35.2792, Calls: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models Workshop 2025

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Subject: 35.2792, Calls: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models Workshop 2025

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Date: 08-Oct-2024
From: Annika Simonsen [annika at hi.is]
Subject: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models Workshop 2025


Full Title: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of
Language Models Workshop 2025
Short Title: NB-REAL 2025

Date: 02-Mar-2025 - 02-Mar-2025
Location: Hestia Hotel Europa, Tallinn, Estonia
Contact Person: Annika Simonsen
Meeting Email: annika at hi.is
Web Site: https://nbreal.xyz/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Language Family(ies): North Germanic; Uralic

Call Deadline: 16-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

The NB-REAL 2025 workshop will be part of the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
conference in Tallinn, Estonia. This half-day workshop focuses on the
responsible evaluation and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs)
for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal is to bring together
researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to address the unique
challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field.

Call for Papers:

Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models

We are pleased to invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on
Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models
(NB-REAL), to be held on March 2, 2025, as part of the
NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

About the Workshop:

This workshop focuses on the responsible evaluation and alignment of
Large Language Models (LLMs) for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal
is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to
address the unique challenges and opportunities in this rapidly
evolving field.

Topics of Interest:

We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
- Ethical benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in Nordic and Baltic
languages
- Methods for creating culturally sensitive and inclusive evaluation
datasets
- Responsible techniques for generating or collecting alignment data
- Challenges and solutions in ethical LLM alignment for less-resourced
languages
- Case studies on responsible LLM evaluation or alignment projects
- Ethical considerations in LLM evaluation and alignment
- Comparative studies of LLM performance and fairness in Nordic and
Baltic languages
- Innovative approaches to leveraging limited language resources in
evaluation or alignment of language models

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: January 13, 2025
Camera-Ready Deadline: February 3, 2025
Workshop Date: March 2, 2025

Workshop Format:

NB-REAL 2025 will be a half-day workshop held on March 2, 2025
(pre-conference). It will be a hybrid event with both on-site and
online participation available.

Organizers:

Hafsteinn Einarsson, Associate Professor in Computer Science,
University of Iceland (hafsteinne at hi.is)
Annika Simonsen, PhD Student, University of Iceland (annika at hi.is)
Dan Saattrup Nielsen, Senior AI Specialist, Alexandra Institute
(dan.nielsen at alexandra.dk)

For more information, please visit our website: https://nbreal.xyz/

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at NB-REAL
2025!



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