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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
ACM SAC 2025
March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy
Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
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Important Dates
Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024
Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024
Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024
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Aim
Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence.
In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Natural Language Processing
NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction
NLP for Ontology Population and Learning
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications
Interplay between Language and Ontologies
NLP for Explainable Knowledge
Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge
NLP for the Web
(Large) Language Models and Knowledge
- Knowledge
Knowledge to improve NLP tasks
Knowledge for Information Retrieval
Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP
Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation
Knowledge for Persuasion
Knowledge-based Machine Translation
Knowledge for the Web
Linked Data for NLP
Knowledge-based NL Explainability
RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models
- Applications
Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP
Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios
Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society
Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as:
Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
eGovernment and public administration
Life sciences, health and medicine
News and Data Streaming
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Paper Submission
Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details).
Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge).
Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge).
SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed.
Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters.
Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.
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Track Co-Chairs
Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona
Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona
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Programme Committee
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General Inquiries
For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu .
Deadline extension: 15 August 2024
TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for
Presentations and Papers
https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/
"Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration,
inspiration"
Embracing innovation in language technologies - From AI to traditional
practices -, TC46 welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics
related to language technologies in the provision of language services.
While there is a special emphasis on the advancements and implications
of AI and Generative AI, we strongly encourage contributions that cover
a wide range of interests and perspectives in the language services
field. Whether you are deeply involved in AI-driven projects or are
focused on traditional or emerging practices independent of AI, your
insights are invaluable.
* Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic
and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 15
August
* Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is
extended to 15 August
https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/
Deadline extension: 15 August 2024
TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for
Presentations and Papers
https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/
"Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration,
inspiration"
Embracing innovation in language technologies - From AI to traditional
practices -, TC46 welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics
related to language technologies in the provision of language services.
While there is a special emphasis on the advancements and implications
of AI and Generative AI, we strongly encourage contributions that cover
a wide range of interests and perspectives in the language services
field. Whether you are deeply involved in AI-driven projects or are
focused on traditional or emerging practices independent of AI, your
insights are invaluable.
* Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic
and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 31
July
* Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is
extended to 15 August
https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/
We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular
issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on
all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of
dialogue and discourse.
Submissions received by Sep 1st, 2024 will be considered for the next
regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available
issue.
About the journal
Dialogue and Discourse (D&D http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org) is
the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively
to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". The journal
adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from
Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and
other associated fields with an interest in formally, technically,
empirically or experimentally rigorous approaches. Descriptive papers
should make a substantial theoretical contribution to be considered. We
are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous
peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all
interested readers. D&D has published regular issues every year since
2010, and occasionally special issues on common topics.
As of July 2024, D&D has published 115 papers, and the journal's h-index
is 30. D&D is endorsed by ACL SIGdial, SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is
indexed by Scopus and the European Reference Index for the Humanities
and Social Sciences.
Submissions
Submissions ought to be made via the online submission system at
http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml
Authors are required to indicate if a submission is an extended version
of one or more previously published conference papers (to which we would
expect substantial additions); simultaneous submission to another venue
is prohibited. Submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review. Once
accepted and finalized, papers will appear online immediately, as part
of the current issue. Selected papers will furthermore be offered the
opportunity to present a poster at the following SIGDIAL Conference.
Dialogue and Discourse Editors
Issue Editors:
Massimo Poesio (Volume 15, Issue 2)
Pat Healey (Volume 15, Issue 1)
David Traum (Volume 14, issue 2)
Editor In Chief:
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago, United States
Associate Editors:
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, United States
Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Cité, France
Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University, Japan
Casey Kennington, Boise State University
Junyi Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University London and University of Utrecht
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany
David R. Traum, University of Southern California, United States
Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, United States
Call For Participation KI 2024
47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Call For Participation KI 2024
47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2024, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Please register to participate!
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KI is one of the major European AI conference series and traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications. KI 2024 takes place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. This year, we are excited to announce that the conference is jointly organized with the LWDA 2024 conference [1]. The organization is carried out by members of CAIDAS and the Institute for Computer Science. Here [4] you can find more details about the venue and Würzburg.
The technical program of KI 2024 comprises presentations of selected AI papers and discussions, a panel, a doctoral symposium, as well as tutorials and workshops, plus keynotes by the following renowned AI experts:
• Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg): Amplifying Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction with AI
• Christian Baukhage (University of Bonn): Quantum AI / ML – Hype or Hope?
See also [2] for abstracts of the invited talks, and [3] for the overall program. KI 2024 will also host the FBKI general assembly (Mitgliederversammlung). For detailed program information and how to register and attend see:
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/attending/registration/
Participation requires registration. Early bird prices are available until August 20, 2024, 23:59 (Berlin time).
KI 2024 is the 47rd edition of the German conference on Artificial Intelligence organized in cooperation with the AI chapter of the GI (GI-FBKI).
We hope to see you at KI 2024!
Andreas Hotho and Sebastian Rudolph
(KI2024 Co-Chairs)
[1] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/lwda24/
[2] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/program/invited-speakers/
[3] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/program/ki-schedule/
[4] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/
Location: Cardiff, UK
Deadline for applications: 1st September
Start date: 1st November
Duration: 30 months
Keywords: natural language processing, neurosymbolic AI, graph neural networks, commonsense reasoning
Details about the post
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing common sense reasoning strategies, based on graph neural networks, to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available at www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJA796/research-associate<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJA796/research-associate>.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2024
The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology.
This year's shared task is: Automatic AI-Generated Sentences Detection for Human-AI Hybrid Articles.
The tentative key dates are:
Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data
30 Sep 2024 - Release of test data
06 Oct 2024 - Deadline of submission of runs
09 Oct 2024 - Notification of results
04 Nov 2024 - Deadline of submission of system description
2-4 Dec 2024 - Presentation of results at ALTA 2024
Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (https://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2024)
Good luck!
Diego Molla
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the first CfP for The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation @ COLING 2025. It is now open and closes on 20th November 2024 (11:59PM AoE UTC-12).
Website link: https://evalmg.github.io/
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The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation
Multimodal generation techniques have opened new avenues for creative content generation. However, evaluating the quality of multimodal generation remains underexplored and some key questions are unanswered, such as the contributions of each modal, the utility of pre-trained large language models for multimodal generation, and measuring faithfulness and fairness in multimodal outputs. This workshop aims to foster discussions and research efforts by bringing together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal AI. Our goal is to establish evaluation methods for multimodal research and advance research efforts in this direction.
Call for Papers
Both long paper and short papers (up to 8 pages and 4 pages respectively with unlimited references and appendices) are welcomed for submission.
A list of topics relevant to this workshop (but not limited to):
* Evaluation metrics for multimodal text generation for assessing informativeness, factuality and faithfulness
* New benchmark datasets, evaluation protocols and annotations
* Challenges in evaluating multimodal coherence, relevance and contribution of modalities and inter- and intra-interactions
* Assessing information integration and aggregation across multiple modalities
* Adversarial evaluation approaches for testing the robustness and reliability of multimodal generation systems
* Ethical considerations in the evaluation of multimodal text generation, including bias detection and mitigation strategies
* Multilingual multimodal text generation systems for low-resource languages
* Evaluating fairness and privacy in multimodal learning and applications
Important Dates
* Nov 20, 2024: Paper submission due date
* Dec 05, 2024: Notification of acceptance
* Dec 11, 2024: Camera-ready version due
* Jan 19, 2025: Workshop Date
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”)
Submission Instructions
You are invited to submit your papers in our START/SoftConf submission portal. All the submitted papers have to be anonymous for double-blind review. The content of the paper should not be longer than 8 pages for long papers and 4 pages for short papers, strictly following the COLING 2025 templates, with the mandatory limitation section not counting towards the page limit. Supplementary and appendices (either as separate files or appended after the main submission) are allowed. We encourage code link submissions for reproducibility.
Non-archival Option
To promote discussions within the community, our workshop includes non-archival track. Authors have the flexbility to submit their unpublished work or papers accepted to COLING main conference to our workshop. The organisers may offer the opportunity to give oral or poster presentation.
Organisers
* Wei Emma Zhang, The University of Adelaide
* Xiang Dai, CSIRO
* Desmond Elliot, University of Copenhagen
* Byron Fang, CSIRO
* Haojie Zhuang, The University of Adelaide
* Mong Yuan Sim, The University of Adelaide & CSIRO
* Weitong Chen, The University of Adelaide
Kind regards,
COLING25 EvalMG Organisers
We are pleased to announce an extension of the submission deadline for DAAfrica’2024. The new deadline is August 18, 2024.
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Call for short papers
DAAfrica - Workshop on Data Science for Agriculture in Africa
November 23, 2024
Bejaia, Algeria (hybrid)
Event affiliated with CARI’2024
Workshop supported by ASDS, #DigitAg and the MOOD project
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=== SCOPE ===
Data science in agriculture has evolved with the accessibility of data by farmers that allow them to analyze and facilitate decision making. Today new technology like Internet of Things (IoT) enables us to collect and store farm and environmental data (e.g. soil data, water data, etc.) in dedicated databases and/or data warehouses. This agricultural data can be combined with other data sources (e.g. remote sensing, weather stations, web and social media, etc.) that need to address new challenges like ingestion of heterogeneous data.
Data science in agriculture aims to explore and mine agricultural data using different techniques like machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, text-mining, large language models (LLM), etc. For instance, data science can predict crop yields and plant and animal diseases with different variables, including rainfall, temperature fluctuations, and soil conditions by using a variety of data (e.g. sensor data, texts, satellite images, plant images, etc.).
So, agriculture professionals and decision-makers can use data science to provide information and knowledge in order to make decisions about agricultural activities in Africa.
=== TOPICS OF INTEREST ===
The topics of the workshop encompass all aspects concerning the intersection of data science and agriculture in Africa with different applications:
- Smart Farming
- Yield and production
- Plant specie identification
- Land cover monitoring
- Crop recommendation
- Crop monitoring & forecasting
- Animal and plant health monitoring
- Water management
- Food safety & security
- Agroecology
- etc.
=== SUBMISSIONS ===
Researchers, academics, and students working on the field of data science with application in agriculture in Africa are invited to submit short papers for oral presentations or posters. Submitted abstracts must be in English and will be reviewed by the workshop committees for suitability and interest to the DAAfrica audience. The authors can submit papers of unpublished work reporting original and early results, introducing new ideas or describing prototypes.
Every accepted submission must have at least one author registered for the workshop. All submitted extended abstracts must follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) with a page limit of up to 6 pages including the title page, figures, references, and an optional appendix. The abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daafrica2024
Accepted extended abstract will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit full papers to ARIMA Journal (indexed by DBLP and DOAJ) for a peer-review according to its usual reviewing process.
=== IMPORTANT DATES ===
- Submission deadline: August 18, 2024 [extended deadline]
- Notification to authors: September 23, 2024
- Workshop date: November 23, 2024
=== PARTICIPATION ===
The workshop will be held in Bejaia, Algeria, as an event affiliated to CARI’2024 (https://www.cari-info.org). This workshop will be a hybrid event that combines a "live" in-person event with a "virtual" online component.
Further information related to registration is available on the ASDS website: https://asds.africa/daafrica2024
=== WORKSHOP CHAIRS ===
- Paulin Melatagia, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroun
- Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, UMR TETIS, France