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

03 Dec '24

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

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

03 Dec '24

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

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Last Call for Abstracts: LLM fails – Failed experiments with Generative AI and what we can learn from them
by Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

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

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

03 Dec '24

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

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Corpora of English novels
by Martin Wynne 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

29 Nov '24

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

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

28 Nov '24

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

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

28 Nov '24

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

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

28 Nov '24

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

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

27 Nov '24

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

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

27 Nov '24

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

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

27 Nov '24

Want to work as a postdoc in a vibrant research group on cutting-edge methodology for computational modeling of meaning and meaning change? We are hiring one or more postdocs in the Change is Key! research program. The program is multi-national and multi-disciplinary covering both core NLP research as well as its application for humanities and social sciences. You will be working with LLMs for modeling meaning and semantic change and using this to detect cultural and societal changes. We publish regularly in top tier venues with generous research funds. The position is located in the heart of Gothenburg in Sweden, and we will provide help with finding researcher apartments if needed. We are a diverse research group that values our differences and thus we welcome any and all applicants with relevant research backgrounds interested in our topics. Find more about our work here: https://www.changeiskey.org/ Deadline for the call: December 18, 2024. Apply here: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational linguistics / data science, one or several<https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89…> We offer The University of Gothenburg is a state authority, which means excellent employment benefits such web103.reachmee.com Nina N. Tahmasebi, Associate Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Intelligence + Effort = Achievement" S. Mendaglio

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Survey: What do we even mean by 'intelligence', and does it apply to ChatGPT?
by Anna Rogers 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

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

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

27 Nov '24

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

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

27 Nov '24

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

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

27 Nov '24

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

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

26 Nov '24

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

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