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3rd Call for Papers: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 28 May '25

28 May '25

-------------------------------------------------------------------- APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING -------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2025 - Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 24 - 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy https://clic2025.unica.it/ Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/). Conference topics ----------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Research Communications ---------------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2025 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. The research communication papers will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to the number of submissions received. Paper Submission ----------------------- Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple-submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages of content, and up to three (3) pages of references. Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed one (1) page in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper. Upon acceptance, final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published online and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.… Word template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025 For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected. Awards --------- To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master's or PhD student is the first author and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. Important Dates --------------- - 09/06/2025: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 21/07/2025: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 04/08/2025: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 24-26/09/2025: CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari Conference Chairs ------ - Cristina Bosco (University of Torino) - Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) - Marco Polignano (University of Bari) - Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari) Senior Program Committee: ------ Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission - Ispra) Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna) Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen) Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) Rossella Varvara (University of Turin - University of Pavia) Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano) Local Organizing Committee: ------ - Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari) Web chairs: ------ Maurizio Atzori Andrea Loddo Further information ------------------- Conference website: https://clic2025.unica.it/ Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com

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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 - call for proposals
by Udo Kruschwitz 27 May '25

27 May '25

SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval. We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the information retrieval (IR) community and to share insights between research and practice. SS 2025 will be held at the BCS London office on Wednesday 26th November with tutorials on Tuesday 25th. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit speaker proposals for talks around the following categories: * Innovative approaches used in IR production systems and products * Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness * Implications of generative AI and large language models * Interdisciplinary collaborations, bridging areas such as information science, data science, user experience, and artificial intelligence * IR practice within different professional communities, spanning eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, and beyond * Case studies showcasing best practices, design principles, evaluation techniques, and practical implementations in the field of information retrieval We encourage presentations from startups and open-source projects. The presentation format of the event will be a combination of presentations, panels and discussions. Proposals should be no more than 1 page and include: * Title * Abstract * Main contribution & take-aways for attendees * A short bio of the presenter and/or a brief organisation outline Proposals should be emailed to udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de cc’ing tgr2uk(a)gmail.com. There will be a separate call for tutorial presentations. IMPORTANT DATES * Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) * Talk proposal due: 11 July * Notifications: 25 July ORGANISERS * Ingo Frommholz * Udo Kruschwitz * Tony Russell-Rose * Haiming Liu (tutorials chair) PAST EVENTS For a summary of last year’s event, see: https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2024/november/search-solutions-2024-inf… For further details of previous events with links to slides and videos please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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Deadline CfP 12th CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities
by Fábián-Trost, Annamária 27 May '25

27 May '25

Dear List, only 1 day to go, until the deadline for CfP for the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) expires. The conference will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 (CfP, extended deadline paper/abstract submission: 28th of May 2025, 23:59 CEST) Please feel free to submit! The conference (https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ ) brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and social media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. Our keynotes are Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) and Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg). We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics (deadline paper/abstract submission: 28th of May 2025, 23:59 CEST) * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC * Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences * Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science * Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science * Contrastive CM studies across different languages The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of: * Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations * Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Submission and review Authors of accepted papers are invited to present their work at the conference (30-minute timeslots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress or early-stage research during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers for one or more special issue journal or a volume publication. Instructions for authors All contributions will be collected through an online platform (ConfTool): https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html Templates for the submission: Template for MSWord: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/template_word.docx Template for LaTeX: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/template_latex.zip Local organizing committee: * Dr. Annamaria Fabian (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science) * Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau) For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc2025(a)uni-bayreuth.de<mailto:cmc2025@uni-bayreuth.de> and see https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ More information on the “International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora)”: https://cmc-corpora.org/series/#<https://cmc-corpora.org/series/> All the best, Annamaria Fabian

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Open Positions: NLP PostDocs / PhDs at UTN and University of Mannheim
by Steffen Eger 27 May '25

27 May '25

The Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) Lab at University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) (https://nl2g.github.io/), headed by Prof. Steffen Eger, and the group of Prof. Simone Ponzetto (http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de) have two fully funded PostDoc or PhD positions (up to 3 years) in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Application Deadlines: 25.06.2025, 11:59pm CET Topics: The topics of the position involve detection and analysis of social biases (e.g., relating to gender and migration status) over time (1950s-2020s) and across different languages (German, Italian, Czech, English). To do so, innovative large language model (LLM) based techniques will be leveraged. The students will perform data analysis, data preprocessing and fine-grained human and LLM-based annotation and further explore embedding based approaches to cross-lingual cross-temporal bias detection. The positions are within the DFG funded project “HistoBias”, which involves three PIs: Prof. Daniela Grunow (University of Frankfurt), Prof. Simone Ponzetto (Univ. of Mannheim), Prof. Steffen Eger (UTN). Application format: one single PDF including: * A personal statement that explains why you are well-suited for this research topic (limited to one page) * A complete, chronological, tabular curriculum vitae (CV) in English * Certificates of your university degrees (M.Sc. degree and B.Sc. degree) or other equivalent qualification * Transcript of records, diploma supplements, or overview of courses from your university degrees (M.Sc. degree and B.Sc. degree) * Master and/or dissertation thesis To apply, send an email to jobs(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de<mailto:jobs@informatik.uni-mannheim.de> with reference number CSAI-NLP/SB-25-05 containing one PDF document with the information above. Additionally, apply here via the portal: https://jobs.utn.de/jobposting/676b07a933aad609d552175535a63c8fe645e5340 A selected number of candidates will be invited for an interview and a small coding/discussion project. Please direct all inquiries regarding scientific content to steffen.eger(a)utn.de<mailto:steffen.eger@utn.de> and ponzetto(a)uni-mannheim.de<mailto:ponzetto@uni-mannheim.de>. Further information information with requirements are available from: <https://nl2g.github.io/positions> * https://nl2g.github.io/positions --------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Steffen Eger Heisenberg Professor Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) https://nl2g.github.io/ <https://nl2g.github.io/>https://www.utn.de/en/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/<https://www.utn.de/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/> https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-engineering/nllg-lab/ <https://nl2g.github.io/> Ulmenstraße 52i 90443 Nürnberg

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CFP: GlobalNLP 2025 @ RANLP – NLP for All Languages in the Era of LLMs
by Shamsuddeen Muhammad 27 May '25

27 May '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for GlobalNLP 2025, a workshop titled: “Beyond English: Natural Language Processing for All Languages in an Era of Large Language Models” 📍 11–13 September 2025 | Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://globalnlp2025.github.io/ 📅 In conjunction with RANLP 2025 It's time we give every language the attention it deserves—because language diversity is at the heart of global inclusivity in NLP. Brief Technical Description Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen remarkable progress with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, significantly advancing capabilities in text generation, machine translation, and knowledge retrieval, particularly for high-resource languages such as English, Chinese, German, Spanish, and French. However, a vast majority of the world's languages, ranging from low-resource (e.g., Indigenous, African, Indian languages), under-resourced (e.g., Irish), to medium-resource (e.g., Baltic, South Asian, and Slavic languages), still face barriers due to data scarcity, linguistic complexity, and limited computational resources. This workshop is committed to advancing NLP for all languages, from high- to low-resource, by fostering an inclusive, multidisciplinary environment that addresses the technical and linguistic needs of every language community. We welcome both technical and non-technical papers, including experimental, theoretical, and methodological contributions, as well as interdisciplinary and participatory approaches. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Data-Efficient NLP: Transfer learning, few-/zero-shot techniques to overcome data limitations • Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Models: For morphologically rich, agglutinative, and typologically diverse languages • Semantic-Based Approaches: Ontology-driven information extraction, semantic similarity, entity linking • Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs: For machine translation, retrieval, and reasoning in underrepresented languages • Practical Applications: In education, healthcare, climate action, governance, and multilingual content creation • Corpus Creation & Linguistic Tools: For building datasets, model development, and evaluation • Reusability of Linguistic Resources: For POS tagging, parsing, MT, and more • Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage: Computational approaches for historical texts, preservation, and interdisciplinary studies Important Dates 📄 Paper submission deadline: 6 July 2025 📬 Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2025 📝 Camera-ready deadline: 30 August 2025 📦 Proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 🗓 Workshop dates: 11–13 September 2025 📍 All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Submission Details Authors must submit original research papers via the official RANLP 2025 submission portal. All submissions should follow the RANLP formatting guidelines. Both long and short papers are welcome. Full details are available at: 🔗 https://globalnlp2025.github.io Organizing Committee Sudhansu Bala Das (University of Galway, Ireland) Pruthwik Mishra (SVNIT Surat, India) Alok Singh (University of Oxford, UK) Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (Imperial College London) Asif Ekbal (IIT Jodhpur, India) Program Committee (alphabetical order) Alexander Gelbukh (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico) Bidyut Kumar Patra (IIT BHU, India) Clarence Teo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Gaurish Thakkar (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Helena Moniz (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Juri Opitz (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Luan Thanh Nguyen (Vietnam National University HCMC, Vietnam) Marie-Aude Lefer (UCLouvain, Belgium) Mohammed Hasanuzzaman (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Moritz Schaeffer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) Muslim Jameel Sayed (Atlantic Technological University, Ireland) Pádraic Moran (University of Galway, Ireland) Paolo Rosso (Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain) Paul Buitelaar (University of Galway, Ireland) Soumik Mandal (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA) Surangika Ranathunga (Massey University, New Zealand) Uthayasanker Thayasivam (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) Idris Abdulmumin (DSFSI, University of Pretoria) Ibrahim Said Ahmad (Northeastern University) We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you in Varna for a rich and impactful exchange on the future of global, inclusive NLP. 📧 For inquiries, please contact: globalnlp2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:globalnlp2025@gmail.com> Warm regards, The GlobalNLP 2025 Organizing Committee

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CfP (Extended Deadline): The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
by Joaquim Silva 26 May '25

26 May '25

*CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extension* *Important dates* *- Abstract submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (AoE) (NEW)* - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 *Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25) Track of EPIA’25* PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts. [1] *Track Description* The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline. [2] *Topics of Interest* Theories, Algorithms and Models - Language and Cognitive Modeling - Tagging, Chunking and Parsing - Morphology and Word Segmentation - Natural Language Generation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics and Text Inference - Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition - Entailment and Paraphrases - Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation - Natural language understanding - Language modeling - Mathematical Properties of Language - NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications - Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization - Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining - Computational Social Science - Multi-Word Units - Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining - Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining - Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction - Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems - Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting - Web Content Annotation - Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications - Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis [3] *Important dates* - Abstract submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (New) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 [4] *Paper submission* Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025 submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another venue during the EPIA 2025 review period. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set out in the Springer Nature code of conduct. [5] *Track Fees:* Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference. [6] *Organizing Committee:* Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Irene Rodrigues, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Alípio Jorge, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto [7] *Contacts:* Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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CfP (Extended Deadline): The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
by Joaquim Silva 26 May '25

26 May '25

*CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extension* *Important dates* *- Abstract submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (AoE) (NEW)* - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 *Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25) Track of EPIA’25* PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts. [1] *Track Description* The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline. [2] *Topics of Interest* Theories, Algorithms and Models - Language and Cognitive Modeling - Tagging, Chunking and Parsing - Morphology and Word Segmentation - Natural Language Generation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics and Text Inference - Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition - Entailment and Paraphrases - Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation - Natural language understanding - Language modeling - Mathematical Properties of Language - NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications - Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization - Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining - Computational Social Science - Multi-Word Units - Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining - Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining - Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction - Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems - Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting - Web Content Annotation - Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications - Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis [3] *Important dates* - Abstract submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE) - Paper submission deadline: May 27, 2025 (AoE) (NEW) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE) - Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025 [4] *Paper submission* Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025 submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another venue during the EPIA 2025 review period. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set out in the Springer Nature code of conduct. [5] *Track Fees:* Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference. [6] *Organizing Committee:* Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Irene Rodrigues, DI – Uviversidade de Évora Alípio Jorge, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto [7] *Contacts:* Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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VinNLP - NLP Bridges Talk Series
by El-Haj, Mo 26 May '25

26 May '25

Dear colleagues, I’m happy to introduce NLP Bridges, a talk series launched by the VinNLP Group at VinUniversity, Hanoi, to connect global NLP experts with researchers, students, and communities working on low-resource languages. All talks are free, online, and recorded, with the aim of supporting inclusive and accessible NLP research. To learn more or register for upcoming talks, please visit: https://vinnlp.com/nlp_bridges.html Best regards, Mo ————— Dr Mo El-Haj Director of the VinNLP Research Group https://vinnlp.com/ Associate Professor (Reader) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam https://vinuni.edu.vn/people/mo-el-haj/ NLP Visiting Research Scholar SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/dsi/about-us/members/mahmoud-el-haj Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal Editorial Board https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering

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Autumn School 2025 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging in Dagstuhl - Registration extended
by Thomas Mandl 25 May '25

25 May '25

Registration is extended until end of May: *ASIRF 2025 - Autumn School 2025 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging in Dagstuhl *https://fg-retrieval.gi.de/veranstaltung/asirf2025 Great learning opportunity for grad/PhD students and everyone interested in IR, NLP or related fields! ASIRF provides a holistic perspective and shows how Information Retrieval and Information Foraging interact. In addition to conceptual and methodological knowledge from both fields, ASIRF is highly interdisciplinary. The autumn school will provide different tutorials, from foundations of Information Retrieval and Information Foraging to recent research topics such as using large language models for information retrieval tasks or applications of IR techniques in application domains. The autumn school will take place at the best computer science venue ever Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI) between 24 and 29 August 2025. The program includes the following lectures and tutorials: - Foundations of Interactive IR (Norbert Fuhr, U Duisburg-Essen) - Deep Learning for IR (Avishek Anand, TU Delft) - Conversational Search (Ralf Schenkel, U Trier) - Fairness and Bias (Andrea Horbach, U Kiel) - Multimodal retrieval and data analysis (Henning Müller, HES-SO) - User Experiments and Interactive IR (Thomas Mandl, U Hildesheim) - Complex Casual Leisure Information Needs (Vivien Petras, HU Berlin) - User Simulations for IR (Philipp Schaer, TH Köln) For more information on the schedule, program, or registration: https://fg-retrieval.gi.de/veranstaltung/asirf2025 See you in Dagstuhl! ASIRF 2025 organizers Philipp Schaer, Ralf Schenkel, and Thomas Mandl

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HASOC-meme - Shared task @ FIRE 2025 - Hateful Memes in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Bodo - Registration open
by Thomas Mandl 25 May '25

25 May '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] ************************************************************************************ [CFP] HASOC-meme: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Memes in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Bodo at FIRE 2025 ************************************************************************************ https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html <https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html> We are excited to announce the 7th edition of HASOC, featuring a range of engaging shared tasks. We warmly invite you to participate in this edition. HASOC 2025 will introduce classification tasks on memes, focusing on the identification of abuse, sentiment, sarcasm, vulgarity, and target. The task will primarily include three binary classification tasks, one multi-class classification task, and one multi-label classification task on memes in Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati, and Bodo languages. Track Description: This task involves analyzing multimodal data (image and text) to detect abuse, identify targeted communities, assess vulgarity and sarcasm, and assign sentiment labels. So, the task will be in five parts. Sentiment detection: • Positive - The meme conveys a supportive, humorous, or appreciative tone. • Neutral - The meme is neither overtly positive nor negative in tone. • Negative - The meme expresses hostility, mockery, or criticism. Sarcasm Detection: • Sarcastic - The meme presents statements or visuals that imply the opposite of their literal meaning, often to mock or ridicule. • Non-Sarcastic: The meme directly conveys its message without sarcasm or irony. Vulgarity Detection: • Vulgar - The meme contains explicit or offensive words, gestures, or depictions. • Not Vulgar - The meme does not include any such content. Abuse Detection: • Abusive - The meme includes offensive, harmful, or derogatory language, imagery, or implications targeting an individual or a group. • Non-abusive - The meme does not contain any offensive, harmful, or derogatory content. Target Community Identification: • Gender - Any reference to male, female, non-binary, or transgender identities. • Religion - Mentions or imagery related to any religious belief, deity, or practice. • Individual - Specifically mentions or portrays a particular person. • Political - Targets political ideologies, parties, politicians, or policies. • National Origin - Targets people based on their country or ethnicity. • Social Sub-groups - Groups based on socio-economic status, occupation, cultural identity, or other affiliations. • Others - Any target that does not fall into the above categories. • None - If the meme does not target any specific community, no target label is assigned. Important dates * Registration starts: 15th May, 2025 * Hindi, Marathi and Bodo Training Data Release: 17th May, 2025 * Bangla Training data release: 24th May, 2025 * Release of the test set: 15th June, 2025 * Run submission deadline: 30th June, 2025 * Announcement of results: 15 July, 2025 * Working notes due: 30th August, 2025 * Camera-ready copies of notes and overview paper: 30th September, 2025 Task organizers * Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl :- University of Hildesheim, Germany * Prof. Dr. Utpal Garain :-Indian Statistical Institute, India * Prof. Dr. Debasis Ganguly :- University of Glasgow, United Kingdom * Prof. Dr. Sandip Modha :- University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy & LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India * Prof. Dr. Animesh Mukherjee :- Indian Institute of Technology, Khargapur, India * Dr. Koyel Ghosh :- University of Hildesheim, Germany * Dr. Mithun Das :- Indian Institute of Technology, Khargapur, India * Shubhankar Barman :- BITS pilani, India * Mwnthai Narzary :- Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar, India * Saptarshi Saha :- Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Website: https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html <https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2025/call_for_participation.html> In case of query, please send email via hasoc(a)googlegroups.com

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