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Opera Latina Adnotata (v0.2.0)
by Giuseppe G. A. Celano 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Dear all, I am glad to announce the release of Opera Latina Adnotata (v0.2.0), a multilayer Latin corpus consisting of 736 texts and 17M+ tokens searchable by: 1. word form 2. lemma 3. morphology (POS and morphological features) 4. syntax (dependency syntax following the AGDT annotation scheme) 5. CTS URN for work, author, and edition 6. CTS structure (e.g., "book," "section," etc.) 7. author name 8. work title 9. (experimental) IPA transcription of word forms (the "Classical Latin" one) The data is hosted on Zenodo [1] and can be queried online through ANNIS [2]. More information can be found in the associated repository [3]. Best regards, Giuseppe Celano ----- [1] https://zenodo.org/records/15183688 [2] https://annis.varro.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/ola020#_q=bGVtbWE9InByYWVzYWd… [3] https://github.com/OperaLatinaAdnotata/OLA -- Universität Leipzig Institute of Computer Science Augustusplatz 10 04109 Leipzig Deutschland celano(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - 1st Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations
by Kossi Amouzouvi 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations The Industry & Use Case track at SEMANTiCS welcomes submissions that present use cases and industry adoption of semantic technology. Solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or information in areas like Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Publishing, Thesaurus and/or Ontology management, and any related fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world applications beyond the prototypical status and demonstrate the power of semantic systems! *Important dates* - *Submission Deadline:* May 14, 2025 (11:59 pm) - *Notification of Acceptance:* June 13, 2025 (11:59 pm) - *Presentation Ready:* August 18, 2025 (11:59 pm) All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) *Submission via Easychair on* *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>. Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page description of the use case you want to present, in particular: initial situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account. Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only be used in the selection process. *Topics of Interest* SEMANTiCS 2025 especially invites contributions that target the following main topics in the context of semantic-based research and systems as well as applicative domains. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models (LLM) combined with Knowledge Graphs - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) - Reasoning, rules and policies - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Semantics in Data Science - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Authentication of knowledge graphs - IoT and Stream Processing, Linked Data Event Streams - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems - Provenance and Data Change Tracking - Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) *Author Guidelines and Submission* - This call for presentations reaches out to professionals in the areas related to the topics of SEMANTiCS for proposals to present industry implementations, best practices and use case prototypes, to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. Additionally, we explicitly encourage the submission of software applications, apps or services that demonstrate the usefulness and benefits of semantic technologies and semantic data management. - To contribute a submission for a presentation at SEMANTiCS 2025 please prepare the following: Fill out the online application at Easychair and give us relevant information about your expertise and your professional background. - Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page description of the use case you want to present, iIn particular: initial situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account. - Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only be used in the selection process. - All accepted submissions will be granted a presentation slot at the main conference. Please stick to this time pattern when preparing your talk. This is the only way we can guarantee a smooth and satisfying programme and allow all conference participants to attend as many slots as possible without missing important information. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more details: https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy When your submission is accepted and you are preparing your talk, please take care to address the following aspects: - *Initial Situation *What kind of challenge did you face in the beginning of the project? What problems needed to be solved? - *Approach and IT-Solution *Which approach and methodology has been chosen to tackle the problem(s)? How is your solution composed with respect to technological aspects / human aspects / organisational aspects? How do the semantic components support the process from data to knowledge? - *Success Criteria for / Benefit of the Semantic Solution *Which factors (conscious and unconscious) have been crucial to the success of your project? Which obstacles did you face? How can you measure the benefit of your solution? How does the organisation benefit from your solution? - *Prospects and Recommendations *What are the next steps planned in your project? Can you give recommendations with respect to development / deployment of semantic solutions within organisational / corporate settings? - *Demo (if applicable) *Prepare a short demonstration of your tool / service. *Review and Evaluation Criteria* Every submission will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. Submissions to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Your presentation is relevant to industry and industrial purposes. It illustrates how semantic technologies / solutions contribute to or improve existing businesses and / or generate new ones. - The presented solution has already been deployed and / or has been tested in a practical environment – at least prototypically. - Your presentation is well-structured and does bring across its message. - The topic is well described and covers enough explanations, examples, use cases, graphics, etc. - Novelty: The topic covered is new to your industry – not necessarily new to business in general In case your presentation will be accepted, we will provide you with detailed information on organisational matters according to the selection of submissions and conference participation. We are looking forward to your contribution! Marco Brattinga Artem Revenko *Industry & Use Case Track Chairs* -- DISCLAIMER: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and you are herewith notified that the contents are legally privileged and that you do not have permission to disclose the contents to anyone, make copies thereof, retain or distribute or act upon it by any means, electronically, digitally or in print. The views expressed in this communication may be of a personal nature and not be representative of AIMS-NEI and/or any of its Centres or Initiatives.

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CfA: International Conference on Inferentialism, Law, and Language AI, 10-13 September 2025, Zurich, Switzerland
by reto.gubelmann＠uzh.ch 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

Please direct any inquiries to: conference-ile(a)unisg.ch CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Exploring Reasons, Rationality, and Rationalism International Conference on Inferentialism   10 – 13 September 2025   University of Zurich & University of St. Gallen   The University of Zurich’s Digital Society Initiative (DSI), Department of Philosophy, and Department of Computational Linguistics, together with the Institute of Law & Economics of the University of St. Gallen are pleased to announce their first international conference on Inferentialism, to be held from 10 to 13 September 2025 at the University of Zurich.   This four-day event will feature contributions from leading scholars in the field as well as selected presentations from emerging young researchers. We invite submissions of extended abstracts on any topic related to rationalism and inferentialism as developed in “Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons” as well as applications of inferentialism in AI and the field of law.   Confirmed Keynote Speakers   • Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)  • Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University, Montreal)  • Damiano Canale (Bocconi University, Milan) The publication of “Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons” (Brandom/Hlobil 2024) last year has marked a milestone for both the technical and the philosophical development of inferentialist logic. This conference offers a first take on the book’s reception and its potential operationalization in such diverse research fields as Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Legal Studies, and Natural Language Processing. We invite submissions of extended abstracts that fit one of the following topics: Day 1: Are Reason Relations Universal? The first day of the conference is dedicated to the question whether reason relations, conceived as the set of all good, radically open reason relations capable of encoding material inferences in natural language use, can make up one single consistent set. Given expressivist commitments to logic as a means of explication, wouldn’t this imply the existence of a “master base vocabulary”, comprising all other possible base vocabularies as its subsets? Day 2: Inferentialism in the Legal Sphere The legal discipline is characterized by complex and partly opaque argumentation structures. Inferentialism can help to reveal the reasons why courts and scholars may accept certain conclusions on legal issues and reject others. Our workshop aims to further develop ideas on how lawyers and legal scholars can improve their practice by better understanding the structure of reasoning in complex legal settings. Day 3: Neuro-Symbolic Language AI inspired by Inferentialism Inferentialism, conceived, as a philosophical theory of the relationship between meaning and logical inference, has started to inspire innovative approaches in the area of language AI. Proposals encompass a broad range of methods, ranging from combinations of neural and symbolic methods that are informed by inferentialist semantics, to attempts at building neural architectures from scratch that are inspired by inferentialist ideas of rationalizing structures. The goal of our workshop is to bring together experts working in a broad range of language AI. Submission Guidelines   • Submissions should take the form of extended abstracts (maximum 500 words).  • Abstracts must be submitted in English and prepared for anonymous review.  • In addition to the abstract, authors must include their name, institutional affiliation, and contact information in the body of the email accompanying the submission.  • Accepted abstracts will be allocated a 25-minute presentation slot, followed by discussion.  • Please submit your abstract in PDF format to the following email address: conference-ile(a)unisg.ch Important Dates   • Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025 • Notification of Results: 30 June Scientific and Organizing Committee   • Reto Gubelmann (University of Zurich)  • Peter Hongler (University of St. Gallen)  • Ghassen Karray (University of Zurich)  • Marco Toscano (University of Zurich)    For further inquiries, please contact the organizing committee at: conference-ile(a)unisg.ch

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Call for trainers: UniDive training school on diversity in NLP, Yerevan, January 2026
by Dan Zeman 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

* UniDive COST Action <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>is a scientific network dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. We are looking for trainers for our winter training school in Yerevan <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unid…>, Armenia, organized at the Yerevan State University on January 20-24, 2026.The training school is dedicated tolinguistic diversityand related topics. We are interested in various aspects of diversity relevant to NLP like lexical, syntactic, semantic, typological, cultural, genre diversity, etc. We invite course proposals covering (but not necessarily restricted to) the following: * Introduction to typology for newcomers (especially from NLP) * Diversity quantification in NLP * Diversity and Large Language Models (LLMs) * LLMs for low-resourced languages * Enhancing diversity in models and datasets * Using “universalist” resources (such as Universal Dependencies or PARSEME corpora) for typological research * LLMs and language creativity vs. wooden language Proposals of courses (4 pages max.) should be sent by Monday June 2, 2025 at the latest to Dan Zeman <zeman(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz <mailto:zeman@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>>, Verginica Mititelu <vergi(a)racai.ro <mailto:vergi@racai.ro>> and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe <marie-catherine.demarneffe(a)uclouvain.be <mailto:marie-catherine.demarneffe@uclouvain.be>>, with the subject “UniDive training school proposal”. The proposals should include: * Title of the course * Abstract, including the topics to be covered * Level (introductory, intermediate or advanced course) * Draft schedule, with a brief description of each session (max. 5 sessions of up to 2h each – the training school goes over 5 days, but courses do not have to be given every day, see the schedule of our previous training school <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unid…>) * Necessary infrastructure * Prerequisites for the trainees (bibliography to be covered, software to be installed, accounts to be created, etc.) * Bibliography (highlighting the recommended readings for the trainees) * Instructors, their affiliation, contact details and experience Important dates (anywhere on Earth): * Monday June 2, 2025: Submission of course proposals from potential trainers * Thursday June 12, 2025: Notification * Wednesday November 26, 2025: Publishing the prerequisites for the courses * Tuesday-Saturday January 20-24, 2026: Training school We cannot offer a salary for the courses themselves but long-distance travel costs of the trainers will be covered, as well as a daily allowance of 185 EUR (to cover hotel, meals and local transportation – see COST Annotated Rules <https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2025/02/COST-094-21-V2.0-Annotated-Rules-for-CO…>, Annex A1-3.1 TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT RULES). Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Agata Savary, Dan Zeman (on behalf of the UniDive Core Group) *

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Konvens 2025. 2nd Call for Papers
by Christian Wartena 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

Dear all, We warmly welcome the submission of papers for KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 10-13). KONVENS (Conference on Natural Language Processing) is an annual scientific conference on all topics in the fields of computational linguistics and language technology, organised by four scientific organisations in the German-speaking countries and regions (GSCL, DGfS-CL, ASAI, and SwissNLP). In addition to its technical program, KONVENS will facilitate dynamic interactions among academic researchers and industry peers, offering workshops, tutorials, shared tasks, and networking events. Confirmed keynotes: * Michael Hahn (Saarland University) * Sina Zarrieß (Universität Bielefeld) * Timo Freiesleben (Universität Tübingen) Paper Submission Information We invite submissions of original and unpublished work on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing from fundamental inquiries to the practical implementation of natural language resources, components, and systems. We particularly encourage submissions of NLP approaches dedicated to the German language, including survey papers that provide insights into the current state of the art in German language and speech processing. We welcome contributions from both academic and industry professionals. Papers can be submitted either to the main conference track or to the special track on application of Large Language Models focussing on the utilisation of LLMs and language-model approaches for the analysis and exploitation of textual resources in Linguistics, Computer Science, Information Science, the Humanities and the Social Sciences. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (8 pages plus references), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers (4 pages plus references), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. * Abstracts (1 page, non-archival). Abstracts can be presented at the poster session but will not be included in the conference proceedings. We especially invite submission on ongoing projects, student projects, past or ongoing bachelor and master theses, ongoing or recently completed PhD theses, and opinion pieces in this category to foster interaction and discussion in our community. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. However, a preference for a poster or oral presentation can be given. All presentations will take place in person (no online/hybrid format). The main conference language is English. Contributions written in both German or English will be accepted, however, English is recommended. The review process for long and short papers will be double-blind. Submissions of long and short papers must be anonymized accordingly. The submission of non-archival abstracts must not be anonymous (review of abstracts is single-blind). The conference proceedings will be published via the ACL Anthology (archival submissions only). Papers must be presented at the conference by at least one of the authors in order to be published as part of the proceedings. Papers must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Papers must be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2025 Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: May 3, 2025 Paper Notification: June 27, 2025 Camera Ready: August 15, 2025 Main Conference: September 10 - 12, 2025 Best wishes Christian Wartena Ulrich Heid Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein]

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AIRiAL 2025 Call for Proposals
by AIRiALconference, TC 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

***Apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely.*** AIRiAL 2025 Conference Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics Theme Social AI: The Future of Emotionally Intelligent Machines The theme explores how Social & Emotional AI—AI technologies capable of recognizing, interpreting, and responding to human emotions—can revolutionize language learning and assessment, communication technologies, and cross-cultural interactions. Location Teachers College, Columbia University Dates September 25-27, 2025 *CALL FOR PROPOSALS <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/airialconference/airial-2025>* Submission Platform is *Now Open* Submit your abstract at this link: https://www.conftool.pro/airial2025 The submission deadline is May 2, 2025 (11:59pm EDT) Looking forward to your submissions, -- Erik Voss on behalf of the AIRiAL planning committee Follow us on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/airial-conference>

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Call for Submissions to SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact (MANILA25)
by Maarten de Rijke 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

TL;DR: Help to shape research agenda for IR for climate change impacts: * 2-4 pages * About one month until deadline: May 7, 2025 (AOE) * Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home * Submission: https://openreview.net/forum?id=BClxIu1p-C1x - - - - - - - - Call for Submissions — MANILA25: SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Climate change is a far-reaching, global phenomenon that will impact many aspects of our society. The evidence base for observed climate impacts is expanding, and the wider climate literature (white and grey) is growing exponentially. How can effective access be provided to the growing body of peer-reviewed literature on climate change impacts? This year we are particularly interested in tracking climate adaptation literature (white and grey) and welcome contributions on this topic. Purpose The emphasis of MANILA25 will be on discussion, not a mini-conference but a dynamic sharing of ideas. The workshop will be organized along three areas of interest: (i) Addressing information needs concerning climate change impacts; (ii) Updates to the IR for Climate Change agenda that resulted from the MANILA24 workshop (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01162), and (iii) Tracking climate adaptation. During the workshop, we will work towards updating the MANILA24 agenda and creating an actionable technical research agendas around tracking climate adaptation. Call for contributions To help shape a research agenda for information retrieval for climate impact, we welcome technical contributions and position papers as extended abstracts (2-4 pages) on a wide range of topics related to information retrieval for climate change impacts, including but not limited to very large-scale systematic reviews, climate language models, geolocated literature with climate information, evidence synthesis. Be sure to emphasize how your ideas connect to IR for climate change impacts and the ambition to create an agenda on the topic. Important dates - May 7, 2025: Extended abstracts due (AOE) - May 21, 2025: Notifications - July 17, 2025: Workshop at SIGIR 2025 - November 30, 2025: Submission of the Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Agenda for publication in SIGIR Forum How to submit Extended abstracts submitted to the workshop should be in English, in PDF, and formatted using the standard ACM sigconf format (using \documentclass[sigconf, natbib=true, anonymous=false]{acmart}). The review process is single-blind. The workshop uses EasyChair to handle submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=manila25. No official proceedings will be published. Organization Bart van den Hurk (IPCC), Maarten de Rijke (U. Amsterdam), Flora Salim (UNSW, Sydney) Workshop site https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home Contact m.derijke(a)uva.nl<mailto:m.derijke@uva.nl> -- Maarten de Rijke Distinguished University Professor, University of Amsterdam Scientific Director, Innovation Center for AI (ICAI) http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.derijke

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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval in Wolverhapton, UK
by Ingo Frommholz 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval July 7–11, 2025 Wolverhampton, UK https://2025.essir.eu/ Join us for the 16th edition of ESSIR—your opportunity to learn about the latest trends, challenges, and methods in Information Retrieval (IR) and AI, and get in touch with leading experts in the field! Highlights: • High-quality teaching sessions on fundamental and advanced IR topics • Interactive format including practical exercises and a hackathon • Friendly and engaging discussions • FDIA 2025 (Future Directions in Information Access Symposium): A supportive environment for students to showcase their research and receive career advice Selected Topics Include (more to be confirmed): Introduction to Information Retrieval and evaluation Generative AI and Information Retrieval Scholarly Document Processing and Retrieval UX and HCI with Information Retrieval Neural Re-ranking RAG and agentic IR Organisers: Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK Emine Yilmaz, UCL, London, UK Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria Come to Wolverhampton and engage with leading researchers, fellow students, and industry professionals from around the globe! For more details visit our website: https://2025.essir.eu/ Contact: essir-2025(a)googlegroups.com We look forward to welcoming you to ESSIR 2025! 🌟 -- Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor of Applied Data Science, Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @ifromm.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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[CFP] The Second Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations
by richardbrutti＠gmail.com 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR II) Co-located with IWCS 2025 (https://iwcs2025.github.io/) 22-24 September, Düsseldorf, Germany (workshop on 24 September) Workshop website: https://mmsr-workshop.github.io/ Description: The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but also the encoding of situated meaning. When communications become multimodal, each modality in operation provides an orthogonal angle through which to probe the computational model of the other modalities, including the behaviors and communicative capabilities afforded by each. Multimodal interactions thus require a unified framework and control language through which systems interpret inputs and behaviors and generate informative outputs. This is vital for intelligent and often embodied systems to understand the situation and context that they inhabit, whether in the real world or in a mixed-reality environment shared with humans. Furthermore, multimodal large language models appear to offer the possibility for more dynamic and contextually rich interactions across various modalities, including facial expressions, gestures, actions, and language. We invite discussion on how representations and pipelines can potentially integrate such state-of-the-art language models. We solicit papers on multimodal semantic representation, including but not limited to the following topics: - Semantic frameworks for individual linguistic co-modalities (e.g. gaze, facial expression); - Formal representation of situated conversation and embodiment, including knowledge graphs, designed to represent epistemic state; - Design, annotation, and corpora of multimodal interaction and meaning representation; - Challenges (including cross-lingual and cross-cultural) in multimodal representation and/or processing; - Criteria or frameworks for evaluation of multimodal semantics; - Challenges in aligning co-modalities in formal representation and/or NLP tasks; - Design and implementation of neurosymbolic or fusion models for multimodal processing (with a representational component); - Methods for probing knowledge of multimodal (language and vision) models; - Virtual and situated agents that embody multimodal representations of common ground. Submission Information: Two types of submissions are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages, excluding references. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages, excluding references. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. We strongly encourage students to submit to the workshop. Papers should be formatted using the IWCS style files, available at: https://iwcs2025.github.io/call_for_papers Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/MMSR Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions. Richard Brutti, Lucia Donatelli, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Kenneth Lai, & James Pustejovsky (MMSR II organizers)

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Last call for papers: Argument Mining Workshop at ACL 2025 (Deadline: April 17th)
by Gabriella Lapesa 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

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

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CfP: 2nd Call for Research, In-use, and Resource Track Papers at ISWC 2025 (Abstract: May 6)
by Genet Asefa Gesese 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) Nara, Japan November 2-6, 2025 Follow us: Twitter/X: @iswc_conf #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iswc/ Mastodon Social: https://mastodon.social/@iswc_conf Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/iswc-conf.bsky.social ISWC 2025 features multiple tracks - including Research, Resources, and In-Use, among others, Hence, authors are kindly asked to check out the calls of each track to choose the one that best fits their contribution. ========================= Call for Research Track Papers The research track of ISWC 2025 solicits novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical, and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. We welcome work describing original and replicable research showing evidence of significant contribution to the Semantic Web. More details: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/research Research Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-research(a)easychair.org Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria ======================== Call for Resource Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources that support, enable, or utilize semantic web research. We welcome descriptions of resources that leverage knowledge representation based on Semantic Web standards or other graph data models to improve the acquisition, processing, and sharing of data on the web. More details: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/resource Resource Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-resource(a)easychair.org Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, US Angelo Salatino, KMi,The Open University, UK ======================= Call for In-use Track Papers The In-Use track seeks submissions describing applied research as well as software tools, systems, or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph research communities. More details: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/in-use In-Use Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-in-use(a)easychair.org Maribel Acosta Technical University of Munich, Germany Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy =========================================== Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 Website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/ Would you like to know about the host city, Nara? Check out this blog: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/blogs/host -- *Dr.-Ing. **Genet Asefa Gesese* Head of Machine Learning Department (Abteilungsleitung Maschinelles Lernen) FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany ( *https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-ing-genet-asefa-gesese <https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-in…>* ) AND Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) *( https://ise.aifb.kit.edu/21_89.php <https://ise.aifb.kit.edu/21_89.php> )*

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First Call for Participation: LLMs with Limited Resources WMT2025 Shared Task
by Daryna Dementieva 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

LLMs with Limited Resources for Slavic Languages @ WMT2025 @ EMNLP2025 Website: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/limited-resources-slavic-llm.html Join our Google Group! https://groups.google.com/g/slavic-llms-mt2025 HuggingFace Collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/tum-nlp/llms-for-slavic-languages-67f399… This shared task explores how LLMs perform on MT and QA jointly, aiming to investigate task synergy under limited data and compute resources. Ukrainian (uk) is a mid-resource language (~40M L1 speakers), while Upper Sorbian (hsb) and Lower Sorbian (dsb) are minority West Slavic languages (30k and 7k L1 speakers, respectively) spoken in Germany. Data Overview Ukrainian - MT directions: en→uk, cs→uk - QA: Derived from high-school graduation exams (ZNO) - Training sets examples: - MT: WMT24++ <https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/wmt24pp>, SMOL <https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/smol> - QA: UNLP2024 <https://huggingface.co/datasets/osyvokon/zno>, ZNO-EVAL <https://github.com/NLPForUA/ZNO>, Cohere INCLUDE <https://huggingface.co/datasets/CohereForAI/include-base-44> Upper Sorbian & Lower Sorbian (two separate tracks) - MT directions: de→hsb, de→dsb - QA: Multiple-choice questions based on actual CEFR-based language certification exams (A1–C1 levels) - We will prepare the following resources: - Parallel & monolingual corpora via Witaj-Sprachzentrum and Leipzig Corpora Collection; - Previous WMT low-resource tracks (2020–2022); - QA task adapted from language certifications of different levels. Submission Guidelines - Models must produce both MT & QA outputs for the chosen language(s); - Submissions are language-specific; submit to one or multiple language tracks; - Participants can only use one of the following base models that are restricted to 3B parameters maximum: - Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct> - Qwen2.5-1.5B <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct> - Qwen2.5-0.5B <https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct> - Quantized or Unsloth variants from HuggingFace collections Key Dates (AoE) - Registration opens now!: Join our Google group https://groups.google.com/g/slavic-llms-mt2025 - Training/dev data release: Late April - Test data release: Late June - Submission deadline: Early July - System description deadline: Late July - Final workshop: 5-9th November @ EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China! Organisers TUM Heilbronn: Daryna Dementieva Marion di Marco Lukas Edman Alexander Fraser Kathy Hämmerl Shu Okabe Witaj-Sprachzentrum: Beate Brězan, Anita Hendrichowa Marko Měškank Tomaš Šołta Acknowledgements We thank the UNLP 2024 Shared Task team (Roman Kyslyi, Mariana Romanyshyn, Oleksiy Syvokon) for kindly sharing Ukrainian QA resources. Best regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of TUM Heilbronn Workshop Organizers

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Assistant professor in Computational lingustics
by Sara Stymne 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Join the Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University! We are hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Computational Linguistics Application deadline: April 29, 2025 Find out more and apply: https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:809532/ ****************************** Description The department is seeking an associate senior lecturer in computational linguistics. Computational linguistics, or language technology, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with computational models of natural language. Traditionally, research has been driven both by the theoretical goal of understanding human language and by practical applications such as machine translation, information retrieval, and human-computer dialogue. The area has in recent years increasingly been influenced by the emergence of large language models and generative AI. The computational linguistics group at Uppsala University conducts research within a broad field with two focus areas: digital philology and multilingual language technology. Education is primarily offered at the second-cycle level, within the international master’s program in language technology, and at the third-cycle level within the PhD program in computational linguistics. Subject area Computational linguistics Duties The aim of the position is to give the teacher the opportunity to develop independence as a researcher and enhance their academic as well as their pedagogical qualifications in order to meet the criteria for employment as senior lecturer. The duties comprise research within the relevant area of specialization (50% of full-time) as well as teaching and administration (no more than 50% of full-time). Teaching includes supervision, course responsibility, course administration, and course development. Teaching primarily consists of courses in language technology, including master’s thesis supervision, within the international master’s program in language technology, which is taught in English. Teaching may include courses with the following specializations: general language technology, language technology applications such as information retrieval and machine translation, machine learning in language technology, as well as programming and mathematics. It may also include supervision of PhD students. As an associate senior lecturer, the candidate is expected to actively apply for external research funding, to stay aware of developments within their field of specialization, and to take part in the faculty’s and department’s development of research and teaching. Eligibility requirements Applicants are eligible for employment as associate senior lecturer if they hold a doctoral degree or have the equivalent academic competence, have demonstrated pedagogical competence, and have the personal characteristics required in order to carry out the duties that the position involves well. Precedence will be given to applicants who completed their PhD projects or reached the equivalent competence no more than five years before the deadline for applications. In order to meet the requirement of pedagogical competence, the applicant should have completed at least five weeks of relevant training in tertiary-level teaching or acquired the equivalent competence in other ways. In special circumstances, the training can be carried out during the first two years of employment. Ability to teach in English is required. The candidate is furthermore expected to be able to use Swedish as a working language within two years. The candidate should have the personal characteristics required to carry out the duties of the position well. Such characteristics include flexibility, the capacity to work well with others, and a sense of responsibility. It is a requirement that the applicant’s academic, pedagogical, and professional competence is relevant to the subject area and duties that the position involves. 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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Survey about data annotation and data acquisition platforms
by Roman Klinger 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, Cornelia Sindermann (computational psychologist, University of Stuttgart) and I (natural language processing person, University of Bamberg) are in the phase of preparing a project proposal, for which we could use your help. Our goal is to develop a novel annotation and data acquisition platform that is flexible enough to be used across research fields. In preparation for that, we would like to collect some information on the use of data acquisition platforms (survey tools, annotation tools) that are used in our various research communities. You could help us with that by filling the form at https://tinyurl.com/annotation2025fis (redirects to a qualtrics survey). If you have questions about this, please do not hesitate to contact us at roman.klinger(a)uni-bamberg.de and cornelia.sindermann(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de! Thank you in advance and best regards, Roman

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[2nd CFP] The LLMs4Subjects Shared Task -- LLM-based Subject Tagging for a Technical Library's Digital Catalog
by D'Souza, Jennifer 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

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

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Fully-funded PhD position in language acquisition / computational linguistics
by Matusevych, Yevgen 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

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

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2nd CFP: ClimateCheck – Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims on Climate Change
by Georg Rehm 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

ClimateCheck: Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims on Climate Change Hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop at ACL 2025 31 July 2025 Vienna, Austria ClimateCheck Shared Task: https://sdproc.org/2025/climatecheck.html Competition on Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/6639/ Shared Task Overview Social media facilitates discussions on critical issues such as climate change, but it also contributes to the rapid dissemination of misinformation, which complicates efforts to maintain an informed public and create evidence-based policies. In this shared task, we emphasise the need to link public discourse to peer-reviewed scholarly articles by gathering claims from social media about climate change (both real-life and automatically generated ones) as well as a corpus of about 400,000 abstracts of publications from climate science research. The participants will be asked to retrieve relevant abstracts for each claim (subtask I) and classify the relation between the claim and abstract as ‘supports’, ‘refutes’, or ‘not enough information’ (subtask II). Participants are allowed to take part either in subtask I only, or in both subtasks. Subtask I: Abstracts Retrieval Task: given a claim from social media about climate change and a corpus of abstracts, retrieve the top 10 most relevant abstracts. Evaluation: Recall@K (K=2, 5, 10) and B-Pref based on annotated gold data; additional unjudged documents will be reviewed by annotators. Subtask II: Claim Verification Task: given the claim-abstract pairs received from the previous subtask, classify their relation as ‘supports’, ‘refutes’, or ‘not enough information’. Evaluation: Precision, Recall, and F1 weighted scores based on annotated documents. Important dates Release of training data: April 1, 2025 Release of testing data: April 15, 2025 Deadline for system submissions: May 16, 2025 Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: June 20, 2025 Workshop: July 31, 2025 We encourage and invite participation from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. Participants are also encouraged to submit a paper describing their systems to the SDP 2025 workshop. Organisers Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI, Berlin, Germany) Aida Usmanova (Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)

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2nd Call for Participation: Scientific Visual Question Answering Shared Task (SciVQA)
by Georg Rehm 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

SciVQA: Scientific Visual Question Answering Shared Task Hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop at ACL 2025 31 July 2025 Vienna, Austria SciVQA Shared Task: https://sdproc.org/2025/scivqa.html Competition on Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5904 Shared Task Overview Scholarly articles convey valuable information not only through unstructured text but also via (semi-)structured figures such as charts and diagrams. Automatically interpreting the semantics of knowledge encoded in these figures can be beneficial for downstream tasks such as question answering (QA). In SciVQA, challenge participants will develop multimodal QA systems using a dataset of 3000 images of scientific figures from ACL Anthology and arXiv papers. Each figure is annotated with seven QA pairs (21000 in total) and includes metadata such as caption, ID, type (e.g., compound, line graph, bar chart, scatter plot), and QA pair type. This shared task specifically focuses on closed-ended visual (i.e., addressing visual attributes such as colour, shape, size, height, etc.) and non-visual (not addressing figure visual attributes) questions. Evaluation Systems will be evaluated using BERTscore, ROUGE-L, and ROUGE-1 metrics. Automated evaluations of submitted systems will be performed through Codabench. Important Dates Release of training data: April 1, 2025 Release of testing data: April 15, 2025 Deadline for system submissions: May 16, 2025 Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: June 20, 2025 Workshop: July 31, 2025 Participants are invited to submit papers on their systems. Successful submissions will be published in the proceedings of the SDP 2025 workshop. Organizers Ekaterina Borisova (DFKI, Berlin, Germany) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: ICNLSP 2025, 8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, August 25-27, 2025, Odense, Denmark
by Mourad Abbas 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

The *8th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2025)* <https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> welcomes contributions on both the *theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing*. The conference will feature regular sessions, along with keynote talks delivered by distinguished international researchers. We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to *ICNLSP 2025* <https://www.icnlsp.org/2025welcome/> and contribute to advancing research in the field. *The conference will be hybrid.* Topics (ICNLSP 2025) invites contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: -Natural Language Processing (NLP): Cognition and NLP Machine translation Text categorization Summarization Sentiment analysis and opinion mining Computational social web Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora Large language models (LLMs) NLP tools for software requirements and engineering Text annotation tools Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems Information extraction Data mining and information retrieval Lexical semantics and knowledge representation Visualization for nlp -Speech Processing: Signal processing and acoustic modeling Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.) Speech analysis Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.) Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis Speech translation Speech synthesis Speaker verification and identification Language identification Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility Speech perception and production Brain studies on speech Phonetics, phonology, and prosody Speech and hearing disorders Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing *Important dates* All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). *Submission deadline:* May 25, 2025 11:59 PM (GMT). *Notification of acceptance:* July 20, 2025. *Camera-ready paper due:* August 3, 2025. *Conference dates:* August 25-27, 2025. Keynote speakers- Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich, Germany. - Prof. Peter Schneider-Kamp, SDU, Denmark. *Publication* 1- *All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/>.* *2- **Selected** papers will be published (after extension) in:* Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in *Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/> and *zbMATH* <https://zbmath.org/>. *Best paper award* To recognize outstanding scientific contributions, *ICNLSP 2025* will present two awards: - *Best Full Paper Award* - *Best Short Paper Award* These awards will be judged by the *Scientific Committee*, based on recommendations from the *Program Committee*. The selection process will consider the *originality, significance, and quality* of the research, as well as the clarity of presentation. We look forward to honoring exceptional contributions to the field of *Natural Language and Speech Processing*! For more information check the conference website : *icnlsp.org/2025welcome* <http://icnlsp.org/2025welcome>

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GermEval 2025 Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection: 3rd Call for Participation
by Michael Wiegand 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

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

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[IJCAI-2025] 2nd Workshop on Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen)
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, (Apologize if you received multiple emails from different mailing lists) We are pleased to announce that the 2nd Workshop on Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen) will be held in conjunction with* IJCAI-25* from August 16–22, 2025, in Montreal, Canada. This workshop will include both paper presentations and *a shared task - **generating business ideas from patent documents*. The goal of the AgentScen workshop is to explore the potential of agent AI in scenario planning.* The submission deadline is May 9, 2025. Workshop details can be found at: * https://sites.google.com/view/agentscen Scenario planning can be applied to key healthcare and biomedical domains, such as pandemic preparedness, hospital resource management, advancements in medical technology, health insurance sustainability, and the future of telemedicine. In the finance and business sectors, it can assist executives, financial analysts, and decision-makers in navigating uncertainties related to market volatility, interest rate fluctuations, investment risks, corporate financial planning, regulatory changes, and technological disruptions. By constructing and analyzing alternative scenarios, organizations can better anticipate challenges and seize emerging opportunities. We are also introducing* a shared task focused on generating business ideas from patent documents.* Participants will be provided with a set of patents and asked to generate explanations for potential future products based on the patented technologies. The aim is to foster AI-driven innovation by leveraging patents as rich sources of technical insight. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, AgentScen Organizers Chung-Chi Chen - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan Tatsuya Ishigaki - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan Sophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester, UK Hiroya Takamura - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan Wataru Hirota - Stockmark, Japan (Shared Task) Tomoko Ohkuma - Asahi Kasei Corporation, Japan (Shared Task) Tomoki Taniguchi - Asahi Kasei Corporation, Japan (Shared Task)

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2nd CFP - AAAS-2025
by Kurimo Mikko 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] == Second Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts == 1st Workshop on Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS-2025) We would like to invite you to submit papers to AAAS workshop co-located with NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT<https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu> in Hestia Hotel Europa in Tallinn, Estonia on March 5th, 2025. Workshop website: https://teflon.aalto.fi/aaas-2025/ == Important Dates == Submission DL: 16 December 2024 (both papers and abstracts) Notification of acceptance: 24 January 2025 Camera-ready DL: 3 February 2025 Workshop: 5 March 2025 (full day) All deadlines are 11:55PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). == Overview == Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS) explores the assessment of pronunciation and speaking skills of children, language learners, people with speech sound disorders and methods to provide automatic rating and feedback using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large language models (LLMs). Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) is a rapidly growing field that answers to the need of developing AI tools for self-practising second and foreign language skills. This is not limited to pronunciation assessment, but the AI tools can also provide more complex feedback about fluency, vocabulary and grammar of the recorded speech. ASA is also very relevant for detection and quantification of speech disorders and for developing speech exercises that can be performed independent of time and place. The important applications of non-standard speech also include interfaces for children and elderly speakers as an alternative to using text input and output. The topic is timely, because the latest large speech models allow us now to develop ASR and classification methods for low-resourced data, such as atypical speech, where annotated training datasets are rarely available and expensive and difficult to produce and share. The goal of this workshop is to present the latest results in ASA and discuss the future work and collaboration between the researchers in Nordic and Baltic countries. == Topics of Interest == In particular, we would like to invite students, researchers, and other experts and stakeholders to contribute papers and/or join the discussion on the following (and related) topics: Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) for L2 (second or foreign language) pronunciation ASA for spoken L2 proficiency ASA for speech sound disorders (SSD) Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for L2 learners ASR for children and young L2 learners ASA and ASR for Nordic and other low-resource languages and tasks Spoken L2 learning and speech therapy using games Automatic generation of verbal feedback for spoken L2 learners using LLMs == Submission Details == We accept both short and long papers, as well as demo papers. The submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Paper length: Short and demo papers up to 4 pages. Long papers up to 8 pages. References are not included in the page count, and the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be added to the page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress and will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published in the ACL anthology. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The links to the templates can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osWGzuRnYRQGRS70Lx_pdQKrIT-NefKS/view https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-nodalida-baltic-h… The submission will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaas2025 We also invite submissions of maximum 2-page long extended non-anonymous abstracts with any number of pages for references describing work in progress, negative results and opinion pieces. The abstracts, which should follow the same formatting templates as the peer-reviewed papers, will be considered for presentation by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. The abstracts can be based on results related to our theme and already published elsewhere. The abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but only in the workshop program. Please also consider volunteering to review 2-3 papers. == Invited Speakers == We have the pleasure to announce two invited speakers: 1. Nina R. Benway: What is so hard about AI Speech Therapy? Evidence from Efficacy Trials. Nina R Benway, PhD CCC-SLP, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson. Nina completed her doctoral training in speech-language pathology (concentration: neuroscience) with Dr. Jonathan Preston at Syracuse University, focusing on clinical trials in children with chronic rhotic speech sound disorders. The three studies of her dissertation resulted in the curation of an open-access 175,000-utterance speech corpus, the engineering of audio classification algorithms predicting speech-language pathologist perception of rhotic speech errors, and the clinical trial validation of an artificial intelligence tool that fully automates a speech sound treatment session. Nina’s doctoral training builds upon her undergraduate training in linguistics (acoustic phonetics) at Cornell University, graduate clinical training at The College of Saint Rose, and six years of clinical practice. Through these experiences Nina has refined a multidisciplinary skill set in speech science, speech signal processing, natural language processing, corpus phonetics, machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI), user interface development, cognitive frameworks of learning, and neurocomputational frameworks of speech production. 2. Ari Huhta: Automatic assessment of second/foreign language speaking: Review of developments for examination and teaching/learning purposes. Ari Huhta is a Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include diagnostic foreign/second language (L2) assessment, computerised assessment, self-assessment, as well as the development of reading, writing and vocabulary knowledge in L2. He was involved in developing the large-scale multilingual DIALANG online assessment and feedback system in the early 2000s and since then he has specialised in assessments that support language learning. Although his research has focused on learning and assessing reading and writing, he has been involved in designing several rating scales for speaking and in evaluating rating quality and studying rater behavior. Recently, he has participated in research projects that are developing ASR and automated assessment of L2 speaking, as well as using LLMs to evaluate Finnish L2 learners’ proficiency level. == Organizers == Mikko Kurimo (chair), Aalto University, mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi Giampiero Salvi, NTNU Sofia Strömbergsson, Karolinska Institutet Sari Ylinen, Tampere University Minna Lehtonen, University of Turku Tamas Grosz, Aalto University Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Aalto University Yaroslav Getman, Aalto University Nhan Phan, Aalto University This workshop is supported by “Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages (TEFLON)” https://teflon.aalto.fi/ NordForsk project nr. 103893. == Contact Information == For questions and comments, please email mikko.kurimo(a)aalto.fi

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Invitation to a Postdoctoral Fellowship Application at La Rochelle University
by Georgeta Bordea 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

The Images and Contents team [1] of the L3i lab at La Rochelle University, invites researchers who have or will have a PhD degree at the call deadline in September 2025 and fulfill the eligibility criteria to prepare a joint application for an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship [2,3]. Potential topics can include current areas of NLP research such as: - Multimodal Large Language Models - Text processing of news archives - Using NLP for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature - Extraction, summarisation, and analysis of financial text - Information extraction for knowledge graph population - Using additional knowledge sources for information extraction from text - Reasoning with knowledge graphs and language Potential candidates should have published at top NLP or ML conferences (EMNLP,ACL,NAACL,EACL,NeurIPS,ICML,ICLR). Female candidates and candidates from other underrepresented groups in Computer Science are especially encouraged to apply. If you want to learn more, please send an email to Georgeta Bordea (name.surname [at] univ-lr.fr [http://univ-lr.fr/]) with your CV attached and the subject line "MSCA NLP". [1] https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/Images-et-contenus [2] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fe… [3] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral…

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Fully funded PhD position on "Event-Event Relation Extraction" at La Rochelle University
by Georgeta Bordea 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

The Images and Contents team [1] of the L3i lab [2] at La Rochelle University invites applications for a fully-funded PhD POSITION. Application deadline: 21/04/2025 Detection, Representation and Visualisation of Event-Event Relations Understanding how events relate to each other is at the heart of narrative comprehension, whether in literature, news discourse, historical analysis, or AI-driven storytelling. The ability to detect, represent, and visualize explicit and implicit event-event relations is crucial for making sense of complex narratives, identifying causal structures, and uncovering hidden patterns in temporal or logical sequences. This research will explore machine learning approaches, structured knowledge graphs, and multimodal visual representations to model event-event relations effectively. The project will leverage AI to tackle four core challenges: (1) accurate detection of implicit and explicit event-event relations across diverse textual sources, (2) structured representation of these relationships using knowledge graphs and semantic models, (3) linking of event sequences with relevant background knowledge, and (4) intuitive visualization of event interactions to enhance interpretability and facilitate narrative analysis. What we offer: A yearly scholarship of €40,000 is provided for the entire duration of enrollment, up to a maximum of 36 months. Funded within the framework of a Junior Professorship (CPJ) on Federating Digital Humanities, this PhD offers strong interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities with Digital Humanities and Computer Science researchers. Eligibility: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Data Science or a related field. Strong interest or prior experience in NLP, knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, or interactive data visualization. Mode of study: Full time Year of entry: 2025 Duration: 3 years Additional criteria: Applicants must not already (i) hold a doctoral degree; or (ii) be matriculated for a doctoral degree at La Rochelle University, or another institution. Expression of Interest (EOI): Students are to submit their EOIs to Georgeta Bordea (name.surname(a)univ-lr.fr) including the following documents: * CV including information about publications. * Transcripts of most relevant/recent degrees. * To apply, applicants must submit an EOI detailing their suitability for the project by addressing the required skills and key responsibilities in under 800 words. [1] https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/Images-et-contenus [https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/Images-et-contenus] [2] https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ [https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/]

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ ACL 2025: Final CfP and deadline extension
by Mariana Romanyshyn 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

*The Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2025) <https://unlp.org.ua/>* *Important dates* *April 20, 2025* — Workshop paper due (extended from April 14) May 19, 2025 — Notification of acceptance June 2, 2025 — Camera-ready papers due June 30, 2025 — Pre-recorded video due July 31, 2025 — Workshop *Submission link:* https://softconf.com/acl2025/unlp2025 *Call For Papers* UNLP 2025 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on July 31, 2025, in conjunction with ACL 2025. The workshop will bring together leading professionals from academia and industry who develop language resources, tools, and NLP solutions for the Ukrainian language or do cross-lingual research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. The workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-lingual models applicable to Ukrainian, - Ukrainian dialects, sociolects, and code-switching, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Note: *The workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of the indigenous people of Ukraine. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. *Submissions* UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the broader public are strongly encouraged. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished, and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. The workshop will provide Grammarly Premium to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please fill in this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemG2fVh_KJo6JZF9pC4TNQ9gdMawd-TC_…> . *Workshop Organizers* *Main Organizers* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Olena Nahorna, Grammarly, Germany Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine *Shared Task Organizers* Nataliia Romanyshyn, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Syvokon, Microsoft, Ukraine Roman Kyslyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Volodymyr Sydorskyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Find our program committee at https://unlp.org.ua/committees/. *Follow us* Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. X: https://x.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop. Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua.

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