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[Workshop CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

[CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria) - 11-13 September 2025 https://r2lm2025.github.io/R2LM/ Workshop Description Deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling impressive performance across many tasks. However, they continue to face key challenges in handling complex linguistic phenomena such as multiword expressions, long-context reasoning, and robustness to adversarial inputs. In parallel, concerns remain about the scalability, interpretability, and domain adaptability of these models, particularly in applications requiring high precision, such as grammar checking, legal analysis, or medical NLP. These limitations have sparked renewed interest in rule-based and knowledge-based approaches, which often offer better explainability and remain competitive, especially in low-resource or high-stakes scenarios. Our workshop aims to gather contributions that deal with the following topics: • Role of rule-based and knowledge-based NLP methods in modern applications • Comparative analysis of rule-based, machine-learning, deep-learning and large language models for different NLP tasks • Emerging trends in NLP research beyond deep learning and Large Language Models • Limitations and performance bottlenecks in scalability and accuracy of deep learning models Submission Details • Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Format: ACL-style (LaTeX or MS Word) • Submission portal and template info available on the RANLP 2025 website Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 31 July 2025 Workshop date: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Organising Committee: Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, University of Alicante, Spain Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, University of Alicante, Spain Rafael Muñoz Guillena, University of Alicante, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Raúl García Cerdá, University of Alicante, Spain

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PhD position in Marseille
by alexis.nasr＠univ-amu.fr 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

The Marseille Computer Science and Systems Laboratory (https://www.lis-lab.fr/) is seeking a candidate for a three-year thesis grant as part of the ANR Cre@lame project, in collaboration with the University of Turku in Finland. The subject concerns the modeling of the literary writing and revision process carried out by authors. The starting point is an already written text, which is to be revised in the manner of an author. The problem is seen as a problem of predicting edit operations, taking the original text as input and producing edit operations. These can concern the lexicon, syntax or textual organization. The thesis's problem is structured around three directions. The first is the nature of the object produced by the prediction process, which could take the form of a sequence of edit operations or a more complex form, such as a graph. The prediction model itself will depend largely on the nature of the predicted object. The second concerns data. Revision data, which associates revision operations with a text, is not very common in general, and those concerning literary revision are even less so. We will rely on all available data available and, possibly, produce them using language models, in order to train the revision models. The final direction concerns evaluation. Given an original text and a revised version, how can we judge the quality of the latter? And how can we assess that the changes made to the original text are consistent with the objectives of the revision process. We are looking for candidates with a strong background in machine learning, mainly in deep learning, as well as knowledge in Natural Language Processing. Application deadline: June 22 Contacts: Patrice Bellot (patrice.bellot(a)univ-amu.fr), Christophe Leblay (chrleb(a)utu.fi) and Alexis Nasr (alexis.nasr(a)univ-amu.fr)

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Second (Last) Call for Participation: Model Compression Shared Task @ WMT 2025
by Marco Gaido 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, The evaluation period for the brand new Model Compression track <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html> at WMT 2025 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/index.html> is approaching! LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS: - Test data release brought forward to June 19, 2025! Participants now have two full weeks to prepare their submissions. - Submission upload space available upon request (see the task’s page for details) OVERVIEW This shared task aims to evaluate the potential of model compression techniques in reducing the size of large, general-purpose language models, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between practical deployability and high translation quality in specific machine translation (MT) scenarios. The broader objectives of the task include: - fostering research into efficient, accessible, and sustainable deployment of LLMs for MT; - establishing a common evaluation framework to monitor progress in model compression across a wide range of languages; and - enabling meaningful comparisons with state-of-the-art MT systems through standardized evaluation protocols that assess not only translation quality but also efficiency. Although the focus is on model compression, the task is closely aligned with the General MT shared task <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/translation-task.html>, sharing language directions, test data, and protocols for automatic MT quality evaluation. Additionally, the task follows the same timeline as the flagship WMT task. We warmly invite participation from academic teams and industry players interested in applying existing compression methods to MT or exploring innovative, cutting-edge approaches. THE TASK IN A NUTSHELL - Goal: Reduce the size of a general-purpose LLM while maintaining a balance between model compactness and MT performance. - Languages: The first round will focus on the same language pairs as the General MT track. - Conditions: - Constrained: Participants work within a predefined model and language setting for directly comparable results. - Unconstrained: Participants are free to compress any model across language directions of their choice. - Evaluation Criteria: - Translation quality: Automatically measured using the LLM-as-a-judge framework from the General MT task - Model size: Defined by the memory usage - Inference speed: Measured by total processing time over the test set IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) - Test data released: 26th June 2025 19th June 2025 - Translation submission deadline: 3rd July 2025 - System description abstract paper: 10th July 2025 - System description submission: 14th August 2025 WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html ORGANIZERS: - Marco Gaido, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Matteo Negri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Roman Grundkiewicz - Microsoft Translator - TG Gowda - Microsoft Translator CONTACTS: - Marco Gaido - mgaido(a)fbk.eu - Matteo Negri - negri(a)fbk.eu -- -- 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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CIRCE Online Seminar | 26/05/2025 | Dr. Giuliana Regnoli | "Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination"
by Claudia Soria 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Dr. Giuliana Regnoli* /University of Salerno, Italy & University of Regensburg, Germany/ */Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/* 📅 *May 26, 2025* 🕓 *4:40 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary: *Accent discrimination remains one of the most pervasive forms of linguistic bias, influencing social perceptions, identity construction, and attitudes towards language variation. This talk examines how accents shape linguistic hierarchies and social interactions, drawing on three research projects that employ distinct methodologies. First, we will explore how folk linguistic methods, such as map-drawing tasks, reveal nuanced spatial dimensions of language attitudes, challenging homogenising conceptualisations of World Englishes. This will be illustrated through a study on how a first-generation Indian diasporic community in Germany perceives and evaluates accent variation in Indian English. We will then turn to traditional language attitude research methods, focusing on questionnaire data to investigate overt stigmatisations and highlighting the importance of scale validation in direct attitude measurement. This discussion will be grounded in a pilot study on Italian university students’ direct attitudes towards English in Italy and their perceptions of Italian English. Finally, we will examine language attitudes in primary education in Cameroon, emphasising the importance of understanding children’s language perceptions within broader ideological frameworks. This analysis draws on data from parental and children’s questionnaires, as well as semi-structured interviews with children. By shedding light on early linguistic gatekeeping and its role in decolonising language education, this study also explores when and how these beliefs become embedded in society. Taken together, these projects demonstrate how different methodological approaches can be employed to investigate attitudes towards accents and linguistic variation, ultimately providing insights into how we can better understand and tackle accent discrimination. *Bio*: Dr. Giuliana Regnoli is assistant professor of English linguistics at the University of Salerno and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Regensburg. Her research interests include variationist sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language attitudes, perceptual dialectology, and World Englishes. She is currently working on children's English in Cameroon and Italian university students' attitudes toward English(es) world-wide. Upcoming webinars: - Clara Molina (Monday, June 30, 2025) - Sender Dovchin (Monday, July 7, 2025) - Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu.

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Call for Participation: BAREC Shared Task 2025
by Bashar Alhafni 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

*BAREC Shared Task 2025 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>* *Arabic Readability Assessment* *The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arabicnlp2025.sigarab.…>* @ *EMNLP 2025 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__2025.emnlp.org_&d=DwMF…>* We are excited to announce the BAREC Shared Task <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…> 2025 on fine-grained readability classification across 19 levels using the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a dataset of over 1 million words. Participants will build models for both sentence- and document-level classification. *Task 1: Sentence-level Readability Assessment* Given an Arabic sentence, predict its readability level on a scale from 1 (i.e., first grade) to 19 (i.e., university level), indicating the degree of reading difficulty. *Task 2: Document-level Readability Assessment* Given a document consisting of multiple sentences, predict its readability level on a scale from 1 to 19, where the hardest (i.e., highest readability) sentence in the document determines the overall document readability level. For each task, there will be three tracks, allowing different data sources for training: Strict, Constrained, and Open. *Important Dates:* All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth): - *June 10, 2025:* Release of training, dev and open test data, and evaluation scripts. - *July 20, 2025:* Registration deadline and release of test data. - *July 25, 2025:* End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes). - *July 30, 2025: *Final results released. - *August 15, 2025:* System description paper submissions due. - *August 25, 2025: *Notification of acceptance. - *September 5, 2025:* Camera-ready versions due. *Awards:* - *Top-performing Systems:* - We will recognize the top-performing system in each of the two tasks + track combinations (2 tasks × 3 tracks), with a *$100 *prize per winning team. - *Best System Description Papers:* - We will award one or two prizes for Best System Description Papers. These will recognize clarity, reproducibility, and insight, regardless of leaderboard ranking: - Best Paper: *$250* - Runner-up or Honorable Mention: *$150* *Organizers:* - *Khalid N. Elmadani <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__khalid-2Delmadani.gith…>*: New York University Abu Dhabi - *Bashar Alhafni <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.basharalhafni.com_…>*: New York University Abu Dhabi and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence - *Hanada Taha-Thomure <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hanadataha.com_&d=DwMF…>*: Zayed University - *Nizar Habash <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nizarhabash.com_&d…>*: New York University Abu Dhabi *Shared Task Website: *https://barec.camel-lab.com/sharedtask2025 *Contact:* For any questions related to this task, check out the *FAQs <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>*. Feel free to post your questions on our *Slack workspace <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__join.slack.com_t_barec…>*. You are also welcome to contact the organizers directly at this email address: barec25.organizers(a)camel-lab.com.

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Update on CfP: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Dear Corpora members, following our previous Calls for Papers, we would like to inform you of a small update to the submission policies: *The maximum length of supplementary material has been extended to 3 pages.* For any additional updates regarding the conference, please visit the website: https://clic2025.unica.it/ The full text of the updated CfP can be found below. Best regards, The CLiC-it chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2025 – Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 24 – 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC — http://www.ai-lc.it/). ➢ CONFERENCE TOPICS CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): Computational Historical Linguistics Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Ethics and NLP Generation Handwritten Text Recognition Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond Large Language Models Linguistic Diversity Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics Machine Learning for NLP Machine Translation Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP NLP Applications NLP for the Humanities Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation Pragmatics and Creativity Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech and Multimodality Summarization Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing ➢ RESEARCH COMMUNICATION CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2025 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. The research communication papers will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to the number of submissions received. ➢ PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages of content and up to three (3) pages of references. *UPDATE* Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed *three (3) pages* in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper and that reviewers are not required to evaluate material presented in the Appendix. In case additional space is needed (e.g. to include prompts, examples, etc.), external links can be used. Please also note that sections on limitations and ethical considerations are not mandatory; if included, they will count toward the page limit. Upon acceptance, final versions of the papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: soundness of approach relevance to computational linguistics novelty and clarity of relation with related work quality of presentation quality of evaluation (if applicable) verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.… Word template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025 For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected. ➢ AWARDS To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of “best paper” will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master’s or PhD student is the first author and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. ➢ IMPORTANT DATES 09/06/2025 16/06/2025 [EXTENDED]– Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications 21/07/2025 – Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome 04/08/2025 – Camera ready version of accepted papers 24-26/09/2025 – CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari ➢ PEOPLE Conference Chairs: Cristina Bosco (University of Torino) Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) Marco Polignano (University of Bari) Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari) Senior Program Committee: Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission – Ispra) Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna) Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen) Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) Rossella Varvara (University of Turin – University of Pavia) Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano) Local Organizing Committee: Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari) Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari) Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari) Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari) Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari) Web chairs: Maurizio Atzori Andrea Loddo ➢ FURTHER INFORMATION Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com

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Atomic Layer Processing (WALP 2025) Workshop 22–23 July 2025, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
by D'Souza, Jennifer 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Key Deadlines: Abstract submission for posters: June 15 Registration: June 30 Registrations are still open for WALP 2025! Places are filling up quickly—register now to secure your on-site accommodation. Dear Colleagues, WALP 2025 will bring together leading academic and industrial experts from all around the world working at the forefront of atomic layer processing (ALP), aiming to stimulate discussions on recent advances and emerging directions in ALP, particularly those driven by industrial and societal needs. The workshop will cover experimental, computational, and AI/ML-driven research in the development of ALP techniques, materials and their applications in semiconductor CMOS, energy storage (batteries, supercapacitors), and energy conversion (fuel cells, photovoltaics) technologies. WALP 2025 will host industry talks on ALP method development and scale-up for commercial energy and nanoelectronics applications. WALP 2025 features a distinguished lineup of speakers from academia and industry, including * Mikko Ritala (University of Helsinki, Finland) * Louis Piper (WMG, University of Warwick, UK) * Fred Roozeboom (University of Twente, the Netherlands) * Anjana Devi (TU Dresden, Germany) * Jeff Elam (Argonne National Lab, US) * Seán Barry (University of Carleton, Canada) * Riikka Puurunen (University of Aalto, Finland) * Ralf Tonner-Zech (University of Leipzig, Germany) * Richard Potter (university of Liverpool, UK) * Jennifer D'Souza (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) * Industry talks by Merck Electronics KGaA, BioLogic Ltd., Schrödinger, Inc. Oxford Instruments Plasma Technologies, Entalpic, Hitachi Energy, Forge Nano, and ATLANT 3D. WALP 2025 offers an excellent opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and explore collaborative research prospects in an inspiring academic and industrial setting. Delegates have the option to submit abstracts for poster presentations, with select submissions considered for short contributed talks. The registration is still open, and the registration fees for academics are £250 (excluding accommodation) and £350 (including on-site accommodation for the nights of July 21st and 22nd). Registration fees cover all meals and refreshments during the conference and poster session. There is a limited number of bursaries available for students. Please visit the WALP 2025 webpage for detailed information, registration and abstract submission: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/chemevents/walp2025/ We gratefully acknowledge the valuable financial support to WALP 2025 by Merck (EMD) Electronics, Schrödinger, BioLogic, and Royal Society of Chemistry. We look forward to welcoming you to WALP 2025. Best wishes, Bora Karasulu Also on behalf of Dr. Adrie Mackus and Prof. Erwin Kessels WALP 2025 is jointly organised by Warwick Chemistry and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, Netherlands).

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025: Call for Posters & Demos (Extended Deadline: July 4)
by Kossi Amouzouvi 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Follow us on *Twitter/X* <https://x.com/SemanticsConf>, *LinkedIn* <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7496190/?highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Agr…>, and *Bluesky*. <https://bsky.app/profile/semantics-conf.bsky.social> Call for Posters & Demos The Posters & Demos Track provides a platform for researchers to showcase their latest findings, ongoing projects, and cutting-edge work in progress. These include submissions on innovative applications, latest results, unpublished ideas, prototypes of semantic technologies and their use in various domains as well as applications, use cases, or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new datasets made publicly available. The Posters & Demos Track offers an informal setting that promotes engagement and dialogue between presenters and attendees. These discussions can provide valuable feedback for presenters' future work while allowing participants to gain insight into emerging research trends and network with other researchers. *The submission deadlines for the Posters & Demos Track have been extended as follows:* - *Paper Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2025 * - *Camera-Ready of Paper Deadline: July 28, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submission via Easychair on* *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access by * CEUR-WS.org*. Topics of Interest We welcome contributions in the context of semantic-based research and systems, which address – but are not limited to – the topics of the Research Track <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>. Additionally, we encourage submissions of visionary ideas, position statements, negative results, and unconventional ideas. Demos should showcase innovative implementations and technologies both, from academia and industry. We also very much encourage submissions from industry, but they should be focused on presenting a novel solution to a specific problem and not be in the nature of an advertisement or commercial product description. Author Guidelines and Submission Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper that describes the work, its contribution to the field or innovative aspects. - Poster and demo submissions are at most 5 pages long, including references. - No double-blind submissions required. - Submissions must be either in PDF or HTML. - Submissions must be formatted in the style of CEUR-ART ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available. - For demos, we ask authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. The absence of a pointer affects the overall rating of the contribution. - Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. - At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. Posters and Demos Track Chairs Ivan Heibi Diego Collarana 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. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and you are herewith notified that the contents are legally privileged and that you do not have permission to disclose the contents to anyone, make copies thereof, retain or distribute or act upon it by any means, electronically, digitally or in print. The views expressed in this communication may be of a personal nature and not be representative of AIMS-NEI and/or any of its Centres or Initiatives.

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[CfP] 2nd Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task @ WMT25
by laurie＠commoncrawl.org 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of the Open Language Data Initiative shared task at WMT25, co-located with EMNLP 2025. **TASK DESCRIPTION** The primary goal of this shared task is to expand OLDI’s open datasets to more languages. We are soliciting contributions to the following: - The MT evaluation dataset FLORES+., - The MT Seed dataset., - Other high-quality, massively-parallel and open-source datasets., Contributions may consist of either the addition of entirely new languages, varieties or dialects to the above datasets, or substantial improvements to existing datasets. To describe and publicise their contributions, task participants will be asked to submit a 4-6 page paper to be presented at the WMT 2025 conference. **IMPORTANT DATES** All dates follow WMT/EMNLP. - Paper and data submission deadline: 14 August, - Notification of acceptance: 13 September, **MORE INFORMATION** - Shared task website: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/open-data.html, - OLDI website: https://oldi.org/

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[CfP] 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals at COLM 2025
by Pedro Ortiz Suarez 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the first call for papers of the *1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals at COLM 2025* Important information: 🗓️ CfP Deadline: June 23, Workshop: October 10 📍 Montréal, Canada 🌐 https://wmdqs.org Scope Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) not only need large quantities of data, but also need data of sufficient quality. Ensuring data quality is even more important in a multilingual setting, where the amount of acceptable training data in many languages is limited. Indeed, for many languages even the fundamental step of language identification remains a challenge, leading to unreliable language labels and thus noisy datasets for underserved languages. In response to these challenges, we will be holding the first Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals (WMDQS) in tandem with COLM. We invite the submission of long and short research papers related to data quality in multilingual data. Even though most previous work on data quality has been targeted at LLM development, we believe that research in this area can also benefit other research communities in areas such as web search, web archiving, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, political sciences and beyond. We therefore encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines. WMDQS will also include a shared task on language identification for web text. We invite participants to submit novel systems which address current problems with language identification for web text. We will provide a training set of annotated documents sourced from Common Crawl to aid development. Topics We welcome submissions of (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, (3) online systems on the topics listed below, and (4) extended abstracts. We especially welcome work-in-progress projects and all novel ideas covering research in multilinguality, underserved/low-resource languages, under-represented linguistic communities and all types of work covering data quality signals. Suggested areas include: - Data pipelines for data annotation and data filtering - Undesirable content detection in a multilingual setting - Multilingual or language independent content ranking - Human annotation platforms and systems - Multilingual tokenization mechanisms - Small language models and embeddings - Linguistic studies in underserved languages - Corpus creation and curation methods, especially for underserved languages - Machine translation - Digital humanities - Historical and constructed languages Shared task The lack of training data—especially high-quality data—is the root cause of poor language model performance for many languages. One obstacle to improving the quantity and quality of available text data is language identification (LangID or LID). Lang ID remains far from solved for many languages. Several of the commonly used LangID models were introduced in 2017 (e.g. fastText and CLD3). The aim of this shared task is to encourage innovation in open-source language identification and improve accuracy on a broad range of languages. All accepted authors will be invited to contribute a larger paper, which will be submitted to a high-impact NLP venue. Important dates for the Workshop: Workshop paper submission deadline: June 23, 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 24, 2025 Workshop: October 10, 2025 Important dates for the Shared Task: 1st Deadline to contribute annotations: July 7, 2025 1st Annotations released (train split): July 14, 2025 Abstract Deadline: July 21, 2025 Decision Notification: July 24, 2025 Camera Ready Deadline: September 21, 2025 (All deadlines are 23:59 AoE.) Organizers: For any questions, please drop a mail to wmdqs-pcs(a)googlegroups.com Program Chairs: Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Common Crawl Foundation) Sarah Luger (MLCommons) Laurie Burchell (Common Crawl Foundation) Kenton Murray (Johns Hopkins University) Catherine Arnett (EleutherAI) Organizing Committee: Thom Vaughan (Common Crawl Foundation) Sara Hincapié (Factored) Rafael Mosquera (MLCommons)

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