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PolEval 2025 Challenge Has Begun
by Piotr Przybyła 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

📢 PolEval 2025 Challenge Has Begun! We are pleased to announce the launch of the 8th edition of the PolEval competition – an annual evaluation campaign for natural language processing (NLP) tools for Polish. PolEval aims to improve the quality of existing solutions, test new algorithms, and promote linguistic engineering and AI research for the Polish language. Participants are invited to submit their NLP systems to compete in several shared tasks using standardized datasets and evaluation procedures. 🧩 PolEval 2025 Tasks This year’s edition includes the following tasks: - ŚMIGIEL – Spotting Machine-Generated Text from Language Models for Polish <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task1> - Gender-Inclusive LLMs for Polish <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task2> - Polish Language Document Layout Detection <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task3> - Polish Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task4> 📅 Important Dates - Submissions are now open! The deadline for submitting systems is November 10th, 2025. 🏆 Awards and Opportunities Winners of individual tasks will receive awards, and all participants will be invited to: - Present their solutions during Data Science Summit 2025 <https://main.dssconf.pl/>, and - Publish their results in a dedicated PolEval 2025 proceedings volume. 🔗 More Information - Official website: http://poleval.pl/ - Submission platform: https://poleval.amueval.pl/ We kindly invite all researchers, students, and enthusiasts of linguistic engineering to take part and spread the word about PolEval 2025 among potential participants. International participants are welcome, as all the information about the challenge is provided in English. With best regards, Łukasz Kobyliński, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, and the Task Organizers

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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

11 Oct '25

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

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

10 Oct '25

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

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

10 Oct '25

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

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

10 Oct '25

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

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

10 Oct '25

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

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

10 Oct '25

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

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

10 Oct '25

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

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

10 Oct '25

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

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