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Deadline extension: Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jul '25

12 Jul '25

Deadline extension: Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Co-located with DHASA 2025 https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the deadlne NEW DEADLINE: 28 July 2025 RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025 DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025 Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre. The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/ The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non- African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa website (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link is available on the website). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the DHASA conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 28 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Workshop: 10 November 2025 DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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[CLEF 2026] Call for Lab Proposals - Deadline extended
by Julia Maria Struß 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

***Apologies for cross-posting ***------------------------------------------- CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Jena, Germany, September 21-24, 2026 https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/ <http://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu> ------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Due to many requests and the late opening of EasyChair, the submissiondeadline for the full lab proposals has been extended to 17 July 2025 AoE. However, you need to submit a proposal registration(submitting a draft/abstract to Easychair) by the original deadline (14 July 2025 AoE). Call for Lab Proposals Background The CLEF Initiative <http://www.clef-initiative.eu/>is a self-organised body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for: 1. Independent evaluation of information access systems 2. Investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access 3. Creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking 4. Exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data 5. Discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge Scope of CLEF Labs We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs: 1. "Campaign-style" Evaluation Labs for specific information access problems (during the twelve months period preceding the conference), similar in nature to the traditional CLEF campaign "tracks" . Topics covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information access-related domain or task. 2. Labs that follow a more classical "workshop" pattern, exploring evaluation methodology, metrics, processes, etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine translation, and human-computer interaction. We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2026 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research frontiers are moving. Lab organisers are expected to organise separate sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and engagement with all participants - not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals. Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2026 Lab Organizing Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage. Proposal Submission Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab. Proposals should be 3 to 4 pageslong and should provide the following information: 1. Title of the proposed lab. 2. A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to CLEF and the significance for the field. 3. A brief and clear statement on usage scenarios and domain to which the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation setup and metrics. 4. Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This should include details of any previous involvement in organising or participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns. 5. The planned format of the lab, i.e., campaign-style (“track”) or workshop. 6. Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a new activity? 1. For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to be learned or insights to be made. 2. For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity. 7. Details of the expected target audience, i.e., who do you expect to participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them. 8. Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough participation. The dataset which will be adopted by the Lab needs to be described and motivated in the perspective of the goals of the Labs; also indications on how the dataset will be shared are useful. It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain multiple closely related tasks, needing a strong motivation for more than 3 tasks, to avoid useless fragmentation. 9. Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one day, two days. This should include high-level details of planned structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length. 10. Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be responsible for activities within the task; how will data be acquired or created, what tools or methods will be used, e.g., how will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried out; any other information which is relevant to the conduct of your lab. 11. If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links of people you propose to be involved. Lab proposals must be submitted via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2026 choosing the “CLEF 2026 Lab Proposals”track. Review Process Each proposal submitted by 17 July 2025will be reviewed by the CLEF 2026 Lab Organising Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 4 Aug 2025. The final length of the lab session at the conference will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab. Advertising Labs at CLEF 2025 and ECIR 2026 Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2025 (September 9-12, 2025, Madrid, Spain) and ECIR 2026 (March 29 - April 2, 2026, Delft, Netherlands). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events. Advertising at CLEF 2025 will consist of displaying a poster describing the new lab and advertising/announcing it during the closing session. Advertising at ECIR 2026 will consist of submitting a lab description (abstract submission deadline TBA by ECIR) to be included in ECIR 2026 proceedings and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2026. Lab Proposals from Newcomers If you have not organised a lab before, do not panic! The CLEF 2026 Lab Organising Committee Lab is willing to mentor you by offering help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal. If you are a newcomer interested in receiving guidance, please send an e-mail with the following tag in the subject “[Mentorship CLEF 2026 Lab Proposals]” to Sean.MacAvaney at glasgow.ac.uk and julia.struss at fh-potsdam.de We also encourage newcomers to refer toFriedberg et al. (2015) <https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004…>for initial guidance on preparing their proposal: Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 23;11(4):e1004150. Important Dates * 14 July 2025, AoE: Proposal registration (submitting a draft/abstract to Easychair) * 14 July 2025 17 July 2025, AoE (extended):Hard deadline to submit final proposal to Easychair * 4 August 2025:Notification of lab acceptance * 9-12 September 2025:Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain * October 2025 (TBA by ECIR):Submission of short lab description for ECIR 2026 * April 2026:Advertising labs at ECIR 2026, Delft, Netherlands * April-May:Lab evaluation cycle * May-June:Review process of participant papers * June 2026:Review of the condensed labs overviews * July 2026:CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organisers * 21-24 September, 2026:Labs at CLEF 2026 CLEF 2026 Lab Chairs * Julia Maria Struß, Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences * Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow -- ___________________________ Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften Kiepenheuerallee 5 14469 Potsdam Telefon: +49 331 580 4532 Zoom:https://fh-potsdam.zoom-x.de/my/juliamstruss

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The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by Announce 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

*** Second Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the 31st International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops and *full-day*, *half-day* or *quarter-day* tutorial formats and activities, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. • Tutorials: Sessions that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, tools, labs or hands-on experiences for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop and Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop and Tutorial Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Workshop or Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events) • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop or tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop and tutorial formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop or tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or “(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop or tutorial. • Description of workshop or tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop or tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop or Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop or tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. For tutorials, we are also interested in quarter-day proposals (roughly 1.5 hours). Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops" or “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025 • Decision notification: September 19, 2025 • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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[CfP] DBpedia Day 2025 || SEMANTiCS conference || Sept 3
by DBpedia 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

==== DBpedia Day - Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2025 Vienna, Austria September 3, 2025 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 (AoE) Submission Form: https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89 ==== How can Large Language Models (LLMs) benefit from structured knowledge like DBpedia? And how can we improve DBpedia to better serve the next generation of AI systems? This session invites talks on the intersection of LLMs and Knowledge Graphs, with a special emphasis on DBpedia. Our goal is to understand how to make Linked Data more useful, accessible, and trustworthy for LLM-based applications—and how to evolve DBpedia in this new AI-dominated landscape. = Topics of Interest = * Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with DBpedia * Prompt engineering for KG-aware LLMs * Query translation: From natural language to SPARQL using LLMs * Using LLMs to summarize or explain DBpedia data * LLMs as interfaces for Linked Data consumption * Automatic ontology alignment and entity linking with LLMs * Improving LLM factual accuracy with DBpedia as a trusted source * Challenges in grounding LLM output in structured knowledge * Scaling and performance considerations for hybrid KG–LLM systems * Bias, hallucination, and verification in LLMs using DBpedia * Use cases: e.g., chatbots, semantic search, Q&A systems powered by DBpedia + LLMs We welcome researchers, developers, and industry practitioners working on concrete tools, early-stage ideas, or critical perspectives. = Submission Guidelines = Please submit your proposal by July 15, 2025 (AoE) via: https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89 Your proposal should include: * Title * Abstract (max. 300 words) * Short biography of the speaker(s) We are open to a wide range of talk formats: demos, position papers, success stories, lessons learned, or short idea pitches. Questions? Reach out to us at dbpedia(a)infai.org or check our event page https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-day-2025/. Join us to shape how LLMs and DBpedia can empower each other! Best regards, Julia, Milan & Sebastian DBpedia Team

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Call for Papers: HCI + NLP Workshop @EMNLP 2025
by Amanda Cercas Curry 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] *Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)* We are excited to announce that the 4th iteration of HCI+NLP will be *co-located with @EMNLP in Suzhou, China* and online! The rapid advancement of NLP research has led to a variety of applications spanning a wide range of domains. With the recent popularity and growing capabilities of large language models, language technologies have been integrated into various daily applications, such as conversational search, text analysis, and writing assistance. While this widespread adoption ignites excitement, it raises pressing concerns and challenges for NLP research, including those related to real-world evaluation, bias and fairness, and model interpretability and explainability, and it is more important than ever that NLP research adopt and develop methods to incorporate people into research in meaningful ways. Perspectives from human-computer interaction (HCI) can help NLP research practitioners to advance the field in ways that are aligned with people’s needs, raising novel questions and research directions for both NLP and HCI. *Special Theme* For this iteration of the workshop, we are delighted to include a special theme: *Human involvement in post-training*. Recent advances in frontier NLP labs emphasize the importance of Reinforcement Learning with AI Feedback (RLAIF) and synthetic data, reducing human presence in the post-training process. However, as humans are the end users of or are impacted by interactive systems, we see this as an opportunity to ask about the role humans should play in the development of human-centric language technologies. We welcome any submissions engaging with this question, including *efficient learning of human preferences*, *novel forms of human feedback*, user interfaces that enable the *seamless and innovative collection of feedback*, *problems and tasks where human preferences are especially crucial*, *alternative paradigms *for human input and involvement, *different approaches’ underlying assumptions and resulting impacts*, and more. *Submissions* We welcome *research papers (up to 8 pages)*, submitted *archivally or non-archivally*. We also welcome *extended abstracts* (up to 4 pages, non-archival) presenting relevant ongoing or recently published work. We invite submissions that include (but are not limited to): provocations, critical approaches, or position papers; surveys or meta-analyses highlighting opportunities for new research; and empirical studies, system demonstrations, or other research on practical issues when deploying language technology. We also welcome *fast-track submissions* of papers rejected by other venues that are accompanied by previous reviews. For the full call for papers, including formatting guidelines and the submission site, see the workshop website. *************************************************** *Submission Deadlines*: Regular submission: August 8 Fast-track submission: September 1 *************************************************** *For more information, visit our website: * https://sites.google.com/view/hciandnlp -- *CENTAI INSTITUTE* www.centai.eu <http://www.centai.eu>

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[CfP] Final CfP for LowResNLP: Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria)
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the final call for papers of the *Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP) at RANLP 2025* The most important information at a glance: 🗓️ Deadline: July 15, Workshop: Sep 11, 12 or 13 📍 Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://lrlnlp.github.io/website/ Despite rapid progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), the benefits of recent advances - especially large language models (LLMs) - remain unevenly distributed. While high-resource languages like English, French, and Chinese have seen significant performance gains, low-resource languages continue to face substantial challenges across core NLP tasks such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and part-of-speech tagging. These disparities arise from a combination of factors: the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited linguistic resources, and a lack of community involvement in data collection and model development. As a result, many languages, particularly African, Indigenous, and minority languages, remain underrepresented in both academic research and deployed NLP systems. LowResNLP is a workshop dedicated to addressing these challenges by fostering research, collaboration, and discussion around methods, resources, and evaluation practices specifically designed for low-resource languages. LowResNLP seeks to actively contribute to the field by inviting submissions that specifically address the unique challenges and opportunities involved in working with low-resource languages. The workshop welcomes a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Language models and large language models for low-resource languages * Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages * Evaluation benchmarks for language models in low-resource languages * Language models and resources for low-resource languages in Spain * Machine/pivot translation for low-resource languages * Fairness in resources/models for low-resource languages * Prompting learning strategies for large language models * Transfer learning and Crosslingual approaches for low-resource NLP * Massively multilingual approaches to Low-Resource NLP Important Dates: Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 July 2025 (AoE) Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 Workshops: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Submission formats: We invite the submission of both full papers and short papers. Full papers should not exceed 8 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). Short papers should not exceed 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). All submissions should be prepared using the current ACL templates (see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/). Papers should be submitted through SoftConf: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LowResNLP2025 Organizers: For any questions, please drop a mail to lowresnlp-2025-organizers(a)googlegroups.com Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares (University of Alicante, Spain; University of Havana, Cuba) Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) Besik Mikaberidze (Georgian Technical University, Georgia) Simon Ostermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Daniil Gurgurov (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Philipp Müller (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Kurt Micallef (University of Malta, Malta) Claudia Borg (University of Malta, Malta) Michal Gregor (KINIT, Slovakia) Marián Šimko (KINIT, Slovakia) Programme Committee: Nora Aranberri (University of Basque Country) Sudhansu Bala Das (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of - Galway, Ireland) Ana‑Maria Bucur (University of Bucharest) Annie Lee En-Shiun (Ontario Tech University and University of Toronto) Sofía García González (imaxin software, University of the Basque Country) Albert Gatt (Utretch University) Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) Basab Nath (Assam University) Patrizia Paggio (University of Malta) Dhrubajyoti Pathak (National Forensic Sciences University) Fabian Schmidt (University of Würzburg) Marijn Schraagen (Utretch University) A. Seza Doğruöz (University of Ghent) Marc Tanti (University of Malta) Sunita Warjri (University of South Bohemia)

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Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification
by Stodden, Regina 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

📢 Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification We invite you to participate in the TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification, aimed at generating simplifications of texts that conform to a specified target readability level, balancing reduced linguistic complexity with meaning preservation and fluency. The shared task is focused on simplifying English paragraphs to specific CEFR levels (A1, A2, B1). Input texts are at B2 level or above. Participants must produce simplified versions that match the target readability level while preserving meaning. 🗓️ Key dates: * Trial data release: July 16th * Test data release: August 15th * Submission deadline: August 26th * Results: September 2nd 🗃️ No training data provided – you're free to use any publicly available resources 📊 Evaluation: CEFR compliance, meaning preservation, reference similarity 📝 System description papers invited to TSAR 2025 @ EMNLP (Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9) ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/shared-task/ 🔗 Registration at: https://forms.gle/p9rg7FjxaNFWcPVS7 📢 The submission for regular papers to the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR) is also still possible. ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/cfp/ 🗓️ Submission deadline: August 26th -- Regina Stodden (she/her) Postdoctoral Researcher Bielefeld University - Semantic Computing Group

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Job: ERRATUM Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
by Maria Boritchev 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

[Apologies for cross postings][New and corrected links] ******************************************************** Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position ) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing /!\ NEW LINKS /!\ Version française : [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/associate-professor-in-machine… ] English Version: [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/associate-professor-in-ma… ] In the team: [ https://s2a.telecom-paris.fr/resources/2025-07-01-poste-npl/ | https://s2a.telecom-paris.fr/resources/2025-07-01-poste-npl/ ] Telecom Paris has a new permanent (tenure) faculty position (Associate Professor/ “Maître/Maîtresse de conférences”) in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing. Applicants from the following sub-research areas are particularly welcome: - Generative models, Conversational AI - Bias and Explainability in AI - Frugal Machine Learning Important Dates September 5, 2025 : closing date for applications Main missions - Participate in the design and implementation of teaching programs in the field of machine learning for language processing - Conduct research in your scientific field - Participate in the development of partnerships, collaborations and contractual relationships in your scientific field - Participate in teaching activities at Telecom Paris and its partner academic institutions (as part of joint Master programs), especially in natural language processing, speech processing, machine learning, and Data Science, including life-long training programs (e.g. the local “Mastères Spécialisés”). Candidate profile As a minimum requirement, the successful candidate will have: - A Ph.D. degree - A track record of research and publication in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing, generative speech and signal processing, human-agent interactions, social robotics - Experience in teaching - An international postdoctoral experience is welcome but not mandatory - Excellent command of English NOTE: The candidate does *not* need to speak French to apply, just to be willing to learn the language (teaching will be mostly given in English). Other expected skills include: - Capacity to work in a team and develop good relationships with colleagues and peers - Excellent writing and pedagogical skills More about the position Place of work: Saclay (Paris outskirts) Context: - S²A (machine learning, statistics and signal processing) group [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - LTCI (laboratoire de traitement et communication de l’information) [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - Télécom Paris [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home ] Ecosystem: Télécom Paris is a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris, [ https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ | https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ ] ), a world-class scientific and technological institution. Located at the Plateau de Saclay close to Paris-Saclay University, this Institution is a partnership between Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris, Télecom SudParis, with HEC as a key partner. Regularly ranked as one of the best engineering schools in France, Télécom Paris is recognized for its excellent training, its very good employability rate with high salaries, its high-level research, and its very close proximity to companies. The THE (Times Higher Education, [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… ] ) ranks Télécom Paris 2nd best French engineering school, 5th better French university, and 6th « best small university ». The newly created institution IP Paris was ranked in the top 50 best universities in the QS world university ranking. In the context of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the activities in Data Science and AI of the team benefit from the center Hi!Paris ( [ https://www.hi-paris.fr/ | https://www.hi-paris.fr/ ] ), offering seminars, workshops, and fundings through calls for project. How to apply? Applications must be submitted via one of the following websites: French Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… ] English Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… ] Applicants should submit: - Cover letter, - Curriculum vitae, - Statements of research and teaching interests (4 pages maximum each) - Three publications - Contact information for two references Contacts - please contact us directly before applying: Maria Boritchev Matthieu Labeau Stéphan Clémençon (Head of the S²A group) Florence Tupin (Head of the IDS department)

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Call for Short Papers (Posters): SemDial 2025 – The 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bialogue)
by Hendrik Buschmeier 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

# Call for Short Papers (Posters): SemDial 2025 – The 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bialogue) Website: https://semdial2025.github.io/ ## Information We invite submissions for ‘Bialogue 2025’, the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series at Bielefeld University, Germany. This conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. ## Topics This year, the conference will center around the theme “Meaningful Interaction”. We particularly encourage work that explores this theme, but submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including but not limited to: * Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue * Common ground and mutual belief * Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * Turn-taking and interaction control * Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * Dialogue and discourse structure * Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue * Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * Multimodal dialogue * Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * Dialogue management, design, and evaluation * Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological approaches to dialogue * Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research ## Submission Details Submissions should meet the following requirements: * Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. * Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. * Papers should follow the ACL 2025 formatting guidelines and use the ACL submission templates. * Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files. ### Short Papers (Posters) At most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request. Submission: Please submit your short paper (poster) via Open Review: https://openreview.net/group?id=SemDial.org/2025/Bialogue ## Important Dates All deadlines are 23:59 UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) Short Paper/Poster Deadline July 18, 2025 Notification (short) July 25, 2025 Camera Ready (short/posters) August 9, 2025 Registration Deadline August 15, 2025 SemDial 2025 Conference September 3–5, 2025 -- Hendrik Buschmeier Digital Linguistics Lab Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University https://purl.org/net/hbuschme

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INLG 2025: Third Call for Papers (New paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025)
by Saad Mahamood 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

Dear Corpora list members, I am sharing this CFP on the behalf of the Program Chairs of INLG 2025. Apologies in advance for any cross-posting. Saad. ------- I am excited to share that we will have some great Keynote Speakers this year, including Verena Rieser (Google DeepMind), Minlie Huang (黄民烈; Tsinghua University), Hadas Kotek (Apple), Mike White (Ohio State University) and Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt). The event will be held from October 29 - November 2 in Hanoi, Vietnam, just before EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China. Please note, we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to July 18, 2025. Third Call for Papers: 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2025 We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including Large Language Models (LLMs). Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from October 29 - November 2 in Hanoi, Vietnam. INLG 2025 will be taking place before EMNLP 2025 (5-9 November) in Suzhou, China. Important dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) START system regular paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025 (NEW) ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: August 7, 2025 START system demo paper submission deadline: July 24, 2025 Notification: August 21, 2025 Camera ready: September 15, 2025 Conference: October 29 - November 2, 2025 Topics INLG 2025 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems Generalizability of NLG systems Bias and fairness in NLG systems Thinking models for NLG Affect/emotion generation Analysis and detection of automatically generated text Cognitive modeling of language production Computational efficiency of NLG models Content and text planning Corpora and resources for NLG Ethical considerations of NLG Grounded language generation Lexicalisation Multimedia and multimodality in generation Natural language understanding techniques for NLG NLG and accessibility NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots NLG for human-robot interaction NLG for low-resourced languages NLG for real-world applications Paraphrasing, summarization and translation Personalisation and variation in text Referring expression generation Storytelling and narrative generation Surface realization System architectures Submissions & Format Three kinds of papers can be submitted: Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The 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 are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2025. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2025 website: https://inlg2025.github.io/ To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2025, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/p/inlg2025/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is July 18, 2025 (NEW), 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2025 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is August 7, 2025, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2025 is May 19, 2025. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2025 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2025 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2025/) by July 24, 2025, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2025 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2025 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. Awards INLG 2025 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. Best Evaluation Award: This award honors the authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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