CFP MultiClinSum (CLEF/BioASQ 2025): Multilingual Clinical Text
Summarization Shared Task
https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum
The MultiClinSum shared task focuses on the automatic summarization of
clinical texts in different languages, i.e. English, Spanish, French and
Portuguese
Key Information:
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Web: https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum
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Data: https://zenodo.org/records/15463353
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BioASQ: http://bioasq.org/
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Registration: https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum/registration/
Motivation:
There is a rapid accumulation of various types of clinical content,
including medical records and specialized publications such as clinical
case reports. As a result, it is becoming increasingly challenging for
healthcare professionals, biomedical researchers, and patients to process
lengthy clinical documents in order to gain a clear understanding and
overview of the key medical insights underlying patient conditions and
outcomes.
This challenge applies not only to clinical content in English but also in
other widely spoken languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Recent advances in automatic summarization and the use of large language
models (LLMs) have shown promising results in condensing lengthy clinical
texts into shorter summaries, effectively reducing their length while
preserving essential clinical information.
Use cases and application scenarios for automatic clinical text
summarization include:
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Clinical Decision Support: Summarization condenses of electronic health
records (EHRs) into key events, diagnoses, medications, and outcomes,
aiding timely and informed decisions.
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Patient Discharge Summaries: Automatically generate readable, concise
summaries from detailed clinical notes, enhancing continuity of care and
patient understanding.
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Medical Literature Review: Summarize key findings, methodologies, and
outcomes from scientific articles to facilitate rapid literature reviews.
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Multilingual Clinical Communication: Summarization systems, combined
with translation, enable understanding across language barriers by
distilling essential content from foreign-language reports.
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Telemedicine & Remote Consultations: Summarized patient data supports
fast review and focused diagnostics in remote care settings.
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Clinical Trial Screening: Summarized profiles can accelerate eligibility
assessment by highlighting key inclusion/exclusion criteria.
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Medical Coding and Billing: Summarization helps highlight billable
actions, diagnoses, and procedures to streamline medical coding workflows.
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Patient-Facing Summaries: Summarization tools can generate simplified or
lay-language versions of complex medical content to improve patient
engagement and health literacy.
In light of recent technological advances, there is a pressing need to
evaluate and benchmark the effectiveness of clinical summarization for case
reports written in different languages.
MultiClinSum focuses on the automatic summarization of full clinical case
reports in multiple languages—namely English, Spanish, French, and
Portuguese. Since clinical case reports share certain similarities with
electronic medical records, particularly discharge summaries, the insights
derived from MultiClinSum may have practical relevance for clinical text
analysis and various medical applications.
This task is based on a corpus of manually selected full clinical case
reports along with their corresponding author-provided short summaries.
For evaluation purposes, automatically-generated summaries will be compared
against human-generated summaries written by the original clinical authors,
using Rouge-2 scores and BERTScore for evaluation assessment. The
evaluation for each language will be done separately, and participants are
encouraged to explore both monolingual and multilingual approaches as they
wish. Thus the following sub-tasks will be posed: MultiClinSum-en (English
data), MultiClinSum-es (Spanish data), MultiClinSum-fr (French data) and
MultiClinSum-pt (Portuguese data).
Participating teams are requested to implement or evaluate automated
systems that generate summaries from full clinical case reports.
Schedule
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MultiClinSum Sample Set Release: April 9th, 2025
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MultiClinSum Train/Dev Set Release: May 16th, 2025 (updated!)
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MultiClinSum Test Set Texts Release: May 28th, 2025 (updated!)
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Participant Test Predictions Deadline: June 2nd, 2025 (updated!)
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Participant Evaluation Result Release: June 6th, 2025 (updated!)
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Submission of Participant Papers Deadline: June 18th, 2025 (updated!)
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Notification of Acceptance of Participant Papers: June 27th, 2025
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Submission of Camera-ready Participant Papers Deadline: July 7th, 2025
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BioASQ @ CLEF2025: September 9th-12th, 2025
Publications & Conference
Following previous BioASQ/CLEF efforts, participating teams will be invited
to contribute a short system description paper for the CLEF 2025
proceedings and to give a brief presentation of their approach at the
BioASQ workshop during the CLEF 2025 conference (September 9–12, 2025, in
Madrid, Spain).
MultiClinSum Organizers
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Salvador Lima-López, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.
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Miguel Rodríguez-Ortega, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.
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Eduard Rodríguez-López, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.
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Carlos Escolano Peinado, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.
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Maite Melero Nogues, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.
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Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.
Scientific committee:
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Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester
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Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Simon Mille, ADAPT Research Centre, Dublin City University
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Georgios Katsimpras, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos,
Greece
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Anastasios Nentidis, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos,
Greece
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Anastasia Krithara, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos,
Greece
Second call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African
Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Co-located with DHASA 2025
https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/
RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025
DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025
Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre.
The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/
DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/
The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern
Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention
Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL
workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on
African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages
processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data
collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a
scientific community of practice that focuses on computational
linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the
indigenous languages of Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are
considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share
interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different
from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective,
these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development
of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African
languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that
the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to
African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource
languages across the world. Because these languages share similar
challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to
work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and
learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language
models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to
properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-
African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are
not limited to) the following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The
final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one
additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback
can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA
style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities
Association of Southern Africa website
(https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is
double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not
provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the
amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The
RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be
available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings
linked to the DHASA conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 14 July 2025
Date of notification: 16 September 2025
Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025
Workshop: 10 November 2025
DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
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Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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Second call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za
Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial
intelligence
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is
pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The
role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence.
In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively
underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster
growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an
opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the
broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the
conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-
the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa
region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities
research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research
focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense.
Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information
sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital
Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities
in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to
promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic
field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and
tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable
insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events
are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital
Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their
knowledge in the field.
The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from
researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but
not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and
theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology,
language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies,
software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an
inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities.
Suggested topics include the following:
* The role of AI in digital humanities, the role of Digital Humanities
in shaping AI, and the broader role of the humanities in both AI and DH
projects;
* Digital archives and the preservation of marginalised voices;
* Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the
intersections of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class in digital
research and activism;
* Activism and social change through digital media: how digital
humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion;
* Engaging marginalised communities in the creation and use of digital
tools, resources, and AI;
* Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonising knowledge
and promoting indigenous perspectives;
* The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities and
AI research;
* The role of digital humanities and AI in promoting inclusive and
equitable pedagogy;
* Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of African and global
perspectives and international collaborations;
* Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining
the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in
promoting inclusion; and
* Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit
organisations, community groups, and cultural institutions;
* Development of digital and AI tools for supporting digital
humanities;
* Novel utilisation of digital and AI tools for performing digital
humanities research;
* The role of digital humanities in the classroom: reimagining literacy
and AI fluency
* Digital humanities data and project management;
* The role of librarians in the digital humanities project;
* Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern
African community.
Submission Guidelines
The DHASA conference 2025 asks for three types of submissions:
* Long papers: Authors may submit long papers with a maximum of 8
content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The
final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional
page (leading to a total of up to 9 content pages) to incorporate
reviewers' comments. Long papers accepted for the conference will be
presented in 30-minute time slots (which includes 10 minutes for
questions).
* Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5
content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The
final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page
(leading to a total of up to 6 content pages) to accommodate reviewers'
comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented in
15-minute time slots (which includes 5 minutes for questions).
* Executive summaries: Authors can submit an executive summary for work
in progress, limited to 1 page. Executive summaries accepted for the
conference will be presented as posters during a dedicated poster
presentation slot.
All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the
conference will be published in the JDHASA journal, see
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the executive
summaries for the poster presentations will be published in a book of
executive summaries before the conference.
We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is
a student.
All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide:
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html
Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not
adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected.
Follow this link to go to the submission platform:
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/
Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR
repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties
uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip
(benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za).
Important dates
Submission deadline: 14 July 2025
Date of notification: 16 September 2025
Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025
Conference: 10 November 2025 - 14 November 2025
Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa
Co-located events
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including
workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference
website.
Organising Committee
Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University
Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION UNTIL MAY 12
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LARP
Language models And RePresentations
September 8 - September 9, 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden
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https://gu-clasp.github.io/LARP/index.html
Invited speakers
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Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania and Oracle
Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh
Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology
Important dates
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- Submission deadline (archival): UPDATED! **May 12, 2025**
- Notification of acceptance (archival): June 20, 2025
- Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ACL ARR submissions: July 31, 2025
- Submission deadline (non-archival): August 1, 2025
- Notification of acceptance (non-archival): August 8, 2025
- Camera ready (archival): August 8, 2025
- Camera ready (ARR Commitments): August 15, 2025
- Registration deadline: TBA
- Conference: September 8–9, 2025, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Language models And RePresentations (LARP) brings together researchers that explore how information is structured, encoded and used in computational language systems. We encourage submissions on both neural (sub-symbolic) and discrete (symbolic) representations from the fields of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence or their intersection.
The conference is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/), University of Gothenburg. The conference will be held between September 8 and 9 in Gothenburg, Sweden (on-site and hybrid).
Topics of interest
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We hope to see innovative work that considers neural and symbolic learning and processing in terms of different modelling perspectives. Papers are invited on the following topics as they relate to natural language:
- Neuro-symbolic integration: novel hybrid frameworks combining symbolic representations with neural network learning for enhanced reasoning and natural language processing
- Explainable machine learning: techniques that allow for better interpretability, transparency, and explainability of neural, symbolic and neuro-symbolic architectures
- Logical constraints in neural networks: methods that use logical structures (e.g., knowledge bases, ontologies) for post-hoc or inherent explainability
- Automated reasoning systems providing human-interpretable rationales for decisions
- Symbolic planning and control in neural workflows
- Application-driven scenarios (robots, autonomous systems) showcasing benefits of symbolic approaches
- Techniques that integrate symbolic representations into text or multimodal generation
- Approaches that enforce domain knowledge, consistency, or adherence to constraints in text and/or multimodal generation
- Fine-tuning and in-context learning strategies that incorporate logical or rule-based knowledge
This list is illustrative but is not intended to be exhaustive.
Submission Requirements
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**Archival track**
Archival track will feature the following types of submissions to appear in conference proceedings: we accept long papers (max 8 pages) and short papers (max 4 pages). Long and short papers must describe substantial, original, and unpublished research. Supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns do not count towards the page limit. Archival accepted papers will be published in the 2025 ACL Anthology as a CLASP Conference Proceedings. Papers should be electronically submitted via the OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. Submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Archival submissions must be anonymous. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have questions.
**NEW!!! ARR Commitment**
We accept papers that have been pre-reviewed via ACL Rolling Review<https://aclrollingreview.org/>. You are welcome to submit the link to your ARR submission. The linked submission must include both the reviews and the meta-review. Both the submission and its reviews will be evaluated by the programme committee for their relevance to the conference topic. To submit, please visit https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/ARR_Commitment.
**Non-archival track**
At the time of submission, authors may indicate that their paper should be considered for the non-archival track. The format for non-archival submissions is the same for both long and short papers as it is for the archival submissions. Non-archival papers will not undergo the peer review process. They will be evaluated by the programme committee for clarity and content relevance before the decision by the PC is made. Non-archival papers do not need to be anonymous. If accepted, they are to be published on the conference website and presented as posters.
**Poster abstracts**
We invite researchers to submit abstracts in the above areas of interest. Abstract submissions are non-archival. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on work in progress or to present previously published work to a new audience. The deadline for abstract submission is the same as for non-archival papers. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by August 8, 2025. Abstract submissions should be .pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages (supplementary materials, appendices, a section on limitations and ethical concerns are not included) and be submitted via OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=CLASP/LARP/2025/Conference. The acceptance decision on abstracts will go through the same procedure as papers for the non-archival track. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters.
Concurrent Submissions
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Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences or publications must indicate this at submission time using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. We will not accept publications or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.
Authors of papers accepted for presentation at LARP must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the Proceedings.
Camera Ready Versions
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Camera ready versions must be deanonymised. Archival submissions get 1 more page to address comments from reviewers: long papers can be maximum up to 9 pages, short papers can be maximum up to 5 pages.
Organisers
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LARP is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, https://gu-clasp.github.io/) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), University of Gothenburg. CLASP focuses its research on the application of probabilistic and information theoretic methods to the analysis of natural language. CLASP is concerned both with understanding the cognitive foundations of language and developing efficient language technology. We work at the interface of computational linguistics/natural language processing, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive science.
For practical inquiries, send an email to larp2025(a)flov.gu.se<mailto:larp2025@flov.gu.se>.