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BAWESS project Disciplinary Literacy Symposium
by David Beauchamp 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear Corpus Linguists, This symposium may be of interest to those of you involved in educational corpus linguistics and disciplinary literacy. It is part of the University of Bath's British Academic Written English Secondary School (BAWESS) project. Dear All, We are thrilled to announce that the registration for the University of Bath’s 2<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…>nd<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…> Disciplinary Literacy Symposium<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…>, on the 26th and 27th June 2025 at the University of Bath and the Royal High School Bath is now open. The Symposium brings together leading education specialists, linguists and academics in the field, who will present and discuss their latest work on topics, such as: * The literacy skills pupils need to succeed and how they differ across disciplines * The type of texts student write in different disciplines * The structure and language of long answers written in exams * How to teach writing explicitly in different disciplines * Cross-disciplinary and Teacher/Researcher Collaboration * Teacher Professional Development * Language and literacy expectations at a tertiary level The Symposium, hosted by the Disciplinary literacy & corpus-based pedagogy: The BAWESS project<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/disciplinary-li…> team, is aimed at teachers and language education researchers. The event promises excellent opportunities for discussion, knowledge exchange, professional development and networking. Join us to hear about current research and approaches from leading researchers and teachers working in the field: Lee McCallum, David Beauchamp, Hadrian Briggs, Natalie Cheers, Honglin Chen, Bev Derewianka, Yaegan Doran, Philip Durrant, Gail Forey, Sheena Gardner, Meg Gebhard, Helen Handford, Sally Humphrey, Reka Jablonkai, Pauline Jones, Cassi Liardet, Ana Llinares, Erika Matruglio, Christian Matthiessen, Tom Morton, Nashwa Nashaat-Sobhy, Hilary Nesi, Dana Therova, Paul Thompson, Leah Tompkins, Winfred Wenhui Xuan. We’ve tried to make this as affordable as possible. The symposium will cost £15 for the Thursday, £25 for the Friday (incl. lunch and refreshments), or £35 for both. We will also live stream the event at a cost of £15 registration. See the attachment. For more details and to register visit the Symposium website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/second-disciplina…>. Registration closes 19 June 2025. Spaces are limited, so please book early top avoid disappointment. Please share this will teachers and colleagues you think would be interested in joining a discussion on disciplinary literacy. All the best, Gail [cid:cf1a7453-a359-4858-b3bf-c9ba12487201] [cidimage001.png(a)01D6FFDF.923A9130] Prof Gail Forey Associate Dean (Education) Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Education My pronouns are: she/her University of Bath<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.bath.ac.uk/__;!!K7l7YuZ3_aFnun0eduI!…> Building 1 West North, 3.23b, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom | Telephone: +44 (0)1225 386355 | Email:g.forey@bath.ac.uk<mailto:g.forey@bath.ac.uk> [cid:c6c6a68d-9107-4f29-8dd3-8f7ed4e7487f]  David Beauchamp Post-graduate Researcher The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC) Coventry University Queen's Award for Enterprise International Trade 2022 Ranked in the top 50% of UK universities for research power Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021 Joint top Modern University for Career Prospects Guardian University Guide 2022 Top 40 in the World for International Students (ratio) QS World University Rankings 2025 NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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Webminar by André F. T. Martins (Universidade de Lisboa)
by HiTZ zentroa 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker: *André F. T. Martins (Universidade de Lisboa) *Title: *xCOMET, Tower, EuroLLM: Open & Multilingual LLMs for Europe *Date: *Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary: *Today, LLMs are Swiss knives and MT one of their tools. Is this the end of MT research? In this talk, I argue that the connection between LLM and MT research is two-way. I present some of our recent work advancing multilingual LLMs, tools to estimate their quality, and how the two can be combined for test-time scaling. First, I present xCOMET, an open-source learned metric which integrates sentence-level evaluation and error span detection, exhibiting state-of-the-art performance across all types of meta-evaluation (sentence-level, system-level, and error span detection). Moreover, it does so while highlighting and categorizing error spans, thus enriching the quality assessment. Then, I present Tower, a suite of open multilingual LLMs for translation-related tasks. Tower models are created through continued pretraining on a carefully curated multilingual mixture of monolingual and parallel data. The combination of Tower with COMET reranking obtained the best results in 8 out of 11 language pairs in the WMT General Translation shared task, according to human evaluation. Finally, I describe EuroLLM, an ongoing EU-made project whose goal is to train an open multilingual LLM from scratch using the European HPC infrastructure (EuroHPC). The last release (EuroLLM-9B) supports 35 languages, including all 24 official EU languages, and it achieves strong results in various benchmarks, comparable or better than the best existing models of similar size. xCOMET: https://huggingface.co/collections/Unbabel/xcomet-659eca973b3be2ae4ac023bb Tower: https://huggingface.co/collections/Unbabel/tower-659eaedfe36e6dd29eb1805c EuroLLM: https://huggingface.co/blog/eurollm-team/eurollm-9b *Bio: *André F. T. Martins (PhD 2012, Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico; https://andre-martins.github.io/) is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, and the VP of AI Research at Unbabel. His research, funded by a ERC Starting Grant (DeepSPIN) and Consolidator Grant (DECOLLAGE), among other grants, include machine translation, quality estimation, structure and interpretability in deep learning systems for NLP. His work has received several paper awards at ACL conferences. He co-founded and co-organizes the Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS), and he is a Fellow of the ELLIS society and co-director of the ELLIS Program in Natural Language Processing. He is a member of the R&I advisory group of EuroHPC, the European infrastructure for supercomputing. * Upcoming webinars:* · Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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[CFP] EMNLP 2025 Call for Demos
by ACL Announcements 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

EMNLP 2025 Call for Demos The EMNLP 2025 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: * Natural language processing systems or system components * Application systems using language technology components * Software tools for natural language processing research * Software for demonstration or evaluation * Software supporting learning or education * Tools for data visualization and annotation * Tools for model inspection * Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the EMNLP 2025 conference proceedings. We require at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at EMLP 2025, with an accompanying poster. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: Friday, July 4, 2025 Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Camera ready submission: Friday, September 19, 2025 Main Conference: November 5-9, 2025 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth") Note that there is no rebuttal stage. Submission Guidelines: Submissions must include the following: * A Paper * A paper submitted to accompany a demonstration should outline the design of the system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to natural language processing. * Technical details of the system are required, including visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams). A paper can do this by addressing the following questions: * What problem does the proposed system address? * Why is the system important and what is its impact? * What is the novelty in the approach/technology on which this system is based? * Who is the target audience? * How does the system work? * How does it compare with existing systems? * How is the system licensed? * How was the system evaluated? Were user studies/human evaluation experiments conducted? Note that this year, submissions that do not report any form of evaluation may be desk rejected. Paper submission is electronic, using the OpenReview conference management system. The submission site can be found at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/System_Demonstrations [1] Submissions can contain up to 6 pages (longer submissions will be desk rejected), plus unlimited extra space for an optional ethics/broader impact statement and also unlimited space for references and informative appendices. Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Submissions must conform to the EMNLP 2025 official style guidelines and they must be in PDF format. Style files should meet the requirements of the EMNLP main conference. Submissions need to describe original, unpublished work, as publication in EMNLP will be archival. Any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines and page limits will be desk rejected. A Demonstration Video A short (at most 2.5 minutes) screencast video demonstrating the system together with your paper submission. This screencast will be used to evaluate the paper, but won't be published unless requested. For demos that can be presented on a screen, a screencast with audio narration is the most suitable format. If this is not feasible, a video showcasing user interaction with the system may be utilized. Production quality is not a priority, so we encourage to simply create a screencast of the software being demoed with minimal to no editing. We encourage publishing your video on YouTube or a similar site and including the link in your paper. If you prefer not to upload the video publicly, please submit it as supplementary material in MPEG4 format when you submit your paper through the official website. Live Demo Website or Installable Package A link to a live demo website; or a link to a downloadable installation package of the demo. Note that this is a strict requirement enforced this year, and submissions that do not provide links will be desk rejected. Exceptions will be made only in cases where sharing a link is clearly impossible, such as when special hardware is required. In such cases, authors must clearly state why a link cannot be provided. Multiple Submission Policy We follow the Multiple Submission Policy of the CFPs of the EMNLP 2025 main conference. The paper cannot be submitted elsewhere, while in review at EMNLP 2025. This policy covers all refereed and archival conferences and workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL workshops), as well as ARR. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to the EMNLP 2025 System Demonstrations Track must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Reviewing Policy Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed. Ethics Policy Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACM Code of Ethics. The ethical impact of our research, the use of data, and potential applications of our work have always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns about their work. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 6th page for a broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. The EMNLP demonstration review form will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers will be further reviewed by an ethics committee. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted. Conversely, the mere inclusion of an ethical considerations section does not guarantee acceptance. In addition to acceptance or rejection, papers may receive a conditional acceptance recommendation. Camera-ready versions of papers designated as conditional accept will be re-reviewed by the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately addressed. Demonstration Co-chairs Ivan Habernal, RC Trust; Ruhr University Bochum Peter Schulam, Amazon AGI Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki Contact: emnlp25-demo-chairs(a)lists.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Links: ------ [1] https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2025/System_Demonstrations

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[CfP] UPDATED DEADLINE The 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP2025)
by LARP2025 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

[apologies for x-posting] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ======= LARP Language models And RePresentations September 8 - September 9, 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden ======= https://gu-clasp.github.io/LARP/index.html Invited speakers ---- Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania and Oracle Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology Important dates ---- - Submission deadline (archival): UPDATED! May 5, 2025 - Notification of acceptance (archival): June 20, 2025 - NEW!!! Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ACL ARR submissions: July 31, 2025 - Submission deadline (non-archival): August 1, 2025 - Notification of acceptance (non-archival): August 8, 2025 - Camera ready (archival): August 8, 2025 - Camera ready (ARR Commitments): August 15, 2025 - Registration deadline: TBA - Conference: September 8–9, 2025, University of Gothenburg, Sweden All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Language models And RePresentations (LARP) brings together researchers that explore how information is structured, encoded and used in computational language systems. We encourage submissions on both neural (sub-symbolic) and discrete (symbolic) representations from the fields of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence or their intersection. The conference is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/), University of Gothenburg. The conference will be held between September 8 and 9 in Gothenburg, Sweden (on-site and hybrid). Topics of interest ---- We hope to see innovative work that considers neural and symbolic learning and processing in terms of different modelling perspectives. Papers are invited on the following topics as they relate to natural language: - Neuro-symbolic integration: novel hybrid frameworks combining symbolic representations with neural network learning for enhanced reasoning and natural language processing - Explainable machine learning: techniques that allow for better interpretability, transparency, and explainability of neural, symbolic and neuro-symbolic architectures - Logical constraints in neural networks: methods that use logical structures (e.g., knowledge bases, ontologies) for post-hoc or inherent explainability - Automated reasoning systems providing human-interpretable rationales for decisions - Symbolic planning and control in neural workflows - Application-driven scenarios (robots, autonomous systems) showcasing benefits of symbolic approaches - Techniques that integrate symbolic representations into text or multimodal generation - Approaches that enforce domain knowledge, consistency, or adherence to constraints in text and/or multimodal generation - Fine-tuning and in-context learning strategies that incorporate logical or rule-based knowledge This list is illustrative but is not intended to be exhaustive. Submission Requirements ---- **Archival track** Archival track will feature the following types of submissions to appear in conference proceedings: we accept long papers (max 8 pages) and short papers (max 4 pages). Long and short papers must describe substantial, original, and unpublished research. Supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns do not count towards the page limit. Archival accepted papers will be published in the 2025 ACL Anthology as a CLASP Conference Proceedings. Papers should be electronically submitted via the OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. Submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Archival submissions must be anonymous. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have questions. **NEW!!! ARR Commitment** We accept papers that have been pre-reviewed via ACL Rolling Review<https://aclrollingreview.org/>. You are welcome to submit the link to your ARR submission. The linked submission must include both the reviews and the meta-review. Both the submission and its reviews will be evaluated by the programme committee for their relevance to the conference topic. To submit, please visit https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/ARR_Commitment. **Non-archival track** At the time of submission, authors may indicate that their paper should be considered for the non-archival track. The format for non-archival submissions is the same for both long and short papers as it is for the archival submissions. Non-archival papers will not undergo the peer review process. They will be evaluated by the programme committee for clarity and content relevance before the decision by the PC is made. Non-archival papers do not need to be anonymous. If accepted, they are to be published on the conference website and presented as posters. **Poster abstracts** We invite researchers to submit abstracts in the above areas of interest. Abstract submissions are non-archival. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on work in progress or to present previously published work to a new audience. The deadline for abstract submission is the same as for non-archival papers. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by August 8, 2025. Abstract submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages (supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns are not included) and be submitted via OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. The acceptance decision on abstracts will go through the same procedure as papers for the non-archival track. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters. Concurrent Submissions ---- Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences or publications must indicate this at submission time using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. We will not accept publications or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at LARP must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the Proceedings. Camera Ready Versions ---- Camera ready versions must be deanonymised. Archival submissions get 1 more page to address comments from reviewers: long papers can be maximum up to 9 pages, short papers can be maximum up to 5 pages. Organisers ---- LARP is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), University of Gothenburg. CLASP focuses its research on the application of probabilistic and information theoretic methods to the analysis of natural language. CLASP is concerned both with understanding the cognitive foundations of language and developing efficient language technology. We work at the interface of computational linguistics/natural language processing, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive science. For practical inquiries, send an email to larp2025(a)flov.gu.se<mailto:larp2025@flov.gu.se>.

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Call for Bursary Applications: GITT 2025 Workshop Registration
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

📣 Call for Bursary Applications: GITT 2025 Workshop Registration We are pleased to announce a call for bursary applications to support participation in the Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT 2025). - 📅 Application deadline: May 9th, 2025 - 🔗 Apply here: http://bit.ly/44ejl8z - GITT website: https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025/home We are offering bursaries covering the workshop registration fee for this edition of GITT. The call is open to anyone interested in attending the workshop. We particularly encourage students and junior researchers to apply. **📋 How to Apply ** Please fill out the application form with the following information: - Full Name - Affiliation - Career Stage (e.g. student, postdoc, faculty, independent researcher) - Paper Title (if applicable) — If you are a GITT 2025 author, please include your paper title - A short motivation statement (max 200 words) describing your interest in attending the workshop and your reason for applying. You are welcome to include details such as inclusivity and diversity needs, extra expenses for technical assistance, traveling from outside the EU, or limited university funding. Further information are available on the GITT website at https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025/bursaries?

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CFP: Language@internet - Special issue on CMC corpora
by Ludovic Tanguy 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

Language@internet http://www.languageatinternet.org/ <http://www.languageatinternet.org/> SPECIAL ISSUE ON Computer-Mediated Communication corpora CALL FOR PAPERS Guest Editors: Céline Poudat Côte d’Azur University, France Ludovic Tanguy University of Toulouse, France IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due: June 30th, 2025 Full papers due: November 1st, 2025 Anticipated publication: July 2026 ISSUE FOCUS This special issue of Language@Internet follows up on the 11th CMC corpora conference which was held in Nice, September 2024. The CMC corpora conference series are dedicated to the collection, annotation, processing, and analysis of corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media. As online communication data continues to proliferate and researchers face increasing difficulty in building and analyzing corpora, this special issue aims to provide a panorama of recent CMC corpora use and research. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and Social Media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (Facebook, Instagram), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms and virtual worlds. We welcome all papers related to corpus building and analysis, and all reflections on CMC data use and methods, including research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. Submissions might address the following types of research questions (this list is by no means exhaustive): * What are the current difficulties (technical, methodological or legal) in building corpora for studying CMC? * How can researchers take advantage of new media commonly used in CMC, such as audio and video? * How can such a corpus be built, from data and metadata collection to publication? * How is a CMC corpus analyzed, from annotation to exploration methods? * What types of results may be derived from CMC corpora? * Which theoretical frameworks can be used to analyze CMC data? Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language education… * How can the multiplicity of channels be used to leverage studies in CMC? * How can CMC corpora be used to study specific communities and topics (minorities, politics, subcultures)? * Do the new generative AI models and tools provide opportunities for analysing CMC data? GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 750 to 1000 words by June 30th, 2025 to the guest editors Céline Poudat (celine.poudat(a)univ-cotedazur.fr <mailto:Celine.Poudat@univ-cotedazur.fr>) and Ludovic Tanguy (ludovic.tanguy(a)univ-tlse2.fr <mailto:ludovic.tanguy@univ-tlse2.fr>). Proposals should include the central research question, the theoretical and/or empirical basis for the paper, and preliminary findings or insights. Those interested in submitting a proposal are also encouraged to contact the guest editors with their questions and ideas. Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by November 1st, 2025. The anticipated publication date for the issue is July 2026.

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CIRCE Online Seminar | 12/05/2025 | Dr. Ana Tankosic | "Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from 'down-under'"
by Claudia Soria 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

*🎓 *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. Ana Tankosić* /Curtin University, Australia/ */Intersectionality in Translingual Spaces: Migrant Experiences from 'Down-Under'/* 📅 *May 12, 2025* 🕓 *2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary: *In spaces informed and characterised by Anglo-Western ideologies and discourses, migrants are exposed to overlapping forms of marginalisation where cultural and linguistic stereotypes coincide and blend with ethnic, racial, and gender stereotypes. In this presentation, I discuss how intersectionality is reflected in different forms of social stereotypes which attempt to subordinate, inferiorise, and judge translingual migrants in Australia. This discussion serves the purpose of uncovering underlying systemic and social disparities in Australia, as they are (in)advertently perpetuated and invigorated by a more dominant counterpart. *Bio*: Dr Ana Tankosić is a research fellow and sessional academic at Curtin University, Australia. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics of globalisation, transcultural identities, and migration discourses. She is a former Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at Penn State University. Her co-edited volume, Becoming a Linguist, is recently published with Routledge, while her collaborative monograph, Linguistic Racism, is currently in preparation. Upcoming webinars: - Giuliana Regnoli (Monday, May 26, 2025) - Clara Molina (Monday, June 30, 2025) - Sender Dovchin (Monday, July 7, 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.

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ERC funded PhD position in computational social science & corpus text analysis, University of Tartu; deadline May 15th
by Andres Karjus 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

The recently funded ERC Consolidator project “Rise and Demise of Industrial Modernity”<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101170823> (RiDe) at the University of Tartu (Estonia) is looking to fill 2 fully funded PhD positions and 1 postdoctoral position. The PhD position advertised here is broadly in computational social science, environmental/sustainability transitions studies, and focuses on applying ML and LLMs to large media text corpora. The project is based on the Deep Transitions framework (see here<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.03.009>, here<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2018.07.006> and here<https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/67a9e0a381d2151a02d8a3…>) from the sustainability transitions field. It seeks to develop a new theory about the acceleration, crisis and possible transformation of industrial modernity: a set of ideas, institutions and practices related to the natural environment and technoscience currently blocking the deep sustainability turn. The project is led by Laur Kanger<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wI2wzeoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>, Professor of Sustainability Transitions and co-author of the Deep Transitions framework. Expected PhD studies starting date: 1 September 2025 Duration of employment: 48 months (until 30.08.2029) Working time: 100% (40 hours per week) International application submission deadline: 15 May 2025 For applicants with an MA from an Estonian university: June 15 2025 We are seeking applicants with a Master’s degree or equivalent qualification with a background in one of the following fields: digital humanities, computational social science, data science, sustainability transitions studies, science and technology studies, innovation studies, sociology (e.g. economic, political, environmental, historical), environmental governance, political science, economics (e.g. economics of innovation, ecological economics), political science, history (e.g. economic, environmental, intellectual, science and technology), sustainability science (or a related field). Alternatively, a master’s degree in another field combined with a strong and proven interest in sustainability issues also constitutes a good fit. For more info on the positions, main tasks and requirements, see the links below. Topic: “Ideational continuities and ruptures of industrial modernity in G20 countries” The purpose of the PhD project is to map the long-term evolution of different ideas about environment and technoscience (e.g. belief in societal progress through science and technology, rising environmental awareness) in G20 countries from 1900 to 2025 based on digitized newspaper corpora and using state of the art machine learning methods, including large language models. More info and application details: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/336902 Why study or work in Estonia? Estonia offers Nordic quality of life, a strong academic environment and convenient digitized services—all while maintaining a reasonable cost of living that supports comfortable student life. The University of Tartu, founded in 1632, ranks among the top 1% of the world’s most cited universities and actively fosters sustainability and intersectoral collaboration, having produced numerous successful startups. Estonia itself ranks #1 in startups per capita in Europe. As a member of the EU and NATO, Estonia is internationally minded, and English is widely spoken. Estonia’s digital infrastructure streamlines official procedures, as everything from contracts to taxes can all be handled online in minutes by citizens and residents alike. Tartu is a lively university town known for its cozy atmosphere, vibrant student life, bike and walking friendly spaces, and scenic riverside. It has been named the UNESCO City of Literature, and the European Capital of Culture in 2024. The city is well connected to Europe and the world, but also offers easy access to nature, with nearby vast networks of forest hiking trails, excellent winter sports opportunities, and the charm of four distinct seasons.

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Reminder: Call for Abstracts Open – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

Call for Abstracts – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is open! The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing. Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland University) For detailed guidelines, templates, and additional information, visit our website: <https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/> https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl<https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/>/ Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview by June 15, 2025 at: https://openreview.net/group?id=UU.nl/Utrecht_University/2025/CPL We look forward to your contributions! Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz

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2nd Call for Papers: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

-------------------------------------------------------------------- APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING -------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2025 - Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 24 - 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy https://clic2025.unica.it/ Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/). Conference topics ----------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Research Communications ---------------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2025 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. The research communication papers will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to the number of submissions received. Paper Submission ----------------------- Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple-submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages of content, and up to three (3) pages of references. Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed one (1) page in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper. Upon acceptance, final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published online and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.… Word template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025 For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected. Awards --------- To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master's or PhD student is the first author and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. Important Dates --------------- - 09/06/2025: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 21/07/2025: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 04/08/2025: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 24-26/09/2025: CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari Conference Chairs ------ - Cristina Bosco (University of Torino) - Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) - Marco Polignano (University of Bari) - Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari) Senior Program Committee: ------ Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission - Ispra) Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna) Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen) Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) Rossella Varvara (University of Turin - University of Pavia) Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano) Local Organizing Committee: ------ - Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari) Web chairs: ------ Maurizio Atzori Andrea Loddo Further information ------------------- Conference website: https://clic2025.unica.it/ Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com

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