SIGUL September 2024

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Second call for abstracts: UniDive 3rd general meeting
by Atul K. Ojha 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Second call for abstracts, UniDive 3rd general meeting, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary, Budapest, 29-30. January 2025 *UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>*is a COST action, i.e. a scientific network, dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. It is structured around 4 Working Groups: - WG1: Corpus annotation - WG2: Lexicon-corpus interface - WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology - WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity The *third general meeting <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:2rd_…>* of the action will take place on January 29-30 and will be preceded by a WG2 meeting on 28 January 2025 at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest. We invite UniDive WG members to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. The main venues will be in *Benczúr Hotel <https://www.hotelbenczur.hu/>*, Budapest, but some sessions will take place at the *Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics <https://nytud.hu/en%7CHUN-REN>*, Budapest, Hungary. To know more about the posters, see the *call <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:3rd_…>* . Proposals may describe diverse types of contributions, according to 3 different tracks: - Planned work - Work in progress - Complete work, also previously published A proposal should be anonymous, written in English and submitted in pdf only. It should include (on the title page) the list of the relevant WGs. It should not exceed 2 pages, including figures and tables (bibliographic references may go beyond the 2-page limit). If linguistic examples from languages other than English are included, those should be glossed and translated into English, and an extra half page is allowed for this purpose. For the sake of uniformity and easing the reviewers’ effort, we encourage authors to use the *Overleaf Latex template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/yqbpxcbjmjjw>*. Other formats (not necessarily Latex-based) can also be used, provided that they conform to the following specifications: A4 paper, 11pt font, 1in margins. The submission link will be announced soon. *The submission link is https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/General_Meeting <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/General_Meeting> * The reviewing process is double-blind. The selection of proposals will be done by UniDive Program Committee according to the following criteria: - relevance to UniDive and the work program of its Working Groups (see pp. 18-20 of the Memorandum of Understanding), - clarity - diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program The selected proposals will be presented at the 3rd UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations. At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. Important dates - 26 July 2024: Call for abstracts - *30 September 2024: Submission deadline* - 21 October 2024: Notification of acceptance - 26 October 2024: Communication of the names of the presenters - 09 November 2024: Final versions of abstracts - 28 January 2025: WG2 meeting - 29-30 January 2025: UniDive 3rd general meeting The time zone for all deadlines is anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Due to the tight schedule, there's no further submission deadline extension. Best regards Program Chairs - Olha Kanishcheva, SET University (Ukraine) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) - Veronika Lipp, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Hungary) - Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

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2nd Call for Papers: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLiDa, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference SUBMISSIONS NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. We invite paper submissions of three types: * regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and * demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations. Demonstration papers do not need to be anonymous. We particularly encourage submission of papers on completed or ongoing work, where the first author is a Master's or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 proceedings, which are published in the ACL Anthology and the NEALT Proceedings Series at DSpace at Tartu University Library (negotiations for indexation are ongoing and expected to be in place at publication time) SCHEDULE * Monday, October 21, 2024: Submission of Papers * Monday, December 9, 2024: Notification of Acceptance * Monday, January 13, 2025: Camera-Ready Manuscripts * Monday and Tuesday, March 3–4, 2025: Main Conference The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2025 style files, which will be available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word. Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices. DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa/Baltic_HLT must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. We follow the ACL Anonymity Policy, which means that we have no anonymity period. Authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements, and no later than (end of day, anywhere on earth): Monday, October 21, 2024. Submission is done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Conference Please note: To submit a paper, you need an account on OpenReview. For persons without an institutional email, it can take up to two weeks to have an account verified. Thus, please create an account early if you don’t have one already! PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair * Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden Program Chairs * Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Estonia * Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway * Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Lativa * Andrius Utka, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Workshop chairs * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway Publication chair * Richard Johansson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden Social media chair * Mike Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific program of the conference, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’. Local Chairs * Helen Kaljumäe, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Kadri Vare, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Merily Remma, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.ee<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc@eki.ee>’. Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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IWSLT 2025 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Dear all, The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20+ years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new applications scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, automatic evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for *shared tasks*. If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send it to *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com <iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2024. *Decisions about which tasks will run in 2025 will be announced by November 1st, 2024. For further information on this initiative, please refer to *https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>.* Best, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul IWSLT Organisers

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