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EVALITA 2026 - Second Call for Tasks (NEW DEADLINES and TIMELINE)
by Marco Antonio Stranisci 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

****************************************************** ********* EVALITA 2026: Call for tasks ********* ******* NEW DEADLINES and TIMELINE ****** ****************************************************** EVALITA 2026 is an initiative of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale, AILC https://www.ai-lc.it/). As in the previous editions (https://www.evalita.it/), EVALITA 2026 will be organized along a few selected tasks, which provide participants with opportunities to discuss and explore both emerging and traditional areas of Natural Language Processing and Speech. The participation is encouraged for teams working both in academic institutions and industrial organizations. TASK PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Task proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and should include: - task title and acronym; - names and affiliation of the organizers (minimum 2 organizers); - brief task description, including motivations and state of the art; - explanation of the international relevance of the task; - description and examples of the data, including information about their availability, development stage, and issues concerning privacy and data sensitivity. The examples are mandatory because they are intended to give potential participants an idea of what the task data will look like, how it’ll be formatted, etc. - expected number of participants and attendees; - names and contact information of the organizers. We also accept the re-annotation/expansion of datasets from previous years and previous challenges with new annotation levels, and texts from publicly available corpora. However, test annotations must be new and unpublished, as participants must not have access to the test data annotations until the end of EVALITA campaign. For new tasks, organizers must specify in the proposal why it would attract a reasonable number of participants, and why it is needed. For re-runs, organizers must describe the element of novelty from previous challenges. In submitting your proposal, please bear in mind that we strongly encourage: - tasks that pose non-trivial challenges and stimulate the creation of innovative systems (i.e., that integrate linguistic insights or external knowledge sources), rather than being easily addressed by off-the-shelf LLM prompting techniques; - tasks focused on multimodality, e.g., considering both textual and visual or any other modality; - tasks characterized by different levels of complexity, e.g., with a straightforward main subtask and one or more sophisticated additional subtasks; - to consider providing competitive baselines (e.g., small-scale LLMs in zero-shot setups), which participants are expected to improve upon, in order to encourage the design of advanced solutions; - application-oriented tasks, that is, tasks that have a clearly defined end-user application showcasing; - multilingual tasks, i.e. with data both in Italian and in other languages; - industrial tasks, i.e. tasks with real data provided by companies. The organizers of the accepted tasks should take care of planning, according to the scheduled deadlines (see below): - the development and distribution of datasets needed for the contest, i.e. data for training and development, and data for testing; the scorer to be used to evaluate the submitted systems should be included in the release of development data; - the development of task guidelines, where all the instructions for the participation are made clear, together with a detailed description of data and evaluation metrics applied for the evaluation of the participant's results; - the collection of participants' results; - the evaluation of participants' results according to standard metrics and baseline(s); - the solicitation of participation and submissions; - the reviewing process of the papers describing the participants' approach and results (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2026 chairs); - the production of a paper describing the task (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2026 chairs). *** Email your proposal in PDF format to evalitacampaign(a)gmail.com with "EVALITA 2026 TASK Proposal" as the subject line by the submission deadline: July 28th 2025. *** Please feel free to contact the EVALITA 2026 chairs at evalitacampaign(a)gmail.com in case of any questions or suggestions. Deadlines of the task proposal: - July 21th 2025 July 28th 2025: submission of task proposals - July 31th 2025 August 7th 2025: notification of task proposal acceptance Timelines of EVALITA 2026: - 22nd September 2025: development data available to participants - 3 - 17th November 2025: evaluation windows - 28th November 2025: assessments returned to participants - 15th December 2025: final reports (from participants) due to task organizers - 22nd December 2025: final reports (from task organizers) due to EVALITA chairs - 19th January 2025: review deadline - 2nd February 2026: camera-ready version deadline - 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari EVALITA 2026 CHAIRS Francesco Cutugno (Università di Napoli) Alessio Miaschi (Istituto di Lingustica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” - CNR) Alessio Palmero Aprosio (Università di Trento) Giulia Rambelli (Università di Bologna) Lucia Siciliani (Università di Bari) Marco Antonio Stranisci (Università di Torino) FURTHER INFORMATION Website: https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/call-for-tasks/ Mail: evalitacampaign(a)gmail.com Marco, UNITO <https://www.unito.it/persone/mstranis> and aequa-tech <https://aequa-tech.com/>

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Lancaster free live streamed sessions on CL methodology
by Brezina, Vaclav 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Dear all, We are pleased to invite you to join a series of free, livestreamed public lectures during the week of 16 June 2025, as part of the International Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/>. Hosted by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, a global leader in corpus approaches to language. Lancaster Linguistics is currently ranked 3rd in the world (QS World University Rankings 2025). Please see the links below for live streamed sessions and join us for this exciting opportunity! All times are given as UK times. Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image001.jpg@01DBDC37.90D87B20]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…> Monday 16 June 1-2pm UK time Frequency and concordancing: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzYxODdkNjItODNmMS00… Tue 17 June 10.30-11.30am UK time Building your own corpus: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjJiYTliOGMtZmM3YS00… 1.30-2.30pm UK time Introduction to corpus statistics: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDZkYjk3N2YtNTVlNi00… 3-4pm UK time Validity, AI and language testing: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YWVjMDU5ZjEtYWZlOS00… Wed 18 June 10.30-11.30 am UK time Statistics & data visualisation: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTVjZTUwNjEtZTg0OC00… Thurs 19 June 10.30-11.30am UK time Analysing & visualising collocations: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDkyNTJlNDktMzU3MC00… 12.35 - 12.50pm UK time Official launch of #LancsBox X v. 5.5 - an innovative software tool: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmIxMzU2OTUtYjU4Ni00…

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Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position in the field of NLP/ML, UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
by Niemann, Elisabeth 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

The UKP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, is looking for *** two fully funded 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱/𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀 *** for an exciting project in machine-generated text detection. This is a unique opportunity to join the UKP Lab on the intersection of AI Safety, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. If you're excited about shaping the future of Large Language Models, AI Agents, human-AI interaction, building novel prototypes, and publishing at top-tier venues of NLP, ML and AI, we’d love to hear from you. 🔗 More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_phd_ukp.e… 📩 Apply here: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment 📅 Application deadline: June 29th, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Third call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Third call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Co-located with DHASA 2025 https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025 DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025 Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre. The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/ DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/ The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non- African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa website (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the DHASA conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Workshop: 10 November 2025 DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * The role of AI in digital humanities, the role of Digital Humanities in shaping AI, and the broader role of the humanities in both AI and DH projects; * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalised voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalised communities in the creation and use of digital tools, resources, and AI; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonising knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities and AI research; * The role of digital humanities and AI in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of African and global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organisations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Development of digital and AI tools for supporting digital humanities; * Novel utilisation of digital and AI tools for performing digital humanities research; * The role of digital humanities in the classroom: reimagining literacy and AI fluency * Digital humanities data and project management; * The role of librarians in the digital humanities project; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2025 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers with a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (leading to a total of up to 9 content pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. Long papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 30-minute time slots (which includes 10 minutes for questions). * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (leading to a total of up to 6 content pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented in 15-minute time slots (which includes 5 minutes for questions). * Executive summaries: Authors can submit an executive summary for work in progress, limited to 1 page. Executive summaries accepted for the conference will be presented as posters during a dedicated poster presentation slot. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the JDHASA journal, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the executive summaries for the poster presentations will be published in a book of executive summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected. Follow this link to go to the submission platform: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Date of notification: 16 September 2025 Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025 Conference: 10 November 2025 - 14 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organising Committee Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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[CFP] Call for Papers for the WiNLP 2025 workshop in conjunction with EMNLP 2025
by ACL Announcements 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

WINLP 2025 WORKSHOP The Widening NLP (WiNLP) workshop aims to foster an inclusive environment that highlights the contributions of researchers from underrepresented groups in NLP. Anyone who self-identifies as being from an underrepresented background--based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, or otherwise--is encouraged to submit. In 2025, WiNLP will continue placing emphasis on access, disability, and diversity across scientific backgrounds, disciplines, training, and underrepresented languages. Our annual Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP's workshop period with an exact date to be announced soon. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large. Information on Submission guidelines at: https://www.winlp.org/call-for-submissions-2025/ PRE-SUBMISSION MENTORSHIP PROGRAM WiNLP offers an optional pre-submission mentorship program to help authors improve the quality of their writing and presentation before final submission. The program focuses on enhancing the clarity and structure of the paper, not critiquing the research content. * Submission: Authors must submit a draft of their paper via the designated Google Form (https://forms.gle/J33K2ea6VruN82ke9) by June 20, 2025. The draft should adhere to the same formatting and length guidelines as final submissions. * Mentor Assignment: Organizers will check the draft for compliance with formatting requirements before assigning a mentor. The mentor will not be involved in reviewing the final submission. * Feedback: Mentors will provide feedback by July 18, 2025, offering suggestions to improve writing and presentation. Authors are encouraged to incorporate this feedback before the final submission deadline. * Non-Anonymous: The mentorship process is not anonymized. * Final Submission: Authors who participate in the mentorship program should submit their final paper as a new submission via OpenReview by August 1st, 2025 to be considered for WiNLP workshop. Participation in the mentorship program is not a prerequisite for submitting a paper to WiNLP. TRAVEL SUPPORT WiNLP offers a limited number of travel grants to support one author per accepted submission. Grants may cover expenses such as registration, travel, lodging, or visa costs. Funded authors may choose to attend virtually if preferred. * Travel grant application deadline: September 26, 2025 * Notification: October 6, 2025 * Eligibility: One author per accepted submission is eligible. The funded author must be identified in the travel grant application form. Additional funding for virtual attendance by other authors may be considered if surplus funds are available, but in-person attendance for additional authors is not guaranteed. Travel expenses are handled via reimbursement (primarily through USD check or PayPal). Authors unable to front travel costs should contact the organizers early to discuss alternatives. Authors are encouraged to explore local funding options (e.g., institutional support) to maximize the reach of WiNLP's limited funds. We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further funding. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 "Anywhere on Earth" * Pre-submission mentoring deadline: June 20, 2025 * Pre-submission feedback returned: July 18, 2025 * Paper submission deadline: August 1, 2025 * Acceptance notifications: September 15, 2025 * Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2025 * Travel grant applications due: September 26, 2025 * Travel grant notifications: October 6, 2025 CONTACT INFORMATION Website: https://www.winlp.org/call-for-submissions-2025/ Twitter: @winlpworkshop [1] Facebook: Widening NLP [2] LinkedIn: Widening NLP [3] E-mail: winlp-chairs(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://twitter.com/WiNLPWorkshop [2] https://www.facebook.com/WideningNLP [3] https://www.linkedin.com/company/winlp

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[Workshop CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

[CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria) - 11-13 September 2025 https://r2lm2025.github.io/R2LM/ Workshop Description Deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling impressive performance across many tasks. However, they continue to face key challenges in handling complex linguistic phenomena such as multiword expressions, long-context reasoning, and robustness to adversarial inputs. In parallel, concerns remain about the scalability, interpretability, and domain adaptability of these models, particularly in applications requiring high precision, such as grammar checking, legal analysis, or medical NLP. These limitations have sparked renewed interest in rule-based and knowledge-based approaches, which often offer better explainability and remain competitive, especially in low-resource or high-stakes scenarios. Our workshop aims to gather contributions that deal with the following topics: • Role of rule-based and knowledge-based NLP methods in modern applications • Comparative analysis of rule-based, machine-learning, deep-learning and large language models for different NLP tasks • Emerging trends in NLP research beyond deep learning and Large Language Models • Limitations and performance bottlenecks in scalability and accuracy of deep learning models Submission Details • Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Format: ACL-style (LaTeX or MS Word) • Submission portal and template info available on the RANLP 2025 website Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 31 July 2025 Workshop date: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Organising Committee: Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, University of Alicante, Spain Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, University of Alicante, Spain Rafael Muñoz Guillena, University of Alicante, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Raúl García Cerdá, University of Alicante, Spain

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PhD position in Marseille
by alexis.nasr＠univ-amu.fr 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

The Marseille Computer Science and Systems Laboratory (https://www.lis-lab.fr/) is seeking a candidate for a three-year thesis grant as part of the ANR Cre@lame project, in collaboration with the University of Turku in Finland. The subject concerns the modeling of the literary writing and revision process carried out by authors. The starting point is an already written text, which is to be revised in the manner of an author. The problem is seen as a problem of predicting edit operations, taking the original text as input and producing edit operations. These can concern the lexicon, syntax or textual organization. The thesis's problem is structured around three directions. The first is the nature of the object produced by the prediction process, which could take the form of a sequence of edit operations or a more complex form, such as a graph. The prediction model itself will depend largely on the nature of the predicted object. The second concerns data. Revision data, which associates revision operations with a text, is not very common in general, and those concerning literary revision are even less so. We will rely on all available data available and, possibly, produce them using language models, in order to train the revision models. The final direction concerns evaluation. Given an original text and a revised version, how can we judge the quality of the latter? And how can we assess that the changes made to the original text are consistent with the objectives of the revision process. We are looking for candidates with a strong background in machine learning, mainly in deep learning, as well as knowledge in Natural Language Processing. Application deadline: June 22 Contacts: Patrice Bellot (patrice.bellot(a)univ-amu.fr), Christophe Leblay (chrleb(a)utu.fi) and Alexis Nasr (alexis.nasr(a)univ-amu.fr)

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Second (Last) Call for Participation: Model Compression Shared Task @ WMT 2025
by Marco Gaido 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, The evaluation period for the brand new Model Compression track <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html> at WMT 2025 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/index.html> is approaching! LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS: - Test data release brought forward to June 19, 2025! Participants now have two full weeks to prepare their submissions. - Submission upload space available upon request (see the task’s page for details) OVERVIEW This shared task aims to evaluate the potential of model compression techniques in reducing the size of large, general-purpose language models, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between practical deployability and high translation quality in specific machine translation (MT) scenarios. The broader objectives of the task include: - fostering research into efficient, accessible, and sustainable deployment of LLMs for MT; - establishing a common evaluation framework to monitor progress in model compression across a wide range of languages; and - enabling meaningful comparisons with state-of-the-art MT systems through standardized evaluation protocols that assess not only translation quality but also efficiency. Although the focus is on model compression, the task is closely aligned with the General MT shared task <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/translation-task.html>, sharing language directions, test data, and protocols for automatic MT quality evaluation. Additionally, the task follows the same timeline as the flagship WMT task. We warmly invite participation from academic teams and industry players interested in applying existing compression methods to MT or exploring innovative, cutting-edge approaches. THE TASK IN A NUTSHELL - Goal: Reduce the size of a general-purpose LLM while maintaining a balance between model compactness and MT performance. - Languages: The first round will focus on the same language pairs as the General MT track. - Conditions: - Constrained: Participants work within a predefined model and language setting for directly comparable results. - Unconstrained: Participants are free to compress any model across language directions of their choice. - Evaluation Criteria: - Translation quality: Automatically measured using the LLM-as-a-judge framework from the General MT task - Model size: Defined by the memory usage - Inference speed: Measured by total processing time over the test set IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) - Test data released: 26th June 2025 19th June 2025 - Translation submission deadline: 3rd July 2025 - System description abstract paper: 10th July 2025 - System description submission: 14th August 2025 WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html ORGANIZERS: - Marco Gaido, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Matteo Negri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Roman Grundkiewicz - Microsoft Translator - TG Gowda - Microsoft Translator CONTACTS: - Marco Gaido - mgaido(a)fbk.eu - Matteo Negri - negri(a)fbk.eu -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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CIRCE Online Seminar | 26/05/2025 | Dr. Giuliana Regnoli | "Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination"
by Claudia Soria 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Dr. Giuliana Regnoli* /University of Salerno, Italy & University of Regensburg, Germany/ */Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/* 📅 *May 26, 2025* 🕓 *4:40 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary: *Accent discrimination remains one of the most pervasive forms of linguistic bias, influencing social perceptions, identity construction, and attitudes towards language variation. This talk examines how accents shape linguistic hierarchies and social interactions, drawing on three research projects that employ distinct methodologies. First, we will explore how folk linguistic methods, such as map-drawing tasks, reveal nuanced spatial dimensions of language attitudes, challenging homogenising conceptualisations of World Englishes. This will be illustrated through a study on how a first-generation Indian diasporic community in Germany perceives and evaluates accent variation in Indian English. We will then turn to traditional language attitude research methods, focusing on questionnaire data to investigate overt stigmatisations and highlighting the importance of scale validation in direct attitude measurement. This discussion will be grounded in a pilot study on Italian university students’ direct attitudes towards English in Italy and their perceptions of Italian English. Finally, we will examine language attitudes in primary education in Cameroon, emphasising the importance of understanding children’s language perceptions within broader ideological frameworks. This analysis draws on data from parental and children’s questionnaires, as well as semi-structured interviews with children. By shedding light on early linguistic gatekeeping and its role in decolonising language education, this study also explores when and how these beliefs become embedded in society. Taken together, these projects demonstrate how different methodological approaches can be employed to investigate attitudes towards accents and linguistic variation, ultimately providing insights into how we can better understand and tackle accent discrimination. *Bio*: Dr. Giuliana Regnoli is assistant professor of English linguistics at the University of Salerno and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Regensburg. Her research interests include variationist sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language attitudes, perceptual dialectology, and World Englishes. She is currently working on children's English in Cameroon and Italian university students' attitudes toward English(es) world-wide. Upcoming webinars: - Clara Molina (Monday, June 30, 2025) - Sender Dovchin (Monday, July 7, 2025) - Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu.

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