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3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
by Yevgeni Berzak 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dates: June 5–7, 2025 Location: University of Stuttgart, Germany Web: https://tmalsburg.github.io/ComprehensionWorkshop ## Workshop theme: Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for education and instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. **In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking combined with machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments**. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, eye-tracking-based reading research, and machine learning. The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging ideas for the next generation of reading assessments aided by eye-tracking and machine learning technologies, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary research collaborations. ## Important dates: - Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2025 - Acceptance notifications: March 14, 2025 - Registration period: March 14 – April 14 - Workshop dates: June 5–7, 2025 ## Workshop format: The first two days will feature a structured program, including talks, poster sessions, and group discussions. On the third day, the focus shifts to a more relaxed format, providing participants with the opportunity to connect in an informal setting while enjoying a scenic hike or unwinding during a leisurely picnic. ## Relevant topics for submission: - Machine learning approaches to reading assessment - Eye movements as indicators of reading comprehension - Methodology and design of reading assessments, including large scale reading assessments (LSAs) - Reading assessments for different populations (e.g. children, adults, elderly, populations with cognitive impairments) - Reading development - Cognitive processes underlying reading comprehension ## Invited speaker: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kaakinen Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology University of Turku, Finland ## Submissions: - We invite submissions of short abstracts of up to 350 words. - To submit your abstract, please fill in the abstract submission form at: https://forms.gle/AntXQ3K5dwxZLjVH6 - Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers primarily with an eye to relevance. - We expect to accept 25–35 submissions. ## Venue: The workshop will take place at the International Meeting Center of the University of Stuttgart, a modern and welcoming venue designed to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas. The facility features a lecture hall for up to 80 participants, as well as two smaller seminar rooms ideal for focused discussions and breakout sessions. Attendees will also enjoy the charming amenities of the venue, including a cozy fireside lounge—perfect for informal networking—and a spacious garden that provides a serene atmosphere for relaxation between sessions. The garden is equipped with facilities for barbecues, making it an great setting for social events and fostering meaningful connections in a laid-back environment. Venue description with photos: https://www.beschaeftigte.uni-stuttgart.de/uni-services/infrastruktur/ibz/ ## Funding The workshop is sponsored by the University of Stuttgart and the MultiplEYE COST Action. The workshop will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial and priority will be given to junior researchers. ## Workshop organizers Titus von der Malsburg Inst. of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany titus.von-der-malsburg(a)ling.uni-stuttgart.de Lena Jäger Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Zurich, Switzerland jaeger(a)cl.uzh.ch Yevgeni Berzak Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion, Israel berzak(a)technion.ac.il

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Sexism identification in tweets, memes and videos: CFP EXIST 2025
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation: Task: EXIST 2025: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sexism identification in social networks. EXIST aims to foster the automatic detection of sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviours (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022, EXIST 2023, EXIST 2024). The fifth edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab in CLEF 2025, on September 9-12, 2025, at UNED, Madrid, Spain. In the 2024 EXIST campaign the datasets contained multimedia content in the format of memes, stepping forward research on more robust techniques to identify sexism in social networks. Following this line, this year the challenge will focus on TikTok videos, so that the dataset includes the three more important multimedia elements used to spread sexism: text, images and videos. Consequently, it is essential to develop automated multimodal tools capable of detecting sexism in text, images, and videos, to raise alarms or automatically remove such content from social networks because platforms’ algorithms often amplify content that perpetuates gender stereotypes and internalized misogyny. This lab will contribute to the creation of applications that identify sexist content in social media across all three formats. Similar to the approach in the 2023 and 2024 edition, this edition will also embrace the Learning With Disagreement (LeWiDi) paradigm for both the development of the dataset and the evaluation of the systems. The LeWiDi paradigm doesn’t rely on a single “correct” label for each example. Instead, the model is trained to handle and learn from conflicting or diverse annotations. This enables the system to consider various annotators’ perspectives, biases, or interpretations, resulting in a fairer learning process. Participants will be asked to classify tweets, memes and videos (in English and Spanish) according to the following tasks: TASK 1: Sexism detection in Tweets: SUBTASK 1.1 - Sexism Identification in Tweets: The first subtask is a binary classification. The systems have to decide whether or not a given tweet contains sexist expressions or behaviours (i.e., it is sexist itself, describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classify it according to two categories: YES and NO. SUBTASK 1.2 - Source Intention in Tweets: For the tweets that have been classified as sexist, the second task aims to classify each tweet according to the intention of the person who wrote it. We propose a ternary classification task: (i) DIRECT sexist message, (ii) REPORTED sexist message and (iii) JUDGEMENTAL message. SUBTASK 1.3 - Sexism Categorization in Tweets: Once a message has been classified as sexist, the third subtask aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to a categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 2: Sexism detection in Memes: TASK 2.1 - Sexism Identification in Memes: This is a binary classification subtask consisting on determining wheter a meme describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour), and classifying it into two categories: YES and NO. Task 2.2: Source Intention in Memes: As in subtask 1.2, this subtask aims to categorize the meme according to the intention of the author. Due to the characteristics of the memes, the REPORTED label is virtually null, so in this task systems should only classify memes into the DIRECT or JUDGEMENTAL categories. Task 2.3: Sexism Categorization in Memes: This task aims to classify sexist memes according to the categorization provided for subtask 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 3: Sexism detection in Videos: SUBTASK 3.1 - Sexism Identification in Videos: This is a binary classification task as in Subtasks 1.1 and 2.1. SUBTASK 3.2: Source Intention in Videos: This subtask replicates subtask 2.2 for memes, but it takes as source videos. SUBTASK 3.3: This subtask aims to classify sexist videos according to the categorization provided for Task 1.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks and in both languages, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g. subtask 1) and in one language (e.g. English). During the training phase, the task organizers will provide the participants with the manually-annotated EXIST 2025 dataset. For the evaluation of the systems, the unlabeled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2025 Labs Registration site (https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/). You will receive information about how to join the Discord Group for the EXIST 2025 shared task. Important Dates: * 18 November 2024: Registration opens. * 3 February 2025: Training and development sets available. * 7 April 2025: Test set available. * 25 April 2025: Registration closes. * 18 May 2025: Runs submission due to organizers. * 8 June 2025: Results notification to participants. * 15 June 2025: Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 29 June 2025: Notification of acceptance (peer reviews). * 7 July 2025: Camera-ready participant papers due to organizers. * 9-12 September 2025: EXIST 2025 at CLEF Conference. ** Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Enrique Amigó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Roser Morante, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Iván Arcos, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ AVISO LEGAL. 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EXTENDED call for papers: 2nd Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology
by Nannan Liu 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, We have extended the deadline for the call for papers for our Workshop to 15 February. We look forward to seeing you in Forlì or online! Date and venue: 8–10 May 2025, Forlì, Italy, and online Keynote speakers: * Prof Bart Defrancq, Associate Professor, Ghent University, and President of CIUTI * Prof Ella Wehrmeyer, Associate Professor and Chair of Language Practice, North-West University Abstract submission *extended* deadline: 15 February 2025 Website: https://eventi.unibo.it/internationalworkshop-cis-forli2025 Best wishes, Nannan Liu and Mariachiara Russo Dr Nannan Liu Marie Curie Fellow Project FAITH<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108651> Department of Interpreting and Translation University of Bologna

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[CFP] ACL 2025 Industry Track - 2nd Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 02 Feb '25

02 Feb '25

***** 2nd Call for Papers: ACL 2025 Industry Track ACL 2025 Industry Track in Vienna, Austria Conference: 27 July to 1 August 2025 Paper submission deadline: 21 March 2025 BACKGROUND Language technologies and their applications are an integral and critical part of our daily lives. Many of these technologies have their roots in academic and industrial research laboratories where researchers invented a plethora of algorithms, benchmarked them against shared datasets and perfected their performance to provide plausible solutions to real-world applications. While a controlled laboratory setting is vital for a deeper scientific understanding of the problems underlying language technologies and the impact of algorithmic design choices on their performance, transitioning the technology to real-world industrial strength applications raises a different, yet challenging, set of technical issues. We acknowledge the challenges when adapting language technologies for building novel and robust real-world applications as the journey from theoretical research to practical deployment can be difficult. Challenges can include technical aspects of system deployment and optimizing for efficiency, making informed design choices or methodological considerations of incorporating human feedback and oversight. To provide a forum to address these multifaceted issues, we are seeking submissions that not only delve into research but also demonstrate the application of systems in real-world scenarios, irrespective of whether they involve proprietary data. TOPICS We invite submissions describing innovations and implementations in all areas of speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies and systems that are relevant to real-word applications. The primary focus of this track is on papers that advance the understanding of, and demonstrate the effective handling of, practical issues related to the deployment of language processing or language generation technologies, including those of large language models, in non-trivial real-world systems. By "non-trivial real-world system" we mean an application deployed for real-world use, i.e., outside controlled environments such as laboratories, classrooms or experimental crowd-sourced setups, and that uses NLP and/or speech technology, even if not state of the art in terms of research. There is no requirement that the system be made by a for-profit company, but the users of the system are most likely outside the NLP research community. This track provides an opportunity to highlight the key insights and new research challenges that arise from real world implementations. Relevant areas include system design, efficiency, maintainability and scalability of real-world applications, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Benchmarks and methods for improving the latency and efficiency of systems - Continuous maintenance and improvement of deployed systems - Efficient methods for training and inference - Enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment - Handling unexpected user behaviour - Human-in-the-Loop approaches to application development - Implementation at speed, scale and low-cost - Negative results related to real-world applications - System combination Novel applications and use cases, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Best practices and lessons learned - Case studies, from design to deployment - Description of an application or system - Design of application-relevant datasets - Development of methods under system constraints (model or data size) - Novel, previously unsolved NLP problems and novel NLP applications Methods for deployed systems, with topics in alphabetical order including, but not limited to: - Ethics, bias, fairness, harmlessness and trustworthiness in deployed systems - Interpretability - Interactive systems - Offline and online system evaluation methodologies - Online learning - Robustness In addition, opinion/vision papers related to real-world applications are also welcome. Submissions must clearly identify one of the following three areas they fall into: - _Deployed_: Must describe a system that solves a non-trivial real-world problem. The focus may include describing the problem related to actual use cases, its significance (against opportunity size, value proposition, and ideal end state), design/formulation of methods, tradeoff design decision for solutions, deployment challenges, and lessons learned. - _Emerging_: Must describe the development of a system that solves a non-trivial real-world problem (it need not be deployed or even close, but there needs to be evidence that this development is intended for real-world deployment). Papers that describe enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment of NLP techniques also fall in this category. - _Discovery_: Must include results obtained from NLP applications in real-world scenarios that result in actionable insights. These discoveries should reveal promising directions in their application areas, leading to further system or societal enhancements. For example, an actionable discovery from an analysis of call center transcripts may reveal that certain language choices negatively impact customer experience, leading to better training of service representatives and improved customer experience. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 21 March 2025 Notification of acceptance: 07 May 2025 Camera-ready version of papers due: 23 May 2025 Main conference: 28-30 July 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth). Following the ACL and ARR Policies for Review and Citation [1], updated in early 2024, there is no anonymity period requirement, e.g., one may upload the paper to arXiv at any time. However, please note that the ACL 2025 Industry Track does not use ARR! EVALUATION AND DECISION CRITERIA Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner and assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity. Submissions to the industry track should emphasize real-world implementations of NLP systems, the development of such systems, or provide insights based on real-world datasets with obvious industry impact. For papers that rely heavily on empirical evaluations, the experimental methods and results should be clear, well executed, and reproducible (though the data may be proprietary). SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original, full-length (6 pages) industry track papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or under consideration for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted digitally, in PDF format and formatted using the ACL 2025 formatting requirements. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be desk-rejected. Length and appendices: Industry Track papers cannot exceed 6 pages in length (excluding ethical considerations and references). After the bibliography, papers can have an optional appendix with, e.g., examples or sample inputs/outputs, pre-processing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, pseudocode, information about user studies, additional errors analysis or other details that are necessary for the replication of the work described in the paper. Note, however, that paper submissions must be fully self-contained, i.e., supplementary materials, as provided in the appendix, are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Note that it will not be possible to submit additional separate files as supplementary materials. Double-blind review: Industry Track submissions must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Self-references that reveal the authors' identities must be avoided. For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …" or even "We previously showed (Anonymous, 1991) …", please use "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …". Authors should also be careful not to reveal their affiliation indirectly, for example through screenshots or trade names. Submissions should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: code should be submitted as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Please avoid links to storage services like Dropbox (which may track the reviewers downloading the resources). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be desk-rejected. Citation and comparison: Authors are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to their submission but may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited). In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to a submission, and authors are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis. For more information, see the ACL Policies for Review and Citation [2]. Writing assistance: The ACL 2025 Industry Track adheres to the ACL policy on using writing assistants available here [3]. Submission system: Papers have to be submitted through the ACL 2025 Industry Track online submission system. https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Industry_Track Final version: Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 7 pages; ethical considerations, acknowledgements and references do not count against this limit) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Previous presentations of the work (e.g., preprints on arXiv.org) should be indicated in a footnote that should be excluded from the review submission, but included in the final version of papers appearing in the ACL 2025 proceedings. The final version should remove anonymization in text, citation, and figures. For example, the final version may include the name of the authors' institutions, trade names, and screenshots of identifiable products. Please notice that once the paper has been submitted, no changes to the list of authors are allowed. Presentation requirement for accepted papers: Industry Track papers will be presented orally or as posters to be determined by the program committee. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference (either via online or onsite presence). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for ACL 2025 by the early registration deadline. The ACL 2025 Industry Track will run in parallel with the Research Track. PRESENTATION MODE: ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED ORALLY OR AS POSTERS AS DETERMINED BY THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. THE DECISIONS AS TO WHICH PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED ORALLY AND WHICH AS POSTER PRESENTATIONS WILL BE BASED ON THE NATURE RATHER THAN THE QUALITY OF THE WORK. THERE WILL BE NO DISTINCTION IN THE PROCEEDINGS BETWEEN PAPERS PRESENTED ORALLY AND AS POSTERS. AUTHORSHIP: THE AUTHOR LIST FOR SUBMISSIONS SHOULD INCLUDE ALL (AND ONLY) INDIVIDUALS WHO MADE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORK PRESENTED. EACH AUTHOR LISTED ON A SUBMISSION TO THE ACL 2025 INDUSTRY TRACK WILL BE NOTIFIED OF SUBMISSIONS AND THE FINAL DECISION. NO CHANGES TO THE ORDER OR COMPOSITION OF AUTHORSHIP MAY BE MADE TO SUBMISSIONS TO THE ACL 2025 INDUSTRY TRACK AFTER THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY ACL 2025 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the ACL 2025 review period. This policy covers all refereed and archival conferences and workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL workshops), as well as ARR. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that have been (or will be) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to ACL 2025 must ensure that their submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Submissions of identical or closely related work to multiple ACL 2025 tracks (e.g., to the research track and industry track) will be treated as duplicate submissions. Such submissions violate our multiple submission policy and will be rejected without review. The authors should also include the papers that their paper overlaps with or extends in the references section as follows: _Anonymous Authors_, "_Title of the paper_", _Under submission at ACL 2025 (TRACK NAME)_. ETHICS POLICY Authors are required to honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics [4]. The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and potential applications of our work has always been an important consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream, these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. Where a paper may raise ethical issues, we ask that you include in the paper an explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in the review process. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns with their work. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 6th page for an optional broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. The ACL review form will include a section addressing these issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers or ACs will be further reviewed by an ethics committee. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted. Conversely, the mere inclusion of an ethical considerations section does not guarantee acceptance. In addition to acceptance or rejection, papers may receive a conditional acceptance recommendation. Camera-ready versions of papers designated as conditional accept will be re-reviewed by the ethics committee to determine whether the concerns have been adequately addressed. Please read the ethics FAQ [5] for more guidance on some problems to look out for and key concerns to consider relative to the code of ethics. Industry Track Co-Chairs: - Yunyao Li [6] (Adobe) - Georg Rehm [7] (DFKI GmbH) CONTACT INFORMATION Email: acl-2025-industry-track(a)googlegroups.com [8] General Chair: Roberto Navigli [9] (Sapienza University of Rome) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Is the Industry Track only for participants from industry? No, the Industry Track welcomes participants from the entire ACL community. Researchers working on real-world applications that match the Industry Track call for papers are invited to submit papers. Everyone is welcome to attend Industry Track sessions. What do you mean by real-world applications? We are looking for applications that are deployed (or expected to be deployed) for real-world use, i.e., outside controlled environments such as laboratories, classrooms or experimental crowd-sourced setups. Can students also submit papers to the Industry Track? Yes! If your work matches the Industry Track call for papers, consider submitting a paper to the Industry Track. I work in industry. Can I still submit my paper to the research track? Absolutely! There are no changes to the main conference submissions. The Industry Track offers a forum to submit papers describing aspects of real-world applications that may differ in focus from the research track reviewing criteria. Will the papers in the Industry Track be published in the proceedings? Yes, Industry Track papers will be published as a separate volume of the proceedings. For example, see the ACL 2025 proceedings. How do I decide whether to submit to the research track or the Industry Track? Papers describing key lessons learned and challenges pertaining to real-world deployment of NLP and speech technologies are best suited for Industry Track. Authors are advised to review the call for papers for both tracks and submit to the track that best matches your work. The list of topics and reviewing criteria may be helpful. You can also reach out to the track chairs if you need help deciding. Links: ------ [1] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policies_for_Review_and_Cita… [2] https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Review_an… [3] https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/ACL-2023-policy/ [4] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics [5] https://2021.emnlp.org/call-for-papers/ethics-faq [6] https://yunyaoli.github.io/ [7] http://georg-re.hm/ [8] https://groups.google.com/g/acl-2025-industry-track [9] https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/

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ISWC 2025 Call for Submissions
by gasefa24＠gmail.com 02 Feb '25

02 Feb '25

ISWC 2025 Call for Submissions - Various Tracks =========================================== 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) Nara, Japan November 2-6, 2025 Follow us: Twitter/X: @iswc_conf #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iswc/ Mastodon Social: https://mastodon.social/@iswc_conf Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/iswc-conf.bsky.social ISWC 2025 features multiple tracks, i.e., research, resource, in-use, industry, poster & demos, doctoral consortium, workshops, dagstuhl-style workshops, challenges, and tutorials, Hence, authors are kindly asked to check out the calls of each track to choose the one that best fits their contribution. =========================================== Call for Research Track Papers The research track of ISWC 2025 solicits novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical, and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. We welcome work describing original and replicable research showing evidence of significant contribution to the Semantic Web. Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 Research Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-research(a)easychair.org Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria =========================================== Call for Resource Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources that support, enable, or utilize semantic web research. We welcome descriptions of resources that leverage knowledge representation based on Semantic Web standards or other graph data models to improve the acquisition, processing, and sharing of data on the web. Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 Resource Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-resource(a)easychair.org Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, US Angelo Salatino, KMi,The Open University, UK =========================================== Call for In-use Track Papers The In-Use track seeks submissions describing applied research as well as software tools, systems, or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph research communities. Important Dates: Abstract submission due May 6th, 2025 Full paper submission due May 13th, 2025 Rebuttal June 17th - 20th, 2025 Notifications July 17th, 2025 Camera ready papers due July 31st, 2025 In-Use Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-in-use(a)easychair.org Maribel Acosta Technical University of Munich, Germany Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy =========================================== Call for Posters and Demos Track Papers The ISWC 2025 Posters and Demos Track offers an opportunity to showcase late-breaking research results, ongoing research or resource projects, speculative or innovative ideas, and interactive demonstrations. This track is designed to encourage dynamic discussions between presenters and participants, fostering feedback that can shape future research directions. These discussions will offer participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Important Dates: Posters & demos submissions due - July 31st, 2025 Author notifications - August 28th, 2025 Camera-ready submissions due - September 11th, 2025 Posters and Demos Chairs: Contact email: iswc2025-pd(a)easychair.org Gong Cheng Nanjing University, China Shenghui Wang University of Twente, The Netherlands =========================================== Call for Challenges Proposals A great way to advance the state of the art in a given domain is to create competition. We invite you to propose an ISWC 2025 Challenge, in which you define an open competition on a problem of your choice within the Semantic Web domain. Important Dates: Challenge proposal submission due Feb 18th, 2025 Notification of challenge acceptance Mar 2nd, 2025 Semantic Web Challenge Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-challenge(a)easychair.org Mayank Kejriwal University of Southern California, United States Pablo Mendes Upwork, United States =========================================== Call for Workshops Workshops at ISWC play a critical role in fostering focused, intensive scientific exchange on specific topics aligned with the conference’s overarching themes. They provide a unique venue for exploring emerging ideas, discussing novel perspectives on established research, and engaging with related research communities. We encourage proposals for workshops that will inspire meaningful dialogue and collaboration among ISWC attendees, providing a platform to advance research and innovation in this dynamic field. Important dates: Submission deadline - February 18, 2025 Notification to proposers - March 11, 2025 Workshop website and CfP available online - April 8, 2025 Workshop program with list of accepted papers available online - July 29, 2025 Workshop days - November 2-3, 2025 Workshop Chairs: Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Dagstuhl Style Workshops Inspired by the Special Session at ISWC 2024 and the Dagstuhl Seminar model, these workshops are designed to encourage in-depth discussions on challenges or emerging topics within a half-day or full-day event format. The goal is to create a collaborative and open environment for brainstorming and exploring new directions, similar to the spirit of Dagstuhl Seminars. These workshops will prioritize dynamic discussions and the presentation of fresh ideas and ongoing research, rather than requiring participants to submit papers or give formal presentations. Important dates: Submission deadline - July 1, 2025 Notification to proposers - July 11, 2025 Workshop website online - July 25, 2025 Workshop days - November 2-3, 2025 Workshop Chairs Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Tutorials The International Semantic Web Conference 2025 is pleased to announce the Call for Tutorials. Continuing the tradition of excellence, the 2025 edition will feature a comprehensive tutorial program serving the diverse interests and expertise of our audience. These tutorials aim to provide attendees with insights into foundational and cutting-edge topics, practical applications, and the latest advancements in Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, and Linked Data technologies. Important dates: Submission deadline - May 20, 2025 Notification to proposers - June 10, 2025 Tutorial website online - July 8, 2025 Materials available on the website (if any) - August 8, 2025 Tutorial days - November 2-3, 2025 Tutorial chairs: Blerina Spahiu - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Juan Sequeda - data.world, USA Contact: iswc2025-ws(a)easychair.org =========================================== Call for Industry Track Papers The Industry Track at ISWC 2025 welcomes extended abstracts about the application of knowledge graphs and semantic technologies in various industrial sectors, aiming to showcase the state of their adoption and the latest trends. It provides an opportunity for industry adopters to highlight and share the key learnings and new research challenges posed by real-world implementations. Important dates: Submissions Due - 1st July 2025 Notifications Due - 29th July 2025 Camera-Ready Papers Due - 11th September 2025 Industry Track Chairs: Contact email: iswc2025-industry(a)easychair.org Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, US Irene Celino Cefriel, Italy =========================================== Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions The DC event is intended for students who have articulated a reasonably detailed research proposal, preferably supported by some preliminary results, but are not yet on the final stretch of their thesis, such that the feedback gathered at the DC will have a maximal impact. The aim is to support the students in refining their proposal and to suggest possible ways to improve their research plan and to achieve results with prospective greater impact. Submissions Due - 3 June 2025 Notifications - 8 July 2025 Camera-ready Submissions Due - 31 July 2025 Doctoral Consortium - 3 November 2025 Doctoral Consortium Track Chairs: Contact: iswc2025-doctoral-consortium(a)easychair.org Abraham Bernstein University of Zurich, Switzerland Natasha Noy Google Research, US =========================================== All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth) For more details check out the conference website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/

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EXTENDED call for papers (all areas of linguistics & language tech): 'Humans, Machines, Language', University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025
by Amal Haddad 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Following a number of requests, we have opted to briefly extend the deadline for this call. And please note the explicitly interdisciplinary scope of the conference. I'm purposefully sending this to a broad spread of mailing lists, as we aim to draw in a breadth of specialisms. Venue & date: University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025 Plenary speakers: Dr. Loredana Cerrato [1] Senior Consultant, Microsoft Sweden; and EM Lewis-Jong, Director for Mozilla Common Voice [2] Abstract submission *extended* deadline: Friday 7 February 2025 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferen… [3] 'Humans, Machines, Language' (HuMaLa - https://r.jyu.fi/humala [4]) is a cross-disciplinary network for a wide range of linguists, developers, and humanists with different interests in the impact of language technologies that integrate with human senses. Whether you are a tech developer who wants to learn more about linguistics, or a linguist who wants to know more about tech, we want to hear from you! Our inaugural conference theme is: 'Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing'. In addition to technical work (e.g., model description or datasets), we warmly encourage theoretical and empirical studies on the sociolinguistic, ethical, legal, cultural and social implications of language technology adoption. The full call with further background details is on our website (linked above). Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the social media announcement here: https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/post/3lfd5lysvam2o [5] We hope to see you at the conference! All the best, Amal Haddad (on behalf of the committee) -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredana-sundberg-c… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXt… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-l… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r.jyu.fi/humala__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Tl0T96c… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/pos…

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Second call for papers: Queer in AI workshop at NAACL 2025
by Pranav A 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Dear mailing list members, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Queer in AI Workshop, which will be held as an official workshop at NAACL 2025 in New Mexico, USA (April 29-May 4, 2025). Over the years, Queer in AI has grown so much that it has spawned its own research subfield. This called for us to convert our workshop into an official workshop at NAACL 2025, which means your work can now be published in the ACL Anthology. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of linguistics, queerness, and natural language processing. We provide a safe and inclusive space for presenting work, networking, and discussing critical issues in the field. TRACKS AND SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions in three tracks: - Queer linguistics - Exploring language around gender and sexuality, including applications of queer theory to language research. - Queerness and NLP - Examining the intersection of NLP and queerness, from analyzing queer language patterns to investigating potential biases in NLP systems. - Queer activism and D&I - Addressing inclusivity challenges in NLP events and sharing strategies for queer advocacy in tech and academia. SUBMISSION OPTIONS: We provide two submission options: archival (if you want your papers published) and non-archival (if you just want to share or present your work). *Archival track*: Papers should be 4 pages (short) or 8 pages (long) in ACL format, with unlimited pages for references. All papers must use the official ACL style templates. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. *Non-archival track*: In this track, you can submit creative work in the form of art, poetry, music, microblogs, TikToks, or videos; or you can submit your work-in-progress papers or abstracts. For this submit a PDF containing a summary/abstract of your work and a link to the actual content. Submissions in any language are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES: Archival submission deadline: January 30, 2025 *February 20, 2025 (extended)* Non-archival submission / Findings / ARR commitment deadline: February 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025 Camera-ready due: March 10, 2025 Mentorship is available for first-time authors. For more information or assistance, please contact: queer-in-nlp(a)googlegroups.com Website: https://www.queerinai.com/naacl-2025 Best regards, Queer in AI Workshop Organizers

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Text2Story'25@ECIR: Deadline Extension & Last Call for Papers
by Hugo Sousa 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ DEADLINE EXTENSION & LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ++ **************************************************************************** Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'25) Held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25) April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt **************************************************************************** ++ Important Dates ++ - Submission Deadline: February 7th, 2025 January 24th, 2025 - Acceptance Notification: March 3rd, 2025 - Camera-ready copies: March 17th, 2025 - Workshop: April 10th, 2025 ++ Overview ++ For seven years, the Text2Story Workshop series has fostered a vibrant community dedicated to understanding narrative structure in text, resulting in significant contributions to the field and developing a shared understanding of the challenges in this domain. While traditional methods have yielded valuable insights, the advent of Transformers and LLMs have ignited a new wave of interest in narrative understanding. In the eighth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we propose to go deeper into the role of LLMs in narrative understanding exploring the issues involved in using LLMs to unravel narrative structures, while also examining the characteristics of narratives generated by LLMs. By fostering dialogue on these emerging areas, we aim to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task and continue the workshop's tradition of driving innovation in narrative understanding research. ++ List of Topics ++ Research works submitted to the workshop should advance the scientific understanding of all aspects of narrative extraction from texts. This includes, but is not limited to, topics such as narrative information extraction, formal representation of narratives, narrative analysis and generation, development of datasets and evaluation protocols, as well as ethics and bias in narratives, and narrative applications. We encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics and contributions focused on low and medium-resource languages. Narrative Information Extraction - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions - Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events - Causality Detection - Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction - LLMs for Narrative Extraction Narrative Representation - Annotation Protocols - Narrative Representation Models - Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation - LLM-learned Representation Narrative Analysis and Generation - Discourse and Argument Structure Analysis - Narrative analysis of LLM generated text - Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis - Story Evolution and Shift Detection - Automatic Timeline Generation - Generative Language Models for Narrative Generation Datasets and Evaluation Protocol - Evaluating LLM-Generated Narratives - Evaluation of Multimodal Narrative Models - Annotated datasets - Narrative Resources - Using LLMs for Data Creation and Augmentation Ethics and Bias in Narratives - Identifying and Mitigating Bias in Generated Narratives - Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation - Misinformation and Fact Checking - Bias in LLM-generated narratives Narrative Applications - Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections - Narrative Summarization - Narrative Q&A - Multimodal Narrative Summarization - Multimodal Narrative-focused Search - Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives - Social Media Narratives - Narrative Text Simplification - Narrative-based Text Anonymization - Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives - Storyline Visualization (including multimodal) and Narrative Structures ++ Objectives ++ Overall, the workshop has the following main objectives: (1) raise awareness within the Information Retrieval (IR) community regarding the challenges posed by narrative extraction and comprehension; (2) bridge the gap and foster connections between academic research, practitioners, and industrial applications; (3) discuss new methods, recent advances, and emerging challenges; (4) share experiences from research projects, case studies, and scientific outcomes structured around fundamental research questions related to narrative understanding; (5) identify dimensions that might be influenced by the automation of the narrative process; (6) highlight tested hypotheses that did not result in the expected outcomes ++ Submission Guidelines ++ We expect contributions from researchers on all aspects of narrative extraction, representation, analysis, and generation. This includes the extraction and formal representation of events, their temporal and causal relationships, and methods for temporal reasoning and ordering. Submissions focusing on narrative comprehension, such as the analysis of generated narratives, are also highly encouraged. Additionally, we welcome innovative approaches to presenting narrative information, including automatic timeline generation, multi-modal narrative summarization, and narrative visualization. Research addressing misinformation and the verification of extracted facts, evaluation methodologies, and the development of annotated datasets, annotation schemas, and evaluation metrics is particularly valued. Finally, we are especially interested in submissions that focus on low and medium-resource languages, as well as multilingual and cross-lingual narrative analysis. Building on these themes, several pressing questions emerge within the field, offering valuable guidance for authors in shaping their submissions.How can we better integrate multimodal content - combining text, images, videos, and audio - into cohesive narratives? What strategies can reliably extract or generate accurate narratives from large, multi-genre, and multi-lingual datasets? How can systems dynamically adapt to real-time shifts in narratives as the volume of generated content grows? What methodologies can effectively annotate data and evaluate novel approaches, for complex tasks such as visualization but also for characterization of multi-lingual narratives? How can we guarantee the explainability, interpretability, and coherence of narratives across diverse domains and languages? To what extent can novel approaches be generalized to new tasks, genres, and languages with minimal effort? What ethical safeguards are essential to ensure that narrative extraction systems are not misused for propaganda or manipulation? How can challenges posed by ambiguous or contradictory information within narratives be addressed through innovative methods? What role do cultural and contextual nuances play in narrative extraction, and how can these be effectively incorporated into automated systems to ensure greater inclusivity? How can collaboration between human annotators and automated systems be optimized to achieve more accurate, nuanced narrative understanding? How can systems generate concise, evidence-backed explanations to justify the dominant narrative while remaining grounded in the source text? -> Full papers (up to 8 pages + references): Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. -> Short papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue. -> Demos | Resource Papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community; Papers submitted to Text2Story 2025 should be original work and different from papers that have been previously published, accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are "dissemination papers". Pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer-review process by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights. ++ Invited Speakers ++ Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Title: Revisiting frames for event extraction in the Digital Humanities Abstract: Frame Semantics as a cognitive linguistic theory was first formalised by Charles Fillmore around 50 years ago. Since then, it has been adapted to different application scenarios as a framework to support event-based information extraction. But what is the role of frames in the era of generative AI? In this talk I will present some recent research works in which frame semantics has been tailored to support digital humanities research. In particular, we explored the use of frames to extract sensory information from historical archives and capture shifts in perception over time. Frame-based event extraction has also been investigated as a way to navigate news collections, build narratives from event chains and present the same event from different points of view. Bio: Sara Tonelli is the head of the Digital Humanities research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento (Italy) and holds a Phd in Language Sciences from Università Ca' Foscari, Venice. Between 2021 and 2024 she served as Liaison Representative of the ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM) and she is currently part of the board of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC). In the last years, she has served as area chair and senior area chair for major *ACL conferences in tracks related to cultural analytics, social media analysis, digital humanities and offensive language detection. She has also participated in different EU-funded projects around disinformation, computational social science and cultural heritage and was scientific coordinator of the KID ACTIONS European project (2021-2022), aimed at addressing cyberbullying among children and adolescents through interactive education and gamification. Her research interests focus on understanding how people communicate on social media and what dynamics are involved in online attacks, as well as what kind of biases can affect this analysis. She is also interested in using NLP to extract information from digital archives to address historical and cultural heritage research questions. ++ Organizing committee ++ Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe) Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) ++ Proceedings Chair ++ João Paulo Cordeiro (NOVA Lincs & University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC, Portugal) ++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++ Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal) Behrooz Mansouri (University of Maine, USA) ++ Program Committee ++ Abhai Singh (Amazon) Ali Salehi (University at Buffalo) Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI) Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz) Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle) António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon) Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto) Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP) Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon) David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Dennis Aumiller (Cohere) Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC) Sérgio Matos (University of Aveiro) Florian Boudin (Nantes University) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto) Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering) Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University) Junbo Huang (University of Hamburg) Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences) João Paulo Cordeiro (Nova lincs & University of Beira Interior) Jin Zhao (Brandeis University) Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino) Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon) Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho) Marc Finlayson (Florida International University) Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie) Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto) Ross Purves (University of Zurich) Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg) Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Yangyang Chen (Brandeis University) ++ Contacts ++ Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2025(a)easychair.org

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Webminar by Sebastian Ruder (Meta)
by HiTZ zentroa 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Sebastian Ruder (Meta) *Title:* Multilingual LLM Evaluation in Practical Settings *Date: * Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in a variety of applications across the globe but do not provide equal utility across languages. In this talk, I will discuss multilingual evaluation of LLMs in two practical settings: conversational instruction-following and usage of quantized models. For the first part, I will focus on a specific aspect of multilingual conversational ability where errors result in a jarring user experience: generating text in the user’s desired language. I will describe a new benchmark and evaluation of a range of LLMs. We find that even the strongest models exhibit language confusion, i.e., they fail to consistently respond in the correct language. I will discuss what affects language confusion, how to mitigate it, and potential extensions. In the second part, I will discuss the first evaluation study of quantized multilingual LLMs across languages. We find that automatic metrics severely underestimate the negative impact of quantization and that human evaluation—which has been neglected by prior studies—is key to revealing harmful effects. Overall, I highlight limitations of multilingual LLMs and challenges of real-world multilingual evaluation. *Bio:* Sebastian Ruder is a research scientist at Meta based in Berlin, Germany where he works on improving evaluation and benchmarking of large language models (LLMs). He previously led the Multilinguality team at Cohere with the objective to improve the multilingual capabilities of Cohere's LLMs. Before that he was a research scientist at Google DeepMind. He completed his PhD in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics, while working as a research scientist at Dublin-based text analytics startup AYLIEN. Previously, he studied Computational Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and at Trinity College, Dublin. * Upcoming webinars:* · Christian Herff (Thursday, March 6, 2025) · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 2025) · André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Deadline Extension: Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP – Submit by February 10!
by raphael＠uaca.com 30 Jan '25

30 Jan '25

Hi, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the Insights 2025 Workshop (May 3-4, 2025, co-located with NAACL 2025) has been extended to February 10, 2025 (AoE). If you are working on unexpected or negative results in NLP research, we encourage you to submit your work. This workshop provides a venue for highlighting methodological challenges, limitations of current approaches, and insights that can guide the community toward more rigorous research practices. * New Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025 (AoE) * Submission Portal: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/Insights2025 We invite: - Short papers (up to 4 pages + references & appendices) - 1-2 page non-archival abstracts for work published elsewhere For full details, please refer to https://insights-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp/ We appreciate your contributions and look forward to your submissions! Best regards, Insights 2025 Organizing Committee

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