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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 3rd CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

*** Third Call for Papers – DEADLINES UPDATED *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: April 18, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: May 20, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: June 13, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2025/woah2025/ The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo 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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up to 8 PhD student positions in neuroexplicit models of Language, Vision and Action (Saarland Univ. Germany)
by Vera Demberg 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for *up to 8 PhD Students - Fall 2025* Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”). We also develop novel machine learning techniques for neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”). Our overarching aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models through interdisciplinary collaboration. The RTG is scheduled to grow to a total of *24 PhD students* by 2025. An excellent and international group of twelve PhD students and one postdoc have already joined the RTG. Through the inclusion of ~20 associated PhD students and postdocs funded from other sources, it will be one of the largest research centers on neuroexplicit or neurosymbolic models in the world. The RTG brings together researchers at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). All of these institutions are collocated on the same campus in Saarbrücken, Germany. The positions will be *funded for four years* at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. They are intended to start in September 2025. You should have or be about to complete an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated expertise in one of the research areas of the RTG, e.g. through an excellent Master’s thesis or relevant publications. The RTG is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, one of the *leading centers for research* in computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing in Europe. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries. The CISPA Helmholtz Center, located on the same campus, is home to an additional 350 researchers and on track to grow to 800 by 2026. Researchers at SIC and CISPA are part of the ELLIS network and have been awarded more than 40 ERC grants. Each PhD student in the RTG will be *jointly supervised by two PhD advisors* from the list of Principal Investigators below. Each student will freely define their own research topic; we encourage the choice of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of research fields. Students may be affiliated with Saarland University or with one of the participating institutes. Vera Demberg, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Philipp Slusallek, DFKI and Saarland University - Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics - Visual Computing, Machine Learning Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning Isabel Valera, Saarland University - Machine Learning Jilles Vreeken, CISPA - Machine Learning, Causality Joachim Weickert, Saarland University - Mathematical Data Analysis Verena Wolf, DFKI and Saarland University - Modeling and Simulation, Reinforcement Learning Ellie Pavlick, Brown University and Google AI, will join us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by *24th March 2024* to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org and include the reference number W2616. We aim to conduct job interviews in April-May 2025. For more details on the position, including what materials to submit with your application, please see our website: <https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/#phd-2023>https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/

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Reminder/CfR: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Workshop, April 2-4, Berlin)
by Michael Zichert 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, registration is now open for our upcoming workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)"! The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. The event will open at around 1:30 PM on April 2 and end at around 5 PM on April 4. Further information is available at https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss Register here: https://events.tu-berlin.de/en/events/0194f579-606f-75e9-9be9-c2167c356171/… Early registration is greatly appreciated as it will help us with further planning. The deadline for registration is March 28, 2025 but we will also try to accommodate “walk-ins”. Please don’t hesitate to reach out in case you need more information. Kind regards, The organizers

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Webminar by Christian Herff (Maastricht University)
by HiTZ zentroa 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '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:* Christian Herff (Maastricht University) *Title:* Speech neuroprostheses based on intracranial EEG *Date: * Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Speech is our most natural way of communication and the loss of the ability to speak is therefore devastating to patients. A speech neuroprostheses that directly reconstructs speech processes from neural activity could provide a new means of communications to these severely affected patients. In this presentation, I will present some approaches to reconstruct different representations of speech from intracranial recordings and highlight how they can be used to build a speech neuroprosthesis. The decoding of speech processes is particularly challenging, as not only the neural, but also the target signal has complex, nonlinear dynamics. I will stress the use of interpretable machine learning models for this task to ensure that meaningful activity is decoded and scientific insights might be generated as a side product. *Bio:* Dr. Christian Herff is an assistant professor in the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience at Maastricht University where he leads the invasive BCI research line. His research interest lays in the application of machine learning technology to neurophysiological data for Brain-Computer Interfaces and neuroscience research. With a particular focus on the decoding of speech processes from intracranial data, he tries to improve the lives of severely paralyzed patients while simultaneously improving our understanding of complex higher order cognition. He emphasizes the ability to achieve interpretable results based on computational models. In particular, visualization of complex dynamic models, such as deep neural networks, is of interest to him. * Upcoming webinars:* · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 2025) · 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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CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab -- 3rd Call for Participation
by Firoj Alam 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We invite you to participate in the 2025 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025. This year, we feature four tasks ---one follow-up and three new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Subjectivity in news articles. to spot text that should be processed with specific strategies; benefiting the fact-checking pipeline. Available in Arabic, English, Bulgarian, German, Italian, and Multilingual. Task 2 Claim Normalization. to simplify the primary claim made in the social media post into a concise form. This task is offered in 20 languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, German, Greek, French, Hindi, Korean, Marathi, Indonesian, Dutch, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai. Task 3 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims. to verify claims with numerical quantities and temporal expressions. Available in Arabic, English and Spanish. Task 4 Scientific Web Discourse Processing (SciWeb). to (a) classify different forms of science-related online discourse and (b) retrieve the scientific paper that serves as the source for the claim from a given pool of candidate scientific papers. Available in English. Register and participate: https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2025-checkthat-lab Important Dates --------------------- - November 2024: Lab registration opens - December 2024: Release of the training materials - 25 April 2025: Lab registration closes - 30 April 2025: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 10 May 2025 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 30 May 2025: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 30 May – 27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers - 9 June 2025: Submission of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] - 16 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] - 23 June 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] due - 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] - 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Participant Papers and Extended Lab Overviews [CEUR-WS] due - 21-25 July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organizers - 9-12 September 2025: CLEF 2025 Conference in Madrid, Spain Best regards, The CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers

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Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, Cornell University
by heather froehlich 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Corpora-List, Please see below for a great postdoc position at Cornell on behalf of my colleague. *Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, Cornell University* Cornell University’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture (CIVIC) initiative seek a *Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, *to be based in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. We especially welcome applications from scholars engaging data-driven or computational methods in the humanities. The postdoctoral associate will collaborate closely with faculty and librarians as part of Cornell’s Digital Humanities CIVIC research fellows group <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ZbsyCWWA5rT68LlqES6fRToRKqK?domain=…> . Learn more about the position and apply at this link <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Q1l5CXYBgvf4ZPpKQHVhJTWBp2Z?domain=…> by March 21, 2025. The appointment period will begin on July 1, 2025. The pay range for this position is $61,008 - $87,000. Actual salary offers in the College of Arts and Sciences will be based on education, experience, discipline, and relevant skills. *Questions can be directed to Lindsay Thomas (lthomas(a)cornell.edu <lthomas(a)cornell.edu>), Associate Professor of Literatures in English. * *Iliana Burgos* (she/her) Emerging Data Practices Librarian Digital Scholarship Services <https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/MH0MCYVDjwfDXWGl7I9iLTx8K0M?domain=…> Olin Library | Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro *this email address is for mailing list subscriptions only and is not monitored regularly.*

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Development set released: BioNLP @ACL 2025 Shared Task on Grounded Electronic Health Record Question Answering, ArchEHR-QA ("Archer")
by Soni, Sarvesh (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E] 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

We are excited to share that the ArchEHR-QA development set is now available via PhysioNet: * https://doi.org/10.13026/zzax-sy62 Shared Task Website: * https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Introduction to ArchEHR-QA 2025 Responding to patients’ medical inbox messages through patient portals is increasingly a contributor to clinician burden. To this end, automatically generating answers to questions from patients considering their medical records is important. The overarching goal of the ArchEHR-QA 2025 shared task is to develop automated responses to patients' questions by generating answers that are grounded in key clinical evidence from their electronic health records (EHRs). ArchEHR-QA Dataset The proposed dataset comprises hand-curated, realistic patient questions (reflective of patient portal messages), relevant focus areas identified within these questions (as determined by a clinician), corresponding clinician-rewritten versions (crafted to aid in formulating responses), and note excerpts providing essential clinical context. For more information and examples, please visit the shared task website at https://archehr-qa.github.io/. Important Dates (Tentative) * Release of the public and hidden test datasets: March 25 (Tuesday), 2025 * Submission of system responses: April 25 (Friday), 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): May 2 (Friday), 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 10 (Saturday), 2025 * BioNLP Workshop Date: July 31 (Thursday) OR August 1 (Friday), 2025 We are also looking for people to join the program committee, where the responsibilities will include reviewing papers. If you are interested, please send an email to sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov>. Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/archehr-qa Email: sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov> Looking forward to your participation, Sarvesh Soni, National Library of Medicine, US Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, US

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RAG Workshop on ICCS Meeting, Singapore 2025
by Magda Król 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues, I would like to inform you that the submission deadline for the Advances in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Specialized Domains Workshop, taking place in Singapore, has been extended. The new final deadline is March 7, 2025. This workshop is part of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2025), which will be held from July 7 to July 9, 2025, in Singapore. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical and rapidly evolving theme in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). By integrating traditional and modern information retrieval (IR) techniques with the generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs), RAG systems address key limitations related to knowledge updates and domain specificity. This approach is particularly valuable in high-stakes fields such as law, biology, physics, and medicine, where accuracy and reliability are paramount. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on RAG systems to discuss novel approaches, share insights, and explore emerging challenges in efficiency, scalability, domain adaptation, retrieval optimization, and evaluation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovations in RAG architectures and retrieval models * Techniques for improving efficiency, scalability, and storage * Domain-specific applications in legal, biomedical, and scientific fields * Fusion methods and retrieval optimization strategies * Evaluation benchmarks and robustness techniques * Ethical considerations, cross-lingual applications, and challenges in low-resource settings We encourage you to share this information with students and other potentially interested individuals. More details about the workshop, including submission guidelines, can be found on the official conference website: 🔗 ICCS 2025 – RAG Workshop [https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2025/] We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in fruitful discussions at the workshop. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Best regards, Best regards, Magda Król

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #15
by Costas Gabrielatos 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 7 March 2025, 3:15-4:30 pm (GMT). Topic: LLMs Speaker: Yannis Korkontzelos<https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/persons/yannis-korkontzelos> (Edge Hill University, UK) Title: Detecting Text generated by Large Language Models: A Novel Statistical Technique to address Paraphrasing The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Thursday 6 March. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to: gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk> ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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IndiREAD Workshop – 1st Call for Papers
by Iza Škrjanec 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

*IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 1st Call for Papers* Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025 IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project "Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC <https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in…> and the MultiplEYE COST <https://multipleye.eu/> action "Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research". While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in identifying key factors that influence reading patterns—including text properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word predictability, and dependency length—recent studies have emphasized the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g., Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016; Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills, linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This informs our understanding of how text characteristics and individual reader attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading. IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in *investigating individual differences in reading using both experimental and computational approaches*. This workshop will focus on methods such as eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task, with particular interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with individual differences. We also encourage submissions of computational models for eye movements or reading behavior that shed light on the mechanisms behind these differences. The goal is to foster collaboration between experimental and computational researchers to better understand individual variability among readers. We especially welcome submissions of reading time experiments and modelling of languages beyond English. The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions: 1. How do individual differences impact the way people read? 2. How do reading patterns vary across different languages, particularly in bilinguals? 3. How do reading patterns change across the lifespan? 4. Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing variability in reading patterns? 5. How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and sentence processing across languages? 6. How can computational models account for individual differences in reading? 7. How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and comprehension among different individuals? 8. What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying latent groups and relating individual differences to reading performance? *Workshop dates*: November 26-27, 2025 Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in *Saarbrücken, Germany*. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well as contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number of submissions we receive. *Submission deadline*: July 23, 2025. We invite 1000-word abstracts from interested presenters. Information about submission and formatting will be available on our website soon. Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread Contact email: indiread(a)lst.uni-saarland.de Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action, which will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial, and priority will be given to junior researchers. Best, Iza Škrjanec IndiREAD Organizing Committee

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