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UKP Lab
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
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Third call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African
Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Co-located with DHASA 2025
https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/
RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025
DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025
Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre.
The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/
DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/
The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern
Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention
Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL
workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on
African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages
processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data
collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a
scientific community of practice that focuses on computational
linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the
indigenous languages of Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are
considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share
interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different
from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective,
these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development
of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African
languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that
the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to
African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource
languages across the world. Because these languages share similar
challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to
work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and
learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language
models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to
properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-
African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are
not limited to) the following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The
final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one
additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback
can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA
style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities
Association of Southern Africa website
(https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is
double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not
provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the
amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The
RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be
available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings
linked to the DHASA conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 14 July 2025
Date of notification: 16 September 2025
Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025
Workshop: 10 November 2025
DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
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South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
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Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za
Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial
intelligence
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is
pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The
role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence.
In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively
underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster
growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an
opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the
broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the
conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-
the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa
region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities
research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research
focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense.
Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information
sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital
Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities
in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to
promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic
field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and
tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable
insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events
are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital
Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their
knowledge in the field.
The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from
researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but
not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and
theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology,
language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies,
software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an
inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities.
Suggested topics include the following:
* The role of AI in digital humanities, the role of Digital Humanities
in shaping AI, and the broader role of the humanities in both AI and DH
projects;
* Digital archives and the preservation of marginalised voices;
* Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the
intersections of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class in digital
research and activism;
* Activism and social change through digital media: how digital
humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion;
* Engaging marginalised communities in the creation and use of digital
tools, resources, and AI;
* Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonising knowledge
and promoting indigenous perspectives;
* The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities and
AI research;
* The role of digital humanities and AI in promoting inclusive and
equitable pedagogy;
* Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of African and global
perspectives and international collaborations;
* Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining
the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in
promoting inclusion; and
* Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit
organisations, community groups, and cultural institutions;
* Development of digital and AI tools for supporting digital
humanities;
* Novel utilisation of digital and AI tools for performing digital
humanities research;
* The role of digital humanities in the classroom: reimagining literacy
and AI fluency
* Digital humanities data and project management;
* The role of librarians in the digital humanities project;
* Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern
African community.
Submission Guidelines
The DHASA conference 2025 asks for three types of submissions:
* Long papers: Authors may submit long papers with a maximum of 8
content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The
final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional
page (leading to a total of up to 9 content pages) to incorporate
reviewers' comments. Long papers accepted for the conference will be
presented in 30-minute time slots (which includes 10 minutes for
questions).
* Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5
content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The
final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page
(leading to a total of up to 6 content pages) to accommodate reviewers'
comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented in
15-minute time slots (which includes 5 minutes for questions).
* Executive summaries: Authors can submit an executive summary for work
in progress, limited to 1 page. Executive summaries accepted for the
conference will be presented as posters during a dedicated poster
presentation slot.
All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the
conference will be published in the JDHASA journal, see
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the executive
summaries for the poster presentations will be published in a book of
executive summaries before the conference.
We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is
a student.
All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide:
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html
Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not
adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected.
Follow this link to go to the submission platform:
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/
Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR
repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties
uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip
(benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za).
Important dates
Submission deadline: 14 July 2025
Date of notification: 16 September 2025
Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025
Conference: 10 November 2025 - 14 November 2025
Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa
Co-located events
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including
workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference
website.
Organising Committee
Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University
Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
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WINLP 2025 WORKSHOP
The Widening NLP (WiNLP) workshop aims to foster an inclusive
environment that highlights the contributions of researchers from
underrepresented groups in NLP. Anyone who self-identifies as being from
an underrepresented background--based on gender, ethnicity, nationality,
sexual orientation, disability, or otherwise--is encouraged to submit.
In 2025, WiNLP will continue placing emphasis on access, disability, and
diversity across scientific backgrounds, disciplines, training, and
underrepresented languages.
Our annual Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be
held in conjunction with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China. Since EMNLP is
anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate
our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees.
The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP's workshop period with an
exact date to be announced soon.
The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and
poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for
junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with
senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers
recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most
importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting
space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and
collaborating with the NLP community at large.
Information on Submission guidelines at:
https://www.winlp.org/call-for-submissions-2025/
PRE-SUBMISSION MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
WiNLP offers an optional pre-submission mentorship program to help
authors improve the quality of their writing and presentation before
final submission. The program focuses on enhancing the clarity and
structure of the paper, not critiquing the research content.
* Submission: Authors must submit a draft of their paper via the
designated Google Form (https://forms.gle/J33K2ea6VruN82ke9) by June 20,
2025. The draft should adhere to the same formatting and length
guidelines as final submissions.
* Mentor Assignment: Organizers will check the draft for compliance
with formatting requirements before assigning a mentor. The mentor will
not be involved in reviewing the final submission.
* Feedback: Mentors will provide feedback by July 18, 2025, offering
suggestions to improve writing and presentation. Authors are encouraged
to incorporate this feedback before the final submission deadline.
* Non-Anonymous: The mentorship process is not anonymized.
* Final Submission: Authors who participate in the mentorship program
should submit their final paper as a new submission via OpenReview by
August 1st, 2025 to be considered for WiNLP workshop. Participation in
the mentorship program is not a prerequisite for submitting a paper to
WiNLP.
TRAVEL SUPPORT
WiNLP offers a limited number of travel grants to support one author per
accepted submission. Grants may cover expenses such as registration,
travel, lodging, or visa costs. Funded authors may choose to attend
virtually if preferred.
* Travel grant application deadline: September 26, 2025
* Notification: October 6, 2025
* Eligibility: One author per accepted submission is eligible. The
funded author must be identified in the travel grant application form.
Additional funding for virtual attendance by other authors may be
considered if surplus funds are available, but in-person attendance for
additional authors is not guaranteed. Travel expenses are handled via
reimbursement (primarily through USD check or PayPal). Authors unable to
front travel costs should contact the organizers early to discuss
alternatives.
Authors are encouraged to explore local funding options (e.g.,
institutional support) to maximize the reach of WiNLP's limited funds.
We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP
call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities
for further funding.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 "Anywhere on Earth"
* Pre-submission mentoring deadline: June 20, 2025
* Pre-submission feedback returned: July 18, 2025
* Paper submission deadline: August 1, 2025
* Acceptance notifications: September 15, 2025
* Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2025
* Travel grant applications due: September 26, 2025
* Travel grant notifications: October 6, 2025
CONTACT INFORMATION
Website: https://www.winlp.org/call-for-submissions-2025/
Twitter: @winlpworkshop [1]
Facebook: Widening NLP [2]
LinkedIn: Widening NLP [3]
E-mail: winlp-chairs(a)googlegroups.com
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[3] https://www.linkedin.com/company/winlp
[CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria) - 11-13 September 2025
https://r2lm2025.github.io/R2LM/
Workshop Description
Deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling impressive performance across many tasks. However, they continue to face key challenges in handling complex linguistic phenomena such as multiword expressions, long-context reasoning, and robustness to adversarial inputs. In parallel, concerns remain about the scalability, interpretability, and domain adaptability of these models, particularly in applications requiring high precision, such as grammar checking, legal analysis, or medical NLP. These limitations have sparked renewed interest in rule-based and knowledge-based approaches, which often offer better explainability and remain competitive, especially in low-resource or high-stakes scenarios.
Our workshop aims to gather contributions that deal with the following topics:
• Role of rule-based and knowledge-based NLP methods in modern applications
• Comparative analysis of rule-based, machine-learning, deep-learning and large language models for different NLP tasks
• Emerging trends in NLP research beyond deep learning and Large Language Models
• Limitations and performance bottlenecks in scalability and accuracy of deep learning models
Submission Details
• Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references)
• Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references)
• Format: ACL-style (LaTeX or MS Word)
• Submission portal and template info available on the RANLP 2025 website
Important dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 31 July 2025
Workshop date: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025
Organising Committee:
Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, University of Alicante, Spain
Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, University of Alicante, Spain
Rafael Muñoz Guillena, University of Alicante, Spain
Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
Raúl García Cerdá, University of Alicante, Spain
The Marseille Computer Science and Systems Laboratory (https://www.lis-lab.fr/) is seeking a candidate for a three-year thesis grant as part of the ANR Cre@lame project, in collaboration with the University of Turku in Finland.
The subject concerns the modeling of the literary writing and revision process carried out by authors. The starting point is an already written text, which is to be revised in the manner of an author. The problem is seen as a problem of predicting edit operations, taking the original text as input and producing edit operations. These can concern the lexicon, syntax or textual organization.
The thesis's problem is structured around three directions.
The first is the nature of the object produced by the prediction process, which could take the form of a sequence of edit operations or a more complex form, such as a graph. The prediction model itself will depend largely on the nature of the predicted object.
The second concerns data. Revision data, which associates revision operations with a text, is not very common in general, and those concerning literary revision are even less so. We will rely on all available data available and, possibly, produce them using language models, in order to train the revision models.
The final direction concerns evaluation. Given an original text and a revised version, how can we judge the quality of the latter? And how can we assess that the changes made to the original text are consistent with the objectives of the revision process.
We are looking for candidates with a strong background in machine learning, mainly in deep learning, as well as knowledge in Natural Language Processing.
Application deadline: June 22
Contacts: Patrice Bellot (patrice.bellot(a)univ-amu.fr), Christophe Leblay (chrleb(a)utu.fi) and Alexis Nasr (alexis.nasr(a)univ-amu.fr)
Dear Colleagues,
The evaluation period for the brand new Model Compression track
<https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html> at WMT 2025
<https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/index.html> is approaching!
LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Test data release brought forward to June 19, 2025! Participants now
have two full weeks to prepare their submissions.
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Submission upload space available upon request (see the task’s page for
details)
OVERVIEW
This shared task aims to evaluate the potential of model compression
techniques in reducing the size of large, general-purpose language models,
with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between practical
deployability and high translation quality in specific machine translation
(MT) scenarios. The broader objectives of the task include:
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fostering research into efficient, accessible, and sustainable
deployment of LLMs for MT;
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establishing a common evaluation framework to monitor progress in model
compression across a wide range of languages; and
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enabling meaningful comparisons with state-of-the-art MT systems through
standardized evaluation protocols that assess not only translation quality
but also efficiency.
Although the focus is on model compression, the task is closely aligned
with the General MT shared task
<https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/translation-task.html>, sharing language
directions, test data, and protocols for automatic MT quality evaluation.
Additionally, the task follows the same timeline as the flagship WMT task.
We warmly invite participation from academic teams and industry players
interested in applying existing compression methods to MT or exploring
innovative, cutting-edge approaches.
THE TASK IN A NUTSHELL
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Goal: Reduce the size of a general-purpose LLM while maintaining a
balance between model compactness and MT performance.
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Languages: The first round will focus on the same language pairs as the
General MT track.
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Conditions:
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Constrained: Participants work within a predefined model and language
setting for directly comparable results.
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Unconstrained: Participants are free to compress any model across
language directions of their choice.
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Evaluation Criteria:
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Translation quality: Automatically measured using the LLM-as-a-judge
framework from the General MT task
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Model size: Defined by the memory usage
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Inference speed: Measured by total processing time over the test set
IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED)
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Test data released: 26th June 2025 19th June 2025
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Translation submission deadline: 3rd July 2025
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System description abstract paper: 10th July 2025
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System description submission: 14th August 2025
WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html
ORGANIZERS:
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Marco Gaido, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Matteo Negri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Roman Grundkiewicz - Microsoft Translator
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TG Gowda - Microsoft Translator
CONTACTS:
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Marco Gaido - mgaido(a)fbk.eu
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Matteo Negri - negri(a)fbk.eu
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*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online
seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/>
project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena
<https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/>
project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>.
*Dr. Giuliana Regnoli*
/University of Salerno, Italy & University of Regensburg, Germany/
*/Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and
discrimination/*
📅 *May 26, 2025*
🕓 *4:40 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)*
*Venue*: Online
*Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors
*Summary: *Accent discrimination remains one of the most pervasive forms
of linguistic bias, influencing social perceptions, identity
construction, and attitudes towards language variation. This talk
examines how accents shape linguistic hierarchies and social
interactions, drawing on three research projects that employ distinct
methodologies. First, we will explore how folk linguistic methods, such
as map-drawing tasks, reveal nuanced spatial dimensions of language
attitudes, challenging homogenising conceptualisations of World
Englishes. This will be illustrated through a study on how a
first-generation Indian diasporic community in Germany perceives and
evaluates accent variation in Indian English. We will then turn to
traditional language attitude research methods, focusing on
questionnaire data to investigate overt stigmatisations and highlighting
the importance of scale validation in direct attitude measurement. This
discussion will be grounded in a pilot study on Italian university
students’ direct attitudes towards English in Italy and their
perceptions of Italian English. Finally, we will examine language
attitudes in primary education in Cameroon, emphasising the importance
of understanding children’s language perceptions within broader
ideological frameworks. This analysis draws on data from parental and
children’s questionnaires, as well as semi-structured interviews with
children. By shedding light on early linguistic gatekeeping and its role
in decolonising language education, this study also explores when and
how these beliefs become embedded in society. Taken together, these
projects demonstrate how different methodological approaches can be
employed to investigate attitudes towards accents and linguistic
variation, ultimately providing insights into how we can better
understand and tackle accent discrimination.
*Bio*: Dr. Giuliana Regnoli is assistant professor of English
linguistics at the University of Salerno and a postdoctoral research
fellow at the University of Regensburg. Her research interests include
variationist sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language attitudes,
perceptual dialectology, and World Englishes. She is currently working
on children's English in Cameroon and Italian university students'
attitudes toward English(es) world-wide.
Upcoming webinars:
- Clara Molina (Monday, June 30, 2025)
- Sender Dovchin (Monday, July 7, 2025)
- Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025)
The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access
this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training
Environment
<https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>.
Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and
Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the
code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed.
The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on
the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to
contact(a)circe-project.eu.
*BAREC Shared Task 2025
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>*
*Arabic Readability Assessment*
*The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025)
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arabicnlp2025.sigarab.…>*
@
*EMNLP 2025
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__2025.emnlp.org_&d=DwMF…>*
We are excited to announce the BAREC Shared Task
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>
2025
on fine-grained readability classification across 19 levels using the
Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a dataset of over 1
million words. Participants will build models for both sentence- and
document-level classification.
*Task 1: Sentence-level Readability Assessment*
Given an Arabic sentence, predict its readability level on a scale from 1
(i.e., first grade) to 19 (i.e., university level), indicating the degree
of reading difficulty.
*Task 2: Document-level Readability Assessment*
Given a document consisting of multiple sentences, predict its readability
level on a scale from 1 to 19, where the hardest (i.e., highest
readability) sentence in the document determines the overall document
readability level.
For each task, there will be three tracks, allowing different data sources
for training: Strict, Constrained, and Open.
*Important Dates:*
All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth):
- *June 10, 2025:* Release of training, dev and open test data, and
evaluation scripts.
- *July 20, 2025:* Registration deadline and release of test data.
- *July 25, 2025:* End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes).
- *July 30, 2025: *Final results released.
- *August 15, 2025:* System description paper submissions due.
- *August 25, 2025: *Notification of acceptance.
- *September 5, 2025:* Camera-ready versions due.
*Awards:*
- *Top-performing Systems:*
- We will recognize the top-performing system in each of the two
tasks + track combinations (2 tasks × 3 tracks), with a *$100 *prize
per winning team.
- *Best System Description Papers:*
- We will award one or two prizes for Best System Description Papers.
These will recognize clarity, reproducibility, and insight, regardless of
leaderboard ranking:
- Best Paper: *$250*
- Runner-up or Honorable Mention: *$150*
*Organizers:*
- *Khalid N. Elmadani
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__khalid-2Delmadani.gith…>*:
New York University Abu Dhabi
- *Bashar Alhafni
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.basharalhafni.com_…>*:
New York University Abu Dhabi and Mohamed bin Zayed University of
Artificial Intelligence
- *Hanada Taha-Thomure
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hanadataha.com_&d=DwMF…>*:
Zayed University
- *Nizar Habash
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nizarhabash.com_&d…>*:
New York University Abu Dhabi
*Shared Task Website: *https://barec.camel-lab.com/sharedtask2025
*Contact:*
For any questions related to this task, check out the *FAQs
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>*.
Feel free to post your questions on our *Slack workspace
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__join.slack.com_t_barec…>*.
You are also welcome to contact the organizers directly at this email
address: barec25.organizers(a)camel-lab.com.