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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ The LIFT 2 research group is happy to announce the forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics. The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc - 2025/02/12 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Miloš Stanojević* (University College London; 15:30-16:30 UTC+0) Title: *Linguistic Universals in Grammars and Language Models *Abstract: *The shared universal properties of human languages have been at the heart of many linguistic debates for decades. A big part of these debates are two core questions: (1) learnability — can all linguistic universals be learned from data alone without any inbuilt prior knowledge, and (2) explanation — why do we see these universals and not some other? In the first part of the talk, I will show recent results on how LLMs fare in picking up a syntactic universal in the idealized scenario where LLM is trained on large amounts of data that comes from a large number of languages. As usual, the number of parameters and amount of data helps but does not fully solve the learnability problem. Even if LLMs could learn a syntactic universal, their performance alone would not help in explaining why the observed syntactic universal exists at the first place. In the second part of the talk, I will show how CCG syntactic theory can provide not only an explanation of why some universals exist but also a prediction of what word orders we will not find in human languages.* - 2025/03/19 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Gail Weiss* (EPFL) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2025/04/16 16:30-17:30 UTC+2: *Sacha Beniamine* (University of Surrey; 15:30-16:30 UTC+1) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2025/05/14 16:30-17:30 UTC+2 (to be confirmed): *Raffaella Bernardi* (University of Trento) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA]

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Fully funded PhD on "Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI" at University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)
by Malvina Nissim 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

*** apologies for cross-posting *** *JOINT PhD POSITION: University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)* *Application deadline: 28/02/2025* *Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI**.* Recent advancements in AI offer solutions to address vaccine misinformation and rebuild public trust in vaccination efforts. Vaccine hesitancy, described by the WHO as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite available services,” is influenced by complacency, convenience, and confidence. This project focuses on the confidence dimension, targeting misinformation and reinforcing trust in vaccines through accurate, accessible information. The project will leverage AI to tackle three core challenges: (1) detecting vaccine-related misinformation, (2) verifying misinformation using trusted knowledge sources via Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and (3) crafting persuasive, evidence-based counter-narratives to combat hesitancy. *What we offer: *Enrol at two universities for a truly global PhD. You will be jointly supervised by staff at both universities, spend time (18 months) at each campus and upon successful completion of the program, will graduate from both universities with a PhD. Macquarie University will fund a living allowance scholarship per position at an annual rate of AUD 38,500 (tax exempt), paid pro-rata, while the student is in Australia and a Macquarie tuition fee scholarship will be granted for the period of joint enrolment up to 36 months. Macquarie will also provide an airfare allowance for flights between The Netherlands and Australia up to a maximum of $4,000 AUD. During time on campus in Groningen the PhD candidate will be employed according to the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (here <https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/collective-labour-agreement-of…> ). A salary of € 2.872 gross per month in the first year, up to a maximum of € 3.670 gross per month in the final year, based on a full-time position (NOTE: the precise amount can vary according to which year(s) of the PhD the candidate spends in Groningen *Eligibility**:* Admission and scholarship criteria of both universities must be met. For University of Groningen: *GSH Admission requirements.* <https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/phd-programme/phd-admissi…> For Macquarie University: PhD entry and English language requirements <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/explore-research-de…>, and graduate research scholarship eligibility criteria <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply/schola…> . *Mode of study**: *Full time *Year of entry**: *2025 *Duration:* 3 years Students will enrol at both institutions from the outset on *01 October 2025*.* The location the student commences the program in can be determined in consultation with their supervisors.* *Additional criteria**: *Applicants must not already (i) hold a doctoral degree; or (ii) be matriculated for a doctoral degree at the University of Groningen, Macquarie University, or another institution. *Expression of Interest (EOI)*: Students are to submit their EOIs to the MQ supervisor, Dr. Usman Naseem(usman.naseem(a)mq.edu.au) and the University of Groningen’s supervisor, Dr Tommaso Caselli (t.caselli(a)rug.nl) and cc gr.globalprograms(a)mq.edu.au including the following documents: - CV including information about publications. - Transcripts of most relevant/recent degrees. - Information about thesis components (thesis mark, word count, weight/length in comparison to the degree overall). - To apply, applicants must submit an EOI detailing their suitability for the project by addressing the required skills and key responsibilities in under 800 words. The Global Office at University of Groningen will work with the Graduate Research Academy at Macquarie to arrange official notification of scholarship awards, invite scholarship awardees to formally apply for admission to both universities by mid-March 2025, and conclude contractual arrangements which must be in place prior to the start of the degree. Students who are nominated for the award will be asked to formally apply for candidature through the MQ application portal: https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply

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Call for contributions to the AIiH 2025 special session - AI for long-term conditions
by Shangming Zhou 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are organising a Special Session:* Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Improve Outcomes for Patients with for Long-Term Health Conditions* (https://aiih.cc/lthc/) in the *International Conference on AI in Healthcare (AIiH)*, 8-10 September 2025, Jesus College, University of Cambridge. We would like to accept both *full length papers* (12 pages plus references) and *short abstracts* (up to 5 pages including references) for special sessions. Submission guideline can be found here, including paper templates in both Word and LaTeX: https://aiih.cc/paper-submission/ The accepted full papers and abstracts will be published in the *Springer LNCS* volumes. *Full Paper* submission deadline: *Friday 11 April 2025* *Abstract* submission deadline: *Monday 30 June 2024* We are looking forward to meeting you. Best wishes Shang-Ming Zhou *Professor in e-Health | Faculty of Health | University of Plymouth | PL4 8AA | UK.* Tel: +44 (0)1752 586513 | Email : shangming.zhou@plymouth.ac.uk;smzhou@ieee.org https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/shang-ming-zhou https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-health-technology

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Konvens 2025 Second Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Christian Wartena 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

We cordially invite proposals for workshops and tutorials as part of KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 9-12). KONVENS is an annual conference series on computational linguistics that started in 1992 and that is organized under the auspices of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society, the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence and SwissText. Past conferences are listed here: https://konvens.org. See https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ for more information! Workshop Proposals Workshop proposals should contain: * a title and a brief description (at most 4 pages in ACL format) of the workshop topic * the desired workshop length (half-day or full-day) * the names and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed to serve Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings. The time schedule for workshops is: Workshop Proposal Deadline February 14, 2025 Workshop Proposal Notification February 21, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Deadline July 2, 2025 Suggested Workshop Paper Notification August 4, 2025 Mandatory Camera Ready Deadline August 15, 2025 Proceedings Camera Ready Deadline August 22, 2025 Tutorials Tutorials are intended to either provide a comprehensive introduction to core techniques/areas of interest or address advanced topics relevant for the KONVENS community. We invite half-day tutorials on established or emerging research topics in these areas but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or applications. Tutorials may be explicitly introductory, targeting experienced researchers or attracting a wide audience by addressing basic as well as advanced topics. Tutorial proposals should contain: * a title and abstract of the tutorial * the language in which the tutorial will be held (English/German) * a brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the KONVENS community * a brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in half a day * the names and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise * a list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere Tutorial proposals should be submitted by email to info.konvens2025(a)gscl.org<mailto:info.konvens2025@gscl.org> no later than February 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2025. Proceedings Peer-reviewed workshop papers can be published in the KONVENS 2025 Proceedings. A camera-ready version of all accepted papers should be available at latest on August 22, 2025. Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena Hochschule Hannover Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design Abt. Information und Kommunikation Lehrgebiet Sprach- und Wissensverarbeitung Expo Plaza 12 30539 Hannover e-mail: christian.wartena(a)hs-hannover.de<mailto:christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de> [DATA-H-Logo_RGB_Unterzeile_klein]

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Launch of the Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (GCND)
by Melissa Farasyn 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

We are excited to announce the release of the first parsed corpus of spoken Dutch dialects, the Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND). This resource offers extensive data for linguistic research and is now accessible online. Corpus Highlights: * Speakers: 1,206 individuals, with the eldest born in 1871. * Geographical Coverage: 639 distinct locations. * Audio Data: Over 430 hours of recordings across 650 sessions. * Transcriptions: Over 600 time-aligned, highly detailed transcriptions. * Total Tokens: Approximately 4.77 million. * GrETEL Treebank: 50,111 verified sentences and 452,459 verified tokens. These figures represent the corpus as of its initial release. Ongoing efforts, supported by additional funding (GCND+), aim to expand the corpus with more transcriptions, including northern dialects from the Meertens Institute collection, and to enhance grammatical annotations. The latest updates are available through the corpus application. Access Information: The GCND is available online * GCND corpus application (requires CLARIN login): https://gcnd.ivdnt.org<https://gcnd.ivdnt.org/> * GCND project website: https://www.gcnd.ugent.be/ Acknowledgments: This project was made possible through the funding of the Research Foundation Flanders and the dedicated efforts of numerous student assistants, volunteers and our project partners. The GCND team (at Ghent University): Anne Breitbarth (anne.breitbarth(a)ugent.be<mailto:anne.breitbarth@ugent.be>) Anne-Sophie Ghyselen (annesophie.ghyselen(a)ugent.be<mailto:annesophie.ghyselen@ugent.be>) Melissa Farasyn (melissa.farasyn(a)ugent.be<mailto:melissa.farasyn@ugent.be>) Lien Hellebaut (lien.hellebaut(a)ugent.be<mailto:lien.hellebaut@ugent.be>)

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CFPapers: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA) workshop
by Lasha Abzianidze 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks - Generalization of NLU&R systems - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings) and (non-archival) extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu), 28 July-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany). The submission deadline is 25 April. Please visit https://naloma.github.io for more details about the call. - The NALOMA chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva -- Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor at Utrecht University Institute for Language Sciences

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Call for papers: Analogy-ANGLE II
by Pia Sommerauer 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Second Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II) Our 2nd workshop on ANALOGY-ANGLE will take place at ACL 2025 (July 31st/August 1st 2025) in Vienna. https://analogy-angle.github.io/ Analogy-Angle II is a multidisciplinary workshop to advance research on analogical abstraction by bridging the fields of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology. This workshop seeks to foster collaboration among researchers by providing a platform for sharing novel insights, benchmarks, methodologies, and analogy applications across disciplines. Analogy-Angle II welcomes diverse contributions, including original research, reviews, and previously accepted papers from leading conferences. Analogy-Angle I was co-located with IJCAI 2024. IMPORTANT DATES: * Direct submission deadline: March 1, 2025 * Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: March 25, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready paper deadline: May 16, 2025 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 30, 2025 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025 * Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025 TOPICS OF INTEREST * Cognitive modeling * Analogy and abstraction * Analogy and Conceptual Metaphor * Analogy, figurative language, sarcasm, and irony * Cognitive frameworks of analogy *Cognitive/psychological studies on analogy involving human participants * Algorithms and methods * Studies of the analogical abilities of large language models and visual diffusion models * Algorithmic approaches to analogy * Augmentation and verification of large language and vision models through analogy * Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for analogical abstraction * Extracting analogies from knowledge bases * Tasks and benchmarks * Matching narratives and situational descriptions through narratives * Novel tasks and benchmarks for evaluating analogies in text and vision * Analogy in longer formats, e.g., narratives and videos * Analogy and visual abstraction tasks * Analogical discovery and computational creativity * Applications * Analogies for personalization, explanation, and collaboration * Novel applications of analogical abstraction * Studies of the impact of analogy in specific applications and domains, including education, innovation, and law We invite full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and dissemination papers (already published papers). Please refer to our website for more information and submit your contribution via Open Review (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/Analogy-ANGLE#…). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Filip Ilievski, Giulia Rambelli, Marianna Bolognesi, Ute Schmid, Pia Sommerauer

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PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter
by Aline Villavicencio 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear all, We have a fully funded PhD studentship to work on the project Compositional and Holistic UNits of Knowledge in Sentences at the University of Exeter, for a September start, as part of the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award. With Rodrigo Wilkens and Marco Idiart. Start Date: September 2025 Application Deadline: 10 February 2025 More details in https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-research/funding/phdfunding/epsrc-dla-stu… and https://www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recruitmentsites/documents/Compositional_a… Please contact me if you're interested! All the best, Aline ---------------------------------------------------- Prof. Aline Villavicencio <https://sites.google.com/view/alinev>(she/her) Professor in Natural Language Processing Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence <https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/idsai/>, University of Exeter (UK) and University of Sheffield

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Fully funded PhD on "Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI" at University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)
by Tommaso Caselli 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

*** apologies for cross-posting *** *JOINT PhD POSITION: University of Groningen (NL) & University of Macquarie (AU)* *Application deadline: 28/02/2025* *Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI**.* Recent advancements in AI offer solutions to address vaccine misinformation and rebuild public trust in vaccination efforts. Vaccine hesitancy, described by the WHO as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite available services,” is influenced by complacency, convenience, and confidence. This project focuses on the confidence dimension, targeting misinformation and reinforcing trust in vaccines through accurate, accessible information. The project will leverage AI to tackle three core challenges: (1) detecting vaccine-related misinformation, (2) verifying misinformation using trusted knowledge sources via Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and (3) crafting persuasive, evidence-based counter-narratives to combat hesitancy. *What we offer: *Enrol at two universities for a truly global PhD. You will be jointly supervised by staff at both universities, spend time (18 months) at each campus and upon successful completion of the program, will graduate from both universities with a PhD. Macquarie University will fund a living allowance scholarship per position at an annual rate of AUD 38,500 (tax exempt), paid pro-rata, while the student is in Australia and a Macquarie tuition fee scholarship will be granted for the period of joint enrolment up to 36 months. Macquarie will also provide an airfare allowance for flights between The Netherlands and Australia up to a maximum of $4,000 AUD. During time on campus in Groningen the PhD candidate will be employed according to the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (here <https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/collective-labour-agreement-of…> ). A salary of € 2.872 gross per month in the first year, up to a maximum of € 3.670 gross per month in the final year, based on a full-time position (NOTE: the precise amount can vary according to which year(s) of the PhD the candidate spends in Groningen *Eligibility**:* Admission and scholarship criteria of both universities must be met. For University of Groningen: *GSH Admission requirements.* <https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/phd-programme/phd-admissi…> For Macquarie University: PhD entry and English language requirements <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/explore-research-de…>, and graduate research scholarship eligibility criteria <https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply/schola…> . *Mode of study**: *Full time *Year of entry**: *2025 *Duration:* 3 years Students will enrol at both institutions from the outset on *01 October 2025*.* The location the student commences the program in can be determined in consultation with their supervisors.* *Additional criteria**: *Applicants must not already (i) hold a doctoral degree; or (ii) be matriculated for a doctoral degree at the University of Groningen, Macquarie University, or another institution. *Expression of Interest (EOI)*: Students are to submit their EOIs to the MQ supervisor, Dr. Usman Naseem(usman.naseem(a)mq.edu.au) and the University of Groningen’s supervisor, Dr Tommaso Caselli (t.caselli(a)rug.nl) and cc gr.globalprograms(a)mq.edu.au including the following documents: - CV including information about publications. - Transcripts of most relevant/recent degrees. - Information about thesis components (thesis mark, word count, weight/length in comparison to the degree overall). - To apply, applicants must submit an EOI detailing their suitability for the project by addressing the required skills and key responsibilities in under 800 words. The Global Office at University of Groningen will work with the Graduate Research Academy at Macquarie to arrange official notification of scholarship awards, invite scholarship awardees to formally apply for admission to both universities by mid-March 2025, and conclude contractual arrangements which must be in place prior to the start of the degree. Students who are nominated for the award will be asked to formally apply for candidature through the MQ application portal: https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply -- Tommaso Caselli, Ph.D. Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands ---------------------------- https://xs4all.academia.edu/TommasoCaselli https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tommaso_Caselli Twitter: @tommaso_caselli

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First CFP: AmericasNLP 2025 @ NAACL 2025
by John Ortega 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hello. Please excuse any cross-posting issues. We are happy to announce the following workshop at NAACL this year! -- Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas -- AmericasNLP 2025 will be co-located with NAACL2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA! -- Call for Papers -- The goal of AmericasNLP is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of: Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication). Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: creation of datasets for NLP applications; incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems; linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP; transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning; weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning; machine translation of low-resource languages; applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages of the Americas; morphology and phonology of low-resource languages; NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas; ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by Indigenous communities; language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context of NLP models and research. Submissions will be accepted until March 7th, 2025 via softconf: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/americasnlp Note: Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do not count towards the page limit. -- Shared Tasks -- To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2025 features three shared tasks: machine translation of truly low-resource languages; creation of educational resources for indigenous languages; and our new shared task of developing metrics for MT in indigenous languages. The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in Albuquerque. More information can be found at https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2025_st.html. -- Important Dates -- Submission deadline: March 7th, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 31th, 2025 Camera ready papers due: April 11th, 2025 Workshop: May 4th, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE). -- Organizing Committee -- Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs, pywirrarika(a)gmail.com Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh, a.oncevay(a)ed.ac.uk Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi(a)colorado.edu Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research, rijhwani(a)google.com Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, pughrob(a)iu.edu Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College, rolando.a.coto.solano(a)dartmouth.edu John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, katharina.kann(a)colorado.edu -- Contact -- Contact: americas.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/

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