July 2025 - Corpora - ELRA lists

SyntaxFest 2025: Call for Participation
by Dobrovoljc, Kaja 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We warmly invite you to take part in SyntaxFest 2025, a biennial international event dedicated to empirical approaches to syntax, including statistical language analysis, linguistic annotation, and natural language processing. The event will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 26 to 29 August 2025, at a central venue in Ljubljana's historic center. This year, the program will consist of: - Five co-located workshops: IWPT, TLT, DepLing, UDW, and QUASY - Two pre-conference workshops by the UniDive COST Action "Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology" - Six keynote talks by leading researchers in linguistics and NLP: - Isabel Papadimitriou (Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University) - Miryam de Lhoneux (KU Leuven) - Daniel Zeman (Charles University Prague) - Artur Stepanov (University of Nova Gorica) - Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) - Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University) - Over 70 peer-reviewed papers on diverse topics in empirical syntactic analysis For more details and registration, please visit: https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/ Early registration deadline (extended): 15 July 2025 We look forward to seeing you this August! The SyntaxFest 2025 Organizing Committee

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[Workshop CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP
by alicia.picazo＠ua.es 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '25

[2nd CFP] - (R2LM) From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation @ RANLP 2025 (Varna, Bulgaria) - 11-13 September 2025 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second call for papers for the R2LM Workshop - From Rules to Language Models: Comparative Performance Evaluation at RANLP 2025. https://r2lm2025.github.io/R2LM/ Workshop Description Deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling impressive performance across many tasks. However, they continue to face key challenges in handling complex linguistic phenomena such as multiword expressions, long-context reasoning, and robustness to adversarial inputs. In parallel, concerns remain about the scalability, interpretability, and domain adaptability of these models, particularly in applications requiring high precision, such as grammar checking, legal analysis, or medical NLP. These limitations have sparked renewed interest in rule-based and knowledge-based approaches, which often offer better explainability and remain competitive, especially in low-resource or high-stakes scenarios. Our workshop aims to gather contributions that deal with the following topics: • Role of rule-based and knowledge-based NLP methods in modern applications • Comparative analysis of rule-based, machine-learning, deep-learning and large language models for different NLP tasks • Emerging trends in NLP research beyond deep learning and Large Language Models • Limitations and performance bottlenecks in scalability and accuracy of deep learning models Submission Details • Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Format: ACL-style (LaTeX or MS Word) • Submission portal and template info available on the RANLP 2025 website Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025 (NEW!!!!!) Notification of Acceptance: 10 August 2025 Workshop date: 11, 12 or 13 September 2025 Organising Committee: Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, University of Alicante, Spain Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, University of Alicante, Spain Rafael Muñoz Guillena, University of Alicante, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Raúl García Cerdá, University of Alicante, Spain

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Public talk: Indices of syntactic complexity and language learner development (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA)
by Robert Fuchs 02 Jul '25

02 Jul '25

Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Large- and fine-grained indices of syntactic complexity and language learner development (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt University, USA) July 4, 2.15 pm – 5.45 pm CEST Register here: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/JhKP5tfdT-eQAP4TxAepWQ *Abstract:*This talk and its subsequent workshop will introduce approaches to measuring syntactic properties in the English language, with a specific focus on large- and fine-grained syntactic measures. Approaches to measure syntax automatically through part-of-speech (POS) taggers and dependency parsers will be covered. The follow-up workshop will focus on how POS taggers and dependency parses can be used to assess language learner data at the large- and fine-grained levels in a large corpus focusing on English as a Second Language (EFL) learners. Data analysis techniques and hands-on data exploration will provide practical applications using learner corpora. Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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recordings of Lancaster summer school lectures now available
by Brezina, Vaclav 02 Jul '25

02 Jul '25

Dear all, If you weren't able to attend this year's Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics or if you'd like to go back to some of the key content, you can now access the recordings of the lectures online. Watch the lectures here: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/free-lancaster-lectures-on-corpus-linguistics Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image001.jpg@01DBEB60.87361D60]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CIRCE Online Seminar | 07/07/2025 | Prof. Sender Dovchin | "Accentism as a Form of Linguistic Racism: Unpacking Power, Prejudice, and Emotionality"
by Claudia Soria 02 Jul '25

02 Jul '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Prof. Sender Dovchin* /Curtin University, Australia/ */Accentism as a Form of Linguistic Racism: Unpacking Power, Prejudice, and Emotionality/* 📅 *July 7, 2025* 🕓 *2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Researchers, secondary school teachers, language instructors *Summary: *Accentism is one of the key features of linguistic racism. It is a form of linguistic discrimination against individuals not only based on their accents but also on their race. Accentism functions as a potent social marker that invokes judgements about a speaker’s race, intelligence, credibility and belonging. Accentism should always be understood at the intersectionality of racism because one’s accent is never judged by separation from the language users’ race. In this presentation, I examine multilayered consequences of accentism, with the aim of advancing scholarly understanding of how accent-based discrimination functions as a pervasive form of linguistic racism. English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) people in Australia frequently report being misunderstood due to their accents. These experiences are not isolated or incidental – they are shaped by entrenched powerful ideologies about the standardized and dominant language system. Prejudice caused by accentism against the racialized language users could pose serious emotional harms, leading to linguistic inferiority complexes such as social withdrawal, a sense of non-belonging, low self-esteem, fear, and anxiety. The accumulation of these inferiority complexes further instigates severe depressive symptoms of mental health, such as suicidal ideations, eating disorders, substance abuse and depression. Accentism is a critical issue in social justice and calls for systemic interventions to disrupt accent-based discrimination. I conclude this presentation by discussing the pedagogical implications for language educators. I emphasize the importance of taking an integrated approach to address accentism and its emotional and psychological harms together in order to transform language education. *Bio: *Professor Sender Dovchin is currently a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia. She is also an Australian Research Council Fellow and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow. Previously, she worked at the University of Aizu, Japan and National University of Mongolia. Professor Dovchin was also an Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics - national top journal. Professor Dovchin is a world-leading applied linguist who has been twice recognised by The Australian Research Magazine—in 2021 and 2024—as the top linguist in the nation and among the top 250 researchers across all fields in Australia. She is also ranked in the top 2% of the most cited scholars globally, according to the Stanford University citation database. As a proud Mongolian background woman, she actively incorporates Southern theories, including Indigenous perspectives, into her work. She has led multiple high-impact research projects, all focused on empowering children and young people from Indigenous, refugee, and migrant backgrounds in Australia and beyond. She has authored multiple research monographs and edited volumes with prestigious international publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and among others. In addition, she has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles—most as sole or lead author—in top-tier Q1 journals, widely regarded as benchmarks of scholarly excellence in the discipline. Upcoming webinars: - Eldin Milak (Monday, September 1, 2025) - Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025) - Onur Ozkaynak (Monday, October 13, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu.

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Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University
by Steven Schockaert 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

Location: Cardiff, UK Deadline for applications: 21st July Start date: available immediately End date: 30th April 2027 Keywords: LLMs, neuro-symbolic AI, graph neural networks Details about the post Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing LLM-based and neuro-symbolic reasoning strategies to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS820/research-associate

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025: Last Call for Posters & Demos (Deadline: July 4)
by Kossi Amouzouvi 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Follow us on *Twitter/X* <https://x.com/SemanticsConf>, *LinkedIn* <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7496190/?highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Agr…>, and *Bluesky*. <https://bsky.app/profile/semantics-conf.bsky.social> Call for Posters & Demos The Posters & Demos Track provides a platform for researchers to showcase their latest findings, ongoing projects, and cutting-edge work in progress. These include submissions on innovative applications, latest results, unpublished ideas, prototypes of semantic technologies and their use in various domains as well as applications, use cases, or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new datasets made publicly available. The Posters & Demos Track offers an informal setting that promotes engagement and dialogue between presenters and attendees. These discussions can provide valuable feedback for presenters' future work while allowing participants to gain insight into emerging research trends and network with other researchers. *Important dates:* - *Paper Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025* - *Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2025 * - *Camera-Ready of Paper Deadline: July 28, 2025* *All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)* *Submission via Easychair on* *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access by * CEUR-WS.org*. Topics of Interest We welcome contributions in the context of semantic-based research and systems, which address – but are not limited to – the topics of the Research Track <https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>. Additionally, we encourage submissions of visionary ideas, position statements, negative results, and unconventional ideas. Demos should showcase innovative implementations and technologies both, from academia and industry. We also very much encourage submissions from industry, but they should be focused on presenting a novel solution to a specific problem and not be in the nature of an advertisement or commercial product description. Author Guidelines and Submission Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper that describes the work, its contribution to the field or innovative aspects. - Poster and demo submissions are at most 5 pages long, including references. - No double-blind submissions required. - Submissions must be either in PDF or HTML. - Submissions must be formatted in the style of CEUR-ART ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available. - For demos, we ask authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. The absence of a pointer affects the overall rating of the contribution. - Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. - At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. Posters and Demos Track Chairs Ivan Heibi Diego Collarana Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee. ========================= Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden -- DISCLAIMER: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and you are herewith notified that the contents are legally privileged and that you do not have permission to disclose the contents to anyone, make copies thereof, retain or distribute or act upon it by any means, electronically, digitally or in print. The views expressed in this communication may be of a personal nature and not be representative of AIMS-NEI and/or any of its Centres or Initiatives.

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