Dear all,
We are offering two exciting positions as postdoc / senior researcher
within the department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
(https://gesis.org/en/kts) at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. Both positions
are concerned with computational methods (NLP) for mining and analysing
web data in the social sciences, one with a methodological focus and the
other with an more applied perspective.
The positions are limited to 4 years, with option for tenure/permanency.
Further information can be found at:
- PostDoc in Computational Social Science:
https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/45089/Se…
- PostDoc in NLP & Knowledge Graphs:
https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/45112/Se…
For any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
Best regards,
Stefan
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze
Scientific Director Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts
Chair of Data & Knowledge Engineering
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Web: https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering
Phone: +49 (0)221-47694-421
Web: http://stefandietze.net
We’re hiring a postdoc to investigate how multimodal contexts shape human
judgments of sentence well-formedness, with a focus on leveraging LLMs.
Location: CLASP, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Duration: 2 years
Interested or have questions? I’m happy to provide more details.
Apply here:
https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89…
Call for Papers
*Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese*
of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS)
JBCS <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/> invites the
submission of papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished
research in all aspects of creating, adapting, using, and evaluating *Language
Models for Portuguese*.
The use of Language Models in the most diverse areas of computing has
raised several issues that deserve the attention of researchers. In the
specific case of the Portuguese language, we face major challenges. Whereas
efforts are put forward for the construction of good Portuguese models, the
most diverse applications are still created using multilingual models or
even models built for other languages. It is extremely important that the
Portuguese-speaking scientific community makes an effort to build adequate
resources to ensure safe and quality systems.
This Special Issue aims to gather original papers discussing Portuguese
language models. In addition to automatic evaluation measures, submissions
should also discuss the linguistic issues regarding these models'
capabilities, limitations, and biases. Topics covered by this Special Issue
extend to all research works involving the creation, adaptation, use and
evaluation of Language Models for Portuguese processing, including the
topics of interest below.
Topics of interest:
Comparative and critical analyses of language models
Social, ethical, financial, and ecological issues related to language models
Discussion on alternative solutions to language models
Domain-specific language models
Adequacy of not-so-large language models for specific tasks
Multilingual x Portuguese-specific models
Semantic issues in language models
Cultural issues in language models
Resources for training language models
Evaluation of language models
The papers must be written in English and the authors should follow the
Author Guidelines of the JBCS described here
<https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions> using
this JBCS LaTeX template
<https://www.overleaf.com/project/63b08a6f82cc2ad5aa297ac8>.
- Submission deadline: *March 1, 2025*
- Review deadline (1st round): *April 30, 2025*
- Submission of revised version deadline: *May 31, 2025*
- Review deadline (2nd round): *June 30, 2025*
- Submission of revised version deadline: *July 31, 2025*
- Decision deadline (rejection, acceptance): *August 2025*
- Camera-ready submission deadline: *September 2025*
- Publication: *October, 2025*
The submission for this Special Issue will be opened soon, and will be made
through the JBCS website
https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions.
Guest Editors:
Renata Vieira - UEVORA
Aline Paes - IC-UFF
Graça Nunes - ICMC-USP
Helena Caseli - DC-UFSCar
An initiative of Brasileiras em PLN group (https://brasileiraspln.com/) in
partnership with CE-PLN <https://www.sbc.org.br/>, the special group in
NLP of the Brazilian Computing Society <https://www.sbc.org.br/>.
contact email: jbcs-si-lmpt(a)googlegroups.com
homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/jbcs-si-on-portugueselm
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*Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)*
*Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)*
Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF)
Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN
<https://brasileiraspln.com/>
CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE
__________________________________________________________
url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes
Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504
São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346
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working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***
Dear all,
HITS is looking for a two-year
Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing (m/f/x) to perform research in multilingual coreference resolution.
Application deadline: January 15th, 2025. Starting date (negotiable): March 1st, 2025.
Please see for details
https://www.h-its.org/hits-job/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-language-…
If you have further questions please don't hesitate to contact Michael Strube at michael.strube(a)h-its.org.
With best regards,
Michael Strube
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Michael Strube
NLP Group
HITS gGmbH
Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35
69118 Heidelberg, Germany
http://www.h-its.org/nlp
***Apologies for possible cross-posting ***
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION
We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL) has been extended from December 16th to December 23rd, 2024. The workshop will be held on March 2, 2025, as part of the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
About the Workshop
This half-day workshop focuses on the responsible evaluation and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to address the unique challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field.
Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
- Ethical benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in Nordic and Baltic
languages
- Methods for creating culturally sensitive and inclusive evaluation
datasets
- Responsible techniques for generating or collecting alignment data
- Challenges and solutions in ethical LLM alignment for less-resourced
languages
- Case studies on responsible LLM evaluation or alignment projects
- Ethical considerations in LLM evaluation and alignment
- Comparative studies of LLM performance and fairness in Nordic and
Baltic languages
- Innovative approaches to leveraging limited language resources in
evaluation or alignment of language models
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: January 13, 2025
Camera-Ready Deadline: February 3, 2025
Workshop Date: March 2, 2025
Workshop Format
NB-REAL 2025 will be a half-day workshop held on March 2, 2025 (pre-conference). It will be a hybrid event with both on-site and online participation available.
Submission
Submissions can be long papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The templates are available at the official conference website, see https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers#h.v2k63awq0fpe. All submissions will undergo peer review by the program committee. To submit your paper please visit NB-REAL 2025 Workshop | OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Workshop/NB-REAL#t…>
Organizers
Hafsteinn Einarsson, Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Iceland (hafsteinne(a)hi.is)
Annika Simonsen, PhD Student, University of Iceland (annika(a)hi.is)
Dan Saattrup Nielsen, Senior AI Specialist, Alexandra Institute (dan.nielsen(a)alexandra.dk)
For more information, please visit our website: https://nbreal.xyz/
We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at NB-REAL
2025!
Dear Colleagues,
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submissions to our workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)" is fast approaching!
The deadline is December 31, 2024—just two weeks away. To contribute a talk, please send an abstract of your planned contribution of 300-600 words by e-mail to arno.simons(a)tu-berlin.de <mailto:arno.simons@tu-berlin.de>. We encourage every contributor to present on site and to participate in the whole workshop program. In exceptional cases, we will offer the possibility to present remotely.
The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
We look for contributions that help resolve questions like these:
How can LLMs help gain new perspectives on long-standing problems in HPSS such as determining the relevant contexts of knowledge claims, the dynamics of scientific controversies, problems of incommensurability, and generalizability of case studies?
How can LLMs handle the specialized language of scientific texts, including technical jargon, citations, and mathematical formulas?
How can LLMs bridge the gap between qualitative and computational methods and help overcome their limitations?
How can LLMs be integrated into existing theoretical and methodological frameworks in HPSS, or how should these frameworks evolve to accommodate LLM-based analysis?
How can we evaluate the validity of results generated by LLMs, given their opacity?
How can LLMs account for the temporal development of scientific language and knowledge over time?
For more details about the workshop and the CFP, please visit: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss
We look forward to your contributions!
Best regards,
Arno Simons
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Arno Simons
Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/arno-simons
Call for Workshop Proposals
16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
22-24 September 2025
https://iwcs2025.github.io/
IWCS is a biennial conference on computational semantics. This year's
edition is organized by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The
conference is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group on
Computational Semantics.
The aim of IWCS is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects
of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation, and learning of
meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural
semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning
approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The
conference and workshops will take place 22-24 September 2025.
=== WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ===
We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with IWCS 2025.
Accepted workshops will have the option to publish their proceedings in the
ACL Anthology.
We solicit proposals in all areas of computational semantics, in other
words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within
written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Workshops are
invited on these closely related areas, including the following:
* design of meaning representations
* syntax-semantics interface
* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics
* distributional semantics
* alternative approaches to compositional semantics
* inference methods for computational semantics
* recognizing textual entailment
* learning by reading
* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
* machine learning of semantic structures
* probabilistic computational semantics
* neural semantic parsing
* computing meaning with large language models
* computational aspects of lexical semantics
* semantics and ontologies
* semantic web and natural language processing
* semantic aspects of language generation
* generating from meaning representations
* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
* semantics-pragmatics interface
* applications of computational semantics
=== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ===
Proposals for workshops should contain:
* A title and brief (max two pages) description of the workshop topic and
content;
* The names, affiliation and email addresses of the organisers;
* An estimate of the expected audience size;
* If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous
workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many
papers were accepted and how many attendees the workshop attracted;
* Whether you plan a half-day or full-day workshop;
* Whether or not the workshop proceedings should be published in the ACL
Anthology.
Proposals should be submitted on OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/SIGSEM/IWCS/2025/Workshop_Propos…
The person submitting the proposal will need an OpenReview account. Please
note OpenReview's moderation policy, where newly created accounts with an
institutional email address are approved automatically, but other email
addresses can take up to two weeks to approve.
=== FINANCES ===
Workshops must cover their own costs for invited speakers as well as
organizers' traveling costs.
=== IMPORTANT DATES ===
31 January 2025 Workshop proposal submissions due
07 February 2025 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance
24 September 2025 Workshop date
=== CONTACT ===
For questions, contact: iwcs2025-program-chairs(a)uni-duesseldorf.de
Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Sylvain Pogodalla (the IWCS 2025 program
chairs)
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Dr. Kilian Evang · Institut für Linguistik · Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1 · 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany · https://kilian.evang.name
Great news—we’ve extended the paper submission deadline for our
workshop to *December
30th, 2024*.
Below is the Call for Papers. Please feel free to share it widely.
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*Call for Papers *for the *NLP4Ecology 2025 Workshop*, titled "The 1st
Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing,"
The workshop will be co-located with *the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on
Computational Linguistics and the 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language
Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)*.
We are inviting submissions that explore how NLP and computational
linguistics can help address ecological challenges. The workshop focuses on
interdisciplinary approaches to tackle the environmental crises by
leveraging NLP tools to, e.g., analyze harmful narratives, detect
misinformation, and examine public discourse related to ecological issues.
Topics of interest include sentiment analysis, bias detection, framing
analysis, and more.
We aim to attract a highly interdisciplinary audience and welcome
contributions at the intersection of *linguistics*, *ecology*, and *computer
science*, particularly from fields such as *AI*, *computational linguistics*
, *digital humanities*, *ecolinguistics*, *ethics*, *philosophy*, and
*environmental
humanities, *with the goal of fostering collaboration between the NLP
community and scholars from diverse disciplines to explore how language
technology can help address climate change and environmental crises.
More details on the Call for Papers are on the workshop website
<https://econlpws2025.di.unito.it/>.
Key dates:
*Paper Submission Deadline*: December 16, 2024 *December 30, 2024*
*Camera-Ready Deadline*: February 3, 2025
*Workshop Date*: March 2, 2025 (Tallinn, Estonia)
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IberLEF 2025 -- Second Call for Task Proposals
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IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation
campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other
Iberian languages, whose 2025 edition will be held as part of the 41th
International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN). The 2025 edition of the SEPLN conference will take
place in Zaragoza, Spain.
The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize
competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the
aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art
in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the
following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or
Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language
Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals
that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2024.
Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com,
and should include the following fields:
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Title of the task.
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Description of the task, highlighting:
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Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved.
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Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects.
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Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup.
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Related evaluation activities, if any.
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Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized
previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2024 are.
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Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please
include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation
procedures as possible: sources and representativity,
training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of
annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation
policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc.
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Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings
must be ready by July 3, 2025).
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Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers,
with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise
and experience organizing similar events.
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Funding, if available.
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Contact person.
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Any other relevant issues.
Task organizers duties
Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to:
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Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal.
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Promote the task within the target research community.
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Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system
description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the
participants. The accepted papers will be published in
the IberLEF proceedings.
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Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise.
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Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2025.
Task selection procedure
Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering
and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task
organizers by January 24, 2025.
Proceedings
IberLEF 2025 Proceedings including the description of the participating
systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published
in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate
ESCI (JCI: 0.21), CiteScore (Scopus): 2,9 and SJR: 0,421) in its September
2025 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the
acceptance of their works by June 20, 2025, and send the camera ready task
and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July
3, 2025.
Important dates
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Task proposals due: December 22, 2024.
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Notification of acceptance: January 24, 2025.
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Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 20,
2025.
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Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2025.
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IberLEF Workshop: September 2025.
IberLEF general chairs
Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain)
Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
José Ángel González Barba, Symanto Research (Spain)
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025
Contact
E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com
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[image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez
Zafra*
sjzafra(a)ujaen.es
Universidad de Jaén
Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de
Informática
EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326
Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992
[image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>
*The Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2025)
<https://unlp.org.ua/>*
*Call For Papers*
UNLP 2025 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on July 31 or August
1, 2025, in conjunction with ACL 2025.
The workshop will bring together leading professionals from academia and
industry who develop language resources, tools, and NLP solutions for the
Ukrainian language or do cross-lingual research that can be applied to the
Ukrainian language.
The workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the
Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and
sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research
groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community.
Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational
Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks:
- morphosyntactic tagging,
- named-entity recognition,
- syntactic and semantic parsing,
- coreference resolution,
- information extraction and text mining,
- automated question answering and information retrieval,
- language modelling and natural language generation,
- grammatical error correction,
- text summarization,
- machine translation,
- sentiment analysis,
- argument mining,
- disinformation detection and fact verification,
- development of language resources and evaluation methods,
- speech recognition and generation,
- knowledge representation and computational pragmatics,
- computational semantics,
- computational methods for phonology,
- cross-lingual models applicable to Ukrainian,
- Ukrainian dialects, sociolects, and code-switching,
- Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence
technologies.
*Note: *The workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar
language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of
the indigenous people of Ukraine. The workshop will also accept papers with
negative results.
*Shared Task*
UNLP 2025 organizes a Shared Task on Detecting Social Media Manipulation.
This Shared Task aims to challenge and assess AI capabilities to detect and
classify manipulation, laying the groundwork for progress in cybersecurity
and the identification of disinformation within the context of Ukraine.
Organized jointly with Texty.org.ua, the task will be based on 9,500
Telegram posts manually annotated for ten manipulation techniques by media
experts. The shared task will have two tracks: techniques classification
and detection of manipulative text spans.
More details will follow soon. Check for updates at https://unlp.org.ua/.
*Important dates*
April 14, 2025 — Workshop paper due (direct submission)
May 5, 2025 — Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline
May 12, 2025 — Notification of acceptance
June 2, 2025 — Camera-ready papers due
June 30, 2025 — Pre-recorded video due
July 31 or August 1, 2025 — Workshop
*Submissions*
UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions
describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the
broader public are strongly encouraged.
We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers
should describe original, unpublished, and completed work. The short papers
may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system
demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing
software and resources.
The paper submission link will be added soon. Check for updates at
https://unlp.org.ua/.
The workshop will provide Grammarly Premium to all authors. To request
Grammarly Premium, please fill in this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemG2fVh_KJo6JZF9pC4TNQ9gdMawd-TC_…>
.
*Workshop Organizers*
*Main Organizers*
Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine
Olena Nahorna, Grammarly, Germany
Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
*Shared Task Organizers*
Nataliia Romanyshyn, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Oleksii Syvokon, Microsoft, Ukraine
Roman Kyslyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine
Volodymyr Sydorskyi, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine
Find our program committee at https://unlp.org.ua/committees/.
*Follow us*
Website: https://unlp.org.ua/.
X: https://x.com/UNLP_workshop.
Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop.
Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua.