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[Corpora-List][CFP] IJCNN Special Session on Explainable Deep Neural Networks for Responsible AI: Post-Hoc and Self-Explaining Approaches (DeepXplain 2025)
by Francielle Vargas 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to participate in "Explainable Deep Neural Networks for Responsible AI: Post-Hoc and Self-Explaining Approaches (DeepXplain 2025)," a special session at IJCNN 2025 dedicated to innovative methodologies for improving the interpretability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) while maintaining high predictive accuracy. Website: https://deepxplain.github.io/ Contributions This special session aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, promote the ethical design of AI systems, and encourage the development of benchmarks and datasets for explainability research. Our goal is to advance both post-hoc and intrinsic interpretability approaches, bridging the gap between the high performance of deep neural networks and their transparency. By doing so, we seek to enhance human trust in these models and mitigate the risks of negative social impacts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical advancements in post-hoc explanation methods (e.g., LIME, SHAP, Grad-CAM) for DNNs. - Development of inherently interpretable architectures using self-explaining mechanisms, such as attention-based or saliency-based models, prototype networks, and SENNs (Self-Explaining Neural Networks). - Post-hoc and self-explaining methods for Large Language Models (LLMs). - Application-driven explainability insights, particularly in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. - Ethical evaluations of DNN-based AI models with a focus on reducing bias and social impact. - Methods, metrics, and methodologies for improving interpretability and fairness in DNNs. - Ethical discussions about the social impact of non-transparent AI models. - Datasets and benchmarking tools for explainability. - Explainable AI in critical applications: healthcare, governance, misinformation, hate speech, etc. Submission Information We welcome submissions of academic papers (both long and short) across the spectrum of theoretical and practical work, including research ideas, methods, tools, simulations, applications or demonstrations, practical evaluations, position papers, and surveys. Submissions must be written in English, adhere to the IJCNN-2025 formatting guidelines, and be submitted as a single PDF file. Important Dates: - Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCNN2025/ - Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 - Notification date: March 15, 2025 - Camera-ready submission: May 1, 2025 Organizers - Francielle Vargas <https://franciellevargas.github.io/>, University of São Paulo, Brazil - Roseli Romero <https://sites.icmc.usp.br/rafrance/>, University of São Paulo, Brazil - Jackson Trager <https://www.jacksonptrager.com/>, University of Southern California, USA - Edson Prestes <https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~prestes/site/Welcome.html>, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [], *Francielle Vargas* PhD in Computer Science University of São Paulo https://franciellevargas.github.io

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Elements in Semantics: new series
by Jonathan Ginzburg 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

We are happy to announce the first two titles in the series *Elements in Semantics,* published by Cambridge University Press, both by Kristina Liefke. Given how fundamental ontology is to semantics, it is particularly apposite that the first titles in the series address this topic. CUP makes these works freely available for download until January 4 and January 8, respectively: Kristina Liefke *Natural Language Ontology and Semantic Theory* https://tinyurl.com/3kv5wcdj Kristina Liefke *Reduction and Unification in Natural Language Ontology* https://tinyurl.com/bdk5ufat Forthcoming titles in the series to appear shortly include: Lasha Abzianidze, Lisa Bylinina, and Denis Paperno *Deep Learning and Semantics, * Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Robin Cooper, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Peter Sutton *Types and the structure of meaning: Issues in compositional and lexical semantics, * Katherine Davidson *s* *About Elements in Semantics* Interest in semantics has exploded in a number of fields in recent years. Yet there are still many unresolved issues about basic issues in the field, as well as new questions that have arisen as a result of interdisciplinary engagement. What are word meanings, and where do they come from? How can we explain the learnability of language and its structured nature? What are the computational properties of language, and how does the brain implement these? How does individual cognition relate to the social aspect of meaning? These, and many more, have been raised or sharpened as a result of engagement with game theory, robotics, and deep learning, to name a few. Given the importance of meaning in human cognition and society at large, results in semantics bear on issues as diverse as legal decision-making and the use of spoken dialogue systems to operate a robot on Mars. The innovative edge of Elements in Semantics consists in three aspects in particular. First, we provide a platform that emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of current work in semantics. Second, Elements will offer an integrated account of classical topics in semantics (e.g., negation, anaphora, conditionals) from a broader range of disciplines than traditional surveys. Third, Elements offers authors the ability to convey their research to audiences in innovative ways, using in-line audio and video as well as in-line simulations and data analysis via runnable code snippets in a variety of programming languages. Website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/elements-in-semantics Dan Lassiter, Jonathan Ginzburg (series editors)

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Deadline 18th: Postdoc in computational linguistics / data science in Change is Key!
by Nina Tahmasebi 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Want to work as a postdoc in a vibrant research group on cutting-edge methodology for computational modeling of meaning and meaning change? We are hiring one or more postdocs in the Change is Key! research program. The program is multi-national and multi-disciplinary covering both core NLP research as well as its application for humanities and social sciences. You will be working with LLMs for modeling meaning and semantic change and using this to detect cultural and societal changes. We publish regularly in top tier venues with generous research funds. The position is located in the heart of Gothenburg in Sweden, and we will provide help with finding researcher apartments if needed. We are a diverse research group that values our differences and thus we welcome any and all applicants with relevant research backgrounds interested in our topics. Find more about our work here: https://www.changeiskey.org/ Deadline for the call: December 18, 2024. Apply here: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Or email me back if you have any questions. Sincerely, -Nina. Nina N. Tahmasebi, Associate Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Intelligence + Effort = Achievement" S. Mendaglio

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UCCTS 2025 - Second Call for Papers
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

UCCTS 2025 - Second Call for Papers 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). Conference topics include: * Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies, in particular with multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) and advanced statistical modeling * Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive linguistics and translation studies * LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data annotation, data analysis, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * New or remodeled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies * Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting) corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode of production, etc. * Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product) properties * Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication * Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching * Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology * Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting * Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation, audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.) The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts (in PDF) that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 10, 2025. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the Open review system and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow abstract submission instructions given below. Abstract text must be in single-spaced 12pt Arial font, with no indents and 1 inch borders on each side (2.54 cm). The title should be in 12pt Arial, bold and centered, in title case. Page numbers should be omitted. Figure and table captions should be in 10pt Arial font. Table and figure captions should appear below the table or figure. References must be in 9pt Arial font, in APA7 format.Publications The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in an online book of abstracts. We also plan to publish selected papers in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course. Keynote speakers We are pleased to announce that the following plenary lectures are planned for the UCCTS2025 conference in Hildesheim: * Elke Teich, Saarland University in Germany * Dylan Glynn, Université Paris 8, Vincennes - St Denis * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen Important dates * Conference abstract submission due: Feb 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2025 * Final abstract version due: May 5, 2025 * Registration open: May 12, 2025 * Early-bird registration: July 7, 2025 * Conference date: September 8-10, 2025 -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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Invitation for Research Collaboration in Multimodal and Explainable AI
by Dushyant Chauhan 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

Hello everyone, I am Dushyant Singh Chauhan, a PhD graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, India, where I conducted my research under the guidance of Prof. Asif Ekbal (IIT Jodhpur) and Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay). Dr. Dushyant Singh Chauhan --> https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Gs8MoW4AAAAJ&hl=en Prof. Asif Ekbal --> https://ekbalasif.github.io/ Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya --> https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb/ Prof. Asif Ekbal and I are looking for research collaborators in the following areas: - [Multimodal Causal Reasoning] refers to how AI systems can infer cause-and-effect relationships across multiple data modalities to enhance decision-making and reasoning capabilities. - [Missing Modalities] refer to scenarios where certain data modalities are absent or incomplete, aiming to ensure robust performance and adaptability despite missing information. - [Topic Switching] refers to how AI systems manage abrupt shifts in topics or contexts, ensuring smooth and coherent transitions during conversation. - [Multimodal Question-Answering] refers to AI systems integrating multiple data modalities to provide accurate, context-aware answers. - [Video Summarization] refers to condensing long videos into shorter summaries while preserving key information and context for easier understanding. - [Interpretability and Explainability] refer to ensuring that AI systems are not only understandable in terms of their internal workings (interpretability) but also provide clear human understandable justifications for their decisions (explainability). - And similar research areas of your interest. If you are interested in collaborating on these topics with the ultimate goal of publishing impactful research, we would be delighted to hear from you. Additionally, we welcome discussions about your research interests and are open to exploring ideas in alignment with your expertise. To express your interest and reach out for collaboration, please fill out this form at https://forms.gle/fM7xsXgHTxjiuGLV6. Please note that this is not a paid collaboration but rather a shared academic effort aimed at advancing research in these exciting fields and contributing to high-quality publications. Looking forward to your response. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Regards, Dushyant Singh Chauhan Ph.D. Scholar, Department of CSE, AI-NLP-ML Lab, IIT Patna, India +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Labs CLEF 2025: Call for Participation
by Damiano Spina 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

RMIT Classification: Trusted CLEF 2025 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/ 9-12 September 2025, Madrid, Spain *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** CLEF 2025 is the 16th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. Building on the format first introduced in 2010, CLEF 2025 consists of an independent peer-reviewed conference on a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information retrieval systems. Together, the conference and the lab series will maintain and expand upon the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues. *** LABS REGISTRATION *** Registration for participation in labs is now open and available at https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/registration.html *** 2025 TASKS *** BioASQ: A Challenge in Large-scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering https://www.bioasq.org/workshop2025 The aim of the BioASQ Lab is to push the research frontier towards systems that use the diverse and voluminous information available online to respond directly to the information needs of biomedical scientists. CheckThat!: Lab on Subjectivity, Fact-Checking, Claim Extraction & Normalization, and Retrieval https://checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2025/ The eighth edition of the CheckThat! lab at CLEF presents a diverse set of challenges aimed at advancing technology to support and enhance the journalistic verification process. This edition revisits core tasks in the verification pipeline while also introducing auxiliary tasks such as subjectivity identification, claim normalization, and fact-checking numerical claims, with a particular emphasis on scientific web discourse. These tasks pose complex classification and retrieval problems at both the document level, including in multilingual contexts. ELOQUENT lab for evaluation of generative language model quality https://eloquent-lab.github.io/ The ELOQUENT lab for evaluation of generative language model quality and usefulness addresses high-level quality criteria through a set of open-ended shared tasks implemented to require minimal human assessment effort. eRisk: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet https://erisk.irlab.org/ eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet. EXIST: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks https://nlp.uned.es/exist2025/ EXIST aims to capture and categorize sexism, from explicit misogyny to other subtle behaviors, in social networks. In 2024 the EXIST campaign included multimedia content in the format of memes, stepping forward research on more robust techniques to identify sexism in social networks. Following this line, in 2025 we will focus on TikTok videos in the challenge, thus including in the dataset the three most important sources of sexism spreading: text, images and videos. Consequently, it is essential to develop automated multimodal tools capable of detecting sexism in text, images, and videos, to raise alarms or automatically remove such content from social network because platforms’ algorithms often amplify content that perpetuates gender stereotypes and internalized misogyny. This lab will contribute to the creation of applications that identify sexist content in social media across all three formats. ImageCLEF: Multimodal Challenge in CLEF https://www.imageclef.org/ ImageCLEF 2025 focuses on evaluating technologies for annotating, indexing, classifying, retrieving and generating multimodal data, providing access to large datasets across a veriety of scenarios, including medical, social media, and internet-based applications. Building on the success of recent editions, it encourages interdisciplinary methods by engaging participants in diverse domains, providing large amounts of challenging multimodal data and providing am evaluation platform for a large number of use cases. JOKER: Humour in the Machine https://www.joker-project.com/clef-2024/ JOKER aims to foster interdisciplinary approaches to the (semi-)automatic analysis and processing of humour and wordplay. LifeCLEF: Challenges on Species Presence Prediction and Identification, and Individual Animal Identification https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF The LifeCLEF 2025 lab focuses on advancing AI-driven solutions for biodiversity monitoring through challenges on species and individuals recognition and prediction. LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance https://clef-longeval.github.io/ The goal of this task is to ignite the development of Information Retrieval systems that can handle temporal data evolution. The retrieval systems evaluated in this task are expected to be persistent in their retrieval efficiency over time, as Web documents and Web queries evolve. To evaluate such features of systems, we rely on collections of documents and queries, corresponding to real data acquired from actual Web search engines. PAN Lab on Stylometry and Digital Text Forensics https://pan.webis.de/ PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics and stylometry whose goal is to advance the state of the art and provide for an objective evaluation on newly developed benchmark datasets in those areas. QuantumCLEF https://qclef.dei.unipd.it/ The second edition of the QuantumCLEF lab is composed of three tasks and aims at: (i) Discovering and evaluating Quantum Annealing approaches compared to their traditional counterpart; (ii) Identifying new ways of formulating Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems algorithms and methods, so that they can be solved with Quantum Annealing; (iii) Establishing collaborations among researchers from different fields to harness their knowledge and skills to solve the considered challenges and promote the usage of Quantum Annealing. This lab allows participants to use real quantum computers provided by CINECA, one of the most important computing centers worldwide. SimpleText: Simplify Scientific Text https://simpletext-project.com/ The SimpleText track aims at improving accessibility to scientific information for everyone, developing corpora, evaluation measures, and new IR/NL models able to reduce scientific text complexity with strict faithfulness to the original text. TalentCLEF: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ TalentCLEF aims to drive technological advancement in Human Capital Management by establishing a public benchmark for NLP models that facilitates their application in real-world Human Resources (HR) scenarios, incorporating evaluation criteria incluiding multilingualism, fairness, and cross-industry adaptability. The lab also seeks to build a community for researchers and practitioners to generate, evaluate, and discuss ideas on the use of AI in Human Resources, pushing the state-of-the-art of NLP applications for Human Resources. Touché: Argumentation Systems https://touche.webis.de/ Touché is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on computational argumentation and causality. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** (may vary depending on the task) 18 November 2025: Registration opens 25 April 2025: Registration closes 10 May 2025: End of Evaluation Cycle [submission of runs] 30 May 2025: Submission of Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 30 May–27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Participant Papers and Extended Lab Overviews [CEUR-WS] due 9-12 September 2025, CLEF 2025 Conference, Madrid, Spain *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** General Chairs Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Alba García Seco de Herrera, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain Lab Chairs Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Australia

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TOC: Journal of Language Modelling 12(2) (special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology )
by Adam Przepiórkowski 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 12(2) – a special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology – of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/32. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial: “Computational approaches to morphological typology” Micha Elsner, Sacha Beniamine 271–286 Articles: “Alignment everywhere all at once: Applying the late aggregation principle to a typological database of argument marking” David Inman, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Melvin Steiger 287–347 “Zero marking in inflection: A token-based approach” Laura Becker 349–413 “An analogical approach to the typology of inflectional complexity” Matías Guzmán Naranjo 415–475 “Corpus-based measures discriminate inflection and derivation cross-linguistically” Coleman Haley, Edoardo M. Ponti, Sharon Goldwater 477–529 The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief) ====================================================================== EDITORIAL BOARD: • Steven Abney (University of Michigan, USA) • Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester, USA) • Igor Boguslavsky (Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN) • Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS) • Olivier Bonami (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, France) • Robert D. Borsley (Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM; Honorary Professor, Bangor University, UNITED KINGDOM) • António Branco (University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL) • David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, USA) • Dan Cristea (University of Iași, ROMANIA) • Berthold Crysmann (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE) • Jan Daciuk (Gdańsk University of Technology, POLAND) • Łukasz Dębowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, POLAND) • Mary Dalrymple (Professor Emerita, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) • Anette Frank (Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY) • Claire Gardent (LORIA, CNRS and Université de Lorraine, FRANCE) • Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE; Laboratoire d’Excellence LabEx-EFLt, FRANCE) • Thomas Graf (Stony Brook University, UNITED STATES) • Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) • Adam Jardine (Rutgers Department of Linguistics, UNITED STATES) • Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (University of Tartu, ESTONIA) • Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY) • Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA) • Kimmo Koskenniemi (Professor Emeritus, University of Helsinki, FINLAND) • Jonas Kuhn (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) • Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, ITALY) • John J. Lowe (University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) • Ján Mačutek (Comenius University, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA) • Igor Meľčuk (Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal, CANADA) • Richard Moot (CNRS, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, FRANCE) • Glyn Morrill (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN) • Stefan Müller (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY) • Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM) • Petya Osenova (Sofia University, BULGARIA) • David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) • Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, POLAND) • Christopher Potts (Stanford University, USA) • Agata Savary (University of Paris-Saclay, FRANCE) • Sabine Schulte im Walde (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) • Stuart M. Shieber (Harvard University, USA) • Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM) • Stan Szpakowicz (Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa, CANADA) • Shravan Vasishth (Universität Potsdam, GERMANY) • Aline Villavicencio (Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Exeter, UNITED KINGDOM; University of Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM) • Veronika Vincze (University of Szeged, HUNGARY) • Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, ISRAEL) • Zdeněk Žabokrtský (Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC) ====================================================================== -- Adam Przepiórkowski Visiting Professor @ MIT (Linguistics) Full Professor @ Polish Academy of Sciences (Computer Science) Full Professor @ University of Warsaw (Cognitive Science) Editor-in-Chief @ Journal of Language Modelling <https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/> WWW: https://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/AdamPrzepiorkowski

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REMINDER: (Self-)nominations for the ACL 2025 review process
by Anette Frank 14 Dec '24

14 Dec '24

Dear NLP community members, Reminder from ACL 2025: We invite for *nominations* and *self-nominations* to join the ACL 2025 programme committee, as a*reviewer *or an *area chair*, depending on your interest, availability and experience. The ACL 2025 review process will be run through ARR in the February cycle. The tentative timeline for the review period is 1 March to 20 March 2025 and the rebuttal period is 26 March to 31 March 2025. Area chairs need to be available throughout the ARR February cycle. Please submit your (self-)nominations through this form by *20 December 2024 (slightly extended deadline):* https://forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8R4A Afterwards, you will be invited to join the ARR February reviewer or area chair (action editor) pool through the ARR OpenReview platform. Please share this message with your colleagues, postdocs and PhD students. Many thanks in advance for your time and contribution! on behalf of the ACL 2025 PC chairs -- Prof. Dr. Anette Frankhttp://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~frank Computational Linguistics Department email:frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de University of Heidelberg phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247 Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 secr: +49-(0)6221/54-3245 69120 Heidelberg, Germany fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

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Deadline extended and final CfP - TheWebConf 2025 workshop on Protecting Women Online
by Debora Nozza 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM TSWWW 2025 Towards a Safer Web for Women - First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online co-located with The Web Conference 2025 Sydney, Australia 28 April - 2 May 2025 https://tsww25.github.io/ ******************************************************************** NEXT DEADLINES (all deadlines are AoE) ******************************************************************** 22nd December 2024 18th December 2024: Workshop paper submission deadline 13th January 2025: Notification of acceptance ******************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ The workshop is dedicated to addressing the pressing issue of online violence against women by fostering dialogue and innovation. The workshop will explore global challenges and solutions for gender-based violence and the impact of online harms on women, among others. We aim to encourage the development of technological and interdisciplinary frameworks and innovations to ensure women's online safety. The workshop aims to review progress in approaches combating online violence against women, identify persistent barriers, and propose solutions to emerging challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Detection and prevention of gender-based online violence (e.g., harassment, stalking, cyberbullying) * Sentiment and emotion analysis in abusive or harmful online interactions towards women * Gender bias identification and mitigation in AI * Human-centered approaches for online safety applications * Approaches to preventing, understanding, identifying and mitigating online harms faced by women with multiple marginalised identities (e.g., misogynoir, LGBTQ+ women, or women from religious or cultural minorities) * Analysis of tracking devices, surveillance tools, and hidden cameras misused against women * Detection and mitigation of non-consensual deepfake generation and dissemination * Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing online harm * Legal and ethical frameworks for protecting women online * Psychological, social, and legal impacts of online technology when used for gender-based abuse PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ We welcome both new and recent research, including non-archival submissions to showcase work published elsewhere, if it is especially relevant to the workshop's theme. Accepted formats include: * Long papers: Maximum 8 pages (excluding references) * Short papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Position, idea, and emerging problem papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Non-archival submissions: Up to 2 pages (excluding references) All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsww25 For full details, visit our Call for Papers page. Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants. Accepted papers (except for non-archival submissions) will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ____________________ Workshop chairs: * Ángel Pavón Pérez, The Open University * Miriam Fernandez, The Open University * Tracie Farrell, The Open University * Debora Nozza, Bocconi University * Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne

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CfP for CMCL at NAACL 2025: 14th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Call for Papers The 14th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2025) CMCL 2025 will be co-located with the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025). Workshop Description CMCL 2025 is a one-day workshop held in conjunction with NAACL 2025. CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and, more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition/perception. The 2025 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013, ACL 2014, NAACL 2015, EACL 2017, LSA 2018, NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, ACL 2022, and ACL 2024. Scope and Topics The research interests/questions include, but are not limited to: * Analysis of computational models that process language data (e.g., neural language models, parsers) to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition. * Analysis of human language data to give insights into fundamental linguistic questions, e.g., on human language processing/acquisition. * Comparing/aligning computational models (e.g., neural language models, parsers) with human language data to understand/reverse-engineer what and how humans compute during language comprehension/production/acquisition. * How insights from CogSci/linguistics and NLP fields can contribute to each other. * Sufficient conditions/pressures for the emergence of human-like communication/language. A more comprehensive description of the workshop scope is: * Models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics. * Models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word and phrase meaning and composition. * Models of incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms and their psychological plausibility. * Psychologically plausible models of discourse and dialogue. * Models of speaker-specific linguistic adaptation and/or generalization. * Models of first and second language acquisition and bilingual language processing. * Models of language disorders, such as aphasia, dyslexia, or dysgraphia. * Datasets or resources for modeling language processing or production in languages other than English. * Models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communities. * Analyzing computational models that process language data (e.g., neural language models, parsers) from the above perspectives. Invited Speakers We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers for the 2025 edition: * John T. Hale<https://cogsci.jhu.edu/directory/john-t-hale/> (Johns Hopkins University) * Tessa Verhoef<https://sites.google.com/view/tessa-verhoef/home> (Leiden University) Sponsoring Institutions This workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Important Dates * February 16, 2025: Paper submission/commitment deadline * March 10, 2025: Notification of acceptance * March 17, 2025: Camera-ready paper due * May 3 or May 4, 2025: Workshop dates (the exact date TBA) Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The timeline may change slightly. We are trying to set our CMCL deadline to be after the completion of the ARR December cycle (Feb. 16), in contrast to the timeline suggested in https://2025.naacl.org/calls/workshops/ That is, the authors in the ARR December cycle will have options to resubmit/commit it to the upcoming ARR rounds OR make a new direct submission to CMCL (see Submission types and Cross-submission policy Sections). Workshop submissions CMCL accepts direct submissions through the OpenReview site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/CMCL This year, we do not accept the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers. Submission types We invite three types of submissions: (1) Archival regular workshop submissions that present original research in either long (8 pages + references) or short (4 pages + references) paper format. (2) Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references). (3) Non-archival cross-submission of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere (including ACL “Findings of…” papers). Other submission details: * Authors must indicate if the paper is archival (1) or non-archival (2,3) when submitting the paper. That is, authors are not allowed to decide/change the archival/non-archival mode after receiving the reviews/notification. * Only regular workshop papers submitted via (1) will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will have a presentation opportunity in the workshop. * Submissions must be formatted using the ACL style template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) and submitted via a PDF file. * It is strongly recommended that the paper include a “Limitations” section (after the main parts and before the references), which is not counted in the part of the page limit. * Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments. * Non-archival papers (2,3) will be reviewed in a separate process than archival papers (1), although the timeline is the same; specifically, non-archival papers will be evaluated with more priority to broader factors, such as the fit of the topic with the workshop, the status of the paper (e.g., already accepted to elsewhere or not), and the entire diversity of the topic/community in the workshop, as well as the soundness of the paper. * We adhere to the new ACL anonymity policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy * This year, we do not host a shared task. * This year, we do not receive the commitment of ARR-reviewed papers to simplify the logistics. Instead, authors should submit their work via direct submission (without past reviews). Cross-submission policy For regular archival submission (1), CMCL will refuse papers that are under review or will be submitted to other conferences, including the ARR cycles. For non-archival submissions (2,3), we allow the submission of papers that have been or will be published elsewhere, but again, authors can not change the presentation mode to be archival after their submission. Workshop Organizers Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, tatsuki.kuribayashi(a)mbzuai.ac.ae<mailto:tatsuki.kuribayashi@mbzuai.ac.ae>) Giulia Rambelli (University of Bologna, giulia.rambelli4(a)unibo.it<mailto:giulia.rambelli4@unibo.it>) Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University, e.k.takmaz(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.k.takmaz@uu.nl>) Philipp Wicke (Ludwig Maximilian University LMU, pwicke(a)cis.lmu.de<mailto:pwicke@cis.lmu.de>) Jixing Li (City University of Hong Kong, jixingli(a)cityu.edu.hk<mailto:jixingli@cityu.edu.hk>) Byung-Doh Oh (New York University, oh.b(a)nyu.edu<mailto:oh.b@nyu.edu>) Website https://cmclorg.github.io/ Contact cmclorganizers2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclorganizers2025@gmail.com>

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