*Release of training corpora and registration still open* *!!*
****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail****
MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk
identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media
sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF
evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was
resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a
potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data.
Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems
but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected
in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For
this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about
the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of
detecting a type of Addiction.
We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks:
1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification)
2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification)
Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025.
MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in
conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain).
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Feb 14th Registration open
Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available)
*Mar 19th Release of training corpora*
Mar 31st Registration closed
Apr 7th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation
campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed)
Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission
of runs)
Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test
gold labels
May 12th Deadline for paper submission
May 30th Acceptance notification
Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline
Sep TBD Publication of proceedings
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00
Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025.
The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee.
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SLM4Health: Improving Healthcare with Small Language Models
(Workshop held in conjunction with AIME 2025 conference, June 26, 2025, 9am-5 pm, in Pavia (Italy)
https://slm4health2025.netlify.app/
SLM4Health focuses on exploring the role and potential of Small Language Models (SLMs) in healthcare-related natural language processing (NLP) tasks. As SLMs gain traction in clinical settings due to their adaptability, efficiency, and lower resource demands, they offer a promising alternative to larger models, especially in resource-constrained environments. However, challenges such as performance trade-offs and ethical concerns—bias, privacy, and interpretability—need to be addressed. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss SLM applications in clinical tasks, compare them with large language models, and explore methods to overcome these challenges, ultimately aiming to improve patient care and clinician support through more tailored NLP tools.
We invite researchers to present their latest research results on the following topics:
Applications of SLMs for information extraction, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, relation extraction from medical documents;
Adaptation of SLMs to effectively handle diverse languages, especially those with limited resources;
Sustainability of SLMs compared to LLMs;
Ethical aspects, including safety, privacy concerns and bias mitigation, explainability;
Possibilities and challenges of SLMs in tasks of medical language processing;
Comparisons of SMLs and LLMs on specific use cases in healthcare;
Evaluation metrics, datasets, and benchmarks.
To enable reproducibility and some level of comparison among approaches, we encourage researchers to use the MIMIC-III or MIMIC-IV dataset.
Submission deadline: April 15, 2025
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Prof. Douglas Teodoro, PhD
Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics
Faculty of Medicine | University of Geneva
Campus Biotech G6-N3 | Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
tel: 022 379 02 25 | douglas.teodoro(a)unige.ch <mailto:douglas.teodoro@unige.ch>
www.unige.ch/medecine <http://www.unige.ch/medecine>
We are happy to announce the next round of [#SMM4H-HeaRD](https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2025/), which will be co-located with [AAAI ICWSM](https://www.icwsm.org/2025/index.html) 2025, the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media in June 23-26, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Our team is organizing **Shared Task 1: Detection of adverse drug events in multilingual and multi-platform social media posts**. We provide data in German, French, Russian, and English, from platforms such as X and patient forums.
We invite you to participate and attempt to beat our multilingual baseline! As the deadline is approaching, please [register](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOdaY58DZQ_2aw_rISJut3G… as soon as possible.
Here is the schedule:
- Training and validation data available: February 14, 2025
- System predictions for validation data due: March 31, 2025 (23:59 CodaLab server time);
this is a simple test to check that teams have a syntactically valid system
- Test data available: April 7, 2025
- System predictions for test data due: April 11, 2025 (23:59 CodaLab server time)
- Submission deadline for system description papers: May 2, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2025
- Camera-ready papers due: June 6, 2025
- Workshop: June 23, 2025
Please share this call with interested colleagues.
Organizers of Task 1: Lisa Raithel, Philippe Thomas, Roland Roller, Elena Tutubalina, Takeshi Onishi, Dongfang Xu, Pierre Zweigenbaum
BIFOLD, TU Berlin (XplaiNLP), DFKI SLT, AIRI, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LISN, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay
Second Call for Papers: *The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)*
*Location*: Vienna, Austria and online (co-located with ACL 2025)
*Date*: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025
*Website*: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025 <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025>
*Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12
*Submission Link*: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of
educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the
ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years.
The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of
researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group
in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) (https://sig-edu.org<https://sig-edu.org/>) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members.
The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as *a 2-day workshop*,
and it will feature a keynote by *Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly)*, oral
presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the
presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop
is also hosting *a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of
AI-powered Tutors*, and *a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education:
Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path
Forward *(more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will
continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational
NLP in English as well as other languages.
The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers,
eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/.
We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited
to:
- use of generative AI in education and its impact;
- automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses;
- automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across
multiple genres);
- game-based instruction and assessment;
- educational data mining;
- intelligent tutoring;
- collaborative learning environments;
- peer review;
- grammatical error detection and correction;
- learner cognition;
- spoken dialog;
- multimodal applications;
- annotation standards and schemas;
- tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test
developers; and
- use of corpora in educational tools.
INVITED TALKS
The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly),
and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE (https://alliancelss.com<https://alliancelss.com/>) societies.
SHARED TASK
The workshop will also host a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of
AI-powered Tutors. See more details here: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).
- Submission deadline: *Thursday, April 17, 2025*
- Notification of acceptance: *Thursday, May 22, 2025*
- Camera-ready papers due: *Monday, June 9, 2025*
- Workshop: *Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025*
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this
year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages
of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will
be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’
comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to
four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance,
short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’
comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission
guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a
dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit.
Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their
system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the
paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short
paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page.
Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please
ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s
identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”.
We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You
should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are
from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of
this paper or discussed it with you.
We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions:
https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/
DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY
We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically,
papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must:
- Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they
are being submitted.
- State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their
paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn
from other conferences and workshops.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI
- Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University
- Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum
- Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen
- Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec
- Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners
- Bashar Alhafni, New York University (NYU) & CAMeL Lab in NYUAD
- Zheng Yuan, King’s College London
- Jill Burstein, Duolingo
Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025#program-committee
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to participate in the Robust Word Sense Induction shared
task, which is organized as a part of CoNLL-2025 in Vienna (31.7 - 1. 8.
2025).
TASK OVERVIEW
The task focuses on unsupervised word sense induction without relying on
predefined sense inventories. Participants will receive sentences
containing target words and cluster them according to word sense usage.
What makes this task unique is the novel evaluation approach using
multi-annotated data and robust metrics that account for natural sense
ambiguity and provide a fairer evaluation compared to traditional
approaches.
The benchmark datasets will be available in English, Czech, German,
Spanish, Estonian and Chinese.
The submissions are currently open. Please note that the deadlines have
been slightly postponed.
IMPORTANT DATES - Updated
25. 4. 2025 - Test phase ends
2. 5. 2025 - Submission of system description papers
31. 7. 2025 or 1. 8. 2025 - The CoNLL-2025 workshop at ACL 2025 in Vienna
For more information and participation instructions, please visit
https://projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/.
This shared task is organized by Ondřej Herman, Miloš Jakubíček, Pavel
Rychlý and Vojtěch Kovář at Lexical Computing and Masaryk University.
If you have any questions, please contact us at conll2025(a)sketchengine.eu.
Best regards,
The Shared Task Organizers
Conversational agents offer promising opportunities for education as they can fulfill various roles (e.g., intelligent tutors and service-oriented assistants) and pursue different objectives (e.g., improving student skills and increasing instructional efficiency), among which serving as an AI tutor is one of the most prevalent tasks. Recent advances in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) provide our field with promising ways of building AI-based conversational tutors, which can generate human-sounding dialogues on the fly. The key question posed in previous research, however, remains: *How can we test whether state-of-the-art generative models are good AI teachers, capable of replying to a student in an educational dialogue?*
In this shared task, we will focus on educational dialogues between a student and a tutor in the mathematical domain grounded in student mistakes or confusion, where the AI tutor aims to remediate such mistakes or confusions, with the goal of evaluating the quality of tutor responses along the key dimensions of tutor’s ability to (1) identify student’s mistake, (2) point to its location, (3) provide the student with relevant pedagogical guidance, that is also (4) actionable. Dialogues used in this shared task include the dialogue contexts from MathDial (Macina et al., 2023) and Bridge (Wang et al., 2024) datasets, including the last utterance from the student containing a mistake, and a set of responses to the last student’s utterance from a range of LLM-based tutors and, where available, human tutors, aimed at mistake remediation and annotated for their quality.
**Tracks**
This shared task will include five tracks. Participating teams are welcome to take part in any number of tracks.
- Track 1 - Mistake Identification: Participants are invited to develop systems to detect whether tutors' responses recognize mistakes in students' solutions.
- Track 2 - Mistake Location: Participants are invited to develop systems to assess whether tutors' responses accurately point to genuine mistakes and their locations in the students' responses.
- Track 3 - Pedagogical Guidance: Participants are invited to develop systems to evaluate whether tutors' responses offer correct and relevant guidance, such as an explanation, elaboration, hint, examples, and so on.
- Track 4 - Actionability: Participants are invited to develop systems to assess whether tutors' feedback is actionable, i.e., it makes it clear what the student should do next.
- Track 5 - Guess the tutor identity: Participants are invited to develop systems to identify which tutors the anonymized responses in the test set originated from.
**Participant registration**
All participants should register using the following link: https://forms.gle/fKJcdvL2kCrPcu8X6
**Important dates**
All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).
- March 12, 2025: Development data release
- April 9, 2025: Test data release
- April 23, 2025: System submissions from teams due
- April 30, 2025: Evaluation of the results by the organizers
- May 21, 2025: System papers due
- May 28, 2025: Paper reviews returned
- June 9, 2025: Final camera-ready submissions
- July 31 and August 1, 2025: BEA 2025 workshop at ACL
**Shared task website**: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025
**Organizers**
- Ekaterina Kochmar (MBZUAI)
- Kaushal Kumar Maurya (MBZUAI)
- Kseniia Petukhova (MBZUAI)
- KV Aditya Srivatsa (MBZUAI)
- Justin Vasselli (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
- Anaïs Tack (KU Leuven)
**Contact**: bea.sharedtask.2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.sharedtask.2025@gmail.com>
*Release of training corpora and registration still open* *!!*
****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail****
MentalRiskES2025 describes the third edition of a novel task on early risk
identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media
sources. The first and the second editions took place in the IberLEF
evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023 and SEPLN 2024. The task was
resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a
potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data.
Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems
but also on how fast the problem is detected. These dynamics are reflected
in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For
this third edition, we propose two novel tasks, the first subtask is about
the detection of the gambling disorder and the second subtask consists of
detecting a type of Addiction.
We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks:
1. Risk Detection of Gambling Disorders (Binary classification)
2. Type of Addiction Detection (Multiclass classification)
Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2025.
MentalRiskES 2025 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in
conjunction with the SEPLN 2025 conference in Zaragoza (Spain).
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Important Dates
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Feb 14th Registration open
Feb 25th Release of trial corpora (trial server available)
*Mar 19th Release of training corpora*
Mar 31st Registration closed
Apr 7th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation
campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed)
Apr 14th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission
of runs)
Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test
gold labels
May 12th Deadline for paper submission
May 30th Acceptance notification
Jun 16th Camera-ready submission deadline
Sep TBD Publication of proceedings
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00
Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2025.
The MentalRiskES 2025 organizing committee.
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* PhD position (salary group TV-L 13, working time 100 %, initially
limited to 3 years) *
*******************************************************************
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join the Data &
Knowledge Engineering group
(https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineeringhttps://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering) at
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in collaboration with GESIS,
Cologne (http://www.gesis.org) in the context of the DFG-funded research
project "EmergentIR: Improving Informational Web Search for Emerging
Topics".
The project investigates web search behavior and algorithms in the
context of emerging topics, i.e. for novel and less-well understood
search queries. An example is the search for COVID-19 related terms and
topics during the early days of the pandemic, where available online
resources and information were evolving quickly and reliable high
quality information was sparse.
* Your responsibilities *
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- Research in fields such as information retrieval, information
extraction/NLP and/or human-computer interaction to investigate and
support web search on emerging topics, e.g. to predict search intents,
detect emerging topics or support ranking and retrieval of information.
- Work and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to
develop and evaluate computational methods in the context of web search.
- Publish and present research results at major scientific events
* Your profile *
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- Master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Background in the following areas: information retrieval, natural
language processing, or machine learning/deep learning.
- Experience in programming (e.g. Python) and with machine learning
frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Fluency in English. German language skills are desirable but not
required.
* Contact & application process *
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Please send your complete application documents (CV, certificates &
transcripts) as a single PDF file to Stefan Dietze
(stefan.dietze(a)hhu.de) by 15 April. For any informal enquiries about the
position, please don't hesitate to get in touch via the same email
address.
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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
Third International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at MT Summit 2025
23 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025
@gitt-workshop.bsky.social
Paper SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED
We extend the GITT submission deadline to March 31st 2025.
This is the final submission deadline.
NEW Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth)
Final submission deadline: 31 March, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 7 April, 2025
Camera Ready Copy due: 21 April, 2025
Workshop: 23 June, 2025
**Aim and scope**
The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task.
**Topics**
GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias
- New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries)
- Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias
- Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines
- User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users
GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation)
**Submission**
We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival.
ARCHIVAL
- Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references)
- Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references)
Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology.
NON-ARCHIVAL
- Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references).
We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2024 and 2025.
- Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references).
Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions.
The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop.
All submissions should adhere to the MT Summit 2025 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mtsummit2025)
**Workshop organizers**
Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent
Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Joke Daems, University of Ghent
Chiara Manna, University of Tilburg
Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg
The sixth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 31st March 2025 at 5pm BST. Zinaida Geylikman (Université Paris Cité) will present on ‘Quantitative methods on small corpora for historical sociolinguistics: a case study of Old French fabliaux.’
Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 28th March and the link for this can be accessed here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciGltVD7ft6dgyMu45DrYbEB0WyJ67RyU…
Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk.
The abstract for this talk can be found here: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/geylikman/
The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website:
https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025-programme/
This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru (King’s College London) and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field.
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