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ReLDI konferencija: Language science and technology, Belgrade 25-26 September 2025
by Tanja Samardzic 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

ReLDI Centre Belgrade invites paper submissions to its first conference! Paper submission deadline: *30 June 2025* Conference dates *25-26 September 2025 *Conference web site: https://reldi.rs/en/conference/ Venue: Palace of Science in Belgrade The goal of the conference is to provide a broadly accessible overview of current scientific insights, technological achievements and upcoming trends in the filed of scientific and computational language modelling. We aim at scientifically sound papers with a contribution that is clear although not necessarily highly ambitious. We expect *full papers* of a *minimum length of 4 pages* (no maximum length) describing original, unpublished and completed work. The minimum length includes text, tables, graphs, but not references. Submission types: * Natural language processing (NLP), systematic model evaluation or performance improvement on one or more of the following data sets: o ReLDI <https://reldi.rs/en/data-sets/> o CLASSLA <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/> o JeRTeh <https://jerteh.rs/index.php/en/> / TESLA <https://tesla.rgf.bg.ac.rs/index.php/en/> o Other publicly available data of similar scope and quality * Language structure from the point of view of general linguistics: empirical testing of hypotheses * Theoretical study of natural language relevant to NLP * Theoretical machine learning relevant to NLP * Language services and computational technology * Surveys on any of these topics Best regards, Tanja Samardzic, Programme chair

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CfP DGfS 2025 Computational Linguistics Poster Session
by Annette Hautli-Janisz 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DGfS 2025 Computational Linguistics Poster Session We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 48th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Trier. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics, ranging from models of language across all linguistic areas to corpus lingusitics, multimodal approaches and studies on LLM capability assessment. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is organized by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the DGfS (dgfs.de/cl). Conference webpage: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… DATES - Abstract submission due: September 15, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2025 - Short abstract (for conference website/brochure) due: October 15, 2025 - Conference dates: February 24-27, 2026 SUBMISSION Anonymous one-page abstract (A4) in PDF format (12pt). Submissions can be in German or English. Please submit your abstract via Openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=DGfS.de/2026/Conference_Poster_Session

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CfP: DGFS-AG Intensivierung/Intensification
by Brunner 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

<english version below> Call for Abstracts für die AG "m e e e e e e g a g e i l e Muster von InTeNsIvIeRuNG!!11elf 😎🤩" im Rahmen der *DGFS 2026, 24.-27.02.2026 in Trier* https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… Deadline: *1. August 2025* Die AG widmet sich der formalen und funktionalen Vielfalt von Intensivierung, z.B. welche Strategien und Konstruktionen in sprachlichen Ausdrücken verwendet werden, in welchen Kontexten sie auftreten und welche semiotischen Elemente intensivierbar sind. Das Spektrum umfasst nicht nur lexikogrammatische, sondern auch darüberhinausgehende Phänomene auf allen kommunikativen Ebenen, z.B. typographische und lautliche Mittel oder Gestik und Mimik, als Formen der Intensivierung (Napoli/Ravetto 2017). Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt der Musterhaftigkeit und Kreativität von Intensivierungsstrategien. Während sich bestimmte Verfahren als konventionalisierte Muster beschreiben lassen, sind andere höchst variabel, für Innovationen anfällig und kombinierbar (Cotgrove 2025). Dies wirft theoretische und empirische Fragen nach dem Verhältnis von Konvention und Variation auf: In welchem Maße folgen Intensivierungen wiederkehrenden Form-Funktions-Mustern (Politt/Willich 2024)? Welche Formen der Variation (sozial, stilistisch, medial) lassen sich beobachten, und wie sind diese zu beschreiben? Wir freuen uns auf einen Austausch zu einem Phänomen, das an der Schnittstelle von Lexik, Phonetik/Phonologie, Grammatik, Pragmatik und Semantik liegt. Willkommen sind aktuelle Arbeiten, die sich mit empirischen Untersuchungen zu spezifischen Intensivierungsstrategien befassen sowie mit der Rolle von Intensivierung in unterschiedlichen Diskursen, Genres, Modalitäten oder Varietäten. Ebenfalls von Interesse sind Arbeiten, die sich mit der Frage auseinandersetzen, wie sich von der empirischen Analyse ausgehend theoretische Modelle sprachlicher Intensivierung entwickeln lassen – und umgekehrt, wie theoretische Konzepte die empirische Analyse leiten können. Abstracts in englischer oder deutscher Sprache von höchstens einer Seite Länge (DIN A4, 12pt, 1,5-zeilig) können bis zum 01.08.2025 als nicht anonymisierte PDF-Datei an cotgrove(a)ids-mannheim.de gesendet werden. *Organisationsteam*: Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim), Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim), Katja Politt (Universität Bielefeld, SFB 1646), Alexander Willich (HHU Düsseldorf) *Literaturverzeichnis* Cotgrove, L. (2025): 😡👉👎👈: Entstehende Arten von Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation junger Menschen. In: Deutsche Sprache 1/2025, 2–18. Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (2017): New insights on intensification and intensifiers. In: Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (Hg.): Exploring Intensification. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1–12. Politt, K./Willich, A. (2024): Jetzt hab ich voll die Panik: Prototype effects of NP-external intensifiers in German. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 12(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2024-0002 ---------------- Call for Abstracts for the workshop "s u u u u u p e r awesomepatterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" taking place at *DGFS 2026, 24.-27.02.2026 in Trier, Germany* https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/f… Deadline: *1. August 2025* The workshop focuses on the formal and functional diversity of intensification, e.g. which strategies and constructions are used in linguistic expressions, in which contexts do they occur, as well as which semiotic elements can be intensified. Intensification is far more diverse than just lexicogrammatical phenomena, with phenomena occurring on on all communicative levels, for example, typographical and phonetic strategies, gestures or facial expressions (Napoli/Ravetto 2017). Particularly of interest for the workshop is the apparent dialectic between recurring patterns and innovation within intensification strategies. While certain processes can be described as conventionalised patterns, others can be highly creative and combined with one another (Cotgrove 2025). This raises theoretical and empirical questions about the relationship between convention and variation: To what extent do intensifications follow recurring form-function patterns (Politt/Willich 2024)? What forms of variation (social, stylistic, medial) can be observed and how can these be described? We look forward to discussion on a phenomenon that lies at the crossroads of lexis, phonetics/phonology, grammar, pragmatics and semantics. We welcome recent work that deals with empirical studies on specific intensification strategies and the role of intensification in different discourses, genres, modalities or varieties. Papers that address how theoretical models of linguistic intensification can be developed on the basis of empirical analysis and conversely, how theoretical concepts can guide empirical analysis, are also welcomed. Abstracts should be in German or English and should not exceed a single A4 page (12pt, 1.5 line spacing). Please submit the abstract as a PDF (anonymisation not necessary) by *1st August 2025*to cotgrove(a)ids-mannheim.de. *Organisation*: Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim), Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim), Katja Politt (Universität Bielefeld, SFB 1646), Alexander Willich (HHU Düsseldorf) *References:* Cotgrove, L. (2025): Novel methods of intensification in young people’s digitally-mediated communication. In: Cotgrove, L./Herzberg, L./Lüngen, H. (eds.): Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora: Methods, analyses, and corpus construction. Berlin: De Gruyter, 137-162. Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (2017): New insights on intensification and intensifiers. In: Napoli, M./Ravetto, M. (eds.): Exploring Intensification. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1–12. Politt, K./Willich, A. (2024): Jetzt hab ich voll die Panik: Prototype effects of NP-external intensifiers in German. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 12(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2024-0002 -- Dr. Annelen Brunner Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Lexik Postfach 10 16 21 68016 Mannheim

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Postdoc Position: Chemical and Protein Language Models , Saarland University, Germany
by Dietrich Klakow 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Postdoc Position: Chemical and Protein Language Models Saarland University, Germany =========================================== The research group is focusing on getting a deeper understanding of how language models work and how they can be applied to biomedical domains. Our recent achievements include a best paper award at COLING 2022 and a best theme paper award at ACL 2023. The ideal candidate for the position would have: 1. Excellent knowledge of LLMs, machine learning and deep learning 2. Excellent programming skills 3. PhD in in a relevant field (e.g. CS) 4. Successful experiences working both independently and as part of a small team Salary: The Postdoc position will be 100% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) which is about 4967€ per month before tax and social security contributions. The appointment will be for two years with a possible extension. About the department: The department of Language Science and Technology is one of the leading departments in the speech and language area in Europe. The flagship project at the moment is the CRC on Information Density. It also runs a significant number of European and nationally funded projects. In total, it has seven faculty and around 50 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The department is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus. With 900 researchers, two Max Planck institutes and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, it is one of the leading locations for Informatics in Germany and Europe. We also have close collaborations with the department of bioinformatics and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research. How to apply: Please send us a letter of motivation, your CV, your transcripts, a list of publications, and the names and contact information of at least two references, as a single PDF or a link to a PDF if the file size is more than 5 MB. Please apply latest by June 18th, 2025. Contact: Applications and any further inquiries regarding our research should be directed to dietrich.klakow(a)lsv.uni-saarland.de

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1 fully-funded PhD on Language Technologies for Cultural Heritage at U. di Bologna (application deadline: July 1st)
by Alberto Barrón-Cedeño 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

[apologies for cross-postings] the Department of Interpreting and Translation of University of Università di Bologna [1] is offering one fully-paid three-year PhD grant in the program “Translation, Interpreting, and Intercultural Studies”, starting in November 2025. Besides the monthly stipend, the PhD programme guarantees additional economic support for a 6 to 12 months internship abroad. Project description. LLMs (e.g., Llama, deepseek, Gemini, chatGPT) have turned into pervasive services faster than hardly any previous technology around the world. Still, the quality of their output is highly imbalanced between English and other languages. Despite their successful handling of many complex linguistic tasks, LLMs have a hard time dealing with regional concepts and realia for which not enough data exist online. The PhD should focus on... (a) measuring the level (or lack) of local cultural knowledge by LLMs in multiple languages, (b) measuring the influence of English in LLM-produced texts, both from a linguistic and a cultural point of view, in applications such as machine translation, dialogue and text generation, and (c) designing and implementing strategies to produce and publish high-quality multicultural data and incorporate them in LLMs to boost their local awareness. We focus especially on (Italian) gastronomy. We welcome candidates with relevant backgrounds in natural language processing, digital humanities, and/or translation/linguistics, among others. We encourage students with programming and machine learning skills. For expressions of interest and informal discussion, please contact Prof. Alberto Barrón-Cedeño [2]. For the official application process, please visit: - https://www.unibo.it/en/study/phd-professional-masters-specialisation-schoo… (in English) - https://www.unibo.it/it/studiare/dottorati-master-specializzazioni-e-altra-… (in Italian) (the “official” title of the project is “On the treatment of local cultural concepts by large language models and the societal impact of pervasive Artificial Intelligence”) The student will depart from ongoing work within projects !Translate [3], GastroWiki [4] and GIARA. (S)he will also interact with an ongoing PhD research on NLP applied to gastronomy [5,6], and will join a growing research group with four professors (covering disciplines across computer science and linguistics) and four 2nd- and 3rd-year PhD students. Timeline, all in 2025: - 1st of July: application deadline (notice that the application includes a project proposal, prepared by the applicant). - 1st week of July: short-listing of the best applicants and invitation to oral interviews - Mid July: oral interviews with the commission (in presence or online) - End of July: publication of the final decision - 1st of November: the PhD starts. [1] https://dit.unibo.it [2] https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/a.barron/en ; https://aclanthology.org/people/a/alberto-barron-cedeno/ [3] https://site.unibo.it/no-translate/en [4] https://site.unibo.it/gastrowiki/ [5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457325001360 [6] https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3878/46_main_long.pdf Best regards, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño -- Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (PhD) Associate Professor (NLP) DIT Università di Bologna https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/a.barron/

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Extended Deadline: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Dear Corpora members, we announce that the deadline for submissions to CLiC-it 2025 has been extended to the 16th of June 2025. The final Call for Papers can be found below. Looking forward to seeing you in Cagliari, 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. Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed one (1) page in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper. 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 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

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[CFP] 1st Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning at COLM 2025
by ACL Announcements 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

1st Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning at COLM2025 Website: https://xllm-reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io/ Submission Deadline: June 23, 2025 We are thrilled to announce the First Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning at COLM 2025. Enabling large language models (LLMs) to reason (e.g., arithmetic reasoning, symbolic reasoning, commonsense reasoning, etc.) and plan (e.g., path-finding, tool use, web navigation, computer use, etc.) has been a popular topic in the past few years. Despite the exciting achievement, there have also been growing concerns about the safety and trustworthiness of these LLM applications, due to our large "unknowns" on how LLMs achieve these capabilities and where they could fail. On the other hand, LLM explainability (broadly including any research explaining or interpreting LLMs) has also attracted increasing attention, but existing research has mostly focused on simplified tasks and hardly yields insights that can be directly applied to realistic reasoning and planning tasks. This discrepancy has consequently raised doubts about the practical meaning of LLM explainability research. In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers from various perspectives to discuss the potential and practical applications of model explainability to advancing LLM reasoning and planning. Specifically, the workshop welcomes submissions on the following topics (non-exclusively): Local explanations (e.g., feature attribution, textual explanations, including CoT type) of LLMs in reasoning and/or planning tasks; Global explanations (e.g., mechanistic interpretability) of LLMs in reasoning and/or planning tasks; Applications of explainability to enhance LLM's effectiveness in reasoning and/or planning tasks; Applications of explainability to enhance LLM's safety and trustworthiness in reasoning and/or planning tasks; User interface development driven by LLM explanations; Human-LLM collaboration and teaming driven by explanations; and Explainability-driven, automatic, or human-in-the-loop LLM evaluation. We warmly invite researchers from both academia and industry with interests in LLM explainability, reasoning, and planning for participation. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 23, 2025, 23:59 AoE Acceptance notification: July 24, 2025 WEBSITE: https://xllm-reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io/ Google Group (join for latest updates via email): https://groups.google.com/g/xllm-reasoning-planning-workshop ORGANIZERS: Daking Rai, George Mason University Ziyu Yao, George Mason University Hanjie Chen, Rice University Mengan Du, New Jersey Institute of Technology Shi Feng, George Washington University Q.Vera Liao, Microsoft Research/University of Michigan Andreas Madsen, Guide Labs Abulhair Saparov, Purdue University Yilun Zhou, Salesforce Research CONTACT: xllmreasoningplanningworkshop(a)gmail.com

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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 – European Summer School on Information Retrieval
by Ingo Frommholz 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

** Early-bird rate deadline extended! ** Join us in Wolverhampton for a week of IR, AI, NLP, HCI and lots of discussion with experts in a friendly environment! ELLIS ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, will take place July 7-11 in Wolverhampton, UK. https://2025.essir.eu/ The registration is open and ear-bird deadline was extended – https://2025.essir.eu/attending/registration Travel support is available – https://2025.essir.eu/attending/travel-support About the School The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines like AI and NLP; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world. ELLIS ESSIR will offer a rich programme of high-profile and world leading lecturers in Information Retrieval, NLP and AI. Taught topics include: Introduction to Information Retrieval and Evaluation Generative AI and Information Retrieval Scholarly Document Processing and Retrieval UX and HCI with Information Retrieval Neural Re-ranking RAG and agentic IR Explainability in AI The Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2025) symposium will be held along ESSIR. Please visit https://2025.essir.eu/ for further information, travel support and registration. For additional enquiries, please contact essir-2025(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:essir-2025@googlegroups.com>. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Wolverhampton! -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor of Applied Data Science, Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @ifromm.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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NLP and vision online seminars (NLPV) at the University of Exeter - upcoming talks in June
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to join the NLP and vision seminars (NLPV). This is a talk series supported by the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) at the University of Exeter. We update talks and their recordings on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars The recent two talks are listed below: Talk 1 12 June 2025, 3-4pm: Prof Yulan He at King's College London Zoom link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94376040685?pwd=UvLl8gKZnVoa4PNpv40jTh… (Meeting ID: 943 7604 0685 Password: 582538) Title: LLMs Need a Bayesian Meta-Reasoning Framework for More Robust and Generalisable Reasoning Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many reasoning tasks, they still struggle with robustness, cross-task generalisation, and efficient scaling. Current training approaches, such as next-token prediction, reinforcement learning, and prompt optimisation, offer performance improvements but often lack adaptability across diverse tasks. In this talk, I will advocate for a transformative shift in how LLMs approach reasoning by introducing a Bayesian meta-reasoning framework that equips them with self-awareness, monitoring, evaluation, regulation, and meta-reflection. This framework aims to enhance LLMs' ability to refine reasoning strategies and generalise more effectively. I will discuss key challenges in current approaches and outline future directions for developing more adaptable and generalisable LLMs. Speaker's short bio: Yulan He is a Professor in Natural Language Processing at the Department of Informatics in King’s College London. She is currently holding a prestigious 5-year UKRI Turing AI Fellowship. Her recent research focused on addressing the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs), aiming to enhance their reasoning capabilities, robustness, and explainability. She has published nearly 300 papers on topics such as self-evolution of LLMs, mechanistic interpretability, and LLM for educational assessment. She received several prizes and awards for her research, including an SWSA Ten-Year Award, a CIKM Test-of-Time Award, and was recognised as an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS. Talk 2 26 June 2025, 3-4pm: Dr Tanja Samardžić at the University of Zurich Zoom link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97673721568?pwd=6IAO875zCe1GjYsFN2vig8… (Meeting ID: 976 7372 1568 Password: 548777) Title: Understanding text tokenisation across diverse languages Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are commonly said to be trained on raw text, but, in fact, they are trained on tokenised text, segmented into small, subword units (tokens). For example, a popular tokenizer splits the word 'plausible' into 'pl aus ible'. Somewhat surprisingly, general data compression algorithms such as BPE turned out more efficient than linguistic subword analyses when used as tokenizers in the context of training LLMs. These algorithms seem to find recurrent patterns that are well exploited by neural networks despite being linguistically incorrect. In this talk, I will show that, despite the perceived linguistic inadequacy, structural features of languages can be extracted from text data by tracking the text compression steps in subword tokenisation. I will present several studies showing that exploiting these features more directly allows us improve cross-lingual transfer and multilingual fairness of pre-trained LLMs. Speaker's short bio: Dr Tanja Samardžić is a researcher in multilingual text processing with a background in language theory and machine learning. She teaches Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the University of Geneva (as a senior deputy lecturer) and collaborate on research projects of the NLP Group at IDSIA. She is one of the co-founders of ReLDI Centre Belgrade. She holds a PhD in Computational linguistics from the University of Geneva, where she studied in the group Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics (CLCL). After the PhD, She was the Head of the Text Group and a lab director (alternating) of the Language and Space Lab at the University of Zurich (2013-2024), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (2024) and a Visiting Researcher at the IT University Copenhagen (2022). She is committed to promoting and facilitating the use of computational approaches in the study of language. Currently, she serves as a ACL Rolling Review Senior Area Chair, a UniDive COST Action Managing Committee Member and an External Governing Board Member of the SMASH Postdoctoral Program. Joining our *Google group* for future seminars and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g… Best regards, Hang Dong (on behalf of Aline Villaviencio, Rodrigo Wilkens, Yanda Meng) Lecturer in Computer Science University of Exeter

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1 PhD position in Linguistics as part of the ARMADA project – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (University of Verona, Italy)
by Valeria Franceschi 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

The ARMADA project aims to address critical issues related to the reliability and quality of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Bard. ARMADA seeks to develop solutions that make these AI systems more trustworthy, coherent, and verifiable. The project will train 15 early-stage researchers across nine research groups, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches that combine Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and social sciences. The position in linguistics will work on the analysis of bias in training materials for chatbots/LLM via linguistic corpora analysis. The doctoral student will be enrolled in the doctoral program of Foreign Literatures and Languages at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona. For further information and requirements, read the complete call at: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342476 ---------------------------------------- Valeria Franceschi, Ph.D Associate Professor English Language, Translation and Linguistics (ANGL-01/C) University of Verona Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Palazzo di Lingue, Piano 3, studio 3.07 Lungadige Porta Vittoria 41 37129 Verona (VR) Phone: 0458028729

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