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[Extended Deadline] Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

[Due to many requests, we have extended the submission deadline] Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 12th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. 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 COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee * Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK * Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany * Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK * Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA * Daan van Esch - Google * Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK * Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland * Amal Htait - Aston University, UK * Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands * Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia * Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK * Jean Maillard - Meta * Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain * Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK * Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK * Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia * Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK * Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Phil Weber - Aston University, UK URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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[Deadline Extension] Call for Shared Task Proposals for RANLP 2025
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

[Due to many requests, we have extended the deadlines.] We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of RANLP 2025 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing): https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/.<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference and inviting task organisers to submit their task proposals. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals. For RANLP 2025, we welcome any task that can evaluate an automatic system for natural language processing. We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, multi-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of natural language processing. We strongly encourage proposals based on already published datasets, as this can provide concrete examples and help minimise the challenges of organising the shared task. In the event of receiving many proposals, preference will be given to proposals based on already published datasets. If you are unsure whether a task is suitable, please contact the shared task chairs to discuss your idea. Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, and the reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Task proposals will be evaluated on: * Novelty - Is the task based on a new problem that has not been explored much in the community? If similar tasks have been organised before, does this task cover new languages/ domains? * Data – Is the data available and published already? Do annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for the use and re-use of the data been secured? * Evaluation—Is the evaluation methodology sound? Is there an automated platform for the evaluation (e.g., CodaLab, Kaggle)? Task Organisation We specifically welcome task proposals from early career researchers. However, we strongly encourage tasks that have a diverse team of organisers as that will ease the task organisation. Apart from providing a dataset, task organisers are expected to: 1. Verify data quality in terms of annotator agreement. 2. Verify licenses for the data to allow its use in the competition. 3. Provide task participants with baseline systems. 4. Create a CodaLab or other similar evaluation platform for the task and manage automatic evaluation. 5. Promote the task within the target research community. 6. Manage and organise review process of participants’ submissions of system description papers. 7. Write a task description paper to be included in RANLP proceedings. 8. Contribute to the tasks overview paper written by shared task chairs and other task organisers which will also be included in RANLP proceedings. 9. Register and present the shared task description paper at RANLP 2025 on either 11th or 12th September 2025 (the exact date will be confirmed later) Important Dates * Task proposals due - November 20, 2024 * Task selection notification – November 25, 2024 Recommended Timeline for the Tasks * Sample data and task website ready - December 1, 2024 * Training data ready - December 15, 2024 * Evaluation data ready - March 1, 2025 * Evaluation starts – March 10, 2025 * Evaluation end - March 31, 2025 (latest date; task organisers may choose an earlier date) * Paper submission due – April 20, 2025 * Notification to authors – May 16, 2025 * Task overview paper due – May 25, 2025 * Camera-ready due - May 31, 2025 * Shared task presentation co-located with RANLP 2025 – September 11 and September 12, 2025 Tasks that do not meet critical deadlines, such as those for launching the task, setting up the CodaLab website, and uploading samples, training, and evaluation data, may be cancelled at the discretion of the shared task chairs. Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 2 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the RANLP 2023 template available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/ Each proposal should contain the following: * Overview * Summary of the task – What is the goal of the task * Expected number of participants and justification * Data & Resources * How the training/testing data will be produced. Discuss whether the dataset is already published * Details of license, so that the data can be used by the research community * How much data will be produced * How data quality will be ensured and evaluated * An example of what the data would look like * Evaluation * The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - * The evaluation platform (i.e. CodaLab, Kaggle etc.) * Task organisers * Names, affiliations, email addresses * brief description of relevant experience or expertise The submissions should be done via START - https://softconf.com/ranlp25/papers/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pa… Proceedings Tasks overview paper, task description papers and participant papers will be published as part of RANLP 2025 proceedings in ACLAnthology. Task organisers and participants are expected to attend RANLP 2025 on September 11 and September 12, 2025, and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings. Shared Task Chairs Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Dr Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK RANLP 2024 Chairs Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Best Regards Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
by Menno Van Zaanen 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, a national research infrastructure hosted at the North-West University within the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications from outstanding early career researchers for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF) in applied linguistics in general and language for academic purposes in particular. Full details available here: https://bit.ly/3UeRf7h -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Call for Papers: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models Workshop 2025
by Annika Simonsen - HI 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

We are pleased to invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL), to be held on March 2, 2025, as part of the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn, Estonia. About the Workshop This half-day workshop focuses on the responsible evaluation and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to address the unique challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - Ethical benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in Nordic and Baltic languages - Methods for creating culturally sensitive and inclusive evaluation datasets - Responsible techniques for generating or collecting alignment data - Challenges and solutions in ethical LLM alignment for less-resourced languages - Case studies on responsible LLM evaluation or alignment projects - Ethical considerations in LLM evaluation and alignment - Comparative studies of LLM performance and fairness in Nordic and Baltic languages - Innovative approaches to leveraging limited language resources in evaluation or alignment of language models Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: January 13, 2025 Camera-Ready Deadline: February 3, 2025 Workshop Date: March 2, 2025 Workshop Format NB-REAL 2025 will be a half-day workshop held on March 2, 2025 (pre-conference). It will be a hybrid event with both on-site and online participation available. Organizers: Hafsteinn Einarsson, Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Iceland (hafsteinne(a)hi.is) Annika Simonsen, PhD Student, University of Iceland (annika(a)hi.is) Dan Saattrup Nielsen, Senior AI Specialist, Alexandra Institute (dan.nielsen(a)alexandra.dk) For more information, please visit our website: https://nbreal.xyz/ We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at NB-REAL 2025!

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NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT Deadline extension
by Sara Stymne 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

*********** DEADLINE EXTENSION ************** The submission deadline has been extended! The new deadline is October 27, 2024 (23:59 anywhere on earth) ******************************************************* 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 as an in-person conference. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Milan Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen 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 October 27, 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 (23:59, anywhere on earth): Sunday, October 27, 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.xn--com-to0a. 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.xn--ee-o2t. 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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Save the Date: Language Technologies for All (LT4All 2.0) Conference on February 24-26, 2025 at UNESCO Headquarters (Paris, France)
by Sakriani Sakti 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Dear All, As you may know, we organized the first International Conference on Language Technology for All (LT4All 1.0) in 2019, held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, under the theme "Multilingualism for Building Knowledge Societies." The event emphasized the critical role of language and advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, in fostering inclusive, cross-cultural dialogue. However, despite significant progress in language technology, many communities continue to be left behind. The challenge extends beyond merely creating language technologies; it requires meaningful collaboration with communities to develop solutions tailored to their specific needs. In this context, we are pleased to announce the second edition of the International Conference on Language Technology for All (LT4All 2.0), themed "Advancing Humanism through Language Technologies," which will take place from 24 to 26 February 2025 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. This conference will be organized within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032) and will commemorate the Silver Jubilee of International Mother Language Day in 2025. The event is also co-organized by ELRA, the joint ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL), and UNESCO. For more information, or to express your interest in attending, sponsoring, or endorsing the event, please use the following web form: https://www.lt4all2025.eu/contact/. Alternatively, you can write an email to the LT4All 2025 Secretariat at: <lt4all2025-contact(a)ml.naist.ac.jp> Best regards, Sakriani Sakti, Claudia Soria, Maite Melero On behalf of the LT4All Organizing Committee

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Final Call for Papers: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '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 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Milan Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen 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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First Call for Shared Task Proposals for RANLP 2025
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of RANLP 2025 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing): https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/.<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference and inviting task organisers to submit their task proposals. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals. For RANLP 2025, we welcome any task that can evaluate an automatic system for natural language processing. We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, multi-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of natural language processing. We strongly encourage proposals based on already published datasets, as this can provide concrete examples and help minimise the challenges of organising the shared task. In the event of receiving many proposals, preference will be given to proposals based on already published datasets. If you are unsure whether a task is suitable, please contact the shared task chairs to discuss your idea. Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, and the reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Task proposals will be evaluated on: * Novelty - Is the task based on a new problem that has not been explored much in the community? If similar tasks have been organised before, does this task cover new languages/ domains? * Data – Is the data available and published already? Do annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for the use and re-use of the data been secured? * Evaluation—Is the evaluation methodology sound? Is there an automated platform for the evaluation (e.g., CodaLab, Kaggle)? Task Organisation We specifically welcome task proposals from early career researchers. However, we strongly encourage tasks that have a diverse team of organisers as that will ease the task organisation. Apart from providing a dataset, task organisers are expected to: 1. Verify data quality in terms of annotator agreement. 2. Verify licenses for the data to allow its use in the competition. 3. Provide task participants with baseline systems. 4. Create a CodaLab or other similar evaluation platform for the task and manage automatic evaluation. 5. Promote the task within the target research community. 6. Manage and organise review process of participants’ submissions of system description papers. 7. Write a task description paper to be included in RANLP proceedings. 8. Contribute to the tasks overview paper written by shared task chairs and other task organisers which will also be included in RANLP proceedings. 9. Register and present the shared task description paper at RANLP 2025 on either 11th or 12th September 2025 (the exact date will be confirmed later) Important Dates * Task proposals due - October 28, 2024 * Task selection notification – November 4, 2024 Recommended Timeline for the Tasks * Sample data and task website ready - November 15, 2024 * Training data ready - December 15, 2024 * Evaluation data ready - March 1, 2025 * Evaluation starts – March 10, 2025 * Evaluation end - March 31, 2025 (latest date; task organisers may choose an earlier date) * Paper submission due – April 20, 2025 * Notification to authors – May 16, 2025 * Task overview paper due – May 25, 2025 * Camera-ready due - May 31, 2025 * Shared task presentation co-located with RANLP 2025 – September 11 and September 12, 2025 Tasks that do not meet critical deadlines such as those for launching the task, setting up the CodaLab website, and uploading samples, training, and evaluation data may be cancelled at the discretion of the shared task chairs. Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 2 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the RANLP 2023 template available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/ Each proposal should contain the following: * Overview * Summary of the task – What is the goal of the task * Expected number of participants and justification * Data & Resources * How the training/testing data will be produced. Discuss whether the dataset is already published * Details of license, so that the data can be used by the research community * How much data will be produced * How data quality will be ensured and evaluated * An example of what the data would look like * Evaluation * The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - * The evaluation platform (i.e. CodaLab, Kaggle etc.) * Task organisers * Names, affiliations, email addresses * brief description of relevant experience or expertise The submissions should be done via START - https://softconf.com/ranlp25/papers/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pa… Proceedings Tasks overview paper, task description papers and participant papers will be published as part of RANLP 2025 proceedings in ACLAnthology. Task organisers and participants are expected to attend RANLP 2025 on September 11 and September 12, 2025, and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings. Shared Task Chairs Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Dr Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK RANLP 2024 Chairs Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Best Regards Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University

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ComputEL-8 workshop: regular + special sessions - final Call-for-Papers (DL postponed to Oct. 14)
by Antti Arppe 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

ComputEL-8: Eighth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS for REGULAR SESSION (and SPECIAL SESSION) Submission deadline (POSTPONED): October 14, 2024 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8 REGULAR SESSION (For details about Special Session, scroll further below.) We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities IMPORTANT DATES 14-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, we offer two modes of submission: extended abstract and full paper. The mode of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Either can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 14, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific Program Committee. A. Extended Abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Extended abstracts must be submitted as attached documents. B. Full Paper: Please submit anonymously either a) a long paper - max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices; or b) a short paper - max. 4 pages excluding references, according to the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX or Microsoft Word: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). PROCEEDINGS The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on January 10, 2025. Please see the ComputEL-8 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ SPECIAL THEME SESSION - BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER In addition to the main session, ComputEL-8 invites self-identified submissions to a special themed session on “Building Tools Together”, oriented toward amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization. We invite presentations that: (1) describe collaborations in the development of new tools and technologies; and/or (2) describe or identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions. 1. For presentations that describe a collaboration among language communities, academic researchers, and (in some cases) industry or non-governmental organizations towards the development of new tools, resources, and technologies in, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. How did the idea for the tool or technology come about? b. How did the team members meet and come to work together? c. What has been the impact of this tool? How are you evaluating it? How has the project d. benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? d. What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? e. How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? f. What lessons have you learned that might benefit similar collaborations? 2. For presentations that identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions, e we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. What is the need that this tool would meet? Who will it serve? b. What is the blue-sky version of this tool? What is the minimum viable product version? c. What kinds of data, digital assets, or media content would be required to create the tool, and how would they be assembled? d. What challenges might the team face in the development process? e. How do you anticipate the collaborative process to best incorporate diverse areas of expertise from cultural and community-grounded knowledge to academic, technical, and production-oriented knowledge? Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions representing community-led collaborations are strongly encouraged. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 14, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by November 22, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES 14-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop Please see the ComputEL-8 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-building-tools-together/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Godfred Agyapong (University of Florida) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta) Aditi Chaudhary (Google DeepMind) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta) Sarah Moeller (University of Florida) Shruti Rijhwani (Google DeepMind) Daisy Rosenblum (University of British Columbia) Olivia Waring (University of Hawai'i Mānoa) CONTACT US WEB: https://computel-workshop.org/ComputEL-8/ EMAIL: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers, NoDaLiDa 2025 workshop on Constraint Grammar and Finite State Transducers
by Trond Trosterud 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Call for Papers Dear colleagues, Our workshop "Constraint Grammar and Finite State NLP – Rule-based and hybrid methods and tools for user communities" has been accepted to Nodalida and will be held March 5th 2025. We hereby invite you to submit to the workshop, either in the form of a short paper (4 p), a long paper (8 p) or an application demo. We would also like to ask if you would be willing to review 2-3 papers. The timeline is as follows: * Submission deadline: December 16th, 2024 * Camera-readies: February 3th, 2025 For details on the workshop and how to submit to it, check out our website: https://divvungiellatekno.github.io/giellalt.uit.no/events/2025-cg/ Best, The program committee

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Second Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. 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 COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee * Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK * Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany * Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK * Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA * Daan van Esch - Google * Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK * Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland * Amal Htait - Aston University, UK * Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands * Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK * Jean Maillard - Meta * Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain * Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK * Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK * Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia * Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK * Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Phil Weber - Aston University, UK URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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2nd CfP: 8th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8)
by Antti Arppe 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

EIGHTH WORKSHOP on the Use of COMPUTATIONAL METHODS in the Study of ENDANGERED LANGUAGES (ComputEL-8) Read to the end for the Special Session information and submission deadline. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - REGULAR SESSION Submission deadline: October 7, 2024 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8 The ComputEL-8 workshop focuses on the use of computational methods in the study, support, and revitalization of endangered languages. The primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between computational linguists interested in methods for endangered languages, academic linguists documenting languages, and the language communities who are striving to maintain their languages. We encourage submissions from scholars and activists representing any or all of these perspectives. The intention of the workshop is not merely to allow for the presentation of research, but also to build a network of computational linguists, documentary linguists, and community language activists who are able to effectively join together and serve their common interests. Workshop Venue ComputEL-8 will be co-located with the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Honolulu, Hawaii (https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/). We anticipate being able to support travel costs in some cases for presenters without institutional support. Priority will be given to members of endangered language communities, scholars from low-income countries, and students. Please contact the organizers at computel.workshop(a)gmail.com for further information. The workshop will be a virtual/in-person hybrid event. Ability to attend in person will not affect consideration of submissions. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities IMPORTANT DATES 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, we offer two modes of submission: extended abstract and full paper. The mode of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Either can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 7, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific Program Committee. A. Extended Abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Extended abstracts must be submitted as attached documents. B. Full Paper: Please submit anonymously either a) a long paper - max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices; or b) a short paper - max. 4 pages excluding references, according to the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX or Microsoft Word: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Proceedings The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on January 10, 2025. SPECIAL THEME SESSION - BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER In addition to the main session, ComputEL-8 invites self-identified submissions to a special themed session on “Building Tools Together”, oriented toward amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization. We invite presentations that: (1) describe collaborations in the development of new tools and technologies; and/or (2) describe or identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions. A. For presentations that describe a collaboration among language communities, academic researchers, and (in some cases) industry or non-governmental organizations towards the development of new tools, resources, and technologies in, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: 1. How did the idea for the tool or technology come about? 2. How did the team members meet and come to work together? 3. What has been the impact of this tool? How are you evaluating it? How has the project benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? 4. What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? 5. How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? 6. What lessons have you learned that might benefit similar collaborations? B. For presentations that identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions, e we encourage submissions which address questions such as: 1. What is the need that this tool would meet? Who will it serve? 2. What is the blue-sky version of this tool? What is the minimum viable product version? 3. What kinds of data, digital assets, or media content would be required to create the tool, and how would they be assembled? 4. What challenges might the team face in the development process? 5. How do you anticipate the collaborative process to best incorporate diverse areas of expertise from cultural and community-grounded knowledge to academic, technical, and production-oriented knowledge? Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions representing community-led collaborations are strongly encouraged. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 7, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by November 22, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Godfred Agyapong (University of Florida) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta) Aditi Chaudhary (Google Research) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta) Sarah Moeller (University of Florida) Shruti Rijhwani (Google DeepMind) Daisy Rosenblum (University of British Columbia) Olivia Waring (University of Hawai'i Mānoa) CONTACT US For further information, please consult our website: https://computel-workshop.org/ComputEL-8/ or email us at: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Final Call for Papers MM4SG workshop at ICDM 2024
by Thapa, Surendrabikram 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Dear All, 🚀 Final 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 for Second International Workshop on Multimodal Content Analysis for Social Good (MM4SG 2024) at ICDM 2024 (CORE A*) 🌍 We're excited to announce the call for papers for the second edition of the MM4SG workshop! After a successful first edition at ACM WebConf 2024 in Singapore, we’re returning with a focus on tackling pressing societal issues through advanced multimodal content analysis. 🔍 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞: 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Hate, Troll, Cyberbullying, Scams, and Abuse Detection 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Fake News, Misinformation, Rumor, and Event Detection 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Disaster Response and Crisis Management in the Web 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal Healthcare Applications using Web Data 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal Content Analysis for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: New Datasets for Multimodal Content Analysis on the Internet 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal Content Generation and Analysis 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Large Language Models for Multimodal Content Analysis 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Foundation Models for Multimodal Content Analysis 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Socially Responsible Multimodal Content Analysis: Fairness, Bias, Accountability, and Transparency 💡 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: In today’s interconnected digital landscape, the rapid spread of multimodal content like memes and text-embedded images presents both opportunities and challenges. With this workshop, we aim to explore innovative methods for analyzing and moderating such content while ensuring fairness and transparency. 📅 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: Workshop papers submission: September 25, 2024 Notification of workshop papers acceptance: October 7, 2024 Camera-ready deadline and copyright form: October 11, 2024 📜 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬: Submit your original research papers in IEEE 2-column format (up to 10 pages). Accepted papers will be published in the dedicated ICDMW proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press. Don’t miss out on this chance to contribute to groundbreaking research that aligns technology with social good! 🌐 🔗 For more details, visit our workshop page: https://lnkd.in/ewwPFPdD Also, follow us on X (prev. Twitter) for updates: https://lnkd.in/eMY792Bc Best Regards, Surendrabikram Thapa

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Call for Participation in Shared Task
by Thapa, Surendrabikram 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

Dear All, We are excited to announce the launch of our Shared Task on Natural Language Understanding of Devanagari Script Languages at 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐒𝐀𝐋@𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓! Our shared task focuses on advancing the processing and understanding of Devanagari-scripted languages by addressing three key challenges: 1️⃣ 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐀: 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Classify sentences among Nepali, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, and Hindi. 2️⃣ 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐁: 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Determine whether given sentences in Devanagari-scripted languages contain hate speech. 3️⃣ 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐂: 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 Identify the target of hate speech as "individual," "organization," or "community." 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬: 🔗 Codalab: https://lnkd.in/eEX_AAYq 🔗 GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eSqfphB3 🔗 Workshop Page: https://lnkd.in/eVGiUXRC Participants are encouraged to submit a paper to the workshop, though it’s not mandatory. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in the 𝐀𝐂𝐋 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. 💡 Join us in this exciting initiative to push the boundaries of low-resource languages! 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: 📅 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: August 19, 2024 📅 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: September 27, 2024 📅 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞: September 27 – October 17, 2024 📅 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐮𝐞: November 3, 2024 📅 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬: November 29, 2024 📅 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: December 13, 2024 📅 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐒𝐀𝐋 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: January 19, 2025 Best Regards, Organizers, CHIPSAL Workshop at COLING 2025

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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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call for papers - ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by Patrizio Bellan 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

***************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu . -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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2nd call for Workshops: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '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. We would like to invite proposals for workshops, to be held on Sunday, March 2, immediately before the main conference, or on Wednesday, March 5, immediately after the main conference. Workshops can be scheduled either for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. Workshops are free to offer online presentations if they wish to do so. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech processing, 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. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form as a pdf file, by email to ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects: - proposed workshop title - topic and goals of the workshop - target group and estimated attendance - workshop organizer(s) and contact(s) - mode of organization and program design, including: - information on full versus half-day workshop - information on the preference of workshop day: March 2, March 5, or either - information on whether you plan an on-site only or hybrid event SCHEDULE * Monday, August 26, 2024: Submission of workshop proposals * Tuesday, September 10, 2024: Notification of workshop selection * Monday, December 16, 2024: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline * Monday, February 3, 2025: Camera-ready workshop papers due * Sunday, March 2, 2025: Pre-conference workshops * Sunday, March 5, 2025: Post-conference workshops Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including sending out calls for papers, reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting day. SELECTION The assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 Workshop Chairs: * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway To inquire about the workshop submission process or any practical aspect of the organization of workshops, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. For any question about the conference in general, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’ and for any general practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.ee<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc@eki.ee>’. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 a success! Sara Stymne, NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 20205 general chair PS: please also check our call for papers: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers 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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Job Opening for Data Scientist with a focus on natural language processing
by Menno Van Zaanen 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

Job Opening for Data Scientist with a focus on natural language processing Application link: https://bit.ly/4fqI2Sl Application deadline: 31 August 2024 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is looking for a data scientist with a focus on natural language processing (permanent position). As a Data Scientist at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead projects focusing on Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely together with a team of researchers as part of SADiLaR's extended network, both on your own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at national and international conferences will be encouraged and supported. This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the Department of Science and Innovation. Read more about SADiLaR at https://www.sadilar.org. Key responsibilities: - Research: Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. - Project work: Initiating and contributing to Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects. - Teaching: Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. - Mentorship: Mentorship of researchers in the field of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. Minimum requirements: - A PhD (NQF level 10) in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human Language Technology, Digital Humanities, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields. The PhD should have a focus on computational aspects of linguistics. - A minimum of (five) 5 years' experience in the use of Python (other programming languages used within the computational linguistics or Digital Humanities domain can also be considered). - Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. - A minimum of (three) 3 years' experience as a supervisor/co- supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals. - A minimum of (three) 3 years' experience with using and/or developing computational tools. - A minimum of (three) 3 years experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. - A minimum of (one) 1 year experience related to teaching or training within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. More information can be found at the application link. For informal inquiries please contact: Menno van Zaanen <menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za> Application link: https://bit.ly/4fqI2Sl -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2024) - Call for Participation
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2024) Lancaster, UK, 29-30 July 2024 Call for Participation We are pleased to share the NLPAICS 2024 conference programme, which you can view by clicking here - https://nlpaics.com/programme-2/. To register, please visit https://nlpaics.com/registration/. We very much hope to welcome you to NLPAICS 2024 at Lancaster! The conference Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce the NLPAICS’2024 keynote speakers - Iva Gumnishka (Humans in the Loop) - Sevil Şen (Hacettepe University) - Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València) - Jacques Klein (University of Luxembourg) Sponsors We are proud to announce the conference sponsors: CodeAgent – Collaborative Agents for Software Engineering Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nlpaics.com/ and will be updated on a regular basis. The conference updates will also be available on social media (X - https://x.com/nlpaics, LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/nlpaics/ ) Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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First Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 19 Jul '24

19 Jul '24

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. 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 COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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CfP: 8th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8)
by Antti Arppe 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

Eighth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) March 3-4, 2024 Honolulu, Hawai’i URL: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ EMAIL: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com Read to the end for guidelines for the Special Session submissions deadline. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR REGULAR SESSION We invite submissions to the 8th workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, by October 7, 2024. The ComputEL-8 workshop focuses on the use of computational methods in the study, support, and revitalization of endangered languages. The primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between computational linguists interested in methods for low resource languages, academic linguists documenting languages, and the language communities who are striving to maintain their languages. We encourage submissions from scholars and activists representing any or all of these perspectives. The intention of the workshop is not merely to allow for the presentation of research, but also to build a network of computational linguists, documentary linguists, and community language activists who are able to effectively join together and serve their common interests. WORKSHOP VENUE ComputEL-8 will take place March 3-4, 2024, immediately preceding be co-located with the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Honolulu, Hawaii (https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/). In-person events will be co-located with the ICLDC at the University of Hawai’i Manoa. The workshop will be a virtual/in-person hybrid event. Ability to attend in person will not affect consideration of submissions. CALL FOR PAPERS We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages. (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to issues of data sovereignty and community protocols (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities IMPORTANT DATES 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 3-4 March 2025 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, we offer two modes of submission: extended abstract and full paper. The mode of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Either can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee. A. Extended Abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Extended abstracts must be submitted as attached documents. B. Full Paper: Please submit anonymously either a) a long paper (max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices), or b) a short paper (max. 4 pages excluding references) PROCEEDINGS The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that underwent review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on January 10, 2025. SPECIAL THEME SESSION: BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER In addition to the Regular Session, ComputEL-8 invites self-identified submissions to a Special Themed Session on “Building Tools Together.” This Session will focus on amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization. We invite presentations that: (1) Describe the development of new tools and technologies in collaborative teams, and/or (2) Describe or identify technological or computational needs within community language revitalization contexts, and/or propose solutions. For presentations that describe the development of new tools and technologies in collaboration among language communities, academic researchers, and (in some cases) industry or non-governmental organizations, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. How did the idea for the tool or technology come about? b. How did the team members meet and come to work together? c. What has been the impact of this tool? How are you evaluating it? How has the project benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? d. What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? e. How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? f. What lessons have you learned that might benefit similar collaborations? For presentations that identify technological or computational needs within community language revitalization contexts, and/or propose solutions, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. What is the need that this tool would meet? Who will it serve? b. What is the blue-sky version of this tool? What is the minimum viable product version? c. What kinds of data, digital assets, or media content would be required to create the tool, and how would they be assembled? d. What challenges might the team face in the development process? e. How do you anticipate the collaborative process to best incorporate diverse areas of expertise from cultural and community-grounded knowledge to academic, technical, and production-oriented knowledge? SUBMISSIONS to the SPECIAL THEME SESSION Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions representing community-led collaborations are strongly encouraged. Submissions to the Regular Session may choose to be considered for the Special Session as well. Same considerations will be given for publication whether papers are accepted to the Main Session or the Special Session. Alternatively, authors may submit abstracts only to the Special Session. The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm 7 October, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth). You may indicate that your full paper or extended abstract be considered for inclusion in the Special Session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by November 22, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES (SPECIAL SESSION) 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 3-4 March 2025 Workshop with Special Session MORE INFORMATION about Special Session submissions will follow on our website and subsequent calls for papers, see: URL: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ ComputEL-8 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Godfred Agyapong (University of Florida) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta) Aditi Chaudhary (Google DeepMind) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta) Sarah Moeller (University of Florida) Shruti Rijhwani (Google DeepMind) Daisy Rosenblum (University of British Columbia) CONTACT the OC For further information email us at: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Final Call for Papers - ‘Last minute results’ submissions at NeTTT’2024
by Tharindu Ranasinghe 30 May '24

30 May '24

One week left to submit your papers to ‘Last minute results’ at NeTTT’2024 International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 (https://nettt-conference.com/) Final Call for ‘Last minute results’ submissions In view of the special track of the NeTTT'24 event on Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI and the latest dynamic developments with LLMs, we would like to call on researchers and users/companies to submit ‘‘Last minute results” of ongoing studies in the form of short 4-to-page submissions (The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only). The idea is to fast-track the reviewing process for these submissions so that the results presented at the event are as up-to-date as possible. The presentations can be either in oral or poster format. Submission deadline: 5 June 2024 Notification: 12 June 2024 Submission is done via the Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024. We invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates: * LaTeX<https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…>, * Overleaf<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Overleaf_Springer_C…>, * Word<https://nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Word_splnproc2311.p…>. Registration Conference registration is open on https://nettt-conference.com/fees-registration/ Venue The conference will take place at Conference Hotel Cherno More<https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/conference-centre.html>, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com<https://nettt-conference.com/> and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettt2024@nettt-conference.com>

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Deadline Extension: LoResMT 2024 at ACL 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 17 May '24

17 May '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024) https://www.loresmt.org/ @ ACL 2024 (August 11–16, 2024) Bangkok, Thailand SUBMISSION https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT TIMELINE Paper submission due: *May 30 (**Thursday**)*, 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: June 24 (Monday), 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1 (Monday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Workshop dates at ACL: August 15, 2024 SCOPE Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 ( https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/), AMTA 2021, COLING 2022 and EACL 2023, we introduce the Seventh LoResMT Workshop at ACL 2024. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers on these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. TOPICS We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages - Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL 2024 style templates. Accepted papers will be published online in the ACL 2024 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at ACL 2024. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2024.aclweb.org/). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jindřich Libovicky, Charles University John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Rajdeep Sarkar, Yahoo Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University CONTACT Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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