*Call for Participation in Shared Task*
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Analysis of Persuasion Techniquesin Parliamentary Debates
and Disinformation- and Propaganda-oriented Social Media
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Co-located with Slavic NLP 2025
<http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>Workshop, at ACL in Vienna, Austria
bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html
<http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html>
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TASK DESCRIPTION:
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The task focuses on detection and classification of Persuasion
Techniques using data from 5 Slavic languages — Bulgarian, Polish,
Croatian, Slovene and Russian — in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary
debates on hotly-contested topics, and (b) social media posts, related
to the spread of disinformation and propaganda. The task has two subtasks:
1.
Subtask 1: Detection — Given a text and a list of fragment offsets,
determine for each fragment whether it contains one or more
persuasion techniques, from a given taxonomy of persuasion techniques,
2.
Subtask 2: Classification —Given a text and a list of fragment
offsets, determine for each fragment which persuasion techniques are
employed therein.
We use a rich taxonomy with 25 persuasion techniques: Name-calling or
labelling, Guilt by association, Casting doubt, Appeal to hypocrisy,
Questioning the reputation, Flag waiving, Appeal to authority, Appeal to
popularity, Appeal to fear and prejudice, Appeal to values, Strawman,
Whataboutism, Red herring, Appeal to pity, Causal oversimplification,
False dilemma or no choice, Consequential oversimplification, False
equivalence, Slogans, Conversation killer, Appeal to time, Loaded
language, Obfuscation-Intentional vagueness-confusion, Exaggeration or
minimization, Repetition.
Subtask 1 is a binary classification task. Subtask 2 is a multi-class
multi-label classification task. The text fragments correspond to
paragraphs.
For information about training and test data, guidelines, and
participation, please see theShared Task Home Page.
<http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html>
IMPORTANT: Participants may join both subtasks or only one. It is not
mandatory to submit responses for all languages. Up to 5 system
responses per language per team may be submitted.
Important Dates
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Registration deadline: 26 April 2025
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Release of Testdata to registered participants: *29 April*2025
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Submission of system responses: 5 May 2023
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Results announced to participants: 8 May 2025
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Submission of shared task papers (optional): 18 May 2025
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*Questions and contact:
bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi<mailto:bsnlp@cs.helsinki.fi>*
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Hello Colleagues,
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This is the potential of AI-powered wearable devices. But today’s Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) still struggle with providing accuracy, context, and real-time information. That’s where you come in.
The Meta CRAG-MM Challenge for KDD Cup 2025 is pushing the boundaries of multi-modal, multi-turn Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for wearable AI. Join the challenge to build AI that sees, understands, and retrieves knowledge—without hallucinating.
Why This Challenge Matters
Despite advances in AI, VLLMs still generate hallucinated answers—especially when handling long-tail knowledge, multi-step reasoning, or real-world images.
The Meta CRAG-MM Benchmark introduces a rigorous test for multi-modal retrieval and reasoning, helping to ensure AI models can accurately process images, retrieve external information, and handle smooth, multi-turn conversations.
What Makes CRAG-MM Unique?
🔍 Real-world wearable AI focus – Uses real-world images from Ray-Ban Meta glasses across 14 diverse domains
🤖 Multi-modal + Multi-turn challenge – Evaluate AI across single-turn and multi-turn question-answering
🧠 Complex question types – Tests reasoning, aggregation, and retrieval beyond simple fact lookup
💰 $33,000 in prizes – Compete for the grand prize and recognition at KDD Cup 2025.
Challenge Timeline
📅 Warm up phase begins March 24, 2025 – Open to all teams
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🏆 Winners announced August 5, 2025 at KDD Cup 2025 in Toronto
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*** Second Call for Participation for TA1C at IberLEF 2025 ***
TA1C (Te Ahorré Un Click) Clickbait Detection and Spoiling in Spanish at
IberLEF 2025
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21819
UPDATE: The training data has been released!
Clickbait is a widespread phenomenon in online news: it is a way of
creating headlines and teasers aimed at capturing readers’ attention in
order to increase traffic, relegating the function of informing to a
secondary role. There is no clear consensus at the moment about how to
define clickbait exactly, with some contradictory definitions that usually
are based on the deceptive effect created by the news failing to deliver
what they promise, or content based related phenomena such as
sensationalism or yellow journalism. For this task we will take the
following definition, based on Loewenstein's information gap theory: “Clickbait
is a method for generating teasers, especially online, that deliberately
omits part of the information with the goal of generating curiosity by
creating an information gap, thereby attracting the readers' attention and
making them click”.
Although clickbait started in low-reputation web-exclusive media that
focused on political propaganda or soft-news, such as The Huffington Post,
Buzzfeed and Upworthy, it has gained prominence across all types of news
and media. However, it is usually perceived as annoying and it can lead to
misinformation. Spoiling the clickbait involves satisfying the curiosity by
answering the information gap created. This way, the reader could have all
of the information and can decide to read the complete article based on
interest and not curiosity, just as if the headline was written in a
traditional way.
In this shared task we will provide a dataset of media tweets written in
different varieties of Spanish and from different sources, with their
corresponding associated media articles. Participants will be asked to
solve the following tasks:
* Clickbait Detection: Determine if the content of a tweet that links to a
media article is clickbait, given the previous definition of clickbait.
This is a binary classification task.
* Clickbait Spoiling: Given a clickbait teaser (tweet and title) and the
corresponding news article, generate or extract from the article a short
text that, as concisely as possible (280 characters max), fills the
information gap, satisfying the generated curiosity, or otherwise indicate
that the articles has no response for it. The generated text must be in
Spanish.
How to participate:
If you want to participate in this task, please join our Codalab competition
<https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21819>:
Important Dates:
* May 27th, 2025: test set and open for submissions.
* June 3rd, 2025: publication of results.
* June 12th, 2025: paper submission.
* June 20th, 2025: notification of acceptance.
* June 27th, 2025: camera-ready paper submission.
* September, 2025: IberLEF 2025 Workshop.
Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, and
Inclusion (LT-EDI-2025)
To be held at the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025)
We’re happy to invite paper submissions for the LT-EDI 2025 workshop—an
important platform for exploring how Language Technology (LT) can drive
equality, diversity, and inclusion across languages, cultures, and
communities.
Call for Papers:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Related to speech and language resource creation for EDI.
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Data set development to include EDI.
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Gender inclusivity in LT.
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LGBTQ+ inclusivity in LT.
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Racial inclusivity in LT.
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Persons with disability' inclusivity in LT.
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Speech and language recognition for minority groups.
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Unconscious bias and how to avoid it in Natural Language Processing,
Machine Learning, and other applications of LT.
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Tackling rumors and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBTQ+
minorities.
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Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities.
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Counter-narrative applied to LGBTQ+ minorities.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 May 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 12 June 2025
Camera-ready Paper Due: 26 June 2025
Workshop Date (Tentative): 9 September 2025
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2025/home?authuser=0 🌐
Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Workshop/LT-EDI
with regards,
Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi,
Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar
Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence)
<https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…>
School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland
Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute,
University of Galway, Ireland
E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie
<bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie>
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en
Website:
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Call for Papers: NLP for Sustainability (NLP4Sustain) Workshop 2025
With this workshop, we want to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing research, progress, and challenges in the context of NLP and sustainability. We invite submissions about NLP-based analysis of sustainability-related texts, sustainable NLP models and evaluation practices in general. Authors and other participants will engage with each other in a poster session and there will be an interdisciplinary invited talk with an ensuing discussion.
We invite technical, survey, and position papers, as long (8 page) or short (4 page) papers (plus references and appendices) written in English and formatted according to the ACL stylesheet.
Relevant Topics
• analyses and classifications of sustainability-related texts (such as company reports, advertisements, legal texts, …)
• generation of explanations, critiques, summaries, … of sustainability-related texts
• multimodal models related to sustainability, such as language-vision or climate-impact models
• question answering in the sustainability/climate context
• sustainable (e.g. small, efficient) NLP models for other applications/domains
• sentiment analysis in the sustainability/climate context
• media and social media analysis with NLP methods in the sustainability/climate context
Important Dates
* Tue, 10.06.2025: Paper submission deadline
* Fri, 25.07.2025: Acceptance notification
* Fri, 15.08.2025: Camera-ready due
* Wed, 10.09.2025: Workshop @KONVENS in Hildesheim, Germany (at least one author must be present)
For details, visit the website: https://nlp4sustain.github.io/
If you have any questions, please contact: jakob.prange(a)uni-a.de<mailto:jakob.prange@uni-a.de> and/or c.jakob(a)tu-berlin.de<mailto:c.jakob@tu-berlin.de>
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Charlott Jakob (she/her)
Academic Researcher
Technische Universität Berlin
Quality and Usability Lab
Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science
Faculty IV Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Technische Universität Berlin
Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23,
10587 Berlin, Germany
The Research unit ATILF (Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language) offers a postdoctoral position in computational linguistics.
Topic: multiword expressions in large language models
Location: ATILF, Nancy, France (Univ. Lorraine and CNRS)
Starting date: September 2025
Duration: 12 months (possibility to extend the duration for one more year)
Supervisors: Mathieu Constant (Univ. Lorraine, France) and Patrick Watrin (UC Louvain, Belgium)
Salary: depends on experience and salary grids (from 3000 to 4200 euros before tax)
Application deadline: April 22, 2025
Subject. The term « multiword expression » (MWE) refers to a combination of multiple lexical items that displays irregular composition possibly on different linguistic levels (morphology, syntax, semantics, …). They include a large variety of phenomena such as idioms (run around in circles), support verb constructions (take a walk), nominal compounds (dry run), complex function units (in spite of). They have been the subject of extensive research work in the NLP community over the last 50 years.
The goal of this post-doc position is to investigate to what extent large language models encode multiword expressions and their various levels of idiomaticity and fixedness. In particular, the hired post-doc will develop methods to extract linguistic features about multiword expressions in context from large language models.
The methods will be experimented on French and will be used to provide aids for French L2 learners when reading MWE occurrences in authentic texts.
Context. The position is part of the STAR-FLE project (STrategic Adaptations for better Reading and Text Comprehension in FFL, https://www.starfle.fr/en, 2024-2027) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The project aims to propose innovative digital solutions in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that may improve text comprehension for French L2 learners and assist teachers in managing multiple levels of learners. In particular, it will propose context-based aids for understanding lexical issues as well as MWEs found in authentic texts. The hired researcher will be fully integrated in the project team.
Requirements. Applicants should hold a PhD thesis n natural language processing, in computational linguistics, in computer science, or in applied mathematics, .
The hired post-doc researcher should have the following skills:
* expertise in deep learning for NLP and notably large language models
* excellent programming skills
* Good linguistic skills
* good knowledge of French would be a plus
* team spirit
Application. The applicants should submit a coverage letter, a CV including their publications, a list of references for recommandation, on the following official web site: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-022/Default.aspx?lang=EN. The applications should be sent not later than April 22, 2025.
For more information, contact Mathieu Constant (Mathieu.Constant(a)univ-lorraine.fr)
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Call for Papers – The Ninth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI
(SCAI’25)
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Collocated with IJCAI 2025 (Montreal, Canada) on August 16-18, 2025
https://scai.info
Important dates
• Submission deadline: May 9, 2025 (AoE)
• Author notification: June 6, 2025
Description
SCAI is an established venue that provides a discussion platform on
Conversational AI for intelligent information access, bringing together
researchers and practitioners across natural language processing,
information retrieval, machine learning and human-computer interaction
fields.
The goal of Search-oriented Conversational AI is to design systems that
allow for more convenient information access by means of a conversational
user interface. Further development of Conversational Search systems
requires closer integration and better information exchange between the
diverse communities that are engaged in the areas of Dialogue Systems,
Information Retrieval and Conversational User Interfaces. SCAI aims to
bring together researchers interested in informing the design of a new
generation of systems for conversational information access.
SCAI 2025 offers an opportunity to present ongoing or recently completed
research work in an interdisciplinary meeting specifically focused on
search-based conversational AI. The workshop program will include
presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and a poster session.
We encourage submission for presentation of original as well as already
published papers that are relevant to the following topics:
* Design: theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of
information-seeking dialogues, properties of a mixed-initiative
interaction, modeling conversational contexts, relation to concurrent
research in dialogue systems and conversational user interfaces
* Implementation: prototypes of conversational search systems,
demonstrations and proof-of-concept implementations, as well as lessons
learned from deployed systems.
* Evaluation: evaluation of conversational search systems including user
studies, question answering and summarization metrics, Wizard-of-Oz
experiments, user simulation for dialogues, measuring learning outcomes of
an information-seeking dialogue, dialogue analysis, faithfulness and
provenance of the dialogue responses.
* Applications: information-seeking dialogues for personalised education,
healthcare, entertainment and knowledge-intensive work.
Submission Instructions:
* Papers should be up to 8 pages (long) or up to 4 pages (short), excluding
references and supplementary materials.
* Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review.
* The authors are encouraged (but not required to) use the IJCAI template
for their submissions: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit.
* Our venue is non-archival and the authors retain the right to submit the
same work to another venue for official publication, or submit previously
published work.
* The accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. The
decision about the presentation format will be based on reviewers’
recommendation.
* Submit your work using the on-line form:
https://chairingtool.com/conferences/ijcai25-w21/main-track?role=author
10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Extended deadline for abstract submission: 20 April 2025
The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025.
LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics.
The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature?
If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>.
• Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings.
• Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics.
• Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics.
Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion).
Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion).
There will be no parallel sessions.
Participation is free.
For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr
If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>.
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Third Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2025 EU
21st International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 3 - 5, 2025
Important Dates:
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*Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025*
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*Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025*
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*Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025*
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*Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025*
*All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)*
*Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be
provided soon.*
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*.
Research and Innovation Track
The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the
Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research
contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to
the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also
encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other
scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange
and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been
published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must
adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any
additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a
rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews,
evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical
relevance of the work.
Topics of Interest
SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across
a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI.
We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where
semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language
models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
- Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
- Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
- Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model
grounding)
- Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG
- Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition,
extraction, integration, and publication workflows)
- Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
- Web agents
- Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia,
foundation models)
- Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
- Data Quality Management and Assurance
- Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI
- Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph
structures)
- Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes
- Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability,
decentralized knowledge representation)
- Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data
Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics)
- Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs
- Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data
updates in distributed settings)
- Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping
frameworks, ontology alignment)
- Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
- Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g.,
distributed querying, optimization)
- User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g.,
visualizations, intelligent user interaction)
- Explainable and Interoperable AI
- Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated
querying, link traversal)
Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but
not limited to:
- Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical
applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health)
- AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling
for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs)
- Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data
principles, enhanced scholarly communication)
- Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and
Museums)
- Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive
Maintenance
- Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and
legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act)
- Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces,
semantic service interoperability, data policy)
Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link.
For *Submission Guidelines* and * Review and Evaluation Criteria* please
head to the online call for papers:
*https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep*
<https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>.
We would highly appreciate it if you could disseminate this call within
your network.
*We look forward to receiving your contributions!*
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
Kind Regards,
On behalf of the organising committee.
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Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi
ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden
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*SEM2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Suzhou, China. (Co-located with EMNLP)
https://starsem2025.github.io/
First Call for Papers
*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics.
*SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation and applications/tools.
*SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>.
Submission Instructions
Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions.
Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit.
Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>.
Submission routes and deadlines
*SEM solicits both direct submissions and ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments. The deadline for direct submissions is May 30, 2025, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to August 22, 2025 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are made through OpenReview.
Direct submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2025/Conference>
Multiple submission policy: *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time.
Important Dates
(All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE)
Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): May 30, 2025
ARR-reviewed submission deadline (long & short papers): August 22, 2025
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025
Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025
Conference date: TBA (co-located with EMNLP 2025)
Following ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement.
Kemal Kurniawan | Research Fellow | (he/him) PhD
School of Computing and Information Systems | Faculty of Engineering and IT
Level 4, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
E: kurniawan.k(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:kurniawan.k@unimelb.edu.au>