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2nd CFP: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Second Call for Papers: *The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)* *Location*: Vienna, Austria and online (co-located with ACL 2025) *Date*: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025 *Website*: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025 <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025> *Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12 *Submission Link*: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) (https://sig-edu.org) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as *a 2-day workshop*, and it will feature a keynote by *Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly)*, oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop is also hosting *a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors*, and *a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward *(more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of generative AI in education and its impact; - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE ( https://alliancelss.com) societies. SHARED TASK The workshop will also host a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors. See more details here: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission deadline: *Thursday, April 17, 2025* - Notification of acceptance: *Thursday, May 22, 2025* - Camera-ready papers due: *Monday, June 9, 2025* - Workshop: *Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025* SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI - Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University - Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum - Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen - Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec - Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners - Bashar Alhafni, New York University (NYU) \& CAMeL Lab in NYUAD - Zheng Yuan, King’s College London - Jill Burstein, Duolingo Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025#program-committee

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Comparing AI / LLMs and corpora
by Mark Davies 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Those who are interested in how well the predictions of AI / LLMs compare to actual corpus data may be interested in: *https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/ <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/>* The data includes seven in-depth comparisons of LLMs and corpora (about 90 pages of discussion and examples) for the following topics: *word frequency <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/words.pdf>, phrase frequency <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/phrases.pdf>, collocates <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/collocates.pdf>, comparing words <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/compare-words.pdf>* (via collocates), *genre-based variation <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/genres.pdf>, historical variation <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/historical.pdf>*, and *dialectal variation* <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/dialects.pdf>. Best, Mark Davies <https://www.mark-davies.org/> English-Corpora.org

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CIRCE Online Seminar 31/03/2025 - Prof. Rob Drummond "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series, organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Rob Drummond_ (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) *Title*: Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language *Date*: Monday, March 31, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: I spend a lot of my time trying to persuade people to have a more accepting attitude towards language variation and language change. In fact, we should be doing a lot more than accepting it – we should be enjoying it and celebrating the fact that we all use language in different ways. We should take time to appreciate the fundamental connection between the way we speak, and who we are. In this talk, I will present my top ten reflections and insights that aim to improve everyone’s relationship with their own, and other people’s, use of English. *Bio*: Rob Drummond is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he researches, teaches and writes about the relationship between spoken language and identity. He recently led the community-focused Manchester Voices project, exploring the accents, dialects and identities of people in Greater Manchester, and he co-leads The Accentism Project, which strives to challenge and raise awareness of language-based prejudice. Rob does a lot of public-facing academic work and is the author of You’re All Talk: Why we are what we speak (Scribe Publications, 2023), a book for a general audience that sheds light on the fascinating relationship between ourselves and our language. Upcoming webinars: - Alice Henderson, /Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace/ (Monday, April 28, 2025) - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu>.

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Job Opening for Data Scientist (with a focus on natural language processing)
by Menno Van Zaanen 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Job Opening for Data Scientist (with a focus on natural language processing) Application link: https://bit.ly/4iUSSAN Application deadline: 20 April 2025 As a Data Scientist at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead projects focusing on Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely together with a team of researchers as part of SADiLaR’s extended network, both on your own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at national and international conferences will be encouraged and supported. This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the Department of Science and Innovation. Read more at https://www.sadilar.org. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: * Research: Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Project work: Initiating and contributing to Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects. * Teaching: Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Mentorship: Mentorship of researchers in the field of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. Minimum requirements * A PhD (NQF level 10) in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human Language Technology, Digital Humanities, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields. The PhD should have a focus on computational aspects of linguistics. * A minimum of (five) 5 years’ experience in the use of Python (other programming languages used within the computational linguistics or Digital Humanities domain can also be considered). * Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. * A minimum of (three) 3 years’ experience as a supervisor/co- supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals. * A minimum of (three) 3 years’ experience with using and/or developing computational tools. * A minimum of (three) 3 years experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. * A minimum of (one) 1 year experience related to teaching or training within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. ADDED ADVANTAGE * Membership with Academic subject communities. Functional / Technical Competencies (Knowledge and Skills) * Advanced computer literacy. * Ability to lead research projects. * Experience in the presentation of research-based results at national and international conferences. * Experience with writing research reports. * Evidence of acquiring research funding. KEY BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES: * Ability to work independently or as part of a team. * Ability to effectively liaise and communicate with public, students, colleagues, and other stakeholders at various levels and from diverse backgrounds. * Demonstration of language proficiency in order to function optimally in the various multilingual environments of SADiLaR. * Strong interest in the advancement of under-resourced South African languages. REMUNERATION The annual total remuneration package will be commensurate with the level of appointment as advertised and in line with the NWU policy guidelines. ENQUIRIES REGARDING JOB CONTENT MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Prof. Menno van Zaanen, E-mail: Menno.VanZaanen(a)nwu.ac.za ENQUIRIES REGARDING RECRUITMENT PROCESS MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Mr. Byron Louw, Tel No. 018 285 2304 CLOSING DATE: 20 April 2025 PLANNED COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES: As soon as possible Kindly take note: applications must be submitted online through the official nwu vacancy website. Incomplete applications and those submitted through any other platform will not be considered. Application link: https://bit.ly/4iUSSAN -- 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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RANLP 2025: Third Call for Papers and Extended submission deadline
by Petya Osenova 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

RANLP 2025 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel “Cherno More” Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Summer School on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and shared tasks: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) We are pleased to announce that the 15th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. In addition to the conference programme of competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on the recent advances of a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) topics, the conference features keynote talks by leading experts in NLP. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP (3-5 September 2025) and two days of tutorials (6-7 September 2025). Post-conference specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics will be held on 11-13 September 2025. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers. As from RANLP 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The SCOPUS SJR of RANLP proceedings is 0,299 (2023). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (University of Lancaster, UK and University of Alicante, Spain) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced on the conference website in due course. INVITED SPEAKERS The list of keynote speakers at RANLP 2025 and tutorial lecturers as well as summer school lecturers and teaching assistants includes (more names will be announced in the coming weeks): KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) * Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) TUTORIAL LECTURERS: * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Anna Rogers and Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TEACHING ASSISTANTS (in alphabetical order): * Maram Alharbi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (University of Lancaster, UK) * Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Hansi Hettiarachchi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Andrei Mikheev (Daxtra Technologies, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage (University of Lancaster, UK) * Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Henry Oldroyd (University of Lancaster, UK) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster, UK) WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS: The RANLP 2025 workshops and shared tasks will be held on 11-13 September 2025. The first workshops have already been selected (see below) and further proposals are expected by 31 March 2025. * The first Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025), organised by Piotr Przybyła, Matthew Shardlow, Clara Colombatto and Nanna Inie * The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models (EthicalLLMs 2025), organised by Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe and Hansi Hettiarachchi. * Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities organised by Isuri Nanomi Arachchige, Francesca Frontini, Ruslan Mitkov and Paul Rayson * From rules to language models: comparative evaluation of NLP methods organised by Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Ruslan Mitkov and Raúl García Cerdá * Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages organised by Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo and Tharindu Ranasinghe The following SHARED TASKS have been accepted and Call for Participation has been distributed: * PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages, organised by Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ * Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organised by Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/ * Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark, organised by Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/ * Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT), organised by Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El Amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ * Identification of the severity of the depression in forum posts, organised by Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/ SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/. The reviewing process will be anonymous. Double submission is acceptable, but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. All RANLP papers have DOI numbers assigned. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. RANLP publishes Regular papers 8 pages (with 30 min oral presentation), Short papers 6 pages (with 20 min oral presentation), and Poster/Demo papers 4 pages (with presentation in a poster or demo session). Additional pages are allowed for references only. RANLP-2025 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available as from 1 April 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of workshop proposals: 15 March 2025 31 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025 2 April 2025 Conference abstracts submission: 11 May 2025 (strongly recommended, to facilitate review planning) Conference papers submission: 25 May 2025 Conference papers acceptance notification: 4 July 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 6 July 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 8 September 2025 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025 RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) VENUE RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). The conference organisers plan to arrange a visit to Provadia-Solnitsata, the oldest salt-production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC, https://provadia-solnitsata.com/en/ ) which is located 50 km from Varna. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK and University of Alicante, Spain (Chair Programme Committee) Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)

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Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025 at the University of Birmingham
by Akira Murakami 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce that our Corpus Linguistics Summer School will be held in person at the University of Birmingham Edgbaston campus from 7 to 11 July 2025. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-served basis upon completion of the registration process (including payment) through the university’s online shop linked from the above website. *Registration fee:* £230 (£180 for students) *Speakers:* This year, our participants will have the pleasure to hear contributions by Joyce Lim <https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/joyce-lim> (Aston University), as well as members of our local staff of corpus linguistics, including Alex Christiansen <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/christiansen-alex>, Matteo Fuoli <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/fuoli-matteo>, Jason Grafmiller <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/staf…> , Jack Grieve <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/grieve-jack.aspx>, Nicholas Groom <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/groom-nicholas.aspx> , Yaling Hsiao <https://yalinghsiao.github.io/>, Sofia Malamatidou <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/malamatidou-sofia>, Akira Murakami <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/murakami-akira.aspx>, Michael Oakes, Adam Schembri <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/schembri-adam.aspx>, Paul Thompson <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/thompson-paul.aspx>, Katharine Weetman <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/clinical-sciences/weetman-Katha…>, and Bodo Winter <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/winter-bodo>, among others. The annual Sinclair Lecture will also take place during the summer school. The details will be announced closer to the date. *Programme:* Our Corpus Linguistics Summer School aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both the theory and practice of corpus-based linguistic research. Over five days, participants will engage in two types of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will focus on developing practical skills for extracting and analysing different types of corpus data, and applying this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research from our team. *Topics of sessions will include (this is a non-exhaustive list and subject to change):* - Analysing healthcare data using corpus linguistics - Analysing learner language - Analysing text with Python and SpaCy - Corpus triangulation - Fake news - Introduction to R and tidyverse - Introduction to Sketch Engine - Readability of environmental texts - Sign language corpora - Social media corpus design - Topic models - UAM CorpusTool - Understanding child language and literacy development For more information and registration, please visit the website below: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… *Corpus Linguistics 2025* The week before the summer school, the 13th international Corpus Linguistics conference <https://www.cl2025.co.uk/> (CL2025) will take place in Birmingham. If you are coming to Birmingham for the summer school, we encourage you to consider attending CL2025 as well! Best regards, Akira -- Akira Murakami Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics and Communication Deputy Director, Centre for Corpus Research University of Birmingham clsummerschool(a)contacts.bham.ac.uk

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CFP - Atelier 4AS@TALN2025 - Représentations Sémantiques
by Maxime Amblard 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

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

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[AACL 2025] First Call for workshop Proposals
by ACL Announcements 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

First Call for workshops The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IJCNLP-AACL in 2025 in Mumbai (India). We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. The two pages for the main proposal must include the following: A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. An estimate of the number of attendees. Workshop format: in-person preferred; hybrid format may be allowed under special circumstances. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify whether they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The proposals should be submitted no later than April 15th, 2025, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, ‘Anywhere on Earth). At least one of the organisers of the accepted workshops must be present in person in Mumbai, India. Check the full Call at: https://www.afnlp.org/conferences/ijcnlp2025/#submissions Link to submission system: https://softconf.com/aacl2025/workshops/ For queries related to workshop submission, and the review process in general, email: AACL-IJCNLP25-Workshop_Chairs(a)googlegroups.com Workshop Chairs Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada Lizhen Qu, Monash University, Australia

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Upcoming DFIR Stream 0xE Webinar — “Identifying Fraudulent CAPTCHA Solvers Using Network Propagation Analysis”
by Andrew Zayine 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

Dear All, We are excited to invite you to an upcoming DFIR Stream 0xE webinar: Title: “Identifying Fraudulent CAPTCHA Solvers Using Network Propagation Analysis” Presenters: -Martynas Buožis — Information Security Architect, Amadeus Data Processing GmbH -Umberto Fontana — PhD Candidate, Telecom SudParis & Amadeus IT Group Abstract: Malicious actors often use CAPTCHA Farms to bypass bot protection, enabling fraud such as inventory denial and SMS pumping. These farms cleverly mirror IP addresses and client fingerprints, making traditional detection methods ineffective. Meanwhile, their CAPTCHA-solving times are indistinguishable from legitimate users. In this talk, our speakers will present a novel technique for uncovering the use of CAPTCHA Farms by analyzing network propagation times. By comparing observed delays with the geographic distances implied by IP addresses, this approach aims to statistically identify suspicious patterns. - Date & Time: Tuesday, March 25, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (GMT+00:00) - Location: Online (Pre-registration required) - Event Registration Link: https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xe - Online Registration Ends: March 23 at 04:00 PM (GMT+00:00) Don’t miss this chance to learn about cutting-edge research on detecting fraudulent CAPTCHA solvers and to provide valuable feedback! ======Housekeeping Notes====== - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers #CyberSecurity #DFIR #CAPTCHA #OnlineFraud Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat

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CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026
by ACL Announcements 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2026* The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2026 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April/May) 2026. The 2026 conference will be the 18th meeting of the EACL. At the same time, we also invite expressions of interest to host the 2027 EACL conference. *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. The EACL Board will appoint the general chair for the conference, the programme committee co- chairs, and all other chairs (tutorial co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, etc.), except for the local arrangements chair. Draft bid proposals (due *April 14th, 2025*) should include information on all of the following items: 1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably March/April) 2026 2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention center. Bear in mind that EACL is growing. While Gothenburg (EACL 2014) had 520 registered participants, Valencia (EACL 2017) had 680 registered participants and EACL 2024 had over 800 participants. So please suggest a location that could host 1000 people 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 people and the others 60 persons; 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 will also 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). Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (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 proposed site Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years: - EACL 23 report https://www.romanklinger.de/blog-assets/2023-05-12/eacl2023-conf-report.pdf The EACL conference handbook: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/handbook.pdf Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Board: eacl-info(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:* 14th April 2025: Deadline for draft bids April 2025: Feedback to bidders, announcement of shortlist of bidders May 2025: Deadline for final bids June 2025: Final bid chosen (to be publicly announced in July at ACL2025) April/May 2026: EACL Conference Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi – Secretary of EACL –

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