We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminars at the University of Exeter.
Talk 1
Scheduled: Thursday 16 Oct 2025 at 13:00 to 14:00, GMT+1
Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94505914598?pwd=eXonSrKHuxUNnMCAmiZHic… (Meeting ID: 945 0591 4598 Password: 903478)
Title: This One or That One? A Bilingual Study on Accessibility via Demonstratives with Multimodal Large Language Models
Abstract: Accessibility describes how easily a speaker can obtain or interact with an object, and it is often conveyed through demonstrative pronouns like “this" and “that" in English or “这” (zhè) and “那” (nà) in Chinese, indicating proximal or distal objects. The proximal vs. distal distinction is not absolute, since it depends on the speaker's viewpoint.
Are Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) able to solve accessibility problems based on demonstratives? In this talk, I would like to present some preliminary results on a referent identification task based on a bilingual (English and Chinese), multimodal dataset. In our experiments, all models show significant struggles, and particularly when perspective shifts are introduced.
Speaker's bio: Emmanuele Chersoni got a joint PhD in Language Sciences from Aix-Marseille University and the University of Pisa in 2018, under the supervision of Philippe Blache and Alessandro Lenci. Since 2021, he is an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Department of Language Science and Technology of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interests include classical distributional semantic models, thematic fit modeling, semantic relations and natural language processing for specialized domains. He has also served as a co-organizer of the *ACL workshop series on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics from 2019 to 2022.
Talk 2
Scheduled: Thursday 23 Oct 2025 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT+1
Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/92868830537?pwd=0yvSNEwhIeC3x2Mxn76zOr… (Meeting ID: 928 6883 0537 Password: 100657)
Title: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Inversion Learning for Highly Effective NLG Evaluation Prompts
Abstract: Evaluating natural language generation (NLG) systems is inherently challenging. While human evaluation remains the gold standard, it is difficult to scale and often suffers from inconsistencies and demographic biases. LLM-based evaluation offers a scalable alternative but is highly sensitive to prompt design, where small variations can lead to significant discrepancies. In this talk, I will introduce an inversion learning method that learns effective reverse mappings from model outputs back to their input instructions, enabling the automatic generation of highly effective, model-specific evaluation prompts. This method is simple, requires only a single evaluation sample, and eliminates the need for manual prompt engineering, thereby improving both the efficiency and robustness of LLM-based evaluation.
Speaker's bio: Chenghua Lin is a Full Professor and Chair in Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, with a focus on language generation, multimodal LLMs, and evaluation methods. He currently serves as Chair of the ACL SIGGEN Board, a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and Associate Editor for Computer Speech and Language. He has received several prizes and awards for his research and academic leadership, including the CIKM Test-of-Time Award, the INLG Best Paper Runner-up Award, and an Honourable Mention for the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Supervisor of the Year Award. He has also held numerous program and chairing roles for *ACL conferences, including Documentation Chair for ACL’25, Publication Chair for ACL’23, Workshop Chair for AACL-IJCNLP’22, Program Chair for INLG’19, and Senior Area Chair for EMNLP’20, ACL’22–’23, EACL’23, NAACL’25, and AACL’25.
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The Psycholinguistics, Information and Computation Lab (PICoL)
<https://picol-georgetown.github.io/> in the Department of Linguistics
<https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/> at Georgetown University is
recruiting candidates for a PhD in Computational Linguistics to start in
Fall 2026. The deadline for applying is December 1, 2025. The lab is
directed by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox <https://wilcoxeg.github.io/>.
Please see this link for more details:
https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/programs/apply/
In PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) we seek to understand how language is
learned and processed in the mind using an interdisciplinary toolbox of
methods, including computational simulations, formal mathematical models,
and psycholinguistic experiments. In addition, we use insights from
linguistics and cognitive science to characterize and improve AI and NLP
technologies. Some of our current research projects include:
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Building mathematical models of real-time language comprehension
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Testing theories of language acquisition using large language models
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Characterizing language model pretraining dynamics
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Developing new experimental methods for psycholinguistics
Applicants with a background in experimental methods are particularly
encouraged to apply this cycle.
Students in the Computational Linguistics program benefit from a range of
courses in NLP and computational modeling techniques, as well as
foundational courses in linguistics. Georgetown has a lively computational
linguistics community <https://gucl.georgetown.edu/> on campus. Applicants
must hold at least a bachelor’s degree by Fall 2026. PhD students in the
Department (domestic as well as international students) benefit from a 5-year
guaranteed funding package including a stipend, tuition scholarship, and
health insurance. For questions, please email ethan.wilcox(a)georgetown.edu
Applicants will be most competitive for the PhD in Computational
Linguistics if they have a background in Computer Science, Linguistics,
Cognitive Science, or a related field. Successful applicants have previous
experience in computer programming and can articulate a clear area of
desired research specialization. Georgetown also offers a 2-year M.S. in
computational linguistics for students who wish to obtain a foundation in
this field.
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Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics
Georgetown University
wilcoxeg.github.io
The Department of Linguistics <https://www.montclair.edu/linguistics/>
at Montclair
State University <https://www.montclair.edu/> invites applications for a
tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, with a start date
of August 2026. We seek a scholar whose work addresses real-world language
challenges in educational, clinical, or communicative contexts, and is
grounded in strong theoretical foundations. We welcome research areas such
as language assessment, AI-assisted language learning, first and second
language acquisition, speech and language disorders, or mental health
communication. We particularly welcome candidates who combine theoretical
insight with applied impact, and whose methodological expertise may include
experimental techniques, corpus analysis, and/or Natural Language
Processing (NLP). The successful candidate will maintain an active research
agenda with potential for external funding and will teach both
undergraduate and graduate courses spanning both theoretical and applied
topics. We value inclusive, student-centered instruction and seek
colleagues who bring a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring in a
diverse academic environment.
*QUALIFICATIONS*
- PhD in Linguistics or a closely related field by the start date
- Demonstrated excellence in teaching and potential for strong scholarly
productivity
- Experience in working with diverse student populations
- Evidence of interdisciplinary collaboration and/or applied impact
- Expertise in experimental, corpus-based, or NLP methods
- Ability to teach foundational and advanced courses across theoretical
and applied areas of linguistics
*STARTING DATE:* August 28, 2026
*REQUIRED MATERIALS: *
Cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and
representative publications, which can be uploaded during the application
process. Candidates who are shortlisted will be asked to provide 3 separate
letters of recommendation.
*APPLY BY:* The position is open until filled, and *application review
begins immediately*.
*Follow this link
<https://montclair.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/JobOpportunities/job/Montclair-NJ/A…>to
apply.*
*Contact information*: lingsearch2026(a)montclair.edu
*Salary Range*: $88,673.69-$97,003.17 Annually
The position may also be eligible for comprehensive benefits, including
health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition assistance. For further
details, please visit: https://www.montclair.edu/human-resources/benefits/
*THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS*
The Department of Linguistics offers a BA in Linguistics, with an option of
a track in Language Engineering, an MA in Applied Linguistics, and both a
Graduate Certificate and an MS in Computational Linguistics, offered
jointly with the School of Computing. TESL/TESOL certificates are available
at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Faculty collaborate across
disciplines, including computer science, psychology, education, and
communication disorders, regularly apply for and secure external research
funding, and conduct research through three labs: the Experimental
Linguistics Lab, the Laboratory for Corpus Research in Applied Linguistics
(CORAL), and the Natural Language Processing Lab. The department is
committed to inclusive teaching that reflects the diversity of the field
and supports a broad range of students.
*THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES*
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is Montclair State’s
largest college, with over 5,000 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral
students. CHSS facilitates traditional and interdisciplinary learning and
is the professional home of many outstanding scholars and instructors
across numerous disciplines, all of whom lend to CHSS’s mission to furnish
academically rigorous and relevant programs of study that contribute to the
development of an informed and engaged civil society. CHSS’s programs
develop in students the abilities to discover, create, evaluate, apply, and
share knowledge, so that they will be able to think critically, act
ethically, and be informed citizen-participants prepared to assume
leadership roles in their communities. CHSS also aims to be responsive to
the needs of society, including via its championing of use-inspired
research collaboratively undertaken by faculty and students, and graduate
programs that train students to apply knowledge in constructive, inspiring,
and practical ways that benefit our local and broader communities.
*MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY*
Building on a distinguished history dating back to 1908, Montclair State
University has evolved from an institution that was a recognized leader in
teacher education to an R2 research institution ranked as one of the 100
best public doctoral universities in the nation. The University serves
22,000 undergraduate and graduate students with more than 300 doctoral,
master's and baccalaureate programs provided by 13 colleges and schools.
Situated on a beautiful 252-acre campus just 12 miles from New York City,
Montclair delivers the instructional and research resources of a large
public university while retaining the supportive and personalized academic
environment that provides a feeling of community more typical of smaller
institutions.
Montclair State University is proud to be committed to the principle of
equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in its recruitment
and employment practices. The University is an inclusive, richly diverse
community that fosters mutual respect, tolerance and understanding among
all students and employees.
*** First Call for Workshop Proposals ***
International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,
and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)
29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences
focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the
International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions,
ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability
Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the
International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions).
We invite you to submit proposals for half-day or full-day workshops in any area related
to the field of Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration, all of which
fall under the broader area of Variability. In particular, workshops on challenging,
emerging areas related to the conference topics are especially sought. We particularly
encourage workshop proposals for highly interactive and collaborative workshops, rather
than mini-conferences, e.g., apart from the traditional short and long papers, consider
allowing position papers with only one page (not included in the proceedings) and focus
on a lively discussion after the presentation, to foster new ideas and gather feedback
(rather than just defending the presented work). The expected date of the workshops
will be the September 29th, 2026, before the main track of the conference.
Submissions / Publishing
VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference proceedings
published by Springer. Moreover, a one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be
published in the proceedings as well.
Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from
different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections and address
each corresponding point:
1. Organizers
• Name: organizers’ full names
• Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs,
and phone
• Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers’ expertise in the field and
experience as workshop organizers
2. Workshop Content
• Title: workshop title and acronym
• Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop (suitable for the conference’s website)
• Tentative Website URL
• Topics and motivation:
• What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop?
• How is the workshop relevant to VARIABILITY?
• How does the workshop connect VARIABILITY to other research communities?
• Goals and expected results:
• Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them
• What are the expected results of the workshop?
• How will these results be disseminated?
• Format:
• What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, invited
talks (please note here that such talks are not financially supported by the conference),
lightning talks, demonstrations, etc.)?
• To avoid duplicated topics and cancellations, did you coordinate with or (plan to)
merge workshops on the same/similar topics from previous years (if there are any)?
• What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction?
• What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities?
• Participants:
• What is the expected number of submissions and participants? Provide a plan for
attracting sufficient submissions and promoting attendance
• If applicable, please provide information from previous or related workshops. Have
there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic? When, where
and with how many participants?
• Special room equipment (please note that VARIABILITY conference and the workshops
are in-person events) like flip charts, microphone, etc.
• Do you plan for a half-day or full-day workshop?
• Program Committee: list of tentative program committee members, names and
affiliations
3. Preliminary Call for Papers
This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections but should
be targeted towards prospective participants. It should address the following items:
• Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals
• Workshop format
• Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals)
• Submission guidelines and review process
• References to previous workshops (websites)
• Dissemination campaign to distribute the CFP
4. References to previous workshops (websites)
Submission Instructions
Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
A workshop proposal must be at most 4 pages long. Submissions must follow the
Springer guidelines:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous editions of the proposed
workshop or other workshops organized by the proposal authors, should be included if
available but are not required for submission.
Acceptance Criteria
Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the
expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop’s potential for
attracting participants and generating useful results. We underline the importance of
active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both
practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of Variability and to identify
elements of joint future work. To obtain a balanced and cohesive workshop program, the
Organizing Committee will collaborate closely with workshop organizers and reserves the
right to circulate proposals to other submitters in view of possible workshop mergers. The
organizers of accepted workshops will be required to create and maintain a website in a
timely manner to serve as a workshop information center and to provide a repository for
documenting pre- and post-workshop activities.
At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend VARIABILITY 2026
in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published.
The submission and review platform for workshop papers will be the one for the main
conference (i.e., all workshops will be as different tracks under the same Easy Chair
installation).
Important Dates (AoE)
• Workshop Proposals: 2 March 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: 16 March 2026
• Workshop Papers Submission: 15 June 2026
• Workshop Papers Notification: 7 July, 2026
• Camera-Ready Version Submission: 14 July, 2026
• Workshop Summary: 14 July, 2026
• Author Registration: 14 July, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium
Research Track Chairs
• Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany
Industry Track Chairs
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Journal First Track Chairs
• Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France
• Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs
• Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Demos and Tools Track Chairs
• Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco
Projects Showcase Chairs
• Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden
• Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France
Hall of Fame Chairs
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland
• Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Workshops Chairs
• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
• Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany
Tutorials Chairs
• Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands
• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Proceedings Chair
• Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK
Publicity Chairs
• Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA
• Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan
Local Organiser and Finance Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
[??]First Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026)
Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/home
Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshops/NLP4MusA
Shared Task: Conversational Music Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS)
- Challenge information: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/shared-task
- Baselines: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-baselines
- Evaluations: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-evaluator
Contact: nlp4musa2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:nlp4musa2026@gmail.com>
== About the Workshop ==
Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content - such as songs or podcasts - contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations.
We welcome submissions on topics such as:
NLP for Music and Audio Understanding
- Music Tagging and Auto-tagging, Knowledge Graph Construction, Semantic Ontologies
- Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, and Entity Linking
- Multimodal Representation Learning, Lyrics and Symbolic Representation Analysis
- Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Culture-specific Music Understanding, Corpora Bias
- Music Captioning and Description Generation
NLP for Music Retrieval or Recommendation
- Conversational Interfaces, Query understanding and Intent Prediction
- Multimodal, Cross-modal Music Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems
- Natural Language User Modeling
- Music Question Answering
- Fairness and Transparency
NLP for Music and Audio Generation
- Lyrics Generation, Audio/Symbolic Query-driven Music Generation
- Synthetic Music Content Detection
== Submission Instructions ==
We invite short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (ACL Anthology) and presented orally or as posters.
The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here (no Word templates is provided): https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
Shared tasks papers should be submitted as a 2-page report describing the solution, using the same LaTeX template above (see specific instructions on the website). The best works will be selected for oral or poster presentations.
== Key Dates (tentative, AoE) ==
Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026
Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026
Shared Task: Important Dates
Shared task release: October 15, 2025
Submission site opens: December 1, 2025
Blind evaluation dataset release: December 1, 2025
Final submission deadline: December 19, 2025
Results notification: January 23, 2026
== Organizers ==
Elena V. Epure, Deezer
Sergio Oramas, SiriusXM
SeungHeon Doh, KAIST
Anna Kruspe, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Mohamed Sordo, SiriusXM
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Call for papers for issue 76 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
http://www.sepln.org/en/journalhttp://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines
Introduction
The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses.
The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 1.61 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality.
Topics
NLP for low-resource languages
Efficient and sustainable NLP methods
Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP
Truthworthy and explainability in NLP
Security and privacy in NLP
Text and Multimodal Generation
Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision
Knowledge and common sense
Computational lexicography and terminology
Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Morphological and Syntactic analysis
Corpus linguistics
Development of linguistic resources and tools
Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
Machine translation
Speech synthesis and recognition
Audio indexing and retrieval
Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants
Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
Question answering systems
Automatic textual content analysis
Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining
Plagiarism detection
Negation and speculation processing
Text summarization
Text simplification
Image retrieval
NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education)
Submission Information
The proposal must be submitted by November 29nd, 2025 and must meet certain format and style requirements.
All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system.
Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee.
Categories of papers
Regular papers with original contributions.
Summary of PhD thesis.
Information for Authors
The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses.
The papers must include the following sections:
The title of the communication (in English and Spanish).
An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words).
A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish).
The documents must not include headers or footers.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal.
We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines
Note on camera ready
The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper.
Preprint policy
The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper.
Important dates
Submission deadline: November 29nd, 2025
Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2026
Camera ready: February 7th, 2026
Publication: March 2026
Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus)
Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
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Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 76
http://www.sepln.org/la-revistahttp://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores
Objetivos de la revista
La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales.
La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 1,61 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad.
Áreas temáticas
PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados
Diversidad y PNL para lenguas de bajos recursos
Métodos de PNL eficientes y sostenibles
LLM: Diseño, Creación, Evaluación
Ética, Sesgo y Equidad en la PNL
PNL veraz y explicable
Seguridad y Privacidad en PNL
Generación Texto y Multimodal
Multimodalidad y fundamento del lenguaje para la visión
Conocimiento y sentido común
Teorías lingüísticas, modelado cognitivo y psicolingüística
Análisis Morfológico y Sintáctico
Lingüística de corpus
Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas
Semántica, pragmática y discurso
Traducción automática
Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla
Indexación y recuperación de Audio
Sistemas de diálogo y sistemas interactivos/Asistentes conversacionales
Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe
Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas
Análisis automático de contenido textual
Análisis de opiniones, emociones y minería de la argumentación
Detección de plagio
Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación
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Envío de trabajos
Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 29 de Noviembre de 2025.
El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema OpenReview.
La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN.
Tipos de trabajos
Artículos sobre contribuciones originales.
Reseñas de tesis doctorales.
Instrucciones para los Autores
Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis.
Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados:
El título del artículo (en español e inglés).
Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras.
Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés).
Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página.
Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta.
En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario.
Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores
Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista.
Nota sobre la versión final
La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión.
Política de prepublicación
La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo.
Fechas importantes
Envío de trabajos: 29 de Noviembre 2025
Notificación de aceptación/rechazo: 27 de Enero 2026
Versión final: 7 de febrero de 2026
Publicación: Marzo de 2026
Persona de contacto:Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus)
Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.
Dear all,
Here is our CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects:
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VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties;
- Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation;
- Automatic classification of language varieties;
- Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects;
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
- Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);
- Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages;
- Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/).
Important Dates
- Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
- Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026
- Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD)
Organizers
Yves Scherrer - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Noëmi Aepli - University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Verena Blaschke - LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany)
Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE)
Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA)
Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi
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Best regards,
Verena Blaschke
The Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on multilingual NLP:
https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:866727
The position is not tied to a specific project, so candidates are asked to submit their own project proposal with the application. Questions about the position can be directed to joakim.nivre(a)lingfil.uu.se.
När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/
E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy
Dear all,
Below is a call for submissions to our annual contest for student
writers. Contributions from students of computational linguistics are
most welcome.
Sincerely,
Tristan Miller
Babel Advisory Panel
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Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> is running the
11th edition of its Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young
linguists who are starting out on their study of language.
The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and
higher education. The winner(s) will have their article published in
Babel and receive a year's subscription to the magazine.
Competition guidelines:
Deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025
Length: 2000 to 2500 words
Topic: Entries can be on any linguistic topic -- the important thing is
that the discussion of it is accessible and interesting.
Format: Entries should be clearly presented in a Word file, with images
submitted as separate high-resolution JPEGs.
Submission: By e-mail to babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com with the
subject "Young Writers' Competition"
For inspiration, you can browse past articles in the sample issues
available for free on the magazine's website, or check out articles
featured on the magazine's social media accounts:
Bluesky: @babelzine.bsky.social
X: @Babelzine
Instagram: @babel_zine
Mastodon: @babel@masto.ai
Please e-mail babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com if you have any
questions about the competition.
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Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
https://clam.logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792
*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award ***
*** Last Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award
The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS)
in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> .
This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference.
Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop).
The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are:
1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS;
2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals;
3. Broadly inspired the community;
4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field.
To nominate a publication for this award, please send by October 31, 2025 the full
reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu).
2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award.
The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications.
Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment.
Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems.
Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth)
Selection procedure:
The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably.
The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level.
Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025:
a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference.
b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers.
c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025.
d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ”
Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline.
Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award.
For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.