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Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position) at Telecom
Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
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Telecom Paris has a new permanent (tenure) faculty position (Associate
Professor/ “Maître/Maîtresse de conférences”) in Machine Learning for Natural
Language Processing. Applicants from the following sub-research areas
are particularly welcome:
- Generative models, Conversational AI
- Bias and Explainability in AI
- Frugal Machine Learning
Important Dates
September 5, 2025 : closing date for applications
Main missions
- Participate in the design and implementation of teaching programs in the field of machine learning for language processing
- Conduct research in your scientific field
- Participate in the development of partnerships, collaborations and contractual relationships in your scientific field
- Participate in teaching activities at Telecom Paris and its partner academic institutions (as part of joint Master programs), especially in
natural language processing, speech processing, machine learning, and Data Science, including life-long training programs (e.g. the local
“Mastères Spécialisés”).
Candidate profile
As a minimum requirement, the successful candidate will have:
- A Ph.D. degree
- A track record of research and publication in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing,
generative speech and signal processing, human-agent interactions, social robotics
- Experience in teaching
- An international postdoctoral experience is welcome but not mandatory
- Excellent command of English
NOTE:
The candidate does *not* need to speak French to apply, just to be willing to learn the language (teaching will be mostly given in
English).
Other expected skills include:
- Capacity to work in a team and develop good relationships with colleagues and peers
- Excellent writing and pedagogical skills
More about the position
Place of work: Saclay (Paris outskirts)
Context:
- S²A (machine learning, statistics and signal processing) group
[ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ]
- LTCI (laboratoire de traitement et communication de l’information)
[ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ]
- Télécom Paris [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home ]
Ecosystem:
Télécom Paris is a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique
de Paris (IP Paris, [ https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ | https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ ] ), a world-class
scientific and technological institution. Located at the Plateau de
Saclay close to Paris-Saclay University, this Institution is a
partnership between Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris,
Télécom Paris, Télecom SudParis, with HEC as a key partner.
Regularly ranked as one of the best engineering schools in France,
Télécom Paris is recognized for its excellent training, its very good
employability rate with high salaries, its high-level research, and its
very close proximity to companies. The THE (Times Higher Education,
[ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… ] )
ranks Télécom Paris 2nd best French engineering school, 5th better
French university, and 6th « best small university ».
The newly created institution IP Paris was ranked in the top 50 best
universities in the QS world university ranking. In the context of the
Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the activities in Data Science and AI
of the team benefit from the center Hi!Paris ( [ https://www.hi-paris.fr/ | https://www.hi-paris.fr/ ] ),
offering seminars, workshops, and fundings through calls for project.
How to apply?
Applications must be submitted via one of the following websites:
French Version
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Applicants should submit:
- Cover letter,
- Curriculum vitae,
- Statements of research and teaching interests (4 pages maximum each)
- Three publications
- Contact information for two references
Contacts - please contact us directly before applying:
Maria Boritchev
Matthieu Labeau
Stéphan Clémençon (Head of the S²A group)
Florence Tupin (Head of the IDS department)
We’re excited to launch MAHED 2025, the first multimodal shared task on Hope and Hate Detection in Arabic content, part of ArabicNLP 2025 @ EMNLP 2025. This challenge promotes ethical AI in Arabic by addressing hate speech, hope speech, and emotion detection in both text and memes.
Website: https://marsadlab.github.io/mahed2025/
Three Tasks:
1. Hope & Hate Speech Classification
Classify Arabic text as hope, hate, or neutral.
Register: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9136/
2. Multitask Emotion & Offensive Detection
Detect emotions, offensive language, and hate in text.
Register: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9166/
3. Multimodal Hateful Meme Detection
Identify hate in Arabic memes (text + image).
Register: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9192/
Key Dates:
* June 10: Data & scripts released
* July 20: Final registration & test set
* July 25: Submission deadline
* Nov 5–9: Workshop @ EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China
The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising a 17 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing.
The position involves interdisciplinary research on the development and evaluation of large language models for low-resourced langauges, primarily focusing on Danish and other Nordic languages. The research will focus on post-training methods for these low-resourced languages, for example, by investigating the role of synthetic data, among other data augmentation techniques, and the role of in-context learning in modelling low-resource languages. Applicants are also expected to contribute to work on data pre-processing, tokenization, model training. The candidate will be affiliated to the project group Danish Foundation Models, (https://www.foundationmodels.dk/) which is a collaboration between several major universities in Denmark addressing the aforementioned initiative, including Aarhus University, Southern Danish University, the Alexandra Institute, and the University of Copenhagen. The candidate will be co-supervised from both the Centre for Language Technology and the Department of Computer Science and will be physically located in both places during their employment.
The successful candidate will join the Language and Multimodal Processing group, which is part of a section with a strong, international, and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics, and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about the group is available here: https://lampgroup.github.io/, and further information about the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/.
The application deadline is August 15, 2025, with interviews on September 4, 2025, and a start date of 15 October, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Further information about the position can be found here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164490.
Inquiries about the position can be made at de(a)di.ku.dk. Interested candidates can also reach out to schedule an informal discussion during the ACL 2025 conference in Vienna.
Dear list members,
I'm delighted to announce an exciting new publication in the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series. The title is "Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics: a multimodal study of news representations of Islam", and the authors are Paul Baker, Hanna Schmük and Yufang Qian.
The Element offers a test of Vertex AI for automatically tagging images, using analyses of the written text, the images, and the interaction between them. It offers a critical evaluation of the software used in this context, and also acts as a practical guide for researchers in this area.
The Element is available as an Open Access publication here:
Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics<https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/automatic-image-tagging-for-corpus-…>
Susan Hunston
The Hansen Foundation is offering a
doctoral scholarship in
(Computational) History / Cultural Anthropology / Ecology / Geography
at the University of Passau as soon as possible.
With your relevant work, we are looking for correlations and possibly interactions between cultural factors on the one hand and landscape factors on the other in the region of the entire Šumava (Bavarian Forest). The area under investigation is not only attractive because of its nature and proximity to Passau, but is also particularly interesting for the research question, as the Šumava is a region that was and is characterized by (historical and current) political borders, but geologically represents a uniform mountain landscape.
The scholarship is embedded in the project “Regional Collectives at the End of the Weimar Republic” of the Passau Chairs of German Linguistics and Computational Humanities. For the first time, we are systematically processing the materials of the Atlas of German Folklore (1930-1935) for Bavaria - the largest humanities research project ever undertaken in Germany. The atlas used questionnaires to document people's everyday culture at the end of the Weimar Republic. For Bavaria alone, there are a total of 450,000 data records for 1,820 places, which are available to you for your doctoral project.
You will enrol as a doctoral student at the University of Passau and be supervised by Professor Dr Malte Rehbein (Computational Humanities), who will serve as your primary advisor. At the same time, you will receive non-personalised support from the Hansen Foundation and its subordinate Research Centre for the Study of Collectives at the University of Regensburg.
The project is embedded in a broader research context that includes collaboration with another scholarship holder, the research initiatives of the Chairs of Computational Humanities and Linguistics, the Computational Historical Ecology research programme, and the Passau Methodikum. It is designed to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and encourage a shift in perspective. Depending on your academic background, you will bring a focus from ecological, historical, cultural studies, or historical-geographical perspectives.
A central aspect of the project is the joint consideration of research subjects as machine-readable data. The dissertation will also contribute to the development of a “Big Data source criticism,” which adapts and extends traditional historical methodology to large-scale datasets.
Requirements include a successfully completed university degree with a focus in history, folklore/empirical cultural anthropology, geography, ecology, digital humanities, or a related field. You should have a strong interest in topics such as environmental, everyday, or social history, cultural or geoanthropology, or historical ecology. As our work is data-driven, you will need relevant skills in the analysis of research data — for example, through quantitative methods, databases, geographic information systems (GIS), or text and data mining. You will be closely integrated into the Passau-based research groups throughout your project and will have the opportunity to acquire and develop any necessary skills there. A good reading proficiency in German is required.
The financial support provided by the foundation amounts to €1,400 per month (tax-free). The foundation permits up to ten hours of secondary employment per week. If the necessary qualifications and funding are in place, this may take the form of work on another research project within the Chair of Computational Humanities. The scholarship is limited to two years. We will actively support the search for follow-up funding to complete the doctorate in good time. Residency in Passau is desirable and beneficial, but not a strict requirement.
Curious? Interested?
Then please submit an academic CV including transcripts, along with a motivation letter outlining your interest in the project and in pursuing further academic qualifications (in a single PDF). If your application sparks our curiosity and interest, we will invite you to an interview.
Please send your application directly to malte.rehbein(a)uni-passau.de by 25 July 2025. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Malte Rehbein directly.
Link: https://che.hypotheses.org/883
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Dr. phil. Thomas Nikolaus Haider
Computational Humanities and Multilingual Computational Linguistics
University of Passau
Call for Papers: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts)
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, held in conjunction with RANLP 2025 (https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/)!
CASE is a leading venue for research, resources, and practical advances in automated event extraction and analysis, focusing on social and political event data. It has been organized consistently in top venues like ACL, EMNLP, EACL, etc.
We invite submissions of research papers, resource papers, and position papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:
• Event extraction at the sentence, document, or cross-document level, including event coreference.
• Creation and annotation of datasets for event extraction.
• Modeling event-event relations such as subevents, causal, temporal, and spatial links.
• Evaluation of event datasets: reliability, validity, and coverage.
• Event schemas and ontologies: population, definition, and enrichment.
• Tools, pipelines, and infrastructure for event annotation and analysis.
• Linguistic aspects of event representation: lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic.
• Applications of event data in conflict prediction, early warning, and policy support.
• Detection of new event types, including protests, public health crises, and cyber activism.
• Bias, fairness, and misinformation in event extraction systems and datasets.
• Legal, ethical, and privacy considerations in dataset creation and dissemination.
• Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal event extraction.
• Use of LLMs and generative AI for event extraction, analysis, and dataset generation.
• Release of new benchmarks, datasets, or annotation resources.
All accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.
Website: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2025/ (being updated! please get in touch with ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr for any questions)
Link for submission: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/CASE2025/user/
Important dates:
Submission Deadline: 25 July 2025
Notification: August 17, 2025
Camera-ready deadline: August 30, 2025
Workshop date: September 11-13, 2025
Shared task
Multimodal detection of hate speech, humor, and stance in LGBTQ+ socio-political discourse
To know more and participate, please visit: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2025-multimodal/blob/main/README.md
All shared task papers will also be published in the ACL anthology.
Organizers: Surendrabikram Thapa, Siddhant Bikram Shah, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Kritesh Rauniyar, Surabhi Adhikari, Kristy Johnson, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Usman Naseem
Organizing committee:
Ali Hürriyetoglu
Hristo Tanev
Surendrabikram Thapa
Vanni Zavarella
Erdem Yörük
*LAW-XIX 2025 - Call for Participation*
The 19th edition of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop
(https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025) will be held on the 31th of July
2025 in Vienna, Austria, co-located with ACL 2025.
*Workshop description*
The Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) is the annual workshop of the
ACL and ELRA Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN), and it
provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative
research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including the creation
and evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual
annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks,
representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised
“human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches,
and more. As in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation
researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and
interoperability of annotation information and software.
*
Keynote speakers*
Rotem Dror, University of Haifa
Junyi Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin
For more details, see: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025/invited.html
*Workshop program:* https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIX-2025/program.html
*
Registration details:* https://2025.aclweb.org/registration
The LAW-XIX organisers
Ines Rehbein & Logan Siyao Peng
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Ines Rehbein
Data and Web Science Group
University of Mannheim, Germany
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Ljubljana, Slovenia
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The University of Ljubljana has *3 open positions (2 PhD and 1 Postdoc)*
in artificial intelligence for digital humanities (AI4DH) in the context
of the *European centre of excellence in AI4DH*, recently founded and
supported by Horizon Europe.
At the heart of the vibrant European capital city of Ljubljana, close to
both the Alps and the Mediterranean, you will be part of an AI research
group working, dedicated to AI research that can be applied to DH.
You will benefit from *competitive salaries* and *top-notch
infrastructure*, based in the faculty of computer and information
science, yet in an *interdisciplinary context*.
Full details are available here:
- *Posdoctoral position, for 2 years* with possible extension:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356445
- *Doctoral positions, for up to 4 years*:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356450
*Important dates:
* - NEW *information session* on Thursday 10 July 10am CEST (see
registration details on Euraxess)
- Application *deadline: 24 July,* CEST (Ljubljana time)
🚀 Call for Participation: DISRPT 2025 Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking.
🛎️ training data has been released and the submission is now open!
https://softconf.com/emnlp2025/disrpt2025/
In conjunction with CODI-CRAC & EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9.
This year, we are organizing the fourth edition of the DISRPT shared task on discourse processing across formalisms, for a variety of languages and genres, with three subtasks:
* Task 1: Discourse segmentation
* Task 2: Connective identification
* Task 3: Relation classification
We will provide training, development and test datasets from (almost) all available languages in RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies, using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for discourse units. We will evaluate segmentation and connective detection in two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax. An automatically parsed version is provided for all corpora without a gold parse.
This year, the shared task will feature:
* The inclusion of more frameworks, with datasets from: RST / eRST, SDRT, PDTB, ISO 24617, and discourse dependencies * The inclusion of new corpora and new languages, some of them kept a surprise! * A unified set of labels for the discourse relations, to make easier the evaluation across datasets * A new constraint: only one multilingual model should be submitted per task, and it should be small (4B parameters max)! This will make our replication work easier, but more importantly, it will simplify using such a model and test the robustness of your solution.
We’re excited to announce the release of the training data for the DISRPT 2025 Shared Task! You can now access the data, format documentation, and tools on our GitHub 🔗 https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2025
The data covers five discourse frameworks — RST / eRST, PDTB, SDRT, and Discourse Dependencies — across 14 languages: Basque, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish Thai.
We invite researchers and teams interested in participating to register now. Registered participants will be added to our mailing list and receive all future updates.
📅 The full testing data will be released on July 14, 2025 — stay tuned!
To join the mailing list and stay informed, please email us at:
📧 disrpt_chairs(a)googlegroups.com
Let us know you're interested — we’d love to have you on board!
**Important dates**
* May 16 2025 – Sample data release * June 17 2025 – Training data release [NOW] * July 14 2025 – Test data release * August 1 2025 – System + paper submissions due * September 12 2025 – Notification of acceptance * September 19 2025 – Camera ready papers * November 8-9 2025 – CODI at EMNLP
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (AoE, "Anywhere on Earth").
**Information:**
Contact the organizers: disrpt_chairs(a)googlegroups.com
Official website: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2025/
Google group for participants, please join us on: disrpt2025_participants(a)googlegroups.com
**Organization:**
Chloé Braud (CNRS - IRIT, University of Toulouse, France)
Chuyuan Li (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Janet Yang Liu (LMU Munich, Germany)
Philippe Muller (CNRS - University of Toulouse, France)
Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)