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2nd call for papers: EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 April 2026)
by Dimitar Kazakov 11 Oct '25

11 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second call for papers for the 2026 edition of the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) conference, to be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.About the Conference https://evolang2026.org The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) conference series is the leading international forum for researchers investigating the origins and evolution of language. Contributions are invited from all relevant disciplines, including—but not limited to—anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, genetics, linguistics, computational modelling (mathematical, agent-based, and neural-network approaches), palaeontology, physiology, primatology, philosophy, semiotics, and psychology. The 2026 edition of EVOLANG will feature invited talks by Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin, USA), Katie Slocombe (University of York, UK) and Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Italy). Full details: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/invited-speakers EVOLANG 2026 will also host six thematic workshops: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages • AI in Language Evolution • Great-Ape Pragmatics • Swarm Robotics for the Study of Language Emergence • Triangulating Human Diversity through Linguistic, Biological and Socio-Cultural Differences • The Geography of Linguistic Evolution Details: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/workshops . The conference will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria—often described as Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited city, renowned for its rich historical layers and lively cultural scene. Plovdiv offers affordable accommodation and excellent transport links by land and air, including daily low-cost flights to nearby Sofia and direct flights from London, Milan, and Bratislava. Bulgaria is an EU member state, part of the Schengen Area, and is expected to have joined the Eurozone by the time of the conference. 2. Submission Link and Deadline The deadline for submissions to EvoLang XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026) is 26 October 2025 (Anywhere on Earth). Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EVOLANG.org/2026/Conference 3. Submission Guidance Submissions must meet normal standards of academic excellence. Papers should clearly state how they advance the study of language evolution and relate their findings to up-to-date scientific literature. Each submission should articulate: - the substantive claim being made, - the method by which that claim is supported, and - the nature of the relevant data and/or theoretical argument. Empirical studies should be based on completed analyses, not preliminary results. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three experts, and acceptance decisions are based on a scoring scheme that aggregates reviewers’ reports. In recent conferences, the acceptance rate has been around 50%. EVOLANG features both oral and poster presentations. Please read the submission guidelines and consult the templates provided before uploading your paper. Alongside your submission, you will be asked to supply a 150-word summary of your contribution. Submissions that lack clear relevance to the field or that fail to adhere to the formatting requirements may be rejected without review. If you experience any difficulties with the submission system, please contact: scientific-committee(a)evolang.org The conference language will be English, with additional accessibility support in the form of captions. All submission information and templates are available here: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/submission The Evolang 2026 team evolang2026(a)gmail.com Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 - deadline approaching
by Aline Paes 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

*Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026* The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the ACL 2026 and EACL 2026 conferences. We welcome submissions covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for two types of tutorials: * *Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP*: Covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP. * *Introductory tutorials in related fields*: Offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights. Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: * *EACL 2026* (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026. * *ACL 2026* (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026. Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centers EACL and ACL 2026. **Important Dates*EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: * Proposal submission deadline: *October 20, 2025* * Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2025 * Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials one month prior to the date of the tutorial* /All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)./ *Fee Waivers* Up to *3 instructors per tutorial* can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops. *Diversity & Inclusion* To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to *topics promoting diversity* (e.g., working on minority languages or groups), *participation diversity* (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and *representation diversity* among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory [1], Black in AI [2], Disability in AI [3], Indigenous AI [4], LatinX in AI [5], Masakhane [6], 500 Queer Scientists [7], and Women-in-ML’s directory [8]. *Submission Details* 1Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download [9] the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template [10]. Proposals *should not exceed 4 pages of content* (plus one page for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: 1) A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. 2) A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community. 3) Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs ”introductory to fields related to CL/NLP”. 4) Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for the attendees, for example: * Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus” * Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars” * Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron” * Neural Network: e.g., “Familiarity with transformers” * Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix command line tools” 5) An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. 6) Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. 7) Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. 8) Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant. 9) For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. 10) An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. 11) A description of special requirements for technical equipment. 12) We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the case. 13) An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. 14) A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. 15) OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case. 16) OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [11]. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, optionally, by a group of external experts. *Evaluation Criteria* Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion. *Instructor Responsibilities* Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by *Dec 08, 2025*. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide *tutorial materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the start date of the hosting conference*. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed). *Tutorial Chairs* * EACL * Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil * Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK * Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UK * ACL * Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA * Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at eaclacl2026_tutorials [at] googlegroups.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate Professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

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IMPOLS Shared Task at EVALITA 2026
by lorenzo.gregori＠unifi.it 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Dear All, we are happy to announce IMPOLS (IMplicit contents in POLitical Speech) shared task within EVALITA 2026 campaign. IMPOLS website: https://liu-dilef.github.io/IMPOLS-task/ IMPOLS demo video: https://youtu.be/Tu7A1U759FI EVALITA website: https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/ IMPOLS focuses on the automatic recognition of implicit content in political speech. Given an utterance in a context, we ask participants to develop a system capable of detecting and classifying the implicit contents that are non-bona fide true: these are implicit, questionable contents that are not conveyed in good faith but are still understood as true, albeit non-explicitly, within a given context. This kind of content is widely employed in political communication as a strategic tool to convey messages implicitly, thereby enabling the transmission of potentially manipulative content without overt expression. There are three subtasks: 1. a binary detection task, in which the systems are asked to detect the presence of questionable implicit contents in speech excerpts; 2. a binary classification task, in which the systems are asked to discriminate between two types of implicit contents: implicatures and presuppositions; 3. a multiclass classification task, in which the systems have to identify if implicatures are particularized conversational, generalized conversational, or conventional. IMPOLS is a monolingual (Italian) multimodal task: both the speech and the manually revised transcription are provided to the participants in the three subtasks. We encourage participation of teams in one or more subtasks, exploiting textual or multimodal data. Important Dates: -- NOW! Training data available to participants -- 1st December 2025 - 8th December 2025: IMPOLS evaluation window -- 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants -- 9th January 2026: final reports due to task participants -- 16th January 2026: final reports due to task organizers -- 7th February 2026: review deadline -- 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline -- 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy) Organizers and Contacts: -- Lorenzo Gregori (University of Florence), lorenzo.gregori(a)unifi.it -- Walter Paci (University of Florence), walter.paci(a)unifi.it -- Valentina Saccone (University of Florence), valentina.saccone(a)unifi.it

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Help Shape a Mentorship Program for the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
by Agostina Calabrese 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Hi everyone, We’re exploring the creation of a mentorship program for next year’s Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)<https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/>. Our goal is to make WOAH a more welcoming and accessible venue for researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines - not just core NLP or computer science, but also fields such as social sciences, law, psychology, policy, and beyond. To help us design a program that truly supports this diversity, we’d love your input. Whether you might be interested in joining as a mentor, mentee, or just want to share your perspective, please take a minute to fill out this short survey: 👉 WOAH Mentorship Interest Survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kgC1QFL91-uzTl0B5sRQVh9j0zzvgSpu1zdT-zrghP…> Your feedback will help us shape a mentorship initiative that lowers barriers to participation and builds stronger interdisciplinary connections within the WOAH community. Thanks so much for your time and insights! Best, Agostina on behalf of the WOAH organizing team The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Call for submissions: Social Media Access Days 2026
by Tatjana Scheffler 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Social Media Access Days Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access 17.3.-19.3.2026 Submission deadline: 31.10.2025 Online platforms, especially social media platforms, are both research objects and sources of data for a variety of research approaches in the humanities and social sciences, computer science, and the natural and life sciences. The historical evolution of social media makes them a part of our digital cultural heritage. However, the processes used by institutions to archive and document social media data are still only rudimentary, not least because of their economic, social and aesthetic characteristics and the unique attributes of media technology. Researchers, research institutions and cultural heritage institutions therefore face a wide range of problems in terms of their archiving, indexing and use. Researchers who wish to work with social media data also encounter numerous new challenges, especially when fundamental changes such as the elimination of application programming interfaces (APIs) impact access to specific data from online platforms. The archiving, indexing and use of dynamic data from social media are therefore fraught with problems which researchers, research institutions, libraries and archives have to tackle in a consistent manner. Ideally, solutions to these problems should be developed cooperatively, since this requires extensive effort which would be beyond the scope of a single data community or discipline. The aim of the conference is therefore to enable libraries, archives, infrastructural facilities, research institutions and researchers to network and exchange experiences with archiving and the sustainable use of data and digital objects from social media. We explicitly welcome case studies and presentations on solutions and their practical implementation as well as reports on research findings. We are particularly interested in contributions on the following key topics: • Sustainable infrastructure for collecting and providing access to social media content • Interaction between researchers and archiving institutions • Ethical issues and best practices • Legal issues and solutions • Challenges posed by restrictive data access from social media platforms • Experiences with data access in the context of the Digital Services Act • Status and preservation of social media from an archival and cultural-historical perspective, e.g. posts, interactions, platform elements • Consolidation of collections, corpora, holdings • Metadata, data documentation and indexing social media data • Use of AI & LLMs for data documentation and indexing purposes • Initiatives focusing on archiving and access • Concepts for the provision and use of derivatives (aggregated or derivative formats) from social media • Experiences with the reusability of available data Keynote We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker: Prof Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane). https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/a.bruns Date The conference will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main. The main conference language is German. However, contributions can also be submitted in English. We aim to schedule all English-language presentations together in one day, if possible. Submissions We look forward to receiving your submissions for presentations and your proposals for tutorials, workshops or interactive formats. - Presentations / posters: Please submit your proposals in the form of abstracts containing a maximum of 500 words (plus bibliographies and max. 1 illustration). Contributions can be based on research findings or personal experience and may be presented in German or English. The programme committee will decide which contributions to accept as oral presentations and which as posters. - Further formats: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, themed sessions and other interactive formats should not exceed two pages and should contain the following information: proposed format and realisation, language, target group (potential number of participants), motivation and goals. In addition, please tell us whether you require special technical equipment or facilities. We will then determine how these can be provided on site. Please send your submissions as a PDF document to: twarchiv(a)dnb.deTimeline Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31 October 2025 Response by 30 November 2025 Conference: 17.-19.03.2026 Program Committee Stefan Dietze (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS) Philippe Genêt (German National Library) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum) Claus-Michael Schlesinger (UB der HU Berlin) Katrin Weller (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Britta Woldering (German National Library) Cooperation partners BERD@NFDI German National Library GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences NFDI4DataScience Text+ --- Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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CNRS Research Associate Positions (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle)
by Olivier Bonami 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

The Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle ([http://]www.llf.cnrs.fr, LLF) is seeking to support applications in linguistics and language sciences to Research Associate positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs.fr <http://cnrs.fr/>). CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required. Although CNRS recruits researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application. Located at Université Paris Cité (u-paris.fr <http://u-paris.fr/>), the LLF has about 70 members, including 33 permanent faculty members, working on every subfield of linguistics. In recent years, it has extended its focus from formal and theoretical linguistics to domains such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, dialogue, typology, and Sign language linguistics. The LLF is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants, with an excellent research record and willing to develop a project that would fit the lab's areas of inquiry. The official call for application will be published in early December, 2025 with an application deadline in early January, 2026 (https://carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-competitions-for-researchers-m-f/). Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by the LLF are invited to contact the lab by December 12, sending a CV (including a publication list) and a short description of their research profile to direction.llf(a)listes.u-paris.fr <mailto:direction.llf@listes.u-paris.fr>. Decisions on whether support is granted will be taken by December 19. Heather Burnett Directrice de recherches au CNRS Directrice du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle UMR 7110 - Université Paris Cité & CNRS Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97 Olivier Bonami Professeur de linguistique Université Paris Cité & Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges 8 place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris Bureau 640

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International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2026) in Leuven
by Patrizia Paggio 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

We would like to draw your attention to the 3rd edition of the International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2026), which will be held in Leuven (Belgium) from 9-11 September 2026. http://www.mmsym.org/<http://www.mmsym.org/> The third edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held in Frankfurt am Main (2024) and Barcelona (2023). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of semiotic resources in spoken and signed language. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science. This overarching goal of the symposium is rooted in the conviction that investigating multimodality is key to understanding how language and communication work. For MMSYM 2026, we welcome contributions approaching multimodal communication from different methodological and disciplinary angles. The main topic of this edition of the symposium is “Embodied communication in (inter)action”. We particularly encourage submissions that approach the main theme from one of the following angles: (1) multimodal pragmatics and interaction analysis, (2) (generative) multimodal behavior modelling, (3) creating and sharing sustainable multimodal data, and (4) exploring the interface of gesture and signed language. For MMSYM 2026, we particularly encourage contributions relating to these conference themes but are open for all submissions related to multimodal communication. TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO - Gesture-speech interaction & integration - Prosody-Gesture-coordination - Multimodal language processing - Gesture & sign language interaction - Sequential organization of multimodal behavior in (face-to-face) interaction - Semantics-pragmatics interface & multimodal communication - Multimodal communication & spatial configurations - Kinematics of bodily movements - Multimodal corpus development - Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal data processing - Machine and deep learning techniques applied to multimodal data - Multimodal human-computer interaction and conversational agents - Intercultural aspects of embodied behavior - Multimodal aspects of language acquisition and learning (both L1 and L2) - Multimodal communication disorders and communication support - Multimodal health communication IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submissions welcome from 15th November 2025 - Abstract submission deadline: 1st March 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 3rd April 2026 - Conference dates: 9-11th September 2026 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We are delighted to announce four keynote speakers whose work relates to the main themes of the conference: - Pamela Perniss (Universität zu Köln) - Elisabeth Zima (Universität Zürich) - Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University) - Wim Pouw (Tilburg University) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINES We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for discussion) or posters of original, unpublished work on any aspect of multimodal communication. Abstracts should be written in English and should be submitted via OpenReview.net<http://openreview.net/> (submissions will be welcome starting from 15th November 2025). Please check the website (http://www.mmsym.org/<http://www.mmsym.org/>) with the call for papers, important deadlines and keynote speakers for more details. We hope to welcome you in Leuven for an exciting MMSYM conference! On behalf of the organizers Geert Brône, Bert Oben and Julie Janssens **** Patrizia Paggio Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology paggio(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:paggio@hum.ku.dk> Professor (retired) University of Malta Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology patrizia.paggio(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt> Selected recent publications and upcoming projects: Paggio, P., Mitterer, H., Attard, G., & Vella, A. (2025). Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances? Language and Cognition, 17, e54. doi:10.1017/langcog.2025.20 MultiplEYE DK - Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection - Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-stoettet/cf24-2005/

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Postdoc position: Text Simplification + Machine Translation for Horizon Europe project, Barcelona, Spain
by Horacio Saggion 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

We are hiring: Postdoctoral position to carry out research and development in the areas of (i) multilingual text simplification and (ii) multilingual and multicultural machine translation relying on state-of-the-art deep neural models and architectures (LLMs). The work is to be carried out in the context of the Horizon Europe project IDEAL (Inclusive Democratic Engagement and Language Technologies in Europe) which addresses several languages. TALN group, Department of Engineering, Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona, Spain How to apply: https://lnkd.in/dpssFU7a TALN: https://lnkd.in/ePKttcZX Department: https://lnkd.in/dGEWbHsb UPF: https://www.upf.edu/ -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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[Deadline Extension] 3rd Workshop on AI for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Tirthankar Ghosal 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

****Call for Papers WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025**** *https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/ <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/>* Building on the success of the First Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and the Second WIESP at IJCNLP-AACL 2023, the Third Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025 aims to establish itself as a pivotal platform for promoting discussions and research in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This gathering will bring together esteemed experts and renowned organizations with students and early-career researchers who are interested and invested in efforts to extract and mine the world’s scientific knowledge from research papers. Their collaboration will be focused on developing advanced algorithms, models, and tools that will lay the foundation for future machine comprehension of scientific literature. The third iteration of WASP will specifically concentrate on various topics related to Artificial Intelligence research for scientific publications: ****Topics (not limited to)**** - *Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction* - *Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification* - *Citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining* - *Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis* - *Scientific article summarization and headline generation* - *Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature* - *Prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for science Q&A* - *Chain-of-thought reasoning and scientific problem-solving with LLMs* - *LLM-powered information extraction from scientific texts* - *Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora* - *Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding* - *AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation* - *Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing* - *Large Language Reasoning Models for Scientific Discovery* - *LLM hallucinations and impact on scientific knowledge, publications* - *Challenges, Future of AI in Scientific Publishing* - *AI, Peer Review, and Scientific Publishing* - *Impact of Generative AI on Scientific Publishing* *In addition to papers, WASP will also host a shared task. * ****Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared (TRACS)**** https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/shared_task We will publish a separate CfP on the shared task. Shared task authors will be invited to write their system descriptions, which will then undergo light peer review. All accepted papers and shared task system papers will be published in the WASP proceedings as part of IJCNLP-AACL 2025 and indexed in the ACL Anthology. ****Important Dates**** - *NEW Paper submission deadline (WASP): October 13, 2025* - *ARR commitment deadline: October 27, 2025* - Notification of paper acceptance (WASP+TRACS): November 3, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline (WASP+TRACS): November 11, 2025 - Workshop: December 23, 2025 (hybrid) - All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) ****Paper Submission Site**** *https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WASP <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WASP>* Submission will be via OpenReview. Submissions should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines and use the provided template files. Paper formatting guidelines - ACLPUB <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> Submissions (Long and Short Papers) will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. We follow the same policies as IJCNLP-AACL 2025 regarding anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Please reach out to the organizers (cc'ed) for any queries. Thank you! -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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First Call for Papers : Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗦’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS’2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: - 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 - Content Legitimacy and Quality - Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language - Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety - Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders - Monitoring extremist fora - Suicide prevention - Clickbait and scam detection - Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions - Social engineering identification, phishing detection - NLP for risk assessment - Controlled languages for safe messages - Prevention of malicious use of ai models - Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks - 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security - 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 - Text-Based Anomaly Detection - Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data - Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis - Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats - Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text - 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Systems Security - Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity - Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks - Authentication and access control - Enterprise-level mitigation - NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis - Analysing code and scripts for malware - Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code - 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics - 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Ethical and Legal Issues - Digital privacy and identity management - The ethics of NLP and speech technology - Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools - Legislation against malicious use of AI - Regulatory issues - Bias and Security - Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) - Bias in security related datasets and annotations - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤s - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 - 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘓𝘔𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: • Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • LLMs for forensic linguistics • Bias in LLMs • Safety benchmarks for LLMs • Legislation against malicious use of LLMs • Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs • Methods to enhance the robustness of language models 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available in the Second Call for Papers due in October 2025. The conference will feature a student workshop and awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Submissions due: 16 March 2026 • Reviewing process: 1 April – 30 April 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 • Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 • Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 • Conference: 11-12 June 2026 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚏̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚌̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ ̲ Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) 𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚙̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚜̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚒̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚝̲𝚞̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚆̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚔̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 𝙱̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚊̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚛̲ ̲𝙰̲𝚠̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚍̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚢̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚘̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚊̲𝚕̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in February 2026. Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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