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Reminder: CfP for DGFS-AG Intensivierung/Intensification
by Brunner 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

We would like to remind you of our call for the DGFS workshop "Intensification". The deadline is this Friday,*1. August 2025*. <english version of the call 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 Abteilung Lexik Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) R 5, 6-13 68161 Mannheim Tel.: +49 621-1581-433 E-Mail:brunner@ids-mannheim.de

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Tenure-track faculty position in Language Technology - Saarland University and DFKI
by Alexander Koller 27 Jul '25

27 Jul '25

Hi all, we are currently looking for an excellent young colleague to fill a faculty position in Language Technology. This is a joint appointment between the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). It is a tenure-track position (W2 -> W3 on the German payscale). You will join one of the most active research sites in NLP and Informatics in Europe and, over time, grow into leading the Language Technology group at DFKI. Through DFKI, you will have access to an extensive global network of industry and other partners. This dual role offers a unique platform for high-impact research and meaningful societal engagement at a scale rarely achievable elsewhere. Please find the full job ad under the link below. The application deadline is September 12. https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf… Best, Alexander Koller.

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Final call and deadline extension: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts)
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 26 Jul '25

26 Jul '25

Call for Papers: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, held in conjunction with RANLP 2025 (https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/)! CASE is a leading venue for research, resources, and practical advances in automated event extraction and analysis, focusing on social and political event data. It has been organized consistently in top venues like ACL, EMNLP, EACL, etc. We invite submissions of research papers, resource papers, and position papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: • Event extraction at the sentence, document, or cross-document level, including event coreference. • Creation and annotation of datasets for event extraction. • Modeling event-event relations such as subevents, causal, temporal, and spatial links. • Evaluation of event datasets: reliability, validity, and coverage. • Event schemas and ontologies: population, definition, and enrichment. • Tools, pipelines, and infrastructure for event annotation and analysis. • Linguistic aspects of event representation: lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic. • Applications of event data in conflict prediction, early warning, and policy support. • Detection of new event types, including protests, public health crises, and cyber activism. • Bias, fairness, and misinformation in event extraction systems and datasets. • Legal, ethical, and privacy considerations in dataset creation and dissemination. • Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal event extraction. • Use of LLMs and generative AI for event extraction, analysis, and dataset generation. • Release of new benchmarks, datasets, or annotation resources. All accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Website: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2025/ (being updated! please get in touch with ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr for any questions) Link for submission: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/CASE2025/user/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 4 August 2025 (AoE) Notification: August 17, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: August 30, 2025 Workshop date: September 11-13, 2025 Shared task Multimodal detection of hate speech, humor, and stance in LGBTQ+ socio-political discourse To know more and participate, please visit: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2025-multimodal/blob/main/README.md All shared task papers will also be published in the ACL anthology. Organizers: Surendrabikram Thapa, Siddhant Bikram Shah, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Kritesh Rauniyar, Surabhi Adhikari, Kristy Johnson, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Usman Naseem Organizing committee: Ali Hürriyetoglu Hristo Tanev Surendrabikram Thapa Vanni Zavarella Erdem Yörük

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German lyrics corpus of the beginning of 20th century
by Alexander Osherenko 26 Jul '25

26 Jul '25

Hi all, I am looking for an annotated corpus of German lyrics from the early 20th century (1900–1950), including works by poets such as Günter Eich or Peter Huchel. I am aware of the German Lyrics Corpus ( https://github.com/tnhaider/DLK ), but it does not cover these specific authors. If anyone knows of relevant resources, I would greatly appreciate any recommendations. Best, Alexander -- Alexander Osherenko, Dr. rer. nat. Senior Researcher Profile: Socioware Development <http://www.socioware.de/osherenko_page.html> Profile: LinkedIn <http://de.linkedin.com/pub/alexander-osherenko/1/30a/a74> Profile: ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander_Osherenko> Channel: Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/user/MrOsherenko>

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Final Call for papers: Ethical LLMs 2025
by Dola Mullage, Damith (Postgraduate Researcher) 26 Jul '25

26 Jul '25

Ethical LLMs 2025: The first Workshop on Ethical Concerns in Training, Evaluating and Deploying Large Language Models<https://sites.google.com/view/ethical-llms-2025> @ RANLP2025<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> Final Call for papers: Scope Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a transformative leap in Artificial Intelligence (AI), delivering remarkable language-processing capabilities that are reshaping how we interact with technology in our daily lives. With their ability to perform tasks such as summarisation, translation, classification, and text generation, LLMs have demonstrated unparalleled versatility and power. Drawing from vast and diverse knowledge bases, these models hold the potential to revolutionise a wide range of fields, including education, media, law, psychology, and beyond. From assisting educators in creating personalised learning experiences to enabling legal professionals to draft documents or supporting mental health practitioners with preliminary assessments, the applications of LLMs are both expansive and profound. However, alongside their impressive strengths, LLMs also face significant limitations that raise critical ethical questions. Unlike humans, these models lack essential qualities such as emotional intelligence, contextual empathy, and nuanced ethical reasoning. While they can generate coherent and contextually relevant responses, they do not possess the ability to fully understand the emotional or moral implications of their outputs. This gap becomes particularly concerning when LLMs are deployed in sensitive domains where human values, cultural nuances, and ethical considerations are paramount. For example, biases embedded in training data can lead to unfair or discriminatory outcomes, while the absence of ethical reasoning may result in outputs that inadvertently harm individuals or communities. These limitations highlight the urgent need for robust research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to address the ethical dimensions of LLMs. Advancements in NLP research are crucial for developing methods to detect and mitigate biases, enhance transparency in model decision-making, and incorporate ethical frameworks that align with human values. By prioritising ethics in NLP research, we can better understand the societal implications of LLMs and ensure their development and deployment are guided by principles of fairness, accountability, and respect for human dignity. This workshop will dive into these pressing issues, fostering a collaborative effort to shape the future of LLMs as tools that not only excel in technical performance but also uphold the highest ethical standards. Key Dates Submissions Open - 1st June 2025 Paper Submission Deadline - 28th July 2025 Acceptance Notification - 10th August 2025 Camera-Ready Deadline - 20th August 2025 Submission Guidelines We follow the RANLP 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. EthicalLLMs 2025 invites the submission of long papers, up to eight pages in length, and short papers, up to six pages in length. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the RANLP 2025 style files available here: * Latex<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-LaTeX.zip> * Word<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ranlp2025-word.docx> Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/EthicalLLMs2025/ Topics of interest The workshop invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the ethical development and evaluation of LLMs, including but not limited to the following. 1. Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs Research focused on identifying, measuring, and reducing social, cultural, and algorithmic biases in large language models. 2. Ethical Frameworks for LLM Deployment Approaches to integrating ethical principles—such as fairness, accountability, and transparency—into the development and use of LLMs. 3. LLMs in Sensitive Domains: Risks and Safeguards Case studies or methodologies for deploying LLMs in high-stakes fields such as healthcare, law, and education, with an emphasis on ethical implications. 4. Explainability and Transparency in LLM Decision-Making Techniques and tools for improving the interpretability of LLM outputs and understanding model reasoning. 5. Cultural and Contextual Understanding in NLP Systems Strategies for enhancing LLMs’ sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and social nuances in global and multilingual contexts. 6. Human-in-the-Loop Approaches for Ethical Oversight Collaborative models that involve human expertise in guiding, correcting, or auditing LLM behaviour to ensure responsible use. 7. Mental Health and Emotional AI: Limits of LLM Empathy Discussions on the role of LLMs in mental health support, highlighting the boundary between assistive technology and the need for human empathy. Organisers Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK Contact If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Damith: d.dolamullage(a)lancaster.ac.uk

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Deadline Extended - Call for Papers for The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025)
by Kontino, T. (Thalassia) 25 Jul '25

25 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for our upcoming workshop: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities (LM4DH 2025) (co-located with RANLP 2025) has been extended to 27 July 2025! This interdisciplinary workshop invites contributions at the intersection of computational methods and the humanities, including work on: * Text analysis and genre detection * Interpretability of LLM outputs * Historical and low-resource language processing * Dataset creation and curation * Emotion analysis, authorship attribution, and more We welcome standard (up to 8 pages) and short papers (4–6 pages). Submissions must follow the RANLP 2025 ACL-style template. * New Submission Deadline: 27 July 2025 * Notification of Acceptance: 2 August 2025 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 20 August 2025 * Workshop Date: 11-13 September 2025 (To be confirmed) Don’t miss the chance to be part of this exciting event that brings together researchers across linguistics, cultural heritage, NLP, history, and more. Submit your paper and join the conversation on the future of AI in the Digital Humanities! For more information, visit https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-papers-first-workshop-natural-language-p… Best regards, CLARIN ERIC

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 24 Jul '25

24 Jul '25

/[Apologies for multiple postings]/ We are happy to announce that 2 new speech databases are available in our catalogue. *Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0496/>*** ISLRN: 369-011-475-593-5 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/369-011-475-593-5> The Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) contains the total recordings of 184 Chinese Kids speakers (98 males and 86 females), from 6 to 10 years' old, recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1,426 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. *Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0497/>*** ISLRN:993-024-988-227-0 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/993-024-988-227-0> The Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) contains the total recordings of 161 Chinese Kids speakers (71 males and 90 females), from 10 to 12 years’ old recorded in quiet rooms using smartphone.1,859 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us* <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the *ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources* <http://catalog.elra.info> *Archives * <https://www.elra.info/catalogues/language-resources-announcements/>of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates /Please note that you receive this email because you are or have been a customer or a provider of ELRA Language Resources./ /ELRA Privacy Policy is available //here/ <https://www.elra.info/elra-privacy-policy/> /If you do not want to receive such e-mails in the future, //contact us/ <mailto:privacy@elda.org>

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash July
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 24 Jul '25

24 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, The July edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out! This summer, CLARIN is turning up the heat at major conferences and summer schools — from the Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference in Birmingham, to DH2025 in Lisbon, and the ESU summer school in Besançon, with ACL and Interspeech just around the corner. We’re proud to showcase our most popular and newly developed tools and resources, strengthening visibility, fostering meaningful connections, and collaborating with local CLARIN communities and researchers worldwide. It’s all in this month’s newsflash — take a look! https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-july-2025 Wishing you a relaxing summer break — we’ll be back in September with a CLARIN2025 special edition! CLARIN ERIC

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CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts)
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Call for Papers: CASE 2025 @ RANLP (8. Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, held in conjunction with RANLP 2025 (https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/)! CASE is a leading venue for research, resources, and practical advances in automated event extraction and analysis, focusing on social and political event data. It has been organized consistently in top venues like ACL, EMNLP, EACL, etc. We invite submissions of research papers, resource papers, and position papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: • Event extraction at the sentence, document, or cross-document level, including event coreference. • Creation and annotation of datasets for event extraction. • Modeling event-event relations such as subevents, causal, temporal, and spatial links. • Evaluation of event datasets: reliability, validity, and coverage. • Event schemas and ontologies: population, definition, and enrichment. • Tools, pipelines, and infrastructure for event annotation and analysis. • Linguistic aspects of event representation: lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic. • Applications of event data in conflict prediction, early warning, and policy support. • Detection of new event types, including protests, public health crises, and cyber activism. • Bias, fairness, and misinformation in event extraction systems and datasets. • Legal, ethical, and privacy considerations in dataset creation and dissemination. • Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal event extraction. • Use of LLMs and generative AI for event extraction, analysis, and dataset generation. • Release of new benchmarks, datasets, or annotation resources. All accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Website: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2025/ (being updated! please get in touch with ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr for any questions) Link for submission: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/CASE2025/user/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 25 July 2025 Notification: August 17, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: August 30, 2025 Workshop date: September 11-13, 2025 Shared task Multimodal detection of hate speech, humor, and stance in LGBTQ+ socio-political discourse To know more and participate, please visit: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2025-multimodal/blob/main/README.md All shared task papers will also be published in the ACL anthology. Organizers: Surendrabikram Thapa, Siddhant Bikram Shah, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Kritesh Rauniyar, Surabhi Adhikari, Kristy Johnson, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Usman Naseem Organizing committee: Ali Hürriyetoglu Hristo Tanev Surendrabikram Thapa Vanni Zavarella Erdem Yörük

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Invitation to the chatbot Evaristo.ai
by Antonio Branco 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Hi, good morning This is to share with you that our research group made publicly available the beta version of *the chatbot for the Portuguese language based on open LLMs, Evaristo.ai <https://evaristo.ai/> * One of such LLMs is Gervásio 8B <https://huggingface.co/PORTULAN/gervasio-8b-portuguese-ptpt-decoder>, we developed for Portuguese and we are releasing also now, and which is the LLM that you find active by default when arriving at this chatbot. Though you may not be proficient in Portuguese, on-the-fly translators will likely help you to get its content and its basic functioning. *We invite you, and your colleagues and students, to visit it and try out this first test version. We welcome any help you can give us in testing it, any feedback and any suggestions you can share with us.* It has a unique set of features, among others: it is an open AI chatbot for the Portuguese language; it is multi-model and multi-heteronym, as well as being agentic, multi-tool and multi-modal; it does not track its users or pass on their content to third parties, safeguarding user privacy and ownership of their content. You'll find the presentation of its motivation in this press release <https://evaristo.ai/assets/pressRelease_EvaristoAI.pdf>(in English), that can be complemented by the more complete description in the section about <https://evaristo.ai/about> (in Portuguese) The current open LLMs available are typically between 10 and 100 times smaller than the top-of-the-range closed LLMs used in commercial chatbots, so the costs associated with training and operating them are much lower. The performance of open LLMs, however, is much more satisfactory than this linear disproportion would suggest. They therefore have an excellent ratio of performance quality versus cost, and are a viable option for fully autonomous generative AI services focused on concrete use cases. In this context, we see this chatbot as a milestone in the democratization of generative technology for the Portuguese language, through open LLMs, by encouraging more and more organizations to move forward with their own AI services, rooted in their own computers, and focused on their concrete use cases. Have a nice day, António

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