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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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Final call for papers and extended deadline: 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025)
by Zinsmeister, Heike 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

The 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to TLT 2025: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ ----------------------------- INVITED TALK ----------------------------- Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. SyntaxFest joint submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025 ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * April 22, 2025: Extended paper submission deadline * June 2, 2025: Notification of acceptance * June 16, 2025: Camera-ready papers due * August 26-29, 2025: SyntaxFest conference (about two workshop days for TLT; attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole SyntaxFest.) All deadlines are 11.59 pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12h). ----------------------------- TLT2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- * Sarah Jablotschkin, University of Hamburg * Sandra Kübler, Indiana University * Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg Contact: tlt2025.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de<mailto:tlt2025.gw@uni-hamburg.de> Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html

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Submit by May 5: ClinIQLink Medical QA Challenge (BioNLP/ACL Track – Hallucination Detection) - Evaluating Hallucinations in Medical QA Systems
by Colelough, Brandon (NIH/NLM) [F] 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

--------------------- Challenge Links: Challenge Homepage: https://brandonio-c.github.io/ClinIQLink-2025/ Challenge Sample Dataset: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_Sample-dataset CodaBench ClinIQLink Docker Setup (GitHub): https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup --------------------- Challenge Links: ClinIQLink @ BIONLP @ ACL 2025 - Important updates! We are pleased to share a set of important updates regarding the ClinIQLink Challenge, focused on evaluating factuality in clinical question answering: 1. Extended Submission Deadline The system submission deadline has been extended to 05 May 2025 at 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth). This allows additional time for teams to finalize and submit their models. 2. Rolling Evaluation Process Submissions are being evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage early submission to receive results in a timely manner. 3. Baseline Benchmark Release We will release performance benchmarks this Friday from a selection of open-source large language models evaluated on the ClinIQLink dataset. These results will serve as reference points for participating teams. 4. Updated Submission Instructions Submission guidelines have been clarified to support reproducibility and containerized evaluation. The revised instructions are available at: https://github.com/Brandonio-c/ClinIQLink_CodaBench_docker-setup/blob/main/… 5. Large Model Submissions Still Accepted Teams submitting large models (e.g., models between 10GB and 750GB) may request access. For full challenge details, please visit the challenge homepage: https://cliniqlink.org/ If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, Brandon Colelough brandon.colelough(a)nih.gov<mailto:brandon.colelough@nih.gov>

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Call for Papers: Slav-NLP 2025: 10th Workshop on NLP for Slaviclanguages
by Roman Yangarber 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

**Call for Papers:* * * Slav-NLP:10thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages Co-located with ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria 31 July / 1 August 2025 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Submission Deadline: 27 April 2025 WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION The 10th edition of the Slav-NLP Workshop — at ACL 2025. Sponsored by SIGSLAV: ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP. Slavic languages play a crucial role due to their diverse cultural heritage and wide use — over 400M speakers worldwide. Current political and economic developments in Central/ Eastern Europe thrust the Slavic-speaking societies — and their languages — into sharp focus, especially in light of rapid technological advancements and expanding consumer markets. Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. Linguistic phenomena that are common to the Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages challenging. Slav-NLP Workshops gather researchers from academia and industry. We aim to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this large language group, creates a special environment where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility. We are happy to organize Slav-NLP again in Central Europe. This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include: * language modeling, * morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis, * lexical semantics, * named-entity recognition, * text normalization and processing non-standard language, * co-reference resolution, * information extraction, * question answering, * text summarization, * machine translation, * development of linguistic resources, * development and assessment of large language models, * text classification, * text generation, * disinformation detection, * fact verification, * sentiment analysis. The Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 9 previous (B)SNLP Workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 27 April 2025 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment20 May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 27 May 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: 3 June 2025 * Workshop: 31 July or 1 August 2025 SHARED TASK This year's Slav-NLP features — Shared Task on Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniques— in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary debateson highly-contested topics, and (b) social media postsrelated to the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Information about the Shared Task is available on the Workshop’s Web page. SUBMISSION At the Workshop’s Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html> Workshop contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi * -- Roman Yangarber Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learning Language Learning Lab Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 helsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Final Call for Papers: LxGr2025
by Costas Gabrielatos 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: 20 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. * Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. * Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. * Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@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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[CfP] Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025 - Extended Deadline
by Kossi Amouzouvi 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Important Dates: - *Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025 May 16, 2025* - *Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025 May 23, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025 June 27, 2025* - *Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025 July 15, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon.* Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submission Guidelines The Research and Innovation Track at SEMANTiCS 2025 invites both *long* and *short paper submissions*. - *Long papers* should be *12-15 pages* in length (excluding references). These submissions are expected to present comprehensive, mature research findings, including in-depth theoretical or practical insights. - *Short papers* should be a *maximum of 6 pages* (excluding references). These submissions can include preliminary findings, innovative ideas, or position papers that aim to spark discussion and exploration. References are not included in the page count, so authors may add additional pages for relevant citations if needed. This flexibility allows authors to fully reference foundational and related work to strengthen the context and impact of their research. - Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are available at *https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions*. <https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions> - Authors need to use the *Word template* <https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-06/ECRC-Autho…> or *LaTeX* <https://vtex-soft.github.io/texsupport.IOS-Book-Article/> template provided by IOS Press. Overleaf users can copy the project *from here* <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gkkspcvjgwxv#563836> (follow instructions in the abstract). - Abstract submission is mandatory for all papers. To aid the review and bidding process, we highly encourage authors to submit structured abstracts. - All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS *full policy* <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy> for more details. - Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by signing their reviews. - Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. - At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate. - All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code, materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like *Anonymous GitHub* <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or figshare/Zenodo as described *here* <https://github.com/dgraziotin/disclose-data-dbr-first-then-opendata?tab=rea…>. - The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. - All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (*https://orkg.org* <https://orkg.org>) during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the EasyChair submission form. Review and Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID). The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Appropriateness - Originality, novelty, and innovativeness - Impact of results - Technical quality of the methods - Soundness of the evaluation - Proper comparison to related work - Clarity and quality of writing - Reproducibility of results and resources *We look forward to receiving your contributions!* Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee. ========================= Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden -- DISCLAIMER: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. 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Full-time research position at University College Dublin
by Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, I am recruiting for a one-year fully funded research assistant position involving NLP/ quantitative methods in text analysis. I would be grateful if you could share this ad with anyone interested. I am available for any questions potential applicants might have. Thanks a lot! Kind regards, Stephanie *One-year fulltime research assistant position at University College Dublin* *Start Date* 1st September 2025 *Duration* 12 months *Deadline* 22nd May, noon IST *Full ad* https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_ucdp/apply?id=018505 University College Dublin is currently recruiting a researcher to implement natural language processing (NLP) tools on interviews and speeches in Arabic. The research assistant will support the development of tools to identify and analyse so-called cognitive maps (Axelrod 1976). Dornschneider and Henderson (2016, 2024) and Dornschneider (2019) have developed tools for the computational analysis of cognitive maps. What is needed is a set of tools to infer cognitive maps from natural language. This Irish Research Council funded project investigates the role of women in Muslim resistance movements. The cognitive mapping analysis has several main objectives: 1- to show typical behavioral decisions (e.g. to join a resistance a movement) described by the interviewees; 2- to identify common reasoning processes related to these decisions; and 3- to trace the role of religious beliefs in these reasoning processes. The research assistant will work with the Principal Investigator, Dr. Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink, to deliver the research objectives of the project. Tasks will include but are not limited to web scraping, POS tagging, and OCR, as well as the checks necessary to review the accuracy of the automated processes. Knowledge of Arabic is not necessary, but a plus. Applicants should submit a CV, a cover letter, as well as a piece of well-documented NLP-related sample code in R or Python. Principal duties · Work under the supervision of the Principal Investigator to implement the objectives of the IRC project · Apply quantitative text analysis to Arabic text/interviews · Help generate and analyse cognitive maps · Web scraping · OCR · Quality checking · Report to the team and PI on a regular basis Mandatory requirements · Some undergraduate or graduate-level training in quantitative text analysis/NLP · Preferably a political science, data science, and/ or computer science background · Experience with programming in R and/ or Python · Ability to work independently and take the initiative to implement the outlined tasks · Candidates must demonstrate an awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. *References* Axelrod, R. (ed.). 1976. Structure of decision: The cognitive maps of political elites. Princeton: Princeton university press. Dornschneider-Elkink, S. and Henderson, N., 2024. Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(4), 756-785. Dornschneider, S., 2019. High‐Stakes Decision‐Making Within Complex Social Environments: A Computational Model of Belief Systems in the Arab Spring. Cognitive Science, 43(7), p.e12762. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12762 Dornschneider, S. and Henderson, N., 2016. A computational model of cognitive maps: Analyzing violent and nonviolent activity in Egypt and Germany. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(2), pp.368-399. -- Dr Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink Associate Professor, School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) University College Dublin Newman Building, F316, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland http://www.dornschneider.net/

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2nd Call for participation: Robust WSI Shared Task @ CoNLL-2025
by Ondřej Herman 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in the Robust Word Sense Induction shared task, which is organized as a part of CoNLL-2025 in Vienna (31.7 - 1. 8. 2025). TASK OVERVIEW The task focuses on unsupervised word sense induction without relying on predefined sense inventories. Participants will receive sentences containing target words and cluster them according to word sense usage. What makes this task unique is the novel evaluation approach using multi-annotated data and robust metrics that account for natural sense ambiguity and provide a fairer evaluation compared to traditional approaches. The benchmark datasets will be available in English, Czech, German, Spanish, Estonian and Chinese. The submissions are currently open. Please note that the deadlines have been slightly postponed. IMPORTANT DATES - Updated 25. 4. 2025 - Test phase ends 2. 5. 2025 - Submission of system description papers 31. 7. 2025 or 1. 8. 2025 - The CoNLL-2025 workshop at ACL 2025 in Vienna For more information and participation instructions, please visit https://projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/. This shared task is organized by Ondřej Herman, Miloš Jakubíček, Pavel Rychlý and Vojtěch Kovář at Lexical Computing and Masaryk University. If you have any questions, please contact us at conll2025(a)sketchengine.eu. Best regards, The Shared Task Organizers

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First call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

First call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Co-located with DHASA 2025 https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025 DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025 Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre. The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/ The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non- African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa website (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the DHASA conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Workshop: 10 November 2025 DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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PhD Position at SpeechTek research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler: application deadline May 12 2025
by Daniele Falavigna 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

The Speech Technology group (SpeechTek) 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: Advancing speech recognition and understanding* *Description: *Recent advancements in speech recognition and language technologies have significantly improved their performance across various applications: speech recognition, spoken language understanding, speaker diarization, speech analytics. However,these systems still face challenges when applied “in the wild, e.g. in typical domestic or office-like settings, due to background noise and overlapping speech. These factors hinder the effectiveness of current speech technologies, highlighting a need for further research and development. The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies. The project aims to investigate novel speech processing methods to address these challenges, eventually leveraging multimodal language models, to enhance performance in real operational conditions. This research will contribute to the creation of more reliable and trustworthy speech technologies, ultimately improving user experiences and expanding the applicability of these technologies. If you have recently completed a Master's degree or an equivalent qualification and if you are interested in carrying out research in an extremely interesting field of artificial intelligence that addresses the problem of recognition and understanding of spoken language, collaborating with an Italian research group with a long tradition in the field, you are certainly interested in applying to the above-mentioned call. *Scholarship: * The annual gross amount of the doctoral scholarship is €18.345,00. Students who have been awarded a PhD scholarship are entitled to get a 50% scholarship increase when staying abroad for reasons related to their doctoral research and studies. Each student is provided with a budget which can be used for educational and research purposes. Fondazione Bruno Kessler will provide any help for accomodation and administrative procedures. APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 12th, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) *CONTACTS*: brutti(a)fbk.eu <guerini(a)fbk.eu> *COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT*: Call for application | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science <https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giuseppe Daniele Falavigna Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via Sommarive 18 - 38123 Povo - Trento, Italy mail:falavi@fbk.eu - tel:+39(0)461314562 - fax:+39(0)461314591 HomePage: https://speechtek.fbk.eu/people/profile/falavi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- 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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