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Call for participation in Web Survey on Data Bottlenecks in Supervised NLP
by Romberg, Julia 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear list members, We invite you to participate in our web survey exploring how recent advancements in NLP, such as LLMs, have changed the need for labeled data in Supervised Machine Learning. Survey details: * Topic: Web survey on Data Annotation and Active Learning * Target group: Researchers and practitioners alike in the fields of NLP, Supervised Machine Learning, and Active Learning in particular (not required). * Duration: ~15 minutes * Deadline for participation: January 12, 2025 * Survey link: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/umfragen/limesurvey/index.php/538271 Why should I invest my time in this survey? * Make an impact: Participate in a community-effort and help to gain a better understanding of the current state and open issues on methods that are used to overcome a lack of labeled data. * Gain insights: Receive a report with key findings to incorporate these insights into research and development of new methods and technologies. Thank you for considering participating in our survey! If you have any questions or require additional information, please don't hesitate to contact us directly at activelearningsurvey2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:activeLearningSurvey2024@gmail.com>. If you know colleagues or peers who might be interested, we'd be grateful if you could forward this survey to them as well. Best regards, Julia Romberg (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany) Christopher Schröder (Institut für Angewandte Informatik e. V., Germany) Julius Gonsior (TUD Dresden University of Technology) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [gesis-logo-new-50-50] Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Julia Romberg Computational Social Science, Team Data Science Methods +49(221)47694-742

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Call for Participation: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '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. LoResLM 2025 will be a physical workshop co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi on 20th January 2025. We are pleased to share the programme of LoResLM 2025 with you. Please visit https://loreslm.github.io/program for the full programme. To register for the workshop, please visit https://coling2025.org/registration/ We are looking forward to welcoming you at LoResLM 2025 in Abu Dhabi. The workshop is supported in part by CLARIN-UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities programme. >> Keynote Speaker Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University. >> 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 Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France Samuel Cahyawijaya - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Raj Dabre - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA Bonaventure F. P. Dossou - McGill University, Canada 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 Daisy Lal - Lancaster University, UK Colin Leong - University of Dayton, USA Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Farhad Nooralahzadeh - University of Zurich, Switzerland Rrubaa Panchendrarajan - Queen Mary University of London, UK Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA Omid Rohanian - University of Oxford, UK Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK Claytone Sikasote - University of Cape Town, South Africa Marjana Prifti Skenduli - University of New York Tirana, Albania Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan John Vidler - Lancaster University, UK Phil Weber - Aston University, UK Bryan Wilie - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Artūrs Znotiņš - University of Latvia, Latvia URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe 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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Fwd: ELAR Online Training Series in Language Documentation and Archiving
by Maite Melero 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

FYI ================================= Dear colleagues, ELAR is excited to share the news that the *Endangered Languages Documentation Programme* is offering an online training series in Language Documentation and Archiving from March 6 to June 12, 2025. Applications to participate in the training series are due 30 January 2025. Please see the call below for more information. Please help this call reach a broader audience for this series by sharing it with your students, colleagues, and others who may be interested in the training. Best wishes, The ELAR Team --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online Training Series in Language Documentation and Archiving 6 March – 12 June 2025 The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is offering a series of online trainings in Language Documentation and Archiving from *March 6 to June 12, 2025*. Training participants will meet weekly on Thursdays, live via Zoom, for a webinar and discussion session. They will be expected to complete readings, hands-on practice, and online assessments between sessions. Live attendance at all sessions and the completion of all assignments is required. Below are the topics that will be covered in the training series: · Linguistic diversity and language endangerment · Language Documentation theory & methods · Understanding archival collections · Compiling a documentary collection · Audio and video recording methods · Transcription, translation, and annotation with ELAN · Lexicography and dictionary creation with Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) · Metadata creation and managing data · Project planning and design · Grant writing for language documentation projects The online sessions will take place from 9:00 to 11:00 CET. Readings, hands-on practice, and homework assignments will be made available via a free course website. The language of instruction is English. The training series has 25 spots available. Applicants planning to work with endangered and under-documented languages (see Hammarström 2019 <https://elararchive.org/blog/2019/12/17/which-language-should-i-document-so…>), especially Papuan languages, are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants should meet the criteria listed below: · Have plans to document an endangered and under-documented language · Be able to attend all webinar sessions and complete readings and assignments · Have a sufficient level of spoken and written English to be able to complete assignments · Have regular access to a Windows computer and a reliable internet connection To apply and for more information, please go here <https://www.eldp.net/en/our+trainings/online+training+series/>. The deadline is January 30th, 2025. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- *Interested in keeping up with ELAR? Subscribe to our new **mailing list* <https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/subscribe/elar-news>*!* *Endangered Languages Archive* Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Jägerstraße 22/23 10117 Berlin, Germany Website: https://elararchive.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elararchive/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elararchive/ Twitter: @ELARarchive <https://www.twitter.com/elararchive/> Blog: https://elararchive.org/blog Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user64477333/albums

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CfP deadline extension: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL 2025)
by Annika Simonsen - HI 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL) has been extended from December 16th to December 23rd, 2024. The workshop will 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. Submission Submissions can be long papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The templates are available at the official conference website, see https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers#h.v2k63awq0fpe. All submissions will undergo peer review by the program committee. To submit your paper please visit NB-REAL 2025 Workshop | OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Workshop/NB-REAL#t…> 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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First Call for Participation- IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *ACL – 22nd IWSLT 2025 – First Call for Participation* *31 July-1 August 2025 - Vienna, Austria* http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. 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 SIGSLTs <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/> of ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/>, ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/> and ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>. With a track record of 21 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be run as a hybrid ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>/ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> event, co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> from 31 July to 1 August 2025. *Important Dates* *January 1, 2025*: Release of shared task training and dev data *March 15, 2025*: Scientific paper submission deadline *Apr 1-15, 2025*: Evaluation period *April 21, 2025*: System description paper submission deadline *May 15, 2025*: Notification of acceptance *June 1, 2025*: Camera-ready deadline (all paper) *July 31-Aug 1*, *2025*: IWSLT conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2025 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2025/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - High-resource ST: Offline track, Simultaneous track, Subtitling track - Low-resource ST: Low-resource and Indic (multilingual) tracks - Instruction-following Speech Processing track: Technical domain ST, ASR, Summarization, and QA Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organisers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT submission site (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review. Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., Findings for the *ACL, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT, and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. Contact Please email iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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Second CfP: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL 2025)
by Annika Simonsen - HI 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 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. Submission Submissions can be long papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word. The templates are available at the official conference website, see https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers#h.v2k63awq0fpe. All submissions will undergo peer review by the program committee. To submit your paper please visit NB-REAL 2025 Workshop | OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Workshop/NB-REAL#t…> 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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Call for Nominations for the Linguapax Award 2024
by Maite Melero 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Dear colleague, We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2024 Linguapax Award, an international prize recognizing individuals, groups, and organizations that have made significant contributions to the preservation and promotion of linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and endangered language revitalization efforts worldwide. Since 2002, this annual award has celebrated and supported initiatives that empower linguistic communities and advance global linguistic diversity. *Award Criteria and Submission* Eligible nominees include both individuals and organizations actively engaged in activities aligned with these goals, whether through education, community work, or research. The selection process prioritizes projects and individuals whose efforts have demonstrated impact and dedication to safeguarding linguistic heritage. The deadline for nominations is February 21, 2025. *Get Involved with Linguapax* Linguapax offers numerous ways to support and participate in its mission. We invite you to join our community of advocates by contributing to our programs, attending events, or becoming a member. By joining Linguapax, you play an essential role in fostering a global network that stands for linguistic rights, intercultural dialogue, and peace. For more details on the nomination process or ways to support Linguapax, please visit our website: - Nomination Details: Linguapax Award 2024 <https://www.linguapax.org/en/call-for-nominations-for-the-linguapax-award-2…> - Get Involved: Join Linguapax <https://www.linguapax.org/en/get-involved/> We look forward to celebrating the vital work of this year's nominees and thank you for your continued commitment to linguistic diversity and cultural heritage. Warm regards, Maite Melero Secretary of the Board [image: LogoLPXunesco.png]

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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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