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[CfP] Final CfP for LowResNLP: Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria)
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the final call for papers of the *Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP) at RANLP 2025* The most important information at a glance: 🗓️ Deadline: July 15, Workshop: Sep 11, 12 or 13 📍 Varna, Bulgaria 🌐 https://lrlnlp.github.io/website/ Despite rapid progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), the benefits of recent advances - especially large language models (LLMs) - remain unevenly distributed. While high-resource languages like English, French, and Chinese have seen significant performance gains, low-resource languages continue to face substantial challenges across core NLP tasks such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and part-of-speech tagging. These disparities arise from a combination of factors: the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited linguistic resources, and a lack of community involvement in data collection and model development. As a result, many languages, particularly African, Indigenous, and minority languages, remain underrepresented in both academic research and deployed NLP systems. LowResNLP is a workshop dedicated to addressing these challenges by fostering research, collaboration, and discussion around methods, resources, and evaluation practices specifically designed for low-resource languages. LowResNLP seeks to actively contribute to the field by inviting submissions that specifically address the unique challenges and opportunities involved in working with low-resource languages. The workshop welcomes a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Language models and large language models for low-resource languages * Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages * Evaluation benchmarks for language models in low-resource languages * Language models and resources for low-resource languages in Spain * Machine/pivot translation for low-resource languages * Fairness in resources/models for low-resource languages * Prompting learning strategies for large language models * Transfer learning and Crosslingual approaches for low-resource NLP * Massively multilingual approaches to Low-Resource NLP Important Dates: Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 July 2025 (AoE) Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025 Workshops: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Submission formats: We invite the submission of both full papers and short papers. Full papers should not exceed 8 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). Short papers should not exceed 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). All submissions should be prepared using the current ACL templates (see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/). Papers should be submitted through SoftConf: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LowResNLP2025 Organizers: For any questions, please drop a mail to lowresnlp-2025-organizers(a)googlegroups.com Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares (University of Alicante, Spain; University of Havana, Cuba) Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK) Besik Mikaberidze (Georgian Technical University, Georgia) Simon Ostermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Daniil Gurgurov (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Philipp Müller (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Kurt Micallef (University of Malta, Malta) Claudia Borg (University of Malta, Malta) Michal Gregor (KINIT, Slovakia) Marián Šimko (KINIT, Slovakia) Programme Committee: Nora Aranberri (University of Basque Country) Sudhansu Bala Das (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of - Galway, Ireland) Ana‑Maria Bucur (University of Bucharest) Annie Lee En-Shiun (Ontario Tech University and University of Toronto) Sofía García González (imaxin software, University of the Basque Country) Albert Gatt (Utretch University) Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) Basab Nath (Assam University) Patrizia Paggio (University of Malta) Dhrubajyoti Pathak (National Forensic Sciences University) Fabian Schmidt (University of Würzburg) Marijn Schraagen (Utretch University) A. Seza Doğruöz (University of Ghent) Marc Tanti (University of Malta) Sunita Warjri (University of South Bohemia)

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Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification
by Stodden, Regina 10 Jul '25

10 Jul '25

📢 Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification We invite you to participate in the TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification, aimed at generating simplifications of texts that conform to a specified target readability level, balancing reduced linguistic complexity with meaning preservation and fluency. The shared task is focused on simplifying English paragraphs to specific CEFR levels (A1, A2, B1). Input texts are at B2 level or above. Participants must produce simplified versions that match the target readability level while preserving meaning. 🗓️ Key dates: * Trial data release: July 16th * Test data release: August 15th * Submission deadline: August 26th * Results: September 2nd 🗃️ No training data provided – you're free to use any publicly available resources 📊 Evaluation: CEFR compliance, meaning preservation, reference similarity 📝 System description papers invited to TSAR 2025 @ EMNLP (Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9) ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/shared-task/ 🔗 Registration at: https://forms.gle/p9rg7FjxaNFWcPVS7 📢 The submission for regular papers to the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR) is also still possible. ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/cfp/ 🗓️ Submission deadline: August 26th -- Regina Stodden (she/her) Postdoctoral Researcher Bielefeld University - Semantic Computing Group

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Job: ERRATUM Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
by Maria Boritchev 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

[Apologies for cross postings][New and corrected links] ******************************************************** Faculty position (Associate professor, tenure position ) at Telecom Paris in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing /!\ NEW LINKS /!\ Version française : [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/associate-professor-in-machine… ] English Version: [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/associate-professor-in-ma… ] In the team: [ https://s2a.telecom-paris.fr/resources/2025-07-01-poste-npl/ | https://s2a.telecom-paris.fr/resources/2025-07-01-poste-npl/ ] Telecom Paris has a new permanent (tenure) faculty position (Associate Professor/ “Maître/Maîtresse de conférences”) in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing. Applicants from the following sub-research areas are particularly welcome: - Generative models, Conversational AI - Bias and Explainability in AI - Frugal Machine Learning Important Dates September 5, 2025 : closing date for applications Main missions - Participate in the design and implementation of teaching programs in the field of machine learning for language processing - Conduct research in your scientific field - Participate in the development of partnerships, collaborations and contractual relationships in your scientific field - Participate in teaching activities at Telecom Paris and its partner academic institutions (as part of joint Master programs), especially in natural language processing, speech processing, machine learning, and Data Science, including life-long training programs (e.g. the local “Mastères Spécialisés”). Candidate profile As a minimum requirement, the successful candidate will have: - A Ph.D. degree - A track record of research and publication in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing, generative speech and signal processing, human-agent interactions, social robotics - Experience in teaching - An international postdoctoral experience is welcome but not mandatory - Excellent command of English NOTE: The candidate does *not* need to speak French to apply, just to be willing to learn the language (teaching will be mostly given in English). Other expected skills include: - Capacity to work in a team and develop good relationships with colleagues and peers - Excellent writing and pedagogical skills More about the position Place of work: Saclay (Paris outskirts) Context: - S²A (machine learning, statistics and signal processing) group [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - LTCI (laboratoire de traitement et communication de l’information) [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin… ] - Télécom Paris [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/home ] Ecosystem: Télécom Paris is a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris, [ https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ | https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/ ] ), a world-class scientific and technological institution. Located at the Plateau de Saclay close to Paris-Saclay University, this Institution is a partnership between Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris, Télecom SudParis, with HEC as a key partner. Regularly ranked as one of the best engineering schools in France, Télécom Paris is recognized for its excellent training, its very good employability rate with high salaries, its high-level research, and its very close proximity to companies. The THE (Times Higher Education, [ https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… | https://www.telecom-paris.fr/times-higher-education-telecom-paris-6th-best-… ] ) ranks Télécom Paris 2nd best French engineering school, 5th better French university, and 6th « best small university ». The newly created institution IP Paris was ranked in the top 50 best universities in the QS world university ranking. In the context of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the activities in Data Science and AI of the team benefit from the center Hi!Paris ( [ https://www.hi-paris.fr/ | https://www.hi-paris.fr/ ] ), offering seminars, workshops, and fundings through calls for project. How to apply? Applications must be submitted via one of the following websites: French Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/assistantassociate-professor-i… ] English Version [ https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… | https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/assistantassociate-profes… ] Applicants should submit: - Cover letter, - Curriculum vitae, - Statements of research and teaching interests (4 pages maximum each) - Three publications - Contact information for two references Contacts - please contact us directly before applying: Maria Boritchev Matthieu Labeau Stéphan Clémençon (Head of the S²A group) Florence Tupin (Head of the IDS department)

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Call for Short Papers (Posters): SemDial 2025 – The 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bialogue)
by Hendrik Buschmeier 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

# Call for Short Papers (Posters): SemDial 2025 – The 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bialogue) Website: https://semdial2025.github.io/ ## Information We invite submissions for ‘Bialogue 2025’, the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series at Bielefeld University, Germany. This conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. ## Topics This year, the conference will center around the theme “Meaningful Interaction”. We particularly encourage work that explores this theme, but submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including but not limited to: * Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue * Common ground and mutual belief * Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * Turn-taking and interaction control * Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * Dialogue and discourse structure * Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue * Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * Multimodal dialogue * Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * Dialogue management, design, and evaluation * Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological approaches to dialogue * Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research ## Submission Details Submissions should meet the following requirements: * Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. * Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. * Papers should follow the ACL 2025 formatting guidelines and use the ACL submission templates. * Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files. ### Short Papers (Posters) At most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request. Submission: Please submit your short paper (poster) via Open Review: https://openreview.net/group?id=SemDial.org/2025/Bialogue ## Important Dates All deadlines are 23:59 UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) Short Paper/Poster Deadline July 18, 2025 Notification (short) July 25, 2025 Camera Ready (short/posters) August 9, 2025 Registration Deadline August 15, 2025 SemDial 2025 Conference September 3–5, 2025 -- Hendrik Buschmeier Digital Linguistics Lab Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University https://purl.org/net/hbuschme

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INLG 2025: Third Call for Papers (New paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025)
by Saad Mahamood 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

Dear Corpora list members, I am sharing this CFP on the behalf of the Program Chairs of INLG 2025. Apologies in advance for any cross-posting. Saad. ------- I am excited to share that we will have some great Keynote Speakers this year, including Verena Rieser (Google DeepMind), Minlie Huang (黄民烈; Tsinghua University), Hadas Kotek (Apple), Mike White (Ohio State University) and Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt). The event will be held from October 29 - November 2 in Hanoi, Vietnam, just before EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China. Please note, we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to July 18, 2025. Third Call for Papers: 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2025 We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including Large Language Models (LLMs). Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from October 29 - November 2 in Hanoi, Vietnam. INLG 2025 will be taking place before EMNLP 2025 (5-9 November) in Suzhou, China. Important dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) START system regular paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025 (NEW) ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: August 7, 2025 START system demo paper submission deadline: July 24, 2025 Notification: August 21, 2025 Camera ready: September 15, 2025 Conference: October 29 - November 2, 2025 Topics INLG 2025 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems Generalizability of NLG systems Bias and fairness in NLG systems Thinking models for NLG Affect/emotion generation Analysis and detection of automatically generated text Cognitive modeling of language production Computational efficiency of NLG models Content and text planning Corpora and resources for NLG Ethical considerations of NLG Grounded language generation Lexicalisation Multimedia and multimodality in generation Natural language understanding techniques for NLG NLG and accessibility NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots NLG for human-robot interaction NLG for low-resourced languages NLG for real-world applications Paraphrasing, summarization and translation Personalisation and variation in text Referring expression generation Storytelling and narrative generation Surface realization System architectures Submissions & Format Three kinds of papers can be submitted: Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2025. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2025 website: https://inlg2025.github.io/ To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2025, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/p/inlg2025/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is July 18, 2025 (NEW), 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2025 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is August 7, 2025, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2025 is May 19, 2025. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2025 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2025 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2025/) by July 24, 2025, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2025 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2025 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. Awards INLG 2025 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. Best Evaluation Award: This award honors the authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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Postdoc position: Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation (Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
by Nathan Schneider 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

The NERT lab <http://nert.georgetown.edu/> at Georgetown University in Washington, DC has an open postdoctoral position for a project at the intersection of linguistics, computation, and law. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, beginning this *Friday, July 11*. A start date early in Fall 2025 is preferred. Questions about the position should be directed to nathan.schneider(a)georgetown.edu. https://apply.interfolio.com/170055 *Post Doctoral Associate - Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation* The Georgetown Initiative on Technology and Society is seeking a Postdoctoral Fritz Research Fellow to conduct research in Washington, DC in the emerging area of empirical approaches to legal interpretation (see https://solid-symposium.github.io/2025/ for examples of interdisciplinary research in this space). We seek candidates with a Ph.D. in Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or a related field who bring expertise in linguistic and/or computational methodologies that can apply to the study of legal interpretation. The postdoc will lead collaborative research initiatives with deliverables such as datasets, software, scholarly publications and public-facing contributions. The position will be housed in the research group of Prof. Nathan Schneider under the Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics, with additional mentorship by Prof. Kevin Tobia (GU Law Center); the fellow will be an active member of the intellectual life of the lab, the Tech and Society community, and the broader university. Synergistic professional development opportunities may include co-mentorship of research students in the lab and co-development of grant proposals. Along with mentored research, this fellow will join a cohort of Fritz Family Fellows ranging from undergraduate students through postdoctoral fellows. Each fellow will be working on a different project co-designed and mentored by faculty from at least two different parts of the campus. Ultimately, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work. -- Nathan Schneider Associate Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Georgetown University http://nathan.cl

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Final CfP: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025)
by Piotr Przybyła 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

We are pleased to invite submissions for the first Interdisciplinary Workshop on Observations of Misunderstood, Misguided and Malicious Use of Language Models (OMMM 2025). The workshop will be held with the RANLP 2025 conference in Varna, Bulgaria, on 11-13 September 2025. Overview The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) pervades scientific practices in multiple disciplines beyond the NLP/AI communities. Alongside benefits for productivity and discovery, widespread use often entails misuse due to misalignment of values, lack of knowledge, or, more rarely, malice. LLM misuse has the potential to cause real harm in a variety of settings. Through this workshop, we aim to gather researchers interested in identifying and mitigating inappropriate and harmful uses of LLMs. These include misunderstood usage (e.g., misrepresentation of LLMs in the scientific literature); misguided usage (e.g., deployment of LLMs without adequate training or privacy safeguards); and malicious usage (e.g., generation of misinformation and plagiarism). Sample topics are listed below, but we welcome submissions on any domain related to the scope of the workshop. Important Dates Submission deadline *[NEW]*: *15 July 2025*, at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth Notification of acceptance: 01 August 2025 Camera-ready papers due: 30 August 2025 Workshop dates: September 11, 12, or 13, 2025 Submission Guidelines Submissions will be accepted as short papers (4 pages) and as long papers (8 pages), plus additional pages for references. All submissions undergo a double-blind review, so they should not include any identifying information. Submissions should conform to the RANLP guidelines; for further information and templates, please see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/ We welcome submissions from diverse disciplines, including NLP and AI, psychology, HCI, and philosophy. We particularly encourage reports on negative results that provide interesting perspectives on relevant topics. In-person presenters will be prioritised when selecting submissions to be presented at the workshop, but the workshop will take place in a hybrid format. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Papers should be submitted on the RANLP conference system at https://softconf.com/ranlp25/OMMM2025/ Keynote Speaker We are excited to have Dr. Stefania Druga as the keynote speaker for the inaugural OMMM workshop. Dr. Druga is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where she designs novel multimodal AI applications. Topics of Interest We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to inappropriate and harmful uses of LLMs, including but not limited to: - Misunderstood use (and how to improve understanding): - Misrepresentation of LLMs (e.g., anthropomorphic language) - Attribution of consciousness - Interpretability - Overreliance on LLMs - Misguided use (and how to find alternatives): - Underperformance and inappropriate applications - Structural limitations and ethical considerations - Deployment without proper training or safeguards - Malicious use (and how to mitigate it): - Adversarial attacks, jailbreaking - Detection and watermarking of machine-generated content - Generation of misinformation or plagiarism - Bias mitigation and trust design For more information, please refer to the workshop website: https://ommm-workshop.github.io/2025/. For any questions, please contact the organisers at ommm-workshop(a)googlegroups.com. The organisers, Piotr Przybyła, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University Clara Colombatto, University of Waterloo Nanna Inie, IT University of Copenhagen

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Deadline extension - Workshop SIR@IWCS2025
by Amandine Decker 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

*apologies for cross-postings* === Workshop SIR === First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research SIR@IWCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025 ================================= https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisci… https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 ================================= In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences, offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling language-based phenomena. The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS), as its ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, etc. This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, Art, …). A major theme of SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches). === Topics to Explore === • CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications • Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities • NLP transforming humanities issues • Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning • Links between formal semantics and neural models • Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in the Humanities • Ethics and bias in semantic modelling • Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities === Dates === • Deadline : July 21st (anywhere on earth) (previously July 14th) • Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth) • Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth) • Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth) === Submission Information === Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 21 July 2025 (anywhere on earth). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person. Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. === Submission === https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01 === Style Files === The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page. === Organizers === Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University === Contact === maxime.amblard(a)univ-lorraine.fr and ellen.breitholtz(a)ling.gu.se

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ACL'25 Tutorial on "Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers"
by ACL Announcements 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

Dear ACL members and ACL'25 attendees, At ACL 2025 in Vienna, we will host a Tutorial on "Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers" (https://2025.aclweb.org/program/tutorials/). So if you ever wanted to learn (more) about ethical challenges or to understand them better, this is your chance. In order to tailor the tutorial to the attendees' needs, we set up a small survey, which should only take about 5-10 minutes to fill out. It gives you a chance to tell us about what your needs are to understand Ethical Challenges in NLP better. And we can take your needs into account. Please participate both in the survey and in the tutorial -- the more the merrier! You can find it here: https://www.soscisurvey.de/tutorial484456/ Best regards Margot Mieskes (on behalf of the Tutorial Organizers)

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Second Call for Papers: Identity-Aware AI 2025
by Soda Marem Lo 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware AI Workshop at ECAI 2025 <https://ecai2025.org/workshops/>, Bologna, Italy, October 25-30. https://identity-aware-ai.github.io/ Workshop theme: What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and technical challenges does this imply? Overview What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it) is about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on the assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if enough data (and compute power) is present, the resulting generalizations will be robust enough and represent the majority. This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the notion of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop aims to raise the question of “what makes each of us unique?” to the AI community. We seek to gather researchers from diverse fields to understand how the identities of all stakeholders — e.g., the individuals projecting their views in texts, the individuals perceiving the texts, the individuals mentioned and those not mentioned in the texts — should be considered in future research in AI. Workshop Goals - The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of identities and how identity is treated in AI. - The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on the following topics: - Approaches to model subjective phenomena: Personalization and perspectivist methods that leverage disaggregated labeled data, encoding annotator metadata on their beliefs, moral values, sociodemographic features, or personal narratives. ML methods to address the challenges of “learning from disagreements” both from the development of new models and the collection of data to train such models. - Methods for detecting and controlling bias in models and data: Techniques to audit fairness, enforce fairness constraints, and learn fair representation from data, in order to enhance the fairness of models while maintaining their predictive reliability. Ethical challenges for LLMs in identity-aware dialog and tasks: diversity, stereotypes, harms. - The role of sociodemographics in LLMs: Such as which characteristics (and disagreements) they embody and how to measure their capacity for representing and reasoning about diverse types of identities. - Challenges for applying AI methods to model socio-political phenomena: Including polarization, impact of media consumption on public opinion formation, agenda setting, deliberation support, and how integrating identity into AI methods can influence the accuracy for these tasks. - NLP work at the intersection with social psychology: The methodological foundation for quantitative investigation of identity-related topics. The reflection on best practices to reliably measure complex constructs such as morals and values. Detection and analysis of personal narratives across cultures. - Accountability of AI in the eye of the general public: The role of LLMs, and the responsibilities of AI and NLP developers for ethical use of identities. - NLP work at the intersection of survey science: The use of LLMs to model and simulate individuals and subpopulations; the role of LLMs in personalizing information elicitation; and methodological approaches to address data contamination and response validation when LLMs are used by either researchers or respondents. Submission Types We welcome the following types of submissions: - Long papers: Up to 8 pages (excluding references) - Short papers: Up to 4 pages (excluding references) - Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media submissions: No page limit - For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats including: - Art, poetry, music - Blog posts - Jupyter notebooks - Teaching materials - TikToks and videos - Findings papers - Late-breaking papers - Extended abstracts - For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing: - A summary or abstract of your work - A link to your work (if hosted externally) - Any additional context or documentation Submission Guidelines - All submissions will be double-blind reviewed - Submissions should follow ECAI formatting guidelines <https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track> with the latex template here <https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip> - Submit your paper through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=identityawareai2025> - Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings through CEUR Workshop Format The workshop will be a half-day event featuring: - Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field - Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks) - Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and design a vision for collecting new datasets - Special student project session We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. Important Dates - Submissions: 22 August - Notifications: 26 September - Camera-ready: 3 October - Workshop: 25 October Diversity & Inclusion We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers. Organizers - Pranav A (University of Hamburg) - Valerio Basile (University of Turin) - Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart) - David Jurgens (University of Michigan) - Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf) - Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg) - Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin) Contact For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com Join us at Identity-aware AI 2025 to contribute to this important conversation!

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