ACL 2025 - Call for System Demonstrations
The ACL 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 …
[View More]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 ACL 2025 conference proceedings. We expect at
least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at
ACL 2025 in Vienna, 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
Check the full Call at:
https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/
Link to submission system:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo
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[Apologies for cross-posting]
The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to:
* Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks
* Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations)
* Opening the black-box of deep learning in …
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* Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems
* Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R
* Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R
* Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets
*(Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks
* Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks
* Generalization of NLU&R systems
* Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems
NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts.
The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu),
4-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany).
The submission deadline is 25 April 2025.
Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details.
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The NALOMA chairs,
Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva
Lasha Abzianidze
Assistant professor
Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University
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Dear all,
I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a thematic track
at FedCSIS 2025 (IEEE #61123) called "AI in Digital Humanities,
Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)". FedCSIS
2025 will be held in Kraków, Poland, 14-17 September 2025.
See https://2025.fedcsis.org/thematic/ai-huso for details.
This thematic session is dedicated to the computational study of Social
Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for
example, …
[View More]education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology,
cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and
behavioural-science perspectives. While digital methods, intelligence
systems, and AI have been emerging topics in these fields for several
decades, this thematic session is not only limited to discoveries in
these domains, but also dedicated to the reflections of these methods
and results within the field of computer science. Thus, we are in
particular interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination
with a clear focus on computational and AI methods for intelligence systems.
Since there is a clear methodological overlap between these three
domains and often similar algorithms and AI approaches are considered,
we see this thematic session as place for interdisciplinary learning,
discussing a joint toolbox as a support for scholars from these field
with human and context-aware agents.
The aim of this thematic session is thus to bridge the gap between
scientific domains, foster interdisciplinary exchange and discuss how
research questions from other domains challenge current computer
science. In particular, we are interested in communications between
researchers from different fields of computer science, social sciences,
economics, humanities, and practitioners from different fields.
Topics
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The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:
- AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of
the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical,
methodological, experimental, and applied research.
- AI and computational approaches for linking data from different
digital resources, including online social networks, web and data
mining, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies.
- AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis,
for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies,
computational stylistics and stylometry.
- Text encoding, computational linguistics, annotation guidelines,
OCR for humanities, economics, and social sciences.
- Network analysis, including social and historical network analysis.
- Ethical and philosophical considerations of AI in society,
education and humanties research
In general, the applications of interest are included in the list below,
but are not limited to:
- Labour market research and qualification, including
behavioral-science perspectives.
- Education: Digital methods and systems, e-learning, adult
education, etc.
- Contributions to the application of technology to culture, history,
and societal issues: For example, computational text analysis,
analytical and visualization, databases, etc.
- In particular, we welcome submissions which focus on a critical
reflection of digital methods in the humanities, economics and social
sciences within computer science.
- Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their
quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data,
anonymization and data protection.
Contact: ai-huso(a)fedcsis.org
Submission rules
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- Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
- The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for
an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here.
- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area.
- Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online.
- Only papers presented at the conference will be published in
Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore®
database.
- Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN,
ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
- Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according
to information here.
- Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS
Sessions.
Extended versions of selected papers presented at the conference will be
published in a volume entitled "Advances in Computational Social
Sciences: AI, Computational Methods and Applications for the Study of
Society" from Springer.
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Horacio Saggion
Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN
Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE)
Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE)
Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
https://twitter.com/h_saggionhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916
ACL 2025 - Call for System Demonstrations
The ACL 2025 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for
the Demonstrations …
[View More]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 ACL 2025 conference proceedings. We expect at least one of
the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at ACL 2025 in
Vienna, 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
Check the full Call at:
https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/
Link to submission system:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Demo
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Horacio Saggion
Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN
Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE)
Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE)
Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
https://twitter.com/h_saggionhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916
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[Apologies for multiple postings]
We are happy to announce that 1 new phonetic database and 1 new speech
corpus are available in our catalogue.
*Comprehensive Arabic Phonetic Database
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0493/>*
ISLRN: 511-751-240-544-8 <https://islrn.org/resources/511-751-240-544-8/>
The Comprehensive Arabic Phonetic Database is a robust and detailed
linguistic resource offering both phonemic and phonetic transcriptions,
precisely …
[View More]reflecting how Modern Standard Arabic words are realized in
actual speech. It is a highly comprehensive and accurate Arabic
phonetic/phonemic database, covering over 329,000 entries, including
over 61,000 general vocabulary entries, 101,000 Arab personal names,
143,000 foreign personal names in Arabic and 21,000 worldwide place
names both Arab and non-Arab. Each entry consists of canonical forms
both vocalized and unvocalized (as in natural language) accompanied by
phonetic transcriptions in IPA and X-SAMPA and the user-friendly CARS
phonemic transcription system. Additionally, unique features include
explicit indication of vowel neutralization, accurate word stress,
gender and number codes (singular or plural), and POS (part-of-speech)
codes. The database is provided in a flat TSV text file.
See also the *DiaLEX
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=dialex>* and
*ArabLEX <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/search/?q=arablex>*
collections for Arabic from the same provider…
*EthioSpeech
<https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0494/>*
ISLRN:886-456-351-764-8 <https://islrn.org/resources/886-456-351-764-8/>
EthioSpeech Corpora is comprised of over 391 hours of recorded read
speech in six different Ethiopian languages by ca. 200 speakers per
language: Amharic (68 hours), Tigrigna (62 hours), Oromo (70 hours),
Somali (56 hours), Afar (68 hours), and Sidama (68 hours). The
dominating domain is media (mainly newspapers), but for some of the
languages texts from different domains were used, including spiritual
contents. The recording is made using mobile devices using the
LIG-Aikuma speech recording tool that is installed on the devices. The
gender and age balance of readers is nearly equal for Amharic, Tigrigna
and Oromo, whereas mainly male gender for the other 3 languages. The age
distribution is between 18 and 40.
For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire
about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us*
<mailto:contact@elda.org>.
_________________________________________
Visit the *ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources* <http://catalog.elra.info>
*Archives *
<https://www.elra.info/catalogues/language-resources-announcements/>of
ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates
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Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware AI
Workshop at ECAI 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 25-30.
https://ecai2025.org/workshops/
Workshop theme: What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and
technical challenges does this imply?
Overview
What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it) is
about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on the
assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if enough
data (and compute …
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robust enough and represent the majority.
This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the notion
of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop aims to
raise the question of “what makes each of us unique?” to the AI community.
We seek to gather researchers from diverse fields to understand how the
identities of all stakeholders — e.g., the individuals projecting their
views in texts, the individuals perceiving the texts, the individuals
mentioned and those not mentioned in the texts — should be considered in
future research in AI.
Workshop Goals
- The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of
identities and how identity is treated in AI.
- The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and
inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level.
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions on the following topics:
- *Approaches to model subjective phenomena:* Personalization and
perspectivist methods that leverage disaggregated labeled data, encoding
annotator metadata on their beliefs, moral values, sociodemographic
features, or personal narratives. ML methods to address the challenges of
“learning from disagreements” both from the development of new models and
the collection of data to train such models.
- *Methods for detecting and controlling bias in models and data:*
Techniques to audit fairness, enforce fairness constraints, and learn fair
representation from data, in order to enhance the fairness of models while
maintaining their predictive reliability. Ethical challenges for LLMs in
identity-aware dialog and tasks: diversity, stereotypes, harms.
- *The role of sociodemographics in LLMs:* Such as which characteristics
(and disagreements) they embody and how to measure their capacity for
representing and reasoning about diverse types of identities.
- *Challenges for applying AI methods to model socio-political
phenomena:* Including polarization, impact of media consumption on
public opinion formation, agenda setting, deliberation support, and how
integrating identity into AI methods can influence the accuracy for these
tasks.
- *NLP work at the intersection with social psychology:* The
methodological foundation for quantitative investigation of
identity-related topics. The reflection on best practices to reliably
measure complex constructs such as morals and values. Detection and
analysis of personal narratives across cultures.
- *Accountability of AI in the eye of the general public:* The role of
LLMs, and the responsibilities of AI and NLP developers for ethical use of
identities.
- *NLP work at the intersection of survey science:* The use of LLMs to
model and simulate individuals and subpopulations; the role of LLMs in
personalizing information elicitation; and methodological approaches to
address data contamination and response validation when LLMs are used by
either researchers or respondents.
Submission Types
We welcome the following types of submissions:
- Long papers: Up to 8 pages (excluding references)
- Short papers: Up to 4 pages (excluding references)
- Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media
submissions: No page limit
- For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats
including:
- Art, poetry, music
- Blog posts
- Jupyter notebooks
- Teaching materials
- TikToks and videos
- Findings papers
- Late-breaking papers
- Extended abstracts
- For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing:
- A summary or abstract of your work
- A link to your work (if hosted externally)
- Any additional context or documentation
Submission Guidelines
- All submissions will be double-blind reviewed
- Submissions should follow ECAI formatting guidelines
<https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track> with the latex template here
<https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip>
- Submit your paper through EasyChair
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=identityawareai2025>
- Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings through
CEUR
Workshop Format
The workshop will be a half-day event featuring:
- Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field
- Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks)
- Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary
vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and
design a vision for collecting new datasets
- Special student project session
We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The
workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and
virtual participation.
Important Dates
- Submissions: 22 August
- Notifications: 26 September
- Camera-ready: 3 October
- Workshop: 25 October
Diversity & Inclusion
We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and
countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough
feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers.
Organizers
- Pranav A (University of Hamburg)
- Valerio Basile (University of Turin)
- Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart)
- David Jurgens (University of Michigan)
- Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences &
Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf)
- Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg)
- Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin)
Contact
For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com
Join us at Identity-aware AI 2025 to contribute to this important
conversation!
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Dear all,
If you are interested in a open discussion about different aspects of corpus linguistics, please join us today at 12pm UK time. The topic is "Repetition and replication".
Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka
We will also discuss topics that will appear in the research group meetings in the future.
Vaclav
Professor Vaclav Brezina
Professor in Corpus Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and English Language
ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
…
[View More]Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YD
Office: County South, room C05
T: +44 (0)1524 510828
[cid:image001.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]@vaclavbrezina
[cid:image002.jpg@01DB9E37.3EF2EFE0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>
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(Apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder that eLex 2025, the ninth biennial conference on electronic lexicography in the 21st century, will be held in Bled, Slovenia, 18–20 November 2025.
We have decided to extend the deadline for abstracts until 7 April 2025. The abstracts should be submitted via Easychair website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=elex2025.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Carole Tiberius / Jesse de Does (Dutch Language Institute)
Marko …
[View More]Robnik-Šikonja (University of Ljubljana)
Michal Měchura (Lexical Computing and Dublin City University)
Two workshops have also been confirmed, »Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology« and »CLASSLA-express 2.0 workshop«.
More information on keynote talks, workshops, call for papers etc. can be found on the conference website (https://elex.link/elex2025/).
Iztok Kosem
Head of the organising committee
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New Publication!
Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube
Louis Cotgrove
This book explores the vibrant linguistic world of young speakers through their YouTube comments. Combining linguistics, youth language and digitally mediated communication, this study is anchored in the groundbreaking NottDeuYTSch corpus, a collection of over 33 million words taken from YouTube comments spanning a decade (2008-2018). The book examines lexical, morphological, syntactic, and orthographic phenomena …
[View More]through three detailed corpus linguistic case studies. From the development of iconic slang terms to non-standard syntax and the creative use of graphical characters, Abogeil! reveals how young people innovate and reshape language in digital spaces. Essential for linguists, educators and anyone interested in digital youth culture, this work highlights the intersection of language, technology and identity in the 21st century.
Open access: https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13056
Order it (for your libraries or personal collection): https://buchshop.ids-mannheim.de/publikationen/amades/042e63b29f0a79101.php
What people are saying about Abogeil!
"The cover has a big play button on it but when I press it nothing happens" Dr. S. Wolfer (no relation)
"What does Abogeil signify? Can you tell me so I don't need to read the book?" F. de Saussure (no relation)
"I always want to know what my children are writing online. Now with Abogeil! I understand their messages from seven years ago!" L. Cotgrove (no relation)
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25)
Track of EPIA’25*
PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro,
Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the
auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/
This announcement contains the following: [1] …
[View More]Track description; [2] Topics
of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6]
Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts.
[1] *Track Description*
The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e.
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural
Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR),
and related areas.
The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual
documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is
openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural
language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative
applications of Human Language Technologies.
Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning
(ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool
for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural
language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and
unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world
heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered
by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple
dimensions, and often with high commercial value.
Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified
in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by
three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be
published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is
registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline.
[2] *Topics of Interest*
Theories, Algorithms and Models
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Language and Cognitive Modeling
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Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
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Morphology and Word Segmentation
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Natural Language Generation
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Discourse and Pragmatics
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Semantics and Text Inference
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Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
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Entailment and Paraphrases
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Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation
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Natural language understanding
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Language modeling
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Mathematical Properties of Language
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NLP for Low-Resource Languages
Text Mining and NLP Applications
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Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization
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Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining
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Computational Social Science
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Multi-Word Units
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Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining
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Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining
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Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches
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Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining
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Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
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Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems
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Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting
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Web Content Annotation
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Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications
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Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
[3] *Important dates*
- Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE)
- Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
- Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
- Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025
[4] *Paper submission*
Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and
previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the
Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum
od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper
that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been
published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or
another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025
submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another
venue during the EPIA 2025 review period.
It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations
from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity
during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set
out in the Springer Nature code of conduct.
[5] *Track Fees:*
Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference.
[6] *Organizing Committee:*
Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL
Pablo Gamallo, CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora
Irene Rodrigues, DI – Uviversidade de Évora
Alípio Jorge, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do
Porto
[7] *Contacts:*
Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516,
Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294
8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt
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