Dear colleagues,
My name is Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Language and Translation Technology Team (LT3) at Ghent University in Belgium. My research project is called RAINBOW [??] and I'm currently studying stereotypes about LGBTQIA+ people, particularly on social media, in online discourse, and in AI systems.
We have developed a brief questionnaire to gather diverse perspectives from those who experience or recognize these stereotypes. Your participation will support the creation of a multilingual dataset (Italian, Dutch, and Farsi) aimed at improving the inclusivity and reducing the harm caused by AI technologies toward queer communities. Whether you identify as LGBTQIA+, are an ally, or are interested in this research area, your input is highly valued.
Please find the questionnaire here:
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ITALIAN: https://lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j
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DUTCH: https://lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY
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FARSI: https://lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at: alessandrateresa.cignarella(a)ugent.be<mailto:alessandrateresa.cignarella@ugent.be>
I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this survey with your contacts who speak any of these three languages.
Thank you very much for your support!
Best regards,
Alessandra*
Alessandra Teresa Cignarella (she/her)
MSCA postdoctoral fellow
LT3, Language and Translation Technology Team
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication
Ghent University
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UCCTS 2025 - Call for Participation
The eighth edition of the UCCTS conference (www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025) will be held on the 8-10th of September 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany.
UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs).
Keynote speakers
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Elke Teich, Saarland University in Germany *
Dylan Glynn, Université Paris 8, Vincennes - St Denis *
Christian Hardmeier, IT University of CopenhagenProgramme details: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute-1/institut-fuer-uebersetzungswi…
Information on registration: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute-1/institut-fuer-uebersetzungswi…
The UCCTS conference in Hildesheim precedes the annual conference series on computational linguistics KONVENS which will take place on 10-12the September in Hldesheim too.
Questions and inquiries under uccts2025(at)uni-hildesheim.de
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***** 2nd Call for Abstracts *****
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*** NARNiHS 2026
*** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
*** Eighth Annual Meeting
*** 100% IN PERSON
*** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
*** New Orleans, Louisiana USA
*** 8-11 January 2026
This event offers an opportunity for historical sociolinguistics scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to **join us in New Orleans** for our Eighth Annual Meeting.
Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135 .
--------------- Call for Abstracts ---------------.
Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ .
Deadline: Friday, 15 August 2025, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.
Late abstracts will not be considered.
The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Eighth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Thursday, January 8 -- Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 8th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field’s enduring questions.
NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope.
Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract.
Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the *connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics* should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection.
*** Abstract Format Guidelines***.
- Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
- Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page, providing a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review.
- Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation.
- Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review.
*** General Requirements ***.
- Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ .
- Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract.
- Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS annual meeting and the LSA annual meeting or another LSA sister society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA).
- After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet.
- Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research.
- Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event.
Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.
Ethical LLMs 2025: The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models<https://sites.google.com/view/ethical-llms-2025> @ RANLP2025<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/>
2nd Call for papers:
Scope
Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a transformative leap in Artificial Intelligence (AI), delivering remarkable language-processing capabilities that are reshaping how we interact with technology in our daily lives. With their ability to perform tasks such as summarisation, translation, classification, and text generation, LLMs have demonstrated unparalleled versatility and power. Drawing from vast and diverse knowledge bases, these models hold the potential to revolutionise a wide range of fields, including education, media, law, psychology, and beyond. From assisting educators in creating personalised learning experiences to enabling legal professionals to draft documents or supporting mental health practitioners with preliminary assessments, the applications of LLMs are both expansive and profound.
However, alongside their impressive strengths, LLMs also face significant limitations that raise critical ethical questions. Unlike humans, these models lack essential qualities such as emotional intelligence, contextual empathy, and nuanced ethical reasoning. While they can generate coherent and contextually relevant responses, they do not possess the ability to fully understand the emotional or moral implications of their outputs. This gap becomes particularly concerning when LLMs are deployed in sensitive domains where human values, cultural nuances, and ethical considerations are paramount. For example, biases embedded in training data can lead to unfair or discriminatory outcomes, while the absence of ethical reasoning may result in outputs that inadvertently harm individuals or communities. These limitations highlight the urgent need for robust research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to address the ethical dimensions of LLMs. Advancements in NLP research are crucial for developing methods to detect and mitigate biases, enhance transparency in model decision-making, and incorporate ethical frameworks that align with human values. By prioritising ethics in NLP research, we can better understand the societal implications of LLMs and ensure their development and deployment are guided by principles of fairness, accountability, and respect for human dignity. This workshop will dive into these pressing issues, fostering a collaborative effort to shape the future of LLMs as tools that not only excel in technical performance but also uphold the highest ethical standards.
Key Dates
Submissions Open - 1st June 2025
Paper Submission Deadline - 28th July 2025
Acceptance Notification - 10th August 2025
Camera-Ready Deadline - 20th August 2025
Submission Guidelines
We follow the RANLP 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. EthicalLLMs 2025 invites the submission of long papers, up to eight pages in length, and short papers, up to six pages in length. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix.
To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the RANLP 2025 style files available here:
* Latex<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-LaTeX.zip>
* Word<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-word.docx>
Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/EthicalLLMs2025/
Topics of interest
The workshop invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the ethical development and evaluation of LLMs, including but not limited to the following.
1. Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs
Research focused on identifying, measuring, and reducing social, cultural, and algorithmic biases in large language models.
2. Ethical Frameworks for LLM Deployment
Approaches to integrating ethical principles—such as fairness, accountability, and transparency—into the development and use of LLMs.
3. LLMs in Sensitive Domains: Risks and Safeguards
Case studies or methodologies for deploying LLMs in high-stakes fields such as healthcare, law, and education, with an emphasis on ethical implications.
4. Explainability and Transparency in LLM Decision-Making
Techniques and tools for improving the interpretability of LLM outputs and understanding model reasoning.
5. Cultural and Contextual Understanding in NLP Systems
Strategies for enhancing LLMs’ sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and social nuances in global and multilingual contexts.
6. Human-in-the-Loop Approaches for Ethical Oversight
Collaborative models that involve human expertise in guiding, correcting, or auditing LLM behaviour to ensure responsible use.
7. Mental Health and Emotional AI: Limits of LLM Empathy
Discussions on the role of LLMs in mental health support, highlighting the boundary between assistive technology and the need for human empathy.
Organisers
Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK
Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK
Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK
Contact
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Damith: d.dolamullage(a)lancaster.ac.uk
Call for Participations and Papers
Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and
Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural
Language Generation conference (INLG 2025)
# Summary
Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering
greater attention. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs
sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts,
common grounds, and logics.
Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate
between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf
contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against
other AI. We will hold 5-players and 13-players tracks.
# Schedule
Shared tasks
August 9, 2025: Competition Registration Deadline
August 9, 2025: Preliminary Round (Self-play) Result Submission Deadline
Mid August 2025: Final Round (Online Matches)
Workshop papers
August 26, 2025: Paper Submission Deadline
September 24, 2025: Notification of Acceptance
October 3, 2025: Camera-ready Submission Deadline
INLG 2025 Conference Period
October 29 - November 2, 2025 (in Hanoi)
October 30, 2025: AIWolfDial 2025 Workshop in Hanoi/online (Paper
Presentations and Competition Results)
Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2025 workshop at
INLG 2025 (18th International Natural Language Generation Conference).
Our workshop will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and online on October
30th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend
the INLG 2025 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the
workshop and present in the workshop day.
Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments:
https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/
We have a seperate call for papers of our workshop.
# Why AI Werewolf?
Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering
greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be
sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts,
common grounds, and logics.
The AIWolfDial 2025 contest, which is an international open contest
for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires
players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other
players via coherent logical conversations, while having the
role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this
contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models,
showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area.
From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in
contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each
player acquires secret information from other players' conversations
and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their
objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence,
and speculation for detecting fabrications.
Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play
the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant
agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the
subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition
to their win rates. Agents must communicate in English.
# Registration
A team should send required information via
https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49
Registration is free.
# System Evaluation
Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design
description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates,
reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a
self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria:
A Natural utterance expressions
B Contextually natural conversation
C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation
D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents
E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization
Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of
context are not always natural in the werewolf game.
F Team play
# Call for Papers
We call for short papers and long papers as same as the INLG main
conference, both for shared task papers and papers in general. Please
use the ACL format as specified in the INLG conference webpage.
Submission site will open soon.
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and published as part of our
workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology.
# Organizers
Organizers and Program Commitee:
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University
Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan
Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan
Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan
Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Local Organizers:
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan
Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan
Yuya Harada, Shizuoka University, Japan
Links (same as above):
Registration https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49
Contest and workshop website https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/
INLG 2025 https://2025.inlgmeeting.org/
Contact;
aiwolf(a)kanolab.net
On behalf of the AIWolf organizers
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Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D.
Professor, Research Fellow
Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University
personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net
kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp
Dear colleagues,
I'm recruiting at least one post-doc for a project at New York University
aimed at creating language models that process language more like humans than
mainstream LLMs do
<https://tallinzen.net/media/papers/huang_et_al_2024_jml.pdf>. We are
planning to explore architectural modifications, training data
interventions, and steering through interpretability.
One motivation for this project is the empirical finding
<https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00548/115371/Why-Doe…>
that the better LLMs become in terms of perplexity and task performance,
the worse they are as cognitive models of how people read and learn
language; we think that to reverse this trend we need to find ways to
constrain them (in terms of e.g. working memory, parse parallelism, and
factual and linguistic knowledge), and improve them in other ways to make
up for these constraints, e.g. through increasing data efficiency
<https://tallinzen.net/media/papers/wilcox_et_al_2025_jml.pdf>.
We're planning to benchmark the models against behavioral and neural data
from humans: eyetracking, fMRI and intracranial recordings. Some of the
data already exists, and some will be collected by collaborators at other
universities specifically for this project. But we also expect to do a lot
of fundamental modeling and interpretability work.
You do not need to have existing experience in cognitive science, but you
should have a strong track record in computational research; and you should
be interested in using AI for science, in learning about cognitive science
and collaborating with linguistics and cognitive scientists, and in doing
open-ended fundamental research on LLMs.
There are no teaching requirements. The position will be renewed every
year, but we expect the funding for this project to last four years. You
will be affiliated with NYU's Center for Data Science, and, if relevant,
also with the department of linguistics. NYU has large NLP and
computational cognitive science communities, with lots of opportunities for
collaborations.
The start date is flexible, though of course you should have a PhD by the
time you start. Your application is most likely to be considered if you
apply before *August 10th.* Please fill out this lightweight form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5IwTU43CWVjQYsWbvPkDFH7dFKglqRfP…>
to
express interest, and you can also email me directly if they have any
questions. I'll be at ACL 2025 and am happy to chat about the position. If
you're interested in working together but don't exactly fit the
description, don't hesitate to reach out!
--
Tal Linzen <https://tallinzen.net/>
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science
New York University
Dear Corpora members,
this is a reminder of the call for the *"Emanuele Pianta" Award 2025*,
which recognizes outstanding Master's theses in Computational
Linguistics submitted at Italian universities.
To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness
of our field and with the endorsement of the Italian Association of
Computational Linguistics (AILC), we are conferring the Emanuele Pianta
Award for the best Master’s Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational
Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of
€500.00 plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration
to the upcoming CLiC-it 2025, where the author will have the chance to
present the thesis.
Master’s theses submitted to and defended at any University in Italy
within the yearly time frame specified in the call (see below) are
eligible for the prize. The thesis should address a topic in
computational linguistics or its applications, and may be written in
Italian or English. The sub-areas involved are those listed in the
yearly call for papers of the Italian Conference on Computational
Linguistics (CLiC-it).
The candidates’ works will be evaluated by a jury composed of three
members: one of the co-chairs of the previous CLiC-it conference, one
co-chair of the current CLiC-it conference (who agrees to serve for two
years, so as to ensure continuity), and a member of the board of AILC.
The jury will decide in consensus to which candidate the prize will be
awarded. The jury can also decide not to award a prize or to award the
prize to a maximum of two candidates. In the latter case, the money
prize will be shared.
Procedure
Master theses *defended between August 1st 2024 and July 31st 2025* are
eligible for the 2025 prize.
The supervisor of the thesis submits the thesis by *August 1st, 2025*
(11:59 pm CEST) with a motivation letter (1 page) that explains why the
thesis deserves the prize. Both the thesis and the motivation letter
should be submitted through the START platform using the following link:
https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025.
The prize will be awarded by a member of the jury during CLiC-it 2025.
The thesis must be available on-line, and will be presented during
CLiC-it 2025 by the author.
The full text of the call can also be found here:
https://clic2025.unica.it/emanuele-pianta-award-for-the-best-masters-thesis/
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the tutorial, “NLP for Counterspeech Against Hate and Misinformation” which will take place on Sunday, July 27, from 14:00 to 17:30 at ACL 2025 in Vienna.
Overview: This tutorial explores the use of counterspeech by individuals, activists, and organizations to combat abuse and misinformation, and how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) can be used to automate it. It examines key challenges such as evaluating the effectiveness of counterspeech, integrating civil society expertise in dataset creation, and addressing fairness and bias in language models. The tutorial brings together insights from computer science, social sciences, and public policy through case studies, and highlights the emerging research challenge of addressing hate and misinformation together using NLP techniques.
For the full program and detailed agenda, please visit the tutorial website. https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4csham/
Invited speakers
Cathy Buerger (Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project)
Simone Fontana (Editorial Manager at Facta News)
Tutorial Organizers
Daniel Russo
Helena Bonaldi
Marco Guerini
Gavin Abercrombie,
Yi-Ling Chung
We look forward to your participation and hope to see you there!
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Dear ACL 2025 Attendees:
ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity
Group events to bring together participants around shared research
topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts
of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference!
The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the
conference website [1]. Session titles and times are listed below:
Mon, Jul 28
SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community
11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae
Sánchez
Queer in AI Meet-Up
12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Sabine Weber
Mentorship on NLP Research
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma
Tue, Jul 29
Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications
10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja
Humanists in NLP
10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Patrick Sui
Teaching NLP
12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs
NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz
Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel
Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib
EquiCL Welcome Session
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo
Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data
16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth
Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation
16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu
Participatory Design for NLP
16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli
Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation
16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline)
Hosts: Xuan Wang
Wed, Jul 30
Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs
9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini
Mothering the Future -- In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the
Path Forward for Mothers in Computing
11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Narjis Asad
Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR)
11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia.
Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL
12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze,
Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML)
12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef
Dear ACL 2025 Attendees:
ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity
Group events to bring together participants around shared research
topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts
of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference!
The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the
conference website [1]. Session titles and times are listed below:
Mon, Jul 28
SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community
11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae
Sánchez
Queer in AI Meet-Up
12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Sabine Weber
Mentorship on NLP Research
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma
Tue, Jul 29
Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications
10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja
Humanists in NLP
10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Patrick Sui
Teaching NLP
12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs
NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz
Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel
Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib
EquiCL Welcome Session
14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo
Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data
16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth
Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation
16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu
Participatory Design for NLP
16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli
Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation
16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline)
Hosts: Xuan Wang
Wed, Jul 30
Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs
9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini
Mothering the Future -- In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the
Path Forward for Mothers in Computing
11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Narjis Asad
Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR)
11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33
Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia.
Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL
12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14
Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze,
Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML)
12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32
Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef
Links:
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[1] https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/
**** CFP for AIAS '25 **** *
*AI for Accelerated Research Symposium*
*October 27–28, 2025 — San Francisco, CA*
With the deadline for submissions coming up August 1, we wanted to
invite submissions
of original research, position papers, and visionary ideas that explore how
AI is reshaping the research lifecycle and accelerating scientific
discovery.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: machine reading and
knowledge extraction, intelligent data collection, automated hypothesis
generation, and AI- driven exploration across scientific domains. This
premier annual event brings together leading thinkers from academia,
industry, and government to examine the transformative impact of AI on
science and to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration at the frontier of
innovation.
We welcome contributions addressing both foundational advances and
real-world applications in the following areas:
- *Scientific Knowledge Extraction form Literature and
Representation: *Extraction
of Ontologies, automated reasoning systems, and AI-enhanced platforms for
organizing, linking, and accelerating research findings across domains.
- *Data collection and synthesis using AI:* Applications of generative
architectures for molecule generation, experiment simulation, or synthetic
data generation.
- *Physics-Informed AI and Scientific Machine Learning: *AI models that
embed physical laws or constraints to enhance interpretability,
generalization, and scientific fidelity.
- *Neuro-Symbolic AI: *Hybrid models combining neural networks with
symbolic reasoning to advance scientific in- ference, automation, and
logic-based discovery.
- *Large Language Models (LLMs) and Conversational AI for Science: *Use
of LLMs and agent-based systems to support literature mining, hypothesis
generation, scientific coding, and collaborative research workflows.
- *AI for Multidisciplinary Research:* Bridging disciplinary boundaries
with LLMs. Enabling clearer communication and collabo- ration across
research fields. Applied AI techniques reshaping discovery pipelines in
founda- tional sciences and engineering systems.
*Keynote Speakers:*
• Jennifer Doudna (Berkeley)
• Anima Anandkumar (Caltech)
• David Baker (University of Washington)
Interactive Sessions: Plenary lectures, panel discussions, breakout groups,
and hands-on demos. Prize AI Accelerated Research Award Ceremony: Honoring
breakthrough contributions from emerging scientists.
*Interactive Sessions:* Plenary lectures, panel discussions, breakout
groups, and hands-on demos. *AI Accelerated Research Award Ceremony:*
Honoring breakthrough contributions from emerging scientists.
*Important Dates*
• Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 2025
• Symposium Dates: October 26–28, 2025
*Submission Details*
We welcome:
• Full research papers (6–8 pages)
• Short papers (2–4 pages)
• Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages)
• Vision or position papers (up to 4 pages)
Submissions must follow the AIAS formatting guidelines and be submitted via
the symposium website. see more at https://aias2025.org/
CFP details and submissions: https://aias2025.org/call-for-papers/
Organizing Committee:
- Jennifer Chayes, Dean of the College of Computing, Data Science, and
Society at UC Berkeley
- Yan Li, Executive Director of Scientific Programs, Chen
InstitutePietro Perona
- Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation
and Neural Systems, Caltech
- Mengdi Wang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton
- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering, Michigan State University
- Hamid Karimian, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering, Michigan State University
See more at https://aias2025.org/
CFP details and submissions: https://aias2025.org/call-for-papers/
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