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Webminar by Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind)
by HiTZ zentroa 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker: *Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind) *Title: *Towards Inclusive Multimodal AI *Date: *Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary: *Visual assistants are becoming ubiquitous, yet their effectiveness varies drastically across languages and cultures. This talk presents an overview of the critical issue of multicultural disparity in image–text models. We'll explore this gap through three lenses: evaluation, training, and generation. First, I'll introduce benchmarks like MaRVL designed to quantify multilingual and multicultural competence. Next, we'll delve into techniques for mitigating these disparities in model training. Finally, we'll examine the emerging challenges and opportunities in multicultural visual generation. *Bio: *Emanuele Bugliarello is a research scientist at Google DeepMind based in Grenoble, France where he works on improving evaluation and capabilities of multimodal generative models. He completed his PhD in the NLP Section at the University of Copenhagen, while spending time at DeepMind, Google, Mila and Spotify. Previously, he studied computer and communication sciences at EPFL, Tongji University and Politecnico di Torino. * Upcoming webinars:* · André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 2025) · Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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[CfP] 1st CfP: GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies || June 12, 2025 || Leipzig, Germany
by DBpedia 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

==== *1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies* Leipzig, Germany June 12, 2025 https://cost.eu/actions/CA23147/ ==== The 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to Knowledge Graphs, their applications, and associated technologies. We encourage submissions at the intersection of Knowledge Graphs with fields such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automation. Submissions should be original and must not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. = Topics of Interest = Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Modeling, designing, and integrating KGs, including ontology engineering and enrichment * Development, publication, maintaining, and versioning of knowledge graphs, including schema evolution and data updates * Techniques for extracting, linking, and improving knowledge graphs, ensuring data quality and consistency * Methods for reasoning and discovering insights, patterns, and relationships within large-scale KGs * Strategies for safeguarding knowledge graphs, addressing access control, bias detection, and data protection * Leveraging KGs in deep learning, large language models, and natural language processing, KGs for LLMs and LLMs for KGs * Enhancing search, recommendations, and question-answering systems using knowledge graph-based techniques * Success stories and lessons learned in real-world implementations of KGs in healthcare, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing, and beyond * Applications of KGs in various contexts, such as content analysis, misinformation detection, and social media insights * Evaluation of knowledge graph development tasks based on LLMs/GenAI * Knowledge Graph-based retrieval augmented generation (RAG) = Important Dates = * Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time, UTC-12) * Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2025 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time, UTC-12) Submissions will be through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25 = Author Guidelines and Submission = * *Full research papers*: 4-6 pages + max 2 pages references * *Short research papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * *In Use and Experience papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * *Position and Vision papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references * *System/demo papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references Submissions must be in English, original, and not under review elsewhere. Papers should follow the *Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science* style: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… = Review and Evaluation Criteria = Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers may disclose their identities. Papers will be evaluated based on: * Appropriateness * Originality, novelty, and innovativeness * Impact of results * Technical quality of methods * Soundness of evaluation * Proper comparison to related work * Clarity and quality of writing * Reproducibility of results and resources = Financial Support for Authors = The GOBLIN COST Action has allocated a budget to support travel expenses for authors of accepted papers. One author per accepted paper may apply for financial support, subject to budget availability and COST reimbursement rules: https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2025/02/COST-094-21-V2.0-Annotated-Rules-for-CO… = Proceedings = Accepted papers will be published on Zenodo and shared on the workshop and GOBLIN COST Action websites. = Workshop Chairs = * Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy * Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany For inquiries: goblin25(a)easychair.org = Programme Committee = * Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania * Krzysztof Węcel, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland * Verginica Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for AI, Romania * Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain * Weiler Andreas, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland * …to be updated = Local Organisers = * Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany * Julia Holze, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany = Acknowledgment = This workshop is organized as part of the GOBLIN COST Action: CA23147 – Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology): https://www.cost.eu

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Registration open for Corpus Linguistics 2025
by Robbie Love 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Dear colleagues I am pleased to confirm that registration is now open for the international Corpus Linguistics conference 2025 (CL2025). CL2025 is co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University, and the University of Birmingham and will take place from Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 at Aston University. Information about fees and registration instructions can be found on the conference website: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/registration Registration is also open for the pre-conference workshop day, to be held on Sunday 29th June at the University of Birmingham. We are pleased to confirm a programme of six workshops - details available here: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/workshops KEY DATES * Registration opens: 28th March 2025 * Early bird registration deadline: 9th May 2025 * Final registration deadline: 13th June 2025 * Conference dates: 30th June - 3rd July 2025 PLENARY SPEAKERS * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) * Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) * Elizabeth Hanks (Northern Arizona University, USA) * Pascual Pérez-Paredes (University of Murcia, Spain) * Anna Marchi (University of Bologna, Italy) & Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK) For further information, please visit the conference website at www.cl2025.co.uk<http://www.cl2025.co.uk> or write to the CL2025 organising committee at corpuslinguistics2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:corpuslinguistics2025@gmail.com>. Best wishes Robbie Love On behalf of the CL2025 Organising Committee: Matt Gee (Birmingham City University), Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University), Joyce Lim (Aston University), Robbie Love (Aston University), Mark McGlashan (University of Liverpool), Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham), Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham) Dr Robbie Love (he/him) BA (Hons), ma, phd, cdls, fhea Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Programme Development Lead Department of Communication and Culture, School of Law and Social Sciences Aston University, Birmingham, UK [Aston University] Newsletter Editor, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)<https://www.baal.org.uk/> Convenor, BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group<https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/> Organising Committee, Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025<https://www.cl2025.co.uk/> Research profile: research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love<https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love> Website: robbielove.org/<https://robbielove.org/> See me in Les Misérables<https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/bmos-presents-les-miserables-let-the-peopl…> at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, 10th-14th June!

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ArabicNLP 2025 - First Call For Papers
by Salam Khalifa 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Hello all, *** Apologies for cross-posting *** *The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) * *Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November, 2025. (Hybrid Mode).* *Conference URL*: https://arabicnlp2025.sigarab.org/ We invite long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work. Theme: Bridging Modalities: Advancing Arabic NLP Submissions may include work in progress or completed research, with a clear focus on Arabic NLP, covering standard Arabic, dialectal, or classical. This year, we focus on advancing the three key modalities: text, speech, and vision. We encourage research that explores modeling, novel applications, and new resources. Papers on related languages, such as Semitic languages or those using Arabic script, are welcome if they offer insights relevant to Arabic NLP. Work using Arabic resources for other languages is also encouraged. We welcome descriptions of commercial systems, position papers, and surveys on the above topics, with detailed information on technical contributions and added value to the community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Enabling Technologies: - Text: Language models, diacritization, morphological analysis, lemmatization, tokenization, POS tagging, syntactic and semantic parsing, named entity recognition, disambiguation, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Speech & Vision: Speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialect identification, optical character recognition, image/video understanding, image/video generation, etc. Applications: Assistive technologies, human-computer interaction, social media analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic applications.Resources: Multimodal corpora (text, speech, vision), annotation tools, lexical and dictionaries, etc. Conference Paper Submission URL: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022> TBA Important Dates for Conference Papers - June 22, 2025: Abstract submission for conference papers due date - June 29, 2025: Conference paper due date - August 03, 2025: Reviews submission deadline - August 24, 2025: Rebuttal period ends - August 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance - September 21, 2025: Camera-ready papers due - November, 2025: ArabicNLP conference All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org The ArabicNLP 2025 Organizing Committee Best, -- Salam Khalifa

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Call for Special Issue Proposals - Journal Natural Language Processing
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering) *** Call for Special Issue Proposals *** In recent years the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has enjoyed unprecedented developments since the emergence of Deep Learning and, lately, Large Language Models. At the same time, NLP is following the trend of many other areas in becoming highly specialised, with a number of application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in importance. These developments, often coinciding with a lack of related literature, necessitate and warrant the publication of specialised volumes focusing on a specific topic of interest to the NLP research community. The Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering), which features six 160-page issues per year and has had its impact factor increase yearly, invites proposals for special issues on a competitive basis covering any topics in applied NLP which have emerged as important recent developments and have attracted the attention of a number of researchers. The Journal Calls for Proposals for special issues have resulted in high-quality outputs and this year we look forward to another successful competition. Proposals on topics covering a variety of methods, tasks, resources and applications from Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Speech and Language Processing, Text Analytics and related areas are eligible. Special issues on timely NLP topics such as latest language models including Large Language Models/Generative AI, are welcome. Special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or section of the community. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews. In addition, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all interested parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited to workshop participants only. Prospective proposers are also encouraged to consult the successful Journal columns "Industry Watch" and "Emerging Trends" for additional inspiration. Interested parties have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended special issue to the Executive Editor (Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es). He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to the Journal. In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue that will be reviewed by the Editors of the Journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial Board. The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the particular topic of interest at the current time. It should include a relevant literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special issue against the background of other relevant or competing publications and volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that evidence for the estimate of expected submissions to the special issue be provided and justified. The proposals should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board. It is desirable that at least one (preferably two) of the members of the Guest Editorial Board is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Natural Language Processing. The proposal should also include a tentative time-scale for the production of the special issue (the time-scale committed to in the proposal should be adhered to, if the proposal is accepted), and information about the prospective Guest Editors such as relevant experience, publications etc. Time-scale - Deadline for submission of special issue proposals: 28 April 2025 (proposals to be emailed to Ruslan.Mitkov(a)ua.es with a copy to NLP(a)cambridge.org) - Notification of acceptance/rejection: 19 May 2025 - Calls for papers related to the successful proposals (at least 2 calls are recommended): 7 June 2025 first call July-September 2025 second (and third call, if applicable) Once the special issue is approved and launched, Guest Editors are expected to adhere to the same reviewing and acceptance standards as regular issues of the Journal. In particular, each submission needs to be reviewed by three members of the Guest Editorial Board or other experts in the field. To ensure geographical diversity and balance, and to avoid over-reliance on the same reviewers, each submission must not be reviewed by three experts from the same country, and no single reviewer should evaluate more than two submissions. If the Executive Editor is not satisfied with the review process for a special issue paper, he may either reject the paper or send it for additional review. As a last resort, the Executive Editor has the discretion to reject the entire special issue if the reviewing practices are found to be flawed. All special issues are required to include a survey of the field (at least 15 pages) as its first article, which can be written either by the Guest Editors or experts in the field commissioned by the Guest Editors. This is in addition to a 1-2 page preface by the Guest Editors. Best Regards 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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Workshop "Studying the Language of Young Learners" - submission deadline extended
by Valentin Werner 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, Due to multiple requests, we're happy to extend the submission deadline of the following event to 20 April: Studying the Language of Young Learners Workshop at the University of Bamberg, Germany, 17 to 18 September 2025, organized by Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg), Robert Fuchs (University of Bonn) & Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) as part of the projectYoung German Learner English <https://www.ygle.de/>(funded by the German Research Foundation). In research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and in the domain of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) specifically, there has been a tendency to rely on material from advanced learners, often university students, given their comparatively easy accessibility for researchers (Gilquin, 2015; Plonsky, 2017). In consequence, young(er) second language (L2) learners, typically found within institutional (secondary school) contexts, are severely underrepresented (Tracy-Ventura et al., 2021). However, this underrepresented group is of great theoreticalsignificance (Myles, 2015, 2021), as these learners exemplify foundational learning stages. They are also of appliedinterest in language education, as vastly more monetary and personnel resources are devoted to teaching languages in schools than at universities. As a consequence, improvements in teacher education and teaching practices drawing on insights from SLA and LCR could yield substantial benefits to society. In the broader context of calls for more diversity in LCR and SLA (e.g. Paquot, 2024), this workshop is intended as a meeting ground for researchers who engage with young learner (inter-)language to share insights from their current projects. We invite single- or multiple-authored papers on relevant empirical research and encourage contributions that, for instance, * analyze and interpret patterns found in young learner (inter-)language; * illustrate (young) learner trajectories; * compare and contrast data from L1 and L2 learners; * work with innovative tasks for data elicitation; * triangulate approaches (e.g. corpus-based and experimental or questionnaire-based ones). The workshop will feature two keynotes by * Shin’ichiro Ishikawa <http://language.sakura.ne.jp/s/eng.html>(University of Kobe, Japan), leader of the ICNALE <https://language.sakura.ne.jp/icnale/>project * Olga Lopopolo <https://www.eurac.edu/en/people/olga-lopopolo>(Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy), co-compiler of the LEONIDE <https://www.porta.eurac.edu/lci/leonide/>corpus Moreover, all participants will be invited to interact in a collaborative breakout sessionon future challenges and trends in research on young learners. We encourage submissions by emerging (non-tenured) researchers and will award a best paper prizeamong those eligible.This workshop is co-located with the summer school Methods and Developments in Learner Corpus Research. The working languageof the event is English, and we are open to contributions on all target languages. The workshop is primarily an in-person event, but we may accept a limited number of online contributions. The focus of papers should lie primarily on empirical results and their interpretation. Specific methodological issues, which may be at stake in research on young learner language, will be addressed in a second workshop, planned for 2026. Please submit your abstracts (in the range of 400–500 words + potentially a data table or figure for illustration + references; please use APA style) before *20 April 2025* at https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SLYL/ <https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SLYL/>. You will receive feedback on acceptance in May 2025. References Gilquin, G. (2015). From design to collection of learner corpora. In S. Granger, G. Gilquin & F. Meunier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research(pp. 9–34). Cambridge University Press. Myles, F. (2015). SLA theory and Learner Corpus Research. In S. Granger, G. Gilquin & F. Meunier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research(pp. 309–331). Cambridge University Press. Myles, F. (2021). Commentary: An SLA perspective on Learner Corpus Research. In B. Le Bruyn & M. Paquot (Eds.), Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition(pp. 258–273). Cambridge University Press. Paquot, M. (2024). Learner corpus research: A critical appraisal and roadmap for contributing (more) to SLA research agendas. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 20(3), 567–590. Plonsky, L. (2017). Quantitative research methods in instructed SLA. In S. Loewen & M. Sato (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition(pp. 505–521). Routledge. Tracy-Ventura, N., Paquot, M. & Myles, F. (2021). The future of corpora in SLA. In N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora(pp. 409–424). Routledge. -- Prof. Dr. Valentin Werner Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschl. Sprachgeschichte D-96045 Bamberg +49 951 863 2277 www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling

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EURALEX Talks - Mark Davies
by Iztok Kosem 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, The next instalment of EURALEX Talks will take place on Tuesday 16 April at 16.00 (CET). In this video lecture, Mark Davies, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA, will talk about his recent large-scale investigation of how the predictions on linguistic variation from two Large Language Models match actual corpus data. He will also present and demo his current work on integrating LLMs into his interface for English-Corpora.org. Further details are available at https://euralex.org/euralex-talks/. A Zoom link to access the talk will be provided closer to the date. Iztok Kosem EURALEX President

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Complete self-learning package for English-Corpora.org: KorPLUS available as OER
by Schlüter, Julia 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, We're excited to launch and share the free and interactive "KorPLUS" OER self-learning package, tailored to the needs of advanced students and teachers of English as well as anyone interested in the English language. It is based on the widely-used www.English-Corpora.org<http://www.English-Corpora.org> interface and endorsed by the platform's host, Mark Davies (https://www.English-Corpora.org/thirdPartyMaterials.asp). https://www.uni-bamberg.de/KorPLUS/ Make your students corpus-literate (https://youtu.be/72ZQiluCbgA), recommend the resource to (future) teachers (https://youtu.be/Hkw3l9SF-R4), or enhance your own corpus skills with hands-on corpus searches dealing with everyday language problems (choice of words, prepositions, collocations, syntactic constructions, formal/informal language, British/American/other Englishes, etc.). - Use the flexible, AI-supported material in parts or as a whole, as a standalone online course or integrated into blended-learning settings. - Click along with demo videos, do interactive exercises at different levels, and receive suggestions for stimulating classroom discussions. - Complete the corpus basics in only 2 to 3 hours and the entire package in 10 to 20 hours. - Earn a certificate after the successful completion of the course. - Apply the takeaways to typical language challenges in advanced writing and transfer your skills easily to corpus-based linguistic research. Julia Schlüter and Katharina Deckert (University of Bamberg, Germany), in collaboration with Jürgen Handke (Virtual Linguistics Campus Team, University of Marburg, Germany) Funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (https://stiftung-hochschullehre.de/). P.S.: Corpora in the hands of experts are - for the time being - more reliable than AI tools in cases of doubtful acceptability (e.g. in text correction/proofreading); see the playlist "Corpora vs. AI Tools", https://youtu.be/32tb7Xs7fFw?si=mhiaSyH9oG-1TjxM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Julia Schlüter Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschl. Sprachgeschichte Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg An der Universität 9, Raum U9/01.03 96045 Bamberg Tel. ++49-(0)951-863-2168 (Sekr. -2225) https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/personen/schlueter<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni-ba…> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture and Technology" 2025 - Applications are open
by Elisabeth Burr 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Dear all, We are very happy to let you know that applications to the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture and Technology" 2025 <https://esudh.github.io/> to be held at the university Marie and Louis Pasteur in Besançon (France) from July 21 to August 2 are open from 24 of March up to May 18 via Conftool <https://www.conftool.org/esudh2025/>. The Summer University will last for 11 full days with an intensive programme consisting of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session, and a panel discussion. Each workshop <https://esudh.github.io/WorkshopsandLectures/#workshops> consists of a total of 18 sessions or 36 teaching hours. Building on the spirit of previous editions in Leipzig and Cluj, the ESU in Besançon aims at being a space for interdisciplinary collaboration and opportunities for scholars and students in Humanities and therefore strengthening the community of practice already established in past years. The ESU is sponsored by DARIAH with 12 scholarships <https://esudh.github.io/application/#dariah-scholarships> of 450 Euros each to partially cover the costs of registration and staying in Besançon as well as by CLARIN for the organization of a workshop and of a conference. Besançon, a lively city of around 120 000 inhabitants and more than 25 000 students from all over the world, has a long tradition of teaching French to non-native speakers. Following the two weeks of the ESU, in the month of August, we will offer the possibility to attend for two to four weeks classes of French within the framework of our “French for DH <https://esudh.github.io/esubesancon/#french-for-dh>” programme. For all relevant information please consult ourwebsite <https://esudh.github.io/> which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. To get some insight into what you can expect from the European Summer University please consult the archive section on our website. Looking forward to meeting you in Besançon, The organizers

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Deadline Extension: Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

The proposal submission deadline has been extended to April 14th, 2025. The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025. We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following details: 1. Overview of the proposed task 2. Motivation for the task 3. Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: planned, in progress, or ready) 4. Task Description 5. Pilot Run Details (if available) 6. Tentative Timeline 7. Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation) Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long. Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9 Selection Process The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task. Task Organization Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers. Shared Task Proposal Submission All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). April 14th, 2025: Shared task proposals due *April 28th, 2025**: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance* Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals: Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation scripts July 20, 2025: Registration deadline and release of test data July 25, 2025: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes) July 30, 2025: Final results released August 15, 2025: System description paper submissions due August 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance September 5, 2025: Camera-ready versions due November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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