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

30 Sep '25

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

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

30 Sep '25

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

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

29 Sep '25

********************** 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2025), December 6-7, 2025 (Hybrid Conference) Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER Website:https://acling.org/ ********************** ## IMPORTANT DATES ## * Submission deadline: 27 October 2025 * Acceptance Notification: 3 November 2025 * Final Camera-ready submission: 10 November 2025 * Author Registration & Payment: 17 November 2025 * Conference Date: 6-7 December 2025 ********************** ## INTRODUCTION ## The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and application of AI-driven methods in computational linguistics. ACLing welcomes high-quality contributions that address theoretical foundations, novel algorithms, and practical implementations across all dimensions of AI and ML in language technologies. The conference seeks to promote dialogue on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and critical challenges in the field, reflecting the growing importance and societal impact of AI-powered language processing. This year, the conference will be hosted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD), an institution recognized for its dedication to academic excellence, impactful research, and global engagement. BUiD’s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary innovation makes it an ideal venue for this prestigious event. ## TOPICS ## We welcome submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas: * Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Knowledge and Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Formal Resources for AI * Statistical and Neural Language Modeling * Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces * Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP * Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages * Domain-Specific NLP (e.g., Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, Educational) * Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning * Emotion Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Signal Processing * NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science * Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization * Natural Language Generation, Storytelling, and Creative AI * Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding * Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery * Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI * Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI in Language Technologies * Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications * Responsible and Interpretable AI for Language Understanding * Generative AI: Models, Evaluation, and Emerging Applications * Reinforcement Learning and Prompt Engineering for NLP Tasks * AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages * Human-Centered NLP and User-Aware Language Interfaces * Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability in NLP * AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools This wide-ranging list reflects the dynamic nature of the field and aims to encourage interdisciplinary engagement that advances the frontiers of AI-driven language technologies. ## Submission Guidelines ## All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published in Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/ Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acling2025 ## CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ## * Prof. Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt ## INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT (web sources)## * Abstracting and indexing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig… * Scopus/CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801 * * SJR (scimago): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid * ACLingy by Google Citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en * ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ## FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS ## * Visit the conference website link https://acling.org/ (will be updated on a regular basis). * For general information, please contact us at ACLing2025(a)gmail.com Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan Professor of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Head of Computer Science Department | Head of PhD in Computer Science Program Faculty of Engineering & IT, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE Contact Information: Email: khaled.shaalan(a)buid.ac.ae<mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae> / khaled.shaalan(a)acm.org<mailto:khaled.shaalan@acm.org> Website: khaledshaalan.org<https://www.khaledshaalan.org> University Website: www.buid.ac.ae<http://www.buid.ac.ae> Phone: +971 42791400 D: +971 42791434‎ Dubai International Academic City, Block 10 & 11, 1st and 2nd floor, PO Box: 345015, Dubai, UAE Editorial & Leadership Roles: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian & Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)<http://tallip.acm.org/‎> Founder & Chair, ACLing: International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics<http://www.acling.org%20‎> Honors & Recognition: Top 2% Scientists in AI (Stanford Univ. 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AAMAS 2026 Main Track: Abstract Submission in 2 Days! (October 1st)
by Announce 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '25

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

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

28 Sep '25

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

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

26 Sep '25

Hello, We are hiring 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc to work on combining language models with structured data, at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Start date can be between January and March 2026. Large Language Models are amazing, and with our research project, we aim to make them even more amazing! Our project will connect large language models to structured knowledge such as knowledge bases or databases. With this, 1. language models will stop hallucinating 2. language models' knowledge can be audited and updated reliably, to spot biases and make them more interpretable 3. language models will become smaller and thus more eco-friendly and deployable We work in the DIG team at Telecom Paris, one of the finest engineering schools in France, and part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris — ranked 38th in the world by the QS ranking. The institute is 45 min away from Paris by public transport, and located in the green of the Plateau de Saclay. Check out our Web site to apply: https://suchanek.name/work/research/kb-lm/index.html Fabian Suchanek & Nils Holzenberger

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

26 Sep '25

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

25 Sep '25

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

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

24 Sep '25

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

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

24 Sep '25

Hi everyone, (apologies for cross-postings) Tiphaine Viard and Maria Boritchev are offering a master 2 internship at Télécom Paris. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the offer or the project, the details on the offer are below: Advisors: Maria Boritchev, Tiphaine Viard Duration: 5-6 months, starting from February 1st (negociable) Location: Télécom Paris, 19 Pl. Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau Gratification: Approximately 600 euros per month (more or less 20 euros per month, the precise amount will depend on changes in the French labor code in 2026) Requirements: Applicants must be enrolled in a Master’s 2 program at the time of application and through the duration of the internship. We are looking for applications from students with solid skills (and ideally experience) in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Computa- tional Social Sciences. Knowledge of English is necessary Context: The recent years have seen a surge of initiatives with the goal of defining what “ethical” artificial intelligence would or should entail, resulting in the publication of various charters and manifestos discussing AI ethics; these documents originate from academia, AI industry companies, non-profits, regulatory institutions, and the civil society. The contents of such documents vary wildly, from short, vague position statements to verbatims of democratic debates or impact assessment studies. As such, they are a marker of the social world of artificial intelligence, outlining the tenets of different actors, the consensus and dissensus on important goals, and so on [Gornet et al., 2024]. We have assembled a corpus of charters and manifestos of Ethics of AI, in English, written by different actors of the current AI landscape. This corpus is called MapAIE: [ https://mapaie.telecom-paris.fr/ | https://mapaie.telecom-paris.fr/ ] . We are conducting research on data from MapAIE both from a sociological and linguistic perspectives: • Sociologically, who are the groups of people who write about Ethics of AI? • Linguistically, what type of vocabulary or semantic constructions do people use to write about Ethics of AI? • Socio-linguistically, is there a difference in linguistic usage between different groups of people who write about Ethics of AI? To conduct these investigations, we would like to go further than traditional tools: we intend to develop graph-based natural language processing and computational sociology approaches making better use of mod- ern NLP methods to explore our data. In particular, we could to exploit word sense induction approaches to automatically extract different linguistic usages. Objectives: The goal of this internship is to investigate MapAIE by using and developing graph-based natural language processing and computational sociology approaches. The internship will proceed in three steps: 1. Conduct a state of the art exploration on existing graph-based natural language processing and com- putational sociology techniques, starting from Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR, [ https://github.com/amrisi/amr-guidelines/blob/master/amr.md | https://github.com/amrisi/amr-guidelines/blob/master/amr.md ] ) and Cortext (https://www.cortext.net/). 2. Re-implement existing techniques identified in (1), in particular [Eyal et al., 2022], and analyse the obtained results sociologically and linguistically in view of the research questions of the project. 3. Propose new research questions and new graph-based data exploration approaches relevant to MapAIE. Application: Deadline: October 25th, 2025. Application: To apply for this position, please send an email with your CV and a few words explaining your interest in this project to Maria Boritchev and Tiphaine Viard. References [Becker, 1976] Becker, H. S. (1976). Art worlds and social types. American behavioral scientist, 19(6):703– 718. [Cefa¨ı, 2016] Cefa¨ı, D. (2016). Publics, probl`emes publics, ar`enes publiques.... Questions de communication, 30(2):25–64. [Eyal et al., 2022] Eyal, M., Sadde, S., Taub-Tabib, H., and Goldberg, Y. (2022). Large scale substitution- based word sense induction. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computa- tional Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4738–4752. [Gornet et al., 2024] Gornet, M., Delarue, S., Boritchev, M., and Viard, T. (2024). Mapping ai ethics: a mesoscale analysis of its charters and manifestos. In Proceedings of the 2024 FAccT conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning. [Roth and Hellsten, 2023] Roth, C. and Hellsten, I. (2023). Socio-semantic configuration of an online con- versation space: The case of twitter users discussing the# ipcc reports. Social Networks, 75:186–196.

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

24 Sep '25

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

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[CFP] Final Call for Full Papers – ECIR 2026 (ddl in 2 days)
by Yifei Yuan 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

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

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

23 Sep '25

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

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

23 Sep '25

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

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

23 Sep '25

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

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

23 Sep '25

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

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

22 Sep '25

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

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

22 Sep '25

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

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

19 Sep '25

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

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First CFP for JAAMAS Special Issue: When Foundation Models Meet Multi-Agent Systems
by Surangika Ranathunga 19 Sep '25

19 Sep '25

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

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

18 Sep '25

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

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

18 Sep '25

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

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

18 Sep '25

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

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

17 Sep '25

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

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

17 Sep '25

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

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

17 Sep '25

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

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

16 Sep '25

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

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

16 Sep '25

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

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

15 Sep '25

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: Mixer 7 English Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> AIDA Scenario 1 Evaluation Topic Source Data, Annotation and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T13> LORELEI Hindi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T12> ________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: Mixer 7 English Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> was developed by LDC and contains 12,321 hours of audio recordings of interviews, transcript readings, and conversational telephone speech involving 222 distinct English speakers. This material was collected by LDC in 2010-2011 as part of the Mixer project, and the recordings were used in the 2012 NIST SRE test set. Recruited speakers were connected through a robot operator to carry on casual conversations on a pre-set topic lasting up to 10 minutes. Participants also visited LDC's Human Subjects Collection Lab equipped with a 14-microphone array where they participated in interviews and transcript readings, and conducted telephone calls under varying conditions. Selected speaker metadata was also collected. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. This corpus is a Members-Only release and is not available for non-member licensing. Contact ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> for information about membership. * AIDA Scenario 1 Evaluation Topic Source Data, Annotation and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T13> was developed by LDC and is comprised of English, Russian, and Ukrainian web documents (text, video, image), annotations, and assessments used in the AIDA Phase 1 pilot and final evaluations. The Phase 1 scenario focused on political relations between Russia and Ukraine in the 2010s. The material in this corpus covers the following events: Suspicious Deaths and Murders in Ukraine (January-April 2015); Odessa Tragedy (May 2, 2014); and Siege of Sloviansk and Battle of Kramatorsk (April-July 2014). The corpus contains 10,522 documents, annotations for 386 of those documents, and assessment results covering 77,965 responses in 1,525 of those documents. Annotations were performed in three steps: (1) within-document labels for scenario-related entities, relations, and events; (2) coreference annotation across documents by linking information elements to a knowledge base; and (3) indications of any relationship between labeled events/relations and hypotheses about the scenario. In the assessment phase, LDC annotators reviewed and judged system response files to provide evaluation organizers with a means for scoring submissions. Assessment tasks included zero-hop assessment, class-based assessment, graph assessment, and hypothesis assessment. The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations, and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating, and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Hindi Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T12> contains over 26 million words of Hindi monolingual text, 363,00 words of which were translated into English, 1.07 million words of found Hindi-English parallel text, and 118,000 Hindi words translated from English data. Approximately 103,000 words were annotated for simple named entities and over 25,000 words were annotated for full entity (including nominals and pronouns), entity linking, and situation frames (identifying entities, needs and issues). Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Call for Program Committee (Self-) Nominations (ECIR26)
by Yifei Yuan 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

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

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

15 Sep '25

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

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

13 Sep '25

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

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

12 Sep '25

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

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

12 Sep '25

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

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

12 Sep '25

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

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

12 Sep '25

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

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

12 Sep '25

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

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

10 Sep '25

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

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

09 Sep '25

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

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New book published
by Susan Hunston 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

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

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

09 Sep '25

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

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

09 Sep '25

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

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

08 Sep '25

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

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

08 Sep '25

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

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

08 Sep '25

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

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

06 Sep '25

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

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

05 Sep '25

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

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

05 Sep '25

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

05 Sep '25

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

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

05 Sep '25

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

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