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Two public online talks in October (16th, 23rd) on Large Language Models, for accessibility or evaluation (NLPV seminars, Exeter)
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminars at the University of Exeter. Talk 1 Scheduled: Thursday 16 Oct 2025 at 13:00 to 14:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94505914598?pwd=eXonSrKHuxUNnMCAmiZHic… (Meeting ID: 945 0591 4598 Password: 903478) Title: This One or That One? A Bilingual Study on Accessibility via Demonstratives with Multimodal Large Language Models Abstract: Accessibility describes how easily a speaker can obtain or interact with an object, and it is often conveyed through demonstrative pronouns like “this" and “that" in English or “这” (zhè) and “那” (nà) in Chinese, indicating proximal or distal objects. The proximal vs. distal distinction is not absolute, since it depends on the speaker's viewpoint. Are Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) able to solve accessibility problems based on demonstratives? In this talk, I would like to present some preliminary results on a referent identification task based on a bilingual (English and Chinese), multimodal dataset. In our experiments, all models show significant struggles, and particularly when perspective shifts are introduced. Speaker's bio: Emmanuele Chersoni got a joint PhD in Language Sciences from Aix-Marseille University and the University of Pisa in 2018, under the supervision of Philippe Blache and Alessandro Lenci. Since 2021, he is an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Department of Language Science and Technology of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interests include classical distributional semantic models, thematic fit modeling, semantic relations and natural language processing for specialized domains. He has also served as a co-organizer of the *ACL workshop series on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics from 2019 to 2022. Talk 2 Scheduled: Thursday 23 Oct 2025 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/92868830537?pwd=0yvSNEwhIeC3x2Mxn76zOr… (Meeting ID: 928 6883 0537 Password: 100657) Title: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Inversion Learning for Highly Effective NLG Evaluation Prompts Abstract: Evaluating natural language generation (NLG) systems is inherently challenging. While human evaluation remains the gold standard, it is difficult to scale and often suffers from inconsistencies and demographic biases. LLM-based evaluation offers a scalable alternative but is highly sensitive to prompt design, where small variations can lead to significant discrepancies. In this talk, I will introduce an inversion learning method that learns effective reverse mappings from model outputs back to their input instructions, enabling the automatic generation of highly effective, model-specific evaluation prompts. This method is simple, requires only a single evaluation sample, and eliminates the need for manual prompt engineering, thereby improving both the efficiency and robustness of LLM-based evaluation. Speaker's bio: Chenghua Lin is a Full Professor and Chair in Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, with a focus on language generation, multimodal LLMs, and evaluation methods. He currently serves as Chair of the ACL SIGGEN Board, a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and Associate Editor for Computer Speech and Language. He has received several prizes and awards for his research and academic leadership, including the CIKM Test-of-Time Award, the INLG Best Paper Runner-up Award, and an Honourable Mention for the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Supervisor of the Year Award. He has also held numerous program and chairing roles for *ACL conferences, including Documentation Chair for ACL’25, Publication Chair for ACL’23, Workshop Chair for AACL-IJCNLP’22, Program Chair for INLG’19, and Senior Area Chair for EMNLP’20, ACL’22–’23, EACL’23, NAACL’25, and AACL’25. We will update future talks on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminar and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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PhD Positions in the Psycholinguistics, Information and Computation Lab (PICoL) at Georgetown University (incl. Computational Cognitive Modeling, Deep Learning, Large Language Models)
by Ethan Wilcox 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

The Psycholinguistics, Information and Computation Lab (PICoL) <https://picol-georgetown.github.io/> in the Department of Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/> at Georgetown University is recruiting candidates for a PhD in Computational Linguistics to start in Fall 2026. The deadline for applying is December 1, 2025. The lab is directed by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox <https://wilcoxeg.github.io/>. Please see this link for more details: https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/programs/apply/ In PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) we seek to understand how language is learned and processed in the mind using an interdisciplinary toolbox of methods, including computational simulations, formal mathematical models, and psycholinguistic experiments. In addition, we use insights from linguistics and cognitive science to characterize and improve AI and NLP technologies. Some of our current research projects include: - Building mathematical models of real-time language comprehension - Testing theories of language acquisition using large language models - Characterizing language model pretraining dynamics - Developing new experimental methods for psycholinguistics Applicants with a background in experimental methods are particularly encouraged to apply this cycle. Students in the Computational Linguistics program benefit from a range of courses in NLP and computational modeling techniques, as well as foundational courses in linguistics. Georgetown has a lively computational linguistics community <https://gucl.georgetown.edu/> on campus. Applicants must hold at least a bachelor’s degree by Fall 2026. PhD students in the Department (domestic as well as international students) benefit from a 5-year guaranteed funding package including a stipend, tuition scholarship, and health insurance. For questions, please email ethan.wilcox(a)georgetown.edu Applicants will be most competitive for the PhD in Computational Linguistics if they have a background in Computer Science, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, or a related field. Successful applicants have previous experience in computer programming and can articulate a clear area of desired research specialization. Georgetown also offers a 2-year M.S. in computational linguistics for students who wish to obtain a foundation in this field. -- Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics Georgetown University wilcoxeg.github.io

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Linguistics (Applied, Experimental, or NLP) – Montclair State University
by Anna Feldman 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

The Department of Linguistics <https://www.montclair.edu/linguistics/> at Montclair State University <https://www.montclair.edu/> invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, with a start date of August 2026. We seek a scholar whose work addresses real-world language challenges in educational, clinical, or communicative contexts, and is grounded in strong theoretical foundations. We welcome research areas such as language assessment, AI-assisted language learning, first and second language acquisition, speech and language disorders, or mental health communication. We particularly welcome candidates who combine theoretical insight with applied impact, and whose methodological expertise may include experimental techniques, corpus analysis, and/or Natural Language Processing (NLP). The successful candidate will maintain an active research agenda with potential for external funding and will teach both undergraduate and graduate courses spanning both theoretical and applied topics. We value inclusive, student-centered instruction and seek colleagues who bring a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring in a diverse academic environment. *QUALIFICATIONS* - PhD in Linguistics or a closely related field by the start date - Demonstrated excellence in teaching and potential for strong scholarly productivity - Experience in working with diverse student populations - Evidence of interdisciplinary collaboration and/or applied impact - Expertise in experimental, corpus-based, or NLP methods - Ability to teach foundational and advanced courses across theoretical and applied areas of linguistics *STARTING DATE:* August 28, 2026 *REQUIRED MATERIALS: * Cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and representative publications, which can be uploaded during the application process. Candidates who are shortlisted will be asked to provide 3 separate letters of recommendation. *APPLY BY:* The position is open until filled, and *application review begins immediately*. *Follow this link <https://montclair.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/JobOpportunities/job/Montclair-NJ/A…>to apply.* *Contact information*: lingsearch2026(a)montclair.edu *Salary Range*: $88,673.69-$97,003.17 Annually The position may also be eligible for comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition assistance. For further details, please visit: https://www.montclair.edu/human-resources/benefits/ *THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS* The Department of Linguistics offers a BA in Linguistics, with an option of a track in Language Engineering, an MA in Applied Linguistics, and both a Graduate Certificate and an MS in Computational Linguistics, offered jointly with the School of Computing. TESL/TESOL certificates are available at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Faculty collaborate across disciplines, including computer science, psychology, education, and communication disorders, regularly apply for and secure external research funding, and conduct research through three labs: the Experimental Linguistics Lab, the Laboratory for Corpus Research in Applied Linguistics (CORAL), and the Natural Language Processing Lab. The department is committed to inclusive teaching that reflects the diversity of the field and supports a broad range of students. *THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES* The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is Montclair State’s largest college, with over 5,000 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students. CHSS facilitates traditional and interdisciplinary learning and is the professional home of many outstanding scholars and instructors across numerous disciplines, all of whom lend to CHSS’s mission to furnish academically rigorous and relevant programs of study that contribute to the development of an informed and engaged civil society. CHSS’s programs develop in students the abilities to discover, create, evaluate, apply, and share knowledge, so that they will be able to think critically, act ethically, and be informed citizen-participants prepared to assume leadership roles in their communities. CHSS also aims to be responsive to the needs of society, including via its championing of use-inspired research collaboratively undertaken by faculty and students, and graduate programs that train students to apply knowledge in constructive, inspiring, and practical ways that benefit our local and broader communities. *MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY* Building on a distinguished history dating back to 1908, Montclair State University has evolved from an institution that was a recognized leader in teacher education to an R2 research institution ranked as one of the 100 best public doctoral universities in the nation. The University serves 22,000 undergraduate and graduate students with more than 300 doctoral, master's and baccalaureate programs provided by 13 colleges and schools. Situated on a beautiful 252-acre campus just 12 miles from New York City, Montclair delivers the instructional and research resources of a large public university while retaining the supportive and personalized academic environment that provides a feeling of community more typical of smaller institutions. Montclair State University is proud to be committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in its recruitment and employment practices. The University is an inclusive, richly diverse community that fosters mutual respect, tolerance and understanding among all students and employees.

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). We invite you to submit proposals for half-day or full-day workshops in any area related to the field of Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration, all of which fall under the broader area of Variability. In particular, workshops on challenging, emerging areas related to the conference topics are especially sought. We particularly encourage workshop proposals for highly interactive and collaborative workshops, rather than mini-conferences, e.g., apart from the traditional short and long papers, consider allowing position papers with only one page (not included in the proceedings) and focus on a lively discussion after the presentation, to foster new ideas and gather feedback (rather than just defending the presented work). The expected date of the workshops will be the September 29th, 2026, before the main track of the conference. Submissions / Publishing VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference proceedings published by Springer. Moreover, a one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be published in the proceedings as well. Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections and address each corresponding point: 1. Organizers • Name: organizers’ full names • Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone • Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers’ expertise in the field and experience as workshop organizers 2. Workshop Content • Title: workshop title and acronym • Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop (suitable for the conference’s website) • Tentative Website URL • Topics and motivation: • What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop? • How is the workshop relevant to VARIABILITY? • How does the workshop connect VARIABILITY to other research communities? • Goals and expected results: • Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them • What are the expected results of the workshop? • How will these results be disseminated? • Format: • What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, invited talks (please note here that such talks are not financially supported by the conference), lightning talks, demonstrations, etc.)? • To avoid duplicated topics and cancellations, did you coordinate with or (plan to) merge workshops on the same/similar topics from previous years (if there are any)? • What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction? • What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities? • Participants: • What is the expected number of submissions and participants? Provide a plan for attracting sufficient submissions and promoting attendance • If applicable, please provide information from previous or related workshops. Have there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic? When, where and with how many participants? • Special room equipment (please note that VARIABILITY conference and the workshops are in-person events) like flip charts, microphone, etc. • Do you plan for a half-day or full-day workshop? • Program Committee: list of tentative program committee members, names and affiliations 3. Preliminary Call for Papers This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections but should be targeted towards prospective participants. It should address the following items: • Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals • Workshop format • Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals) • Submission guidelines and review process • References to previous workshops (websites) • Dissemination campaign to distribute the CFP 4. References to previous workshops (websites) Submission Instructions Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> A workshop proposal must be at most 4 pages long. Submissions must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous editions of the proposed workshop or other workshops organized by the proposal authors, should be included if available but are not required for submission. Acceptance Criteria Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop’s potential for attracting participants and generating useful results. We underline the importance of active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of Variability and to identify elements of joint future work. To obtain a balanced and cohesive workshop program, the Organizing Committee will collaborate closely with workshop organizers and reserves the right to circulate proposals to other submitters in view of possible workshop mergers. The organizers of accepted workshops will be required to create and maintain a website in a timely manner to serve as a workshop information center and to provide a repository for documenting pre- and post-workshop activities. At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend VARIABILITY 2026 in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published. The submission and review platform for workshop papers will be the one for the main conference (i.e., all workshops will be as different tracks under the same Easy Chair installation). Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: 2 March 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: 16 March 2026 • Workshop Papers Submission: 15 June 2026 • Workshop Papers Notification: 7 July, 2026 • Camera-Ready Version Submission: 14 July, 2026 • Workshop Summary: 14 July, 2026 • Author Registration: 14 July, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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First CFP: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA@EACL2026)
by Oramas, Sergio 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

[??]First Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/home Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshops/NLP4MusA Shared Task: Conversational Music Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS) - Challenge information: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/shared-task - Baselines: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-baselines - Evaluations: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-evaluator Contact: nlp4musa2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:nlp4musa2026@gmail.com> == About the Workshop == Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content - such as songs or podcasts - contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations. We welcome submissions on topics such as: NLP for Music and Audio Understanding - Music Tagging and Auto-tagging, Knowledge Graph Construction, Semantic Ontologies - Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, and Entity Linking - Multimodal Representation Learning, Lyrics and Symbolic Representation Analysis - Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Culture-specific Music Understanding, Corpora Bias - Music Captioning and Description Generation NLP for Music Retrieval or Recommendation - Conversational Interfaces, Query understanding and Intent Prediction - Multimodal, Cross-modal Music Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems - Natural Language User Modeling - Music Question Answering - Fairness and Transparency NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics Generation, Audio/Symbolic Query-driven Music Generation - Synthetic Music Content Detection == Submission Instructions == We invite short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (ACL Anthology) and presented orally or as posters. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here (no Word templates is provided): https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Shared tasks papers should be submitted as a 2-page report describing the solution, using the same LaTeX template above (see specific instructions on the website). The best works will be selected for oral or poster presentations. == Key Dates (tentative, AoE) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 Shared Task: Important Dates Shared task release: October 15, 2025 Submission site opens: December 1, 2025 Blind evaluation dataset release: December 1, 2025 Final submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Results notification: January 23, 2026 == Organizers == Elena V. Epure, Deezer Sergio Oramas, SiriusXM SeungHeon Doh, KAIST Anna Kruspe, Munich University of Applied Sciences Mohamed Sordo, SiriusXM

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SEPLN CFP issue 74 ***Deadline November 22nd***
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** Call for papers for issue 76 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 1.61 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics NLP for low-resource languages Efficient and sustainable NLP methods Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP Truthworthy and explainability in NLP Security and privacy in NLP Text and Multimodal Generation Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision Knowledge and common sense Computational lexicography and terminology Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Morphological and Syntactic analysis Corpus linguistics Development of linguistic resources and tools Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse Machine translation Speech synthesis and recognition Audio indexing and retrieval Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval Question answering systems Automatic textual content analysis Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining Plagiarism detection Negation and speculation processing Text summarization Text simplification Image retrieval NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education) Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by November 29nd, 2025 and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions. Summary of PhD thesis. Information for Authors The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates Submission deadline: November 29nd, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2026 Camera ready: February 7th, 2026 Publication: March 2026 Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 76 http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 1,61 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados Diversidad y PNL para lenguas de bajos recursos Métodos de PNL eficientes y sostenibles LLM: Diseño, Creación, Evaluación Ética, Sesgo y Equidad en la PNL PNL veraz y explicable Seguridad y Privacidad en PNL Generación Texto y Multimodal Multimodalidad y fundamento del lenguaje para la visión Conocimiento y sentido común Teorías lingüísticas, modelado cognitivo y psicolingüística Análisis Morfológico y Sintáctico Lingüística de corpus Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas Semántica, pragmática y discurso Traducción automática Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla Indexación y recuperación de Audio Sistemas de diálogo y sistemas interactivos/Asistentes conversacionales Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas Análisis automático de contenido textual Análisis de opiniones, emociones y minería de la argumentación Detección de plagio Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación Resumen automático de texto Simplificación de texto Recuperación de imágenes PLN especifico al dominio (Medico, Juridico-administrativo, Educación, etc) Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 29 de Noviembre de 2025. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema OpenReview. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. Reseñas de tesis doctorales. Instrucciones para los Autores Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: El título del artículo (en español e inglés). Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes Envío de trabajos: 29 de Noviembre 2025 Notificación de aceptación/rechazo: 27 de Enero 2026 Versión final: 7 de febrero de 2026 Publicación: Marzo de 2026 Persona de contacto:Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects @ EACL
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Dear all, Here is our CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects: -- VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Helsinki (Finland) Noëmi Aepli - University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke - LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Zagreb (Croatia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi -- Best regards, Verena Blaschke

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Postdoc position at Uppsala University: Multilingual NLP
by Joakim Nivre 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

The Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on multilingual NLP: https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:866727 The position is not tied to a specific project, so candidates are asked to submit their own project proposal with the application. Questions about the position can be directed to joakim.nivre(a)lingfil.uu.se. 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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Student contest: 2025 Babel Young Writers' Competition
by Tristan Miller 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

Dear all, Below is a call for submissions to our annual contest for student writers. Contributions from students of computational linguistics are most welcome. Sincerely, Tristan Miller Babel Advisory Panel ---------------------- Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> is running the 11th edition of its Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language. The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and higher education. The winner(s) will have their article published in Babel and receive a year's subscription to the magazine. Competition guidelines: Deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 Length: 2000 to 2500 words Topic: Entries can be on any linguistic topic -- the important thing is that the discussion of it is accessible and interesting. Format: Entries should be clearly presented in a Word file, with images submitted as separate high-resolution JPEGs. Submission: By e-mail to babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com with the subject "Young Writers' Competition" For inspiration, you can browse past articles in the sample issues available for free on the magazine's website, or check out articles featured on the magazine's social media accounts: Bluesky: @babelzine.bsky.social X: @Babelzine Instagram: @babel_zine Mastodon: @babel@masto.ai Please e-mail babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com if you have any questions about the competition. -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award and the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
by Announce 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** *** Last Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by October 31, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu). 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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Second CFP: SemEval 2026 Task 1 on Humor Generation
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Second Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA – Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA (Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate) is SemEval 2026's Task 1 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/> and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push NLP models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The development data for the evaluation trial phase has just been released, and we are accepting submissions for this phase! The task is organized into two subtasks: - Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. - Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. Subtask B1 uses only an image, while B2 uses an image and a starting prompt. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 15, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026

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First CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 18 Oct '25

18 Oct '25

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)* *Rabat, Morocco* *SUBMISSION* ARR submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT *TIMELINE* - Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 - Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD - EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026 *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, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 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. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (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 for low-resource languages - 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 - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of 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 EACL submission guidelines for further information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings 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 EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. 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://2026.eacl.org/registration). *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be confirmed)* Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Ali Hatami, University of Galway Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jinliang Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Milind Agarwal, George Mason University Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University Pengwei Li, Meta Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University Yasmin Moslem, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland 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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Call for Papers: First Workshop on Multilingual Multicultural Evaluation (MME@EACL'26)
by pinzhen.chen＠ed.ac.uk 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

*Workshop co-located with EACL, 24-29 March 2026, Rabat, Morocco* LLMs in so many languages? When can such a claim be substantiated, and how should it be evaluated? This workshop brings together the community to answer these questions through three goals: - Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies; - Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability; - Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation. *Call for Papers* We invite archival (ACL Anthology) or non-archival submissions, in ACL's short or long format. We accept both direct and ARR-reviewed submissions. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Evaluation resources beyond English or Western-centric perspectives and materials; - Annotation methodology and procedures; - Standardised reporting, and scientific comparison of multilingual performance; - Evaluation protocols: ranking vs direct assessment, rubric-based vs reference-based vs reference-free, prompt variations, etc; - Metrics, LLM judges, and reward models; - Complex tasks: multimodality, fairness, long I/O, tool using, code-switching, literary, etc; - Sociocultural and cognitive variation affecting the use and evaluation across languages; - Scalable evaluation of cultural and factual knowledge; - Efficient evaluation of a massive number of languages and tasks; - AI-assisted evaluation: data, methods, metrics, and standards; - Other position, application-, or theory-focused contributions. *Dates* (tentative, all dates are 23:59 AoE) - Direct submission deadline: 19 Dec 2025 - Pre-reviewed ARR submission deadline: 02 Jan 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 23 Jan 2026 - Camera-ready version due: 03 Feb 2026 - Workshop date: 28 or 29 Mar 2026 --- Website: https://multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io/ Email: mme-workshop(a)googlegroups.com Submission: OpenReview, link TBD Best regards, Pinzhen Chen on behalf of MME organizers

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Call for papers BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025
by Benet Vincent 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025 AI and EAP: New Directions Monday 15th December 2025, Coventry University (in-person event) Generative AI is still a recent development, yet it is having a significant impact in the fields of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Corpus Linguistics. A general consensus is emerging that researchers and practitioners need to have a thorough understanding of the uses of Gen AI, but it can be hard to keep track of developments in such a fast-moving field. The aim of this one-day event is to discuss current and future developments concerning AI in EAP with a specific focus on corpus linguistics and corpus approaches. Abstract submission We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions). These will offer short, thought-provoking talks on what speakers feel are essential corpus linguistic elements for EAP teacher training. We encourage early-stage work that focuses on innovation, as well as more advanced research. Please send 250-word abstracts to Hilary Nesi (h.nesi(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk>) with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. Notification of successful abstract submissions will be on 31 October 2025. Attendance The Journal of EAP<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-o…> is kindly providing sponsorship for the event for those who would like to present but haven't got the financial means to attend. If you would like to be considered for sponsorship, please include a maximum 100-word justification for sponsorship with your abstract submission. The BAAL CL SIG<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/about.html__;!!K7…> is also able to offer a number of attendance fee waivers for non-presenters; these are aimed at enabling students and early career researchers to participate. If you would like to be considered for fee waiver, please send a maximum 100-word explanation of the benefits to you of participation to sian.alsop(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:sian.alsop@coventry.ac.uk>, with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. To register for the event, please enter your details and pay the registration fee here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/frontend/re…> (choose the Register tab). Benet Vincent (he/him) Lecturer (Teaching) School of Social Sciences & Humanities Coventry University [cid:1d97cf6f-8f65-4ec3-94af-5bb1df230600] [cid:228a09e9-2e9f-470c-9e37-d7da2cccb039]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/a7809b7442504c0c836457ded745a58c…> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/book/Bookableacademicsupporttutorials@live.coven…> Queen's Award for Enterprise International Trade 2022 Ranked in the top 50% of UK universities for research power Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021 Joint top Modern University for Career Prospects Guardian University Guide 2022 Top 40 in the World for International Students (ratio) QS World University Rankings 2025 NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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FINAL CALL: LCRGrad25 – Registration Closes Monday, October 20th!
by Cansu Akan 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Dear Colleagues, This is the final announcement for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25). Hosted by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, this virtual event takes place from October 22–24, 2025. While LCRGrad25 offers a diverse program for the whole community, it is specifically programmed to support graduate students and early-career researchers with a strong focus on practical development: • Distinguished Keynotes: Featuring talks from Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen, Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, and Dr. Dana Gablasova. • Coffee Chats with Keynotes: Informal, direct engagement with our distinguished keynote speakers immediately after their sessions. • Promising Research & Posters: A full schedule of emerging research papers presented live, plus asynchronous viewing of great emerging research posters on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LCRgradconf/videos • Workshops: Focused training designed to enhance essential academic and soft skills, providing practical takeaways that are applicable to research and career journey. • Research Clinics & AMA Panels: Expert advice on critical topics like building and analyzing corpora, legal/ethical issues, and low-resource languages. We also warmly invite seasoned researchers to attend. Your insights and support are invaluable for mentoring the next generation of scholars during the interactive sessions. Registration is free of charge, but mandatory for all attendees to receive the secure Zoom links. The registration window CLOSES on Monday, October 20th. Please ensure you register soon if you plan to attend. • View the full program: https://shorturl.at/KsAPj • Book of Abstracts: https://shorturl.at/G2oyX • MANDATORY FREE Registration: https://shorturl.at/CPUUU • Conference Website: https://lnkd.in/duSqy8Xy We look forward to a productive and engaging conference and hope you will join us! Best regards, Cansu Akan

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[Call for Papers] Cambridge NLE - Special Issue - "Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing"
by Dr. Partha Pakray 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Dear All, We are pleased to invite submissions to the special issue of Natural Language Engineering, now called *Natural Language Processing* (Cambridge University Press), on the theme: "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing*" *Cambridge NLE - Special Issue* *Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing* *The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2025.* *Call for Papers* We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Quantum computing Platforms for Algorithm execution - Quantum-enhanced NLP models and embeddings - Quantum Algorithms towards Natural Language Processing - Design and Development of Quantum Machine Learning Hybrid quantum-classical Models - Applications of Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing - Future Direction of Quantum Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing - Quantum Large Language Models - Architectures and Mechanisms and Challenges - Quantum Machine Learning for Low-Resource Language Modeling - Hybrid Quantum-Classical LLMs for Low-Resource Languages - Quantum transformers and compression of large language models - Quantum cognitive NLP for contextual and semantic understanding - Quantum dialogue systems and conversational AI - Quantum knowledge graphs for reasoning and inference - Quantum semantic search and information retrieval - Quantum adversarial learning and robustness in NLP - *any other, which is related to Quantum Computing* *Important Dates:* - *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2025 - *First-round author notification*: Between April 30, 2026 and May 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised versions*: Between July 30, 2026 and August 30, 2026 - *Second-round author notification*: Between Nov 30, 2026 and Dec 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised second versions*: Between Dec 31, 2026 and Feb 28, 2027 - *Final Version*: Between April 30, 2027 and May 30, 2027 *Submissions:* Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural Language Engineering* are available <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> here <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> . Please submit your article through the NLE <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript, please select "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing"* in the field *Special Issue Section.* *Any questions: *Dr. Partha Pakray National Institute of Technology Silchar, India Email: partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in *[Guest Editor]* Thanks & Regards, Thanks & Regards, *Dr. Partha Pakray* Associate Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering National Institute of Technology Silchar Silchar, Assam, India partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #17 [correct time]
by Costas Gabrielatos 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

[Posting again with the correct time - apologies] The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA) Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (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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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #17
by Costas Gabrielatos 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 2:00-4:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA) Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (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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IWSDS26 - Deadline extended to October 22, 2025
by info＠elda.org 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026) <https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/> has been extended: *Important Dates (Extended):* * Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → *Extended to October 22, 2025* * Paper Update Deadline: October 18 →*Extended to October 28, 2025* * Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 *Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026* We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers, industry track papers, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology. This year’s theme is: 🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models” Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social (s.) Mahed Mousavi, Ph.D. IWSDS'26 Program Chair Assistant Professor (RTD-A), University of Trento https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/

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[Andaluz.IA 2025] CFP III Andaluz.IA Forum
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

==================================================================== CFP III Andaluz.IA Forum December 19, 2025, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Sevilla ==================================================================== From ten Andalusian universities and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission we are organizing the III Andaluz.IA Forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/home>, a meeting whose main objective is to show the potential and give visibility to the academic and research community in Artificial Intelligence in our region. This forum seeks to highlight the work of Andalusian scientists, both those who are currently working in Andalusia, as well as those who have spent part of their training or career in the region, regardless of their current place of work. The first edition of the Andaluz.IA forum was organized at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Seville, the second edition at Universidad de Jaén and this year it will take place at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (Universidad de Sevilla). With this third edition, we want to continue highlighting the great potential for research and academic development in Artificial Intelligence that Andalusia has, in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, robotics and natural language processing. The event will be held in person on December 19, 2025 at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática(Universidad de Sevilla). Interested researchers can participate by presenting their results in oral or poster format, provided that they have been accepted in relevant conferences or journals in the area. In addition, professionals and companies wishing to participate may do so through sponsorship or direct participation by registering on the event's website. For more information on registration, submission of papers and forms of sponsorship, please consult the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers. IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission deadline: October 20, 2025 October 26, 2025 ● Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2025 ● Registration deadline: November 17, 2025 ● III Andaluz.IA Forum: December 19, 2025 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/organisers [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.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] <https://www.ujaen.es/>

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[EACL WASSA Workshop] 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 1st Call for Papers
by Roman Klinger 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

** *15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 1st Call for Papers* *EACL’26, March 24–29, 2026, Rabat, Morocco, Half Day Workshop* *Background and Envisaged Scope* *Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis has become a highly developed research area, ranging from binary classification of reviews to the detection of complex emotion structures between entities found in text. This field has expanded both on a practical level, finding numerous successful applications in business, as well as on a theoretical level, allowing researchers to explore more complex research questions related to affective computing. Its continuing importance is also shown by the interest it generates in other disciplines such as Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Marketing, Crisis Management & Digital Humanities, where it can support the study of online interactions, group dynamics, and public discourse.* *The aim of WASSA 2026 is to bring together researchers working on Subjectivity, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Detection and Classification and their applications to other NLP or real-world tasks (e.g. public health messaging, fake news, media impact analysis, social media mining, computational literary studies) and researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation from text. We encourage the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but not restricted to the following topics:* * *Resources for subjectivity, sentiment, emotion and social media analysis* * *Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and summarization* * *Humor, Irony and Sarcasm detection* * *Mis- and disinformation analysis and the role of affective attributes* * *Aspect and topic-based sentiment and emotion analysis* * *Analysis of stable traits of social media users, incl. personality analysis and profiling* * *Transfer learning for domain, language and genre portability of sentiment analysis* * *Modelling commonsense knowledge for subjectivity, sentiment or emotion analysis* * *Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis* * *Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis* * *Application of theories from related fields to subjectivity and sentiment analysis* * *Multimodal emotion detection and classification* * *Social Groups analysis and their interactions in Social Media* * *Generation, detection, and evaluation of subjectivity, sentiment, and emotion in NLP tasks with LLMs* * *Risks, challenges, and ethical implications of affective uses of LLMs* * *The role of emotions in argument mining* * *Applications of sentiment and emotion mining* * *Public sentiments and communication patterns of public health emergencies.* * *The analysis of pretrained small and large language models.* *Finally, this year we also propose a special trackon multilinguality and socio-cultural adaptation to lesser-resourced languages/communities. * *In general, we particularly invite contributions from young researchers, work on low-resource languages, multilingual methods, and interdisciplinary work.* *Important dates* * *December 17, 2025: Direct submission deadline* * *January 2, 2026: ARR submission deadline* * *January 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance* * *February 3, 2026: Camera Ready Papers due* * *March 24–29, 2026: EACL with WASSA workshop on one of the days.* *Shared tasks* *We do not offer a shared task this year.* *Papers* *At WASSA 2026, we will accept three types of submissions:* *For the regular research track we accept long& shortpapers.* *Additionally, we accept double submissions and double commitment of ARR reviews in parallel to WASSA and another venue. Please note that you must immediately withdraw your paper from WASSA if you decide to publish it elsewhere. Check with the other venue if they also allow double submissions.* *Longpapers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with any number of additional pages of references. A- subset of these papers will be presented orally.* *Shortpapers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with any number of additional pages of references. Most of these papers will be presented as posters.* *Also this year there is an industry track, for which we accept demo papers. Demo papersdescribe system demonstrations, ranging from early prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate for this track. Demo papers may consist of up to six (6) pages of content, these will be presented as a poster and should include a live demonstration.* *Submission procedure and templates* *Submissions without reviews can be done directly through our Open Review side (https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/WASSA).* *Authors who received reviews already through the ACL Rolling Review process are invited to commit their reviewed paper to WASSA. To do so, please go to our ARR Website and click on “ACL 2026 Workshop WASSA Commitment Submission”. You will then need to add the title, the URL to the ARR submission with reviews + metareview, and other information.* *Both long and short papers must be anonymised for double-blind reviewing, must follow the ACL Author Guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>, and must use the ACL templates (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). The submitting author must have an OpenReview profile* *Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data* *ARR encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. Supplementary materials may include appendices, software or data. For example, pre processing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into appendices. However, if the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in appendices. Reviewers are not required to consider material in appendices. Appendices should come after the references in the submitted pdf, but do not count towards the page limit. Software should be submitted as a single .tgz or .zip archive, and data as a separate single .tgz or .zip archive. Supplementary materials must be fully anonymized to preserve the two-way anonymized reviewing policy and must not exceed 100MB.* *Organizers* * Jeremy Barnes, University of the Basque Country Valentin Barriere, University of Chile Orphée De Clercq, Ghent University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Célia Nouri, Inria and Sciences Po Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Pranaydeep Singh, Ghent University Contact Email: wassaworkshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://workshop-wassa.github.io/ * -- Prof. Dr. Roman Klinger (he/him) Professor for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences (WIAI) Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Office: Room 02.10; Gutenbergstr. 13; 96050 Bamberg; Germany Phone: +49 951 863 3320 Mail:roman.klinger@uni-bamberg.de WWW: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/nlproc/ https://www.romanklinger.de/

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[CFP] Advanced Visual Interfaces / AVI 2026 / 1st Call for Workshop Proposals
by Daniela FOGLI 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

====================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held between June 8 and 12, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island of Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue to reflect, reframe, and speculate about creative solutions to more sustainable and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Voice and Sound-based Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI Art and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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October 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

In this newsletter: Membership year 2026 publication preview Fall 2025 data scholarship recipients New publications: KAIROS Phase 2 Quizlet<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T15> BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S09> BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts and Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T14> ________________________________ Membership year 2026 publication preview The 2026 membership year is approaching and plans for next year's publications are in progress. Among the expected releases are: * 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set: 10,000+ hours of English conversational telephone speech following the Mixer collection protocol, used in NIST's 2012 speaker recognition evaluation * KAIROS schema learning corpus background data and Phase 1 evaluation datasets: multimodal English and Spanish source data and annotations for reasoning about complex real-world events * CALL MY NET 2: 800+ hours of Tunisian-Arabic conversational telephone speech from over 400 speakers to support text independent speaker recognition, used in the 2018 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation * Multi-language conversational telephone speech: multiple releases, hundreds of hours of speech from speakers of confusable linguistic varieties (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Slavic, Spanish) to support language identification * CALLHOME Omnibus releases: combined speech and transcript datasets with updated directory structure, file formats and documentation, and lexicons (Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Spanish) * IARPA MATERIAL language packs: conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries in multiple languages (e.g., Lithuanian, Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog) Check your inbox for more information about membership renewal. Fall 2025 data scholarship recipients Congratulations to the recipients of LDC's Fall 2025 data scholarships: Lasidu Dilshan: University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka): BSc, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering. Lasidu is awarded a copy of Asian Elephant Vocalizations LDC2010S05 for his work in elephant voice enhancement and classification. Máté Gedeon: Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary): PhD candidate, Department of Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence. Máté is awarded a copy of Switchboard-1 Release 2 LDC97S62 for his work in simulated conversation generation. Ping He: Northeastern University (USA): Student, Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Ping is awarded a copy of ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English LDC2014T06 for their work in native language identification. Thiyazen Iskander: Maulana Azad College of Arts, Science & Commerce (India), affiliated with Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University (India): PhD candidate, Linguistics, Department of English. Thiyazen is awarded copies of Arabic Morphological Analyzer (SAMA) Version 3.1 LDC2010L01 and Arabic Treebank Part 1 v. 4.1 LDC2010T13 for his work in morphosyntactic analysis of short passives in Standard Arabic. Michael Mooney: University of Glasgow (United Kingdom): PhD candidate, School of Computing Sciences. Michael is awarded copies of Treebank-2 LDC95T7 and BLLIP 1987-89 WSJ Corpus Release LDC2000T43 for their work in eye-tracking for text-centered modeling. Abraham Sanders: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA): PhD candidate, Cognitive Science. Abraham is awarded a copy of Switchboard-1 Release 2 LDC97S62 for his work in spoken dialogue systems. ________________________________ New publications: KAIROS Phase 2 Quizlet<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T15> was developed by LDC and contains English and Spanish text, video and image data, and annotations used for pre-evaluation research and system development during Phase 2 of the DARPA KAIROS program. KAIROS Quizlets were a series of narrowly defined tasks designed to explore specific evaluation objectives enabling KAIROS system developers to exercise individual system components on a small data set prior to the full program evaluation. This corpus contains the complete set of Quizlet data used in Phase 2 which focused on five real-world complex events within the Disease Outbreak scenario. Source data was collected from the web; 66 root web pages were collected and processed, yielding 65 text data files, 890 image files and 10 video files. Annotation steps included labeling scenario-relevant events and relations for each document to develop a structured representation of temporally ordered events, relations and arguments; generating a reference knowledge graph; and linking labeled entries to a knowledge base derived from a Wikidata-based ontology. The DARPA KAIROS (Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas) program aimed to build technology capable of understanding and reasoning about complex real-world events in order to provide actionable insights to end users. KAIROS systems utilized formal event representations in the form of schema libraries that specified the steps, preconditions and constraints for an open set of complex events; schemas were then used in combination with event extraction to characterize and make predictions about real-world events in a large multilingual, multimedia corpus. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S09> was developed by LDC and consists of 116 hours of speech from 274 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of the Arabic dialect spoken in Egypt. The calls were collected by LDC in the CALLFRIEND and CALLHOME series where participants called family members or close friends and spoke on topics of their choice. Around 33% of the recordings (92 calls) are publicly released for the first time. The remaining 182 recordings were previously published by LDC in various CALLFRIEND, CALLHOME, and HUB5 Arabic datasets. The DARPA BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation) program developed machine translation and information retrieval for less formal genres, focusing particularly on user-generated content. LDC supported the BOLT program by collecting informal data sources -- discussion forums, conversational telephone speech, text messaging, and chat -- in Chinese, Egyptian Arabic, and English. The material in this release represents the unannotated Egyptian Arabic source conversational telephone speech. The telephone data was transcribed, translated, and annotated for various tasks in the BOLT program including word alignment, treebanking, and co-reference. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts and Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T14> contains transcripts and corresponding English translations for the conversational telephone speech in BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S09> and was developed by LDC to support the DARPA BOLT program. Transcribers were required to produce a verbatim transcript of all speech within a file using the CODA<https://aclanthology.org/L12-1328/> orthographic approach; diacritics were not included. Some transcripts contain redactions for potential personally identifying information. All speech data was transcribed and is divided into training, development, and evaluation partitions. The goal of the BOLT translation task was to translate the Arabic transcripts into fluent English while preserving the meaning present in the original Arabic text. Transcripts in the development and evaluation partitions received first pass and gold standard translations. 99% of the transcripts were translated into English. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. 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CFP: The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2026)
by Amal Haddad 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

Call for Papers - AbjadNLP 2026 The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script Rabat, Morocco (in-person) Co-located with EACL 2026 _https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/_ [1]_ _ AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP -- covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties -- while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, and Tamazight). We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora, code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods. Submission Deadlines: Direct submissions: 8 January 2026 ARR submissions: 10 January 2026 Notification: 24 January 2026 Camera-ready: 3 February 2026 Workshop: 24-29 March 2026 (TBC) AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting guidelines. Templates are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [2]. General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University) More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [3] -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Ayudante doctora 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/abjad/ [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files__;!!D… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Xa…

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Fully Funded PhD position in NLP/AI/Social NLP
by Somnath Banerjee 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

Dear all, Please feel free to share this with your contacts. I am seeking motivated students for a fully funded 4-year PhD in Social NLP. Social NLP is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines natural language processing (NLP) and social computing. The scope of doctoral thesis proposals (but is not restricted to) is based on the following topics: - Information Disorder on Social Media (Fake news, Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, misinformation, etc.) - Disaster Management Using Social Media - Explainable AI in Social NLP Why the University of Tartu<https://ut.ee/en>? - The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities (founded in 1632) in Northern and Eastern Europe. The University of Tartu is known for its high-quality studies and research. The unique intellectual atmosphere and fine living and working environment that characterise Tartu have attracted prominent scientists and experts for almost 390 years. - As of 2025, the University of Tartu belongs to the top 1% of the world's universities. - The University of Tartu is the strongest research university in Estonia. We belong to various networks of renowned research universities, such as ENLIGHT, the Coimbra Group, LERU, etc. - Here, 13 000 students and 3000 staff members study and work in a diverse range of fields connected by the power of curiosity. - Estonia is famous for its digital society and has the highest number of startups per capita in Europe. Estonia is famous for its digital innovations, and it is home to many startups like Skype, Transferwise, and Bolt to name a few. Scholarship: - Scholarship approximately 2300 Euro/month gross amount. - Covers health insurance - Additional benefits: Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops, etc. If you are interested, please drop me an email (somnath.banerjee(a)ut.ee) with the following: - CV which must include: - final year undergraduate/graduate project (brief description: max 150 words) - pursued relevant subjects at undergraduate and/or Master level (if any) - relevant work experience (if any) - publications (if any) - The name and email contacts of academic referees(optional) Please Note: * Master-level students, who are in their final semester, can also apply. * Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as the processing of the applications will start soon after receiving them. * Do not send academic certificates, motivation letters, letters of recommendation, etc. * Upon initial selection based on CVs, additional documents (such as motivation letters, certificates) will be requested for further processing. For queries: If you need more information, please contact me with the subject line "SocialNLP: PhD position queries". Kind regards, Somnath Banerjee Assistant Professor, Chair of NLP, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, 51009 Tartu, ESTONIA

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CfP SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 Workshop at EACL 2026
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 The 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held at EACL in March 2026 in Rabat, Morocco as a two-day workshop with one on-site and one online day First Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organizers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 is the tenth 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 events which also host the SIGHUM business meetings. Workshop site https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/sighum-latech-clfl-2026/ Important dates Submission deadline: January 5th, 2026 Notification of acceptance: February 3rd, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 10th, 2026 Description The community of the broadly understood Digital Humanities (DH) has witnessed remarkable growth and transformation, fueled by the rapid advancements in NLP. There is a steady interest in, and a high demand for, NLP methods of semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of primary and secondary data. Even so, the heterogeneous landscape of the DH with their diverse, often multi-lingual or multi-modal sources can be a challenge for NLP. Consider, for example, the growing interest in historical language data and in under-resourced languages. There are unique obstacles in developing comprehensive language models in aid of the linguistic diversity in DH. The handling of noisy and non-standard data, and the need for domain adaptation and intensive annotation, continue to be at the forefront of research effort in the community. The literary studies, which have witnessed substantial progress in the application of NLP methods, bring their own similar problems. Navigating forms of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. A case in point might be the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, the recognition of certain literary devices, or the quantitative analysis of poetry. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) expands the DH toolkit. There is support for automatic text cleaning and annotation, creation of semantic resources, analysis of narrative, genre and literary style, and linking information across sources. LLMs can support historical or low-resource languages, particularly when complemented with domain-specific fine-tuning and careful evaluation. One must note, however, that even with careful adaptation, curation and attention to interpretability, LLM outputs remain prone to errors, biases and lack of transparency; that requires rigorous assessment to ensure their suitability for scholarly research. There is growing emphasis on the importance of explanation in NLP models. That applied equally to DH, whose various domains enjoy the effect of NLP. Transparency and clarity of the results are critical if one is to accept the processed data, and gain valuable insights. That is why one must carefully consider a balance between raw performance scores and interpretability, in keeping with the specific research objectives. For many years now, this broad research context has drawn together NLP experts, data specialists and researchers in Digital Humanities who work in and across their domains. Our long-standing series of workshops has shown that cross-disciplinary exchange supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage communities. It encourages the Computational Linguistics community to build rich, effective tools and, above all, interpretable models. Topics Our workshops attract original work on a wide variety of topics, including – but as usual not restricted to – these: 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; information/knowledge modelling in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage; 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; 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. We will consider long papers, 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 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 <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2026 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. Please keep references to your own work at a reasonable minimum, and do not use anonymous citations. In accordance with the EACL 2026 policy on multiple submission, we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission. During the review period, papers submitted to our workshop cannot also be submitted elsewhere. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Associate Professor Universität des Saarlandes Language Science and Technology Campus A2.2, 1.06 66123 Saarbrücken Tel.: ++49 681 302 70077 E-Mail: s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de www.stefaniadegaetano.com

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LREC 2026: Deadline Extended to October 24, 2025 - Main conference papers, Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by info＠elda.org 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] The submission deadline for LREC 2026 Main conference papers, and workshop and tutorial proposals is extended to October 24, 2025. All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission pages on START * https://softconf.com/lrec2026/main * https://softconf.com/lrec2026/tutorials/ * https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/ All information, including Calls for papers/proposals, can be found on the Conference Website: https://lrec2026.info/ General contact: info(a)lrec2026.info

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026
by ACL Announcements 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

This is a reminder that the deadline to submit tutorial proposals for EACL'26 & ACL'26 is coming soon: October 20, 2025! * Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP: covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP * Introductory tutorials in related fields: offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. More information: https://aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-tutorial-proposals-eaclacl-2026 [1] Links: ------ [1] https://aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-tutorial-proposals-eaclacl-2026

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1st call Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026)
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

**1st CALL FOR PAPERS** 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, and by UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr> Cost Action CA21167 Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026, https://2026.eacl.org/), Rabat, Morocco. Hybrid (on-site & on-line) ******************************************* Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). ******************************************* 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 of MWE 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 (Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024). For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized 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 realized as MWEs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - 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. Co-located Shared tasks The workshop MWE 2026 will host two shared tasks <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> : - PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and - AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), which explores the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of languages. 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=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop). 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>. Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on citing, glossing and translating multilingual examples of MWEs <https://gitlab.com/parseme/pmwe/-/blob/master/Conventions-for-MWE-examples/…> promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book series <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> published by Language Science Press. Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com.

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NEJLT is looking for assistant editors
by Marcel Bollmann 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

NEJLT, the Northern European Journal of Language Technology<https://www.nejlt.org/>, is looking for one or more volunteers to act as assistant editor(s) for the journal. What is NEJLT? NEJLT is a gold open-access journal on language technology and computational linguistics research with a global focus. We explicitly welcome submissions from anywhere in the world and on any language; if a paper would be suitable for a *ACL conference, it is suitable for NEJLT. Papers published in NEJLT also appear on the ACL Anthology. The motivation for NEJLT<https://www.nejlt.org/about/> in its current form is, in a nutshell, to offer an additional publication venue outside the usual conference cycles with a journal-style review process and fast turnaround times. Who is NEJLT looking for? As an assistant editor for NEJLT, your task would be to help with: * finding and contacting suitable action editors when a new submission is made * identifying submissions that require attention from action editors and sending out reminders * checking camera-ready versions before publication * advertising newly published papers on social media Finding, contacting, and recruiting suitable volunteers, such as those who can take over a new submission as action editor, is currently the most time-consuming task and the journal’s biggest bottleneck. All of this is currently handled by me in my role as the elected NEALT editor-in-chief, but after 21 months of running the journal, it is clear to me that NEJLT will not work in its intended form without spreading the load across more people. Therefore, I am looking for motivated volunteers who like to improve the journal’s operations together with me. How active is NEJLT? Between January 1st and September 30th of 2025, NEJLT has handled 18 submissions. Out of these submissions: * 2 are currently still awaiting their first decision * 2 were desk-rejected (wrong template/out of scope) * 2 received a reject decision after reviews * 1 was withdrawn by the authors * 10 received a decision of major or minor edits * 1 was published The average time until a first decision (not counting desk rejections, withdrawn papers, or revisions) in this period was 78.5 days. However, the variance here is rather high: the quickest decision was taken after 39 days, while the longest took 190 days. This is mainly due to delays in assigning action editors and reviewers, and is also the reason I have not more actively advertised the journal in the past two years. I might be interested in volunteering, what do I do? If you are interested in volunteering for NEJLT, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail! I am happy to answer any questions you might have or arrange a Zoom call to discuss this further. Please share this information with anyone who might be interested! You can also share it via this post on our website: https://www.nejlt.org/post/asst-editor-wanted/ Best regards, Marcel Bollmann -- 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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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: 19 December, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, Eindhoven University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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Deadline approaching: Call for Nominations: BCS Search Industry Awards 2025
by Udo Kruschwitz 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

BCS Search Industry Awards 2025 We are delighted to announce this year's Search Industry Awards, celebrating the best search innovations of 2025. Presented by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…>, these awards recognize people, projects, and organisations around the world that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products and services. If you know of any people, projects, or products that deserve recognition, let us know by submitting a nomination. Alternatively, if you're involved with something special yourself, you can submit an application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…> today. Categories This year we are offering four awards: Best Search Project recognises the most impactful implementation of search technology or methodology in solving a specific problem or need. Previous winners include: Datafari Enterprise Search <https://www.datafari.com/en/index.html>, an open-source end-to-end solution covering the needs of enterprise search scenarios Wikiframe Visual Graph <https://wikiframe.library.unlv.edu/>, a search capability for Special Collections data stored on Wikidata CiteSeerX <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/>, one of the largest open-source academic search engines with over 10 million documents Search Professional of the Year is made to an individual who has made a significant contribution through their work and professionalism. Previous winners include: Jayaprakash Sundararaj <https://www.linkedin.com/in/osjayaprakash/>, Lead Engineer at Google Amey Porobo Dharwadker <https://ameydhar.com/>, Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta Adam Tocock <https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/mini-apps/staff/profile/?id=2478>, Library Assistant at NHS Most promising Start-up (or new Enterprise) recognises the innovative and disruptive potential of a business model, technology, or solution. Previous winners include: deepset.ai <http://deepset.ai/>, a leader in framework and platform technology that accelerates AI application development with large language models (LLMs); and the creator of the Haystack open-source framework batteryincluded.ai <http://batteryincluded.ai/>, First BI Product Discovery Framework incl. 3 pillars for highest relevance within global product listings Giotto AI <https://www.giotto.ai/>, an all-in-one platform to automatize, digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a Clinical Evaluation Report Best Presentation at Search Solutions Previous winners include: Taketomo Isazawa, Microsoft Research: “Beyond RAG: Integrating Knowledge with LLMs" Charlie Hull, OSC: “Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid”. Filip Radlinski, Google: “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation” The last award is open only to presenters at Search Solutions, and will be judged on the day of the event. For all others, apply today <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…>! Judging Panel Winners will be selected by our panel of judges (details to be announced shortly). Awards Ceremony The awards ceremony will take place during Search Solutions 2025 <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…>. Apply We’ve designed the application process <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…> to be simple to complete. If you are unsure which category to apply for, or have questions about the application process, contact us via the address below. For further details, see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…> Nominations will remain open until 31st October 2025. Contact If you have any questions on the above, please contact the Awards Chair at udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de <mailto:udo.kruschwitz@ur.de> with a copy to the IRSG Events Organiser at tgr2uk+irsg(a)gmail.com <mailto:tgr2uk+irsg@gmail.com> About IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS <https://www.bcs.org/>. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.

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CFP: MultiPRIDE shared task at EVALITA 2026
by Viviana Patti 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

[apologies for cross-posting] Call for Participation for MultiPRIDE task at EVALITA 2026 <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/> MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Automatic Detection of Reclamation of Slurs in the LGBTQ+ Context - https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ <https://multipride-evalita.github.io/> With this task, we invite researchers, practitioners and students to explore features and issues related to reclaimed language in the LGBTQ+ community. In particular, we suggest participants to focus on both the textual content of the inputs (such as arguments, slurs, denigratory words, self-labeling, figures of speech), and the contextual information that can be inferred from the users’ profile (when available), such as their being part of the LGBTQ+ community. This is a binary classification task, in which systems must classify whether a term related to LGBTQ+ context in a sentence is used with a reclamatory intent or not. We propose two different tasks that can be addressed according to a constrained or unconstrained approach: • Task A - Textual Content: participants are provided only with the textual content of the tweet. • Task B - Contextual Content: in addition to the textual content of the tweet, participants can use contextual information related to the author’s profile, such as their biography (when available). MultiPRIDE is a multilingual task and involves one or more languages among Italian, Spanish and English data. Although not mandatory, participants are encouraged to foster cross-linguistic analysis. Important Dates: • September 29, 2025: release of training data • November 21, 2025: Call for Interest deadline • November 27 – December 4, 2025: evaluation window • December 15, 2025: results to participants • January 9, 2026: submission of participants’ report • February 7, 2026: reviews to participants • February 16, 2026: camera ready • February 26 – 27, 2026: EVALITA workshop (Bari) More details available on MultiPRIDE website https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ <https://multipride-evalita.github.io/> and on Evalita26 website https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/ <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/> If you have any doubts, do not hesitate to write to us at multipride-evalita(a)gmail.com <mailto:multipride-evalita@gmail.com> The MultiPRIDE team

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[2nd CFP]: 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing-2025)
by Khaled Shaalan 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

========================= 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2025), December 6-7, 2025 (Hybrid Conference) Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER Website: https://acling.org/ ========================= ## IMPORTANT DATES ## * Submission deadline: 27 October 2025 * Acceptance Notification: 3 November 2025 * Final Camera-ready submission: 10 November 2025 * Author Registration & Payment: 17 November 2025 * Conference Date: 6-7 December 2025 ========================= ## INTRODUCTION ## The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and application of AI-driven methods in computational linguistics. ACLing welcomes high-quality contributions that address theoretical foundations, novel algorithms, and practical implementations across all dimensions of AI and ML in language technologies. The conference seeks to promote dialogue on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and critical challenges in the field, reflecting the growing importance and societal impact of AI-powered language processing. This year, the conference will be hosted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD), an institution recognized for its dedication to academic excellence, impactful research, and global engagement. BUiD’s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary innovation makes it an ideal venue for this prestigious event. ========================= ## Keynote Speaker# Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, The University of British Columbia, Canada (https://mageed.arts.ubc.ca/) ========================= ## TOPICS ## We welcome submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas: * Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Knowledge and Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Formal Resources for AI * Statistical and Neural Language Modeling * Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces * Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP * Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages * Domain-Specific NLP (e.g., Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, Educational) * Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning * Emotion Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Signal Processing * NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science * Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization * Natural Language Generation, Storytelling, and Creative AI * Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding * Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery * Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI * Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI in Language Technologies * Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications * Responsible and Interpretable AI for Language Understanding * Generative AI: Models, Evaluation, and Emerging Applications * Reinforcement Learning and Prompt Engineering for NLP Tasks * AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages * Human-Centered NLP and User-Aware Language Interfaces * Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability in NLP * AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools This wide-ranging list reflects the dynamic nature of the field and aims to encourage interdisciplinary engagement that advances the frontiers of AI-driven language technologies. ========================= ## Submission Guidelines ## All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published in Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/ Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acling2025 ========================= ## CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ## * Prof. Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt ## INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT (web sources)## ========================= * Abstracting and indexing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig… * Scopus/CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801 * SJR (scimago): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid * ACLing by Google Citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en * ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ## FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS ## ========================= * Visit the conference website link https://acling.org/ (will be updated on a regular basis). * For general information, please contact us at ACLing2025(a)gmail.com or taher.ghazal(a)ieee.org Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan Professor of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Head of Computer Science Department | Head of PhD in Computer Science Program Faculty of Engineering & IT, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE Contact Information: Email: khaled.shaalan(a)buid.ac.ae<mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae> / khaled.shaalan(a)acm.org<mailto:khaled.shaalan@acm.org> Website: khaledshaalan.org<https://www.khaledshaalan.org> University Website: www.buid.ac.ae<http://www.buid.ac.ae> Phone: +971 42791400 D: +971 42791434‎ Dubai International Academic City, Block 10 & 11, 1st and 2nd floor, PO Box: 345015, Dubai, UAE Editorial & Leadership Roles: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian & Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)<http://tallip.acm.org/‎> Founder & Chair, ACLing: International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics<http://www.acling.org%20‎> Honors & Recognition: Top 2% Scientists in AI (Stanford Univ. 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Call for Participation DHASA and RAIL
by Menno Van Zaanen 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

Call for Participation DHASA Conference and RAIL workshop 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za https://sadilar.org/en/rail-2025/ DHASA conference dates: 11 November 2025-14 November 2025 RAIL workshop date: 10 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Registration: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/registration/ DHASA CONFERENCE Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. RAIL WORKSHOP Theme: Language resources in the age of large language models The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. Organising Committees DHASA conference Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research RAIL workshop Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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PolEval 2025 Challenge Has Begun
by Piotr Przybyła 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

📢 PolEval 2025 Challenge Has Begun! We are pleased to announce the launch of the 8th edition of the PolEval competition – an annual evaluation campaign for natural language processing (NLP) tools for Polish. PolEval aims to improve the quality of existing solutions, test new algorithms, and promote linguistic engineering and AI research for the Polish language. Participants are invited to submit their NLP systems to compete in several shared tasks using standardized datasets and evaluation procedures. 🧩 PolEval 2025 Tasks This year’s edition includes the following tasks: - ŚMIGIEL – Spotting Machine-Generated Text from Language Models for Polish <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task1> - Gender-Inclusive LLMs for Polish <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task2> - Polish Language Document Layout Detection <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task3> - Polish Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task4> 📅 Important Dates - Submissions are now open! The deadline for submitting systems is November 10th, 2025. 🏆 Awards and Opportunities Winners of individual tasks will receive awards, and all participants will be invited to: - Present their solutions during Data Science Summit 2025 <https://main.dssconf.pl/>, and - Publish their results in a dedicated PolEval 2025 proceedings volume. 🔗 More Information - Official website: http://poleval.pl/ - Submission platform: https://poleval.amueval.pl/ We kindly invite all researchers, students, and enthusiasts of linguistic engineering to take part and spread the word about PolEval 2025 among potential participants. International participants are welcome, as all the information about the challenge is provided in English. With best regards, Łukasz Kobyliński, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, and the Task Organizers

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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2nd call for papers: EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 April 2026)
by Dimitar Kazakov 11 Oct '25

11 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second call for papers for the 2026 edition of the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) conference, to be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.About the Conference https://evolang2026.org The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) conference series is the leading international forum for researchers investigating the origins and evolution of language. Contributions are invited from all relevant disciplines, including—but not limited to—anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, genetics, linguistics, computational modelling (mathematical, agent-based, and neural-network approaches), palaeontology, physiology, primatology, philosophy, semiotics, and psychology. The 2026 edition of EVOLANG will feature invited talks by Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin, USA), Katie Slocombe (University of York, UK) and Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Italy). Full details: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/invited-speakers EVOLANG 2026 will also host six thematic workshops: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages • AI in Language Evolution • Great-Ape Pragmatics • Swarm Robotics for the Study of Language Emergence • Triangulating Human Diversity through Linguistic, Biological and Socio-Cultural Differences • The Geography of Linguistic Evolution Details: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/workshops . The conference will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria—often described as Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited city, renowned for its rich historical layers and lively cultural scene. Plovdiv offers affordable accommodation and excellent transport links by land and air, including daily low-cost flights to nearby Sofia and direct flights from London, Milan, and Bratislava. Bulgaria is an EU member state, part of the Schengen Area, and is expected to have joined the Eurozone by the time of the conference. 2. Submission Link and Deadline The deadline for submissions to EvoLang XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026) is 26 October 2025 (Anywhere on Earth). Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EVOLANG.org/2026/Conference 3. Submission Guidance Submissions must meet normal standards of academic excellence. Papers should clearly state how they advance the study of language evolution and relate their findings to up-to-date scientific literature. Each submission should articulate: - the substantive claim being made, - the method by which that claim is supported, and - the nature of the relevant data and/or theoretical argument. Empirical studies should be based on completed analyses, not preliminary results. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three experts, and acceptance decisions are based on a scoring scheme that aggregates reviewers’ reports. In recent conferences, the acceptance rate has been around 50%. EVOLANG features both oral and poster presentations. Please read the submission guidelines and consult the templates provided before uploading your paper. Alongside your submission, you will be asked to supply a 150-word summary of your contribution. Submissions that lack clear relevance to the field or that fail to adhere to the formatting requirements may be rejected without review. If you experience any difficulties with the submission system, please contact: scientific-committee(a)evolang.org The conference language will be English, with additional accessibility support in the form of captions. All submission information and templates are available here: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/submission The Evolang 2026 team evolang2026(a)gmail.com Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 - deadline approaching
by Aline Paes 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

*Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026* The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the ACL 2026 and EACL 2026 conferences. We welcome submissions covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for two types of tutorials: * *Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP*: Covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP. * *Introductory tutorials in related fields*: Offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights. Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: * *EACL 2026* (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026. * *ACL 2026* (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026. Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centers EACL and ACL 2026. **Important Dates*EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: * Proposal submission deadline: *October 20, 2025* * Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2025 * Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials one month prior to the date of the tutorial* /All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)./ *Fee Waivers* Up to *3 instructors per tutorial* can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops. *Diversity & Inclusion* To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to *topics promoting diversity* (e.g., working on minority languages or groups), *participation diversity* (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and *representation diversity* among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory [1], Black in AI [2], Disability in AI [3], Indigenous AI [4], LatinX in AI [5], Masakhane [6], 500 Queer Scientists [7], and Women-in-ML’s directory [8]. *Submission Details* 1Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download [9] the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template [10]. Proposals *should not exceed 4 pages of content* (plus one page for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: 1) A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. 2) A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community. 3) Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs ”introductory to fields related to CL/NLP”. 4) Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for the attendees, for example: * Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus” * Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars” * Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron” * Neural Network: e.g., “Familiarity with transformers” * Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix command line tools” 5) An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. 6) Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. 7) Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. 8) Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant. 9) For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. 10) An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. 11) A description of special requirements for technical equipment. 12) We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the case. 13) An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. 14) A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. 15) OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case. 16) OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [11]. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, optionally, by a group of external experts. *Evaluation Criteria* Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion. *Instructor Responsibilities* Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by *Dec 08, 2025*. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide *tutorial materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the start date of the hosting conference*. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed). *Tutorial Chairs* * EACL * Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil * Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK * Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UK * ACL * Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA * Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at eaclacl2026_tutorials [at] googlegroups.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *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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IMPOLS Shared Task at EVALITA 2026
by lorenzo.gregori＠unifi.it 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Dear All, we are happy to announce IMPOLS (IMplicit contents in POLitical Speech) shared task within EVALITA 2026 campaign. IMPOLS website: https://liu-dilef.github.io/IMPOLS-task/ IMPOLS demo video: https://youtu.be/Tu7A1U759FI EVALITA website: https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/ IMPOLS focuses on the automatic recognition of implicit content in political speech. Given an utterance in a context, we ask participants to develop a system capable of detecting and classifying the implicit contents that are non-bona fide true: these are implicit, questionable contents that are not conveyed in good faith but are still understood as true, albeit non-explicitly, within a given context. This kind of content is widely employed in political communication as a strategic tool to convey messages implicitly, thereby enabling the transmission of potentially manipulative content without overt expression. There are three subtasks: 1. a binary detection task, in which the systems are asked to detect the presence of questionable implicit contents in speech excerpts; 2. a binary classification task, in which the systems are asked to discriminate between two types of implicit contents: implicatures and presuppositions; 3. a multiclass classification task, in which the systems have to identify if implicatures are particularized conversational, generalized conversational, or conventional. IMPOLS is a monolingual (Italian) multimodal task: both the speech and the manually revised transcription are provided to the participants in the three subtasks. We encourage participation of teams in one or more subtasks, exploiting textual or multimodal data. Important Dates: -- NOW! Training data available to participants -- 1st December 2025 - 8th December 2025: IMPOLS evaluation window -- 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants -- 9th January 2026: final reports due to task participants -- 16th January 2026: final reports due to task organizers -- 7th February 2026: review deadline -- 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline -- 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy) Organizers and Contacts: -- Lorenzo Gregori (University of Florence), lorenzo.gregori(a)unifi.it -- Walter Paci (University of Florence), walter.paci(a)unifi.it -- Valentina Saccone (University of Florence), valentina.saccone(a)unifi.it

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Help Shape a Mentorship Program for the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
by Agostina Calabrese 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Hi everyone, We’re exploring the creation of a mentorship program for next year’s Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)<https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/>. Our goal is to make WOAH a more welcoming and accessible venue for researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines - not just core NLP or computer science, but also fields such as social sciences, law, psychology, policy, and beyond. To help us design a program that truly supports this diversity, we’d love your input. Whether you might be interested in joining as a mentor, mentee, or just want to share your perspective, please take a minute to fill out this short survey: 👉 WOAH Mentorship Interest Survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kgC1QFL91-uzTl0B5sRQVh9j0zzvgSpu1zdT-zrghP…> Your feedback will help us shape a mentorship initiative that lowers barriers to participation and builds stronger interdisciplinary connections within the WOAH community. Thanks so much for your time and insights! Best, Agostina on behalf of the WOAH organizing team 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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Call for submissions: Social Media Access Days 2026
by Tatjana Scheffler 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Social Media Access Days Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access 17.3.-19.3.2026 Submission deadline: 31.10.2025 Online platforms, especially social media platforms, are both research objects and sources of data for a variety of research approaches in the humanities and social sciences, computer science, and the natural and life sciences. The historical evolution of social media makes them a part of our digital cultural heritage. However, the processes used by institutions to archive and document social media data are still only rudimentary, not least because of their economic, social and aesthetic characteristics and the unique attributes of media technology. Researchers, research institutions and cultural heritage institutions therefore face a wide range of problems in terms of their archiving, indexing and use. Researchers who wish to work with social media data also encounter numerous new challenges, especially when fundamental changes such as the elimination of application programming interfaces (APIs) impact access to specific data from online platforms. The archiving, indexing and use of dynamic data from social media are therefore fraught with problems which researchers, research institutions, libraries and archives have to tackle in a consistent manner. Ideally, solutions to these problems should be developed cooperatively, since this requires extensive effort which would be beyond the scope of a single data community or discipline. The aim of the conference is therefore to enable libraries, archives, infrastructural facilities, research institutions and researchers to network and exchange experiences with archiving and the sustainable use of data and digital objects from social media. We explicitly welcome case studies and presentations on solutions and their practical implementation as well as reports on research findings. We are particularly interested in contributions on the following key topics: • Sustainable infrastructure for collecting and providing access to social media content • Interaction between researchers and archiving institutions • Ethical issues and best practices • Legal issues and solutions • Challenges posed by restrictive data access from social media platforms • Experiences with data access in the context of the Digital Services Act • Status and preservation of social media from an archival and cultural-historical perspective, e.g. posts, interactions, platform elements • Consolidation of collections, corpora, holdings • Metadata, data documentation and indexing social media data • Use of AI & LLMs for data documentation and indexing purposes • Initiatives focusing on archiving and access • Concepts for the provision and use of derivatives (aggregated or derivative formats) from social media • Experiences with the reusability of available data Keynote We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker: Prof Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane). https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/a.bruns Date The conference will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main. The main conference language is German. However, contributions can also be submitted in English. We aim to schedule all English-language presentations together in one day, if possible. Submissions We look forward to receiving your submissions for presentations and your proposals for tutorials, workshops or interactive formats. - Presentations / posters: Please submit your proposals in the form of abstracts containing a maximum of 500 words (plus bibliographies and max. 1 illustration). Contributions can be based on research findings or personal experience and may be presented in German or English. The programme committee will decide which contributions to accept as oral presentations and which as posters. - Further formats: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, themed sessions and other interactive formats should not exceed two pages and should contain the following information: proposed format and realisation, language, target group (potential number of participants), motivation and goals. In addition, please tell us whether you require special technical equipment or facilities. We will then determine how these can be provided on site. Please send your submissions as a PDF document to: twarchiv(a)dnb.deTimeline Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31 October 2025 Response by 30 November 2025 Conference: 17.-19.03.2026 Program Committee Stefan Dietze (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS) Philippe Genêt (German National Library) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum) Claus-Michael Schlesinger (UB der HU Berlin) Katrin Weller (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Britta Woldering (German National Library) Cooperation partners BERD@NFDI German National Library GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences NFDI4DataScience Text+ --- Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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CNRS Research Associate Positions (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle)
by Olivier Bonami 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

The Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle ([http://]www.llf.cnrs.fr, LLF) is seeking to support applications in linguistics and language sciences to Research Associate positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs.fr <http://cnrs.fr/>). CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required. Although CNRS recruits researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application. Located at Université Paris Cité (u-paris.fr <http://u-paris.fr/>), the LLF has about 70 members, including 33 permanent faculty members, working on every subfield of linguistics. In recent years, it has extended its focus from formal and theoretical linguistics to domains such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, dialogue, typology, and Sign language linguistics. The LLF is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants, with an excellent research record and willing to develop a project that would fit the lab's areas of inquiry. The official call for application will be published in early December, 2025 with an application deadline in early January, 2026 (https://carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-competitions-for-researchers-m-f/). Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by the LLF are invited to contact the lab by December 12, sending a CV (including a publication list) and a short description of their research profile to direction.llf(a)listes.u-paris.fr <mailto:direction.llf@listes.u-paris.fr>. Decisions on whether support is granted will be taken by December 19. Heather Burnett Directrice de recherches au CNRS Directrice du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle UMR 7110 - Université Paris Cité & CNRS Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97 Olivier Bonami Professeur de linguistique Université Paris Cité & Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges 8 place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris Bureau 640

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International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2026) in Leuven
by Patrizia Paggio 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

We would like to draw your attention to the 3rd edition of the International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2026), which will be held in Leuven (Belgium) from 9-11 September 2026. http://www.mmsym.org/<http://www.mmsym.org/> The third edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held in Frankfurt am Main (2024) and Barcelona (2023). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of semiotic resources in spoken and signed language. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science. This overarching goal of the symposium is rooted in the conviction that investigating multimodality is key to understanding how language and communication work. For MMSYM 2026, we welcome contributions approaching multimodal communication from different methodological and disciplinary angles. The main topic of this edition of the symposium is “Embodied communication in (inter)action”. We particularly encourage submissions that approach the main theme from one of the following angles: (1) multimodal pragmatics and interaction analysis, (2) (generative) multimodal behavior modelling, (3) creating and sharing sustainable multimodal data, and (4) exploring the interface of gesture and signed language. For MMSYM 2026, we particularly encourage contributions relating to these conference themes but are open for all submissions related to multimodal communication. TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO - Gesture-speech interaction & integration - Prosody-Gesture-coordination - Multimodal language processing - Gesture & sign language interaction - Sequential organization of multimodal behavior in (face-to-face) interaction - Semantics-pragmatics interface & multimodal communication - Multimodal communication & spatial configurations - Kinematics of bodily movements - Multimodal corpus development - Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal data processing - Machine and deep learning techniques applied to multimodal data - Multimodal human-computer interaction and conversational agents - Intercultural aspects of embodied behavior - Multimodal aspects of language acquisition and learning (both L1 and L2) - Multimodal communication disorders and communication support - Multimodal health communication IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submissions welcome from 15th November 2025 - Abstract submission deadline: 1st March 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 3rd April 2026 - Conference dates: 9-11th September 2026 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We are delighted to announce four keynote speakers whose work relates to the main themes of the conference: - Pamela Perniss (Universität zu Köln) - Elisabeth Zima (Universität Zürich) - Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University) - Wim Pouw (Tilburg University) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINES We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for discussion) or posters of original, unpublished work on any aspect of multimodal communication. Abstracts should be written in English and should be submitted via OpenReview.net<http://openreview.net/> (submissions will be welcome starting from 15th November 2025). Please check the website (http://www.mmsym.org/<http://www.mmsym.org/>) with the call for papers, important deadlines and keynote speakers for more details. We hope to welcome you in Leuven for an exciting MMSYM conference! On behalf of the organizers Geert Brône, Bert Oben and Julie Janssens **** Patrizia Paggio Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology paggio(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:paggio@hum.ku.dk> Professor (retired) University of Malta Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology patrizia.paggio(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt> Selected recent publications and upcoming projects: Paggio, P., Mitterer, H., Attard, G., & Vella, A. (2025). Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances? Language and Cognition, 17, e54. doi:10.1017/langcog.2025.20 MultiplEYE DK - Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection - Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-stoettet/cf24-2005/

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Postdoc position: Text Simplification + Machine Translation for Horizon Europe project, Barcelona, Spain
by Horacio Saggion 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

We are hiring: Postdoctoral position to carry out research and development in the areas of (i) multilingual text simplification and (ii) multilingual and multicultural machine translation relying on state-of-the-art deep neural models and architectures (LLMs). The work is to be carried out in the context of the Horizon Europe project IDEAL (Inclusive Democratic Engagement and Language Technologies in Europe) which addresses several languages. TALN group, Department of Engineering, Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona, Spain How to apply: https://lnkd.in/dpssFU7a TALN: https://lnkd.in/ePKttcZX Department: https://lnkd.in/dGEWbHsb UPF: https://www.upf.edu/ -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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[Deadline Extension] 3rd Workshop on AI for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Tirthankar Ghosal 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

****Call for Papers WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025**** *https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/ <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/>* Building on the success of the First Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and the Second WIESP at IJCNLP-AACL 2023, the Third Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025 aims to establish itself as a pivotal platform for promoting discussions and research in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This gathering will bring together esteemed experts and renowned organizations with students and early-career researchers who are interested and invested in efforts to extract and mine the world’s scientific knowledge from research papers. Their collaboration will be focused on developing advanced algorithms, models, and tools that will lay the foundation for future machine comprehension of scientific literature. The third iteration of WASP will specifically concentrate on various topics related to Artificial Intelligence research for scientific publications: ****Topics (not limited to)**** - *Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction* - *Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification* - *Citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining* - *Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis* - *Scientific article summarization and headline generation* - *Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature* - *Prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for science Q&A* - *Chain-of-thought reasoning and scientific problem-solving with LLMs* - *LLM-powered information extraction from scientific texts* - *Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora* - *Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding* - *AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation* - *Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing* - *Large Language Reasoning Models for Scientific Discovery* - *LLM hallucinations and impact on scientific knowledge, publications* - *Challenges, Future of AI in Scientific Publishing* - *AI, Peer Review, and Scientific Publishing* - *Impact of Generative AI on Scientific Publishing* *In addition to papers, WASP will also host a shared task. * ****Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared (TRACS)**** https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/shared_task We will publish a separate CfP on the shared task. Shared task authors will be invited to write their system descriptions, which will then undergo light peer review. All accepted papers and shared task system papers will be published in the WASP proceedings as part of IJCNLP-AACL 2025 and indexed in the ACL Anthology. ****Important Dates**** - *NEW Paper submission deadline (WASP): October 13, 2025* - *ARR commitment deadline: October 27, 2025* - Notification of paper acceptance (WASP+TRACS): November 3, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline (WASP+TRACS): November 11, 2025 - Workshop: December 23, 2025 (hybrid) - All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) ****Paper Submission Site**** *https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WASP <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WASP>* Submission will be via OpenReview. Submissions should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines and use the provided template files. Paper formatting guidelines - ACLPUB <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> Submissions (Long and Short Papers) will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. We follow the same policies as IJCNLP-AACL 2025 regarding anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Please reach out to the organizers (cc'ed) for any queries. Thank you! -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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First Call for Papers : Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗦’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS’2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: - 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 - Content Legitimacy and Quality - Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language - Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety - Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders - Monitoring extremist fora - Suicide prevention - Clickbait and scam detection - Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions - Social engineering identification, phishing detection - NLP for risk assessment - Controlled languages for safe messages - Prevention of malicious use of ai models - Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks - 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security - 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 - Text-Based Anomaly Detection - Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data - Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis - Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats - Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text - 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Systems Security - Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity - Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks - Authentication and access control - Enterprise-level mitigation - NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis - Analysing code and scripts for malware - Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code - 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics - 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Ethical and Legal Issues - Digital privacy and identity management - The ethics of NLP and speech technology - Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools - Legislation against malicious use of AI - Regulatory issues - Bias and Security - Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) - Bias in security related datasets and annotations - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤s - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 - 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘓𝘔𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: • Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • LLMs for forensic linguistics • Bias in LLMs • Safety benchmarks for LLMs • Legislation against malicious use of LLMs • Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs • Methods to enhance the robustness of language models 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available in the Second Call for Papers due in October 2025. The conference will feature a student workshop and awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Submissions due: 16 March 2026 • Reviewing process: 1 April – 30 April 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 • Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 • Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 • Conference: 11-12 June 2026 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚏̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚌̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ ̲ Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) 𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚙̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚜̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚒̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚝̲𝚞̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚆̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚔̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 𝙱̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚊̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚛̲ ̲𝙰̲𝚠̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚍̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚢̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚘̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚊̲𝚕̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in February 2026. Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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3rd call, training data ready: UniDive shared tasks on idiomaticity and multiword expressions
by Agata Savary 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

**3rd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** Two peas in a pod:PARSEME 2.0 and AdMiRe 2.0 multilingual UniDive shared tasks on idiomaticity and multiword expressions https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st… <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> Expression of interest: https://forms.gle/rwSfUmNR1sTsHDfx6 <https://forms.gle/rwSfUmNR1sTsHDfx6> ==================================================================== The UniDive COST Action <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>is happy to announce ADMIRE 2 and the PARSEME 2.0 shared tasks dedicated to detecting and interpreting idiomaticity and multiword expressions(MWEs). MWEs are groups of words that have non-compositional semantics, i.e. their meanings cannot be straightforwardly deduced from the meanings of their components. For instance, a bad appleis a person who has a bad influence on others. Both shared tasks will take place together and we hope to co-organise the workshop with SIGLEX-MWE section <https://multiword.org/>and co-locate it with EACL 2026 in Morocco(24-29 March 2026). The participating teams are to submit the results of their systems on CodaBench <https://www.codabench.org/>. The submission links will be published at the same time as the test data. We are delighted to confirm that UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>will provide funding <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…>for selected system presenters. Important dates ----------------- * [1 OCTOBER] Training data and baseline systems released * [3 DECEMBER] Publication of test blind data * [8 DECEMBER] Submission of system predictions * [19 DECEMBER] Systems evaluated * [5 JANUARY] Submission deadline for system description papers * [9-23 JANUARY] Reviewing period (system teams will participate as reviewers) * [3 FEBRUARY] Submission deadline for camera-ready papers * [24-29 MARCH 2026] EACL, including the MWE workshop(to confirm) PARSEME 2.0is a shared task whose main objective is to identify and paraphrase multiword expressions (MWEs) in written text. We propose two subtasks: the first corresponds to the classical identification task in running text. The second consists in paraphrasing a sentence containing a MWE, so as to remove idiomaticity. Data annotation is finished and 17 languages are covered: Dutch, Egyptian (ca. 2700-2000 BC), French, Georgian, Greek (Ancient), Greek (Modern), Hebrew, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, and Ukrainian. Subtask 1 is on MWEs identification and Subtask 2 on paraphrasing MWEs. AdMIRe 2.0 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation) addresses the challenge of multilingual and multimodal idiomatic language understanding by evaluating how well models interpret potentially idiomatic expressions (PIEs) across languages and across modalities using both text and images. This new edition extends the AdMIRe 1 task <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.15358>adding more languages from the UNIDIVE network and beyond. Given a context sentence containing a PIE and a set of five images, the task is to rank the images based on how accurately they depict the meaning of the PIE used in that sentence. The task will be zero-shot for newly introduced languages. While the task is designed to encourage participation from teams working on multilingual and multimodal technologies, it also accommodates approaches focused only on a subset of the languages and on a single modality (text) with automatically generated descriptive captions for each image, allowing models to rely exclusively on text input if desired. Data ----------------- * Training data for AdMiRe 2.0: https://semeval2025-task1.github.io/data/training/training_data.html <https://semeval2025-task1.github.io/data/training/training_data.html> * Training data for PARSEME 2.0: https://gitlab.com/parseme/sharedtask-data/-/tree/master/2.0 <https://gitlab.com/parseme/sharedtask-data/-/tree/master/2.0> Organizing team --------------- PARSEME 2.0: * Manon Scholivet, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Takuya Nakamura, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Agata Savary, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Éric Bilinski, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille Université, LIS, FR ADMIRE 2 : * Adriana Pagano <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1YAGKjWKddhtqiA-9wwpTzBrRHqMWqraLLDCi63yoSQPHp…>, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BR * Aline Villavicencio <https://secure-web.cisco.com/17hRYtc48CxUTuQ_Lm5LvtIDhREp6JpTTNFu3smb4Yyjp1…>, University of Exeter, UK * Dilara Torunoğlu Selamet <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1U3Kz5oRS8032U7C3ikqTwLrLuHnRujaiXILauGPxfilqd…>, Istanbul Technical University, TR * Doğukan Arslan <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1iCwzaJ-FPO1KSa7r0luNlHcUTrCy6K9Wm8I3pk9d_-iG8…>, Istanbul Technical University, TR * Gülşen Eryiğit <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1nP_yCeZKo55vzyCSp6J79GtmP_8EODYLoOnic4AHIQmdV…>, Istanbul Technical University, TR * Rodrigo Wilkens <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1zTIs9aO7VfKy_Sg1CYj8xiCPOZhZHkSPR2xYyMQE456pF…>, University of Exeter, UK * Tom Pickard <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1AbiBJ6cGhN9SrjpkIlBYQeo08-8YJIDUds7Qfs3H5_KpL…>, University of Sheffield, UK * Wei He <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1HrUa3BUU6pl9p4Ia2mMqmEqrPU834VAhFFDUvAV6PbjrP…>, University of Exeter, UK

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Shared task for spontaneous speech ASR
by Robert Pugh 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Mozilla Data Collective (the new platform where Mozilla Common Voice datasets, among other datasets, are hosted) just kicked off a Shared Task on Spontaneous Speech ASR. It targets 21 underrepresented languages (from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia), brand-new datasets, and prizes for the best systems in each task. For more information, visit https://community.mozilladatacollective.com/shared-task-mozilla-common-voic… Robert Pugh Senior Community Manager mozillafoundation.org (UTC-7)

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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ The LIFT 2 research group is happy to announce the forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics. The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc - 2025/10/15 16:30-17:30 UTC+2: *Noga Zaslavsky* (New York University) Title: *Cultural evolution of efficient semantic systems in humans and AI* Abstract: *Human languages efficiently compress meanings into words, but how did our semantic systems evolve to be that way? Are AI systems capable of evolving efficient semantic systems and representing meaning as we do? In this talk, I address these open questions from cognitive, cultural, and computational perspectives. First, I show that individual human learners favor efficiently compressed semantic representations. This inductive learning bias, when amplified via cultural transmission, drives the evolution of near-optimally efficient semantic systems. Second, I consider large language models (LLMs) and show that while they vary widely in their semantic alignment with humans, they nevertheless exhibit a similar tendency toward efficient compression: when simulating cultural evolution with LLMs, they iteratively restructure initially random semantic systems towards greater efficiency. Finally, I show that introducing an explicit pressure for efficient compression, grounded in the information bottleneck principle, enables multi-agent reinforcement learning systems to evolve efficient, human-like semantic systems without any human supervision. Taken together, these results demonstrate how humans and AI can evolve efficient semantic systems through social interaction and cultural transmission, and more broadly, they suggest that efficient compression may be a fundamental principle of intelligence.* - 2025/11/26 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Ece Takmaz* (Utrecht University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2025/12/17 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Ethan Wilcox* (Georgetown University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2026/01/21 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Gemma Boleda* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2026/03/18 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Adele Goldberg* (Princeton University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA]

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Deadline Extension – International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue (IWSDS) 2026 (Trento, Italy)
by Giuseppe Riccardi 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026) has been extended: 📅 Important Dates (Extended): 📝 Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → October 22, 2025 🔄 Paper Update Deadline: October 18 → October 28, 2025 ✅ Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 🎤 Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026 We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers, industry track papers, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology. This year’s theme is: 🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models” Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social --- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering University of Trento Room D206, via Sommarive 5 38123 Povo di Trento, Italy Home Page: http://disi.unitn.it/~riccardi/

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Release of the massive HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset
by Andrey Kutuzov 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

October is back and so are HPLT datasets (we've been doing this for three consecutive years now!) This time, we announce the release of the massive HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset which can be considered a major upgrade for large-scale multilingual corpora. Accounting for 29 billion documents, 198 language-script combinations and 112 trillion characters, v3.0 shows significant gains over v2, driven by several improvements, including a new global deduplication process: - Unique content boosted from 52% to 73% on average. - Data substance and robustness remains high with better extraction and improved language identification. - Shows increased variety and better representativeness of natural web content. This release provides a cleaner, more robust dataset for building powerful LLMs and machine translation systems, including a myriad of low- to medium-resourced languages. And we have not said our last word: wait for more data soon because we are already working on it. Special thanks to all the collaborators and funding bodies, including the European Union's Horizon Europe program and UK Research and Innovation. Explore the data and see the full analysis and evaluation highlights on our website: https://hplt-project.org/datasets/v3.0 -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Online talks Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2025
by PASCUAL FRANCISCO PEREZ PAREDES 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We are sharing the following details about the online event Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2025, hosted by the University of Murcia from 3 to 27 November 2025. This year’s talks will focus on the impact of AI on corpus linguistics. Speakers: * Dr Lisa Cheung, The University of Hong Kong, & Dr Peter Crosthwaite, The University of Queensland — 3 Nov * Prof Qing Ma, The Education University of Hong Kong — 11 Nov * Prof Laurence Anthony, Waseda University — 25 Nov * Prof Atsushi Mizumoto, Kansai University, Osaka — 27 Nov Info: https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/clresearch2025/ The talks will take place via ZOOM at 11:00 a.m. (Madrid) / 5:00 p.m. (Hong Kong). Registration link: https://umurcia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NAQ8nFTgSCO2obOFNNgc1A#/registr… For this edition, attendees who request it will receive a certificate of participation. Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2025 is organized by the University of Murcia research group E020-07 “Lenguajes de especialidad, corpus lingüísticos y lingüística inglesa aplicada a la ingeniería del conocimiento”, with support from the Faculty of Arts, the Department of English Philology at the University of Murcia, and The Education University of Hong Kong. Follow updates on X: @languagecorpora Watch talks from previous editions: https://www.youtube.com/@corporaappliedlinguistics8358/playlists Kind regards from the organizing committee, Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf

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1st CfP: 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26)
by Andrey Kutuzov 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** First Call for Papers: 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 📌 Website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-eacl-lchange/ 📧 Contact: lchange(a)changeiskey.org == About the Workshop == The LChange workshop brings together researchers interested in computational modeling of language change — both historical and synchronic. Following the success of LChange in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, this sixth edition will be held as a hybrid half-day workshop at EACL 2026 conference in Rabat. We welcome contributions addressing all aspects of computational approaches to language change. Our goal is to foster dialogue on state-of-the-art computational methodologies, resources, and theories that explore the dynamic, time-varying nature of language. In addition to paper presentations and keynotes, we offer a mentorship program for students to engage with experienced researchers, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. == Important Dates (tentative) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 == Submission Information == We accept the following types of submissions: - Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) - Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references). Dataset and model release papers should be submitted as short papers. Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. == Review Process == Papers must be submitted anonymously. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. Call for reviewers: If you have published in the field previously and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please email us at lchange(a)changeiskey.org! == Topics of Interest == We invite original research papers on (but not limited to): - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language == Organizers == Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, UC Berkeley, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Netta Huebscher, University of Gothenburg Elena Spaziani, Sapienza University of Rome Naomi Baes, University of Melbourne -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Multimodal AI @ Queen’s University Belfast, UK
by Mohammed Hasanuzzaman 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear Colleagues, We are looking for a PhD student in Multimodal AI for Proactive Herd Health and Dairy Farm Management (CLÁR Project) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. This fully funded PhD studentship is supported by SUSTAIN (https://www.sustain-cdt.ai/), the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Understandable agri-food Systems Transformed by Artificial Intelligence. SUSTAIN empowers the next generation of AI scientists to invent, develop, and deploy technologies co-created with growers and agri-food practitioners, facilitating meaningful partnerships between academia and industry. The successful candidate will work with our multidisciplinary supervisory team and our industry partner, CattleEye, gaining access to global real-world data and industry expertise. This project offers a unique opportunity to develop a skill set in AI applied to globally significant sustainability challenges in dairy farming. If you have a background in NLP, Data Science, ML/DL, or Computer Vision and are motivated to apply your expertise to real-world sustainability challenges in agriculture, this could be a fantastic opportunity for you. [??] Location: Queen’s University Belfast, UK [??] Eligibility: Open to students worldwide [??] Funding: Fully funded PhD studentship (tuition fees, tax-free stipend, Research Training Support Grant, and additional development support) [??] Deadline: Friday, October 17, 2025 [??] More details: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/project-q3138-cl-r-multimodal-ai-for-… For enquiries, contact m.hasanuzzaman(a)qub.ac.uk<mailto:m.hasanuzzaman@qub.ac.uk> with your CV. Best, M [https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=83b4a8df94&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg…]

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PhD position in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (LIACS, Leiden University)
by Plaza del Arco, F.M. (Flor Miriam) 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We are looking for a PhD candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing at LIACS, Leiden University<https://liacs.leidenuniv.nl/>. The PhD will be supervised by myself, Prof. Suzan Verberne<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/suzan-verberne#tab-1>, and Prof. Joost Broekens<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/joost-broekens#tab-1>. The position is part of the Human-AI cluster<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/computer-science/research/huma…>, a great environment for interdisciplinary research where AI and machine learning meet philosophy, cognitive science, and the creative arts. This PhD position focuses on advancing AI models that don’t just optimize for accuracy, but also recognize and respond to emotions responsibly and adapt to social context. Current systems often reproduce or amplify social biases, generate toxic context, or do not respond safely to emotional cues. The goal of this PhD is to design AI systems that promote inclusivity, fairness, and emotional intelligence in human-AI interaction, with a particular focus on applications in mental well-being, education, and other socially sensitive contexts where how AI interacts with people has a big impact. The deadline to apply is November 17, 2025. Details on the position and the application procedure can be found in the job ad: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2025/q4/16038-phd-candidate-… Please send me an email if you have any questions regarding the position. Best regards, Flor Plaza ------------------------------------------------ Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Human AI Leiden University Office: BM 3.03, Gorlaeus Gebouw – BE-vleugel Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, Netherlands 🌐 Website<https://fmplaza.github.io/> | 🦋 BlueSky<http://florplaza.bsky.social/>

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Research Internship Opportunities (Master) – TALN Team, LS2N (Nantes Université)
by Florian Boudin 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

The TALN team (Natural Language Processing (https://taln.ls2n.fr/) of the LS2N laboratory (https://www.ls2n.fr/, Nantes Université) is offering 5 research internships at the Master 2 level (duration: 5 to 6 months), starting in February 2026. These internships will take place within the research themes of the team on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for specialized domains, in particular healthcare and science, with a focus on the study and adaptation of large language models (LLMs). Possible topics include: - Study and evaluation of LLMs in limited contexts (specialized data, constrained domains); - Recommendation and navigation systems to explore the scientific literature; - Text revision and scientific writing assistance tools; - Verification of claims in scientific articles, including text/image multimodality (in collaboration with the IPI team); - Clinical text analysis for estimating patient autonomy score. Candidate profile: Master’s students in computer science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning, or related fields, with solid programming skills (Python) and a strong interest in research. Contacts: - Florian Boudin - florian.boudin(a)inria.fr - Richard Dufour - richard.dufour(a)univ-nantes.fr

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WoLaLa 2025 is approaching
by Enikő Héja 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

The date of WoLaLa 2025 (1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models), an international, English-language workshop conference, is approaching. The event is organized by the Research Centre for Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and will take place in Budapest on November 20–21, 2025. Invited keynote speakers: · Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen, Germany) · Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy) · András Kornai (HUN-REN SZTAKI & BME, Hungary) The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research at the intersection of linguistics and artificial intelligence, highlighting the latest results and challenges. Registration fees: · Early registration (until October 6, 2025): 70,000 HUF · Standard registration (after October 6): 85,000 HUF · Non-academic / industry participants: 100,000 HUF For the workshop website, detailed program, and registration form, please visit: 👉 https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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Call for Papers: WSLP 2025 – Workshop on Sign Language Processing
by keren.artiaga＠adaptcentre.ie 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

🚨 Call for Papers: WSLP 2025 – Workshop on Sign Language Processing 🚨 We are excited to announce the Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2025), co-located with IJCNLP–AACL 2025, to be held at Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India on December 24th, 2025. 🌏 This one-day event will provide a dedicated forum to present and discuss advances in sign language processing and translation, with a focus on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages. Alongside paper presentations, WSLP 2025 will feature shared tasks and invited talks by leading researchers. 🔑 Important Links 📌 Workshop Website: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP 📄 CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WSLP 📝 ARR Commitment: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WSLP_A… 📚 Shared Tasks: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP/task/ 💬 Discord (Workshop): https://discord.gg/jP7j4NmUE4 💬 Discord (Shared Task): https://discord.gg/su2rRxSjkY 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): October 28, 2025 ARR Commitment Deadline: Oct 27, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: Nov 3, 2025 Camera-Ready Papers Due: Nov 11, 2025 Workshop: Dec 24, 2025 🔍 Topics of Interest (But not limited to) Low-resource & underrepresented sign languages Continuous & gloss-free SLT Multilingual, cross-modal & zero-shot SLT Cultural & dialectal variation in sign Language Corpus creation, fairness, ethics & real-world applications 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Shared Tasks at WSLP 2025 Indian Sign Language to English Translation Isolated Sign (Gloss) Recognition Word Presence Prediction in Sign Videos 📢 We strongly encourage submissions that focus on underrepresented sign languages and communities.

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Call for Papers - 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

Call for Papers | ACM WebSci’26 May 21-24, 2026 | TU Braunschweig | https://websci26.org/ Important Dates * December 10, 2025: Paper submission * February 4, 2026: Notification * February 28, 2026: Camera-ready versions due * May 26-29, 2026: Conference dates About the Web Science Conference Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society and vice versa. The interdisciplinary field is well situated to address pressing issues of our time by incorporating various scientific approaches. We welcome quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, including techniques from the social sciences and computer science. In addition, we are interested in work exploring Web-based data collection, research ethics, and emerging methods. We also encourage studies that combine analyses of Web data and other types of data (e.g., from surveys or interviews) to help better understand user behavior online and offline. Theme for Web Science 2026: Managing Risks in the Era of Generative AI - How 20 Years of Web Science Research Can Help Web content is influencing human experiences more than ever before. The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence (including large language models) has created new risks for humans in the digital environment. These risks include customly crafted misinformation at scale, realistic AI-generated harmful content and deepfakes, as well as fraudulent activities and scams becoming more effective thanks to AI. Trust and community have been eroded during this current era of the Web, and researching means to manage these risks on the Web is as essential as ever. The Web Science community has looked at this complex socio-technical system for 20 years, exploring its structure, dynamics, and impact on society. This year’s conference especially encourages contributions investigating the risks for society on the web in the presence of artificial intelligence. Additionally, we welcome papers on a wide range of topics at the heart of Web Science. In 2026, we will also be able to allocate a limited amount of funding for student travel provided by SIGWEB and WebIST. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Understanding the Web Trends in globalization and fragmentation of the Web The architecture, philosophy, and evolution of the Web Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web The interrelationship between the structure of the web and social behavior Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies The spread of large models on the web Making the Web Inclusive Issues of discrimination and fairness Intersectionality and design justice in questions of marginalization and inequality Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people on the Web Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity, security, and trust Inclusion, literacy, and the digital divide Human-centered security and robustness on the Web The Web and Everyday Life Social machines, crowd computing, and collective intelligence Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation Legal and policy issues, including rights and accountability for the AI industry The creator economy: Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web Politics and social activism on the Web Relationships, organization, and social interaction on the Web Online education and remote learning Health and well-being online Social presence in online professional event spaces The Web as a source of news and information Doing Web Science Data curation, Web archives, and stewardship in Web Science Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of information Analysis and modeling of human and automatic behavior (e.g., bots) Analysis of online social and information networks Detecting, preventing, and predicting anomalies in Web data (e.g., fake content, spam) Novel analysis techniques for Web and social network analysis Recommendation engines and contextual adaptation for Web tasks Web-based information retrieval and information generation Supporting heterogeneity across modalities, sensors, and channels on the Web. User modeling and personalization approaches on the Web. Format of the submissions Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci26 There are two submission formats: Full paper should be between 6 and 10 pages (including references, appendices, etc.). Full papers typically report on mature and completed projects. Short papers should be up to 5 pages (including references, appendices, etc.) and primarily report on high-quality ongoing work that is not mature enough for a full-length publication. All papers should adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM template, either in Microsoft Word format (available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template under “Word Authors”) or with the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf platform, which is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner…. In particular, please ensure that you are using the two-column version of the appropriate template. All contributions will be judged by the Program Committee by at least three referees based on rigorous peer review standards for quality and fit for the conference. Additionally, each paper will be assigned to a Senior Program Committee member to ensure review quality. WebSci-2026 review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the author(s )' names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. References to the authors’ own prior relevant work should be included, but should not specify that this is the authors’ own work. It is up to the authors’ discretion how much to further modify the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for anonymity does not extend outside the review process, e.g., the authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers over the Internet. Even in cases where the author’s identity is known to a reviewer, the double-blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the importance of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits without regard to the author’s reputation. Authors who wish to opt out of publication proceedings will be given this option upon acceptance. This will encourage the participation of researchers from the social sciences who prefer to publish their work as journal articles. All authors of accepted papers (including those who opt out of proceedings) are expected to present their work at the conference. ACM Publication Policies 1. By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip…>. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy. 2. Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID<https://orcid.org/register> to complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start, and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors<https://authors.acm.org/author-resources/orcid-faqs>. The collection process started in 2022 and will be a requirement. We are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution, and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts. 3. For guidelines on the use of generative AI tools, please refer to https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions Important update on ACM's new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences! Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access (https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess). Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open must pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions<https://libraries.acm.org/acmopen/open-participants> in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/policy-on-open-access-apc-waivers…>. Remember that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: $250 APC for ACM/SIG members $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount<https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess>, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. You can find an FAQ here: <https://www.acm.org/publications/open-access-model-for-acm-and-sig-sponsore…> Open Access Model for ACM and SIG Sponsored Conferences: Frequently Asked Questions<https://www.acm.org/publications/open-access-model-for-acm-and-sig-sponsore…>, and more information here: <https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess> Open Access Publication & ACM<https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess> Program Committee Chairs: Gianluca Demartini (The University of Queensland, Australia) Stefan Dietze (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf & GESIS, Germany) Jen Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA) For any questions and queries regarding the paper submission, please contact the chairs at websci26(a)easychair.org<mailto:websci26@easychair.org>. <https://t63605f96.emailsys1a.net/91/8138/3f626b8c5a/subscribe/form.html?_g=…>

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PhD positions in the Corpling lab at Georgetown University: Discourse Structure, Corpus Resources, Low-Resource NLP and Digital Humanities
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

The Corpling lab <https://gucorpling.org/corpling/> in the Department of Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/> at Georgetown University (Washington, DC), directed by Amir Zeldes <https://gucorpling.org/amir/> , is looking for qualified candidates for a PhD in Computational Linguistics, to start in Fall 2026. Applicants will be most competitive for the PhD program if they have prior experience in Linguistics, Computer Science, or a related field; are proficient in basic programming; and articulate a clear area of research specialization that they wish to pursue, which aligns with research at the lab. Georgetown also offers a 2-year MS in Computational Linguistics for students wishing to gain a foundation in the field. The application deadline for the PhD program is December 1, 2025 – see details here: � https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/programs/apply/ � The lab focuses on research about computational models of discourse, annotated corpus resource creation and Natural Language Processing, especially for low-resource languages and applications in the Digital Humanities. Some recent research topics have included: � * Understanding relative salience in discourse using LLMs * Modeling discourse relations expressing causality, argumentation and temporality * The study of different types of anaphoric relations between entities and events * Creating and benchmarking models for multilingual discourse understanding * Building datasets and tools for under-resourced and historical languages (especially for Coptic <https://copticscriptorium.org/> ) � For more on our research see the lab’s website and Amir’s homepage linked above. � Students in the Computational Linguistics program benefit from a range of courses in NLP and computational modeling techniques, as well as foundational courses in Linguistics. Applicants must hold at least a bachelor’s degree by Fall 2026. PhD students in the Department (domestic as well as international) benefit from a 5-year funding package including a stipend, tuition scholarship and health insurance. For questions please contact amir.zeldes(a)georgetown.edu <mailto:amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu> . �

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PhD position in Language Technology at the University of Helsinki
by Jauhiainen, Tommi S 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

Dear all, We are seeking a researcher with a background in Language Technology, Machine Learning, or Language Typology who is interested in automatic classification and analysis of hundreds of languages to undertake a PhD project exploring Unseen Languages in Language Identification. For further information, see the job posting at: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/4438/ Cheers, Tommi — Tommi Jauhiainen Academy Research Fellow Department of Digital Humanities University of Helsinki https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/tommi-jauhiainen

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[Last CFP] QuantumNLP Workshop @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Dr. Partha Pakray 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

Dear All, [Last CFP]: * "**QuantumNLP: Integrating Quantum Computing with Natural Language Processing"** Workshop under **IJCNLP-AACL 2025** Conference* *(with our apologies for cross-posting)* *Under:* IJCNLP-AACL 2025 *Date:* December 23-24, 2025 (tentative) *Venue:* Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India *Website:* http://qnlp.in/ *Main Conference:* https://www.afnlp.org/conferences/ijcnlp2025/ *Submission Portal:* OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/Quantu…> *Submission Deadline:* October 15, 2025 ** Call for Papers ** The *QuantumNLP 2025 Workshop* aims to bridge the gap between NLP and Quantum Machine Learning (QML). It will offer insights into foundational principles, practical tools, and the latest advancements in hybrid quantum-classical NLP models. We invite original research papers, work-in-progress, and case studies in areas such as: - Quantum word embeddings and language model - Quantum-enhanced sequence modeling (e.g., QRNN, QLSTM) - QuantumNLP on NISQ devices - Quantum-inspired optimisation and multimodal AI - Hybrid quantum-classical architectures for NLP - Quantum AI - Quantum NLP - Quantum ML - Variational Quantum Circuits - Quantum-Inspired Optimisation - any other topic that is related to Quantum Selected papers will be published in the *ACL Anthology*. We welcome *original research papers*, *work-in-progress*, and *industry case studies*. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected contributions will be invited for presentation. The proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. *Submission Link (Login in OpenReview First): * https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/Quantu… ** Organizers* * - *Partha Pakray*, National Institute of Technology Silchar, partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in - *Santanu Pal*, Wipro AI Lab 45, santanu.pal.ju(a)gmail.com - *Sivaji Bandyopadhyay*, Jadavpur University, sivaji.cse.ju(a)gmail.com - *Priyanka Jain*, CDAC Delhi, priyankaj(a)cdac.in - *Asif Ekbal*, IIT Patna, asif(a)iitp.ac.in ** Invited speaker ** - *Prof. **Hachem Kadri*, Aix-Marseille University, France ** Contact ** For questions, please send an email to *partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in <partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in>*.

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 03 Oct '25

03 Oct '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are happy to announce that 1 new lexicon and 1 new evaluation package are available in our catalogue. *Arab Full Names Database <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0209/>*** ISLRN: 548-506-480-213-6 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/548-506-480-213-6> This database consists of over six million Arab Full Names comprising real people Arabic names (not foreign names), including phonological data such as romanization and optional vowel diacritics, as well as English equivalents. If heteronyms (same spelling, different pronunciations, like Muhammad and Muhammid) are included, the number of entries is approximately 43.9 million. *MiLQ: Mixed-Language Query Test Set for Bilingual Web Search – Evaluation Package <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-E0047/>*** ISLRN:200-586-423-805-2 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/200-586-423-805-2> MiLQ is a benchmark of mixed-language (code-switched) search queries created by bilingual speakers for evaluating Information Retrieval with mixed-language queries. It provides query versions where English expressions are embedded within native-language structures for the following languages: Swahili, Somali, Finnish, German, French, Chinese, Persian and Russian. For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us* <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the *ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources* <http://catalog.elra.info> *Archives * <https://www.elra.info/catalogues/language-resources-announcements/>of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Papers to the Research Track
by Announce 03 Oct '25

03 Oct '25

*** Last Call for Papers to the Research Track *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The 33rd edition of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2026) invites high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM Applied to Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering of Software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Security, Safety, Reliability and Quality Analysis; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human Factors and Legal Aspects in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Empirical Studies in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Education and Training in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). Important Note: The Research Track follows a double-anonymous review process. Please refer to the conference website for more details. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> PAPERS INVOLVING AI AND ML Papers involving AI or ML must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI- or ML- intensive software systems (see also "Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective", 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Papers involving AI or ML must explicitly explain how they address a software engineering problem. Papers not meeting these criteria may be more suitable for AI- or ML-focused venues instead. Papers that do not clearly explain how they address a software engineering problem or don't meet the above criteria will be desk-rejected. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of selected research papers accepted at SANER 2026 will be invited to submit revised, extended versions of their manuscripts for a special issue featured by Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers from the conference will be awarded. IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Research Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 9 October, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 16 October, 2025 • Notifications: 9 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 9 January, 2026 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 - London, 26 Nov
by Udo Kruschwitz 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

Search Solutions 2025 Wednesday 26 November 2025, London Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s (BCS IRSG) annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval (IR). We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the IR community and to share insights between research and practice. The event consists of a Tutorial day (25 November) and a Conference day (26 November), each of which has a separate registration.The conference day includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. 09:30 - 09:50 Registration and coffee 09:50 - 10:00 Introduction We will then have a full day of talks and discussion. The detailed programme will be announced soon but here is the list of confirmed speakers so far: * Alessandro Benedetti (Sease) “Search Quality Evaluation in the Era of Large Language Models: RRE-Dataset Generator” * Jon Brassey (TRIP) “Harnessing AI for Faster, Smarter Clinical Decision Support: The Evolution of Trip Database” * Gianna Cipponeri “Evaluating Citation Quality and Context Faithfulness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Product-Specific Framework” * Mark Harwood (Ex Elastic Developer) “Plasticine Not Porcelain: Shaping Embeddings Through Interactive Clustering” * Orland Hoeber (University of Regina) “Support Human Intelligence – An Alternative to Retrieval Augmented Generation in Academic Digital Library Search” * Marianne Lykke (Aalborg University) “Role of metadata and taxonomies in professional contexts” * Sean MacAvaney (University of Glasgow) “Re-thinking re-ranking” * Adam Roegiest (Zuva) “Information Retrieval Evaluation in the Real-World: A Legal Tech Perspective” * Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) “Adding GenAI to Datafari Community Edition - what and why” 16:30 - 17:15 PANEL SESSION 17:15 - 17:25 BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 17:25 - 17:30 Closing words 17:30 EVENING RECEPTION LOCATION Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/ REGISTRATION Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows: * BCS / ISKO member rate: £92 * Non-member rate: £110 * Students: £80 Registration fees include lunch. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening. Register here: https://IRSGSearchSolutions2025.eventbrite.co.uk TUTORIAL DAY Search Solutions also includes a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday, 25 November. A detailed programme will be announced in due course. Tutorials are payable separately. PAST EVENTS Search Solutions has been held annually since 2007. For details of past events please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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[PhD Positions] Natural Language Understanding at University of Copenhagen
by Isabelle Augenstein 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

The Natural Language Understanding Research Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen is seeking to recruit PhD students for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026. - A fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship on Explainable Natural Language Understanding for a start in Spring 2026 is available as part of the ExplainYourself project<https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2021-starting-grants-results> on Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking. The position requires candidates to have completed a Master’s degree by the start date. The successful candidate will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein<http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and co-supervised by Pepa Atanasova<https://apepa.github.io/>. Read more about the position and apply here<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…> by 31 October 2025. - A fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship in Trustworthy Natural Language Processing with expected start date of 1st March 2026 (or as soon as possible thereafter). The successful candidate will engage in developing innovative methods for trustworthy NLP models, including but not limited to mechanistic interpretability, explainability, reasoning, factuality, safety mechanisms, and practical applications of trustworthy AI. This independent fellowship offers flexibility in developing your research direction within trustworthy NLP, tailored in collaboration with the candidate to align their interests and the group’s research goals. The fellowship is offered with Pepa Atanasova<https://apepa.github.io/> as the main project supervisor and will be co-supervised by Isabelle Augenstein<http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/>. Read more about the position and apply here<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=1307&ProjectId=16…> by 31 October 2025. - For a start in Autumn 2026, we are considering candidates on any topic aligned with the focus areas of our lab<https://www.copenlu.com/#projects>. Candidates should express their interest by applying to the ELLIS PhD programme<https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-call-for-applications-2025> by 31 October 2025, naming Isabelle Augenstein as a supervisor. More information about the positions can be found here<https://www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fellowships-for-start-in-spring-or-autumn-…>. Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: augenstein(a)di.ku.dk. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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Call for papers: BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025
by Robbie Love 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

Dear colleagues Please see below the call for papers and registration information for the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025, taking place at Coventry University. Best wishes Robbie Love, BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Convenor *** BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025 AI and EAP: New Directions Monday 15th December 2025, Coventry University (in-person event) Register here<https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/frontend/reg/tregistration.csp?pageID=6…>! Generative AI is still a recent development, yet it is having a significant impact in the fields of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Corpus Linguistics. A general consensus is emerging that researchers and practitioners need to have a thorough understanding of the uses of Gen AI, but it can be hard to keep track of developments in such a fast-moving field. The aim of this one-day event is to discuss current and future developments concerning AI in EAP with a specific focus on corpus linguistics and corpus approaches. Abstract submission We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions). These will offer short, thought-provoking talks on what speakers feel are essential corpus linguistic elements for EAP teacher training. We encourage early-stage work that focuses on innovation, as well as more advanced research. Please send 250-word abstracts to Hilary Nesi (h.nesi(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk>) with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. Notification of successful abstract submissions will be on 31 October 2025. Attendance The event fee (£20) covers attendance and a light lunch and refreshments. We will also provide links to nearby food outlets. The Journal of EAP<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-english-for-academic-purpo…> is kindly providing sponsorship for the event for those who would like to present but haven't got the financial means to attend. If you would like to be considered for sponsorship, please include a maximum 100-word justification for sponsorship with your abstract submission. The BAAL CL SIG<https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/about.html> is also able to offer a number of attendance fee waivers for non-presenters; these are aimed at enabling students and early career researchers to participate. If you would like to be considered for fee waiver, please send a maximum 100-word explanation of the benefits to you of participation to sian.alsop(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:sian.alsop@coventry.ac.uk>, with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. Registration To register for the event, please enter your details and pay the registration fee here<https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/frontend/reg/tregistration.csp?pageID=6…> (choose the Register tab). Dr Robbie Love (he/him) BA (Hons), ma, phd, cdls, fhea Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics 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/> 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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[Last CFP]: "QuantumNLP: Integrating Quantum Computing with Natural Language Processing" Workshop under IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Conference (with our apologies for cross-posting)
by Santanu Pal 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

Under: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Date: December 23-24, 2025 (tentative) Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India Website: http://qnlp.in/ Main Conference: https://2025.aaclnet.org/ Submission Portal: OpenReview Submission Deadline: October 15, 2025 * Call for Papers * The QuantumNLP 2025 Workshop aims to bridge the gap between NLP and Quantum Machine Learning (QML). It will offer insights into foundational principles, practical tools, and the latest advancements in hybrid quantum-classical NLP models. We invite original research papers, work-in-progress, and case studies in areas such as: Quantum word embeddings and language model Quantum-enhanced sequence modeling (e.g., QRNN, QLSTM) QuantumNLP on NISQ devices Quantum-inspired optimisation and multimodal AI Hybrid quantum-classical architectures for NLP Quantum AI Quantum NLP Quantum ML Variational Quantum Circuits Quantum-Inspired Optimisation any other topic that is related to Quantum Selected papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. We welcome original research papers, work-in-progress, and industry case studies. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected contributions will be invited for presentation. The proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. Submission Link (Login in OpenReview First): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/Quantu… * Organizers* - Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology Silchar, partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in - Santanu Pal, Wipro AI Lab 45, santanu.pal.ju(a)gmail.com - Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, sivaji.cse.ju(a)gmail.com - Priyanka Jain, CDAC Delhi, priyankaj(a)cdac.in - Asif Ekbal, IIT Patna, asif(a)iitp.ac.in * Invited speaker * - Prof. Hachem Kadri, Aix-Marseille University, France * Contact * For questions, please send an email to partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in. Dr. Santanu Pal <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-santanu-pal-6511076a/> Sivaji Bandyopadhyay <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivaji-bandyopadhyay-a3790569/> Asif Ekbal <https://www.linkedin.com/in/asif-ekbal-3b8a4517/> Priyanka Jain, PhD <https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanka-jain-phd-23308114/>

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Open PhD position in NLP at Stockholm University
by Aron Henriksson 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

Hi all, Please help me share that we have an open PhD position in our NLP group at Stockholm University. Deadline: October 15 Link: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:852233/where:4/ Thanks! Best regards, Aron —— Aron Henriksson Associate Professor (Docent) Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) Stockholm University P.O. Box 1073, SE-164 25 Kista, Sweden Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista Phone: +46-8-164985

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Call for participation: Desegma-IT - Detection and Segmentation of Machine Generated Text in Italian
by Andrea Esuli 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

# Desegma-IT - Detection and Segmentation of Machine Generated Text in Italian ## Call for participation https://desegma.github.io/ Desegma-IT is a Shared Task of the 9th evaluation campaign organized by the EVALITA initiative. Desegma-IT’s shared tasks of Detection and Segmentation aim to stress-test the robustness of machine-generated text detectors by evaluating their performance under settings where the I.I.D. (independent and identically distributed) assumption does not hold. While state-of-the-art MGT detectors have reported high accuracy, such results often stem from unrealistic experimental settings: for example, relying on prior knowledge of the text generator, or failing to consider domain shifts and efficient fine-tuning - or post-tuning - strategies. ## Tasks * MGT Detection in the Wild * Human-Machine Text Segmentation Check the Tasks page https://desegma.github.io/tasks/ for more details about the tasks and the dataset. We support and wish for many diverse approaches to the tasks. Any kind of submission, either based on LLMs or any other approach is welcome! ## Team Registration Register your team at this google form, to receive updates on the tasks: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAgOMmO-GK1K-w5Mn-eZQRJNTn9BQj8mQ… ## Important Dates * Data Release: September 22nd, 2025 * Evaluation Window: November 24th - December 1st * Camera Ready Deadline: February 2nd, 2026 * Workshop Date: February 26th-27th, 2026, Bari (Italy) ## Organizers Andrea Esuli, Andrea Pedrotti, Giovanni Puccetti ISTI-CNR

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EACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW)
by ACL Announcements 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

EACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW) The EACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. 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 undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research. 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 student (undergraduate or graduate). Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main EACL 2026 conference: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ [1]. Important Dates * Pre-submission mentorship deadline: October 27th, 2025 * Pre-submission mentorship feedback due: December 1, 2025 * Direct Workshop paper submission deadline: December 22, 2025 * ARR Commitment deadline: TBC * Notification of acceptance: February 2, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: February 16, 2025 * Grant application deadline: TBC * Grant application notification: TBC * Workshop dates: TBC (the same as the main conference) All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12 ("anywhere on Earth"). See full details at: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/srw/ [2] EACL 2026 Student Research Workshop Chairs: * Selene Baez Santamaria, University of Zurich * Sai Ashish Somayajula, Oracle * Atsuki Yamaguchi, University of Sheffield contact: eaclsrw(a)gmail.com Links: ------ [1] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ [2] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/srw/

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EACL 2026 - Industry Track — Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

EACL 2026 - Industry Track -- Call for Papers We invite submissions describing innovations and implementations in all areas of speech and natural language processing technologies and systems that are relevant to real-word applications. The primary focus of this track is on papers that advance the understanding of, and demonstrate the effective handling of, practical issues related to the deployment of language (or speech) processing technologies in real-world use applications, i.e., outside controlled environments such as laboratories, classrooms or experimental crowd-sourced setups. We encourage submissions from both non-profit and for-profit sectors, with the understanding that the end-users of these systems extend beyond the NLP community. Please note that if submissions involve proprietary data, there is no requirement to make this data available. The EACL 2026 Industry Track provides the opportunity to highlight key insights and new research challenges that arise from the development and deployment of real-world applications using language technologies. Relevant areas include system design, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability of real-world applications, with topics including (but not limited to): * Benchmarks and methods for improving latency and efficiency of systems * Continuous maintenance and improvement of deployed systems * Efficient methods for training and inference * Enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment * Human-in-the-loop approaches to application development * Implementation at speed, scale, or low-cost * System combination Novel applications and use cases, including but not limited to: * Best practices, lessons learned, or vision pieces on deploying real-world applications * Case studies, from design to deployment * Description of an application or system * Design of application-relevant datasets * Development of methods under system constraints (model or data size) * Novel NLP applications Methods for deployed systems (alphabetical; including but not limited to): * Ethics, bias, fairness, and harmlessness * Interpretability * Interactive systems * Offline/online system evaluation methodologies * Online learning * Robustness Important Dates (23:59 AoE) * Paper submission deadline: 17 November 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 5 January 2026 * Camera-ready due: 19 January 2026 * Main conference (including Industry Track): 24-29 March 2026 Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. Papers can be posted on arXiv or other online repositories at any time. Please check the call details at: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/industry/ [1] EACL 2026 Industry Track Chairs: * Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield * Gülşen Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University * Yevgen Matusevych, University of Groningen Email: eacl2026-industry(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/industry/

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EACL 2026 - Call for System Demonstrations
by ACL Announcements 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

EACL 2026 - Call for System Demonstrations The EACL 202 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative, given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: * Natural language processing systems or system components * Application systems using language technology components * Software tools for natural language processing research * Software for demonstration or evaluation * Software supporting learning or education * Tools for data visualization and annotation * Tools for model inspection * Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the EACL 2026 conference proceedings. We require at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at EACL 2026, with an accompanying poster. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2026 and present the demo. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program. Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 * Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, 10 February 2026 * Camera-ready submission: Friday, 20 February 2026 * Main Conference: Tuesday-Sunday, 24-29 March 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Note that there is no rebuttal stage. Please check the details at: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/demos/ [1] EACL 2026 Demonstration Co-chairs * Danilo Croce * Jochen Leidner * Nafise Sadat Moosavi Contact: eacl-demo-chairs-2026(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/demos/

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Cruciverb-IT Shared Task at EVALITA 2026
by alessio.miaschi＠ilc.cnr.it 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

Dear Corpora members, We are happy to announce that, in the context of EVALITA (the 9th evaluation campaign of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian), we are organizing Cruciverb-IT, the first shared task on crossword puzzle solving. *Task Description:* This Shared Task aims to challenge and assess NLP systems in the context of crossword solving and is organized around two subtasks: i) answering clues extracted from Italian crosswords; ii) autonomously solving Italian crossword grids. We just released the training data at the following link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/cruciverb-it/evalita2026. You can find all the information about the shared task on the official webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/cruciverbit2026 *Publication:* Participants in the shared task are invited to submit a paper to the EVALITA 2026 (https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/) workshop, which will take place in Bari (Italy), 24-26 February 2026. Papers must follow the workshop submission instructions and will undergo regular peer review. *Important Dates:* -- 22nd September 2025: development data available to participants -- 24th November - 1st December 2025: Cruciverb-IT evaluation window -- 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants -- 9th January 2026: final reports due to task participants -- 16th January 2026: final reports due to task organizers -- 7th February 2026: review deadline -- 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline -- 26 – 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy) *Contact:* Mail: cruciverbit.evalita2026(a)gmail.com Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cruciverbit2026/ The Cruciverb-IT Shared Task Organizers: Cristiano Ciaccio (ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli", CNR-ILC, Pisa) Gabriele Sarti (Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Alessio Miaschi (ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli", CNR-ILC, Pisa) Felice Dell'Orletta (ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli", CNR-ILC, Pisa) Malvina Nissim (Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

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Second Call for Abstracts: Methods Fair of the 62nd Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language
by Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, the Methods Fair forms part of the 62nd Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, carrying the motto 'German in the European language area: current status and prospects'. This call invites submissions of resources, tools and methods relating to the German language, or contrasting German with other European languages. If accepted, the content will be presented as a poster and subsequently published as a short paper. The language of presentation and publication is German. The full call follows in German: Vom 10.-12. März 2026 findet die Jahrestagung 2026 des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim statt. Das Rahmenthema der Tagung lautet „Deutsch im europäischen Sprachraum: Stand und Perspektiven“: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/tagungen/2026/ Ein Bestandteil der Tagung wird am Mittwoch, 11. März 2026, eine Projekt- und Methodenmesse sein. Wir laden herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen ein, die sich mit methodischen Ansätzen befassen, welche die Forschung im Kontext des Tagungsthemas unterstützen, ermöglichen oder kritisch reflektieren. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ressourcen, Methoden und Werkzeuge, die vorzugsweise anhand kompakter Anwendungsstudien vorgestellt werden. Willkommen sind Beiträge, die sich auf die deutsche Sprache beziehen oder das Deutsche kontrastiv mit anderen europäischen Sprachen in Beziehung setzen. Dies umfasst unter anderem, aber nicht ausschließlich, folgende Themen: - Nutzung schriftlicher oder gesprochener Korpora des Deutschen; - Erhebung und Verwendung nicht korpus-zentrierter empirischer Sprachdaten, die Deutsch in der europäischen Sprachenlandschaft verorten; - Untersuchungen von Sprachpolitik, -diskursen oder -einstellungen, die sich mit der Rolle von Deutsch in europäischen Kontexten beschäftigen; - quantitative Analysen der deutschen Sprache in mehrsprachigen oder nicht mehrheitlich deutschsprachigen Kontexten, einschließlich Visualisierungen; - Auswirkungen von generativer KI und Large Language Models auf die Verwendung des Deutschen in sprachübergreifender Perspektive oder in multilingualen Kontexten; - innovative Werkzeuge und Methoden im Bereich des DaF-/DaZ-Unterrichts. Die Beiträge werden in Form eines Posters und ggf. einer Softwaredemonstration präsentiert. Auf der Tagung wird jeder Beitrag in einem einminütigen Schlaglicht dem Publikum vorgestellt, anschließend gibt es die Gelegenheit, die Inhalte im Rahmen einer ca. eineinhalbstündigen Postersession zu demonstrieren und Fragen zu beantworten. Ausgearbeitete Beiträge sollen im Anschluss an die Tagung bei IDSopen (https://idsopen.de/) digital nach dem Open-Access-Prinzip publiziert werden. Wir bitten um die Einreichung eines nicht anonymisierten Abstracts (max. 500 Wörter exkl. Literaturangaben; in einem editierbaren Format) sowie um die Zuordnung zu thematischen Schlagwörtern. Bitte senden Sie Ihren Vorschlag bis zum 15. Oktober 2025 an methodenmesse2026(a)ids-mannheim.de. Über die Annahme der Beiträge entscheidet das Organisationsteam bis zum 12. Dezember 2025. Organisationsteam: Peter Meyer, Andreas Witt sowie Laura Herzberg, Marc Kupietz, Heiko J. Marten, Samira Ochs, Janusz Taborek, Beata Trawiński, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu, Jörg Zinken -- Dr. Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Grammatik Tel: +49 621-1581-242

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Third Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks
by Announce 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

*** Third Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> We welcome submissions to the Special Tracks of AAMAS 2026. AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks: AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track, as well as the Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Workshops and Tutorials Furthermore, AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for workshops and tutorials. These will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. The calls for workshop and tutorial proposals, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .

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Postdoc in Creativity, Translation and Technology at the University of Groningen
by Malvina Nissim 30 Sep '25

30 Sep '25

Please share! The INCREC <https://increc.github.io/increc/index.html> project (ERC CoG, PI Ana Guerberof) is looking for a new team member! We have an opening for a Postdoc position in Creativity, Translation and Technology for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months. You would be joining a vibrant environment embedded in the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) <https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/?lang=en> at the University of Groningen. You can apply for this position until October 12 2025 Dutch local time (CET) . Interviews with selected candidates will be held on-line between 10th–14th November 2025. Further details on the position and application procedure at the following link: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… Best, Malvina

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[Last CFP] CHOMPS Workshop @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Aman Sinha 30 Sep '25

30 Sep '25

Last CFP: CHOMPS – Confabulation, Hallucinations, & Overgeneration in Multilingual & Precision-critical Settings (with our apologies for cross-posting) Venue: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 ( [ https://2025.aaclnet.org/ | https://2025.aaclnet.org/ ] ), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India Date: 23/24th December 2025 (TBC) Workshop website: [ https://chomps2025.github.io/ | https://chomps2025.github.io/ ] * Description * Despite rapid advances, LLMs continue to "make things up": a phenomenon that manifests as hallucination, confabulation, and overgeneration. That is, produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible. These outputs pose real risks in settings where accuracy and accountability are non-negotiable, including healthcare, legal systems, and education. The aim of the CHOMPS workshop is to find ways to mitigate one of major the hurdles that currently prevent the adoption of Large Language Models in real-world scenarios: namely, their tendency to hallucinate, i.e., produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible. The workshop will explore hallucination mitigation in practical situations, where this mitigation is crucial: in particular, precision-critical applications (such as those in the medical, legal and biotech domains), as well as multilingual settings (given the lack of resources available to reproduce what can be done for English in other linguistic contexts). In practice, we intend to invite works of the following (not exclusive) list of topics: * Workshop topics * - Metrics, benchmarks and tools for hallucination detection - Factuality challenges in mission critical & domain-specific (e.g., medical, legal, biotech) and their consequences - Mitigation strategies during inference or model training - Studies of hallucinatory and confabulatory behaviors of LLMS in cross-lingual and multilingual scenarios - Confabulations in language & multimodal (vision, text, speech) models - Perspectives and case studies from other disciplines - … * Invited speakers * - Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen - Danish PRUTHI, IISc Bangalore - Abhilasha RAVICHANDER, University of Washington - Dr. Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Mistral AI * Panel Discussion * - Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI - Sunayana Sitaram, Microsoft Research - Chung-Chi Chen, AIST, Japan * Shared Task * SHROOM-CAP - A Cross-lingual Scientific Hallucination Detection shared task. More info : [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a ] * Submission details * The workshop is designed with a widely inclusive submission policy so as to foster as vibrant a discussion as possible. Archival or non-archival submissions may consist of up to 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (short) of content. Dissemination submissions may consist of up to 1 page of content. On acceptance, authors may add one additional page to accommodate changes suggested by the reviewers. Please use the ACL style templates available here: [ https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files | https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files ] The submissions need to be done in PDF format via: (a) via Direct submission ( [ https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS | https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS ] ) (b) via ARR commitment ( [ https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS… | https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS… ] ) * Important dates * Paper submission deadline: September 29 , 2025 Direct ARR commitment: October 27 , 2025 Author notification: November 3 , 2025 Camera-Ready due: November 11 , 2025 Workshop date: December 23/ 24, 2025 (TBC) * Contact * For questions, please send an email to chomps-aacl2025(a)googlegroups.com or contact one of the workshop chairs: - Aman Sinha, Université de Lorraine, aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr - Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, raul.vazquez(a)helsinki.fi - Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Announce 30 Sep '25

30 Sep '25

*** Last Call for Tutorial Proposals The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day*, *half-day* or *quarter-day* tutorial formats and activities, that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, tools, labs or hands-on experiences for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. Responsibilities of Tutorial Organizers • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Facilitate the planned activities, including, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. Proposal Format Tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Tutorial)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the tutorial. • Description of tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the tutorial. • Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day or quarter-day proposals (the latter roughly 1.5 hours). Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Important Dates (AoE) • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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CFP]: 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing-2025)
by Khaled Shaalan 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '25

********************** 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2025), December 6-7, 2025 (Hybrid Conference) Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER Website:https://acling.org/ ********************** ## IMPORTANT DATES ## * Submission deadline: 27 October 2025 * Acceptance Notification: 3 November 2025 * Final Camera-ready submission: 10 November 2025 * Author Registration & Payment: 17 November 2025 * Conference Date: 6-7 December 2025 ********************** ## INTRODUCTION ## The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and application of AI-driven methods in computational linguistics. ACLing welcomes high-quality contributions that address theoretical foundations, novel algorithms, and practical implementations across all dimensions of AI and ML in language technologies. The conference seeks to promote dialogue on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and critical challenges in the field, reflecting the growing importance and societal impact of AI-powered language processing. This year, the conference will be hosted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD), an institution recognized for its dedication to academic excellence, impactful research, and global engagement. BUiD’s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary innovation makes it an ideal venue for this prestigious event. ## TOPICS ## We welcome submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas: * Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Knowledge and Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Formal Resources for AI * Statistical and Neural Language Modeling * Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces * Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP * Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages * Domain-Specific NLP (e.g., Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, Educational) * Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning * Emotion Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Signal Processing * NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science * Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization * Natural Language Generation, Storytelling, and Creative AI * Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding * Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery * Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI * Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI in Language Technologies * Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications * Responsible and Interpretable AI for Language Understanding * Generative AI: Models, Evaluation, and Emerging Applications * Reinforcement Learning and Prompt Engineering for NLP Tasks * AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages * Human-Centered NLP and User-Aware Language Interfaces * Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability in NLP * AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools This wide-ranging list reflects the dynamic nature of the field and aims to encourage interdisciplinary engagement that advances the frontiers of AI-driven language technologies. ## Submission Guidelines ## All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published in Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/ Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acling2025 ## CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ## * Prof. Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Prof. Samhaa R. 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AAMAS 2026 Main Track: Abstract Submission in 2 Days! (October 1st)
by Announce 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '25

*** Main Track: Abstract Submission in 2 Days! (October 1st) *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates (for the main technical track) • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . Workshop Outreach Pipeline AAMAS 2026 will include a pilot designed to encourage submission of high-quality papers from related workshops at sister AI conferences. All submissions will go through the standard AAMAS review process, but PCs from participating workshops will be able to easily bid on papers from "their" workshop. As with all AAMAS submissions, only papers that have not been published in any archival proceedings can be submitted. You can see the full list of workshops in the interest form for authors: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UjJbNykWK_fsKWbEHDyMEA02cGheIyPeWxCPcUskwk…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> [docs.google.com] It is recommended to verify with your workshop chair that they are aware of the pipeline and have promoted it to the workshop's authors and PC. Other Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature four special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track), as well as a Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). Submission DL: November 17, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-aaai-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. Submission DL (abstract): December 03, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. Submission DL: January 06, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-jaamas-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. Submission DL: January 09, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-demonstrations/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Submission DL (abstract): January 19, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Proposals for workshops, competitions and tutorials are also welcome: Workshop proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-workshops/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> (DL: November 10, 2025) Competition proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-competitions/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> (DL: November 10, 2025) Tutorial proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-tutorials/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> (DL: January 16, 2026) Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions on the main track, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com . Contacts for the other calls can be found on the AAMAS 2026 website.

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Call for Papers - IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Workshops
by ACL Announcements 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

CALL FOR PAPERS - IJCNLP-AACL 2025 WORKSHOPS Here is the list of accepted workshops at IJCNLP-AACL 2025, which will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in December 2025. We invite you to explore the individual workshop websites for important details, including deadlines, calls for papers, and participation information. As workshop co-chairs, we are thrilled to see such a diverse and exciting collection of workshops shaping up for this event, and we warmly invite your submissions and active participation to help make them a success! The full list of workshops: * W1. The 1st Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP) * W2. Fifth Workshop on Evaluation & Comparison of NLP Systems (Eval4NLP) * W3. QuantumNLP: Integrating Quantum Computing with Natural Language Processing * W4. The 1st Workshop on Human-LLM Collaboration for Ethical and Responsible Science Production * W5. CHOMPS - Confabulation, Hallucinations, & Overgeneration in Multilingual & Precision-critical Settings * W6. The 12th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2025) * W7. Third Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP) * W8. Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact * W9. JUST-NLP: Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice * W10. BHASHA: Benchmarks, Harmonization, Annotation, and Standardization for Human-Centric AI in Indian Languages * W11. Second Bangla Language Processing Workshop * W12. NLP-AI4Health: Second Workshop on Integrating NLP and AI for Multilingual and Patient-Centric Healthcare Communication [1] Check more information on the workshops at: https://2025.aaclnet.org/program/workshops/ [2] IJCNLP-AACL Workshop Co-Chairs Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada Lizhen Qu, Monash University, Australia Links: ------ [1] https://2025.nlpai4health.com/ [2] https://2025.aaclnet.org/program/workshops/

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PhD and postdoc offers at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
by Nils Holzenberger 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Hello, We are hiring 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc to work on combining language models with structured data, at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Start date can be between January and March 2026. 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' knowledge can be audited and updated reliably, to spot biases and make them more interpretable 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 Institut 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. Check out our Web site to apply: https://suchanek.name/work/research/kb-lm/index.html Fabian Suchanek & Nils Holzenberger

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CfP and late breaking submissions DHASA
by Menno Van Zaanen 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Call for Participation and late breaking submissions DHASA Conference and RAIL workshop 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za https://sadilar.org/en/rail-2025/ Late breaking submissions deadline: 10 October 2025 DHASA conference dates: 11 November 2025-14 November 2025 RAIL workshop date: 10 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Registration: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/registration/ Late breaking submission Guidelines * Late breaking submissions: Authors can submit a late breaking submission, limited to 1 page. Late breaking submissions accepted for the conference will be presented as a short presentation during a dedicated late breaking submission presentation slot. The late breaking submissions will be published in a book of abstracts before the conference. We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected. Follow this link to go to the submission platform: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates for late breaking submissions Submission deadline: 10 October 2025 Date of notification: 17 October 2025 Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Conference: 10 November 2025 – 14 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa DHASA CONFERENCE Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. RAIL WORKSHOP Theme: Language resources in the age of large language models The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. Organising Committees DHASA conference Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research RAIL workshop Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025: Full Program & Book of Abstracts Now Available
by Cansu Akan 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the full program for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25) is now available. This online conference, organized by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, will take place from October 22-24, 2025. View the full program here: https://tinyurl.com/3v8vkxwu Access the official Book of Abstracts here: https://tinyurl.com/u34nd4tw Registration is free of charge, but mandatory for all attendees to receive the Zoom links. Please complete your registration via the form below: https://tinyurl.com/yfvsjhww We look forward to welcoming you to the conference. Best regards, Cansu Akan LCRGrad25 Website: https://lcrgrad2025.tu-chemnitz.de

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Call for Papers - 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 URL - https://loreslm.github.io/specialissue 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. This special issue aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 We invite submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. - Building language models for low-resource languages. - Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. - Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. - Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc.) 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 Paper submission: December 31, 2025 First decision: March 31, 2026- April 30, 2026 Revised version submission: May 1, 2026- June 1, 2026 Final decision: August 30, 2026 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 Submissions should be formatted according to the journal guidelines available - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-processing/informa… and submitted through the manuscript submission system - https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nlp. To ensure your manuscript is considered for this special issue, please select “Language Models for Low-Resource Languages” under Special Issue Designation when uploading your manuscript. Guest Editors Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Guest Editorial Board Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France Ana-Maria Bucur - University of Bucharest, Romania Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Damith Premasiri - Lancaster University, UK Guokan Shang - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, France Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe on behalf of the Guest Editors

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Internship: A computational socio-linguistic exploration of the Ethics of AI landscape
by Maria Boritchev 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Hi everyone, (apologies for cross-postings) 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: Advisors: Maria Boritchev, Tiphaine Viard Duration: 5-6 months, starting from February 1st (negociable) Location: Télécom Paris, 19 Pl. Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau 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 2026) Requirements: Applicants must be enrolled in a Master’s 2 program at the time of application and through the duration of the internship. We are looking for applications from students with solid skills (and ideally experience) in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Computa- tional Social Sciences. Knowledge of English is necessary 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 [Gornet et al., 2024]. 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 mod- ern 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 com- putational 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/). 2. Re-implement existing techniques identified in (1), in particular [Eyal et al., 2022], 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. Application: Deadline: October 25th, 2025. Application: 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. References [Becker, 1976] Becker, H. S. (1976). Art worlds and social types. American behavioral scientist, 19(6):703– 718. [Cefa¨ı, 2016] Cefa¨ı, D. (2016). Publics, probl`emes publics, ar`enes publiques.... Questions de communication, 30(2):25–64. [Eyal et al., 2022] Eyal, M., Sadde, S., Taub-Tabib, H., and Goldberg, Y. (2022). Large scale substitution- based word sense induction. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computa- tional Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4738–4752. [Gornet et al., 2024] Gornet, M., Delarue, S., Boritchev, M., and Viard, T. (2024). Mapping ai ethics: a mesoscale analysis of its charters and manifestos. In Proceedings of the 2024 FAccT conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning. [Roth and Hellsten, 2023] Roth, C. and Hellsten, I. (2023). Socio-semantic configuration of an online con- versation space: The case of twitter users discussing the# ipcc reports. Social Networks, 75:186–196.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Call for Posters and Demos
by Announce 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

*** First Call for Posters and Demos The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required, but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the poster session. Demos The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions. Important Dates (AoE) • Full paper: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos (https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: • $250 APC for ACM/SIG members • $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.

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[CFP] Final Call for Full Papers – ECIR 2026 (ddl in 2 days)
by Yifei Yuan 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, This is the Final Call for FULL Papers for the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), one of the leading conferences in the field of Information Retrieval, covering topics at the intersection of IR, NLP, recommender systems, conversational search, and generative AI. 📌 Important Dates Full Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: September 25, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Full paper submission: October 2, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Notification of Acceptance: December 16, 2025 Conference Dates: Delft, The Netherlands 🌟 Why submit to ECIR? A premier forum for presenting cutting-edge research in Information Retrieval and related fields. Opportunity to connect with an international community of researchers and practitioners. 🔗 Conference Website: https://ecir2026.eu/ We warmly invite you to submit your latest research and join us at ECIR 2026. Please feel free to share this call with colleagues and students who may be interested. Looking forward to your contributions! Best regards, ECIR 2026 Organizing Committee

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LREC 2026 Third Call for Papers
by info＠elda.org 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are pleased to announce that the *Third Call for Papers* for LREC 2026 has just been published. The Author’s Kit and the templates have been updated. * LREC 2026 Third Call for Papers <https://lrec2026.info/third-call-for-papers/> * Author's Kit <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>, including the downloadable templates * Check the FAQ <https://lrec2026.info/faq/> *Important dates* **Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026 * Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026 * LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * * Best regards, Management and Programme Chairs *----------* *More information* on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ *Contact the Programme Chairs*: lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com *General LREC 2026 contact:* info(a)lrec2026.info

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[Last CfP] SHROOM-CAP 🦙 👒 Shared Task at CHOMPS Workshop @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Aman Sinha 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

TL;DR [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | SHROOM-CAP ] is an Indic-centric shared task co-located with [ https://chomps2025.github.io/ | CHOMPS-2025 ] to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for scientific content generated with LLMs. We have annotated hallucinated content in 5 high-resource languages and surprisal 4 low-resource Indic languages using top-tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you like by accurately detecting the presence of hallucinated content. Stay informed by joining our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group ] ! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the SHROOM-CAP shared task on cross-lingual hallucination detection for scientific publication (link to [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | website ] ). We invite participants to detect whether or not there is hallucination in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs within a cross-lingual scientific context. About This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2024 | SHROOM ] , with three key highlights: LLM-centered, cross-lingual annotations & hallucination and fluency prediction. LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public. With SHROOM-CAP, we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated scientific content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a cross-lingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 5+4 different high and low resource languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, and to-be-later-revealed Indic languages). Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify hallucinations in generated scientific content. Additionally, participants will also be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in oral/poster format during the CHOMPS workshop (collocated with [ https://2025.aaclnet.org/ | IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India ] ). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author). Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). * Train set available by: 31.07.2025 * Validation set available by: 05.09.2025 * Test set available by: 05.10.2025 * Test phase ends: 12.10.2025 * Leaderboard release: 15.10.2025 * System description papers due: 25.10.2025 * Notification of acceptance: 05.11.2025 * Camera-ready due: 11.11.2025 * Proceedings due: 01.12.2025 * CHOMPS workshop: 23/ [ https://mail.ufal.mff.cuni.cz/calendar/day/1766568272945 | 24th December 2025 ] (co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025) Evaluation Metrics: Participants will be ranked along two criteria: 1. factuality mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted; 2. fluency mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted based on our annotations. Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in! How to Participate: * Register: Please register your team [ https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 | https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 ] and join our google group: [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap ] * Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 12.10.2025. The submission platform is now available at: [ https://shroomcap.pythonanywhere.com/submission/ | https://shroomcap.pythonanywhere.com/submission/ ] * Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 25.10.2025. Want to be kept in the loop? Join our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group mailing list ] ! We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, SHROOM-CAP organizers

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Postdoc in NLP/AI for health emergency triage at ITU Copenhagen
by Christian Hardmeier 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Postdoc opportunity at the IT University of Copenhagen in an exciting project on improving citizens’ experience in emergency triage https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… Application deadline: 24 September 2025 We are looking to hire a postdoc in data science/natural language processing to contribute to an innovative research project aimed at streamlining citizens’ encounters with emergency medical services using AI technology. The project stands out by using public data for public good with access to one of the largest real-world healthcare dialogue datasets in Europe and by exploring novel approaches to human-AI alignment, where both citizens and AI systems adapt to each other through dynamic interaction. As part of an interdisciplinary team, you will be a part of the NLPnorth natural language processing group at the IT University of Copenhagen, and work closely with human-computer interaction experts at the University of Copenhagen and the Emergency Medical Services of the Capital Region of Denmark. Your primary role in the project will involve: * Research on exploiting large language models to facilitate effective communication with citizens in medical emergency scenarios, leading to academic publications in top-tier venues. * Research on countering and mitigating LLM uncertainty and overconfidence to achieve human-AI alignment in emergency care. * Deploying and evaluating automatic speech recognition models to transcribe emergency hotline calls in Danish with high accuracy. * Implementing RAG-based LLM solutions for reliable and factual interaction with citizens in emergency situations. The postdoc will be a part of the NLPnorth research group at the IT University of Copenhagen (https://nlpnorth.github.io/). -- Christian Hardmeier Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/

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IVACS 2026 - Malta - Call for Papers
by Christopher.Fitzgerald 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Call for Papers IVACS 2026 – Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference 1–3 July 2026 | University of Malta, Valletta, Malta https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/ The IVACS Association is pleased to announce that the 12th Biennial IVACS Conference will be hosted by the University of Malta, Valletta Campus, from 1–3 July 2026. The IVACS Conference series is a leading international forum for corpus-based research into linguistic varieties and applications of corpus linguistics in professional, pedagogical, and social contexts. Following the successful series of conferences, IVACS 2026 will continue to build on this tradition of collaboration and innovation. We are excited to announce our plenary speakers<https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/speakers/>: Dr Niall Curry, Manchester Metropolitan University Prof. Phil Durrant, University of Exeter Dr Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University We welcome proposals related to (but not limited to): * Corpus Design & Methodology: compilation, annotation, and representativeness * Applied Contexts: workplace and professional discourse, minority and endangered languages, translation, interpreting, multilingual communication, stylistics * Innovations & Emerging Directions: GenAI tools and platforms, multimodal corpora * Teaching & Learning: corpus applications in pedagogy, data-driven learning, assessment, teacher education, learner corpora, genre-based approaches * Corpus-Informed Materials: pedagogic grammars, textbooks, syllabi design * Theoretical Perspectives: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, critical discourse studies, intercultural communication * Corpus Linguistics and Ethical Practice: Ethical, transparent, and inclusive methods in corpus-based research Submission Details * Individual Papers: 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion * Colloquia: 90 minutes, consisting of 3 thematically linked papers * Posters: especially suitable for work-in-progress or early-stage projects * Paper, colloquia and poster abstracts should be submitted to ivacs2026(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:ivacs2026@um.edu.mt>. The language of the conference is English. We encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers. Abstract specifications for Individual Papers and Posters: * 250 – 350 words in length (including references, if any) * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Title; Presenter(s); Affiliation(s); Email address(es), plus abstract * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Title and abstract only Abstract specifications for Colloquia: * A maximum of 1,000 words in length (not including list of references) * A single abstract on behalf of all speakers on the panel, detailing the overall motivation for the panel, individual contributions, and the proposed panel structure * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Theme for the panel; Title of each contribution; Presenters; Affiliations; Email addresses, plus abstracts * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Titles and abstracts only Important Dates * Abstract submission opens: 1 October 2025 * Abstract submission deadline: 9 January 2026 (23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: Early March 2026 * Early-bird registration deadline: April 2026 * Conference dates: 1–3 July 2026 Séanadh Ríomhphoist / Email Disclaimer https://www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/college-services/ict-services?index=5

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AAMAS 2026: First Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
by Announce 22 Sep '25

22 Sep '25

*** First Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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First Call for Papers - International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 22 Sep '25

22 Sep '25

First Call for Papers - International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT’2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work and/or share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e-proceedings, which will be available at the time of the conference. Conference Topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to the latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include, but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below): >> CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools >> Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT >> Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation >> Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation >> Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting >> Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP-based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) >> Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation >> Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling >> User needs - Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed >> The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation / interpreting / language provider company >> Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula >> Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems >> Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTIT’2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era, especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting Submissions and Publication NeTTIT’2026 invites the following types of submissions in English: >> Academic papers * Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. >> User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available in the Second Call for Papers due in October 2025. The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. Important Dates * Submissions due: 23 March 2026 * Reviewing process: 25 March – 25 April 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026 * Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026 * Conference: 24-27 June 2026 Conference Chairs Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb) Programme Committee Chairs Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Publicity and Sponsorship Chair Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) Venue The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik. Further information and contact details The conference website (https://nettt-conference.com/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettit2026@nettt-conference.com>. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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CFP - KNLP at SAC 2026 - Deadline approaching
by Patrizio Bellan 19 Sep '25

19 Sep '25

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC* Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing - NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction - NLP for Ontology Population and Learning - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications - Interplay between Language and Ontologies - NLP for Explainable Knowledge - Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM - (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge - Knowledge - Knowledge to improve NLP tasks - Knowledge for Information Retrieval - Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP - Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation - Knowledge for Persuasion - Knowledge-based Machine Translation - Knowledge for the Web - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based NL Explainability - LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs - (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs - Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation) - Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health, and medicine - News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2026 SRC page for details <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>). Initial Submission Policy - All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There is no separate submission track for poster papers. - Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters Minimum Length for Review Consideration - While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review. Camera-ready Page Limits - Regular Papers (accepted for publication): - Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): - Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. *Important Dates (check SAC website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)* September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026 <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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First CFP for JAAMAS Special Issue: When Foundation Models Meet Multi-Agent Systems
by Surangika Ranathunga 18 Sep '25

18 Sep '25

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] *First CFP for JAAMAS Special Issue: When Foundation Models Meet Multi-Agent Systems* *Deadline:* February 28, 2026 *CFP link:* https://link.springer.com/journal/10458/updates/27805014 <https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.spri…> *Call for Papers* The recent advancements in foundation models (FMs), including Large Language Models and multimodal models, mark a significant milestone in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Their capabilities in language understanding, generation and reasoning open new avenues for addressing long-standing challenges in Multi-Agent Systems (MASs). Conversely, the theories, concepts, methodologies of MASs hold the potential to further enhance FM capabilities, enabling multi-agent collaboration to solve complex tasks beyond single-agent limits. However, integrating FMs into MASs introduces new challenges such as managing the risks of hallucinations, bias, unfair decisions and behaviour that is not aligned with norms and ethical principles. This special issue delves into the intersection of FMs and MASs. We invite researchers from across the AI community to explore this exciting frontier. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - 1) FMs as solutions to MASs: How can FMs help address coordination, cooperation, optimization, and learning within MASs? How can they enhance the modelling and simulation of societies within MAS frameworks? How can they expand the application of game theory and mechanism design, and enable novel MAS applications? - 2) MASs as solutions to FMs: How can theories, concepts, architectures and methodologies of agents, MASs, and game theory contribute to improving FM capabilities, particularly in planning, reasoning, and decision-making? How can MASs help mitigate issues, like hallucination and bias, within FMs, and improve accountability and transparency of FMs? - 3) Societal implications: What are the potential societal impacts of combining FMs with MAS technology? How can these impacts be rigorously assessed, and what strategies can mitigate negative outcomes? Authors are encouraged to submit original research papers, survey papers and viewpoint papers that discuss an ongoing trend or spark interest in new ideas or areas. It is strongly encouraged that papers focus on the synergy between FMs and MASs. Papers related to recent LLM developments based on agent concepts (e.g. on “Agentic AI”) are expected to make explicit connections to existing theory and practice in MASs. A cover letter explicitly stating how the paper makes connections with prior work on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems is required during the formal submission process. The Guest Editors can be contacted (at fm-mas-special-issue(a)googlegroups.com) for pre-submission inquiries (including brief descriptions—no full paper required) to assess whether a manuscript is a good fit for this special issue. *Timeline * - February 28, 2026: Submission deadline - May 31, 2026: First round review notification - July 31, 2026: Revised manuscript deadline - August 30, 2026: Final decision notification *Guest Editors* - Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand - Shuyue Hu, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Lab, China - Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, University of Otago, New Zealand - Surangika Ranathunga, Massey University, New Zealand *Inquiries should be sent to* fm-mas-special-issue(a)googlegroups.com

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Invitation: Public online talk - From Framing to False... @ Thu Sep 18, 2025 6:30pm - 7:30pm (GMT+3) (corpora@list.elra.info)
by Ari Muhammad Said 18 Sep '25

18 Sep '25

[Corpora-List] Public online talk - From Framing to False Premises: A Two-Axis View of Robust LLM Reasoning (Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield) - 25 Sep 2025 Thursday Sep 18, 2025 ⋅ 6:30pm – 7:30pm Arabian Standard Time - Baghdad Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/xbq-wzhd-igc?hs=224 Join by phone (US) +1 585-491-9028 PIN: 955632710 We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminar at the University of Exeter. Scheduled: Thursday 25 Sep 2025 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/92525879857?pwd=goytDAcZ4zTpM0OIogW9Yb… (Meeting ID: 925 2587 9857 Password: 485835) Title: From Framing to False Premises: A Two-Axis View of Robust LLM Reasoning Abstract: Large language models often appear to “reason”, yet their answers can be steered by how we ask and by what assumptions slip into the question. This talk advances a two-axis view of question robustness grounded in two benchmarks. On the surface, logically equivalent phrasings (e.g., more vs less) can directionally bias conclusions, a systematic framing effect, captured by More or... Organizer Ari Muhammad Said ari.said(a)uoh.edu.iq Guests Ari Muhammad Said - organizer corpora(a)list.elra.info View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NTRrbHJhZmV2cjZp… Reply for corpora(a)list.elra.info and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NTRrbHJhZmV2cjZp… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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CFP: Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication
by Constantin Orasan 18 Sep '25

18 Sep '25

Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication Guildford, UK, 17 - 19 June 2026 First call for papers https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026 The conference Building on the success of the first Convergence conference<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2023> in 2023, which explored the responsible and intelligent integration of human and machine capabilities in translation and interpreting, the Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/cts> at University of Surrey, UK, is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of multilingual and accessible communication, reflecting on the complexity and effects of using AI-driven technologies in these fields. The conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue that will generate new theoretical perspectives and practical research, focusing on themes such as the ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting, AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion, and the impact of Generative AI on language mediation. We will also examine the evolving role of language professionals, the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in supporting multilingual communication, and the crucial need for responsible use of language AI in the public sector. The conference will publish full papers in open access proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. Conference themes Theme 1: Ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting Theme 2: AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion Theme 3: Which creative turn? Language mediation in the era of GenAI Theme 4: The evolving role of language professionals in the era of AI Theme 5: LLMs supporting multilingual communication Theme 6: Responsible use of language AI in the public sector Submissions and publications Convergence 2026 invites the following types of submissions on one of the conference themes: * Full papers - describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices * Short papers - describing work in progress. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices The conference aims to be a platform for in-depth discussion of prevalent themes while also offering contributors the opportunity for swift publication of their work. The event will provide the wide community of Translation and Interpreting Studies and the disciplines it intersects with, a space for networking, collective brainstorming and looking into the future of communication, all sustained by a robust set of papers published in the conference proceedings. Both full and short papers can be associated with rigorous empirical work or conceptual approaches to the themes of the conference. PhD students are also invited to submit papers regardless of the stage of their PhD journey. If accepted, their papers may be selected to any of the sessions of the conference, including a dynamic poster session, in which students may receive feedback and consider new developments for their work. The papers should be formatted using a style similar to the two column ACL style (available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). The next call for papers will provide links to the styles customised for the Convergence 2026 conference. The submission will be electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system which will be available at the conference website soon. The follow up calls will provide more details about how to submit papers. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. The final versions of the accepted papers will be published in e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. Authors may add one additional page to their final submission to incorporate the feedback from reviewers. Schedule * Deadline for full papers: 16th Feb 2026 * Notification to authors: 30th March 2026 * Submissions of final papers: 22nd May 2026 * Dates of the conference: 17 - 19 June 2026 Venue The conference will take place in Guildford at University of Surrey. Further information and contact details The second call for papers will be published at the beginning of November. The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers, conference chairs and members of the programme committee once confirmed. Meanwhile, if you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us on cts_inquiries(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:cts_enquiries@surrey.ac.uk> --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> | School of Literature and Languages<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-literature-languages> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Public online talk - From Framing to False Premises: A Two-Axis View of Robust LLM Reasoning (Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield) - 25 Sep 2025
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 18 Sep '25

18 Sep '25

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminar at the University of Exeter. Scheduled: Thursday 25 Sep 2025 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/92525879857?pwd=goytDAcZ4zTpM0OIogW9Yb… (Meeting ID: 925 2587 9857 Password: 485835) Title: From Framing to False Premises: A Two-Axis View of Robust LLM Reasoning Abstract: Large language models often appear to “reason”, yet their answers can be steered by how we ask and by what assumptions slip into the question. This talk advances a two-axis view of question robustness grounded in two benchmarks. On the surface, logically equivalent phrasings (e.g., more vs less) can directionally bias conclusions, a systematic framing effect, captured by More or Less Wrong. In the depths, multi-hop questions can embed false premises; when such premises are present, models often answer anyway instead of detecting and rejecting them, behavior exposed by MultiHoax. Together, these benchmarks set non-negotiable standards for robust reasoning: framing invariance and premise integrity. Speaker's bio: Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi is a Lecturer in Natural Language Processing at the University of Sheffield. Her research tackles the nuanced challenges of large language models, including reasoning, efficiency, robustness and fairness. She earned her PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Heidelberg. In the research community, she has served as Senior Area Chair for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, and COLING, and co-initiated and co-organized the SustaiNLP workshop series. At Sheffield, she is Deputy Director of EDI, leading initiatives that foster equity, inclusion and a positive research culture. We will update future talks on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminar and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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Call for papers: EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 April 2026)
by Dimitar Kazakov 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Submission link and deadline: ======================= The deadline for submission to EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026) is *26 October 2025* (AoE). To submit to EVOLANG XVI, use: https://openreview.net/group?id=EVOLANG.org/2026/Conference. About the conference: ================= The Evolang conference series provides the major meeting for researchers studying the origins and evolution of language. Submissions may be in any relevant discipline, including, but not limited to: anthropology, archeology, biology, cognitive science, genetics, linguistics, computational modeling (including mathematical, agent-based, and neural-network models), paleontology, physiology, primatology, philosophy, semiotics, and psychology. Submission guidance: ================= Normal standards of academic excellence apply. Submitted papers should make clear how they advance the study of language evolution and relate any novel results to up-to-date scientific literature. Submissions should aim to make clear their own substantive claim relating to relevant, current scientific literature in the field of language evolution by demonstrating the method by which their claims are substantiated, the nature of the relevant data, and/or the core of the theoretical argument. Submissions centred around empirical studies should not rest on preliminary results. All submissions are refereed by at least three relevant referees, and acceptance is based on a scoring scheme pooling the reports of the referees. In recent conferences, the acceptance rate has been about 50%. The conference showcases both oral presentations and poster presentations. Please carefully read the guidelines – and further details within the provided submission templates – to prepare your submission. In addition to your submission, you will be asked to provide a 150-word summary of your contribution. Submissions which do not have clear relevance to the field or do not adhere to the guidelines may be rejected without review. If you have a problem with your submission, please email scientific-committee(a)evolang.org . The conference language at Evolang XVI will be English with additional accessibility support in the form of captions. All submission information and templates can be found here: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/submission Dr Dimitar Kazakov evolang2026(a)gmail.com ______________________________ Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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EVOLANG XVI (7-10 April 2026) call for workshop proposals
by Dimitar Kazakov 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

======================================================== EVOLANG XVI [Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 April 2026 | evolang2026.org] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE ======================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals ======================================================== Submission Deadline: 22 Sept 2025 (AoE) Notification of Acceptance: 3 Oct 2025 EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) will host up to six thematically focused, half-day workshops on 7 April 2026. The half-day format can accommodate, for example, 8 half-hour slots with 15 minutes for an introduction and 30 minutes for breaks. Other formats within the allotted time are also welcome. What to submit ============= Workshop proposals should be no more than 500 words excluding references. Please specify the following: * The theme of the workshop and how it fits EvoLang; * How many talks and how they will be reviewed; * A list of invited speakers, should they be known; * Whether and how the organisers plan to publish the proceedings/results of the workshop; * If applicable, a detailed motivation to limit the number of participants. How to Submit =========== Send proposals as a PDF attachment to evolang2026+workshops(a)gmail.com by 22 Sept 2025 (AoE). Notification of acceptance will be given by 3 Oct 2025. The detailed scheduling of the workshops and the quality of workshop contributions will be left to the workshop organisers, who are independently responsible for inviting and reviewing submissions and/or speakers for their workshop, and notifying participants in due time to register for the conference. About the Conference ================= The EvoLang conference series provides the major meeting for researchers worldwide in the origins and evolution of language. For more information, please see: http://evolang.org See also the call for conference papers on the Evolang 2026 web site ( evolang2026.org). Dr Dimitar Kazakov evolang2026(a)gmail.com ______________________________ Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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free Corpus MOOC - running right now
by Brezina, Vaclav 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Dear all, There is still time to register for the 8-week online course on corpus linguistics and emerging technologies. Simply select the 'Audit option' to join for free. The course has just begun, and it offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on analysing large amounts of language data. You will learn how to build and analyse your own corpus using the specialised software #LancsBox, and you will explore practical applications of corpus methods in areas such as social issues, language learning and language testing. You can also ask any questions about corpus linguistics research, and a team of dedicated tutors will be on hand to support you throughout the course. The best part is that there's no obligation-you can engage with as much or as little of the course as you wish. For registration go to: https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu… Best regards, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01DC27B2.DE8CE5B0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CFP: The Twenty-Fifth International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'25)
by giulia.dagostino＠usi.ch 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

CMNA’25: The Twenty-Fifth International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument The main website for this edition of the workshop is here: https://cmna-workshop.github.io/cmna25/ A PDF copy of this call can be found here: https://cmna-workshop.github.io/cmna25/assets/cfp/cfp1.pdf The forthcoming 25th annual edition of the Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'25) will be held independently & online as we celebrate twenty-five years of this workshop series and look forward to a further twenty-five more. We are pleased to invite submissions for this landmark twenty-fifth edition of the Computational Models of Natural Argument workshop. The CMNA workshop series focuses on the issue of modelling “natural” argumentation, where naturalness may range across a variety of forms, perhaps involving the use of visual rather than linguistic means to illustrate a point, for example using graphics or multimedia, or applying more sophisticated rhetorical devices, interacting at various layers of abstraction, or exploiting “extra-rational” characteristics of the audience, taking into account emotions and affective factors. For this edition, CMNA will be run online as virtual workshop entirely online in the hope that more of our friends and colleagues from around the world can participate. To celebrate this landmark year, we solicit contributions on the special theme of “Reflections & Horizons: The past 25 years of Computational Models of Natural Argument and visions of things to come”. This theme should be interpreted broadly, to reflect the wide range of argumentative practices and models that have been studied and shared at CMNA. We also encourage reflection on the development of argumentation theory, within the remit of CMNA, during the last 25 years. Finally we also encourage forward looking contributions that share a vision of how argumentation research might develop over the next quarter century. Nothwithstanding the special theme, we also solicit contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest: • The characteristics of “natural” arguments (e.g. ontological aspects, cognitive issues, legal aspects). • The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style. • The generation of natural argument. • Corpus argumentation results and techniques. • Argumentation mining. • Models of natural legal argument. • Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in argumentation. • The roles of licentiousness and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features. • Natural argumentation in multi-agent systems. • Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation. • Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments. • Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision-support and advice-giving). • Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation. • The computational use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory. • Computer supported collaborative argumentation, for pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate. • Tools for interacting with structures of argument. • Applications of argumentation based systems. Submission ===================================================== We welcome submissions of full papers (limited to 10 pages in length), short papers (limited to 5 pages in length), or demos, position statements, and late Breaking results (each limited to a 2 a page abstract). It is highly recommended, but not mandatory, to format papers using the CEUR single column style (further information available from the submission section of the CMNA website). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be grouped into thematic sessions that incorporate extensive time for questions and discussion. For all submission types, please upload your contribution using the Conference Management Toolkit (CMT): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FCMNA2025 Key Dates ===================================================== - Regular Paper submission (long & short papers): 17th October 2025 - Regular & Short Paper notification to authors: 7th November 2025 - Demo, position statement, & late breaking results submission (2 page abstract): 14th November 2025 - Demo, position statement, & late breaking results Notification to authors: 28th November 2025 - Final (Camera Ready) version of papers: 28th November 2025 - CMNA Workshop: 12th December 2025 Organizers ===================================================== - Giulia D’Agostino -- giulia.dagostino(a)usi.ch (Università della Svizzera italiana) - Floriana Grasso -- floriana(a)liverpool.ac.uk (University of Liverpool) - Nancy Green -- nlgreen(a)uncg.edu (University of North Carolina Greensboro) - Roos Scheffers -- r.j.scheffers(a)uu.nl (Utrecht University) - Jodi Schneider -- jschneider(a)pobox.com (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) - Simon Wells -- s.wells(a)napier.ac.uk (Edinburgh Napier University)

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call for participation in our survey on collecting data in the era of LLMs
by Neele Falk 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

--------Call for participation in a research survey on collecting data in the era of LLMs------------------------------- Dear Collegues, We (researchers originally from University of Stuttgart, Kopenhagen and Gent) are conducting a survey on the challenges of collecting data in the era of large language models (LLMs). In particular, we are interested in issues such as crowdworkers relying on LLMs to generate free-text responses that are expected to be written by themselves. Our goal is to better understand the contexts in which researchers encounter these problems and to find possible solutions. The survey is completely anonymous and should take about 5–10 minutes to complete. You can access it here: https://ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6KUJzBhQSgemzpY We would be very grateful for your input—your perspective will help support this research. Thank you for your time and support! Best regards Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sofie Labat, Tarun Tater and Neele Falk

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September 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: Mixer 7 English Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> AIDA Scenario 1 Evaluation Topic Source Data, Annotation and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T13> LORELEI Hindi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T12> ________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: Mixer 7 English Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> was developed by LDC and contains 12,321 hours of audio recordings of interviews, transcript readings, and conversational telephone speech involving 222 distinct English speakers. This material was collected by LDC in 2010-2011 as part of the Mixer project, and the recordings were used in the 2012 NIST SRE test set. Recruited speakers were connected through a robot operator to carry on casual conversations on a pre-set topic lasting up to 10 minutes. Participants also visited LDC's Human Subjects Collection Lab equipped with a 14-microphone array where they participated in interviews and transcript readings, and conducted telephone calls under varying conditions. Selected speaker metadata was also collected. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. This corpus is a Members-Only release and is not available for non-member licensing. Contact ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> for information about membership. * AIDA Scenario 1 Evaluation Topic Source Data, Annotation and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T13> was developed by LDC and is comprised of English, Russian, and Ukrainian web documents (text, video, image), annotations, and assessments used in the AIDA Phase 1 pilot and final evaluations. The Phase 1 scenario focused on political relations between Russia and Ukraine in the 2010s. The material in this corpus covers the following events: Suspicious Deaths and Murders in Ukraine (January-April 2015); Odessa Tragedy (May 2, 2014); and Siege of Sloviansk and Battle of Kramatorsk (April-July 2014). The corpus contains 10,522 documents, annotations for 386 of those documents, and assessment results covering 77,965 responses in 1,525 of those documents. Annotations were performed in three steps: (1) within-document labels for scenario-related entities, relations, and events; (2) coreference annotation across documents by linking information elements to a knowledge base; and (3) indications of any relationship between labeled events/relations and hypotheses about the scenario. In the assessment phase, LDC annotators reviewed and judged system response files to provide evaluation organizers with a means for scoring submissions. Assessment tasks included zero-hop assessment, class-based assessment, graph assessment, and hypothesis assessment. The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations, and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating, and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Hindi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T12> contains over 26 million words of Hindi monolingual text, 363,00 words of which were translated into English, 1.07 million words of found Hindi-English parallel text, and 118,000 Hindi words translated from English data. Approximately 103,000 words were annotated for simple 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). 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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Call for Program Committee (Self-) Nominations (ECIR26)
by Yifei Yuan 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

=================================================================== Call for Program Committee (Self-) Nominations European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2026 Deadline: September 28, 2025 Application form: https://forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859vi8LL8 =================================================================== Are you a Ph.D. student or at the early stage of your career looking to gain experience in reviewing scientific papers? Do you know someone who can be an excellent reviewer? The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) invites you to nominate yourself or others to join the Program Committee (PC) for the short paper track. To apply, please fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859vi8LL8, which includes questions about your past experience and current research progress. Applications will be reviewed by the conference PC chairs and accepted people will be notifed. As a PC member, you will have the opportunity to read and evaluate submissions and contribute to the selection of high-quality research papers for presentation at the conference. You will also have the chance to interact with leading researchers in the field of information retrieval and build your network of contacts. The deadline for applications is September 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to your applications. ECIR Short Paper PC Chairs Mohammad, Sean, and Chrstine

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Call for Papers: JOHD Special Collection on Language Data Reuse
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite contributions to a Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) dedicated to language data reuse. The special collection is titled “Language datasets reuse: opportunities, challenges, and best practices”. This Special Collection will highlight how existing deposited mono- and multilingual language datasets (in any modality) have been reused in research across the humanities. Contributions may also describe cases where dataset reuse led to the creation of a new dataset. We welcome papers that present both successful and less successful experiences of language data reuse, with reflection on encountered issues and lessons learned. Position papers on how data creators can maximize the future reuse potential of language datasets are also encouraged. We invite the following type of submission: * Discussion papers (3,000–5,000 words): Longer narratives illustrating the reuse of one or more existing deposited language datasets (preferably created by researchers other than the authors) or showcasing reuse-focused dataset design approaches. Papers should follow the discussion paper template for this Special Collection<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LnlJPZX-lNQxtvAiI_9T3Bkio3V1bFKD/edit?u…>. Key information: * Submission deadline: 30 January 2026 * Submission link: https://account.openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/index.php/up-j-johd/submissi… * Publication fees: Waivers are available upon request. For papers describing reuse of datasets hosted in a CLARIN centre, publication fees may be covered by CLARIN. Guest Editorial Team * Darja Fišer (Executive Director of CLARIN; University of Ljubljana; Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia) * Francesca Frontini (ILC-CNR, Pisa; CLARIN-IT;, Italy) Coordinating Editor * Paola Marongiu (ILC-CNR, Pisa) We look forward to your contributions and to advancing the conversation on the reuse of language data in the humanities. With best regards, The Special Collection Editorial Team --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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Fully-funded PhD positions in NLP at University of Turku, Finland
by Shaoxiong Ji 13 Sep '25

13 Sep '25

The TurkuNLP research group at the University of Turku, Finland is seeking two fully-funded PhD Researchers to join our team! These PhD positions are part of HAIF (Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Future), a prestigious doctoral training project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. Our research is at the forefront of NLP, covering key areas such as: - Large language models - Large corpora - Multilingual methods - Health applications of NLP Check out the website https://haif.utu.fi/ for details Reach out to shaoxiong.ji(a)utu.fi if you’re interested in multilingual LLMs and health applications. Application deadline: 30 September, at 15:00 (Helsinki/Europe).

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Deadline Extended – Last Call for Participation: 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP
by Santiago Herrera 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Dear all, This is the last call, with an extended deadline, to invite everyone interested to attend the 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP. Dates: 20-24 January, 2026 (Tuesday-Saturday) Location: Yerevan State University (YSU), Yerevan, Armenia Coordinating Project: UniDive (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unid… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…>Cost: Participants selected on the basis of their applications will be reimbursed, details below. We are happy to announce the 2nd edition of UniDive Training School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome. See below for the application details. TRAINING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Courses Linguistic Typology for NLP researchers: Methods and Resources in the 21st century <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…> - by Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Luigi Talamo (Saarland University, Germany) Large Language Models for Low-Resourced Languages: Hands-On Approaches to Cultural and Genre Diversity in NLP <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…> - by Maria Carp (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL Luxembourg and University of Luxembourg) Diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where and how <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://unidive…> - by Louis Estève <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.lis…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France), Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Université Catholique Louvain, Belgium), Nurit Melnik (The Open University, Israel), Agata Savary <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://perso.l…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) and Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University, Germany, SET University, Ukraine) Poster sessions Brainstorming hackathon on open issues submitted by the trainees CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Each applicant should submit a project related to language diversity and the topics of the training school (e.g., research in fields such as linguistic variation, diversity, typology, and computational linguistics, including specific topics like diversity quantification across textual genres, corpora and languages). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: The title Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country of the affiliation) A list of 3-4 key-words Description of the project related to the topics of the training school Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project Short statement of the project phase (planned, started, ongoing) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview portal <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://openreview.net/group?id%3DUniDive/2025…> IMPORTANT DATES Trainee's application deadline: 19 September, 2025 (AoE) Acceptance notification: 24 October, 2025 Invitations for visas (if needed): 27 October, 2025 Official confirmations of travel grants: early November Training school: January 20-24, 2026 TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund about 40 trainees to come to Yerevan (additionally to local trainees). In case of a larger number of candidates, the selection criteria will include: Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here and here Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee Status of the languages, dialects, or varieties on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects, or genres are promoted) If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. The authors of the selected projects will present them in a poster session during the Training School. PROGRAM CHAIRS Victoria Bobicev Anna Danielyan Santiago Herrera Esther Ploeger Wessel Poelman Ranka Stanković Abigail Walsh For any question, please contact the organisers at adanielyan82(a)gmail.com <mailto:adanielyan82@gmail.com> and s.herrera(a)parisnanterre.fr <mailto:s.herrera@parisnanterre.fr> Looking forward to seeing you in Yerevan, Program Chairs

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/track/saner-2026 SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/ IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/ VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/ MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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Postdoc in Computational Social Science
by Marco Kuhlmann 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. As a postdoctoral fellow, your main task will be to conduct independent, innovative research in computational social science. SweCSS researchers combine large-scale data, computational methods, and theory-driven approaches to better understand society. The center aims to position Sweden at the forefront of international CSS research and to serve as an educational hub and global research node. More details about the position and how to apply: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/27295 Read more about SweCSS: https://liu.se/en/research/swecss For any questions about the position or the centre, feel free to contact me. Best regards Marco Kuhlmann Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University

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PhD position in Argumentative AI & NLP (University of St.Gallen)
by Niklaus, Christina 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Dear all, We have an open PhD position in Argumentative AI and NLP at the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), starting 1 November (or by agreement). The position focuses on developing methods to evaluate reasoning in LLMs, with a particular focus on argumentation, human–AI interaction, and evaluation frameworks. The successful candidate will design evaluation approaches, build interactive tools, and collaborate with experts from NLP, philosophy, and AI ethics. More details and how to apply: https://jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stellen/research-assistant-doctoral-candidate-… Best regards, Christina Niklaus Assistant Professor Institute of Computer Science University of St.Gallen

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Tenure-track faculty position in Language Technology - Saarland University and DFKI
by Alexander Koller 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Hi all, reminder: we are currently looking for an excellent colleague to fill a faculty position in Language Technology. This is a joint appointment between the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). It is a tenure-track position (W2 -> W3 on the German payscale) that is suitable for young researchers a couple of years after their PhD. You will join one of the most active research sites in NLP and Informatics in Europe and, over time, grow into leading the Language Technology group at DFKI. Through DFKI, you will have access to an extensive global network of industry and other partners. This dual role offers a unique platform for high-impact research and meaningful societal engagement at a scale rarely achievable elsewhere. Please find the full job ad under this link: https://tinyurl.com/saar-lt . The application deadline is September 26. Best, Alexander Koller.

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[CfP] ECIR 2026: Reprod. & IR-for-Good abstracts Oct 14/21
by Yifei Yuan 10 Sep '25

10 Sep '25

Announcing the call for papers for #ECIR2026 IR-for-Good Track: https://ecir2026.eu/calls/call-for-ir-for-good-papers Abstracts due: Oct 21 Papers due: Oct 28 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This year, we are revamping the #IR4Good track as a core track at the conference which will run alongside the main conference, not on workshop day. The special track will be a platform to highlight top societally-motivated IR research. We strongly encourage authors to submit societally-motivated papers to this special track. We invite contributions that explore new positions, critiques, tools, methods, datasets, and interventions for IR-for-Good, including works informed by interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics of interest for the #IR4Good track include how IR research and practices can contribute towards realizing more equitable, emancipatory, and sustainable collective futures. ----------------------------------- Theories of Change To ensure desired societal impact, this year we require all submissions that propose new tools, methods, datasets, and interventions to explicitly and rigorously argue how the work contributes towards positive social outcomes. Authors should critically engage with these questions, not just as an afterthought. Do not inflate your claims of societal impact, instead rigorously deliberate on your sociotechnical assumptions and potential negative externalities. Please see the CFP for example cases illustrating the kind of critical reflections we want to encourage authors and reviewers to engage in when claiming societal impact. Position papers and critiques are exempted from this requirement. We are looking forward to your submissions to the track. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions.

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Invitation to Submit Shared Task Proposal for CL4Health 2026 Workshop
by Gupta, Deepak (NIH/NLM) [C] 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

Dear all, LREC workshop proposals are due in a month. We are in the process of preparing a proposal for CL4Health workshop in LREC 2026. If you intend to propose a shared task to be collocated with CL4Health 2026, we kindly invite you to submit a description of your task, outlining its motivation, objectives, datasets, and evaluation methodology. The descriptions of the accepted tasks will be included into the CL4Health workshop proposal. The deadline for submitting your description is September 16. Thank you, Deepak Gupta Division of Intramural Research National Library of Medicine, NIH

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New book published
by Susan Hunston 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

Dear colleagues You may be interested in this book, just published by Cambridge University Press: S. Hunston, Pattern, Construction, System: A unified approach to grammar and lexis. It seeks to integrate three approaches to lexis and grammar: Pattern Grammar, Construction Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. The book is available in hard copy and the electronic version is available Open Access. Thanks to Leverhulme and the University of Birmingham for making this free access possible. Best wishes Susan Professor Susan Hunston Department of Linguistics and Communication University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT UK Tel: +44 121 414 5675 Email: s.e.hunston(a)bham.ac.uk

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Call for Papers – ACM TIST Special Issue on Interactive Storytelling
by Pasquale Lisena 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

September is a great time to plan your next publication. We are pleased to invite submissions to the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) special issue on: New Frontiers in Interactive Storytelling and Computational Models of Narrative This special issue focuses on the integration of knowledge-driven approaches (ontologies, knowledge graphs, symbolic reasoning) with LLMs and Generative AI to advance computational storytelling and narrative-centered systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Knowledge graphs for narrative structure, emotions, and values Culturally- and socially-aware language models Semantic Web interfaces for interactive storytelling Narrative planning in human-robot interaction Explainability and ethics in automated storytelling Creative and educational applications of computational narratives Empirical studies and evaluation of narrative systems Important Dates: Submission deadline: December 1, 2025 Tentative publication: October 15, 2026 📄 Full Call for Papers: https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tist/cfps/ACM-TIST-CFP-St… Guest Editors: Belén Dìaz Agudo, Pasquale Lisena, Paul Mulholland, Maria Angela Pellegrino We look forward to your contributions and to shaping together the future of computational storytelling. Best regards, The Guest Editors -- Pasquale Lisena EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France e-mail: pasquale.lisena(a)eurecom.fr site: http://pasqlisena.github.io/

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Corpus MOOC starts 15 September
by Brezina, Vaclav 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

Dear all, We’re excited to share a unique opportunity with you: Lancaster University’s free MOOC on Corpus Linguistics and New Technologies: Data, Language, Society begins on 15 September. 👉 Find out more and register here<https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu…>. [https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu…] This course is an excellent chance to explore how corpus linguistics and digital tools can be applied to the study of language in society. Highlights of this new edition include: * The release of #LancsBox X, featuring a powerful new annotation tool. * A brand new lecture on corpus linguistics in the context of AI and emerging technologies. * The opportunity to join free of charge in audit mode, with the option of a paid certificate for those interested. Please feel free to share this information with your contacts who may also be interested. We hope many of you will take advantage of this course! Best regards, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.png@01DC2177.721F9710]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01DC2177.721F9710]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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[CfP] CHOMPS Shared Task: SHROOM-CAP, the Shared Task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes in Crosslingual Analyses of Publications
by Federica Gamba 08 Sep '25

08 Sep '25

TL;DR SHROOM-CAP is an Indic-centric shared task co-located with CHOMPS-2025 to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for scientific content generated with LLMs. We have annotated hallucinated content in 5 high-resource languages and surprisal 4 low-resource Indic languages using top-tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you like by accurately detecting the presence of hallucinated content. Stay informed by joining our Google group! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the SHROOM-CAP shared task on cross-lingual hallucination detection for scientific publication (link to website). We invite participants to detect whether or not there is hallucination in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs within a cross-lingual scientific context. About This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, SHROOM, with three key highlights: LLM-centered, cross-lingual annotations & hallucination and fluency prediction. LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public. With SHROOM-CAP, we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated scientific content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a cross-lingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 5+4 different high and low resource languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, and to-be-later-revealed Indic languages). Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify hallucinations in generated scientific content. Additionally, participants will also be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in oral/poster format during the CHOMPS workshop (collocated with IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author). Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). - Train set available by: 31.07.2025 - Validation set available by: 05.09.2025 - Test set available by: 05.10.2025 - Test phase ends: 12.10.2025 - Leaderboard release: 15.10.2025 - System description papers due: 25.10.2025 - Notification of acceptance: 05.11.2025 - Camera-ready due: 11.11.2025 - Proceedings due: 01.12.2025 - CHOMPS workshop: 23/24th December 2025 (co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025) Evaluation Metrics: Participants will be ranked along two criteria: 1. factuality mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted; 2. fluency mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted based on our annotations. Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in! How to Participate: - Register: Please register your team https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 and join our google group: https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap - Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 12.10.2025. The submission platform is now available at: https://shroomcap.pythonanywhere.com/submission/ - Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 25.10.2025. Want to be kept in the loop? Join our Google group mailing list! We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, SHROOM-CAP organizers

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Call for Participation: SemEval 2026 Task 1 on Humor Generation - MWAHAHA
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 08 Sep '25

08 Sep '25

*** Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA – Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA, which stands for Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate, is SemEval 2026's Task 1 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/> and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The task is organized into two subtasks: - Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. - Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a free-form humorous caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Third Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Announce 08 Sep '25

08 Sep '25

*** Third Call for Tutorial Proposals The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day*, *half-day* or *quarter-day* tutorial formats and activities, that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, tools, labs or hands-on experiences for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. Responsibilities of Tutorial Organizers • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Facilitate the planned activities, including, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. Proposal Format Tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Tutorial)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the tutorial. • Description of tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the tutorial. • Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day or quarter-day proposals (the latter roughly 1.5 hours). Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Important Dates (AoE) • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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Vacant 2-year position at the Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)
by Philipp Conzett 06 Sep '25

06 Sep '25

At UiT The Arctic University of Norway, we have a vacant 2-year position in the project Next-generation research infrastructure for language and linguistics (TROLLing 2030). Note that the position requires good working knowledge of Norwegian or another Scandinavian language (Danish or Swedish). For more information, see the job announcement: https://www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-stillingar/stilling/285906/toaarig-pr… Best, Philipp ------------------- Philipp Conzett UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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PhD position on Academic Literacy Development in Dutch and English Academic Programmes
by Jelke Bloem 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

Dear all, We have a fully funded PhD position available on the intersection of NLP and applied linguistics, starting in January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a position at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)<https://aclc.uva.nl/> of the University of Amsterdam. It is part of our NRO-funded project on language-related degree-awarding gaps in Dutch higher education<https://www.nro.nl/onderzoeksprojecten/watching-our-language-curriculum-inn…>. The succesful candidate will develop LLM-based scoring metrics of text quality for Dutch and English, among other ideas. The candidate will be supervised by Jelke Bloem<https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/l/j.bloem/j.bloem.html> and Caitlin Meyer<https://www.uva.nl/profiel/m/e/c.m.meyer/c.m.meyer.html>. We welcome applications from candidates with a NLP/AI background and an interest in language and higher education. We do ask for B1-level Dutch skills for this position. Closing date: Oct 3, 2025. The position is expected to start in January 2026. More details and to apply: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/phd-position-on-academic-literacy-dev… Best regards, Jelke Bloem Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam

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Call for Participation DHASA Conference and RAIL workshop 2025
by Menno Van Zaanen 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

Call for Participation DHASA Conference and RAIL workshop 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za https://sadilar.org/en/rail-2025/ DHASA conference dates: 11 November 2025-14 November 2025 RAIL workshop date: 10 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Registration: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/registration/ DHASA CONFERENCE Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. RAIL WORKSHOP Them: Language resources in the age of large language models The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. 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1-Year Postdoc Opportunity : Ambiguity, Argumentation, LLMs
by Victor David 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

1-Year Postdoc Opportunity : Ambiguity, Argumentation, LLMs Location: Inria Sophia-Antipolis France Supervisor: Victor David, Anthony Hunter, Serena Villata We are looking for a motivated postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in computational argumentation or natural language processing, to join a new project exploring how machines can reason over ambiguous information. The core aim is to develop innovative methods for interpreting and reasoning about ambiguous statements using structured representations as argumentation frameworks. The project explores fundamental challenges in explainability, ambiguity-aware interpretation, and structured reasoning. To apply, please send a brief email including your CV and a short summary of your research background to victor.david(a)inria.fr <mailto:victor.david@inria.fr>. Best regards, -- Victor DAVID ISFP Researcher at INRIA Sophia Antipolis

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CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2027
by ACL Announcements 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2027* The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2027 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the West Asia, or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April/May) 2027. The 2027 conference will be the 19th meeting of the EACL. *At this stage, we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders.* These will be evaluated and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. Draft bid proposals (due *September 30th, 2025*) should include information on all of the following items: 1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably late March/ early April) 2027 2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, a hotel or a convention center. Bear in mind that EACL is growing. While EACL 2014 (in Gothenburg) had 520 registered participants, EACL 2027 (in Valencia) had 680 registered participants, and EACL 2024 (in Malta) had over 800 participants. So please suggest a location that could host * About 1000 participants for plenary sessions; * plus at least 4 conference rooms hosting parallel sessions (200-250 people each); * a large poster or exhibit room; * 11 rooms on the workshops/tutorials days among which at least two host 200 participants and the others 60 participants; * and rooms for demos, small meetings and registration. 3. *Local arrangements team:* local chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether a professional conference organizer (PCO) will be involved in the organization. Also, indicate whether any national/regional associations for Computational Linguistics would be on board of the local organization. *The final bids (to be submitted for the shortlisted proposals) will also need to include detailed information on the following items:* 1. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are 2. Printing of conference booklet 3. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and conference dinner 4. Accommodation options at the venue, including low-cost student accommodation 5. Travel alternatives to the venue from Europe and beyond 6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event and reception --- 7. Potential for local sponsorships 8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings 9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below). The proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria, including (unordered): - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities - Adequacy of expenses projections and expected surplus - Appropriateness of proposed dates - Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing conferences held in EMEA - Co-location with national/regional conferences - Experience of the local arrangements team - Local CL community support - Local government and industry support - Appropriateness of expected registration fees - Accessibility of the proposed site Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years: EACL 23 report [1]https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf [2] and the EACL conference handbook: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf [3] Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Board: eacl-info(a)aclweb.org with a copy to eacl-secretary(a)aclweb.org The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal. *Important Dates:* 30th September 2025: Deadline for draft bids November 2025: Feedback to bidders, announcement of shortlist of bidders December 2026: Deadline for final bids March 2026: Final bid chosen (to be publicly announced in July at ACL2025) April/May 2027: EACL Conference Links: ------ [1] http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_EACL_2017 [2] https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf [3] https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf

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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 35: Call for Participation
by Vincent Vandeghinste 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

We're reaching out one final time to invite you to register for the annual CLIN conference on computational linguistics, which will take place in Leuven on September 12th, 2025. If you're not sure whether CLIN is for you, have a look at the programme before deciding! We've got 44 oral presentations lined up as well as 76 posters, as well as a keynote by Marie-Catherine de Marneffe on human label variation in NLI. (https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/programme) If you find something that catches your eye, you can register here https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/registration [1]. We will prepare goodie bags and badges early next week, so if you would like a nicely printed badge, we urge you to register by Monday 8/9. Links: ------ [1] https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/registration

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2nd Call for Participation: the 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP
by Santiago Herrera 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

Dear all, We invite everyone interested to attend the 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP. Dates: 20-24 January, 2026 (Tuesday-Saturday) Location: Yerevan State University (YSU), Yerevan, Armenia Coordinating Project: UniDive (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unid… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id%3…>Cost: Participants selected on the basis of their applications will be reimbursed, details below. We are happy to announce the 2nd edition of UniDive Training School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome. See below for the application details. TRAINING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Courses Linguistic Typology for NLP researchers: Methods and Resources in the 21st century <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - by Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Luigi Talamo (Saarland University, Germany) Large Language Models for Low-Resourced Languages: Hands-On Approaches to Cultural and Genre Diversity in NLP <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - by Maria Carp (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL Luxembourg and University of Luxembourg) Diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where and how <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - by Louis Estève <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/membres/esteve-lo…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France), Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Université Catholique Louvain, Belgium), Nurit Melnik (The Open University, Israel), Agata Savary <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://perso.limsi.fr/savary/&source=gmail-im…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) and Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University, Germany, SET University, Ukraine) Poster sessions Brainstorming hackathon on open issues submitted by the trainees CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Each applicant should submit a project related to language diversity and the topics of the training school (e.g., research in fields such as linguistic variation, diversity, typology, and computational linguistics, including specific topics like diversity quantification across textual genres, corpora and languages). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: The title Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country of the affiliation) A list of 3-4 key-words Description of the project related to the topics of the training school Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project Short statement of the project phase (planned, started, ongoing) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview portal <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/Training_School>. IMPORTANT DATES Trainee's application deadline: 12 September, 2025 (AoE) Acceptance notification: 17 October, 2025 Invitations for visas (if needed): 20 October, 2025 Official confirmations of travel grants: Early November Training school: January 20-24, 2026 TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund about 40 trainees to come to Yerevan (additionally to local trainees). In case of a larger number of candidates, the selection criteria will include: Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here and here Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee Status of the languages, dialects, or varieties on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects, or genres are promoted) If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. The authors of the selected projects will present them in a poster session during the Training School. PROGRAM CHAIRS Victoria Bobicev Anna Danielyan Santiago Herrera Esther Ploeger Wessel Poelman Ranka Stanković Abigail Walsh For any question, please contact the organisers at adanielyan82(a)gmail.com <mailto:adanielyan82@gmail.com> and s.herrera(a)parisnanterre.fr <mailto:s.herrera@parisnanterre.fr> Looking forward to seeing you in Yerevan, Program Chairs

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[SEPLN] SEPLN 2025: Last Call for Registration
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

*******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** [Spanish version below / versión en español más abajo] * Last Call for Registration:* SEPLN 2025: 41st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Zaragoza, Spain September 24-26, 2025 https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/home/ The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) is pleased to invite you to participate in the 41st edition of the SEPLN Conference. The SEPLN Conference will take place on 24-26 September 2025 at Zaragoza (Spain), at the Technological Institute of Aragon (ITA). The huge amount of digital information available in different languages has created the need for systems to access this valuable resource in an increasingly structured way. Thus, there is a renewed interest in improving the ways in which we can access and leverage this information in multilingual environments. The formal and technological foundations to address these needs have and keep being proposed from the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its many branches: information extraction and retrieval, language models, question answering, machine translation, automatic analysis of textual content, text summarization, text simplification, text generation, and speech recognition and synthesis. The main aim of the SEPLN 2025 Conference is to provide both to the scientific community and to the industry a forum where the latest research and developments in the field of NLP can be presented and shared. The SEPLN 2025 Conference also gives the possibility to present real NLP applications and R&D projects. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum for helping new professionals to become active members in this field. Structure of the Conference The SEPLN 2025 Conference will be a three-day event and will include sessions to present papers, ongoing research projects and prototype or product demos related to the topics of the conference. Likewise, the 23rd of September will take place the Workshop Day, where the main workshop will be IberLEF 2025 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025__;!!…> . The Conference will have two high-level international keynotes by María Fernández Guajardo (Executive in AI & Emerging Tech – Google) y Marta R. Costa-jussà (Research Scientist – Meta AI). You can read more details at: https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/invited-talks/ <https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/invited-talks/> Moreover, during the Conference we will celebrate the 41st anniversary of the SEPLN, so we will have an exciting social programme to celebrate it. Registration All the information of the registration is at: https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/registration/ *Only a few days until the conference begins!* Organizing Committee - Esther Borao Moros, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Carlos Millán Ibor, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Rafael del Hoyo Alonso (Presidente SEPLN 2025), Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Paula Peña Larena (Presidenta SEPLN 2025), Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Rosa Montañés Salas, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Mª Carmen Rodríguez Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Beatriz Franco García, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Sergio Gracia Borobia, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Irene Bosque López, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - María Rubio Rodrigo, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Mª Isabel Hernández Abás, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) Contact All information related to the conference can be found at https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/home/ For all general enquiries, please contact: *sepln2025(a)ita.es <sepln2025(a)ita.es>* [Spanish version] *Última llamada para inscribirse:* SEPLN 2025: XLI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural Zaragoza, España Septiembre 24-26, 2025 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://sepln2023.sepln.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!V0J…> https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/inicio/ La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) se complace en invitarle a participar en la 41ª edición del Congreso SEPLN, que tendrá lugar en el Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (ITA). La enorme cantidad de información disponible en formato digital y en diferentes idiomas exige que los sistemas informáticos nos faciliten el acceso a esta ingente cantidad de información de una forma cada vez más estructurada. Por esta razón, existe un renovado interés en mejorar la accesibilidad y explotación de la información en entornos multilingües. La base formal y tecnológica para abordar adecuadamente estas necesidades se ha propuesto y se sigue proponiendo desde el área del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN) y sus múltiples ramas: extracción y recuperación de información, modelos de lenguaje, respuesta a preguntas, traducción automática, análisis automático de textos y contenidos textuales, resumen de texto, simplificación de texto, generación de texto y reconocimiento y síntesis de voz. El principal objetivo del Congreso SEPLN 2025 es proporcionar, tanto a la comunidad científica como a la industria, un foro donde presentar y compartir las últimas investigaciones y desarrollos en el campo del PLN. El Congreso SEPLN 2025 también da la posibilidad de presentar aplicaciones reales de PLN, así como diferentes proyectos de I+D. Finalmente, la conferencia pretende ser un foro apropiado para ayudar a los nuevos profesionales a convertirse en miembros activos en este campo. Organización del congreso El Congreso durará tres días en los que se presentarán artículos científicos, resúmenes de proyectos de investigación y demostraciones de productos o prototipos relacionados con temas del Congreso. Además, el 23 de septiembre tendrá lugar el día de talleres de trabajo, donde destaca entre todos el taller IberLEF 2025 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025__;!!…> . El Congreso incluirá dos charlas invitadas de alto nivel internacional por parte de María Fernández Guajardo (Executive in AI & Emerging Tech – Google) y Marta R. Costa-jussà (Research Scientist – Meta AI). Todos los detalles sobre las charlas invitadas en: https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/charlas-invitadas/ Además, durante el Congreso celebraremos el 41 aniversario de la SEPLN, por lo que tendremos un programa social especial para celebrar esta fecha tan especial. Registro Toda la información del registro está en: https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/inscripciones/ *¡Solo quedan unos días para que comience el Congreso!* Comité Organizador - Esther Borao Moros, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Carlos Millán Ibor, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Rafael del Hoyo Alonso (Presidente SEPLN 2025), Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Paula Peña Larena (Presidenta SEPLN 2025), Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Rosa Montañés Salas, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Mª Carmen Rodríguez Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Beatriz Franco García, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Sergio Gracia Borobia, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Irene Bosque López, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - María Rubio Rodrigo, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) - Mª Isabel Hernández Abás, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (España) Contacto Toda la información relativa al congreso se encuentra en: https://eventos.ita.es/sepln_2025/inicio/ Para consultas sobre el congreso, por favor escriba un correo electrónico a: *sepln2025(a)ita.es <sepln2025(a)ita.es>* -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. 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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026
by ACL Announcements 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

*Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026* The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the ACL 2026 and EACL 2026 conferences. We welcome submissions covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for two types of tutorials: * *Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP*: Covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP. * *Introductory tutorials in related fields*: Offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights. Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: * *EACL 2026* (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026. * *ACL 2026* (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026. Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centers EACL and ACL 2026. *Important Dates* EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: * Proposal submission deadline: *October 20, 2025* * Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2025 * Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials one month prior to the date of the tutorial /All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth")./ *Fee Waivers* Up to *3 instructors per tutorial* can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops. *Diversity & Inclusion* To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to *topics promoting diversity* (e.g., working on minority languages or groups), *participation diversity* (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and *representation diversity* among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory [1], Black in AI [2], Disability in AI [3], Indigenous AI [4], LatinX in AI [5], Masakhane [6], 500 Queer Scientists [7], and Women-in-ML's directory [8]. *Submission Details* 1Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download [9] the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template [10]. Proposals *should not exceed 4 pages of content* (plus one page for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: 1) A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. 2) A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community. 3) Type of the tutorial: "cutting-edge in CL/NLP" vs "introductory to fields related to CL/NLP". 4) Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for the attendees, for example: * Math: e.g., "Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus" * Linguistics: e.g., "Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars" * Machine Learning: e.g., "Understand 'classical' supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron" * Neural Network: e.g., "Familiarity with transformers" * Programming or other tools: e.g., "Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix command line tools" 5) An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. 6) Explain how the tutorial includes other people's work. We recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be "self-invited talks". 7) Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. 8) Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant. 9) For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. 10) An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. 11) A description of special requirements for technical equipment. 12) We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the case. 13) An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. 14) A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. 15) OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case. 16) OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [1] [11]. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, optionally, by a group of external experts. *Evaluation Criteria* Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors' experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion. *Instructor Responsibilities* Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by *Dec 08, 2025*. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide *tutorial materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the start date of the hosting conference*. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed). *Tutorial Chairs* * EACL * Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil * Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK * Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UK * ACL * Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA * Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at eaclacl2026_tutorials [at] googlegroups.com [2]. Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-tutorial-proposals-eaclacl… [3] [1] http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/ [4] [2] https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership [5] [3] https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/ [6] [4] https://www.indigenous-ai.net/ [7] [5] https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY [8] [6] https://www.masakhane.io/ [7] https://500queerscientists.com/ [9] [8] https://www.wiml.org/directory [10] [9] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [11] [10] https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr [12] [11] https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [1] Links: ------ [1] https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [2] http://googlegroups.com/ [3] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-tutorial-proposals-eaclacl… [4] http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/ [5] https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership [6] https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/ [7] https://www.indigenous-ai.net/ [8] https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY [9] https://500queerscientists.com/ [10] https://www.wiml.org/directory [11] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [12] https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr

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[CFP] EACL 2026 First Call for Main Conference Papers
by ACL Announcements 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

First Call for Main Conference Papers EACL 2026: 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 24-29, 2026, Rabat, Morocco ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025 EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025 Details: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ [1] *Overview* The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2026 will take place in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24 to 29, 2026. *Submission information* Paper submission and commitment will be handled via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). ARR works on a two-monthly review cycle. The "paper submission deadline" is the latest date that new papers can be submitted to ARR and be reviewed in time to be considered by EACL 2026. Papers submitted in previous ARR rounds can also be considered. The "paper commitment deadline" is the date by which authors must choose, based on the reviews so far, whether to "commit" their ARR papers to be considered by EACL 2026. The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review process at editors(a)aclrollingreview.org. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be for papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. *Important Dates* * ARR submission deadline: 6 October 2025 * Author response & reviewer discussion: 18 - 24 November 2025 * Meta-reviews released: 11 December 2025 * EACL commitment deadline: 14 December 2025 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). *Topics of Interest* EACL 2026 has the goal of 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 in NLP * Ethics and NLP * Generation * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Information Extraction * Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * 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 *Long Papers* Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon acceptance, long papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 9 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. *Short Papers* 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. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. *Findings of the ACL* Papers submitted to EACL 2026, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Acceptance notifications for the main track and Findings will come out simultaneously. *Presentation Mode* Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the programme committee based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. 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 as posters. Papers accepted to the Findings of the ACL may present a poster. *Presentation Requirements* All accepted papers must be presented at the conference--either online or in-person--in order to appear in the proceedings. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EACL 2026 must notify the program chairs by the withdrawal deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2026 by the early registration deadline. *Paper Submission and Anonymity* Following standard ACL and ARR policy, submitted papers must be prepared for two-way anonymized review, and no deanonymized preprint may be posted in the month prior to submission. Please see the ARR CfP for more detail (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). *Policies on Authorship, Citation and Ethics* EACL 2026 follows the ARR policies on authorship, citation and comparison and ethics - please see the ARR CfP (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). *Multiple Submission Policy* EACL 2026 follows the ARR policy on multiple submission: we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. See the ARR CfP for more detail (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). *Mandatory Discussion of Limitations* We believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. Following recent EACL conferences, EACL 2026 requires all papers to have a clear discussion of limitations, in a dedicated section titled "Limitations". This section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit. Papers without a limitations section will be automatically rejected without review. Papers resubmitted from previous ARR review rounds that did not include a limitations section must ensure that such a section is included in the EACL 2026 version. While we are open to different types of limitations, just mentioning that a set of results have been shown for English only probably does not reflect what we expect. Mentioning that the method works mostly for languages with limited morphology, like English, is a much better alternative. In addition, limitations such as low scalability to long text, the requirement of large GPU resources, or other things that inspire further investigation are welcome. *Contact Information* General Chair: * Aline Villavicencio, University of Exeter Program Chairs: * Vera Demberg, Saarland University * Kentaro Inui, MBZUAI, Tohoku University, RIKEN * Lluís Marquez Villodre, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Links: ------ [1] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ [2] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp

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[CfP] Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Tirthankar Ghosal 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

*** The Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025 *** **** Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/shared_task *** The Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025 addresses the challenge of automatically linking astronomical publications to observational facilities. Telescope bibliographies are crucial for measuring scientific impact, enabling data discovery, and supporting reproducibility, but remain largely curated by hand. TRACS provides a dataset of annotated scientific papers and invites participants to build systems that detect telescope references, group papers by facility, and classify data usage into science, instrumentation, mention, or false positives. A key focus is generalization to new telescopes, ensuring broad applicability to the rapidly evolving astronomical landscape. **** Register here: https://tinyurl.com/tracs-wasp-aacl2025 <https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_tracs-2Dwasp-2Daacl202…> *** *** Important Dates *** CfP + Registration starts August 27, 2025 Train and Validation Data Release August 31, 2025 Test Set Release August 31, 2025 Registration Ends October 10, 2025 System Run and Output Submission October 13, 2025 System Paper Submission October 20, 2025 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Notification November 3, 2025 Camera Ready Submission November 11, 2025 ***Organizers*** - Felix Grezes <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/fgrezes.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal>, National Center for Computational Sciences | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Kelly Lockhart <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/klockhart.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/aaccomazzi.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Final call for EACL and ACL 2026 workshops
by z＠zeerak.org 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] Please not that the deadline for submitting workshops proposals for ACL and EACL 2026 is this coming Friday (the 5th of September)! Submission link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2026/ Joint Call for Workshops Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 The Association for Computational Linguistics, the European Language Resource Association and International Committee on Computational Linguistics invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 or ACL 2026. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues: * EACL 2026 (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026 * ACL 2026 (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026 The workshop and tutorial co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the conferences. They will take into account location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers. A second call will be made in the fall for workshops colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centres EACL and ACL 2026. Important Dates EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: * Proposal submission deadline: September 5, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission Information Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organizers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. Please use the LaTeX template for your submission. The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title, short name / acronym, and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Some conferences might take place only or partially virtually. We request submissions to contain a brief discussion on measures planned to make sure a workshop is successful and productive in case of a hybrid or virtual-only attendance. * A description of special requirements and technical needs. * A description of any limitations that would restrict the workshop to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the workshop cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. * Diversity and Inclusion Efforts (see more details below) * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying: how many prior editions occurred, where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received in the last iteration and how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and an estimate of how many in-person posters the workshop attracted. * (Optional/If Known) A list of invited speakers, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers. * (Optional) A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Having a shared task is optional. The submission form will request information that does not factor into the decision process, but are necessary for logistical reasons: * An estimate of the maximum number of attendees at one given time * Number of estimated in-person posters * Preferred Venue (first and second preference). Providing a second preferred venue is optional, and we assume that providing a second preference indicates its compatibility for the workshop. While we will do our best to adhere to these preferences, we cannot guarantee that they will be satisfied. * Duration of the workshop (1-day / 2-day workshop) Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker. The workshop organizers must bear all other costs independently, including registration for more than one invited speaker. The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include: * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with a brief statement (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organizing workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and thoughtful reviews. * An indication whether the workshop will consider papers submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); use OpenReview as a platform (both to take papers from ARR and for their own review); or whether the workshop will only use START as a platform, and will not use ARR. In making this choice, please pay careful attention to the ARR deadlines and conference notifications. * References Submission is electronic at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2026/ Diversity and Inclusion The proposals should describe the ways in which the workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal: * Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on. * Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences. * Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on. Organizer Responsibilities The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. However, it is worth noting that workshops may also accept non-archival submissions, such as findings papers, for presentation, which are allowed in this case. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers are free to deviate from the proposed schedule for all dates that are not marked as inflexible, though changes should be made in consultation with the relevant workshop chairs. In submitting a proposal, workshop chairs will be asked to agree to the workshop non-compliance policy<https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1hhocb0fXBBJhqJHoOfZtx1V1kcTATpA4IMU…>. All workshops must agree to this policy, which states that egregious cases of not living up to the responsibilities of running a workshop will be penalized by a 1-year ban on the organizers from submitting another workshop proposal. Workshop proposals for which all authors do not agree to this policy will be desk-rejected. The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL’s general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops in the Conference Handbook<http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook>. Review Process Workshop proposals will be holistically reviewed by a committee of workshop chairs and the ACL workshop officers based on: their originality and impact, the experience of the Organizing and Program Committees, and the ethical considerations presented and adherence of the workshop proposal to ACL’s code of ethics. This committee will also allocate workshops to the conferences included in the call, taking into account location preferences and technical constraints given in the workshop proposal. However, the aim of the review process is to accept as many high-quality workshops as possible. Given space limitations at conference venues and the increasing number of workshop proposals, the review committee can not guarantee that a proposal will be co-located with their preferred venue in lieu of extenuating circumstances. The review process will have three possible outcomes: accept, in which case the workshop will be co-located with either EACL or ACL; revise and resubmit, where the organizing committee is encouraged to incorporate reviewer feedback and resubmit to the next call for workshops for AACL and EMNLP; or reject, in which the workshop proposal should not be submitted the next call, and will be desk rejected if submitted. Tentative Workshop Timelines EACL * First call for workshop papers: October 15, 2025 * Second call for workshop papers: November 12, 2025 * Third call for papers: December 5, 2025 * Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 * Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 27, 2026 * Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 ACL * First call for workshop papers: December 10, 2025 * Second call for workshop papers: January 15, 2026 * Third call for workshop papers: February 20, 2026 * Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 1, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026 Workshop Chairs EACL * Adriana Pagano * Emmanuele Chersoni * Julia Ive ACL * Loic Barrault, Meta FAIR * Yang Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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English-Corpora.org: new AI/LLM features for corpus analysis
by Mark Davies 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

At English-Corpora.org, we’ve added new AI/LLM-based tools directly into the corpus interface, while still keeping the corpus data at the center of analysis. An overview of the features is available at *https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/ <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/>*. Using nine different LLMs (like GPT, Gemini, and Claude), users can now do things such as: -- semantically cluster and categorize collocates and phrases, such as the collocates of *identity *or the highly polysemous *bow*, or results for the phrase *soft *NOUN -- compare words via collocates, such as *quandary*/*predicament*, *provoke* /*incite*, or *completely*/*entirely* -- analyze differences in frequency or collocates across corpus sections, such as genres, historical periods, or dialects -- analyze KWIC lines, including semantic prosody, collocates, grammatical patterns, text types, and pragmatic functions -- generate words and phrases by topic, translation, or rephrasing -- and then see their frequency in different sections of the corpus Users can also: -- switch easily between LLMs to compare analyses across nine different models *-- view results in 30 different languages*-- select one of 14 "user profiles" (e.g. linguist, translator, teacher, or learner), for customized results -- save, retrieve, and annotate AI results (categorizations, analyses, and generated words/phrases) The goal is not to replace careful corpus analysis, but to complement it. The LLMs can suggest patterns, categories, and comparisons -- but the underlying corpus data is always visible, so users can verify, adapt, or challenge the AI output. We hope these tools will be useful for learners, teachers, researchers, translators, and anyone interested in richer ways of exploring corpus data. ============================================ Mark Davies english-corpora.org mark-davies.org ============================================

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[CfP] ECIR 2026: 2nd call – Full Papers (Abstract Sep 25)
by Yifei Yuan 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Call for Full Papers The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval. The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026, https://ecir2026.eu/) will take place as a physical (in-person) conference from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, The Netherlands. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ECIR 2026 invites the submission of high-quality and original papers in the broad field of Information Retrieval. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Search and ranking, including retrieval models and ranking, query and content analysis, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and theoretical aspects of Information Retrieval; 2. Recommender systems, including recommendation algorithms, and advanced recommender systems, covering rich content representations, content analysis, and diverse recommendation techniques such as content-based and collaborative filtering, cross-domain and context-aware methods, and multi-stakeholder approaches; 3. User aspects in IR, including information interaction, human-AI collaboration, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours; System aspects, including retrieval and recommendation architectures, efficiency and scalability; 4. Conversational search and recommender systems, focusing on natural language understanding and generation, dialogue management, multimodal interaction, and user engagement in search processes; 5. Explainability methods, addressing the transparency, interpretability, and accountability of AI-driven systems, particularly for information retrieval, recommendation, and personalisation; 6. Machine Learning and Large Language Models for information retrieval and recommendation, IR in agentic workflows; 7. Applications, such as web search, web and social media apps, professional and domain-specific search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, multimodal search and conversational agents; 8. Evaluation research, including new metrics, benchmarks and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of retrieval and/or recommendation systems, users, and/or applications; 9. Societally-motivated IR research, including on algorithmic bias and fairness, misinformation, hate speech, interpretability and explainability, privacy-aware IR, trustworthy IR, and ethics; Please note: This year, we are revamping the dedicated IR-for-Good track to be a core conference track that will run alongside the main conference (not on workshop day). We want this special track to be a platform that highlights top societally-motivated IR research at ECIR. We strongly encourage authors to submit societally-motivated papers to this special track. The call for papers for that track will be released in August. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Paper Track The Full Paper Track provides the opportunity for researchers to present their state-of-the-art research in Information Retrieval, which makes, or has the potential to make, a significant contribution to the field. Full papers are up to 12 pages in length plus unlimited additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the page limit. Please put appendices before the references for paper submission. Papers over the page limit will be desk rejected. Full papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review, with an initial first-stage review followed by a second stage of discussion led by a meta-reviewer. Some high-quality submissions not accepted as main papers may be invited to be published as findings papers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid). All submissions must be written in English. All papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system. The EasyChair URL will be announced later. In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the paper has been submitted, changes relating to its authorship cannot be made. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference by one of the authors in person – and at least one author for each accepted contribution will be required to register and attend. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual Submission Policy Papers submitted to ECIR 2026 should be substantially different from papers that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are: Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings. Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report (e.g., in institutional archives or preprint archives like arXiv). Please do not cite your technical report and make effort to avoid any issues that may harm the double-blindness of your submission. Reviewers will receive guidance that asks them to refrain from trying to break blindness, but be aware that the availability of an available technical report for an ECIR submission might cause some issues. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethics and Professional Conduct ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely: 1. The ACM’s Policy on Authorship, 2. The ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, 3. The ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy, 4. The ACM’s Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification, 5. The ACM’s Policy Against Harassment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Paper Track Dates Full paper abstract submission: September 25, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Full paper submission: October 2, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Full paper notification: December 16, 2025 Main conference: March 30 - April 1, 2026 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Paper Track Chairs Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Ricardo Campos (University of Beira Interior / INESC TEC, Portugal) Yanyan Lan (Tsinghua University, China) Contact: see the website, https://ecir2026.eu/

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[CfP] ECIR 2026: Final reminder – Workshop Proposals Sep 12
by Yifei Yuan 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Call for Workshop Proposals ECIR 2026 (https://ecir2026.eu/) workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in emerging areas in IR in a focused and interactive way. Workshops can be either a half-day (3.5 hours plus breaks) or a full day (7 hours plus breaks). The organizers of approved workshops are expected to set up a webpage for the workshop, disseminate the call for papers and the call for participation, gather and review submissions, and prepare the final program. A camera-ready summary of the workshop, written by the organizers, will be included in the ECIR conference proceedings. Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of workshop proceedings. Organizers are also encouraged to write a summary article for the June edition of the ACM SIGIR Forum, highlighting the main results of the workshop. Workshops are on site, and at least one organizer is expected to attend the workshop. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on any topic relevant to the general field of Information Retrieval, including those mentioned in the Call for Full papers for ECIR 2026. Submission Guidelines Workshop proposals should contain the following information: Title and abstract of the workshop; Motivation and relevance to ECIR; Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes; Format and Structure, in particular, duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day workshop); mention to the type of papers (e.g., full papers, demo papers, negative papers, etc); type of presentation (e.g., oral; poster, etc); and proceedings (e.g., CEUR; Special Issue, etc); planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.; resources needed to deliver the workshop (e.g., poster boards, etc); Intended audience, including number of expected participants and how they will be selected/invited; List of organizers with a brief bio highlighting the relevance of their expertise to the workshop topics Names of potential programme committee members, invited speakers, etc Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed; Any other relevant information to support your proposal. Workshop proposals should be prepared using Springer proceedings templates available on the Springer webpage, with a maximum length of 8 pages. All proposals must be in English and will be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2026 workshop committee based on the quality of their proposal, covered topics, relationship to ECIR, and likelihood of attracting participants. The ECIR workshop co-chairs will make final decisions. Springer webpage: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Submission page: EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2026 Ethics and Professional Conduct ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely: The ACM’s Policy on Authorship, The ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, The ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy, The ACM’s Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification, The ACM’s Policy Against Harassment Workshop Proposals Track Dates Workshop proposals submission: September 12, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Workshop proposals notification: October 17, 2025 Workshop day: April 02, 2026 Workshop Proposals Track Chairs Negar Arabzadeh (UC Berkeley) Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Contact: ecir2026-workshops(a)easychair.org

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Call for Papers: Corpora and Discourse 2026
by Brookes, Gavin 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Dear all, Please find below the first call for papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference, 2026. Best wishes, Gavin Brookes Call for Papers We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 8th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (#CADS 2026). This conference will be hosted by Lancaster University, UK from Tuesday 23rd June to Thursday 25th June 2026. The Corpora and Discourse International Conference showcases research that combines corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in all forms and under all names. Our key objective is to bring together researchers who are interested in how discourse(s) are structured, patterned, and received, and who use corpus linguistics as part of this work. Keynote speakers: We are delighted to announce our confirmed keynote speakers: * Matteo Fuoli<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/fuoli-matteo> (University of Birmingham, UK) * Brian King<https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King> (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) * Michaela Mahlberg<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/person/prof-dr-michaela-mahlberg/> (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) * Elena Semino<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino> (Lancaster University, UK) The call for papers opens on 2 September 2025 and closes on 16 November 2025. We welcome abstracts for both oral presentations and poster presentations reporting on work at the intersections of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, broadly conceived. Contributions might address, but certainly do not need to be limited to, the following areas: * academic, scientific, technological and medical discourse(s); * comparative studies; * discourse(s) and identities; * discourse(s) in language acquisition, language learning and teaching; * discursive and/or language change over time (including historical analyses); * discourse(s) and social issues (e.g., health, the environment, gender and sexuality, technology, politics and polycrises); * figurative language in discourse (e.g. metaphor, metonymy, irony); * institutional discourse(s); * intercultural discourses; * language ideology and policy; * media, social media, new media and hybrid text types; * methodological innovations in corpus and discourse analysis approaches; * multimodality and corpora; * reflective contributions on the assumptions, practices, ethical dilemmas and implications of corpus and discourse analysis research; * corpus stylistics and literary discourse; * translation studies and discourse(s). Submission information: As this is an in-person only conference, all presenting participants must attend the conference in person. Oral presentations should present research that is either completed or that is ongoing with some substantial results. Research that is a work in progress and that is yet to yield substantial results is welcome in the form of a poster presentation. Oral presentations will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. For oral/poster presentations, please submit an unstructured abstract of up to 4000 characters (including references). Abstracts should be submitted in the form on this page: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/call-for-papers/ (the form is also accessible directly here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qkm2sqPKA1) Please format your in-text references and bibliography in Chicago Citation Style. Key dates: * The call for papers opens on 2 September 2025. * The deadline for abstract submission is 16 November 2025. * Notification of acceptance (or rejection) will be sent out mid January 2026. * Registration opens on 2 February 2026. * Registration closes on 1 June 2026. * The conference will take place from 23 to 25 June 2026.

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AAMAS 2026 Main Track: Abstract Submission in 4 Weeks (October 1st)
by Announce 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

*** Main Track: Abstract Submission in 4 Weeks (October 1st) *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates (for the main technical track) • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/ Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/ . Workshop Outreach Pipeline AAMAS 2026 will include a pilot designed to encourage submission of high-quality papers from related workshops at sister AI conferences. All submissions will go through the standard AAMAS review process, but PCs from participating workshops will be able to easily bid on papers from "their" workshop. As with all AAMAS submissions, only papers that have not been published in any archival proceedings can be submitted. You can see the full list of workshops in the interest form for authors: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UjJbNykWK_fsKWbEHDyMEA02cGheIyPeWxCPcUskwk… [docs.google.com] It is recommended to verify with your workshop chair that they are aware of the pipeline and have promoted it to the workshop's authors and PC. Other Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature four special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track), as well as a Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). Submission DL: November 17, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-aaai-track/ The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. Submission DL (abstract): December 03, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/ The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. Submission DL: January 06, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-jaamas-track/ The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. Submission DL: January 09, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-demonstrations/ Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Submission DL (abstract): January 19, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ Proposals for workshops, competitions and tutorials are also welcome: Workshop proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-workshops/ (DL: November 10, 2025) Competition proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-competitions/ (DL: November 10, 2025) Tutorial proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-tutorials/ (DL: January 16, 2026) Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions on the main track, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com . Contacts for the other calls can be found on the AAMAS 2026 website.

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PhD position on Explainable NLU at the University of Copenhagen
by Isabelle Augenstein 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

A fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship on explainable natural language understanding for a start in Spring 2026 is available in the Natural Language Understanding group<https://www.copenlu.com/> at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen as part of the ExplainYourself project<https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2021-starting-grants-results> on Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking. The position requires a Master’s degree. The successful candidate will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein<http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and co-supervised by Pepa Atanasova<https://apepa.github.io/>. Read more about the position and apply here<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…> by 31 October 2025. The project is funded by an ERC Starting Grant, a highly competitive funding program by the European Research Council<https://erc.europa.eu/homepage>, which supports the most talented early-career scientists in Europe with funding for a period of 5 years for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups. In addition to the principal investigator, PhD students and postdocs, the project team includes collaborators from CopeNLU as well as external collaborators. Three PhD students as well as two postdocs have already been recruited as a result of earlier calls, and the project officially kicked off in September 2023<https://www.copenlu.com/news/2023_09_explainyourself/>. Candidates interested in a start in Autumn 2026 instead can express their interest by applying to the ELLIS PhD programme<https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-call-for-applications-2025> by 31 October 2025, naming Isabelle Augenstein as a supervisor. More information about PhD opportunities in the CopeNLU research group can be found here<https://www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fellowships-for-start-in-spring-or-autumn-…>. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk?subject=PhD%20position%20on%20Explainable%20Natural%20Language%20Understanding>. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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CFP KNLP@ACM-SAC 2026
by Patrizio Bellan 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC* Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing - NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction - NLP for Ontology Population and Learning - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications - Interplay between Language and Ontologies - NLP for Explainable Knowledge - Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM - (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge - Knowledge - Knowledge to improve NLP tasks - Knowledge for Information Retrieval - Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP - Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation - Knowledge for Persuasion - Knowledge-based Machine Translation - Knowledge for the Web - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based NL Explainability - LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs - (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs - Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation) - Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health, and medicine - News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2026 SRC page for details <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>). Initial Submission Policy - All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There is no separate submission track for poster papers. - Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters Minimum Length for Review Consideration - While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review. Camera-ready Page Limits - Regular Papers (accepted for publication): - Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): - Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. *Important Dates (check SAC website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)* *September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission* For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026 <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Final CfP and deadline extension Sep 10 2025 --- LIFT2: Workshop on Computational, formal and field linguistics, Paris
by Timothée Bernard 30 Aug '25

30 Aug '25

CfP: LIFT2: Annual meeting of French national research network of Computational, Formal and Field Linguists The Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (CNRS & Université Paris Cité) will host this year's meeting of the French national research network LIFT2 (=linguistique informatique, formelle et de terrain), which brings together computational, formal and field linguists. The meeting will be held on October 16-17 2025 at Halle aux farines on Campus Rive Gauche in the 13th arrondissement of Paris (near Bibliothèque Nationale and INALCO). See the workshop web page at https://lift2-2025.sciencesconf.org/ <https://lift2-2025.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit> for full information on the event. Key note speakers: * Laura Becker (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) * Guy Emerson (Cambridge University) * Guillaume Jacques (CNRS) * Noortje Venhuizen (Tilburg University) Submission of papers to the LIFT2 2025 Workshop is open to everyone. Presentations may address any topic relevant to the LIFT2 Thematic Network. In particular, though not exclusively: - feedback and experience reports on the use and/or development of computational tools for linguistic analysis; - linguistics and open science: opportunities opened up by sharing data, tools, and publications; - formal language modelling (formal language theory, unification grammars, etc.); - computational methods for the analysis of under-resourced, minimally written, or undocumented languages; - linguistic research and ethics (participatory research, bias in models, applications of computational models, etc.); - reflections on the automation of analysis and validation processes. Those wishing to present their work are invited to submit an anonymised abstract of two to four pages, written in either French or English. Submissions must be in PDF format and comply with the official style guidelines, which are available in the style files https://lift2-2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Styles_LIFT_2024.zip Abstracts must be submitted at https://lift2-2025.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit (requires registration). There are only very few slots for oral presentations. Therefore, decision on presentation type (oral/poster) will be made as part of the review process. Important dates: - Extended submission deadline: 10 September 2025 - Notification of acceptance: 24 September 2025 - Event dates: 16–17 October 2025

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From where could you get lists of word stems and their derivatives for languages? ...
by lbrtchx＠tutamail.com 28 Aug '25

28 Aug '25

they should be formatted as two files of text lines sharing an index a la: stem_index|stem then word|stem_index|POS_index if the word doesn't have a stem word say, conjunctions and pronouns it should be included as it is. Is there such a thing? or how could you suggest one could build it with available resources? lbrtchx

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Re: The results of your email commands (Confirmation token did not match?)
by lbrtchx＠tutamail.com 28 Aug '25

28 Aug '25

I had just hit reply to your initial email lbrtchx Aug 28, 2025, 12:50 by corpora-bounces(a)list.elra.info: > The results of your email command are provided below. > > - Original message details: > From: lbrtchx(a)tutamail.com > Subject: Re: Your confirmation is needed to join the corpora(a)list.elra.info > mailing list. confirm 4a5a815ba9a26374caba962af922c93ce637b021 > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:50:12 +0200 (CEST) > Message-ID: <OYlnHjz--J-9(a)tutamail.com> > > - Results: > Confirmation token did not match > > - Done. >

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OpenReview Tutorial for Conference Setup - Does One Exist?
by Wajdi Zaghouani 28 Aug '25

28 Aug '25

Dear NLP Community, Does anyone know of a video tutorial or easy-to-follow guide for setting up and managing conferences on OpenReview? Many new organizers struggle with OpenReview since it's quite different from the previous systems. While OpenReview does have documentation, the current guides are not beginner-friendly and require significant time to understand. The learning curve is particularly steep for newcomers to conference organization. If no accessible tutorial exists, would the community be interested in creating one? A step-by-step video guide would really help new organizers navigate the platform more efficiently and reduce the time spent figuring things out. Please let me know if you have resources to share or would like to help create something. Thanks! Wajdi Zaghouani -- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Residence, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992 [signature_1546530820]

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Call for participation: survey on impacts of pre-printing and reviewing
by Shane Storks 27 Aug '25

27 Aug '25

Dear all, (Apologies for cross-posting.) It has been over a year since the ACL updated its anonymity policies to allow publicly sharing pre-prints of submitted papers and promotion of them on social media. In light of this, we are conducting a survey on the impact of anonymity policies where we are interested to understand how preprinting and reviewers' prior knowledge affects review scores; and the impact of such policies on underrepresented communities. We would greatly appreciate if you took 10-12 minutes to share your opinion. Our survey is linked here <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=d3Ulb4YRP066isnpi8DR9hb…> . Thank you, A Pranav & Shane Storks Queer in AI

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026
by Aline Paes 27 Aug '25

27 Aug '25

Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the ACL 2026 and EACL 2026 conferences. We welcome submissions covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for two types of tutorials: - Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP: Covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP. - Introductory tutorials in related fields: Offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights. Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: * EACL 2026 (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026. * ACL 2026 (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026. Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centers EACL and ACL 2026. *Important Dates* EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: Proposal submission deadline October 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance December 08, 2025 Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials one month prior to the date of the tutorial All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Fee Waivers Up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops. Diversity & Inclusion To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to topics promoting diversity (e.g., working on minority languages or groups), participation diversity (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and representation diversity among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory <http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/>, Black in AI <https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership>, Disability in AI <https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/>, Indigenous AI <https://www.indigenous-ai.net/>, LatinX in AI <https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY>, Masakhane <https://www.masakhane.io/>, 500 Queer Scientists <https://500queerscientists.com/>, and Women-in-ML’s directory <https://www.wiml.org/directory>. Submission Details Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>. Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus one page for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: 1. A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. 2. A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community. 3. Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs ”introductory to fields related to CL/NLP”. 4. Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for the attendees, for example: - Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus” - Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars” - Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron” - Neural Network: e.g., “Familiarity with transformers” - Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix command line tools” 5. An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. 6. Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. 7. Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. 8. Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant. 9. For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. 10. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. 11. A description of special requirements for technical equipment. 12. We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the case. 13. An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. 14. A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. 15. OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case. 16. OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, optionally, by a group of external experts. Evaluation Criteria Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion. Instructor Responsibilities Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by Dec 08, 2025. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the start date of the hosting conference. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed). Tutorial Chairs *EACL - Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK - Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UKå *ACL - Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA - Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at eaclacl2026_tutorials(a)googlegroups.com <eacl2026_tutorials(a)googlegroups.com>.

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[CfP] Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR) at EMNLP
by Stodden, Regina 27 Aug '25

27 Aug '25

Call for Papers: Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability 📅 Deadline: 2 September 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) 📍 Co-located with EMNLP 2025 (https://2025.emnlp.org/) – Suzhou, China We’re excited to announce that the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR 2025, https://tsar-workshop.github.io/) is now accepting submissions! TSAR brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to make information more inclusive and accessible. 💡 Topics of interest include (but aren't limited to): * Lexical, syntactic, discourse, and document simplification * Text complexity assessment & complex word identification * Domain-specific applications (health, legal, etc.) * Evaluation metrics at different granularity levels * Large Language Models (LLMs) & multi-agent systems for accessibility 💬 Didn't get accepted to the EMNLP or INLG main conference? * Consider submitting your work to TSAR 2025 — we welcome high-quality papers on our topics of interest, and the workshop offers a great opportunity for discussion, networking, and feedback from a focused research community. 📄 Submission Types: * Long & Short Papers – Following official ACL style templates and formatting guidelines. * Demo Papers – 6 pages including references, describing implemented systems related to workshop topics. 📅 Key Dates (AoE) * (Extended) Submission deadline: 2 September 2025 * Notifications: 30 September 2025 * Camera-ready: 7 October 2025 * Workshop: 5–9 November 2025 🔗 Full Call for Papers: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/cfp/ Join us in shaping the future of accessible and simplified communication! 🌍✨

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Job opening for a Tenure-Track Position in Italy
by Roberto Zamparelli 27 Aug '25

27 Aug '25

The Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento, Italy, invites expressions of interest for the forthcoming opening of a Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) position in Computational Linguistics. The ideal candidate should have an interest in the relation between CL and cognitive models of language and cognition. The applicant will be expected to teach in English and to collaborate with the local faculty in one of the largest cognitive science departments in Italy. See full job specification in https://www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/language-interaction-and-computation-labor… The University of Trento is an equal opportunity institution. Applications from female candidates are especially encouraged. Informal inquiries regarding the position can be addressed to cimec.clic-lab(a)unitn.it, Prof. Roberto Zamparelli ( roberto.zamparelli(a)unitn.it), or Prof. Jakub Szymanik ( jakub.szymanik(a)unitn.it). Expressions of interest should be addressed via email to cimec.clic-lab(a)unitn.it *Deadline: *September 14, 2025 Roberto Zamparelli, Associate Professor in Linguistics CIMEC, University of Trento https://www.cimec.unitn.it/

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TT Junior Professor NLP / Computational Linguistics (Akademische/r Rat/Rätin) at LMU Munich
by Hinrich Schuetze 27 Aug '25

27 Aug '25

The CIS institute at LMU Munich has an opening for a tenure-track Akademische/r Rat/Rätin (roughly equivalent to lecturer or junior professor) in NLP / Computational Linguistics. Details are available here: https://cis.lmu.de/web/arposition2026.html

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Call for Participation: the 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP
by Santiago Herrera 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

Dear all, We invite everyone interested to attend the 2nd UniDive Training School on Linguistic Diversity in NLP. Dates: 20-24 January, 2026 (Tuesday-Saturday) Location: Yerevan State University (YSU), Yerevan, Armenia Coordinating Project: UniDive (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unid… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id%3…>Cost: Participants selected on the basis of their applications will be reimbursed, details below. We are happy to announce the 2nd edition of UniDive Training School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome. See below for the application details. TRAINING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Courses Linguistic Typology for NLP researchers: Methods and Resources in the 21st century <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - by Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Luigi Talamo (Saarland University, Germany) Large Language Models for Low-Resourced Languages: Hands-On Approaches to Cultural and Genre Diversity in NLP <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - by Maria Carp (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL Luxembourg and University of Luxembourg) Diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where and how <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch…> - byLouis Estève <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/membres/esteve-lo…> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France), Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Université Catholique Louvain, Belgium), Nurit Melnik (The Open University, Israel), Agata Savary <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://perso.limsi.fr/savary/&source=gmail-im…>(Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) and Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University, Germany, SET University, Ukraine) Poster sessions Brainstorming hackathon on open issues submitted by the trainees CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Each applicant should submit a project related to language diversity and the topics of the training school (e.g., research in fields such as linguistic variation, diversity, typology, and computational linguistics, including specific topics like diversity quantification across textual genres, corpora and languages). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: The title Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country of the affiliation) A list of 3-4 key-words Description of the project related to the topics of the training school Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project Short statement of the project phase (planned, started, ongoing) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview portal. IMPORTANT DATES Trainee's application deadline: 12 September, 2025 (AoE) Acceptance notification: 17 October, 2025 Invitations for visas (if needed): 20 October, 2025 Official confirmations of travel grants: Early November Training school: January 20-24, 2026 TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund about 40 trainees to come to Yerevan (additionally to local trainees). In case of a larger number of candidates, the selection criteria will include: Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here and here Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee Status of the languages, dialects, or varieties on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects, or genres are promoted) If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. The authors of the selected projects will present them in a poster session during the Training School. PROGRAM CHAIRS Victoria Bobicev Anna Danielyan Santiago Herrera Esther Ploeger Wessel Poelman Ranka Stanković Abigail Walsh For any question, please contact the organisers at adanielyan82(a)gmail.com <mailto:adanielyan82@gmail.com> and s.herrera(a)parisnanterre.fr <mailto:s.herrera@parisnanterre.fr> Looking forward to seeing you in Yerevan, Program Chairs

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OGA/OLA Temporary Server Downtime
by Giuseppe G. A. Celano 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

Dear all, Over the last month, the server for OGA and OLA [1] has experienced occasional downtimes, including the current one, due to connectivity issues within the hosting department of Leipzig University. This is an infrastructure issue outside my control, and I am monitoring the situation closely. I will keep you updated if there are significant further developments. I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Best regards, Giuseppe Celano ----- [1] https://annis.varro.informatik.uni-leipzig.de

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Call for participation: First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interaction with Generative Language Models (ORIGen)
by Nikhil Krishnaswamy 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

We are pleased to invite participation in the First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interaction with Generative Language Models (ORIGen) to be held in conjuction with the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) in Montreal, Canada, on October 10, 2025! With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as “collaborators” with humans. In such scenarios, underreliance or avoidance of AI assistance may obviate the potential speed, efficiency, or scalability advantages of a human-LLM team, but simultaneously, there is a risk that subject matter non-experts may overrely on LLMs and trust their outputs uncritically, with consequences ranging from the inconvenient to the catastrophic. Therefore, establishing optimal levels of reliance within an interactive framework is a critical open challenge as language models and related AI technology rapidly advances. - What factors influence overreliance on LLMs? - How can the consequences of overreliance be predicted and guarded against? - What verifiable methods can be used to apportion accountability for the outcomes of human-LLM interactions? - What methods can be used to imbue such interactions with appropriate levels of “friction” to ensure that humans think through the decisions they make with LLMs in the loop? ORIGen will examine questions of reliance, trust, confidence, and accountability in interactions with modern generative systems from an interdisciplinary perspective, and we seek engagement from the NLP, AI, HCI, robotics, education, and cognitive science communities and beyond. The workshop will feature paper presentations as well as 4 invited talks from leading AI, NLP, and HCI researchers, and a panel discussion on the Future of Reliable and Accountable AI. More information about the workshop can be found at: https://origen-workshop.github.io 9:00-9:15 - Opening remarks 9:15-9:50 - Invited talk I: Andreas Vlachos is a Professor of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge and a Dinesh Dhamija fellow of Fitzwilliam College. His expertise includes dialogue modeling, automated fact-checking, imitation and active learning, semantic parsing, and natural language generation and summarization. 9:50-11:00 - Accepted paper lightning talks: 4 minutes each + 1 minute transition 11:00-11:15 - Coffee break 11:15-12:00 - Keynote talk: Malihe Alikhani is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Engineering and Visiting Fellow at The Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings. She works towards developing safe and fair AI systems that enhance communication, decision-making, and knowledge-sharing across disciplines and populations. 12:00-12:35 - Invited talk II: Bertram F. Malle is a Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He received the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Outstanding Dissertation award, an NSF CAREER award, the Decision Analysis Society 2018 best publication award, several HRI best-paper awards, and the 2019 SESP Scientific Impact Award. Malle’s research focuses on moral psychology and human-machine interaction. 12:35-2:05 - Lunch 2:05-2:40 - Invited talk III: Q. Vera Liao is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, and previously a researcher at Microsoft Research and IBM research. Her current interests are in human-AI interaction, responsible AI and AI transparency, with a goal of bridging emerging AI technologies and human-centered perspectives. 2:40-3:40 - Poster Session 3:40-4:00 - Coffee break 4:00-4:45 - Panel discussion: Future of Reliable and Accountable AI Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University Jesse Thomason, University of Southern California Diyi Yang, Stanford University Matthew Marge, DARPA 4:45-5:00 - Conclusion The list of accepted papers can be found at https://origen-workshop.github.io/programme/ Nikhil Krishnaswamy Assistant Professor of Computer Science *Colorado State University*

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Job opening for linguistic software development
by Vincent Vandeghinste 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

The Centre for Computational Linguistics (KU Leuven) is seeking a research-oriented full-stack developer to contribute to cutting-edge linguistic infrastructure by reimagining the next generation of GrETEL, a treebank query system developed at KU Leuven. This position is part of CLARIAH-VL+ [1], a strategic research infrastructure project funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). It provides the opportunity to work at the intersection of computational linguistics, language technology, and digital humanities. More information and link to the application here [2]. Links: ------ [1] https://clariahvl.hypotheses.org/2582 [2] https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60510459

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call for participation in our survey on collecting data in the era of LLMs
by Neele Falk 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

--------Call for participation in a research survey on collecting data in the era of LLMs------------------------------- Dear Collegues, We (researchers originally from University of Stuttgart, Kopenhagen and Gent) are conducting a survey on the challenges of collecting data in the era of large language models (LLMs). In particular, we are interested in issues such as crowdworkers relying on LLMs to generate free-text responses that are expected to be written by themselves. Our goal is to better understand the contexts in which researchers encounter these problems and to find possible solutions. The survey is completely anonymous and should take about 5–10 minutes to complete. You can access it here: https://ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6KUJzBhQSgemzpY We would be very grateful for your input—your perspective will help support this research. Thank you for your time and support! Best regards Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sofie Labat, Tarun Tater and Neele Falk

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[CfP] CHOMPS Workshop colocated with IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Aman Sinha 24 Aug '25

24 Aug '25

First CFP: CHOMPS – Confabulation, Hallucinations, & Overgeneration in Multilingual & Precision-critical Settings (with our apologies for cross-posting) Venue: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 (https://2025.aaclnet.org/), Mumbai, India Date: 23/24th December 2025 (TBC) Workshop website: https://chomps2025.github.io/ * Description * Despite rapid advances, LLMs continue to "make things up": a phenomenon that manifests as hallucination, confabulation, and overgeneration. That is, produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible. These outputs pose real risks in settings where accuracy and accountability are non-negotiable, including healthcare, legal systems, and education. The aim of the CHOMPS workshop is to find ways to mitigate one of major the hurdles that currently prevent the adoption of Large Language Models in real-world scenarios: namely, their tendency to hallucinate, i.e., produce unsupported and unverifiable text that sounds deceptively plausible. The workshop will explore hallucination mitigation in practical situations, where this mitigation is crucial: in particular, precision-critical applications (such as those in the medical, legal and biotech domains), as well as multilingual settings (given the lack of resources available to reproduce what can be done for English in other linguistic contexts). In practice, we intend to invite works of the following (not exclusive) list of topics: * Workshop topics * - Metrics, benchmarks and tools for hallucination detection - Factuality challenges in mission critical & domain-specific (e.g., medical, legal, biotech) and their consequences - Mitigation strategies during inference or model training - Studies of hallucinatory and confabulatory behaviors of LLMS in cross-lingual and multilingual scenarios - Confabulations in language & multimodal (vision, text, speech) models - Perspectives and case studies from other disciplines - … * Invited speakers * - Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen - Danish PRUTHI, IISc Bangalore - Abhilasha RAVICHANDER, University of Washington * Submission details * The workshop is designed with a widely inclusive submission policy so as to foster as vibrant a discussion as possible. Archival or non-archival submissions may consist of up to 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (short) of content. Dissemination submissions may consist of up to 1 pages of content. On acceptance, authors may add one additional page to accommodate changes suggested by the reviewers. Please use the ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files The submissions need to be done in PDF format via (a) via Direct submission (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS) (b) via ARR commitment (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/CHOMPS…) * Important dates * Paper submission deadline: September 29, 2025 Direct ARR commitment: October 27, 2025 Author notification: November 3, 2025 Camera-Ready due: November 11, 2025 Workshop date: December 23-24, 2025 (TBC) * Contact * For questions, please send an email to chomps-aacl2025(a)googlegroups.com or contact one of the workshop chairs: - Aman Sinha, Université de Lorraine, aman.sinha(a)univ-lorraine.fr - Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, raul.vazquez(a)helsinki.fi - Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi

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eLex 2025 registration reminder
by Iztok Kosem 23 Aug '25

23 Aug '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that the eLex 2025 early-bird registration deadline is September 5th. The conference website https://elex.link/elex2025/ has been updated with a list of presentations, workshop programmes, and more. Looking forward to seeing you in Bled Iztok Kosem Head of the organising committee

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[CfP] Third Workshop on AI for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by tghosal＠acm.org 23 Aug '25

23 Aug '25

***Call for Papers WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025*** https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/ Building on the success of the First Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and the Second WIESP at IJCNLP-AACL 2023, the Third Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025 aims to establish itself as a pivotal platform for promoting discussions and research in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This gathering will bring together esteemed experts and renowned organizations with students and early-career researchers who are interested and invested in efforts to extract and mine the world’s scientific knowledge from research papers. Their collaboration will be focused on developing advanced algorithms, models, and tools that will lay the foundation for future machine comprehension of scientific literature. The third iteration of WASP will specifically concentrate on various topics related to Artificial Intelligence research for scientific publications: ***Topics (not limited to)*** Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification Citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis Scientific article summarization and headline generation Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature Prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for science Q&A Chain-of-thought reasoning and scientific problem-solving with LLMs LLM-powered information extraction from scientific texts Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing Large Language Reasoning Models for Scientific Discovery LLM hallucinations and impact on scientific knowledge, publications Challenges, Future of AI in Scientific Publishing AI, Peer Review, and Scientific Publishing Impact of Generative AI on Scientific Publishing In addition to papers, WASP will also host a shared task. ***Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared (TRACS)*** https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/shared_task We will publish a separate CfP on the shared task. Shared task authors will be invited to write their system descriptions, which will then undergo light peer review. All accepted papers and shared task system papers will be published in the WASP proceedings as part of IJCNLP-AACL 2025 and indexed in the ACL Anthology. ***Important Dates*** Paper submission deadline (WASP+TRACS): September 29, 2025 ARR commitment deadline: October 27, 2025 Notification of paper acceptance (WASP+TRACS): November 3, 2025 Camera-ready submission deadline (WASP+TRACS): November 11, 2025 Workshop: December 23, 2025 (hybrid) All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) ***Paper Submission Site*** https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WASP Submission will be via OpenReview. Submissions should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines and use the provided template files. Paper formatting guidelines - ACLPUB Submissions (Long and Short Papers) will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. We follow the same policies as IJCNLP-AACL 2025 regarding anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Please reach out to the organizers (cc'ed) for any queries. Thank you! -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) University of Tennessee Knoxville United States https://www.tirthankarghosal.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[CfP] 3rd Workshop on AI for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by tghosal＠acm.org 23 Aug '25

23 Aug '25

https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/third-workshop-artificial-intelligenc…

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Lecturer opportunities at University of Birmingham, UK
by Mark Lee 22 Aug '25

22 Aug '25

We have a number of permanent academic Assistant/Associate Prof posts open in all areas of Computer Science including Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing in the School of Computer Science. Applications due September 30th. Please see the following link for more details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI907/assistant-or-associate-professor-in-compu… With best regards, Mark Mark Lee DPVC (India) Professor of Artificial Intelligence www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl> University of Birmingham

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ConsILR-2025 - deadline extension
by Elena Irimia 22 Aug '25

22 Aug '25

ConsILR-2025 - deadline extension the 20th edition of the International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing (https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025 <https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025/index.html>) Important Dates: August 23, 2025September 10, 2025– abstracts submission (max 300 words) August 31, 2025September 13, 2025 – paper submission September 21, 2025 September 20, 2025 – authors’ notification September 31, 2025 – final form submission October 8 - 10, 2025 – ConsILR Conference October 17, 2025 - final form submission Venue: Casa Academiei Române (House of the Romanian Academy), 13, Calea 13 Septembrie, Bucharest, Romania and ONLINE We invite papers presenting original and unpublished research, as well as descriptions of accomplished or in-progress work, in all areas of natural language processing. We welcome contributions covering a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques and Applications - Large Language Models (LLMs) and Applications - Digital Humanities in Language Technology - (Mono- or multimodal) Language Resources and Tools for text, speech, images and videos - Computational Models and Algorithms in Language Processing - Applied Linguistics and NLP Integration - Morphosyntactic Structures in Language Processing - Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis in NLP - Multi-word Expressions and Idiomatic Language in NLP - Cultural and Contextual Factors in Language Technology - Romanian Language Processing and Contrastive Linguistics Authors are encouraged to submit, in addition to the papers per se, open-source linguistic resources, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, video and sound files. Confirmed invited speakers: Agata Savary <https://perso.limsi.fr/savary/> Amalia Todirașcu <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/amalia-todirascu> Marius Ursache <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusursache/> Paula Gradu <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-gradu-7505591b0> Organisers: - “Mihai Drăgănescu” Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy - Institute of Computer Science of the Romanian Academy – Iași Branch - Faculty of Computer Science of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași - “Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Philology of the Romanian Academy – Iași Branch - Romanian Association of Computational Linguistics - Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania The abstracts (max. 300 words) and papers (an even number of pages, between 6 and 12, including references) must be written in British English. Details about the paper format are available on the conference website. The Proceedings of the Conference will be sent for indexing to Clarivate Analytics. Further information can be found on the conference web site: https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025 <https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr/2025/index.html>. On behalf of the ConsILR-2025 Organising Committee, Dr. Elena Irimia

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Extended Deadline: Special Issue on Advancing Arabic Language Models: Resources, Evaluation, and Applications in the Era of Large Language Models
by Wassim El Hajj 22 Aug '25

22 Aug '25

Due to many requests, the new extended deadline is 1st November 2025. Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: Language Resources and Evaluation Journal - Special Issue on Advancing Arabic Language Models: Resources, Evaluation, and Applications in the Era of Large Language Models Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/collections/ieheibhacc Guest Editors: Wassim El Hajj (American University of Beirut - Mediterraneo, Cyprus) Hend S. Al-Khalifa (King Saud University, KSA) Ahmed Ali (Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAIA), KSA) Overview This special issue aims to explore the latest advancements, challenges, and future directions in Arabic Language Models (LMs), with a particular focus on Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses the critical need for robust language resources, comprehensive evaluation frameworks, and innovative applications that cater to the unique linguistic characteristics of Arabic, including its dialects. The issue brings together researchers, linguists, and practitioners to discuss state-of-the-art methodologies, datasets, and evaluation metrics that contribute to the development of more accurate, culturally aligned, and ethically sound Arabic LLMs. By focusing on the intersection of Arabic linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cultural studies, this special issue will provide a comprehensive overview of the current state and future prospects of Arabic LLMs, contributing significantly to the field of language resources and evaluation. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the following areas. Both original research contributions and substantial extensions of previously published work are welcome. · Development of large-scale datasets for Arabic, including dialectal varieties. · Novel approaches to Arabic language modeling, including deep learning and hybrid methodologies. · Evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for Arabic LLMs, with a focus on comprehensive assessment across dialects and tasks. · Cultural and ethical considerations in developing and deploying Arabic LLMs. · Applications of Arabic LLMs in education, communication, and other domains. · Challenges and solutions in handling the syntactic and dialectic variations of Arabic in LLMs. · Comparative studies of Arabic LLMs with other language models. · Techniques for improving the efficiency and performance of Arabic LLMs · Interpreting and explaining Arabic LLMs. For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://link.springer.com/collections/ieheibhacc IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025 Final Decisions: February 30, 2026 Publication: Second Quarter of 2026 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should follow the "Instructions for Authors (https://link.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines)" on the LRE journal website. Best Regards on behalf of the Guest Editors, Wassim El Hajj Hend S. Al-Khalifa Ahmed Ali

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Mile for Workshop Proposals Submission
by Announce 21 Aug '25

21 Aug '25

*** Last Mile for Workshop Proposals Submission *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ (*** Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025 (extended and final!) ***) We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. Review and Oversight by Workshop Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with workshop information. The IUI 2026 website will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate a Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events). • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop. • Description of workshop topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. • Planned outcomes of the workshop: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops", and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 29, 2025 (extended and final!) • Decision Notification: September 19, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Translators and Interpreters course
by Constantin Orasan 21 Aug '25

21 Aug '25

The Centre for Translation Studies (CTS) at the University of Surrey invites applications for a place in our stand-alone course on "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Translators and Interpreters". This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications in the field of translation and interpreting. The course covers a wide range of topics, from the basic concepts of AI to more advanced areas and techniques including machine learning, large language models (LLMs) and LLM leveraging and customisation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines. Students will be taught different prompting techniques which allows them to interact with LLMs like ChatGPT, so they can develop advanced problem-solving skills. Students will tackle AI-related tasks that are relevant in the fields of translation and interpreting, such as machine translation, customisation of ASR engines and the use of machine assistance in tasks requiring creativity skills (e.g. transcreation). They will also explore the ethical implications of AI and the potential impact of AI on the future of the language industry. The module is offered in synchronous online mode. The module will run for 11 weeks starting on 23rd September. The tentative time slot is Tuesdays, 4-6pm UK time. You can find more details about the module and how to register at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/cpd-and-short-courses/tram511-introduction-artific… The full list of standalone courses we offer this year is available at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/continuing-professional… Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch. --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> | School of Literature and Languages<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-literature-languages> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Email: C.Orasan(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:C.Orasan@surrey.ac.uk> Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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[CfP] CHOMPS Shared Task: SHROOM-CAP, the Shared Task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes in Crosslingual Analyses of Publications
by Federica Gamba 21 Aug '25

21 Aug '25

TL;DR SHROOM-CAP is an Indic-centric shared task co-located with CHOMPS-2025 to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for scientific content generated with LLMs. We have annotated hallucinated content in 4* high-resource languages and surprisal 3* low-resource Indic languages using top-tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you like by accurately detecting the presence of hallucinated content. Stay informed by joining our Google group ! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the SHROOM-CAP shared task on cross-lingual hallucination detection for scientific publication (link to website). We invite participants to detect whether or not there is hallucination in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs within a cross-lingual scientific context. About This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, SHROOM, with three key highlights: LLM-centered, cross-lingual annotations & hallucination and fluency prediction. LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public. With SHROOM-CAP, we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated scientific content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a cross-lingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 4*+3* different high and low resource languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindi, and to-be-later-revealed Indic languages). Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify hallucinations in generated scientific content. Additionally, participants will also be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in oral/poster format during the CHOMPS workshop (collocated with IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author). Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). - Dev set available by: 31.07.2025 - Test set available by: 05.10.2025 - Evaluation phase ends: 15.10.2025 - System description papers due: 25.10.2025 (TBC) - Notification of acceptance: 05.11.2025 (TBC) - Camera-ready due: 11.11.2025 (TBC) - Proceedings due: 01.12.2025 (TBC) - CHOMPS workshop: 23/24th December 2025 (co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025) Evaluation Metrics: Participants will be ranked along two criteria: 1. factuality mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted; 2. fluency mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted based on our annotations. Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in! How to Participate: - Register: Please register your team https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 and join our google group: https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap - Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 15.10.2025 - Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 25.10.2025 (TBC, further details will be announced at a later date). Want to be kept in the loop? Join our Google group mailing list! We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, SHROOM-CAP organizers

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Two public online talks in August and September on Pre-trained Language Models / Foundation Models (NLPV seminars, Exeter)
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 20 Aug '25

20 Aug '25

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminars at the University of Exeter. Talk 1 Scheduled: Thursday 21 Aug 2025 at 16:00 to 17:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97587944439?pwd=h4rnPO0PafT9oRrrqQsezG… (Meeting ID: 975 8794 4439 Password: 064414) Title: Trustworthy Optimization of Pre-Trained Models for Healthcare: Generalizability, Adaptability, and Security Abstract: Pre-trained language models have opened new possibilities in healthcare, showing promise in mining scientific literature, analyzing large-scale clinical data, identifying patterns in emerging diseases, and automating workflows, positioning themselves as intelligent research assistants. However, general-purpose models, typically trained on web-scale corpora, often lack the clinical grounding necessary for reliable deployment in high-stakes domains like healthcare. To be effective, they must be adapted to meet domain-specific requirements. My PhD thesis addresses three core challenges in leveraging pre-trained models for healthcare: (i) the scarcity of labeled data for fine-tuning, (ii) the evolving nature of healthcare data, and (iii) the need to ensure transparency and traceability of AI-generated content. In this talk, I will focus on the third challenge: enabling traceability of content generated by large language models. I will begin with an overview of prior watermarking approaches and then present our proposed solution. We introduce a watermarking algorithm applied at inference time that perturbs the model’s logits to bias generation toward a subset of vocabulary tokens determined by a secret key. To ensure that watermarking does not compromise generation quality, we propose a multi-objective optimization (MOO) framework that employs lightweight networks to produce token-specific watermarking logits and splitting ratios, specifying how many tokens to bias and by how much. This approach effectively balances watermark detectability with semantic coherence. Experimental results show that our method significantly improves detectability and robustness against removal attacks while preserving the semantics of the generated text, outperforming existing watermarking techniques. Speaker's bio: Dr. Sai Ashish Somayajula is a Senior Applied Scientist in Generative AI at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, where he develops large-scale foundation models for enterprise applications. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California (UC), San Diego. His research focused on addressing key challenges in adapting and utilizing pre-trained models for healthcare. Specifically, his work spanned three core areas: (1) synthetic data generation using meta-learning-based feedback mechanisms, (2) continual learning for handling dynamic data streams without catastrophic forgetting, and (3) token-level watermarking techniques to ensure content provenance and security. His research has been published in premier venues, including the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), and Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR). He is a recipient of the Jacobs School of Engineering Departmental Fellowship at UC San Diego. Ashish has collaborated with leading industrial research labs through internships at Apple and Tencent AI Lab. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, where he was twice awarded the Academic Excellence Award, and a Master’s in Intelligent Systems and Robotics from UC San Diego. Talk 2 Scheduled: Thursday 4 Sep 2025 at 13:00 to 14:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/95827730937?pwd=Te1wejfgr68A5lplwLQjxw… (Meeting ID: 958 2773 0937 Password: 879296) Title: Towards end-to-end tokenization and adaptive memory in foundation models Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) process information as a sequence of internal representations; however, the length of this sequence is fixed and entirely determined by tokenization. This essentially decouples representation granularity from information content, which exacerbates the deployment costs of FMs and narrows their “horizons” in long sequences. What if, instead, we could free FMs from tokenizers by modelling bytes directly, while making them faster than current tokenizer-bound FMs? I argue that a recipe to achieve this goal already exists. In particular, I helped prototype how to: 1) dynamically pool representations in internal layers, progressively learning abstractions from raw data; 2) compress the KV cache of Transformers during generation without loss of performance; 3) predict multiple bytes per time step in an efficient yet expressive way; 4) retrofit existing tokenizer-bound FMs into byte-level FMs through cross-tokenizer distillation. By blending these ingredients, we may soon witness the emergence of efficient byte-level FMs. Speaker's short bio (based on website): Edoardo Ponti is an assistant professor in Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh and a visiting professor at NVIDIA. His research focuses on efficient architectures (see NeurIPS 2024 tutorial on dynamic sparsity), modular deep learning (designing neural architectures that route information to specialised modules, e.g., sparse subnetworks), and computational typology (understand how languages vary, across the world and its cultures, within a computational and mathematical framework). Previously, Edorado was a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Mila - Quebec AI Institute in Montreal. In 2021, Edorado obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge, St John’s College. Once upon a time Edorado studied typological and historical linguistics at the University of Pavia. Edoardo’s research has been featured on the Economist and Scientific American, among others. Edoardo received a Google Research Faculty Award and 2 Best Paper Awards at EMNLP 2021 and RepL4NLP 2019. Edoardo is a board member of SIGTYP, the ACL special interest group for computational typology, a Scholar of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and part of the TACL journal editorial team. We will update future talks at the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminar and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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RANLP 2025 TUTORIALS (6-7 September): Call for participation
by Petya Osenova 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

RANLP 2025 TUTORIALS (6-7 September) Call for Participation Website - https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/tutorials/ RANLP 2025 belongs to a sequence of events with similar name and continues the tradition of successful training events that were held in Bulgaria since 1989. RANLP 2025 plans 4 half-day tutorials, each with duration of 185 minutes, distributed as follows: 45 min presentation + 20 min break + 45 min presentation + 30 min coffee break + 45 min presentation. Tutorial Presenters * Burcu Can Buglalilar (University of Sterling, UK) * Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) * Tharindu Ranasinghe and Damith Dola Mullage Premasiri (Lancaster University, UK) * Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Programme 6th September 2025, 9am Tharindu Ranasinghe and Damith Premasiri: NLP in the LLM era This tutorial examines the transformation of Legal NLP in the era of large language models, beginning with key principles of task formulation and data preparation. We will discuss retrieval and judgment prediction in detail, exploring their methodologies, challenges, and applications in legal contexts. We conclude with a forward-looking discussion on the future of Legal AI and the ethical considerations surrounding its applications in the practice of law. 6th September 2025, 2pm Burcu Can Buglalilar: From Large to Small: Building Affordable Language Models with Limited Resources This tutorial aims to question the limitations and harms of Large Language Models, followed by a comprehensive review of Small Language Models, covering prominent examples, their key techniques, and their capabilities. It will also give an overview of even smaller ‘baby’ language models. Finally, the tutorial will conclude by presenting some recent studies in which we developed baby language models using a very small amount of data. 7th September 2025, 9am Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein: Studying Generalization in the Age of Contamination The tutorial will discuss the challenges of doing NLP research in the age of LLMs, when we can no longer be sure that the test data was not observed in training. We will cover the main approaches to studying generalization in various settings, and present a new framework for working with controlled test-train splits across linguistically annotated data at scale. 7th September 2025, 2pm Salima Lamsiyah: AI Content in NLP: Trends, Detection, and Applications This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of AI-generated content in Natural Language Processing (NLP). It covers recent trends in text generation, methods for detecting AI-generated text, and practical applications of such content. The content includes an exploration of state-of-the-art models and techniques for text generation, approaches to identifying machine-generated text, a review of key benchmarks and datasets, and a discussion of open research challenges. We are looking forward to your participation! The organisers of RANLP 2025

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[CfP] ECIR 2026: 2nd call – Workshop Proposals (Sep 12)
by Yifei Yuan 18 Aug '25

18 Aug '25

Call for Workshop Proposals ECIR 2026 (https://ecir2026.eu/) workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in emerging areas in IR in a focused and interactive way. Workshops can be either a half-day (3.5 hours plus breaks) or a full day (7 hours plus breaks). The organizers of approved workshops are expected to set up a webpage for the workshop, disseminate the call for papers and the call for participation, gather and review submissions, and prepare the final program. A camera-ready summary of the workshop, written by the organizers, will be included in the ECIR conference proceedings. Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of workshop proceedings. Organizers are also encouraged to write a summary article for the June edition of the ACM SIGIR Forum, highlighting the main results of the workshop. Workshops are on site, and at least one organizer is expected to attend the workshop. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on any topic relevant to the general field of Information Retrieval, including those mentioned in the Call for Full papers for ECIR 2026. Submission Guidelines Workshop proposals should contain the following information: Title and abstract of the workshop; Motivation and relevance to ECIR; Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes; Format and Structure, in particular, duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day workshop); mention to the type of papers (e.g., full papers, demo papers, negative papers, etc); type of presentation (e.g., oral; poster, etc); and proceedings (e.g., CEUR; Special Issue, etc); planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.; resources needed to deliver the workshop (e.g., poster boards, etc); Intended audience, including number of expected participants and how they will be selected/invited; List of organizers with a brief bio highlighting the relevance of their expertise to the workshop topics Names of potential programme committee members, invited speakers, etc Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed; Any other relevant information to support your proposal. Workshop proposals should be prepared using Springer proceedings templates available on the Springer webpage, with a maximum length of 8 pages. All proposals must be in English and will be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2026 workshop committee based on the quality of their proposal, covered topics, relationship to ECIR, and likelihood of attracting participants. The ECIR workshop co-chairs will make final decisions. Springer webpage: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Submission page: EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2026 Ethics and Professional Conduct ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely: The ACM’s Policy on Authorship, The ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, The ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy, The ACM’s Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification, The ACM’s Policy Against Harassment Workshop Proposals Track Dates Workshop proposals submission: September 12, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Workshop proposals notification: October 17, 2025 Workshop day: April 02, 2026 Workshop Proposals Track Chairs Negar Arabzadeh (UC Berkeley) Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Contact: ecir2026-workshops(a)easychair.org

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[CfP] ECIR 2026: 1st call – Short Papers (Abstract Oct 7)
by yuanyif＠ethz.ch 18 Aug '25

18 Aug '25

Call for Short Papers The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval. The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) will take place as a physical (in-person) conference from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, The Netherlands. Topics of Interest The Short Paper Track calls for original contributions presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and addressing innovative application areas within the field of Information Retrieval, including those mentioned in the Call for Full papers for ECIR 2026 Short papers differ from full papers in that they present innovative new works, but may be narrower in scope or applications. Submissions may include preliminary ideas, but still should provide empirical or theoretical validation. Papers that stimulate discussion are particularly encouraged. • Short papers are up to 6 pages in length, plus additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the page limit. Please put appendices before the references for paper submission. • Short papers will be refereed through double-anonymous peer review. This means that all submitted papers must be fully anonymised. Submission Guidelines Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid). All submissions must be written in English. All papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2026. In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the paper has been submitted, changes relating to its authorship cannot be made. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference by one of the authors in person, and at least one author for each accepted contribution will be required to register and attend. Dual Submission Policy Papers submitted to ECIR 2026 should be substantially different from papers that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are: Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings. Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report (e.g., in institutional archives or preprint archives like arXiv). Please do not cite your technical report and make an effort to avoid any issues that may harm the anonymity of your submission. Reviewers will receive guidance that asks them to refrain from trying to break the anonymity, but be aware that the availability of an available technical report for an ECIR submission might cause some issues. Ethics and Professional Conduct ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely: • The ACM's Policy on Authorship, • The ACM's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, • The ACM's Conflict of Interest Policy, • The ACM's Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification, • The ACM's Policy Against Harassment Short Paper Track Dates • Short paper abstract submission: October 7, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) • Short paper submission: October 14, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) • Short paper notification: December 16, 2025 (AoE) • Main conference: March 30 – April 1, 2026 Short Paper Track Chairs • Sean McAvaney (University of Glasgow, UK) • Mohammad Aliannejadi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) • Christine Bauer (University of Salzburg, Austria) • Contact: ecir2026-short AT easychair.org

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Final CfP Historical Languages and AI (Berlin, Germany)
by Daidalos-Projekt (Konstantin Schulz) 18 Aug '25

18 Aug '25

Call for Papers: Historical Languages and AI See the online version at https://daidalos-projekt.de/conference/cfp/ . March 5-6, 2026 The intersection of historical languages and artificial intelligence (AI) presents a rich and dynamic field of study, with the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the past and the ways in which we engage with historical texts. As digital technologies continue to advance, the need for interdisciplinary collaboration becomes increasingly apparent. The upcoming 2-day international conference on “Historical Languages and AI” aims to foster this collaboration by bringing together experts from computational literary studies, digital history, linguistics, and other domains that work with historical languages such as Latin. The conference seeks to address the growing demand for innovative methods and tools that can enhance the analysis, preservation, and interpretation of historical languages. By leveraging AI technologies, researchers can unlock new insights into historical texts, improve the accuracy of translations, and develop more effective teaching methods for historical languages. The conference will provide a platform for scholars to share their latest findings, discuss emerging trends, and explore the practical applications of AI in historical language research. It explicitly includes historical stages of modern languages, such as Old English or Early New High German. The conference is hosted by the Daidalos research project (Humboldt University Berlin, 2023-2026; https://daidalos-projekt.de ). The project is building a research infrastructure for methods of natural language processing (NLP). The target group is literary scholars in classical philology and related disciplines. The research infrastructure consists, on the one hand, of an interactive website on which interested parties can apply NLP methods to text corpora. On the other hand, the Daidalos project sees itself as a contact point for interested researchers. In this function, the project regularly invites researchers to workshops (https://daidalos-projekt.de/workshops), advises them within the framework of research tandems (https://daidalos-projekt.de/tandems), and provides materials for further training (https://daidalos-projekt.de/jupyterlite). Conference Dates: March 5-6, 2026 Venue: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Unfortunately, we cannot offer travel bursaries. Attending the conference itself is free of charge. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to historical languages and AI, including but not limited to: Machine Learning Large Language Models / Large Action Models Usage for data modeling or corpus construction Challenges in low-resource scenarios Neural machine translation for historical texts Innovative approaches to historical language analysis Linguistic analysis for literary studies Part-of-speech tagging Topic modeling Sentiment analysis Named entity recognition Word embeddings Multilingual Information Retrieval, incl. cross-lingual embeddings Evaluation of AI-driven methods and datasets Frameworks for mapping research questions to relevant AI models and methods Assessment of AI tools in historical language studies Technical Infrastructure for Research & Teaching Integrating technologies like Jupyter Notebooks into larger software platforms Retrieval-augmented generation for domain-specific chatbots Teaching & Learning Digital Literacies, incl. open educational resources for teaching natural language processing Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2025 Camera-Ready Submission: January 31, 2026 Conference Dates: March 5-6, 2026 Submission types Included in the open-access proceedings: *Long papers*: up to 4000 words (ca. 8 pages, excl. bibliography and appendix). Long papers report on original and unpublished results. Long papers are presented as oral presentations (30 min talk + 15 min discussion). We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. Published only in the book of abstracts in our Zenodo Community: *Short papers*: up to 2000 words (ca. 4 pages, excl. bibliography and appendix). Short papers report on focused contributions, and may present work in progress. Short papers are presented as short oral presentations (20 min talk + 10 min discussion). We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. *Pitch Your Research Idea*: Submit an abstract of up to 200 words (excl. bibliography and appendix) to give a 5-minute presentation during a pitch session. The presentations are followed by a Scientific Speed Dating Session and enable researchers to get in touch faster.Long papers Workshops (90 min): Submit a proposal for your intended workshop of up to 750 words. Workshops should be organized as hands-on research or learning opportunity. The workshops will take place on the second day of the conference (March 6, 2026). Workshop proposals should describe: the aims and setup of the workshop, the academic background for the work, an outline of the workshop, including the types of activities, the expected key outcomes, a short bio of each organizer or presenter, including their name, affiliation, email address, a plan for promoting the workshop to attract participants, specific requirements, including but not limited to special equipment (e.g., audio/video), software, physical space arrangements, any technical knowledge, skills, or experience participants should have before attending the workshop. Submission Guidelines and Participation All submissions must be in English or German. Papers should be formatted according to the conference template: Template of the Association for Computational Linguistics (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). It supports both Microsoft Word and LaTeX. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the organizers. Papers should be submitted as PDF documents via E-Mail: daidalos-projekt(a)hu-berlin.de At least one author of each accepted submission must register to the conference and present the paper. Proceedings of the conference will be published as a Propylaeum eBook in the Digital Classics Books series (for long papers; https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/series/dcb) and on Zenodo (for all other submissions; https://zenodo.org/communities/daidalos). Hybrid conference: All paper presentations will be broadcast live. Presenters can choose to participate remotely or on-site. On-site attendance is required to participate in the more interactive activities of the conference, e.g. workshops. Contact Information For any inquiries, please contact the conference organizers at daidalos-projekt(a)hu-berlin.de . We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to the International Conference on Historical Languages and AI! The Conference *Organizing Committee* of the Daidalos project: Andrea Beyer, Konstantin Schulz, Anke Lüdeling, Florian Kotschka, Florian Deichsler, Malte Dreyer

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PhD grant on Analysing Clinical Documents to Support Decision Making Processes in Emergency Departments
by Alberto Lavelli 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

*Analysing Clinical Documents to Support Decision Making Processes in Emergency DepartmentsDeadline for application: August 26 2025, 13:00 CEST* One three-year PhD grant on Analysing Clinical Documents to Support Decision Making Processes in Emergency Departments is offered by the Doctoral Program in Brain, Mind & Computer Science (BMCS, http://hit.psy.unipd.it/BMCS) at the University of Padua, jointly with the Natural Language Processing research unit (https://nlplab.fbk.eu/) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy), where most of the research activities will be conducted. The language of the PhD programme is English. The deadline for application is: August 26 2025, 13:00 CEST For more information, the call, and applications look at: http://hit.psy.unipd.it/BMCS/admission The candidate will have the unique opportunity to explore different fields (Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Health & Well-Being) being directly coached by very experienced teammates. The involved PhD will work in an international environment at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy). This PhD grant intends to exploit the capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to interpret the content of clinical documents produced in Emergency Departments (EDs) of hospitals in order to improve service quality for patients. The final goal of the project is to advance into the integration of generative AI models into healthcare, improving their alignment with the clinical expertise and the processes in EDs. The major context of the PhD will be the Horizon project eCREAM ( ecreamproject.eu/), where, through active scientific protocols, several EDs of different EU countries are involved. On the one hand, the project will take advantage of LLMs for automatic filling of Case Report Forms from anonymized clinical notes in several languages. On the other hand, the reasoning capacities of LLMs will then be applied to the extracted information to derive statistical analysis that helps decision makers for better process efficiency. The adoption of LLMs in the clinical field raises a number of research challenges, which will be addressed during the PhD. Such challenges include improving accuracy of performance, interpretability of decisions in classification tasks, coherence of reasoning capacity, mitigating the existence of biases, and risks related to data security. Fondazione Bruno Kessler is an internationally well-known research center, whose information technology department ranks first among the Engineering and Information Science research centers in Italy. The Natural Language Processing research unit (https://nlplab.fbk.eu/) is an internationally well known research group focused on text mining (information extraction and ontology population from text, analysis of the sentiment and of the emotional content of texts); conversational agents (task oriented dialogue systems, question answering, generation of persuasive messages); and development of linguistic resources, particularly for the Italian language. To get in contact with the NLP research unit and discuss about the opportunities of this call, contact Bernardo Magnini (magnini(a)fbk.eu) The Doctoral Program in Brain, Mind & Computer Science (BMCS) emerges from the close collaboration between faculty from psychology, cognitive neuroscience and information science around the unifying topic of human-computer interaction. Its program rests on the assumption that the ability to work in groups with people of different background is now a fundamental condition to produce scientific excellence and to develop innovative skills that can be spent on the job market. ****Required/Preferred Candidate Skills and Competencies**** The candidate should possess basic knowledge on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques (particularly deep learning architectures and large language models). Experience on biomedical/clinical data will be a plus. Basic programming skills (e.g. Python) would complete the profile. Proficiency in English is required, basic knowledge of Italian preferable. ****Instructions for applicants**** Interested applicants are invited to apply following the instructions given in https://pica.cineca.it/unipd/dottorati41luglio by August 26 2025, 13:00 CEST For further information, please contact: Bernardo Magnini (magnini(a)fbk.eu) -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Free Lancaster webinar 19 August 2pm UK time
by Brezina, Vaclav 16 Aug '25

16 Aug '25

Dear all, Please join us for a free Lancaster webinar on a very current topic (critical reflection on current developments and challenges in the use of AI): <https://x.com/danagablas/status/1955682624455819296> [??] Navigating Challenges in the use of AI and GenAI in Applied Linguistics by Prof Tony McEnery 19 August 2025 | 2-3pm (UK time) https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF<https://t.co/cTo7mg8AVj> Abstract: In the webinar, we will focus on the current developments in the use of GenAI and AI in applied linguistics. In particular, Prof Tony McEnery will explore the impact of AI on applied linguistics, reflecting on the alignment of contemporary AI research with the epistemological, ontological, and ethical traditions of applied linguistics. The talk will discuss the potential affordances of AI and GenAI for applied linguistics as well as some of the challenges that we face when employing AI and GenAI as part of applied linguistics research processes. The goal of this talk is to attempt to align perspectives in these disparate fields and forge a fruitful way ahead for further critical interrogation and integration of AI and GenAI into applied linguistics. Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor of Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:ccadda37-dda8-4733-be3d-82f902ed9aea]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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August 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Aug '25

15 Aug '25

In this newsletter: LDC at Interspeech 2025 Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program New publications: Mixer 6 - ChiME 8 Transcribed Calls and Interviews<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S07> Abstract Meaning Representation 2.0 - Machine Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T10> KAIROS Phase 1 Quizlet<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T11> ________________________________ LDC at Interspeech 2025 LDC will be exhibiting at Interspeech 2025<https://www.interspeech2025.org/>, held this year August 17-21 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Stop by our booth to say hello and learn about the latest developments at the Consortium. Also be on the lookout for the following presentations, posters, and special sessions featuring LDC work: Comparative Evaluation of Acoustic Feature Extraction Tools for Clinical Speech Analysis Monday, August 18, 11:00-13:00 - Area5-Oral1 - Speech Analysis, Detection and Classification 1 Reasoning-Based Approach with Chain-of-Thought for Alzheimer's Detection Using Speech and Large Language Models Tuesday, August 19, 13:30-15:30 - Area1-Poster2B - Databases and Progress in Methodology Special Session: Challenges in Speech Collection, Curation and Annotation<https://sites.google.com/view/speech-data-cca-is25/> Wednesday, August 20, 13:30-15:30 - Area14-SS7 - Part 1 Wednesday, August 20, 16:00-18:00 - Area14-SS8 - Part 2 TELVID: A Multilingual Multi-modal Corpus for Speaker Recognition Thursday, August 21, 13:30-15:30 - AREA4-Oral8 - Speaker Recognition LDC also supported the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge<https://urgent-challenge.github.io/urgent2025/> which aims to bring more attention to constructing Universal, Robust, and Generalizable speech EnhancemeNT models. LDC will post conference updates via our social media platforms. We look forward to seeing you in Rotterdam! Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2025. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: Mixer 6 - CHiME 8 Transcribed Calls and Interviews<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S07> was developed for the 7th and 8th CHiME (Computational Hearing in Multisource Environments)<https://www.chimechallenge.org/> challenges. It contains 80 hours of English interviews and telephone speech from Mixer 6 Speech (LDC2013S03)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013S03> with transcripts developed for the CHiME challenges divided into training, development, and test sets. This data was used in CHiME 7 Task 1<https://www.chimechallenge.org/challenges/chime7/task1/index> and CHiME 8 Task 1<https://www.chimechallenge.org/challenges/chime8/task1/>, both of which focused on transcription and segmentation across varied recording conditions such as interviews, meetings, and dinner parties, with an emphasis on generalization across recording device types and array topologies. The data includes audio from Mixer 6 Speech recorded on 13 microphones for a total of 1063 hours (corresponding to 80 hours of speech). The development and test sets are speaker-disjoint from the training data and consist of fully transcribed, multi-microphone interviews. Each transcript segment was labeled with the speaker, the uttered text, and the start and end times in seconds for that segment. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Abstract Meaning Representation 2.0 - Machine Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T10> was developed at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics <https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics> and the University of Zurich,<https://www.uzh.ch/en.html> Department of Computational Linguistics<https://www.cl.uzh.ch/en.html>. It consists of Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese automatic translations of the source English and professionally-translated Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese sentences in Abstract Meaning Representation 2.0 - Four Translations (LDC2020T07)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T07>. The translations were collected through Google Translate between May 2018 and March 2024. The source English sentences are a subset (1,371 sentences) of the sentences contained in Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) Annotation Release 2.0 (LDC2017T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2017T10>, a semantic treebank of over 39,000 English natural language sentences from broadcast conversations, newswire, and web text. Translations were from each of the five languages (English, Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese) to the other four languages (Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese) covering 20 language pairs. The dataset contains 1371 source sentences in each language, each with a professionally translated source sentence and multiple dated translations by Google Translate. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * KARIOS Phase 1 Quizlet<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T11> was developed by LDC and contains English and Spanish text, video, and image data and annotations used for pre-evaluation research and system development during Phase 1 of the DARPA KAIROS program. KAIROS Quizlets were a series of narrowly defined tasks designed to explore specific evaluation objectives enabling KAIROS system developers to exercise individual system components on a small data set prior to the full program evaluation. This corpus contains the complete set of Quizlet data used in Phase 1 which focused on two real-world complex events (CEs) within the Improvised Explosive Device bombing scenario: CE1001 (2018 Caracas drone attack) and CE1002 (Utah High School backpack bombing). Source data was collected from the web; 30 root web pages were collected and processed, yielding 29 text data files, 216 image files and 5 video files. Annotation steps included labeling scenario-relevant events and relations for each document to develop a structured representation of temporally ordered events, relations, and arguments and generating a reference knowledge graph. The DARPA KAIROS (Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas) program aimed to build technology capable of understanding and reasoning about complex real-world events in order to provide actionable insights to end users. KAIROS systems utilized formal event representations in the form of schema libraries that specified the steps, preconditions, and constraints for an open set of complex events; schemas were then used in combination with event extraction to characterize and make predictions about real-world events in a large multilingual, multimedia corpus. 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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RANLP 2025: The 3rd Summer School on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP - Call for Participation
by Petya Osenova 15 Aug '25

15 Aug '25

The 3rd Summer School on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP Call for Participation Website - https://ranlp2025-summer-school.github.io/ We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the 3rd Summer School on Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) for Natural Language Processing (NLP), which will be held from September 3–5, 2025, in Varna, Bulgaria, as part of RANLP 2025. Building on the success of the 1st and 2nd RANLP summer schools in 2019 and 2023 respectively, RANLP 2025 summer school will explore a broad spectrum of NLP topics with a special emphasis on LLMs. Each day will feature morning lectures that focus on theoretical foundations, followed by afternoon lab sessions dedicated to hands-on implementation and experimentation. Participants will also have the opportunity to compete in a competition, with awards presented to the top performers. The summer school will feature talks by leading researchers in NLP and deep learning from both academia and industry. Summer School Lecturers * Dr Salima Lamsiyah (Luxembourg University, Luxembourg) * Dr Burcu Can Buglalilar (University of Sterling, UK) * Dr Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University, UK) * Dr Andrei Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Dr Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) Summer School Tutors * Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University, UK) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (Lancaster University, UK) * Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Alexander Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage Premasiri (Lancaster University, UK) Programme Day 1 NLP/ DL Foundation Day 2 LLM Foundation Day 3 LLM Applications 09:00 – 10:30 Introduction to NLP and Deep Learning Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Introduction to LLMs Dr Burcu Can Training a Danish LLM: Lessons Learned Dr Max Müller-Eberstein 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/ Tea Break 11:00 – 12:30 Language Models and Beyond Dr Hansi Hettiarachchi Evaluating and Benchmarking LLMs Dr Salima Lamsiyah LLMs in Recruitment Sector (Tentative) Dr Andrei Mikheev and Alexander Mikheev 12:30 – 2:00 Lunch 2:00 – 3:00 Practical Session I: Word embeddings and Deep Learning in NLP Practical Session III: Prompting and finetuning LLMs Practical Session V: Implementing LLMs in the Legal Domain 3:00 – 3:30 Introducing the Summer School Competition, Your Teams and Mentors 3:30 – 4:00 Coffee/ Tea Break 4:00 – 5:30 Practical Session II: Transformers in NLP Practical Session IV: Tools for LLMs: LangGraph Practical Session VI: LLMs for Code Generation 5:30 – 6:00 Open Session with Mentors and Teams Open Session with Mentors and Teams Awards and Closing We are looking forward to your participation! The organisers of RANLP 2025 Summer School

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EACL/ACL 2026 call for workshops
by z＠zeerak.org 13 Aug '25

13 Aug '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, It’s time again for the … Joint Call for Workshops Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 The Association for Computational Linguistics, the European Language Resource Association and International Committee on Computational Linguistics invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 or ACL 2026. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues: * EACL 2026 (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026 * ACL 2026 (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026 The workshop and tutorial co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the conferences. They will take into account location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers. A second call will be made in the fall for workshops colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centres EACL and ACL 2026. Important Dates EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: Proposal submission deadline September 5, 2025 Notification of acceptance September 22, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission Information Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organizers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. Please use the LaTeX template<https://www.overleaf.com/read/ytktkdvzgshk> for your submission. The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title, short name / acronym, and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Some conferences might take place only or partially virtually. We request submissions to contain a brief discussion on measures planned to make sure a workshop is successful and productive in case of a hybrid or virtual-only attendance. * A description of special requirements and technical needs. * A description of any limitations that would restrict the workshop to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the workshop cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. * Diversity and Inclusion Efforts (see more details below) * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying: how many prior editions occurred, where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received in the last iteration and how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and an estimate of how many in-person posters the workshop attracted. * (Optional/If Known) A list of invited speakers, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers. * (Optional) A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Having a shared task is optional. The submission form will request information that does not factor into the decision process, but are necessary for logistical reasons: * An estimate of the maximum number of attendees at one given time * Number of estimated in-person posters * Preferred Venue (first and second preference). Providing a second preferred venue is optional, and we assume that providing a second preference indicates its compatibility for the workshop. While we will do our best to adhere to these preferences, we cannot guarantee that they will be satisfied. * Duration of the workshop (1-day / 2-day workshop) Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker. The workshop organizers must bear all other costs independently, including registration for more than one invited speaker. The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include: * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with a brief statement (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organizing workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and thoughtful reviews. * An indication whether the workshop will consider papers submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); use OpenReview as a platform (both to take papers from ARR and for their own review); or whether the workshop will only use START as a platform, and will not use ARR. In making this choice, please pay careful attention to the ARR deadlines and conference notifications. * References Submission is electronic at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2026/track/ACL_EACL Diversity and Inclusion The proposals should describe the ways in which the workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal: * Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on. * Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP<http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/> initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences. * Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on. Organizer Responsibilities The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. However, it is worth noting that workshops may also accept non-archival submissions, such as findings papers, for presentation, which are allowed in this case. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers are free to deviate from the proposed schedule for all dates that are not marked as inflexible, though changes should be made in consultation with the relevant workshop chairs. In submitting a proposal, workshop chairs will be asked to agree to the workshop non-compliance policy<https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1hhocb0fXBBJhqJHoOfZtx1V1kcTATpA4IMU…>. All workshops must agree to this policy, which states that egregious cases of not living up to the responsibilities of running a workshop will be penalized by a 1-year ban on the organizers from submitting another workshop proposal. Workshop proposals for which all authors do not agree to this policy will be desk-rejected. The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL’s general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops in the Conference Handbook<http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook>. Review Process Workshop proposals will be holistically reviewed by a committee of workshop chairs and the ACL workshop officers based on: their originality and impact, the experience of the Organizing and Program Committees, and the ethical considerations presented and adherence of the workshop proposal to ACL’s code of ethics. This committee will also allocate workshops to the conferences included in the call, taking into account location preferences and technical constraints given in the workshop proposal. However, the aim of the review process is to accept as many high-quality workshops as possible. Given space limitations at conference venues and the increasing number of workshop proposals, the review committee can not guarantee that a proposal will be co-located with their preferred venue in lieu of extenuating circumstances. The review process will have three possible outcomes: accept, in which case the workshop will be co-located with either EACL or ACL; revise and resubmit, where the organizing committee is encouraged to incorporate reviewer feedback and resubmit to the next call for workshops for AACL and EMNLP; or reject, in which the workshop proposal should not be submitted the next call, and will be desk rejected if submitted. Tentative Workshop Timelines EACL First call for workshop papers October 15, 2025 Second call for workshop papers November 12, 2025 Third call for papers December 5, 2025 Direct Submission deadline December 19, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline January 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due February 3, 2026 Proceedings due (hard deadline) February 24, 2026 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) February 27, 2026 Workshop dates March 24-29, 2026 ACL First call for workshop papers December 10, 2025 Second call for workshop papers January 15, 2026 Third call for workshop papers February 20, 2026 Direct paper submission deadline March 5, 2026 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline March 24, 2026 Notification of acceptance April 28, 2026 Camera-ready paper due May 12, 2026 Proceedings due (hard deadline) June 1, 2026 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) June 4, 2026 Workshop dates July 2-3, 2026 Workshop Chairs EACL * Adriana Pagano * Emmanuele Chersoni * Julia Ive ACL * Loic Barrault, Meta FAIR * Yang Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences Contact e-mail: star-acl-workshops(a)googlegroups.com

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Third call for papers KNLP@ACM-SAC
by Patrizio Bellan 13 Aug '25

13 Aug '25

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC* Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing - NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction - NLP for Ontology Population and Learning - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications - Interplay between Language and Ontologies - NLP for Explainable Knowledge - Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM - (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge - Knowledge - Knowledge to improve NLP tasks - Knowledge for Information Retrieval - Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP - Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation - Knowledge for Persuasion - Knowledge-based Machine Translation - Knowledge for the Web - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based NL Explainability - LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs - (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs - Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation) - Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health, and medicine - News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2026 SRC page for details <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>). Initial Submission Policy - All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There is no separate submission track for poster papers. - Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters Minimum Length for Review Consideration - While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review. Camera-ready Page Limits - Regular Papers (accepted for publication): - Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): - Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. *Important Dates (check SAC website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)* *September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission* For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026 <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Third CfP: FoIKS 2026: 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems. Hannover, Germany
by Yasir mahmood 12 Aug '25

12 Aug '25

***|* Apologies if you received multiple copies ofthis CFP *|* * * *================================* *** FoIKS 2026: Third call for papers *** *================================* ** *The 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems <https://foiks2026.github.io/>will be taking place from 23 to 26 of March 2026 in Hanover, Germany. We are excited to announce the invited speakers for next year’s conference.* * *==================* * ** Invited Speakers ** ================== * Giuseppe De Giacomo(University of Oxford) * Floris Geerts(University of Antwerp) * Wolfgang Nejdl(Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Ana Ozaki(University of Oslo) * * * We invite contributions from theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. * * =========== ** Scope ** =========== The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, and formal languages. * Database Design and Management: Formal models, (in)dependencies and models of transactions, concurrency control. * Logics in Databases and AI: Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, argumentation, probability logic, fuzzy logic. * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Logical reasoning, Non-monotonic reasoning (reasoning under inconsistency), Reasoning under vagueness or uncertainty. * Foundations of neuro-symbolic reasoning: Embedding methods for structured information, such as knowledge graphs, mathematical expressions, grammars, logical theories. * Intelligent Agents: Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, formal models of interactions, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems, epistemic reasoning. * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, information extraction. * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management. * Integrity and Constraint Management: Verification, validation, consistent query answering, and information cleaning. * Knowledge graphs and semi-structured Data: Data modelling, data processing, data compression, and data exchange. ====================== ** Submission Guidelines ** ====================== Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (for guidelines and templates, see:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceeding… <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>). Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. There are the following page limits according to paper type: * Long papers: 16, plus additional pages for references. * Short papers: 10, plus additional pages for references. Missing proofs or details can be added as an additional appendix of up to 15 pages article style and read at the discretion of the program committee. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via the EasyChair linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026>. All questions about submissions should be emailed to foiks2026(a)easychair.org. ============= ** Publication ** ============= The proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2026 special issue. ================= ** Important dates ** ================= * Submission of abstracts:September 18, 2025 * Submission of paper: September 25, 2025 * Notification:December 13, 2025 * Final version due:January 06, 2026 * Conference: March 23-26, 2026 ============== ** Organization ** ============== * *PC Chairs* * * Anni-Yasmin Turhan(University of Paderborn, Germany) * Jonni Virtema(University of Sheffield, UK) * *Local Chair* * * Arne Meier(Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) * * *Publicity Chair* * * *Yasir Mahmood* (Universität Paderborn) * *Local Organisers* * * Timon Barlag (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Nicolas Fröhlich (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Vivian Holzapfel (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Rahel Kluge (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Laura Strieker (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Heribert Vollmer (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * *Program Committee* * * Ringo Baumann (Leipzig University) * Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS, University of Bordeaux) * Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) * Stefan Borgwardt (TU Dresden) * Elena Botoeva (University of Kent) * Willem Conradie (University of the Witwatersrand) * Fabio Cozman (University of São Paulo) * Thomas Eiter (TU Wien) * Flavio Ferrarotti (Software Competence Centre Hagenberg) * Johannes K. Fichte (Linköping University) * Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University) * Guido Governatori (Central Queensland University) * Marc Gyssens (Universiteit Hasselt) * Miika Hannula (University of Tartu) * Jelle Hellings (McMaster University) * Andreas Herzig (CNRS, IRIT, University of Toulouse) * Martin Homola (Comenius University in Bratislava) * Tomi Janhunen (Tampere University) * Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki) * Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technische Universität Dortmund) * Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL - CNRS, University of Artois) * Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki) * Mena Leemhuis (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) * Joao Leite (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) * Sebastian Link (The University of Auckland) * Maria Vanina Martinez (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA - CSIC)) * Arne Meier (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Thomas Meyer (University of Cape Town and CAIR) * Daniel Neider (TU Dortmund) * Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology) * Nina Pardal (University of Huddersfield) * Elena Ravve (Ort Baude College) * Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden) * Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University) * Konstantin Schekotihin (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt) * Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Zhejiang University) * Guillermo R. Simari (Universidad del Sur in Bahia Blanca) * Jan Van den Bussche (Hasselt University) * Stefan Woltran (TU Wien) * Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen) * Mantas Šimkus (TU Vienna) **

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 12 Aug '25

12 Aug '25

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. Review and Oversight by Workshop Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with workshop information. The IUI 2026 website will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate a Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events). • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop. • Description of workshop topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. • Planned outcomes of the workshop: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops", and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025 • Decision Notification: September 19, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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CODI-CRAC workshop: deadline for direct submissions
by Chloé Braud 11 Aug '25

11 Aug '25

CODI-CRAC, Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC) 2025-11-8/9 - EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou ** Direct Submission deadline: August 23th, 2024 ** Direct submission: We now open submissions for papers submitted at another main conference. Notifications will be sent on September 2 for direct submissions, and camera-ready will be due on September 12. Website link: https://sites.google.com/view/codi2024 CODI-CRAC considers for publication papers rejected at one of the main conferences, authors will have to submit both the paper and the reviews as a supplementary pdf file. If modifications have been made since the original submission, please submit an additional file describing briefly the modifications made. The organizers will decide on the acceptance of the papers based on the quality of the paper and its fit with the workshop. As a reminder, CODI-CRAC also invites presentations of paper accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Please submit your workshop papers (category: "direct submission", archival or non archival) at : - CODI submission: https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/codi2025/ - CRAC submission: https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/crac2025/

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 11 Aug '25

11 Aug '25

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/track/saner-2026/saner-2026-workshops-tutorials-… In SANER 2026, we solicit proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshops can be full or half-day and should highlight a specific topic of interest related to software analysis, evolution, and reengineering. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience. All workshops will tentatively be scheduled for the first day of the conference (March 17, 2026), the day before the main conference. Should you be interested in joining SANER, please keep the deadlines below in mind. Submission Instructions Proposal submission: By August 20th, 2025 AoE, the workshop proposal (in the form of call for papers) should be submitted to the workshops EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 . The submission could be a PDF file (no more than two pages) or a public link to a call for papers webpage. The call for papers should include: • a workshop title, • a description of the workshop topic and scope, • an indication of whether the workshop will take ½ day or a full day, • a link to the workshop website, • and the contact information. The website should be live and include (at least) the following information: the topic of the workshop, its scope, list of topics of interest, names of the organizing committee members and their affiliations, types of submissions and the important dates as follows (all dates are 23:59h AoE): • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 Evaluation Criteria The proposals will be evaluated by the workshops track chairs based on the novelty of the workshop topic, its importance to the field, as well as the composition of the organizing team. Workshop PC and Submission System No later than mid of-September 2025, the workshop PC should have been finalized and the paper submission system should be live. Workshop organizers are free to select EasyChair, HotCRP or any other commonly used paper submission system. The workshop proceedings will be included in a separate section of the conference’s proceedings – the companion proceedings. SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES • Workshop Proposals Submissions: 20 August, 2025 • Workshop Proposals Notification: 27 August, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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Third Call for Papers and deadline extension: Identity-Aware AI 2025
by Soda Marem Lo 11 Aug '25

11 Aug '25

Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware AI Workshop at ECAI 2025 <https://ecai2025.org/workshops/>, Bologna, Italy, October 25-30. https://identity-aware-ai.github.io/ Workshop theme: What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and technical challenges does this imply? Overview What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it) is about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on the assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if enough data (and compute power) is present, the resulting generalizations will be robust enough and represent the majority. This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the notion of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop aims to raise the question of “what makes each of us unique?” to the AI community. We seek to gather researchers from diverse fields to understand how the identities of all stakeholders — e.g., the individuals projecting their views in texts, the individuals perceiving the texts, the individuals mentioned and those not mentioned in the texts — should be considered in future research in AI. Workshop Goals - The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of identities and how identity is treated in AI. - The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on the following topics: - Approaches to model subjective phenomena: Personalization and perspectivist methods that leverage disaggregated labeled data, encoding annotator metadata on their beliefs, moral values, sociodemographic features, or personal narratives. ML methods to address the challenges of “learning from disagreements” both from the development of new models and the collection of data to train such models. - Methods for detecting and controlling bias in models and data: Techniques to audit fairness, enforce fairness constraints, and learn fair representation from data, in order to enhance the fairness of models while maintaining their predictive reliability. Ethical challenges for LLMs in identity-aware dialog and tasks: diversity, stereotypes, harms. - The role of sociodemographics in LLMs: Such as which characteristics (and disagreements) they embody and how to measure their capacity for representing and reasoning about diverse types of identities. - Challenges for applying AI methods to model socio-political phenomena: Including polarization, impact of media consumption on public opinion formation, agenda setting, deliberation support, and how integrating identity into AI methods can influence the accuracy for these tasks. - NLP work at the intersection with social psychology: The methodological foundation for quantitative investigation of identity-related topics. The reflection on best practices to reliably measure complex constructs such as morals and values. Detection and analysis of personal narratives across cultures. - Accountability of AI in the eye of the general public: The role of LLMs, and the responsibilities of AI and NLP developers for ethical use of identities. - NLP work at the intersection of survey science: The use of LLMs to model and simulate individuals and subpopulations; the role of LLMs in personalizing information elicitation; and methodological approaches to address data contamination and response validation when LLMs are used by either researchers or respondents. Submission Types We welcome the following types of submissions: - Long papers: Up to 8 pages (excluding references) - Short papers: Up to 4 pages (excluding references) - Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media submissions: No page limit - For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats including: - Art, poetry, music - Blog posts - Jupyter notebooks - Teaching materials - TikToks and videos - Findings papers - Late-breaking papers - Extended abstracts - For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing: - A summary or abstract of your work - A link to your work (if hosted externally) - Any additional context or documentation Submission Guidelines - All submissions will be double-blind reviewed - Submissions should follow ECAI formatting guidelines <https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track> with the latex template here <https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip> - Submit your paper through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=identityawareai2025> - Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings through CEUR Workshop Format The workshop will be a half-day event featuring: - Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field - Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks) - Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and design a vision for collecting new datasets - Special student project session We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. Important Dates - Submissions: 22 August 29 August - Notifications: 26 September - Camera-ready: 3 October - Workshop: 25 October Diversity & Inclusion We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers. Organizers - Pranav A (University of Hamburg) - Valerio Basile (University of Turin) - Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart) - David Jurgens (University of Michigan) - Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf) - Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg) - Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin) Contact For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com Join us at Identity-aware AI 2025 to contribute to this important conversation!

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Fully funded PhD/PostDoc position (University of Augsburg)
by Annemarie Friedrich 09 Aug '25

09 Aug '25

Dear CorporaList readers, I have an open position (PhD or PostDoc, fully funded) at the University of Augsburg, Germany (near Munich). We are looking for an enthusiastic computational linguist with strong programming skills in Python to join our interdisciplinary team. Our work is currently situated in the areas of linguistic annotation, computational modeling of discourse, digital humanities, and machine learning. Please help us by forwarding this e-mail to potentially interested students! The full job ad can be found here: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote/2025/08/04… More infos on our team: https://hlt-augsburg.github.io/ <https://hlt-augsburg.github.io/> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Prof. Dr. Annemarie Friedrich Natural Language Understanding with Applications to DH Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik, Universität Augsburg https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/fai/informatik/prof/coling/

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Call for Abstracts: Methods Fair of the 62nd Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language
by Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

Dear colleagues, the Methods Fair forms part of the 62nd Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, carrying the motto 'German in the European language area: current status and prospects'. This call invites submissions of resources, tools and methods relating to the German language, or contrasting German with other European languages. If accepted, the content will be presented as a poster and subsequently published as a short paper. The language of presentation and publication is German. The full call follows in German: Vom 10.-12. März 2026 findet die Jahrestagung 2026 des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim statt. Das Rahmenthema der Tagung lautet „Deutsch im europäischen Sprachraum: Stand und Perspektiven“: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/tagungen/2026/ Ein Bestandteil der Tagung wird auch 2026 eine Projekt- und Methodenmesse sein. Wir laden herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen ein, die sich mit methodischen Ansätzen befassen, welche die Forschung im Kontext des Tagungsthemas unterstützen, ermöglichen oder kritisch reflektieren. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ressourcen, Methoden und Werkzeuge, die vorzugsweise anhand kompakter Anwendungsstudien vorgestellt werden. Willkommen sind Beiträge, die sich auf die deutsche Sprache beziehen oder das Deutsche kontrastiv mit anderen europäischen Sprachen in Beziehung setzen. Dies umfasst unter anderem, aber nicht ausschließlich, folgende Themen: - Nutzung schriftlicher oder gesprochener Korpora des Deutschen; - Erhebung und Verwendung nicht korpus-zentrierter empirischer Sprachdaten, die Deutsch in der europäischen Sprachenlandschaft verorten; - Untersuchungen von Sprachpolitik, -diskursen oder -einstellungen, die sich mit der Rolle von Deutsch in europäischen Kontexten beschäftigen; - quantitative Analysen der deutschen Sprache in mehrsprachigen oder nicht mehrheitlich deutschsprachigen Kontexten, einschließlich Visualisierungen; - Auswirkungen von generativer KI und Large Language Models auf die Verwendung des Deutschen in sprachübergreifender Perspektive oder in multilingualen Kontexten; - innovative Werkzeuge und Methoden im Bereich des DaF-/DaZ-Unterrichts. Die Beiträge werden in Form eines Posters und ggf. einer Softwaredemonstration präsentiert. Auf der Tagung wird jeder Beitrag in einem einminütigen Schlaglicht dem Publikum vorgestellt, anschließend gibt es die Gelegenheit, die Inhalte im Rahmen einer ca. eineinhalbstündigen Postersession zu demonstrieren und Fragen zu beantworten. Ausgearbeitete Beiträge sollen im Anschluss an die Tagung bei IDSopen (https://idsopen.de/) digital nach dem Open-Access-Prinzip publiziert werden. Wir bitten um die Einreichung eines nicht anonymisierten Abstracts (max. 500 Wörter exkl. Literaturangaben; in einem editierbaren Format) sowie um die Zuordnung zu thematischen Schlagwörtern. Bitte senden Sie Ihren Vorschlag bis zum 15. Oktober 2025 an methodenmesse2026(a)ids-mannheim.de. Über die Annahme der Beiträge entscheidet das Organisationsteam bis zum 12. Dezember 2025. Organisationsteam: Peter Meyer, Andreas Witt sowie Laura Herzberg, Marc Kupietz, Heiko J. Marten, Samira Ochs, Janusz Taborek, Beata Trawiński, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu, Jörg Zinken -- Dr. Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Grammatik Tel: +49 621-1581-242

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*SEM 2025 - ARR commit deadline 22nd August
by Kemal Kurniawan 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

*SEM 2025 accepts commits of ARR papers with complete sets of ARR reviews. Commit your paper here by Aug 22: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment> *SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP) https://starsem2025.github.io/ Call for ARR Commit Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here: https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf> Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is June 13, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview. ARR commit link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/ARR_Commitment> Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025 Conference date: November 8-9, 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025) Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>

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CfP ACM TIST Special Issue on New Frontiers in Interactive Storytelling and Computational Models of Narrative
by Pasquale Lisena 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Call for Papers – ACM TIST Special Issue New Frontiers in Interactive Storytelling and Computational Models of Narrative We invite submissions for a forthcoming special issue of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) exploring how knowledge-driven methods (e.g., ontologies, knowledge graphs) can be integrated with LLMs and Generative AI to enhance computational storytelling and narrative intelligence. This issue targets interdisciplinary contributions across Semantic Web, NLP, HCI, cognitive technologies, and digital creativity—with applications in education, games, cultural heritage, and human-robot interaction. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Knowledge representation for narrative structure and emotion Culturally-aware and constraint-driven language models Semantic interfaces for story authoring Narrative planning in robotics and explainable AI Ethical considerations and social impact of automated storytelling Applications and evaluation of narrative systems Reviews comparing symbolic and neural approaches to narrative AI Submission deadline: December 1, 2025 Full Call for Papers (PDF): https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tist/cfps/ACM-TIST-CFP-St… Guest Editors: Belén Dìaz Agudo, Pasquale Lisena, Paul Mulholland, Maria Angela Pellegrino For questions: contact Maria Angela Pellegrino – mapellegrino(a)unisa.it

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2nd CFP: AI Werewolf Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2025)
by Yoshinobu Kano 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Second Call for Participations (Registration deadline extended to Aug 20!) Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2025) # Summary Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs could sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against other AI. We will hold 5-players and 13-players tracks. # Schedule Shared tasks August 20, 2025: Competition Registration Deadline ← New! deadline extended August 20, 2025: Preliminary Round (Self-play) Result Submission Deadline ← New! deadline extended Late August 2025: Final Round (Online Matches) ← New! deadline extended Workshop papers September 10, 2025: Paper Submission Deadline ← New! deadline extended September 24, 2025: Notification of Acceptance October 1, 2025: Camera-ready Submission Deadline ← New! deadline moved INLG 2025 Conference Period October 29 - November 2, 2025 (in Hanoi) October 30, 2025 (AM): AIWolfDial 2025 Workshop in Hanoi/online (Paper Presentations and Competition Results) Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2025 workshop at INLG 2025 (18th International Natural Language Generation Conference). Our workshop will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and online on October 30th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend the INLG 2025 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the workshop and present in the workshop day. Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments: https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ # Why AI Werewolf? Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2025 contest, which is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition to their win rates. Agents must communicate in English. # Registration A team should send required information via https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Registration and participation to the shared task is free. # System Evaluation Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates, reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria: A Natural utterance expressions B Contextually natural conversation C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of context are not always natural in the werewolf game. F Team play # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuya Harada, Shizuoka University, Japan Links (same as above): Registration https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Contest and workshop website https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ Paper submission site: https://softconf.com/p/AIWolfDial2025/ Contact; aiwolf(a)kanolab.net On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, -- Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D. Professor, Research Fellow Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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CfP: Special issue "AI Meets Humour" (European Journal of Humour Research)
by Tristan Miller 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Call for papers European Journal of Humour Research Special issue: "AI Meets Humour" Editors of the European Journal of Humour Research special issue "AI Meets Humour" invite contributions that examine any aspect of the relationship between artificial intelligence and humour from a humanistic or social-scientific perspective. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Cultural, social, or ethical implications of AI-generated humour - Humour as a test for artificial general intelligence - Semiotics of humour in human–AI interactions - The "funny robot" trope in film and literature - Bias and stereotyping in AI-generated humour - Cross-cultural challenges in computational humour recognition or production - Ethnographies of AI and humour in real-world settings - Evaluations of the use of AI in comedy writing or performance - AI as a theme or target of human-made humour - Philosophical or epistemological perspectives on humour and AI - Educational applications of humour-aware AI Transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary approaches are welcome. Papers jointly authored by researchers in computer science and the social sciences or humanities are particularly encouraged. The special issue will print full-length original research articles (6,000 to 10,000 words), as well as shorter commentary pieces (3,000 to 6,000 words) that critically examine and take a clear persuasive stand on the literature and research direction of a particular topic. Submission instructions Prospective authors should e-mail the following to the guest editors at aimeetshumour(a)groups.io: - title - 250-word abstract - 5 keywords - names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and biographies (up to 250 words) of all co-authors Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full article that must follow the EJHR style sheet available at <https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/about/submissions>. Submissions that pass an informal internal review by the guest editors will undergo external double-blind review, with authors of accepted papers invited to submit a final, revised version of their manuscript. Important dates - 1 October 2025: Abstract submission deadline - 1 November 2025: Acceptance notifications for abstracts - 1 March 2026: Paper submission deadline - 1 July 2026: Acceptance notifications for papers - 1 August 2026: Deadline for submission of revised papers - September/October 2026: Publication of special issue About the journal The European Journal of Humour Research (EJHR) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal with an international, multidisciplinary editorial board. EJHR covers the full range of work being done on all aspects of humour and intends to respond to the important changes that have affected the study of humour. Consequently, EJHR is committed to theoretical openness characterized by the intent to publish a wide range of critical approaches, alongside the encouragement and development of innovative work that contains a transdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary focus. For more information, see <https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/>. Guest editors - Anna T. Litovkina, J. Selye University, Slovakia - Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada - Andrea Puskás, J. Selye University, Slovakia - Márk Csóka, J. Selye University, Slovakia For any enquiries, please contact the guest editors at aimeetshumour(a)groups.io. -- 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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2 PhD Positions on Persona-Based Dialogue generation and NLG for Combating Online Harms. Application deadline: August 22nd
by Marco Guerini 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

------------------ Apologies for cross-posting. ------------------ The Language and Dialogue Technologies (LanD <https://land.fbk.eu/>) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of two fully-funded PhD position: 1) TITLE: Dynamic Personas - Modeling the Evolution of Opinions and Values in LLMs DESCRIPTION: Previous research has focused on equipping conversational agents with static, deep personas incorporating opinions, values, and beliefs to enrich dialogues. However, human interaction is dynamic; opinions can shift, and values may be expressed differently depending on context or interlocutor. Current persona-based models lack the ability to adapt or evolve during interaction. This PhD Thesis aims to address this gap by developing neural models capable of representing and evolving deep personas dynamically within a conversation. The research will investigate how to model the triggers and mechanisms of persona adaptation, such as responding to conversational context, user interaction history, or explicit feedback. The goal is to create agents whose expressed opinions and values can evolve coherently over time, leading to more natural, engaging, and long-term interactions. Evaluation will focus on the plausibility, coherence, and adaptability of the dynamic persona, with a focus on understanding how LLMs' personas impact user perception and interaction quality. Link to the call: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A5 2) TITLE: Knowledge-Driven Natural Language Generation for Combating Online Harms DESCRIPTION: The pervasive spread of online misinformation and hate speech poses critical threats to societal well-being and democratic discourse. While neural language models (NLMs) show promise in generating counter-arguments and debunking fake news, they often suffer from limitations such as hallucination, knowledge scarcity, and a lack of sophisticated argumentative reasoning. This PhD project aims to overcome these shortcomings by developing novel knowledge-driven neural language generation pipelines. We will focus on integrating diverse external knowledge sources, principles from argumentation theory, and domain-specific features to enable the generation of factually accurate, persuasive, and ethically sound counterspeech. The goal is to build advanced generative AI systems that can effectively and safely mitigate the impact of both misinformation and hate speech online. Link to the call: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A6 COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application IMPORTANT DATES: deadline for application is August 22nd, 2025, 04:00 PM (CEST) FURTHER INFORMATION: For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about the position, please contact me (guerini(a)fbk.eu) Best Regards, Marco Guerini -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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cfp: Dialogue and Discourse Vol. 16(2)
by Manfred Stede 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

- apologies for cross-posting - We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse. Submissions received by September 1st, 2025 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue. About the journal Dialogue and Discourse (D&D http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". The journal adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and other associated fields with an interest in formally, technically, empirically or experimentally rigorous approaches. Descriptive papers should make a substantial theoretical contribution to be considered. We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. D&D has published regular issues every year since 2010, and occasionally special issues on common topics. As of August 2025, D&D has published 119 papers, and the journal's h-index is 31. D&D is endorsed by ACL SIGdial, SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is indexed by DBPL Bibliography, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Linguistics and Language Behavious Abstracts, Linguistics Abstracts Online, Linguistic Bibliography Online, the MLA International Bibliography, Scopus. Submissions Submissions should be made via the online submission system at http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml Authors are required to indicate if a submission is an extended version of one or more previously published conference papers (to which we would expect substantial additions); simultaneous submission to another venue is prohibited. Submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review. Once accepted and finalized, papers will appear online immediately, as part of the current issue. Selected papers will furthermore be offered the opportunity to present a poster at the following SIGDIAL Conference (https://www.sigdial.org). Dialogue and Discourse Editors Issue Editors: Manfred Stede (Volume 16, Issue 2) Casey Kennington (Volume 16, Issue 1) Massimo Poesio (Volume 15, Issue 2) Pat Healey (Volume 15, Issue 1) Editor In Chief: David R. Traum, University of Southern California, United States Associate Editors: Rebecca Clift, University of Essex, United Kingdom Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago, United States Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, United States Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Cité, France Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University, Japan Casey Kennington, Boise State University, United States Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University London and University of Utrecht Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, United States

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IWSLT 2026 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 05 Aug '25

05 Aug '25

Dear all, 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 organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. 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 SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20+ years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new applications scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, automatic evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for shared tasks. As a task organizer you can promote a particular challenge in speech translation, either newly identified or worthy of continued research. For those proposing new tasks, for inspiration, you can find the tasks run in the previous year on the IWSLT website. Tasks will be selected in November based on their relevance and readiness for the evaluation campaign, to enable data released by the end of the year. To ensure an appropriate number of total tracks, highly related proposals may be encouraged to merge after initial review. If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send it to: *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com <iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2025. *Decisions about which tasks will run in 2026 will be announced by *November 1st, 2025* . For further information on this initiative, please refer to the * <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>CFP <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> *( https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf). Best, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Antonios, Atul IWSLT Organisers

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Call for Participation: ALTA 2025 Shared Task
by Diego Molla-Aliod 01 Aug '25

01 Aug '25

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2025 The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students. Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology. This year's shared task is: Normalizing Adverse Drug Event mentions. The tentative key dates are: Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data 24 Sep 2025 - Release of test data 29 Sep 2025 - Deadline of submission of runs 03 Oct 2025 - Notification of results 27 Oct 2025 - Deadline of submission of system description 26-28 Nov 2024 - Presentation of results at ALTA 2025 Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (https://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2025) Good luck! Diego -- Dr. Diego Mollá-Aliod Senior Lecturer School of Computing | Room 358 (Level 3), 4 Research Park Drive Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 9531 | F: +61 2 9850 9551 https://macquarie.zoom.us/my/diego.molla https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/diego-molla-aliod I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which Macquarie University stands – the Wallumattagal clan of the Dharug nation – whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land since time immemorial. I pay my respects to Elders past and present.

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LREC 2026 2nd Call for Tutorial Proposals
by info＠elda.org 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] The 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction. The tutorials will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11, 12, or 16 May 2026. *IMPORTANT DATES* 17 October 2025: Proposal submission due 17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance 11-16 May 2026: LREC 2026 conference *Cutting-edge:* tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. The tutorials are expected to give a brief introduction to the topic, but participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the topic. The focus of the class will be on discussing the most recent developments in the field, and it will spend a considerable amount of time pointing out open research questions and important novel research directions. *Introductory to computational linguistics (CL)/ natural language processing (NLP) topics*: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established in the LREC communities. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field. *Introductory to adjacent areas:* tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established or emerging in areas adjacent to CL/NLP. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire a sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field and its relevance for the CL/NLP domains. In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be “self-invited” long talks – the content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only of the teachers of the tutorial. Proposals should be prepared according to the style files available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/mgtcgxgmrhvz#1b1392, available also from the LREC website (https://lrec2026.info/). Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), and they should be submitted as PDF documents. Tutorial proposals do not have to be anonymized. They should contain: * A title that helps potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about. * An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be on the LREC website). * A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community, and in general. * A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants. * A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be. * A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others. * A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial? * A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience. * A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need. * A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. Tutorials can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/tutorials *EVALUATION CRITERIA* The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. *DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION* We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials. This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, and (3) if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. *INSTRUCTOR RESPONSIBILITIES* Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific deadlines. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology. Finally, at least one tutorial presenter must attend the event in person to organise the tutorial. *CONTACT* Tutorial Chairs: lrec2026-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/ target=> ------ *LREC 2026 Second Calls for Papers & Proposals are available. * *Deadline: October 17, 2025 * * Main conference 2nd CfP: https://lrec2026.info/calls/se... <https://click.mailerlite.com/link/c/> * Workshops 2nd CfP: https://lrec2026.info/second-c... <https://click.mailerlite.com/link/c/> * Tutorials 2nd CfP: https://lrec2026.info/second-c... <https://click.mailerlite.com/link/c/> Authors' Kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ General contact:mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info>

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[CfP] CHOMPS Shared Task: SHROOM-CAP , the Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes in Crosslingual Analyses of Publications
by Aman Sinha 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

TL;DR [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | SHROOM-CAP ] is a Indic-centric shared task colocated with [ https://chomps2025.github.io/ | CHOMPS-2025 ] to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for scientific content generated with LLMs. We’ve annotated hallucinated content in 4 different high resource languages and surprisal 3* low resource indic languages from top -tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you’d like by accurately detecting presence of hallucinated content. Stay informed by joining our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group ] ! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the SHROOM-CAP shared task on cross-lingual hallucination detection for scientific publication (link to [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | website ] ). We invite participants to detect whether or not there is hallucination in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs in a cross-lingual scientific context. About This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2024 | SHROOM ] , with three key highlights: LLM-centered, cross-lingual annotations & hallucination and fluency prediction. LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public. With SHROOM-CAP , we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated scientific content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a cross-lingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 4+3* different high and low resource languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindi, and to-be-later-revealed indic languages). Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify hallucinations in generated scientific content. Additionally, participants will also be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in oral/poster format during the CHOMPS workshop (collocated with [ https://2025.aaclnet.org/ | IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India ] ). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author) Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). * Dev set available by: 31.07.2025 * Test set available by: 05.10.2025 * Evaluation phase ends: 15.10.2025 * System description papers due: 25.10.2025 (TBC) * Notification of acceptance: 05.11.2025 (TBC) * Camera-ready due: 11.11.2025 (TBC) * Proceedings due: 01.12.2025 (TBC) * CHOMPS workshop: 23/24th December 2025 (co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025) Evaluation Metrics: Participants will be ranked along two criterions: 1. factuality mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted 2. fluency mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted based on our annotations. Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in! How to Participate: * Register: Please register your team [ https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 | https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 ] and join our google group: [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap ] * Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 15.10.2025 * Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 25.10.2025 (TBC, further details will be announced at a later date). Want to be kept in the loop? Join our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group mailing list ] ! We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, SHROOM-CAP organizers

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LREC 2026: 2nd CfP for Workshops
by info＠elda.org 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - LREC 2026 Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association Palma, Mallorca, Spain 11-16 May 2026 The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain). We solicit proposals in all areas of language resources, language technology, and evaluation of the underlying technologies, broadly conceived to also include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. The workshops will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 11, 12 and 16 May 2026. IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * 17 October 2025: Proposal submission deadline * 17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance * 11-16 May 2026: LREC2026 conference SUBMISSION INFORMATION Submissions should follow this template: https://www.overleaf.com/project/68879da091da5870fcb655de <https://www.overleaf.com/project/68879da091da5870fcb655de> Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents using the START system (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/ <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/>). Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification of acceptance (see Important dates above). The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal + at most two additional pages for information about organisers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than FOUR pages long, excluding references. The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Workshops can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). * A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. * An estimate of the number of attendees. * A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. * A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The two pages for information about the workshop, the organisers and the program committee must include: * A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below). * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/ <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/> EVALUATION CRITERIA The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organising team and Program Committee, and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in language resources and language technology, including researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of workshops. Workshop proposals are evaluated on a range of aspects, including diversity, such as (1) how the topic of the workshop contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES At least one of the accepted organisers must attend the workshop in person. The organisers of the accepted proposals are responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the workshop program and the camera-ready workshop proceedings according to LREC requirements, organising the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of LREC’s anti-harassment policy and code of conduct (see https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/ <https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/>). It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings in the correct format on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well as to accept additional non-archival presentations CONTACT * Workshop Chairs: lrec2026-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:lrec2026-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com> * General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> * More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/>

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LREC 2026 Second Call for Papers - Palma de Mallorca, May 11-16, 2026
by info＠elda.org 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2026 Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association Palma, Mallorca, Spain 11-16 May 2026 The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of language resources involving both traditional and recently developed approaches. The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations, and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. Submissions describing all aspects of language resource development and use are invited, including, but not limited to, the following: Language Resource Development * Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation * Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) * Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages * Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability Language Resource Use * Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing * Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility * Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing Evaluation * Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies * Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance * Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems * Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics * Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools Language Resources and Large Language Models * Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal) * (Semi-)automatic generation of training data * Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning * Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models Policy and Organizational Considerations * International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies * Language coverage and diversity * Replicability and reproducibility * Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues Paper Theme Tracks The above topics are organised in 27 main tracks: * T01Applications Involving LRs and Evaluation for any area/domain of language and speech processing * T02Bias, Offensive and Non-inclusive Language; Guardrails, filters * T03Corpora, Treebanks and Annotation; Tools, Systems and Platforms * T04Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction * T05Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and Computational Social Science * T06Discourse and Pragmatics * T07Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval * T08Ethics, Research Reproducibility and Replicability, and Environmental Issues * T09Evaluation, Validation, Quality Assurance and Benchmarking Methodologies * T10Inference, Reasoning, Question Answering * T11Information Extraction and Text Mining * T12Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools * T13Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) * T14Language Modeling and LRs (including training, fine-tuning, representation learning, and generation of synthetic data) * T15Less-Resourced/Endangered/Less-studied Languages * T16Lexicon and Semantics * T17Machine Learning Methods and Techniques for Language and Speech Processing, including efficient/low-resource methods * T18Multilinguality, Machine Translation (including Speech-to-Speech) and Translation Aids * T19Multimodality, Cross-modality (including Sign Languages, Vision and Other Modalities), Multimodal Applications, Grounded Language Acquisition * T20Natural Language Generation and Summarization * T21Simplification, Plain Language and Assistive Technologies * T22Opinion & Argument Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation * T23Parsing, Tagging, Chunking, Grammar, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Morphology * T24Policy and Legal Issues (including Language Resource Infrastructures, Interoperabillity, Standards for LRs, Metadata) * T25Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories * T26Social Media Processing * T27Speech Resources and Processing (including Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody, Speech Recognition, Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding) Separate calls have been issued for Workshops, Tutorials. We will also organise an Industry Track to report on state of the art within industry and commercial achievements, for which there will be a separate Call. Paper Submission and Templates Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/main/ Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website in Authors' Kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> and the overleaf link is here: https://www.overleaf.com/project/6887c0280bfaab6e3e8bd0bc At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map <https://lremap.elra.info/>, which provides metadata for the resource. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. Author Responsibilities Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories; the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or Anonym Share <https://anonymfile.com/>). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at LREC 2026, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at LREC 2026 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the LREC 2026 Programme Committee must be notified immediately. Ethics Statement We encourage all authors submitting to LREC 2026 to include an explicit ethics statement on the broader impact of their work, or other ethical considerations after the conclusion but before the references. The ethics statement will not count toward the page limit. Presentation Requirement All papers accepted for the main conference track must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings, and at least one author must register for LREC 2026. Papers will be presented either orally or as posters. The specific presentation type of a paper will be decided based on its content, with no difference in quality implied. Papers that include a demonstration component will be presented as posters. The conference will be hybrid, including both on-site and virtual presentations. For hybrid purposes, all authors of papers accepted to the main conference, whether oral or poster, will be required to upload a presentation video and a set of slides, plus the poster PDF, for the authors of an accepted paper as Poster on the Conference Catalysts platform. This material will also be inserted in the LREC 2026 online proceedings. Important dates (All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026 * Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026 * LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026 More informationon LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/> Contact: lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:lrec2026-pcs@googlegroups.com>

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Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP for Inclusive Language Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain!
by Horacio Saggion 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

The *TALN research group *at Universitat Pompeu Fabra's Department of Engineering is excited to announce an opening for a *Postdoctoral Researcher* in Barcelona, Spain! This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the *Horizon Europe project IDEAL* (Inclusive Democratic Engagement and Language Technologies in Europe), focusing on crucial areas: - Multilingual *Text Simplification*: Developing solutions for citizens with language comprehension challenges. - Multilingual & Multicultural *Machine Translation*: Leveraging state-of-the-art deep neural models, including LLMs, to enhance communication across diverse languages and cultures. You'll be a key technical lead, responsible for research and development, including: - Adapting and fine-tuning existing multilingual LLMs for specific tasks - Developing and calibrating text-to-speech systems. - Acquiring and preparing datasets and "benchmarks" for translation and simplification. - Developing and calibrating automatic evaluation systems. - Integrating developed libraries into applications. - Collaborating with an expert NLP team at UPF and project partners across Europe. - Participating in meetings, writing reports, and publishing scientific papers. Who We're Looking For: *Required Education:* PhD or equivalent in Computer Science or related field. *Experience:* At least 4 years of research experience (Recognised Researcher R2). *Key Skills:* Proven experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) for text classification, generation, translation, and simplification. *Languages: *Excellent English is a must. Desirable knowledge of French, German, Greek, Arabic, or Persian. *Additional Assets:* Experience in research projects, scientific writing/publishing, and software development. *Benefits:* *Gross Salary:* Up to €41,370.76 annually. *Comprehensive Benefits:* Social security, employment benefits, paternity/maternity leave, and access to the public health system. *Leave: *4 weeks of annual leave. *Eligibility:* Must have the right to work in the EU. Apply Now! https://lnkd.in/dbGexJz7 Open Date: July 29, 2025 Application Deadline: August 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Questions? Send a message to: horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu If you're an experienced researcher passionate about inclusive language technologies and LLMs, we encourage you to apply and make a real impact! -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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15 September: Corpus Linguistics MOOC Returns – New Platform, Fresh Content,
by Brezina, Vaclav 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

Dear all, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University (CASS) is delighted to announce that our popular Corpus Linguistics MOOC is returning this September! Whether you're new to corpus linguistics or have joined us in the past, there's something for everyone. This year’s course features new materials reflecting the latest developments in the field – including the impact of AI and new technologies. 📅 Course starts: 15 September 🎓 Register FREE via edX: edx.org – Corpus Linguistics and New Technologies<https://edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-linguisti…> You’re welcome to join us yourself or recommend it to your students! What’s new? * 📍 Now hosted on a new platform with updated, engaging content * 🤖 Focus on technological advances in corpus linguistics * 💡 Available as a free course, or as a microcredential (USD 600) with certification 🎁 Bonus: All MOOC participants will receive a £500 discount on our MA/PGCert in Corpus Linguistics (Distance) at Lancaster University. Learn more: Lancaster MA in Corpus Linguistics<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-…> We hope to see you (and your students) in the course! Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:ae9f4bc7-9432-4d40-8187-40cbdb08f37b]@vaclavbrezina [cid:4f14ad86-46b2-4996-aad1-966b4ea4c6c9]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CODI-CRAC 2025: Deadline Extension
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

*apologies for cross-postings* � CODI CRAC – deadline extended to Aug. 6!!! � CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: joint call for papers 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse and 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference � November 5-9 2025 - EMNLP 25 - Suzhou, China � We are pleased to announce that we are organizing in 2025 the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop that will be held during EMNLP! More information on: <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2025/> https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2025/ � � Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: Aug. 6 2025 � We will host 2 shared tasks, the CRAC and the DISRPT shared tasks. More information on: - CRAC shared task: <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac25> https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac25 � - DISRPT shared task: � <https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/> https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ � � Aims and scope � The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems and Large Language Models to understand and produce words, sentences and in some cases longer texts. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form documents and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse pretraining tasks, coherence models, summarization for long texts and conversations, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension and formal parsing, as well as discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. � Discourse, roughly the interactions of context, form and meaning above the sentence level, is at the intersection of many areas in Computational Linguistics and NLP, since it is concerned with all levels of linguistic representation, allowing the modeling of textual coherence and inference leveraging long-distance links within documents.It thus brings together researchers working on different areas but facing similar issues with coherence and cohesion, document-level structure, long text and long context. � In 2025, we organize the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse level problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � This joint edition corresponds to the 6th CODI workshop and the 8th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state of the art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking and the fourth edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. � The workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. � Topics of interest � We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing - discourse pretraining tasks - long-text modeling and generation � Submissions � We solicit three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. � Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. � Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences � We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with reviews, with timeline TBA. � Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EMNLP 2025 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp � Submission websites: * CODI: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/codi2025/> https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/codi2025/ * DISRPT: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/disrpt2025/> https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/disrpt2025/ * CRAC: � <https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/crac2025/> https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/crac2025/ � Schedule � - July 30 2025 --> August 6 2025:CODI CRAC papers due - September 5 2025:Notification of acceptance - September 19 2025:Camera ready deadline - November 8-9 2025-:CODI-CRAC workshop � All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). � Invited Speakers � - Tanya Goyal, Cornell University. - Nancy F. Chen, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), A-STAR, Singapore � Organizers � - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia - Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin - Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg - Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas - Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences - Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht - Sameer Pradhan, University of Pennsylvania and cemantix - Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies - Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC To contact the organizers, please send an email to: <mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com> codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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second call for papers KNLP@ACM-SAC
by Patrizio Bellan 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC* Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing - NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction - NLP for Ontology Population and Learning - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications - Interplay between Language and Ontologies - NLP for Explainable Knowledge - Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM - (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge - Knowledge - Knowledge to improve NLP tasks - Knowledge for Information Retrieval - Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP - Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation - Knowledge for Persuasion - Knowledge-based Machine Translation - Knowledge for the Web - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based NL Explainability - LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs - (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs - Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation) - Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health, and medicine - News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2026 SRC page for details <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>). Initial Submission Policy - All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There is no separate submission track for poster papers. - Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters Minimum Length for Review Consideration - While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review. Camera-ready Page Limits - Regular Papers (accepted for publication): - Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): - Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. *Important Dates (check SAC website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)* September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026 <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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