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[CfP] GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies || Deadline Extension
by DBpedia 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

==== 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies Leipzig, Germany June 12, 2025 https://cost.eu/actions/CA23147/ ==== Dear all, Due to several requests we decided to extend the deadlines for the 1st CfP: GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies. The new dates are as follows: Submission Deadline: May 4, 2025 (originally April 27) Notification of Acceptance: May 11, 2025 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12). The 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to Knowledge Graphs, their applications, and associated technologies. We encourage submissions at the intersection of Knowledge Graphs with fields such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automation. Submissions should be original and must not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25> = Author Guidelines and Submission = * Full research papers: 4-6 pages + max 2 pages references * Short research papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * In Use and Experience papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * Position and Vision papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * System/demo papers: 2-4 pages + 1 page references Submissions must be in English, original, and not under review elsewhere. Papers should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…> For details please go to: https://www.dbpedia.org/events/goblin25-workshop/ <https://www.dbpedia.org/events/goblin25-workshop/> Looking forward to your submissions! With kind regards, Blerina Spahiu & Milan Dojchinovski -- Workshop Chairs --

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CFP: Language Resources and Evaluation Journal - Special Issue on Advancing Arabic Language Models: Resources, Evaluation, and Applications in the Era of Large Language Models
by hend.alkhalifa＠gmail.com 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

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CFP - Workshop SIR@IWCS2025
by Maxime Amblard 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

*apologies for cross-postings* === Workshop SIR === Atelier sur les Avancées en AMR et en Analyse Sémantiques SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025 ================================= https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisci… https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 ================================= In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences, offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling (IF WE WANT BRITISH SPELLING, WE MIGHT NOT?) language-based phenomena. The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS, as its ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, etc. This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, Art, …). A major theme of SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches). === Topics to Explore === • CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications. • Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities • NLP transforming humanities issues • Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning • Links between formal semantics and neural models • Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in theHumanities • Ethics and bias in semantic modeling • Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities === Dates === • Deadline : July 14th (anywhere on earth) • Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth) • Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth) • Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth) === Submission Information === Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 14 July 2025 (anywhere on earth). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person. Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. === Submission === https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 === Style Files === The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page. === Organizers === Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University === Contact === maxime.amblard(a)univ-lorraine.fr and ellen.breitholtz(a)ling.gu.se

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CFP - Workshop SIR@IWCS2025
by Maxime Amblard 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

*apologies for cross-postings* === Workshop SIR === Atelier sur les Avancées en AMR et en Analyse Sémantiques SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025 ================================= https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisci… https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S

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RANLP 2025: Final Call for Papers
by Petya Osenova 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

*Extended submission deadline: 25 May 2025* RANLP 2025 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel “Cherno More” Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Summer School on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and shared tasks: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) We are pleased to announce that the 15th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. In addition to the conference programme of competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on the recent advances of a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) topics, the conference features keynote talks by leading experts in NLP. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP (3-5 September 2025) and two days of tutorials (6-7 September 2025). Post-conference specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics will be held on 11, 12 and 13 September 2025. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers. As from RANLP 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The SCOPUS SJR of RANLP proceedings is 0,299 (2023). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University, UK and University of Alicante, Spain) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced on the conference website in due course. INVITED SPEAKERS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS at the RANLP 2025 conference (in alphabetical order): * Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) * Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Further keynote speakers will be announced soon. TUTORIAL LECTURERS (in alphabetical order): * Ekaterina Artemova (Toloka.AI, Germany) * Burcu Can Buglalilar (University of Sterling, UK) * Tharindu Ranasinghe and Damith Premasiri (Lancaster University, UK) * Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TEACHING ASISTANTS (in alphabetical order): * Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University, UK) * Ekaterina Artemova (Toloka.AI, Germany) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (Lancaster University, UK) * Burcu Can Buglalilar (University of Sterling, UK) * Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University, UK) * Alexander Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Andrei Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage (Lancaster University, UK) * Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) The 3rd RANLP SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING and LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS for NLP will take place on 3-5 September 2025. The programme integrates 3 days of intensive lecturing in the morning and practical sessions in the afternoon. The following topics will be covered: NLP/DL Foundation, LLM Foundation and LLM Applications. More details will be published at https://ranlp2025-summer-school.github.io/ RANLP TUTORIALS 6-7 September 2025 RANLP-25 plans 4 half-day tutorials, each with duration of 185 minutes, distributed as follows: 45 min presentation + 20 min break + 45 min presentation + 30 min coffee break + 45 min presentation. The tutorial titles are: * Ekaterina Artemova: LLM-generated text detection * Burcu Can Buglalilar: From Large to Small: Building Affordable Language Models with Limited Resources * Tharindu Ranasinghe and Damith Premasiri: Legal NLP in the LLM era * Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein: Studying Generalization in the Age of Contamination Further information will be published at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/tutorials POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS, 11-13 September 2025: The following eight WORKSHOPS have been accepted and Calls for Papers have been distributed: * The first Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025), organised by Piotr Przybyła, Matthew Shardlow, Clara Colombatto and Nanna Inie * The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models (EthicalLLMs 2025), organised by Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe and Hansi Hettiarachchi * The first Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025), organised by Isuri Nanomi Arachchige, Francesca Frontini, Ruslan Mitkov and Paul Rayson * From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Evaluation of NLP Methods (R2LM 2025), organised by Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Ruslan Mitkov and Raúl García Cerdá * Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP 2025), organised by Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Besik Mikaberidze, Simon Ostermann, Daniil Gurgurov, Philipp Müller, Kurt Micallef, Claudia Borg, Michal Gregor and Marián Šimko * The 8th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2025), organised by Ali Hürriyetoglu, Hristo Tanev, Surendrabikram Thapa, Vanni Zavarella and Erdem Yörük * The First International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP 2025), organised by Cengiz Acartürk, Jamal Nasir, Çağrı Çöltekin and Burcu Can Buğlalılar * Beyond English: Natural Language Processing for all Languages in an Era of Large Language Models (GlobalNLP 2025), organised by Sudhansu Bala Das, Pruthwik Mishra, Alok Singh, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Asif Ekbal The following five SHARED TASKS have been accepted and Calls for Participation have been disseminated: * PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages, organised by Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ * Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organised by Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/ * Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark, organised by Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ * Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT), organised by Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El Amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ * Identification of the Severity of the Depression in Forum Posts, organised by Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/ SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS TO RANLP-2025 The submissions will be handled by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/. The reviewing process will be anonymous. Double submission is acceptable, but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. All RANLP papers have DOI numbers assigned. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. RANLP publishes Regular papers 8 pages (with 30 min oral presentation), Short papers 6 pages (with 20 min oral presentation), and Poster/Demo papers 4 pages (with presentation in a poster or demo session). Additional pages are allowed for references only. RANLP-2025 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available as from 1 April 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Conference abstracts submission: 11 May 2025 (strongly recommended, to facilitate review planning) Conference papers submission: 25 May 2025 Conference papers acceptance notification: 4 July 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 6 July 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 8 September 2025 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025 RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) VENUE RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). The conference organisers will arrange a visit to Provadia-Solnitsata, the oldest salt-production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC, https://provadia-solnitsata.com/en/ ) which is located 50 km from Varna. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK and University of Alicante, Spain (Chair Programme Committee) Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)

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Call for participation – VAR4LCR conference 2025
by sylvie.decock＠uclouvain.be 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research conference (VAR4LCR), which will take place on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve. The conference will mark the closing of the Hoover Seedfund project on "Learner Corpus Research and Register Variation", a collaborative initiative between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at UCLouvain and the Department of English at Northern Arizona University. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen) Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona) KEY DATES Early bird registration deadline: 22 May 2025 Registration deadline: 22 June 2025 Information about fees and a registration link can be found on the conference website: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/registration-0-0 For more details and list of accepted papers and posters, please visit the conference website at https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-…. For additional questions, do not hesitate to contact us at var4lcr(a)uclouvain.be. Best wishes, The VAR4LCR Team

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SLATE'2025 Extended Deadline - May 4th
by Alberto Simões 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] The deadline for the submission to SLATE 2025 has been extended to May, 4th. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SLATE 2025 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies https://slate-conf.org/2025/home 26th to 27th June, 2025 University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal ------------------------------------------------------------------ Languages are an integral part of human and technological interactions. Initially, we used them to communicate with one another. Later, to communicate with computers. And more recently, with the advent of networks, we found a way to make computers communicate between themselves. All these different forms of communication use languages, different languages, but that still share many similarities. In SLATE we are interested in discussing these languages. Keynote Speakers * Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS / Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Large Language Models for the Galician-Portuguese Diasystem. * Pedro Rangel Henriques, Algoritmi / Universidade do Minho. An ontology for the Language Domain. * Paulo Quaresma, VISTA Lab / Algoritmi / Universidade de Évora. Agentic AI: state of the art, challenges and limitations. SLATE 2025 Chairs: Jorge Baptista and José Barateiro (University of Algarve, Portugal) Being languages such a broad subject, SLATE is organized in *three main tracks*: *HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages* HHL provides a forum for discussing research projects and ideas related to natural language processing and its industrial applications. *HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages* HCL is a forum where researchers, developers, educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic or industrial work on language design, processing, assessment and applications. *CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages* The CCL Track aims to facilitate discussions on data representation languages, its applications, and related technologies. Topics from each track include: *HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages* Computational morphology, syntax and semantics; Machine translation and tools for computer assisted translation; Computational terminology and lexicography; Speech synthesis and understanding; Information retrieval and extraction; Automatic question answering; Corpus linguistics; Language Resources and Evaluation; Public tools and resources for NLP; Statistical Methods applied to NLP; Language teaching support tools; Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining; Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification; Dialogue and Interactive Systems; Ethics and NLP; Language Modeling/Large Language Models; Machine Learning for CL/NLP; Offensive/Hate speech detection and analysis; Applications (BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes, Social Media and Journalism, etc.); Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing. *HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Language* Languages and grammars design, specification and quality; Programming languages implementation; Visual Languages and Program visualization; Domain-Specific Languages design and implementation; Programming, refactoring and debugging environments; Dynamic and static analysis; Program slicing; Program comprehension; Compilation and interpretation techniques; Code generation and optimization; Novel language constructs and their implementation; Debugging and profiling tools; Dynamic languages; Software quality and security; Software reverse engineering; Software Forensics; Plagiarism Detection. *CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages* IoT data protocols; Semantic Web and data standards; Ontologies and knowledge representation; Big Data and NoSQL Databases; Data interchange and storage formats; HTML5 and web formatting; Industry-specific interoperability standards; APIs and service integration; Data and graph visualization languages; Cloud computing models - PaaS, SaaS, IaaS; Edge and Pervasive computing; Multi-agent systems; E-learning standards and interoperability; Cybersecurity protocols and solutions; Cyber-physical systems; Network connectivity and infrastructure. *Contributions* Full papers - 8 to 14 pages, presented in 20+5 minutes, complete work, including a validation or discussion. Short papers - 6 to 8 pages, presented in 10+5 minutes, ongoing work, well anchored in the literature, but not yet fully validated. Submitted papers will be reviewed through a rigorous double-blind process, involving at least three expert reviewers. Each submission will be assessed based on its originality, relevance to the symposium tracks, methodological rigor, clarity of presentation, and potential impact on research and practice. Authors are encouraged to carefully anonymize their submissions to ensure the integrity of the review process. SLATE 2025 is committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity and welcomes submissions from underrepresented groups in academia and industry. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on digital support. They will also integrate the OASIcs series. Papers should be written using the OASIcs LaTeX template, using the English language. Please refer to our website for details about the document preparation. Papers should be uploaded to Microsoft CMT system. *Organization Committee* Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve, Portugal) José Barateiro (University of Algarve, Portugal) Simão Melo de Sousa (University of Algarve, Portugal) Alberto Simões (2Ai, School of Technology, IPCA, Portugal) *Important Dates* - Paper Submission: May 4th, 2025 [extended] - Authors' Notification:May 25th , 2025 - Camera Ready Submission: June 1st, 2025 - Author's Registration Deadline: June 15th, 2025 - Conference: 26th and 27th June, 2025 *Submission Details* Important Information for Authors - Submissions are managed through the Microsoft CMT system. - Accepted papers will be published in the OASIcs series. Note that accepted papers' authors will need to supply an author agreement, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY 3.0). A link to the Author Agreement documentation will be shared during the final paper upload phase. During the submission you will be asked to choose from one of the three tracks: HCL, HHL, CCL. Nevertheless, organizers are specially interested in papers touching more than one of the three main tracks. Submissions that explore intersections between HHL, HCL, and CCL, such as NLP-driven programming environments or semantic web applications, are highly encouraged. Both standard and short papers should be written in English, using the OASIcs template. For standard papers the page range is 8 to 14 pages. For short papers the page range is 6 to 8 pages. *Registration* Registration link and other details to be provided at a later date. - Authors' registration At least one author per paper must register. Each additional paper will incur an extra fee of 80.00 EUR. - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 150,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 160,00 EUR - Standard registration (co-authors and other participants) - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 80,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 100,00 EUR - Students' registration (non co-authors)* - Early bird registration: until June 1, 2025 - 30,00 EUR - Late/On-site registration: until June 26, 2025 - 40,00 EUR (*) Does not include the Symposium dinner. *Venue* SLATE 2025 will be held in person at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, on the Gambelas Campus. Faro, the capital of Portugal's Algarve region, is a vibrant coastal city that combines rich cultural heritage with modern amenities. Known for its historic old town, stunning beaches, and nearby Ria Formosa Natural Park, Faro is a must-visit destination for tourists. The city is well-connected to the rest of Portugal, Europe, and beyond through its international airport, located just 7 km from the city center. Travelers can also reach Faro via a convenient train network linking Lisbon (3 hours) and Porto (5 hours), or by road using the A22 Motorway and EN125 National Road. Once in Faro, getting around is easy, with taxis, ride-hailing services, and buses offering quick access to key locations, including the University of Algarve’s Gambelas Campus. We look forward to welcome you in Faro, Portugal!

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ARR Commitment for IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

Dear all, Do you have a fully reviewed ARR paper related to speech translation that you'd like to commit to IWSLT 2025 (https://iwslt.org/2025/)? IWSLT has enabled paper commitment for fully reviewed papers from ARR for 2025. If you'd like to commit your paper, please fill out this form by May 17th, 2025: https://forms.gle/1QtVrHXyCGoEq3qa9 Many thanks, IWSLT Organisers

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow AI/ML at the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

*** Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt *** We have a postdoctoral opening in AI/ML with a focus on Natural Language Processing at the UKP Lab led by Iryna Gurevych, Technical University of Darmstadt. The initial contract is for 2 years with an option for an extension. Ideal candidates have a PhD in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, computer science or a related discipline, are highly motivated and demonstrate a convincing track-record in research. They must be fluent in English. Application deadline: May 25th, 2025. After that, the position will remain open until filled. We will consider applications as soon as they are submitted. DUTIES 1. Developing your own research program embedded into the research agenda of the UKP Lab, including publications in top AI/ML/NLP venues. Specifically, we are looking to strengthen the following areas: - Foundations of Large Language Models - AI Safety - LLM security and privacy - Human-AI Collaboration - AI for Science It is possible to propose a topic bottom-up [1]. 2. Academic service, e.g., co-advising Master and PhD students, co-teaching NLP courses. ECOSYSTEM UKP lab is part of ELLIS (ELLIS NLP with Iryna Gurevych as its co-director and the ELLIS unit in Darmstadt, the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA), and the Hessian.AI (https://hessian.ai<https://hessian.ai/>), where the faculty from the main Hessian universities collaborate on advancing machine learning, including NLP. ELLIS, ELIZA and Hessian.AI provide a rich environment for networking with academic and industrial research labs. TEAM UKP Lab is a leading European research lab in AI/ML with a focus on NLP covering a wide range of modern research topics. The team of about 40 full-time researchers is highly international and interdisciplinary. Iryna Gurevych is Adjunct Professor with the NLP Department at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, UAE and is Affiliated Professor at INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria. This provides outstanding opportunities for international collaborations with top researchers from different disciplines including AI, ML and NLP. BENEFITS UKP Lab is committed to cutting-edge research, publishing in top-tier venues, cooperative work style and close interaction of all team members. The selected candidates enjoy diverse opportunities for professional growth, leading both to successful faculty careers and exciting industrial research opportunities. LOCATION The position assumes that you can move to Darmstadt or a nearby German location. Darmstadt is very close to the Frankfurt airport and provides an excellent living environment for incoming staff members. APPLICATION Please submit your application via the following form: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment [1] https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/research_ukp/ukp_research_public…

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DiSS 2025 - Last Call for Papers
by Fernando Batista 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

============================================================= DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> ============================================================= Dear All, We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is "Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View". The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and is proudly sponsored by ISCA. We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2025 (extended) - Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025 - Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025 - DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template <https://www.interspeech2025.org/author-resources> (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025>. Please use this link <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025> to submit your paper. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers. COMMITTEES Organizers - Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden - Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Publicity Chair - Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Local Organisation - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Scientific Committee - Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary - Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon - Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain - Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon - Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France - Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA - David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain - David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA - Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa - Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy - Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon - Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal - George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece - Harshal Shah, General Motors, USA - Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France - Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden - Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany - Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden - João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA - Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA - Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany - Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan - Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan - Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France - Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary - Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon - Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany - Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal - Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland - Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil - Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan - Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium - Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Štefan Beňuš, University in Nitra, Slovakia - Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal - Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/ <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/> Any questions should be directed to: diss2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:diss2025@googlegroups.com> We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event! — The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025: Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations (Deadline Approaching: May 14)
by Kossi Amouzouvi 24 Apr '25

24 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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Help us improve MOOCs for non-native English speakers
by Magali Paquot 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

[version en français ci-dessous] Dear all, As part of the MOOCResearch2.0 project<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/moocresearch2-0-0> at UCLouvain (Belgium), we are conducting a survey on the motivations, attitudes, and challenges of non-native English speakers when taking Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in English. If you’re a non-native English speaker who has taken a MOOC in English, we’d love to hear from you! The survey is quick (15 minutes) and anonymous 👉 https://surveys.uclouvain.be/index.php/228944?lang=en Your feedback will help us better understand the needs of non-native English speakers and contribute to the development of guidelines for more accessible and inclusive MOOCs. We would also greatly appreciate it if you could help us spread the word by sharing the survey with your networks—including students, professionals, lifelong learners, or anyone you know who might have taken a MOOC in English. The broader and more diverse the input, the more meaningful our results will be. Thank you for your support! Best regards, The MOOCResearch2.0 Team UCLouvain ################## Bonjour, Dans le cadre du projet MOOCResearch2.0<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/moocresearch2-0-0> à l'UCLouvain (Belgique), nous menons une enquête portant sur les motivations, attitudes et défis rencontrés par les apprenants non-anglophones lorsqu’ils suivent des MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) en anglais. Si vous êtes non-anglophone et que vous avez déjà suivi un MOOC en anglais, nous serions ravis d'avoir votre avis ! L'enquête est rapide (15 minutes) et anonyme. 👉 https://surveys.uclouvain.be/index.php/319832?lang=fr Vos réponses nous aideront à mieux comprendre les besoins des personnes non anglophones et à élaborer des recommandations pour rendre les MOOCs plus accessibles et inclusifs. Nous vous serions également très reconnaissants si vous pouviez nous aider à diffuser ce questionnaire dans vos réseaux — auprès d’étudiant·es, de professionnel·les, d’adultes adeptes de l’apprentissage continu, ou de toute personne ayant suivi un MOOC en anglais. Plus les profils des répondant·es seront variés, plus nos résultats seront riches et pertinents. Bien à vous, L'équipe MOOCResearch2.0 UCLouvain

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Ext deadline: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)
by Abzianidze, L. (Lasha) 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] TL;DR; The submission deadline has been extended to 6 May The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: * Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks * Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) * Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R * Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems * Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R * Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R * Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets *(Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks * Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks * Generalization of NLU&R systems * Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu), 4-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany). The submission deadline has been extended to 6 May 2025. Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University

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Reminder: CIRCE Online Seminar | 28/04/2025 | Dr. Alice Henderson | "Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace "
by Claudia Soria 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

*🎓 *We are happy to remind you about the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series, organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Alice Henderson_ (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France) *Title*: Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace *Date*: Monday, April 28, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online via Teams *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: The university workplace is representative of international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their colleagues’ and students’ accents – of Italian, of English, and in my case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions, we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed. This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how? In this talk I’ll summarize speech research findings about how listeners can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. I’ll look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. I’ll describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused in other professional contexts. If possible, I’ll also describe the next steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop participants as part of a longitudinal study. *Bio*: Alice Henderson is a Professor at Université Grenoble - Alpes, France where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to Science & Technology students. She taught English phonetics and phonology for 24 years and has been involved in training teachers in France, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the international bi-annual conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Her research interests include English pronunciation teaching and learning, the perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction (EMI). Much of her research has focused on speakers, but she is also intrigued by listeners’ roles, from an intercultural and sociolinguistic perspective. Upcoming webinars: - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) - Clara Molina, Unlearning Accentism: Action Research and Critical Pedagogies (Monday, June 30, 2025 To receive the link for the conference on 28/4, send an email to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu> (Subject: Alice Henderson, link request) Warm regards, Claudia Soria on behalf of the CIRCE Team

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📢 CfP | Special Issue on Human-Centered, Augmented MT (Linguistica Antverpiensia)
by Vicent Briva-Iglesias 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting) We are excited to remind you that there are just *7 days left to submit your abstract *for the Special Issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (2026) (Q1 Journal), dedicated to: *Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation (HCAMT)* ( https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/announcement/view/26) Guest-edited by myself and Sharon O'Brien (Dublin City University) This special issue calls for research that challenges conventional paradigms of machine translation by focusing on human empowerment, user experience, and augmented collaboration between humans and language technologies. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore: ✅ New methodologies for measuring human-MT interaction & MT user experience (MTUX) ✅ Studies on how MT can augment rather than replace human capabilities ✅ Issues of diversity, inclusion, and ethics in HCAMT ✅ How MT and AI can empower translators, interpreters, and multilingual communication in real-world contexts *Submission Details:* - Abstracts (500–1000 words) due by: 1 May 2025 - Submit to: vicent.brivaiglesias(a)dcu.ie and sharon.obrien(a)dcu.ie - If accepted, full papers (approx. 8,000 words) will be due: 1 December 2025 If you’re working with machine translation, user-centered design, accessibility, ethics, or Human-Computer Interaction, this is your moment to contribute to a leading venue and shape the future of human-centered translation technologies. Please circulate this CfP widely among your networks and encourage colleagues to submit. We look forward to receiving your proposals! Warm regards, *Vicent Briva-Iglesias, PhD* MT and HCI Researcher SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (D-REAL) School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) Dublin City University -- __ Séanadh Ríomhphoist/_ Email Disclaimer__ ** Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://www.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml> <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml>* _ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://www.dcu.ie/iss/email-disclaimer.shtml> _ *_

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GermEval @KONVENS 2025 - SustainEval - Training Data Release
by Jakob, Charlott Frederike 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

3rd Call for Participation: SustainEval Shared Task 2025 - Understanding Sustainability Reports 🔹Training data is published 🔹Registration is open 🔹Validation phase started We invite system and paper submissions for SustainEval 2025, a GermEval Shared Task co-located with KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany, in September 2025. With this shared task, we aim to fuel research on automatic analysis and detection of greenwashing by challenging participants to build systems that categorise excerpts from German-language sustainability reports for (A) content class and (B) statement verifiability rating. Important Links: * Website: https://sustaineval.github.io/ * Codabench Task A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7630/ * Codabench Task B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7633/ * Data Repo: https://github.com/SustainEval/sustaineval2025_data Important Dates: * Development Data Release: 12th March 2025 * Training Data Release: 14th April 2025 * Registration Deadline / Start Evaluation Phase: 10th June 2025 * Results Submission Deadline: 27th June 2025 * Paper Submission Deadline: 11th July 2025 * Camera-ready Deadline: 15th Aug 2025 * Workshop & Final Presentation: 10th Sept 2025 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at sustaineval(a)gmail.com<mailto:sustaineval@gmail.com>. Best regards, The Shared Task Organizers Jakob Prange, Universität Augsburg (contact for task-specific questions): jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de<mailto:jakob.prange@uni-a.de> Charlott Jakob, TU Berlin (contact for organisational questions): c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de<mailto:c.jakob@tu-berlin.de> Annemarie Friedrich, Universität Augsburg —————————————————— Charlott Jakob (she/her) Academic Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science Faculty IV Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Technische Universität Berlin Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin, Germany

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Call for participation: ADoBo 2025 dev set released
by ELENA ALVAREZ MELLADO 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

The dev set for ADoBo 2025 shared task on automatic detection of borrowings in Spanish has been released and is now live on Codabench. https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/ To gain access to the data, make submissions and check the leaderboard please join the competition at Codabench. The development phase will end on May 5th. Updates on the task will be announced on ADoBo website and Google group. https://adobo-task.github.io/ https://groups.google.com/g/adobo-task TIMELINE April 21: Dev set released.<https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/> May 6: Test set released. May 19: Systems output submissions. May 26: Results posted and Test set with GS annotations released. June 2: Working notes paper submission. June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). June 23: Camera ready paper submission. September: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University. Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Oficina de Protección de datos<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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CFP - Extension de date de soumission - Atelier 4AS@TALN2025 - Représentations Sémantiques
by Maxime Amblard 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

[english version below] **************************** Atelier 4 AS Atelier sur les Avancées en AMR et en Analyse Sémantiques 4AS@TALN2025 - Marseille - 30 juin 2025 **************************** https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/fr/atelier-4-as/ **************************** -> Nouvelle date de soumission 27 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) Beaucoup de chercheurs et chercheuses ont rêvé de créer une intelligence artificielle générale et pour cela ont imaginé d’exploiter la sémantique du langage (parsing et génération). Aujourd’hui nous nous rapprochons de cette possibilité quand nous voyons la capacité des modèles à appréhender des problèmes complexes. Mais, aucun de ces systèmes n’exploite véritablement l’analyse sémantique qui reste un terrain de recherche fertile du point de vue des formalismes, des architectures/modèles et des publications. Bien qu’imparfait, un formalisme tentant de faire le lien entre ces différentes problématiques, les AMR, a concentré beaucoup d'efforts. Cet atelier vise à réunir les différentes équipes qui s’intéressent à la sémantique du langage avec trois objectifs. • Faire le point sur les différentes approches d’exploitation de la sémantique du langage, ses différents formalismes (DRS, AMR, Yarn, …) et leurs usages (modèles d’IA plus frugale, répondre à des problèmes où la sémantique a des avantages clairs par rapport des LLMs, ...). Un focus sera fait sur l’AMR, ses forces, faiblesses, ses successeurs potentiels et évolutions à venir. • Identifier et positionner les différentes ressources utiles à l'analyse sémantique. Si le développement d'un Propbank en français n'apparaît pas comme une stratégie gagnante, porter le développement d'un alignement des mots du français vers Propbank, dans la ligné de VerbNet et Semlink serait intéressant. La question des corpus annotés est aussi largement ouverte. • Echanger les différents points de vue sur l’intérêt de poursuivre cette recherche face aux capacités des très grands modèles de langue (LLM), la meilleure façon de structurer cette recherche (projets collaboratifs par exemple) et de communiquer auprès d’un vaste public. -------------------- Thèmes -------------------- L'atelier sollicite des communications qui abordent un ou plusieurs des thèmes suivants : • Interface syntaxe-sémantique ; • Les ressources pour la sémantique • Expansion ou couplage de ressources sémantiques avec des LLM ; • Conception et annotation des représentations sémantiques ; • Comparaison des framework de représentations sémantiques ; • Génération automatique de textes à partir de représentations de sens ; • Forces et faiblesses des représentations sémantiques existantes ; • Utilisation des représentations sémantique dans des applications réelles ; • Application des représentations sémantiques et multilinguismes ; • Multimodalité dans les représentations du sens ; • La relation entre les représentations symboliques du sens et les représentations sémantiques distribuées ; • Propriétés formelles des représentations de sens ; -------------------- Soumission -------------------- La longueur attendue des soumissions est de 4 pages, augmentée d'une page pour les versions camera ready. Les soumissions doivent être rédigées selon la feuille de style ci-dessous et être soumises sous forme de fichiers PDF via le système EasyChair. Les traductions de soumissions précédemment acceptées dans des conférences de plus grande envergure sont acceptées. Système de soumission est une track 4AS sur le site easychair de la conférence principale : https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=coriataln2025 Les feuilles de style sont communes à TALN, CORIA, RECITAL et RJCRI, voir sur le site web -------------------- Dates -------------------- • Date limite de soumission : 22 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) -> Nouvelle date de soumission 27 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Notification : 7 Mai 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Camera Ready version : 14 Mai 2025 (anywhere on earth) En intégrant les contraintes de calendrier, aucune extension ne sera possible. -------------------- Organisateurices -------------------- • Maxime Amblard (Loria, Université de Lorraine) • Maria Boritchev (Telecom Paris Tech) • Bruno Guillaume (Inria) • Johannes Heinecke (Orange) • Frédéric Herledan (Orange) *********************************************************************************************************************************** Workshop 4 AS Workshop on Advances in AMR and Semantic Analysis 4AS@TALN2025 - Marseille - June, 30th 2025 **************************** https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/fr/atelier-4-as/ **************************** -> New deadline: April 27th 2025 (anywhere on earth) Many researchers have dreamed of creating general artificial intelligence, and to do so have imagined exploiting the semantics of language (parsing and generation). Today, we’re getting closer to this possibility when we see the ability of models to grasp complex problems. But none of these systems really exploits semantic analysis, which remains a fertile field of research in terms of formalisms, architectures/models and publications. Although imperfect, a formalism that attempts to bridge these different issues, AMR, has been the focus of much effort. This workshop aims to bring together the various teams working on language semantics, with three objectives. • Take stock of the different approaches to exploiting language semantics, its various formalisms (DRS, AMR, Yarn, …) and their uses (more frugal AI models, answering problems where semantics has clear advantages over LLMs, …). The focus will be on AMR, its strengths, weaknesses, potential successors and future developments. • Identify and position the various resources useful for semantic analysis. While the development of Propbank in French does not appear to be a winning strategy, the development of a word alignment from French to Propbank, along the lines of VerbNet and Semlink, would be interesting. The question of annotated corpora is also wide open. • Exchange different points of view on the interest of pursuing this research in the face of the capabilities of very large language models (LLMs), the best way of structuring this research (collaborative projects, for example) and communicating to a wide audience. -------------------- Themes -------------------- The workshop invites papers that address one or more of the following themes: • Syntax-Semantics Interface; • Resources for semantics; • Expanding or coupling semantic resources with LLMs ; • Designing and annotating semantic representations; • Comparison of semantic representation frameworks; • Automatic text generation from meaning representations; • Strengths and weaknesses of existing semantic representations; • Use of semantic representations in real-life applications; • Application of semantic representations and multilingualism ; • Multimodality in meaning representations; • The relationship between symbolic representations of meaning and distributed semantic representations; • Formal properties of meaning representations; -------------------- Submission -------------------- The expected length of submissions is 4 pages, plus one page for camera ready versions. Submissions must follow the style sheet below and be submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair system. Translations of previously accepted submissions to larger conferences are accepted. The submission system is a 4AS track on the easychair site of the main conference: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=coriataln2025 Style sheets are common to TALN, CORIA, RECITAL and RJCRI. An Overleaf model is available here: Feuilles de style CORIA-TALN 2025, see on the website. -------------------- Date -------------------- • Submission dead-line: April 22th, 2025 -> New deadline: April 27th 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Notification: May 7th, 2025 • Camera Ready version: May 14th, 2025 Given the time constraints, no extension will be possible. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- • Maxime Amblard (Loria, Université de Lorraine) • Maria Boritchev (Telecom Paris Tech) • Bruno Guillaume (Inria) • Johannes Heinecke (Orange) • Frédéric Herledan (Orange) ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Université de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard http://espoir-ul.fr Si vous lisez ce message en dehors de vos heures de travail, merci de ne le traiter qu’en cas d’urgence avérée.

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[2nd CFP] EcoDL 2025: Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice
by D'Souza, Jennifer 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

EcoDL 2025: The 1st Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice in conjunction with TPDL 2025 EcoDL 2025 aims to explore the integration of AI, digital libraries, and FAIR data principles in ecological research to improve knowledge synthesis and predictive modeling. Ecology's complexity and data heterogeneity present challenges in generalization, requiring advanced computational tools for structured knowledge representation, search, and decision support. We invite researchers from ecology, AI, and digital information systems to discuss AI-driven data synthesis, semantic search, causal inference, and machine learning applications in biodiversity and conservation. Through interdisciplinary contributions, EcoDL 2025 seeks to foster innovation in ecological informatics, supporting open science and advancing digital methods for ecological research and environmental sustainability. ************************************************************** Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/ecodl2025/ Paper Submission Deadline: 16th May 2025 (AoE) *************************************************************** Topics of interest ------------ The EcoDL 2025 workshop welcomes submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics: · Knowledge graphs and structured ecological data representation o Biodiversity knowledge graphs o Linked open data for integrating scattered ecological knowledge sources o Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts o Semantic annotation and classification of ecological data o AI-driven taxonomy generation for ecological datasets · Advanced search and retrieval for ecological and environmental data o Neural search for literature and reports: Improving retrieval of species, habitats, and ecosystem information o Improving retrieval of study question, research hypothesis and applied method o LLMs for information extraction: Capturing species interactions, climate impacts, and conservation policies o Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for ecological research: Hybrid AI systems for answering complex scientific questions o Multimodal search for biodiversity and environmental studies: Combining text, image, and geospatial data retrieval o Automated knowledge discovery from climate and biodiversity repositories · FAIR data principles in ecological research o Data interoperability o Open science infrastructure for ecological and environmental data o Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts o FAIR data and software o Data lifecycle management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse) o NanopublicationsMapping-based Knowledge Graph Construction · AI for assisting ecological research o AI-based literature review o AI-driven synthesis of ecological knowledge: taking complexity and context-dependence into account o Monitoring biases in study system, study regions and methods in ecological research o Tracking Misinformation in Climate Science Using NLP: Identifying and mitigating the spread of false environmental claims · Digital libraries and ecological informatics o Methods for digitizing and analyzing historical ecological archives o Indigenous knowledge and digital archives for sustainability o AI-powered environmental storytelling and digital heritage o Human-nature interactions in digital libraries o Digitization and NLP for analyzing historical climate data · Methods for integrating heterogeneous ecological datasets o Integrating remote sensing data with ecological repositories o Multimodal search for biodiversity studies · Applications of AI in ecosystem restoration, conservation planning and decision-making o AI-powered decision support systems for restoration and conservation o Lay summaries based on ecological evidence o Impact assessment of conservation policies via digital libraries · Reflections on knowledge synthesis in ecology and on the contributions of AI o Evaluating the role of AI in ecological research o Challenges and limitations of AI-driven ecological modeling o The impact of automated systems on scientific knowledge creation o Ethical considerations in AI-assisted ecological analysis o Future directions for AI in knowledge synthesis for ecology Submission guidelines ---------------- The EcoDL workshop solicits submissions in any of the following three formats: § Long Papers: Up to 15 LNCS style pages, including references. § Short Papers: Up to 10 LNCS style pages, including references. § Abstracts: Up to 2 LNCS style pages, including references. All accepted long and short workshop papers will be published in the proceedings of the Springer series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the following link<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Abstract submissions will be invited as poster presentations, to foster discussion and networking at the workshop, but will not be compiled in the proceedings. Important dates ----------- Paper Submission: 16th May 2025 (AOE) Acceptance Notification: 20th June 2025 (AOE) Camera-ready Version: 10th July 2025 (AOE) Workshop: 23rd September 2025 in Tampere, Finland The EcoDL 2025 Workshop is collocated with the The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) https://tpdl2025.github.io/, 23rd to 26th September 2025. EcoDL 2025 Organising Committee ---------------- Jennifer D'Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Tina Heger, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany Marie Kaiser, Bielefeld University, Germany The list of workshops and tutorials at TPDL this year can be found at https://tpdl2025.github.io/Program/workshops_tutorials.html

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Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking
by Chloé Braud 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking Call for expression of interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking In conjunction with CODI-CRAC & EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9. This year, we are organizing the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on discourse processing across formalisms, for a variety of languages and genres, with three subtasks: * Task 1: discourse segmentation * Task 2: connective identification * Task 3: relation classification We will provide training, development and test datasets from all available languages in RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies, using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for discourse units. For datasets which have treebanks, we will evaluate segmentation in two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax. An automatically parsed version is provided for all corpora without a gold parse. This year, the shared task will feature: * the inclusion of more frameworks, with datasets from: RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies * the inclusion of new corpora and new languages, some of them kept a surprise! * a unified set of labels for the discourse relations, to make easier the evaluation across datasets * a new constraint: only one multilingual model should be submitted per task, and it should be small! This will make our replication work easier, but more importantly, it will simplify using such a model and test the robustness of your solution! At this time we are calling for expressions of interest to participate. Registered participants will be added to our mailing list and receive updates as soon as data is made available. Please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Important dates:** * May 15 2025 – sample data release * June 16 2025 – training data release * July 14 2025 – test data release * August 1 2025 – system + paper submissions due * September 12 2025 – notification of acceptance * September 19 2025 – camera ready papers * November 8-9 2025 – CODI at EMNLP **Information:** Contact the organizers:disrpt_chairs@googlegroups.com Official website: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ Google group for participants, please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Organization:** Peter Bourgonje (Universität Potsdam, Germany) Chloé Braud (CNRS - IRIT, University of Toulouse, France) Chuyuan Li (University of British Columbia, Canada) Janet Yang Liu (LMU Munich, Germany) Philippe Muller (CNRS - University of Toulouse, France) Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)

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[PhD offer] POLITO + EURECOM - Enhancing Educational Storytelling with,Human-Centered AI in the LLM Era - deadline is 28/04/2025
by Raphaël Troncy 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, A fully funded three-years PhD position is open at POLITO and EURECOM. Do not hesitate to share with interested candidates around you. ===================================== Web: https://www.polito.it/sites/default/files/2025-03/borsa_scudo_25762_Eurecom… Title: Enhancing Educational Storytelling with,Human-Centered AI in the LLM Era Summary: The PhD aims to develop novel methods and techniques for allowing endusers to create interactive educational narratives from structured resources such as knowledge graphs. The research envisions combining generative models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and end-user personalization strategies, moving beyond simple binary-choice formats and thus enabling more engaging, custom-tailored, and culturally adaptive storytelling. Location: - 18 months at Politecnico di Torino (Department of Control and Computer Engineering) - 18 months at EURECOM (Data Science Department) Supervisors : Luigi de Russis, Raphael Troncy, Pasquale Lisena Application deadline: April 28, 2025 Starting date: Fall 2025 To apply: send your CV + Motivation letter + Transcripts of your MSc + your master thesis + 2 references to <raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr> and <luigi.derussis(a)polito.it> by Monday 28 April 2025! -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy(a)gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

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*SEM2025 - Second Call for Papers
by Kemal Kurniawan 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

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

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3rd CfP for IBERLEF-PRESTA
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

THIRD CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IberLEF 2025 - PRESTA: Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish *Web*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ We are pleased to announce the first IberLEF task on Question Answering on Tabular Data: PRESTA. The PRESTA shared-task consists of Question Answering over Tabular Data making use of the DataBenchSPA benchmark. DataBenchSPA is a benchmark composed of real-world table datasets from different domains and with large size of rows and columns, as well as a wide variety of data types that allow to assess distinct sort of questions related to each data type. We propose a task to encourage participants to develop a system that answers the questions of the kind present in DataBenchSPA over day-to-day datasets, where the answer is either a number, a categorical value, a boolean value or lists of several types. DataBenchSPA can be used as a training and validation set, while we will release another test set explicitly compiled for the task competition. The system developed by the participants will be provided by a series of (dataset, question) pairs and will need to provide an answer which would then be compared with a gold standard. The answer might be achieved through a variety of methods. In our paper [1] we illustrate two different approaches: In-Context Learning and Code Generation. You may use any of these or come up with your own approach. There will be two subtasks: Subtask I : DataBenchSPA QA Participants will be provided with a dataset (of any size) and a question over it. The question should be answered using the data from the dataset only. Subtask II: DataBenchSPA Lite QA The task is essentially the same as the previous subtask, but involves using the sampled version of each dataset with a maximum of 20 rows per dataset. The question should be answered using the data from the sampled dataset only. For the test set, we will similarly provide a reduced version of each dataset for this subtask. This task is especially relevant when testing for models with a smaller window size. Important Dates Release of training data: 18 March 2025 Release of test data - competition starts: 30 April 2025 Submission of the results - competition ends: 12 May 2025 Submission of the description paper: 30 May 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López - University of Jaén Eugenio Martínez Cámara - University of Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Eugenio Martínez Cámara Vicepresidente de la SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/> | Vice President of the SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/en>. Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associate Professor. Investigador en Proc. del Lenguaje Natural | Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Proc. 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PhD Position on Automatic translation with large multimodal models at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Application deadline: *30th of May*
by Matteo Negri 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

-- Apologies for cross-posting. -- Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research on automatic translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a part of your life in a pleasant city in the heart of the Italian Alps? WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! The Machine Translation <https://mt.fbk.eu/> (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded PhD position: TITLE: Automatic translation with large multimodal models DESCRIPTION: The rise of large, multimodal foundation models has driven remarkable progress in natural language processing. In text and speech translation, their growing adoption comes with quality improvements while also opening critical research directions for successful deployment and widespread access. Among the current hot research topics, three are particularly relevant to this PhD position: resource efficiency, model alignment, and model accessibility. (i) Resource efficiency aims to reduce computational demands through model compression techniques that shrink large general-purpose models, optimizing them for specific hardware (e.g., mobile devices), translation tasks, domains, or language settings. (ii) Model alignment ensures outputs are trustworthy, fair, and human-centered by integrating cultural, sociodemographic, and human factors into model design and evaluation. This includes bias-aware solutions that promote diversity and inclusivity, as well as improved evaluation methods that better capture real-world user needs. (iii) Model accessibility enhances inclusivity for individuals with visual, hearing, or cognitive impairments by integrating multimodal solutions such as sign language, speech-to-text simplification, and description-augmented subtitling, expanding the capabilities of large models. This PhD position is open to candidates with a strong interest in advancing the state of the art in any of these areas. CONTACTS: negri(a)fbk.eu, bentivo(a)fbk.eu COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is May 12th, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) Prospective candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for preliminary interviews. Depending on the short time remaining before the application deadline, precedence for interviews will be given to short-listed candidates that will send us a complete CV via email ( negri(a)fbk.eu, bentivo(a)fbk.eu) by May 5, 2025. Candidate profile The ideal candidate must have recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a closely related area. In addition, the applicant should: - Have an interest in Machine and Speech Translation - Have experience in deep learning and machine learning, in general - Have good programming skills in Python and experience in PyTorch - Enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets - Have good knowledge of written and spoken English - Enjoy working in a closely collaborating team Working Environment The doctoral student will be employed at the MT Unit <https://mt.fbk.eu/> at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/>, Trento, Italy. The group (about 10 people including staff and students) has a long tradition in research on machine and speech translation and is currently involved in several projects. Former students are nowadays employed in leading IT companies in the world. Benefits Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help with housing, full health insurance, the possibility of Italian courses, and sporting facilities. Further Information Should you need further information about the position, please contact Matteo Negri (negri(a)fbk.eu) and Luisa Bentivogli (bentivo(a)fbk.eu). Best Regards, Matteo Negri -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- April 25-27 -- program now available
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

************************************************** *** Join us this coming weekend for the *** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator! ************************************************** ==> 25-27 April 2025 <== Consult the program for the richest Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3075 Fourteen (14 !!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics and an expert roundtable! The event is fully online and free for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS members' listserv a few days before the event. We look forward to seeing you there! The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee

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CORRECTED DATES: Call for Papers: Slav-NLP: 10th Workshop on NLP forSlavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

**Call for Papers:* * * Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages At ACL-2025, Vienna, Austria 31 July 2025 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Submission Deadline: 3 May ** WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION The 10th edition of the Slav-NLP Workshop — at ACL 2025. Sponsored by SIGSLAV: ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP. Slavic languages play a crucial role due to their diverse cultural heritage and wide use — over 400M speakers worldwide. Current political and economic developments in Central/ Eastern Europe thrust the Slavic languages into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological advancements, and evolving consumer markets. Research on applied **and ***theoretical*NLP in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging. Linguistic phenomena that are common to the Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages challenging. Slav-NLP Workshops gather researchers from academia and industry, aiming to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops welcome the exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and promoting the available resources. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this large language group, creates a special environment where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally. We are happy *again *to organize Slav-NLP in Central Europe. This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include: * language modeling, * morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis, * lexical semantics, * named-entity recognition, * text normalization and processing non-standard language, * co-reference resolution, * information extraction, * question answering, * text summarization, * machine translation, * development of linguistic resources, * development and assessment of large language models, * text classification, * text generation, * disinformation detection, * fact verification, * sentiment analysis. The Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 9 previous (B)SNLP Workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: *3 May*2025 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment20 May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: *1 June*2025 * Camera-ready papers due: 15 June 2025 * Workshop: 31 July 2025 ** SHARED TASK This year the Slav-NLP Workshop features — Shared Task on Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Read about the Shared Task on the Workshop’s Web page. SUBMISSION At the Workshop’s Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html> * * Workshop Contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi * -- Roman Yangarber Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learning Language Learning Lab Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 helsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Final call for papers and extended deadline: 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025)
by Zinsmeister, Heike 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

The 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to TLT 2025: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ ----------------------------- INVITED TALK ----------------------------- Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. SyntaxFest joint submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025 ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * April 22, 2025: Extended paper submission deadline * June 2, 2025: Notification of acceptance * June 16, 2025: Camera-ready papers due * August 26-29, 2025: SyntaxFest conference (about two workshop days for TLT; attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole SyntaxFest.) All deadlines are 11.59 pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12h). ----------------------------- TLT2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- * Sarah Jablotschkin, University of Hamburg * Sandra Kübler, Indiana University * Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg Contact: tlt2025.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de<mailto:tlt2025.gw@uni-hamburg.de> Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html

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Submit by May 5: ClinIQLink Medical QA Challenge (BioNLP/ACL Track – Hallucination Detection) - Evaluating Hallucinations in Medical QA Systems
by Colelough, Brandon (NIH/NLM) [F] 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

--------------------- Challenge Links: Challenge Homepage: https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/ Challenge Sample Dataset: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_Sample-dataset CodaBench ClinIQLink Docker Setup (GitHub): https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup --------------------- Challenge Links: ClinIQLink @ BIONLP @ ACL 2025 - Important updates! We are pleased to share a set of important updates regarding the ClinIQLink Challenge, focused on evaluating factuality in clinical question answering: 1. Extended Submission Deadline The system submission deadline has been extended to 05 May 2025 at 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth). This allows additional time for teams to finalize and submit their models. 2. Rolling Evaluation Process Submissions are being evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage early submission to receive results in a timely manner. 3. Baseline Benchmark Release We will release performance benchmarks this Friday from a selection of open-source large language models evaluated on the ClinIQLink dataset. These results will serve as reference points for participating teams. 4. Updated Submission Instructions Submission guidelines have been clarified to support reproducibility and containerized evaluation. The revised instructions are available at: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup/blob/main/… 5. Large Model Submissions Still Accepted Teams submitting large models (e.g., models between 10GB and 750GB) may request access. For full challenge details, please visit the challenge homepage: https://cliniqlink.org/ If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, Brandon Colelough brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>

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Call for Papers: Slav-NLP 2025: 10th Workshop on NLP for Slaviclanguages
by Roman Yangarber 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

**Call for Papers:* * * Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages Co-located with ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria 31 July / 1 August 2025 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Submission Deadline: 27 April 2025 WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION The 10th edition of the Slav-NLP Workshop — at ACL 2025. Sponsored by SIGSLAV: ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP. Slavic languages play a crucial role due to their diverse cultural heritage and wide use — over 400M speakers worldwide. Current political and economic developments in Central/ Eastern Europe thrust the Slavic-speaking societies — and their languages — into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological advancements and expanding consumer markets. Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. Linguistic phenomena that are common to the Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages challenging. Slav-NLP Workshops gather researchers from academia and industry. We aim to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this large language group, creates a special environment where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility. We are happy to organize Slav-NLP again in Central Europe. This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include: * language modeling, * morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis, * lexical semantics, * named-entity recognition, * text normalization and processing non-standard language, * co-reference resolution, * information extraction, * question answering, * text summarization, * machine translation, * development of linguistic resources, * development and assessment of large language models, * text classification, * text generation, * disinformation detection, * fact verification, * sentiment analysis. The Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 9 previous (B)SNLP Workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 27 April 2025 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment20 May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 27 May 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: 3 June 2025 * Workshop: 31 July or 1 August 2025 SHARED TASK This year's Slav-NLP features — Shared Task on Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Information about the Shared Task is available on the Workshop’s Web page. SUBMISSION At the Workshop’s Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html> Workshop contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi * -- Roman Yangarber Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learning Language Learning Lab Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 helsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Final Call for Papers: LxGr2025
by Costas Gabrielatos 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

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

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[CfP] Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025 - Extended Deadline
by Kossi Amouzouvi 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Important Dates: - *Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025 May 16, 2025* - *Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025 May 23, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025 June 27, 2025* - *Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025 July 15, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon.* Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submission Guidelines The Research and Innovation Track at SEMANTiCS 2025 invites both *long* and *short paper submissions*. - *Long papers* should be *12-15 pages* in length (excluding references). These submissions are expected to present comprehensive, mature research findings, including in-depth theoretical or practical insights. - *Short papers* should be a *maximum of 6 pages* (excluding references). These submissions can include preliminary findings, innovative ideas, or position papers that aim to spark discussion and exploration. References are not included in the page count, so authors may add additional pages for relevant citations if needed. This flexibility allows authors to fully reference foundational and related work to strengthen the context and impact of their research. - Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are available at *https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions*. <https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions> - Authors need to use the *Word template* <https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-06/ECRC-Autho…> or *LaTeX* <https://vtex-soft.github.io/texsupport.IOS-Book-Article/> template provided by IOS Press. Overleaf users can copy the project *from here* <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gkkspcvjgwxv#563836> (follow instructions in the abstract). - Abstract submission is mandatory for all papers. To aid the review and bidding process, we highly encourage authors to submit structured abstracts. - All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS *full policy* <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy> for more details. - Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by signing their reviews. - Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. - At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate. - All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code, materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like *Anonymous GitHub* <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or figshare/Zenodo as described *here* <https://github.com/dgraziotin/disclose-data-dbr-first-then-opendata?tab=rea…>. - The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. - All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (*https://orkg.org* <https://orkg.org>) during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the EasyChair submission form. Review and Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID). The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Appropriateness - Originality, novelty, and innovativeness - Impact of results - Technical quality of the methods - Soundness of the evaluation - Proper comparison to related work - Clarity and quality of writing - Reproducibility of results and resources *We look forward to receiving your contributions!* Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee. ========================= Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden -- DISCLAIMER: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. 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Full-time research position at University College Dublin
by Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, I am recruiting for a one-year fully funded research assistant position involving NLP/ quantitative methods in text analysis. I would be grateful if you could share this ad with anyone interested. I am available for any questions potential applicants might have. Thanks a lot! Kind regards, Stephanie *One-year fulltime research assistant position at University College Dublin* *Start Date* 1st September 2025 *Duration* 12 months *Deadline* 22nd May, noon IST *Full ad* https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_ucdp/apply?id=018505 University College Dublin is currently recruiting a researcher to implement natural language processing (NLP) tools on interviews and speeches in Arabic. The research assistant will support the development of tools to identify and analyse so-called cognitive maps (Axelrod 1976). Dornschneider and Henderson (2016, 2024) and Dornschneider (2019) have developed tools for the computational analysis of cognitive maps. What is needed is a set of tools to infer cognitive maps from natural language. This Irish Research Council funded project investigates the role of women in Muslim resistance movements. The cognitive mapping analysis has several main objectives: 1- to show typical behavioral decisions (e.g. to join a resistance a movement) described by the interviewees; 2- to identify common reasoning processes related to these decisions; and 3- to trace the role of religious beliefs in these reasoning processes. The research assistant will work with the Principal Investigator, Dr. Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink, to deliver the research objectives of the project. Tasks will include but are not limited to web scraping, POS tagging, and OCR, as well as the checks necessary to review the accuracy of the automated processes. Knowledge of Arabic is not necessary, but a plus. Applicants should submit a CV, a cover letter, as well as a piece of well-documented NLP-related sample code in R or Python. Principal duties · Work under the supervision of the Principal Investigator to implement the objectives of the IRC project · Apply quantitative text analysis to Arabic text/interviews · Help generate and analyse cognitive maps · Web scraping · OCR · Quality checking · Report to the team and PI on a regular basis Mandatory requirements · Some undergraduate or graduate-level training in quantitative text analysis/NLP · Preferably a political science, data science, and/ or computer science background · Experience with programming in R and/ or Python · Ability to work independently and take the initiative to implement the outlined tasks · Candidates must demonstrate an awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. *References* Axelrod, R. (ed.). 1976. Structure of decision: The cognitive maps of political elites. Princeton: Princeton university press. Dornschneider-Elkink, S. and Henderson, N., 2024. Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(4), 756-785. Dornschneider, S., 2019. High‐Stakes Decision‐Making Within Complex Social Environments: A Computational Model of Belief Systems in the Arab Spring. Cognitive Science, 43(7), p.e12762. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12762 Dornschneider, S. and Henderson, N., 2016. A computational model of cognitive maps: Analyzing violent and nonviolent activity in Egypt and Germany. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(2), pp.368-399. -- Dr Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink Associate Professor, School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) University College Dublin Newman Building, F316, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland http://www.dornschneider.net/

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2nd Call for participation: Robust WSI Shared Task @ CoNLL-2025
by Ondřej Herman 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in the Robust Word Sense Induction shared task, which is organized as a part of CoNLL-2025 in Vienna (31.7 - 1. 8. 2025). TASK OVERVIEW The task focuses on unsupervised word sense induction without relying on predefined sense inventories. Participants will receive sentences containing target words and cluster them according to word sense usage. What makes this task unique is the novel evaluation approach using multi-annotated data and robust metrics that account for natural sense ambiguity and provide a fairer evaluation compared to traditional approaches. The benchmark datasets will be available in English, Czech, German, Spanish, Estonian and Chinese. The submissions are currently open. Please note that the deadlines have been slightly postponed. IMPORTANT DATES - Updated 25. 4. 2025 - Test phase ends 2. 5. 2025 - Submission of system description papers 31. 7. 2025 or 1. 8. 2025 - The CoNLL-2025 workshop at ACL 2025 in Vienna For more information and participation instructions, please visit https://projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/. This shared task is organized by Ondřej Herman, Miloš Jakubíček, Pavel Rychlý and Vojtěch Kovář at Lexical Computing and Masaryk University. If you have any questions, please contact us at conll2025(a)sketchengine.eu. Best regards, The Shared Task Organizers

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First call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

First call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Co-located with DHASA 2025 https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025 DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025 Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre. The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/ The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non- African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa website (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the DHASA conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Workshop: 10 November 2025 DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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PhD Position at SpeechTek research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler: application deadline May 12 2025
by Daniele Falavigna 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

The Speech Technology group (SpeechTek) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully funded PhD position. *Title: Advancing speech recognition and understanding* *Description: *Recent advancements in speech recognition and language technologies have significantly improved their performance across various applications: speech recognition, spoken language understanding, speaker diarization, speech analytics. However,these systems still face challenges when applied “in the wild, e.g. in typical domestic or office-like settings, due to background noise and overlapping speech. These factors hinder the effectiveness of current speech technologies, highlighting a need for further research and development. The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies. The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies. If you have recently completed a Master's degree or an equivalent qualification and if you are interested in carrying out research in an extremely interesting field of artificial intelligence that addresses the problem of recognition and understanding of spoken language, collaborating with an Italian research group with a long tradition in the field, you are certainly interested in applying to the above-mentioned call. *Scholarship: * The annual gross amount of the doctoral scholarship is €18.345,00. Students who have been awarded a PhD scholarship are entitled to get a 50% scholarship increase when staying abroad for reasons related to their doctoral research and studies. Each student is provided with a budget which can be used for educational and research purposes. Fondazione Bruno Kessler will provide any help for accomodation and administrative procedures. APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 12th, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) *CONTACTS*: brutti(a)fbk.eu <guerini(a)fbk.eu> *COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT*: Call for application | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science <https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giuseppe Daniele Falavigna Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via Sommarive 18 - 38123 Povo - Trento, Italy mail:falavi@fbk.eu - tel:+39(0)461314562 - fax:+39(0)461314591 HomePage: https://speechtek.fbk.eu/people/profile/falavi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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[CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

---------- Forwarded message --------- De: International Conference on Computational Creativity < iccc25.computationalcreativity(a)8468461.brevosend.com> Date: quinta, 17/04/2025, 10:51 Subject: [CfP] Call for Short Papers ICCC'25 – The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity To: <hgoliv(a)gmail.com> Submissions due: April 21, 2025‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ *The 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25)* June 23–27, 2025 — Campinas, Brazil Hi Hugo, Below, you will find a reminder for the official Call for Short Papers for the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25), which will be held in Campinas, Brazil, from June 23 to 27, 2025. We hope that you may be able to contribute to the conference by submitting your research. Please feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested. We hope to see you at ICCC'25 in Campinas, Brazil, in June 2025! *Call for papers: short papers* http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc25/short-papers/ <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dINmOPp80mYnKVrZxIO/AcAUaH…> Computational Creativity (CC) is a discipline with its roots in scientific disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy that each explores the potential for computers to be creative – either in partnership with humans or as autonomous creators in their own right. The International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on systems that act as creative partners for human creators, on frameworks that offer greater clarity or computational felicity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on. **** Themes and Topics **** The ICCC call for short papers invites research on the same topics as the main call. See Full Papers <https://ewb61.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rqJfgq8dIPRQs7HV5yLG6zVabQ/IAc4nt…> for more information. In summary, new papers reflecting all computational approaches and perspectives on creativity are welcome, including e.g., symbolic approaches, neural and statistical approaches, hybrid approaches, big-data approaches, rule-based approaches, curated approaches, and so on. The onus is on authors to argue and/or explicitly demonstrate the relevance of their work to the topic of computational creativity. *A note on generative AI models:* while the study of generative AI models is both welcomed and encouraged, such models and their application must be properly situated in the CC literature and evaluated according to acceptable practices in the field. Papers that fail to do this are unlikely to be reviewed favorably. *Difference between long and short papers:* Short papers are intended to share new directions and ideas, spark debate, and enrich the conference and program, without the same evaluation and rigor requirements of long papers. They are not merely long papers with fewer pages. To this end, different review criteria will be applied to long and short papers. **** Paper Types **** Short papers offer concise treatments of work and ideas that are better suited to this concentrated format. 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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval
by Ingo Frommholz 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

ELLIS ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, will take place July 7-11 in Wolverhampton, UK. https://2025.essir.eu/ About the School The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines like AI and NLP; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world. ESSIR 2025 will take place in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11, 2025. We will offer a rich programme of high-profile and world leading lecturers in Information Retrieval, NLP and AI. Taught topics include: 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 Explainability in AI The Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2025) symposium will be held along ESSIR. Please visit https://2025.essir.eu/ for further information. For additional enquiries, please contact essir-2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:essir-2025@googlegroups.com>. Registration will open soon. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Wolverhampton! -- 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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CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: 2nd call for papers
by Chloé Braud 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

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

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1 PhD position in discourse studies at the University of Lisbon
by Amália Mendes 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

The Centre of Linguistics at the University of Lisbon (School of Arts and Humanities) is opening 1 PhD position in Discourse Studies. Research focus: questions in monologic discourse, at the crossroad between pragmatics, textual coherence, argumentation, and corpus linguistics We welcome applicants with a Master’s degree (MA) in Linguistics, languages, or related areas. Deadline: 29 April 2025 Email for application: clul(a)letras.ulisboa.pt<mailto:clul@letras.ulisboa.pt> For more details: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/334941 For any questions about the position, feel free to contact us at clul(a)letras.ulisboa.pt<mailto:clul@letras.ulisboa.pt>

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Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track at TU Wien (Deadline May 22, 2025)
by Pia Pachinger 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages@Language Resources and Evaluation Journal
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS: Language Resources and Evaluation Journal- Special Issue on Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages* https://link.springer.com/collections/gbdgacbgbg *Guest Editors:* - Atul Kr. Ojha (Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics, DSI, University of Galway, Ireland) - Chao-Hong Liu (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Potamu Research Ltd.) - Ekaterina Vylomova (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Flammie Pirinen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø) - Jonathan Washington (Swarthmore College, USA) - Nathaniel Oco (De La Salle University, Philippines) - Xiaobing Zhao (Minzu University of China) Machine translation (MT) technologies have been improved significantly in the last decade using neural MT (NMT) approaches. However, most of these methods rely on the availability of large parallel data for training the MT systems, resources which are not available for the majority of language pairs. Hence, current technologies often fall short in their ability to be applied to low-resource languages. Developing MT technologies using relatively small corpora still presents a major challenge for the MT community. In addition, many methods for developing MT systems still rely on several natural language processing (NLP) tools to pre-process texts in source languages and post-process MT outputs in target languages. The performance of these tools often has a great impact on the quality of the resulting translation. The availability of MT technologies and NLP tools can facilitate equal access to information for the speakers of a language and determine on which side of the digital divide they will end up. The lack of these technologies for many of the world's languages provides opportunities both for the field to grow and for making tools available for speakers of low-resource languages. In the past few years, several workshops and evaluations have been organized to promote research on low-resource languages. NIST has been conducting Low Resource Human Language Technology evaluations (LoReHLT) annually from 2016 to 2019. In LoReHLT evaluations, there is no training data in the evaluation language. Participants receive training data in related languages but need to bootstrap systems in the surprise evaluation language at the start of the evaluation. Methods for this include pivoting approaches and taking advantage of linguistic universals. The evaluations are supported by DARPA's Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program, which seeks to advance technologies that are less dependent on large data resources and that can be quickly pivoted to new languages within a very short amount of time so that information from any language can be extracted in a timely manner to provide situation awareness to emergent incidents. There are also the Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT), Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL), Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI), the Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing (DeepLo). AfricaNLP, TurkLang, Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), and International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) workshop, which provide a venue for sharing research and working on research and development in this field. This topical collection solicits original research papers on MT systems/methods and related NLP tools for low-resource languages in general. LoReHLT, LORELEI, LoResMT, SIGUL, EURALI, DeepLo, WMT, and IWSLT participants are very welcome to submit their work to the special issue. Summary papers on MT research for specific low-resource languages, as well as extended versions (>40% difference) of published papers from relevant conferences/workshops, are also welcome. Topics of the special issue include, but are not limited to: * Research and review papers on MT systems/methods for low-resource languages * Research and review papers on pre-processing and/or post-processing NLP tools for MT * Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for low-resource languages * Word/morpheme segmenters for low-resource languages * Use of morphological analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT * Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT * Review of available corpora of low-resource languages for MT * Pivot MT for low-resource languages * Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages * Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages * Re-usability of existing MT systems and/or NLP tools for low-resource languages * Machine translation for language preservation * Techniques that work across many languages and modalities * Techniques that are less dependent on large data resources * Use of language-universal resources * Bootstrap-trained resources for the short development cycle * Entity, relation- and event-extraction * Sentiment detection in MT * MT Summarisation * Processing diverse languages, genres (news, social media, etc.) and modalities (text, speech, video, etc.) * Speech Translation for low-resource languages * Multimodal MT for low-resource languages * MT models using LLMs for low-resource languages * Generative AI models for low-resource languages * Evaluation metrics and datasets for low-resource languages For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://link.springer.com/collections/gbdgacbgbg *IMPORTANT DATES* May 26, 2025: Expression of interest (EOI) via this form: https://forms.gle/QqeqxZgGfsxP6rZ77 August 26, 2025: Paper submission deadline December 05, 2025: Revised papers due March 2026: Publication * SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Authors should follow the "Instructions for Authors <https://link.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines> ( https://link.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines)" on the LRE journal website <https://link.springer.com/journal/10579>. Thanks, Atul

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First call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

First call for papers DHASA Conference 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * The role of AI in digital humanities, the role of Digital Humanities in shaping AI, and the broader role of the humanities in both AI and DH projects; * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalised voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalised communities in the creation and use of digital tools, resources, and AI; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonising knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities and AI research; * The role of digital humanities and AI in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of African and global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organisations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Development of digital and AI tools for supporting digital humanities; * Novel utilisation of digital and AI tools for performing digital humanities research; * The role of digital humanities in the classroom: reimagining literacy and AI fluency * Digital humanities data and project management; * The role of librarians in the digital humanities project; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2025 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers with a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (leading to a total of up to 9 content pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. Long papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 30-minute time slots (which includes 10 minutes for questions). * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (leading to a total of up to 6 content pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 15-minute time slots (which includes 5 minutes for questions). * Executive summaries: Authors can submit an executive summary for work in progress, limited to 1 page. Executive summaries accepted for the conference will be presented as posters during a dedicated poster presentation slot. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the JDHASA journal, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the executive summaries for the poster presentations will be published in a book of executive summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected. Follow this link to go to the submission platform: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Conference: 10 November 2025 – 14 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organising Committee Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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CIRCE Online Seminar | 28/04/2025 | Dr. Alice Henderson | "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

*🎓 *We are happy to remind you about the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series, organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Alice Henderson_ (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France) *Title*: Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace *Date*: Monday, April 28, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: The university workplace is representative of international-ised/-ising workplaces in general, where different communities, languages, and cultures coexist. Staff encounter their colleagues’ and students’ accents – of Italian, of English, and in my case, French - and sometimes the result is that communication can be quite hard work. Even with the best intentions, sometimes we just cannot understand a speaker. However, when we think about spoken interactions, we have to accept that it is not just about how the speaker produces a language; the actions and skills of listeners should also be addressed. This flip or change of perspective begs two questions: can we, as listeners, learn to cope better with spoken variation? And if so, how? In this talk I’ll summarize speech research findings about how listeners can improve their ability to adapt to new speakers and new accents. I’ll look at listener accommodation and accentism, as well as the conceptual trio of accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility. I’ll describe concrete ways to prepare listeners to cope with accented speech, with a primary focus on listeners instead of speakers. Examples will come mainly from my work with non-academic staff at a large, French public university; my 1-hour format for listener training can be reused in other professional contexts. If possible, I’ll also describe the next steps in this work, as I prepare to continue training previous workshop participants as part of a longitudinal study. *Bio*: Alice Henderson is a Professor at Université Grenoble - Alpes, France where she teaches English for Specific Purposes to Science & Technology students. She taught English phonetics and phonology for 24 years and has been involved in training teachers in France, Norway, Poland, and Spain. In 2009 she initiated the international bi-annual conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Her research interests include English pronunciation teaching and learning, the perception of foreign-accented speech, and English Medium Instruction (EMI). Much of her research has focused on speakers, but she is also intrigued by listeners’ roles, from an intercultural and sociolinguistic perspective. Upcoming webinars: - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) - Clara Molina, Unlearning Accentism: Action Research and Critical Pedagogies (Monday, June 30, 2025 The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu>.

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Second Call for Special Issue Proposals - Journal Natural Language Processing
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

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

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Call for participation: Automatic Detection of Borrowings (ADoBo 2025)
by ELENA ALVAREZ MELLADO 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce the second edition of ADoBo, the shared task on automatic detection of borrowings (automatically retrieving words from one language that are incorporated into another language.) For ADoBo 2025 we propose a shared task on retrieving anglicisms from Spanish text, i.e. words borrowed specifically from English that have recently been imported into the Spanish language (words like "running", "smartwatch", "influencer" or "youtuber"). The task will run from April 2025 to June 2025 and is part of IberLEF 2025, which will take place in September 2025 in Zaragoza, Spain. WEBSITE https://adobo-task.github.io/ TIMELINE April 21: Dev set released. May 6: Test set released. May 19: Systems output submissions. May 26: Results posted and Test set with GS annotations released. June 2: Working notes paper submission. June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). June 23: Camera ready paper submission. September: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University. Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Oficina de Protección de datos<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2025- Italian Association of Computational Linguistics, Milan 18-20 Jnee
by Elisabetta Jezek 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of the *Lectures on Computational Linguistics*, a series of lectures dedicated to central topics in the field of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, will be held in *Milan* from *18 to 20 June*. The programme and all information are available on the Lectures website <https://www.ai-lc.it/lectures/lectures-2025/> The 2025 edition is organized by the *Italian Association of Computational Linguistics*/*Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale* (*AILC*) with the Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures at *Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore*, Milan, and the Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication at the *University of Milano-Bicocca*. The interdisciplinary nature of the school crosses several areas, particularly the Humanities, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The program includes tutorials, labs, evening lectures and two student presentation sessions. The 2025 edition is focused on *Linguistic Linked Open Data*, *Neuro-symbolic AI* and *their interplay*. Programme June 18th 2025: Linguistic Linked Open Data • 9:00– 9:30: Welcome and opening • 9:30 – 11:30: *Tutorial 1 – Fundamentals of Linguistic Linked Open Data, Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza* • 11:30 – 12:00: BREAK • 12:00 – 13:30: Student session • 13:30 – 15:00: LUNCH • 15:00 – 17:00: *Tutorial 2 – Advanced Topics of Linguistic Linked Open Data, Max Ionov, University of Cologne* • 17:00 – 17:30: BREAK • 17:30 – 18:30: *Evening lecture – LiLa Now: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead for a Large-Scale Linguistic Linked Data Project, Francesco Mambrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan* • 19:30: Welcome drink June 19th 2025: Neuro-symbolic AI • 9:00 – 11:00: *Tutorial 3 –Beyond Naive RAG: How Entities and Graphs Enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK • 11:30 – 13:30: *Lab. 1 (part 1) – Retrieval Augmented Generation, Large Language Models and Knowledge Bases, Marco Cremaschi, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 13:30 – 15:00: LUNCH • 15:00 – 17:00: *Lab. 1 (part 2) – Evaluating Large Language Models for Linguistic Linked Data Generation, Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca* • 17:00 – 17:30: BREAK • 17:30 – 18:30: *Evening lecture – Memorization or Generalization? Exploring Transformer-based Large Language Models and, possibly, novel approaches, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Roma Tor Vergata* June 20th 2025: Resources and Evaluation • 9:00 – 11:00: *Tutorial 4 – From Corpora to Capabilities: Rethinking Language Resources in the LLM Era, Zheng Yuan, University of Sheffield* • 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK • 11:30 – 13:00: Student session • 13:00 – 14:00: LUNCH • 14:00 – 16:00: *Lab 2 – The LiLa Knowledge Base: Hands-on Session, Eleonora Litta and Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano* Registration The school is mainly aimed at Doctoral and Master's degree students, although a minimum qualification is not required for access. Participation is *free* but subject to *registration *and* association to AILC**, *and places are limited to 200. Register at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lcl-registration-procedure/. Membership fees to AILC at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/memberships/ Students wishing to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to send a *500-word abstract* to ailc. lectures(a)gmail.com by *May 10, 2025*. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by *May 20, 2025*. Scientific Committee Pierpaolo Basile, University of Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Tommaso Caselli, University of Groningen Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Elisabetta Jezek, University of Pavia Local Organizing Committee Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Matteo Pellegrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Giulia Rizzi, University of Milano-Bicocca Contacts: ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com -- [image: LOGO-UNIPV] PhD ELISABETTA JEZEK Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici PROFESSORE ASSOCIATO IN LINGUISTICA E GLOTTOLOGIA Presidente del corso di laurea magistrale internazionale in European Languages, Cultures and Societies in Contact Membro del Consiglio Direttivo dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale <https://firmamail.unipv.it/index.php/firme/genera> https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/resource/person/659960 Elisabetta Jezek's Personal Meeting Room https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7814331810 -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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Deadline extension: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Final Call for Papers: *The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)* *Location*: Vienna, Austria and online (co-located with ACL 2025) *Date*: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025 *Website*: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025 <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025> *Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12 *Submission Link*: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ Dear all, due to multiple requests, we will be extending the submission deadline for BEA 2025 by one week – the submissions are due by April 24, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) (https://sig-edu.org<https://sig-edu.org/>) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as *a 2-day workshop*, and it will feature a keynote by *Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly)*, oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop is also hosting *a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors*, and *a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward *(more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of generative AI in education and its impact; - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE (https://alliancelss.com<https://alliancelss.com/>) societies. SHARED TASK The workshop will also host a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors. See more details here: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission deadline: *Thursday, April 24, 2025* - Notification of acceptance: *Thursday, May 22, 2025* - Camera-ready papers due: *Monday, June 9, 2025* - Workshop: *Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025* SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI - Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University - Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum - Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen - Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec - Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners - Bashar Alhafni, New York University (NYU) & CAMeL Lab in NYUAD - Zheng Yuan, King’s College London - Jill Burstein, Duolingo Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com> PROGRAM COMMITTEE https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025#program-committee

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Job opening (Vienna, Austria): PhD Student, Researcher & Lecturer in Applied Data Science
by Ingo Frommholz 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

PhD Student, Researcher & Lecturer in Applied Data Science (all genders) Full-time (40 h/w) in Vienna, Austria Relevant for those interested in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, natural language processing, or a related discipline. Temporary, Full-time - Modul University Vienna, Austria More info and application link at https://modul-university-vienna-gmbh.jobs.personio.com/job/2053035?language… JOB POSITION AND DEPARTMENT´S OVERVIEW Modul University Vienna is seeking an outstanding scholar for a Researcher & Lecturer position for its School of Applied Data Science to join its research team and teach undergraduate courses in the broader areas of data science (www.modul.ac.at/study-programs). This position is at the Researcher & Lecturer level and foresees candidates to develop their PhD research and participate in university self-governance. The School of Applied Data Science seeks candidates whose doctoral research will be related to one or more of the main research areas of the school. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES Have a career ambition to conduct internationally recognized research, i.e. by publishing research articles and writing a doctoral thesis; Enthusiastically engage in teaching undergraduate courses; Assist in the general administration of the university; YOUR PROFILE A completed Master (by August 2025) in any of the fields of computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, natural language processing or a related discipline; Strong background in quantitative research methods; Excellent analytical skills and evidence of the potential to undertake cutting-edge research; Excellent written and spoken English (German is not a requirement as English is the working language). The minimum scores are: TOEFL: 100 Internet-based test (IBT) with no individual section score less than 20; or IELTS: overall band score between 7 and 7.5 with no sub-score below 6.0. The Admissions Committee may decide upon the recognition of other evidence of language skills. WHY JOIN US? Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research approach Individual professional development An international and multicultural working environment FURTHER INFORMATION This is a full‐time, limited contract position where applicants are prepared to work up to 40 hours per week (with overtime hours). The position remains open until filled; the review of applications will commence immediately after the announcement. Starting date: 1 September 2025. The position is available as of September 1st for four years. Successful candidates will use about 50% of their working hours (40h/week) for their PhD studies. The starting salary is EUR 30,000 gross (annual teaching load: two units, @45 min per unit, of weekly teaching) plus approx. 30% Arbeitgeberanteil (= contribution to the social security and pension fund paid by the employer according to Austrian Law), with additional remuneration for extra teaching or supervision of theses. From the 2nd year onwards, the salary increases to EUR 39,350 gross with an annual teaching load of six units. Tuition for the PhD program is covered by Modul University Vienna. For questions related to this position, please contact the Dean of the PhD program astrid.dickinger(a)modul.ac.at or the Head of the School of Applied Data Science ingo.frommholz(a)modul.ac.at. Please submit on our job portal your complete application including cover letter, curriculum vitae, a motivation letter, two recommendation letters, academic transcripts, a statement of your research interests referring to any of the research profiles of Sustainability, Governance, and Methods Professors, and a statement of your teaching interests referring to one of the above-mentioned teaching areas (in English; preferably as a single PDF file not exceeding 8 MB). ABOUT US Modul University Vienna is an international private university and offers cutting-edge education at BBA, BSc, MSc, MBA and PhD levels. Students and staff come from over 70 countries around the world, providing for a multicultural and diverse work environment. As an employer, Modul University Vienna offers: Opportunities to work from home Flexible working hours International and dynamic team Personal and professional development Independent working environment Public transport ticket Modul University Vienna is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to equality and diversity that does not discriminate on the basis of, among other factors, age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender expression, national origin, race, sexual orientation, or social class. We especially encourage women and people who belong minority groups to apply and welcome all applications that can contribute to a diverse working culture. -- 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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April 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

In this newsletter: LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website Connect with LDC on Bluesky New publications: DEFT Spanish Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T04> MATERIAL Kazakh-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S03> ________________________________ LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website We are pleased to announce the launch of the newly upgraded LDC main website: https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/. Designed with a modern layout, the site now offers an improved experience across all devices. While the LDC Catalog, LDC user accounts, and LDC Submissions are not affected by this upgrade, they are now more accessible than ever from any page on the site. We invite you to explore the website and enjoy a smoother, more intuitive LDC web experience. Connect with LDC on Bluesky In addition to Facebook, X and LinkedIn, you can now connect with LDC on the microblogging platform, Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/ldcupenn.bsky.social>. Follow us today to learn the latest news, announcements and corpora releases from the Consortium. ________________________________ New publications: DEFT Spanish Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T04> was developed by LDC and consists of 158 Spanish discussion forum and newswire documents annotated for entities, relations, and events (ERE). Light ERE annotation labels entity mentions for the target set of entity, relation, and event types between and among those entities including coreference. Rich ERE annotation expands types and tagging in the entities, relations, and events annotation tasks and replaces strict event coreference with a more loosely defined event hopper annotation. The source data consists of Spanish newswire text and Latin American discussion forum data from DEFT Spanish Treebank LDC2018T01<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2018T01>. 128 documents were annotated following Light ERE annotation guidelines. 154 files were labeled with Rich ERE annotation, 124 of which were also labeled with Light ERE annotation. DARPA's Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT) program aimed to address remaining capability gaps in state-of-the-art natural language processing technologies related to inference, causal relationships and anomaly detection. LDC supported the DEFT program by collecting, creating and annotating a variety of data sources. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Kazakh-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S03> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 57 hours of Kazakh conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 17% of the speech files, all of which were translated into English. This release also includes English queries and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Reminder: EURALEX Talk - Mark Davies
by Iztok Kosem 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

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

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