[Corpora-List] Call for Special Issue Proposals - Journal Natural Language Processing

[Ranasinghe, Tharindu via Corpora]

Journal Natural Language Processing

(formerly Journal of Natural Language Engineering)


*** Call for Special Issue Proposals ***


In recent years the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has enjoyed 
unprecedented developments since the emergence of Deep Learning and, lately, 
Large Language Models. At the same time, NLP is following the trend of many 
other areas in becoming highly specialised, with a number of 
application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in 
importance. These developments, often coinciding with a lack of related 
literature, necessitate and warrant the publication of specialised volumes 
focusing on a specific topic of interest to the NLP research community.

The Journal Natural Language Processing (formerly Journal of Natural Language 
Engineering), which features six 160-page issues per year and has had its 
impact factor increase yearly, invites proposals for special issues on a 
competitive basis covering any topics in applied NLP which have emerged as 
important recent developments and have attracted the attention of a number of 
researchers. The Journal Calls for Proposals for special issues have resulted 
in high-quality outputs and this year we look forward to another successful 
competition.

Proposals on topics covering a variety of methods, tasks, resources and 
applications from Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, 
Speech and Language Processing, Text Analytics and related areas are eligible. 
Special issues on timely NLP topics such as latest language models including 
Large Language Models/Generative AI, are welcome.

Special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or a body of work 
associated with a particular group or section of the community. In the case of 
papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to 
re-use previous workshop reviews. In addition, the call for papers of the 
accepted proposals must be open to all interested parties and all authors will 
be given equal treatment; in the case of proposals based on previous workshops, 
submissions cannot be limited to workshop participants only. Prospective 
proposers are also encouraged to consult the successful Journal columns 
"Industry Watch" and "Emerging Trends" for additional inspiration.

Interested parties have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing 
expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended 
special issue to the Executive Editor (ruslan.mit...@ua.es). He will give a 
brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to the Journal. In the 
case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked 
to submit a proposal for a special issue that will be reviewed by the Editors 
of the Journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial Board.

The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the field 
and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the 
particular topic of interest at the current time. It should include a relevant 
literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and 
conference proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed 
special issue against the background of other relevant or competing 
publications and volumes (if applicable).  It is desirable that evidence for 
the estimate of expected submissions to the special issue be provided and 
justified. The proposals should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board. 
It is desirable that at least one (preferably two) of the members of the Guest 
Editorial Board is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Natural Language 
Processing. The proposal should also include a tentative time-scale for the 
production of the special issue (the time-scale committed to in the proposal 
should be adhered to, if the proposal is accepted), and information about the 
prospective Guest Editors such as relevant experience, publications etc.

 Time-scale

- Deadline for submission of special issue proposals:
  28 April 2025 (proposals to be emailed to ruslan.mit...@ua.es with a copy to 
n...@cambridge.org)

- Notification of acceptance/rejection:
 19 May 2025

- Calls for papers related to the successful proposals (at least 2 calls are 
recommended):
  7 June 2025 first call
  July-September 2025 second (and third call, if applicable)

Once the special issue is approved and launched, Guest Editors are expected to 
adhere to the same reviewing and acceptance standards as regular issues of the 
Journal. In particular, each submission needs to be reviewed by three members 
of the Guest Editorial Board or other experts in the field. To ensure 
geographical diversity and balance, and to avoid over-reliance on the same 
reviewers, each submission must not be reviewed by three experts from the same 
country, and no single reviewer should evaluate more than two submissions. If 
the Executive Editor is not satisfied with the revie

[Corpora-List] CfP: The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)

[Pablo Gamallo via Corpora]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*


*Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TEMA’25)
Track of EPIA’25*

PLN-TEMA’25 will be held at the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2025) taking place in Universidade do Algarve, Faro,
Portugal, between October 1st-3rd 2025. This track is organized under the
auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
EPIA 2025 . URL https://epia2025.ualg.pt/

This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics
of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6]
Organizing Committee; [7] Contacts.

[1] *Track Description*

The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2025)
is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e.
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural
Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR),
and related areas.

The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual
documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is
openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural
language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative
applications of Human Language Technologies.

Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning
(ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool
for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural
language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and
unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world
heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered
by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple
dimensions, and often with high commercial value.

Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified
in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind at least by
three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be
published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 24th EPIA
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, provided that at least one author is
registered in EPIA 2025 by the early registration deadline.

[2] *Topics of Interest*

Theories, Algorithms and Models

   -

   Language and Cognitive Modeling
   -

   Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
   -

   Morphology and Word Segmentation
   -

   Natural Language Generation
   -

   Discourse and Pragmatics
   -

   Semantics and Text Inference
   -

   Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
   -

   Entailment and Paraphrases
   -

   Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation
   -

   Natural language understanding
   -

   Language modeling
   -

   Mathematical Properties of Language
   -

   NLP for Low-Resource Languages

Text Mining and NLP Applications

   -

   Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization
   -

   Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining
   -

   Computational Social Science
   -

   Multi-Word Units
   -

   Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining
   -

   Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining
   -

   Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches
   -

   Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining
   -

   Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
   -

   Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems
   -

   Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting
   -

   Web Content Annotation
   -

   Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications
   -

   Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis

[3] *Important dates*

- Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE)
- Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
- Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
- Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025

[4] *Paper submission*

Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and
previously unpublished research. Papers should be prepared according to the
Springer LNAI format, using either a LaTeX or Word template, with a maximum
od 12 pages, including references. EPIA 2025 will not accept any paper
that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been
published in or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or
another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors of EPIA 2025
submissions are not permitted to submit their paper to a journal or another
venue during the EPIA 2025 review period.

It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations
from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity
during the review process. Authors should also follow the standards as set
out in the Springer Nature code of conduct.


[5] *Track Fees:*

Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2025 conference.


[6] *Organizing Committee:*

Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL

Pablo Gam

[Corpora-List] Final Call: Annual Workshop in Experimental Methods in Language (acquisition) Research (EMLaR) XXI

[laiacolina--- via Corpora]

*** REGISTER NOW: Hybrid conference on Experimental Methods in Language 
(acquisition) Research (EMLaR), April 15-17, 2025 - Utrecht University (The 
Netherlands) ***

The Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) of Utrecht University is pleased to 
announce the 21st edition of EMLaR. This three-day conference will take place 
from April 15th – 17th 2025 (Tuesday to Thursday) in a hybrid format. The 
physical location is Utrecht University, in the city center of Utrecht, The 
Netherlands.

EMLaR aims at training PhD students and advanced MA students in experimental 
methods of language (acquisition) research. Experts in various domains of 
linguistic research will give lectures and hands-on tutorials, and speakers 
will give method-oriented talks during plenary sessions. We also provide the 
opportunity to present your (ongoing) research at the poster session.

**Program**

Keynote speaker: 
• Sonja Kotz (Maastricht University)

Invited speakers:
• Bram van Dijk   (Leiden University Medical Center, 
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science)
• Michael Franke  (University of Tübingen)
• Mieke Slim  (Max Planck Institute for 
Psycholinguistics)
• Roberta D’Alessandro(Utrecht University) 
• Rowena Garcia(Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, 
University of the Philippines)

Tutorials:
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• (non-)Bayesian Informative Hypothesis Evaluation Using JASP and R
• Coloring Book – a tool for testing language comprehension with young 
children
• Computational Methods
• Event-related Brain Potentials (Introduction)
• Event-related Brain Potentials and EEG (Advanced*)
• Ethics and Privacy
• Eye-tracking
• Online experiments for language scientists
• Open (your) Science Using the Statistical Package JASP
• PRAAT
• Probabilistic Models of Pragmatic Reasoning
• Research with infants: Tips and tricks
• Statistics with R (Introduction)
• Statistics with R (Advanced*)
• Visual World Paradigm

For registration and more details, please visit our website: 
https://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl/.
If you have any questions, please send an email to emlar2...@uu.nl.
We hope to see you there!

Kind regards,
EMLaR 2025 organization
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[Corpora-List] Deadline Extension: Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)

[Wajdi Zaghouani via Corpora]

The proposal submission deadline has been extended to April 14th, 2025.


The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025)
Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025.

We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included
in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following
details:

   1.

   Overview of the proposed task
   2.

   Motivation for the task
   3.

   Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status
   of the data: planned, in progress, or ready)
   4.

   Task Description
   5.

   Pilot Run Details (if available)
   6.

   Tentative Timeline
   7.

   Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation)

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long.

Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9


Selection Process

The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected
based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected
interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are,
the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task.

Task Organization

Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task
organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely
manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the
task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to
participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website,
manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage
participants submissions of system description papers, and review and
maintain the quality of submitted system description papers.



Shared Task Proposal Submission

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h
 (“Anywhere on
Earth”).


April 14th, 2025: Shared task proposals due

*April 28th, 2025**: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance*



Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals:

Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls

June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation
scripts

July 20, 2025: Registration deadline and release of test data

July 25, 2025: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes)

July 30, 2025: Final results released

August 15, 2025: System description paper submissions due

August 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance

September 5, 2025: Camera-ready versions due

November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference

For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs:
arabicnlp-shared-task-ch...@sigarab.org

Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf

ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs



Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,

Communication Program


Northwestern Qatar | Education City
T +974 4454 5232  | M +974 3345 4992
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[Corpora-List] CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab -- 3rd Call for Participation

[Wajdi Zaghouani via Corpora]

(apologies for cross-posting)

Dear colleague,

We invite you to participate in the 2025 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at
CLEF 2025. This year, we feature four tasks ---one follow-up and three
new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full
fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages:

Task 1 Subjectivity in news articles. to spot text that should be processed
with specific strategies; benefiting the fact-checking pipeline. Available
in Arabic, English, Bulgarian,  German, Italian, and Multilingual.

Task 2 Claim Normalization. to simplify the primary claim made in the
social media post into a concise form. This task is offered in 20
languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, German, Greek, French, Hindi,
Korean, Marathi, Indonesian, Dutch, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,
Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai.

Task 3 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims. to verify claims with numerical
quantities and temporal expressions. Available in Arabic, English and
Spanish.

Task 4 Scientific Web Discourse Processing (SciWeb). to (a) classify
different forms of science-related online discourse and (b) retrieve the
scientific paper that serves as the source for the claim from a given pool
of candidate scientific papers. Available in English.



Register and participate:
https://clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php

Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/

Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2025-checkthat-lab



Important Dates

-

- November 2024: Lab registration opens

- December 2024: Release of the training materials

- 25 April 2025: Lab registration closes

- 30 April 2025: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release)

- 10 May 2025 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission)

- 30 May 2025: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS]

- 30 May – 27 June 2025: Review process of participant papers

- 9 June 2025: Submission of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS]

- 16 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Condensed Lab Overviews
[LNCS]

- 23 June 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] due

- 27 June 2025: Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers [CEUR-WS]

- 7 July 2025: Camera Ready Copy of Participant Papers and Extended Lab
Overviews [CEUR-WS] due

- 21-25 July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors
and Lab Organizers

- 9-12 September 2025: CLEF 2025 Conference in Madrid, Spain


Best regards,

The CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers



Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,

Communication Program


Northwestern Qatar | Education City
T +974 4454 5232  | M +974 3345 4992
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[Corpora-List] ArabicNLP 2025 - First Call For Papers

[Salam Khalifa via Corpora]

Hello all,

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

*The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) *

*Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November, 2025. (Hybrid
Mode).*

*Conference URL*: https://arabicnlp2025.sigarab.org/

We invite long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper  (up
to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or
as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does
not reflect the quality of the work.


Theme: Bridging Modalities: Advancing Arabic NLP

Submissions may include work in progress or completed research, with a
clear focus on Arabic NLP, covering standard Arabic, dialectal, or
classical. This year, we focus on advancing the three key modalities: text,
speech, and vision. We encourage research that explores modeling, novel
applications, and new resources. Papers on related languages, such as
Semitic languages or those using Arabic script, are welcome if they offer
insights relevant to Arabic NLP. Work using Arabic resources for other
languages is also encouraged. We welcome descriptions of commercial
systems, position papers, and surveys on the above topics, with detailed
information on technical contributions and added value to the community.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Enabling Technologies:

   -

   Text: Language models, diacritization, morphological analysis,
   lemmatization, tokenization, POS tagging, syntactic and semantic parsing,
   named entity recognition, disambiguation, sentiment analysis, Arabic
   dialect modeling, etc.
   -

   Speech & Vision: Speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialect
   identification, optical character recognition, image/video understanding,
   image/video generation, etc.

Applications: Assistive technologies, human-computer interaction, social
media analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic
applications.Resources:
Multimodal corpora (text, speech, vision), annotation tools, lexical and
dictionaries, etc.


Conference Paper Submission URL: 
TBA


Important Dates for Conference Papers

   -

   June 22, 2025: Abstract submission for conference papers due date
   -

   June 29, 2025: Conference paper due date
   -

   August 03, 2025: Reviews submission deadline
   -

   August 24, 2025: Rebuttal period ends
   -

   August 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance
   -

   September 21, 2025: Camera-ready papers due
   -

   November, 2025: ArabicNLP conference
   All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h
    (“Anywhere on
   Earth”).


If you have any questions, please contact us at:
arabicnlp-pc-cha...@sigarab.org

The ArabicNLP 2025 Organizing Committee

Best,

-- 
Salam Khalifa
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[Corpora-List] [Deadline in 2 weeks] CfP: 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation

[stanciu.cristi12--- via Corpora]

4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’25)
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'25
Chicago, USA, June 30 - July 3, 2025
https://www.mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/   
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mad2025


*** Call for papers ***


* Paper submission due: April 10, 2025
* Acceptance notification: April 29, 2025
* Camera-ready papers due: May 5, 2025
* Workshop @ACM ICMR 2025: June 30, 2025 


Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on mainstream media like 
newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in 
real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup of distribution 
and the amount of information available, however, also led to an increased 
amount of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda. Conversely, the 
fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and NGOs (among others) 
take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of citizens' opinions being 
distorted, became even more crucial and demanding, especially for what concerns 
sensitive topics such as politics, health and religion.

Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, AI-based tools for 
content generation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech, textual 
and video content have emerged under the collective name of "deepfakes", and 
more recently with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal 
Models (LMMs), undermining the perceived credibility of media content. It is, 
therefore, even more crucial to counter these advances by devising new robust 
and trustworthy AI tools able to detect the presence of inaccurate, synthetic 
and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and fact-checkers.

Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the combination 
of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest advances of deep 
learning approaches and architectures. These raise new challenges and questions 
that need to be addressed to reduce the effects of disinformation campaigns. 
The workshop, in its fourth edition, welcomes contributions related to 
different aspects of AI-powered disinformation detection, analysis and 
mitigation.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, 
images)
- Multimodal verification methods
- Synthetic and manipulated media detection
- Multimedia forensics
- Disinformation spread and effects in social media
- Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains
- Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world 
complexities
- Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia 
content
- Explaining disinformation detection results to non-expert users
- Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation
- Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation
- Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification
- Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools
- Large Language Models for analyzing and mitigating disinformation campaigns
- Large Multimodal Models for media verification
- Multimedia verification systems and applications
- System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques
- Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks


*** Submission guidelines ***
When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2025 
instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and 
inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are 
available here: https://mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/submissions/.



*** Organizing committee ***
Dan-Cristian Stanciu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica 
Bucharest, Romania)
Roberto Caldelli (CNIT and Mercatorum University, Italy)
Milica Gerhardt (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany)
Bogdan Ionescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica 
Bucharest, Romania)
Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia)
Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ΙΤΙ, Greece)
Adrian Popescu (CEA LIST, France)
Vera Schmitt (Technical University Berlin, Germany)


The workshop is supported under the following projects: (i) UEFISCDI DeteRel 
SOL12/2024 Detection of relationships between entities in unstructured and 
structured data sets (https://deterel.aimultimedialab.ro/), (ii) AI4Debunk 
(https://ai4debunk.eu/), (iii) vera.ai “VERification Assisted by Artificial 
Intelligence” (https://www.veraai.eu/), and (iv) News-Polygraph 
(https://news-polygraph.com/).


On behalf of the organizers,


Cristian Stanciu
https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/
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[Corpora-List] Low-Resource Indic Language Translation @WMT2025

[Santanu Pal via Corpora]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the "*Shared Task:
Low-Resource Indic Language Translation*" again this year as part of WMT
2025. Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation
witnessed in the previous year's edition, we are excited to continue this
important initiative. Despite recent advancements in machine translation
(MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques,
the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly
for low-resource languages.

The WMT 2025 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this
challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language
families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as *Assamese, Mizo,
Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, Mising, and Kokborok*.

For inquiries and further information, please contact us at
lrilt@gmail.com. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on
the task through the following link:

*Task Link*: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/indic-mt-task.html.

We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can
provide updates regarding release dates of data and other relevant
information periodically

To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available
here:

*Link*:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EWz5obFNaUnzXLEW6MTf46e4V5MesjKWihL4NymEqg8/preview



With Best Regards,

Santanu
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[Corpora-List] EXTENDED DEADLINE: 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations (ContEx25)

[Philipp Cimiano via Corpora]

DEADLINE EXTENSION: 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations 
(ContEx25)

http://contex2025.net/

As AI systems are used more and more in high-stakes domains, it also becomes 
ever-more important to make AI systems transparent to ensure meaningful human 
control and empower human users to contest or override AI-based decisions. 
Without sufficient transparency, increasingly complex and autonomous AI systems 
may leave users feeling overwhelmed and out of control, which is legally and 
ethically unacceptable, especially in the context of high-stakes decisions. For 
the users to feel empowered rather than out of control, explanations need to be 
relevant, providing sufficient information on which basis an output can be 
contested or challenged.

It has been increasingly noted by the XAI community that no one explanation can 
fit all needs. Further, recent approaches have advocated for a more 
participative approach to XAI in which users are not only involved but can 
directly shape and guide the explanations given by a certain AI System. 

The 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations is an international 
and interdisciplinary conference focusing on the question how explanations can 
be contextualized to increase their relevance and empower users. 

Key research questions that we want to explore during the conference include: 

How do contextual variables influence the effectiveness of explanations?
What are the relevant context factors to be taken into account in adapting an 
explanation to specific domains, users, or situations?
How can context be represented algorithmically to support contextual adaptation 
of XAI explanations?
What new architectures or approaches in XAI support the dynamic adaptation of 
explanations with respect to changing user needs?
How can user modelling support a more personalized explanation process?
In which ways can the dynamics of context be modelled?
How can the suitability of contextually adapted explanations be studied / 
validated / evaluated?
Which explanation processes are particularly suitable for which context?
Which context-specific outcomes are influenced by explanations?
How can XAI empower users across diverse contexts to make informed decisions 
and effectively interact with AI systems?
What constitutes a useful taxonomy for categorizing contexts in which 
explanations are provided?
What are the various contexts in which explanations are provided and utilized? 

The 3rd TRR318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations invites contributions 
from a wide range of disciplines (computational but also human/social science) 
seeking to contribute to advancing research on how explanations can be 
contextually adapted. 

We invite interested participants to submit a two page abstract (+ references) 
using the LNCS Springer template via Easychair:  
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=contex25

The abstracts will be peer-reviewed and appear as Proceedings published by 
Bielefeld University Press. 

The conference is hosted and supported by the TRR 318 “Constructing 
Explainability”:  http://trr318.de 
Organizing Committee:

Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University)
Benjamin Paaßen (Bielefeld University)
Anna-Lisa Vollmer (BIelefeld University)


Invited Speakers:

Angelo Cangelosi (University of Manchester)
Virginia Dignum (Umeå University)
Kacper Sokol (ETH Zurich)

Important Dates:

Deadline for Submissions (EXTENDED): April 16th

Notification of Acceptance (EXTENDED): May 7th

Conference: 17th and 18th of June, Bielefeld


Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
AG Semantic Computing
Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC)
Co-Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII)
Universität Bielefeld

Tel: +49 521 106 12249
Fax: +49 521 106 6560
Mail: cimi...@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
Personal Zoom Room: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/my/pcimiano

Office CITEC-2.307
Universitätsstr. 21-25
33615 Bielefeld, NRW
Germany

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[Corpora-List] 2nd CFP: Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA)

[Lasha Abzianidze via Corpora]

 [Apologies for cross-posting]

The 5th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning)
workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect
of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning
(NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to:

   - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with
   neural networks
   - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations)
   - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R
   - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems
   - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R
   - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on
   NLU&R
   - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets
   - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks
   - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks
   - Generalization of NLU&R systems
   - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems


NALOMA accepts archival papers (to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings)
and (non-archival) extended abstracts.
The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2025.esslli.eu),
28 July-8 August 2025, Bochum (Germany).
The submission deadline is 25 April 2025.
Visit https://naloma.github.io for more details.
-
The NALOMA chairs,
Lasha Abzianidze and Valeria de Paiva
-- 
Lasha Abzianidze
Assistant professor at Utrecht University
Institute for Language Sciences
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[Corpora-List] 2nd Call for NTCIR-19 Task Proposals (Due: March 31st, 2025)

[CHUNG-CHI CHEN via Corpora]

Dear colleagues,
(Apologize if you received multiple emails from different mailing lists)

We are delighted to share the 2nd call for task proposals for NTCIR-19.
NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a
series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access
with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1)
took place in August/September 1999, and the latest NTCIR-18 conference
will be held on June 10-13, 2025. Research teams from all over the world
participate in one or more NTCIR tasks to advance the state of the art and
to learn from one another's experiences.

It is time to call for task proposals for the next NTCIR (NTCIR-19), which
will start in September 2025 and conclude in December 2026. Task proposals
will be reviewed by the NTCIR Program Committee, and organizers of accepted
tasks will have a chance to present their proposed tasks at the NTCIR-18
Conference held in NII, Tokyo, Japan, from June 10-13, 2025.

* IMPORTANT DATES:

*March 31, 2025: Task Proposal Submission Due (Anywhere on Earth)*May 15,
2025: Acceptance Notification of Task Proposals
June 10-13, 2025: NTCIR-18 Conference (Organizers of accepted tasks have a
chance to present their proposed tasks)

* SUBMISSION LINK:

*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir19proposal
*
* NTCIR-19 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
January 2026: Dataset release*
January-June 2026: Dry run*
March-July 2026: Formal run*
August 1, 2026: Evaluation results return
August 1, 2026: Task overview release (draft)
September 1, 2026: Submission due of participant papers (draft)
November 1, 2026: Camera-ready participant paper due
December 2026: NTCIR-19 Conference at NII, Tokyo, Japan
(* indicates that the schedule can be different for different tasks)

* WHO SHOULD SUBMIT NTCIR-19 TASK PROPOSALS?
We invite new task proposals within the expansive field of information
access. Organizing an evaluation task entails pinpointing significant
research challenges, strategically addressing them through collaboration
with fellow researchers (including co-organizers and participants),
developing the requisite evaluation framework to propel advancements in the
state of the art, and generating a meaningful impact on both the research
community and future developments.
Prospective applicants are urged to underscore the real-world applicability
of their proposed tasks by utilizing authentic data, focusing on practical
tasks, and solving tangible problems. Additionally, they should confront
challenges in evaluating information access technology, such as the
extensive number of assessments needed for evaluation, ensuring privacy
while using proprietary data, and conducting live tests with actual users.
In the era of large language models (LLMs), these models are anticipated to
significantly influence daily human activities. Nonetheless, the content
produced by LLMs often exhibits issues, such as hallucinations. NTCIR-19
encourages tasks that focus on the evaluation of the quality of content
generated by LLMs continued from NTCIR-18 as well as information access
exploiting LLMs, including generative information retrieval (IR), IR using
generative queries, conversational search using generated utterances,
evaluation using LLM (relevance judgements or language annotation using
LLM), and RAG.

* PROPOSAL TYPES:
We will accept two types of task proposals:
- Proposal of a Core task:
This is for fostering research on a particular information access problem
by providing researchers with a common ground for evaluation. New test
collections and evaluation methods may be developed through the
collaboration between task organizers (proposers) and task participants. At
NTCIR-18, the core tasks are AEOLLM, FairWeb-2, FinArg-2, Lifelog-6,
MedNLP-CHAT, RadNLP, and Transfer-2. Details can be found at
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html.

- Proposal of a Pilot task:
This is recommended for organizers who propose to focus on a novel
information access problem, and there are uncertainties either in task
design or organization. It may focus on a sub-problem of an information
access problem and attract a smaller group of participating teams than core
tasks. However, it may grow into a core challenging task in the next round
of NTCIR. At NTCIR-18, the pilot tasks are HIDDEN-RAD, SUSHI, and U4.
Details can be found at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-18/tasks.html.

Organizers are expected to run their tasks mainly with their own funding
and to make the task as self-sustaining as possible. A part of the fund can
be supported by NTCIR, which is called "seed funding." It is usually used
for some limited purposes such as hiring relevance assessors. The seed
funding allocated to each task varies depending on requirements and the
number of accepted tasks. Typical cases would be around 1M JPY for a core
task and around 0.5M JPY for a pilot task (note that the amount

[Corpora-List] TextDetox CLEF 2025: First Call for Participants

[Daryna Dementieva via Corpora]

*TextDetox CLEF 2025*

Toxicity in online communication is a growing concern, and NLP has the
power to make a difference! Our Text Detoxification Shared Task invites
researchers and practitioners to develop innovative methods for
transforming harmful language into neutral or constructive text while
preserving meaning. This multilingual challenge spans 15 languages, pushing
the boundaries of responsible AI and ethical NLP. Whether you're an expert
in text style transfer, toxicity detection, or multilingual NLP, this is
your chance to contribute to a safer, more inclusive digital space!

https://pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25-web/text-detoxification.html

https://huggingface.co/textdetox

TL;DR

Task formulation: transfer a text style from toxic to neutral
(i.e. what a f**k is this about? -> what is this about?)

15 very diverse languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese,
Japanese, Hindi, Hinglish, Arabic, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Amharic,
Hebrew, Tatar


Tasks and phases:

The second edition of TextDetox focuses on advancing multilingual and
cross-lingual text detoxification. The challenge is to develop a model
that, using training data from nine diverse languages – English, Spanish,
German, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Ukrainian, Russian, and Amharic – can
generalize effectively to *new languages* -- *Italian, French, Hebrew,
Hindi, Japanese, and Tatar *-- while maintaining consistent performance
across all.

The shared task will be split in two phases – dev and test with more data
to challenge your models!

The final leaderboard will be built on more advanced evaluation – we will
release the details later.


In the end, you will have an opportunity to write and then present a paper

at CLEF 2024 (https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php) which will
take place in sunny Madrid, Spain!

Important Dates

Now: join our google group for all updates:
https://groups.google.com/g/textdetox-clef2025
Register officially to CLEF competition:
https://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/registration.html

April 25, 2025: Registration closes.
May 1st, 2025: Test phase starts
May 10, 2025: End of evaluation cycle.
May 30, 2025: Participants paper submission.
June 27, 2025: Notification of acceptance.
July 7, 2025: Camera-ready due.
September 9-12, 2025: CLEF Conference in Madrid, Spain!

On behalf of TextDetox Shared Task Organizers,
Daryna Dementieva
https://dardem.github.io/
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[Corpora-List] 2nd Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)

[Wajdi Zaghouani via Corpora]

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting ***


The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025)
Co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025.

We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included
in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following
details:

   1.

   Overview of the proposed task
   2.

   Motivation for the task
   3.

   Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status
   of the data: planned, in progress, or ready)
   4.

   Task Description
   5.

   Pilot Run Details (if available)
   6.

   Tentative Timeline
   7.

   Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation)

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long.

Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9


Selection Process

The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected
based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected
interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are,
the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task.

Task Organization

Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task
organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely
manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the
task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to
participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website,
manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage
participants submissions of system description papers, and review and
maintain the quality of submitted system description papers.



Shared Task Proposal Submission

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h
 (“Anywhere on
Earth”).


April 6th, 2025: Shared task proposals due

April 20th, 2025: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance



Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals:

Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls

June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation
scripts

July 20, 2025: Registration deadline and release of test data

July 25, 2025: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes)

July 30, 2025: Final results released

August 15, 2025: System description paper submissions due

August 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance

September 5, 2025: Camera-ready versions due

November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference

For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs:
arabicnlp-shared-task-ch...@sigarab.org

Wajdi Zaghouani and Sakhar Alkhereyf

ArabicNLP 2025 Shared Tasks Chairs



Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,

Communication Program


Northwestern Qatar | Education City
T +974 4454 5232  | M +974 3345 4992
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[Corpora-List] Call for papers: LLMSEC 2025

[Leon Derczynski via Corpora]

LLMSEC 2025

URL: https://sig.llmsecurity.net/workshop/
Direct submission deadline: April 15, 2025


LLMSEC is an academic event publishing & presenting work on
adversarially-induced failure modes of large language models, the
conditions that lead to them, and their mitigations.

Date: Aug 1, 2025
Location: Vienna, Austria

Co-located with ACL 2025 as a workshop

Scope
Large Language Models accept a variety of inputs and produce a variety of
outputs. It is possible to find inputs that lead to LLM outputs that model
creators, owners, or users do not want. Defining and enumerating this space
is an open task. We describe LLM security as the field of investigating how
models that process text can, by an adversary, be made to behave in
unintended and harmful ways. %The field covers both weaknesses and
vulnerabilities.

Research at LLMSEC includes the entire life cycle of LLMs, from training
data through fine-tuning and alignment over to inference-time. It also
covers deployment context of LLMs, including risk assessment, release
decisions, and use of LLMs in agent-based systems.

Event scope is LLM attacks, LLM defence, and the contextualisation of LLM
security. LLM attacks are anything that causes LLMs to behave in an
unexpected/unintended manner usable by an adversary. In the LLM life cycle,
this includes techniques like data poisoning and other model supply chain
attacks, as well as the adversarial inputs that yield insecure outputs.
Topics include:

Adversarial attacks on LLMs
Automated and adaptive LLM attacks
Data poisoning
Data extraction from trained models
Defining LLM vulnerabilities
Detection of adversarial LLM inputs
Ethical aspects of LLM security
Legal impacts and debates related to model security
LLM Denial-of-service
LLM security measurement
LLM supply chain attacks
Model input/output guardrails
Model inversion
Model policy
Multi-modal and cross-model models (e.g. vision&text-to-text,
text-to-speech, speech-to-text)
Organising model exploits
Organising model failure modes
Practical tools for exploiting LLMs
Privacy breaches mediated by LLM
Privilege escalation and lateral movement mediated by LLMs
Prompt injection
Proofs-of-concept of LLM exploits
Red teaming of LLMs
Retrieval Augmented Generation security
Secure LLM use and deployment


Keynotes

1. Johannes Bjerva, Aalborg University (Denmark). Prof. Bjerva’s research
is characterised by an interdisciplinary perspective on NLP, with a focus
on the potential for impact in society. His main contributions to my field
are to incorporate linguistic information into NLP, including large
language models (LLMs), and to improve the state of resource-poor
languages. Recent research focuses on embedding inversion and attacks on
multi-modal models.

2. Erick Galinkin, NVIDIA Corporation (USA). Erick Galinkin is a Research
Scientist at NVIDIA working on the security assessment and protection of
large language models. Previously, he led the AI research team at Rapid7
and has extensive experience working in the cybersecurity space. He is an
alumnus of Johns Hopkins University and holds degrees in applied
mathematics and computer science. Outside of his work, Erick is a lifelong
student, currently at Drexel University and is renowned for his ability to
be around equestrians.

3. TBA

Submission formats

Submissions must be anonymised & de-identified following ACL policy, and in
the ACL template.

Long & Short papers

We invite both short and long papers; short papers with a 4 page limit,
long papers with an 8 page limit, with references, ethics statements, &
other compulsory sections not subjected to this limit.

Qualitative work

As a relatively new field, still engaged in sense-making of the context of
this research, we particularly welcome rigorous qualitative work, and work
that provides novel information about LLMSEC practice and context.

War stories

Following cybersecurity tradition, LLMSEC also welcomes “war stories”, that
is, accounts of security investigations or operations that are informative
to broader audiences. These are intended to connect researchers and
practitioners; LLM security is highly interdisciplinary and we have a lot
to share with each other.

War story submissions need not provide novel quantitative empirical
results, but should be illuminating and helpful to the workshop audience.
They may be up to four pages, with references, appendices, and compulsory
sections excluded from the limit

Submission link

Submit via softconf: https://softconf.com/acl2025/llmsec2025/

Important Dates

Direct submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2025
Camera-ready paper deadline: June 16, 2025
Pre-recorded video due: July 5, 2025
Workshop dates: July 31st / August 1st 2025
TZ: Anywhere on earth

Organisation

Leon Derczynski. Principal Scientist in LLM Security at NVIDIA Corporation,
Associate Professor in NLP at ITU University of Copenhagen, President of
ACL SIGSEC. https://www.linkedin.com/in/leon-derczynski/

Jeka

[Corpora-List] Registration open for Corpus Linguistics 2025

[Robbie Love via Corpora]

Dear colleagues

I am pleased to confirm that registration is now open for the international 
Corpus Linguistics conference 2025 (CL2025). CL2025 is co-organised by Aston 
University, Birmingham City University, and the University of Birmingham and 
will take place from Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 at Aston 
University.

Information about fees and registration instructions can be found on the 
conference website: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/registration

Registration is also open for the pre-conference workshop day, to be held on 
Sunday 29th June at the University of Birmingham. We are pleased to confirm a 
programme of six workshops - details available here: 
https://www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/workshops

KEY DATES

  *   Registration opens: 28th March 2025
  *   Early bird registration deadline: 9th May 2025
  *   Final registration deadline: 13th June 2025
  *   Conference dates: 30th June - 3rd July 2025

PLENARY SPEAKERS

  *   Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan)
  *   Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)
  *   Elizabeth Hanks (Northern Arizona University, USA)
  *   Pascual Pérez-Paredes (University of Murcia, Spain)
  *   Anna Marchi (University of Bologna, Italy) & Charlotte Taylor (University 
of Sussex, UK)

For further information, please visit the conference website at 
www.cl2025.co.uk or write to the CL2025 organising 
committee at 
corpuslinguistics2...@gmail.com.

Best wishes

Robbie Love

On behalf of the CL2025 Organising Committee:
Matt Gee (Birmingham City University), Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City 
University), Joyce Lim (Aston University), Robbie Love (Aston University), Mark 
McGlashan (University of Liverpool), Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham), 
Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham)

Dr Robbie Love (he/him) BA (Hons), ma, phd, cdls, fhea
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics
Programme Development Lead
Department of Communication and Culture, School of Law and Social Sciences
Aston University, Birmingham, UK
[Aston University]
Newsletter Editor, British Association for Applied Linguistics 
(BAAL)
Convenor, BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest 
Group
Organising Committee, Corpus Linguistics Conference 
2025
Research profile: 
research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love
Website: robbielove.org/

See me in Les 
Misérables
 at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, 10th-14th June!
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[Corpora-List] [CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - Last Call for Workshops and Tutorials

[Kossi Amouzouvi via Corpora]

SEMANTiCS 2025 - Last Call for Workshops and Tutorials

21st International Conference on Semantic Systems

Vienna, Austria

September 03-05, 2025

Important Dates for Workshops:

   -

   *Proposals WS Deadline:* March 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) March 29, 2025
   (11:59 pm, AoE)
   -

   *Notification of Acceptance: * March 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) April 5,
   2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)

Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):

   -

   *Proposals Tutorial Deadline:* June 11, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)
   -

   *Notification of Acceptance:* June 18, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)

*Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025
*

*SEMANTiCS Workshops and Tutorials*

SEMANTiCS 2025 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and
features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical
interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich
diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking
to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments
in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in
the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2025 and proposals bridging or introducing
new perspectives and/or challenges in these areas. Workshops and tutorials
may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or
hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable.
Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon request as well.
*Scope and Goals*

Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2025 allow your organization or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility.
The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the SEMANTiCS website, and
they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and
tutorials can be incubators for industrial and scientific communities that
form and share a particular research and development agenda, and they will
provide a forum for presenting contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings.
*Proceedings*

Workshop papers will be published in the SEMANTiCS side event proceedings
through CEUR. Side events proceedings will include posters & demos and
contributions from workshops.
*Setup and Requirements*

SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full-day long.
Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after the main
SEMANTiCS 2025 EU conference (03th of September 2025). Further details will
be communicated in due time.

Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets
(only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or
keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will only be charged a
reduced fee to cover the basic costs. Workshop and tutorial proposals must
include the following information:

   -

   outline of the *themes and goals of the event*, including a title and a
   brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2025
   website.
   -

   a statement addressing why the event is important, *why the event is
   timely*, and how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2025 and the field of
   Semantic Web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a
   high-quality introduction to the topic.
   -

   *related workshops and conferences*, i.e., specifying if this is a
   continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop. Please provide
   information about past versions (in any) and other related workshops
   (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available).
   -

   a statement addressing the *quality assurance criteria* that will be
   used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and the
   presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation by
   event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality
   assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be responsible
   for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be responsible
   also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers)
   and proceedings production.
   -

   *structure of the event* and plans for generating and stimulating
   discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event.
   -

   expected *number of event participants* and (in case of previously held
   events) number of registered attendees and website for previous editions of
   the event
   -

   a *description* of the intended audience and the expected learning
   *outcomes.*
   -

   desired *prerequisite* knowledge of the audience.
   -

   proposed *duration of the event* (i.e., half or full day), different

[Corpora-List] [CfP] 1st CfP: GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies || June 12, 2025 || Leipzig, Germany

[DBpedia via Corpora]

*1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies*
Leipzig, Germany
June 12, 2025
https://cost.eu/actions/CA23147/


The 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies welcomes papers 
on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to Knowledge 
Graphs, their applications, and associated technologies. We encourage 
submissions at the intersection of Knowledge Graphs with fields such as 
Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automation. 
Submissions should be original and must not have been published 
elsewhere in any form or language. Each submission will receive at least 
three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on novelty, 
technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance.


= Topics of Interest =
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Modeling, designing, and integrating KGs, including ontology 
engineering and enrichment
* Development, publication, maintaining, and versioning of knowledge 
graphs, including schema evolution and data updates
* Techniques for extracting, linking, and improving knowledge graphs, 
ensuring data quality and consistency
* Methods for reasoning and discovering insights, patterns, and 
relationships within large-scale KGs
* Strategies for safeguarding knowledge graphs, addressing access 
control, bias detection, and data protection
* Leveraging KGs in deep learning, large language models, and natural 
language processing, KGs for LLMs and LLMs for KGs
* Enhancing search, recommendations, and question-answering systems 
using knowledge graph-based techniques
* Success stories and lessons learned in real-world implementations of 
KGs in healthcare, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing, and beyond
* Applications of KGs in various contexts, such as content analysis, 
misinformation detection, and social media insights

* Evaluation of knowledge graph development tasks based on LLMs/GenAI
* Knowledge Graph-based retrieval augmented generation (RAG)

= Important Dates =
* Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time, 
UTC-12)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2025 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth 
time, UTC-12)


Submissions will be through EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25


= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* *Full research papers*: 4-6 pages + max 2 pages references
* *Short research papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references
* *In Use and Experience papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references
* *Position and Vision papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references
* *System/demo papers*: 2-4 pages + 1 page references

Submissions must be in English, original, and not under review 
elsewhere. Papers should follow the *Springer Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science* style: 
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj 



= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee 
members. The reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers may 
disclose their identities. Papers will be evaluated based on:


* Appropriateness
* Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
* Impact of results
* Technical quality of methods
* Soundness of evaluation
* Proper comparison to related work
* Clarity and quality of writing
* Reproducibility of results and resources

= Financial Support for Authors =
The GOBLIN COST Action has allocated a budget to support travel expenses 
for authors of accepted papers. One author per accepted paper may apply 
for financial support, subject to budget availability and COST 
reimbursement rules: 
https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2025/02/COST-094-21-V2.0-Annotated-Rules-for-COST-Actions-Level-C.pdf 



= Proceedings =
Accepted papers will be published on Zenodo and shared on the workshop 
and GOBLIN COST Action websites.


= Workshop Chairs =
* Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
* Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany

For inquiries: gobli...@easychair.org

= Programme Committee =
* Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
* Krzysztof Węcel, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
* Verginica Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for AI, Romania
* Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain
* Weiler Andreas, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland
* …to be updated

= Local Organisers =
* Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany
* Julia Holze, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany

= Acknowledgment =
This workshop is organized as part of the GOBLIN COST Action: CA23147 – 
Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open 
Knowledge Graphs, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and 
Technology): https://www.cost.eu


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[Corpora-List] Webminar by Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind)

[HiTZ zentroa via Corpora]

 We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are 
already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register 
again. 



Dear colleague,

We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology 
webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI< (https://hitz.eus). 
You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for 
upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars


Next webinar:

*Speaker: *Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind)
*Title: *Towards Inclusive Multimodal AI
*Date: *Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 15:00 CET
*Summary: *Visual assistants are becoming ubiquitous, yet their 
effectiveness varies drastically across languages and cultures. This 
talk presents an overview of the critical issue of multicultural 
disparity in image–text models. We'll explore this gap through three 
lenses: evaluation, training, and generation. First, I'll introduce 
benchmarks like MaRVL designed to quantify multilingual and 
multicultural competence. Next, we'll delve into techniques for 
mitigating these disparities in model training. Finally, we'll examine 
the emerging challenges and opportunities in multicultural visual 
generation.


*Bio: *Emanuele Bugliarello is a research scientist at Google DeepMind 
based in Grenoble, France where he works on improving evaluation and 
capabilities of multimodal generative models. He completed his PhD in 
the NLP Section at the University of Copenhagen, while spending time at 
DeepMind, Google, Mila and Spotify. Previously, he studied computer and 
communication sciences at EPFL, Tongji University and Politecnico di Torino.

*
Upcoming webinars:*
· André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 2025)
· Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025)

If you are interested in participating, please complete this 
registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea


If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the 
following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: 
http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info


Best wishes,

HiTZ Zentroa

P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these 
webinars.
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[Corpora-List] Open RA/PhD Funded Positions in Multimodal Conversational AI ( U. Trento, Italy)

[Giuseppe Riccardi via Corpora]

At the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) we
are looking for highly motivated and talented graduate students to join our
research team and work on Conversational Artificial Intelligence. This
umbrella term includes the following research areas:

   -

   Natural Language Processing
   -

   Dialogue Modeling and Systems
   -

   Machine Learning
   -

   Affective Computing

We are investigating and designing next-generation ML models for multimodal
input /output processing in physical and hybrid environments and
interactions.

For thirty years, the SIS Lab has trained intelligent machines and
evaluated AI-based systems in many industry sectors, from fintech to
health, following ethical principles and directives from data collection,
annotation, machine learning modeling, and user engagement.

The lab research team is interdisciplinary and attracts researchers from
computational linguistics, psychology, applied math, biomedical and
electrical engineering, and computer science.

Research projects and publications can be found on the SIS lab website.

The department's official language (research and teaching) is English.

AVAILABLE POSITIONS

-Six months funded research fellowships: approximately 1.885 Euro/month
gross.
-Three-year funded Phd fellowships: approximately 1.885 Euro/month gross
amount.
For more information about the cost of living in Trento, please visit the
website  .

DEADLINES

Positions open until filled.

REQUIREMENTS

MANDATORY ( for both positions )
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, or similar/related disciplines.
- Excellent  academic records
- Excellent programming skills
- Excellent command of oral and written English
- Good knowledge of most of the following: experimental design methodology
and statistics,
natural language processing, machine learning methods
- Excellent teamwork skills

NICE-TO-HAVE

-Experience with Vision-Language Models and their applications.

-Expertise with LLM architectures, frameworks and applications.

-Experience with VR and/or XR architectures, frameworks and applications.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should mention the position they are applying and
send their CV to:

Email: sisl-j...@disi.unitn.it
For more info:

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab
The PhD School
The Department Information Engineering and Computer
Science Department @ University of Trento 
---
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi
Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab
Department of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of Trento
Room D5, via Sommarive 5
38123 Povo di Trento, Italy
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