Topics which we aim to address include but are not limited to: User diversity: Which aspects of human speech and language production affect the performance of large foundation models? In which way, and for which tasks? Language use: How are large language models able to cope with different languages, dialects, and sociolects? How do they deal with code switching? Human adaptation: How does the use of large language models affect language comprehension, as well as speech and language production? Which alignment effects occur, and in which time spans? Model adaptation: How do models need to be designed to better cope with speech and language diversity? How do training and finetuning affect model performance? Inclusion: What data and technologies are necessary to better cope with diversity in large speech and language models? The workshop will consist of a number of oral presentations and discussion panels. Accepted speakers are invited to submit a short or long paper which will be published online after the workshop. Details and registration: https://www.tu.berlin/en/qu/about-us/news/isca-itg-workshop Best, Stefan Hillmann -- Dr.-Ing. Stefan Hillmann Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Senior Researcher er, ihm / he, his Anrede / Form of address: Herr / Mr. Technische Universität Berlin Fakultät IV / Faculty 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatik / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Quality and Usability Lab Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin, GERMANY

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Call for Birds of a Feather/Affinity Group Proposals at COLING 2025
by Mukund Choudhary 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, We hope you are doing great. As the Diversity & Inclusion team at the COLING 2025, we are excited to announce the calls to organize Birds of a Feather (BoF)/ Affinity Group sessions at the conference! If you are interested in discussing a specific theme in CL, NLP, or research in general, please take a few minutes to complete the form<https://forms.gle/8JrSBH7Gc3sgqLRBA>. We would appreciate receiving your proposal by 23:59 (AOE time), December 20th, 2024. Let us know if there is more we can assist with at coling2025diversity(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:coling2025diversity@googlegroups.com>. Best regards, Hawau and Mukund COLING 2025 Social Diversity & Inclusion (SD&I) Team P.S. All BoF hosts should be registered for COLING 2025, and the sessions will be in-person. If the link above is not clickable, please use this URL: https://forms.gle/8JrSBH7Gc3sgqLRBA

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: Scoping workshop “Corpus linguistics 2040: Which data, which methods, which models?”
by christian.mair＠anglistik.uni-freiburg.de 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

The workshop is jointly organised by the English Department of the University of Freiburg and the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim and, as a scoping workshop, designed to explore the major empirical, methodological and conceptual challenges facing our research community. Although the two organising institutions focus on English and German, corpus linguists working on other languages are explicitly invited to attend and contribute. Venue: IDS, Mannheim, Germany Date: 10 – 11 July 2025 For info on abstract submission etc. see: https://linguistlist.org/issues/35-3417 https://www.ids-mannheim.de/fi/veranstaltungen/workshop-corpus-linguistics-… Topics in focus include: - Corpora of spontaneous speech – new formats, new searches - Corpora versus AI/LLMs? Corpora and AI/LLMs? - Multilingual and multimodal corpora - Infrastructures for CLx and Digital Humanities Several renowned colleagues have already made commitments to present keynotes and/or organise round tables, including Silvia Bernardini, Mark Davies, Tony McEnery and Michaela Mahlberg. Christian Mair & Andreas Witt _______________________________________________________

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[FinNLP@EMNLP-2025] Call for Shared Task Proposal
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the launch of the ACL Special Interest Group on Economic and Financial Natural Language Processing (SIG-FinTech)! To learn more about SIG-FinTech, we invite you to visit our official website: https://sigfintech.github.io/ We are also excited to share that the next FinNLP workshop will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2025, taking place from November 5–9, 2025, in Suzhou, China. Stay tuned for more details—we will share updates soon! *As part of this event, we are now accepting shared task proposals for FinNLP@EMNLP-2025. Details about the call for proposals can be found below and on our website: https://sigfintech.github.io/fineval.html <https://sigfintech.github.io/fineval.html>* *Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025* We warmly encourage you to join us as shared task organizers. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Best regards, Chung-Chi --- 陳重吉 (Chung-Chi Chen), Ph.D. Researcher Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan E-mail: c.c.chen(a)acm.org Website: https://nlpfin.github.io/ FinEval-Proposal-2025: Financial Information Access and Evaluation Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025 Conference website https://sigfintech.github.io/fineval.html Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=finevalproposal2025Financial Information Access and Evaluation (FinEval) EMNLP-2025, Nov. 5th-9th, 2025, Suzhou, China Shared tasks are collaborative initiatives where researchers and practitioners work together to address a common challenge using shared datasets and evaluation metrics. These tasks foster competition, collaboration, and advancement within the field, playing a significant role in both academic and industry communities. FinEval provides a venue for the community to share valuable insights and inspiration. Every year, we will call for proposals for the next edition of FinEval, which is collocated with the FinNLP workshop. *Call for Shared Task Proposal* We encourage submissions for tasks that test systems on financial text analysis, with a particular focus on cross-lingual, application-oriented tasks, and novel uses of NLP in finance. Tasks for non-English languages and cross-domain applications are welcome. *Proposal Criteria* Your task proposal will be evaluated on: - *Novelty:* Is the task addressing a unique or under-explored problem in financial NLP? - *Interest:* Will the task attract broad participation? - *Data Quality:* Is the data collection plan robust, with high inter-annotator agreement and appropriate licensing? - *Evaluation:* Is the evaluation methodology rigorous, and will it inspire future research? - *Impact:* What long-term impact will this task have on financial NLP? - *Ethics:* Data should avoid PII and adhere to ethical guidelines, including privacy compliance and ethical data use. *Task Organization* Organizers should be prepared to: - Ensure data quality and licensing, addressing ethical and security concerns. - Provide format checkers, baseline systems, and evaluation tools for participants. - Manage a competition platform (e.g., CodaLab) and maintain communication channels. - Write and present a task description paper at the FinEval session in FinNLP workshop. - Organize and review participant submissions and related documentation. *Organizer Roles* - *Lead Organizer:* Oversees the task, ensuring timely completion of deliverables. - *Co-Organizers:* Assist with data preparation, evaluation, and participant communication. - *Advisory Organizers:* Provide guidance, not necessarily engaged in daily tasks. Note: A minimum of two organizers is required per task. Single-organizer submissions will not be accepted. *Submission Guidelines* Task proposals should be in PDF format, following the ACL Template <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>, and must be no longer than 4 pages (plus references). Include the following sections: - *Overview:* Summary, community interest, and anticipated impact. - *Data & Resources:* Data sources, copyright details, data quantity, quality assurance, and ethical considerations. - *Pilot Task:* (recommended) Results and insights from initial studies. - *Evaluation:* Clear evaluation methodology and criteria. - *Task Reruns:* If a rerun, provide justification and expected impact. - *Task Organizers:* Names, affiliations, contact details, and relevant experience. *Important Dates* - *Task proposals due: *31 January 2025 - *Task selection notification: *20 February 2025 - *Sample data ready: *15 March 2025 - *Training data ready: *1 May 2025 - *Evaluation data ready: *1 June 2024 - *Evaluation start: *10 July 2025 - *Evaluation end: *31 July 2025 - *Paper submission: *31 Augest 2025 - *Notification to authors: *15 September 2025 - *Camera-ready papers due: *25 September 2025 - *FinNLP Workshop: *EMNLP-2025

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Call for Participation: eRisk Lab @ CLEF 2025
by ACL Announcements 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Participation: eRisk Lab @ CLEF 2025 Date: 2024-12-05 19:50 From: ACL Announcements <announcements(a)aclweb.org> To: Announcements <announcements(a)aclweb.org> Call for Participation: eRisk Lab @ CLEF 2025 Are you passionate about leveraging AI for societal good? Join us for eRisk 2025, the ninth edition this lab at CLEF, where we delve into the methodologies and applications of early risk detection on the Internet. Our mission is to foster interdisciplinary research that addresses critical health and safety challenges, from identifying signs of depression to preventing online harm. Tasks for eRisk 2025 (More info at https://erisk.irlab.org/ ) Task 1: Search for Symptoms of Depression - Objective: Rank sentences from user writings by relevance to the 21 symptoms of the BDI-II questionnaire. - Highlights: - Use a TREC-formatted dataset with human-assessed relevance judgments. - Generate rankings for symptoms with evaluation via metrics like MAP and nDCG. - Create a valuable annotated corpus with broad applications beyond this task. - This is the third edition of the task: two years of training data. Task 2: Contextualized Early Detection of Depression *(New in 2025)* - Objective: Analyze full conversational contexts to detect early signs of depression. - Highlights: - Evaluate sequential user interactions for a holistic view of conversational dynamics. - Train on isolated writings and test in real-world-like scenarios with chronologically ordered conversations. - Metrics include accuracy and timeliness, measured via ERDE and similar frameworks. - This is the first edition of the contextualized tasks: three year of un-contextualized training data. Pilot Task: Conversational Depression Detection via LLMs (New in 2025, Interactive Task) - Objective: Engage with LLM personas to identify depressive symptoms based on conversational exchanges. - Highlights: - No training data provided—use creative and unsupervised approaches. - Collaborate in a limited-message dialogue setting, simulating real-world conditions. - Push the boundaries of AI-human interaction for mental health applications: are we able to accurately reproduce personas? -This is a pilot task. Participants will need to book a slot to interact with the LLM personas: register before the slots are gone! Key Dates - Dataset Release: -T1: 1st December 2024 for training collections and test dataset -T2: 1st December 2024 for training and 5th February 2025 for beginning of test stage (server opens) -T3: 5th February 2025 for beginning of test stage (server opens for interacting with the LLM) - Submission Deadlines: -T1: 1st April 2025 for submitting participants’ results to FTP -T2: 12th April 2025 end of test stage (server closes) -T3: 12th April 2025 end of test stage (server closes) - CLEF 2025 Conference: 9-12 September 2025, Madrid, Spain. How to Participate 1. Register: Sign up through the [CLEF 2025 Labs Registration site](https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/) 2. Submit Agreements: Complete the user agreement form to access datasets. 3. Join the Community: Join our Google Groups https://groups.google.com/g/erisk-clef ! Lab co-chairs Javier Parapar, Univ. A Coruña, Spain Anxo Pérez, Univ. A Coruña, Spain Xi Wang, Univ. Sheffield, United Kingdom Fabio Crestani, Univ. Lugano, Switzerland More Information Visit the [eRisk website](https://erisk.irlab.org) for task details, datasets, and registration guidelines.

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Computational linguistics lecturer (assistant professor) vacancy, Queen Mary University of London
by Matthew Purver 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Queen Mary University of London is currently advertising a Computational Linguistics faculty position at the level of Lecturer (Assistant Professor). The closing date is 5 January. https://qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/appcentre-ext/brand-4/candidate/so/pm… This post is based in the Linguistics Department, in Humanities and Social Sciences. Faculty in the department have a number of CL-adjacent interests and collaborations. There is also a substantial Computational Linguistics group in Computer Science, with whom the department has strong ties. The appointed candidate will enhance our teaching at the interface of Linguistics and CL/AI, for students who are interested in gaining more computational or AI-linked skills.The position is a good fit for applicants with a wide range of computational and AI-related interests, whether text or speech, and who are interested in working with students with a range of backgrounds and interests. For further information please contact Prof Devyani Sharma < d.sharma(a)qmul.ac.uk> -- Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/ Computational Linguistics Lab - http://compling.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Cognitive Science Research Group - http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK *My working days for QMUL are **Tuesday-Thursday**; responses to mail on other days may be delayed.*

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Webminar by Javier de la Rosa - Artificial Intelligence Lab (National Library of Norway)
by HiTZ zentroa 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: Speaker: Javier de la Rosa - Artificial Intelligence Lab (National Library of Norway) Title: The Mímir Project: Impact of copyrighted materials in LLMs Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 15:00 Summary: The Mímir Project is an initiative by the Norwegian government that aims to assess the significance and influence of copyrighted materials in the development and performance of generative large language models (LLMs) tailored to the Norwegian languages. This collaborative effort involves three leading institutions from different regions of the country: the National Library of Norway (NB), the University of Oslo (UiO), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); each contributing unique expertise in language technology, corpus curation, model training, copyright law, and computational linguistics. The ultimate goal of the project was to gather empirical evidence that informed the formulation of a compensation scheme for authors whose works are utilized by these advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, ensuring that intellectual property rights are respected and adequately compensated. Bio: Javier de la Rosa is a Research Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the National Library of Norway. A former Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing at UNED, he holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in Digital Humanities by the University of Western Ontario, and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence by the University of Seville. Javier has previously worked as a Research Engineer at the Stanford University, and as the Technical Lead at the University of Western Ontario CulturePlex Lab. He is interested in Natural Language Processing applied to historical and literary text, with a special focus on large language models. Upcoming webinars: · Ekaterina Shutova (January 30, 2025) · Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) · Christian Herff (Thursday, March 6, 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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Reminder: 3-year postdoc position in NLP at the University of Oslo
by Lilja Øvrelid 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Reminder that the closing date for this position is *December 13th*: 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 December 13th, 2024. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/270966/postdoctoral-research… Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, Lilja

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Interspeech 2025: Call for tutorials
by Grzegorz Chrupała 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Tutorials https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-tutorials ============================================ Important Dates =============== Proposals of tutorials due: 1 February 2025 Notification of selection to organizers: 5 April 2025 Final announcement of tutorials on the website: 20 April 2025 Tutorial Day: 17 August 2025 The Tutorial Day is an important component of INTERSPEECH. It offers a unique opportunity for experts in various speech-related domains to provide conference attendees with rich learning experiences. To ensure a high-quality and diverse set of tutorials at INTERSPEECH 2025, we invite proposals that cover both introductory and advanced topics, from longstanding research challenges and current research trends to emerging areas of study. These proposals should target early-stage researchers and experienced researchers who wish to deepen their knowledge in a new area. Each tutorial will be 3 hours long. The tutorials are expected to provide an overview of an area of research rather than focus on an individual presenter’s research program and findings. While it is not mandatory to address the theme of Interspeech 2025, "Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology,” we encourage proposals to consider how their tutorials might align with or reflect this theme. We especially welcome proposals related to the four strands of Interspeech 2025: Individual Differences in Speech Processing, Under-Researched Languages, Dialects, and Accents, Inclusive Technology for Atypical Speech Communication, and Ethical Considerations. Proposals from individuals who identify as being underrepresented in the speech science and technology community (due to factors such as geographical location, economic status, race, age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic) are particularly welcome. Proposals Should Include (in the following order) • Title • Presenter(s) name and affiliation • Contact information (email, telephone) • Abstract (no more than 200 words) summarizing the proposed tutorial that could be used as an advertisement • Description (1 – 2 pages; no more than 800 words), which includes a few relevant references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal • Relevance of the proposed tutorial for Interspeech 2025 (0.5 – 1 page; no more than 400 words) • Tutorial logistics, including • Duration (1 session or 2 sessions; 3 hours = 1 session). If 1 session, please indicate your preference for morning or afternoon. • Presenter(s) information (name(s)) • Special equipment required for the tutorial • Description of accompanying material provided (handouts, storage devices with media, etc.) • Presenter information • Biography of presenter(s) • Key publications of presenter(s) on the tutorial topic • List of previous tutorial experience • Audience information • Target audience (e.g. new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields) • Other considerations/comments Submission Procedure Proposals for the INTERSPEECH 2025 tutorials must be no more than 5 pages long and must conform to the format stated above; please ensure that the headings listed above are identified clearly. Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials(a)interspeech2025.org by Feb 1, 2025. Notifications of selection will go out by April 5, 2025. By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given through the ISCA Video Archives. Questions? Please contact our Tutorial Chairs at tutorials(a)interspeech2025.org • Yiya Chen - Leiden University, The Netherlands • Daan van Esch - Google (Amsterdam)

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First Call for Participation- IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

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

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Call for online participation: Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), December 5-6
by Zinsmeister, Heike 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Dear all, On 5 and 6 December, the 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024) is being hosted at University of Hamburg. The workshop will be held in hybrid form and you are welcome to join us online! Keynote talks: December 5: 10:00-11:00 h Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University Prague) Multilingual Coreference and Treebanking: Benefits of Interaction<https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024/program/_boxes/abstract-ann…> December 6: 12:00-13:00 h Marcel Bollmann (Linköping University) Increasing language diversity in NLP: Insights from CreoleVal<https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024/program/_boxes/abstract-mar…> On Friday, December 6 14:30-16:30 h There will be a discussion panel on "Treebanks and linguistic annotation in the area of LLMs” Panelists: Marcel Bollmann (Linköping University), Daniel Dakota (Indiana University), Sandra Kübler (Indiana University), Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University Prague), Juri Opitz (Universität Zürich) Find the full workshop programme on our website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024/program.html If you would like to participate, please register via this form and we will send you the Zoom link in advance of the workshop: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024/registration.html Please note that due to security reasons, University of Hamburg allows Zoom conferencing only via the Zoom app, so joining via browser will not work. Do not hesitate to contact us via tlt2024.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de<mailto:tlt2024.gw@uni-hamburg.de> if you have any further questions. The workshop is endorsed by ACL SIGPARSE<https://www.sigparse.org/> and we like to thank SFB 1102<https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/> for their financial support. Best, TLT 2024 Program Chairs --------------------------- Prof. Dr. Heike Zinsmeister (sie/ihr) Linguistik des Deutschen / Korpuslinguistik Universität Hamburg, Institut für Germanistik, Raum C7012 Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #15, D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: 040 42838-7119 heike.zinsmeister(a)uni-hamburg.de http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/personen/zinsmeister.html

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PhD in Mathematical foundations for AI in London
by Haim Dubossarsky 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

On behalf of Prof. Omer Bobrowski and Prof Primoz Skraba. An exciting PhD opportunity at the intersection of Machine Learning, Mathematics and model interpretability is offered at the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science at Queen Mary University of London. Project description This PhD position is part of the “Erlangen Programme for AI,” a prestigious multi-university initiative focused on developing a rigorous mathematical foundation for Artificial Intelligence. The project emphasizes the integration of concepts from topology, geometry, and probability, with the overarching goal of enhancing the interpretability, robustness, and generalization of AI models. Understanding Deep Neural Networks DNNs represent a cutting-edge approach in machine learning and AI, but there remains a significant gap in understanding the intrinsic mechanisms behind their powerful performance. This research aims to combine topological and geometric tools with probabilistic analysis to unveil hidden structures in neural networks. By investigating how these structures arise during training, how information flows through layers, and what vulnerabilities exist, we expect to gain insights that will drive future advancements in model design, optimization, and resilience. Understanding Large Language Models LLMs have shown to capture (encode) both the semantics and structure (grammar) of language within their learned parameters. However, the methods used to access this knowledge (decoding) remain basic, typically involving the representation of textual objects (e.g., words, sentences) as continuous vectors in Euclidean space. This project aims to leverage geometry and topology to explore the internal representations and latent spaces within the LLMs parameters that go beyond simple vectors analysis. We will develop advanced methods for decoding meaning and structure from LLMs, enabling richer and more diverse access to the linguistic knowledge they encode, and test it in a range of linguistic tasks (polysemy, cross-lingual transfer, among others). This approach holds the potential for breakthroughs in both AI theory and practical applications. Deadline is Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Further details can be found here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/mathematical-foundations-for-ai/?p177…

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2nd CfP: 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
by Anna Kazantseva 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

LaTeCH-CLfL 2025: The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held on May 3rd or 4th, 2025 in conjunction with NAACL 2025 <https://2025.naacl.org/> in Albuquerque, NM. https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2025/ Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organisers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 is the ninth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) ran ten times in 2007-2016. The five Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place in 2012-2016. The first eight joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held in 2017-2024. Topics and content In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation). Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature; • automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data; • complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces; • creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources; • creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters; • discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature; • emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature; • generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; • identification and analysis of literary genres; • interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI); • linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains; • low-resource and historical language processing; • modelling dialogue literary style for generation; • modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage; • profiling and authorship attribution; • search for scientific and/or scholarly literature; • work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language. Information for authors We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers. • Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. • A short paper / demo presenting work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. • A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word) available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 submission website on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it). Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings available as usual in the ACL Anthology. Important dates (tentative) Workshop paper due: January 30, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025 Workshop date: May 3rd or 4th, 2025 More on the organizers Diego Alves, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University Yuri Bizzoni, Center for Humanities Computing / School for Communication and Culture, Århus University Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council Canada Janis Pagel, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa Contact latech-clfl(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:latech-clfl@googlegroups.com>

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CFP - PAC 2025 "Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations" (Aix en Provence, FR)
by Anne Przewozny desriaux 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, Following several demands for a new extension of the submission deadline, we extend it to January, 5 2025. You will find all the information about the international conference PAC 2025 (Phonology of Contemporary English) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, which will be held in Aix-en-Provence from 18 to 20 June 2025, on the website: https://pac2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr The conference will be preceded on Wednesday 18 June morning by a workshop on perception experiments, and followed on Friday 20 June afternoon by a workshop on depositing and sharing data. Important dates: Conference: 18-20 June 2025, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France. Abstract submission date: 6 December 2024 5 January 2025 Notification: 29 January 2025 Please circulate as widely as possible and we apologise in advance for any duplication. Sincerely, The PAC 2025 Organising Committee. ---------------- Chères et chers collègues, Suite à plusieurs demandes de report de la date limite de soumission, nous la reportons au 5 janvier 2025. Vous trouverez toutes les informations concernant la conférence internationale PAC 2025 (Phonology of Contemporary English) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, qui se tiendra à Aix-en-Provence du 18 au 20 juin 2025, sur le site web: https://pac2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr La conférence sera précédée le mercredi 18 juin matin d'un atelier sur les expériences de perception, et suivie le vendredi 20 juin d'un atelier sur le dépôt et le partage des données. Dates à retenir : Conférence : 18-20 juin 2025, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence. Date de soumission des résumés: 6 décembre 2024 5 janvier 2025 Merci de diffuser le plus largement possible et toutes nos excuses par avance pour les doublons. Cordialement, Le comité d’organisation PAC 2025. ******************* Anne Przewozny-Desriaux English linguistics - Phonology - Sociolinguistics CLLE | CNRS UMR 5263 https://clle.univ-tlse2.fr/ Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France PAC programme & LVTI project https://www.pacprogramme.net/ New Perspectives on English Word Stress https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-new-perspectives-on-english-word-… The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-corpus-phonology-of-english-h…

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GermEval: Call for Shared Task Proposals
by Christian Wartena 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

GermEval: Call for Shared Task Proposals We cordially invite proposals for the GermEval Shared Task 2025 co-located with Konvens 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 9-12), https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ . Background GermEval is a series of shared task evaluation campaigns that focus on Natural Language Processing for the German language and has been running since 2014, traditionally co-located with Konvens. Previous shared tasks Previous shared tasks have been devoted to: * Named entity recognition (2014) * Lexical Substitution (2015) * Aspect-based Sentiment in Social Media Customer Feedback (2016) * Offensive Language (2018, 2019) * Hierarchical classification of blurbs (2019) * Lemmatization of German web and social media texts (2019) * Text Complexity (2022) * Speaker Attribution (2023) * Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora (2024) See also https://germeval.github.io/tasks/ for details. Time schedule Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2024 Notification: December 20, 2024 Extended submission period January 4 - February 14, 2025 Extended notification: One week after submission Workshop: September 10, 2025 The early deadline facilitates a quick start of the organization of a shared task. Later submission is possible until February 14. We will try to review the proposal in that case within one week. While fixing the exact timeline for the shared task is up to the task organizers, we propose the following tentative schedule: Trial data ready: March 8, 2025 Training data ready: April 12, 2025 Test data ready: May 17, 2025 Evaluation start: June 16, 2025 Evaluation end: June 27, 2025 Paper submission due: July 11, 2025 Camera ready due: August 15, 2025 Submission guidelines For GermEval proposals are invited for any shared task involving natural language processing in the context of the German language. For a detailed questionnaire to be submitted please see: https://gscl.org/germeval Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org>, from the email of the contact person, with the subject "GermEval-2025 Shared Task Proposal". Proposals should make clear that a schedule similar to that suggested above can be implemented, especially for the preparation of resources (trial/training/development/test data sets). Proposals should be 2 to 3 pages long, in ACL - PDF format. We encourage proposers to include appendices with examples that help understanding the data and type of evaluation. Proposals will be reviewed by the KONVENS Program Committee. Proposers might be contacted during the reviewing period to provide further information. Potential proposers should feel free to indicate the intention to submit by emailing info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org>. We are also happy to answer your questions about the process, or to solicit early feedback for a proposal. Proceedings Peer-reviewed workshop papers can be published in the KONVENS 2025 Proceedings. A camera-ready version of all accepted papers should be available at latest on August 22, 2025. Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein] 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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Last Call for Abstracts: LLM fails – Failed experiments with Generative AI and what we can learn from them
by Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

more information on our Workshop-Website: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/home/lexiktagungen/llm-fails Dear list members, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our workshop "LLM fails – Failed experiments with Generative AI and what we can learn from them" taking place from April 8-9, 2025 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany. If the extended short papers are positively reviewed, there is an opportunity to publish them in a special issue of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics. Further information (automatic English translation): Failed experiments typically have no place in scientific discourse; they are discarded and not published. We believe this leads to a loss of potential knowledge. After all, a systematic reflection on the reasons for failure allows for the questioning and/or improvement of methods used. Furthermore, when previously failed experiments are repeated and succeed, explicit progress can be determined. Thus, the discussion and documentation of failures creates added value for the scientific community from the perspective of methodological reflection. This is even more relevant in a field like research into and with Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), which cannot look back on decades of tradition and where best practices are still being negotiated. This workshop focuses on linguistic and NLP experiments with Generative AI that did not yield the desired results, such as but not limited to: • Using Generative AI as a Named-Entity Recognizer • Using Generative AI for automatic transcription of spoken language data • Using Generative AI for the creation of dictionary entries • Using Generative AI for the detection of language change phenomena The contribution should clarify how this failure can contribute to knowledge gain regarding the work with Generative AI. Unpublished proposals can be submitted anonymously as an abstract (500-750 words) in either German or English to the following email address by December 11, 2024: llmfails(at)ids-mannheim.de The organization team will decide on the acceptance of contributions by December 16, 2025. If a contribution is accepted, a short paper (4-6 pages without references) in English will be requested by February 15, 2025. The short papers will undergo double-blind peer review and will be published in a special issue of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics and archived at ACL Anthology. Best, Annelen Brunner, Christian Lang, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu (Organising committee) -- Dr. Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Grammatik Tel: +49 621-1581-242

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Junior Professorship in Information&Language Processing / AI at LMU Munich
by Hinrich Schuetze 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Dear community members, We cordially invite applications for the following position. Thanks - Hinrich Junior Professorship (W1) Information and Language Processing Using AI Methods LMU Munich tenure track apply by December 12 https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7815e9257475585704e21860f79f54abceadb4…

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Corpora of English novels
by Martin Wynne 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

I have a student who is interested in tracing the development of the English novel from its origins to the present day (or at least to the start of the twentieth century), and I'm trying to gather information about relevant corpora covering this text type and period. We know about the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC, https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/) which will be very useful for the later end of the timescale. We also know it is possible to assemble a corpus from Project Gutenberg, archive.org, Oxford Text Archive, etc. , but would be interested in re-using any corpora that people might already have made, which aim to be representative of particular periods within this genre. The student has some flexibility with her research question, so while the original idea of 'English novels' was probably 'novels in English from Great Britain and Ireland', other related areas such as US novels might be interesting as well. Any tips and suggestions gratefully received. If we get a number of interesting direct emails, I'll be happy to summarize the results to the list. Best wishes, Martin -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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6th HPLT & NLPL Winter School on Pretraining Data Quality and Multilingual LLM Evaluation
by Andrey Kutuzov 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We invite participants to a three-day winter school on large-scale NLP research, with special emphasis on pretraining data quality and multilingual evaluation of large language models (LLMs). The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by the following invited speakers: - Jenia Jitsev (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) - Marianna Nezhurina (LAION) - Guilherme Penedo (Huggingface) - Gema Ramírez-Sánchez (Prompsit Language Engineering) - Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen) - Ahmet Üstün (Cohere AI) - other international experts to be confirmed. The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Horizon Europe project High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT, https://hplt-project.org/) and the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 3–5, 2025, in Norway. For additional information, please see: http://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and HPLT will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on December 6, another one on December 13, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Friday, December 20, 2024. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2025! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team) -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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ACL 2025 - nominations and self-nominations to join the ACL 2025 programme committee
by Horacio Saggion 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

Dear NLP community members, Greetings from ACL 2025! We would like to invite nominations and self-nominations to join the ACL 2025 programme committee, as a reviewer or an area chair, depending on your interest, availability and experience. ACL 2025 review process will be run through ARR in the February cycle. The tentative timeline for the review period is 1 March to 20 March 2025 and the rebuttal period 26 March to 31 March 2025. Area chairs need to be available throughout the ARR February cycle. Please submit your (self-)nominations through this form by 16 December 2024: https://forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8R4A Afterwards, you will be invited to join the ARR February reviewer or area chair (action editor) pool through the ARR OpenReview platform. Finally, please share this message with your colleagues, postdocs and PhD students. Many thanks in advance for your time and contribution! ACL 2025 PC chairs -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN DTIC Deputy Director for Recruitment Project Coordinator iDEM Project Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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CfP: 13th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference QUALICO 2025 to be held in Brno, Czechia, June 26-28, 2025
by gmikros＠gmail.com 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

#Apologies for cross-posting# The International Quantitative Linguistics Association and Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, invites the submission of abstracts for the 13th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference QUALICO 2025, to be held in Brno, Czechia, June 26-28, 2025. TOPICS All contributions relating to quantitative linguistics and text analysis are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions on: - Descriptions and analysis of all aspects of language and text phenomena, insofar as they use quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic processes, differential and difference equations, multidimensional analysis, fuzzy logic and set theory, function theory, etc.). - Development of mathematical and/or statistical concepts and methods which contribute to theoretical understanding of language phenomena. - Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative linguistics to problems of natural language processing, text classification, stylistics, authorship attribution, text mining, language complexity, and complex network analysis. - Epistemological issues relevant to quantitative linguistics such as explanation of language and text phenomena, contributions to theory construction, systems theory, philosophy of science. - Application of theories and methods of quantitative linguistics to the analysis of text generated by AI and Large Language Models (LLM). Please note that the use of mathematical and statistical concepts and methods or their computational implementation on an ad hoc basis, without placing them in a linguistic context, does not in itself qualify an abstract for acceptance at the conference. MULTIPLE WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR The maximum number of submissions by the same author or co-author is two papers. Submissions exceeding this threshold will be automatically deleted without notification. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts should be in English and include keywords, author affiliations, and references. They should not exceed 250 words. The requested format for submission is plain text .txt. Each paper will be allotted 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). There will also be a poster session (accepted formats A0, A1 or similar). Abstracts can be submitted via the Oxford Abstracts system. Submission link: you can submit here: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76890/submissions/new?behalf=false&f… VENUE Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Arts, Arne Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno. The conference webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/qualico2025/home IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 2, 2025, 11:59:59 pm (CET) Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2025 Conference fee payment: April 27, 2025 Registration deadline: May 25, 2025 Conference dates: June 26–28, 2025 CONFERENCE FEES Regular: 300€ IQLA Member: 200€ CONFERENCE VOLUME Authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full papers for publication in the volume at one of the leading publishing houses (e.g., John Benjamins, Springer, Routledge, De Gruyter). Please note that the deadline for submitting papers will be approximately three months after the conference.

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Join us for the LLM Hackathon in Ecology in Bielefeld, Germany or Online!
by D'Souza, Jennifer 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

We are excited to host the “AI & LLM Hackathon for Applications in Evidence-based Ecological Research and Practice” in a hybrid format. The onsite event will take place at ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany from 20th to 22nd January, 2025. The online event happens in parallel with communications conveyed via Zoom. The event aims to explore and demonstrate innovative applications of artificial intelligence and large language models in ecology. It is part of the ZiF Resident Group „Mapping Evidence to Theory in Ecology: Addressing the Challenges of Generalization and Causality“ (https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/ongoing/mapping-evide…). Event highlights: • An introductory talk on the potential of LLMs in ecology. • A wide range of projects to get involved in. • And, of course, lots of pizza! 🍕 For onsite participants, travel scholarships will be offered to up to 15 participants. So do not miss out! To secure your place at the AI & LLM Hackathon register now here: https://forms.gle/w7DDFUWc6zEQ2VpU9 The same form is used for both online and onsite participants. If you want to apply for a scholarship make sure to register before December 15. Over time, you will find more details on the event page: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/events/#/event/8023 We look forward to seeing you!

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(Self-)nominations for the ACL 2025 review process
by Anette Frank 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

Dear NLP community members, Greetings from ACL 2025! We would like to invite nominations and self-nominations to join the ACL 2025 programme committee, as a reviewer or an area chair, depending on your interest, availability and experience. The ACL 2025 review process will be run through ARR in the February cycle. The tentative timeline for the review period is 1 March to 20 March 2025 and the rebuttal period 26 March to 31 March 2025. Area chairs need to be available throughout the ARR February cycle. Please submit your (self-)nominations through this form by *16 December 2024:* https://forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8R4A Afterwards, you will be invited to join the ARR February reviewer or area chair (action editor) pool through the ARR OpenReview platform. Finally, please share this message with your colleagues, postdocs and PhD students. Many thanks in advance for your time and contribution! ACL 2025 PC chairs -- Prof. Dr. Anette Frankhttp://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~frank Computational Linguistics Department email:frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de University of Heidelberg phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247 Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 secr: +49-(0)6221/54-3245 69120 Heidelberg, Germany fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

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Join us for the LLM Hackathon in Ecology in Bielefeld, Germany or Online!
by Jennifer D'Souza 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

We are excited to host the “AI & LLM Hackathon for Applications in Evidence-based Ecological Research and Practice” in a hybrid format. The onsite event will take place at ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany from 20th to 22nd January, 2025. The online event happens in parallel with communications conveyed via Zoom. The event aims to explore and demonstrate innovative applications of artificial intelligence and large language models in ecology. It is part of the ZiF Resident Group „Mapping Evidence to Theory in Ecology: Addressing the Challenges of Generalization and Causality“ ( https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/ongoing/mapping-evide… ). Event highlights: • An introductory talk on the potential of LLMs in ecology. • A wide range of projects to get involved in. • And, of course, lots of pizza! 🍕 For onsite participants, travel scholarships will be offered to up to 15 participants. So do not miss out! To secure your place at the AI & LLM Hackathon register now here: https://forms.gle/w7DDFUWc6zEQ2VpU9 The same form is used for both online and onsite participants. If you want to apply for a scholarship make sure to register before December 15. Over time, you will find more details on the event page: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/events/#/event/8023 We look forward to seeing you!

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PhD position in LLMs & reasoning for scientific discovery in cancer
by André Freitas 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

PhD position in LLMs & complex reasoning for supporting scientific discovery in cancer (University of Manchester) We have an exciting new PhD position at the interface between LLMs, complex reasoning and cancer discovery. Melanoma is an aggressive type of skin cancer associated with an incidence of ≈17500 patients and 2300 deaths per year in the United Kingdom. Immunotherapy (checkpoint inhibitors [CPI]; anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1, anti-LAG3) has revolutionised patient outcomes in melanoma and other cancers however, challenges remain. Critically, the presence of liver metastasis is associated with poor CPI response and prognosis, with patients with liver metastasis progressing on average 15 months earlier than those without. The aims of this exciting project will be to understand complex interactions between melanoma and cells within the liver microenvironment to understand mechanisms associated with immune suppression and resistance to CPI. To do this, the student will systematically integrate curated databases (e.g. KEGG, Reactome, STRING, and HMDB) alongside systematic extraction from the literature to derive models of signalling pathways, metabolic reactions, and protein-protein interactions relevant to this immunosuppressive environment. The student will develop techniques in open information extraction, integration of large datasets from multiple sources, large language models, causal reasoning, natural language inference and explainable question answering. Furthermore, they will gain an in-depth understanding of cancer biology and the immune system. We are looking for a hard-working, focused, ambitious person to join our excellent, friendly, inclusive and collaborative teams. The student will enjoy integrating with both the Freitas laboratory which focuses on development of AI methods to support abstract, explainable and flexible inference and the Lee laboratory which uses a broad range of in vitro and in vivo techniques to study melanoma, with the aim of developing novel therapies for patients. We would be particularly happy to receive applications from individuals with a strong academic track record and Masters-level and/or other research experience in artificial intelligence, large language models and bioinformatics. The project will provide comprehensive training in cancer biology, large language models and use of artificial intelligence to inform mechanisms behind complex tumour-microenvironment interactions and to build complex models of these. Essential requirements: - BSc and MSc in computer science, bioinformatics or related areas. - Experience in the construction of NLP and ML models evidenced by academic or industrial projects. - Python programming. - Confident in the development of complex computational pipelines. - Experience in biomedical problems is a plus. Interested applicants please send an email to andre.freitas(a)manchester.ac.uk and rebecca.lee-3(a)manchester.ac.uk with your CV by December 31st. Additional information. https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/bicentenary-modelling-melanoma-induce…

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PhD position in Agent/LLM-based Evidence-based Reasoning
by André Freitas 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

PhD position in Agent/LLM-based Evidence-based Reasoning (IDIAP - Switzerland) - How to make LLM-based models capable of rigorous, fact-based inference? - How to build AI models which can make sense of large-scale complex evidence? This is an exciting opportunity to work at the interface between Large Language Models (LLMs) and complex reasoning. The project: LLMs have defined the foundations for the construction of models which can interpret and reason over language at scale. However, technical challenges remain in delivering models which are capable of factually correct, controlled and rigorous reasoning, fundamental in critical domains of applications such as biomedicine and policy-making. In this project, we will work on the development of novel natural language inference (NLI) paradigms which can jointly reason over qualitative and quantitative evidence at scale. The project will focus on areas such as: (i) the development of new reasoning planning models for evidence-based reasoning and (ii) the integration of NLI models with statistical, causal and mechanistic inference paradigms. The candidate will work at the Neuro-symbolic AI Group at IDIAP and will also be affiliated with the EPFL PhD programme. This is a 4-year position funded by the SNSF-FAPESP RATIONAL project in collaboration with Daniel Pedronette (UNESP). Candidates are expected to have: - A BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science or related areas. - Previous academic or industrial project experience in NLP (evidenced by project results and papers). - Be confident in software development and in developing complex NLP experimental pipelines. Interested applicants please send your CV to andre.freitas(a)idiap.ch by December 31st.

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Call For Volunteers COLING 2025
by Ekaterina Kochmar 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

A limited number of student volunteers are needed for the success of COLING 2025. Both online and in-person event volunteers are needed. Tasks may include assisting at the registration desk, filling delegate packs, managing poster board sessions and displays, serving as volunteer coordinator for the day, and/or AV/technical support such as (but not limited to) managing social media (X/Twitter) and providing assistance for conference events including tutorials, the main conference, and workshops (either online or in-person versions). In exchange for one full day equivalent of work, students receive free registration to the main conference, workshops and tutorials, and the social events. The work will be divided, probably into two half-day shifts, and the shifts will be scheduled to maximize volunteer access to the conference events. Please see the official call for volunteers here: https://coling2025.org/calls/volunteers/ **Submission Procedure** Applicants for the Student Volunteer Program must be full-time students and should submit the completed application form where we ask a few questions and a one-page CV (resume). Students should make travel and accommodation arrangements independent of the results of the application. COLING Abu Dhabi 2025 Volunteer Registration Application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuV_MawOEbPo3k_aq74RT1OBZ1gCOGQqt…> **Important Dates** All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). - Application deadline: *December 6, 2024* - Notification of acceptance: *December 15, 2024*

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CFP - TheWebConf 2025 workshop on Protecting Women Online
by Debora Nozza 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM TSWWW 2025 Towards a Safer Web for Women - First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online co-located with The Web Conference 2025<https://www2025.thewebconf.org/> Sydney, Australia 28 April - 2 May 2025 https://tsww25.github.io/ ******************************************************************** NEXT DEADLINES (all deadlines are AoE) ******************************************************************** 18th December 2024: Workshop paper submission deadline 13th January 2025: Notification of acceptance ******************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ The workshop is dedicated to addressing the pressing issue of online violence against women by fostering dialogue and innovation. The workshop will explore global challenges and solutions for gender-based violence and the impact of online harms on women, among others. We aim to encourage the development of technological and interdisciplinary frameworks and innovations to ensure women's online safety. The workshop aims to review progress in approaches combating online violence against women, identify persistent barriers, and propose solutions to emerging challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Detection and prevention of gender-based online violence (e.g., harassment, stalking, cyberbullying) * Sentiment and emotion analysis in abusive or harmful online interactions towards women * Gender bias identification and mitigation in AI * Human-centered approaches for online safety applications * Approaches to preventing, understanding, identifying and mitigating online harms faced by women with multiple marginalised identities (e.g., misogynoir, LGBTQ+ women, or women from religious or cultural minorities) * Analysis of tracking devices, surveillance tools, and hidden cameras misused against women * Detection and mitigation of non-consensual deepfake generation and dissemination * Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing online harm * Legal and ethical frameworks for protecting women online * Psychological, social, and legal impacts of online technology when used for gender-based abuse PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ We welcome both new and recent research, including non-archival submissions to showcase work published elsewhere, if it is especially relevant to the workshop's theme. Accepted formats include: * Long papers: Maximum 8 pages * Short papers: Maximum 4 pages * Position, idea, and emerging problem papers: Maximum 4 pages * Non-archival submissions: Up to 2 pages For full details, visit our Call for Papers<https://tsww25.github.io/cfp.html> page. Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants. Accepted papers (except for non-archival submissions) will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ____________________ Workshop chairs: * Ángel Pavón Pérez, The Open University * Miriam Fernandez, The Open University * Tracie Farrell, The Open University * Debora Nozza, Bocconi University

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Reading Concordances Training Day & Symposium @ FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg 19–21 March 2025
by Nathan Dykes 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

The team of the /Reading Concordances in the 21^st Century/ project (RC21) is inviting you to two events on concordance reading that will take place at FAU in Erlangen, Germany. Both events are **free**, but places are limited, so please register early. *Thu 20 & Fri 21 March 2025 – RC21 Symposium* Join us for a two-day symposium with talks by guest speakers and the project team. The talks will cover methodology, theory, and applications of concordance reading. The symposium also includes a poster session, where participants can present their own research. Submission for the poster session is open now. Invited speakers include: Laurence Anthony <https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/laurence-anthony-ph-d-2/>, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Ulrich Heid <https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/iwist/mitglieder/heid/>, Hildesheim University, Germany Susan Hunston <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/hunston-susan>, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Marc Kupietz <https://www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/personal/kupietz/>, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany Patricia Ronan <https://islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/ronan/>, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Yukio Tono <https://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/english/tono_yukio.html>, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Valentin Werner <https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/personen/werner/>, University of Bamberg, Germany Viola Wiegand <https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1844219>, University of Stirling, UK *Wed 19 March 2025 – RC21 Training Day* The Concordance Reading Training Day, which precedes the symposium, will include hands-on sessions on different aspects of concordance reading. Participants need to bring their own devices for the event. *Deadline for registration: 19 February 2025* *Deadline for submission of poster abstracts: 31 January 2025* The events are part of the /Reading Concordances in the 21^st Century/ project jointly funded by the AHRC and the DFG. For more information and registration details: https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-concordances-in-the-21st-century-rc21/… The RC21 team is looking forward to welcoming you to FAU! Stephanie Evert, Michaela Mahlberg, Nathan Dykes, Sasha Piperski -- Nathan Dykes Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61 91052 Erlangen

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UMass Amherst hiring TT faculty in natural language processing
by Brendan O'Connor 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

Hello Corpora-List! Here at UMass Amherst, we're excited to be hiring tenure-track faculty in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and similar areas, at the Assistant and Associate Professor levels, in the College of Information and Computer Sciences. Applications are due December 1. If interested, please see here for details: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/525002/assistantassociate-profe… -Brendan -- Brendan O'Connor (http://brenocon.com) Associate Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences Associate Director, Computational Social Science Institute University of Massachusetts Amherst

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The First Arabic NLP Winter School External
by Salam Khalifa 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hello all, SIGARAB is organizing the first "Arabic NLP Winter School" taking place from 18-19 of January 2025, and co-located with COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi. This is a two-day event with an exciting and diverse program. In addition to hands-on technical sessions, there will be a hackathon organized by aiXplain. Check out the full program here: program <https://winterschool2025.sigarab.org/#h.rv0u5v6dwlq4>. Registration will open soon and will be part of COLING's registration. If you are interested, please fill the following survey: Participant Information Survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn1UlpmMGdGEaedTjzBQGTdK69_kbNNrn…> For all other details, please check the winter school website: https://winterschool2025.sigarab.org/ Best, -- Salam Khalifa PhD Candidate at Stony Brook Linguistics <https://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/>.

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PerAnsSumm 2025 Shared Task - CL4Health Workshop @ NAACL 2025 - Call for Participation
by Siddhant Agarwal 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

🌟Join the PerAnsSumm Shared Task, part of the CL4Health Workshop at NAACL 2025, one of the biggest and most prestigious NLP conferences! 🌟 Website: peranssumm.github.io 🩺 The Challenge: Healthcare CQA forums feature diverse user perspectives—personal stories, factual advice, and more. Traditional summarization methods often overlook this richness. Our task aims to create perspective-aware summaries that cater to real-world information needs. 💰 Cash Prizes: - 1st Place: $100 - 2nd Place: $50 🚀 Get Started Quickly: We’ve got you covered with a starter code to simplify your journey and help you focus on innovating. Tasks: - Task A: Identify and classify perspective-specific spans in answers. - Task B: Generate structured, perspective-specific summaries for question-answer threads. 📅 Key Dates: - Registration and Training Data Live now! - Release of test data: 25th January, 2025 - Submission of Results: 1st February, 2025 🔗 Details & Registration: - More information: peranssumm.github.io - CodaBench Registration page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/4312/ Take this opportunity to showcase your skills, collaborate with a vibrant community, and make a meaningful impact in healthcare NLP! 🌍✨ Contact us via email at sagarw38(a)uic.edu Looking forward to your participation! Best, Organizers: Shweta Yadav Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) Md. Shad Akhtar Assistant Professor (CSE) Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD) Siddhant Agarwal PhD Student University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)

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Postdoc in computational linguistics / data science in Change is Key!
by Nina Tahmasebi 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Want to work as a postdoc in a vibrant research group on cutting-edge methodology for computational modeling of meaning and meaning change? We are hiring one or more postdocs in the Change is Key! research program. The program is multi-national and multi-disciplinary covering both core NLP research as well as its application for humanities and social sciences. You will be working with LLMs for modeling meaning and semantic change and using this to detect cultural and societal changes. We publish regularly in top tier venues with generous research funds. The position is located in the heart of Gothenburg in Sweden, and we will provide help with finding researcher apartments if needed. We are a diverse research group that values our differences and thus we welcome any and all applicants with relevant research backgrounds interested in our topics. Find more about our work here: https://www.changeiskey.org/ Deadline for the call: December 18, 2024. Apply here: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational linguistics / data science, one or several<https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89…> We offer The University of Gothenburg is a state authority, which means excellent employment benefits such web103.reachmee.com 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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Survey: What do we even mean by 'intelligence', and does it apply to ChatGPT?
by Anna Rogers 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

[apologies for cross-posting] The term 'intelligence' is often used in various fields including Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. But research papers rarely specify what is meant by that term. As a result, we as a research community often talk past each other, even about our basic premises and goals. Authors may even change how they write their papers, based on a wrong impression of what most other researchers believe. We are a team of CogSci/NLP researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. We combed through the literature to collect the key definitional criteria for 'intelligence', and we designed this survey to find out the following: *- to what degree do the researchers in different areas agree about what 'intelligence' even means?- what role, if any, does this term play in their research agenda?* *- what is their perception of the current systems based on large language models (e.g. Claude or ChatGPT)?* We would much appreciate hearing your perspective! The survey takes 5-10 minutes and is available until December 18 at this link: https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=4S7VSN4MS536 Your response is anonymous and will be used for research purposes only. Anonymous and aggregated responses will be publicly available under Creative Commons-Attribution-Non-Commercial license, and we will also publish our analysis. Project team: Bertram Højer, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Anna Rogers, Stefan Heinrich Project page: https://bertramhojer.github.io/projects/intelligence-survey/ -- Best regards, Anna Rogers Associate Professor Computer Science Department, IT University of Copenhagen http://annargrs.github.io/

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Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence (Research and Education)
by Mark Lee 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence (Research and Education) Location: Birmingham Salary: £56,921 to £65,814 Grade 9 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed On: 26th November 2024 Closes: 8th January 2025 Job Ref: 101425 We are looking for applications from academics specialising in all areas of Artificial Intelligence including Natural Language Processing. Please see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV585/associate-professor-in-artificial-intelli… For applications working in NLP – I am more than happy to answer questions etc. With best regards, Mark Lee Professor of Artificial Intelligence School of Computer Science University of Birmingham www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl>

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PhD Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence (NLP and e-Health) at Queen’s University Belfast, UK
by hasanuzzaman.im＠gmail.com 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Dear Colleagues, I am looking for PhD students in e-Health and Sign Language Translation at the School of School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, UK. The details of the projects are below: 1. Breaking Barriers: AI-Powered Sign Language Translation for Enhanced Healthcare Access for the Deaf (https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/break…). The Project is co-supervised by Prof. Asif Ekbal, Professor, IIT Jodhpur, India and Dr. Anna Jurek-Loughrey, Senior Lecturer, EEECS, Queen’s University Belfast. 2. Empowering Mothers: AI-Enhanced Personalized Management of Gestational Diabetes (https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/empow…). The project is co-supervised by Prof. Pietro Liò, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK. Both projects offer an exciting opportunity for students to spend time at the prestigious University of Cambridge in the UK and IIT Jodhpur in India. Requirements: The successful candidate is expected to have a solid background in NLP, Machine Learning, Statistics, computer science or related discipline. The minimum academic requirement for admission to a research degree programme is normally an Upper Second Class Honours degree from a UK or ROI HE provider, or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University. Refer to the official application process for details: https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/empow… Application Process: For enquiries, please send an email to Dr. Mohammed Hasanuzzaman at m.hasanuzzaman(a)qub.ac.uk with your CV and transcript as well as a brief description of your research interests. Unfortunately, due to a high volume of inquiries, I may not be able to respond to all emails. Submit your formal application through the following link. https://dap.qub.ac.uk/portal/user/u_login.php Your application should be clearly marked as EEECS/2025/MH1 and/or EEECS/2025/MH2 to ensure consideration for funding About Queen's: The Queen's University Belfast, founded almost two centuries ago, is one of the oldest universities in the United Kingdom. As a member of the prestigious Russell Group, Queen’s is one of the UK’s 24 leading research-intensive universities (ranked 13th in the UK for research intensity). For more details: https://www.qub.ac.uk/Study/Why-Study-at-Queens/rankings-and-reputation/ *International students are welcome to apply, but additional funding (https://www.qub.ac.uk/Study/international-students/international-scholarshi…) or personal finances will be required to cover the difference between home (UK) and overseas fees. Best regards, Mohammed

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Research position (PhD/PostDoc) at Bielefeld University, Germany
by Sina Zarrieß 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

The Computational Linguistics Group at Bielefeld University is looking for a ** Researcher (full-time, PhD or PostDoc) ** to work in a project on measuring linguistic creativity in different genres. The project is part of a newly established Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1646) on “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” [1]. The announced position will focus on computational aspects of measuring linguistic creativity. A central task will be to develop sentence embedding models that disentangle style and content, based on language models for different literary and non-literary genres, and to work on the analysis of linguistic creativity in large language models, in collaboration with other projects of the CRC. The duration of the position is approx. 3 years (until the end of 2027). Deadline for applications: 10.12.2024 (extended) Contact: Sina Zarrieß (sina.zarriess(a)uni-bielefeld.de) Apply here: https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3794/research-position?page_lang=… [1] https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/f… -- Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß Computational Linguistics https://clause-bielefeld.github.io/ University of Bielefeld Universitätsstr. 25 33615 Bielefeld, Germany +49 521 106-2534

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NBME Summer Internships in Psychometrics and Data Science
by Christopher Runyon 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners) Summer 2025 Internships in Psychometrics and Data Science June 2 - July 25, 2025 NBME invites applications for multiple full-time internship positions, all fully remote, for the Summer of 2025. Over an 8-week period, interns will have the opportunity to collaborate with NBME staff and interact with fellow graduate students as they complete a research project. The expected deliverable is an internal research presentation. Specific projects for the summer of 2025 will be discussed with applicants as part of the interview process. Compensation is $12,600, and all interns are eligible to receive up to $1,000 to support their attendance at a conference (not conditional on presenting). The application deadline is Wednesday, January 31, 2025, at midnight PST. Interested students can learn more and apply here: https://nbme.applicantpro.com/jobs/3562778 If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Chris Runyon: CRunyon(a)nbme.org<mailto:CRunyon@nbme.org> This email message and any attachments may contain privileged and/or confidential business information and are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments.

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Call for participation: MultiLexNorm 2: Multilingual Lexical Normalization
by Rob van der Goot 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear all, After a successful first edition in 2021, we are glad to invite you to the second MultiLexNorm shared task! The shared task will be hosted at WNUT 2025. As defined in the previous iteration, lexical normalization is: The task of transforming an utterance into its standard form, word by word, including both one-to-many (1-n) and many-to-one (n-1) replacements. Building on the previous task which focused on Indo-European languages written in the Latin script, we extended the benchmark to include languages written in other scripts. We now include data for Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. The data and more information about the task can be found on: https://noisy-text.github.io/2025/multi-lexnorm.html# Dates: Data available Nov 15, 2024 Data freeze Jan 07, 2025 Test data Jan 25, 2025 Final Evaluation Feb 07, 2025 Paper deadline Feb 25, 2025 Paper reviewed Mar 01, 2025 Camera ready Mar 10, 2025 Workshop May 03, 2025 (TBD) Best, The organizers: Rob van der Goot Weerayut Buaphet Peerat Limkonchotiwat Thanh-Nhi Nguyen Thanh-Phong Le

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Call for participation for MultiLexNorm 2: shared task on Multilingual Lexical Normalization
by Rob van der Goot 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear all, After a successful first edition in 2021, we are glad to invite you to the second MultiLexNorm shared task! The shared task will be hosted at WNUT 2025. Building on the previous task which focused on Indo-European languages written in the Latin script, we extended the benchmark to include languages written in other scripts. We now include data for Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. The data and more information about the task can be found on: https://noisy-text.github.io/2025/multi-lexnorm.html# Dates: Data available Nov 15, 2024 Data freeze Jan 07, 2025 Test data Jan 25, 2025 Final Evaluation Feb 07, 2025 Paper deadline Feb 25, 2025 Paper reviewed Mar 01, 2025 Camera ready Mar 10, 2025 Workshop May 03, 2025 (TBD) Best, The organizers: Rob van der Goot Weerayut Buaphet Peerat Limkonchotiwat Thanh-Nhi Nguyen Thanh-Phong Le

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Call for Application: Postdoctoral Positions at the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)
by Felipe Bravo 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

As part of its development plan, the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (cenia.cl/en <https://cenia.cl/en/home/>) invites interested individuals to apply for 3 Postdoc positions in AI and related areas. Candidates must hold a PhD in AI or related fields, such as cognitive robotics, neuroscience, cognitive science, mathematics, or related scientific areas. In line with our commitment to actively promote gender equity in the field of AI, the postdoctoral competition will include diversity criteria in its evaluation process. The positions aim to conduct research activities in the following areas: 1. *Deep Learning for Vision and Language*: New theories and methods to further unlock the potential of Deep Learning and Generative AI to create advanced cognitive systems with a focus on vision, language, and multimodality. 2. *Neuro-symbolic AI*: Integration of deductive AI and machine learning-based AI, mutually invoking solutions from each part, injecting and utilizing semantics in current AI models. 3. *Brain-inspired AI*: Brings together scientists from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and AI to develop AI models based on brain mechanisms and cognitive functions, while also developing AI tools to understand human cognition. 4. *Physics-based Machine Learning*: Gathers mathematicians, physicists, and AI scientists to develop hybrid machine learning models based on physical laws to solve complex problems in science and engineering, generate scientific discoveries, and explore causal relationships. 5. *Human-centered AI*: New technologies for the fair, safe, and transparent use of AI in society, as well as methodologies to assess its impact. Promotes new tools for interpretable and explainable AI. *I. Eligibility Criteria:* Applicants must: - Hold a PhD degree. - Have proven research experience, including a record of publications. - Have experience in developing or using AI tools. - Be available to work full-time in Santiago of Chile, joining Cenia preferably no later than April 2025 (exceptional cases will be considered). - Not receive incentives or salaries from other sources of the Chilean Research and Development Agency (ANID). *II. Roles/Responsibilities of the Cenia Postdoc:* - Conduct research in Cenia’s areas of interest. - Participate in Cenia’s applications for national and international funding. - Apply for competitive grants as the lead researcher, including the Fondecyt Postdoctoral Competition 2025. *III. Documents to Submit with Application:* *Phase 1:* Submit the following documents to Cenia. - An updated full CV, including a list of scientific publications. - A statement of interest (maximum 2 pages), which should include: - Reasons for joining Cenia. - Main research topics of interest at Cenia. - Groups or individuals at Cenia you would like to collaborate with. - Two letters of recommendation (free format). *Phase 2:* Pre-selected candidates will be contacted to prepare a brief research proposal, in collaboration with Cenia’s researchers. *IV. Important Dates:* - Phase 1: October 18 to December 16 (late applications may be considered in exceptional cases). - Phase 2: December 20 to January 20, 2025. - Results announcement: Monday, January 27, 2025. *V. Benefits:* - Full-time contract (42 hours/week) for one year, renewable, with the possibility of obtaining a permanent contract as a Cenia Researcher. - Monthly gross salary of CLP 2,500,000, plus financial incentives for securing competitive grants at national and international levels. - Access to a stimulating research environment, excellent facilities, and cutting-edge computational resources in Latin America. - Full-time dedication to research, with no teaching obligations. - Support for grant applications. - Opportunity to participate in Cenia’s scientific and technological transfer activities to the industrial and governmental sectors. - Opportunity to participate in outreach and community engagement activities. *VI. About Cenia:* Cenia is one of the leading organizations dedicated to AI development in Chile and Latin America. Founded in 2021, its mission is to generate knowledge and technological solutions based on AI. Cenia works closely with universities, research centers, and companies both nationally and internationally, fostering interdisciplinary research and training specialized talent in AI. Additionally, Cenia stands out for its commitment to gender equity and inclusion, actively promoting diversity in all its projects and programs. *All documents and inquiries should be sent to postdoc(a)cenia.cl <postdoc(a)cenia.cl>, with the subject line: “Postdoc Application 2024”. For any questions to the application process send an email to talento(a)cenia.cl <talento(a)cenia.cl>.* *Link: * https://cenia.cl/en/2024/10/18/call-for-application-postdoctoral-positions/

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[CfP] - Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025
by Beyza Yaman 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

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 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, Beyza Yaman

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Call for papers: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025
by Gaëtanelle Gilquin 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025 To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona University (NAU), a conference on Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research will be organized in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on 7-8 July 2025 under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association. The conference will be an on-site event only. RATIONALE Ample evidence has been provided to demonstrate that language varies according to register. Much of this evidence for register variation comes from corpora, which have provided insights into linguistic patterns associated with distinct registers (see, e.g., Biber 1988, Biber 2006, Biber & Egbert 2018). Register variation is an important aspect of any language and language variety, but it is particularly relevant in the case of learner language, because L2 learners may not show the same register awareness as native/expert writers/speakers (cf. Gilquin & Paquot 2008, Larsson 2019). Learner Corpus Research (LCR) has taken register into account in the sense that studies have been carried out on the basis of learner corpora representing certain registers (e.g. essays in Ädel 2006 or interviews in Götz 2013). However, studies comparing learner language registers are less common. Yet, the LCR studies that have drawn such comparisons have highlighted the importance of register for learner language (e.g. Fuchs et al. 2016, Staples et al. 2018, Larsson et al. 2021). Related to register is the notion of task, particularly relevant in LCR since learner corpora are often compiled from data produced as part of specific pedagogical tasks (e.g. writing a letter, describing a graph, retelling a movie scene). As with register, LCR studies comparing different tasks are not very common, but they have underlined the potential effect of this variable (e.g. Tracy-Ventura & Myles 2015, Alexopoulou et al. 2017, Gablasova et al. 2017, Goulart & Dixon 2025). SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions which compare two or more registers or tasks in corpora of learner language, using the methods of corpus linguistics / LCR, and which analyse the possible effects of register/task on the linguistic features of learner language. The learner registers/tasks may, in addition, be compared against some reference corpus data such as native or expert language. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are welcome, with a focus on any aspects of language (phraseology, grammatical complexity, fluency, etc.). We are particularly interested in submissions that - use data representing different registers/tasks produced by the same L2 learners; - compare registers/tasks displaying different degrees of formality or involving different degrees of communicative control; - combine quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis; - discuss the methodological issues related to the comparison of registers/tasks in learner language; - include under-researched registers/tasks/languages. There will be three different categories of presentation: - full paper - work-in-progress report - poster ABSTRACTS Abstracts should be about 500 words (not including references) and specify how the paper will contribute to the theme of the conference, in particular by highlighting the registers/tasks that will be compared and the corpora that will be used. They should also provide a clear outline of the aim(s) of the paper, including clearly articulated research questions, sufficient details about the methodology and (preliminary) results. Abstracts should be uploaded to OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=VAR4LCR/2025/Conference) no later than 20 January 2025 at 23:59 UTC. If you are new to OpenReview, you will first have to create a profile. We recommend that you use an institutional email address to do so, as profiles created without an institutional email address will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. Please note that most questions asked as part of the creation of a profile are optional. Providing your current institution (under ‘History’) and a link to a webpage that displays your name and email address (under ‘Personal Links’) will be sufficient. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 January 2025 - Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 March 2025 - Conference: 7-8 July 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give a keynote presentation at the conference: - Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) - Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen) - Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sylvie De Cock (UCLouvain) Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain) Sylviane Granger (UCLouvain) Pauline Jadoulle (UCLouvain) Magali Paquot (UCLouvain) Lieven Vandelanotte (UNamur) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Douglas Biber (NAU) Sylvie De Cock (UCLouvain) Jesse Egbert (NAU) Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain) Sylviane Granger (UCLouvain) Francesca Grixoni (NAU) A.J. Holmberg (NAU) Pauline Jadoulle (UCLouvain) Tove Larsson (NAU) Magali Paquot (UCLouvain) Randi Reppen (NAU) CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-vari… CONTACT: var4lcr(a)uclouvain.be REFERENCES Ädel, Annelie. 2006. Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Alexopoulou, Theodora, Michel, Marije, Murakami, Akira & Meurers, Detmar. 2017. Task effects on linguistic complexity and accuracy: A large-scale learner corpus analysis employing natural language processing techniques. Language Learning 67(S1): 180-208. Biber, Douglas. 1988. Variation across Speech and Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Biber, Douglas. 2006. University Language: A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Biber, Douglas & Egbert, Jesse. 2018. Register Variation Online. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fuchs, Robert, Götz, Sandra & Werner, Valentin. 2016. The present perfect in learner Englishes: A corpus-based case study on L1 German intermediate and advanced speech and writing. In Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds) Re-assessing the Present Perfect (pp. 297-338). Berlin: De Gruyter. Gablasova, Dana, Brezina, Vaclav, McEnery, Tony & Boyd, Elaine. 2017. Epistemic stance in spoken L2 English: The effect of task and speaker style. Applied Linguistics 38(5): 613-637. Gilquin, Gaëtanelle & Paquot, Magali. 2008. Too chatty: Learner academic writing and register variation. English Text Construction 1(1): 41-61. Götz, Sandra. 2013. Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Goulart, Larissa & Dixon, Tülay. 2025. The relative influence of language backgrounds, communicative text types, and disciplines in undergraduate student writing. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 11(1). Larsson, Tove. 2019. Grammatical stance marking across registers: Revisiting the formal-informal dichotomy. Register Studies 1(2): 243-268. Larsson, Tove, Paquot, Magali & Biber, Douglas. 2021. On the importance of register in learner writing: A multi-dimensional approach. In Elena Seoane & Douglas Biber (eds) Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation (pp. 235-258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Staples, Shelley, Biber, Douglas & Reppen, Randi. 2018. Using corpus-based register analysis to explore the authenticity of high-stakes language exams: A register comparison of TOEFL iBT and disciplinary writing tasks. The Modern Language Journal 102(2): 310-332. Tracy-Ventura, Nicole & Myles, Florence. 2015. The importance of task variability in the design of learner corpora for SLA research. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1(1): 58-95.

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Opera Graeca Adnotata (v0.2.0)
by Giuseppe G. A. Celano 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Dear All, I am delighted to announce the release of Opera Graeca Adnotata (v0.2.0). With its 1,999 texts and 40M+ tokens, Opera Graeca Adnotata is the largest multilayer corpus for Ancient Greek online. The corpus can be queried through ANNIS 4 <https://annis.varro.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/?id=f49da342-4db7-4283-b6c1-3…> or be downloaded from Zenodo <https://zenodo.org/records/14206061>. For more information, visit the GitHub <https://github.com/OperaGraecaAdnotata/OGA> repository, where you can also find instructions on how to query the corpus <https://github.com/OperaGraecaAdnotata/OGA/tree/main/query>. Best regards, Giuseppe Dr. Giuseppe G. A. Celano DFG-project leader Universität Leipzig Institute of Computer Science, NLP Augustusplatz 10 Tel: +4934132223 04109 Leipzig Deutschland

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CFP-DravidianLangTech-2025 at NAACL 2025
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (DravidianLangTech-2025) at NAACL 2025* *Call for Papers : * DravidianLangTech-2025 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any Dravidian languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, Badaga, Beary, Betta Kurumba, Bharia, Bishavan, Brahui, Chenchu, Duruwa, Eravallan, Gondi, Holiya, Irula, Jeseri, Kadar, Kaikadi, Kalanadi, Kanikkaran, Khiwar, Kodava, Kolami, Konda, Koraga, Kota, Koya, Kurambhag Paharia, Kui, Kumbaran, Kunduvadi, Kurichiya, Kurukh, Kurumba, Kuvi, Madiya, Mala Malasar, Malankuravan, Malapandaram, Malasar, Malto, Manda, Muduga, Mullu Kurumba, Muria, Muthuvan, Naiki, Ollari, Paliyan, Paniya, Pardhan, Pathiya, Pattapu, Pengo, Ravula, Sholaga, Thachanadan, Toda, Wayanad Chetti, and Yerukala) that contributes to research in language processing, speech technologies or resources for the same. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field. This comprehensive call for papers invites submissions on critical topics related to hate speech, offensive language, misinformation, and content safety in social media and online environments, especially as they pertain to Dravidian languages. Researchers are encouraged to explore innovative methods for detecting and mitigating various forms of harmful content, such as political hate speech, offensive language, and AI-generated misinformation, with a focus on cross-lingual and multimodal approaches that integrate text, images, and video. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* · Detection of Political Hate Speech in social media · Multimodal Hate Speech Detection Across Text, Image, and Video Content · AI-Generated Content Detection and Mitigation in Online Media · Corpus Development for Hate Speech Detection in Multilingual Contexts · Identifying Offensive Language in Political Discourse on Social Platforms · Cross-Modal Techniques for Multimodal Hate Speech Detection · Fake News and Rumor Detection in Dravidian Language Media · Emotion Analysis and Sentiment Detection in Hate Speech · Cyberbullying and Hostility Detection for Safer Online Environments · Disinformation and Misinformation Detection in Political Speech · Racial and Religious Abuse Detection Using Multimodal Approaches · Automated Detection of AI-Generated Harmful Content · Social Contagion of Hate Speech in Online Political Discussions · Accent and Emotion Recognition in Dravidian Language Speech · Social Bias Detection in AI-Generated Text · Sexism and Misogynistic Attitudes in Multimodal Online Content · Detection of Violent Incidents in social media Using Multimodal Data · Phonology and Morphology in Dravidian Language Processing · Document and Image Analysis for Hate Speech Detection in social media *Important dates* - Workshop paper Submission deadline: January 30, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: February 20, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025 - Camera-ready paper due: March 10, 2025 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): April 8, 2025 - Workshop dates: May 3-4, 2025 Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/DravidianLan… Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-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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open PhD position in psycholinguistics
by Vera Demberg 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

** *PhD position in Psycholinguistics* * The Language Science and Technology department at Saarland University invites excellent students holding a master's degree to pursue a PhD (3 years) in the field of Psycholinguistics. You will join Vera Demberg’s lab, which works at the interfact of the highly interdisciplinary and fast-paced fields of psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. What is the focus of the project? When humans read and listen to language, they construct rich mental representations of the presented information. A crucial element of these representations is the construction of discourse relations: semantic-pragmatic links such as cause-consequenceand contrast. Comprehenders can make use of many different types of information to construct discourse relations, such as connectives (e.g., because, but), or even visual information such as gesture (e.g., two hands on opposing side of the body to signal on the one hand / on the other hand). However, we know little about what other cues signal discourse relations, and whether languages differ in the type of cues they contain and the effects of these cues. The position will be funded as part of the Collaborative Research Centre 1102, project B2 “Cognitive Modelling of Information Density for Discourse Relations”. The goal of the project is to develop models that explain how readers and listeners can effectively make sense of discourse during online and offline processing. This is done by examining how discourse signals influence discourse processing and comprehension, at the level of linguistic cues, speech cues and gestural cues.The project adopts a multi-method approach, combining methods such as reading time studies, comprehension studies and acceptability studies. What we offer you * The position is intended to begin in April 2025 (start-date is negotiable in both directions, i.e. earlier start as soon as Jan 2025 or a later start are possible). * Salary determined according to the German TVöD (Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst) and is classified in salary group/level E13, 75%. * 30 holidays per year, based on full-time employment; in addition, we honor the German public holidays. * Enrollment in a personal pension scheme to which both employer and employee pay a monthly contribution. * Access to state-of-the art research and training facilities and a generous conference and travel budget. * Immersion in an interdisciplinary community made up of cognitive and computational researchers. What qualities does the successful applicant bring? * A finished Master’s degree in a relevant field, such as linguistics, psycholinguistics, experimental psychology, cognitive science, data science, or a related discipline. * Prior experience of research activities in experimental linguistics, including experimental design and data analysis. * Excellent spoken and written proficiency in English. * Willingness to learn new experimental methods through guidance from colleagues and training courses. * Interest in bridging scientific fields, specifically cognitive and computational linguistics. * Proficiency in programming languages such as R or Python. How to apply? Applicants are requested to submit their application, including a cover letter that specifies why you would like to work on this topic and what qualifies you for it, an academic CV, a list of academic publications, your BSc/ MSc thesis (or a current draft), copies of academic degree certificates and names of two potential references. For application to the PhD position please quote opening number W2561. The official job ad document can be found here <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/lehrstuhl/demberg/Ausschreibun…>. The applications should be sent via email directly to Prof. Vera Demberg:applications-vd(at)lst.uni-saarland.de The application deadline is December 15th, 2024 / OR Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Saarland University is one of the leading centres for computer science and computational linguistics in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The group is affiliated with both the Department of Computer Science and with the Department of Language Science and Technology. The student will become part of the collaborative research center SFB 1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”, which offers a rich and vibrant environment of students working on related questions. On site, there is also the new research training group on Neuroexplicit models of Language, Vision and Action. Our researchers and students come from all over the world, and our primary working language is English. The Saarland University is an equal opportunities employer. In accordance with its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of employment, the University actively encourages applications from women. Women are given preference in cases of equal suitability, ability and professional performance. Applications from severely disabled persons will be given preferential consideration in the event of equal suitability. Part-time employment is generally possible. We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity. Pay grade classification is based on the particular details of the position held and the extent to which the applicant meets the requirements of the pay grade within the TV-L salary scale. When you submit a job application to Saarland University you will be transmitting personal data. Please refer to our privacy notice for information on how we collect and process personal data in accordance with Art. 13 of the Datenschutz-Grundverordnung. By submitting your application you confirm that you have taken note of the information in the Saarland University privacy notice. *

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CFP TalentCLEF @ CLEF 2025 - Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
by ALVARO RODRIGO YUSTE 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TalentCLEF @ CLEF 2025 Lab on Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ Lab description: TalentCLEF introduces an innovative evaluation lab designed to foster the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems in the field of Human Capital Management (HCM). In a corporate environment that is rapidly moving towards a globalized and multilingual workforce, organizations are increasingly relying on language technologies to optimize and accelerate recruitment processes. This scenario brings a critical challenge: developing systems that guarantee fairness in outcomes, with the ability to function across multiple languages and adapt to various industries. TalentCLEF addresses this challenge by creating a public benchmark, carefully considering these aspects in its design, with the aims of promoting the development and evaluation of NLP systems applied to HR, creating a meeting point for the discussion of such systems, and pushing the state-of-the-art in the area of HCM. The first edition of TalentCLEF will be held at CLEF 2025 and will have two tasks: -Task A: Multilingual Job Title Matching, where the goal is to develop systems capable of retrieving job positions similar to a given one. -Task B: Job Title-Based Skill Prediction, where teams must develop systems that identify professional skills relevant to a specific job position. More information at: https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ Register to our lab at: https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php Task organizers: Luis Gascó, Avature, Spain Hermenegildo Fabregat, Avature, Spain Laura García-Sardiña, Avature, Spain Daniel Deniz Cerpa, Avature, Spain Alvaro Rodrigo, UNED, Spain Rabih Zbib, Avature, Spain Important dates 25th October 2024 - Sample set release 13th November 2024 - Registration opens 20th January 2025 - Training data available for Tasks A and B 17th February 2025 - Start of Task A, release of development data 17th March 2025 - Start of Task B, release of development data 21st April 2025 - Test set release 21st April to 5th May 2025 - Evaluation period for both tasks 7th May 2025 - Publication of official results 15th June 2025 - Submission of CLEF 2025 Working Notes (Tentative) 30th June to 7th July 2025 - Review of labs overviews (Tentative) CLEF 2025: 9-12 September 2025, Madrid - Spain AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Oficina de Protección de datos<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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KONVENS 2025 - Save the Date
by Christian Wartena 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Save the date: KONVENS 2025: September 9th - 12th, 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany The international Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), the major conference on Natural Language Processing in the German-speaking area, will be held at Universität Hildesheim on September 9th to 12th, 2025. Conference language are English and German. Submissions on all aspects of NLP, in particular work dedicated to the German language and to the development, adaptation and/or application of Language Models in (Computational) Linguistics, Computer Science, Information Science as well as in the Humanities and Social Sciences are welcome: a Call for Papers, Posters and pre-Conference Workshops will be issued in due time. The conference is endorsed by the NLP associations of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and jointly organized by Hochschule Hannover and Universität Hildesheim. Website (still under construction): https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ -- Christian Wartena, Hochschule Hannover (christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de>) Ulrich Heid, University of Hildesheim (ulrich.heid(a)uni-hildesheim.de<mailto:ulrich.heid@uni-hildesheim.de>) Gertrud Faaß, University of Hildesheim (gertrud.faass(a)uni-hildesheim.de<mailto:gertrud.faass@uni-hildesheim.de>)

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Call for Papers: TOIS Special Issue on Query Performance Prediction Towards Novel Information Retrieval Paradigms
by Guglielmo Faggioli 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

ACM Digital Library <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x332a2ax019610> [image: journal banner] <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x33ae5dx019610> *CALL FOR PAPERS* *ACM Transactions on Information Systems* *Special Issue on Query Performance Prediction Towards Novel Information Retrieval Paradigms* *Guest Editors* Dr. Suchana Datta <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341ef9x019610>, University College Dublin, Ireland Dr. Guglielmo Faggioli <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341efax019610>, University of Padua, Italy Prof. Nicola Ferro <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341efbx019610>, University of Padua, Italy Dr. Debasis Ganguly <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341efcx019610>, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Prof. Iadh Ounis <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341efdx019610>, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom [image: journal cover image]This special issue focuses on works involving QPP models that employ or are designed for novel searching and filtering paradigms, including but not limited to neural IR, Large Language Models, and Retrieval Augmented Generation, as well as the QPP evaluation paradigms also in light of recent IR advances. QPP is a branch of IR evaluation: it is defined as the task of assessing or predicting the performance of a query without human-made relevance judgements. The focus of the special issue will be on three major topics concerning QPP: • The development of novel QPP models that employ recent neural state-of-the-art solutions, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and semantic representations. • The application of QPP models to novel IR tasks, such as conversational search, fairness-oriented tasks, multimedia and multimodal retrieval, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). • The evaluation of QPP methods performance. *Topics*We welcome submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to: • Application of QPP to Neural Information Retrieval Systems • Usage of QPP for modern tasks, including, but not limited to, conversational search, fairness, RAG, multimodal retrieval • Usage of Large Language Models for QPP • QPPs based on non-lexical (e.g., semantic, multimodal) signals • Supervised QPP • Simulation and construction of evaluation collections with Large Language Models • QPP evaluation measures • Development of QPP evaluation collection • Performance Prediction in neighboring areas including NLP and Recommender Systems • Theory underneath QPP • Applications of QPP for downstream tasks, e.g., selective application of second-stage ranking or relevance feedback. • Explainability of QPP models and QPP models for explainability *Click here for the full Call for Papers and submission instructions.* <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341efex019610> *Important Dates* Submissions deadline: March 15, 2025 First-round review decisions: May 15, 2025 Deadline for revision submissions: July 15, 2025 Notification of final decisions: September 15, 2025 Tentative publication: Late 2025 For questions and further information, please write to *Dr. Guglielmo Faggioli* at guglielmo.faggioli(a)unipd.it <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341effx019610>. Sign up for TOIS TOC alerts. <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341f00x019610> *https://tois.acm.org* <https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31603_0x341f01x019610>

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The ReproHum 2024 Survey; ML researchers' experience and views of reproducibility
by Thomson, Craig 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Dear Corpora list members, As part of the EPSRC UK ReproHum project, PI Prof. Anya Belz (DCU/Adapt), Co-I Prof. Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), RF Dr Craig Thomson (DCU/Adapt & University of Aberdeen), we are performing a survey of NLP and ML researchers’ experience and views of reproducibility. We have sufficient responses from NLP researchers, and are now looking only for the ML researchers (including students) who do not primarily work in NLP. We would like to hear from as many researchers as possible , not just those who work on evaluation! If you completed a similar survey in 2022 we would still like you to complete this one, we are interested in the differences between then and now. We would be most grateful if you are able to spend 5-10 minutes taking part in the survey, it can be accessed via the below link: https://forms.gle/RshrHcvAXxAEEFj59 Many thanks, Craig, Anya, and Ehud The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.

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CFP: SemEval 2025 Task 5 - LLMs4Subjects - 2nd Call for Shared Task Participation
by Sina Zarrieß 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Libraries are at the heart of our society and education, so we believe in driving technological innovation in these age-old institutions as well as modern digital libraries when we can! If you're passionate about bringing AI and LLMs into library workflows, join computer science researchers and AI enthusiasts worldwide in the LLMs4Subjects shared task! *We are excited to announce the 2nd Call for Participation to the LLMs4Subjects Shared Task organized as part of SemEval 2025.* *Overview:* As the first of its kind, LLMs4Subjects invites the research community to *develop cutting-edge LLM-based semantic solutions for the subject tagging of the Leibniz University's Technical Library's open-access collection*. The shared task provides an opportunity for the research community to creatively utilize LLMs for subject tagging of technical records. *Systems need to demonstrate bilingual language modeling in understanding technical documents in both German and English.* Moreover, successful solutions may be directly integrated into the operational workflows of the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library. *What we provide to participants:* a human-readable form of a subject's taxonomy (this is the *GND* or *Gemeinsame Normdatei*, the integrated authority file used for cataloging in German-speaking countries) and a large collection of technical records tagged with these subjects from the TIB's open-access collection called *TIBKAT*. More details on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects/ <https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects/> *LLMs4Subjects defines the following three tasks:* - Task 1: Learn the GND - Task 2: Align subject tagging to the TIBKAT collection - (Optional and Fun) Task 3: Develop Elegant Frontend Interfaces for Subject Tagging *LLMs4Subjects will have three separate evaluations:* - Evaluation 1: Quantitative Metrics-based Evaluations - Evaluation 2: Qualitative Evaluations by the Human Subject Specialists - (Optional) Evaluation 3: HCI evaluations for subject indexing interfaces submitted *To participate in the LLMs4Subjects shared task,* 1. please submit your interest to participate using our online form (https://forms.gle/YQzupcoySAyJi45c6 <https://forms.gle/YQzupcoySAyJi45c6>), 2. sign up to the shared task Google Groups (https://groups.google.com/u/6/g/llms4subject <https://groups.google.com/u/6/g/llms4subject>s) for FAQs, news, and announcements, and, 3. last but not the least, download the datasets (https://github.com/jd-coderepos/llms4subjects/ <https://github.com/jd-coderepos/llms4subjects/>) to begin development. *Dates* Training and validation datasets available:October 2, 2024 Test data available/Evaluation starts: January 10, 2025 Evaluation ends: January 31, 2025 Participant paper submissions due: February 28, 2025 Notification to authors: March 31, 2025 Camera ready due: April 21, 2025 SemEval workshop: TBD *Task Organizers* Jennifer D'Souza, Sameer Sadruddin, Holger Israel, Mathias Begoin et al. All organizers are affiliated with the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany (https://www.tib.eu/en/ <https://www.tib.eu/en/>) /We look forward to having you on board!/ *Contact: *llms4subjects [at] gmail.com <http://gmail.com/>

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CFP: ACL 2025 Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

ACL 2025 Call for Papers MAIN CONFERENCE ACL 2025 Website: https://2025.aclweb.org/ [1] Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025 Conference Dates: July 27 to August 1, 2025 Location: Vienna, Austria Special Theme: "Generalization of NLP Models" Contact: * Roberto Navigli [2] (General Chair) * Wanxiang Che [3], Joyce Nabende [4], Mohammad Taher Pilehvar [5], Ekaterina Shutova [6] (Program Chairs): For questions related to paper submission, email: editors(a)aclrollingreview.org For all other questions, email: acl2025pcs(a)gmail.com OVERVIEW ACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. ACL 2025 has a goal of a diverse technical program--in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Papers submitted to ACL 2025, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 February cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025 February cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to ACL 2025 via the conference commitment site (TBA). SUBMISSION TOPICS ACL 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP * Ethics, Bias, and Fairness * Generation * Human-centered NLP * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Language Modeling * Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models ACL 2025 Theme Track: Generalization of NLP Models Following the success of the ACL 2020-2024 Theme tracks, we are happy to announce that ACL 2025 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting and stimulating discussion about the current state of development of the field of NLP. Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly, reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically important for models used in real-world applications, as they should emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various dimensions--compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness? * What factors affect the generalization of NLP models? * What are the most effective methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models? * While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in this regard? The theme track submissions can be either long or short. We anticipate having a special session for this theme at the conference and a Thematic Paper Award in addition to other categories of awards. TWO-STAGE REVIEW: SUBMISSION TO ARR, COMMITMENT TO ACL 2025 ACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review [7] (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review [8] platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process: * Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors; * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., ACL 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. ACL 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2024 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. MANDATORY REVIEWING WORKLOAD AS THE PACE OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD CONTINUES TO INCREASE, WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE COMMITMENT TO REVIEWING FOR EACH PAPER SUBMISSION. DURING THE ARR SUBMISSION PROCESS, AUTHORS WILL BE REQUIRED TO SPECIFY WHICH CO-AUTHORS ARE COMMITTING TO COVER REVIEWING IN THIS REVIEWING CYCLE. PLEASE SEE THE NEW ARR POLICY REGARDING REVIEWING WORKLOAD HERE. AS THIS IS AN ARR-WIDE POLICY FOR ALL *CL CONFERENCES, QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO ARR DIRECTLY. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR) February 15, 2025 ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of the February cycle April 15, 2025 Commitment deadline for ACL 2025 April 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance May 15, 2025 Withdrawal deadline May 30, 2025 Camera-ready papers due May 30, 2025 Tutorials July 27, 2025 Conference July 28 - 30, 2025 Workshops July 31 - August 1, 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Paper Submission Details Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements [9], including: * Long Papers [10] (8 pages) and Short Papers [11] (4 pages) * Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review [12] * Authorship [13] * Citation and Comparison [14] * Multiple Submission Policy [15], Resubmission Policy [16], and Withdrawal Policy [17] * Ethics Policy [18] including the responsible NLP research checklist [19] * Limitations [20] * Paper Submission and Templates [21] * Optional Supplementary Materials [22] Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers' comments. Following the ACL and ARR policies [23], there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., ACL 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected ACL 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to ACL 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than ACL 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to ACL 2025. Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters. Links: ------ [1] https://2025.aclweb.org/ [2] https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ [3] http://ir.hit.edu.cn/~car/ [4] https://sites.google.com/view/jnabende/home?authuser=0 [5] https://pilehvar.github.io/ [6] https://www.shutova.org/ [7] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [8] https://openreview.net/ [9] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information [10] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers [11] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#short-papers [12] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#instructions-for-two-way-anonymized-review [13] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#authorship [14] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#citation-and-comparison [15] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy [16] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#resubmission-policy [17] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#withdrawal-policy [18] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy [19] https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch [20] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#limitations [21] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-and-templates [22] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#optional-supplementary-materials-appendice… [23] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy

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[IberLEF 2025] Call for Task Proposals
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

================================= IberLEF 2025 -- Call for Task Proposals ================================= IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, whose 2025 edition will be held as part of the 41th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The 2025 edition of the SEPLN conference will take place in Zaragoza, Spain. The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2024. Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2024 are. - Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 3, 2025). - Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2025. Task selection procedure Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 24, 2025. Proceedings IberLEF 2025 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JCI: 0.21), CiteScore (Scopus): 2,9 and SJR: 0,421) in its September 2025 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the acceptance of their works by June 20, 2025, and send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 3, 2025. Important dates - Task proposals due: December 22, 2024. - Notification of acceptance: January 24, 2025. - Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 20, 2025. - Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2025. - IberLEF Workshop: September 2025. IberLEF general chairs Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) José Ángel González Barba, Symanto Research (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com ================================= [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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The First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation (COLING 2025) : SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED
by mevallec＠ujaen.es 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

Background and Scope --------------------- While interest in automatic approaches to Counterspeech generation has been steadily growing, including studies on data curation (Chung et al., 2019a; Fanton et al., 2021), detection (Chung et al., 2021a; Mathew et al., 2018), and generation (Tekiroglu et al., 2020; Chung et al., 2021b; Zhu and Bhat, 2021; Tekiroglu et al., 2022), the large majority of the published experimental work on automatic Counterspeech generation has been carried out for English. This is due to the scarcity of both non-English manually curated training data and to the crushing predominance of English in the generative Large Language Models (LLMs) ecosystem. A workshop on exploring Multilingual Counterspeech Generation is proposed to promote and encourage research on multilingual approaches for this challenging topic. Thus, this workshop aims to test monolingual and multilingual LLMs in particular and Language Technology in general to automatically generate counterspeech not only in English but also in languages with fewer resources. In this sense, an important goal of the workshop will be to understand the impact of using LLMs, considering for example how to deal with pressing issues such as biases, hallucinated content, data scarcity or data contamination. We seek to maximize the scientific and social impact of this workshop by promoting the creation of a community of researchers from diverse fields, such as computer and social sciences, as well as policy makers and other stakeholders interested in automatic counterspeech generation. By doing so we aim to gain a deeper understanding of how counterspeech is currently used to tackle abuse by individuals, activists, and organizations and how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) may be best applied to counteract it. Call for Papers --------------------- We welcome submissions on the following topics (but not limited to): - Models and methods for generating counterspeech in different languages. - Automatic Counterspeech generation for low resource languages with scarce training data. - Dialogue agents that use counterspeech to combat offensive messages that are directed to individuals or groups, targeted based on various aspects such as ideology, gender, sexual orientation and religion. - Methods for human and automatic evaluation of counterspeech. - Multidisciplinary studies providing different perspectives on the topic such as computer science, social science, psychology, etc. - Development of taxonomies and quality datasets for counterspeech in multiple languages. - Potentials and limitations (e.g., fairness, biases, hallucinated content) of applying different NLP methods, such as LLMs, to generate counterspeech. - Social impact and empirical studies of counterspeech in social networks, including research on the effectiveness and consequences for users of using counterspeech to combat hate online. Submission --------------------- We welcome two types of papers: regular workshop papers and non-archival submissions. Regular workshop papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format and made through START [https://softconf.com/coling2025/MCG25/] - Regular workshop papers: Authors can submit papers up to 8 pages, with unlimited pages for references. Authors may submit up to 100 MB of supplementary materials separately and their code for reproducibility. All submissions undergo an double-blind single-track review. Accepted papers will be presented as posters with the possibility of oral presentations. - Non-archival submissions: Cross-submissions are welcome. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, but will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be in PDF format and will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion by workshop reviewers. We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) of papers that are work in progress, under review or to be submitted to other venues. Papers in this category need to follow the COLING format. Important Dates --------------------- - Submission: November 25th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 8th, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 13th, 2024

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MultiGEC-2025 shared task: DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Arianna Masciolini 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

MultiGEC-2025 shared task: system submission deadline extended to November 29, 2024 We renew our invitation to participate in the MultiGEC-2025 shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction, covering 12 languages: Czech, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish and Ukrainian. The system submissions deadline is now extended to November 29, 2024. System output is to be submitted via CodaLab (https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/20500) The results will be presented on March 5th 2025, at the NLP4CALL workshop, co-located with the NoDaLiDa conference to be held in Estonia, Tallinn, on 2--5 March 2025. https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-serie… The publication venue for system descriptions will be the proceedings of the NLP4CALL workshop, also co-published in the ACL anthology. To register for/express interest in the shared task and get access to the data, please fill in this form (https://forms.gle/nTPfARVqy1XmqT4t6). Note that you will be prompted to sign Terms of Use for the data at https://forms.gle/VLJ18WbwsxitEBYi7. Data access is personal, please do not forget to fill in the form. You are also welcome to join the MultiGEC-2025 Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/multigec-2025) in order to ask questions, hold discussions and browse for already answered questions about the shared task. The task description below, as well as general information, is also available on our website https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/compsla/multigec-2025 and GitHub repository https://github.com/spraakbanken/multigec-2025/ * TASK DESCRIPTION In this shared task, your goal is to rewrite learner-written texts to make them grammatically correct or both grammatically correct and idiomatic, that is either adhering to the "minimal correction" principle or applying fluency edits. For instance, the text > My mother became very sad, no food. But my sister better five months later. can be corrected minimally as > My mother became very sad, and ate no food. But my sister felt better five months later. or with fluency edits as > My mother was very distressed and refused to eat. Luckily, my sister recovered five months later. For fair evaluation of both approaches to the correction task, we will provide two evaluation metrics, one favoring minimal correction, one suited for fluency-edited output (read more under Evaluation). We particularly encourage development of multilingual systems that can process all (or several) languages using a single model, but this is not a mandatory requirement to participate in the task. * DATA We provide training, development and test data for each of the languages. The training and development dataset splits are available through Github. Evaluation will be performed on a separate test set. See website for more detailed information: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multigec-2025/ Note: The English data is expected a bit later. * EVALUATION During the shared task, evaluation will be based on cross-lingually applicable automatic metrics: - reference-based: - GLEU score - Precision, Recall, F0.5 score - reference-free: Scribendi score After the shared task, we also plan on carrying out a human evaluation experiment on a subset of the submitted results. * TIMELINE - June 18, 2024 - first call for participation ✓ - September 20, 2024 - second call for participation ✓ - October 20, 2024 - third call for participation. Training and validation data released ✓ - October 31, 2024 - reminder. CodaLab opens for team registrations, validation phase starts ✓ - November 13, 2024 - test phase starts ✓ - November 29, 2024 (extended) - system submission deadline (system output) - December 2, 2024 - results announced - December 16, 2024 - paper submission deadline with system descriptions - January 20, 2025 - paper reviews sent to the authors - February 3, 2025 - camera-ready deadline - March 5, 2025 - presentations of the systems at the NLP4CALL workshop * PUBLICATION We encourage you to submit a paper with your system description to the NLP4CALL workshop special track. We follow the same requirements for paper submissions as the NLP4CALL workshop, i.e. we use the same template and apply the same page limit. All papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Upon paper publication, we encourage you to share models, code, fact sheets, extra data, etc. with the community through GitHub or other repositories. * ORGANIZERS - Arianna Masciolini, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Andrew Caines, University of Cambridge, UK - Orphée De Clercq, Ghent university, Belgium - Joni Kruijsbergen, Ghent university, Belgium - Murathan Kurfali, Stockholm University, Sweden - Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Robert Östling, Stockholm University, Sweden * DATA PROVIDERS - Czech: -- Alexandr Rosen, Charles University, Prague - English: -- Diane Nicholls, ELiT, Cambridge University Press & Assessment -- Andrew Caines, University of Cambridge -- Paula Buttery, University of Cambridge - Estonian: -- Mark Fishel, University of Tartu, Estonia -- Kais Allkivi, Tallinn University, Estonia -- Kristjan Suluste, Eesti Keele Instituut, Estonia - German: -- Andrea Horbach, IPN / CAU Kiel, Germany -- Josef Ruppenhofer, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany -- Katrin Wisniewski, Universität Leipzig -- Torsten Zesch, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany - Greek: -- Alex Tantos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -- Konstantinos Tsiotskas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -- Vassilis Varsamopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -- Pinelopi Kikilintza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -- Elena Drakonaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -- Eleni Tsourilla, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -- Despoina-Ourania Touriki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Icelandic: -- Isidora Glisič, University of Iceland - Italian: -- Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Eurac Research Bolzano, Italy -- Lionel Nicolas, Eurac Research Bolzano, Italy - Latvian: -- Roberts Darģis, University of Latvia -- Ilze Auzina, University of Latvia - Russian: -- Alla Rozovskaya, City University of New York (CUNY), USA - Slovene: -- Špela Arhar Holdt, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia -- Aleš Žagar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Swedish: -- Arianna Masciolini, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ukrainian: -- Oleksiy Syvokon, Microsoft -- Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly * CONTACT Please join the MultiGEC-2025 Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/multigec-2025) in order to ask questions, hold discussions and browse for already answered questions.

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Text2Story@ECIR'25 Call for Papers
by Hugo Sousa 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++ **************************************************************************** Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'25) Held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25) April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt **************************************************************************** ++ Important Dates ++ - Submission Deadline: January 24th, 2025 - Acceptance Notification: March 3rd, 2025 - Camera-ready copies: March 17th, 2025 - Workshop: April 10th, 2025 ++ Overview ++ For seven years, the Text2Story Workshop series has fostered a vibrant community dedicated to understanding narrative structure in text, resulting in significant contributions to the field and developing a shared understanding of the challenges in this domain. While traditional methods have yielded valuable insights, the advent of Transformers and LLMs have ignited a new wave of interest in narrative understanding. In the eighth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we propose to go deeper into the role of LLMs in narrative understanding exploring the issues involved in using LLMs to unravel narrative structures, while also examining the characteristics of narratives generated by LLMs. By fostering dialogue on these emerging areas, we aim to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task and continue the workshop's tradition of driving innovation in narrative understanding research. ++ List of Topics ++ Research works submitted to the workshop should advance the scientific understanding of all aspects of narrative extraction from texts. This includes, but is not limited to, topics such as narrative information extraction, formal representation of narratives, narrative analysis and generation, development of datasets and evaluation protocols, as well as ethics and bias in narratives, and narrative applications. We encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics and contributions focused on low and medium-resource languages. Narrative Information Extraction - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events - Causality Detection - Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction - LLMs for Narrative Extraction Narrative Representation - Annotation Protocols - Narrative Representation Models - Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation - LLM-learned Representation Narrative Analysis and Generation - Discourse and Argument Structure Analysis - Narrative analysis of LLM generated text - Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis - Story Evolution and Shift Detection - Automatic Timeline Generation - Generative Language Models for Narrative Generation Datasets and Evaluation Protocol - Evaluating LLM-Generated Narratives - Evaluation of Multimodal Narrative Models - Annotated datasets - Narrative Resources - Using LLMs for Data Creation and Augmentation Ethics and Bias in Narratives - Identifying and Mitigating Bias in Generated Narratives - Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation - Misinformation and Fact Checking - Bias in LLM-generated narratives Narrative Applications - Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections - Narrative Summarization - Narrative Q&A - Multimodal Narrative Summarization - Multimodal Narrative-focused Search - Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives - Social Media Narratives - Narrative Text Simplification - Narrative-based Text Anonymization - Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives - Storyline Visualization (including multimodal) and Narrative Structures ++ Submission Guidelines ++ We solicit the following types of contributions: -> Full papers (up to 8 pages + references): Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. -> Short papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue. -> Demos | Resource Papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community; Submissions will be refereed through a single-blind peer-review process by three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by all the workshop organizers. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights. ++ Workshop Format ++ Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations. ++ Invited Speakers ++ Jochen L. Leidner, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, Scotland ++ Organizing committee ++ Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe) Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) ++ Proceedings Chair ++ João Paulo Cordeiro (NOVA Lincs & University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC, Portugal) ++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++ Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal) Behrooz Mansouri (University of Maine, USA) ++ Program Committee ++ Ali Salehi (University at Buffalo) Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI) Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz) Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle) António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon) Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto) Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP) Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon) David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Dennis Aumiller (Cohere) Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC) Sérgio Matos (University of Aveiro) Florian Boudin (Nantes University) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto) Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering) Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University) Junbo Huang (University of Hamburg) Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences) João Paulo Cordeiro (Nova lincs & University of Beira Interior) Jin Zhao (Brandeis University) Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino) Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon) Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho) Marc Finlayson (Florida International University) Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie) Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto) Ross Purves (University of Zurich) Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg) Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Yangyang Chen (Brandeis University) ++ Contacts ++ Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2025(a)easychair.org

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Shared Tasks on AI-Generated Content (text and image) Detection @ DEFACTIFY - AAAI 2025
by Amitava Das 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ------------------------------------- *Motivation:* A report by the European Union Law Enforcement Agency predicts that by 2026, up to 90% of online content could be synthetically generated, raising concerns among policymakers, who cautioned that ”*Generative AI could act as a force multiplier for political disinformation. The combined effect of the generative text, images, videos, and audio may surpass the influence of any single modality*”. In response, California’s Bill AB 3211 mandates the watermarking of AI-generated images, videos, and audio. However, concerns remain regarding the vulnerability of invisible watermarking techniques to tampering and the potential for malicious actors to bypass them entirely. Therefore, AI-generated content detection has become an essential research problem. https://defactify.com/ Shared Task 1: CT2: AI-Generated Text Detection Colab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/20330 A snapshot of the data can be viewed here <https://huggingface.co/datasets/gsingh1-py/train>. Shared Task 2: CT2: AI-Generated Image Detection Colab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/20331 A snapshot of the data can be viewed here <https://huggingface.co/datasets/NasrinImp/Defactify4_Train> Please take part in the shared tasks if you are interested in AI-generated content detection. Thanks, A *Prof. (Dr.) Amitava Das* Research Associate Professor Artificial Intelligence Institute of the University of South Carolina <http://aiisc.ai> Web <http://www.amitavadas.com/> | LinkedIn <http://:%20https:/www.linkedin.com/in/prof-dr-amitava-das-78348022/> | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=HYpfhaEAAAAJ> Advisory Scientist Wipro AI Lab <https://wiprodigital.com/> Bangalore, India [image: Mailsuite] Sent with Mailsuite · Unsubscribe <https://mailtrack.io/en/privacy/opt-out/unsubscribe/646a9eaa87f3fb95b71d0ae…> 20/11/24, 12:42:56 pm

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PerAnsSumm 2025 Shared Task - CL4Health Workshop @ NAACL 2025 - Call for Participation
by sagarw38＠uic.edu 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

Introducing the PerAnsSumm: Perspective-aware Healthcare answer summarization Shared Task at the CL4Health Workshop colocated with NAACL 2025! Website: peranssumm.github.io Motivation: Healthcare community question-answering (CQA) forums are rich with diverse user perspectives ranging from personal experiences and factual advice to thoughtful suggestions. However, traditional summarization methods focus on a single "best" answer, overlooking this diversity in perspectives. Tasks: - Task A: Identifying and classifying perspective-specific spans in answers. - Task B: Generating structured, perspective-specific summaries for question-answer threads. Key Dates: - Registration and Training Data Live now! - Release of test data: 25th January, 2025 - Submission of Results: 1st February, 2025 Learn More & Join the Shared Task: - More information: peranssumm.github.io - CodaBench Registration page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/4312/ Contact us via email at sagarw38(a)uic.edu

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Data Statements schema version 3 & guide now available
by Emily M. Bender 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

Dear all, A Guide for Creating and Documenting Language Datasets with Data Statements Schema Version 3 (Angelina McMillan-Major and Emily M. Bender, 2024) is now available! You can find the Guide along with templates for data statements and other resources here: https://techpolicylab.uw.edu/data-statements/ Data Statements schema version 3 builds on McMillan-Major's 2023 dissertation Language Dataset Documentation Design: Learning from Deaf and Indigenous Communities <http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50854>. The updated guide serves as both both as a resource for writing data statements and as an aid for planning data collection. Emily -- Emily M. Bender (she/her) Department of Linguistics Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor University of Washington Fedi: @emilymbender@dair-community.social

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First call for papers: The 10th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (WNUT 2025)
by Rob van der Goot 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with NAACL 2025 (Albuquerque, New Mexico). The website for the workshop is at: http://noisy-text.github.io/ The WNUT workshop focuses on core NLP tasks (e.g., POS/NER tagging and translation; not computational social science) over user-generated text, such as that found on social media, web forums, online reviews, digital health records, or language learner essays. We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same format and page limit as NAACL main conference). All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally. There will be best paper awards for both short and long papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * NLP of noisy text, e.g. POS, NER tagging, Parsing * Text normalization and error correction * Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text * Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events * Machine translation and Multilingual NLP over noisy text * Information extraction from noisy text, global and regional trend detection, and event extraction * Colloquial language, e.g. idiom detection * Domain adaptation to user-generated text * Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social media * Sentiment analysis * Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, etc...) * Representing and mining language variation in user-generated content * Processing of automatically generated data [IMPORTANT DATES] * Submission Deadline: January 30, 2025 (anytime on earth; dual-submission allowed) * Final ARR Submission Date: February 15, 2025 * ARR Commitment Date: February 20, 2025 * Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2025 * Camera-Ready Deadline: March 10, 2025 * Workshop Day: May 3 or 4, 2025 (TBD) [INVITED SPEAKERS] * Su Lin Blodgett * Verena Blaschke [ORGANIZERS] * JinYeong Bak (SungKyunKwan University) * Wei Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Alan Ritter (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Rob van der Goot (IT University of Copenhagen) * Hyeju Jang (Indiana University) * Weerayut Buaphet (Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology) [SUBMISSION] Submissions should conform to the ACL style guidelines. Long and short paper submissions must be anonymized. Please submit your papers via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/WNUT or commit them through ARR: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/WNUT_ARR_Com…

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