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GermEval 2025 Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection: Call for Participation
by michael.wiegand＠univie.ac.at 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

apologies for cross-posting We are pleased to announce the *GermEval Shared Task on Candy Speech Detection („Flausch-Erkennung“)* This is the first call to participate in the shared task on candy speech detection („Flausch-Erkennung“). We invite everyone from academia and industry to participate in the shared task. The workshop discussing the results of this shared task is planned to be held in conjunction with the Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) in September 2025. *Introduction* Numerous methods have been developed for detecting and censoring negative speech (e.g., hate speech or offensive or harmful language) on social media platforms. However, there is much less focus on identifying and promoting positive supportive discourse in online communities. Our shared task aims to address this gap and encourage researchers to focus on such positive expressions. The task is to identify expressions of candy speech (Flausch) in online posts (YouTube comments). We define candy speech as an expression of positive attitudes in social media toward individuals or their output (videos, comments, etc.). The purpose of candy speech is to encourage, cheer up, support and empower others. It can be viewed as the counterpart to hate speech, as it also aims to influence the self-image of the target person or group, but in a positive way. *Data* We will provide the participants with annotated training (and development) and unlabeled test datasets containing complete written, German language comment threads under YouTube videos posted by different content creators. The content creators and communities vary in topic, style, age group, etc. The test data and training data do not overlap wrt. to the original content creator of the video – the communities commenting on the videos can therefore be expected to differ. *Task Details* Candy speech detection is the task of identifying the presence of candy speech (at the span level) in a given YouTube comment thread and classifying each expression in one of the predefined categories. This shared task focuses on German speaking YouTube communities. Participants will be provided with a dataset of YouTube comments manually annotated for different types of candy speech expressions. We offer the following two subtasks. Participants in this year's shared task may choose to participate in either subtask: Subtask 1: Coarse-Grained Classification The goal of this subtask is to identify whether the given comment contains candy speech ("Flausch") or not. The dataset is manually annotated for the presence of candy speech. Subtask 2: Fine-Grained Classification The goal of this subtask is to identify the span of each candy speech expression in a given text and classify it in one of the predefined categories. The dataset is manually annotated for 10 different types of candy speech expressions, such as “positive feedback”, “compliment”, “group membership” etc. More details on the subtasks (including examples) can be found at the website of the shared task (see link below). *Important dates* Trial data available: February 15, 2025 Training data available: March 3, 2025 Test data available: May 17, 2025 Evaluation start: June 16, 2025 Evaluation end: June 27, 2025 Paper submission due: July 11, 2025 Camera ready due: August 15, 2025 GermEval workshop: September 8 or 12, 2025 (co-located with KONVENS) *Website* https://yuliacl.github.io/GermEval2025-Flausch-Erkennung/ *GermEval* GermEval is a series of shared task evaluation campaigns that focus on Natural Language Processing for the German language. GermEval has been conducted regularly since 2014 in co-location with KONVENS/GSCL conferences: https://germeval.github.io/tasks/ *contact email* Please send any enquiry to the following email address: germeval-2025-candy-speech(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de Best regards, Yulia Clausen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Michael Wiegand, Universität Wien, Austria

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3rd CFP: Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ NAACL 2025
by Paul Thompson 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ NAACL 2025 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2025/ Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The second workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful inaugural CL4Health workshop (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue that focuses on language related to health of the public. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health-literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health SHARED TASK Perspective-aware Healthcare Answer Summarization (PerAnsSumm) will be co-located with the workshop. In community / consumer health question answering, several aspects, such as question understanding and answer generation, have been studied for over a decade. A new and important question posed by this task is the different perspectives provided in the answers to questions posted to online forums. The responses to the questions offer different answer perspectives, e.g., personal experiences, factual information, and suggestions. Traditionally, the CQA answer summarization task has focused on a single best-voted answer as a reference summary. A single answer does not capture all the perspectives. Moreover, a structured presentation of the information in the form of perspective-specific summaries may be more useful for the end-users. To address these gaps, this challenge introduces a novel perspective-specific answer summarization task within a CQA setup. The task will use the Perspective-aware healthcare Answer SuMmarizAtion (PUMA) dataset, a corpus of medical question-answer pairs created by the task organizers. The PUMA dataset consists of 3,167 CQA threads with approximately 10K answers filtered from the Yahoo! L6 corpus. Each answer in PUMA is annotated with five perspective spans: ‘cause’, ‘suggestion’, ‘experience’, ‘question’, and ‘information’. Further details are about the shared task are available at: https://peranssumm.github.io/ IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) January 30, 2025 -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 1, 2025 - Notification of acceptance March 10, 2025 - Camera-ready papers due April 8, 2025 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 3 OR 4, 2025 - Workshop SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Submission site: https://softconf.com/naacl2025/cl4health2025 Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Deepak Gupta, US National Library of Medicine -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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PhD Position in NLP at the University of Marburg
by daniel.braun＠uni-marburg.de 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Dear all, The newly established research group on Natural Language Processing at the University of Marburg is seeking applications for a position as Doctoral Researcher in one of the research areas of the group, which include: Methods and Applications of Natural Language Processing, Perspectivism and Disagreement in NLP, AI for Social Good, Legal Tech and NLP Evaluation. The position is offered for a period of 3 years. The starting date is as soon as possible. The position is fulltime with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13). Application deadline is the 19th of January. For more information and to apply please visit: https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/b26cbcb09d3e6c83dbdbab7def 555c7ec1843b040 Regards Daniel

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PostDoc in NLP: Multilingual Coreference Resolution
by michael.strube＠h-its.org 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Dear all, HITS is looking for a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing (m/f/x) to perform research in multilingual coreference resolution. Application deadline: January 15th, 2025. Starting date (negotiable): March 1st, 2025. Please see for details https://www.h-its.org/hits-job/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-language-… If you have further questions please don't hesitate to contact Michael Strube at michael.strube(a)h-its.org. With best regards, Michael Strube -- Michael Strube NLP Group HITS gGmbH Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35 69118 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.h-its.org/nlp

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[Job] Research Assistant: Knowledge-Graphs for Advanced Search Engines
by khalid.alkhatib＠rug.nl 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

We are seeking applications for a fully-funded one-year Research Assistant position in Computational Linguistics, focusing on developing Argumentation Knowledge Graphs for advanced search engines. The project aims to create structured, multi-perspective knowledge graphs to enhance search engines with reliable, balanced, and credible content, addressing challenges like information overload and misinformation. Conducted in collaboration with OpenWebSearch.EU, the project provides access to high-quality open data and enables integration into search interfaces, delivering trustworthy, diverse perspectives to support well-informed decision-making. https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0…

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Deadline extended - TheWebConf 2025 workshop on Protecting Women Online
by Debora Nozza 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM TSWWW 2025 Towards a Safer Web for Women - First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online co-located with The Web Conference 2025 Sydney, Australia 28 April - 2 May 2025 https://tsww25.github.io/ ******************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINES (all deadlines are AoE) ******************************************************************** 21st January 2025 22nd December 2024: Workshop paper submission deadline 27th January 2025: Notification of acceptance ******************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ The workshop is dedicated to addressing the pressing issue of online violence against women by fostering dialogue and innovation. The workshop will explore global challenges and solutions for gender-based violence and the impact of online harms on women, among others. We aim to encourage the development of technological and interdisciplinary frameworks and innovations to ensure women's online safety. The workshop aims to review progress in approaches combating online violence against women, identify persistent barriers, and propose solutions to emerging challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Detection and prevention of gender-based online violence (e.g., harassment, stalking, cyberbullying) * Sentiment and emotion analysis in abusive or harmful online interactions towards women * Gender bias identification and mitigation in AI * Human-centered approaches for online safety applications * Approaches to preventing, understanding, identifying and mitigating online harms faced by women with multiple marginalised identities (e.g., misogynoir, LGBTQ+ women, or women from religious or cultural minorities) * Analysis of tracking devices, surveillance tools, and hidden cameras misused against women * Detection and mitigation of non-consensual deepfake generation and dissemination * Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing online harm * Legal and ethical frameworks for protecting women online * Psychological, social, and legal impacts of online technology when used for gender-based abuse PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ We welcome both new and recent research, including non-archival submissions to showcase work published elsewhere, if it is especially relevant to the workshop's theme. Accepted formats include: * Long papers: Maximum 8 pages (excluding references) * Short papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Position, idea, and emerging problem papers: Maximum 4 pages (excluding references) * Non-archival submissions: Up to 2 pages (excluding references) All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsww25 For full details, visit our Call for Papers page. Further, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants. Accepted papers (except for non-archival submissions) will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web Conference, and indexed according to the main conference policy. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ____________________ Workshop chairs: * Ángel Pavón Pérez, The Open University * Miriam Fernandez, The Open University * Tracie Farrell, The Open University * Debora Nozza, Bocconi University * Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne

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Second call: Reading Concordances Training Day & Symposium @ FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg 19–21 March 2025
by Dykes, Nathan 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

The team of the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century project (RC21) is inviting you to two events on concordance reading that will take place at FAU in Erlangen, Germany. Both events are **free**, but places are limited, so please register early. Thu 20 & Fri 21 March 2025 – RC21 Symposium with poster session Join us for a two-day symposium with talks by guest speakers and the project team. The talks will cover methodology, theory, and applications of concordance reading. The symposium also includes a poster session, where participants can present their own research. Submission for the poster session is open until 31 January 2025. The following speakers will be presenting at the symposium: Laurence Anthony<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/laurence-anthony-ph-d-2/>, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Nathan Dykes<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/nathan-dykes/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Stephanie Evert<https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/prof-dr-stephanie-evert/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Ulrich Heid<https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/iwist/mitglieder/heid/>, Hildesheim University, Germany Susan Hunston<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/hunston-susan>, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Marc Kupietz<https://www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/personal/kupietz/>, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany Michaela Mahlberg<https://michaelamahlberg.com/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Alexander Piperski<https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/alexander-piperski/>, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Patricia Ronan<https://islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/ronan/>, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Charlotte Taylor<https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor>, University of Sussex, England Yukio Tono<https://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/english/tono_yukio.html>, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Valentin Werner<https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/personen/werner/>, University of Bamberg, Germany Viola Wiegand<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1844219>, University of Stirling, UK Wed 19 March 2025 – RC21 Training Day The Concordance Reading Training Day, which precedes the symposium, will include hands-on sessions on different aspects of concordance reading. Participants need to bring their own devices for the event. Deadline for registration: 19 February 2025 Deadline for submission of poster abstracts: 31 January 2025 The events are part of the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century project jointly funded by the AHRC and the DFG. For more information and registration details: https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-concordances-in-the-21st-century-rc21/… The RC21 team is looking forward to welcoming you to FAU! Stephanie Evert, Michaela Mahlberg, Nathan Dykes, Sasha Piperski

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Call for Participation: CoLiE at ICDAR'25
by Hugo Sousa 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Apologies for cross-posting Call for Participation: ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE) We are pleased to announce the ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE), which aims to push the boundaries of temporal text analysis by challenging participants to develop state-of-the-art methods for dating literary texts. The competition focuses on leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) techniques to predict the time periods in which texts were written. Overview The CoLiE competition offers two main tasks to address temporal classification and the understanding of historical texts: Task 1: Literary Epochs Classification Competition Page: Task 1 <https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task1> This task focuses on classifying texts based on literary epochs and their subdivisions: Sub-task 1.1: Classification of texts into six major literary epochs: Classicism (1660-1798) Romanticism (1798-1837) Victorian Literature (1837-1901) Modernism (1900-1945) Postmodernism (1945-2000) Contemporary (from 2000) Sub-task 1.2: Classification of texts into epoch subdivisions: Early: First quarter of the epoch Middle: Middle half of the epoch Late: Final quarter of the epoch Note: Epoch lengths vary, with Classicism, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism divided into three periods, while Contemporary has only two periods. Task 2: ChronoText Classification Competition Page: Task 2 <https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task2> This task addresses temporal granularity: Sub-task 2.1: Identifying the century of origin for a given text. Sub-task 2.2: Pinpointing the specific decade within that century when the text was composed. Participation We invite researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from the IR and NLP communities to participate in this exciting competition. Important Dates December 17, 2024: Competition website live. Training and validation sets with labels available. April 1, 2025: Test dataset available. April 8, 2025: Competition deadline. May 1, 2025: Submission of competition reports. May 16, 2025: Camera-ready paper submission. June 30, 2025: Winners announced. September 17-21, 2025: Results presented at the ICDAR conference. How to Participate Visit our website: https://colie.pro/ Familiarize yourself with the tasks, rules, datasets, and evaluation metrics. Submit your results through the Kaggle platform. Contact For inquiries, contact the organizers at: colie2025.competition(a)gmail.com <mailto:colie2025.competition@gmail.com> Organizers Marina Litvak, SCE (marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il <mailto:marinal@ac.sce.ac.il>) Irina Rabaev, SCE (irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il <mailto:irinar@ac.sce.ac.il>) Ricardo Campos, University of Beira Interior, INESC TEC (ricardo.campos(a)ubi.pt <mailto:ricardo.campos@ubi.pt>) Alípio Jorge, University of Porto, INESC TEC (amjorge(a)fc.up.pt <mailto:amjorge@fc.up.pt>) Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck (adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at <mailto:adam.jatowt@uibk.ac.at>) Roza Bass, SCE (rozzaba(a)ac.sce.ac.il <mailto:rozzaba@ac.sce.ac.il>) Hugo Sousa, University of Porto, INESC TEC (hugo.sousa(a)fc.up.pt <mailto:hugo.sousa@fc.up.pt>)

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[2nd CfP] "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies"
by Leszek Szymański 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Dear Colleagues,this is the 2nd call for papers!We invite submissions to the "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 2" international linguistics conference that will be held on April 3-4, 2025, at the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Zielona Góra, Poland, in a hybrid mode. More information can be found on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/.The conference is organized under the honorary patronage of the Polish Linguistic Society, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025!Thank you!Leszek Szymański

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starting 15 January: Open Advanced methods in corpus linguistics research group
by Brezina, Vaclav 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Dear all, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University offers an Open Advanced Methods in Corpus Linguistics research group, which meets fortnightly online/in person. We start on Wed 15 January 12-12.50pm UK time. This is an informal meeting space for exchange of ideas on corpus linguistics, methodology and science. This term we will be discussing: Fundamental principles of (social) science. Everybody is welcome. Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka Reading: McEnery & Brezina (2022). Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics. CUP. Topics: Wed 15/01/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 - Research and common sense. Chapter 1 Wed 29/01/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 What is science? Chapter 2 Wed 12/02/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 How to do science? Chapter 3 Wed 26/02/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South B89 What is social science and the digital humanities? Chapter 4 Wed 12/03/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South B89 Forms and functions Chapter 5 Wed 26/03/2025 12-12.50pm online and in person County South C89 Repetition and replication Chapters 6-7 Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.jpg@01DB60FE.4D884EE0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB60FE.4D884EE0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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