November 2025 - Sanghani-faculty

Information needed on Participation at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
by Barbara Micale 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Dear Faculty and Students, If you are participating at NeurIPS 2025, December 2 to 7, in San Diego, California, please complete the google form in the link below so that we can promote your work on Sanghani Center social media. Thank you! https://forms.gle/jisR7RbmszMPqaQy5 Barbara L. Micale Public Relations Specialist <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/> Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu> Virginia Tech blmicale(a)vt.edu Twitter: @SanghaniCtrVT

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Needed information for participation at IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Dec 8 to 11
by Barbara Micale 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Dear Faculty and Students, If you will be participating at the* 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, December 8 to 11, in Macau SAR, China, *please complete the google form in the link below to help us promote your work on social media. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfY8ch3mPkOsJlb_Vwuad4Mqs3t9MC1KF2… Thank you. Barbara L. Micale Public Relations Specialist <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/> Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu> Virginia Tech blmicale(a)vt.edu Twitter: @SanghaniCtrVT

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FW: November 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Brian Mayer 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

FYI From: Ldc-customers1 <ldc-customers1-bounces(a)ldc.upenn.edu> On Behalf Of Penn LDC Sent: Monday, November 17, 2025 11:43 AM To: Penn LDC <ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu> Subject: November 2025 Newsletter - LDC In this newsletter: Join LDC for membership year 2026 Spring 2026 data scholarship application deadline New publications: AnnoDIFP CTS Audio and Transcripts <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.l dc.upenn.edu%2FLDC2025S10&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30 cac08de25f8cacf%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651103 752%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAi OiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RiQB3lX%2BpN hLHupiZCu7vghBOqEF4LE9AbsmV1lItWA%3D&reserved=0> LORELEI Ilocano Incident Language Pack <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.l dc.upenn.edu%2FLDC2025T16&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30 cac08de25f8cacf%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651127 569%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAi OiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Y691P6MxrFnb 8mk0s7lnCQpPiy5%2BUYYM5yTIFvWkabs%3D&reserved=0> _____ New publications: <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.l dc.upenn.edu%2FLDC2025S10&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30 cac08de25f8cacf%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651203 525%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAi OiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=soR4C9PFJu8Z S6CPwMei5%2FOuFtKZwmyP6e10p4HNhkY%3D&reserved=0> AnnoDIFP (Annotated Data for the Investigation of Facets of Personality) CTS (Conversational Telephone Speech) Audio and Transcripts was developed by LDC, the <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fit.e du%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30cac08de25f8cacf%7C60 95688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651221482%7CUnknown%7CTWFp bGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoi TWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sYB5QgK2vyVu%2BKDn3RPNKz2wB%2FpS 6hxmb%2FkyBLlZDhU%3D&reserved=0> Florida Institute of Technology and the <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newha ven.edu%2Findex.php&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30cac08d e25f8cacf%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651240459%7C Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW 4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=07xa3QAgXcAYyoucx2 a167Zcaq8%2FeL89ckymjvxFvaM%3D&reserved=0> University of New Haven to support algorithm development for predicting personality traits. It contains 242.52 hours of English telephone audio recordings and transcripts from 1,179 telephone calls involving 327 participants paired with scores from two self-reported personality assessments, HEXACO Personality Inventory (Revised) (HEXACO-PI-R) and Short Dark Triad (SD3). This corpus contains audio and transcripts for 277 participants and transcripts only for 50 participants. Telephone calls were collected using LDC's robot-operator <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ldc.u penn.edu%2Fabout%2Ffacilities%2Fhuman-subjects-collection&data=05%7C02%7Cmay er2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30cac08de25f8cacf%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1 e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651258926%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGki OnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D %7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Hnsd7QUpSKROJF9a5Ds5FJjQQ3zvpTeHFtYOWjophog%3D&reserved= 0> platform. The operator called participants every 24 hours during their indicated availability and paired them with another participant to speak on a prompted topic for 10 minutes. Transcripts were produced automatically using the <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rev.a i%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30cac08de25f8cacf%7C609 5688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651276503%7CUnknown%7CTWFpb GZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiT WFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cKeYu8R9fb%2Fcs0OPwHADspn4aZfj98q z6YHnk4ExDzw%3D&reserved=0> Rev.ai speech-to-text service. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for $3000. * <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.l dc.upenn.edu%2FLDC2025T16&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C9a512f9c4b8640f30 cac08de25f8cacf%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C638989947651294 277%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAi OiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Pg2YWTHNOszz Q3rJkIkJzL0rXgT%2BtNLJ%2B1b%2FZTUbJmY%3D&reserved=0> LORELEI Ilocano Incident Language Pack was developed by LDC and is comprised of 8.9 million words of Ilocano monolingual text, 3.3 million words of English monolingual text, 3.2 million words of parallel Ilocano-English text, and 3 million words annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames. It constitutes all of the text data, annotations, supplemental resources, and related software tools for the Ilocano language used in the <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nist. gov%2Fitl%2Fiad%2Fmig%2Florehlt-evaluations&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7 C9a512f9c4b8640f30cac08de25f8cacf%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0 %7C638989947651311890%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOi IwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C& sdata=gB%2FPWeIK9jZGx54La5IhT1mgpRMw4G9PIZ7vbbjC8F4%3D&reserved=0> DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT 2019 Evaluation. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. In the evaluation scenario, an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and logistical support in a region where the incident language had received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction and machine translation, with limited resources and limited development time. Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup, discussion forum, and reference material. Entity discovery and linking annotation identified entities to be detected by systems for scoring purposes. Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information about needs and relevant issues for planning a disaster response effort. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for $250. 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The Sanghani Center Seminar Series ft. Dr. Jilles Vreeken - Monday, Nov. 17 at 3 PM EST
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

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Recall: The Sanghani Center Seminar Series ft. Dr. Jilles Vreeken - Monday, Nov. 17 at 3 PM EST
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

wanah92(a)vt.edu would like to recall the message, "The Sanghani Center Seminar Series ft. Dr. Jilles Vreeken - Monday, Nov. 17 at 3 PM EST".

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AI for Software Engineering workshop in Arlington (Nov 20)
by Naren Ramakrishnan 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Colleagues, Eric Burger from CCI is organizing the below workshop in Arlington: https://register.cpe.vt.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load… I believe they are managing the registration through CPE (but it is free to attend). Attendees: Stakeholders in AI4SE research, development, critical systems’ engineering, and government (by invitation). As a founding DC-area event, this workshop offers an opportunity to shape an emerging stakeholder community around AI safety for mission-critical systems and its guidelines. We'll explore gaps in existing guidelines (NIST) and discuss paths forward. Pl register/contact Eric if this is of interest. Best, Naren

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Sanghani Faculty Meeting - Friday, Nov. 14 - CANCELED
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Hi All, Please note that we decided to cancel the Sanghani Faculty meeting scheduled for this Friday, Nov. 14 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. We plan to meet on Friday, Dec. 12 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Thank you, Wanawsha Wanawsha Shalaby Manager of Operations Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics - Virginia Tech 3625 Potomac Ave., Alexandria, VA 22305 E-Mail: wanah92(a)vt.edu<mailto:wanah92@vt.edu>

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VT-CN Pilot Research Awards - Call for Proposals
by Naren Ramakrishnan 08 Nov '25

08 Nov '25

Sanghani Colleagues, You will likely receive this via other channels soon but below is an opportunity to submit joint proposals between VT and Children's National Hospital, similar to the pilot awards we had a couple of years back. This is the result of crystallization of partnerships between our respective institutions led by Mike Friedlander. This opportunity is not run by Sanghani - more details in the attached for contact info etc. Best, Naren

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