Final call for paper: *BriGap-2, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and
Computational Linguistics* (an IWCS 2025 workshop)
(with our apologies for cross-posting)
Venue: IWCS 2025 (https://iwcs2025.github.io/), Düsseldorf, Germany
Date: *September 24th, 2025* (main conference: 22nd-23rd)
Workshop website: https://brigap-workshop.github.io/
BriGap-2 is a venue for linguists and NLP scientists to meet: what fruitful
interactions can we have? How do we build upon each other’s work?
* Description *
In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has
shifted its focus towards engineering questions. This state of affairs is
in no small part due to the recent technical advances that have transformed
NLP as a field. In the current large language model (LLM) era, much of what
was deemed near impossible to achieve a few years prior is now taken for
granted and it stands to reason that mapping how far ahead new
computational models have advanced the field has become a central topic for
the NLP community. Hence, the current ongoing discourse in NLP focuses more
on what can be achieved through language rather than studying language for
its own sake. It seems thus that computational and formal linguistics are
now separate domains, and that the former is no longer rooted in the latter.
To what extent are these traditions truly divorced, and what fruitful
bridges can be (re)built? To answer these questions, the second iteration
of the workshop on Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational
Linguistics (BriGap-2) intends to provide a space for formal linguists,
computational linguists, and NLP scientists to exchange their perspectives
on how their different domains of research can build upon one another.
* Workshop topics *
- investigation of the linguistic properties of machine learning models,
- linguistic representations, vector space semantics, and their relations
with theoretical concepts such as compositionality,
- use of information-theoretical and computational methods for linguistic
inquiry,
- formal distributional semantics and neural-symbolic integration for NLP,
- formal grammars, symbolic structures and their applications for
computational linguistics and NLP,
- trends in the history of computational linguistics and NLP,
- …
* Invited speakers *
- Anna ROGERS, IT University of Copenhagen
- Kees VAN DEEMTER, Universiteit Utrecht
* Submission details *
The workshop accepts both archival (original and unpublished research) and
non-archival (work-in-progress, dissemination of research published or
accepted elsewhere, etc.) submissions in either short (up to 4 pages) or
long (up to 8 pages) format. Camera-ready versions of papers will be given
one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken
into account.
Each submission should mention whether it targets archival or non-archival
status. Archival papers accepted at BriGap-2 will be indexed in the ACL
Anthology.
Please use the ACL style templates available here:
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
The submissions need to be done in PDF format via OpenReview, using the
following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/BriGap-2
* Important dates *
- Submission deadline:* Friday, June 6th 2025*
- Notification of acceptance: Friday, August 1st 2025
- Workshop: *September 24th, 2025* (main conference: 22nd-23rd)
* Contact *
For questions, please send an email to brigapworkshop(a)gmail.com or contact
one of the workshop chairs:
- Timothée Bernard, Université Paris Cité, timothee.bernard(a)u-paris.fr
- Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi
- Grégoire Winterstein, Université du Québec à Montréal,
winterstein.gregoire(a)uqam.ca
The deadline to participate in ADoBo 2025 shared task on automatic detection of borrowings in Spanish has been postponed: the development phase will now end on May 12th and final submissions will be due on May 26th.
The competition is now live and can be joined on Codabench:
https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/https://adobo-task.github.io/
TIMELINE
April 21: Dev set released.<https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/>
May 12: Test set released.
May 26: Systems output submissions.
June 9: Working notes paper submission.
June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews).
June 23: Camera ready paper submission.
September: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025.
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University.
Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
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Call for Papers: Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025)
Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/2ndcxgsnlpworkshop/home
Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop
Overview
Constructionist approaches to language posit that all linguistic knowledge needed for language comprehension and production can be captured as a network of form-meaning mappings, called constructions. Construction Grammars (CxGs) do not distinguish between words and grammar rules, but allow for mappings between forms and meanings of arbitrary complexity and degree of abstraction. CxGs are thereby able to uniformly capture the compositional and non-compositional aspects of language use, making the theory particularly attractive to researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). CxG theories, for example, can serve as a valuable ‘lens’ to assess and investigate the abilities of today’s large language models, which lack explicit, theoretically grounded linguistic insights. At the same time, techniques from the field of NLP are often employed for the further development and scaling of CxG theories and applications.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers across theory and practice from the two complementary perspectives of Construction Grammar and NLP to explore how CxG approaches can both inform and benefit from NLP methods, with an emphasis on LLMs. Therefore, we invite original research papers from a broad spectrum of topics, including but not limited to:
Contributions to Construction Grammar theory
Construction Grammar Formalisms
Computational Construction Grammar Implementations
Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Opinion pieces on the interplay between Construction Grammar and NLP
Constructions and Language Models (Mechanistic interpretability, probing (e.g., BERTology), and evaluation of LLMs)
Resources: Constructicons and corpora annotated for Construction Grammar
Construction Grammar learning and adaptation
Applications at the intersection of Construction Grammar and NLP
Invited Speakers
Adele Goldberg, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Laura Michaelis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder
Venue & Workshop Details
The 2nd CxGs+NLP workshop will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), organized by the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop will be a full day on 24 September 2025. Additionally, we will be hosting a community-building event in Düsseldorf on 25 September 2025, including panel discussions and breakout sessions on how to organize CxG community resources.
We are expecting the workshop to be in-person only, but are awaiting details on the possibility of a hybrid presentation option.
Important Dates
Jun 06: submission deadline
Aug 01: notification of acceptance, registration opens
Aug 22: camera-ready papers due
Sep 22-23: IWCS main conference
Sep 24: workshop
Sep 25: community-building event
Submission information
Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages. Acknowledgments, references, a limitations section (optional), an ethics statement (optional), and a technical appendix (optional, not subject to reviewing) do not count towards the page limit.
Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version and will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Additionally, non-archival publications will be considered for acceptance into the workshop as in-person poster presentations only.
CxGs+NLP 2 papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by IWCS 2021 (borrowed from ACL 2021). Please use these specific style-files or the Overleaf template.
Style files: https://iwcs2021.github.io/download/iwcs2021-templates.zip
Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceed…
Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting and let us know if the work is accepted for publication elsewhere.
Submission site TBA.
Instructions for Double-Blind Review
As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized.
Workshop Chairs
Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Lab)
Harish Tayyar Madabushi (The University of Bath)
Workshop Organizing Committee
Melissa Torgbi (The University of Bath)
Leonie Weissweiler (University of Texas at Austin)
Austin Blodgett (U.S. Army Research Lab)
Katrien Beuls (University of Namur, Belgium)
Paul Van Eecke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Contact: Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop
We are pleased to announce a brand new Model Compression track
<https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html> at WMT 2025
<https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/index.html>.
This shared task aims to evaluate the potential of model compression
techniques in reducing the size of large, general-purpose large language
models, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between practical
deployability and high translation quality in specific machine translation
(MT) scenarios. The task’s broader objectives include fostering research
into efficient, accessible, and sustainable deployment of LLMs for MT,
establishing a common evaluation framework to monitor progress in model
compression across a wide range of languages, and enabling meaningful
comparisons with state-of-the-art MT systems through standardized
evaluation protocols aimed at assessing not only translation quality but
also efficiency.
Although the focus is on model compression, the task is closely aligned
with the General MT shared task
<https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/translation-task.html>, sharing language
directions, test data, and protocols for automatic MT quality evaluation.
Additionally, the task follows the same timeline as the flagship WMT task.
We warmly invite participation from academic teams and industry players
interested in applying existing compression methods to MT or exploring
innovative, cutting-edge approaches.
THE TASK IN A NUTSHELL
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Goal: Reduce the size of a general-purpose LLM while maintaining a
balance between model compactness and MT performance.
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Languages: The first round will focus on the same language pairs as the
General MT track.
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Conditions:
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Constrained: Participants work within a predefined model and language
setting for directly comparable results.
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Unconstrained: Participants are free to compress any model across
language directions of their choice.
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Evaluation Criteria:
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Translation quality: Automatically measured using the LLM-as-a-judge
framework from the General MT task
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Model size: Defined by the memory usage
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Inference speed: Measured by total processing time over the test set
IMPORTANT DATES
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Test data released: 26th June 2025
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Translation submission deadline: 3rd July 2025
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System description abstract paper: 10th July 2025
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System description submission: 14th August 2025
WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html
ORGANIZERS:
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Marco Gaido, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Matteo Negri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Roman Grundkiewicz - Microsoft Translator
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TG Gowda - Microsoft Translator
CONTACTS:
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Marco Gaido - mgaido(a)fbk.eu
Matteo Negri - negri(a)fbk.eu
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Touché @ CLEF 2025: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems (Classification, Detection, Retrieval, Generation)
Call for Participation
We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at Touché 2025 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Madrid, Spain.
We extended the submission deadline to May 23rd.
1. Retrieval-Augmented Debating.
Sub-Task 1: Generate responses to argue against a simulated debate partner.
Sub-Task 2: Evaluate systems of sub-task 1.
https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/retrieval-augmented-debating.ht…
2. Ideology and Power Identification in Parliamentary Debates.
Sub-Task 1: Given a parliamentary speech in one of several languages, identify the ideology of the speaker's party.
Sub-Task 2: Given a parliamentary speech in one of several languages, identify whether the speaker's party is currently governing or in opposition.
Sub-Task 3: Given a parliamentary speech, identify the position of the speaker's party in populist - pluralist scale.
https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/ideology-and-power-identificati…
3. Image Retrieval/Generation for Arguments.
Given an argument, find (retrieve or generate) images that help to convey the argument's premise.
https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/image-retrieval-for-arguments.h…
4. Advertisement in Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Sub-Task 1: Create relevant responses for a given query, based on a set of document segments.
Sub-Task 2: Given a query and a response, classify whether the response contains an advertisement or not.
https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/advertisement-detection.html
Find out more at https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/
and join our mailing list at https://groups.google.com/g/touche-lab for staying up to date.
Important Dates
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2025-05-23: Approaches submission deadline
2025-05-30: Participant paper submission
2025-06-10: Peer review notification
2025-07-07: Camera-ready participant papers submission
2025-09 09-12: CLEF Conference in Madrid and Touché Workshop
Links
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Touché: https://touche.webis.de
Contact: touche(a)webis.de<mailto:touche@webis.de>
We are looking forward to your submission!
The Touché team
This coming Monday 12 May ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is
delighted to welcome Nathan Dykes (FAU Erlangen) for a short input talk
(20 minutes) entitled "Beyond the gold standard: Transparency in
qualitative corpus analysis" followed by a 60-minute discussion on the
application of Open Sciences practices in qualitative research.
ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is an informal place to network with
linguists and other humanities scholars to learn more about
reproducibility, Open Science, and good scientific practice. We meet on
selected Mondays 16-17:30 pm CEST. Our programme this semester also
includes a session on "Reproducibility when working with large language
models: A hallucination?" with Nils Reiter and on "Language and its role
for replicability" with Xenia Schmalz, Anna Yi Leung and Johannes
Breuer. We aim to be as inclusive as possible: from B.A. students to
full professors, everyone is welcome and there are no silly questions!
Details can be found here:
https://ub.uni-koeln.de/kurse-beratung/specials/reproducibilitea-in-the-hum….
You can join us in person at the University Library in Cologne where we
serve tea and biscuits or online via Zoom. Please join our mailing list
to get the Zoom links:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas.
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/Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer/
Department of Romance Studies
<https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • Data Center for the
Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • University of Cologne
<https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home>
Applied Linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • Language Teaching & Learning
ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> • HAL Science
<https://cv.hal.science/elenlefoll>
*Recent publications:*
Wagne, Ahmadou, Elen Le Foll, Florentine Frantz & Jana Lasser. 2025.
Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment
conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan.
Information, Communication & Society. 1–27.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273.
Le Foll, Elen & Muhammad Shakir. 2025. The Multi-Feature Tagger of
English (MFTE): Rationale, Description and Evaluation. Research in
Corpus Linguistics 13(2). 63–93. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.13.02.03.
Le Foll, Elen. 2024. Textbook English: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
(Studies in Corpus Linguistics 116). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.116.
IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 2nd Call for Papers
Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025
IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project
"Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC [1] and the MultiplEYE
COST [2] action "Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for
human and machine language processing research".
While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in
identifying key factors that influence reading patterns--including text
properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word
predictability, and dependency length--recent studies have emphasized
the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g.,
Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016;
Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading
patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills,
linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This informs
our understanding of how text characteristics and individual reader
attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading.
IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in investigating
individual differences in reading using both experimental and
computational approaches. This workshop will focus on methods such as
eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task, with particular
interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with individual
differences. We also encourage submissions of computational models for
eye movements or reading behavior that shed light on the mechanisms
behind these differences. The goal is to foster collaboration between
experimental and computational researchers to better understand
individual variability among readers. We especially welcome submissions
of reading time experiments and modelling of languages beyond English.
The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the
following questions:
* How do individual differences impact the way people read?
* How do reading patterns vary across different languages,
particularly in bilinguals?
* How do reading patterns change across the lifespan?
* Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing
variability in reading patterns?
* How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and
sentence processing across languages?
* How can computational models account for individual differences in
reading?
* How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and
comprehension among different individuals?
* What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying
latent groups and relating individual differences to reading
performance?
Workshop dates: November 26-27, 2025
Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in Saarbrücken,
Germany. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well as
contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the
presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number of
submissions we receive.
Submission deadline: July 23, 2025.
Submissions: The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text
(excl. captions), 10000 characters for references, and a maximum of 2
tables or figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with
2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced.
Please indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract,
which will be used for session planning.
Abstracts must be written in English and should include a clear title
but no information revealing the author(s).
We welcome submissions for work that is being considered by other
conferences, workshops, or journals. Templates for formatting in LaTeX
and Word are provided on the conference website.
Submission platform: https://openreview.net/group?id=IndiREAD/2025
Volunteer reviewers: We also invite all interested parties with relevant
research experience to volunteer to help review abstracts for the
workshop. All reviewers should hold a PhD. Please indicate your interest
using the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/0fGmHW7q11
Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread [3]
Contact email: indiread(a)lst.uni-saarland.de
Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action,
which will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a
limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for
travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial, and
priority will be given to junior researchers.
Best,
Iza Škrjanec
IndiREAD Organizing Committee
Links:
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[1]
https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in…
[2] https://multipleye.eu/
[3] https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Deadline for Slavic NLP workshop is postponed to May 10 AOE.
Note the new possibility to _commit papers via ARR_ —
Details on uploading papers+reviews from ARR to START will appear soon
on the Workshop Home page <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>.
**Call for Papers:* *
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Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages
At ACL-2025, Vienna, Austria
31 July 2025
bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>
Submission Deadline: 10 May
**
WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION
The 10th edition of the Slav-NLP Workshop — at ACL 2025. Sponsored by
SIGSLAV: ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP.
Slavic languages play a crucial role due to their diverse cultural
heritage and wide use — over 400M speakers worldwide. Current political
and economic developments in Central/ Eastern Europe thrust the Slavic
languages into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological
advancements, and evolving consumer markets.
Research on applied **and ***theoretical*NLP in the context of Slavic
languages is still lagging. Linguistic phenomena that are common to the
Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for
these languages challenging. Slav-NLP Workshops gather researchers from
academia and industry, aiming to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and
foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops welcome the
exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and
promoting the available resources. The structural similarity, as well as
the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory
spanning this large language group, creates a special environment where
researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally.
We are happy *again *to organize Slav-NLP in Central Europe.
This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic
languages. NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include:
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language modeling,
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morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis,
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lexical semantics,
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named-entity recognition,
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text normalization and processing non-standard language,
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co-reference resolution,
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information extraction,
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question answering,
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text summarization,
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machine translation,
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development of linguistic resources,
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development and assessment of large language models,
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text classification,
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text generation,
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disinformation detection,
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fact verification,
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sentiment analysis.
The Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 9 previous
(B)SNLP Workshops.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: *10 May*2025
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Pre-reviewed ARR commitment: 20 May2025
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Notification of acceptance: *1 June*2025
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Camera-ready papers due: 15 June 2025
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Workshop: 31 July 2025
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SHARED TASK
This year the Slav-NLP Workshop features — Shared Task on Detection and
Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of texts: (a)
parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media
postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation.
Read about the Shared Task on the Workshop’s Web page.
SUBMISSION
At the Workshop’s Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi
<http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html>
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Workshop Contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi
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Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
Digital Humanities
INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative
<https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> —
Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies
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The 2nd Large Language Models for Ontology Learning Challenge
Co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025)
November 2-6, 2025
Nara, Japan
<https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol2025/home>https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol2025
Challenge Overview
The 2nd LLMs4OL Challenge@ISWC 2025 invites researchers and practitioners to explore the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating Ontology Learning (OL). As the Semantic Web evolves, automating the extraction and structuring of knowledge becomes paramount. This challenge focuses on leveraging LLMs to enhance OL processes, contributing to more intelligent and interoperable web systems. Building upon the success of the 1st LLMs4OL Challenge at ISWC 2024, this second edition aims to further the community's understanding and development of LLM-driven OL methodologies.
Challenge Tasks
Participants can engage in one or more of the following tasks:
* Task A - Text2Onto: Extract ontological terminologies and types from a raw text.
* Task B - Term Typing: Discover the generalized type for a lexical term.
* Task C - Taxonomy Discovery: Discover the taxonomic hierarchy between type pairs.
* Task D - Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction: Identify non-taxonomic, semantic relations between types.
Each task is designed to address specific aspects of OL, encouraging innovative approaches and solutions.
Important Dates
* Test dataset release: June 1st, 2025
* Begin accepting system submissions: June 2nd, 2025
* End accepting system submissions: June 22nd, 2025
* Participants' Papers Submissions Due: July 5th, 2025
* Notification of Acceptance: July 19th, 2025
* Camera-ready due: July 30th, 2025
* ISWC 2025, Nara, Japan: November 2-6, 2025
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*** FoIKS 2026: Second call for papers ***
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*|* Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP *|*
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The 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and
Knowledge Systems (FoIKS'26) invites contributions from theoretical and
applied research on information and knowledge systems.
FoIKS 2026 (https://foiks2026.github.io/ <https://foiks2026.github.io/>)
will be held on 23rd-26th March 2026 in Hannover, Germany.
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** Scope **
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The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
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Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems:
Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, and formal languages.
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Database Design and Management:
Formal models, (in)dependencies and models of transactions, concurrency
control.
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Logics in Databases and AI:
Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description
logics, spatial and temporal logics, argumentation, probability logic,
fuzzy logic.
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning:
Logical reasoning, Non-monotonic reasoning (reasoning under inconsistency),
Reasoning under vagueness or uncertainty.
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Foundations of neuro-symbolic reasoning:
Embedding methods for structured information, such as knowledge graphs,
mathematical expressions, grammars, logical theories.
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Intelligent Agents:
Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, formal models of interactions,
Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems, epistemic reasoning.
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Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval:
Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association
rules, information extraction.
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Security in Information and Knowledge Systems:
Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control,
inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk
management.
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Integrity and Constraint Management:
Verification, validation, consistent query answering, and information
cleaning.
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Knowledge graphs and semi-structured Data:
Data modelling, data processing, data compression, and data exchange.
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** Submission Guidelines **
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Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (for guidelines and templates,
see:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceeding…
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>).
Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be
rejected without review. There are the following page limits according
to paper type:
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Long papers: 16, plus additional pages for references.
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Short papers: 10, plus additional pages for references.
Missing proofs or details can be added as an additional appendix of up
to 15 pages article style and read at the discretion of the program
committee. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted
to another journal or conference. Initial submissions must be in PDF
format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be
submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in
alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either
initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific
quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion.
Submission is via the EasyChair
linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026>.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
foiks2026(a)easychair.org.
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** Publication **
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The proceedings are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the symposium, authors
of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions
of their papers for a FoIKS 2026 special issue.
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** Important dates **
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Submission of abstracts:September 18, 2025
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Submission of paper: September 25, 2025
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Notification:December 13, 2025
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Final version due:January 08, 2026
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Conference: March 23-26, 2026
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** Invited Speakers **
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We are excited to announce the invited speakers for FoIKS 2026::
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Giuseppe De Giacomo(University of Oxford)
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Floris Geerts(University of Antwerp)
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Wolfgang Nejdl(Leibniz Universität Hannover)
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Ana Ozaki(University of Oslo)
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** Organization **
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* *PC Chairs* *
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Anni-Yasmin Turhan(University of Paderborn, Germany)
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Jonni Virtema(University of Sheffield, UK)
* *Local Chair* *
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Arne Meier(Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
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