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twin4dem.bsky.social @twin4dem.bsky.social · 2d

Great discussions in Lille & Rotterdam for the #TWIN4DEM focus groups!
Participants from civil society, academia & local governance shared insights on making digital democracy tools more accessible, transparent & usable.

🙏 Huge thanks to our hosts in both cities!
#Democracy #CitizenEngagement

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DH Group at FBK @dh-fbk.bsky.social · 7d

✨ Shared task alert! ✨

We are organizing FadeIT, the first shared task on fallacy detection accounting for genuine disagreement. FadeIT is part of EVALITA, whose workshop will be held in beautiful Bari, Italy in February 2026.

Learn more from our website!
🌐 sites.google.com/fbk.eu/fadei...

Image showing the text "FadeIT: Fallacy Detection in Italian Social Media Texts, a Shared Task at EVALITA 2026".

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DH Group at FBK @dh-fbk.bsky.social · 16d

We are on our way to Casteddu for #clicit2025 with a guest from @fbk-mt.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15d

The second day of #clicit2025 has started with an oral session on Linked Data, relation extraction and legal information retrieval

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15d

First poster session at #clicit2025

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 28d

Volete ospitare l’edizione 2026 delle “Lectures on Computational Linguistics”?
Nell'immagine la spiegazione su come fare!
Scadenza invio candidature: 10 ottobre 2025

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Rachele Sprugnoli @rsprugnoli.bsky.social · Apr 11

Applications are now open for the graduate programme in "Linguistic Computing" at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore! #Milan #NLProc #artificalintelligence
www.unicatt.it/en/programme...

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FBK - NLP Research Group @fbk-nlp.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚀 Exciting News! The Evalita-LLM Leaderboard is now live on Hugging Face! Explore the performance of over 40 Large Language Models on native Italian tasks. Dive in here: huggingface.co/spaces/evali...

@FondazioneBrunoKessler
@igenius
@diunito.bsky.social

#NLProc #LLM #AI #Italian #Benchmarking

Evalita Llm Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by evalitahf

Duplicate this leaderboard to initialize your own!

huggingface.co

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 #ACL2025NLP Call for System Demonstrations 🛠️.
⏰ Deadline: Friday March 28 ⏰ approaching! 🚀
2025.aclweb.org/calls/system... #NLProc

System Demonstrations

ACL 2025 System Demonstration.

2025.aclweb.org

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satonelli.bsky.social @satonelli.bsky.social · Mar 19

What about @inesmontani.bsky.social ?

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Mar 18

📢 #ACL2025NLP Student Research Workshop CFP is out 🙌
👉 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
Send your paper by ⏰ May 18th, 2025 🚀 #nlproc

Student Research Workshop

ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop.

2025.aclweb.org

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · Mar 11

The Proceedings of #CLiCit2024 are now available on the @aclmeeting.bsky.social Anthology! 🥳

You can find them at the following link:
aclanthology.org/volumes/2024...

#NLProc

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Mar 1

EMNLP is currently seeking additional Senior Area Chairs (SACs). If you would like to help, please fill out this form, and share the link with others!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Volunteer to join EMNLP 2025 Senior Area Chair (SAC) Committee

Dear NLP Community, Please use this form to express your interest in joining the EMNLP 2025 SAC committee. SACs will be responsible for overseeing the overall review process in their track, following ...

docs.google.com

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nlp4posimpact.bsky.social @nlp4posimpact.bsky.social · Mar 1

🚨 Deadline Extension Alert!
📅 We’ve extended the direct submission deadline to March 30, 2025!
Submit your work on NLP for positive impact, social good and real-world applications.
🌍 Special theme: NLP for Climate Change.
📢 More details: sites.google.com/view/nlp4pos...
#NLP4PI #ACL2025

NLP for Positive Impact - Call for Papers 2025

Important Dates Submission Channel 1: ARR We align our paper acceptance with ARR cycles: Submission Due: February 15th, 2025 Submission Page: ARR submission site ARR Reviewed Submissions Commitment D...

sites.google.com

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Alan Ramponi @alanramponi.bsky.social · Feb 25

Happy to share that “Fine-grained Fallacy Detection with Human Label Variation” with @agnesedaff.bsky.social and @satonelli.bsky.social was accepted to #NAACL2025 main conference 🎉

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2502.13853

#NLProc #NLP #NAACL

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Example showing multiple plausible span annotations provided by annotators A1 and A2 due to different interpretations for the text "American study: mutation spreads four times faster, but 💉 are needed" in Italian

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Feb 19

The updated ARR schedule has now been posted! As per the call for papers, the submission deadline for EMNLP 2025 will be May 19th aclrollingreview.org/dates #EMNLP2025

Dates and Venues

A peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics

aclrollingreview.org

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Feb 14

The EMNLP 2025 conference website and CfP are now live! 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main-c...

Conference dates: November 5-9 in Suzhou, China

Submissions will be through ARR, and this year's theme is Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP

Call for Main Conference Papers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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NoDaLiDa @nodalida.bsky.social · Feb 10

NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT is less than a month away!

Did you know Talllinn is a living UNESCO treasure and also has a café culture? One such example is Maiasmokk, the oldest café in Tallinn dating back to 1864!

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satonelli.bsky.social @satonelli.bsky.social · Feb 6

Last week we kick-started the TWIN4DEM project, where we plan to use #NLProc to study political discourse and executive aggrandisement. What a challenge! We definitely have three exciting years ahead of us 💪 #HorizonEurope @twin4dem.bsky.social

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satonelli.bsky.social @satonelli.bsky.social · Feb 2

It was great to meet all #TWIN4DEM partners in Rotterdam! Ready to work at multilingual analysis of political discourse for the next three years with so many experts in the field. #HorizonEurope #NLProc

twin4dem.bsky.social @twin4dem.bsky.social · Jan 30

🚀 TWIN4DEM Kick-Off Wrapped Up!
Day 1: Set the stage for technical Work Packages & explored how Digital Twins can boost democratic resilience at our 1st public event.
Day 2: Focused on stakeholder engagement, dissemination, ethics & focus group planning.
#TWIN4DEM #HorizonEurope #Innovation

satonelli.bsky.social @satonelli.bsky.social · Jan 21

#AICODEproject #NLProc

Marco Rovera @mrovera.bsky.social · Jan 21

If you are in Abu Dhabi and are interested in Event Factuality and Modality, feel free to drop by at the poster session on Friday morning (10:30-12)! Happy #COLING2025! #NLProc
📃Paper here: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...

ModaFact: Multi-paradigm Evaluation for Joint Event Modality and Factuality Detection

Marco Rovera, Serena Cristoforetti, Sara Tonelli. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2025.

aclanthology.org

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Jan 9

📆Reminder📆:

📭 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is March 7, 2025, anywhere on Earth!

See CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩

#ACL2025 #NLProc

Call For Papers

The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.

workshopononlineabuse.com

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · Dec 18

The call for papers for #WOAH2025 is out! 📢

Deadline: 7th March
Venue: ACL 2025

#ACL2025NLP #NLProc

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Dec 18

🚨 Exciting news! The call for papers is now OPEN for the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (#WOAH2025) at #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna.

📆 Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
📄 Check out the CfP: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩
#NLProc

Call For Papers

The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.

www.workshopononlineabuse.com

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · Dec 18

🚨 Exciting news! The call for papers is now OPEN for the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (#WOAH2025) at #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna.

📆 Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
📄 Check out the CfP: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩
#NLProc

Call For Papers

The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) at ACL 2025.

www.workshopononlineabuse.com

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Marco Rovera @mrovera.bsky.social · Dec 16

Happy to kick off with good news: our paper "ModaFact: Multi-paradigm Evaluation for Joint Event Modality and Factuality Detection", co-authored with our intern Serena Cristoforetti and @satonelli.bsky.social , accepted at #COLING.
Dataset+model soon available 💾💻, stay tuned!
See you in Abu Dhabi!

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