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CFP: 2nd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025)
by Georg Rehm 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025) 01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc) Portoroz, Slovenia (NSLP 2025 is co-located with ESWC 2025) https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/ Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and exploitation of scientific language and research knowledge graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2025 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2025 <https://2025.eswc-conferences.org/> to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia on 01 or 02 June 2025 (to be confirmed). The workshop features two shared tasks (see below) and a keynote speaker as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs (RKGs/SKGs) and other forms of structured scientific knowledge representation - Information Extraction for RKGs/SKGs - Question Answering over RKGs/SKGs - Other types of usage of RKGs/SKGs for downstream applications - Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) - NSLP (monolingual, cross-lingual, multilingual) - Language Resources and Language Technologies for NSLP - Domain-specific Adaptation of NSLP Methods - Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications - Classification of Scholarly Publications (document collections, individual documents, parts of documents) - Summarisation of Scholarly Publications - Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines - Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information - Bibliometrics and Scientometrics - Micropublications and Nanopublications Important dates - Paper submission deadline: 06 March 2025 - Notification of acceptance: 03 April 2025 - Camera-ready submission: 17 April 2025 - Workshop: 01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc) Submissions The NSLP 2025 workshop invites submissions of regular long papers, position papers, and short papers presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. - The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages without references and appendix) and short papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. In both categories, position papers can be submitted as well. - Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix; all papers must be self-contained. - Reviewing will be performed double-blind. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors. - Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). - The proceedings of this workshop will be published as an Open Access volume in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), fully sponsored by the NFDI4DS project. - At least one author per contribution must register for the conference for presentation as ESWC 2025 (including all workshops) is an in-person event. - We will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop. - All submissions are done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=nslp2025 Shared tasks NSLP 2025 offers two shared tasks: - MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents - ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge The NSLP 2025 website <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/> provides more information on the shared tasks. The relevant important dates for the two shared tasks will be announced in early January 2025. Confirmed keynote speaker - Michele Pasin, Digital Science, UK Organisers - Georg Rehm, DFKI & HU Berlin, Germany - Sonja Schimmler, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany - Stefan Dietze, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf, Germany - Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece Contact Georg Rehm <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de> -- *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>* Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DFKI GmbH <https://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Masters scholarships in Language science
by Agnès CELLE 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Funding for MA degrees in the language sciences is available at Université Paris Cité, through the Paris Graduate School of Linguistics. The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers several comprehensive Master curricula integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics<http://www.labex-efl.com/> consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html Funding application opportunity: https://mobility.smarts-up.fr/ Deadline for grant applications : January 17th 2025 (Program start date: September 1st 2025) Note that funding is only available for non-French citizens and for students who do not hold a French university degree. Citizens of some countries (those requiring visas for study in France) must additionally and simultaneously apply to Campus France, as explained on the application portal. Agnès Celle Professeure de linguistique Directrice adjointe de CLILLAC-ARP UR 3967 Responsable du master de Linguistique anglaise UFR d'Etudes anglophones 8 place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris Olympe de Gouges 753 +33(0)1 57 27 58 67 [Mail_LogoUPC154x50]

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CFP: 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) @ ACL 2025
by Georg Rehm 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) @ ACL 2025 Call for Papers Dear colleagues – you are invited to participate in the 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2025) to be held at ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. SDP 2025 will consist of a research track and five shared tasks. The call for research papers is described below, and more details can be found on our website, https://sdproc.org/2025/ <https://sdproc.org/2025/>. Papers must follow the ACL format and conform to the ACL 2025 Submission Guidelines. Paper submission has to be done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc> Website: https://sdproc.org/2025/ <https://sdproc.org/2025/> Submission site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc> X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sdpworkshop <https://twitter.com/sdpworkshop> Shared tasks: https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html <https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html> Paper submission deadline: March 1 (Saturday), 2025 Call for Research Papers Scholarly literature is the chief means by which scientists and academics document and communicate their results and is therefore critical to the advancement of knowledge and improvement of human well-being. At the same time, this literature poses challenges to NLP uncommon in other genres, such as specialized language and high background knowledge requirements, long documents and strong structural conventions, multimodal presentation, citation relationships among documents, an emphasis on rational argumentation, and the frequent availability of detailed metadata and experimental data. These challenges necessitate the development of NLP methods and resources optimized for this domain. The Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop provides a venue for discussing these challenges, bringing together stakeholders from different communities including computational linguistics, machine learning, text mining, information retrieval, digital libraries, scientometrics and others, to develop methods, tasks, and resources in support of these goals. This workshop builds on the success of prior workshops: SDP workshops held at EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, COLING 2022, and ACL 2024, and the 1st and 2nd SciNLP workshops held at AKBC 2020 and 2021. In addition to having broad appeal within the NLP community, we hope the SDP workshop will attract researchers from other relevant fields including meta-science, scientometrics, data mining, information retrieval, and digital libraries, bringing together these disparate communities within ACL. Topics of Interest We invite submissions from all communities demonstrating usage of and challenges associated with natural language processing, information retrieval, and data mining of scholarly and scientific documents. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): Large Language Models (LLMs) for science Representation learning and language modeling Information extraction and NER Document understanding Summarization and generation Question-answering Discourse modeling/argumentation mining Network analysis Bibliometrics, scientometrics, and altmetrics Reproducibility and research integrity, including new challenges posed by generative AI Peer review tools, principles and technology Metadata and indexing Inclusion of datasets and computational resources Research infrastructures and digital libraries Increasing the representation in scholarly work of disadvantaged populations LLM-based interfaces to consume/produce scholarly documents Impact of scholarly communication on popular discourse Submission Information Authors are invited to submit full and short papers with unpublished, original work. Submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (proceedings from previous years can be found here:https://aclanthology.org/venues/sdp/ <https://aclanthology.org/venues/sdp/>), which will be published in the ACL Anthology. The submissions must be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All submissions must be written in English and follow the ACL 2025 formatting requirements: Long paper submissions: up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Short paper submissions: up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Submission Website: Paper submission has to be done through openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SDProc> Final versions of accepted papers will be allowed 1 additional page of content so that reviewer comments can be taken into account. Important Dates (Main Research Track) First call for workshop papers: December 19, 2024 Second call for workshop papers: January 24, 2025 Third call for workshop papers: February 24, 2025 Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: May 16, 2025 Workshop dates: July 31 – August 1, 2025 Note: Shared task submission deadlines and other important dates to be announced. SDP 2024 Keynote Speakers We are excited to have several keynote speakers at SDP 2025. Tom Hope <https://tomhoper.github.io/>, Assistant Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI. James A. Evans <https://sociology.uchicago.edu/directory/James-A-Evans>, Professor and Director of the Knowledge Lab at University of Chicago and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. TBA SDP 2025 Shared Tasks SDP 2025 will host five exciting shared tasks. More information about all shared tasks is provided on the workshop website:https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html <https://sdproc.org/2025/sharedtasks.html> Detecting automatically generated scientific papers (DAGPap 25) A big problem with the ubiquity of Generative AI is that it has now become very easy to generate fake scientific papers. This can erode public trust in science and attack the foundations of science: are we standing on the shoulders of robots? The Detecting Automatically Generated Papers (DAGPAP) competition aims to encourage the development of robust, reliable AI-generated scientific text detection systems, utilizing a diverse dataset and varied machine learning models in a number of scientific domains. Organizers: Savvas Chamezopoulos, Dan Li, Anita de Waard (Elsevier). Contextualizing Scientific Figures and Tables (Context 25) Interpreting scientific claims in the context of empirical findings is a valuable practice, yet extremely time-consuming for researchers. Such interpretation requires identifying key results (often captured in tables and figures) that provide supporting evidence from research papers, and contextualizing these results with associated methodological details (e.g., measures, sample, etc.). During the previous version of this shared task in 2024, we released datasets to support the development of methods for automatic identification of key result figures or tables as well as additional grounding context to make claim interpretation more efficient. However, the released datasets contained tables and images already extracted from the scientific papers to allow participants to bypass PDF pre-processing issues. In Context 2025, given recent advances in multimodal LLMs, we plan to extend the difficulty of this task by requiring participants to identify key results from paper PDFs directly, and add a new sub-task on multi-hop reasoning over scientific evidence. Organizers: Joel Chan, Matthew Akamatsu, Aakanksha Naik Scientific Visual Question Answering (SciVQA) Scholarly articles convey valuable information not only through unstructured text but also via (semi-)structured figures such as charts and diagrams. Automatically interpreting the semantics of knowledge encoded in these figures can be beneficial for downstream tasks such as question answering (QA). In the SciVQA challenge, the participants will develop multimodal systems capable of efficiently processing both visual (i.e., addressing attributes such as colour, shape, size, etc.) and non-visual QA pairs based on images of scientific figures and their captions. Organizers: Ekaterina Borisova, Georg Rehm Scientific Fact-checking of Social Media Posts on Climate Change (ClimateCheck) The ClimateCheck shared task focuses on fact-checking claims from social media about climate change against peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Participants will retrieve relevant publications from a corpus of 400,000 climate research articles and classify each abstract as supporting, refuting, or not having enough information about the claim. Training data will include human-annotated claim-publication pairs, and the evaluation will combine nDCG@K and Bpref for retrieval and F1 score for classification. The task aims to develop models that link social media claims to scientific evidence, promoting informed and evidence-based discussions on climate change. Organizers: Raia Abu Ahmad, Georg Rehm Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications (SOMD 2) Software plays an essential role in computational research methods and is considered one of the crucial entities in scholarly documents. However, software mentions are not always cited in academic documents, resulting in various informal mentions of software across a paper. Automatic identification of such software mention contributes to the better understanding, accessibility, and reproducibility of the research work. In addition to the mention of software, to understand the research context, it is necessary to understand the purpose of a software mention and its attributes, making software mention detection a comprehensive task. We are extending our first iteration of the shared task SOMD 2024 <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html> with new challenges. In addition to information extraction techniques, our extended focus would be on Joint Named Entity and Relation Classification techniques. Organizers: Sharmila Upadhyaya, Frank Krueger, Stefan Dietze Organizing Committee Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Philipp Mayr, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Aakanksha Naik, Allen Institute for AI, USA Amanpreet Singh, Allen Institute for AI, USA Anita de Waard, Elsevier, Netherlands Dayne Freitag, SRI International, USA Georg Rehm, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany Sonja Schimmler, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Dan Li, Elsevier, Netherlands -- <https://www.dfki.de/> Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DFKI GmbH <https://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Call for participation in Web Survey on Data Bottlenecks in Supervised NLP
by Romberg, Julia 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear list members, We invite you to participate in our web survey exploring how recent advancements in NLP, such as LLMs, have changed the need for labeled data in Supervised Machine Learning. Survey details: * Topic: Web survey on Data Annotation and Active Learning * Target group: Researchers and practitioners alike in the fields of NLP, Supervised Machine Learning, and Active Learning in particular (not required). * Duration: ~15 minutes * Deadline for participation: January 12, 2025 * Survey link: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/umfragen/limesurvey/index.php/538271 Why should I invest my time in this survey? * Make an impact: Participate in a community-effort and help to gain a better understanding of the current state and open issues on methods that are used to overcome a lack of labeled data. * Gain insights: Receive a report with key findings to incorporate these insights into research and development of new methods and technologies. Thank you for considering participating in our survey! If you have any questions or require additional information, please don't hesitate to contact us directly at activelearningsurvey2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:activeLearningSurvey2024@gmail.com>. If you know colleagues or peers who might be interested, we'd be grateful if you could forward this survey to them as well. Best regards, Julia Romberg (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany) Christopher Schröder (Institut für Angewandte Informatik e. V., Germany) Julius Gonsior (TUD Dresden University of Technology) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [gesis-logo-new-50-50] Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Julia Romberg Computational Social Science, Team Data Science Methods +49(221)47694-742

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MSCA 16 Doctoral Candidate Positions - BICEPS project
by Nikola Milosevic 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to BICEPS Marie Curie Sklodowska doctoral program, where we have 16 PhD positions across the following institutions across Europe: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bayer metaSysX GmbH University of Groningen Aarhus University University of Athens University of Belgrade Anacalypsis Therapeutics Sulfateq B.V. H. Lundbeck A/S University of Oxford Suleyman Demirel University Semical Biosurgery Several positions are focusing on bioinformatics and there are few also dealing with text. (e.g. Bayer one). You can find positions here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search?f%5B0%5D=offer_type%3Ajob_offer&f… Beyond neuroInflammation: new Concepts to Elucidate the peripheral immune system's vital role in Parkinson's disease Decades of research into Parkinson's disease (PD) have fallen short in fully comprehending its mechanisms, leaving us without a cure. Current treatments merely alleviate symptoms temporarily, but are unable to impede the progression of the disease. Clearly, PD research has hit a wall, and new approaches are needed. Recent discoveries of the involvement of the peripheral immune system in PD have sparked a groundbreaking proposition by BICEPS: PD must be considered a systemic disease with an immune response involving both brain and periphery. Thus, to revolutionize PD research, we must shift away from the neuro-centric approach of past decades and extend our focus to studying the immune system outside the brain. Furthermore, recent advancements, such as systems biology and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data mining, diagnosis, and drug development, hold significant promise for advancing PD research. Therefore, BICEPS is uniting PD researchers, immunologists, and experts in AI and systems biology from leading European academic institutions, startup companies, and established pharmaceutical firms into a unique consortium. The primary objective is to train a new generation of PD researchers with interdisciplinary expertise in these fields. This ambitious goal will be realized through an intensive training program that encompasses cutting-edge methodologies, encourages innovation, nurtures transferable skills, and provides immersive, hands-on research experiences. Thereby, the BICEPS network aims to shape the future of PD research by adopting a fresh perspective and expediting the development of diagnostics and therapies for PD, with a particular focus on the immune system. Position in Bayer you can find here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/286014 AI-driven data analysis, target identification and treatment development in PD The project will be implemented at Bayer A.G. , under the supervision of Nikola Milošević. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, leading to motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia. Recent research has highlighted the complex interplay between the nervous and immune systems in PD pathogenesis, emphasizing the need for integrated approaches to study neuro-immune interactions. This project aims to research best practices for, and develop novel collaborative no-code analytical platform specifically designed to explore and analyze neuro-immune interfaces in the context of PD and other neurodegenerative diseases. The research will first focus on full integration and making easily accessible evidence from both user-provided data and publicly available biomedical databases and literature sources, adhering to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. This will be followed by the representation of data in a knowledge graph, enabling sophisticated reasoning and hypothesis generation. Finally, the project will establish explainable AI-powered analytics, reasoning, hypothesis generation, and ranking pipelines about targets, pathways, and potential treatments. The platform will incorporate various data types, including genetic, biochemical, and clinical information, to provide a comprehensive view of the neuro-immune landscape in PD. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and natural language processing, the system will be able to analyze and integrate results from multiple experimental studies, literature sources, and other relevant data repositories. This multidisciplinary approach combines techniques from computer science, bioinformatics, and neuroscience to create a powerful tool for PD research. Expected outcomes of this project include determining the precise best practices for multi-layered analysis of targets involved in neurodegenerative diseases and developing a system that can help scientists collaborate, review, analyze, and integrate results from diverse sources. Ultimately, this work could lead to the identification of novel therapeutic targets and potential treatments for PD by facilitating a deeper understanding of the complex neuro-immune interactions underlying the disease. The collaborative nature of the platform will foster interdisciplinary research and accelerate the pace of discovery in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Freundliche Grüße / Best regards, Dr. Nikola Milosevic Senior Computational Scientist | Bayer Science Fellow //////////////////////// Bayer AG Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals R&D Data Sciences and AI, Scientific Insights Solutions Building S105, 342 13342 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 46817948 Mobile: +49 174 2169881 E-mail: nikola.milosevic(a)bayer.com<mailto:nikola.milosevic@bayer.com> Web: http://www.bayer.com Datenschutzhinweise<https://www.bayer.de/de/datenschutzhinweise-fuer-ausgewaehlte-verarbeitungs…> // Data privacy information<https://www.bayer.com/en/data-privacy-information-for-specific-processing-a…> /// Board of Management: Bill Anderson, Chairman | Wolfgang Nickl, Stefan Oelrich, Heike Prinz, Rodrigo Santos, Julio Triana /// Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Norbert Winkeljohann /// Registered office: Leverkusen | Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 48248

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1st CFP-GITT-2025 at MT Summit 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

1st CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at MT Summit 2025 23 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social **Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth)** Submission deadline: 10 March, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 4 April, 2025 Camera Ready Copy due: 11 April, 2025 Workshop: 23 June, 2025 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. --ARCHIVAL-- - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) -- Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. --NON-ARCHIVAL-- - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2024 and 2025. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the MT Summit 2025 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair. **Workshop organizers** Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Chiara Manna, University of Tilburg Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg

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Biceps MSCA 16 Doctoral Candidate Positions
by Nikola Milosevic 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to BICEPS Marie Curie Sklodowska doctoral program, where we have 16 PhD positions across the following institutions across Europe: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bayer metaSysX GmbH University of Groningen Aarhus University University of Athens University of Belgrade Anacalypsis Therapeutics Sulfateq B.V. H. Lundbeck A/S University of Oxford Suleyman Demirel University Semical Biosurgery Several positions are focusing on bioinformatics and there are few also dealing with text. (e.g. Bayer one). You can find positions here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search?f%5B0%5D=offer_type%3Ajob_offer&f… *Beyond neuroInflammation: new Concepts to Elucidate the peripheral immune system's vital role in Parkinson's disease* Decades of research into Parkinson's disease (PD) have fallen short in fully comprehending its mechanisms, leaving us without a cure. Current treatments merely alleviate symptoms temporarily, but are unable to impede the progression of the disease. Clearly, PD research has hit a wall, and new approaches are needed. Recent discoveries of the involvement of the peripheral immune system in PD have sparked a groundbreaking proposition by BICEPS: PD must be considered a systemic disease with an immune response involving both brain and periphery. Thus, to revolutionize PD research, we must shift away from the neuro-centric approach of past decades and extend our focus to studying the immune system outside the brain. Furthermore, recent advancements, such as systems biology and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data mining, diagnosis, and drug development, hold significant promise for advancing PD research. Therefore, BICEPS is uniting PD researchers, immunologists, and experts in AI and systems biology from leading European academic institutions, startup companies, and established pharmaceutical firms into a unique consortium. The primary objective is to train a new generation of PD researchers with interdisciplinary expertise in these fields. This ambitious goal will be realized through an intensive training program that encompasses cutting-edge methodologies, encourages innovation, nurtures transferable skills, and provides immersive, hands-on research experiences. Thereby, the BICEPS network aims to shape the future of PD research by adopting a fresh perspective and expediting the development of diagnostics and therapies for PD, with a particular focus on the immune system. Best regards, Dr Nikola Milosevic

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 1st CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

*** First Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: March 7, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: April 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: May 16, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: TBA The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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PhD position in Cologne on the role of gender in prominence hierarchies
by Elen Le Foll 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, We are looking to fill a PhD position (4 years, 65% FTE) in the project “The role of gender in prominence hierarchies: A cross-linguistic and cross-register perspective”. This project is part of the CRC “Prominence in Language” at the University of Cologne. The project is co-led by Elen Le Foll and Stefan Hinterwimmer. We aim to investigate the extent to which both social and grammatical gender hierarchies are reflected in linguistic prominence hierarchies. We will conduct corpus and experimental studies to investigate the potential role of gender in a number of morphosyntactic alternations in (i) English (a language with no grammatical gender), (ii) French (a language with two grammatical genders that mostly match social/referential genders), and (iii) German (a language with more than two grammatical genders). We are looking for a doctoral researcher interested in using quantitative corpus-linguistic methods and multivariable statistical techniques to account for the multi-dimensionality of prominence in naturally occurring data. *Your tasks* * Collect and pre-process corpus data in German and French * Perform linguistic annotation on corpus data in German and French * Design and conduct corpus studies on morpho-syntactic alternations in German and French * Analyse the results using multivariable statistical methods * Collaborate with the project leaders on related studies * Present your work at international conferences * Publish your results in academic journals *Your profile* * You are familiar with corpus linguistics research * You have experience with R (and/or other programming languages) * You have experience with statistical modeling (preferably in R) * You are highly proficient in English * You are proficient in German and French * You enjoy working in a team * You can quickly adapt to new research topics * You are interested in learning new research methods Application deadline: *17 January 2025* Start date: *1 April 2025* * More information about the position <https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/sites/sfb_1252/user_upload/Ausschreibungen/PhD…>. * More information on the CRC. <https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de> Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards and happy holidays! Elen -- *Dr. Elen Le Foll* /Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer/ Applied Linguistics | Corpus Linguistics | Language Teaching & Learning Department of Romance Studies <https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> | Data Center for the Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/>University of Cologne <https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elen-Le-Foll>

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SCOLIA@ECIR2025 – 2nd CfP
by Ingo Frommholz 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === CALL FOR PAPERS === **************************************************************************** First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA’25) held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25), April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2025 **************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit your contribution to the First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2025), following the successful BIR workshop series, to be held as part of the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025, https://www.ecir2025.org) in Lucca, Tuscany. https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2025 The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Lucca (IT). === Important Dates === All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone - Submissions: 27th January 2025 - Notifications: 10th March 2025 - Camera Ready Contributions: 1st April 2025 - Workshop: 10th April 2025 === tl;dr === The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop. === Keywords === Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing === Workshop Topics === SCOLIA 2025 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics • Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g., • Chatting with papers via chatbots • Bibliometric-enhanced IR • Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review • Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission • Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature • Recommendation of citations based on the context • Discourse modelling and argument mining • Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation • Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs. • Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g., • Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM • Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references • Simulated users. • User Models and Collections, e.g., • Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search • Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction • Building test collections. • Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g., • Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers • Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour • Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers • Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper • Flagging predatory conferences and journals. We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. • CEURART (incl. LaTeX and Word templates): https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-styl… • Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2025 Page limits: • Full paper: 12 pages excluding references • Short paper: 6 pages excluding references Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation). === Workshop Chairs === Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton, UK Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France Suzan Verberne, Leiden University, the Netherlands Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany For any enquiries please email scolia2025(a)easychair.org. -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @ifromm.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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