Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware AI
Workshop at ECAI 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 25-30.
https://ecai2025.org/workshops/
Workshop theme: What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and
technical challenges does this imply?
Overview
What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it) is
about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on the
assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if enough
data (and compute power) is present, the resulting generalizations will be
robust enough and represent the majority.
This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the notion
of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop aims to
raise the question of “what makes each of us unique?” to the AI community.
We seek to gather researchers from diverse fields to understand how the
identities of all stakeholders — e.g., the individuals projecting their
views in texts, the individuals perceiving the texts, the individuals
mentioned and those not mentioned in the texts — should be considered in
future research in AI.
Workshop Goals
- The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of
identities and how identity is treated in AI.
- The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and
inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level.
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions on the following topics:
- *Approaches to model subjective phenomena:* Personalization and
perspectivist methods that leverage disaggregated labeled data, encoding
annotator metadata on their beliefs, moral values, sociodemographic
features, or personal narratives. ML methods to address the challenges of
“learning from disagreements” both from the development of new models and
the collection of data to train such models.
- *Methods for detecting and controlling bias in models and data:*
Techniques to audit fairness, enforce fairness constraints, and learn fair
representation from data, in order to enhance the fairness of models while
maintaining their predictive reliability. Ethical challenges for LLMs in
identity-aware dialog and tasks: diversity, stereotypes, harms.
- *The role of sociodemographics in LLMs:* Such as which characteristics
(and disagreements) they embody and how to measure their capacity for
representing and reasoning about diverse types of identities.
- *Challenges for applying AI methods to model socio-political
phenomena:* Including polarization, impact of media consumption on
public opinion formation, agenda setting, deliberation support, and how
integrating identity into AI methods can influence the accuracy for these
tasks.
- *NLP work at the intersection with social psychology:* The
methodological foundation for quantitative investigation of
identity-related topics. The reflection on best practices to reliably
measure complex constructs such as morals and values. Detection and
analysis of personal narratives across cultures.
- *Accountability of AI in the eye of the general public:* The role of
LLMs, and the responsibilities of AI and NLP developers for ethical use of
identities.
- *NLP work at the intersection of survey science:* The use of LLMs to
model and simulate individuals and subpopulations; the role of LLMs in
personalizing information elicitation; and methodological approaches to
address data contamination and response validation when LLMs are used by
either researchers or respondents.
Submission Types
We welcome the following types of submissions:
- Long papers: Up to 8 pages (excluding references)
- Short papers: Up to 4 pages (excluding references)
- Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media
submissions: No page limit
- For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats
including:
- Art, poetry, music
- Blog posts
- Jupyter notebooks
- Teaching materials
- TikToks and videos
- Findings papers
- Late-breaking papers
- Extended abstracts
- For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing:
- A summary or abstract of your work
- A link to your work (if hosted externally)
- Any additional context or documentation
Submission Guidelines
- All submissions will be double-blind reviewed
- Submissions should follow ECAI formatting guidelines
<https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track> with the latex template here
<https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip>
- Submit your paper through EasyChair
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=identityawareai2025>
- Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings through
CEUR
Workshop Format
The workshop will be a half-day event featuring:
- Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field
- Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks)
- Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary
vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and
design a vision for collecting new datasets
- Special student project session
We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The
workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and
virtual participation.
Important Dates
- Submissions: 22 August
- Notifications: 26 September
- Camera-ready: 3 October
- Workshop: 25 October
Diversity & Inclusion
We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and
countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough
feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers.
Organizers
- Pranav A (University of Hamburg)
- Valerio Basile (University of Turin)
- Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart)
- David Jurgens (University of Michigan)
- Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences &
Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf)
- Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg)
- Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin)
Contact
For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com
Join us at Identity-aware AI 2025 to contribute to this important
conversation!
Dear all,
If you are interested in a open discussion about different aspects of corpus linguistics, please join us today at 12pm UK time. The topic is "Repetition and replication".
Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka
We will also discuss topics that will appear in the research group meetings in the future.
Vaclav
Professor Vaclav Brezina
Professor in Corpus Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and English Language
ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YD
Office: County South, room C05
T: +44 (0)1524 510828
[cid:image001.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]@vaclavbrezina
[cid:image002.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder that eLex 2025, the ninth biennial conference on electronic lexicography in the 21st century, will be held in Bled, Slovenia, 18–20 November 2025.
We have decided to extend the deadline for abstracts until 7 April 2025. The abstracts should be submitted via Easychair website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=elex2025.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Carole Tiberius / Jesse de Does (Dutch Language Institute)
Marko Robnik-Šikonja (University of Ljubljana)
Michal Měchura (Lexical Computing and Dublin City University)
Two workshops have also been confirmed, »Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology« and »CLASSLA-express 2.0 workshop«.
More information on keynote talks, workshops, call for papers etc. can be found on the conference website (https://elex.link/elex2025/).
Iztok Kosem
Head of the organising committee
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25)
Track of EPIA’25*
PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro,
Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the
auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/
This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics
of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6]
Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts.
[1] *Track Description*
The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e.
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural
Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR),
and related areas.
The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual
documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is
openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural
language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative
applications of Human Language Technologies.
Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning
(ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool
for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural
language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and
unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world
heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered
by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple
dimensions, and often with high commercial value.
Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified
in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by
three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be
published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is
registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline.
[2] *Topics of Interest*
Theories, Algorithms and Models
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Language and Cognitive Modeling
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Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
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Morphology and Word Segmentation
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Natural Language Generation
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Discourse and Pragmatics
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Semantics and Text Inference
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Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
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Entailment and Paraphrases
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Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation
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Natural language understanding
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Language modeling
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Mathematical Properties of Language
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NLP for Low-Resource Languages
Text Mining and NLP Applications
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Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization
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Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining
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Computational Social Science
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Multi-Word Units
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Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining
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Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining
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Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches
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Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining
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Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
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Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems
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Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting
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Web Content Annotation
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Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications
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Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
[3] *Important dates*
- Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE)
- Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
- Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
- Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025
[4] *Paper submission*
Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and
previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the
Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum
od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper
that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been
published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or
another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025
submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another
venue during the EPIA 2025 review period.
It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations
from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity
during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set
out in the Springer Nature code of conduct.
[5] *Track Fees:*
Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference.
[6] *Organizing Committee:*
Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL
Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora
Irene Rodrigues, DI – Uviversidade de Évora
Alípio Jorge, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do
Porto
[7] *Contacts:*
Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516,
Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294
8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt
[Apologies for cross-posting]
The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning)
workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect
of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning
(NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to:
- Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with
neural networks
- Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations)
- Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R
- Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems
- Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R
- Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on
NLU&R
- Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets
- (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks
- Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks
- Generalization of NLU&R systems
- Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems
NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings)
and (non-archival) extended abstracts.
The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu),
28 July-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany).
The submission deadline is 25 April 2025.
Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details.
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The NALOMA chairs,
Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva
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Lasha Abzianidze
Assistant professor at Utrecht University
Institute for Language Sciences
An exciting job opportunity at the University of Manchester for an outstanding researcher in NLP/LLMs.
The fellowship is for 5 years and associated with the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence https://www.bhf-cre.manchester.ac.uk/ and the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Areas of interest for this post:
Development of a Foundation Clinical LLM for the Cardiovascular Domain. Trustworthy, explainable multimodal LLMs for Medicine.
Further details about the fellowship and how to apply here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=31702
Deadline of applications: 7th April 2025.
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Professor Sophia Ananiadou
Department of Computer Science
Director, National Centre for Text Mining
Deputy Director, Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
ELLIS Fellow
sophia.ananiadou(a)manchester.ac.uk
The University of Manchester
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HealTAC 2025
June 16-18th, 2025, Glasgow (UK)
https://healtac2025.github.io/
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1) Call for contributions – deadline extended to 4 April
2) Keynotes, panels and workshop
3) Registration fees
4) Key dates
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Call for contributions - reminder
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The 8th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2025) invites contributions that address any aspect of healthcare text analytics. We invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts that describe either methodological or application work that has not been previously presented in a conference. Submissions (up to 2 pages) should be prepared based on a template that is available at the conference web site.
We also invite PhD and fellowship project submissions that describe ongoing PhD research (any stage) or a planned fellowship application. The conference will provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts.
Deadline for all submissions is now April 4th, 2025.
As in previous years, there will be a post-conference call to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in Frontiers in Digital Health.
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Programme
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We are delighted to announce keynotes by Dr Jason Fries from Stanford University and Dr Alison O'Neil from Canon Medical Research, and panels on "Opportunities and challenges in LLMs for health research: social inequalities, bias detection, and mitigation " and "Challenges in AI deployment within NHS" (industry forum).
A pre-conference workshop on June 16th will focus on "NLP in mental healthcare and research" (https://healtac2025.github.io/workshop/).
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Registration fees
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Due to generous support from Health Data Research UK, CogStack, Frontiers, University of Glasgow, Research Data Scotland and Healtex, we will keep the registration fee low as before: an early registration fee for students is £100 and for others £200, and includes the full 3-day programme, lunches and the conference dinner.
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Key dates
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Deadline for all contributions: April 4th 2025
Notification of acceptance: April 18th 2025
Early-bird registration: by May 16th 2025
Pre-conference workshop: June 16th 2025
Conference: June 17-18th 2025
Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2025
We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2025.
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.
The 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025.
Link to TLT 2025: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html
Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/
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INVITED TALK
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Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University)
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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT.
SyntaxFest joint submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFest/2025
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* April 15, 2025: Paper submission deadline
* June 2, 2025: Notification of acceptance
* June 16, 2025: Camera-ready papers due
* August 26-29, 2025: SyntaxFest conference (about two workshop days for TLT; attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole SyntaxFest.)
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
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TLT2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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* Sarah Jablotschkin, University of Hamburg
* Sandra Kübler, Indiana University
* Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg
Contact: tlt2025.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de
Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2025.html
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DiSS 2025 - 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/>
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We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is “Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View“. The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and is proudly sponsored by ISCA.
We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025
- Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025
- Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025
- DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template <https://www.interspeech2025.org/author-resources> (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/diss2025>. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers.
COMMITTEES
Organizers
- Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA
- Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA
- Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden
- Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Publicity Chair
- Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Local Organisation
- Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal
- Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
- Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal
- Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
- Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Scientific Committee
- Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary
- Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon
- Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
- Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain
- Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon
- Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France
- Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
- Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA
- David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
- David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
- Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA
- Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa
- Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
- Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon
- Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece
- Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France
- Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden
- Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany
- Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden
- João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA
- Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
- Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA
- Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
- Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
- Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
- Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon
- Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany
- Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
- Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland
- Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany
- Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
- Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan
- Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium
- Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
- Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
- Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany
- Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal
- Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/ <https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt/>
Any questions should be directed to: diss2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:diss2025@googlegroups.com>
We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event!
— The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee