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Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart)
by Michael Roth 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

________________________________________ Von: Agnieszka Faleńska <agnieszka.falenska(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Gesendet: Montag, 24. November 2025 10:29 An: Roth, Michael (UTN) Betreff: Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart) Warning: This email was sent by an external email address. Please verify if this email is authentic. Attachments, links or intent might be harmful. Dear colleagues, We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the interdisciplinary project "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" (APHIC) at the University of Stuttgart. The project is led by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska [1] and Prof. Judith Tonhauser [2] under the IRIS-HISIT initiative. Project APHIC is part of the "Human-Intelligent Systems Interaction and Teaming" (IRIS-HISIT) programme [3] funded by the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg [4]. The project investigates authority presuppositions—implicit assumptions that an AI system has the expertise to deliver high-stakes advice (e.g., medical or legal). The project aims to (1) develop a theoretically grounded taxonomy of authority presuppositions, and (2) design and evaluate conversational repair strategies that maintain trust and informativeness while ensuring user safety. Position • Duration: 18 months • Start: February 2026 (latest starting date: July 2026) • Salary: TV-L 13 (100%), see [5] for details • Environment: The researcher will be embedded in the IRIS community [6] and collaborate closely with colleagues at the Institute for Natural Language Processing [7] and the Institute of Linguistics [8]. Candidate Profile • PhD in linguistics, computational linguistics, or a related field • Background in formal pragmatics is an advantage • Strong programming skills • Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research • Proficiency in English (German not required) How to Apply Please submit one PDF containing: • a brief motivation letter outlining your research interests, • your CV with publication list • contact information for one to two references. Applications should be sent to: Agnieszka Faleńska (agnieszka.falenska at ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://ims.uni-stuttgart.de/>). Applications received before 15th December 2025 will be given full consideration. The position will remain open until filled, so do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening after 15th of December. The University of Stuttgart would like to increase the proportion of women in the scientific field and is therefore particularly interested in applications from women. Severely disabled persons are given priority in the case of equal suitability. University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university in Germany. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly, both nationally and internationally. The city of Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is a lively and international city, known for its strong economy and rich culture. With Germany's high-speed train system, it is well-connected to many other interesting places, for instance, Munich and Cologne (~2.5 hours), Paris (~3.5 hours), Berlin (~5.5 hours), Strasbourg (<1.5 hours), and Lake of Constance (~2.5 hours). Links [1] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska> [2] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/> [3] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interaction-an…<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interac…> [4] mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite<http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite> [5] oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025<http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025> [6] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/> [7] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/> [8] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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CfP Special Issue - Information - Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for the analysis of online social behavior
by Thomas Mandl 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

Special Issue on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for the analysis of online social behavior. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J Natural language processing has seen tremendous progress in recent years and many technologies can be applied and adopted to social media discourse. This Special Issue will collect contributions from diverse domains that leverage NLP technologies for relevant questions regarding human behavior. Potential topics that could be explored in this Special Issue include the following: 1. How can NLP be used to analyze social media posts and comments related to social issues like climate change? What insights can be gained into public opinion and sentiment on these topics? 2. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to everyday life, such as conversations about food, travel, or hobbies? What can be learned about human behavior and preferences through this type of analysis? 3. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to political attitudes and behaviors? What insights can be gained into how people engage with politics online? 4. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to discourse behavior, such as online debates, discussions, and arguments? What can be learned about how people engage with each other online and how this relates to offline interactions? 5. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to negative impacts, such as hate speech, cyberbullying, online harassment, or the spread of misinformation? What insights can be gained into the causes and consequences of these phenomena? These are just a few examples of the many potential topics that could be explored in this Special Issue. I am sure there are many more exciting areas of research that could be explored through the application of NLP technologies to social media discourse. What are some of the specific research questions or topics that you'd like to see explored in this Special Issue? Some discounts for the APC are available Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl /Guest Editor/ https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J

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SCOLIA 2026 at ECIR – Call for Papers and Shared Tasks
by Ingo Frommholz 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === CALL FOR PAPERS & SHARED TASKS === **************************************************************************** The 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA ’26) held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '26), April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026 **************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit your contribution to the 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026), following SCOLIA 2025 and the successful BIR workshop series (https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/), to be held as part of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026, https://ecir2026.eu/) in Delft, The Netherlands. https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026 The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Delft (NL). === Important Dates === All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone - Submissions: 19th January 2026 - Notifications: 1st March 2026 - Camera Ready Contributions: 15th March 2026 - Workshop: 2nd April 2026 === tl;dr === The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop. === Keywords === Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing === Workshop Topics === SCOLIA 2026 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g., * Chatting with papers via chatbots * Bibliometrics & Scientometrics and IR * Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review * Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission * Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature * Recommendation of citations based on the context * Discourse modelling and argument mining * Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation * Agent-based scholarly search and recommendation * Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs. * Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g., * Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM * Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references * Simulated users. * User Models and Collections, e.g., * Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search * Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction * Building test collections. * Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g., * Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers * Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour * Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers, scientific fact checking and claim verification * Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper * Flagging predatory conferences and journals. We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. In addition to regular research papers we encourage the submission of shared task proposals (4 pages). Shared tasks are to be presented at SCOLIA 2026 and carried out so that participants’ results can be presented at SCOLIA 2027 in a dedicated session. Proposals should contain a brief discussion the tasks to be carried out highlighting their connection to SCOLIA’s goals, artefacts expected to be submitted by participants, the evaluation setup including datasets and measures, a preliminary timeline as well as details on organisers. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. * CEURART: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip, Overleaf template of CEURART: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… * Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2026 Page limits: * Full paper: 12 pages excluding references * Short paper: 6 pages excluding references * Shared task proposal: 4 pages excluding references Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation). === Workshop Chairs === Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse & Institut Universitaire de France, France For any enquiries please email scolia2026(a)easychair.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ — Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor and Head of School of Applied Data Science Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Chair, BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, UK Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #18
by Costas Gabrielatos 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 19 December 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). * Topic: Philosophies of Language and Corpus Linguistics * Speaker: Alan Partington (SiBol Group / CoLiTec) * Title: Language Distrusted, Language Ignored, Language Recovered: From Plato to Corpus Linguistics and Beyond The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 17 December. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
by Gualtiero Volpe 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

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program now set for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160 We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day. If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to the online program and get in touch with our presenters to find out more about their innovative work in the field. And please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com to find out more about how NARNiHS can help you develop your work in Historical Sociolinguistics. Kelly Elizabeth Wright NARNiHS Convenor on behalf of the NARNiHS 2026 organizers

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Circle U, NLPL, & OpenEuroLLM 2026 Winter School on Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation
by Andrey Kutuzov 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We again invite participants to a three-day winter school on web-scale NLP research, with a thematic focus on multilinguality in LLM development and evaluation. The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by the following invited speakers: - Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - Laurie Burchell and Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl - Max Idahl, ellamind - Julia Kreutzer, Cohere for Labs - other international experts to be confirmed (please monitor the school web page for updates) The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL) network and Digital Europe project OpenEuroLLM (https://openeurollm.eu/). It seeks to stimulate community formation, i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC consortium (https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en) and is endorsed as a doctoral training event in the European Circle U university alliance (https://www.circle-u.eu/). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 2–4, 2026, in Norway. For additional information, please see: https://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and the organizers will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on November 28, another one on December 5, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Friday, December 19, 2025. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2026! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team) -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Application still open: Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Application for Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) is still open until 23.11.2025: https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/7d827ce2da7b901b5456d2297a87… -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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HumanCLAIM workshop, 16th/17th of March, Goettingen
by Beinborn, Lisa 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

The HumanCLAIM workshop is back for its fourth edition. Join us in Göttingen for a human-centered perspective on language technology. We expect an interdisciplinary audience of researchers from computer science, linguistics, and cognitive science, and hope that many of you join us. Date: 16th/17th of March, 2026 Location: Gauss’ historic observatory, Göttingen, Germany Participation is free of charge, but we have limited capacity. Please register before the 15th of December: https://clap-lab.github.io/workshop Keynote Speakers: 1) Tessa Verhoef is the co-founder of the Creative Intelligence Lab at Leiden University. She works towards better understanding language evolution and will talk about her research on emergent linguistic structure in agent communication. 2) Terra Blevins leads the LiLaC lab at Northeastern University in Boston. She studies cross-lingual transfer and works on modeling approaches for low-resource languages to overcome the curse of multilinguality. Poster session: The poster session is the heart of the workshop. Participants get the chance to discuss their work on multilingual and cognitively inspired modeling and receive feedback from interdisciplinary experts including Ece Takmaz (Univ. of Utrecht), Valentin Hofmann (Allen Institute for AI), Lukas Galke (Univ. of South Denmark), Sina Zarrieß (Univ. of Bielefeld), Stefan Frank (Univ. of Nijmegen), Miryam de Lhoneux (Univ. of Leuven), David R. Reich (Univ. of Zurich). Idea pitches: You have an idea but lack expertise? We will make time for focused knowledge exchange in smaller groups. Several ongoing cooperations and grants have started at our workshop. Workshop dinner: Our workshop focuses on personal interaction. We hope you join the group dinner on Monday evening. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. The HumanCLAIM organization committee: Lisa Beinborn, Urja Khurana, Zhuojing Huang, Luise Pohlmann Useful Links: - Workshop info and registration: https://clap-lab.github.io/workshop - Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3zKE9sPnMZKTzhPH8 - Tessa Verhoef: https://sites.google.com/view/tessa-verhoef/home - Terra Blevins: https://blvns.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Lisa Beinborn Human-Centered Data Science https://huds.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute for Computer Science University of Göttingen -------------------------------------------------

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CfP: ICE Corpora in the Age of AI. Pre-conference workshop @ ICAME 47
by Neumann, Stella 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

+++ Apologies for cross-postings +++ *Call for Papers* ICE Corpora in the Age of AI. Pre-conference workshop @ ICAME 47 The International Copus of English (ICE) project, founded in 1990 (Greenbaum 1996, Greenbaum & Nelson 1996), has been a tremendous success: 15 ICE corpora of Englishes around the world have been completed to date and numerous articles on the use and structures of varieties of English have been published on findings generated by these corpora. What role do the ICE corpora play today, 35 years after their conception? On the one hand, 35 years after their conception, ICE corpora are increasingly being criticised as being too small, using an outdated data format and being difficult to handle for automatic analyses. Moreover, those ICE corpora collected 20 years ago may be considered outdated or at least not representing the contemporary use of the respective variety of English anymore (e.g. Botha & Bernaisch 2025). More generally, the original design, to some extent modeled on contexts of use applying to Great Britain, turned out not to match the reality of all varieties of English. On the other hand, ICE corpora have been shown to still constitute excellent sources for research on varieties of English even in comparison with big data (Loureiro-Porto 2017). In particular, coverage of a range of spoken and written registers sets the ICE corpora apart from more recent corpora. By the same token, some ICE corpora have been updated and extended to include modern data formats as well as new annotations (e.g., Conrad et al. 2025, Gut & Fuchs 2017, Schützler et al. 2017, Kallen & Kirk 2012, Wong et al. 2011, Wunder et al. 2010). This workshop addresses the question of what role ICE corpora can play in the age of AI: Do they still constitute a good source for research, especially compared to the mega corpora of online data? How can they be updated for easier processing? How can new ICE cropora be collected using AI methods such as Whisper for the automatic transcription of spoken data? Should they be increased in size? Should new text categories be added and/or the original corpus design be revised? How can we be sure not to include texts generated by AI? The workshop is intended to bring together people involved in the (i) compilation, (ii) computational handling and (iii) use of the International Corpus of English. We invite submissions of abstracts addressing perspectives in compiling, computationally handling and using the International Corpus of English in the age of AI. Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references), using the ICAME format <https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/>, and should be sent to the workshop organisers by December 10 2025. Organisers Ulrike Gut, Universität Münster Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen University Gerold Schneider, Universität Zürich Conference website https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/ References Botha, W., & Bernaisch, T. (2025). World Englishes and sociolinguistic variation. World Englishes, 44, 2–11. DOI: 10.1111/weng.12695 Conrad, S., Neumann, S., Frenken, F., & Schneider, G. (2025). Updating the international corpus of English for the 21st century: Towards a standardized XML-compliant markup. Corpus Linguistics 2025 Book of Abstracts, 74. Gut, U., & Fuchs, R. (2017). Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora. World Englishes, 36, 387–403. Greenbaum, S. (1996). Comparing English Worldwide. Oxford University Press. Greenbaum, S., & Nelson, G. (1996). The International Corpus of English (ICE) project. World Englishes, 15, 3–15. Kallen, J. & Kirk, J. (2012). SPICE-Ireland: A User’s Guide. https://johnmkirk.etinu.net/johnmkirk/documents/003648.pdf Loureiro-Porto, L. (2017). ICE vs GloWbE: Big data and corpus compilation. World Englishes, 36, 448–70. DOI: 10.1111/weng.12281 Schützler, O., Gut, U., & Fuchs, R. (2017). New perspectives on Scottish Standard English. Introducing the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English. In S. Hancil & J. Beal (Eds.), Perspectives on Northern Englishes (pp. 273–301). De Gruyter Mouton. Wong, D., Cassidy, S., & Peters, P. (2011). Updating the ICE annotation system: Tagging, parsing and validation. Corpora, 6(2), 115–144. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2011.0009 Wunder, E.-M., Voormann, H., & Gut, U. (2010). The ICE Nigeria corpus project: Creating an open, rich and accurate corpus. ICAME Journal, 34, 78–88. Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft RWTH Aachen University Institut für Anglistik Zi. 101 Kármánstr. 17/19 D-52062 Aachen Tel. +49 (0)241 80-96105

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