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Job Posting: PhD Position L2 Writing and AI
by Nathan Vandeweerd 31 May '24

31 May '24

Dear Corpus-list members, I would like to draw your attention to a PhD position at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University (applications deadline June 9th): PhD Candidate AI Authenticity Project: Exploring what makes L2 writing sound ‘human’ Are you curious about what makes text 'human'? And do you want to explore linguistic nuances that distinguish human-authored content from AI-generated text? Then join the Graduate School for the Humanities (GSH) as a PhD candidate and explore these questions. We offer you the opportunity to develop and carry out your own PhD project within the areas of expertise of your supervisors (Prof. Rob Schoonen, Dr. Nathan Vandeweerd and Dr. Iris Hendrickx). The project will be funded by a Starters Grant from the Faculty of Arts awarded to Dr. Nathan Vandeweerd. As generative AI has dramatically improved over the last few years, it has become more and more difficult for humans to distinguish between AI- and human written text, with studies suggesting that our ability to do so is often no better than chance. Nevertheless, humans do seem to have opinions about what makes a text ’authentic’. For example, texts with grammatical issues or lack of coherence are more likely to be labelled as AI-generated, even when this is not the case (see e.g. Jakesch et al., 2023). The problem for L2 writers is that many of these (presumed AI-identifying) characteristics also occur in second language writing, which means that non-native writers may be unfairly accused of using generative AI, both by other humans and AI-based GPT detection systems (Liang et al., 2023). In addition to being a potential threat to one’s perceived academic integrity (Currie, 2023), perceptions that a text is AI-generated can have quite serious consequences as such texts are seen as less credible (Waddell, 2018), less favourable (Graefe et al., 2016) and less trustworthy (Jakesch et al., 2019). Building on the framework of AI-mediated communication (Hancock et al., 2020; Jakesch et al., 2019), The AI Authenticity Project aims to investigate the specific linguistic characteristics that underlie our perceptions of authenticity and to unravel which features of L2 texts convey ’human-ness’. Over the course of the project, you will use a combination of qualitative methods, corpus linguistic techniques and experimental research to investigate both people’s perceptions of authenticity as well as the extent to which those perceptions reflect reality. Based on your own interests and/or expertise, possible areas of focus include (but are by no means limited to) phraseology/word combinations (e.g., Jakesch et al., 2023), syntax and grammar (e.g., Berber Sardinha, 2024) and coherence/tone of voice (e.g., Casal & Kessler, 2023). Whichever direction you choose, this project promises to be a dynamic and exciting opportunity to do ground-breaking research on a topic of major societal relevance. For more information, see the link below: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-candidate-ai-authenti…

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ACM GoodIT'24: Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future -- Final Call for Paper Submission
by Announce 31 May '24

31 May '24

*** Final Call for Paper Submission *** ACM 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT''24) 4-6 September 2024, Bremen, Germany Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/ ( *** Submission Deadline: 17 June 2024 (FIRM) ***) SCOPE Exploring the development of our digital future requires a comprehensive examination of both individual and societal consequences. Placing excessive emphasis on individual gains, a common practice in individualistic societies for many years, has hindered the ability to grasp the complex dynamics and forward-thinking mindset essential for the sustainability of a contemporary society. The evolving landscape of technology and the ongoing digital advancements have paved the way for creative applications in the field of education, allowing us to adapt to the ever-changing circumstances. When shaping a new approach for Information Systems and Information Technology education, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of individuals as key stakeholders and integral members of the wider community, while also recognizing the pivotal role of collaboration. In this track, we are searching for papers employing innovative technology and approaches to educate the future generation towards world equality, collegiality, inclusion and a more cooperative learning for a sustainable digital future. Values which are emphasized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which overall aim towards creating a more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world. This track is particularly relevant to IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. TOPICS Potential topics for papers include (but are not limited to): • Sustainable and innovative education technologies and practices • Universal access to quality education • The new role for IS/IT in society and education and the value of information and knowledge • The role of cooperative learning for life-long learning and societal developments • Digital transformation: opportunities and challenges for education, work, and society • Digital learning environments: Innovations and trends • Equality, diversity, and inclusion in education, work, and society • The use of large language models and generative AI in education • New topics and domains in IT-enhanced education We hope to attract the interest of IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the instructions on the conference web site: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/submission-of-papers/ . All accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library . IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: 17 June 2024 (AoE) (***FIRM***) • Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2024 • Camera ready: 19 July 2024 TRACK CHAIRS • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Vasso Stylianou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus CONTACT DETAILS Vasso Stylianou, stylianou.v(a)unic.ac.cy

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1st CfP: Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 2 (Deadline: 15 October 2023)
by Prof CK Jung 31 May '24

31 May '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues We are inviting submissions for the next issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, to appear on 31 December 2023. *ABOUT*The Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR, e-ISSN 2733-8096, DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr) is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal intended to explore corpus research in the Asia Pacific region. APJCR addresses areas of methodological, applied and theoretical work in the field of corpus research. Examples of such include discourse analysis, lexical studies, grammatical studies, language acquisition, language learning, language education, lexicography, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, (machine) translation studies, (digital) literary studies, computational linguistics, speech, phonetics, deep learning and natural language understanding in conjunction with corpus. *NO ARTICLE PROCESS CHARGE*APJCR does not charge authors an Article Processing Fee (APF). *OPEN ACCESS POLICY*APJCR provides open access to its content under the principle in the academic field that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. *SUBMISSION* Papers (in English or Korean) should be sent to *apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr <apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr>* *Full instruction can be found on http://icr.or.kr/apjcr <http://icr.or.kr/apjcr>* *IMPORTANT DATES*- Manuscript submission: 15 October 2023 - First decision (articles assessed by editors): October 2023 - Final decision: November 2023 - Production: December 2023 - Online publication: 31 December 2023 *APJCR ARCHIVE*- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.kr/scholar?hl=ko&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=apjcr&btnG= - KoreaScience: http://koreascience.or.kr/journal/CPSOBX/v1n1.page *ENQUIRIES* help(a)icr.or.kr --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129

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Final Call for Papers - ‘Last minute results’ submissions at NeTTT’2024
by Tharindu Ranasinghe 31 May '24

31 May '24

One week left to submit your papers to ‘Last minute results’ at NeTTT’2024 International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 (https://nettt-conference.com/) Final Call for ‘Last minute results’ submissions In view of the special track of the NeTTT'24 event on Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI and the latest dynamic developments with LLMs, we would like to call on researchers and users/companies to submit ‘‘Last minute results” of ongoing studies in the form of short 4-to-page submissions (The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only). The idea is to fast-track the reviewing process for these submissions so that the results presented at the event are as up-to-date as possible. The presentations can be either in oral or poster format. Submission deadline: 5 June 2024 Notification: 12 June 2024 Submission is done via the Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024. We invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates: * LaTeX<https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…>, * Overleaf<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Overleaf_Springer_C…>, * Word<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Word_splnproc2311.p…>. Registration Conference registration is open on https://nettt-conference.com/fees-registration/ Venue The conference will take place at Conference Hotel Cherno More<https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/conference-centre.html>, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com<https://nettt-conference.com/> and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettt2024@nettt-conference.com>

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PhD/PostDoc position (3 years) on NLP for Social Good at Leibniz University Hannover (due June 23)
by h.wachsmuth＠ai.uni-hannover.de 30 May '24

30 May '24

The Institute of Artificial Intelligence invites applications for the position of a DOCTORAL OR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (M/F/D) ON THE TOPIC OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) FOR SOCIAL GOOD (SALARY SCALE 13 TV-L, 100%) starting in September 2024 or soon afterwards. The position is limited to a period of three years with the possibility of extension. TASKS The goal of the offered position is to carry out innovative research on NLP, aiming for scientific publications at reputed international venues. The research should involve large language models (LLMs) related to NLP for social good. We support the development of own research directions in this broad context. The position also comes with a teaching duty of four hours per week; the candidate is expected to lead tutorials and/or programming labs as well as to support the supervision of bachelor's and master’s students. We are looking for highly motivated candidates with a passion for creativity and learning who seek to make a positive impact through open and independent research in a young team. YOUR PROFILE - Completed academic degree (Master or comparable) in computer science, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, or related disciplines - Solid understanding of machine learning with hands-on experience, ideally in the context of NLP and LLMs - Proficient programming skills in Python - Good scientific writing skills (for example, shown by a very good master’s thesis) are expected - Strong communication skills in English, both in oral and in written form TEAM The position will be placed in the NLP Group at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence. We are a diverse and international team, studying how humans express their views and intentions in language, and how LLMs can understand and create such language in a fair, trustworthy, and explainable way. Our research tackles interdisciplinary questions from the humanities and social sciences, while building on state-of-the-art NLP techniques, such as instruction fine-tuning and contrastive learning. We seek to do cutting-edge research on artificial intelligence methods that have a positive impact on society and the world. OUR OFFER - Creative and innovative work in a diverse and international team - Possibility to obtain a Ph.D. degree or to shape your Postdoc profile - State-of-the-art research facilities, including top-notch computing clusters - Participation in international scientific events and research collaborations - Salary at the level of 100% of salary scale 13 according to the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Länder (TV-L) D&I Leibniz University Hannover considers itself a family-friendly university and therefore promotes a balance between work and family responsibilities. Part-time employment can be arranged upon request. The university aims to promote equality between women and men. For this purpose, the university strives to reduce under-representation in areas where a certain gender is under-represented. Women are under-represented in the salary scale of the advertised position. Therefore, qualified women are encouraged to apply. Moreover, we welcome applications from qualified men. Preference will be given to equally-qualified applicants with disabilities. QUESTIONS In case you have questions, please contact Maja Stahl (email: m.stahl(a)ai.uni-hannover.de). Further information about the NLP Group can be found at: https://www.ai.uni-hannover.de/en/institute/research-groups/nlp For information on the salary scales, see: https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2023&matrix… APPLICATION Please submit your application with supporting documents (including CV, full set of transcripts, a brief statement of at most 1 page of why you apply to the NLP Group, and possibly further qualifications) by June 23, 2024 as a single PDF file to Email: office(a)ai.uni-hannover.de (subject: “[ai-nlp] Application”) or alternatively by post to: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover Institute of Artificial Intelligence Prof. Dr. Henning Wachsmuth Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover Germany http://www.uni-hannover.de/jobs Information on the collection of personal data according to article 13 GDPR can be found at https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/datenschutzhinweis-bewerbungen/.

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Fw: University of Leeds - Research Fellow in Computational Climate Politics
by Eric Atwell 30 May '24

30 May '24

Using methods from Computational Linguistics: LLMs to analyse social media ________________________________ From: Jobs at University of Leeds Research Fellow in Computational Climate Politics - ESLPO1099 Closing date: 24 Jun 2024 Grade: Grade 7 £37,099 to £44,263 p.a. https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=ESLPO1099 https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Upload/vacancies/files/43592/ESLPO1099%20Research%… Human Resources University of Leeds

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Call for Participation: The 2nd Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval
by Duygu Ataman 29 May '24

29 May '24

Call for Participation: The 2nd Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval Organized by the 4th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning In collocation with EMNLP 2024 Website: https://sigtyp.github.io/st2024-mrl.html With the advancement of language models accessing and processing tons of information in different formats and languages, it has become of great importance to be able to assess the capabilities to access and provide the right information useful to different audiences. Large language models (LLMs) continue to demonstrate outstanding performance in many applications that require competence in language understanding and generation, but this performance is especially prominent in English, where large amounts of public evaluation benchmarks for various downstream tasks are available and the extent to which language models can be reliably deployed in terms of different languages and domains are not still well established. In this new shared task we provide new high-quality annotations in a selected set of data-scarce and typologically-diverse languages that can be used in evaluation of multilingual LLMs in information retrieval tasks; including Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Reading Comprehension (RC), on test sets curated from articles on Wikipedia. The main objective of the shared task is to assess and understand the multilingual characteristics of the inference capability of multilingual LLMs in understanding and generating language based on logical, factual or causal relationships between knowledge contained over long contexts of text, especially under low-resource settings. Task and Evaluation Our task provides a multi-task evaluation format that assesses reading comprehension capabilities of language models in terms of two subtasks: named entity recognition and question answering. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a classification task that identifies phrases in a text that refer to entities or predefined categories (such as dates, person, organization and location names) and it is an important capability for information access systems that perform entity look-ups for knowledge verification, spell-checking or localization applications. The objective of the system is to tag the named entities in a given text as person (PER), organization (ORG), location (LOC), and date (DATE) (Our tag set uses $$ as delimiter). Question answering (QA) is an important capability that enables responding to natural language questions with answers found in text. Here we focus on the information-seeking scenario where questions can be asked without knowing the answer—it is the system’s job to locate a suitable answer passage (if any). The information-seeking question-answer pairs tend to exhibit less lexical and morphosyntactic overlap between the question and answer since they are written separately, which is a more suitable setting to evaluate typologically-diverse languages. Here, the system is given a question, title, and a passage and the system must pick the right answer among a list of 4 different potential options. We evaluate model performance in the generative task terms of the accuracy in the multi-choice answering task, and the F1 accuracy in the NER task. We obtain a final score by averaging the scores of QA and NER. Data and Languages Teams can use any resources relevant to the task. The test sets for official evaluation will be released one week before the submission date, and will be in the following languages: - Turkish - Uzbek - Indonesian - Alemannic - Yoruba - Igbo Important dates - June 15, 2024: Release of validation data - August 1, 2024: Release of test data - August 20, 2024: Deadline to release external data and resources used in systems - September 1, 2024: Deadline for submission of systems , and release of external data and resources used in systems. - September 20, 2024: Release of rankings and results - September 30, 2024: Deadline for submitting system description papers (All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”)) Organizers Duygu Ataman David Ifeoluwa Adelani Mammad Hajili Francesco Tinner Inder Khatri Shared Task Prize The winning team will receive an award of 500 USD and will be given a presentation during the workshop. -- Duygu Ataman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University www.duyguataman.com

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Final Call for Papers and Deadline Extension: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024
by Saad Mahamood 29 May '24

29 May '24

*Final call for papers and deadline extension: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024* We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from 23-27 September in Tokyo, Japan. INLG 2024 will be taking place after SIGDial 2024 (18-20 September) nearby in Kyoto. **Important dates** All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) • START system regular paper submission deadline: *New* June 7, 2024 (Previously: May 31, 2024) • ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: June 24, 2024 • START system demo paper submission deadline: June 24, 2024 • Notification: July 15, 2024 • Camera ready: August 16, 2024 • Conference: 23-27 September 2024 **Topics** INLG 2024 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG • Affect/emotion generation • Analysis and detection of automatically generated text • Bias and fairness in NLG systems • Cognitive modelling of language production • Computational efficiency of NLG models • Content and text planning • Corpora and resources for NLG • Ethical considerations of NLG • Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems • Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems • Generalizability of NLG systems • Grounded language generation • Lexicalisation • Multimedia and multimodality in generation • Natural language understanding techniques for NLG • NLG and accessibility • NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models • NLG in dialogue • NLG for human-robot interaction • NLG for low-resourced languages • NLG for real-world applications • Paraphrasing, summarization and translation • Personalisation and variation in text • Referring expression generation • Storytelling and narrative generation • Surface realization • System architectures **Submissions & Format** Three kinds of papers can be submitted: • Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. • Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. • Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2024. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2024 website: https://inlg2024.github.io/ To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2024, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is June 7, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2024 is May 24, 2024. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2024 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/) by June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2024 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2024 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. **Awards** INLG 2024 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: • Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. • Best Evaluation Award: The award is a new addition to INLG 2024. This award is designed to honor authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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CFW: Call for Workshop Proposals COLING 2025 (extended for two weeks) - New Deadline is June 14, 2024 (correction)
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 29 May '24

29 May '24

Correction of the subject for the previous announcement. Apologies. Dear colleagues, This is an announcement that the Workshop Proposal submission has been extended for two weeks. The new due date is June 14, 2024.

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CFW: Call for Workshop Proposals COLING 2025 (extended for two weeks) - New Deadline is May 31, 2024
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 29 May '24

29 May '24

Dear colleagues, This is an announcement that the Workshop Proposal submission has been extended for two weeks. The new due date is June 14, 2024.

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