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CFP - PAC 2025 "Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations" (Aix en Provence, FR)
by Anne Przewozny desriaux 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, Following several demands for a new extension of the submission deadline, we extend it to January, 5 2025. You will find all the information about the international conference PAC 2025 (Phonology of Contemporary English) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, which will be held in Aix-en-Provence from 18 to 20 June 2025, on the website: https://pac2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr The conference will be preceded on Wednesday 18 June morning by a workshop on perception experiments, and followed on Friday 20 June afternoon by a workshop on depositing and sharing data. Important dates: Conference: 18-20 June 2025, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France. Abstract submission date: 6 December 2024 5 January 2025 Notification: 29 January 2025 Please circulate as widely as possible and we apologise in advance for any duplication. Sincerely, The PAC 2025 Organising Committee. ---------------- Chères et chers collègues, Suite à plusieurs demandes de report de la date limite de soumission, nous la reportons au 5 janvier 2025. Vous trouverez toutes les informations concernant la conférence internationale PAC 2025 (Phonology of Contemporary English) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, qui se tiendra à Aix-en-Provence du 18 au 20 juin 2025, sur le site web: https://pac2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr La conférence sera précédée le mercredi 18 juin matin d'un atelier sur les expériences de perception, et suivie le vendredi 20 juin d'un atelier sur le dépôt et le partage des données. Dates à retenir : Conférence : 18-20 juin 2025, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence. Date de soumission des résumés: 6 décembre 2024 5 janvier 2025 Merci de diffuser le plus largement possible et toutes nos excuses par avance pour les doublons. Cordialement, Le comité d’organisation PAC 2025. ******************* Anne Przewozny-Desriaux English linguistics - Phonology - Sociolinguistics CLLE | CNRS UMR 5263 https://clle.univ-tlse2.fr/ Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France PAC programme & LVTI project https://www.pacprogramme.net/ New Perspectives on English Word Stress https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-new-perspectives-on-english-word-… The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-corpus-phonology-of-english-h…

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GermEval: Call for Shared Task Proposals
by Christian Wartena 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

GermEval: Call for Shared Task Proposals We cordially invite proposals for the GermEval Shared Task 2025 co-located with Konvens 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 9-12), https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ . Background GermEval is a series of shared task evaluation campaigns that focus on Natural Language Processing for the German language and has been running since 2014, traditionally co-located with Konvens. Previous shared tasks Previous shared tasks have been devoted to: * Named entity recognition (2014) * Lexical Substitution (2015) * Aspect-based Sentiment in Social Media Customer Feedback (2016) * Offensive Language (2018, 2019) * Hierarchical classification of blurbs (2019) * Lemmatization of German web and social media texts (2019) * Text Complexity (2022) * Speaker Attribution (2023) * Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora (2024) See also https://germeval.github.io/tasks/ for details. Time schedule Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2024 Notification: December 20, 2024 Extended submission period January 4 - February 14, 2025 Extended notification: One week after submission Workshop: September 10, 2025 The early deadline facilitates a quick start of the organization of a shared task. Later submission is possible until February 14. We will try to review the proposal in that case within one week. While fixing the exact timeline for the shared task is up to the task organizers, we propose the following tentative schedule: Trial data ready: March 8, 2025 Training data ready: April 12, 2025 Test data ready: May 17, 2025 Evaluation start: June 16, 2025 Evaluation end: June 27, 2025 Paper submission due: July 11, 2025 Camera ready due: August 15, 2025 Submission guidelines For GermEval proposals are invited for any shared task involving natural language processing in the context of the German language. For a detailed questionnaire to be submitted please see: https://gscl.org/germeval Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org>, from the email of the contact person, with the subject "GermEval-2025 Shared Task Proposal". Proposals should make clear that a schedule similar to that suggested above can be implemented, especially for the preparation of resources (trial/training/development/test data sets). Proposals should be 2 to 3 pages long, in ACL - PDF format. We encourage proposers to include appendices with examples that help understanding the data and type of evaluation. Proposals will be reviewed by the KONVENS Program Committee. Proposers might be contacted during the reviewing period to provide further information. Potential proposers should feel free to indicate the intention to submit by emailing info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org>. We are also happy to answer your questions about the process, or to solicit early feedback for a proposal. Proceedings Peer-reviewed workshop papers can be published in the KONVENS 2025 Proceedings. A camera-ready version of all accepted papers should be available at latest on August 22, 2025. Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein] Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein]

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Last Call for Abstracts: LLM fails – Failed experiments with Generative AI and what we can learn from them
by Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

more information on our Workshop-Website: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/home/lexiktagungen/llm-fails Dear list members, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our workshop "LLM fails – Failed experiments with Generative AI and what we can learn from them" taking place from April 8-9, 2025 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany. If the extended short papers are positively reviewed, there is an opportunity to publish them in a special issue of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics. Further information (automatic English translation): Failed experiments typically have no place in scientific discourse; they are discarded and not published. We believe this leads to a loss of potential knowledge. After all, a systematic reflection on the reasons for failure allows for the questioning and/or improvement of methods used. Furthermore, when previously failed experiments are repeated and succeed, explicit progress can be determined. Thus, the discussion and documentation of failures creates added value for the scientific community from the perspective of methodological reflection. This is even more relevant in a field like research into and with Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), which cannot look back on decades of tradition and where best practices are still being negotiated. This workshop focuses on linguistic and NLP experiments with Generative AI that did not yield the desired results, such as but not limited to: • Using Generative AI as a Named-Entity Recognizer • Using Generative AI for automatic transcription of spoken language data • Using Generative AI for the creation of dictionary entries • Using Generative AI for the detection of language change phenomena The contribution should clarify how this failure can contribute to knowledge gain regarding the work with Generative AI. Unpublished proposals can be submitted anonymously as an abstract (500-750 words) in either German or English to the following email address by December 11, 2024: llmfails(at)ids-mannheim.de The organization team will decide on the acceptance of contributions by December 16, 2025. If a contribution is accepted, a short paper (4-6 pages without references) in English will be requested by February 15, 2025. The short papers will undergo double-blind peer review and will be published in a special issue of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics and archived at ACL Anthology. Best, Annelen Brunner, Christian Lang, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu (Organising committee) -- Dr. Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Grammatik Tel: +49 621-1581-242

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Junior Professorship in Information&Language Processing / AI at LMU Munich
by Hinrich Schuetze 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Dear community members, We cordially invite applications for the following position. Thanks - Hinrich Junior Professorship (W1) Information and Language Processing Using AI Methods LMU Munich tenure track apply by December 12 https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7815e9257475585704e21860f79f54abceadb4…

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Corpora of English novels
by Martin Wynne 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

I have a student who is interested in tracing the development of the English novel from its origins to the present day (or at least to the start of the twentieth century), and I'm trying to gather information about relevant corpora covering this text type and period. We know about the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC, https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/) which will be very useful for the later end of the timescale. We also know it is possible to assemble a corpus from Project Gutenberg, archive.org, Oxford Text Archive, etc. , but would be interested in re-using any corpora that people might already have made, which aim to be representative of particular periods within this genre. The student has some flexibility with her research question, so while the original idea of 'English novels' was probably 'novels in English from Great Britain and Ireland', other related areas such as US novels might be interesting as well. Any tips and suggestions gratefully received. If we get a number of interesting direct emails, I'll be happy to summarize the results to the list. Best wishes, Martin -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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6th HPLT & NLPL Winter School on Pretraining Data Quality and Multilingual LLM Evaluation
by Andrey Kutuzov 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We invite participants to a three-day winter school on large-scale NLP research, with special emphasis on pretraining data quality and multilingual evaluation of large language models (LLMs). The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by the following invited speakers: - Jenia Jitsev (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) - Marianna Nezhurina (LAION) - Guilherme Penedo (Huggingface) - Gema Ramírez-Sánchez (Prompsit Language Engineering) - Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen) - Ahmet Üstün (Cohere AI) - other international experts to be confirmed. The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Horizon Europe project High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT, https://hplt-project.org/) and the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 3–5, 2025, in Norway. For additional information, please see: http://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and HPLT will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on December 6, another one on December 13, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Friday, December 20, 2024. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2025! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team) -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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ACL 2025 - nominations and self-nominations to join the ACL 2025 programme committee
by Horacio Saggion 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

Dear NLP community members, Greetings from ACL 2025! We would like to invite nominations and self-nominations to join the ACL 2025 programme committee, as a reviewer or an area chair, depending on your interest, availability and experience. ACL 2025 review process will be run through ARR in the February cycle. The tentative timeline for the review period is 1 March to 20 March 2025 and the rebuttal period 26 March to 31 March 2025. Area chairs need to be available throughout the ARR February cycle. Please submit your (self-)nominations through this form by 16 December 2024: https://forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8R4A Afterwards, you will be invited to join the ARR February reviewer or area chair (action editor) pool through the ARR OpenReview platform. Finally, please share this message with your colleagues, postdocs and PhD students. Many thanks in advance for your time and contribution! ACL 2025 PC chairs -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN DTIC Deputy Director for Recruitment Project Coordinator iDEM Project Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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CfP: 13th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference QUALICO 2025 to be held in Brno, Czechia, June 26-28, 2025
by gmikros＠gmail.com 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

#Apologies for cross-posting# The International Quantitative Linguistics Association and Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, invites the submission of abstracts for the 13th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference QUALICO 2025, to be held in Brno, Czechia, June 26-28, 2025. TOPICS All contributions relating to quantitative linguistics and text analysis are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions on: - Descriptions and analysis of all aspects of language and text phenomena, insofar as they use quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic processes, differential and difference equations, multidimensional analysis, fuzzy logic and set theory, function theory, etc.). - Development of mathematical and/or statistical concepts and methods which contribute to theoretical understanding of language phenomena. - Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative linguistics to problems of natural language processing, text classification, stylistics, authorship attribution, text mining, language complexity, and complex network analysis. - Epistemological issues relevant to quantitative linguistics such as explanation of language and text phenomena, contributions to theory construction, systems theory, philosophy of science. - Application of theories and methods of quantitative linguistics to the analysis of text generated by AI and Large Language Models (LLM). Please note that the use of mathematical and statistical concepts and methods or their computational implementation on an ad hoc basis, without placing them in a linguistic context, does not in itself qualify an abstract for acceptance at the conference. MULTIPLE WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR The maximum number of submissions by the same author or co-author is two papers. Submissions exceeding this threshold will be automatically deleted without notification. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts should be in English and include keywords, author affiliations, and references. They should not exceed 250 words. The requested format for submission is plain text .txt. Each paper will be allotted 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). There will also be a poster session (accepted formats A0, A1 or similar). Abstracts can be submitted via the Oxford Abstracts system. Submission link: you can submit here: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76890/submissions/new?behalf=false&f… VENUE Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Arts, Arne Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno. The conference webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/qualico2025/home IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 2, 2025, 11:59:59 pm (CET) Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2025 Conference fee payment: April 27, 2025 Registration deadline: May 25, 2025 Conference dates: June 26–28, 2025 CONFERENCE FEES Regular: 300€ IQLA Member: 200€ CONFERENCE VOLUME Authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full papers for publication in the volume at one of the leading publishing houses (e.g., John Benjamins, Springer, Routledge, De Gruyter). Please note that the deadline for submitting papers will be approximately three months after the conference.

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Join us for the LLM Hackathon in Ecology in Bielefeld, Germany or Online!
by D'Souza, Jennifer 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

We are excited to host the “AI & LLM Hackathon for Applications in Evidence-based Ecological Research and Practice” in a hybrid format. The onsite event will take place at ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany from 20th to 22nd January, 2025. The online event happens in parallel with communications conveyed via Zoom. The event aims to explore and demonstrate innovative applications of artificial intelligence and large language models in ecology. It is part of the ZiF Resident Group „Mapping Evidence to Theory in Ecology: Addressing the Challenges of Generalization and Causality“ (https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/ongoing/mapping-evide…). Event highlights: • An introductory talk on the potential of LLMs in ecology. • A wide range of projects to get involved in. • And, of course, lots of pizza! 🍕 For onsite participants, travel scholarships will be offered to up to 15 participants. So do not miss out! To secure your place at the AI & LLM Hackathon register now here: https://forms.gle/w7DDFUWc6zEQ2VpU9 The same form is used for both online and onsite participants. If you want to apply for a scholarship make sure to register before December 15. Over time, you will find more details on the event page: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/events/#/event/8023 We look forward to seeing you!

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(Self-)nominations for the ACL 2025 review process
by Anette Frank 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

Dear NLP community members, Greetings from ACL 2025! We would like to invite nominations and self-nominations to join the ACL 2025 programme committee, as a reviewer or an area chair, depending on your interest, availability and experience. The ACL 2025 review process will be run through ARR in the February cycle. The tentative timeline for the review period is 1 March to 20 March 2025 and the rebuttal period 26 March to 31 March 2025. Area chairs need to be available throughout the ARR February cycle. Please submit your (self-)nominations through this form by *16 December 2024:* https://forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8R4A Afterwards, you will be invited to join the ARR February reviewer or area chair (action editor) pool through the ARR OpenReview platform. Finally, please share this message with your colleagues, postdocs and PhD students. Many thanks in advance for your time and contribution! ACL 2025 PC chairs -- Prof. Dr. Anette Frankhttp://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~frank Computational Linguistics Department email:frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de University of Heidelberg phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247 Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 secr: +49-(0)6221/54-3245 69120 Heidelberg, Germany fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

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