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GermEval @KONVENS 2025 - SustainEval - Training Data Release
by Jakob, Charlott Frederike 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

3rd Call for Participation: SustainEval Shared Task 2025 - Understanding Sustainability Reports 🔹Training data is published 🔹Registration is open 🔹Validation phase started We invite system and paper submissions for SustainEval 2025, a GermEval Shared Task co-located with KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany, in September 2025. With this shared task, we aim to fuel research on automatic analysis and detection of greenwashing by challenging participants to build systems that categorise excerpts from German-language sustainability reports for (A) content class and (B) statement verifiability rating. Important Links: * Website: https://sustaineval.github.io/ * Codabench Task A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7630/ * Codabench Task B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7633/ * Data Repo: https://github.com/SustainEval/sustaineval2025_data Important Dates: * Development Data Release: 12th March 2025 * Training Data Release: 14th April 2025 * Registration Deadline / Start Evaluation Phase: 10th June 2025 * Results Submission Deadline: 27th June 2025 * Paper Submission Deadline: 11th July 2025 * Camera-ready Deadline: 15th Aug 2025 * Workshop & Final Presentation: 10th Sept 2025 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at sustaineval(a)gmail.com<mailto:sustaineval@gmail.com>. Best regards, The Shared Task Organizers Jakob Prange, Universität Augsburg (contact for task-specific questions): jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de<mailto:jakob.prange@uni-a.de> Charlott Jakob, TU Berlin (contact for organisational questions): c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de<mailto:c.jakob@tu-berlin.de> Annemarie Friedrich, Universität Augsburg —————————————————— Charlott Jakob (she/her) Academic Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science Faculty IV Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Technische Universität Berlin Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin, Germany

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Call for participation: ADoBo 2025 dev set released
by ELENA ALVAREZ MELLADO 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

The dev set for ADoBo 2025 shared task on automatic detection of borrowings in Spanish has been released and is now live on Codabench. https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/ To gain access to the data, make submissions and check the leaderboard please join the competition at Codabench. The development phase will end on May 5th. Updates on the task will be announced on ADoBo website and Google group. https://adobo-task.github.io/ https://groups.google.com/g/adobo-task TIMELINE April 21: Dev set released.<https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/> May 6: Test set released. May 19: Systems output submissions. May 26: Results posted and Test set with GS annotations released. June 2: Working notes paper submission. June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). June 23: Camera ready paper submission. September: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University. Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Oficina de Protección de datos<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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CFP - Extension de date de soumission - Atelier 4AS@TALN2025 - Représentations Sémantiques
by Maxime Amblard 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

[english version below] **************************** Atelier 4 AS Atelier sur les Avancées en AMR et en Analyse Sémantiques 4AS@TALN2025 - Marseille - 30 juin 2025 **************************** https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/fr/atelier-4-as/ **************************** -> Nouvelle date de soumission 27 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) Beaucoup de chercheurs et chercheuses ont rêvé de créer une intelligence artificielle générale et pour cela ont imaginé d’exploiter la sémantique du langage (parsing et génération). Aujourd’hui nous nous rapprochons de cette possibilité quand nous voyons la capacité des modèles à appréhender des problèmes complexes. Mais, aucun de ces systèmes n’exploite véritablement l’analyse sémantique qui reste un terrain de recherche fertile du point de vue des formalismes, des architectures/modèles et des publications. Bien qu’imparfait, un formalisme tentant de faire le lien entre ces différentes problématiques, les AMR, a concentré beaucoup d'efforts. Cet atelier vise à réunir les différentes équipes qui s’intéressent à la sémantique du langage avec trois objectifs. • Faire le point sur les différentes approches d’exploitation de la sémantique du langage, ses différents formalismes (DRS, AMR, Yarn, …) et leurs usages (modèles d’IA plus frugale, répondre à des problèmes où la sémantique a des avantages clairs par rapport des LLMs, ...). Un focus sera fait sur l’AMR, ses forces, faiblesses, ses successeurs potentiels et évolutions à venir. • Identifier et positionner les différentes ressources utiles à l'analyse sémantique. Si le développement d'un Propbank en français n'apparaît pas comme une stratégie gagnante, porter le développement d'un alignement des mots du français vers Propbank, dans la ligné de VerbNet et Semlink serait intéressant. La question des corpus annotés est aussi largement ouverte. • Echanger les différents points de vue sur l’intérêt de poursuivre cette recherche face aux capacités des très grands modèles de langue (LLM), la meilleure façon de structurer cette recherche (projets collaboratifs par exemple) et de communiquer auprès d’un vaste public. -------------------- Thèmes -------------------- L'atelier sollicite des communications qui abordent un ou plusieurs des thèmes suivants : • Interface syntaxe-sémantique ; • Les ressources pour la sémantique • Expansion ou couplage de ressources sémantiques avec des LLM ; • Conception et annotation des représentations sémantiques ; • Comparaison des framework de représentations sémantiques ; • Génération automatique de textes à partir de représentations de sens ; • Forces et faiblesses des représentations sémantiques existantes ; • Utilisation des représentations sémantique dans des applications réelles ; • Application des représentations sémantiques et multilinguismes ; • Multimodalité dans les représentations du sens ; • La relation entre les représentations symboliques du sens et les représentations sémantiques distribuées ; • Propriétés formelles des représentations de sens ; -------------------- Soumission -------------------- La longueur attendue des soumissions est de 4 pages, augmentée d'une page pour les versions camera ready. Les soumissions doivent être rédigées selon la feuille de style ci-dessous et être soumises sous forme de fichiers PDF via le système EasyChair. Les traductions de soumissions précédemment acceptées dans des conférences de plus grande envergure sont acceptées. Système de soumission est une track 4AS sur le site easychair de la conférence principale : https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=coriataln2025 Les feuilles de style sont communes à TALN, CORIA, RECITAL et RJCRI, voir sur le site web -------------------- Dates -------------------- • Date limite de soumission : 22 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) -> Nouvelle date de soumission 27 avril 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Notification : 7 Mai 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Camera Ready version : 14 Mai 2025 (anywhere on earth) En intégrant les contraintes de calendrier, aucune extension ne sera possible. -------------------- Organisateurices -------------------- • Maxime Amblard (Loria, Université de Lorraine) • Maria Boritchev (Telecom Paris Tech) • Bruno Guillaume (Inria) • Johannes Heinecke (Orange) • Frédéric Herledan (Orange) *********************************************************************************************************************************** Workshop 4 AS Workshop on Advances in AMR and Semantic Analysis 4AS@TALN2025 - Marseille - June, 30th 2025 **************************** https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/fr/atelier-4-as/ **************************** -> New deadline: April 27th 2025 (anywhere on earth) Many researchers have dreamed of creating general artificial intelligence, and to do so have imagined exploiting the semantics of language (parsing and generation). Today, we’re getting closer to this possibility when we see the ability of models to grasp complex problems. But none of these systems really exploits semantic analysis, which remains a fertile field of research in terms of formalisms, architectures/models and publications. Although imperfect, a formalism that attempts to bridge these different issues, AMR, has been the focus of much effort. This workshop aims to bring together the various teams working on language semantics, with three objectives. • Take stock of the different approaches to exploiting language semantics, its various formalisms (DRS, AMR, Yarn, …) and their uses (more frugal AI models, answering problems where semantics has clear advantages over LLMs, …). The focus will be on AMR, its strengths, weaknesses, potential successors and future developments. • Identify and position the various resources useful for semantic analysis. While the development of Propbank in French does not appear to be a winning strategy, the development of a word alignment from French to Propbank, along the lines of VerbNet and Semlink, would be interesting. The question of annotated corpora is also wide open. • Exchange different points of view on the interest of pursuing this research in the face of the capabilities of very large language models (LLMs), the best way of structuring this research (collaborative projects, for example) and communicating to a wide audience. -------------------- Themes -------------------- The workshop invites papers that address one or more of the following themes: • Syntax-Semantics Interface; • Resources for semantics; • Expanding or coupling semantic resources with LLMs ; • Designing and annotating semantic representations; • Comparison of semantic representation frameworks; • Automatic text generation from meaning representations; • Strengths and weaknesses of existing semantic representations; • Use of semantic representations in real-life applications; • Application of semantic representations and multilingualism ; • Multimodality in meaning representations; • The relationship between symbolic representations of meaning and distributed semantic representations; • Formal properties of meaning representations; -------------------- Submission -------------------- The expected length of submissions is 4 pages, plus one page for camera ready versions. Submissions must follow the style sheet below and be submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair system. Translations of previously accepted submissions to larger conferences are accepted. The submission system is a 4AS track on the easychair site of the main conference: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=coriataln2025 Style sheets are common to TALN, CORIA, RECITAL and RJCRI. An Overleaf model is available here: Feuilles de style CORIA-TALN 2025, see on the website. -------------------- Date -------------------- • Submission dead-line: April 22th, 2025 -> New deadline: April 27th 2025 (anywhere on earth) • Notification: May 7th, 2025 • Camera Ready version: May 14th, 2025 Given the time constraints, no extension will be possible. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- • Maxime Amblard (Loria, Université de Lorraine) • Maria Boritchev (Telecom Paris Tech) • Bruno Guillaume (Inria) • Johannes Heinecke (Orange) • Frédéric Herledan (Orange) ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Université de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard http://espoir-ul.fr Si vous lisez ce message en dehors de vos heures de travail, merci de ne le traiter qu’en cas d’urgence avérée.

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[2nd CFP] EcoDL 2025: Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice
by D'Souza, Jennifer 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

EcoDL 2025: The 1st Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice in conjunction with TPDL 2025 EcoDL 2025 aims to explore the integration of AI, digital libraries, and FAIR data principles in ecological research to improve knowledge synthesis and predictive modeling. Ecology's complexity and data heterogeneity present challenges in generalization, requiring advanced computational tools for structured knowledge representation, search, and decision support. We invite researchers from ecology, AI, and digital information systems to discuss AI-driven data synthesis, semantic search, causal inference, and machine learning applications in biodiversity and conservation. Through interdisciplinary contributions, EcoDL 2025 seeks to foster innovation in ecological informatics, supporting open science and advancing digital methods for ecological research and environmental sustainability. ************************************************************** Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/ecodl2025/ Paper Submission Deadline: 16th May 2025 (AoE) *************************************************************** Topics of interest ------------ The EcoDL 2025 workshop welcomes submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics: · Knowledge graphs and structured ecological data representation o Biodiversity knowledge graphs o Linked open data for integrating scattered ecological knowledge sources o Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts o Semantic annotation and classification of ecological data o AI-driven taxonomy generation for ecological datasets · Advanced search and retrieval for ecological and environmental data o Neural search for literature and reports: Improving retrieval of species, habitats, and ecosystem information o Improving retrieval of study question, research hypothesis and applied method o LLMs for information extraction: Capturing species interactions, climate impacts, and conservation policies o Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for ecological research: Hybrid AI systems for answering complex scientific questions o Multimodal search for biodiversity and environmental studies: Combining text, image, and geospatial data retrieval o Automated knowledge discovery from climate and biodiversity repositories · FAIR data principles in ecological research o Data interoperability o Open science infrastructure for ecological and environmental data o Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts o FAIR data and software o Data lifecycle management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse) o NanopublicationsMapping-based Knowledge Graph Construction · AI for assisting ecological research o AI-based literature review o AI-driven synthesis of ecological knowledge: taking complexity and context-dependence into account o Monitoring biases in study system, study regions and methods in ecological research o Tracking Misinformation in Climate Science Using NLP: Identifying and mitigating the spread of false environmental claims · Digital libraries and ecological informatics o Methods for digitizing and analyzing historical ecological archives o Indigenous knowledge and digital archives for sustainability o AI-powered environmental storytelling and digital heritage o Human-nature interactions in digital libraries o Digitization and NLP for analyzing historical climate data · Methods for integrating heterogeneous ecological datasets o Integrating remote sensing data with ecological repositories o Multimodal search for biodiversity studies · Applications of AI in ecosystem restoration, conservation planning and decision-making o AI-powered decision support systems for restoration and conservation o Lay summaries based on ecological evidence o Impact assessment of conservation policies via digital libraries · Reflections on knowledge synthesis in ecology and on the contributions of AI o Evaluating the role of AI in ecological research o Challenges and limitations of AI-driven ecological modeling o The impact of automated systems on scientific knowledge creation o Ethical considerations in AI-assisted ecological analysis o Future directions for AI in knowledge synthesis for ecology Submission guidelines ---------------- The EcoDL workshop solicits submissions in any of the following three formats: § Long Papers: Up to 15 LNCS style pages, including references. § Short Papers: Up to 10 LNCS style pages, including references. § Abstracts: Up to 2 LNCS style pages, including references. All accepted long and short workshop papers will be published in the proceedings of the Springer series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the following link<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Abstract submissions will be invited as poster presentations, to foster discussion and networking at the workshop, but will not be compiled in the proceedings. Important dates ----------- Paper Submission: 16th May 2025 (AOE) Acceptance Notification: 20th June 2025 (AOE) Camera-ready Version: 10th July 2025 (AOE) Workshop: 23rd September 2025 in Tampere, Finland The EcoDL 2025 Workshop is collocated with the The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) https://tpdl2025.github.io/, 23rd to 26th September 2025. EcoDL 2025 Organising Committee ---------------- Jennifer D'Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Tina Heger, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany Marie Kaiser, Bielefeld University, Germany The list of workshops and tutorials at TPDL this year can be found at https://tpdl2025.github.io/Program/workshops_tutorials.html

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Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking
by Chloé Braud 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Call for Interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking Call for expression of interest: DISRPT 2025 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking In conjunction with CODI-CRAC & EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9. This year, we are organizing the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on discourse processing across formalisms, for a variety of languages and genres, with three subtasks: * Task 1: discourse segmentation * Task 2: connective identification * Task 3: relation classification We will provide training, development and test datasets from all available languages in RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies, using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for discourse units. For datasets which have treebanks, we will evaluate segmentation in two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax. An automatically parsed version is provided for all corpora without a gold parse. This year, the shared task will feature: * the inclusion of more frameworks, with datasets from: RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies * the inclusion of new corpora and new languages, some of them kept a surprise! * a unified set of labels for the discourse relations, to make easier the evaluation across datasets * a new constraint: only one multilingual model should be submitted per task, and it should be small! This will make our replication work easier, but more importantly, it will simplify using such a model and test the robustness of your solution! At this time we are calling for expressions of interest to participate. Registered participants will be added to our mailing list and receive updates as soon as data is made available. Please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Important dates:** * May 15 2025 – sample data release * June 16 2025 – training data release * July 14 2025 – test data release * August 1 2025 – system + paper submissions due * September 12 2025 – notification of acceptance * September 19 2025 – camera ready papers * November 8-9 2025 – CODI at EMNLP **Information:** Contact the organizers:disrpt_chairs@googlegroups.com Official website: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/ Google group for participants, please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com **Organization:** Peter Bourgonje (Universität Potsdam, Germany) Chloé Braud (CNRS - IRIT, University of Toulouse, France) Chuyuan Li (University of British Columbia, Canada) Janet Yang Liu (LMU Munich, Germany) Philippe Muller (CNRS - University of Toulouse, France) Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)

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[PhD offer] POLITO + EURECOM - Enhancing Educational Storytelling with,Human-Centered AI in the LLM Era - deadline is 28/04/2025
by Raphaël Troncy 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, A fully funded three-years PhD position is open at POLITO and EURECOM. Do not hesitate to share with interested candidates around you. ===================================== Web: https://www.polito.it/sites/default/files/2025-03/borsa_scudo_25762_Eurecom… Title: Enhancing Educational Storytelling with,Human-Centered AI in the LLM Era Summary: The PhD aims to develop novel methods and techniques for allowing endusers to create interactive educational narratives from structured resources such as knowledge graphs. The research envisions combining generative models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and end-user personalization strategies, moving beyond simple binary-choice formats and thus enabling more engaging, custom-tailored, and culturally adaptive storytelling. Location: - 18 months at Politecnico di Torino (Department of Control and Computer Engineering) - 18 months at EURECOM (Data Science Department) Supervisors : Luigi de Russis, Raphael Troncy, Pasquale Lisena Application deadline: April 28, 2025 Starting date: Fall 2025 To apply: send your CV + Motivation letter + Transcripts of your MSc + your master thesis + 2 references to <raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr> and <luigi.derussis(a)polito.it> by Monday 28 April 2025! -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy(a)gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

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*SEM2025 - Second Call for Papers
by Kemal Kurniawan 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) *SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP) https://starsem2025.github.io/ Second Call for Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>. Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is May 30, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview. Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference> Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): May 30, 2025 ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025 Conference date: TBA (co-located with EMNLP 2025) Following ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement. Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>

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3rd CfP for IBERLEF-PRESTA
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

THIRD CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IberLEF 2025 - PRESTA: Questions and Answers about Tables in Spanish *Web*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5538/ We are pleased to announce the first IberLEF task on Question Answering on Tabular Data: PRESTA. The PRESTA shared-task consists of Question Answering over Tabular Data making use of the DataBenchSPA benchmark. DataBenchSPA is a benchmark composed of real-world table datasets from different domains and with large size of rows and columns, as well as a wide variety of data types that allow to assess distinct sort of questions related to each data type. We propose a task to encourage participants to develop a system that answers the questions of the kind present in DataBenchSPA over day-to-day datasets, where the answer is either a number, a categorical value, a boolean value or lists of several types. DataBenchSPA can be used as a training and validation set, while we will release another test set explicitly compiled for the task competition. The system developed by the participants will be provided by a series of (dataset, question) pairs and will need to provide an answer which would then be compared with a gold standard. The answer might be achieved through a variety of methods. In our paper [1] we illustrate two different approaches: In-Context Learning and Code Generation. You may use any of these or come up with your own approach. There will be two subtasks: Subtask I : DataBenchSPA QA Participants will be provided with a dataset (of any size) and a question over it. The question should be answered using the data from the dataset only. Subtask II: DataBenchSPA Lite QA The task is essentially the same as the previous subtask, but involves using the sampled version of each dataset with a maximum of 20 rows per dataset. The question should be answered using the data from the sampled dataset only. For the test set, we will similarly provide a reduced version of each dataset for this subtask. This task is especially relevant when testing for models with a smaller window size. Important Dates Release of training data: 18 March 2025 Release of test data - competition starts: 30 April 2025 Submission of the results - competition ends: 12 May 2025 Submission of the description paper: 30 May 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. 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PhD Position on Automatic translation with large multimodal models at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Application deadline: *30th of May*
by Matteo Negri 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

-- Apologies for cross-posting. -- Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research on automatic translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a part of your life in a pleasant city in the heart of the Italian Alps? WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! The Machine Translation <https://mt.fbk.eu/> (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded PhD position: TITLE: Automatic translation with large multimodal models DESCRIPTION: The rise of large, multimodal foundation models has driven remarkable progress in natural language processing. In text and speech translation, their growing adoption comes with quality improvements while also opening critical research directions for successful deployment and widespread access. Among the current hot research topics, three are particularly relevant to this PhD position: resource efficiency, model alignment, and model accessibility. (i) Resource efficiency aims to reduce computational demands through model compression techniques that shrink large general-purpose models, optimizing them for specific hardware (e.g., mobile devices), translation tasks, domains, or language settings. (ii) Model alignment ensures outputs are trustworthy, fair, and human-centered by integrating cultural, sociodemographic, and human factors into model design and evaluation. This includes bias-aware solutions that promote diversity and inclusivity, as well as improved evaluation methods that better capture real-world user needs. (iii) Model accessibility enhances inclusivity for individuals with visual, hearing, or cognitive impairments by integrating multimodal solutions such as sign language, speech-to-text simplification, and description-augmented subtitling, expanding the capabilities of large models. This PhD position is open to candidates with a strong interest in advancing the state of the art in any of these areas. CONTACTS: negri(a)fbk.eu, bentivo(a)fbk.eu COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is May 12th, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) Prospective candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for preliminary interviews. Depending on the short time remaining before the application deadline, precedence for interviews will be given to short-listed candidates that will send us a complete CV via email ( negri(a)fbk.eu, bentivo(a)fbk.eu) by May 5, 2025. Candidate profile The ideal candidate must have recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a closely related area. In addition, the applicant should: - Have an interest in Machine and Speech Translation - Have experience in deep learning and machine learning, in general - Have good programming skills in Python and experience in PyTorch - Enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets - Have good knowledge of written and spoken English - Enjoy working in a closely collaborating team Working Environment The doctoral student will be employed at the MT Unit <https://mt.fbk.eu/> at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/>, Trento, Italy. The group (about 10 people including staff and students) has a long tradition in research on machine and speech translation and is currently involved in several projects. Former students are nowadays employed in leading IT companies in the world. Benefits Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help with housing, full health insurance, the possibility of Italian courses, and sporting facilities. Further Information Should you need further information about the position, please contact Matteo Negri (negri(a)fbk.eu) and Luisa Bentivogli (bentivo(a)fbk.eu). Best Regards, Matteo Negri -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- April 25-27 -- program now available
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

************************************************** *** Join us this coming weekend for the *** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator! ************************************************** ==> 25-27 April 2025 <== Consult the program for the richest Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3075 Fourteen (14 !!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics and an expert roundtable! The event is fully online and free for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS members' listserv a few days before the event. We look forward to seeing you there! The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee

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