*BAREC Shared Task 2025
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>*
*Arabic Readability Assessment*
*The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025)
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arabicnlp2025.sigarab.…>*
@
*EMNLP 2025
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__2025.emnlp.org_&d=DwMF…>*
We are excited to announce the BAREC Shared Task
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>
2025
on fine-grained readability classification across 19 levels using the
Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a dataset of over 1
million words. Participants will build models for both sentence- and
document-level classification.
*Task 1: Sentence-level Readability Assessment*
Given an Arabic sentence, predict its readability level on a scale from 1
(i.e., first grade) to 19 (i.e., university level), indicating the degree
of reading difficulty.
*Task 2: Document-level Readability Assessment*
Given a document consisting of multiple sentences, predict its readability
level on a scale from 1 to 19, where the hardest (i.e., highest
readability) sentence in the document determines the overall document
readability level.
For each task, there will be three tracks, allowing different data sources
for training: Strict, Constrained, and Open.
*Important Dates:*
All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth):
- *June 10, 2025:* Release of training, dev and open test data, and
evaluation scripts.
- *July 20, 2025:* Registration deadline and release of test data.
- *July 25, 2025:* End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes).
- *July 30, 2025: *Final results released.
- *August 15, 2025:* System description paper submissions due.
- *August 25, 2025: *Notification of acceptance.
- *September 5, 2025:* Camera-ready versions due.
*Awards:*
- *Top-performing Systems:*
- We will recognize the top-performing system in each of the two
tasks + track combinations (2 tasks × 3 tracks), with a *$100 *prize
per winning team.
- *Best System Description Papers:*
- We will award one or two prizes for Best System Description Papers.
These will recognize clarity, reproducibility, and insight, regardless of
leaderboard ranking:
- Best Paper: *$250*
- Runner-up or Honorable Mention: *$150*
*Organizers:*
- *Khalid N. Elmadani
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__khalid-2Delmadani.gith…>*:
New York University Abu Dhabi
- *Bashar Alhafni
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.basharalhafni.com_…>*:
New York University Abu Dhabi and Mohamed bin Zayed University of
Artificial Intelligence
- *Hanada Taha-Thomure
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hanadataha.com_&d=DwMF…>*:
Zayed University
- *Nizar Habash
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nizarhabash.com_&d…>*:
New York University Abu Dhabi
*Shared Task Website: *https://barec.camel-lab.com/sharedtask2025
*Contact:*
For any questions related to this task, check out the *FAQs
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_…>*.
Feel free to post your questions on our *Slack workspace
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__join.slack.com_t_barec…>*.
You are also welcome to contact the organizers directly at this email
address: barec25.organizers(a)camel-lab.com.
Dear Corpora members,
following our previous Calls for Papers, we would like to inform you of
a small update to the submission policies:
*The maximum length of supplementary material has been extended to 3 pages.*
For any additional updates regarding the conference, please visit the
website: https://clic2025.unica.it/
The full text of the updated CfP can be found below.
Best regards,
The CLiC-it chairs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CLiC-it 2025 – Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
24 – 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the
Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and
disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects
of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken
language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical
findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application
perspectives.
The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted
nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary
expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different
fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer
Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital
Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages,
with a particular emphasis on Italian.
CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of
September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of
Computational Linguistics (AILC — http://www.ai-lc.it/).
➢ CONFERENCE TOPICS
CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for
the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):
Computational Historical Linguistics
Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Ethics and NLP
Generation
Handwritten Text Recognition
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
Large Language Models
Linguistic Diversity
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation
Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP
NLP Applications
NLP for the Humanities
Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
Pragmatics and Creativity
Question Answering
Resources and Evaluation
Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference,
and Other Areas
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Speech and Multimodality
Summarization
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
➢ RESEARCH COMMUNICATION
CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers
accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major
international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international
journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short
research communications. Research communications will not be published
in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the
dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community.
Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it
2025 conference.
The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit
a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including
the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original
conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research
communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the
conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the
selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication
venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with
the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across
various conference topics. The research communication papers will be
presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to
the number of submissions received.
➢ PAPER SUBMISSION
Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and
unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis
should be included.
CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of
acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate
this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible.
Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages
of content and up to three (3) pages of references.
*UPDATE* Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not
exceed *three (3) pages* in length. Authors are reminded that all
relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper and
that reviewers are not required to evaluate material presented in the
Appendix. In case additional space is needed (e.g. to include prompts,
examples, etc.), external links can be used. Please also note that
sections on limitations and ethical considerations are not mandatory; if
included, they will count toward the page limit.
Upon acceptance, final versions of the papers will be given one
additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into
account.
Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
soundness of approach
relevance to computational linguistics
novelty and clarity of relation with related work
quality of presentation
quality of evaluation (if applicable)
verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable)
Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in
English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented
at the conference either orally or as a poster.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the
proceedings.
Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author
information from manuscripts.
The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with
CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted
version at the following links:
LaTeX template
https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.…
Word template
https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.…
Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR
template has historically presented some challenges and is not
modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a
read-only Overleaf template:
https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c
This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical
difficulties.
Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START
platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025
For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected.
➢ AWARDS
To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the
title of “best paper” will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided
that a Master’s or PhD student is the first author and presents the work
at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an
extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational
Linguistics (IJCoL).
To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness
of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for
the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics
submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus
free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the
upcoming CLiC-it.
➢ IMPORTANT DATES
09/06/2025 16/06/2025 [EXTENDED]– Paper submission deadline:
regular papers and research communications
21/07/2025 – Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome
04/08/2025 – Camera ready version of accepted papers
24-26/09/2025 – CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari
➢ PEOPLE
Conference Chairs:
Cristina Bosco (University of Torino)
Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia)
Marco Polignano (University of Bari)
Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari)
Senior Program Committee:
Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen)
Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg)
Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission – Ispra)
Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”)
Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna)
Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen)
Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari)
Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo)
Rossella Varvara (University of Turin – University of Pavia)
Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano)
Local Organizing Committee:
Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari)
Web chairs:
Maurizio Atzori
Andrea Loddo
➢ FURTHER INFORMATION
Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com
Key Deadlines:
Abstract submission for posters: June 15
Registration: June 30
Registrations are still open for WALP 2025! Places are filling up quickly—register now to secure your on-site accommodation.
Dear Colleagues,
WALP 2025 will bring together leading academic and industrial experts from all around the world working at the forefront of atomic layer processing (ALP), aiming to stimulate discussions on recent advances and emerging directions in ALP, particularly those driven by industrial and societal needs. The workshop will cover experimental, computational, and AI/ML-driven research in the development of ALP techniques, materials and their applications in semiconductor CMOS, energy storage (batteries, supercapacitors), and energy conversion (fuel cells, photovoltaics) technologies. WALP 2025 will host industry talks on ALP method development and scale-up for commercial energy and nanoelectronics applications.
WALP 2025 features a distinguished lineup of speakers from academia and industry, including
* Mikko Ritala (University of Helsinki, Finland)
* Louis Piper (WMG, University of Warwick, UK)
* Fred Roozeboom (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
* Anjana Devi (TU Dresden, Germany)
* Jeff Elam (Argonne National Lab, US)
* Seán Barry (University of Carleton, Canada)
* Riikka Puurunen (University of Aalto, Finland)
* Ralf Tonner-Zech (University of Leipzig, Germany)
* Richard Potter (university of Liverpool, UK)
* Jennifer D'Souza (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
* Industry talks by Merck Electronics KGaA, BioLogic Ltd., Schrödinger, Inc. Oxford Instruments Plasma Technologies, Entalpic, Hitachi Energy, Forge Nano, and ATLANT 3D.
WALP 2025 offers an excellent opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and explore collaborative research prospects in an inspiring academic and industrial setting. Delegates have the option to submit abstracts for poster presentations, with select submissions considered for short contributed talks.
The registration is still open, and the registration fees for academics are £250 (excluding accommodation) and £350 (including on-site accommodation for the nights of July 21st and 22nd). Registration fees cover all meals and refreshments during the conference and poster session. There is a limited number of bursaries available for students.
Please visit the WALP 2025 webpage for detailed information, registration and abstract submission: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/chemevents/walp2025/
We gratefully acknowledge the valuable financial support to WALP 2025 by Merck (EMD) Electronics, Schrödinger, BioLogic, and Royal Society of Chemistry.
We look forward to welcoming you to WALP 2025.
Best wishes,
Bora Karasulu
Also on behalf of Dr. Adrie Mackus and Prof. Erwin Kessels
WALP 2025 is jointly organised by Warwick Chemistry and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, Netherlands).
SEMANTiCS 2025 EU
21st International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 3 - 5, 2025
Follow us on *Twitter/X* <https://x.com/SemanticsConf>, *LinkedIn*
<https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7496190/?highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Agr…>,
and *Bluesky*. <https://bsky.app/profile/semantics-conf.bsky.social>
Call for Posters & Demos
The Posters & Demos Track provides a platform for researchers to showcase
their latest findings, ongoing projects, and cutting-edge work in progress.
These include submissions on innovative applications, latest results,
unpublished ideas, prototypes of semantic technologies and their use in
various domains as well as applications, use cases, or pieces of code that
may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This
also concerns new datasets made publicly available.
The Posters & Demos Track offers an informal setting that promotes
engagement and dialogue between presenters and attendees. These discussions
can provide valuable feedback for presenters' future work while allowing
participants to gain insight into emerging research trends and network with
other researchers.
*The submission deadlines for the Posters & Demos Track have been extended
as follows:*
-
*Paper Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025*
-
*Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2025 *
-
*Camera-Ready of Paper Deadline: July 28, 2025*
*All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)*
*Submission via Easychair on*
*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>.
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access by *
CEUR-WS.org*.
Topics of Interest We welcome contributions in the context of
semantic-based research and systems, which address – but are not limited to
– the topics of the Research Track
<https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>. Additionally, we encourage
submissions of visionary ideas, position statements, negative results, and
unconventional ideas. Demos should showcase innovative implementations and
technologies both, from academia and industry. We also very much encourage
submissions from industry, but they should be focused on presenting a novel
solution to a specific problem and not be in the nature of an advertisement
or commercial product description. Author Guidelines and Submission Poster
and demo submissions should consist of a paper that describes the work, its
contribution to the field or innovative aspects.
-
Poster and demo submissions are at most 5 pages long, including
references.
-
No double-blind submissions required.
-
Submissions must be either in PDF or HTML.
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Submissions must be formatted in the style of CEUR-ART (
https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users
is available.
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For demos, we ask authors to include links enabling the reviewers to
test the application or review the component. The absence of a pointer
affects the overall rating of the contribution.
-
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere.
-
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference and present the paper.
Posters and Demos Track Chairs
Ivan Heibi
Diego Collarana
Kind Regards,
On behalf of the organising committee.
=========================
Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi
ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden
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We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of the Open Language Data Initiative shared task at WMT25, co-located with EMNLP 2025.
**TASK DESCRIPTION**
The primary goal of this shared task is to expand OLDI’s open datasets to more languages. We are soliciting contributions to the following:
- The MT evaluation dataset FLORES+.,
- The MT Seed dataset.,
- Other high-quality, massively-parallel and open-source datasets.,
Contributions may consist of either the addition of entirely new languages, varieties or dialects to the above datasets, or substantial improvements to existing datasets. To describe and publicise their contributions, task participants will be asked to submit a 4-6 page paper to be presented at the WMT 2025 conference.
**IMPORTANT DATES**
All dates follow WMT/EMNLP.
- Paper and data submission deadline: 14 August,
- Notification of acceptance: 13 September,
**MORE INFORMATION**
- Shared task website: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/open-data.html,
- OLDI website: https://oldi.org/
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the first call for papers of the
*1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals at COLM 2025*
Important information:
🗓️ CfP Deadline: June 23, Workshop: October 10
📍 Montréal, Canada
🌐 https://wmdqs.org
Scope
Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) not only need large quantities of data, but also need data of sufficient quality. Ensuring data quality is even more important in a multilingual setting, where the amount of acceptable training data in many languages is limited. Indeed, for many languages even the fundamental step of language identification remains a challenge, leading to unreliable language labels and thus noisy datasets for underserved languages.
In response to these challenges, we will be holding the first Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals (WMDQS) in tandem with COLM. We invite the submission of long and short research papers related to data quality in multilingual data.
Even though most previous work on data quality has been targeted at LLM development, we believe that research in this area can also benefit other research communities in areas such as web search, web archiving, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, political sciences and beyond. We therefore encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines.
WMDQS will also include a shared task on language identification for web text. We invite participants to submit novel systems which address current problems with language identification for web text. We will provide a training set of annotated documents sourced from Common Crawl to aid development.
Topics
We welcome submissions of (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, (3) online systems on the topics listed below, and (4) extended abstracts. We especially welcome work-in-progress projects and all novel ideas covering research in multilinguality, underserved/low-resource languages, under-represented linguistic communities and all types of work covering data quality signals. Suggested areas include:
- Data pipelines for data annotation and data filtering
- Undesirable content detection in a multilingual setting
- Multilingual or language independent content ranking
- Human annotation platforms and systems
- Multilingual tokenization mechanisms
- Small language models and embeddings
- Linguistic studies in underserved languages
- Corpus creation and curation methods, especially for underserved languages
- Machine translation
- Digital humanities
- Historical and constructed languages
Shared task
The lack of training data—especially high-quality data—is the root cause of poor language model performance for many languages. One obstacle to improving the quantity and quality of available text data is language identification (LangID or LID). Lang ID remains far from solved for many languages. Several of the commonly used LangID models were introduced in 2017 (e.g. fastText and CLD3). The aim of this shared task is to encourage innovation in open-source language identification and improve accuracy on a broad range of languages.
All accepted authors will be invited to contribute a larger paper, which will be submitted to a high-impact NLP venue.
Important dates for the Workshop:
Workshop paper submission deadline: June 23, 2025
Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 24, 2025
Workshop: October 10, 2025
Important dates for the Shared Task:
1st Deadline to contribute annotations: July 7, 2025
1st Annotations released (train split): July 14, 2025
Abstract Deadline: July 21, 2025
Decision Notification: July 24, 2025
Camera Ready Deadline: September 21, 2025
(All deadlines are 23:59 AoE.)
Organizers:
For any questions, please drop a mail to wmdqs-pcs(a)googlegroups.com
Program Chairs:
Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Common Crawl Foundation)
Sarah Luger (MLCommons)
Laurie Burchell (Common Crawl Foundation)
Kenton Murray (Johns Hopkins University)
Catherine Arnett (EleutherAI)
Organizing Committee:
Thom Vaughan (Common Crawl Foundation)
Sara Hincapié (Factored)
Rafael Mosquera (MLCommons)
KlarText Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
Co-located with KONVENS 2025 | Hildesheim, Germany | 10 September 2025
Website: https://klar-text.github.io/
============================================================
Please be reminded that the KlarText workshop paper submission deadline is in three weeks. The event aims to unite researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art methods in German text simplification and readability assessment. Our focus is to raise awareness about the diverse simplification goals and language forms in German, while attracting researchers who are addressing the challenges associated with this field.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- German Text Simplification
- Readability Assessment
- Resources & Approaches for Leichte Sprache
- The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Resources & Benchmarks
- Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment
- Applications & Real-World Impact
- Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: June 30, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2025
- Camera-ready version due: August 15, 2025
- Workshop date: September 10, 2025
Submissions are managed via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2025/Workshop/KlarText).
Organizing Committee
- Salar Mohtaj, DFKI
- Stefan Hillmann, Technische Universität Berlin
- Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin
- Georg Groh, Technische Universität München
- Hadi Asghari, Technische Universität Berlin
- Miriam Anschütz, Technische Universität München
Contact
For questions or inquiries, please contact:
Salar Mohtaj – salar.mohtaj(a)dfki.de
*** First Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)
March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/
We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with
the 31st International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos,
Cyprus.
Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics
of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges.
Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference
(“Where HCI meets AI”).
Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent
user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops and tutorial
formats and activities, including but not limited to:
• Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper
submission and review processes.
• Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on
experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may
have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the
discussions and outcomes.
• Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas.
Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or
extended abstracts.
• Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded
project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community.
• Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in
challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI.
• Tutorials: Sessions that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference
theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, or tools for building
intelligent user interfaces.
Review and Oversight by Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. It is possible
that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient
submissions.
Workshop and Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026.
We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through
CEUR or a similar venue).
Responsibilities of Workshop and Tutorial Organizers
• Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review
process.
• Create and maintain a dedicated website with Workshop or Tutorial information. The IUI
Website 2026 will link to this page.
• Prepare and communicate Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant
communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events)
• Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or
interactive elements.
• Submit a workshop or tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library.
• Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint
workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar).
Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed
and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum
per contribution. Note that not all workshop and tutorial formats listed above may meet these
requirements, and we may not be able to include them.
IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the
workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to
present the work.
Proposal Format
Workshop or tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column
format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template
(https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…),
or the LaTex Template
(https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…).
For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”.
The proposals should be organized as follows:
• Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or
“(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate.
• Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop or tutorial.
• Description of workshop or tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed
topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this
workshop or tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will
complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference.
• Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials on this topic, including the
conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past
editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series
(e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-
workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the
workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference
names and years).
• Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief
description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers
who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of
potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will
attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials organized by
workshop organizers in the past.
• Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative)
workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions.
• Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to
invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10
people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial.
• Workshop or Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of
events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations,
teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here
any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware
or software, and handouts.
• Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end
of the workshop or tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes
expected.
• Length: Full-day or half-day.
Submission Platform
• All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0
http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline.
• In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for
society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops" or
“IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go".
We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To
support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers
from varied institutions and backgrounds.
Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types
of contributions and foster valuable interactions.
Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance
(workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in
preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative
interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025
• Decision notification: September 19, 2025
• Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025
• Tutorial Decision Notification: Nov 21, 2025
• Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA
Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA
Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina
The Data Mining and Machine Learning research group at the University of Vienna is seeking graduates or advanced MSc students in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, or related fields who are interested in pursuing a PhD in Explainability for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. The successful candidate will join the group as a pre-doctoral researcher. The position is funded for three years and will be supervised by Prof. Benjamin Roth.
Application deadline: 24 June 2025
Research topics may include:
Personalized explanations of large language models
Explanations for complex AI agents
Training data-based explanations
Usability aspects of explanations
Evaluation methods for explainable AI
More information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral/1212525201/
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth
Digitale Textwissenschaften
Universität Wien
Kolingasse 14
Raum 5.17
1090 Wien
email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at
tel: +43 14277 79513
virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee
web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/
Call for Abstracts – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is open!
The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing.
Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland University)
For detailed guidelines, templates, and additional information, visit our website: <https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/> https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl<https://cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/>/
Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview by June 29, 2025 at:
https://openreview.net/group?id=UU.nl/Utrecht_University/2025/CPL
We look forward to your contributions!
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz