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First CFP: AmericasNLP 2025 @ NAACL 2025
by John Ortega 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hello. Please excuse any cross-posting issues. We are happy to announce the following workshop at NAACL this year! -- Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas -- AmericasNLP 2025 will be co-located with NAACL2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA! -- Call for Papers -- The goal of AmericasNLP is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of: Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication). Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: creation of datasets for NLP applications; incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems; linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP; transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning; weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning; machine translation of low-resource languages; applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages of the Americas; morphology and phonology of low-resource languages; NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas; ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by Indigenous communities; language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context of NLP models and research. Submissions will be accepted until March 7th, 2025 via softconf: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/americasnlp Note: Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do not count towards the page limit. -- Shared Tasks -- To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2025 features three shared tasks: machine translation of truly low-resource languages; creation of educational resources for indigenous languages; and our new shared task of developing metrics for MT in indigenous languages. The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in Albuquerque. More information can be found at https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2025_st.html. -- Important Dates -- Submission deadline: March 7th, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 31th, 2025 Camera ready papers due: April 11th, 2025 Workshop: May 4th, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE). -- Organizing Committee -- Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs, pywirrarika(a)gmail.com Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh, a.oncevay(a)ed.ac.uk Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi(a)colorado.edu Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research, rijhwani(a)google.com Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, pughrob(a)iu.edu Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College, rolando.a.coto.solano(a)dartmouth.edu John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, katharina.kann(a)colorado.edu -- Contact -- Contact: americas.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/

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Call for papers: CODI-CRAC 2025, 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse and 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference
by Chloé Braud 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

CODI CRAC 2025 Workshop: joint call for papers November 5-9 2025 - EMNLP 25 - Suzhou, China We are pleased to announce that we are organizing in 2025 the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop that will be held during EMNLP! More information on: https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2025/ We will host 2 shared tasks, the CRAC and the DISRPT shared tasks. Aims and scope The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems and Large Language Models to understand and produce words, sentences and in some cases longer texts. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form documents and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse pretraining tasks, coherence models, summarization for long texts and conversations, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension and formal parsing, as well as discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. Discourse, roughly the interactions of context, form and meaning above the sentence level, is at the intersection of many areas in Computational Linguistics and NLP, since it is concerned with all levels of linguistic representation, allowing the modeling of textual coherence and inference leveraging long-distance links within documents. It thus brings together researchers working on different areas but facing similar issues with coherence and cohesion, document-level structure, long text and long context. In 2025, we organize the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference, anaphora, and coreference. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse level problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. This joint edition corresponds to the 6th CODI workshop and the 8th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state of the art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking and the fourth edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. The workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. Topics of interest We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * discourse structure * discourse connectives * discourse relations * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena * discourse parsing * cross-lingual discourse processing * cross-domain discourse processing * anaphora and coreference resolution * event coreference * argument mining * coherence modeling * discourse and semantics * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. * evaluation methodology for discourse processing * discourse pretraining tasks * long-text modeling and generationSubmissions We solicit three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with reviews, with timeline TBA.Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EMNLP 2025 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Submission website will be announced later.Tentative schedule * 2025-07: CODI papers due * 2025-?: Direct submission (papers rejected at a main conference) * 2025-09: Notification of acceptance * 2025-09: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2025-11: CODI-CRAC workshop All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").Invited Speakers * Tanya Goyal, Cornell University. * Nancy F. Chen, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, SingaporeOrganizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen * Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, University of British Columbia * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas * Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague * Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences * Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht * Sameer Pradhan, University of Pennsylvania and cemantix * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes * Vincent Ng * Maciej Ogrodniczuk * Michal Novák * Massimo Poesio * Sameer Pradhan To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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SAGE-MLU Workshop: Structure & Generalization in Multimodal Language Understanding
by Lucia Donatelli 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

The first workshop on Structure and Generalization in Multimodal Language Understanding (SAGE-MLU) will be held at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam on March 10 and 11, 2025. The SAGE-MLU workshop brings together speakers and participants to explore the questions of whether and how current language models can use abstract conceptual and linguistic structure to generalize in human-like ways. The program is split over two days and features four keynote speakers, interactive discussion panels, and a hackathon. For additional information on the program, please see the workshop website <https://sites.google.com/view/sage-mlu-2025/home?authuser=0>. We welcome researchers and students from various fields, such as (computational) linguistics, conversation analysis, computer science, AI, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. We especially encourage Master's & PhD students to attend the workshop, as the workshop is also geared towards promoting research collaborations. To register, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvpSUI64BaOYnFCyV7diBmn0iEfs47NSH…> .

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CfP: Symposium on the language of foreign language teaching materials and reference works
by Elen Le Foll 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium: *The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works* Date: Friday 7 November 2025 Location: Osnabrück University (Germany) Organisers: Elen Le Foll & Anna Fankhauser Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2025 BACKGROUND Foreign language teaching and reference works play a crucial role in institutionalised foreign language teaching and are known to constitute an important source of learners’ foreign language (e.g. Huang, 2019). However, multiple studies suggest that the language of these textbooks often differs considerably from the kind of language typically used in communicative situations outside the foreign language classroom (e.g., Barbieri & Eckhardt, 2007; Gilmore, 2004; Römer, 2005; Rössler, 2010; Winter & Le Foll, 2022). The language of textbooks may even be considered a distinct language variety (Le Foll, 2024a; 2024b). Reference works traditionally used in foreign language teaching have also been shown to under- or misrepresent various lexico-grammatical features, as seen in comparisons with recent corpus-based reference works (e.g., Fankhauser, 2024; Siepmann & Bürgel, 2023). FOCUS This symposium is intended to provide an opportunity to present and discuss new descriptive, comparative, and evaluative studies on the language of foreign language teaching materials. We look forward to empirical examinations of textbooks, language learning apps, and other (digital) teaching materials, as well as of reference works designed for foreign language teaching, e.g., learner dictionaries and (learner) pedagogical grammars. The symposium will also allow us to discuss key concepts such as authenticity, pedagogical norms, and the relationship between teaching materials and syllabi in foreign language teaching. FORMAT We welcome contributions in English, German, French or Spanish in the form of presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) and posters (especially for research-in-progress contributions). The symposium will take place at Osnabrück University and will be on-site only. Submissions from early career researchers are expressly welcome. Following the symposium, participants will be invited to contribute to an edited volume or special issue. SUBMISSION To be included in the programme, please send an abstract of your planned contribution (300-500 words plus bibliography) to elefoll(a)uni-koeln.de or anna.fankhauser(a)uni-osnabrueck.de by 1 March 2025. Remember to indicate whether you would like to give an oral presentation or present a poster. We will get back to you by 1 May 2025. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at the aforementioned e-mail addresses. -- *Dr. Elen Le Foll* /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>

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CTiELS 2 - submission deadline EXTENSION
by Leszek Szymański 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues,the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra organizes the "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 2" conference. This year's edition will be held in a hybrid mode on April 3-4, 2025.On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to inform you that the abstract submission deadline has been extended, and the new deadline is February 10, 2025.The 2025 edition of the conference is organized under the honorary patronage of the Polish Linguistic Society.More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you!Leszek Szymański

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3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
by Yevgeni Berzak 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dates: June 5–7, 2025 Location: University of Stuttgart, Germany Web: https://tmalsburg.github.io/ComprehensionWorkshop ## Workshop theme: Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for education and instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. **In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking combined with machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments**. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, eye-tracking-based reading research, and machine learning. The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging ideas for the next generation of reading assessments aided by eye-tracking and machine learning technologies, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary research collaborations. ## Important dates: - Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2025 - Acceptance notifications: March 14, 2025 - Registration period: March 14 – April 14 - Workshop dates: June 5–7, 2025 ## Workshop format: The first two days will feature a structured program, including talks, poster sessions, and group discussions. On the third day, the focus shifts to a more relaxed format, providing participants with the opportunity to connect in an informal setting while enjoying a scenic hike or unwinding during a leisurely picnic. ## Relevant topics for submission: - Machine learning approaches to reading assessment - Eye movements as indicators of reading comprehension - Methodology and design of reading assessments, including large scale reading assessments (LSAs) - Reading assessments for different populations (e.g. children, adults, elderly, populations with cognitive impairments) - Reading development - Cognitive processes underlying reading comprehension ## Invited speaker: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kaakinen Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology University of Turku, Finland ## Submissions: - We invite submissions of short abstracts of up to 350 words. - To submit your abstract, please fill in the abstract submission form at: https://forms.gle/AntXQ3K5dwxZLjVH6 - Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers primarily with an eye to relevance. - We expect to accept 25–35 submissions. ## Venue: The workshop will take place at the International Meeting Center of the University of Stuttgart, a modern and welcoming venue designed to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas. The facility features a lecture hall for up to 80 participants, as well as two smaller seminar rooms ideal for focused discussions and breakout sessions. Attendees will also enjoy the charming amenities of the venue, including a cozy fireside lounge—perfect for informal networking—and a spacious garden that provides a serene atmosphere for relaxation between sessions. The garden is equipped with facilities for barbecues, making it an great setting for social events and fostering meaningful connections in a laid-back environment. Venue description with photos: https://www.beschaeftigte.uni-stuttgart.de/uni-services/infrastruktur/ibz/ ## Funding The workshop is sponsored by the University of Stuttgart and the MultiplEYE COST Action. The workshop 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. ## Workshop organizers Titus von der Malsburg Inst. of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany titus.von-der-malsburg(a)ling.uni-stuttgart.de Lena Jäger Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Zurich, Switzerland jaeger(a)cl.uzh.ch Yevgeni Berzak Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion, Israel berzak(a)technion.ac.il

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Sexism identification in tweets, memes and videos: CFP EXIST 2025
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation: Task: EXIST 2025: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sexism identification in social networks. EXIST aims to foster the automatic detection of sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviours (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022, EXIST 2023, EXIST 2024). The fifth edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab in CLEF 2025, on September 9-12, 2025, at UNED, Madrid, Spain. In the 2024 EXIST campaign the datasets contained multimedia content in the format of memes, stepping forward research on more robust techniques to identify sexism in social networks. Following this line, this year the challenge will focus on TikTok videos, so that the dataset includes the three more important multimedia elements used to spread sexism: text, images and videos. Consequently, it is essential to develop automated multimodal tools capable of detecting sexism in text, images, and videos, to raise alarms or automatically remove such content from social networks because platforms’ algorithms often amplify content that perpetuates gender stereotypes and internalized misogyny. This lab will contribute to the creation of applications that identify sexist content in social media across all three formats. Similar to the approach in the 2023 and 2024 edition, this edition will also embrace the Learning With Disagreement (LeWiDi) paradigm for both the development of the dataset and the evaluation of the systems. The LeWiDi paradigm doesn’t rely on a single “correct” label for each example. Instead, the model is trained to handle and learn from conflicting or diverse annotations. This enables the system to consider various annotators’ perspectives, biases, or interpretations, resulting in a fairer learning process. Participants will be asked to classify tweets, memes and videos (in English and Spanish) according to the following tasks: TASK 1: Sexism detection in Tweets: SUBTASK 1.1 - Sexism Identification in Tweets: The first subtask is a binary classification. The systems have to decide whether or not a given tweet contains sexist expressions or behaviours (i.e., it is sexist itself, describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classify it according to two categories: YES and NO. SUBTASK 1.2 - Source Intention in Tweets: For the tweets that have been classified as sexist, the second task aims to classify each tweet according to the intention of the person who wrote it. We propose a ternary classification task: (i) DIRECT sexist message, (ii) REPORTED sexist message and (iii) JUDGEMENTAL message. SUBTASK 1.3 - Sexism Categorization in Tweets: Once a message has been classified as sexist, the third subtask aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to a categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 2: Sexism detection in Memes: TASK 2.1 - Sexism Identification in Memes: This is a binary classification subtask consisting on determining wheter a meme describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classifying it into two categories: YES and NO. Task 2.2: Source Intention in Memes: As in subtask 1.2, this subtask aims to categorize the meme according to the intention of the author. Due to the characteristics of the memes, the REPORTED label is virtually null, so in this task systems should only classify memes into the DIRECT or JUDGEMENTAL categories. Task 2.3: Sexism Categorization in Memes: This task aims to classify sexist memes according to the categorization provided for subtask 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 3: Sexism detection in Videos: SUBTASK 3.1 - Sexism Identification in Videos: This is a binary classification task as in Subtasks 1.1 and 2.1. SUBTASK 3.2: Source Intention in Videos: This subtask replicates subtask 2.2 for memes, but it takes as source videos. SUBTASK 3.3: This subtask aims to classify sexist videos according to the categorization provided for Task 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks and in both languages, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g. subtask 1) and in one language (e.g. English). During the training phase, the task organizers will provide the participants with the manually-annotated EXIST 2025 dataset. For the evaluation of the systems, the unlabeled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2025 Labs Registration site (https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/). You will receive information about how to join the Discord Group for the EXIST 2025 shared task. Important Dates: * 18 November 2024: Registration opens. * 3 February 2025: Training and development sets available. * 7 April 2025: Test set available. * 25 April 2025: Registration closes. * 18 May 2025: Runs submission due to organizers. * 8 June 2025: Results notification to participants. * 15 June 2025: Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 29 June 2025: Notification of acceptance (peer reviews). * 7 July 2025: Camera-ready participant papers due to organizers. * 9-12 September 2025: EXIST 2025 at CLEF Conference. ** Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Enrique Amigó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Roser Morante, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Iván Arcos, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ AVISO LEGAL. 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EXTENDED call for papers: 2nd Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology
by Nannan Liu 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, We have extended the deadline for the call for papers for our Workshop to 15 February. We look forward to seeing you in Forlì or online! Date and venue: 8–10 May 2025, Forlì, Italy, and online Keynote speakers: * Prof Bart Defrancq, Associate Professor, Ghent University, and President of CIUTI * Prof Ella Wehrmeyer, Associate Professor and Chair of Language Practice, North-West University Abstract submission *extended* deadline: 15 February 2025 Website: https://eventi.unibo.it/internationalworkshop-cis-forli2025 Best wishes, Nannan Liu and Mariachiara Russo Dr Nannan Liu Marie Curie Fellow Project FAITH<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108651> Department of Interpreting and Translation University of Bologna

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[CFP] ACL 2025 Industry Track - 2nd Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

***** 2nd Call for Papers: ACL 2025 Industry Track ACL 2025 Industry Track in Vienna, Austria Conference: 27 July to 1 August 2025 Paper submission deadline: 21 March 2025 BACKGROUND Language technologies and their applications are an integral and critical part of our daily lives. Many of these technologies have their roots in academic and industrial research laboratories where researchers invented a plethora of algorithms, benchmarked them against shared datasets and perfected their performance to provide plausible solutions to real-world applications. While a controlled laboratory setting is vital for a deeper scientific understanding of the problems underlying language technologies and the impact of algorithmic design choices on their performance, transitioning the technology to real-world industrial strength applications raises a different, yet challenging, set of technical issues. We acknowledge the challenges when adapting language technologies for building novel and robust real-world applications as the journey from theoretical research to practical deployment can be difficult. Challenges can include technical aspects of system deployment and optimizing for efficiency, making informed design choices or methodological considerations of incorporating human feedback and oversight. To provide a forum to address these multifaceted issues, we are seeking submissions that not only delve into research but also demonstrate the application of systems in real-world scenarios, irrespective of whether they involve proprietary data. TOPICS We invite submissions describing innovations and implementations in all areas of speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies and systems that are relevant to real-word applications. The primary focus of this track is on papers that advance the understanding of, and demonstrate the effective handling of, practical issues related to the deployment of language processing or language generation technologies, including those of large language models, in non-trivial real-world systems. By "non-trivial real-world system" we mean an application deployed for real-world use, i.e., outside controlled environments such as laboratories, classrooms or experimental crowd-sourced setups, and that uses NLP and/or speech technology, even if not state of the art in terms of research. There is no requirement that the system be made by a for-profit company, but the users of the system are most likely outside the NLP research community. This track provides an opportunity to highlight the key insights and new research challenges that arise from real world implementations. Relevant areas include system design, efficiency, maintainability and scalability of real-world applications, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Benchmarks and methods for improving the latency and efficiency of systems - Continuous maintenance and improvement of deployed systems - Efficient methods for training and inference - Enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment - Handling unexpected user behaviour - Human-in-the-Loop approaches to application development - Implementation at speed, scale and low-cost - Negative results related to real-world applications - System combination Novel applications and use cases, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Best practices and lessons learned - Case studies, from design to deployment - Description of an application or system - Design of application-relevant datasets - Development of methods under system constraints (model or data size) - Novel, previously unsolved NLP problems and novel NLP applications Methods for deployed systems, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Ethics, bias, fairness, harmlessness and trustworthiness in deployed systems - Interpretability - Interactive systems - Offline and online system evaluation methodologies - Online learning - Robustness In addition, opinion/vision papers related to real-world applications are also welcome. Submissions must clearly identify one of the following three areas they fall into: - _Deployed_: Must describe a system that solves a non-trivial real-world problem. The focus may include describing the problem related to actual use cases, its significance (against opportunity size, value proposition, and ideal end state), design/formulation of methods, tradeoff design decision for solutions, deployment challenges, and lessons learned. - _Emerging_: Must describe the development of a system that solves a non-trivial real-world problem (it need not be deployed or even close, but there needs to be evidence that this development is intended for real-world deployment). Papers that describe enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment of NLP techniques also fall in this category. - _Discovery_: Must include results obtained from NLP applications in real-world scenarios that result in actionable insights. These discoveries should reveal promising directions in their application areas, leading to further system or societal enhancements. For example, an actionable discovery from an analysis of call center transcripts may reveal that certain language choices negatively impact customer experience, leading to better training of service representatives and improved customer experience. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 21 March 2025 Notification of acceptance: 07 May 2025 Camera-ready version of papers due: 23 May 2025 Main conference: 28-30 July 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth). Following the ACL and ARR Policies for Review and Citation [1], updated in early 2024, there is no anonymity period requirement, e.g., one may upload the paper to arXiv at any time. However, please note that the ACL 2025 Industry Track does not use ARR! EVALUATION AND DECISION CRITERIA Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner and assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity. Submissions to the industry track should emphasize real-world implementations of NLP systems, the development of such systems, or provide insights based on real-world datasets with obvious industry impact. For papers that rely heavily on empirical evaluations, the experimental methods and results should be clear, well executed, and reproducible (though the data may be proprietary). SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original, full-length (6 pages) industry track papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or under consideration for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted digitally, in PDF format and formatted using the ACL 2025 formatting requirements. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be desk-rejected. Length and appendices: Industry Track papers cannot exceed 6 pages in length (excluding ethical considerations and references). After the bibliography, papers can have an optional appendix with, e.g., examples or sample inputs/outputs, pre-processing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, pseudocode, information about user studies, additional errors analysis or other details that are necessary for the replication of the work described in the paper. Note, however, that paper submissions must be fully self-contained, i.e., supplementary materials, as provided in the appendix, are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Note that it will not be possible to submit additional separate files as supplementary materials. Double-blind review: Industry Track submissions must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references that reveal the authors' identities must be avoided. For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …" or even "We previously showed (Anonymous, 1991) …", please use "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …". Authors should also be careful not to reveal their affiliation indirectly, for example through screenshots or trade names. Submissions should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: code should be submitted as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Please avoid links to storage services like Dropbox (which may track the reviewers downloading the resources). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be desk-rejected. Citation and comparison: Authors are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to their submission but may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited). In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to a submission, and authors are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis. For more information, see the ACL Policies for Review and Citation [2]. Writing assistance: The ACL 2025 Industry Track adheres to the ACL policy on using writing assistants available here [3]. Submission system: Papers have to be submitted through the ACL 2025 Industry Track online submission system. https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Industry_Track Final version: Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 7 pages; ethical considerations, acknowledgements and references do not count against this limit) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Previous presentations of the work (e.g., preprints on arXiv.org) should be indicated in a footnote that should be excluded from the review submission, but included in the final version of papers appearing in the ACL 2025 proceedings. The final version should remove anonymization in text, citation, and figures. For example, the final version may include the name of the authors' institutions, trade names, and screenshots of identifiable products. Please notice that once the paper has been submitted, no changes to the list of authors are allowed. Presentation requirement for accepted papers: Industry Track papers will be presented orally or as posters to be determined by the program committee. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference (either via online or onsite presence). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for ACL 2025 by the early registration deadline. The ACL 2025 Industry Track will run in parallel with the Research Track. PRESENTATION MODE: ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED ORALLY OR AS POSTERS AS DETERMINED BY THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. THE DECISIONS AS TO WHICH PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED ORALLY AND WHICH AS POSTER PRESENTATIONS WILL BE BASED ON THE NATURE RATHER THAN THE QUALITY OF THE WORK. THERE WILL BE NO DISTINCTION IN THE PROCEEDINGS BETWEEN PAPERS PRESENTED ORALLY AND AS POSTERS. AUTHORSHIP: THE AUTHOR LIST FOR SUBMISSIONS SHOULD INCLUDE ALL (AND ONLY) INDIVIDUALS WHO MADE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORK PRESENTED. EACH AUTHOR LISTED ON A SUBMISSION TO THE ACL 2025 INDUSTRY TRACK WILL BE NOTIFIED OF SUBMISSIONS AND THE FINAL DECISION. NO CHANGES TO THE ORDER OR COMPOSITION OF AUTHORSHIP MAY BE MADE TO SUBMISSIONS TO THE ACL 2025 INDUSTRY TRACK AFTER THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY ACL 2025 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the ACL 2025 review period. This policy covers all refereed and archival conferences and workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL workshops), as well as ARR. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that have been (or will be) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to ACL 2025 must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Submissions of identical or closely related work to multiple ACL 2025 tracks (e.g., to the research track and industry track) will be treated as duplicate submissions. Such submissions violate our multiple submission policy and will be rejected without review. The authors should also include the papers that their paper overlaps with or extends in the references section as follows: _Anonymous Authors_, "_Title of the paper_", _Under submission at ACL 2025 (TRACK NAME)_. ETHICS POLICY Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics [4]. The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and potential applications of our work has always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. Where a paper may raise ethical issues, we ask that you include in the paper an explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in the review process. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns with their work. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 6th page for an optional broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. The ACL review form will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers or ACs will be further reviewed by an ethics committee. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted. Conversely, the mere inclusion of an ethical considerations section does not guarantee acceptance. In addition to acceptance or rejection, papers may receive a conditional acceptance recommendation. Camera-ready versions of papers designated as conditional accept will be re-reviewed by the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately addressed. Please read the ethics FAQ [5] for more guidance on some problems to look out for and key concerns to consider relative to the code of ethics. Industry Track Co-Chairs: - Yunyao Li [6] (Adobe) - Georg Rehm [7] (DFKI GmbH) CONTACT INFORMATION Email: acl-2025-industry-track(a)googlegroups.com [8] General Chair: Roberto Navigli [9] (Sapienza University of Rome) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Is the Industry Track only for participants from industry? No, the Industry Track welcomes participants from the entire ACL community. Researchers working on real-world applications that match the Industry Track call for papers are invited to submit papers. Everyone is welcome to attend Industry Track sessions. What do you mean by real-world applications? We are looking for applications that are deployed (or expected to be deployed) for real-world use, i.e., outside controlled environments such as laboratories, classrooms or experimental crowd-sourced setups. Can students also submit papers to the Industry Track? Yes! If your work matches the Industry Track call for papers, consider submitting a paper to the Industry Track. I work in industry. Can I still submit my paper to the research track? Absolutely! There are no changes to the main conference submissions. The Industry Track offers a forum to submit papers describing aspects of real-world applications that may differ in focus from the research track reviewing criteria. Will the papers in the Industry Track be published in the proceedings? Yes, Industry Track papers will be published as a separate volume of the proceedings. For example, see the ACL 2025 proceedings. How do I decide whether to submit to the research track or the Industry Track? Papers describing key lessons learned and challenges pertaining to real-world deployment of NLP and speech technologies are best suited for Industry Track. Authors are advised to review the call for papers for both tracks and submit to the track that best matches your work. The list of topics and reviewing criteria may be helpful. You can also reach out to the track chairs if you need help deciding. Links: ------ [1] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policies_for_Review_and_Cita… [2] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Review_an… [3] https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/ACL-2023-policy/ [4] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics [5] https://2021.emnlp.org/call-for-papers/ethics-faq [6] https://yunyaoli.github.io/ [7] http://georg-re.hm/ [8] https://groups.google.com/g/acl-2025-industry-track [9] https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/

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ISWC 2025 Call for Submissions
by gasefa24＠gmail.com 02 Feb '25

02 Feb '25

ISWC 2025 Call for Submissions - Various Tracks =========================================== 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) Nara, Japan November 2-6, 2025 Follow us: Twitter/X: @iswc_conf #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iswc/ Mastodon Social: https://mastodon.social/@iswc_conf Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/iswc-conf.bsky.social ISWC 2025 features multiple tracks, i.e., research, resource, in-use, industry, poster & demos, doctoral consortium, workshops, dagstuhl-style workshops, challenges, and tutorials, Hence, authors are kindly asked to check out the calls of each track to choose the one that best fits their contribution. =========================================== Call for Research Track Papers The research track of ISWC 2025 solicits novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical, and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. We welcome work describing original and replicable research showing evidence of significant contribution to the Semantic Web. Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 Research Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-research(a)easychair.org Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria =========================================== Call for Resource Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources that support, enable, or utilize semantic web research. We welcome descriptions of resources that leverage knowledge representation based on Semantic Web standards or other graph data models to improve the acquisition, processing, and sharing of data on the web. Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 Resource Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-resource(a)easychair.org Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, US Angelo Salatino, KMi,The Open University, UK =========================================== Call for In-use Track Papers The In-Use track seeks submissions describing applied research as well as software tools, systems, or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph research communities. Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 In-Use Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-in-use(a)easychair.org Maribel Acosta Technical University of Munich, Germany Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy =========================================== Call for Posters and Demos Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Posters and Demos Track offers an opportunity to showcase late-breaking research results, ongoing research or resource projects, speculative or innovative ideas, and interactive demonstrations. This track is designed to encourage dynamic discussions between presenters and participants, fostering feedback that can shape future research directions. These discussions will offer participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Important Dates: Posters & demos submissions due - July 31st, 2025 Author notifications - August 28th, 2025 Camera-ready submissions due - September 11th, 2025 Posters and Demos Chairs: Contact email: iswc2025-pd(a)easychair.org Gong Cheng Nanjing University, China Shenghui Wang University of Twente, The Netherlands =========================================== Call for Challenges Proposals A great way to advance the state of the art in a given domain is to create competition. We invite you to propose an ISWC 2025 Challenge, in which you define an open competition on a problem of your choice within the Semantic Web domain. Important Dates: Challenge proposal submission due Feb 18th, 2025 Notification of challenge acceptance Mar 2nd, 2025 Semantic Web Challenge Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-challenge(a)easychair.org Mayank Kejriwal University of Southern California, United States Pablo Mendes Upwork, United States =========================================== Call for Workshops Workshops at ISWC play a critical role in fostering focused, intensive scientific exchange on specific topics aligned with the conference’s overarching themes. They provide a unique venue for exploring emerging ideas, discussing novel perspectives on established research, and engaging with related research communities. We encourage proposals for workshops that will inspire meaningful dialogue and collaboration among ISWC attendees, providing a platform to advance research and innovation in this dynamic field. Important dates: Submission deadline - February 18, 2025 Notification to proposers - March 11, 2025 Workshop website and CfP available online - April 8, 2025 Workshop program with list of accepted papers available online - July 29, 2025 Workshop days - November 2-3, 2025 Workshop Chairs: Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Dagstuhl Style Workshops Inspired by the Special Session at ISWC 2024 and the Dagstuhl Seminar model, these workshops are designed to encourage in-depth discussions on challenges or emerging topics within a half-day or full-day event format. The goal is to create a collaborative and open environment for brainstorming and exploring new directions, similar to the spirit of Dagstuhl Seminars. These workshops will prioritize dynamic discussions and the presentation of fresh ideas and ongoing research, rather than requiring participants to submit papers or give formal presentations. Important dates: Submission deadline - July 1, 2025 Notification to proposers - July 11, 2025 Workshop website online - July 25, 2025 Workshop days - November 2-3, 2025 Workshop Chairs Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Tutorials The International Semantic Web Conference 2025 is pleased to announce the Call for Tutorials. Continuing the tradition of excellence, the 2025 edition will feature a comprehensive tutorial program serving the diverse interests and expertise of our audience. These tutorials aim to provide attendees with insights into foundational and cutting-edge topics, practical applications, and the latest advancements in Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, and Linked Data technologies. Important dates: Submission deadline - May 20, 2025 Notification to proposers - June 10, 2025 Tutorial website online - July 8, 2025 Materials available on the website (if any) - August 8, 2025 Tutorial days - November 2-3, 2025 Tutorial chairs: Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Industry Track Papers The Industry Track at ISWC 2025 welcomes extended abstracts about the application of knowledge graphs and semantic technologies in various industrial sectors, aiming to showcase the state of their adoption and the latest trends. It provides an opportunity for industry adopters to highlight and share the key learnings and new research challenges posed by real-world implementations. Important dates: Submissions Due - 1st July 2025 Notifications Due - 29th July 2025 Camera-Ready Papers Due - 11th September 2025 Industry Track Chairs: Contact email: iswc2025-industry(a)easychair.org Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, US Irene Celino Cefriel, Italy =========================================== Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions The DC event is intended for students who have articulated a reasonably detailed research proposal, preferably supported by some preliminary results, but are not yet on the final stretch of their thesis, such that the feedback gathered at the DC will have a maximal impact. The aim is to support the students in refining their proposal and to suggest possible ways to improve their research plan and to achieve results with prospective greater impact. Submissions Due - 3 June 2025 Notifications - 8 July 2025 Camera-ready Submissions Due - 31 July 2025 Doctoral Consortium - 3 November 2025 Doctoral Consortium Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-doctoral-consortium(a)easychair.org Abraham Bernstein University of Zurich, Switzerland Natasha Noy Google Research, US =========================================== All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth) For more details check out the conference website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/

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